Missoula Independent April 2-9 2009

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Vol. 20, No. 14 • April 2–April 9, 2009

Western Montana’s Weekly Journal of People, Politics and Culture

Scope: Where have all the local female rock stars gone?

Ochenski: Bad bills loom over Legislature’s last month Up Front: Mother-in-law houses drive city zoning debate

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Vol. 20, No. 14 • April 2–April 9, 2009

Western Montana’s Weekly Journal of People, Politics and Culture

Scope: Where have all the local female rock stars gone?

Ochenski: Bad bills loom over Legislature’s last month Up Front: Mother-in-law houses drive city zoning debate

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nside Cover Story The northwest United States is one of the world’s great fungal hunting grounds. Larry Evans, 54, is among its most experienced and enthusiastic hunters. When it comes to his craft, Evans says, “Everyone wants to not work hard and get really rich.” But it’s not Cover photo by Chad Harder that simple. What Evans sells can’t be planted, watered, raised and plucked like a tomato or a tulip. It’s wild. And to catch something wild, whether forest fungus or beast of the jungle, one must hunt . . . .14

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Letters An epic rant on the world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The Week in Review Smurfit-Stone closes for 10 days . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Briefs Late-night eats, sales tax votes, more media furloughs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Etc. Death penalty debate cut short . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Up Front Mother-in-law houses intensify zoning debate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Up Front MTV contestant makes her mark at the Montanan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Ochenski Bad bills loom over Legislature’s final month . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Writers on the Range Enviros must learn the benefits of compromise . . . . . . 11 Agenda Public service and the idea of a changing world . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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STREET TALK

by Ashley Sears

Inside Letters Briefs Up Front Ochenski Range Agenda News Quirks

Asked Monday evening outside the Orange Street Food Farm.

Q:

We’re all pawns This week the Indy profiles Missoula’s most famous mushroom picker, Larry Evans. How do you like to eat Montana wild mushrooms?

Follow-up: What is something that you passionately hunt down or collect?

Lynne Clouse Mickelson: They’re delicious stuffed with feta cheese and grilled with a little butter sauce. They just melt in your mouth! Extreme makeover: My hobby is designing, so anything that has to do with fabrics.

Jescy Schott: Butter and lots of garlic! Page-turner: Books.

Especially books about King Arthur…not to sound like the ultimate nerd.

Kevin Wuerpel: Sautéed with balsamic, and served with a steak.

Truth seeker: Knowledge.

Jan Anderson: I haven’t eaten very many, but I’d sauté them in butter and garlic. Berrying down: Wild foods. We have a big garden. And although I don’t do it, my husband does [pick] huckleberries and [fish for] trout. We won’t buy huckleberries, because we’re really opposed to the commercial huckleberry trade. But we pick them ourselves.

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I want to commend George Ochenski for his continued diligence and hard work informing us about political realities on both a regional and national level. At the same time, I believe he may have missed the point in his last column concerning political parties and their responsibility in the economic crisis (see “The Age of Outrage,” March 19, 2009). The Bush administration can obviously be blamed and the new administration under Obama can be found at fault as well. But neither of them represents the real problem.

Ultimately, the corporations and the banking sector that continually fund the political parties and their candidates are at fault. Whoever believes the power within this country lies in the hands of “We the people…” is living in a fantasyland. Folks, we currently (and for some time now) live in an oligarchy. We are simply pawns. As a reference, lets extrapolate the current mess surrounding AIG and the distribution of Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds: Hank Paulson, treasury secretary under Bush, was an executive at Goldman-Sachs. Which bank came out on top during this crisis, as others like Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers were allowed to fail?

Goldman-Sachs. Tim Geithner, Obama’s treasury secretary, is the former president of the New York Fed and a colleague of those on Wall Street.

Recently we heard that the provision to cap, or at least tax, executive bonuses was stripped from the legislation in February. This was done at the behest of the Treasury Department. Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., stripped the provision from the legislation because of this request. Should it also come as a surprise that Dodd is from Connecticut, where AIG’s corporate offices are based? Conveniently, they were one of his largest corporate campaign contributors during his run for the presidency and Senate.

This isn’t about political parties. It is simply about a party that 90-plus percent of the U.S. population was never invited to. As long as the populace is burdened with the fears of what could happen and satisfied with their material amenities, we will continue to experience the same thing repeatedly.

We’ve been told that the global markets would collapse without tril-

lions of dollars to bail out the institutions that got us in this mess. What has happened since the bailout?

Unemployment continues to rise, foreclosures are increasing exponentially, major financial institutions have become insolvent and the grandest Ponzi scheme of them all, Wall Street, continues to gamble on speculation and the unknown. But, corporate retreats and million dollar bonuses remain in place.

Some may say this letter borders on conspiracy. I’m no conspiracy theorist. I simply stated some facts. I’ve

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power within this country lies in the hands of ‘We the people…’ is living in a

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fantasyland.

been criticized by friends for not agreeing with some of Obama’s appointments (and I voted for him), including both Larry Summers and Geithner. My friends claim these appointments are the only people who have experience working in the White House or the federal government. My question is: Isn’t that the problem?

The experience may be a good thing, but when that experience contains the same ideologies of the past, I think I would take the risk of gathering some folks that bring new, fresh thinking to the table. Heck, at this point what do we have to lose?

Jason Brininstool Missoula

First timer This is my first-ever “Letter to the Editor.” I’m prompted to write because I so strongly feel the need to express my support for the travel plan for the

Badger-Two Medicine area of the Rocky Mountain Front. This plan was recently drawn up by the U.S. Forest Service after years of study and public input, most of which was overwhelmingly supportive.

Besides being incredibly beautiful, this is an especially important area, not only aesthetically and ecologically, but also traditionally. The Blackfeet Tribe considers it to be one of their most sacred areas and have been trying to protect it from motorized use for years.

The Badger Two-Med is a vital uninterrupted corridor for wildlife from the Bob Marshall Wilderness to Glacier National Park and beyond. Banning motorized vehicles will contribute to maintaining the area’s pristine character, a quality that is becoming increasingly endangered in our evermore mechanized, noisy and fast-paced world.

Motorized vehicle users will always find places to ride. Grizzlies aren’t as adaptable. I’m asking everyone to express their support of the protection this plan offers by writing the Forest Service and their elected officials.

Beth Hagan East Glacier Park, Montana

Let the Badger be Much applause to the Blackfeet Tribe and the Lewis and Clark National Forest for implementing the newly released travel plan in the Badger-Two Medicine Wilderness. I have spent many years in this sacred and beautiful wilderness, and the impact ATVs have had on this great landscape is undeniable.

Eliminating the problems associated with ATVs in this area will preserve this rich geographical region for years to come. We are lucky to have such a wonderful place to enjoy hiking, fishing, camping and hunting.

The new travel plan will secure land preservation in a responsible and needed way. There is wild land in Montana that deserves protection and preservation just as much as the Bob Marshall Wilderness did 45 years ago.

The Badger-Two Medicine Wilderness is worthy of this cause.

Please contact Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester to show support for the new travel plan, which will ensure our children and grandchild can enjoy this special land in the same way we have.

Ben Dorrington Kalispell

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WEEK IN REVIEW

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VIEWFINDER

• Wednesday, March 25

News Quirks

by Chad Harder

Congress passes the massive Omnibus Public Land Management Act, granting wilderness status for more than two million acres of public land in nine states—but not in Montana. About 517,000 acres of wilderness were designated in Idaho. Montana’s last designation occurred in 1980.

• Thursday, March 26 Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. announces a 10-day shutdown of its Frenchtown plant from April 20 to May 1. No word is released on the number of employees impacted, but union representative Roy Houseman says he doesn’t anticipate SmurfitStone extending the shutdown past May 1.

• Friday, March 27 With two feet of fresh snow blanketing much of the region’s high country, the West Central Montana Avalanche Center issues its final avalanche advisory for the season. Some areas still have “considerable” slide danger, warns director Steve Karkanen.

He adds, “It’s not a good time to blindly jump into steep terrain.”

• Saturday, March 28 Missoula apparently forgets about Snowbowl. A late winter storm dumps five inches on our local ski hill, but the parking lot is surprisingly empty by midmorning. An Indy reporter finds fresh lines all day, and pities the fools who missed them.

• Sunday, March 29 Jerome Anderson, a former state representative, lobbyist and the subject of a 2007 Indy cover story, dies just shy of his 88th birthday. Anderson spent his lobbying career representing those we love to hate, including the tobacco industry and the state’s largest petroleum producer. He was considered Helena’s most revered—and reviled—lobbyist.

• Monday, March 30 After passing the House, the Montana Senate almost unanimously approves HB 190, which clarifies the public’s rights in accessing rivers and streams from bridges. The contentious issue—a similar bill died in 2007—rose to the surface when sportsmen criticized out-of-state landowners for impeding access to Montana’s public waterways.

• Tuesday, March 31 Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Mike Haynes is honored in a memorial service in Kalispell. A drunk driver speeding the wrong way on U.S. 93 slammed into Haynes’ patrol car March 23. Haynes died five days later. In Haynes’ memory, Gov. Brian Schweitzer orders all flags on state property be flown at half-mast.

Opponents of HB 418 called for Gov. Brian Schweitzer to veto the controversial horse slaughterhouse bill during a March 27 rally at the University of Montana. Critics argue that despite abysmal environmental records at similar facilities in other states, HB 418 would, among other things, exempt Montana slaughterhouses from state environmental laws.

Family Planning

Patients pack free clinics Officials with Planned Parenthood of Missoula report a record number of patients the last few months seeking affordable reproductive health care.

The increased demand coincides with a decrease in patient donations and 70 percent rise in the cost of contraceptive supplies, according to Beth Cogswell, director of communications for Planned Parenthood Montana (PPMT).

She says more patients than last year are turning to Planned Parenthood’s sliding fee scale and, unlike in the past, not choosing to put money back into the clinic.

“Those donations are definitely down from what we budgeted,” Cogswell says. “And that’s a direct effect of the economy.”

Anita Keunnen, executive director at Blue Mountain Clinic, says she’s seen a similar increase in patient numbers. Many patients have expressed concern over pregnancy in a worsening economy.

The budget shortfall hasn’t stopped Planned Parenthood from doing what it can as Missoula’s

primary “safety-net care provider.” On February 17, for example, the clinic hosted a free emergency contraceptive day funded primarily by Arizona’s Cadeau Foundation. The clinic expected between 75 and 100 walk-ins. The final tally was 175. Those same morning-after pills typically go for $40 to $60 at drug stores.

“We were pretty overwhelmed, in a good way,” Cogswell says.

Building on that success, PPMT will offer free Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) tests every Thursday this April at its clinics across the state. The tests are part of a joint initiative by MTV and the Kaiser Family Foundation titled “GYT ’09: Get Yourself Tested,” though PPMT will fund all testing.

Cogswell says Missoula’s clinic is stronger than most Planned Parenthood clinics in the nation, with no staff cuts on the horizon. She remains optimistic about the clinic’s ability to meet growing community need.

“We want to be able to keep doing that,” she says. “But definitely it’s going to be a big challenge in the next year or two.”

Alex Sakariassen

Food

Missoula’s late-night menu This weekend Missoula’s Dauphine’s restaurant begins offering food until 3:00 a.m. from its new location on the corner of West Broadway and Ryman Street. It marks one of a handful of downtown restaurants now catering to the hankerings of Missoula’s late-night revelers.

Taco del Sol’s downtown location recently extended its Friday night hours to 2:30 a.m., and the Badlander bar will soon roll out its longawaited after-hours hot dog cart.

“It’s just to give people some late-night food options and help them sober up and have other options besides the Oxford and Finnegan’s,” says Scott MacIntyre, co-owner of the Badlander and the restaurant space Dauphine’s now leases.

“And that way we’re also not just dumping hundreds of people out in the streets right at 2 a.m.

It can help with the dispersal of large crowds of people because they can stay and eat.”

Dauphine’s owner Laurie McElroy hopes that’s the case. The late-night menu includes a few Dauphine’s staples, like biscuits and gravy, as well as new items like country-fried steak.

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Plus, Dauphine’s can use the building’s existing liquor license—another lure for bar-goers. “It’s all around a better deal,” she says of the move.

Dave Beaton, owner of Taco del Sol, says his restaurant sits at “ground zero” of Missoula’s bar scene, surrounded by Charlie B’s, the Iron Horse and the Old Post, making it well suited to satisfy late-night passersby. Although the popular taco and burrito joint’s license only allows it to sell beer until 11 p.m., Beaton plans to keep Taco del Sol open late on Friday nights through fall, when he’ll assess its success.

Representatives from the Missoula Downtown Association and the Montana Restaurant Association aren’t sure if restaurants extending hours amounts to a trend.

MacIntyre, for one, thinks restaurants are smart to take advantage of one of the few recession-proof businesses.

“I’ve always had the belief, and it’s held true throughout time, that even in depressions people drink,” MacIntyre says. “They’ll drink in good times and bad times.”

Time will tell if the same goes for eating hot dogs. The new cart should hit the sidewalk outside the Badlander sometime in April.

Matthew Frank

Legislature

Local option sales tax fails Even before SB 506 made it past the Senate Taxation Committee by a slim 6-5 vote, proponents of the local option sales tax bill knew it’d be an uphill climb to get it to Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s desk. That work was cut unexpectedly short Saturday when the Senate voted 3612 to table the bill indefinitely.

SB 506 would have allowed state municipalities to ask voters to approve or deny a limited local sales tax. Missoula Mayor John Engen testified in support of the bill and was among its most vocal supporters. Various versions of a local option sales tax bill have been introduced in the legislature for the last 20 years, but never passed.

Supporters of SB 506 were more optimistic considering the bill’s limited scope. Only lodging, prepared meals and drinks, recreational services and rental vehicles would have been

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taxed. The bill also mandated a series of property tax breaks to mitigate the effect on local Montanans.

“We think it’s the best version of a local option bill that we’ve seen,” said Alec Hansen, executive director of the Montana League of Cities and Towns. “Twelve million people visit this state each year. And they’ve got to start pay-

ing their fair share of the costs and that’s what this bill is all about.”

Engen testified in front of the Senate Taxation Committee that he simply wanted to give voters a chance to weigh in on the issue.

Saturday’s Senate vote tables that chance for at least another two years.

“Clearly it’s a disappointment,” Engen says.

“We feel we ought to be able to ask Missoula voters to support a local option tax to find some new revenue and take some advantage of the folks who visit us and enjoy our amenities. The Senate didn’t agree with that so we’ll try again next time.”

Jesse Froehling

Media

KPAX announces furloughs More furloughs hit Montana media last week.

The South Carolina-based Evening Post Publishing Co., the parent company of seven

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$85,320

Total costs Tom Maclay has failed to pay for work on his proposed Bitterroot Resort, according to the Missoulian. The money is owed to SK Geotechnical Corp. of Missoula and to Hamilton’s Maverick Marketing Group. The latter sued Maclay in February for breach of contract.

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The New Mexico Legislature and Gov. Bill Richardson took a bold step a few weeks ago when they decided to abolish the state’s death penalty, becoming the 15th state to formally ban capital punishment. At the time, supporters hoped New Mexico’s new law would set a trend among states reevaluating the death penalty, including Montana.

Those hopes were dashed Monday when the House Judiciary Committee voted against Missoula Sen. Dave Wanzenried’s SB 236, effectively ending the bill’s chances of reaching a full vote in the House.

There are many reasons to lament the committee’s decision, but the main one centers on the missed opportunity of hearing the full House debate the topic. Wanzenried’s bill, which called for replacing the death penalty with a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole, provided some of the most spirited and enlightening testimony of this legislative session. And almost none of the discussion bogged down in typical partisan bickering.

Before the bill passed out of the Republican-controlled Senate, Roy Brown, R-Billings, said he couldn’t justify capital punishment when he’s so ardently anti-abortion. Another Republican, Gary Perry of Manhattan, argued prisoners should die at the hands of God, not the hands of the state.

The House Judiciary Committee struck a similarly personal tone before squashing the bill. Rep. Roy Hollandsworth, RBrady, recounted how he was almost killed when he was six months old by a crazed handyman. The man killed Hollandsworth’s father, shot his brother and tried to choke Hollandsworth until his mother intervened. The attacker received life in prison, but Hollandsworth’s mother spent the rest of her life fearing authorities would one day free the man and he would return to finish what he started. If a compelling argument in favor of the death penalty exists, Hollandsworth certainly has it.

But just as compelling were how supporters of SB 236 gained traction with previous detractors this session. For one, more legislators seemed to notice that it costs three times more money for the state to kill somebody as it does to incarcerate that person for life. The Death Penalty Information Center estimates the cost per execution is at least $3 million once the state tallies all the court costs and legal appeals.

Bottom line: Whether the debate involved moral values or practical reasoning, SB 236 deserved a broader discussion. Who knows? Perhaps more long-time proponents of the death penalty would change their minds.

Take Richardson, who used to favor capital punishment until he made “the toughest decision” of his political career and signed New Mexico’s ban. It would have been interesting so see more Montana legislators face that same tough decision.

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CBS television affiliates across Montana— including KPAX in Missoula—announced a plan March 23 in which an untold number of its employees will receive five-day unpaid vacations between April and June.

“It’s not a bad way to go,” says KPAX General Manager Bob Hermes. “It’s better than having to make cuts of personnel. Everybody kind of chips in a little bit.”

Hermes says the furloughs affect KPAX office, engineering and production staff. For some it’s mandatory, for others it’s optional. Its effects will be “pretty seamless and invisible as far as the viewing public is concerned,” he says. Hermes says he isn’t aware of any looming layoffs.

The Evening Post owns 27 newspapers and television stations around the country. One of its holdings, Cordillera Communications, owns the CBS affiliates in Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Great Falls, Helena, Kalispell and Missoula. Those seven stations employ about 200 people full-time, says Monte Wallis, general manager of KVTQ in Billings and vice president for Cordillera Communications in Montana.

“We’re all kind of in the pinch right now,” says Wallis. “Certainly we’re trying to react to that as best we can to make it through this current economic time, just like all retailers and newspapers and radio stations. We’re all stuck in the same economics, unfortunately.”

Wallis says the action takes a step beyond the hiring freezes and layoffs the company already implemented to trim expenses. Longtime KPAX journalist Ian Marquand was let go in January when his position was axed.

The Evening Post furloughs follow those handed down by Gannett Newspapers earlier in the year, a move that affected employees of the Great Falls Tribune. Many other Montana media companies have laid off dozens of employees since last summer.

“We don’t like to do those kinds of things, but rather than have layoffs, furloughs certainly are a more humane way to save money where you have to,” Wallis says. “Hopefully all of these things will be temporary, and they’ll be behind us here shortly. That’s our goal, anyway.”

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In the zone Mother-in-law houses spark urban infill debate

by Jesse Froehling

optional overlay tool that requires notification to the surrounding property owners, planning board review and city council approval. If there is substantial neighborhood protest over a proposed ADU, the city could require a super majority for its approval. ADU proponents hoped to loosen the requirements at a recent planning board meeting, while opponents looked to eliminate them altogether.

Barbara Druffle told the planning board that she bought her first house as a

quit driving,” Millar says. “We will also have a population that will likely live on a fixed income and likely, a modest income. And there is going to be a population that needs access to health care.”

Millar says ADUs give seniors a useful tool to maintain their standard of living.

He says they could rent out ADUs to generate extra cash, or use them to provide a residence for caregivers.

Susan Kohler, head of Missoula Aging Services, says ADUs may help tame what she calls the “silver tsunami” in another way.

“There are a lot of baby boomers right now who have aging parents,” she says. “They would like to have their parents live in the same town, but maintain independence.

With an [ADU], they can connect, look after each other, help with yard care, stuff that an older person might not want to do. I think that’s a very positive thing right now.”

Swanson says no Photo by Chad Harder matter where seniors decide to live, there will Would your mother-in-law want to live here? The city’s ongoing zoning rewrite be less demand for tradiincludes a contentious conversation over additional dwelling units. tional three and four bedThe Missoula Consolidated Planning single mother and normally advocates room single-family homes in the future.

“They won’t all [move in with their Board is currently working with a con- affordable housing options. But she finds sultant and the Office of Planning and ADUs unbearable, the sort of divisive family], but you have that group looking Grants (OPG) to revamp the city’s zoning issue that pits neighbor against neighbor. to downsize,” says Swanson, who works regulations. The planning board meet“What we want is good, solid neigh- for the Center for the Rocky Mountain West. “Juxtaposed with that is the young ings—wonkish, tedious affairs even for borhoods,” she says. the most enthusiastic participants—typiJane Rectenwald, a retiree who has adults looking for a starter home. You cally begin at 7 p.m. and have ended as fought hard against ADUs, believes urban actually have a potentially growing marlate as 12:30 a.m. However, in a nod to infill cuts directly into the appeal of a ket for ADUs.” After addressing ADUs at their Missoula’s civic engagement, residents community. show up. And the attendees come armed “They’re talking about changing the March 25 meeting, the planning board with pens, notebooks, their own copies character of the neighborhood,” she says. did not make any significant changes to of the rewrite and comments—lots of “The planning board was talking about the current rules. The planning board public comments. windows and siding, and various design will discuss other overlay districts at its Although many portions of the elements, but that’s a small part of char- next meeting on April 7 in the City Council chambers. The planning rewrite are contentious, one topic acter. The real character is density.” appears particularly controversial: addiDespite clear apprehension from board’s final recommendations should tional dwelling units (ADUs). These small some residents, ADU proponents believe be ready for City Council evaluation residences, sometimes known as mother- they may be a necessity in dealing with sometime this spring.

No matter how the debate ends, in-law houses, provide additional hous- Missoula’s aging population. The city’s ing on a lot where one house already fastest growing demographic is either 65 Millar doesn’t believe ADUs will cause stands. Proponents of ADUs argue they and older or 85 and older, depending on sweeping changes in Missoula’s neighcreate affordable housing and allow cur- the source. The percentage of retirees in borhoods either way.

“I think it’s going to be like chicken rent residents to create additional Missoula will double by 2030, according income. Opponents say ADUs create traf- to local economist Larry Swanson. This coops,” he says, referencing the highly fic congestion, strain infrastructure, substantial increase means Missoula’s controversial city ordinance allowing resincrease urban density and ruin the char- housing options must change to meet idents to raise chickens within city limits. acter of Missoula’s neighborhoods. new demands, including older residents “We permitted it. Some people have it.

“I think ADUs are clearly the thing who drive less, live on limited retirement Some don’t. I don’t anticipate a run on the market for ADUs.” that folks are having the most heartburn funds or require live-in assistance. with,” says OPG Director Roger Millar.

“We have a population that wants to ADUs are currently considered an live a happy, fulfilling lifestyle after they jfroehling@missoulanews.com Ward 1 Councilmember Jason Wiener likes to say that zoning is like grammar: It’s tedious and boring but it’s important because it stipulates the way in which we express ourselves. Although the simile may be apt—or at least poetic— the rules governing the construction of sentences do not regularly send people to the podium at public meetings. The rules governing the construction of Missoula’s neighborhoods, on the other hand, often do.

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Reality star rebound Burrowes makes her mark at the Montanan

by Alex Sakariassen

Burrowes’ MTV drama feels like ancient history now. After returning to the University of Montana to finish her journalism degree and eventually securing her coveted internship with Seventeen, the 24-year-old has landed as the youngest-ever editor of the Montanan, UM’s alumni magazine.

Consider it a modern-day Cinderella tale,

tassels still dangling from their rearviewmirrors. Burrowes has condensed news material, designed a new website due to launch in May and looked to put a new spin on the magazine’s content.

Specifically, she asked writers to focus on a more youthful brand of news. The latest issue of the thrice-annual publication features an in-depth profile of famous UM alumnus and Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy, written by former UM band celebrity and current New Heathens singer/songwriter Nate Schweber. It’s a story on a young musician, by a young musician.

“One thing that I’ve really tried to do through our alumni profiles is engage our younger readers,” Burrowes says. “And I think Colin Meloy is a perfect example of that change I’ve tried to bring to the magazine.”

The Montanan is a long way from Seventeen, but Burrowes says she’s content with the choice. When she did land her internship with the Photo by Chad Harder teen magazine in summer Polson native Brianne Burrowes, 24, made national headlines four years ago 2006, she spent most of her when she walked off an MTV reality show offering a dream internship with time doing little more than colSeventeen magazine. She’s since been named the youngest-ever editor of the lecting quotes from high school Montanan, UM’s alumni magazine. boys. During her exit interview with then-editor Atoosa The straw that broke her contestant from reality television train wreck to Rubenstein, she realized the shallow nature of the job. contract came on a segment of the now- prominent professional.

“Everyone wants to have a job that defunct “Total Request Live.” Burrowes In February, Burrowes received the says MTV hired an actress to stand in the Rising Star Award from the Council for has impact and has meaning to it,” says crowd and instigate trouble with her as Advancement and Support of Education Burrowes, questioning the value of biteshe attempted to conduct interviews for (CASE) for her work with the Montanan. sized teen magazine content. “And that’s Seventeen. The subsequent meltdown— CASE, an international education fundrais- what I have now.”

Ironically, the very interests that shouting, hysterical sobbing, the works— ing nonprofit, honors young professionals got Burrowes involved with “Miss forced Burrowes into a bathroom, cam- pursuing a career in communications. era and sound crew trailing her the “I thought that I wanted to be in teen Seventeen”—celebrity interviews, youthwhole time. She decided to leave the magazines,” says Burrowes, “but really I ful content, etc.—make her a catch in the show on her own terms immediately. realized I just wanted to be in maga- eyes of the Montanan. Her boss, UM Maybe she cared too much. zines—magazines that provide more sub- Relations Director Rita Munzenrider, has been through a number of editors over Burrowes had fantasized about the fash- stantial service for readers.” ion writer lifestyle since reading her first Burrowes climbed the editorial lad- the years, but says Burrowes is the best.

“She came back from New York with back-to-school teen magazine in sixth der at UM Relations fast. She started as an grade. MTV preyed on that devotion, and intern her sophomore year, then moved this incredible ability to track down Burrowes contends she was scripted to news editor after graduation. On celebrity alumni interviews that we “the mean girl.” She was set on the bad January 18, 2008—her 23rd birthday—she couldn’t touch for years,” Munzenrider side of fights, tears and condescending took the position as Montanan editor says. “I think the magazine is more alive lessons on reporting skills. Writers went with the promise to bring a new perspec- than it’s ever been.”

Burrowes says she still caves to what so far as to interview friends and family tive to the publication. to “dig up dirt,” she says, ignoring scenes “It still looks dignified for an older she calls her “girly side.” She continues to of her making friends or comforting fel- alum, but it’s got more pizzazz for a publish regular posts on her fashion blog low contestants. younger reader,” says Ginny Merriam, “20-Something Fashionista.” And she “I was there because I was the one 1986 J-School alumna and member of the makes no mystery of the fact that the Montanan isn’t her last stop. who wanted a career in magazines,” Montanan’s advisory board.

“It’s good for right now,” she says, Burrowes says. “It was crazy. I realized I Merriam applauds Burrowes’ ability could get the internship without going to bridge the gap between UM’s gray “but not forever.” through all that…It was a rock solid haired alumni—the Montanan’s longdecision.” established readership—and those with asakariassen@missoualnews.com Four years ago, Polson native Brianne Burrowes left the MTV reality show “Miss Seventeen” after only four episodes, abandoning her shot at a dream internship with Seventeen magazine. The dramatic exit generated nationwide gossip and, according to Burrowes, pioneered a new staple in the reality television world: the walk-off.

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End game Bad bills loom over Legislature’s last month Montana’s biennial legislative session still has almost another month to run, but as the saying goes “you can see the end from here.”

Unfortunately, the way it’s shaping up it appears that the bad bills are going to far outweigh the good bills. That’s especially true in the environmental arena, where 30 years of bedrock environmental protection law has been successfully assailed thanks to, as they like to call it, “bipartisan cooperation.”

To be sure, there will be some exciting moments in the last few weeks of the session as the budget faces yet another upcoming revenue estimate and lawmakers wrestle with final decisions on where and when to spend one-time federal funds. If, as in the initial revisions, the projected state revenue picture continues to darken, it will mean the Republicancontrolled Senate Finance and Claims Committee will have to institute millions more in spending reductions.

This week’s spat between Department of Public Health and Human Services Director Anna Whiting Sorrell and key legislators may give us some idea just where those reductions will take place. The current budget bills provide funding for key programs but require the agency to identify $115 million in reductions by 2011 in anticipation of falling revenues. Rep. Jon Sesso, D-Butte, chair of the appropriations committee, thinks the agency can find that much in savings and efficiencies considering its total budget of $3.2 billion.

“We’re giving them 18 months to figure [it] out,” he told reporters late last week. “The last thing I want to see are people cut, in their time of need.

At the same time, you can see the train coming. And if we do not prepare for impacts that are not going to be easy to deal with, then shame on us.”

S o r r e l l , h o w e v e r, s e e s i t differently.

“We find it very contradictory that the Legislature is considering substantial cuts when the federal government is sending millions to the state to help our economy and help people really in need,” she said. “They aren’t cutting new programs. They are asking us to look at what we currently provide.”

But while the Senate decides what to do with the final spending bills, some terrible environmental bills have already passed or are likely to pass in the coming days and are headed to Schweitzer for his decision. The gov-

ernor’s options on dealing with the bills are limited to issuing a veto, an amendatory veto, signing the bills or allowing the measures to become law without his signature.

For example, Rep. Llew Jones, RConrad, sponsored perhaps the most egregious of the environmental destruction bills so far. HB 483 masquerades as an effort to “streamline” environmental permitting for energy facility projects, but in truth it basically guts the public’s right to participate in decisions—public participation long guaranteed by the Montana

be told, “noTruthamount of amendments will turn this stinker of a bill into anything resembling a

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Environmental Policy Act (MEPA).

Should the measure become law, those seeking to appeal energy project decisions would have to meet a higher level of proof; wouldn’t be allowed to introduce any new information after the application process (although the permit applicants could); could be required to go to district court instead of the Board of Environmental Review (BER) and face bonding requirements from either the district court or the BER to challenge a project; would allow the Department of Environmental Quality to extend air permits indefinitely regardless of changes in available pollution control technology; and would only require energy facilities to comply with state laws as they existed at the time of the permit application.

HB 483 has already passed the Legislature with bipartisan support and is on its way to Schweitzer. What, exactly, the governor will do with the bill remains unknown. Environmental

advocates have offered numerous suggested amendments to try and limit the measure’s damage, but truth be told, no amount of amendments will turn this stinker of a bill into anything resembling a good bill. We’ll see what happens in the coming weeks, but at this point in the process environmental advocates think Schweitzer will likely seek to amend the measure rather than issue a veto.

If there’s any good news regarding the bad energy and environment bills, it’s that at least one of them, SB 440, is still sitting in a House committee on a tie vote. The radical bill, sponsored by Kelly Gebhardt, R-Roundup, would simply exempt any air quality permit— not just those for energy projects— from MEPA review. The equation is simple here: No MEPA review means the public is excluded from government decisions that have the ability to directly affect their homes, businesses, health and environment. Keeping this one in committee would be good, but as we’ve seen far too often, crossover Democrats have been complicit in passing the largely Republican-backed efforts to trash the environment and may be tempted to do so once more.

There are a lot more bad environmental bills out there than just HB 483, but the seminal question is why the Legislature is pursuing these measures. For one thing, the recession has significantly lowered projections for energy as businesses slow down or close and consumers reduce costs by conserving. The recent rush to develop all available energy sources—dirty or clean, finite or renewable—now seems both unwise and unnecessary.

To give Montana’s environment second billing to energy production by cutting our citizens out of the permitting processes also makes no sense.

And finally, as we know through long experience, trashing the environment for short-term gains has never paid off for Montanans.

If you want to protect the state for present and future generations, there’s still an opportunity to contact the governor and your legislators and weigh in against the bad bills. It looks like a long shot to stop them, but at this point a long shot may be all we have.

Helena’s George Ochenski rattles the cage of the political establishment as a political analyst for the Independent. Contact Ochenski at opinion@missoulanews.com.

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Better than nothing Enviros must learn the benefits of compromise

by Jonathan Parkinson

One of Aesop’s fables is about a dog that found a bone nearly as big as he could carry. The dog trotted home to gnaw on his prize, but on the way, he caught sight of his reflection in a stream. Convinced that he was seeing another dog—and that the other dog had a bigger bone—he dropped his own to seize it, and he ended up, of course, with nothing.

I was reminded of the story recently at a public meeting on California’s everworsening water woes. One of the speakers came from Poseidon Resources, a company that’s been trying to build a desalination plant in Carlsbad, Calif.

Environmental groups have filed lawsuits, challenging the project’s permits.

During the question-and-answer time, a committee member with the local chapter of the Surfrider Foundation stood up to recount a number of problems with the project. The company’s representative, Peter MacLaggan, began his response by telling the audience he was familiar with Surfrider. In fact, he said, “We’re good friends.”

He was facetious. Surfrider, a $3.5 million nonprofit dedicated to protecting beaches and oceans, has repeatedly objected to the Carlsbad desalination plant. So have several other groups, including San Diego Coastkeeper and the Sierra Club. Why? Because desalination consumes a lot of energy, and because the seawater intake will kill some fish.

Never mind that the power plant that already exists at that location kills more fish than a desalination facility would, and never mind that the desalination plant would be powered in part by solar energy. Many environmentalists simply don’t like desalination as done with current technology. But we obviously need the water. What solution do they suggest? The usual answer you’ll hear is conservation.

Conservation is a great thing, and sometimes it’s been extremely successful.

The city of Los Angeles, for example, emphasizes conservation and uses less water today than it did in 1987, despite a fast-growing population. But to claim that conservation by itself can solve the West’s water crisis is shortsighted.

California’s population is projected to nearly double by 2050 if current trends continue. You can’t conserve your way out of a drought.

Would it be ideal if we shut down golf courses and tore up our lawns to plant Astro-Turf? Yes, but we don’t live in an ideal world. The West has a water cri-

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sis, and it stems from a simple problem: We’ve built our homes in deserts where nature never meant us to live. In order to stay here, we require a mix of solutions.

There’s no magic bullet that will do the trick. Some solutions may have environmental impacts, but almost every human activity implies an environmental impact.

You might as well object that building a wind turbine kills some birds. It does, but just think about some of the alternatives, such as a coal-fired power plant.

Environmental impacts from desalination greatly concern several environmental groups, but it’s hard to see why this is a high priority. If their concern is energy use, the Carlsbad project is powered in part by solar panels. If they’re worried about altering the marine environment, over-fishing is undoubtedly more serious. The impacts of drawing water from other sources, such as rivers or groundwater, are more serious still.

So why do some environmentalists object to desalination? I’ve concluded it’s out of a kind of wishful thinking: If only everyone were to conserve, if the population could stay at current levels, if we could find a solution that has no environmental impacts—if, if, if. In this respect, environmental advocates are behaving no differently from residents who object to Orange County’s “toilet-totap” project—though they have no qualms about drinking recycled wastewater from the Colorado River. Perhaps all of us prefer to ignore the realities of difficult choices in the belief that somewhere a perfect solution exists.

The debate over water use in the West has been hampered by this kind of irrational thinking for years. Ultimately, we’re going to have to discard our excess fastidiousness and make use of all the options for finding water—and that may mean turning to seawater as well. If we wait for the technology to improve, perhaps a perfect solution might come along. But that assumes that a perfect solution exists, and that we have enough time to wait for it.

Sometimes, as Aesop’s dog discovered, it’s better to take what you have rather than end up with nothing at all.

Jonathan Parkinson is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is a writer in La Jolla, Calif.

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Few understand the implications of societal transformations better than James Davison Hunter, who has made a career of studying meaning and moral order in times of political and cultural change. His lecture, “Public Service and the Idea of a Changing World,” the latest installment of UM’s President’s Lecture Series, will explore the current tumult within American culture, and what it means for individuals, institutions and society. He’ll also give a seminar titled “On the Priority of Culture to Politics.”

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U.S. Congressman Pat Williams, UM professor James Todd and the Missoulian at their grand luncheon at the Doubletree Edgewater Hotel, 100 Madison St., at 11:30 AM. $22. RSVP at 532-3240.

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Mon. 6 April An Organ Donor Drive at 11 AM in UM’s University Center encourages you to become an organ donor or specify your donation wishes, and if you can rally enough people via email tree, there’s even a cash prize involved.

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The Honorable James R. Browning hosts a week-long Symposium on Rural Law, featuring keynote speakers Gov. Brian Schweitzer and Attorney General Steve Bullock, beginning today at noon at UM’s University Center Ballroom. Free. Visit montanalawreview.com or call 243-4386.

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Tue. 7 April The Missoula Cultural Council’s annual Cultural Achievement and Business Support for the Arts Awards honor former

Hunter’s lecture on “Public Service and the Idea of a Changing World” begins at 8 PM on Mon., April 6, in UM’s University Theatre. “On the Priority of Culture to Politics” begins at 3:10 PM the same day in UM’s Gallagher Business Building, Room 123. Free. Call 243-2981.

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Thu. 9 April UM’s International Brown Bag Lecture Series presents “The Kashmir Paradox—Indian, Pakistani and Kashmiri Views on a 60 Year Turmoil” at noon in UM’s Old Journalism Building, Room 303. Free. Call 243-2288.

The UM Peace and Justice Film Series continues at 5:30 and 7:30 PM in the UM University Center Theater with Jailed for their Words: When Free Speech Died in Wartime America. Free. Visit peaceandjusticefilms.org.

For those interested in keeping an eye on Big Brother, Government 2.0: Keep Up, Talk Back, teaches you how to use online sources to track government spending, follow votes, submit feedback to the White House and more at the large meeting room of the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., at 7 PM. Call 721-BOOK.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - After authorities investigating a store robbery in Chula Vista, Calif., identified Romeo Montillano, 40, as their suspect, they learned he was in Las Vegas, unaware he was wanted. They were able to arrest him, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported, because he returned to take an examination to become a police officer. Police official Bernard Gonzales said that as Montillano was being taken into custody, he asked whether he would still be able to take the exam.

While Shawn Thomas Lester, 33, pretended he was buying a soft drink at a convenience store in Kanawha County, W.Va., he told the clerk he had a gun and wanted money. WCHS-TV reported that Lester got flustered when a customer entered the store, and the clerk told Lester to pay for the soft drink. Police said Lester used his debit card, signed the receipt “John Doe” and left empty-handed.

Police quickly arrested him by simply tracing the card.

MELLOW YELLOW - A Hindu organization known for its opposition to “corrupting” Western food imports, notably Pepsi and Coca Cola, announced plans to launch a new soft drink made from cow’s urine. The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) told Reuters the yet-to-be-named drink mixes urine with aloe vera and gooseberry. “Cow urine offers a cure for around 70 to 80 incurable diseases, like diabetes,” said Om Prakash, the head of the RSS Cow Protection Department.

FOOD FIGHT - The Rhode Island Supreme Court ordered a new trial for competing restaurants at a Providence shopping mall food court to decide whether both can serve white rice. Plaintiff David Chu, 52, owner of Cathay Cathay, which opened at Providence Place in 2001, said his lease lists 19 foods, including white rice, that only he can sell. “We’re the most expensive lease,” Chu told the Boston Globe. “We don’t want competition.”

Defendant Yogi Sood opened Gourmet India in 2005 after negotiating a lease that lets him sell basmati rice, which is white rice with yellow food color added. “Without basmati rice, I would not have signed,” said Sood, 59. “There’s not an Indian restaurant that can survive without rice.”

In 2006, Superior Court Judge Stephen J. Fortunato Jr. dismissed the case against Gourmet India, while ruling against Japan Cafe, which Chu also sued for selling white rice. Japan Cafe closed. Chu did not sue Taco Bell, which serves side dishes of Mexican-style white rice.

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PLUSH TUSH - American consumers’ preference for soft toilet tissue requires harvesting millions of trees in North America and in Latin American countries, including from rare old-growth forests in Canada, because fluffiness requires the fiber from standing trees. James Malone of Georgia Pacific, maker of Quilted Northern, told the New York Times that customers “demand soft and comfortable.

Recycled fiber cannot do it.”

Tissue from recycled fibers makes up less than 2 percent of sales for home use among conventional and premium brands of tissue in the United States, according to the Times, which noted that it takes the pulp from one eucalyptus tree, a commonly used species, to make 1,000 rolls of toilet paper. The average American uses 23.6 rolls a year.

LOVE HURTS - New Zealand authorities said Damon Ra Sturmey, 39, died after an argument with his fiancée by shooting himself three times in the chest with a nail gun. The Taranaki Daily News reported that New Plymouth coroner Timothy Scott concluded Sturmey apparently was trying to frighten Sarah-Lee Harlow, not commit suicide. “I don’t think he meant the wounds to be fatal,” Scott said.

BAM! - When four teenagers forced their way into a house in Elyria, Ohio, and demanded money, homeowner Ellen Basinski, 70, defended herself by using an Emeril Lagasse 5-quart saucepan against one of the intruders. “I picked up the saucepan and smacked him right on the head,” Basinski told the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “He looked at me and said, ‘Lady, why did you do that?’

And I hit him again.” The four fled but were quickly arrested.

After Emeril Lagasse heard the news about Basinski, the TV chef said he was sending her a whole new set of cookware.

TOO LITTLE TOO LATE - Fire officials blamed a fire that burned down a mobile home in San Luis Obispo, Calif., on a smoldering cigarette, which homeowner Bill Lewis, 68, said his mother, Chessie Lewis, 87, left on a table in an enclosed porch when he took her to a smoking-cessation meeting.

The San Luis Obispo Tribune reported the loss at $200,000, plus another $15,000 in damage to a neighboring home.

COSTUME JUSTICE - Trahan Pires, 34, was fined $500 for assaulting a man in a Chuck E. Cheese mouse suit in Dartmouth, Mass. Pires told authorities he ripped off the mascot’s headpiece because he thought the victim had grabbed his son. The 19-year-old mouse man said he was just putting out his arms to get through a crowd of children trying to knock him over.

AVOIRDUPOIS JUSTICE - When Stephen Turo, 56, was ordered to appear in court in Auburn, N.Y., to answer charges of selling drugs, he couldn’t fit into a car because he weighs more than 550 pounds. The Syracuse Post-Standard reported Turo was loaded into the back of a rented U-Haul truck and unloaded onto a loading dock, where Cayuga County Judge Thomas G. Leone conducted the arraignment.

CLUELESS IN CALIFORNIA - Dean Grose announced his resignation as mayor of Los Alamitos, Calif., after local businesswoman Keyanus Price complained that an e-mail he sent her was racist and offensive. The Orange County Register said the e-mail, which Grose forwarded to a small group of people from his personal account after the inauguration of President Barack Obama, showed the White House yard with a watermelon patch. Price is African American. “I recognize that I’ve made a mistake,” Grose said, “and have taken steps to make sure this is never repeated.” His announcement didn’t specify what those steps are.

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sk Larry Evans where to find morels (and everyone asks him where to find morels), and his response follows something like the stages of the grieving process. First there’s denial, a gentle rebuff as he explains that there are no easy answers and, anyway, a particular location isn’t really the point. Then there’s bargaining, where he tells you he’ll be happy to fill in the details once you devote long hours of study and field work to his larger discipline, ecol-

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ogy, the science of relationships between organisms and their environment. If it becomes clear that you are, in fact, thinking little beyond how long to sauté the morels in butter before eating them tonight for dinner, he passes quickly through the stages of anger and despair before settling on a sad, thin-voiced acceptance that is uncharacteristic of his otherwise exuberant personality.

At this final stage, he tells you what any elementary textbook or field guide, website or magazine article on

trees whose vegetative matter nourishes them. That they especially flourish in the disturbed soil of recent fire sites for reasons no one can conclusively explain. And that the best burn areas are 10,000 acres or more, the kind of places where Evans himself has gathered as many as 40 pounds of morels in a day.

The northwest United States is one of the world’s great fungal hunting grounds. Evans, who is 54 years old and lives in Missoula, is among its most experienced and enthusiastic hunters.

like a tomato or a tulip. It’s wild. And to catch something wild, whether forest fungus or beast of the jungle, one must hunt.

“Somebody’s digging,” says Evans.

His cheeks are drawn, his features angular. When he speaks, his face tightens and a dozen lines form from forehead to nose, eyes to ears, cheeks to chin. His voice is half-growl, half-purr.

Experience the thrill of the hunt with Missoula’s master morel picker and fungal celebrity, Larry Evans

by Jeremy N. Smith, photos by Chad Harder the subject will tell you. That morels grow most anywhere in the country, with the exception of the coastal plains of the southeast United States. That they typically emerge around April and may appear as late as August.

That they are generally found in moist areas, especially near dead or dying alder, apple, ash, cottonwood or elm

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In fact, he’s the main character of Know Your Mushrooms, the new film from subculture documentarian Ron Mann (Grass, Comic Book Confidential). The film debuted at South by Southwest last month and had a special private screening in Missoula during the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival earlier this year.

Like oil prospectors and baseball scouts, wild mushroom sellers like Evans alternate in manner between a cagey reticence and a voluble boisterousness. They seldom explain exactly what they have and they almost never tell you where they found it. But whatever it is, wherever it’s from, they want you to know they’ve discovered the best. Top fungi—fresh, rare and, above all, tasty—fetch $10, $60, as much as $600 a pound on the open market.

“The morel,” says Evans, “is probably the number one wild mushroom.”

Morels range in color from blonde to black. They blend easily with the pinecones and spider webs that often neighbor them on forest beds. Even among wild mushrooms, what Emily Dickinson called nature’s “outcast face,” morels win no beauty contests. When cooked, however, these wrinkled, webby, spongy, pockmarked fungi combine the best qualities of other fine foods—the savor of sausage and character of cheese, wine’s airiness and chocolate’s aftertaste. Their rich aroma, the olfactory equivalent of a mountain vista, makes devotees start to salivate. It lingers in the head and chest long after the last bite.

When it comes to hunting morels, Evans says, “Everyone wants to not work hard and get really rich.” It’s not so simple. What Evans sells can’t be planted, watered, raised and plucked

He sounds like an early-morning radio DJ, alternately revving up the first shift of the day or easing down the last of the night before. Around him stand cedar, Douglas fir, larch and lodgepole pine trees of northwest Montana’s Lolo National Forest. It is a resplendently sunny Saturday in mid-May, the height of the mushroom hunting season.

“Probably deer,” he says. Evans points out small holes in the dry dirt. Rusty brown and white braids rest like epaulets on the shoulders of his long-sleeved Tshirt. Silver metal-rim glasses edge down the bridge of his nose. Beneath the prescription lenses, incongruously, a second pair of black wraparound sunglasses shades his view. In beaten blue jeans, he stretches to 6 feet, 2 inches—albeit at a slight slant, since one leg is an inch shorter than the other. It takes some time in his company to notice the slant. Like many who make their living from the ground, Evans seldom stands upright.

He kneels to grab the object of the animals’ efforts—a cluster of coral mushrooms. “These are hard to ID,” he says. “Get the wrong species and you’ve got a laxative.”

Something in his voice suggests the wisdom of experience. I ask him if he ever screwed up an identification.

“I have a saying,” Evans says. “Every day you have a chance to really fuck up your life forever.”

He hums happily to himself as he kicks up dirt by the trunk of a dead Douglas fir. “A dead tree always gets my attention,” he says. “Might be fungal.”

A woody, fecund smell emanates from the ground. Ants, dazed by the light, wander out. “Ant shit and wood chips are perfect for shaggy manes.” Evans breathes deeply. He sticks his hand into a hole in the trunk and scoops out tiny, black insects.

“Love story,” he says. “This is the cryptospore beetle and the cryptospore fungus. Beetles live all the way up the tree on one side, eating spores.

Spores they don’t finish germinate in dung and grow in the cambium of the tree. If you see blue stains in firewood, that’s fungi.”

He kneels and digs out a series of dirt humps with his hands, brushing aside leaves, lifting branches and raising rocks. “Some of these might be plants coming up, and some might be mushrooms.”

I spot a patch of pale, fleshy mushrooms with off-center stems and white stringy roots. Evans identifies my find as Clitocybe albirhiza.

“These guys come out at snowmelt,” he says. “They’re pretty much done by now.” My field guide is blunter: “Better neglected than collected.”

“What about that one?” I ask. Evans follows my finger to a brown-capped mushroom with clear gills and a handsome stem.

“This qualifies as an LBM,” he says.

“Little brown mushroom.”

Evans was born in the spring of 1955 in central Illinois’ Macon County, corn and soybean country. His father first made his living as a grain broker.

Then, as the son puts it, “The grain business, like a lot of things, got taken over by big corporations.” Before Quaker Oats could drive them out, the family quit the grain business and bought a nearby 120-acre Christmas tree plantation. They moved to the tree farm when Evans was 8 years old.

Forty acres of the plantation were wooded with old-growth oak and maple. There, Evans unearthed his first morels. “They were beautiful woods,” he says of his early hunting grounds.

“My dad would give us a nickel per morel.”

When he was 10, he read Stalking the Wild Asparagus, Euell Gibbons’ 1962 paean to wild foods. Gibbons’ recipes ranged from dandelion crown salad to woodchuck in sour cream. His tone was learned yet avuncular, both instructional and inviting. “Maybe we will meet some day out in the fields hunting wild mushrooms,” Gibbons concluded his chapter on the subject.

“Meanwhile, let me wish you good hunting and good eating. I must go now, for supper has been announced, and I know we are having Sautéed Shaggy-Manes on Toast, covered with a creamy black sauce made of their own rich juices.”

From then on, Evans says, “I was always into wild foods.”

After a brief, unhappy bout as a Phi Sigma Kappa pledge and civil engineering major at the University of Illinois, Evans entered the University of Montana in 1976. By the time he graduated, he was teaching others about mushrooms.

“The reasons I study mushrooms is that they’re infinite systems as opposed to closed systems,” he says.

“The only way to navigate these is through patterns and associations, intuitive rather than empirical processes.”

He sold some of the mushrooms he hunted at the Missoula farmers’ market. Success came slowly.

abilly to waltz. We’ve got a polka number in there.” On one track a female voice is sexy, throaty and troubled.

“I just like morels too much,” she confesses.

Masks from China, Guatemala, Indonesia, Italy, Mexico, South Korea and Zimbabwe decorate the walls of his small living room. A bookshelf holds texts on canine reproduction,

He stops to scrutinize bear scat.

Excrement supports hundreds of mushroom species. Because of the enormous geographic range the bison once enjoyed, over 40 fungi grow on that animal’s “chips” alone.

“He’s eating grass and beetles,” says Evans. “Must be kind of hungry.”

He scampers down hill, across the dirt road, and out of sight.

“I think like a morel, and then look for a place that feels like home.”

—Larry Evans

“I spent a lot of time talking, not much time selling,” he says. “People were scared of both me and my product—afraid that my mushrooms were going to get them high or afraid that they weren’t.”

To get by in the beginning, Evans waited tables, washed dishes, formed a food co-op and self-published a hitchhiking guide that he promoted by thumb for a year. “It was like Kerouac,” he says. “Something that’s impossible to imagine and difficult to remember.”

Travels have taken him across Europe, the Americas and Asia, where he lived for six years, starting in 1984.

There Evans practiced judo, traded currency, collected trinkets to import, taught English and acted briefly in a Japanese soap opera whose title he translates as “Single Woman in New York City”—all while hunting mushrooms. Soon after he returned to Missoula in 1990, he started a restaurant, the Black Dog, which, before it closed in 2002, specialized in dishes made from local ingredients.

Mushroom hunting, he says, is “more of a lifestyle than an actual vocational decision.”

Evans doesn’t have jobs as much as projects, and he never has just one project at a time. When I met him in 2002, he worked as a mushroom consultant for the U.S. Forest Service. He taught mycology classes at the Glacier Institute, an environmental education center in Glacier National Park, and he often led fungal-centered botany walks. He served as acting director of Cold Mountain, Cold Rivers, a local environmental and human rights organization. Twice a week, he taught judo.

Volunteer efforts included serving as the impresario behind a fundraiser album for the Western Montana Mycological Association, which he founded. “It’s 14 tracks of all mushroom songs,” he says of the 2007 release.

“Edible and poisonous, hallucinogens, of course. Everything from blues to rock-

guides to Asia, back issues of Foreign Affairs and Science News, and novels

by Boyle, Bukowski, DeLillo, Ishiguro and Mailer.

On the floor against a wall sit several medium-sized cardboard boxes.

Each box holds 10 pounds of dried morels packed for later sale in 1-ounce plastic bags.

The highest grade, old and gray, with reddish-brown stems as thick as the fingers of an interior lineman, sells for upwards of $100 a pound, the highest prices since the market glut produced by the wildfires of 2000, when 6.5 million acres burned in the western United States. That makes more than $3,000 in mushrooms on the floor.

Evans turns and tramps up a hill.

He’s fast, and I struggle to catch him even though he stops every few feet, often backtracking, to survey the area.

Together, we scale a steep incline for a quarter of a mile. Here the trees rise not up and down, but radially out. I feel as if we’re navigating through a massive game of pick-up-sticks.

Whitewater roars loudly below.

Director Ron Mann describes Evans as “the Indiana Jones of mushroom hunters,” and an inspiration. “He’s someone who’s trying to spread the spores,” says Mann. “I make movies about my heroes and Larry Evans is a hero of mine. He really is someone who has turned people’s attention toward the earth. It’s all about the earth.”

Evans forages by mossy stumps, turns over divots and digs under logs.

He jumps branches and leaps around mud holes. On a pair of downed Douglas firs, he finds two brown fungi known as tree ears. “One of the first mushrooms cultivated thousands of years ago,” he explains, “near as we can tell, in Asia.”

“I found truffles!” he hollers.

Mushroom hunters never worry about noise startling their prey.

I find him kneeling a foot from the trunk of a Subaru. The mid-afternoon sun makes me sweat outside the forest cover. Evans shows me a dusky, spongy sphere, marvelously redolent. “Geopora cooperi, a fuzzy truffle,” he says. “It only grows underground.”

He pulls off his glasses and edges the fungus close to his nose like a diamond merchant checking the cut of a stone. “Mm,” he sniffs deeply. His narrow eyes seem to shift color from hazel to indigo to black.

The northwest United States is one of the world’s great fungal hunting grounds. Top fungi—fresh, rare and, above all, tasty—fetch $10, $60, as much as $600 a pound on the open market.

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Evans first hunted morels on his family’s tree farm in Illinois. “The reasons I study mushrooms is that they’re infinite systems as opposed to closed systems,” he says. “The only way to navigate these is through patterns and associations, intuitive rather than empirical processes.”

We drive down the road by the river, slowing down occasionally for Evans to study the roadside cover. He cranes his head out the front passenger window. “I’ve found morels in the middle of vacant lots in urban nightmarescapes,” he says. “I found a very confused and lonely morel in the middle of Soho.”

He jumps out and into the roadside brush.

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point. Dark, damp air clouds my nose and throat. Twigs snap ahead. Above, the brush rises at least 6 feet high. As I progress, tree trunks strike my knees and catch my feet; branches scrape my chest and head. The terrain is too thick in places even to enter. In other spots it’s spiked and stings my hands and arms. Another whistle, and I find my companion in a narrow

“I spent a lot of time talking, not much time selling.

People were scared of both me and my product—afraid that my mushrooms were going to get them high or afraid that they weren’t.”

—Larry Evans

“That’s about as long as I can go without picking mushrooms!”

A family camps by the riverbank.

“Marco!” kids call by the water.

“Polo!”

Evans whistles long and loud from somewhere within the woods. “First one!” he shouts.

“Beautiful!”

Orienting myself toward the direction of the shout, I follow. Branches cover the forest floor in shadows and leaves block every vantage

circular clearing, leaning lightly on a cottonwood branch cane.

“Look up,” Evans says calmly once I catch my breath.

I look up. The thick trunk of a topless cottonwood connects ground to sky.

“Look down,” says Evans.

I look down. Ants and empty snail shells dot the dirt and thorns, musty leaves and fallen branches.

“Keep looking.”

I squint.

“See them?”

Then I do. Three yellow morels, an inch apart from each other, in a tight triangle.

“Blondes,” Evans growls. “People might call them whites. What I might call ignorant people.”

He bends down, extends his long arms, and snaps the morel closest to me from its rooted stem. He rises to his full height and shakes the dirt from the mushroom. “This returns any primordia”—the pin that marks the beginning of a new mushroom—“to the dirt. I leave them so more will grow. So many times, I go to plant one, look around, whoa, and see 20 more. I’ve only known a couple ecosystems like this in the United States. I don’t know if any others exist in this form anymore.”

Evans and the rest of us look at the same ground. We see snails, pine cones, twigs and dirt. He sees mushrooms. Ephemeral or intangible characteristics, he insists, are as important as any standard indicators. “I feel out the humidity and amount of shadow in an area. The colors, the layers, the temperature.” The word is atmosphere—as much aesthetic as scientific. Evans doesn’t hunt mushrooms; he hunts habitats. “I think like a morel,” he says, “and then look for a place that feels like home.”

I step forward.

“Watch your foot!” The judo teacher crouches to swipe the body of another morel before I can crush it with the toe of my sneakers.

His own shoes, I now notice, are ringed with morels. I point these out.

Evans nods without looking down. “I leave one or two everywhere I pick. It’s spiritual.”

He lifts his cottonwood branch and traces an imaginary line from the sky to his shoes. “I walked over a mountain in Calabria covered with hun-

dreds of footprints,” he says. “At the bottom, I bent down to brush off dirt and saw boletes. They must have been calling to me from miles away.”

I trudge off determinedly in the opposite direction. Dead white leaves cover ants and flies.

The whole ground is alive with insects. I walk to a fallen pine, step over a spider web, and sit. Beetle galleries mark where the tree sloughed off bark, which covers the forest floor along with leaves and fallen branches. The ground is surprisingly warm to my touch, and soft as a baby’s handshake.

Myrtle and boxwood shrubs, hemlock saplings and the pencil-thin stalk of a new pine tree, its seed head still intact, rise from the dirt and detritus. Above mossy roots, I trace the smooth, gray weather-beaten bark of a healthy, mature pine. A cloud of dust comes off at my touch.

I pace, bent at the back, eyes focused hard on the ground. Each leaf I turn over with my eyes.

Gently but firmly, I toe the edges of any and every dirt hump. For 10 minutes, I half walk, half crawl downhill, the hair on my arms on end, my nostrils flared. I stand and squint at the shadowy area under a mossy log. Evans recedes from my mind.

Poison ivy never enters my thoughts. I forget the possible bears, I forget my own breathing, I forget myself. Only the mushroom matters.

And so, perhaps another 30 seconds later, when in fact I do see a beautiful little black morel by a broken branch near the mossy log, I’m not in the least surprised.

Back at the road, Evans holds the specimen to the light. A bug falls off my prize. Evans picks it from the asphalt and moves it to safety off the shoulder.

“It’s always good to find a really interesting specimen,” he says, “and it’s even better if you can eat it.” editor@missoulanews.com

Subculture documentary filmmaker Ron Mann made Evans the main subject—and poster boy—of his new film, Know Your Mushrooms. “I make movies about my heroes,” says Mann, “and Larry Evans is a hero of mine.”

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Noodle Express 2000 W. Broadway 541-7333 Featuring a mixture of non-traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Polynesian contemporary dishes.

Phone ahead ordering is enhanced with a convenient PickUp window. $-$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 Don't feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks • 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes.

Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $6.95. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $6.95. Eat in or take-out. MF 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$.

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. Getting ready for outside seating? So are we. Not matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $-$$

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Posh Chocolat 119 South Higgins 543-2566 Next to the Historic Wilma Building in downtown Missoula. The chocolate lovers paradise is now also a great place for lunch. With a total remodel, serving freshly made sweet and savory crepes, delicious quiches, soups, seasonal salads and artisanal European style pastries. And don't forget what's been keeping us busy since 2005; stop in and try our single origin, 100% Ecuadorian, hand crafted Truffles. www.poshchocolat.com. $-$$ The Press Box 835 E Broadway 721-1212 Enjoy our breakfast special, Monday through Friday, 7 AM to noon. We have great pizza, burgers & appetizers, and more! 21 beers on tap.

Continually voted best sports bar in Missoula. Enjoy any game, any time at The Press Box. pressboxsportsbar.com. $-$$$ SA WAD DEE 221 W. Broadway 543-9966 Sa-Wa-Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors-no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisines. Now serving Beer and Wine! $-$$ Sean Kelly’s 130 West Pine 542–1471 Open for Lunch and Dinner! Check out our new menu: Sesame House Salad, Soba Vegetable Pasta, Warm Brie Salad, the Dubliner, Eggplant Parmesan Sandwich, and Great Italian Pastas.

Irish favorites, too: Pasties, Fish and Chips & Shepherd’s Pie. “where the Gaelic and the Garlic mix!!” $-$$ Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day. Daily Lunch Specials.

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Vietnam Noodle 2100 Stephens 542-8299 A true Vietnamese dining experience!

Enjoy our authentic beef noodle soup, spring rolls, pad thai, Vietnamese style hot & sour soup, noodle soup bowls & daily lunch/soup combo specials. We suggest that you also try our new stuffed hot peppers. For your cooking pleasure at home, we have an Asian grocery next to our restaurant! Get a free meal on your birthday when you bring 5 or more friends. $-$$

Bucks Club 1805 Regent 543-7436 Missoula’s best Food & Drink Values. 2-for-1 food specials daily. Eat the legend. Burgers for a buck. Over 1,000,000 sold. Great Breakfast served daily. If you go away hungry, don’t blame us. Mon.–Sat. Open 7 AM and Sunday 8 AM. $

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. $-$$

$...Under $5 Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Where Myrtle Avenue ends at Bernice's, a tiny bakery sits as a veritable landmark to those who enjoy homestyle baked goods, strong coffee, community, and a variety of delicious treats. Join us for lunch if you'd like. Crazy delicious. Crazy cheap. 30 years and still baking. Open Every Day 6AM to 8PM. $

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Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve by TJ Maxx & Ross 549-5595 Cold Stone Creamery, the ultimate ice cream experience! Our smooth and creamy ice cream is made fresh daily using our secret recipe. Come in for our weekday specials. Get $5 off ice cream cakes with your business card. Get Gift Cards any time. Treat yourself to a 10minute vacation at Cold Stone Creamery. $-$$ Le Petit Outre 129 South 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. $

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by Ari LeVaux

Naughty nettles I’m only allowed to tell you about Dogshit Gulch because Shorty and I are in New Mexico this spring, which means she can’t pick nettles there. Otherwise, if I told you about this spot, I might get punished. And when you mix nettles and punishment, ouch.

Dogshit Gulch—not its real name, of course— is a steep, west-facing canyon near town. It has a little creek next to a trail that, in spring, is often layered with a slippery layer of brown-smeared ice. If you don’t know where I’m talking about, any creek or river bottom will do.

During the wet months of spring, when the last of the snows are gone from the hillsides, it’s time to gather nettles.

While the plants will keep growing all summer, the supple shoots of springtime, when they’re between 6 and 16 inches tall, are the ones you want to gather and eat. In a place like Dogshit Gulch you don’t want to harvest them right along the trail, for obvious reasons.

If you find a good patch, you should cash in. Nettles are among the first of the wild edible plants you can find in enough quantities to preserve for later use, either by blanching and freezing or dehydration.

Don’t worry about decimating the nettle patch. It’s almost impossible. And nettles aren’t native to the United States anyway. They deserve to die.

As a spring tonic, nettles deliver a spectrum of nutrients, such as calcium, iron, manganese, potassium and protein, and have traditionally been used as supplements for people who don’t get enough meat or fruit. They also taste really good, and can sting you with venomous barbs, which, believe it or not, isn’t always a bad thing.

Nettles resemble mint, with fuzzy, jagged leaves paired opposite a central stalk. The venom contained in those dramatically un-mint-like hollow spines contains a cocktail of irritants, including formic acid, the active ingredient in red ant venom. The plant’s scientific name, Urtica dioica, is related to the Latin Urticaria, which means skin

Ask Ari:

rash. You need gloves to harvest it, and scissors, unless you want to get stung. And some people, it turns out, do.

“The walls of the hairs are composed of silica, i.e. natural glass, and contact breaks the fragile tip of the hair, which is sharp enough to push into the skin, while at the same time the venom, stored under pressure in the expanded base, travels up the hair and is injected into the skin through the broken tip,” reports one website (www.mordor.u-net.com/smbd/nettles.html) in its in-depth discussion on sado-botany.

I learned about sado-botany while searching for nettle information online, evidently with the “safe search” filter on my browser turned off. It offers thoughtful tips on nettle-enhanced kinky sex, including the sensible warning to avoid use of the New Zealand nettle, which is strong enough to kill a horse. “[Sado-botany] enthusiasts put nettles inside underwear,” notes another online sado-botany source, practicallyedible.com.

For those more interested in wholesome nourishment, you can wilt nettle stingers by cooking them. A minute or two of steam is all it takes.

Nettles have a wild flavor, earthy like spinach, rich like asparagus.

Stir-fried nettles with garlic and soy is a great, simple option. Blanched nettles can also make a

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The news that I’m in New Mexico for a few years was met with a mixed response. One reader wrote, “We miss you already.” Another wondered, “WTF? Where is my steam juicer that you borrowed?”

Well, I miss you too, Missoula. As for that steam juicer, I’m really sorry I split town before returning it. I should be punished—though preferably not with nettles. Rest assured, the steam juicer is clean and safe, and I’ll be coming home for a visit in May. If it’s cool, I’ll return it then.

And this just in:

Dear Flash, May you continue to enjoy your time in New Mexico. I’m glad to hear you will continue your column in the Independent.

I have a gardening question for you. What are your thoughts on this advice, which I got off the Internet: “Newspaper weeds away: Wet newspapers, put layers around the plants overlapping as you go, cover with mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic, but they will not get through wet newspapers.”

—So Much for Fish Wraps

great pesto in conjunction with the usual pesto constituents, minus the basil.

I learned the following nettle ravioli-filling recipe from Chef Jeff Miller, formerly of Papoose Creek Lodge, and a specialist in wild-foods cooking. This filling would rock on pizza, too.

Blanch the nettles a handful at a time in boiling salted water, then plunge them into an ice bath. The ice-water bath, known as “shocking,” stops the cooking immediately and fixes a bright green color. Squeeze out the water from the shocked nettles.

In a food processor, blend 1 cup blanched nettles, 4 tablespoons grated parmesan, 4 tablespoons ricotta cheese, 1 teaspoon lemon zest, 1 teaspoon nutmeg and a pinch of salt.

For the dough, follow the pasta recipe of your choice. Joy of Cooking works fine.

Roll pasta into sheets.

On one sheet, place teaspoon-sized dollops of filling about 1.5 inches apart.

Dipping your finger in water, draw lines between the dollops and around the perimeter of the sheet, and cover with another pasta sheet. Starting at one end, firmly press along the wet lines, squeezing out the air and bonding the pasta around each piece of ravioli. Cut apart with a butter knife or pasta cutter.

To cook, drop them in a big pot of boiling, salted, olive-oiled water for about 2 minutes, or until they float. Set aside 1/2 cup pasta water for the sauce.

Strain the ravioli, toss in olive oil and minced raw garlic, and set aside. Make the sauce as follows: Pan-toast 1/2 cup crushed walnuts on medium heat. When they are hot and golden, add half a stick of butter. When the butter starts to brown—but before it burns—add 2 tablespoons of lemon juice. Lower heat and toss the ravioli in this sauce with a splash of pasta water. It should sizzle a little. Don’t overload the pan with ravioli.

Serve sprinkled with toasted walnuts scooped from the pan.

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Dear SMFW, Some newspaper inks, especially in color pages, contain chemicals you don’t want to be putting on your garden. I have experimented with this technique, using layers of black and white newspaper, and found that the paper quickly disintegrates in the wet ground. Using newspapers as a weed barrier might work for one season if you lay it on thick enough, but it won’t last much longer. As far as newspapers being a tougher barrier than plastic weed mat, I think that’s bunk.

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An eight-week workshop offers a chance for people who’ve had cancer, dubbed Cancer, Courage and Creativity, takes place at 5:30 PM every Thu. through Apr. 30 at Living Art’s Reserve Street studios. Free, donations appreciated. RSVP 549-5329 or ysteinprograms@livingartofmontana.org.

nightlife Put a smile on your face and a tune in your head—join guitarist Craig Wickham every Thu. from 5–7 PM at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free.

Call 755-9463.

All genres are encouraged—excepting, perhaps, death metal—every Thu. at 5:30 PM at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 1/2 South Ave. W., where musicians bring their noise makers and synergy builds a joyful sound during the Tangled Tones Pickin’ Circle. Free. Call 396-3352.

Take your first crack at wheel throwing when Stumptown Art Studio, 145 Central Ave. in Whitefish, presents the class Mud in Motion at 6 PM. $75. Call 862-5929 or visit stumptownartstudio.org.

They enjoy oatmeal before sunrise, French Canada and good old fashioned string music, with a twist: AM String Band plays the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St., in Hamilton at 6 PM. Free.

The valley’s haven for year-round thrashers, Fiftytwo Skatepark, on El Way past the Missoula Airport, hosts Girls’ Skate Club Night every Thu. at 6 PM, which means girls skate for free. Guys are welcome, but should plan on parting with a few bucks. Call 542-6383.

Don’t let your fear of impromptu music sessions keep you from camping again this summer—Beginning Campfire Guitar class for those aged 12–112 at 7 PM the Missoula YMCA, 3000 S. Russell St., will have

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you playing kumbaya before you know it. $45/$36 members. Call 721-9622.

A Front Street tradition is reborn with the return of Candlelight Acoustics, an every-Thursday event at the Top Hat featuring singer-songwriters sharing their gifts in the luminous glow at 9 PM. The doors open at 5, and this week, Andrea Harsell and Louie Bond inhabits the spotlight. Free. Call 728-9865.

Lake Missoula Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, hosts a Local Artist Showcase featuring Seth James, Isaac M., Ryne Mading and Ross Logan at 7 PM. Free, and whoever else feels like it can drop in. Call 541-8643.

Come to The Cottage Inn in Kila for a 7 PM Irish jam session and stay for the weekly cribbage tournament at the world famous home of “Turbo Crib.”

Free. Call 755-4572.

FRIDAY April

Feeling too straight and separate?

Remedy that situation pronto at Gay Men Together, a safe and affirming place for gay and bisexual men, at 7 PM at the Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center, 127 N. Higgins Ave., Ste. 202. Free. Call 543-2224.

It’s the last chance for your kids to actually learn something during spring break: spectrUM Discovery Area’s Science Smorgasbord presents “Art and Motion,” a workshop using technology to create random and calculated pieces of art, at 9 AM in UM’s Skaggs Building, Room 166. $45/$41.50 for members. Payment is required in advance, so call 243-4828.

Swallow your pride, grab up to seven double-spaced pages of your best verbiage, and bring it to this week’s Authors of the Flathead meeting for constructive critique at 7 PM in Room 151 of the Science and Technology Building on the Flathead Valley Community College campus.

Free. Call 881-4066.

Reminisce about the good ol’ days of music gone by at the weekly Old Timey Music Sessions at Community Bike Shop, 732 S. First St. West, at 7:30 PM. Free. Call 726-3765 or 880-6834.

Queercore punk pioneer Jon Ginoli reads from his new book, Deflowered, My Life in Pansy Division, shows a Pansy Division documentary, Life in a Gay Rock Band and performs a short acoustic set at 8 PM at the ZACC Art Gallery, 235 N. First St. W. $5.

Call 549-7555. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

“If you wanna get to Missoula, you’ve gotta go down that road, there.”

The Rocky Mountain School of Photography, 210 N. Higgins Ave., hosts a reception for its inaugural exhibition, grow., featuring work by Eileen Rafferty, at 5 PM on Fri., April 3. Free. Call 543-0171 Jam from 8–11 PM. Free. Call 887-2096.

Bowling and karaoke go together like First Friday and death metal during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING.

Let it all hang out—well, maybe not all of it—during L.I.V. Karaoke’s Ladies’ Night at the High Spirits in Florence starting at 9 PM. Free. Call 273-9992.

Hear what Kansas City has to offer when The Republic Tigers bring some new wave grooves to the underground crew at the Palace Lounge with Stein and Ello at 9 PM. $5. (See Noise in this issue.)

Bring your instruments of entertainment, but leave the drum kits at home, as Polson’s East Shore Smoke House, half a mile north of the Finley Point turnoff on Highway 35, hosts a weekly “semi-unplugged” Blues

Sorry ladies, but Thu. nights belong to the dudes at Men’s Night at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where the testosteronefueled karaoke begins at 9 PM. Free.

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The heavens open, the price of well drinks plummets and a tsunami of pure unabashed booty dancing hails your arrival every Thu. at the Badlander, where Dead Hipster DJ Night rewards you with rock, indie, krunk, pop and more at 9 PM. $2.

Join Sandy Bradford and Mark Souhrada when they host the jam at Los Caporales in Columbia Falls at 9 PM. Call 892-5025.

Landslide hosts open mic night at the Bandit Saloon in Columbia Falls every Thu. and Tue. night, starting at 9 PM. Free.

Bassackwards Karaoke turns your world underside-up every Thu. at 9 PM at Deano’s Casino on Airway Boulevard. Free. Call 531-8327.

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If art loses hands-down to video games, then the Missoula Public Library’s your gig, where Game On! invites teen gamers to play on the big screen and mow snacks at 3:30 PM. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

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Since we’re apparently not supposed to go to Mexico: Spring Break Safaris at the Roxy, 718 S. Higgins Ave., has activities and wildlife films for the whole family from noon–1:30 PM. $3 each. Call 728-9380.

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nightlife Noteworthy Paper and Press, 101 S. Higgins Ave., hosts an opening reception for Courtney Blazon’s new series, Our Dancing Daughters which combines drawing with traditional paper craft such as quilling and paper filigree, at 5 PM. Free.

Sheilah Healow shows a photo project of creepy clowns for the First Friday Art Walk at Butterfly Herbs, 232 N. Higgins Ave., at 5 PM. Free.

Big Sky Embroidery, 610 S. Higgins Ave., presents April in Paris, the photography of Alan Graham McQuillan at their First Friday Art opening from 5 PM–8. Free.

The Rocky Mountain School of Photography, 210 N. Higgins Ave., Ste. 101, hosts a reception for its inaugural exhibition, grow., featuring work by Eileen Rafferty, at 5 PM. Free.

Call 543-0171.

Lisa Tate brings it back to the oldschool style of Ancient Rome with Our Hidden Worlds, an exhibit of complex and rare pieces of Cameo Glass, to The Artists Shop, 304 N. Higgins Ave., at 5 PM. Free. Call 543-6393.

The Dana Gallery, 246 N. Higgins Ave., hosts an opening reception for their April exhibit, Back Roads, featuring new paintings by Robert Schlegel, at 5 PM. Free. Call 721-3154.

The First Friday Art Walk at New West, 415 N. Higgins Ave., features Faces of the Pov, portraits of residents of Missoula’s largest emergency homeless shelter and soup kitchen by photographer Catherine L. Walters and painter Kimberly Anderson, at 5 PM. Free.

Artist Sara Magar shows off her dream-like creations of acrylic on canvas, some pencil and ink for First Friday at the Palace Lounge at 5 PM. Free.

Laurie Lane Studios, 141 S. Third St. W., features the mixed-media works of Loyola Sacred Heart High School Seniors Laurel Goldammer and Mary Callahan Baumstark, entitled Capturing the Moment: High School Art Retrospect and But as for childhood..., at 5 PM. Free. Call 542-3623.

First Friday at Betty’s Divine, 521 S Higgins Ave., presents photographs by Ben Ferencz and Tom Robertson of upcoming 2009 fashions, the release of the Spring 2009 line of Statriot’s Treasure State-themed shirts, and a Girl Group Competition at 7 PM, where female songstresses will compete for the title of Missoula’s best under-20, all-girl band, and some cash.

Free. Call 721-4777. (See Scope in this Issue).

First Friday at the Catalyst, 111 S. Higgins Ave., will show new works by local artists beginning at 5 PM. Free.

Artist Tim Marion Nielson shows off his paintings, Icon Salon, featuring Atheist Icons, for the First Friday Art Walk at Bernice’s Bakery, 190 S. Third St. W., at 5 PM. Free.

Panoramic photographer Charlie Ferguson gives the public a taste of his wild adventures for First Friday at Montana Conservation Corps’ new office, 508 Toole Ave., with food, drinks and music to boot starting at 5 PM. Free.

Ceretana Gallery, 801 Sherwood Ave., hosts a First Friday multi-media exhibit called Panorama, as well as some live music from Birds Mile Home and an acoustic performance

by Rooster Sauce at 5 PM. Call 207-1210.

Missoula Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, at 7:30 PM. $5. Call 541-8643.

The Montana Women’s Hockey Team kicks off their weekend-long championship tournament and fundraiser around 5 PM, where they will compete with teams from all across the Northwest at The Glacier Ice Rink, 1101 South Ave. W. The tournament continues all day Sat. and Sun. morning, and will feature a raffle, silent auction and barbecue to raise funds for next year’s team. Contact anne.peterson@umontana.edu or laura.bray@umontana.edu.

Trouble must be coming, ’cause Red Moon plays the Missoula’s Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Call 207-0498.

The Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., hosts a First Friday exhibit by the students of Garden City Montessori from 5:30–8 PM. Free.

Dance the night away—literally—at First Friday with the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., beginning at 6 PM with photographs by Dan Cripe, followed by performances, tango and Milonga classes lasting until midnight. $10/$5 a class/$3 for Milonga. Call 360-8763.

For First Friday, Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins., will present the Finale of Project Selvedge, and show off all the garments from all the challenges, as well as the finalist’s spring line, starting at 6 PM. Free.

541-7171.

The Clay Studio, 11016 Hawthorne St., Ste. A, hosts the opening reception of POTSKETCH 2009, a silent, online live auction of local, national and international art to raise funds for the studio, at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 543-0509.

The Can’t Hardly Playboys pick ‘em old and new—as long as it’s acoustic folk and rock—every Fri. from 6 to 8 PM at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell.

Free. Call 755-9463.

Te e n a g e r s — t h a t ’ s a n y o n e a g e d 13–18—are invited to Teen Movie Night at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., for a chance to see that one vampire movie based on Stephenie Meyer’s insanely popular book at 7 PM. Free. Call 721-Book.

Things get tasty when Yumi brings some 12-string acoustic funk to the Hangin Art Gallery and Coffee House, Hwy. 93, in Arlee at 7 PM. Call 726-5005.

The Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St., presents a Gallery Talk with Registrar Ted Hughes, who will discuss their current exhibit, Sign Language: The Pop Art of Sister Corita at 7 PM. Free. Call 728-0447. (See Spotlight in this Issue.)

You’ve got two chances to catch Cold Enchantments, some new, rare and rockin’ silhouette animations by Andy Smetanka at the Crystal Theater, 515 S. Higgins Ave., at 7 PM and 9:30 PM, followed by a surprise feature presentation. $7. Call 327-1515.

Zootown Brew, 121 W. Broadway, hosts a First Friday fundraiser to celebrate the 30-year service to Missoula of First Way Pregnancies, with food, coffee and music by Shane Klaus. $5. Call 543-2549.

Florence’s High Spirits Club and Casino, 5341 Hwy 93 N., joins in the First Friday fun with a Country Dance Class taught by Cathy Clark at 7 PM, for which you will need a partner, with music by Blue Rock Shop to follow. $5.

Call 273-9992.

Katie O’toole, Betty and the Boy and Wartime Blues take on Lake

Live music of an unspecified nature shakes things up at The Raven in Bigfork, 39 Orchard Lane, which should add some spice to the Walleye Fish Fry as well. Visit sleepeatdrink.com.

Zeppo, MT brings some finger-lickin’ good blues to the Union Club at 9 PM. Free.

This Month’s Featured Artist:

AM String Band puts their own twist on string music at the Old Post Pub, 103 W. Spruce St., at 9 PM. Free.

Angela Brooker

You get your money’s worth with a triple shot of music at The Badlander, featuring Astronautalis, Bleubird and Cars and Trains at 9 PM. $5.

(See Noise in this issue.)

Kris Moon, Fleege and Brand One leave your musical taste buds thoroughly confused during this week’s installment of Friday Night Delights at the Palace Lounge at 9 PM. Free.

It’s time for an all-request video dance party to celebrate the week’s end: Feelgood Friday featuring hip hop video remixes with The Tallest DJ in America at 9 PM at The Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway. Free. Call 543-5678.

Belt out a few bars of somethin’ sexy at East Missoula’s Reno Casino and Cafe’s karaoke night, brought to you

by Karaoke by Figmo, every Fri. and Sat. night at 9 PM. Free.

Be thankful that the freedom to speak includes the freedom to sing when you sidle up to the mic at karaoke night at the VFW, kicking off at 9 PM. Free.

Voted Missoula’s Best Tattoo Parlor 13 Years Running 1701 S 5th St. W. :: 728-1191 :: www.painlesssteeltattoo.com

Release your inner Kool Moe Dee when Larry’s Six Mile Casino and Cafe in Huson presents an evening with Grayhound Karaoke at 9 PM. Free.

Call 546-8978.

When the Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St., turns over the sound system to a live DJ every Fri. at 9 PM, all you’ve got to remember is to turn south after taking exit 89 from I-90.

Free. Call 370-3200.

Feel free to shake it like a Polaroid picture when DJ Sanchez cranks out the jams at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, every Fri. at 9 PM. Free.

Call 363-6969.

It might not be the right time to get fitted for the wobbly boot when Landslide plays Sean Kelly’s at 9:30 PM. Cover TBA. Call 542-1471.

Your weekly supply of DJ Concave jumps 50 percent as he holds down the tables at Boomer’s Pub every Fri. at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 531-1510.

Too Slim and the Tail Draggers return to the Top Hat, 134 W. Front St., where they were the very first band to ever play, to pay their respects to the late Steve Garr and celebrate the release of their new CD Free Your Mind at 9 PM. $10. Call 728-9865.

He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.

Bask in the sounds of spinning discs as Mobile Beat’s DJs scratch it up tonight and tomorrow starting at 10 PM at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Cover TBA. Call 755-9463.

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Its time for Kalispell’s “Trees to Paper to Trees” Recycling Drive, so bring all those recyclable goods you’ve been saving since last fall—sorted and separated, please—to the north end of the Kalispell Fairgrounds beginning at 9 AM. Call 758-7849.

To keep overhead low and encourage interactions and friendships, the Missoula Community Food Co-op, 1500 Burns St. on the westside, is open only to members EXCEPT from 10 AM-3 PM on the first Sat. of every month, when Public Shop offers you a chance to stock up on fresh and local food, taste samples and learn more about how easy—and affordable—it is to become a member.

Free. Call 728-2369.

It’s time for the 17th Annual Run for the Trees, a 5k walk or run along the Riverfront Trails, beginning at 10 AM. A 1-mile Fun Run for kids 12 and under begins at 9:30 AM. Registration has been extended through Thu., April 2. $25/$20 youth. Register at 721-PARK or active.com.

Southgate Mall presents the Spring Bazaar and Hobby Show, its annual not-for-profit awareness and fundraising day beginning at 10 AM. Free. Call 721-5140 ext. 50.

Donate your used yet functional mountain/outdoor gear to Mountain Shepherds, a community-owned ecotourism group in the Himalayas, during the month-long drive Gear for the Garhwal: A Mountain to Mountain Community Service, which has drop-off points at Pipestone Mountaineering, the Trailhead, Bob Wards and the UM Outdoor Program.

Call 370-2294.

The Inaugural Missoula Egg Drop and Food Drive makes a big entrance when they drop 20,000 funfilled plastic Easter eggs from a helicopter on the Western Montana Fairgrounds at 11 AM, and fully embrace the spirit of Easter with large, inflatable toys to play on and prizes of bicycles, iPods, an Xbox and Nintendo Wii. Free, non-perishable food donations appreciated. Visit missoulaeggdrop.com or call 241-9072.

Dana Gallery, 246 N. Higgins Ave., hosts an Artist Talk and Painting Demonstration by a gallery artist and the owners at 11 AM. Free. Call 721-3154.

Cadillacs and bovines come together in harmony when All Mosta Ranch, a non-profit livestock rescue and educational center, brings their animals to Kalispell’s Old Eisinger Motors parking lot, 1000 E. Idaho, for the Critter’s Community Outreach at 11 AM. Free. Call 270-7513.

In an effort to help keep your peripatetic pup under control, the Humane Society of Western Montana hosts Tag Day, at noon at GoFetch!, 3275 N. Reserve St., Ste. G, where they offer $20 off-site microchiping and sales on collars and tags. Call 549-3934.

Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., presents a Lineage Dance Workshop and Performance, beginning at noon with a master class open to all levels. $15/$12 members. Call 360-8763.

If you don’t want to be attacked with a foam ax by some guy dressed as Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, then steer clear of Franklin Park, Tenth and Kemp St., for the Warlord Combat Group Battle, which shall commence at 1 PM. Those attending, however, should be there at noon for registration or face the consequences. Call 214-6466.

Give the pencil chewing a rest so you attend a Stress Relief Workshop led by Gail O’Phaelan at 1 PM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 541-1100.

Hanna Hannan and community guests present the six-week adults-only course Nicaraguan Pottery and Clay: Hand Building every Sat. through April 11, at 3 PM at the ZACC, 2 3 5 N . F i r s t S t . W. $ 8 0 / s i x week course. Call 549-7555 or visit zootownarts.com.

Your Missoula Phoenix kick off the season when they take on the Utah Shock at UM’s Washington Grizzly Stadium at 4 PM. And yes, tailgating is allowed, but only in Lot W. $8. Call 207-1702.

nightlife Satisfy that thirst for something beyond ordinary wine at the Hidden Legend Winery, at Sheafman corner and Highway 93 S., where the honey wine flows and the local music rolls every Sat. at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 363-6323.

If they only gave Jerry a harp in heaven, this is what he’d sound like: Blue Melon plays the Bitter Root Brewery,

BETTY’S DIVINE 521 S. Higgins, 721-4777 For April we are releasing Betty's very own photos of our favorite spring/summer looks for 2009. Ben Ferencz, art director at large, and photographer Tom Robinson show off their talent, and models Jordon and Jenise steez it to the max. Imagine "stylish relationship tension at the cheesy, why the hell is the sand so high, beach." Sort of a spring break sheik look. Also, STATRIOT RELEASES 4 NEW DESIGNS. The folks responsible for a wide variety of Treasure state themed shirts are set to release a Spring 2009 line.

The new designs will be sold on that Friday only for a special one-time $20 price each. High School Girl Bands will be showing off their young talent and competing for prizes. Cookies and wine as usual. 5-8pm

BUTTERFLY HERBS 232 N. Higgins, 728-8780 Please join Butterfly Herbs for April's First Friday celebration where, this month, Sheilah Healow will be showing a photo project involving a scary clown frolicking through the pages of a children's book.

A must see! from 5-8pm.

BLACKBIRD KID SHOP 525 S. Higgins, 543-2899 Come on down to Blackbird and see beautiful artwork created by Kids Central, as well as amazing portraits of children done by Crackle Photography. Snacks and bevs provided, as well as some local entertainment! Don't miss it! 5-8pm.

HEALTHY HUMMINGBIRD MASSAGE & ARTS CENTER 725 Alder, Suite 27, 207-6269 If you weren't one of the 200 people that passed through our Grand Opening and First Friday last month, you'll be glad to know we plan on celebrating every month with different local artists, musicians, authors, & potters. A place to find a masterpiece at any budget. Great art, music, food & good company April 3rd, from 5-9pm, for more info call: 406-207-6269 www.healthyhummingbird.com

CATALYST 111 N. Higgins, 542-1337 Visit us after First Friday's Art Walk. Enjoy local art and our 100% seasonal and local Dinner Menu at our monthly First Friday event. Dinner served 7 PM to 10 PM.

101 Marcus St., in Hamilton at 6 PM. Free.

The Faith Evangelical Free Church, 2200 S. Tenth St. W., hosts a movie night featuring Fireproof, at 6:30 PM. Free, but bring money for pizza if you want it. Call 728-3966.

The Lineage Dance Workshop and Performance by Downtown Dance Collective continues at 7 PM with a live performance of music, dancing, beverages and hors d’oeuvres, at the Loft upstairs at 119 W. Main St. $20/$15 members. Call 360-8763.

The Missoula Folklore Society throws a Contra Dance in the Union Hall, with lessons beginning at 7:30 PM and the booty-shakin’ getting underway at 8 PM, with music from Sleeping Child Band and calling by Mitchell Frey. $8/$6 members. Call 543-6508.

The Missoula’s Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., heats things up when Reverend Slanky hosts Hot Island Night at 8 PM. Free. Call 207-0498.

You might to bring along a glass of cold milk just in case: Hot Salsa Night begins at 8 PM with free dance lessons at The Other Side, on the 1100 Block of Strand. $5. Visit myspace.com/hotsalsanights.

jumpers and the drama of the landscape on fire. This 20" x 25" print is signed and numbered by the artist in an edition of 375. www.dolack.com. Open weekdays 10-5:30 and Saturday 11-5.

NOTEWORTHY PAPER & PRESS 101 Higgins, 541-6683 Noteworthy Paper and Press welcomes Missoula artist Courtney Blazon's new series entitled “Our Dancing Daughters” which combines drawing with traditional paper craft such as quilling and paper filigree. Join us Friday night from 5-8pm!

WHOOPING CRONES GALLERY 508 E. Broadway, 721-3042 The Whooping Crones Gallery is showing “Maclay Flats” photography/mixed media, new work

by Jennifer Fraser. Also showing “Sunflower Series” acrylic enamels on handmade paper by R.Wade Nelson and ceramics by Jo Bernofsky. Artist reception April 3rd 5~8 pm.

LIVING ART - THE LIGHT SHOW - 5/9 @ HILTON GARDEN INN Preview Art in Lobby of Florence Hotel - Downtown Missoula 4/3 Preview the art for Living Art's 5th annual fundraiser, The Light Show, this Friday, April 3, from 5-8 pm in the Florence Hotel lobby. Join us for The Light Show event, May 9 at the Hilton Garden Inn. Tickets include dinner and auction of unique pieces created by local artists using lamps and mirrors. For more info or tickets, visit livingartofmontana.com.

MISS ZULA’S 111 N. Higgins, 541-7376 Mambo Sawa Sawa (Swahili for "Things already better") Join us for "First Friday with a Purpose" and help in the fight against extreme poverty. Images and videos by Kim Hendryx and Dan Cripe will be on display telling the story of local Missoulians saving lives and giving hope in Nakuru, Kenya.

Portions of Miss Zula's purchases and fine art sales will go towards the Nakuru 3:16 project. An artist reception will be held on April 3 from 5-8pm during Missoula's First Friday celebration.

MONTE DOLACK GALLERY 139 W. Front St., 549-3248 Join us for a reception on Friday, April 3rd from 5-8pm for the release of Smokejumping: Red Skies Over Rock Creek, Monte's newest limited edition print inspired by the courage of smoke-

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WHERE: ZACC Art Gallery, 235 N. First St. W. HOW MUCH: $5 ple of San Francisco’s queer punk movement throughout the ’90s. Recently, as the subject of a documentary film called Pansy Division: Life in a Gay Rock Band, and with a new album, titled That’s So Gay, just released, it appears as if the band might be more famous today than ever. Ginoli has also written a book called Deflowered: My Life in Pansy Division. He’ll Treat yourself to an evening of wine, dessert, and “The Further Adventures of Dick Darkness, Private Eye”—it’s not what you’re thinking—when the Hamilton Players present “Radio Cavalcade of Stars,” a throwback to the golden days of radio. The show will be performed at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Rd., at 8 PM for a live studio audience, complete with ’40s-era sound effects and songs, and recorded for later radio play. $15. Call 375-9050.

L.I.V. Karaoke night, which starts at 8 PM at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., is proof that it’s hard to soar with, oh, well... nevermind. Free. Call 531-7800.

Solid Sound Karaoke proves that music can also be a liquid or a gas, but never plasma, at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. Russ Nasset and the Revelators show you the light at the Union Club at 9 PM. Free.

KPGA College Radio sponsors Fool’s Night Out—which is somehow different from every other Saturday night— featuring one-man show Blank Dogs and locals The Dream Team and Fiancée at The Badlander, and DJs The Mermaid, Zookeeprz, I.E., Kris Moon and Fleege downstairs at the Palace Lounge, all at 9 PM. $5.

The University of Montana’s Queer Pride Festivities kick off as Club Q at the Elk’s Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St., hosts a fundraiser for the Lambda Alliance at 9 AM. $5/$6 under 21.

The Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St., lets the karaoke genie out of the bottle at 9 PM. Turn south after taking exit 89 from I-90. Free. Call 370-3200.

Feel free to perform “Bella Ciao” by Mirah & The Black Cat Orchestra during

stop through Missoula on a cross-country book tour, where he will do a reading, show the documentary and play a short acoustic set featuring some songs from the latest album, which include titles like “20 Years of Cock.”

Registration deadline monday April 13

Win $1,000 recording session & more!

It’s comforting to know that after all this time, Pansy Division still represents punk as it should be—provocative and raw.

karaoke night at 9 PM at the VFW but don’t be surprised if someone tells you we’re in Missoula, and so it’s time to start talking American. Free.

If you get nervous in front of crowds, just imagine they’re all naked at East Missoula’s Reno Casino and Cafe’s karaoke night, brought to you by Karaoke by Figmo at 9 PM. Free.

When DJ Sanchez commands the turntables every Sat. at 9 PM at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, nobody’s exempt from the mandatory “dance down the bar” rule.

Free. Call 363-6969.

Here’s your chance to get freaky on the dance floor: AmVets Club offers up DJDC and his dance music to the hungry horde at 9 PM. Free.

If you loved the music in the old Ritz, you’ll be thrilled to know that DJ Concave brings that same flava to Boomer’s Pub every Sat. at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 531-1510.

Pedactor Project, Bigfork’s biggest party band—which is saying a lot, really— funks up the Top Hat, 134 W. Front St., at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865.

DJ Dubwise supplies dance tracks all night long so you can take advantage of Sexy Saturday and rub up against the gender of your choice at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.

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You’re hereby invited to Hamilton’s Carriage House, 310 N. Fourth St., every Sun. at 9 AM, in order that you might bear

—Anne Pastore witness to Rev. Kathianne Lewis’ message from the Center for Spiritual Living in Seattle. Free. Call 375-9996.

Get ready to get dirty at MUD’s Prepping Your Garden Beds for Spring workshop at 11 AM at 629 Phillips St. $20/$10 members. Stick around for their 1 PM Spring Cleaning Work Party and get a free lunch. Call 721-7513.

Cadillacs and bovines come together in harmony when All Mosta Ranch, a nonprofit livestock rescue and educational center, brings their animals to Kalispell’s Old Eisinger Motors parking lot, 1000 E. Idaho, for the Critter’s Community Outreach at 11 AM. Free. Call 270-7513.

Playing bingo at 2 PM at the Missoula Senior Citizens Center is your chance to yell, “Quesadillas are my medicine!”

Free. Call 543-7154.

The UM Department of Music presents David Morgenroth on the piano at 3 PM in UM’s Music Recital Hall. $10/$5 students and seniors. Call 243-6880.

Fee-fi-fo-fum! Jack and the Beanstalk comes to the Missoula Children’s Theatre, 425 E., Broadway at 3PM and again at 5 PM. $9/$7 students, seniors, and subscribers/$5 under 18. Call 728-PLAY.

nightlife UM’s Student Dance Club presents “Get Going! Guinea Drum Class,” a traditional West African music class taught by Master Drummer Amara Mansaré at 5:30 PM at the PAR/TV Center, Room 005. Stick around for “Get Going! Guinea Music and Dance Workshop” and learn some traditional West African dance moves from Master Dancers Youssouf Koumbassa and Mariama as well. Each class is $15/$10 UM students. Call 549-7933.

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Kick off the latter hours of your day of rest when the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night welcomes saints and sinners alike with jazz DJs at 7 PM, live jazz by Donna Smith at 7:30 and a rotating cast of bands thereafter.

Free.

The weekend isn’t over until you wrap it up with Jam Night at the Finish Line, 153 Meridian Road in Kalispell, where Landslide hosts at 8 PM. Free. Call 257-0248.

Euchre is one of those games that goes great with beer because you can tell what the cards look like even if your vision is a little blurry. See what I mean, or try to anyway, tonight at Sean Kelly’s just-for-fun Euchre Tournament at 8 PM. Free.

What reason have you got for lying around the house watching the tube when Florence’s High Spirits offers Free Pool at 6 PM? Free. Call 273-9992.

Beginning Pottery at The Clay Studio, 1106-A Hawthorne St., is your shot to make something big and beautiful every Mon. at 6 PM through April 27. $168/eight-week class. Call 543-0509.

UM’s Sports and Orthopedic Physical Therapy Clinic offers a Griz Sports Performance Enhancement and Injury Prevention Camp, designed

Get this: Every Mon., Lolo’s Square Dance Center, 9555 Highway 12, begins with beginners’ lessons at 6:30 PM and then moves into full square dance party mode at 8. First two beginners’ sessions free/$4 thereafter. Call 273-0141.

Make your impassioned point in whatever rented costume most fits the bill when the Missoula City Council meets—as they do the first four Mondays of every month, holidays excluded—at 7 PM in the Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Free. Call 552-6080.

The UM President’s Lecture Series presents James Davidson Hunter, whose presentation “Public Service and the Idea of a Changing World” begins at 8 PM in the University Theatre. He will also give a seminar “On the Priority of Culture to Politics” in UM’s Gallagher Business Building, Room 123, at 3:10 PM. Free. Call 243-2981. (See Agenda in this issue.)

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Kindergarten–6th grade kids are invited to Camp Spring Out at Kalispell’s Elrod School Gym, 412 Third Ave. W., which begins today at 7:30 AM with roller skating, arts and crafts, games and bingo. $28/inquire about discounts. Call 758-7975.

Have some fun with your tongue when Dr. Lindsey Doe presents the MonDate class Funilingus at 8:30 PM in Room 330 of UM’s University Center. $6. Visit doctordoe.com.

The Honorable James R. Browning hosts a week-long Symposium on Rural Law, featuring keynote speakers Gov. Brian Schweitzer and Attorney General Steve Bullock, beginning today at noon at UM’s University Center Ballroom. Free. Visit montanalawreview.com or call 243-4386.

The Badlander’s usual Bingo Night makes way for some music by Headlights, with The Love Language and Victory Smokes opening up at 9 PM. $5/$7 under 21.

(See Noise in this issue.)

Who says America never invented a pub sport? Beer Pong proves them all wrong at the Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where alcohol and performance anxiety climax into a thing of beauty at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969.

Fee-fi-fo-fum! Jack and the Beanstalk comes to the Missoula Children’s Theatre, 425 E., Broadway at 3PM and again at 5 PM. $9/$7 students, seniors, and subscribers/$5 under 18. Call 728-PLAY. In preparation for their 2009 Sustainability Tour, homeWORD is seeking green-minded folk willing to open up their homes or sites for the tour and share their sustainable building experiences. Homeowner applications are due by 5 PM today. Call 532-HOME ext. 13, or visit homeword.org.

Canoeists and bird-lovers interested in a Birding and Canoeing Overnight trip on the Flathead River, to take place April 11–12, should register by 5 PM today. $40, plus Flathead Indian Reservation Permit and Camping Stamp. Call 243-5172.

Prospective homeowners are invited to a nationally certified First Time Homebuyer Class, at 6 PM today through Wed. at Hamilton’s Human Resource Council Building, 316 N. Third St. Attendance on all three nights is required for certification. $20. Call 363-1444 ext. 5.

nightlife Drink specials have long been the lubricant for political maneuvering, and tonight the tradition continues at 5 PM, when Forward Montana’s Progressive Happy Hour gets to the heart of matters at the Badlander.

Call 542-VOTE. If you’re not a fan of beer pong, catch the March Madness Championship Game at UM’s University Center Theater at 6 PM. Free. Call 243-6189.

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The Jeannette Rankin Peace Center and the Missoula Peace Quilters honor Jim Caron with the Peacemaker Award for his notable work and dedication to children and a peaceful world at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams, at 7:30 PM. Free. Call 543-3955.

The Whitefish Theatre Company presents its final Black Curtain staged reading of the season, Well, a hit comedy about annoying mothers, at the O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave., at 7:30 PM. $7. Call 862-5371.

Hear ye, hear ye: AmVets Club offers a new spin on karaoke night, and it’s known as “Jheryoake.” Delve into the mystery at 9 PM, when Happy Hour gets the crowd loose until 10.

Free.

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niques and grants access to the contents of the fabled Glaze Pantry every first and third Mon. of the month when the Zootown Arts Community Center (ZACC), 235 N. First St. W., presents Open Studio Night: Styles and Snacks at 7 PM. $15 and 10 percent off all pottery. Call 549-7555.

Horses don’t like the wildfire-ridden summers of Missoula much, either. Lisa Tate puts her recreations of the Cameo glass-blowing style of Ancient Rome on display at her exhibit, Our Hidden Worlds, Fri., April 3, at The Artists Shop, 304 N. Higgins Ave., at 5 PM. Free.

Call 543-6393. to help sixth through ninth grade boys and girls excel in their respective sports, held today through Thursday at 6 PM and again next week. $40 for 8 sessions/$25 for 4 sessions. Call 243-4006.

Train your fingers to feel the difference between a “Q” and an “E” when you attend the Missoula Scrabble League’s weekly Scrabble meet at 6 PM in the boardroom of the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-0387.

Get a rub down on the cheap at the UM Physical Therapy Student Association’s Spring Massage Clinic fundraiser, at 6:30 PM today through Thu. at the Physical Therapy Clinic in UM’s Skaggs Building, Room 129. $18 for 40 min/$10 for 20 min.

Call 243-4753.

Continue your journey of musical exploration when Broken Valley Roadshow’s Matt Cornette teaches you all about Beginning Banjo at 6:30 PM at the Missoula YMCA, 3000 S. Russell St. $40/$32 members. Call 721-9622.

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UM’s Student Dance Club presents “Get Going! Guinea Music and Dance Workshop,” a traditional West African drum and dance class taught b y m a s t e r d a n c e r s Yo u s s o u f Koumbassa and Mariama, and master drummer Amara Mansaré at 7 PM at the PAR/TV Center, Room 005. $15/$10 UM students. Call 549-7933.

The Milkcrate Mechanic keeps the groove fine tuned when he presents random music for random people, featuring rotating DJs and acts, free pool and mad krunk every Mon. at 9 PM at the Palace Lounge. Free.

Bring a bicycle with a big hook in it to Sean Kelly’s open mic night, hosted

by Mike Avery at 9:30 PM, and see if you can troll for cars from the bar while you watch the show. Free.

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You’ll see just how well Genericana pairs with a nice French Bordeaux when Tom Catmull plays the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave., at 7 PM. Free. Call 549-2906.

Camp Spring Out at Kalispell’s Elrod School Gym, 412 Third Ave. W., continues at 7:30 AM with relay races, games, a coloring contest and trip to the county library. $28/inquire about discounts. Call 758-7975.

Help embolden the West Coast Swing movement here in Zoo City when you get your basic moves down every Mon. at 7 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., where Cathy Clark presents Beginning West Coast Swing and Beyond. Call 5417240 for pricing.

Consider the effects of history on the lives of individuals when the Bitterroot Public Library presents a literature seminar discussion of Aleksandar Hemon’s The Question of Bruno: Stories at 9:30 AM. Free. Call 3635220 or 363-1670.

You’ve got another chance to connect the dots this evening when the VFW hosts bingo at 7 PM. Free.

Glazing guru and instructor Holly Jeremiassen teaches advanced tech-

Raising babies ain’t all fun and games: join the New Moms Support Group at 11 AM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., and partake in some much needed venting. Free. Call 721-7690.

The Missoula Cultural Council’s annual Cultural Achievement and Business Support for the Arts Awards honor former U.S. Cong ressman Pat Williams, U M P r o f e s s o r J a m e s To d d a n d t h e Missoulian at their grand luncheon at the Doubletree Edgewater Hotel, 100 Madison St., at 11:30 AM. $22. RSVP at 532-3240.

nightlife Jody Mosher offers another weekly dose of playful, happy and fantastic cardiovascular exercise—aka Nia— every Tue. at 5:30 PM at the Teranga Arts School, 2926 S. Third St. First class free/$6 each thereafter.

University Community members are invited to a Train Your Way to Complete the Missoula Marathon meeting at 5:30 PM in UM’s Fitness and Recreation Center Conference Room, where nutrition, hydration, pacing and training techniques will be discussed. Call 243-2802.

It’s always a glutenous good time when Wheat Montana, 2520 S. Third St. W., presents Black Mountain Bluegrass at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 327-0900.

Instructor Amy Martin invites those aged 11–18 with something to say to a Songwriting class at 6 PM at the Missoula YMCA, 3000 S. Russell St. $40/$32 members. Call 721-9622.

Don’t it make your green grass blue?

The pickin’ circle begins at 6 PM, and house pickers Pinegrass play at 9:30 PM at the Top Hat. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865.

George Kessel offers up his expertise for a Fly Fishing Class, beginning Thu., April 9, but interested students must register by today. $52. Call 243-5172.

Get a rub down on the cheap at the UM Physical Therapy Student Association’s Spring Massage Clinic fundraiser, at 6:30 PM at the Physical Therapy Clinic in UM’s Skaggs Building Room 129. $18 for 40 min/$10 for 20 min. Call 243-4753.

Stop playing games with yourself— Game Night featuring “mostly Scrabble” takes place at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Missoula, 102 McLeod Ave. 6:45 PM. Free.

Help Missoula’s Community Forum members figure out how to fund our infrastructure when you attend their meeting for the Lower Rattlesnake at 7 PM at the Missoula International School, 1100 Harrison St. Free. Call 552-6081.

Join Bretz-o-phile John Soennichen as he recounts the life of J. Harlen Bretz, a geologist who solved some amazing ice age mysteries, at the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St., at 7 PM. $4 suggested donation. Call 327-0405.

Practice talking English with other good English talkers at Talk Time, an informal conversation group at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., at 7 PM. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Hey wrong-side-of-the-street-rider: You can learn to bike responsibly at Free Cycle’s Bike Well classes at 7 PM at 732 S. First St. W., where class also convenes on Wed. and Thu. Call 5417284 for times.

You never know what you’ll find— except for probably a bunch of womyn—at Womyn’s Night at 7 PM

at the Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center, 127 N. Higgins Ave., Suite 202. Free. Call 543-2224.

The UM Music Department presents a Faculty Chamber Recital at UM’s Music Recital Hall at 7:30 PM. $10/$5 students and seniors. Call 243-6880.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with.

Ready? How many U.S. states border the Gulf of Mexico? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

The Broadway’s Tuesday Night Comedy takes place every Tue. at 9 PM and is followed by dancing with tunes from the Tallest DJ in America. $5/$3 students. Call 543-5678.

Be your own American Idol during “Jheryoake”—that’s karaoke with Jerry Reeb—every Tue. at 9 PM—with Happy Hour until 10—at the AmVets Club.

Free.

DJs Karl K, Dillon and Cosmic Diva play music for the irie-hearted every Tue. at 9 PM when Reggae Night over stands all your troubles at the Badlander. Free.

The moon’s always full and the pack’s always howlin’ at the Wolf Den’s Open Mic Night in Polson. Free. 9 PM. Call 883-2054.

Forego the weekly shower and join Unwashed Productions for live music and moist DJs when Punk Rock Tuesday fumigates the Palace Lounge every Tue. at 9 PM. Free.

L.I.V. Karaoke night gives your larynx a weekly workout with a 9:30 PM sesh at the Elbow Room. Free. Call 531-7800.

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Camp Spring Out at Kalispell’s Elrod School Gym, 412 Third Ave. W., continues at 7:30 AM with bowling, a trip to the Whitefish park for play, a movie and popcorn, and a scavenger hunt. $28/inquire about discounts. Call 758-7975.

The Missoula Nonprofit Network teaches organizations how to use AmeriCorps to their benefit at an Increase Organizational Effectiveness by Hosting AmeriCorps Members workshop at 11:30 AM in the MonTEC conference Room, 1121 E. Broadway. $10/members free. Call 541-4668.

It’s healthier than heroin: Lunchtime Junkies Jogging and Walking Club offers a one-hour community run and training session every Wed. through April 22, so meet at noon at Currents Aquatic Center in McCormick Park. $10. RSVP 721-PARK or 552-6266.

The Missoula Public Library offers a trip back to the glory days of pre-1965 with a classic movie for their Afternoon Matinee at 2 PM. Free.

Call 721-2665.

Learn all about the genetic relationships between populations at “We see what we look for,” an Ecology Seminar Series at UM’s University Center Theater at 4:10 PM. Free. Call 243-5292.

Calling all cranks, MCAT wants to give you a megaphone. Actually, they want you to have a microphone and camera and access to cable. But first, you need to get MCAT Basic Training, which you can do at 5:30 PM at MCAT’s studio, 500 N. Higgins Ave. Annual membership is $20, which can be paid for in volunteer time. Call 542-6228.

nightlife Combine a relaxed and supportive atmosphere with live models in their birthday suits—18 and over only, please—and you’ve got the Missoula Art Museum’s Hump Day Figure Drawing group every Wed. from 6–8 PM. $7/$5 members. Call 728-0447.

Develop eloquence in the face of inebriation, as well as impressive business contacts, when Toastmasters meets this, and every, Wed. at 6 PM in St. Patrick Hospital’s Duran Learning Center. Free. Call 728-9117.

Blue Argon plays “eclectic blues, R&B, and jazz featuring Colleen Cunningham, Steve Sellars and Jim Clayborn” every Wed. at 6 PM at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463.

Get a rub down on the cheap at the UM Physical Therapy Student Association’s Spring Massage Clinic fundraiser, at 6:30 PM at the Physical Therapy Clinic in UM’s Skaggs Building Room 129. $18 for 40 min/$10 for 20 min. Call 243-4753.

A revolving cast of local singers and musicians makes up the band Katy and Friends, who do the rocking every Wed. at 6:30 PM at the Cottage Inn in Kila. Free. Call 755-8711.

You’ve tried the sleep techniques of part I, now join Sweet Dreams Part II at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., to discuss your progress and explore additional

options at 6:30 PM. $12 per family/$10 members. RSVP 541-PLAY. Help Missoula’s Community Forum members figure out how to fund our infrastructure when you attend their meeting for the Southgate Triangle neighborhood at 7 PM at the Southgate Mall Community Room.

Free. Call 552-6081.

Green Drinks, the monthly meet-up for the eco-boozy set, begins at 7 PM at Sean Kelly’s, where you might find a job, make a friend, develop a plan for world domination or simply find joy at the bottom of a pint glass.

Free.

UM’s Multicultural Film Series presents Breakfast on Pluto, the story of a transgender man who leaves his nonunderstanding Irish town to search for his mother, at 7 PM in UM’s University Center Theater. Free. Call 243-5776.

Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange presents, “Towards a Green Economy,” a

lecture at UM’s North Underground Lecture Hall at 7 PM. Free. Call 243-6111.

Poet Chris Dombrowski reads from and signs copies of his book By Cold Water at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 7212881. (See Books in this issue.)

At this month’s Rocky Mountaineers Meeting, local legend Mario Locatelli gives a presentation on his new book, hikes for charity and climbing at Pipestone Mountaineering, 129 W. Front St., at 7 PM. Free.

Rosalyn LaPier explores the world of Blackfeet Plant Knowledge, as well as the role of women and children in tribal society, at the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St., at 7 PM. $4 suggested donation.

Call 327-0405.

Take the pulse of the region’s various skills when Lake Missoula Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, presents another

Lake Missoula Cellars Variety Show—dancers, actors, comedians, poets, performance artists and the like are expressly invited—which begins at 7:30 PM. Free. Visit lakemissoulacellars.com.

Being square will never be as much fun as it is at square dancing lessons every Wed. at the Kalispell Senior Center. 7 PM. $4, children 12 and under must bring an adult. Call 752-4964.

If you know the difference between His Knobs and His Knees, bring that skill to the Joker’s Wild Casino, 4829 N. Reserve St., where the Missoula Grass Roots Cribbage Club invites players both new and old to see how many ways they can get to that magical number 15 at 7 PM. Free. Call Rex at 360-3333.

The UM Department of Music presents Amanda Rohlman on the piano and percussionist Eric Rokohl at 7:30 PM in UM’s Music Recital Hall. Free. Call 243-6880.

SPOTLIGHT s i s te r a r t On the list of those who made 1960s counter-culture pop art famous, it is somewhat surprising to see, next to Andy Warhol, the name of Sister Corita Kent, a nun from the Immaculate Heart Convent in Los Angeles. Her art, which consisted mostly of silkscreen and serigraphy, reflected her religious ideals of love and peace, and served as a vehicle to convey those ideals to an America in turmoil.

After earning a master’s in art history from the Immaculate Heart College, Sister Corita turned to art for self-expression, and created her first silkscreen at 33.

Her early work featured phrases and themes from the

WHAT: Gallery Talk with Ted Hughes WHEN: Fri., April 3 at 7 PM WHERE: Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. HOW MUCH: Free Bible in an iconographic style, but she eventually began to look to popular culture for inspiration, incorporating things like advertising slogans and song lyrics into her prints. Known almost as much for her political activism and use of art to protest the Vietnam War, Sister Corita was criticized by conservative members of the Catholic Church, and eventually left the convent to devote her life to making art. Over the years, she commissioned

works as varied as the 1985 Love Stamp and the 150foot rainbow swash on the Boston Gas Tank, and created posters for organizations that supported social causes, such as Amnesty International.

The Missoula Art Museum currently features an exhibit by Sister Corita, entitled Sign Language: The Pop Art of Sister Corita, and an upcoming Gallery Talk with MAM Registrar Ted Hughes will explore her life and work.

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Big Productions presents Chicago folk duo Small Potatoes at 7:30 PM at the Ronan Performing Arts Center, in the Ronan Middle School complex, to benefit the Lake County Youth Home. $12/under 18 free.

It’s ‘cause he got high: Afroman plays the Elk’s Club, 112 N. Pattee St., at 8 PM about 12 days too soon. $15/$20 at door.

Martin Sexton is joined by Chris Trapper at the Wilma Theatre, 131 S. Higgins Ave., where they will mix everything from blues and beat boxing at 8 PM. $25/$22 advance. (See Noise in this issue.)

Prepare yourself for eight, potentially fatal rounds of pop culture trivia when Dead Hipster presents Death By Quiz, where only the brave compete for wads of cash, prizes, drink tickets and the like at 9 PM. Free.

The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, maintains a healthy balance every Wed., when Ladies’ Night features Guitar Hero contests and kicks off at 9 PM. Free, unless you buy something. Call 363-6969.

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You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but neither will help you emit that high lonesome sound every Wed., when the Old Post Pub hosts a Pickin’ Circle at 9 PM. Free. The answer to this week’s trivia question: Five US states border the Gulf of Mexico: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas.

Hate smoky pool halls? No sweat—and no smoke—but plenty of girl power: Head underground at 9 PM every Wed. when The Palace, 147 W. Broadway, presents Ladies’ DJ Night.

Free.

Spit the gorf out of your taorht with Bassackwards Karaoke every Wed. at 9 PM at Deano’s Casino on North Reserve Street. Free.

Call 531-8327.

Karaoke puts the crowd in high spirits at the High Spirits in Florence starting at 9 PM. Free. Call 273-9992.

This Missoula legend has nothing to do with ground beef: Wasted Wednesday at the Top Hat offers unlimited tap beer and M-Group at 10 PM and the wisdom you’ll gain is worth the $7 cover many times over. Call 728-9865.

ers, will speak after each showing. Free. Visit peaceandjusticefilms.org.

Train your tonsils—or your diaphragm, if you don’t got em’—with Beginning Vocal Technique: From the Met to MTV at 5:30 PM at the Missoula YMCA, 3000 S. Russell St. $40/$32 members. Call 721-9622.

Three of Montana’s premier bluegrass musicians come together for a pickin’ good time when the Acousticals play the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St., in Hamilton at 6 PM. Free.

Get a rub down on the cheap at the UM Physical Therapy Student Association’s Spring Massage Clinic fundraiser, at 6:30 PM at the Physical Therapy Clinic in UM’s Skaggs Building, Room 129. $18 for 40 min/$10 for 20 min. Call 243-4753.

If you’ve been recently challenged to a duel with the devil, it might be a good idea to warm up with Beth Youngblood’s Beginning Fiddle at 7 PM at the Missoula YMCA, 3000 S. Russell St. $45/$36 members. Call 721-9622.

The Five Valleys Audubon Society offers up an Intermediate Birding Workshop especially for those birders looking to improve their identification skills, beginning at 7 PM at the Fish, Wildlife & Parks Regional Office on Spurgin Road. $35 for three-session class. RSVP 549-5632 or bwsgenea@onlinemt.com.

Join in a book discussion of Eric Weiner’s Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World, at the Missoula Public Library, 310 E. Main St., at 7 PM. Free. Call 721-BOOK. When the Roxy Theater invites you to their monthly Natural History Night, you’d better believe they know which side their popcorn’s buttered on. Or something like that. Anyway, at 7 PM, enjoy a double feature with My Halcyon River and Beetlemania. $5. Call 728-9380 or visit wildlifefilms.org.

The UM Department of Music presents cellist Ashley Sandor Sidon at 7:30 PM in UM’s Music Recital Hall. $10/$5 student and seniors.

Call 243-6880.

Longevity is the man’s secret weapon: DJ Dubwise spins mad flava all over the ladies’ drink specials starting at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free.

Call 728-8799.

Its been a whole year, and if you’re wildflowernaming skills are a little rusty then an early-season refresher on Montana’s Wetland Wildflowers in UM’s Gallagher Business Building, Room L14, at 7:30 PM might be just what you need. Free.

Wednesday, April 8

THURSDAY

At Heritage Hall, Fort Missoula

April

Atmosphere brings a little of the underground mid-west to our neck of the woods when he plays the Wilma Theatre, 131 S. Higgins Ave., with guests P.O.S. and Attracted to Gods at 7:30 PM. $29/$26.50 advance.

You are invited To the Friends of the Historical Museum’s

2009 Annual Meeting 5:30 Social Hour – Cash Bar

6:30 “Homestead” dinner, catered by King Ranch Includes 130-year old sourdough starter chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, hot vegetable, and baking powder biscuit.

7:00 Business meeting with dessert Dessert will be either hot water chocolate cake or apple cobbler.

8:00 Program “Penny Post Cards – Homesteading Women,” by Philip Burgess.

Through poems and postcards, local poet and author Burgess tells the story of six young Norwegian sisters moving from a small, rural, northern Minnesota community into eastern Montana around 1910.

Made possible by a grant from Humanities Montana, the Montana Cultural Trust, and the National Endowment for the Humanities’ “We the People” funding.

Cost - $20/person

Reservations are required, call 728-3476, ext. 1

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Consider the effects of history on the lives of individuals when the Bitterroot Public Library presents a literature seminar discussion of Aleksandar Hemon’s The Question of Bruno: Stories at 9:30 AM. Free. Call 363-5220 or 363-1670.

UM’s International Brown Bag Lecture Series presents “The Kashmir Paradox—Indian, Pakistani and Kashmiri Views on a 60 Year Turmoil” at noon in UM’s Old Journalism Building, Room 303. Free. Call 243-2288.

REI-Missoula and Freecycles are teaming up to get your two-wheeler running at its best at their REI Bike Maintenance Event, in front of their store at 2230 N. Reserve St., Ste. 300, from 3 PM-7. Free. Call 829-0432.

nightlife This month’s Real Meals for Women event begins with food prep at 5 PM at the Orchard Homes Community Center, 210 N. Grove St., and clean up is done by 9 with leftovers and recipe cards for you to take home. $7/obo, EBT accepted. RSVP ASAP 546-4697.

The UM Peace and Justice Film Series continues at 5:30 and 7:30 PM in the UM University Center Theater with Jailed for their Words: When Free Speech Died in Wartime America.

Author and UM Journalism professor Clem Work, whose book the movie is based on resulted in the posthumous pardoning of all sedition prison-

Reminisce about the good ol’ days of music gone by at the weekly Old Timey Music Sessions at Community Bike Shop, 732 S. First St. West, at 7:30 PM. Free. Call 726-3765 or 880-6834.

Bring your instruments of entertainment, but leave the drum kits at home, as Polson’s East Shore Smoke House, half a mile north of the Finley Point turnoff on Highway 35, hosts a weekly “semi-unplugged” Blues Jam from 8–11 PM. Free. Call 887-2096.

The heavens open, the price of well drinks plummets and a tsunami of pure unabashed booty dancing hails your arrival every Thu. at the Badlander, where Dead Hipster DJ Night rewards you with rock, indie, krunk, pop and more at 9 PM. $2.

Defunct no more, the Hayrollers return for one night only to wreak havoc on the Top Hat, 134 W. Front St., at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865.

Fear not, Missoula, for Comrade Calendar returns to you next week. But before I, Queenie, take my leave, I’d like to announce a call for art: The Downtown Dance Collective is looking for original artwork for a silent auction and exhibit they will have in May, and submissions are due

by Fri., April 17. E-mail sfriou@hotmail.com with the subject “art show,” or call 542-7360. So there you have it. And as always, send your event info by 5 PM on Fri., April 3, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Comrade Calendar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

The reason we suffer through winters in Montana is almost upon us, and in anticipation of a summer outdoors, Missoula is offering up plenty of ways to prepare your mind, body, equipment and trigger finger for the season ahead. All need adequate time to recover from winter’s dormancy, so it’s best to get an early start: To begin with, Missoula Parks and Recreation celebrates Arbor Month this April with the 17th Annual Run for the Trees, a 5k walk or run on Sat., April 4, at 10 am on the Riverfront trail system.

Participants must register at Currents Aquatics Center or at active.com

by Thu., April 2, and the cost is $25 for adults and $20 for kids. Call 721-PARK. In keeping with bipedal locomotion, Missoulians on Bikes (MOB) invite you along for Turtles, Bison and Bikes, a 38.5 mile ride on Sat., April 4, meeting at Adventure Cycling, 150 E. Pine St. at 11:45 AM, or at Ninepipes Restaurant, between St. Ignatius and Ronan, at 1 PM. The Ride will take you on a loop from Ninepipes to Ravalli, Dixon, Charlo and back to the Ninepipes Lounge for a debriefing. Call 250-7228. If you happen to prefer Granite County to Lake, on Sun., April 5, MOB will lead a ride from Bearmouth to Drummond, meeting for carpool at the Eastgate Parking lot at 8 AM. Call 728-8722.

In preparation for that grand fall season of big game, guns, and elk jerky, there is a summer full of Hunting 101 courses to be had in and around Missoula, beginning next week. Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks asks that you register by Mon., April 6, for their free Hunter Education class, running from April 14–27, at the Hamilton Assembly of God Church, 601 W. Main St. Students must be at least 11 years old, and those under 18 should bring a parent or guardian to register. Call 542-5500 or visit fwp.mt.gov.

For hunters who would rather bag a kill the (somewhat) old-fashioned way, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is offering a free Bowhunter Education Class on Wed., April 8–Fri., April 10 from 6:30 PM–9 at the Florence School Administration Building, with a field course set for Sat., April 11 at 9 AM. Classes are free, and those under 18 must bring an adult to registra-

tion on the first night of class. Call 542-5500.

And just in case some of you outdoor enthusiasts out there are getting a little too big for your britches, the Montana Mountain Goat is here to keep you in check, as the oldest man to ever summit Mount McKinley, at 71.5 years old—and then do a headstand on top of the mountain.

Mario Locatelli will give a presentation about his new book, The Mountain Goat Chronicles, and climbing in general at the Wed., April 8, meeting of the Rocky Mountaineers at Pipestone Mountaineering, 129 W. Front St., at 7 PM. Free. Visit rockymountaineers.com.

To get folks extra anxious for the big thaw, the Clark Fork Chapter Photographers is putting on an early season refresher slide show featuring images of Montana’s Wetland Wildflowers on Thu., April 9, in UM’s Gallagher Business Building, Room L14, at 7:30 PM, where you can practice your flower-naming skills. Free.

To make sure all your equipment is nice and fresh for the riding season, REI is hosting National Bike Clinic week, which will be duly celebrated on Thu., April 9, from 3 PM–7 at the REI Bike Maintenance Event, held in front of their store at 2230 N. Reserve St, Ste. 300. REI and Freecycles team up to answer questions about basic bike maintenance needs, and feel free to bring your bike along for inspection. Free. Call 829-0432.

For those of you who’ve decided that this is finally going to be the summer you learn how to cast a line just right, there are few people better to imbibe this knowledge from than George Kessel, who hosts a weekly Fly Fishing Class at UM’s Jeannette Rankin Hall beginning Thu., April 9, at 6 PM. $52/four class days and two field days, but you must register by Tue., April 7. Call 243-5172.

If you happen to be fonder of feathers than scales, the Five Valley Audubon society offers the first of three classroom sessions in an intermediate birders workshop, beginning at 7 PM on Thu., April 9, at the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks office on Spurgin Road, where you will learn to identify everything from hawks, eagles and owls to waterfowl, woodpeckers and warblers by ear. $35. Call 549-5632.

Speaking of the call of the wild, our final Mountain High event of the week —and perhaps the one most relevant to your outdoor safety—is the Wind River Bear Institute’s free presentation about reducing human-wildlife contact at 7 PM on Thu. April 9, at the Ninemile ranger station in Huson. Don’t forget to bring the kiddies, ’cause the Wind River Karelian Bear Dogs will be on hand for a meet and greet, and there will be a presentation on just how they work with the bears and public.

After all, we just want to be able to enjoy the summer outdoors without barreling into a Photo by Chad Harder bear at 25 mph on a bicycle. calendar@missoulanews.com

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Girl gap

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Contest shows dearth of female musicians

by Erika Fredrickson

The idea was simple: To help support the often don’t have the confidence or early encourunveiling of their new line of T-shirts at Betty’s agement to pick up an instrument and learn to Divine, local music promoters Josh Vanek and Niki write songs.

“I know a million girls just from working at Payton decided the event needed a musical punch.

“We didn’t want this just to be about our shirts Washington Middle School that want to be in bands,” says Laundrie-Marshall, who used to run and buying shit,” Vanek says.

They specifically put a call out to young female the school’s Flagship program. “I just don’t think musicians under the age of 20, offering some they know how and where to start. I don’t think parprimetime First Friday exposure, $100 in cash, Lela Bayless will play guitar and sing for plus $100 in Betty’s an upcoming girl group contest in which Divine store credit. she might be the only competitor.

They put up fliers at local businesses and talked with Flagship coordinators at local schools.

“The Missoula talent pool is really awesome, but it’s mostly guys—with some good exceptions, of course,” says Vanek. “We thought this would be a way to draw attention to young girls doing music, a little incentive to have people check out something new.”

But the result, so far, has been a perfect illustration of the problem: the sound of crickets. Only two acts have signed up and one of them—“Shawn & Nina”—hasn’t returned calls to Vanek and Payton, or to the Indy, making it unclear if they’ll show.

That leaves 16-yearold Lela Bayless. In a town—and, perhaps, a time—when it’s still some- ents are encouraging girls to play—especially rock what rare to see girls on stage rocking out on music.”

Laundrie-Marshall has her own experiences instruments, Bayless stands out. She’s already been in at least as many bands—four—as most 30- with some of the barriers girls face in the rock world. More than 10 years ago she fronted a band something musicians, male or female.

In sixth grade she played drums in a garage called Spanker that played the now defunct Jay’s band called Clearest Distortion. “We played three Upstairs. During those years she got the sense peoSum 41 songs and a Green Day song,” she laughs. ple only saw her as a girl trying to be in a band.

“I know that for me to be in bands it was defi“We were pretty proud. It was kind of loud and nitely hard,” she says. “I didn’t see any other girls kind of bad.”

In eighth grade she started the Happy Unit around playing at first and it was really intimidatGang (HUG), which was “discovered” when Cindy ing to break into that scene.”

Bayless, on the other hand, doesn’t appear to Laundrie-Marshall, local guitarist for the band Vera, called Vanek and told him to go see Bayless’ have the confidence issues that other girls feel in band at Washington Middle School’s talent show. the rock scene. She’s aware of the lack of other female performers, though she can’t put her finger Vanek was floored. on why.

“She’s a natural,” he says.

“I have no idea really,” she says. “When I’m Vanek gave HUG some exposure, setting them up with opening slots at all-ages rock venues. looking for people I want to play music with it’s Since then, Bayless has played in The Basic kind of a confidence thing. I mean, in general, it’s Practicalities and her current band, Sun Tide. But basically gender equal, but as far as people who because she plays with boys, Bayless will take the I’ve met who are really comfortable playing on stage for the girl band contest with a guitar, alone. stage, usually it’s guys.” She adds: “But, I’m pretty Laundrie-Marshall says it’s not that there aren’t certain that there are plenty of women out there girls out there who want to play, it’s that they who like to play music, too.”

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Meanwhile, Vanek and Payton say they’ve extended the application deadline to Thursday, April 2, at midnight, and they are currently talking with potential contestants who they know are working on music projects, trying to get them to sign up.

Laundrie-Marshall says that anything that gives girls an opportunity will help. She currently takes

Photo by Ashley Sears

her young daughters to Tangled Tones, a music studio open for all ages to learn to play harmonica and guitar. Although she says a showcase for girl bands is a great idea, she’s hesitant to say that a contest is the way to go.

“I think making it a contest is maybe not a formula for girls at this time,” she says. “Especially since it’s a confidence thing, why a lot of women aren’t playing.”

Vanek says he hopes girls won’t be intimidated by the contest aspect of the event, that they’ll see it as more of a chance to have fun and let loose.

“We don’t want it to be hyper competitive but it doesn’t hurt, I don’t think, to encourage people to stick their necks out a little bit,” he says. “I think punk needs to be more about personal expression. And I like seeing people learning as they play and sort of bashing it out, which is harder and harder to find. My hope was that we could have gotten some of that. And that still is my hope.”

The Girl Group Contest kicks off at Betty’s Divine Friday, April 3, at 7 PM. Free. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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The Republic Tigers Keep Color Chop Shop Records

The Republic Tigers’ music is the soundtrack of teen angst performed on a nighttime road trip across a moonscape littered with 1980s nightclubs.

“Buildings and Mountains,” the first single, is dub-inspired pop that calls to mind Ace of Base or Toto. A Goth-chick at heart, I prefer “Golden Sand,” a song that could easily be a lost Joy Division or Bauhaus track.

In “Feelin’ the Future” and “Weatherbeaten” the electro-cool vibe balances the Peter Murphy singing

Astronautalis Pomegranate Eyeball Records

With his latest, Astronautalis (aka Andy Bothwell) proves that defying hip hop conventions pays off.

From the outset, you pretty much know Pomegranate isn’t going to be a typical hip hop record. The beats and rhymes are there, but the album comes across lyrically and musically like it’s been tailored to indie rock or punk fans.

Opener “The Wondersmith and His Sons” combines Astronautalis’ densely packed lyricism and distinct rapping/singing style with a marching beat, as well as piano, guitar and stringed instruments.

Things get even more interesting on “Two Years Before the Mast,” which features the vocal talents of

The Love Language The Love Language Bladen County Record

The debut album by The Love Language sounds like the late stages of a great party: when stragglers lament lost loves and belt out old favorites while swaying arm in arm. In these very wee hours Bessie Smith requested a pig foot and Warner Brothers cartoon characters sang “How Dry I Am.” This lo-fi, sing-along—like good friends gathered in an abandoned Norse Hall—is actually a solo effort by frontman Stu McLamb, recorded on a four-track in a storage unit. That said, it should

Martin Sexton Seeds

Kitchen Table Records

Martin Sexton peddles the kind of feel-good poppy folk rock on Seeds that can elate, if you’re willing to suspend some cynicism. If you can’t, this album can just as easily make you cringe. It all depends on your mood.

Case in point: The bubbly opener, “Happy,” features Sexton singing about cherishing every moment he spends with his honey. It’s dripping with sugary sweetness, bordering on eye-rolling cheese.

Regardless, the seventh release from this Syracuse, N.Y. native—and his first in seven years—showcases Sexton’s undeniably deft songwriting ability, impressive vocal range and a few surprises, including the use of beat boxing on

style, and the lyrics wander through a teenage dreamland where constant motion is the only rule.

Describing The Republic Tigers, reviewers often use the word “majestic,” and with reason.

Unfortunately, this album progresses from that polished and catchy sound to slightly boring by the second half.

Keep Color is the first album to be released by Chop Shop, the brainchild of TV music supervisor Alexandra Patsavas (“The O.C.”). Given the source, I’m not surprised that the best songs are frontloaded, the better to catch the attention of a flighty downloader. Reminiscent of Snow Patrol, only more sexy and futuristic, this is a soundtrack to life, especially if your life exists in TV-land and you just had a coming-of-age moment. (Ali Gadbow) The Republic Tigers play the Palace Thursday, April 2, at 9 PM with Stien and Ello. $5.

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The remaining tracks are equally alluring in their rhyming schemes and musical structure, making it clear that Pomegranate is an exciting shift away from the artistic pitfalls that plague many sectors of modern underground hip hop. (Ira Sather-Olson) Astronautalis plays the Badlander Friday, April 4, at 9 PM with Bleubird and Cars and Trains. $5. be easy to re-create on tour with a merry band of loyal cohorts.

The Love Language has been compared to Guided by Voices—and I’ll throw in Yo La Tengo and the Magnetic Fields for good measure—but McLamb’s influences seem to date back much further. His vocal style owes something to a late-Beatles Paul McCartney, resurrected here without the cheese but with all the cheekiness. McLamb references old music-hall ditties, 1950s mambo riffs, and drunken cowboy laments with a pre-dawn, back-alley abandon that McCartney could never match.

In fact, The Love Language speaks abandon at its best. Next time I find myself at the dark end of a party approaching dawn, these are the songs I’ll be singing. (Ali Gadbow) The Love Language opens for Headlights at the Badlander Monday, April 6, at 9 PM with Victory Smokes. $5. some tracks for percussive effect.

As for the songs themselves, some touch on the subject of love, whether being in it (“Marry Me”) or discussing problems stemming from it (“Thought I Knew Ya”). Sexton also muses on faith, like in “There Go I,” and delves into his childhood with the song “Failure.”

Seeds is a well-produced and heartfelt affair, despite sounding monotonous at certain points. If anything, the release shows Sexton capable of getting back to the top of his game after a long layoff.

(Ira Sather-Olson) Martin Sexton plays the Wilma Theatre on Wednesday, April 8, at 8 PM. $25/$22 advance.

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There are some poets who seem destined to coyote’s skull into whose dead ears she whispered write about nature. Understandably, many of these names of boys she loved and over which birds poets find Missoula, and the surrounding region, an passed and shadows of birds she knew by the sun appropriate backdrop for their work. And this, made mark of them on earth...” In another titled despite Missoula’s many opportunities for poets and “Epithalamium,” the image of a bride is compared poetry, is what makes Montana a particularly chal- against a tree that might appear just outside her winlenging muse: Once one writer connects the rivers dow: “Like the hair she has waited all day to let (or the mountains or the wildlife) to poetic wonder- down,/a shadow unfurls from the ponderosa’s ment, it’s pretty difficult for anyone else to rhap- trunk: a plank/one might walk to horizon’s edge, the dark band/just stops.” sodize without sounding too redundant.

Not all the poems in this collection highlight Therefore, it’s no small feat when one poet manages a distinct voice on this stage—which is just one nature. Anywhere between 12 lines and eight pages, of the reasons why Chris Dombrowski’s debut col- the poems reflect on Van Gogh, motherless children lection, By Cold Water, is so impressive.

Dombrowski, a graduate of the MFA program at the University of Montana and a river guide, graces his poems with descriptions and observations so exquisite that the natural world appears a much more intimate place than it has for quite some time.

The speaker in “Boreal” maintains: “This time of year, a cloud is a cross, dawn is a hoof; the fir/a threadbare sail nightwinds needle through. Soon/we’ll say the leaves are turning and stand in doorways,/necks upturned at flocks of geese, leaves at our feet/shuffling, as if there were somewhere to go.” While Dombrowski evokes familiar images of the natural world, the effect of this usage is—refreshingly—a rather unfamiliar one. By contending that the “cloud is a cross” and “dawn is a hoof,” he tilts the imagery just so, as though beckoning the reader to lean in a bit closer and perhaps see something differently. When, in the stanza’s final passage, the speaker preBy Cold Water dicts that soon “we’ll say the leaves are Chris Dombrowski turning…” the habitual musings of the Paperback, Wayne State University Press change in season is charged with a new 72 pages, $15.95 light, a new way of contemplating it.

One reason why Dombrowski’s poetry stands and the dynamics between husbands and wives. In out is found in the collection’s title: By Cold Water. “A History of Barbed Wire,” the effect of one wife’s Notably, this title is not the title of a poem within the scolding of her husband at the Dekalb County Fair of collection, but a title created for the sole purpose of 1872 (“Rita Elwood pulls her husband Ike bringing all the poems together, suggesting a direc- aside/whispers under the din:.../...‘that Glidden tion for how we might approach them. The use of fence was better than yours.’ ”) is untangled in a the preposition implies, quite sensibly, that some- dynamic three-act poem.

Yet, nature is almost always present in the thing lies by the cold water—leaves and pebbles, maybe a fishbone or two, and people. Men and poems and acts as a primary force in the collection women abound in these poems with the tantalizing itself. Dombrowski’s vision seems both age-old seduction of ghosts with many tales to tell. In this and astonishingly modern, allowing us to bear witsense, Dombrowski deftly uses the hint of narrative ness to a natural world that unfolds in time with in many of the poems, adding yet another dimen- our emotions.

Sentimental musings of nature in literature can sion to them. The effect is similar to that of Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World,” a painting that illus- only be a single layer. Dombrowski shows how trates how a figure within a landscape can perpetu- building upon that layer in order to reflect how ally haunt us, compelling us into an immediate and nature is as active a force as human emotion, makes powerful intimacy with the artist’s subjects and the for poems that are difficult to forget, poems that reveal themselves anew with every reading. Luckily world around them.

In Dombrowski’s “Epithalamium,” (meaning a for us, these are poems that beckon us to return.

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One knock on this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament—aside from the absence of Wayne Tinkle’s crew—is the lack of Cinderella stories.

March Madness looked more like March Milquetoast for those who cherish upsets.

No matter. When it comes to basketball films, Hollywood offers enough big studio air balls—SemiPro, Eddie, Glory Road, etc.—to help the occasional small-budget underdog rise to prominence. With this weekend’s Final Four set for Detroit, we look at five films worth watching before tip-off.

pack of wolves, telling them to hunt down opponents and “sink your teeth in their necks!” On the other hand, he’s a folksy goofball who’s able to keep his team’s passion to win in check with more worldly responsibilities. That comes in handy as Resler’s two best players—one graduating senior, one freshman phenom—face sobering real-world challenges.

Director Ward Serrill spent seven years filming the team, providing an uncommon depth to this story. Consider it a contemporary re-make of the best basketball film ever made, Hoop Dreams.

Gunnin’ for that #1 Spot (2008)

He Got Game (1998)

Beastie Boy Adam Yauch cut his documentary filmmaking teeth with Awesome; I Fuckin’ Shot That! In that 2006 effort, Yauch handed a bunch of fans hand-held digital cameras before a Beasties show at Madison Square Garden and told them to film whatever they wanted.

That could have been a train wreck, but the edited results turned out a solid film, and an especially visceral perspective for fans of the band.

Gunnin’ for that #1 Spot follows a more traditional approach than Awesome, but offers a similarly intimate viewpoint for hoops fans. Yauch follows eight of the best high school basketball players in the country as they prepare for and compete in a playground all-star game at Harlem’s famed Rucker Park.

The footage on the court plays like an And 1 mixtape—tons of high-flying dunks, no-look passes and dizzying dribbling displays caught from multiple camera angles. Yauch doesn’t dig deep off the court, but we see a little of how today’s NBA rookies, including Kevin Love, Michael Beasley and Jerryd Bayless, adapted to premature stardom at age 17.

The best parts of Gunnin’, howerver, come from the soundtrack. M.I.A.’s “Amazon,” Jay-Z’s “My 1st Song,” the Staples Singers’ “Let’s Do It Again” and Kool and the Gang’s “Hollywood Swingin’” make up a fraction of the film’s perfectly placed tracks.

Inexplicably, Yauch hasn’t posted a complete play list or released an official soundtrack, meaning you’ll have to watch the movie to hear it all.

It’s hard to call a Spike Lee joint starring Denzel Washington an underdog, but critics cried foul when this bigbudget basketball drama was first released. At the time, Lee seemed to portray high school and college basketball the same way Oliver Stone portrayed Vietnam. But this film stands up over time, especially the raw acting of real-life NBA star Ray Allen as Jesus Shuttlesworth, Washington’s son and a prized recruit searching for his identity. I’d actually rather watch this than the presumed Godfather of basketball films, Hoosiers.

The Heart of the Game (2005) Whenever Montana PBS holds its annual pledge drive, it seems two things run in constant rotation: something with John Denver and the moving 2008 documentary about Montana women’s high school basketball, Class C. And good for them—on the Class C part, at least. I still have trouble turning away from the documentary, and I’ve seen it now at least seven times.

The Heart of the Game captures a similar intensity and meaning as Class C, but in a completely different context. Here, a laid-back college tax law professor, Bill Resler, moonlights as the eccentric coach of a Seattle high school women’s team. On one hand, Resler’s a bit over-the-top—he inspires the women by likening them to a school of piranhas or

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Don’t Nobody Love the Game More Than Me (2002) This short indie film by New York’s Martha Pinson starts with the last point of a pick-up game between four middle-aged black men on an outdoor court. What follows over the next 10 minutes is an inspiring philosophical debate disguised as the most naturally lyrical trash talk you’ve ever heard. It’s worth paying the five bucks to download this short from indiepix.net.

Whatever Happened to Michael Ray? (2000) Local Griz fans probably know the answer: Michael Ray “Sugar” Richardson, the most talented men’s basketball player ever at the University of Montana, rebounded from a drug-filled NBA career and eventual ban to become a star in European leagues. This award-winning documentary, narrated by comic Chris Rock, follows Richardson’s dramatic rise—Larry Bird and Magic Johnson both praise his natural abilities—and frustrating fall.

The old footage reinforces just how incredible Richardson was on a basketball court, physically dominating on offense and wildly disruptive on defense. But the most telling parts come when former teammates speak bluntly about Richardson’s unpredictable behavior, like when he disappeared for weeks at a time during the season.

The film doesn’t gloss over the problems, but leans heavily toward Richardson’s eventual reinstatement by the league and his success playing into his 40s in Italy. A heartening postscript: Richardson now coaches in the United States, most recently leading Oklahoma’s fledgling CBA franchise to consecutive championships. sbrowning@missoulanews.com

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about its haunted past. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 12:30, 1, 2:45, 3:20, 5, 5:40, 7:15, 8 and 9:30, with a 10:15 show Fri.–Sat., and a 12:10 show Fri. only.

He’s Just Not That Into You Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore and Jennifer Connelly struggle to figure out why he/she says they’ll call, and then doesn’t. Rated

ing him the true meaning of life. Showing Sat. at 1:15.

Race to Witch Mountain Cabbie Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson picks up two teens who happen to be aliens on the lam in this reboot of the family-pleasing Disney franchise. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30 and 9:50, with a 12:10

Adventureland Director Greg Mottola (Superbad) brings us the story of James Brennan, a recent college grad forced to take the only job he can get–working at Adventureland theme park, in the summer of ’87.

Plenty of vulgar humor, awkward sex and pot smoking ensue. Rated R. Showing at the Village 6 at 7:30 and 9:50 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1:15 and 4:15.

The Class Chosen by many reviewers as one of the top 10 films of 2008, this French film tells the story of a dedicated teacher attempting to motivate teenage students in a tough Paris neighborhood. Rated PG-13.

Showing nightly at the Wilma Theatre at 7 and 9:15 with Sun. matinees at 1 and 3:15 and no 9:15 show Wed. or Thu. Fast and Furious 4 In an attempt to pretend like the last two sequels didn’t even happen, the fourth film in this series picks right back up where it all started, with Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster staging a reunion for yet another two hours of sex, drugs and really fast cars.

Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 12:30, 1, 2:50, 3:20, 5:10. 5:40, 7:30, 8 and 9:50, with a 10:20 show Fri.–Sat. and a 12:10 show Fri. only.

Showing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 and 9 with Welcome to the world of extreme shadow puppets. Fast and Furious 4 opens Friday at the Carmike 10.

Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. PG-13. Showing at the Village 6 at 7 with show Fri. only. Showing at the Pharaohplex in Waiting for My Real Life Hamilton at 7 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at This week’s Carmike 10 independent film is the Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1.

3 and no 9 show on Sun. award-winning documentary about Jeremy I Love You, Man Norman, a 23-year-old man who was diagnosed Paul Rudd scrambles to find an acceptable first Slumdog Millionaire at a young age with a rare disease that makes man to serve in his upcoming nuptials in this Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) directs a cast of everything he eats turn to fat. Weighing over 800 overblown statement on male intimacy in our Bollywood stars, who carry the weight of this pounds, Jeremy sought a gastric bypass surgery culture. Rated R. Showing at the Village 6 at 7 well-edited tale of a Mumbai street urchin’s surthat almost resulted in his death, and took his and 9:30 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1 and 4. prising success on a TV game show, a performability to walk. With more surgery his only option, Showing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 and ance that raises suspicions leading to revelations Jeremy continues his struggle to live a normal life. 9 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show of poverty, brutality and a yearning for love. Rated R. Showing nightly at the Wilma Theatre at 7 with Showing at the Carmike 10 Mon.–Thu. at noon, on Sun. Knowing a Sun. matinee at 1 and no show Wed.–Thu. displacing Paul Blart: Mall Cop. Tickets are $5.

Get this: Nicolas Cage tries to save the world. Taken Really. From a huge disaster. And he may have to Liam Neeson is a retired CIA agent who turns into NOW PLAYING make “the ultimate sacrifice.” Ooooh! Rated PG- a “crime-fighting machine” when his daughter is 12 Rounds When Detective Danny Fisher’s girlfriend is kid- 13. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 1, 4, 7 and kidnapped in Paris by Albanian sex slave traders. napped by a globetrotting terrorist he once ticked 9:55. Showing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at Rated PG-13. Showing at the Village 6 at 7:05 off, Fisher is forced into “12 rounds” of twisted 6:50 and 9:10 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and and 9:20 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1:30 and 4:20. Showing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at challenges throughout the city of New Orleans to no 9:10 show on Sun. 7 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 try and win her back safely. Sound familiar? Rated The Last House on the Left PG-13. Showing at the Village 6 at 7:15 and 9:45 When the gang of killers who left their daughter show on Sun. with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1:30 and 4:20. for dead unknowingly seeks refuge in her home, Two Lovers Showing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 6:50 the young woman’s parents open up a serious When heart-broken and unhappy Leonard can of whoop ass in this remake of a 1972 hor- (Joaquin Phoenix) moves back in with his parwith Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3. ror flick. Rated R. Showing at the Pharaohplex in ents, they try to set him up with the daughter of Duplicity a family friend. He goes along with it, only to Undercover lovers Clive Owen and Julia Roberts Hamilton at 9:10, with no show on Sun. become enchanted by his new neighbor are ex-spooks turned corporate spies, who find Monsters Vs. Aliens themselves in competition to steal a massive In DreamWorks latest animated and 3D film, young Michelle (Gwyneth Paltrow). She, of course, is company secret. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Susan is transformed into a giant monster after shacking up with a rich and married man. At being struck by a meteor. She is whisked away to some point, two people become lovers. Rated R. Carmike 10 at 1, 4, 7 and 9:50. a secret military location, where she meets other Showing nightly at the Wilma Theatre at 9:10 Gran Torino Clint Eastwood’s a racist and curmudgeonly monstrous folk collected by the government over with Sun. a matinee at 3:10.

Korean War vet who warms to his Hmong neigh- the years. When aliens attack the planet, the presi- Watchmen bors once he accepts humanity’s four universal dent realizes there could be no better group to In this highly anticipated adaptation of the celeconnections: beer, guns, cars and payback. save it. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 10 at brated mid-’80s graphic novel, a group of retired Actually, this is reportedly another touching and 12:30, 1, 1:45, 2:45, 3:15, 4, 5, 5:30, 6:15, 7:15, superheroes reunites after the murder of one of mature move away from Dirty Harry. Rated R. 7:45, 8:30, 9:30 and 10, with a midnight showing their own to investigate a nefarious plot that Showing at the Village 6 at 9:50 with Sat.–Sun. on Fri. only. Showing at the Pharaohplex in holds the future of humanity at stake. Rated R. Hamilton at 7 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 Showing at the Village 6 at 7 with Sat.–Sun. matimatinees at 4. nees at noon and 3:30. and no 9 show on Sun. The Haunting in Connecticut Based on a true story, this film chronicles the The One Lamb creepy tale of a family who moves into a nice, big This Carmike 10 independent film is the story of FLATHEAD SHOWTIMES Victorian home, only to discover the hard way an ambitious young up-and-comer in the political 12 Rounds world, and the preacher who saves him by teach- Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell

at 1:25, 4:20, 7:05, and 9:40.

Adventureland Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:15, 4:10, 7:10 and 9:40.

Duplicity Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:10, 4:05, 6:50 and 9:30. Also playing at the Mountain in Whitefish at 4:15, 7 and 9:25 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:45.

Fast and Furious 4 Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12, 1, 2:45, 3:30, 6, 7, 8:30, and 9:45. Also playing at the Mountain in Whitefish at 4, 6:50 and 9:15 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30 and at the Showboat in Polson at 4:15, 7 and 9:15.

Gran Torino Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 3:50 and 6:45.

The Haunting in Connecticut Showing Fri.–Thu.. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:10, 2:55, 4:55, 7:35 and 9:50.

I Love You, Man Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:20, 4:15, 7:30 and 9:50. Also showing at the Entertainer in Ronan at 4, 7 and 9:10.

Knowing Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:05, 4, 6:55 and 9:40. Also playing at the Mountain in Whitefish at 4, 6:50 and 9:15 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30.

The Last House on the Left Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:55 and 9:20.

Monsters Vs. Aliens Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:45, 2:15, 3, 4:30, 5:15, 7, 7:30, 9:15 and 9:45. Also playing at the Mountain in Whitefish at 4:15, 7 and 9:30 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:45 and at the Showboat in Polson at 4, 7:15 and 9:10.

Paul Blart: Mall Cop In lieu of brute force, unarmed New Jersey security guard Kevin James must use all his wit and brainpower to save his beloved workplace from a gang of terrorist/thieves à la Die Hard. Rated PG. Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 3:45 and 6:30.

Race to Witch Mountain Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:15, and 9:25. Also playing at the Mountain in Whitefish at 4:15, 7 and 9:15 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:45 and at the Showboat in Polson at 4:15, 7 and 9.

Taken Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:30, 2:50, 5, 7:20 and 9:35.

Watchmen Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:05 and 8:45.

Capsule reviews by Jonas Ehudin and Anne Pastore.

Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., April 3. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 10/Village 6—541-7469; Wilma—728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton—961-FILM; Roxy Twin in Hamilton—363-5141. Stadium 14 in Kalispell-—752-7804. Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish—862-3130.

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When I married my wife seven years ago, she was 20 pounds lighter. She’s unwilling to sacrifice a constant flow of sugary stuff, and lazy about working out. During our last conversation about her weight, she said I should be attracted to her no matter what, then said, “I’m happy with my weight, and don’t intend to change it.” This sent me into a panic. I’m somewhat and sometimes attracted to her at her current weight, but I would be greatly and frequently attracted if she lost the extra pounds.

I want her to understand that being attracted to her is a basic need, and almost all of my crankiness stems from it not being met. I’ve been willing to sacrifice a lot—like working long hours to support our kids while she pursues a career she loves that generates almost no income. I have a strong preference for a certain body type—the one she used to have—and I’m willing to do virtually anything, and pay any amount of money, to see it again. The only thing I’m not willing to do is make her miserable.

—Weighed Down In the dating phase, women do what it takes to attract and hang onto a man: looking after their looks and maintaining a figure that’s more hourglass than beer keg. While there are some wives whose medical issues prevent them from losing weight, too many interpret “Till death do us part” as “You’re stuck with me forever—more of me than you’d ever imagined.” In worst cases, a woman will eat herself so big that Greenpeace tries to save her—until they realize that’s a scrunchie on her head, not a decorative blowhole.

Beyond all the love hooha, marriage, especially as a child-farming enterprise, is a business partnership.

Each partner has their end of the bargain to hold up, including not becoming substantially different from the person the other person married. Yes, I know it can be exhausting taking care of kids, and tedious lifting big old weights instead of Little Debbies. Well, it’s exhausting and tedious earning a living, too, but imagine countering your wife’s “I’m happy with my weight, and don’t intend to change it!” with “I’m happy with the money I’ve earned, and plan to take the rest of my life off to drink beer and wax my car.” Just guessing, but her response probably wouldn’t be turning the other chin.

The sad thing is, many women who are fat aren’t that way thanks to

a diet that’s high in cupcakes, or because their fitness goal is avoiding ever going to the gym. In fact, their attempts to lose weight might be making them fat. Award-winning investigative science journalist Gary Taubes has discovered that we’ve been sold a bill of goods by the medical establishment, which based its advice to follow high-carb, low-fat diets on “science” instead of science.

In Taubes’ exhaustively researched book, “Good Calories, Bad Calories,” he lays out substantive evidence that obesity is caused by carbs—from flour, sugars, and easily digested starches like potatoes—that cause insulin levels to rise. When insulin levels rise, we stockpile calories as fat. Eating foods with very low (or no) carbs—meat, fish, poultry, cheese, eggs, butter, and nonstarchy veggies—decreases appetite and increases fat loss and weight loss.

Women have been brainwashed by feminism’s whacked contention that men “shouldn’t” care about women’s looks, that what’s inside is all that matters. And because women don’t care nearly as much about men’s looks, they can’t understand why men are so fixated on theirs. The truth is, male sexuality is different from female sexuality. It’s highly visual, which explains the vast porn industry for men, and the itsy bitsy—almost novelty—industry for women. And, while men go for nonstop body shots in their porn, Susan Dominus reports in the New York Times that not only do women want more plot, more emotion, and more conversation, they want to know “Is the bedspread pretty?” and “Why is she wearing those shoes?”

You need to help your wife understand that you’re making this plea because you love her and want to keep the spark in your marriage (and sadly, you aren’t able to make do with the kind generated by her thighs rubbing together). Chapter three of evolutionary psychologist David Buss’ book The Evolution of Desire should help you explain that men are hard-wired to be looks-driven. After you get that out of the way, explain what you wrote above: You sacrifice a lot for her and your kids, without reservation. You ask only one thing from her—not that she meet some bizarro new need, just that she start acting like she said “I do” to being in a partnership with you, not “I dough.”

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): There’s plain old everyday lightning, which travels about five miles, and then there are superbolts—strokes of lightning that are a hundred times stronger than a normal flash and that can travel over 100 miles. In the coming weeks, Aries, your power levels could be more like these superbolts than your usual output. I suggest you take advantage. Just assume that you’ll be able to shed more light and attract more attention than usual.

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For a few days, refuse to jump to any conclusions whatsoever. Be skeptical of all theories about why things are the way they are. See if you can thrive without clinging to any ideology. Instead, be bursting with the intention to discover the raw truth, no matter where that leads you, and even if it seems to contradict your rules to live by.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Some Japanese employees receive three days of “heartache leave” per year from the companies they work for. During those times they can recover from sad experiences or romantic reversals. If it were up to me, every company in every country in the world would annually provide workers with the opposite kind of holiday: ten days of “heart-soaring leave.” These would be times devoted to cultivating blessed breakthroughs or celebrating great happiness. If there were such a system in place already, Sagittarius, I bet you’d use some of those heart-soaring days in the coming weeks.

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TALK SOMETIME? SWM, sub-contractor, 6’, 175lbs, brown/ green, likes flying, skiing, sailing and surfing, keeping active. Seeking fit, fun-loving SF, 50-55, to share friendship and new adventures. 229043

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Your symbol for the week is the Mariana Trench, which is the lowest place on the earth’s surface. Located underwater in the Pacific Ocean, it’s almost seven miles down—further below sea level than Mt. Everest is above sea level. I chose this natural feature for you to play with in your imagination because I’m hoping it will inspire you to explore the extreme depths. The coming days will be an excellent time to get better acquainted with the stuff that’s at the very bottom of your world.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your IQ has crept up beyond its usual level, and may ascend even higher in the coming days. I suspect you’re poised to erupt with a host of sharp insights, and maybe some brilliant analyses or strokes of genius as well. Why? How? It may have to do with the way the planets are massaging your brain chemistry. Or perhaps it’s because you smell freedom, and your libido is boosting your intelligence with the enhancements that only the onset of exhilaration can provide. I recommend that you milk this gift for all it’s worth. Don’t waste time on trivial conquests like polishing off crossword puzzles or acing online personality tests. Try to solve the mystery of the ages, or at least your two knottiest problems.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “So I sing to my seeds,” says gardener Leslie Gaydos. “What about it?” Although she sounds a bit defensive about treating her unsprouted kernels like sentient beings, I hope you won’t be in the least apologetic as you carry out your assignment: Serenade your seeds. Bathe them in your tender concern. Infuse them with your intelligent love. Whether your seeds are literal plants or more metaphorical in nature, make it your priority to sweet-talk them and guide them into the next phase of their growth.

FUN & OUTGOING SM loves to go on walks, enjoys spending time outdoors, likes fishing, camping.

Looking for SWF, same interests, for friendship and possibly more. 277330

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The sirens are enticing and wooing and tempting you again.

This time they say have a really fabulous deal, even better than before. They’re sorry, by the way, about the somewhat deceptive advertising they used on the last occasion you came their way. They want to assure you that they’ll never again pull the bait-and-switch routine. So are you ready to give them another chance? Don’t look to me for advice on what you should do. I’m simply here to report the situation. Besides, you need a good stiff test of your powers of discernment. Oh, one other thing: To demonstrate their sincerity, the sirens are offering you their first song and dance absolutely free.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The three tasks I think you should work on in the coming week are among the hardest any human being can attempt. Luckily, you now have an unusually strong aptitude for them, and are likely to receive unexpected assistance if you’re brave enough to plunge ahead. Here they are. 1. Interrupt and overthrow negative trains of thought right in the middle of their flow through your brain. 2. Negotiate partial solutions to complex problems. In other words, do the half-right thing when it’s impossible to do the totally right thing. 3.

Understand that in order to graduate from a certain batch of weird karma that has persisted, you must completely accept the situation as it is, acknowledge your role in precipitating and prolonging it, and feel gratitude for all that it has taught you.

DO YOU CANOE? SWM, 50, athletic, N/S, N/D, seeks SWF, 30-50, for canoeing, fly-fishing, camping.

Let’s meet! 292008

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There will be other times when I’ll encourage you to upgrade your relationships with your inner child, your inner mountain-climber, and your inner serpent. Right now I hope you will take some quality time to commune with your inner elder.

In my astrological opinion, you especially need the influence of this sage old part of you.

He or she doesn’t care overly much about social status, romantic drama, or the obsession of the moment, but is more interested in what provides deep meaning, generates love, and offers the bigpicture perspective. So try this, Virgo: Leap ahead many years in your imagination and tune in to the guidance of the ripe and vibrant wise guy or wise woman you will ultimately become.

LOOKING FOR YOU Clean-cut, easygoing guy seeks companion, friend, hopefully long-term. Familyoriented and likes outdoor activities. How about you? 269315

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): As reported in UK’s Mirror, South African game warden Alex Larenty made a dramatic display of the trust he engenders among the animals under his care. Sidling up from behind to a full-grown male lion named Jamu, Larenty lightly grasped the beast’s balls and held on for a while. Jamu did not protest. I invite you to attempt the metaphorical equivalent of this brave encounter, Gemini. According to my reading of the omens, you have the power to play with fire—and I mean “play” in every sense of the word.

FRIENDS LET’S TALK WM, 5’6”, 125lbs, reddish-brown/blue, nice tattoos, enjoys hiking, walks, bike rides, theater, dining out, time with friends and family, more. Seeking someone for friendship. 299138

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When I was 19, I did Outward Bound, a wilderness survival course designed to make a man out of me. For 24 winter days, my team and I camped and traveled through New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Near the end of the ordeal, we were each required to do a three-day “solo” experience, during which time we were left alone with only three things: a sleeping bag, a canvas tarp to use as a partial shelter, and a box of mincemeat.

The latter was a concentrated slab of food made of raisins, dried apples, lemon rind, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and dried beef. As I shivered and worried and sang loud songs and battled my own wild thoughts during those challenging but enlightening 72 hours, I grew to savor my odd-tasting delicacy. It kept me sane and grounded. As you prepare for your own rite of passage, Taurus, I suggest you procure the metaphorical equivalent of mincemeat.

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Local Restaurant needs a part-time AM SERVER ASSISTANT. Duties would include: helping other employees in the meal serving process, ensuring customer satisfaction, assisting customers as needed, serving as an integral part of a team. Must have exceptional customer service skills. Employer prefers banquet experience. Work days would be variable and will include weekends and holidays.

Wage will be discussed at time of interview. #2975201 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 ARE YOU 55 OR OLDER with limited income, unemployed and need to get back into the workforce?

Experience Works can help. 1-800450-5627. EEO/AA. www.experienceworks.org ! BARTENDING ! $300-Day potential, no experience necessary, training provided. 1800-965-6520 ext. 278 Childcare Needed: Tuesdays & Thursdays from 10:30-5:30. Pays well! Call 240-3512 COOK, FT/PT, Greenough. Cooks needed ASAP! Do you have cooking experience? Have you been thinking about taking your career to the next level? All levels of cooks are needed at a luxury resort for

Employment various shifts. Learn while you work in a great setting with great benefits. Pay starts at $10.00 per hour and increases with experience and skill level, with automatic inclusion in the tip pool. Shuttle from Missoula available as well as carpooling incentive. #2975208 Missoula Workforce Center 7287060 DISHWASHER, PT, Msla. Local restaurant needs a Part-time DISHWASHER! Employer prefers applicants that have 6 months of restaurant/kitchen experience. Duties include: Ensuring that dishes and utensils are cleaned and stored in a sanitary manner, operating as part of the team in a busy restaurant kitchen setting. Following all safety and productivity standards.

Position is part-time, evening shift and will include some weekends.

Pay and shift to be discussed at time of interview. #2975207 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 DISHWASHERS, FT/PT, Greenough. Start working TODAY! What to make a great wage plus tips as a DISHWASHER? No experience needed! This could be the beginning of a career in hospitality, or a great way to start learning about culinary arts. A luxury resort near Missoula is hiring ASAP, so check them out! Wage starts at $8.00 per hour. Great benefits available, end of season bonus, etc.

There is good earning potential here, as well as great potential for advancement! Schedule will vary and can be discussed at interview.

Enjoy relaxing to and from work if you ride the shuttle van from Missoula, or recoup your cost of commuting with their carpooling incentive. Various shifts and days needed, can call and talk to HR Manager for more information. #2975209 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 FRONT DESK CLERK - HOTEL, PT, Msla. Missoula hotel needs friendly customer service stars for part-time front desk clerk positions for both day & evening shifts. Duties include checking guests in and out, handling multiline phone, taking accurate messages, making reservations, assisting guests with needs and questions. Shifts are 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. OR 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. Will work varying hours per week.

Work days will vary. Schedule to be discussed at interview. Wage is $7.25 to $7.75, depending on experience. #2975199 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

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GUEST SERVICES AGENT, FT, Msla. Area Hotel needs a Full-time GUEST SERVICES AGENT. Applicants must have at least 3 months of customer service experience. Greets and registers guests.

Checks guests out of the hotel.

Resolves guest challenges throughout their stay in the hotel. Upgrades guests, and promotes hotel services and amenities. Completes the registration process, codes electronic keys, and makes appropriate selection of rooms based on guest needs. Ensures guest knows location of room, and arranges for team member to accompany guest to room. Ensures statements are correct upon guest check-out #2975200 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

ly demanding and requires worker to be physically fit. No smoking permitted in company vehicles nor on job sites. Work Monday through Friday with start time at 7:00 am & will work as late as 5:00 pm with occasional Saturdays. Pay will depend on experience. #2975210 Missoula Workforce Center 7287060

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Training Coordinator Parttime training coordinators needed to provide money management workshops. The selected applicant will organize and teach workshops with non-profit agencies. Monthly stipend and education award available.

Please apply at http://www.dhc.umt.edu/oce/mm s.html or phone 406-243-6324.

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Experience Required. All Looks Wanted - FT/PT. Call Now 1-800605-5901

$$$HELP WANTED$$$ Earn Extra income assembling CD cases from Home. CALL OUR LIVE OPERATORS NOW! 1-800-405-7619 ext.

150 www.easyworkgreatpay.com $$$HELP WANTED$$$ Earn Extra income assembling CD cases from Home. CALL OUR LIVE OPERATORS NOW! 1-800-405-7619 ext.

150 www.easyworkgreatpay.com LAWN MAINTENANCE WORKER / SNOW REMOVAL, FT/PT, Msla.

Missoula company needs a LAWN MAINTENANCE WORKER / SNOW REMOVAL worker. SPRING DUTIES INCLUDE: Mow lawns, operate weed eater and perform other lawn maintenance tasks.

MUST have a valid Driver’s License and ability to pass a background check. Experience is required. Must be willing to show up on time every day and work hard. Job is physical-

Looking for hardworking, clean-cut, dedicated laborer for small landscape crew. Starts at $9.00/hour or DOE. Send resume to PO Box 16312, Missoula, 59808 NOW HIRING: Companies desperately need employees to assemble products at home. No selling, any hours. $500 weekly potential. Info.

1-985-646-1700 DEPT. MT-4186 PRESCHOOL STAFF, FT, PT, Msla.

Employer is seeking a full-time and a part-time and substitute PRESCHOOL STAFF workers for a nationally accredited daycare facility. Experience or training with child care a must. #2975195 Missoula Workforce Center 7287060 REHABILITATION & SUPPORT STAFF, FT, Msla. Pay is $10.00/hr ($12.00 after probationary period) + mileage reimbursement; benefits after 1 year include 1 week vacation, 5 paid holidays and health insurance. #2975215 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 STATE OF MONTANA POSITIONS, FT & PT, Various locations throughout Montana: Want to serve Montana citizens? Positions are available for locations throughout the state. Access the state job listings at: http://mt.gov/ statejobs/statejobs.asp

We are looking for a strong, professional and experienced development professional to help us increase our capacity to achieve our funding goals & visions. Responsibilities include supporting an annual campaign, developing & managing major gifts, planned giving and endowment programs.

If you have a bachelor's degree in business admin, communication, public relations or human services with min. 3 yrs of successful experience in fundraising and possess strong organizing skills, creativity, attention to detail, strong computer skills, excellent written and oral communication skills, and a knack for interacting effectively with staff, volunteers and donors, then you are the candidate we are looking for.

Please send cover letter, resume, and 4 references to: Liesel Marron, Human Resources Coordinator, Youth Homes, Box 7616, Missoula, MT 59807 or info@youthhomes.com or fax to 406-721-0034.

Job description at www.youthhomes.com. Wage DOE. Position closes 4/22/09.

MALE SERVICES OUTREACH EDUCATOR-MISSOULA, FT, Msla. This full time position is primarily responsible for the outreach and education in the Male Services Research Project. Excellent communication skills are essential and functioning as an effective team member. Bachelor’s Degree or 4 years related experience preferred.

Essential skills: Building relationships within the community.

Coordinating outreach to recruit males to receive family planning services. Provide educational programming. Pay is DOE. #2975192 Missoula Workforce Center 7287060

SKILLED LABOR TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING. Complete programs and refresher courses, rent equipment for CDL. Job Placement Assistance. Financial assistance for qualified students.

SAGE Technical Services, Billings/Missoula, 1-800-5454546

TRAINING/ INSTRUCTION AIRCRAFT MECHANIC FULL-TIME Great pay, ben-efits, vacation, $ for school. No exp needed. HS grads ages 17-34. Call Mon-Fri 800437-6044 ENGINEERING TRAINEES Earn while you learn, no exp needed.

Good pay, benefits, vacation, $ for school. HS grads ages 17-34.

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Call Mon-Fri (877)475-6289 PAID APPRENTICE HS grads ages 17-34. Electronics, engineering, communications, etc. Great benefits. Relocation avail. Call Mon-Fri 800-887-0952 STEEL WORKER Get hands-on paid training w/great benefits, vacation, $ for school. No exp needed. HS grads ages 17-34. Call Mon-Fri 877-475-6289 SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS, PT, Msla.

An independent school district west of town is seeking SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS. Substitutes needed for Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 8.

Work is in a friendly atmosphere away from the downtown area.

Applicants need to be available on short notice. #2975196 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

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OPPORTUNTIES 100% RECESSION PROOF! Earn up to $800/Day Potential? Your own local vending route. Includes 25 Machines and Candy for $9,995. 1-888-776-3068

MOVIE EXTRAS NEEDED. Earn $150 to $300 Per Day. All Looks, Types and Ages. Feature Films, Television, Commercials, and Print.

No Experience Necessary. 1-800340-8404 x2001 Mystery Shoppers earn up to $150 Day. Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail and dining establishments. Experience not required.

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EARN $75 - $200 HOUR. Media Makeup Artist Training. Ads, TV, Film, Fashion. One week class.

Stable job in weak economy.

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Carla Green Massage, NCTMB 13 years, 211 N.Higgins #403, 4 0 6 - 3 6 0 - 8 7 4 6 www.CarlaGreenMassage.com

Wholistic Choices Massage Therapy.

Neuromuscular Massage $45/hour. Anna 4930025

Healthy Hummingbird Massage & ARTS CENTER! Warehouse: 725 W. Alder, Suite 27. Rates: $55/hr, $75/1.5hr, Students: $35/hr, $55/1.5hr.

Call Erica: 396-6868, Mary: 596-5842, Souta: 207-6269.

Stop in between 10am-6pm daily for walk-in massage, or to see our Art Gallery and Local Store!

Join us at MEADOWSWEET HERBS for our fourth annual Herbal Studies Program: Herbal Foundations - an in-depth program in herbal medicine.

Wednesdays, May 20th thru Sept 9th, 2009. Call 728-0543.

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Swedish & Deep Tissue. Gift Certificates Available. Janit Bishop, CMT. 207-7358 127 N. Higgins Suffering with anxiety or depression? Think no one understands?

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Ten Percent Solution: Affordable Medical Weight Management Come in to register for free physical. River City Family Health 742 Kensington 542-8090 THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE Swedish and Arvigo Technique of Maya Abdominal Massage.

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Reiki II Class April 4th 9am-6pm Cost: $170 CALL FOR MORE INFO • 360-9153

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Acupuncture Easing withdrawal from tobacco/alcohol/drugs, pain, stress management.

Counseling. Sliding fee scale.

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Ruby's Inn & Convention Center Sat, April 18 9-6 Sun, April 19 10-4

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Sporting Goods

Custom Fly Rods

Computers

The Sports Exchange Gear up for Spring Buy/Sell/Trade

Consignments

Puddin's Place

Children's Boutique New & gently used children's clothing 800 Kensington (next to Baskin Robbins on Brooks)

M-F 10-5:30 • Sat 11-3 543-1555

Thrift Stores 1136 West Broadway 549.1610 920 Kensington 541.3210 1221 Helen Ave 728.9252

549-6214 GET A NEW COMPUTER Brand Name laptops & desktops. Bad or NO Credit - No Problem. Smallest weekly payments available. It’s yours NOW - Call 800-803-8819

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The Goods

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The Goods

Pets & Animals A non-shedding hypoallergenic puppy!

TAMI 626-4677 www.giantschnoodlesandminiatureschnauzers.com LARGE SELECTION of yearling and 2-year-old Angus bulls for sale.

Complete information, many calving ease, delivery available.

Contact Clint Stevenson (406)3669023, Ryan Hughes (406)5811873 or Darrell Stevenson (406)423-7500

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Public Notices

Public Notices

GOVERNMENT

Sectional Corner Desks w/Desktops: $90.00. 11). 2 11’ Foot Frame Mount Snowplows: $500.00. 12. 2 Generator Sets 9/10 HP: $350.00. Sealed bids will be accepted until 3:00 p.m., Monday April 13th, 2009 at: Missoula County Public Works, 6089 Training Drive, MIssoula, MT 59808. Terms of Sale: No representations are made about the above described equipment and the property will be sold “as is, where is”. Removal of the equipment should be done within five working days of date of bill of sale. Property viewing to be done Thursday, April 9th, 2009. Each bid should be in a sealed envelope and the envelope marked for which item it pertains. If bidding on more than one item, use separate envelopes. Please indicate in each bid the following: Item #, Description, Method of Payment—Cash or Certified Funds, Bid Amount, Name/Address/Phone Number of Bidder

increases in such wages over the term of the Contract. PRE-BID CONFERENCE: Prospective bidders are encouraged to attend a pre-bid conference, which will be conducted jointly by the OWNER and ENGINEER at Missoula County Public Works Office, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808 at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 14th, 2009. PROJECT ADMINISTRATION: All questions relative to this project prior to the opening of bids shall be directed to the ENGINEER. It shall be understood, however, that no specification interpretation will be made by telephone, nor will any “or equal” products be considered for approval prior to award of contract. The ENGINEER for this project is: WGM Group, Inc. 3021 Palmer P.O. Box 16027, Missoula, MT 59808-6027 ATTENTION: Cody Thorson (406) 728-4611.

OWNER’S RIGHTS RESERVED: The OWNER reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive any informality in a bid, or to accept the lowest responsive and responsible bid and bidder, and to make awards in the interest of the OWNER. The low bid shall be determined on the basis of the lowest Basic Bid, or lowest combination of Basic Bid and accepted Alternative Bids if alternatives are included. The OWNER may accept in any order; any, all, or none of the Alternative Bids. AWARD CONTINGENT: Without limiting the foregoing, it is expressly stated that final award of the Contract is contingent upon securing appropriate financing. Owner: Missoula County.

By: Bill Carey, Chair

Records. AND Lands lying in Section 33, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. The Northeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NE 1/4 SE 1/4) South of the Grass Valley French Canal and West of the existing fence. Recording Reference in Book 726 of Micro Records at Page 676.

AND Lands lying in Section 33, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. That parcel in the Southeast corner of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SE 1/4 SW 1/4) East of, and surrounded by the forks of, the Slough. Recording Reference in Book 726 of Micro Records at Page 677. Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. Dated this 2nd day of April A.D., 2009. MICHAEL R. McMEEKIN Sheriff of Missoula County, Montana By: /s/ Patrick A. Turner, Deputy

Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the Office of the Missoula County Public Works Department in the City of Missoula, Montana until 10:00 A.M., Tuesday, April 14, 2009, at which time bids will be opened and read in the Public Work’s Conference Room for the purpose of applying Magnesium Chloride Dust Palliative to approximately 88 miles of gravel roads throughout various geographic areas within Missoula County. All work is to be performed in accordance with the plans and specifications on file in the Office of the Public Works Department and shall be performed under the supervision of the County Engineer or his designated representative.

Specifications and bid procedures can be obtained at the Office of Public Works at 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT. Proposals must be accompanied by security in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract and in the form specified in MCA 18-1-203, for example: cash, cashier’s check, certified check, bank money order, or bank draft, any of which must be drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the state of Montana or a banking association incorporated under the Laws of Montana; or a bid bond or bond executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the state of Montana. THE CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED TO THE LOWEST RESPONSIBLE QUALIFIED BIDDER WHOSE BID PROPOSAL COMPLIES WITH ALL THE REQUIREMENTS. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Proposals for County Road Dust Abatement, Missoula County Work Order Number 0904-01” and addressed to: Missoula County Public Works “2009 Dust Abatement Bid” 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

NOTICE OF CLOSE OF REGISTRATION Notice is hereby given that regular* registration for the School/Special District Election to be held on May 5, 2009, will close at 5:00 p.m., on April 6, 2009. *NOTE: If you miss this regular registration deadline, you may still register for the election by showing up at the county election office up to and including on Election Day. Between noon and the close of business on the day before Election Day, you can drop off a late voter registration card, but you will need to return to the local election office on Election Day to pick up and vote a ballot.

All active and inactive electors of the School/Special District are entitled to vote at said election. Persons who wish to register and who are not presently registered may do so by requesting a form for registration by mail or by appearing before the County Election Administrator. Inactive electors may reactivate by appearing at the polling place in order to vote, by requesting an absentee ballot in any election, or by notifying the County Election Administrator in writing of the elector’s current residence in the county. If you have moved, please have your registration transferred to your present address. DATED this 11th day of March, 2009. Vickie M. Zeier Election Administrator Missoula County

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

NOTICE OF ELECTION Notice is hereby given that on May 5, 2009 an election will be held at Bonner School for the election of two Board Members for the Bonner Community Council. The polls will be open at 7:00 a.m., and continue to be open until 8:00 p.m., on election day. DATED this 11th day of March , 2009. Vickie M. Zeier, Election Administrator, Missoula County.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

NOTICE OF ELECTION Notice is hereby given that on May 5, 2009 an election will be held at Evaro Fire Station Frenchtown Fire Station Nine Mile Fire Station Petty Creek Fire Station Spring Meadows Fire Station for the election of two Trustees for the Frenchtown Rural Fire Station. The polls will be open at 7:00 a.m., and continue to be open until 8:00 p.m., on election day. DATED this 11th day of March , 2009.

Vickie M. Zeier Election Administrator Missoula County

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

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CASH PAID for old wrist watches, pocket watches and parts. Keith’s Watch Shop. 406-821-3038 OR 406-370-8794

Construction Do you know all the laws and regulations applicable to asbestos? Abatement Contractors of Montana 549-8489 www.montanaabatement.com Look for us in the Sustainifieds.

NOTICE OF ELECTION Notice is hereby given that on May 5, 2009 an election will be held at Seeley Lake Elementary School Sunset School for the election of two Trustees for the Seeley Lake Rural Fire District. The polls will be open at 7:00 a.m., and continue to be open until 8:00 p.m., on election day. DATED this 11th day of March , 2009. Vickie M. Zeier Election Administrator Missoula County

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

NOTICE OF ELECTION Notice is hereby given that on May 5, 2009 an election will be held at Swan Valley School for the election of two Board Members for the Swan Valley Community Council. The polls will be open at 7:00 a.m., and continue to be open until 8:00 p.m., on election day.

DATED this 11th day of March , 2009.

Vickie M. Zeier Election Administrator Missoula County

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

Notice of Public Sale Notice is hereby given that the following described public property will be sold to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds. All prices are MINIMUM BIDS. 1). 1 1978 Chevy 2 1/2T Dump Truck: $2,900.00. 2). 1 Pallet of Guardrail Sections: $50.00. 3). 2 8’ Cattleguards— Used: $300.00. 4). 1 Metal/Steel Rack: $20.00. 5). 1 Pallet of Computers/Monitors: $30.00. 6). 1 V-Plow—Henke: $550.00. 7).

1 Brother Fax Machine/27” Zenith TV: $40.00.

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SECTION 00100 INVITATION TO BID RECEIPT OF BIDS: Sealed bids will be received at the office of the Missoula County Public Works Department, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana, 59808, until 2:00 p.m. local time on Thursday, April 23, 2009, for the construction of the “Wye Area Sanitary Sewer - Phase 2B” RSID 8489 Project. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: The work includes approximately 8,400 lineal feet of sanitary sewer gravity main (8” to 12”), approximately 5,340 lineal feet of sanitary force main (8”), one wastewater pumping station, and appurtenant work. SITE OF WORK: The site of the work is located in Missoula County immediately northwest of the City of Missoula. COMPLETION OF WORK: All work must be substantially completed within 150 calendar days after the commencement date stated in the Notice to Proceed. OPENING OF BIDS: The bids will be publicly opened and read starting at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 23, 2009 at Missoula County Public Works Department, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana (Phone (406) 258-4753).

OBTAINING CONTRACT DOCUMENTS: The documents are entitled “Wye Area Sanitary Sewer - Phase 2B”. Copies of the Contract Documents may be purchased by mailing check or money order to: WGM Group, Inc. 3021 Palmer P.O. Box 16027, Missoula, MT 59808-6027 Attn: Cody Thorson (406) 728-4611 Documents will be shipped via UPS Second Day Service. If shipping by other means is required, Bidder shall include their UPS/Federal Express/Airborne account number with their request for documents.

Copies of half-size set of Drawings and Contract Manual may be obtained upon paying a non-refundable fee of $100.00.

Full-size drawings are not available for bidding. Make checks payable to “WGM Group, Inc.” BID SECURITY: Each Bid shall be accompanied by Bid Security made payable to OWNER in an amount of ten percent (10%) of the Bidder’s maximum Bid price and in the form of cash, a cashier’s check, certified check, or bank money order drawn and issued by a national banking association located in Montana or by any banking corporation incorporated under the laws of Montana; or a Bid Bond (on form attached if a form is prescribed) issued by a surety authorized to do business in Montana meeting the requirements of Paragraph 5.01 of the General Conditions. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal forms. The bid bond shall act as a guarantee that the bidder, if his bid is accepted, will promptly execute the Contract, secure payment of worker’s compensation insurance, and furnish a satisfactory faithful performance bond in the amount of 100 percent of the contract price and a payment bond in the amount of 100 percent of the contract price.

CONTRACTOR’S REGISTRATION: CONTRACTOR’s and any of the CONTRACTOR’s subcontractors bidding or doing work on this project will be required to be registered with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI).

Forms for registration are available from the Department of Labor and Industry, P.O. Box 8011, 1805 Prospect, Helena, Montana 59604-8011. Information on registration can be obtained by calling 1-406-444-7734.

All laborers and mechanics employed by CONTRACTOR or subcontractors in performance of the construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by the laws of Missoula County and the state of Montana. The CONTRACTOR must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex or national origin. BIDS TO REMAIN OPEN: The Bidder shall guarantee the Total Bid Price for a period of 90 calendar days from the date of bid opening. Bidders are required to be licensed in accordance with and comply with the Public Contractors License Law of the State of Montana. Proposals must be sealed and marked “Wye Area Sanitary Sewer Phase 2B, opening April 23, 2009,” and marked “Sealed Bid” with the CONTRACTOR’s name, address, Montana Contractor’s Registration Number, and be addressed to: Missoula County Public Works Department, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808. No facsimile bids will be accepted. Any objection to published specifications must be filed in written form with the Office of County Commissioners prior to the scheduled time of bid opening.

No bid will be considered which includes Federal excise tax, since the County is exempt therefrom and can furnish to the successful bidder certificates of exemption.

WAGE RATES: The CONTRACTOR shall not pay less than the latest Montana Labor Standard Provisions minimum wage as determined by the U.S. Secretary of Labor. A copy of said wage rate is attached as part of the specifications in Section 00910. Bidder is subject to 18-2-401, et.

Seq., Montana Code Annotated and amendments thereto and regulations issued there under, relating to prevailing wages, benefits, and other requirements. No claim for additional compensation will be allowed based upon a lack of knowledge or a misunderstanding of any such requirements by Bidder or failure to include in bid adequate

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SHERIFF’S SALE GES, INC., A MONTANA CORPORATION, Plaintiff Against GEORGE MASTEL and LAVERNE MASTEL, Defendants. To Be Sold at Sheriff’s Sale: TERMS: CASH, or its equivalent; NO personal checks On the 5th day of May A.D., 2009, at 10:00 o’clock A.M., at the front door of the Court House, in the City of Missoula, County of Missoula, State of Montana, that certain real property situate in said Missoula County, and particularly described as follows, to-wit: The Defendant’s undivided 50% interest in the following described real property: Township 13 North, Range 20 West Section Four (4), Northwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (NW 1/4 NW 1/4); Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (SW 1/4 NW 1/4), less Chicago, Milwaukee, St, Paul & Pacific Railroad right-of-way. Township l4 North, Range 20 West Section Thirty-Three (33), Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SW 1/4 SW 1/4), Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NW 1/4 SW 1/4), South of Grass Valley French Canal, Approximately 35 acres; Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (SW 1/4 NW 1/4), South and West of Grass Valley French Canal, Approximately 7 acres; Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (SE 1/4 NW 1/4), South of Grass Valley French Canal, Approximately 9 acres; Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, South of Grass Valley French Canal, Approximately 39 acres; Southeast Quarter of the Southwest (SE 1/4 SW 1/4), except Southeast corner, an area of one acre, more or less, east of slough which is excluded; Approximately 39 acres; Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SW 1/4 SE 1/4) area North of slough, Approximately 24 acres; Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NW 1/4 SE 1/4) South of Grass Valley French Canal, Approximately 39 acres, more or less; Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (SW 1/4 NE 1/4) South of Grass Valley Canal, Approximately 9 acres; Recording reference in Book 462 at Page 882 Micro

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-09-42 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Ruby Johnson, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Thomas B. Johnson has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson, Jones & Chisholm, PLLC, Attorney for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 West Spruce Street, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 12th day of March, 2009. CHRISTIAN, SAMSON, JONES & CHISHOLM, PLLC. /s/ Liana J. Messer, Attorney for Personal Representative, Thomas B. Johnson MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-09-319 Dept. No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps III NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Christopher D. McAlexander, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Christopher Dale McAlexander to Christopher Dale Dennison. The hearing will be on April 14th, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.

The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. DATED: 3/5/09. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: Bobbi Hainline, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-08-193 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF PHILIP C. MCCARVEL, JR., Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.

All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to MARY KATHLEEN MCCARVEL, the Personal Representataive, return receipt requested, at c/o Lino A. Marsillo of Marsillo & Schuyler, PLLC, 103 South 5th Street East, Missoula, MT 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 21st day of October, 2008. /s/ Mary Kathleen McCarvel, Personal Representative

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-09-38 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF RALPH HENRY PRAZAK, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Karen Prazak has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate.

All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Karen Prazak, the Personal Representative, certified mail, return receipt requested, in care of Molly K. Howard, Datsopoulos, MacDonald & Lind, P.C., 201 West Main Street, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 6th day of March, 2009. /s/ Molly K. Howard, Attorney for Karen Prazak, Personal Representative of the Ralph Henry Prazak

evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 27, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $662,371.61. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $599,322.54, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on June 9, 2009 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, whereis 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 nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7777.26264) 1002.97599-FEI

142, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Kevin S. Connell, a married man was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for American Brokers Conduit was Beneficiary and First American Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 6 in Block 13 of West View Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 29, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $148,160.47. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $142,508.42, 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 June 10, 2009 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, whereis 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 nonmonetary 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# 7023.19352) 1002.110615-FEI

default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 6, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $222,410.78. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $216,361.06, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on June 19, 2009 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, whereis 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 nonmonetary 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# 7023.00369) 1002.111641-FEI

Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot A66 of Canyon East, Phase 4, a platted subdivision 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 11/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 9, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $148,140.21. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $144,492.14, 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 June 19, 2009 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# 7023.00434) 1002.111659-FEI

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 07/07/03, recorded as Instrument No. 200324929, Book 711, Page 508, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Patricia F.J. Dobrowski and Dale R. Dobrowski, wife and husband was Grantor, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Inc. was Beneficiary and Title Services was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 2 of Hawthorne’s a platted subdivision of Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 22 of Plats at Page 32.

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 11/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of February 11, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $136,843.50. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $134,176.76, 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 June 22, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.00823) 1002.111969-FEI

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/26/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200702634, Book 791, Page 655, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Mark W. Knight and Laura A. Knight, husband and wife was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Home123 Corporation was Beneficiary and First American Title Insurance Company was Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 55-B of Snider Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200807848, Bk. 816, Pg. 1024, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Trustee for Deutsche Alt-A Securities Mortgage Loan Trust, Series 2007-AR3.

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 07/28/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200619250 Bk. 780, Pg.

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/17/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200609204, Bk 772, Pg 2453, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Ronald L. Garrett, a married person was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Suntrust Mortgage, Inc. was Beneficiary and Charles J. Peterson was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Charles J. Peterson as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 11 in Block 3 of Spring Hills Addition No. 1, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 3, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $177,170.32. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $172,000.00, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on June 16, 2009 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# 7023.00130) 1002.111219-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/30/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200702738 Bk 791 Pg 759, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Brian D. Hanna, A single man was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage LLC was Beneficiary and Western Title & Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Western Title & Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in the N1/2 of Section 34, Township 15 North, Range 21 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being a portion of Tract C-1 of Certificate of Survey No. 2432 and being more particularly described as follows: Northerly Portion: Commencing at said center one-quarter corner; thence N. 01 degree 30’36” E., 83.64 feet to the first point of beginning; thence for the next five courses along the Northerly right-of-way limit of the Frenchtown Project M-8-a-1 Lateral: Northwesterly along a non-tangent curve, concave to the Southwest with radius point bearing S. 42 degrees 08’23” W., 93.20 feet, an arc length of 4.59 feet; thence N. 50 degrees 41’00” W., 109.79 feet; thence N. 27 degrees 15’00” W., 100.89 feet; thence Northwesterly along a tangent curve, concave to the Southwest with radius of 93.20 feet, an arc length of 88.65 feet; thence N. 81 degrees 45’00” W., 45.82 feet: thence N. 01 degrees 30’36’’ E., 198.31 feet; thence along the Southerly right-of-way limit Of the Burlington Northern Railroad, S. 70 degrees 04’00” E., 268.90 feet; thence along a line of boundary agreement as recorded in Book 64 of Micro Records at Page 392, S. 01 degrees 30’36 W., 325.07 feet to the first point of beginning. Recording Reference: Book 538 of Micro Records at Page 1634.

Beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A..

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/22/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200604311, Book 769, Page 773, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Thomas J. McMahon, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Title Services was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 5 of Kona Rapids, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 6, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $400,380.66. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $385,527.11, 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 June 19, 2009 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# 7023.19787) 1002.111646-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/19/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200632526, Bk 789, Pg 407, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Connie Sheets, 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

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/11/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200701747, Book 790, Page 1285, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Randie M. Pringle was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in the SE 1/4 of Section 7, Township 15 North, Range 22 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract D of Certificate of Survey No. 1816. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 08/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 9, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $335,050.58. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $321,336.14, 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 June 22, 2009 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# 7023.00671) 1002.111968-FEI

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/24/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200506718, Book 749, Page 1072, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Harry J. Melnikoff Sr, a Married Man was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for GreenPoint Mortgage Funding, Inc. was Beneficiary and First American Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 16 in Block 2 of Seeley Lake Homesites No. 4, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 11/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 9, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $104,162.92. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $101,592.29, 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 June 22, 2009 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, whereis 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 nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall

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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# 7023.00747) 1002.111916-FEI

the same. Jessica Hopkins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 ASAP# 3042143 04/02/2009, 04/09/2009, 04/16/2009

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 1, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 3 in Block 12 of KNOWLES ADDITION, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 1 of Plats at Page 25 Kim L Richardson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 29, 2007 and Recorded January 29, 2007 in Book 791, Page 394, as Document No. 200702373. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc., successor by merger to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated January 13, 2009, and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. A default has occurred in the performance of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,086.17, beginning September 1, 2008, 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 January 17, 2009 is $173,469.83 principal, interest at the rate of 6.1250% now totaling $4892.85, late charges in the amount of $221.35, escrow advances of $74.28, and other fees and expenses advanced of $67.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $29.11 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 in cash at the time of sale. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed.

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10’ 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. Dated, January 20, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On January 20, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 1, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 5A of Crestview Heights Phase IIIA, an amended subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

Charles Jennings, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated October 26, 2006 and Recorded October 31, 2006 in Book 766, page 467, as Document No. 200628274. The beneficial interest is currently held by Indymac Federal Bank FSB. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated January 9, 2009, and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. A default has occurred in the performance of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,337.65, beginning October 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of December 31, 2008 is $198,698.01 principal, interest at the rate of 7.125% now totaling $4,702.92, late charges in the amount of $176.97, escrow advances of $2,122.07, suspense balance of $0.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $58.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $38.79 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 in cash at the time of sale. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed.

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. Dated: January 22, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 586021097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On January 22, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson , 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. Jessica Hopkins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 ASAP# 3042147 04/02/2009, 04/09/2009, 04/16/2009

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 18, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lots 25 and 26 in Block 3 of MCLEOD ADDITION, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Monique S. Lary, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Arthur F. Lamey, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 20, 2005 and Recorded July 25, 2005 in Book 756 on Page 1288 as Document No. 200518767. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for Structured Asset Investment Loan Trust (SAIL) 2006-1. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated December 31, 2008, and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. A default has occurred in the performance of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,664.20, beginning September 1, 2008, 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 January 5, 2009 is $164,030.08 principal, interest at the rate of 10.0000% now totaling $7,059.30, late charges in the amount of $404.04, escrow advances of $641.28, and other fees and expenses advanced of $208.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $44.94 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 in cash at the time of sale. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed.

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. Dated: January 6, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On January 6, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, 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. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3026741 03/19/2009, 03/26/2009, 04/02/2009

including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash at the time of sale. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed.

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. Dated: Jan. 9, 2009, Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On Jan . 9, 20099, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson , 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. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 2/23/2013 ASAP# 3029781 03/19/2009, 03/26/2009, 04/02/2009

center of section line of said Section 36 for 860.0 feet; thence due West for 330.0 feet to the center of section line for said Section 36; thence South on and along the center of section line for said Section 36 for 860.0 feet to the point of beginning, as shown as Tract A on Deed Exhibit 38363 LESS AND EXCEPTING THEREFROM that portion conveyed by Warranty Deed to the Frenchtown Irrigation District recorded in Book 120 of Deed Records at Page 157 Recording Reference in Book 172 at Page 68 Micro Records Marcia L Seymour, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to WMC Mortgage Corp, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 22, 2002 and recorded August 28, 2002 at 4:18 o’clock P.M., in Book 687, Page 1031, under Document No. 200224636. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for the registered holders of GSAMP Trust 2002-HE, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series, 2002-HE. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated February 10, 2006, and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

A default has occurred in the performance of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,178.65, beginning September 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of December 5, 2008 is $124,999.85 principal, interest at the rate of 9.375% now totaling $4,167.58, late charges in the amount of $168.11, escrow advances of $1,265.98, suspense balance of $299.62 and other fees and expenses advanced of $748.35, plus accruing interest at the rate of $32.11 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 in cash at the time of sale. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed.

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10`h 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. Dated: January 12, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On January 12, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson , 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. Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 03/28/2011 ASAP# 3030937 03/26/2009, 04/02/2009, 04/09/2009

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 19, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock AM at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 9 IN BLOCK 1 OF WEBBER ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF. A.P.N.: 0497003 Eugene Karl Schafer and Janet Lindquist Schafer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Equity Direct Mortgage Corp., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 8, 1998, and Recorded May 13, 1998 at 3:58 o’clock PM, in Book 541, Page 0296, as Document No. 9812132. The beneficial interest is currently held by Aurora Loan Services LLC. Charles J. Peterson , is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated June 28, 2005, and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. A default has occurred in the performance of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,109.47, beginning October 1, 2008, 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 January 7, 2009 is $97,534.99 principal, interest at the rate of 10.00% now totaling $3,411.49, late charges in the amount of $141.75, escrow advances of $156.89, , plus accruing interest at the rate of $27.09 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,

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 22, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 132 of Supplemental Plat “B” of HILLVIEW HEIGHTS No. 1, in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof James E McDonald and Vicki McDonald, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow Co. of Missoula, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Whitecap International, Inc., as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated June 24, 1987 and recorded June 30, 1987 at 3:30 o’clock P.M., in Book 262 of Micro Records at Page 2158, under Document No. 8712782. The beneficial interest is currently held by LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee for the Certificateholders of the Mortgage PassThrough Certificates 1997-111. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated November 14, 2005, and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

A default has occurred in the performance of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,072.66, beginning September 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of December 5, 2008 is $60,339.05 principal, interest at the rate of 10.00% now totaling $3,709.47, late charges in the amount of $162.80, escrow advances of $115.00, suspense balance of $49.68 and other fees and expenses advanced of $165.78, plus accruing interest at the rate of $16.53 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 in cash at the time of sale. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed.

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. Dated: January 12, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 On January 12, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, 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. Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 03/28/2011 ASAP# 3030925 03/26/2009, 04/02/2009, 04/09/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 22, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in the Southwest one-quarter of the Northeast onequarter of Section 36, Township 14 North, Range 21 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the center of Section 36, Township 14 North, Range 21 West; thence due East on and along the North boundary of Missoula County Route #16 for 330.0 feet; thence North and parallel to the

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 22, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 27 of Lolo Creek Trails Phase 1, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat Thereof Jerry K. Miller & Lynn G. Miller, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 9, 2006 and Recorded June 13, 2006 in Book 776, Page 924, as Document No. 200614116. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Soundview Home Loan Trust 2006-EQ1.

Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated December 31, 2008, and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. A default has occurred in the performance of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2363.01, beginning September 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of December 25, 2008 is $279,000.00 principal, interest at the rate of 8.25% now totaling $9,186.00, late charges in the amount of $1,016.66, and other fees and expenses advanced of $26.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $63.0616 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 Public Notices Continued on Page 44

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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 in cash at the time of sale.

The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. 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. Dated: January 12, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On January 12, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, 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. Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 03/28/2011 ASAP# 3030933 03/26/2009, 04/02/2009, 04/09/2009

public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, 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. Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 03/28/2011 ASAP# 3035235 03/26/2009, 04/02/2009, 04/09/2009

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate Case No. DP-09-13 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM M. JOHNSTON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Darin Johnston, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at PO Box 3183, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 10th day of March, 2009. /s/ Darin Johnston, Personal Representative, PO Box 3183, Missoula, MT 59806 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 26, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 32 of Lakewood Estates Phase 2A, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Marsha L. Bosworth and Jeremie R. Parr, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN Amro Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 17, 2007, and Recorded May 18, 2007, in Book 797, Page 880, under Document No. 200712284. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage Inc., successor by merger to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated August 12, 2008, and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

A default has occurred in the performance of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,565.49, beginning April 1, 2008, 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 January 31, 2009 is $315,232.10 principal, interest at the rate of 6.1250% now totaling $17,676.96, late charges in the amount of $966.80, escrow advances of $3,921.76, and other fees and expenses advanced of $655.72, plus accruing interest at the rate of $52.90 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash at the time of sale. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. 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. Dated: January 16, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 586021097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On January 16, 2009, before me, a notary

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. Pursuant to 71-1-301, et seq. of the Montana Code Annotated, the undersigned hereby gives notice of a trustee’s sale to be held on the 24th day o f June, 2009, at 1:00 o’clock p.m., on the steps of the Courthouse of Missoula County located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, of the following described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: LOTS 17 AND 18 AND THE WEST 10 FEET OF LOT 19 IN BLOCK 86 OF RAILROAD ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 317 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 2148. TAX MAP OR PARCEL ID NO.: 5864753. Betty L. Bennett, as Grantor, conveyed the above-described real property, and the improvements situated thereon, if any, to I.R.E., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Beneficial Montana Inc., d/b/a Beneficial Mortgage Co., a Delaware corporation authorized to do business in Montana, who was designated as Beneficiary in a Deed of Trust dated May 24, 2006 and recorded on May 31, 2006 as Document No. 200612542 and put of record in Book 755 at Page 505 of the official records of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). Dan G. Cederberg, a licensed Montana attorney, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated January 16, 2009, and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. Betty L. Bennett has defaulted in the performance of the said Deed of Trust and associated Loan Agreement by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $729.17 for the month of September, 2008, 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. As of January 10, 2009, the sum of $4,034.55 is past due. As of February 16, 2009, the principal balance due was the sum of $99,846.78 principal, plus $4,176.08 accrued interest; with the interest continuing to accrue on the principal at the variable rate set out in the Loan Agreement, which is 6.601% per annum, and other fees and expenses that may be advanced. The Beneficiary may disburse any amounts as may be required to protect Beneficiary’s interest. If Beneficiary elects to make such disbursements, sums paid shall become additional indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust. In accordance with the provisions of the Deed of Trust and Loan Agreement, the Beneficiary has elected to accelerate the full remaining balance due under the terms of the Deed of Trust and Loan Agreement and has elected to sell the interest of Betty L. Bennett, the original Grantor, her successors and assigns, in and to the aforedescribed property, subject to all easements, restrictions, encumbrances or covenants existing of record or evident on the property at the time of sale to satisfy the remaining obligation owed. Beneficiary has directed Dan G. Cederberg, as Successor Trustee, to commence such sale proceedings. Those with an interest in the property and who appear from the public record to be entitled to notification of these proceedings are: Occupants, 110 N. 2nd St. W., Missoula, MTt 59802. Betty L. Bennett, 110 N. 2nd St. W., Missoula, MT 59802.

Betty L. Bennett, 110 2nd St. Northwest, Missoula, MT 59802. Betty L. Bennett, 110 N. 2nd St., Missoula, MT 59802. Betty L. Bennett, 3 Creek Crossing Court, Missoula, MT 59802-3018. Beneficial Montana Inc., d/b/a Beneficial Mortgage Co., 3075 North Reserve, Suite #N, Missoula, MT 59808.

Montana Department of Revenue, PO Box 5805, Helena, MT 59604-5805. State of Montana Attorney General, Steve Bullock, Department of Justice, PO Box 201401, Helena, MT 59620-1401. Successor Trustee is unaware of any party in possession or claiming right to possession of the subject property other than those persons noticed herein. DATED this 19th day of February, 2009. /s/ Dan G. Cederberg, Successor Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA) :ss.

County of Missoula). This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 19th day of February, 2009, by Dan G. Cederberg, Successor Trustee. (SEAL) /s/ Tami St. Onge, Notary Public for the State of Montana. Residing at: Missoula, Montana.

My commission expires: March 1, 2009 Request For Qualifications ENGINEERING and GRANT ADMINISTRATION SERVICES The Bitter Root Irrigation District (BRID) is in the process of obtaining funding through the Renewable Resources Grant and Loan Program (RRGL) for the design of Siphon #1. BRID is soliciting a Statement of Qualifications (SOQ) for engineering services for the design of Siphon #1. The District may at its option, utilize the selected engineering consultant for grant administration, final design, and construction services for all phases of the Siphon #1 and other projects related to the system. Payment terms will be negotiated with the selected engineering consultant. A 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 is available and may be obtained by contacting John Crowley by phone at 961-1182 or by emailing brid@copper.net. Four copies of the proposal are to be submitted by 5:00 pm (local time) on Friday, April 10, 2009. Mail or hand-deliver to Bitter Root Irrigation District, Attention John Crowley, 1182 Lazy J. Lane, Corvallis, Montana 59828.

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Homes for Sale 1333 Toole #C-13 $132,500 2bed/2bath newer condo close to downtown. KD Dickinson – Portico Real Estate – (406) 240-5227 1400 Burns St 1,2 & bedrooms $99,500-$159,500. Affordable, brand new condos! Open House M-F 11-1 KD Dickinson – Portico Real Estate – (406) 240-5227 1902 Pine Tree Hollow - Thompson Falls Newer, spacious 2bdrm/2bath, edge of town & gorgeous! $148,500 KD Dickinson Portico Real Estate 240-5227 2BD home, 2.9 acres near Hamilton. Large garage, open floorplan, laundry/mudroom, peaceful setting. $210,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.AccessRealty.net 3 bdrm 2 bath on large lot in Elmar Estates. City Sewer, underground sprinkling, single garage. $103,900 MLS# 809491 Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 Windermere RE. Text:44133 Message:12598 for pics 3 bed/2 bath manufactured home on nice lot with large covered porch. New carpet, fresh paint and updated bath. $89,900.

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2300 Regent, Suites 205-206-207 Three Wonderful 2 year old commercial Condos, one with reception area, conference room, production space, and 6 work cubicals. There are 2 more additional condo units with added work areas, and separate entrances. All 3 condo’s comes with 10 deeded parking spaces. Suites 205 and 206 can be sold separately for $240,000. Suite 207 sold separately is $510,000.

All 3 sold together, priced at $745,000. See LA for more details. MLS: 901538 & 901542 & 901535.

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800 square foot cabin near hunting, fishing, and skiing in beautiful Haugan, MT. $83,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185. www.AccessRealty.net

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