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Up Front: Stevensville’s police force down to one Ochenski: Rick Hill returns to Montana politics Books: River House clings to its literal framework
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Oh, how fickle we voters are. Two years after giving Democrats near-complete power in the name of “change,” we turn around and, in the House of Representatives, swing power back to the Republicans who incited voters’ call for change in the first place. It’s enough to make any political observer wonder if the Cover photo by Chad Harder seemingly schizophrenic American electorate needs a collective head exam. In this, the Indy’s election postmortem, we try to make sense of what just happened, and what’s likely to happen as a result—while bracing ourselves for whatever we volatile voters might do next. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
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News Letters Big rigs, tar sands and recharging the aquifers .............................................4 The Week in Review Medical marijuana, rollergirls and oil drums .........................6 Briefs Maple stumps, fundraising with Facebook and an “Extreme Huntress” ........6 Etc. No one left at Left in the West............................................................................7 Up Front Stevensville’s one-man police force ...........................................................8 Ochenski Rick Hill returns to Montana politics .....................................................10 Writers on the Range A small town welcomes its newest neighbor ......................11 Agenda Transgender Day of Recognition.................................................................12
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STREET TALK
by Chad Harder
Asked Tuesday afternoon in front of the U.S. Post Office in downtown Missoula
Q:
In case you’ve been living under a rock, Republicans trounced Democrats across the board in both state and national elections last week. What’s your reaction? Follow-up: Republicans hope to pass major spending cuts. What programs, if any, ought to be preserved no matter what?
Mark Sellhorn: It’s bad. The Republicans are going right back to the same bullshit they were up to when Bush was in office, and all their dealings are hidden behind closed doors. Close to home: Either Social Security or Medicaid, because I’m on both. I don’t really see how they could cut either of those, but they’re still two of the top targets on their agenda. It doesn’t look good.
Mary Merkley: I’m not surprised. People are fed up with what’s going on, and they want change. I’d like to see change in how our money is spent. I mean, there’s just other more important things they could be spending our money on. Helpin’ hand: Social Security. My husband’s disabled and he relies on that.
Sean Morgan: You know, I don’t put myself in the middle of politics. I see it all as just a big advertising game, and whoever has the best ads wins. Gravy train: My family relies on food stamps, and I might rely on them soon, too. But basically any program that helps those that can’t make it needs to be funded.
Ben Tallmadge: I’m not enthused that the Republicans have retaken so many seats across the nation. I find it absolutely bloody terrifying. Friend in need: I fear that there won’t be sufficient services for those living in poverty, and I just hope that services continue to be administered to those that need them most.
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Slick rhetoric Should Montanans and Idahoans allow multi-billion dollar corporations such as Conoco-Phillips and Exxon to dictate the future of recreational experiences along the public lands of Highway 12’s Wild and Scenic Lochsa River? No! Driving the 207 300-ton loads of tar sands oil equipment to Alberta will only drive natives and tourists alike out of our Lolo and Clearwater national forests. From winter to summer, tar sands equipment could occupy scenic turnouts and impede access to majestic wilderness and campgrounds for recreation, and impede access needed to fight wildfires, and even delay emergency vehicles along beautiful, windy roads like highways 12 and 200. Will we allow our national forests— where our children learn the thrilling and cherished family traditions of hunting and fishing, and where tourists travel for such world-class recreation—to be held hostage by the world’s wealthiest corporation, Exxon? Absolutely unacceptable. May the forest be with you always, not the slick rhetoric of big oil. The “Last Best Place” is too good to spoil! Melissa E. Early Missoula
Tar sands problems Until the world manages to change to CO2-free and carbon-neutral sources of energy, we have to use at least a small fraction of our fossil fuels to keep things going in the meantime. For that purpose some of our nation’s most prominent scientists suggest that we use only existing sources of gas and oil during this transition period, for two reasons. One is that these two fuels provide the least CO2 emitted per unit of energy produced. The second advantage (ironically) is that the reserves of these are thought to be limited (if we don’t look too hard for more) as is the total amount of CO2 that can be produced by them. With this approach, the upper level of atmospheric CO2 we will reach could be held to approximately 430 parts per million (ppm), of which then about 80 ppm would then somehow have to be removed, 50 ppm of which could come from improved land use. So what’s wrong with burning coal instead of gas and oil? One problem associated with coal is the additional chemical pollution and physical disturbance its mining produces. Another is that it produces much more CO2 per energy unit derived than do gas and oil. An even greater problem associated with coal, however, is the fact that there is simply too darn much of it! If the world’s coal continues to be burned along with the readily available gas and oil previously mentioned, then atmospheric CO2 is sure to reach levels well over 500 ppm from which recovery is much more difficult to envision. While there is some possibility of capturing and permanently sequester-
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ing the CO2 emitted from coal-fired power plants, both the technical and financial feasibility of that possibility has not yet been demonstrated. So what’s wrong with using the oil derived from the Alberta tar sands? The answer is lots of things, which make its use even worse than that of coal. Like coal, there is simply too much of it—the total amount of oil in the tar sands is comparable to that in the Middle east. Another is that the methods used for separating the oil from the tar sands produces an enormous amount of surface and water pollution. Another is that to separate the oil from the tar sands, a huge amount of natural gas, about 40 percent of Alberta’s total, is used to heat mixtures of water added to the tar sands. Thus, the production of this form of oil ends up producing far more CO2 than that of normal crude oil. Another is that vast boreal forested regions of Alberta
the forest “ May be with you always, not the slick rhetoric of big oil.
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will be destroyed in this process (we’re talking about 20 percent of Alberta, or an area the size of Florida!) which otherwise would be removing CO2 from the atmosphere. Finally and unlike coal, there is no way of capturing and sequestering the CO2 emitted in the processes of extracting, refining, and using the tar sands oil. While we are at it, we should also consider the options of coal gasification and liquefaction plants that have been considered in Montana and used elsewhere. In terms of their environmental feasibility, they are approximately as bad as the tar sands, primarily because the feedstock used for these, coal, would last for centuries and because this technology offers no potential for the capture and sequestration of associated CO2 emissions. In summary, there is great risk that the full development of the Alberta tar sands and the existing coal fields of the world, along with use of our existing supplies of gas and oil, would boost the temperature of Earth to levels beyond which our planet might find itself on an uncontrollable path of run-away feedback effects leading to a distinctly less human-friendly state. The contents of the long sentence I just wrote is now well known within the scientific community and is not “rocket science.” Therefore, I would encourage the governor to give greater consideration to these very possible long-term implications of our energy
policies when considering what to do with our essentially endless supplies of tar sands and coal. Eric Grimsrud Emeritus Professor of Chemistry Montana State University Kalispell
Recharge the aquifers It is time for the coal bed methane industry to do it right. Montana’s groundwater must be protected. There are close to 1,000 wells in Montana now, and the number will increase. Up to 26,000 coal bed methane wells are projected for Montana. Coal bed methane development began over 10 years ago, and there is room to put some water back. Northern Plains Resource Council feels that the time is right to recharge the aquifers by putting some of the millions of gallons of water brought to the surface back into the depleted wells. The high sodium water that is dumped into the Tongue River is causing damage to our irrigated fields. By putting the water back to recharge the aquifers, the damage will go away. It is time for legislation that provides an incentive to coal bed methane developers to put the water back. Northern Plains hopes for bipartisan support in the Legislature for aquifer recharge. Groundwater is too important to waste. The coal seam aquifers are a critical source for farmers’ and ranchers’ wells and springs and they must be protected for future generations. Northern Plains urges all of you to support legislation to put the water back where it came from— underground. Mark Fix Chair Coal Bed Methane Task Force for the Northern Plains Resource Council Miles City
A thanks to voters I am deeply honored and humbled by the confidence the people of Montana have shown in me. And I am inspired by the voters’ decision to support an independent, non-partisan judiciary that assures everyone a level playing field. I want to express my heartfelt thanks to the many dozens of people across the state who gave so generously of their time, their hard-earned dollars and their life energy to help this campaign succeed. And thank you to everyone who voted for me in the election. I will bring to work the values important to our court system: integrity, fairness, hard work, common sense and an open mind. I will give full attention to every case and fair treatment to every party. It has been a privilege for me to run for this office, and it will be an honor to serve all Montana as your next Supreme Court Justice. Beth Baker Helena
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WEEK IN REVIEW
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• Wednesday, November 3
News Quirks by Chad Harder
Democrat Kendall Van Dyk claims victory over Republican Sen. Roy Brown in North Central Billings Senate District 25 by just 16 votes. Barring a recount, it means Democrats will hold 22 seats in the next Legislature to Republican’s 28, having lost one seat in Tuesday’s election. Democrats lost 18 seats in what was an evenly split House.
• Thursday, November 4 A day before his trial, Cody Bartlett pleads no contest to charges of evidence tampering in relation to last year’s fatal hit-and-run north of Seeley Lake. Bartlett hit and killed Jake Loudon, 18, as Loudon was pedaling a bike on Montana Highway 83 in June 2009. Sentencing for tampering and other charges is set for Dec. 20.
• Friday, November 5 Medical marijuana patient Matthew Wayne Otto, 27, is charged with felony criminal distribution of marijuana after police on Thursday observed him buying marijuana from the Big Sky Health dispensary and then smoking it with two passengers in his car while driving away.
• Saturday, November 6 Missoula’s Hellgate Rollergirls take on Spokane’s Toothless Annies in a packed Toole Ave. warehouse. Spokane’s “Misato Herdemise” and Missoula’s “Dreadly Nightshade” tangle repeatedly. In the end, Hellgate loses 171-84 to the team that mentored it through its derby-girl infancy.
Smoldering slash piles send up wisps of smoke Monday evening in the low mountains southeast of Potomac. Missoula County’s wildland burning season ends Nov. 30.
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• Sunday, November 7
Huntress competes for title Angie Haas started hunting with her father when she was still in diapers. Years later, her future husband proposed to her while the couple tracked a herd of elk across a steep mountain range. Now 32, the petite Montana native who lives outside Kalispell is competing with nine other women to become the nation’s second ever “Extreme Huntress.” “I’m as diehard as any woman out there,” she says. “And I’m willing to bet on it.” That was her thought months ago when she contacted the cable television sports program “Primal Adventures,” which is conducting the competition, to make her pitch about why she deserves the title and all that comes with it, including a New Zealand hunting trip that will be filmed by Primal Adventures and aired in a future episode. Prizes are great, Haas says. But being anointed an Extreme Huntress would be vindication for a woman who all too often encounters raised
Days after the Idaho Supreme Court gave the green light for massive oil drums to roll through the state on the way to Montana, workers begin attaching semitrailers to the drums in preparation for hauling them away from the Port of Lewiston, where the four super-sized shipments slated for a ConocoPhillips refinery in Billings have languished for months.
• Monday, November 8 After deliberating for roughly 15 minutes, a coroner’s jury finds the Missoula County Detention Facility clear of wrongdoing in a Sept. 9 incident in which 47year-old inmate Jay Johnson hanged himself in his cell with detention-center provided socks.
• Tuesday, November 9 In a document filed with the Federal Elections Commission, Democrats accuse Republican Steve Daines of campaigning illegally for the U.S. Senate seat held by Jon Tester. Montana Democrats assert that Daines is intentionally avoiding regulatory scrutiny by funneling campaign donations through a political action committee based in Colorado called Common Sense Issues.
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eyebrows from male gun-toters. “When people hear, ‘Oh, you hunt,’ the next thing out of their mouth is usually, ‘So, does your dad take you?’ Or, ‘Does your husband?’” she says. “It’s always been a real fight of mine to prove that, ‘No, I hunt. And I hunt independently.’ “Just this last weekend,” she continues, “I got my bull elk. My sister and I were hunting together. And we ran across two guys on a ridge top that we were hiking down. And they kind of look at you like, ‘Who else is with you? You can’t be alone. You’re just two girls.’ And so when I saw the Extreme Huntress, I thought, this is good, because the way they’re trying to portray this is that women can be extreme.” Haas’ husband vouches for that. The two grew up together and have, since they were teenagers, competed to nab the biggest buck. “She tries to claim that she’s the best whitetail hunter, elk hunter and blah, blah, blah,” says her husband Travis Tennison, who has been left home caring for the couple’s two young children this fall while his wife heads to the woods. In addition to bringing home her elk, she also felled
a bear this season. “I haven’t gotten anything,” Tennison says. Jessica Mayrer
Courts PPL banks on solicitor general The U.S. Supreme Court is taking a closer look at a recent appeal from PPL Montana, calling on Solicitor General Neal Katyal to investigate a spring ruling by the Montana Supreme Court that slammed the energy company with more than $40 million in back rent for hydroelectric dams on three Montana rivers. PPL Montana now hopes the investigation will serve as an overture to a hearing before the nation’s highest court. “We view it as a positive development from our position,” says PPL Montana spokesman David Hoffman. “I think it illustrates that the court has determined that there’s a significant federal issue involved here.” PPL Montana, a subsidiary of the PPL Corporation, currently owns and operates 11 hydroelectric dams in the state, which generate a total of
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602 megawatts of power for Montana customers. But on March 30, the Montana Supreme Court declared state ownership of all Clark Fork, Madison and Missouri river streambeds and demanded PPL Montana pay rent for dams located on those waterways between 2000 and 2007. PPL Montana has since gained widespread support for a U.S. Supreme Court appeal from farmers, ranchers, irrigation districts and other hydroelectric operators who see the demands for rent as a potential precedent. The Montana Supreme Court’s blanket declaration of all three rivers as navigable challenges ownership of miles of tributaries, says the Montana Farm Bureau Association, and threatens to stick others with similar rent payments in the future. That could include federal agencies, hence the solicitor general’s involvement. “I think a lot of people see potential impacts that may be beyond the attorney general’s control,” Hoffman says. “Once these determinations are affirmed by a court, schools and others who would benefit from the money have to look at other users and say, ‘Gosh, there’s a whole lot of other people out there using these state lands that aren’t paying.’” Hoffman says Katyal is expected to begin the investigation as soon as next week—if he hasn’t already. But Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock has dampened PPL Montana’s excitement over the solicitor general’s involvement, publicly stating that such action is routine in the eyes of the U.S. Supreme Court. There’s no indication yet how long it will take Katyal to complete his investigation. “About the best I’ve heard is months,” Hoffman says.
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Urban forest One man’s stump Daniel Geary was aghast when he arrived home in early September to find that the Missoula Parks and Recreation Department had cut down 17 Norway maples on city land surrounding his home at the base of Mount Jumbo. The move eliminated a natural buffer that hid his yard from the eyes of hikers walking up and down the “L” Trail, making the long-time Rattlesnake resident feel extremely vulnerable. “I don’t want to see the fat old bald guy in a towel bending over to turn off his hose,” Geary says about what hikers are now exposed to. “No one wants to see that, or be seen as that.” Geary jokes, but he’s dead serious about his
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recently launched campaign to save Norway maples near his home. In fact, he’s launched a campaign and is pushing for a moratorium on cutting in his neighborhood. He’s writing letters to neighbors, the Missoula Department of Parks and Recreation and City Council members. He even recently staged a protest at a firewood giveaway hosted by the city’s Urban Forest Division. He brought a 78-year-old friend, five protest signs and a stump left over from a much-loved maple the city cut down. “I want them to get the moratorium on the books while it’s still fresh,” he says. For the past several years, city arborists have been cutting down Norway maples in Greenough
Park, the South Hills and, most recently, in woody drainages at the base of Mount Jumbo, near Geary’s house. The deciduous tree grows like a weed when well watered. Because of its hardiness, the Norway maple beats out native species in the fight for survival. That’s troubling for open lands managers like Missoula Parks and Recreation Director Donna Gaukler, who say when left to thrive, the leafy maple takes over. Gaukler says it’s important to see that the trees that once surrounded Geary’s yard, like the invasive knap weed, had the potential to spread and, ultimately, affect the entire Missoula Valley. While not calling a moratorium, as Geary would like, city staffers have been working to ease his concerns and improve area esthetics, planting chokecherry, juniper and western maple around his house. “I clearly do recognize that people do fall in love with trees,” Gaukler says. “I get that.” Jessica Mayrer
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Fundraising with Facebook Social media just became the newest fundraising frontier for the Glacier National Park Fund (GNPF). The Flathead nonprofit, in partnership with Seattle-based outdoor retailer REI, launched a tech-savvy initiative Nov. 5 that allows any Missoulian with a Facebook account and a Blackberry to help float scores of projects benefiting the Crown of the Continent’s trails and special programs. Over the next few weeks, Missoula’s REI outlet is donating $1 to GNPF efforts for every person that “checks in” at the store using Facebook’s Places feature. REI Public Affairs Associate Bethany Hawley says the promotion is part of the brand new Facebook Deals, a nonprofit fundraising blitz involving 20 companies nationwide from North Face to Starbucks. “We were really excited about the Facebook Deals not only in that it provided us another opportunity to work with some of our local nonprofit partners, but also that it provided us a way to introduce some of our members and customers to them in a different way,” Hawley says. Hawley adds that the GNPF isn’t the only nonprofit benefiting from the promotion; each REI store in the country designated its own conservation-based partner, and the promotion will continue until the company has raised a combined total of $100,000. But for GNPF, which began its grant partnership with REI this year, Facebook Deals will contribute to a more immediate problem for Glacier National Park. According to an October report from Environment America, the National Park Service faces a potential $22 million shortfall in next year’s budget, and the report specifically names Glacier as one of three parks that may be subject to serious cuts in 2011. With GNPF already donating hundreds of thousands of dollars annually for special projects, like this summer’s stabilization work on the Heaven’s Peak lookout, development director Kelly Heaton says every dollar adds up. “We really fill in the gaps when there’s a shortfall with the money that the park receives from the federal government,” Heaton says. “The more money we get the more special projects we can take on.”
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Dollars anonymously donated to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks this month, to help finalize funding for the agency’s three-year, $150,000 study into why elk numbers are dropping in the Bitterroot Valley.
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The results of last week’s midterm election left many a Missoula Democrat sulking like an eight-year-old who found his pumpkin smashed. But the Montana House of Representatives wasn’t the only loss mourned by local liberals in the aftermath of the Republican uprising. One of the Montana blogosphere’s hottest political forums fell silent Nov. 3 as lead bloggers Jay Stevens and Matt Singer bowed out at Left in the West. Left in the West has been one of the first morning mustreads for political commentary on the issues rocking Montana for nearly six years. Stevens, also the founder of 4&20 Blackbirds, another popular Montana blog, succeeded in aggregating nearly every political and social issue with a pithy and informative take from the liberal perspective. Same with Singer, co-founder and senior advisor of Forward Montana, who rarely missed a beat this year when it came to the GOP’s homophobic platform and Rep. Denny Rehberg’s opposition to health care reform. Commenters from the right and left picked up where Stevens and Singer left off, exchanging pointed barbs over divisive topics ranging from physician-assisted suicide to medical marijuana. Stevens announced he was done with the blog by denouncing the Internet fatigue all of us news hounds probably suffer from. “I’m tired of my bottomless RSS feed,” he wrote. “I’m tired of watching Twitter and Facebook scroll by. I’m tired of combing the Internet for something to write about two, three times a day, every day, whether I feel like writing or not. I’m tired of the ravenous, insatiable trolls, the toxicity that the isolated, anonymity the Internet abets, and all of the stupid little rules we had to make to contain it. But most of all, I need to move on. I need the time and attention back.” In Singer’s farewell post the following day he announced he’s leaving for Portland, Ore., where he’ll serve as the director of the Bus Federation, a consortium of groups including Forward Montana, working to encourage greater political engagement. “My guess is that this site will effectively turn into a ghost town,” Singer wrote. That’s too bad. What we appreciated most about Left in the West, besides the good writing, was that Stevens and Singer weren’t anonymous. Too often political bloggers write under pseudonyms, and the secrecy leaves readers not only guessing about the blogger’s identity, but about their credibility. So, regardless of Left in the West’s political leanings, we’re sad to see the site go. Above all, it contributed insights that often complemented or even spurred actual reporting, not just the rumor and innuendo that only serve to undermine it.
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Force of one Stevensville’s strapped police force taxes county by Jessica Mayrer
Police Chief James Marble sits in his cluttered office in Stevensville’s Town Hall surrounded by vacant desks, empty plastic soda cups and a picture of his wife and three kids. The 36-year-old is clearly frustrated talking about watching his police force, once comprised of four officers and a records clerk, dwindle to one on-duty officer—himself. “I make myself available as much as possible,” Marble says. “But I can only do so much.”
when he’s supposedly off-duty. In the evening, when his wife goes to work, Marble keeps his cell phone on him, but is primarily responsible for caring for his three young children. “It’s difficult, because I can’t abandon my children to go out to a call,” he explains. As Marble strives to juggle personal and professional responsibilities, he acknowledges calls for assistance fall through the cracks.
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Stevensville Police Chief James Marble is frustrated serving as the town’s only full-time law enforcement officer. “I didn’t sign up to say, ‘Oh well, I can’t help you,’” Marble says. “That’s not in my nature. I want to be out there dealing with everything. Conversely, my children didn’t sign up either to not ever see their father.”
Since the department’s only other full-time patrolman went on administrative leave for undisclosed reasons two and a half months ago, Marble has been charged with conducting every aspect of policing in this town of just more than 2,000 people. He answers the phones, serves as the sole traffic officer and, as the town’s only detective, is charged with solving an array of crimes, including burglary, forgery and assault. In other words, if anything goes wrong Marble is the guy—the only guy—to call. “I don’t agree with this scenario,” Marble says. “If we had a full staff, ideally, for the population we serve, at the very bare minimum, I think we should have four full-time officers.” But he doesn’t. And due to budget constraints, Marble won’t have the means to grow the force significantly any time soon. The situation leaves Marble in an impossible predicament, especially
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In mid-October, teenagers converged on Stevensville’s St. Mary’s Historic Mission for a party. The group gathered inside teepees representing a 19th century Salish encampment. Mission Director Colleen Meyer didn’t feel comfortable confronting the inebriated group, and neither did her staff of primarily elderly female volunteers. She called the Stevensville Police Department for help. “Nobody showed up,” Meyer says. “It’s very, very frustrating…It’s just very unfortunate that we don’t have more police protection.” Situations like the one at St. Mary’s Mission are on the rise. In fact, Stevensville’s crime rate jumped by 76 percent between 2007 and 2009, according to the Montana Board of Crime Control. “The way to combat that is by having a presence,” Marble says. Before taking over as Stevensville’s mayor in January, Lewis Barnett served
as the town’s police chief for 21 years. That gives him a firsthand perspective on the town’s law enforcement challenges. Barnett says the department’s staffing problems trace back to 2004, when the Town Council trimmed the law enforcement staff from four officers to three. Financial challenges became even more severe last summer, Barnett says, prompting the council to trim even further. “We started cutting budgets,” he says. “We cut and we cut and we cut, to the bare minimum. We had to lay off the police clerk. We didn’t replace the kid who went to another department. Then, our veteran, we had to put him on administrative leave. So we’re back down to one.” The mayor is uncertain when Stevensville’s second officer will be able to resume departmental responsibilities. The town has funding to hire a part-time officer, he says, but any new hire must go through 14 weeks of training in order to be allowed to serve without supervision. “So, it’s still going to be 14 weeks with one cop,” Barnett says. “Unfortunately, in the last few months we haven’t found anybody who qualifies. And the insurance company says you can’t put anybody out there who’s not trained.” When local law enforcement isn’t available, the Ravalli County Sheriff ’s Department is charged with policing the community. Ravalli County Sheriff Chris Hoffman estimates his deputies have answered roughly 70 percent of all calls coming out of Stevensville in recent weeks. The added burden taxes a county law enforcement agency that’s already tasked with policing 2,400 square miles. The situation doesn’t sit well with Hoffman. “The bottom line is the city of Stevensville has balanced their budget on the backs of the Sheriff ’s Office,” he says. “I have concerns about public safety in the city of Stevensville.” Barring something unforeseen, Marble and the community he serves will be left, for the immediate future at least, making due. Despite the strains on his personal and professional life, the chief says he’s committed to toughing it out. “My plan is to stay here and deal with the issues,” he says. “I just don’t know where the silver lining is in the cloud, I really don’t.” jmayrer@missoulanews.com
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Rick’s redux Former congressman returns to Montana politics At an age when many people are looking forward to leaving the hustle and bustle of a working life behind in favor of retirement, Montana’s former Congressman Rick Hill is doing just the opposite. Confirming the rumors that have been swirling for some time, Hill, who will turn 64 in December, used the Republican romp of the recent election to announce this week that he is definitely running for governor in 2012. It doesn’t take a great memory to recall Hill’s political activities here in Montana. He was leading the Republican Party when it took control of the Montana legislature in the early ’90s. Back then, with Republican Marc Racicot in the governor’s office and two-thirds Republican majorities in the Montana House and Senate, Hill and his wife Betty were almost fixtures in the Capitol. Betty worked the legislative sessions and Hill was part and parcel of what was then called the “Republican Revolution” spearheaded nationally by Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America.” Hill then went on to head the Workers’ Compensation Board, touting his business experience as an insurance executive. His career culminated in 1996 when he was elected to the U.S. House. In 2000, Hill announced he would not seek another term due to serious medical problems with his eyes that literally made it nearly impossible for him to perform the duties of that office. But now, thanks to an experimental eye medication, Hill says he can see well enough to drive his car, ride a motorcycle and, he hopes, fill the governor’s seat. In fact, he says he’s running for governor because he “has a vision for Montana and its future.” But for those who remember the various outcomes of the 16 years when Republicans dominated Montana’s political arena, his vision seems more like a throwback to the politics and policies of the past than new ways to deal with the many problems facing the state. During his campaign announcement, Hill ticked off a list of his priorities should he win the gubernatorial bid. First, and no surprise, is “taking down the barriers to good-paying jobs.” While that sounds reasonable in Republicanspeak, what it means in reality is exactly what we experienced during the Racicot years. What Hill calls “barriers” are actually Montana’s environmental protection laws and constitutional guarantee of a “clean and healthful environment.” Fifteen years ago the Republicandominated legislature took down the “barriers” by gutting Montana’s water quality and mine reclamation laws.
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Previously the state had operated under the principle of non-degradation for water pollution, but the Republicans rammed through bills with their huge majorities that allowed such practices as “mixing zones.” What that means is businesses can pollute surface and ground water with industrial contaminants, only the measurement of the pollution isn’t taken at the discharge point, but at some point downstream after they’ve been diluted by “mixing” with cleaner water.
Rick Hill’s “vision seems more like a throwback to the politics and policies of the past than new ways to deal with the many problems facing the state.
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The result is that more pollutants are allowed into Montana’s streams and groundwater than before, which is already causing more problems for current and future generations. The perpetual water pollution at the confluence of the Jefferson and Boulder Rivers from the Golden Sunlight Mine’s operations is a classic example. But since companies can get away with spending less money cleaning up their discharges, a “barrier” to good paying jobs has tumbled and the subsequent problems can now be foisted off on generations yet to come. Or how about the famous debacle of utility deregulation? Prior to the Republican take-over of the Legislature and governor’s office, Montana had a fully regulated utility structure that was vertically integrated. What that means is that Montana’s primary utility, the Montana Power Company (MPC), owned the dams, coal-fired power plants, gas wells, transmission lines and pipelines. The utility’s customers financed those assets and their maintenance while the
company was guaranteed a decent rate of return on its operation and Montanans enjoyed the sixth lowest electrical rates in the nation. In the late ’90s, however, Governor Racicot embraced the “vision” of Texas Gov. George W. Bush to deregulate the utilities. The result was a disaster that continues to this day. MPC sold off its generation assets to Pennsylvania Power and Light and suddenly, Montanans were no longer in charge of their own future. Endlessly repeating the Republican mantra that competition will bring lower rates, the utility was dismembered, transformed into a telecommunication firm, and went defunct. Its stock plummeted, leaving Montanans who had invested in “their” company holding worthless paper and crashed pensions but providing millions in golden parachutes to company executives. Thanks to this great plan, Montanans now pay the highest electrical rates in the northwest region. Some vision, some outcome. Hill’s other priorities, like removing the “barriers,” are equally amorphous. Take his pledge for “schools that work.” How a governor can actually affect education, other than through funding, isn’t clear. In fact, our constitution keeps universities independent from the other branches of government specifically to remove the threat of political manipulation from our education system. Or how about his pledge to create “a government we can afford”? Given that Montana’s per capita income continues to hover near the bottom of the national barrel, will we soon have a government that’s likewise scraping the bottom? If so, who gets the ax, what agencies get gutted, and how does that affect our citizens? Unanswered questions abound, but campaign promises come easy. And finally, Hill says he’ll “protect Montana from an overreaching federal government.” But while he’s fighting “overreaching” will he keep his hands out of federal highway or military funds? Highly unlikely. It’s more likely that laws such as the Endangered Species Act will be targeted, once again stealing from the future to enrich the new robber barons of today. With two years to go before the election, Hill has plenty of time to explain his “vision.” Montanans would be very prudent to demand that he do so—or risk being carried backwards into our future. 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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Retail therapy A small town welcomes its newest neighbor by Eric Mack
It was the first corporate grand opening this valley had ever seen. On Nov. 4, a Family Dollar store opened here in the isolated mountain town of Penasco, N.M., between Taos and Santa Fe. Since the recession hit, the retail chain has expanded rapidly across the West, targeting small, low-income communities with few downtown amenities. From census data to the “closed” signs on local businesses, our town fits the bill. Still, there are mixed feelings about the new store. Most locals who’ve been around for at least a few years—give or take a generation or two—admit they’ll pick up a few things there, but they worry about what it will mean for the few remaining local businesses that have hung on. Two years ago, on the same lot where Family Dollar’s neon sign now hangs, the rear wall of our town grocery store fell down, and up until last year, there were no plans to fix it. It seemed destined to join the many collapsed adobes nearby—the forces of time, gravity and nature all pulling them back to the earth. About the same time the grocery store went dark, the Conoco station closed and then the longtime managers of a local restaurant packed it in; they said they were too tired and the cost of the lease had become too high. Across the road from that restaurant, the threestory shell of a new home stood abandoned, with large pieces of plywood flapping in the wind. Some out-of-stater’s brand-new construction was feeling the downward pull of decay as much as the old adobes. The thing is, this valley was already in recession, and has been for some 50 years since agriculture became a less reliable way to make a living. But while the past few years have been rough, it takes a lot to kill a community—especially one
that’s been around since before the Declaration of Independence. The Catholic church sent off a handful of Spanish families to settle these mountains in the middle of the 1700s, not really expecting them to succeed. But just like the Pueblo people who had already been making homes here in this region for centuries, the Spanish newcomers
Its steel “ structure went up quickly, unlike the months of community labor it took to build the aged adobe theater next door.
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adapted and survived. More changes have come to this valley since then, including the advent of fences, changes in governments, nationalities and languages, the wholesale theft of land and natural resources, the arrival of cars, roads and the Forest Service, and a series of small invasions by hippies, tourists and Texans, in that order. Each change seemed to threaten this community’s survival as the population
ebbed and flowed. Invariably, though, the forces that sought to change this place ended up adapting to it; otherwise, they left. These days we sport a hybrid combination of languages that seems to fascinate linguists. Now, change has come again, almost two years after a globalizing economy caused us to lose our grocery store, the Conoco gas station, an ice cream parlor and a New Mexican restaurant. New management re-opened the restaurant at the end of town, where the red chile is getting better, stimulus funds put people to work on a new Forest Service ranger station, someone finished that three-story eyesore of a home, and then there is the Family Dollar, where everything seems affordable. Its steel structure went up quickly, unlike the months of community labor it took to build the aged adobe theater next door. The store’s fresh cement parking lot includes the only proper handicapped parking spots and ramps for miles around. It’s the latest chapter in a long history. The economic forces that most recently threatened to destroy us have come home to roost, and we learn that— of course!—all we really wanted was to go shopping. Most of us will jump at the Family Dollar’s bargains while trying to continue to support our local businesses. But I also believe we will approach our new neighbor with a certain amount of skepticism—as has been the custom for most newcomers here for centuries. We just never know how long anyone or anything will last. Eric Mack is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is a journalist and media strategist living in the Penasco Valley of New Mexico.
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I’d say it’s high time you got to know your transgender and gender diverse neighbors. This week, you have the opportunity to do just that during Missoula’s Transgender Day of Recognition, an all-day celebration of our city’s transgender population that aims to promote a positive understanding of a community that is often maligned and misunderstood by society at large. The day kicks off at 8 AM in the University Center with info tables for your perusal, along with select pieces of art from Trans-Lives: An Artistic Take on Gender Expression, an exhibit featured earlier this month during First Friday. Then, at noon, slip into the University Center Theater for a screening of Kimberly Reed’s critically acclaimed film, Prodigal Sons, which follows Reed (a transgender
woman) as she visits her hometown in Montana and faces old sibling rivalries and other familial challenges. A Missoula Gender Alliance meet and greet follows at 2 PM, along with a panel discussion at 4:30 PM that includes comments from David Herrera, creator of the Montana Two Spirit Society. You’ll finish off the day with a candlelight vigil at 8 PM at UM’s Oval that commemorates members of the transgender community who unnecessarily lost their lives in 2009. —Ira Sather-Olson
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Kanwischer at 5 PM, followed by discussion, at Liasons Coffee House, 111 N. Second St. in Hamilton. Free. Email Zack at bitterroot.humanities@gmail.com and visit bitterrootpolitics.com.
Destination Missoula, the official convention and visitors bureau for Missoula, hosts its monthly board meeting from 3–5 PM at the conference room of MonTEC, 1121 E. Broadway St. Free. Call 532-3250. Keep your wallet happy when the Sustainable Business Council presents its Sustainability Shot Series lecture on “10 Ways to Reduce Your Energy Costs,” a talk geared toward businesses that features a presentation from Russ Hellem of Energetechs, with refreshments at 5:30 PM, followed by the talk at 6, at The Loft of Missoula, 119 W. Main St. Free. Call 824-7336.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12 A Carousel for Missoula seeks volunteer operators to run the Carousel for one or two hour shifts on Thanksgiving and Christmas between 2–11 PM, and on New Year’s Eve as part of First Night Missoula. Call 5498382 to sign up for a volunteer operator training. The organization also seeks new board and committee members. Visit carrousel.com for an application.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 13 If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM in Room 3 in the basement of First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free. Visit oa.org.
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 14 Missoula is a bona fide bike town. If you don’t have one already, you’ll be able to build your own recycled recumbent or four-wheel bike after you volunteer for two hours at Missoula Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., on Sundays at a TBA time. Call 800-8090112 to RSVP. Gorge on pizza for a good cause during “Clark Fork School’s All-You-Can-Eat Pizza Night,” which runs from 5–8 PM at Biga Pizza, 241 W. Main St. $10/$5 children ages 3–10/free for children under age 3. Proceeds benefit the school. Call 728-3395.
MONDAY NOVEMBER 15 Veterans can find support with trained facilitator Chris Poloynis every Mon. at 2 PM, when PTSD group Spartans Honour meets at the Missoula Veterans Affairs Clinic, 2687 Palmer St. Free. Call 829-5400. Bring an open mind during “Education Reform: Community Colleges to Four Day School Weeks?” a discussion that aims to spark civil discourse that begins with a presentation from UM graduate Derek
Missoula’s Transgender Day of Recognition is Wednesday, Nov. 17, with events starting at 8 AM and running all day. Visit montanatdor.org and call 848-1220. Free.
Join others who promote community-based solutions to the climate crisis, and take direct action to confront the root causes of climate change in the Northern Rockies, when Northern Rockies Rising Tide meets from 7–9 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Visit northernrockiesrisingtide.wordpress.com.
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 16 You can fight for peace in many different ways, but how about knitting for it? Find out when the group Knitting for Peace meets every Tue. from 1–3 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-3955. Missoula’s YWCA, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts weekly support groups for women every Tue. at 6:30 PM, where groups for Native women and children meet as well. New group members with children are asked to arrive at 6:15, without kids at 6:25. Free. Call 543-6691.
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 17 Help out local food banks while also helping your local public radio station when Montana Public Radio (MTPR) and the Missoula Federal Credit Union host the “Go Campaign,” an on-air fundraiser event for MTPR that occurs all day today and each day through Nov. 19. All funds raised will generate a 5 percent matching donation to the Montana Food Bank Network. Call 800325-1565 or visit mtpr.org to donate. Enjoy a local brew and support a local organization during the Kettlehouse Northside Tap Room’s Community U-NITE Pint Nights, which occur this and every Wed. from 5–8 PM at the tap room, 313 N. First St. W. Free to attend. A portion of the proceeds from each pint sold goes to a different nonprofit organization each week. Visit kettlehouse.com. The Missoula Business and Professional Women meet for a no-host dinner at 5:30 PM, followed by a “Montana Women Vote Update” program at 6:30 PM, all at the Triple Dragon Restaurant, 700 W. Broadway St. Free. Call Caryl at 542-1307. Keep it as green as can be during “Sustainable Energy,” a talk that’s part of the lecture series “Will Work for Sustainability—Creating Jobs through Sustainable Development,” which runs from 7–9 PM in Room 122 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free. Call 243-5153.
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I N OTHER N EWS Curious but true news items from around the world
CURSES, FOILED AGAIN After Dustin Matthew Marshall, 20, tried on a pair of jeans at a Wal-Mart store in Gallatin, Tenn., and walked out without paying, police identified him because he left his old jeans behind, along with his wallet. Police spotted a thief leaving a Wal-Mart store in Alliance, Ohio, and gave chase but lost him. Less than an hour later, dispatchers received a call from a man reporting that a friend called to say he’d been hiding in a dumpster behind a Wal-Mart when a trash truck emptied the dumpster and began compacting him. “He had been compacted several times,” an officer said after police located and rescued suspect James Michael Brienzo, 37. “He was just begging us to empty the truck.” Be Seeing You A British venture is enlisting citizens with laptop computers to monitor closed-circuit surveillance cameras in businesses. Monitors who spot suspicious behavior notify businesses and send a photo image of the potential crime. Monitors who catch offenders in the act can win up to 1,000 pounds ($1,600) in cash from Internet Eyes, which distributes the streaming footage. The monitors pay a fee to subscribe, must be over 18 and aren’t able to choose which footage they see or view premises in their local area. SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES Sanford Rothman, 63, told police in Boulder, Colo., he woke up to a “bang” and found he’d been shot in the left knee. Noting that Rothman keeps a 9mm handgun near his bed, Sgt. Paul Reichenbach said investigators concluded the wound was accidental and probably occurred while Rothman was sleepwalking. When Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies responded to a liquor store robbery, the store manager met them and began pointing behind the deputies to indicate the direction the robbers fled. One of the deputies, a trainee, mistook the manager’s index finger for a gun aimed at them and fired eight rounds at the manager. All the shots missed. EIGHTH-AMENDMENT FOLLIES Jail officials in Bradley County, Tenn., admitted issuing new inmates used underwear. Sheriff’s Department official Bob Gault said the jail’s policy is to issue everything incoming prisoners wear, take it back when they’re released and re-use it. Gault insisted the used underwear is thoroughly washed. REVENUE REFLECTIONS Owen Sound, Ontario, will receive $12,000 from an agency that is replacing eight mirrors with television screens in some restrooms at a city community center. The screens display digital ads but use motion detectors to change to mirrors when a person approaches them. “It sounds really weird,” Mayor Ruth Lovell Stanners said after the city council signed the five-year contract with KB Media Inc. SITTING PRETTY German scientist Risto Koiva invented the “Intelli Chair,” which warns sitters who’re sitting wrong or have sat for too long. “Four touch-sensitive sensors in the seat of the chair and another four in the back of the chair detect how the user is sitting,” Koiva explained. “The data they collect is sent to a computer via a Bluetooth module.” The chair then alerts the sitter to change position. REASONABLE EXPLANATION After working as a taxi driver for 17 years, British ex-con John Searl, 74, returned to crime to combat rumors that he was a convicted pedophile. Defending attorney Karen Moxonsmith told Sheffield Magistrates Court that her client deliberately smashed two windows at a residence in Hillsborough so he would be charged and his criminal record read in open court to verify that he had no conviction for sex offenses. “He was so upset by the allegations,” Moxonsmith told district judge Tony Brown, “he thought this was the best way to clear his name.” BAD DAY GOT WORSE, THEN BETTER A 58-year-old woman in Richmond, Calif., rear-ended a car in front of her at a red light while she was fiddling with her cell phone. The driver turned out to be Richmond Police Chief Chris Magnus. “I saw her creeping up on me,” he said. “She had her head down, looking at the phone.” Magnus added that he had previously encountered the same woman when he was behind her while she was so focused on her cell phone that he had to honk his horn to get her to move. After their fender bender, the woman explained she had been distracted because she was looking down to find her Bluetooth hands-free device. Magnus didn’t cite the woman because he was involved in the incident, and the officers who responded to the accident didn’t see it, so the woman drove off without a ticket. BAD DAY GOT BETTER, THEN WORSE Alerted by neighbors, police found Ruth Johnson, 89, on the floor of her home in Anne Arundel County, Md., and declared her dead. Because she was donating her body to science, the officers notified the state board that accepts such donations. A board representative who came to the house found Johnson alive. The woman was taken to the hospital, then transferred to a hospice, where she died for real. SERENITY NOW Hoping to calm people who receive parking tickets, city officials in Cambridge, Mass., began including yoga poses on the back of tickets. Susan Clippinger, who heads the city’s transportation department, explained the 40,000 tickets were part of a public art project intended “to debunk the idea that all parking tickets are a hostile action.” WAY TO GO Police investigating the shooting death of Jos Lawrence Potvin, 75, at his home in Levis, Quebec, said Potvin accidentally triggered a booby trap he had set up. The device consisted of a string running across the floor of his bedroom that was tied to a loaded rifle. David Shig.eru Yamamoto Hepner, 19, died when he leaned out of a window of a moving truck to greet friends and hit a utility pole. Police in Anne Arundel County, Md., insisted that speed and alcohol weren’t factors. A WEDDING NIGHT TO REMEMBER Friends of the groom at a wedding reception in Niles, Ill., celebrated by throwing him up in the air as part of what his sister-in-law described as a “traditional dance.” They failed to catch him, however, and the 29-year-old man landed flat on his back and had to be taken to the hospital with neck and back injuries.
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h, how fickle we voters are. Two years after giving Democrats near-complete control over the legislative and executive branches of the U.S. government in the name of “change,” we turn around and, in the House of Representatives, swing power back to the Republicans who incited voters’ call for change in the first place. It’s enough to make any political observer wonder if the seemingly schizophrenic American electorate needs a collective head exam. In any event, after netting 60 seats in the House and six in the Senate last Tuesday, on top of winning an untold number of local and state races around the country, Republicans are partying like it’s, well, 1994, when the party took 54 House seats. And as in 1994, this historic clobbering will have huge implications, from the Bitteroot to the Beltway. In Montana, the most critical of those consequences will play out in Helena beginning in January, when the state Legislature convenes with Republicans controlling both the Senate
and House chambers. Republicans gained 18 seats in the House—the biggest swing since 1964—and one seat in the Senate, nearly overriding Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s veto power. In this, the Indy’s election postmortem, we try to make sense of what happened, and what’s likely to happen as a result—while bracing ourselves for whatever we volatile voters might do next.
DOWN-BALLOT REBELLION
Ravalli County’s bulletproof Republican ticket by Alex Sakariassen R avalli County Commissioner Carlotta Grandstaff spent last Thursday evening lamenting the results of the Nov. 2 election over beers with a number of others from the courthouse in Hamilton. Grandstaff, an Independent, lost her seat to Republican Suzy Foss, but she spent little time licking her own wounds. The real topic of concern was the upset in the county treasurer race that saw incumbent
JoAnne Johnson trumped by her Republican opponent, Mary HudsonSmith, whose campaign amounted to a couple of newspaper ads. For Grandstaff, that upset shows Bitterroot voters were looking not for candidates’ qualifications but for the “R” next to their names. All 14 candidates on the Republican ticket there won by wide margins. “There’s a little bit of thinking that this is what the voters wanted, that they had no idea what they were voting for and now they’re going to get it,” Grandstaff says. “It wasn’t very smart to not look into what that job entails, who does it, what is the challenger’s experience, what’s her level of ability. Those questions were never asked.” But there’s a twist. Ravalli County employees have always known the Republican victor—who has worked in the treasurer’s office for 15 years—to be an outspoken Democrat. In a July letter to the editor in the Ravalli Republic, Deputy Treasurer Tami Kay Morgan wrote that Hudson-Smith was “running
on the Republican side of the ticket for one reason—to run unopposed against our current county treasurer JoAnne Johnson.” Even Johnson, who trained Hudson-Smith personally, says she’s never known her political rival to lean any direction but left. Hudson-Smith shrugs off the alleged duplicity. “I haven’t considered myself anything actually, but when it came to having to run, you can’t very well run nonpartisan,” Hudson-Smith says. “You have to choose something.” Hudson-Smith’s unsuspected triumph seems a direct result of the county GOP’s highly successful election cycle message: “Vote Republican.” According to the Ravalli County Elections Office, roughly 61 percent of the valley’s registered voters turned out to cast their ballots, and few candidates on the left managed to secure more than 40 percent of the vote. “It’s Nancy Pelosi,” Grandstaff says, chalking up the election results to national frustrations. “I’m not being a smart-ass. There weren’t any real issues
APPRAISING THE WATERFRONT AFTER THE REPUBLICAN SURGE.
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that people were rallying around. There were a few people making noises about zoning, but we abandoned that in 2008 and never worked towards it again. That was just not an issue. This was a nationwide Republican blitz, and we got caught up in it.” However, Terry Nelson, chairman of the Ravalli County Republican Central Committee, credits the tidal wave of conservative victories not just to antiDemocrat sentiment stirred up by current national leaders but to rising local concerns over property rights. With the recent expiration of a moratorium on the county’s contentious growth policy, the incoming commissioners will likely see the issue return to the fore. There’s no question land-use planning issues will continue to dominate the political dialogue in Ravalli County. But with no seated Democrats on the commission, property issues will almost certainly be addressed with the conservative intent of lightening government regulations. “Anything land-use planning in Ravalli County is going to be big, and it’s going to continue to be big,” says Republican Matt Kanenwisher, who defeated incumbent Democrat Kathleen Driscoll with more than 60 percent of the vote. The unchecked Republican presence on the new commission is a major concern of Grandstaff ’s for exactly that reason. In November 2006, voters passed a $10,000 open lands program designed to secure conservation easements on private property in the Bitterroot. The bond has funded five conservation easements in the past two years, yet all three incoming commissioners have publicly voiced opposition to the program. “Why people would vote for people opposed to this program that was passed by voters in 2006 and has been wildly successful…is beyond me,” Grandstaff says. “We had people in the office [Monday] who were scrambling to get their conservation easement completed before Dec. 31. This is like their mother’s ranch, and they’re really worried. They’ve done all this work, they’ve put all this effort into it and they’re afraid now that it’s just going to get denied. They’re not the only ones.” Yet for Grandstaff and others, the real apprehension comes back to Hudson-Smith and her new duties as county treasurer—which include oversight of both the tax office, where she currently works, and the motor vehicle office. The treasurer’s estimated annual budget is around $350 million. Grandstaff voices serious reservations about Hudson-Smith’s qualifications, and Johnson points out that prior to filing for candidacy, Hudson-Smith had been the subject of disciplinary action within the treasurer’s office for rude and borderline insubordinate behavior. Hudson-Smith acknowledges the disciplinary action, but says the matter was a misunderstanding stemming from tax season in November 2009. And she insists she’s experienced enough to take on the treasurer’s responsibilities.
“I pretty much know the background, and I just thought I needed a challenge and I thought I had something to offer,” Hudson-Smith says. The shock of Hudson-Smith’s victory stems in part from her extremely lowprofile campaign. She says she ran only two ads in local newspapers, distributed no signs and offered no speeches. The Ravalli County GOP chairman, Nelson, says he personally invited Hudson-Smith to two separate candidate forums during campaign season. She never showed. Hudson-Smith says her lack of campaign activity was due to a long list of financial and family difficulties that arose over the course of the year. “I was pretty quiet about the whole thing,” Hudson-Smith says. “I just didn’t
Blue Ribbon tall boy at the Central Bar & Grill in Missoula on election night. As the evening wore on and polling places closed, the 25-year-old breathed a bit easier as he saw his lead over Republican challenger Don Harbaugh grow. When eventually it became clear that he won the race by more than 100 votes, he was exuberant. “There were some nervous hours,” he says. “But we were very excited to come out on top at the end of the night.” However, that excitement was tempered as, one by one, Bennett watched many of his fellow Democratic candidates lose to their Republican counterparts. “We really thought that we had a lot of great opportunities and some incredible candidates that we thought could do
ers of equality under the law. They don’t believe that our education system needs more funding. These are the same folks that tried to cut children’s health care in 2009. It’s pretty obvious that they have an extreme agenda. And it’s going to be difficult to move forward some progressive ideas, but that doesn’t mean we’re not going to try.” House District 94’s rookie legislator, Democrat Ellie Hill, knew before Election Day that she was on her way to Helena, having beat out her only challenger, Lou Ann Crowley, in Montana’s primary election months earlier. That didn’t dim her excitement as she made plans—and began drawing lines in the sand—with her liberal compadres while celebrating at the Central.
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GOP candidates swept the Nov. 2 election in Ravalli County, ousting Democratic incumbents and securing wide margins of victory in all 14 partisan races. Now the Bitterroot boasts an all-Republican county commission, a Republican county attorney and a Republican treasurer who some believe may actually be a Democrat.
have the funds to do the campaigning I wanted to. This has been a bad year money-wise for me and my family.” Nelson doesn’t share in the concerns over Hudson-Smith’s qualifications or her previous disciplinary issues. Instead, he points to her victory over a Democratic incumbent as another example of how unbeatable Ravalli County’s Republican ticket truly was. “I’m certainly not going to say the public wasn’t educated when they went out and voted,” Nelson says. “I think they were educated to know which party stood for what values, and voted for the Republican Party.”
REALITY CHECK
Celebration short-lived for two rookie progressives by Jessica Mayrer Democratic candidate for House District 92 Bryce Bennett sipped a Pabst
pretty well this year,” Bennett says. “Some of the election results were pretty shocking. Butte and some of these reservation seats, some of the more progressive areas, Helena as well—it was pretty startling to see Republican victories in some of the most progressive or, at least, Democratic areas.” Bennett is acutely aware that each Democratic loss will constitute an additional degree of difficulty for progressives heading into Montana’s 2011 Legislative Session. Democratic priorities, like boosting school funding, making sure that money continues flowing from state coffers into children’s health care and implementing statewide protections for homosexuals will be incredibly challenging, if not impossible, to achieve in light of last Tuesday’s election. “It’s going to be very difficult,” Bennett says. “The people who were elected to the majority were very clear about their beliefs. They’re not support-
“We’re going to have to fight like hell to save children’s health insurance and make sure that they don’t make cuts to our education funding,” Hill says. “I am a passionate believer in mental health services, and I know that those are on the chopping block…Defense will have to be the best offense that we have.” It’s clear that accomplishing anything on the progressive agenda this legislative session will be a daunting task. But Hill says her arrival in Helena this January alongside Bennett, the state’s first openly gay legislator, in and of itself constitutes a significant achievement. “We’re fundamental believers that the Legislature our founding mothers and fathers envisioned looked like the people of the state of Montana,” Hill says. “The people of the state of Montana aren’t all old white men. So, we’re thrilled to represent what we see as the true faces of the people.” That said, the Montana Legislature is distinctly homogenous this session.
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Newly elected Democratic legislator Bryce Bennett is thrilled to be going to Helena despite that fact that his party will be drastically outnumbered during the coming Legislative session. “It’s going to be an uphill battle for those of us who have progressive values,” he says. “But I’m not ready to concede just yet. None of us got into this because we thought it was going to be easy.”
Republicans will fill 68 of 100 seats in the House. That reality means this session will require finding allies and identifying commonalities in order to preserve progressive priorities. “Just like all of us Democrats don’t look the same, neither do the Republicans,” Hill says. “We do already know that we have a lot of friends and a lot of common ground. Ultimately, I hope that we have more common ground than not.” And, of course, as Democrats are keenly aware, there’s always another election coming down the pike. “The pendulum will swing again,” Hill says.
LEGISLATIVE PREVIEW
Republicans eye cuts in education and social services by Matthew Frank Next year, Republicans will enjoy one of the largest majorities in the history of the Montana House of Representatives. And they will own a six-seat majority in the Senate. The numbers suggest they won’t have many difficulties advancing their agenda. “What this will mean is that there won’t be gridlock in the House,” said Sen. Jim Shockley, R-Victor.
And what happens when Republican-controlled chambers are free of gridlock? “My guess is there’s going to be significant cuts in health and human services,” predicted Sen. Dave Wanzenreid, D-Missoula. In the wake of an Election Day that saw Republicans gain a total of 19 seats, veteran legislators Shockley and Wanzenreid led Monday’s City Club Missoula forum that previewed the 2011 Montana Legislature. “This will put us, the Republican Party, pretty well in position to the control the Legislature,” Shockley said. “However, we don’t have a veto. The governor does. He can veto a whole bill or he can veto a line in an appropriations bill. But the important part there is that he doesn’t have a line-item insert—he can take money out, but he can’t put money in. And this time there’s going to be no money.” Shockley and Wanzenreid agree that money will be legislators’ primary focus come January when they convene in Helena. The state faces a projected $400 million budget shortfall by mid-2013. For Shockley, that means the state needs to make significant spending cuts. “I’m for doing away with whole programs,” he said, “and, when we have money left, funding good programs to a greater extent.” Specifically, Shockley expects cuts within education and the Montana Department of Health and Human Services, but he declined to name specific items. Wanzenreid warns of the consequences of making cuts, especially if it’s a certain percentage across the board that leaves all department heads squeezed and puts savings on the backs of Montanans who receive crucial social services. He called it “the easy way out.” Instead, Wanzenreid asks for the spending cut discussion to be balanced by one about ways to generate more revenue. “Don’t let us adjourn without a robust debate on revenue this time, folks,” he told the audience at the Holiday Inn Downtown at the Park. “The expenditures side of the equation we argue about all the time. But I would submit to you that we probably wouldn’t have this revenue shortfall had a lot of other people looked at the revenue estimate and had a debate about it.” But Wanzenreid, understandably, isn’t too optimistic that such a discussion will take place. “Right now, from what I understand, there aren’t a lot of people elected on Tuesday in the majority party who feel that we have a revenue problem,” he said. “They feel that we have an expenditure problem. So we’ll have to see.” Shockley responded: “If we cut expenditures, then we don’t have to raise revenue.”
BIG PICTURE
Pat Williams gives his perspective on a schizophrenic electorate by Matthew Frank During his 18-year tenure representing Montana in the U.S. House of Representatives, Pat Williams learned a thing or two about the American electorate. But now, Williams tells the Indy in an interview, voters have him downright flummoxed. Independent: To what do you attribute the “shellacking” Republicans gave Democrats on Election Day? Photo by Chad Harder
In the wake of an election that saw Republicans take control of both the Montana House and Senate, veteran Sens. Jim Shockley, R-Victor, and Dave Wanzenreid, D-Missoula, led Monday’s City Club Missoula discussion previewing the 2011 Montana Legislature. “I’m for doing away with whole programs,” Shockley said, “and, when we have money left, funding good programs to a greater extent.”
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Williams: First, near record low turnout, which always has favored Republicans for the past three quarters of a century. Second, disillusionment and discouragement of the voter has created an historic
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Pat Williams, who for 18 years represented Montana in the U.S. House of Representatives, says the election results will do nothing to solve the bitter partisanship in Washington. “Unfortunately, I think the election results now assure at least as much gridlock as we found when the Republicans were in the minority,” he says.
vacillation. Voters are jumping from landslides for Democrats to landslides for Republicans, and doing it just about every two years, which is a historic phenomenon, and yet to be appropriately analyzed by political historians. It is, needless to say, a very interesting and not well-understood time in this country. Independent : So is it a reaction to the economy or what? Williams: Standard political thought leads one to accept that the economy always guides election results. But I have the feeling that the last several elections, including the phenomenon of Obama two years ago, represent a new paradigm in voters’ choices. I admit to not knowing exactly what it is, or what’s causing it, but these wildly vacillating results
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Williams: The way Democrats use their majority is often to overreach by passing legislation. The way Republicans in the majority overreach is by trying to stop everything, or even, as in 1995, by trying to stop everything and shutting down government entirely. And Americans seem to oppose both of those kinds of responses.
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Williams: Just look at Montana. Montanans want a balanced budget, and under Democrats and Republicans, they get it. They want surpluses, they get them. They want lower taxes, and in Montana, they’ve got ’em. They want their services maintained and under Schweitzer and the Democrats they got it. And what was
“The American electorate is not the only group that’s confused. So are the people they elect.” — Pat Williams are not in keeping with any historic trends over the past 75 years…It’s almost as if there is a frenetic political seeking going on. Independent : The GOP spent the last two years trying to obstruct anything and everything the Obama administration tried to accomplish. Do the election results portend more gridlock or common ground? Williams: Unfortunately, I think the election results now assure at least as much gridlock as we found when the Republicans were in the minority. I’m uncertain if Americans want gridlock or compromise, and I frankly think Americans are uncertain about that, too. Because when they get compromise, as they did with the health care bill, they immediately turn around and vote for gridlock. The American electorate is not the only group that’s confused. So are the people they elect. Independent : There’s already talk that such gridlock could lead to a government shutdown, similar to the one in 1995 when you were in office.
their response? To overwhelmingly vote Republican. So it’s very difficult for politicians who have constitutional obligations to represent the people’s wishes to really understand what those wishes are. Independent : So what’s your prediction for the next two years? Williams: I think the next couple of years, both with the Montana Legislature as well as the U.S. Congress, are going to disappoint the hell out of people, in part because there will be gridlock and in part because we constituents aren’t sure exactly what we want, so what we get is bound to disappoint us. I say this carefully because America is very resilient, but I suspect that America is in an unstable and therefore somewhat dangerous time in its electoral history. There’s far too little participation among people, and their expectations are contrary and varied one from the other. That makes representative government chaotic. editor@missoulanews.com
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James Johnson Piett digs retail, specifically food retail. Focusing on things like “operationalizing how consumers move through a store,” as he puts it, might seem prohibitively geeky for most. But Piett makes it seem cool. I met Piett in Turin, Italy, at the Slow Food convention two weeks ago. Explaining his work to a roomful of food advocates, he said, “You know in that movie, Pulp Fiction, how there’s this character named The Wolf who fixes things? That’s who I am. I’m a fixer for grocery stores. I design, build, attract financing, a full suite of services to help them move from point A to point B.” Piett’s company, Urbane Development, works to bring fresh produce and other healthy foods to small stores in underserved communities like Detroit, Newark and South Philadelphia. He uses the term “bodegas” to describe the kind of integrated stores he aims to create. Bodegas tend to have more meaningful relationships with their customers, he says, and one of his priorities while traveling in Europe this month is to study what makes European bodegas successful, in hopes of importing applicable models to the United States. “In the U.S., bodega owners that have good relationships with their customers will sometimes tape pictures of their customers’ kids to the plexiglass by the cash register. In Europe, this kind of relationship translates into purveyors saving the last of the season’s peaches for their customers who haven’t yet made jam,” Piett says. Grocers who are connected with their clients are more likely to be invested in their health, and poor diet has been linked to diabetes, heart disease and other complications of obesity. In 2008 the American Journal of Epidemiology reported that people with no supermarket near their homes were up to 46 percent less likely to eat a healthy diet than those with more shopping options. Urbane Development contracts with cities, states, municipalities, public health agencies and developers to bring healthy food into neighborhood stores that specialize in the likes of chips, soft drinks and candy. Such stores are often the only options for miles, and have become the focus of public health advocates. But in a business with such low profit margins, convincing small grocers to risk stocking perishable
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“It’s always in totality. If I’m going to change a corner store, I have to deal with the owner, the space, the customers, the suppliers, public health agencies, the occasional real estate developer and local economic development nonprofit, and city, state, or municipal governments.” But it’s the store owners with whom he has the most direct and intimate contact. “This one grocer, he had some apples already so I was like, ‘Dude, I’ma play with the apples.’ I got them set up in bushel baskets, and he didn’t like that. Then we fought about the plantains. He won—he felt like his community prefers things that are packaged, so we went with it. You figure out what makes the most sense for a space, for a community. “My work is like therapy,” he continues. “You tell me what you want to do and I help you get through the clutter of your own thoughts. I want to help grocers to reimagine their space to the point they make the most money. My belief is that a lot of those things will be healthy.” Because of Piett’s brand of retail therapy, corner stores in poor neighborhoods are now becoming the only source of fresh vegetables in areas otherwise known as “food deserts.” He thinks if anyone can bring Photo by Ari LeVaux foliage back to the food deserts it’s the independent grocers. They already have much of His first client store, in Philadelphia, added 1,000 the infrastructure that they need, and they can be square feet to its space, and still managed to lower its more flexible than the chains, which tend to have highpower bills by 40 percent thanks to strategic use of er costs for union labor, security and real estate. soy-based insulation, recycled sheet rock, low-e win- President Obama has caught on to the importance of the “healthy bodegas” movement, as some people call dows and energy-efficient refrigeration and lights. Each project is unique, and so are the different Piett’s line of work. There’s a program initiative in his regions the client stores inhabit. Urban Detroit, Piett budget, yet to be funded, that would increase the says, is not currently home to a single chain super- healthy options available in urban markets. Piett can talk for a long time about such intricamarket. The only grocers willing to take a chance on the ailing city are independent operators, and there cies with nary a pause for breath. When I pointed are hundreds of such neighborhood stores. Many are this out, he acknowledged: “Yeah, I guess I do dig owned by Chaldeans, a group of Iraqi Christians who retail. But mostly I dig the retailers themselves. You have to be risk tolerant. And I like the egalitarianism migrated there en masse in the early 1900s.. “Chaldean store owners and black customers of retail. You don’t have to come from an Ivy League don’t always play well together,” Piett says wryly. education. You don’t have to be big. If I find a really good, honest purveyor, I know that I can get them to “But at the same time they need each other.” Changes to retail space, he says, involve a high good food, and that I can make good food make money for them.” degree of integration and coordination. produce with no guarantee that customers will buy it is often a losing proposition—especially when proven sellers like Twinkies, cigarettes and lottery tickets don’t spoil. Piett’s business offers technical assistance for product sourcing, merchandising and handling, as well as financial support programs like lines of credit and grants that provide grocers with the operating capital they need to dabble in risky, healthy offerings. “It’s easier to finance hard costs, like construction and equipment, rather than perishable inventory or even insurance,” Piett says. “Cash flow is king.”
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Black Cat Bake Shop 2000 West Broadway (next to Noodles Express) • 542-9043 Come try Missoula’s newest coffee house & bakery. Try our signature buttery morning buns, scones, cinnamon rolls, huckleberry coffee cake, & organic artisan breads. We also offer a variety of cakes, French pastries, & full coffee menu. (Banquet room available for morning meetings.) Tues Sat. $-$$ Blue Canyon Kitchen 3720 N. Reserve (adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn) 541-BLUE www.bluecanyonrestaurant.com We offer creatively-prepared American cooking served in the comfortable elegance of their lodge restaurant featuring unique dining rooms. Kick back in the Tavern; relish the cowboy chic and culinary creations in the great room; visit with the chefs and dine in the kitchen or enjoy the fresh air on the Outdoor Patio. Parties and special events can be enjoyed in the Bison Room. Hours: Tavern hours Monday-Saturday 3pm-11pm, Sunday 3pm-10pm . Dining Room hours Monday-Saturday 5pm-10pm, Sunday 4pm-9pm. $$-$$$
The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins Ave. 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to late. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 38 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve by TJ Maxx & Ross • 549-5595 Cold Stone Creamery offers the Ultimate Ice Cream Experience. Ice Cream, Ice Cream Cakes,
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HAPPIESTHOUR Big Sky’s new Powder Hound What’s new: After five years of sticking to the tried-and-true formula, Big Sky Brewery has changed its recipe for Powder Hound. The new brew is lighter and much more bitter, with a blend that includes—if you want to get geeky about it—Hallertau, Palisade and Amarillo hops. Also, it’s much stronger now, with a 7.2 percent alcohol-by-volume (ABV), up from its former 6.2 percent. Why the change: Taproom ale slinger Alix Jennings says the new recipe adds some variety to the otherwise unchanging lineup of beer recipes, which includes Moose Drool, Scapegoat and the IPA. “We thought it would be fun to have something new for the winter,” she says. Who you’re drinking it with: Powder Hound has its biggest fans in the winter outdoor community, just by name alone. The former recipe was a darker amber picked up most often by a drinking base of skiers and snowboarders. Jennings says the lighter recipe might broaden its appeal to the average bar crowd, since light sells better to the mainstream. But
don’t worry, the new recipe hasn’t gone all soft and summery. Despite being light, it still packs a punch. When to get it: Normally growlers are $6, but on Tuesdays you can get $5 growlers at the brewery. Don’t lag, though. On a recent Tuesday night the blue and silver warehouse taproom was mobbed with a herd of growler owners and Jennings went through a keg of Powder Hound in 45 minutes. “We’ve been going through it like crazy,” she says. “The other night it rivaled the IPA, which is usually the taproom favorite.” In addition to the taproom, the new recipe is also available in bottles and cans at local retailers. How to find the taproom: Near the airport, at 5417 Trumpeter Way. —Erika Fredrickson Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, e-mail editor@missoulanews.com.
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natural, organic, and sustainability. Their distinctive and healthy smoothie menu is worth the visit too! Quick and delicious breakfast and lunch is always ready to go; pastries, croissants, bagels, breakfast burritos, wraps, salads, and soups. Open 8 am to 10 pm daily. $-$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks • 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $8.50. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $7.75. Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$. Pearl Café & Bakery 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 Country French specialties, bison, elk, trout, fresh fish daily, delicious salads and appetizers. Breads and desserts baked in house. Three course bistro menu with wine $30, Tues. Wed. Thurs. nights, November through March. Extensive wine list, 18 wines by the glass, local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the warm and inviting dining areas. Go to our website Pearlcafe.us to check out nightly specials and bistro menus, make reservations or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Red Robin 2901 Brooks Street • 830-3170 www.redrobin.com Half the price, twice the fun! Halfy Hour at the Southgate Mall Red Robin®! Half price bar drinks Monday – Friday, 4-6 p.m. and Monday – Saturday, 9-10 p.m. Enjoy a drink with one of our insanely delicious Gourmet Burgers, Bottomless Steak Fries. Or, snack on one of our shareable starters with friends! $-$$ 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! $-$$ Scotty’s Table 131 S. Higgins Ave. • 549-2790 Share a meal within the warm elegance of our location at the historic Wilma Building. Enjoy our seasonal menu of classic Mediterranean and European fare with a contemporary American twist, featuring the freshest local ingredients. Serving lunch Tues-Sat 11:00-2:30, and dinner Tues-Sun 5:00-Close. Beer and Wine available. $$-$$$
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Sean Kelly’s 130 West Pine 542–1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for Lunch and Dinner, featuring a Sat.-Sun. Brunch 11-2pm. Great Fresh food With Huge Portions. Featuring international & Irish pub fare as well as locally produced specials. FULL BAR, BEER, WINE, MARTINIS. $-$$ Silver Dollar Bar 307 W. Rail Road St. • 728-9826 Celebrating our 75th anniversary. Established, owned & operated by the Martello family in 1935, the bar is a true Montana tavern. We have the latest in video gaming machines, pool tables & the most up-to-date Juke Box. All this along with cold beer & stiff drinks make the Silver Dollar Bar a real Montana legend. NOT JUST SUSHI Sushi Hana Downtown offering a new idea for your dining experience. Meat, poultry, vegetables and grain are a large part of Japanese cuisine. We also love our fried comfort food too. Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner. Corner of Pine & Higgins. 549-7979. $$–$$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming • 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
HAMILTON Spice of Life 163 S. 2nd St. Hamilton 363-4433 Spice of Life welcomes you to the Bitterroot’s best locavore dining experience. Serving up fresh and fun food in a conscientious manner. For lunch try one of our hand made burgers from Lolo Locker or one of our fabulous fresh salads. Dinner selections include natural beef which contains no growth hormones or antibiotics ever, sustainable seafood selections and pasta dishes made from Montana wheat from Pasta Montana. Quench your thirst with beer from right here in Hamilton or try one of our reasonably priced yet fantastic wine selections. Children’s menu available. No reservations. So come as you are to Spice of Life! 163 S 2nd St. Hamilton, MT. Lunch: Mon - Fri 11:00 to 2:00 Dinner: Wed Sat 5:00 to 9:00. 363-4433.
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ASKARI Unraveling the nut case Dear Ari I just collected some pinons (pine nuts) while I was down in Nevada a couple of weeks ago and now that I’ve completed the messy task of getting them out of the cone, I was wondering how you would recommend I cook them, and maybe hook a girl up with your favorite pine nut recipe. Thanks for your time! —Feeling nutty
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The most interesting thing I’ve had lately with pine nuts is a little tart made with kefir, pine nuts, and dates. It ate like a cheesecake, with nutty and fruity tones. While I don’t have the recipe, my takeaway from eating it is that adding pine nuts to your favorite muffin, pie, or torte recipe isn’t a bad idea.
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In fact, it’s hard to think of a more versatile food than the pine nut, in terms of being at home in both sweet and savory contexts. I’m sure you’ve thought of pesto. I’ve also added them to stuffing for a baked chicken, as well as squash soup, tacos, and sprinkled on pasta. Whatever you do, make sure it is an application that presents the pine nuts, rather than buries them. They are too much work to gather and too delicious to eat to let them hide, unnoticed. But perhaps my favorite pine nut recipe of all is a tomato-based sauce used for fish that includes pine nuts, capers, and olives. I learned the recipe in Italy a few years ago, and it just so happens that I’m writing about it next week. So stay tuned, and your pine nuts will find a home.
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Arts & Entertainment listings November 11 – November 18, 2010
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THURSDAY
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November
American Legion Post #101 sponsors a Veterans Day 2010 wreath-laying ceremony at the Doughboy Statue at the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W. Broadway St., starting at 11 AM. Free. The ceremony also includes a talk with historical author Stan Cohen and others.
nightlife Keep your wallet happy when the Sustainable Business Council presents its Sustainability Shot Series lecture on “10 Ways to Reduce Your Energy Costs,” a talk geared towards businesses that features a presentation from Russ Hellem of Energetechs, with refreshments at 5:30 PM, followed by the talk at 6, at The Loft of Missoula, 119 W. Main St. Free. Call 824-7336.
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Let some stellar folks rock you with indie folk when Stellarondo, a new band featuring members of Broken Valley Roadshow, Tom Catmull and the Clerics, and Wartime Blues, plays a family-friendly show from 6–8 PM at the Top Hat. Free, all ages. Teens ages 13–18 embrace aesthetic chaos with the Indy’s own Jonathan Marquis during “Teen Open Studio Night with Jonathan Marquis: Spontaneous Artmaking,” which covers unpredictability and spontaneity as a creative tool, from 6–8 PM at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Call 728-0447 and visit missoulaartmuseum.org. Mud wrestle with some suds when MudSlide Charley plays gutbucket blues at the Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. Get juiced up with some jazz and fermented grape juice when Donna Lee Smith and Mike Freemole play jazz at the tasting room of the Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive, at 6 PM. Free. Call 549-8703. It’s all about 12 bars and an indigo-riffic time when New Orleans blues guitarist Spencer Bohren plays a show at 7 PM at the Superior
Aviator shades are a must. Indie rock legends Built to Spill play the Wilma Theatre Wed., Nov. 17, at 8 PM with openers Le Fleur. $22/$18 advance at Rockin Rudy’s and online at ticketfly.com.
Baptist Church, 609 Fifth Ave. E. in Superior. Free-will offerings accepted. Do your own thing when author Chris Guillebeau signs and hosts a presentation for his book The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World, starting at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881. Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit, Missoula’s newest trivia night for the layperson, begins with sign ups at 7:30 PM and trivia shortly thereafter at the Brooks
and Browns Lounge, at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. Free. Includes $7 pitchers of Bayern beer, prizes like a $50 bar tab, and trivia categories that change weekly. E-mail Katie at kcgt27@gmail.com. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Nov. 12, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Overlord c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.
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A young investigative reporter in Mexico tries to sniff out where her missing husband is during a performance of Keepers, a new play by Shaun Gant that starts at 8 PM at The Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $13. Visit keeperstickets.com for tickets. (See Theater in this issue.) Don’t be surprised if you smell something slightly phishy or jammy when Mike Gordon (also known as the bass player for Phish) performs a solo show at 8 PM at the Wilma Theatre. $20, with advance tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketfly.com. Leap into a story about the life of a legendary ballet dancer and choreographer when the Downtown Dance Collective hosts a performance of Norman Allen’s Nijinsky’s Last Dance, at 8 PM at the collective, 121 W. Main St. $12, with a $5 student rush ticket sign-up at 7:30 PM. Call 541-7240. (See Spotlight in this issue). Go ahead and guffaw ‘til it hurts when the MCT Community Theatre presents a performance of Mel Brooks’ hit musical The Producers, at 8 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $20. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org for tickets. Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptopfueled hip hop, electronic, pop and mashed-up tunes hit the Badlander every week where Dead Hipster DJ Night gets booties bumpin’ at 9 PM. $3. Keep it classy and retro when Brooklyn’s Class Actress plays electro pop with fellow Broolynites Small Black at 9 PM at the Palace. $5. Local artist Shahs opens. (See Spotlight in this issue.) Go for the okie and stay for the dokie when the UF Okies play The Sunrise Saloon and Casino, 1805 Regent St., at 9:30 PM. Free. Nate Hegyi, lead singer/songwriter of Wartime Blues, keeps the folk and Americana flowing free when he plays with a rotating cast of friends this and every other Thu. at the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., at 10 PM. Free. Put your horns out when Reverend Slanky and The Soulaphone Brass Band play funk at the Top Hat at 10 PM. $5.
FRIDAY
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UM hosts “HAIR Fever,” a project by UM MFA student Rebecca Coleman where you can donate your hair to Pantene’s Beautiful Leng ths Program—which will then be used for free wigs for women who have lost their hair during their battles with cancer—with the drive starting at 11 AM in Room 017 of UM”s PARTV Center. Free to participate. Call 243-5271. Snag yourself a Thanksgiving or Christmas gift, or a Norwegian treat,
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during the St. Paul Lutheran Church Holiday Bazaar, which runs from noon–7 PM in the Fellowship Hall of the church, 202 Brooks St. Free. The sale runs again Sat., Nov. 13, from 9 AM–3 PM. Call Gary at 728-3278. Learn about the roots of roots music when New Orleans blues guitarist Spencer Bohren presents a lecture/performance titled “Down the Dirt Road Blues,” which begins at 1 PM in the multi-purpose room of Superior High School, 410 Arizona Ave. in Superior. Free. Soak up some old-school works of art when the Montana Museum of Art and Culture presents an opening reception for the exhibits Renoir, Magritee, Gauguin and other European Masterpieces from a Private Collection, and Three Centuries of European Prints from the MMAC Permanent Collection, from 4–7 PM in the lobby of UM’s PARTV Center. Free, with music by pianist Barbara Blegen. Call 243-2019 and visit umt.edu/montanamuseum.
nightlife Go with the emotional aesthetic when local artist Clay Mahn presents a Second Friday art opening reception for his series of emotionally “heavy” paintings, from 5:30–8:30 PM at the Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 N. First St. W. Free. Call 549-7555 and visit zootownarts.org. Richie Reinholdt cures your rickets with his pocket cricket when the singer/songwriter plays the tasting room of the Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive, at 6 PM. Free. Call 549-8703. Bring your kids and your musicalappreciation cap to “Family Friendly Friday at the Top Hat,” a familyfriendly concert with music by Him & Her (a rock duo featuring Travis Yost and Caroline Keys), from 6–8 PM at the Top Hat. Free. Immerse yourself in the pow pow when Edge of the World presents a screening of Deeper, a snowboard film by Teton Gravity Research that begins at 7 PM at the Wilma Theatre. $8, with advance tickets at Edge of the World. The event also doubles as a benefit for The Backwoods Project. A shaman and sundancer reveals the deep roots of his imagination and art during a screening of Sundancing With the Muse, Heyoka Merrifield’s Sacred Art Story, a documentary by Jason Gutzmer with a screening to benefit Arlee’s Garden of 1000 Buddhas that starts at 7 PM at the Hamilton Pe r f o r m i n g A r t s C e n t e r, 327 Fa i r g r o u n d s R o a d . $ 15 / $ 12 advance/$10 children 14 and under/$8 advance children 14 and under/free children under 5, with advance tickets at the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce and Chapter One Bookstore. Call 396-1725. Documentary films that touch on sustainability, environmentalism and adventure hit the screen when the Montana Wilderness Association hosts the second annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival at 7 PM at
Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Cultural Center, 1 Central Ave. $10, with tickets at Montana Coffee Traders, Rocky Mountain Outfitters and the White Room. Visit wildandscenicfilm festival.org. Slip some international culture into your night when the Missoula Public Library hosts a screening of Alamar, starting at 7 PM in the large meeting room of the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK. The UC Theater presents a screening of Dinner for Schmucks at 7 PM, followed by The Other Guys at 9:30 PM. $7 double feature/$5 single feature/$4 double feature for students/$3 single feature for students. Call 243-5590. Watch some drum bangers hit all the right percussive notes when the UM Percussion Ensemble and “Islanders” Steel Drum Band performs its fall concert with works by Pat Metheny, Rimsky-Korsakov and others, at 7:30 PM in the University Theatre. $10/$5 students and seniors. Call 243-6880. Rock out to some men in black when the Mighty Cash Cats, a Johnny Cash tribute band, play the auditorium of Polson High School, 111 Fourth Ave. E., at 7:30 PM. $20, with tickets available at Stageline Pizza in Polson and Ronan, or by visiting easytik.com. A young investigative reporter in Mexico tries to sniff out where her missing husband is during a performance of Keepers, a new play by Shaun Gant that starts at 8 PM at The Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $13. Visit keeperstickets.com for tickets. (See Theater in this issue.) Leap into a story about the life of a legendary ballet dancer and choreographer when the Downtown Dance Collective hosts a performance of Norman Allen’s Nijinsky’s Last Dance, at 8 PM at the collective, 121 W. Main St. $12, with a $5 student rush ticket sign-up at 7:30 PM. Call 541-7240. (See Spotlight in this issue). Go ahead and guffaw ‘til it hurts when the MCT Community Theatre presents a performance of Mel Brooks’ hit musical The Producers, at 8 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $20. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org for tickets. Unshackle yourself from that alarm clock and let Prisoners of Time rock you when it plays rock ‘n’ roll at 8 PM at the Symes Hotel, 209 Wall St. in Hot Springs. No cover, but passthe-hat donations welcome. Call 741-2361. Get your aural pipes cleaned by some jazz and blues musicians when the Basement Boyz jazz you up with a set at 8 PM at the Missoula Winery, 5646 W. Harrier. $5. Call 830-3296. Har Shalom, 3035 S. Russell St., presents “From Behind the Veil–Exploring Hebraic Shemanic Kabbalah,” a workshop with Rabbi Gershon Winkler that begins with a free Shabbat service at 8 PM at the congregation. The service is followed
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SPOTLIGHT
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Vaslav Nijinsky had an insane ability to leap great lengths. In 1898, when he was just 8 years old, the child prodigy enrolled in a prestigious dancing school in St. Petersburg, Russia, and by the time he was in his late teens his career had exploded— thanks, in part to his talents and, in part, to his willingness to rebel against the dance choreography establishment. At the height of his career as a ballet master, people called him “the god of the dance.” But things came crashing down when he turned 29. He had a nervous breakdown, was diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent the rest of his life in hospitals and mental institutions until his death in 1950. You’ll be able to step into Nijinsky’s fragile mind this week when the Downtown Dance Collective hosts a performance of Norman Allen’s play Nijinsky’s Last Dance—a one-man fictional work directed by Chris Torma and choreographed by Heather Adams-Torma. The piece stars local actor Tyler D. Nielsen, pictured, playing Nijinsky as he sits alone in a sanatorium in Switzerland, retelling his past while also shifting into several different characters that played a prominent role in his life, including WHAT: Performance of Norman Allen’s Nijinsky’s Last Dance WHEN: Thu., Nov. 11–Sat., Nov. 13 and Thu., Nov. 18–Sat., Nov. 20 at 8 PM nightly WHERE: Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. HOW MUCH: $12/$5 student rush tickets
Photo by Chad Harder
Russian ballet promoter Sergei Diaghilev and French sculptor Auguste Rodin. This play also marks several firsts: It’s the first theatrical piece to be produced at the Downtown Dance Collective, it’s Nielsen’s initial foray into one-man theater and it’s a directorial debut for Torma, who you might recognize from previous roles in plays produced by the Montana Repertory Theatre. It’s also the first time Adams-Torma (who runs the Downtown Dance Collective) has coached an actor to look like a dancer, which likely added an extra element of difficulty to the already intense pressure of making a one-man-show successful.
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Herbal Calcium Plant based, bio-available by a seminar for registrants, and continues on Nov. 13 throughout the day. The price for the seminar varies. E-mail Marlene at artdogz@msn.com or call her at 721-2425 to register and for pricing info. Bear witness to a zany comedy when the Hamilton Players present a performance of You Can’t Take It With You, which starts at 8 PM at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road in Hamilton. $14/$8 children 12 and under. Get tickets at hamiltonplayers.com or call 375-9050. Skip that maple syrup chugging party and go toward the light when Northern Lights plays the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Oakland’s Gift of Gab kicks lyrical gadflies to the curb when the MC (who’s one-half of Blackalicious) plays hip hop at the Badlander at 9 PM. $13, with advance tickets at Ear Candy, Rockin Rudy’s and The Source in the UC. Locals Shaymlusly Elliterate, Derelict, Stoon and Tonsofun open. It just might start raining blood when local metal bands Beefcurtain, Blessiddoom and Universal
Choke Sign play meaty riffs at 9 PM at the Palace. $5. Just don’t wear neon during the annual Black and White Affair, which features hip hop by Nipsey Hu$$le, Shaymlusly Elliterate and DJ Chunkiye, as well as a raffle to win a trip to Las Vegas, starting at 9 PM at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. $20/$10 if you bring three cans of non-perishable food to donate. Call 549-0542. Massage your temples and tickle your toes with “high octane country” courtesy of Nashville recording artist Glen Templeton, who plays at 9 PM at The Sunrise Saloon & Casino, 1805 Regent St. $3. Wiggle your gams but just don’t slap that ham when Zeppo MT plays R&B at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free. Browbeaters and buckskin eaters all find a reason to walk the line when County Line plays Harry Davids, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2. Zoo City just might take you to paradise city when it plays rock at 9:30 PM at the High Spirits Club & Casino in Florence, 5341 Hwy. 93 N. Free.
He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.
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Wade through the grassy rapids of your mind when Fort Collins, Colo.’s WhiteWater Ramble plays bluegrass and jam at 10 PM at the Top Hat. $10/$8 advance. Locals Dodgy Mountain Men open.
SATURDAY
13
November
Pick up something crafty or sell something you made during The King’s Christian Church Craft Bazaar, which runs from 8 AM–4 PM at the church, 9830 Valley Grove Drive in Lolo. Free to attend/$20 per booth if you are planning to vend. Call Katherine at 543-0759. Hang out with some storm watchers when the KECI Weather Team signs copies of the 2011 Montana Weather Calendar, from
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And you thought the human pretzel was hardcore. Clockwise from top, Lee McAfee, Ricky Cline, Michael Becker and Stephen Teran perform in the UM’s School of Theatre and Dance’s “Dance Up Close” program at the Masquer Theatre Tue., Nov. 16–Sat., Nov. 20, nightly at 7:30 PM, with a 2 PM matinee Nov. 20. $9/$6 children. Call 243-4581 and visit umtheatredance.org.
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10 AM–noon at the UC Fact & Fiction bookstore. Free. Call 243-1234.
St. $16. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org for tickets.
Chortle out loud when the The Met: Live at the Roxy presents a screening of Donizetti’s comic opera Don Pasquale, at 11 AM at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $19/$17 students and seniors, with tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and online at morrisproductions.org.
nightlife
Check out village art and ritual items from places like India, Bangladesh, Africa and Laos during a “Sacred Art Show and Sale” that runs from 11 AM–5 PM today and tomorrow, at China Woods Home and Garden, 716 N. Dickens Ave. Free. Call 550-2511.
Just say oh but never whoa when EL3-OH! jazzes you up with gypsy jazz when it plays from 6–8:30 PM at the Brooks and Brown Lounge at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. Free.
The Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., hosts the “Big Read finale open house,” which features the chance to win noir-themed prizes, build a craft and participate in other activities starting at 2 PM. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Go ahead and guffaw ‘til it hurts when the MCT Community Theatre presents a performance of Mel Brooks’ hit musical The Producers, at 2 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams
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Callous your hands with a pint glass instead of raw beef when The Workers work you up with a mix of rock, bluegrass and Americana at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT.
The UC Theater presents a screening of Dinner for Schmucks at 7 PM, followed by The Other Guys at 9:30 PM. $7 double feature/$5 single feature/$4 double feature for students/$3 single feature for students. Call 243-5590. Feel the polyrhythms when the Top Hat hosts a West African dance and drumming concert featuring Guinean artist Manimou Camara, at 7 PM. $10/$5 students. Author Doug Ammons plunges you into the world of whitewater kayaking
when he reads and signs copies of his book Whitewater Philosophy at 7 PM at Seeley Lake’s Grizzly Claw Trading Company, 3187 Hwy. 83. Free. Giggle it up when Chicago’s legendary sketch comedy theater troupe The Second City performs at 7:30 P M at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Cultural Center, 1 Central Ave. in Whitefish. $27 per person, or $60 for a pre-show reception that begins at 6 PM and also includes admission to the show. Call 862-5371 for tickets and visit whitefishtheatreco.org. A young investigative reporter in Mexico tries to sniff out where her missing husband is during a performance of Keepers, a new play by Shaun Gant that starts at 8 PM at The Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $13. Visit keeperstickets.com for tickets. (See Theater in this issue.) Leap into a story about the life of a legendary ballet dancer and choreographer when the Downtown Dance Collective hosts a performance of Norman Allen’s Nijinsky’s Last Dance, at 8 PM at the collective,
121 W. Main St. $12, with a $5 student rush ticket sign-up at 7:30 PM. Call 541-7240. (See Spotlight in this issue). Go ahead and guffaw ‘til it hurts when the MCT Community Theatre presents a performance of Mel Brooks’ hit musical The Producers, at 8 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $20. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org for tickets. Bear witness to a zany comedy when the Hamilton Players present a performance of You Can’t Take It With You, which starts at 8 PM at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road in Hamilton. $14/$8 children 12 and under. Get tickets at hamiltonplayers.com or call 375-9050. Skip that maple syrup chugging party and go towards the light when Northern Lights plays the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. See some local tunesmiths battle it out on the stage when Sean Kelly’s hosts the Top of the Mic open mic competition semifinals, starting at 8 PM. Free. Support a local organization and bust a swingin’ dance move during a fundraiser for the Wild Rockies Institute that features music by Tom Catmull and the Clerics, beverages, and a free swing dance lesson, starting with the dance lesson at 8 PM, followed by music at 9, all at Zootown Brew, 121 W. Broadway St. $20 suggested donation. Visit socializr.com/event/671705533. Dip into the lactose for a good cause when the Hot Springs Artist Society presents its annual Wine, Cheese and Chocolate Silent Auction, which runs from 6–9 PM, and includes music by Melissa Blue, all at the Symes Hotel, 209 Wall St. in Hot Springs. The auction is free to attend, but the wine, cheese and chocolate party costs $1 per ticket or $5 for six tickets. Call 741-2361 and visit hotspringsartist.org. Rock out to some men in black when the Mighty Cash Cats, a Johnny Cash tribute band, plays the Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts, 526 Electric Ave., at 8 PM. $27.50/$23 advance with tickets available by calling 837-4885 or by visiting easytik.com. Scoot thine boots in a square-like move during the Lolo Square and Round Dance Center’s Harvest Ball, which begins with pre-rounds at 7:30 PM, and moves into the dance from 8–10 PM, all at the dance center, 9955 Lolo Creek Road. Cost TBA. This dance also includes a canned food drive. Call 273-2272. This isn’t a lonely hearts club: The Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave., presents a Saturday night dance with Heart to Heart playing from 8–11 PM at the center. $5. Call 543-7154. Just try it once when electronica and breakbeat legends The Crystal Method play a set at the Wilma Theatre at 8:30 PM. $20, with advance tickets at Rockin’ Rudy’s and online at ticketfly.com. DJ Kris Moon opens.
DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo are guaranteed to keep you dancing to an assortment of hip hop, electronic and other bass-heavy beats ‘til the bar closes during Absolutely at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.
SUNDAY
Massage your temples and tickle your toes with “high octane country” courtesy of Nashville recording artist Glen Templeton, who plays at 9 PM at The Sunrise Saloon & Casino, 1805 Regent St. $3.
The Montana Wilderness Association hosts the second annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival at 1:30 PM at Columbia Falls’ Discovery Square, 540 Nucleus Ave. $5, with tickets at Montana Coffee Traders, Rocky Mountain Outfitters and the White Room. Visit wildandscenicfilmfestival.org.
Bug out with your cybernetic buddies during Xeno-soniC: Methodical Crystalization, an after-party for the Wilma’s Crystal Method show that features a variety of electronic music DJ’d by Fatty Acid, Argot, ir8prim8 Vs. Tobin, and Geeter, starting at 9 PM at the Palace. Free for 21 and older/$5 for ages 18–20. Quit being the life of the carbon monoxide party and let Party Trained rock your clogs when it plays variety tunes at 9 PM at the Full Moon Saloon in Stevensville, 207 Main St. Free. Aerate your mind with a divine diva when Joan Zen plays a mix of soul, reggae and jazz at 9:30 PM at the Union Club. Free. Scratch that itch for a drink and a celebration when the Tom Cats play variety tunes during Harry David’s first-year-in-business party at Harry Davids, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2. Cave into your indigo cravings with a night of blues from UM grad Eric Tollefson (who used play in LP and The Federales), when he plays at 10 PM at the Top Hat. $5. (See Scope in this issue.) Get freaky with crunchy beats and costumed freaks during La Tropolis, a dance party based on this year’s Burning Man theme “Metropolis” that features tunes by DJs Milkcrate Mechanic and Mermaid, plus a super-hero costume contest, from midnight–3 AM at La Parrilla, 130 W. Broadway St. Free.
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The MCT Community Theatre presents a performance of Mel Brooks’ hit musical The Producers, at 2 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $16. Call 728PLAY or visit mctinc.org for tickets. Eat good food and support a woman in need when you attend the Benefit Dinner for Kate Byrne who’s accrued one million dollars in medical debt after being the victim of a drunk driving accident. Head to Charlie B’s at 2 PM for $6 pulled pork sandwiches and buy raffle tickets for cool prizes. $5. Hamilton Players present a performance of You Can’t Take It With You, which starts at 2 PM at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road in Hamilton. $14/$8 children 12 and under. Get tickets at hamiltonplayers.com or call 375-9050.
nightlife Gorge on pizza for a good cause during “Clark Fork School’s All-You-CanEat Pizza Night,” which runs from 5–8 PM at Biga Pizza, 241 W. Main St. $10/$5 children ages 3–10/free for children under age 3. Proceeds benefit the school. Call 728-3395. 2010 Banff Festival of Mountain Films World Tour, features awardwinning outdoor films at 6 PM at the University Theatre. $15/$12 advance at UM’s Outdoor Program and The Trailhead. Visit griztix.com. Go ahead and guffaw ‘til it hurts when the MCT Community Theatre
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The first few tracks on Shahs’ new album Dry Heat/Valley Low conjure up an alternate universe. It’s a place where googly-eyed aliens sip on neon colored cocktails and bob their slithery body parts to the mix of danceable avant-garde lounge music and experimental noise influences. Distorted beats (most are beat boxed) coalesce with tripped-out, echodrenched vocals, unintelligible but somehow reminiscent of Phil Collins’ voice. Tight melodies border on the carnival-esque. It’s catchy, yet really weird and totally distinctive. IX. But before his arrival in Missoula, Helgerson was well known in the Twin Cities. He was a regular on the circuit of venues with Shas and played with the popular guitar/electronics group To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie, among others. He even got a little writeup in the music webzine Pitchfork Media.
WHAT: KBGA presents Shahs with Class Actress and Small Black WHEN: Thu., Nov. 11 at 9 PM WHERE: The Palace HOW MUCH: $5
The man behind these enjoyable noises is Tom Helgerson (pictured), a transplant from Minneapolis who’s been making some waves on the local scene with his keyboards and delay pedal since he came to town about a year ago. This summer he was chosen to play for Missoula’s three-day rock event Total Fest
presents a performance of Mel Brooks’ hit musical The Producers, at 6:30 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $18/$15 children. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org for tickets. Ride a literary gust during UM’s Second Wind Reading Series, which features readings from UM MFA alum Brian Kevin and second year creative writing student Laura Scott, starting at 6:30 PM at the Top Hat. Free. Jazz it up with a piano/trumpet duo when DalyJazz hosts a performance by pianist Bill Mays and trumpet player Marvin Stamm, at 7 PM at DalyJazz, 240 Daly Ave. $25. Reservations required by e-mailing dalyjazz@gmail.com. Visit dalyjazz.com. 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 and jazz bands starting at 7:30 PM. Free. This week: Jazz from Josh Farmer, the Front Street Jazz Group, and DJ Mermaid. UM student Phil Maher lets technology take control when he performs a composition/technology student recital at 7:30 PM at UM’s Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building. Free. Call 243-6880. Go for a gritty San Francisco treat when San Fran’s The Fresh & Onlys play garage rock with a pop and psych influence at 9 PM at the Palace. $5. Locals Victory Smokes,
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You can peep for yourself the fruits of Helgerson’s machine-made music when he plays a vinyl release party for Dry Heat/Valley Low at the Palace on Thursday night. He’ll be joined by headliners Class Actress and Small Black, two bands from Brooklyn, that play electro-pop and indie-pop, and whose latest releases recently received kudos from tastemakers Pitchfork Media and PopMatters.
Deny the Dinosaur? and 10 Year Old Girlfriend open. Rock to one man and his axe when Maxwell Hughes plays acoustic music at the Top Hat at 10 PM. $2–$3 cover.
MONDAY
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November
The Corvallis Primary School Library, 1088 Eastside Highway in Corvallis, hosts a “scholastic fall book fair” today through Nov. 19 from 8 AM–4 PM, and until 7:30 PM on Tue. Free to attend. Call 961-3261 Ext. 307.
nightlife Spend the evening with a writer who’s been given a thumbs up by the likes of William Kittredge and Judy Blunt when author Sarahlee Lawrence reads and signs copies of her book River House: A Memoir, at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881. UM’s School of Journalism presents “Red, White, and News: Reporting on First Nations in Canada,” a lecture with award-winning reporter Duncan McCue, which starts at 7 PM in Room 117 of UM’s Skaggs Building. Free. Call 243-4008. Toast that piece of toast when singer/ songwriter Steve Jackman plays the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 100, from 7–10 PM. Free.
—Ira Sather-Olson
Chill to some chamber music when UM presents a student chamber recital, starting at 7:30 PM at the UM Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building. Free. Call 243-6880. Horns, flutes and saxes will be blown to perfection when the Missoula Community Concert Band plays its 20th annual free public concert, featuring a newly composed piece titled “Montana Celebration,” starting at 7:30 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. Free, with a reception following the concert. Call 542-7664. Sean Kelly’s hosts Top of the Mic, an open mic competition that begins at 8 PM and this week features sets by Joey and the Enkrypted Rainbeau, Brian Martens, Dan Dubuque, Heather LeAnn, Jake Koplen, Rhyan Watson, Tina Troy, Poncho, The Croutons, Brandon Eden and Dave Hall. Just chill during “Overcoming Moral Distress: Reforming Organizations and Institutions,” a talk with Lynn Pasquerella, president and professor of philosophy at Mount Holyoke College, which begins at 8 PM at the University Theatre. Free. Call 243-2311. It’s always okay to overdose on indie rock and power pop when Ames, Iowa’s The Poison Control Center plays the Badlander at 9 PM. $5. Locals The Skurfs and Treehouse open. Two-step away from the vat of malted barley and into a night of outlaw country with a DIY touch when
Oregon’s Kory Quinn and The Comrades play with Pure Country Gold and Bitterroot, at 8 PM at the Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 N. First St. W. $5. Locals Pony Canon and Candyland Liberation Front open. Kick off your week with a drink, some free pool and an array of electronic DJs and styles for das booty during Milkcrate Monday with the Milkcrate Mechanic at 9 PM every week, at the Palace. Free. This week features “Random Music for Random People” with DJs Milkcrate Mechanic, Kid Traxiom, Mike Sev, and Mankiisi.
TUESDAY
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If you can’t read this, you may be a baby below the age of 36 months, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK.
nightlife Your guess is as good as mine during “Turkey and Iran: America’s Partners in the New Middle East?” a talk with professor Stephen Kinzer of Boston University, which begins at 7 PM in the University Center Theater. Free. Call 243-2288. Get high on a poet’s rhymes when author John Holbrook reads from his new book of poetry titled A Clear Blue Sky in Royal Oak, starting at 7 PM at Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. W. Free. Call 549-9010. Snap to it when the Rocky Mountain School of Photography, 216 N. Higgins Ave., presents “Cameras and Lenses: What’s New and How to Choose,” a talk with Neil Chaput de Saintonge that runs from 7–9 PM at the school. Free. Call 543-0171. Enjoy some forward-thinking tunes and help out some UM students during the UM Composers’ Benefit Concert, which features compositions by students in the Composition and Music Technology Program, and begins at 7:30 PM in the UM Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building. $5. Call 243-5360. Get close, but not too close, during the UM School of Theatre and Dance’s “Dance Up Close” Fall Dance Showcase Program I, which features pieces by faculty members, students and choreographer Holly Rollins, and begins at 7:30 PM in the Masquer Theatre, in UM’s PARTV Center. $9/$6 children. Call 243-4581 and visit umtheatredance.org. 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? After hydrogen and helium, what is the most abundant element
in the universe? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.) All royalty gets irie during Royal Reggae Night, which features free pool plus reggae, dancehall and hip hop remixes spun by an array of DJs starting at 9 PM at the Palace. Free. Leave the shoehorn where you found it when The Box Cutters play the Badlander’s “Live and Local” showcase at 9 PM. Free. Locals Peoples open. Keep it on the cool side when you listen to some hip hop and enjoy a drink special or two during Hip-Hop Tuesday with Wapikiya Records, which features DJ B Mune spinning beats along with guest MCs starting at 9:30 PM at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H. Free. Call 830-3276.
WEDNESDAY
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UM hosts the Missoula Transgender Day of Recognition, a celebration of the transgender and gender diverse community that features an art exhibit at 8 AM in the University Center Atrium, plus a film screening at noon in the UC Theater, followed by a meet and greet and panel discussion, and culminating in a candlelight vigil at 8 PM at UM’s Oval. Free. Visit montanatdor.org for a complete schedule of events. (See Agenda in this issue.) Enjoy an evening with an old-school president when the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula presents “An Evening with President Theodore Roosevelt,” which features an intimate reception with Roosevelt (portrayed by actor Arch Ellwein) from 5:45–6:30 PM at the Orientation Gallery of the Museum, and is followed by a public address at Fort Missoula’s Heritage Hall at 7 PM. $15 for the reception/$5 for the public talk, with children under 12 admitted free to the talk. RSVP for the reception by calling 728-3476 Ext. 1. Catch the screening of Posada, a new film about immigration, directed and produced by Fr. Mark McGregor, a Jesuit priest at St. Francis Xavier Church, which includes a panel discussion, Mexican food and a Q&A at St. Anthony’s Church, 217 Tremont at 7 PM. Call 542-0321 for more information. Keep it as green as can be during “Sustainable Energy,” a talk that’s part of the lecture series “Will Work for Sustainability—Creating Jobs through Sustainable Development,” which runs from 7–9 PM in Room 122 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free. Call 243-5153. UM hosts a student recital with soprano Heather Barnes at 7:30 PM in the UM Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building. Free. Call 243-6880. Get close, but not too close, during the UM School of Theatre and Dance’s “Dance Up Close” Fall Dance Showcase Program II, which fea-
tures pieces by faculty members, students and choreographer Holly Rollins, and begins at 7:30 PM in the Masquer Theatre, in UM’s PARTV Center. $9/$6 children. Call 243-4581 and visit umtheatredance.org. This is bound to be a gusher: Boise, Idaho indie rock legends Built to Spill crank out a set with openers Le Fleur at 8 PM at the Wilma Theatre. $22/$18 advance at Rockin Rudy’s and online at ticketfly.com. Fedoras and silk stockings mix naughtily with cigarettes and highcontrast lighting when the Montana Actors’ Theatre presents another round of song, dance and hilarity during The MAT Cabaret Goes Film Noir, a cabaret performance that begins at 8 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $9/$5 students. Visit mtactors.com. 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: That thing we need to live called oxygen is the third most abundant element in universe, just after hydrogen and helium.
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THURSDAY
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November
If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program for babes up to 36 months at 10:30 AM every Thu., Fri. and Tue. Free. Call 721-BOOK.
nightlife See the snapshots of your fellow art enthusiasts during Artini: Totally Cellular, an opening reception for the Missoula Art Museum’s Art 4 All: Snap Art exhibit (featuring cell phone pics snapped by Missoulians), which features art plus music by The Lil’ Smokies, a drawing station, as well as appetizers and drinks, from 5:30–9 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Call 728-0447 and visit missoulaartmuseum.org. Let some stellar folks rock you with indie folk when Stellarondo, a new band featuring members of Broken Valley Roadshow, Tom Catmull and the Clerics, and Wartime Blues, plays a family-friendly show from 6–8 PM at the Top Hat. Free, all ages. Don’t even think about undressing to impress when Max Hay plays a mix of Irish, blues, reggae, and folk music at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. If redneck comedy’s your game, Rodney Carrington is your main man when he performs comedy and
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“I’m going to have to ask you to step away from that smog.” Oakland’s Gift of Gab plays hip hop at the Badlander Fri., Nov.12, at 9 PM with local openers Shaymlusly Elliterate, Derelict, Stoon and Tonsofun. $13, with advance tickets at Ear Candy, Rockin Rudy’s and The Source in the UC.
music about redneck lifestyles, women at bars, and plenty more starting at 7 PM at the Adams Center. $49.25 plus fees. Call 243-4051 for tickets or visit griztix.com. UM’s Peace and Justice Film Series continues with a screening of Salt of the Earth, a dramatization of a year-long struggle by Chicano zinc miners who were striking against unsafe working conditions, with a screening at 7 PM in the University Center Theater. Free. Visit peace andjusticefilms.org. Get close, but not too close, during the UM School of Theatre and Dance’s “Dance Up Close” Fall Dance Showcase Program I, which features pieces by faculty members, students and choreographer Holly Rollins, and begins at 7:30 PM in the Masquer Theatre, in UM’s PARTV Center. $9/$6 children. Call 243-4581 and visit umtheatredance.org. Fedoras and silk stockings mix naughtily with cigarettes and highcontrast lighting when the Montana
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Actors’ Theatre presents another round of song, dance and hilarity during The MAT Cabaret Goes Film Noir, a cabaret performance that begins at 8 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $9/$5 students. Visit mtactors.com. Leap into a story about the life of a legendary ballet dancer and choreographer when the Downtown Dance Collective hosts a performance of Norman Allen’s Nijinsky’s Last Dance, at 8 PM at the collective, 121 W. Main St. $12, with a $5 student rush ticket sign-up at 7:30 PM. Call 5417240. (See Spotlight in this issue). Dip your fingers in some retro sauce when Austin, Texas’ Ghostland Observatory plays a mix of electro and rock at the Wilma Theatre at 8:30 PM. $25/$23 advance at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketfly.com. Feel the bass buzz your fun parts w h e n R o b o Tr a s h p r e s e n t s Dubble Trubble, a DJ night that this month features an electro house vs. house theme with sets by DJs Kris Moon, Shea Daze and
Logisticalone, at 9 PM at the Palace. Free. Colorado’s VibeSquaD makes you feel the direct current of his bass when he mixes up breakbeat, IDM and other bass-heavy electronic styles during Bass Face at 9 PM at the Top Hat. $10/$8 with a Ghostland Observatory ticket stub. Shimmer with a shimmy in your step when The Northern Lights play at The Sunrise Saloon and Casino, 1805 Regent St., at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 728-1559. I’m an Overlord with little space this week so be a doer and send your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Nov. 12 to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Overlord c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”
MOUNTAIN HIGH T hose who like to get their fingers dirty ascending mammoth mountains and/or like to shred powder in the backwoods have two opportunities this week to see fellow adventure hounds snowboarding, climbing, paragliding and mountain biking in the wildest terrains our planet has to offer. On Fri., Nov. 12, at 7 PM, the Wilma Theatre hosts the premiere of Deeper, a snowboard film by Teton Gravity Research. It follows snowboarder Jeremy Jones and other seasoned riders as they hike up through remote mountain ranges in Alaska and California so they can carve untouched powder on the way down. Then, on Sun., Nov. 14, at 6 PM, the University Theatre hosts the Banff Mountain
Film Festival World Tour, a collection of films on outdoor adventure that include First Ascent: The Impossible Climb—about climber Chris Sharma’s freaky climb on Mount Clark in California—and Rowing the Atlantic, which details one woman’s trip across the Atlantic in a rowboat. I’ve seen clips for both events, and all I can say is you’ll be sorry if you miss ‘em. The screening of Deeper costs $8, and advance tickets can be purchased at Edge of the World. The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour costs $15/$12 advance at any GrizTix outlet or Griztix.com. Visit tetongravity.com and banffcentre.ca for details.
Photo by Chad Harder
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 14
Visit our majestic neighbor to the north when Glacier National Park offers free admission today in honor of Veterans Day. Call 888-7800 or visit nps.gov/glac.
Head down from the hills: It’s closing day of general season for antelope. Make plans for next year at fwp.mt.gov.
Avoid a nasty case of foot hurt when REI Missoula presents the workshop “Feet and Footwear: Keeping Your Feet Happy on the Trail,” where you can get pointers on the best kind of footwear to wear when roughin’ it in the great outdoors, starting at 7 PM at REI, 3275 N. Reserve St. Ste. K2. Free. Visit ei.com/stores/72 to register and call 541-1938. Slip something botanical into your night when the Clark Fork Chapter of the Montana Native Plant Society presents a talk on plant conservation with Brenda Oviad titled “Conservation of Madagascar’s Orchids,” which begins at 7:30 PM in Room L09 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free. Visit mtnativeplants.org/Clark Fork Chapter.
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 13 Be one with the Swans when you join the Swan Ranger Hiking Club for its weekly Saturday jaunts in the nearby Swan Range, starting with breakfast at 8:30 AM at the Echo Lake Cafe, 1195 Hwy. 83 (just northeast of Bigfork), followed by departure for the hike at 9:30 AM. Free. Those just wanting to hike can meet at the school parking lot across the street around 9:30 AM. Visit swanrange.org for a suggested gear list. Sweat bullets to raise awareness about carcinoid cancer during the Run for Hope 2, a 5k run that features a sweet mix of pavement and trails and begins at Pineview Park near Rattlesnake Elementary School, 1220 Pinview Drive, at 9 AM. Proceeds from the run will be used to help Montana carincoid patients who need financial assistance for their medical expenses. $25. Visit Runner’s Edge to register, or click to runmt.com to download a registration form. Dirty yourself and your two-wheeled friend during the Helena Cyclocross, a cyclocross bike race that consists of a fast course over grass, gravel roads and singletrack, and begins with registration at 9 AM, followed by races for various categories at 10:30 AM and noon, all at Helena’s Lewis and Clark County Fairgrounds, 98 W. Custer Ave. $25. Visit lastchancecross.blogspot.com for more info.
Mountain men and women hit the silver screen during the 2010 Banff Festival of Mountain Films World Tour, which features a number of award-winning outdoor films and begins at 6 PM at the University Theatre. $15/$12 advance at UM’s Outdoor Program and The Trailhead. Visit griztix.com.
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 16 Any and all females who want to hike in the company of their fellow XX chromosome holders are hereby invited to a Ladies Hike Group that meets every Tue. and Thu. at 4 PM at a TBA location in Missoula. Contact Rissa at simpleretreat@yahoo.com to finalize plans. Just go with the ice ice baby during REI Missoula’s Ice Climbing Basics class, which covers everything from ice tools to boots and crampons, to some of the sweet spots to hit up, starting at 7 PM at REI, 3275 N. Reserve St. Ste. K-2. Free. Visit rei.com/stores/72 to register and call 541-1938.
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 17 Have a chicken lickin’ good time in your running shoes during the Run Wild Missoula Beer Run–Double Front Chicken Lounge, a group run of around five miles that begins at 6 PM at the Double Front Cafe, 122 W. Alder St., and ends with beer or a non-alcoholic drink (and fried chicken if you’re hungry) at the restaurant. Free. Visit runwildmissoula.org. Get intellectually smoked out during “The Natural History of Sagebrush in Montana,” a talk with local author and biologist Peter Lesica on the plant that begins at 7 PM at the Montana Natural History Center (MNHC), 120 Hickory St. $4 suggested donation/free MNHC members. Call 327-0405 and visit montananaturalist.org. Get a taste of how Glacier was back in the day when the Flathead Chapter of the Montana Native Plant Society presents “Botanical Expeditions in Glacier National Park, 1909 and 1910,” a presentation and slide show with former Glacier botanist Rachel Potter that begins at 7 PM at Columbia Falls’ Glacier Discovery Square, 540 Nucleus Ave. Free. Call 892-2446. calendar@missoulanews.com
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Daydream believer
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UM grad puts stock in the business of making music by Erika Fredrickson
Eric Tollefson wasn’t your typical hippie college $140,000; he originally paid $285,000 for it. With his child/ stay a while/ you can’t fall in love too soon. undergrad, even if he did sit in the grass at the financial security shaken, Tollefson says he began to You make the wrong move the right time/ you’re University of Montana and play covers of The Doors. question some of the life decisions he’d made. The bound to lose.” It’s radio-friendly and easy-going, He was a business major, for one thing, with a clean-cut final straw came a few years later, in 2009, when a 7.6 full of warm cellos, funky guitar thumps and smooth appearance in comparison to the more laidback style magnitude earthquake hit Indonesia and killed more pop hooks. It’s perfectly mainstream, but not necessarily in a bland way: It’s the sort of high-caliber than 1,000 people. of his dorm mates at Jesse Hall. “I didn’t really fit in,” he says. “I played guitar with “I remember looking at the headlines,” he says, catchiness that would sound at home on a mix with lots of those guys in the Oval just sitting around, and I “how so many people just got wiped off the earth. accomplished artists like Ben Harper, G. Love & was kind of the odd one out. It was like, ‘Wow, he’s Yet everything and everyone around me is talking Special Sauce and Cat Stevens. Talking with Tollefson you get wearing nice clothes. What the hell?’” the sense he is a perfectionist. For The tall, red-headed singer-songinstance, he thinks Sum of Parts is a writer has taken some hairpin turns over little flat. For his next album, he took the years that have quite unpredictably work as a consultant for Wells Fargo landed him where he is now: as a serious in order to put all the resources he musician with regular shows at Bend, could into backup musicians. Ore.’s Domino Room, as well as two Another example: When a producer concerts at the Whisky A Go-Go in Los once told him, “You’re songs are Angeles and, in recent months, opening good, but they’re not as good as gigs for national acts Jackie Greene and Dave Matthews’ songs,” he took it as G. Love & Special Sauce. a challenge. “I never thought this would happen,” he says. “It’s not that I’m a big “It’s like, ‘No, they’re not,’” he name or maybe ever will be. But I can’t says. “So how do I make songs that sleep because I’m so excited and I want stand up in the industry as contenders? to keep moving forward with this.” That’s been my main focus.” Growing up in Juneau, Alaska, For his next album—he’s currentTollefson was drawn to the guitar at 8 ly recording—Tollefson says his proyears old. He played the Alaska Folk ducer brought in Jack Johnson’s Festival two years in a row at ages 12 and drummer and Prince’s bassist to 13, covering Tom Petty’s “Last Dance for record a song called “Hypnotize,” Mary Jane” and Oasis’ “Wonderwall,” which Tollefson wrote back in 2001. among other popular songs. He stopped While the prospect of recording with playing after that for a while but, at 18, “name” artists was enticing, Tollefson he picked up the guitar again and startwasn’t happy with the song. ed writing songs. “I have all these amazing players, “I fell in love with writing music but the song doesn’t represent what even more,” he says. “A couple of I’m trying to do,” he says. “I want every months later, I moved to Missoula to go single song to be a potential contender to college.” on a radio station. At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter how good you During his years at UM, Tollefson can sing, how good you can play, it did pursue music in a serious manner. matters how good your songs are. To He recorded a couple of albums—he have that realization and build a record handed out burned copies of one to around that is really a great project.” friends; the other album got scrapped because he didn’t feel the songs were Songs that will go on the album up to par. He took a few classes in include musicians like Eric Heywood, UM’s music department and even who plays pedal steel for singer-songPhoto courtesy Tara Reynvann opened with a solo acoustic set a few writer Ray LaMontagne, as well as a times at the Top Hat for local band LP UM graduate Eric Tollefson went from business major to stockbroker to a cast of Grammy-award winning Atlanta & the Federales. But when he graduat- blues-rock musician opening for G. Love & Special Sauce. “I never session players. Most exciting, says ed from UM with a double degree in thought this would happen,” he says. “It’s not that I’m a big name or Tollefson, is his new backup band, marketing and management, he took maybe ever will be. But I can’t sleep because I’m so excited and I want to which sports the hyperbolic tag of The keep moving forward with this.” what seemed to be the practical route World’s Greatest Lovers. It’s a sign that of someone with a head for finance: At despite his stockbroker background the age of 22 he bought a house in Bend, Ore., about how it affects the markets and people’s and a driving sense to make every song he writes a became a stockbroker for Smith, Barney and wealth. I had been thinking, ‘Is my life really all hit, he’s still having fun. Citigroup, and relegated his music to the backburn- about money?’ When the [earthquake] hit, that was “It’s a terrible, terrible band name,” says Tollefson, er as an evening hobby. the day where I thought, ‘This is disgusting. I can’t “but it was just funny. I came up with it as a joke, because I was thinking about what I wanted to be “I was almost dreaming of this music lifestyle,” says do this anymore.’” Tollefson quit his job and went full force into his when I was younger and I thought of Don Juan Tollefson. “But then it was like, ‘Okay, I’ve got to grow up. I’m out of school and I need to take life seriously.’” music. He recently acquired a sponsorship from DeMarco, the world’s greatest lover.” Eric Tollefson and the World’s Greatest Lovers What seemed like a practical decision, however, Breedlove Guitars and he recorded Sum of Parts not took a fateful turn. Not long after he got his house, the long after quitting his stockbroker job. It’s a soulful play the Top Hat Sat., Nov. 13, at 10 PM. $5. burst of the housing bubble hit the Bend market. solo album with songs like “Another Day’s Blues,” in efredrickson@missoulanews.com Tollefson ended up short-selling his home for which he sings cautionary lines like, “Slow down
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Building block River House clings to its literal framework by Michael Peck
All the best moments in River House occur Other than sex, war and religion, the idea of homecoming is probably one of the most preva- when Lawrence reminisces about the hopes and lent themes in literature. From The Odyssey to The tragedies of her childhood on the family farm, and Wizard of Oz, returning to the place of your ori- the friends and loves that make the land truly hers. gin is the linear plot of a nonlinear journey, prov- The story of her irreconcilable parents is illuminating that the closest distance between two points is ing: Her mother is a grounded, sturdy woman, never a straight line when one of those points is while her father constantly yearns for an exotic home. Even the commonness of the motif seems lifestyle centered around surfing, painting and smoking incredible amounts to substantiate the claim of of marijuana. It is a dysfuncits popularity: In their own tional unit that labor and writing, most authors consisgeography have tempered into tently leave and then return something like a family. to the idea of leaving and It is not until the end of returning. To paraphrase an the book when her father has a aphorism that I may have just serious meltdown and leaves invented but probably plagiahis wife and daughter to rized from Oscar Wilde: In regain his freedom that we are order to find your true home finally admitted into someit is crucial to intend on leavthing that could be called an ing it forever. introspective memoir. It is In her fittingly titled memthen that Lawrence seems to oir, River House, Sarahlee find herself, takes over her Lawrence attempts to chart father’s farming responsibilithis search for her roots from ties, and grasps the saddening, the moment she says, while yet hopeful implications of her aimlessly rafting a jungle river father’s resolute departure. in Cusco, “I wondered when River House is written in a all these rivers would flow River House hard, diligent voice that isn’t toward home instead of end- Sarahlee Lawrence quite adequate to sustain lessly into each other?” paperback, Tin House Books the work’s overlong length. Unconsciously or not, she real- 200 pages, $16.95 Lawrence’s inner vacillations izes that the best location to between sticking to her project and abandoning it in discover home is as far away from it as possible. A kayak instructor and adventurer, Lawrence favor of running rivers is believable and relatable, spent her early years obsessively navigating some of while her relationship with her unhinged father is the world’s most dangerous rivers after being grant- one of intimate and mutual understanding. Her ed a fellowship to scour the globe for reckless white knowledge of the land and its inhabitants—their waves. The first few chapters of River House summa- struggles against wealthy citizens erecting mansions rize her time as a river runner, and her compressed and resorts in the region, local politics, the drive to style vividly examines the extreme conditions she replace canals with pipelines for endangered fish— underwent; it’s especially palpable in her running of is crucially diverting and informative. And yet, there the eccentric Futaleufu River in Argentina, where seems an estranged gap of feeling between everythoughts of her homeland, thousands of miles to one involved, as though Lawrence were giving only the north, suddenly overtake her. In a moment of a rudimentary outline of what she aspired to compain and loneliness she begins to sketch the floor municate with her book. There is considerable love in Lawrence’s book plan of a future house she wishes to build on her parents’ land with her bare hands. And she touches toward her father and all those who helped actuate on an important metaphor: that she’s drawing the her dream, but she does not spend nearly enough blueprints of a foundation for a relationship with time on any of them to warrant our interest in the less-than-interesting passages of her house’s conher father. After the initial 50 pages or so of fantastic travel struction. It seems at times like a well-written, writing, Lawrence turns to the physical building of rugged person’s LiveJournal. River House, more than anything, is about her log home in the farm-strewn desert of central Oregon, the reclaiming of a relationship with her building an identity, yet it gets so mired in the surf-obsessed, pot-addled father and the frustration metaphor of illustrating this that by the time of its of farming. Regrettably, most of it is a tedious rendi- denouement we are unconvinced that it’s not a tion of constructing her home in compulsive detail, book solely about house-building, bookended by a interspersed with her stint in Missoula studying brief travelogue on one side, and an abridged memenvironmental science and writing at the University oir on the other. Sarahlee Lawrence reads from River House of Montana. Until the remaining 30 pages we learn more about notching and scribing logs, irrigation at Fact & Fiction Monday, Nov. 15, at 7 PM. Free. systems and how to properly lay cement than we do arts@missoulanews.com about either Sarahlee Lawrence or her father.
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Black ops Gant’s Keepers adds fire to the noir genre by Erika Fredrickson
presents “An Evening with President Theodore Roosevelt” For only the third time in 98 years, Theodore Roosevelt will visit Missoula on Wednesday, November 17th. An intimate reception for President Roosevelt will be held between 5:45 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. in the Orientation Gallery of the Historical Museum. There is a $15.00 per person cost for this event. R.S.V.P. to Dr. Robert Brown at 728-3476 ext. 1, or rmbrown@montana.com to reserve your tickets, payable at the door on the evening of the event. In addition to socializing with President Roosevelt, the acclaimed North Gallery Yellowstone traveling exhibition, Let Wonderland Tell Its Story will be open for viewing. At 7:00 p.m. President Roosevelt will address the public in Heritage Hall, across the Parade Grounds from the Historical Museum. There is a $5.00 per adult suggested donation for this presentation, payable at the door the evening of the event. Children under 12 admitted free of charge.
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It never occurred to me how creepy Bruce Sporman plays the character with delicious coldness Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire” sounds given the right (like a crocodile) and she delivers one-liners with a circumstances. Even just reading the first few lines great B-movie villain vibe. Her Spanish accent seems of the song makes my skin crawl: “Hey little girl is meticulous—to the point of distraction—but there’s your daddy home, did he go away and leave you all almost nothing about her character that doesn’t feel alone? I got a bad desire. Oooh, oooh, oooh, I’m on straight out of a Robert Rodriguez or Quentin Tarantino film. That’s pretfire.” Don’t get me wrong, I ty cool, to be honest, conget the sentiment behind sidering both of those “I’m On Fire,” more or less. directors dabble in a type In his music video, of noir. But it makes for a Springsteen plays a blue colclash of character types, lar car mechanic working on like watching a mix a rich woman’s T-Bird, and between Rodriguez’ highly she suggestively hands him stylized Machete and the keys to her house even Michael Mann’s dark but though she’s married to a low key Collateral. sugar daddy. In this context the lyrics don’t seem as disSeveral details in turbing as when they stand Keepers make it engaging alone. And they don’t seem beyond the characters. At anywhere near as menacing various times during the as when, in the case of local play (and, in my opinion, playwright Shaun Gant’s not enough) we get to see new play, Keepers, they are Marlowe’s glowing computsung with even-tempered er desktop and the contents relish by a smirking, coldof her husband’s video camblooded killer. era projected on a screen above the set. It’s a great As with anything in the detail, considering that any noir genre, Keepers underPhoto by Chad Harder suspense movie or televiscores the dark underbelly of the crime world. A woman Salina Chatlain, right, stars in Shaun sion crime show these days Gant’s new play Keepers. relies heavily on unseemly named Marlowe attempts to track down her missing husband in Sayulita, Mexico, discoveries dug up through cell phone texts, Internet starting with the time-share bungalow where they databases and digital video. As a viewer, it’s always recently celebrated their honeymoon. We already exciting to watch what the technology will reveal. Other details include the almost constant sound know from the beginning that her husband, Rick, is a scumbag, liar and cheat, as soon as he first appears on of a thunderstorm, or the drip, dripping of a dank stage with his lover, Kitty, and gives off a cocky atti- concrete room, which adds to the menacing sustude. It’s only as the story unfolds—right about the pense. It’s only background noise, and yet it’s a contime he’s singing “I’m on Fire”—that we come to know tinual reminder that something isn’t right. Live music how truly bad he is. Meanwhile, Marlowe is dealing by Lefty Lucy and guitarist Ron Meissner creates an with several characters who may or may not be on her atmosphere of intrigue and dread with renditions of side, including Wilcox, the next-door neighbor at the songs by Talking Heads, Lou Reed and originals writtime-share, and Ernesto, a burly Mexican dude who ten by Gant. sometimes acts like a bodyguard and, other times, Like so many noir stories before it, Keepers is seems like he’s leading her into a deadly trap set by a sometimes convoluted with all its twists and turns, villainous woman called “El Croc.” all its big reveals that link the main characters to one Characters seem to run the gamut of real to car- huge conspiracy. At times, in fact, it’s hard to follow icature. Salina Chatlain as Marlowe—whose name exactly what is being revealed. I was, however, on brings to mind Raymond Chandler’s classic detective the edge of my seat by the time the second act rolled protagonist, Philip Marlowe—broods like any good around. Gant’s dialog incorporates comedy, allunoir lead, but she’s also a natural about it. Despite a sion, strange imagery and all the elements that keep melodramatic plotline, Chatlain plays out each new a person engaged in a story, and director Kaet discovery with ever-increasing alarm as if she’s learn- Morris does a phenomenal job with pacing the ing it one piece at a time. Along the same lines, Sarina drama. The real thrill of a good action story like this Hart as Marlowe’s best friend, Cricket, is easy to iden- lies somewhere between getting the formula right tify with as a real person. Hart’s hilarious in the comic and adding fresh details that make the genre new, relief role. Even better, she adds suspense to the and Keepers hits that target. Keepers continues at the Crystal Theatre story: her light-hearted, oblivious personality makes the impending danger seem all the more worrisome. Thursday, Nov. 11, through Saturday, Nov. 13, at On the other end of the spectrum there’s 8 PM nightly. $13. Rebecca Sporman as El Croc, a deadly matriarch efredrickson@missoulanews.com whose violence spans back to her childhood.
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Maybe we should start calling this the year of the performance art documentary. Just months after I’m Still Here caused audiences to wonder in horror whether Casey Affleck had really filmed the destructive downfall of brother-in-law Joaquin Phoenix, we get another grainy, low-budget film that begs similar questions regarding its authenticity. However, while one’s enjoyment of the Phoenix documentary is
Obama “Hope” poster. Guetta gains their trust as he films the artists at work and begins to consider making the first comprehensive documentary of the subculture. But first he must find Banksy, the most famous of all the underground artists, known as much for his work and political activism as for his anonymity. No one even knows his real name, but Guetta manages to track down the Brit and even
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directly correlated to whether the whole truth is revealed (I gave a good review to I’m Still Here a week after Affleck revealed the whole thing was a hoax, and I would have hated it without that knowledge), no such information is necessary to enjoy Exit Through The Gift Shop. In fact, it’s the not knowing and subsequent guessing of motivations that makes it a fascinating film. For the record, I think the entire second half of the film is, on some level, a hoax. But to call it a mockumentary wouldn’t be accurate either, because the street artists here are all real people, the climactic art show really happened and many “connoisseurs” paid thousands of dollars for art of—I’ll say this nicely—questionable provenance. More accurately, Exit Through The Gift Shop is a mocking film. It mocks how our society defines modern art, how it’s possible to create a superstar artist overnight despite a lack of any discernible talent, and how we the sheep will pay exorbitant amounts of money for that art on the basis of an invented reputation. Really, one needs to look no further than the title to understand there might be something a little deeper going on than just a film about graffiti artists. From the beginning we are led to believe that the star of this documentary is an eccentric Frenchman named Thierry Guetta. It’s unclear how Guetta makes a living, but what we know is that he videotapes just about everything he does every single day. Guetta slowly gets to know some of most famous European and American members of the graffiti world—a mysterious subculture of subversive artists who do their work on street corners, sidewalks and buildings in the dark of night. Among the infamous artists Guetta becomes acquainted with are a man known only as Space Invader and Shephard Fairey, an L.A. graffiti artist who several years later designed the memorable
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convinces Banksy to participate in the documentary, though he still won’t show his face. Amazing? Not as much as you think. Guetta does make his documentary, combing through thousands of hours of footage and spending nearly a year in the editing room. He calls the film Life Remote Control but by all accounts it is a truly horrible documentary. The few clips we see appear to confirm this fact. Which brings us to the larger point: Exit Through The Gift Shop is not directed by Guetta; Banksy himself is at the helm. Somewhere along the line—probably when Guetta showed them the first cut of his film—Banksy and his cohorts decided to turn the tables by turning Guetta into one of them. Here is where the line between real and fake becomes more than a little fuzzy. The latter half of the film documents Guetta’s transformation from mediocre filmmaker into “Mr. Brainwash,” modern art’s hottest commodity. With no portfolio to his name, Guetta seemingly transforms overnight into an ultra-prolific, modern-day Andy Warhol. In less than six months he amasses a warehouse of original prints and sculptures. Much of it is bad, which we’re told is what makes it good. Much of it also looks curiously similar to the work of other graffiti greats. However you want to define it—hoax or not— this is a wonderfully entertaining film. Guetta—who gets the most camera time of anyone—tells his story with an earnestness that makes us want to believe him. At the same time, the deadpan narration of Rhys Ifans gives it all a very Spinal Tap feel. Exit Through The Gift Shop and “Mr. Brainwash” himself should be considered Banksy’s best piece of performance art to date. Exit Through The Gift Shop continues at the Wilma Theatre. arts@missoulanews.com
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TURKEY AND IRAN: AMERICA’S PARTNERS IN THE NEW MIDDLE EAST? Tuesday, November 16, 7pm-9pm UC Theater, University Center A best-selling author, Stephen Kinzer is a professor of international relations at Boston University. He is a former New York Times correspondent who served as chief of the Times bureau in Istanbul. Sponsored by: International Programs, School of Journalism, Central and Southwest Asian Studies Center International Education Week is November 15-20. For a schedule of events, go to www.umt.edu/ip/ or call 406.243.2288.
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matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:15, 4:05, 6:55 and 9:40, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7 and 9:10, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:45. SAW 3D The seventh film from this slasher franchise promises to be “the final chapter.” Jigsaw is dead. Long live Jigsaw. Carmike 10: 4:30, 7:30 and 9:45, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:15 and 9:30, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight, and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 4, 7:15 and 9:30. SECRETARIAT Another remarkable sports saga brought to screen, only this one involves a horse. Diane Lane and John Malkovich star in Disney’s
JACK GOES BOATING Philip Seymour Hoffman directs and acts in this adaptation of Bob Glaudini’s play of the same name, which follows a weed- and reggae-loving limo driver (played by Hoffman) who starts to break through his shyness after he scores a blind date with the co-worker of his best friend’s wife. Wilma Theatre: nightly at 7, with a Sun. matinee at 1. SKYLINE A bunch of shiny blue lights appear around Los Angeles one morning, and people start to disappear. Turns out that aliens have finally invaded, and they’re sucking us up into their trippy-looking ships, one duped human at a time. Carmike 10: 5:05, 7:30 and 9:55, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 12:15 and 2:40. Village 6: 7:30 and 9:55, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 12:15, 2:40 and 5:05. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:10, 2:35, 4:55, 7:20 and 9:40, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight, and Mon.–Thu. at 1:15, 3, 7:20 and 9:40. UNSTOPPABLE A train filled with toxic chemicals is on the loose. Railroading vet Denzel Washington teams up with young buck conductor Chris Pine in order to stop what could become a horrible accident—or perhaps the setting for a sweet B-grade horror flick. Carmike 10: 5:10, 5:35, 7:35, 8 and 10, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at 10:25, and Fri.–Sun. matinees at 12:20, 12:45, 2:45 and 3:10. Pharoahplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at noon, 1, 2:30, 3:30, 5, 6:15, 7:30, 9 and 9:45, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 2, 3:30, 4:30, 6:15, 7:15, 9 and 9:35. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 6:50 and 9:20, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30.
NOW PLAYING DUE DATE Robert Downey Jr. is an architect with angemanagement issues and Zach Galifianakis is a flighty wannabe actor. The duo is forced to travel cross-country in the latest installment of the odd-couple road comedy. Carmike 10: 4:10, 7:15 and 9:45, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 1:05, 2:35, 3:35, 5, 7:30, 9 and 9:45,
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Eastwood drama, however, Damon simply has a special connection to the afterlife. Village 6: 7 and 9:55, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1 and 4. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 6:15 only. IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY Clinical depression works wonders for a 16year-old boy stressed out by the daily rigors of being a teenager. Once he checks himself into a psych ward, the boy befriends fellow patient Zach Galifianakis and develops a crush on Emma Roberts. Wilma Theatre: nightly at 7 and 9 only on Sun. and Mon.–Tue., with a Sun. matinees at 1 and 3. JACKASS 3D The boys from the cult MTV show return to the big screen—in 3-D, no less—to perform stunts that no sane or sober person should ever attempt in real life. Except that one with the outhouse—that one looks awesome. Carmike 10: 7:15 and 9:45. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20 and 9:35, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:20, 3:45, 7:20 and 9:35. LIFE AS WE KNOW IT This prototypical date flick stars Katherine Heigl (Knocked Up) and Josh Duhamel as two single adults forced to take care of an orphaned toddler after their mutual best friends die. It’s like Three Men and a Baby, only if Tom Selleck and Steve Guttenberg had eyes for each other. Village 6: 7:05 and 9:45, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1:30 and 4:10.
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Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7 and 9:10, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:45. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4, 7 and 9. MORNING GLORY Rachel McAdams has the unenviable task of getting morning television anchors Harrison Ford and Diane Keaton to put aside their squabbles and revive the flagging broadcast. Carmike 10: 4:15, 7 and 9:45, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:35. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 2:30, 4:50, 7:30 and 9:45, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 4, 7 and 9:20. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2 The sequel to last year’s low-budget faux documentary—and box office hit—seems both inevitable and a terrible idea. Then again, if Jackass 3D merits a $50 million opening weekend, what do we know? Village 6: 7:15, 8 and 9:40 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1, 1:50, 3:20, 4:40 and 5:40. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:25, 2:35, 4:55, 7:10 and 9:30, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:10, 3:20, 7:10 and 9:30. RED When former black-ops agent Bruce Willis has his cozy retirement life threatened by a mysterious assassin, he decides to check on his old running mates, including Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren and John Malkovich. Carmike 10: 4:25, 7:10 and 9:50, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:20. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat.–Sun.
“based on real events” tale of the improbable 1973 Triple Crown winner. Carmike 10: Fri.–Wed. at 4:05, 7:10 and 10, with Fri.-Sun. matinees at 1. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.-Sun. at 12:35, 3:25, 6:40 and 9:25, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 3:45, 6:40 and 9:25. THE SOCIAL NETWORK Acclaimed writer Aaron Sorkin (“The West Wing”) and celebrated director David Fincher (Se7en, Fight Club) team up/friend each other to tell the controversial story of Facebook’s beginnings. Your privacy settings will not change if you go to see the film. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4:15, 6:50 and 9:15. Capsule reviews by Skylar Browning and Ira Sather-Olson. Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., Nov. 12. 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; Stadium 14 in Kalispell–752-7804. Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.
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GIVING HER PAWS I’ve been dating a great guy for three years. I occasionally get invited to work functions, and I’d like to take him, but I can’t trust him to act appropriately (not grope me in front of my co-workers, make inappropriate small talk, etc.). The thought of bringing him makes me so anxious that I go by myself. Recently, we went to two concerts he wanted to see, and I kept having to pry his hands off my breasts in the middle of a crowd. It was humiliating. Last week, he tried to grope me in line at the ice cream store in front of a bunch of families. I’m starting to think he has a social anxiety disorder. Asking him to be a supportive partner and accompany me to the occasional work event doesn’t seem like that big of a burden, especially since I entertain his friends and go see bands I don’t like for him. I don’t want to sound like a prig, but I’m advancing in my career, and I should soon be attending more work-related events. Am I being unreasonable? —Groped
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There’s that saying, “The camera adds 10 pounds.” Well, the Internet often subtracts 50. (Not to worry, all that weight will be back in place before you can say “Starbucks at 3?”) But, sorry, you cannot ask a woman how much she weighs—or even poke around in that direction: “So…what’s the most candy you’ve ever eaten at one sitting? And, are you sitting on any candy right now?” Internet dating has its pluses—instant access to loads of potential partners—and its plus-sized minuses: those big surprises you’ve encountered on three out of four dates. Just think of them as a price you have to pay for the easy access—a sort of high technology fee. In the future, assume everyone’s lying and be pleasantly surprised when someone isn’t. To keep your emotional costs down, try to get women to meet you as soon as possible for a quick drink instead of carrying on at length by phone and e-mail. This should help keep you from getting attached while spending weeks learning everything about them and then finding yourself on a date unable to ask the one thing you’re really dying to know: “So…when was your picture taken? And of whom?”
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Some social conventions are such a bore, like the expectation that when your boss extends his hand, your boyfriend will reach out and shake it, not grab both of your breasts and cop a feel. Usually, when they talk about a guy having manners from another time, they mean he’s polite like they were back in the ‘50s, not when the Neanderthals were running around. It’s normal to sometimes have to make excuses for your partner, but excuses like “He’s actually a vegetarian,” not “Believe it or not, he was raised by a pack of wild animals after his parents died in a freak canoeing accident.” Wildly inappropriate PDA is generally a sign that you’re 14 and lack boundaries or a way for a highly insecure partner to mark his territory. It can also be a way of hiding shyness by overcompensating. Whatever it is, it sure isn’t loving behavior. It’s bad enough that he embarrasses you at concerts and the ice cream store, but office parties are not parties; they’re work meetings with alcohol and land mines. When you bring your boyfriend, he should do his best to support you, and not in the way a Wonderbra would. You get the relationship you put up with. Three years in, you have no idea why your boyfriend acts like he just broke out of the monkey house. Maybe it’s a social anxiety disorder, maybe it’s itchy hair folli-
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Where I live, 35 percent of all high school students confess (or brag) that they have engaged in binge drinking, which is defined as imbibing five or more alcoholic drinks in a two-hour period. According to my reading of the omens, your inner teenager may soon be longing to flirt with that kind of intense and total release. Can I talk him or her out of it? As much as I sympathize with the younger you’s need to escape the numbing effects of the daily grind, I’m asking the adult you to step in and assert your authority. Try to find a more constructive approach to liberation. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Why did feathered dinosaurs evolve wings? Paleontologists in Britain have a new theory: It added to their sexual allure. The head researcher at the University of Manchester speculated that “maybe they ran around with their arms outstretched to show off how pretty their feathers were.” Eventually those forearms became wings that came in handy for flying. In other words, the power of flight did not originate from the urge to fly but rather from the urge to be attractive. Oddly enough, Taurus, this approach to understanding evolution would be useful for you to meditate on in the coming weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you could develop some interesting new capacities as you work to enhance your appeal to people who matter. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): On the subject of being divided, novelist Iris Murdoch wrote the following: “He led a double life. Did that make him a liar? He did not feel a liar. He was a man of two truths.” Whether you deserve the generosity of that interpretation still remains to be seen, Gemini. It is possible that your version of doubleness will be rooted in deceit or delusion rather than sincere and honest duality. Of course I’m rooting for the latter. Please do all you can to ensure that you’re being authentic, not manipulative.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): My friend Ariel’s six-year-old daughter Juno doesn’t understand why anyone would build streets that run in a straight line. Isn’t it more fun if the highways and byways are crooked and curvy? Shouldn’t people want to get to where they’re going by veering this way and that, relishing the playful twists and turns? That’s where the best action is, says Juno, and I agree: in the tweak, in the twirl, in the winding way—not in the beeline route that leaves no room for improvisation. That’s especially true for you right now, my fellow Cancerian.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Would you be delighted if I arranged to get an offshore oil-drilling rig named after you? Probably not. Would you celebrate if you won a prestigious all-expenses-paid vacation to the hottest war zones in Afghanistan? I doubt it. So don’t accept dubious honors and gifts like those, Leo. Be clear that you’re not interested in ego strokes that are irrelevant to your longterm dreams. If you hope to get the prize you’re aiming for, you will have to say a definitive no to supposedly good things that you don’t really want.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The nature of the game is changing. Do you know which game I’m referring to? I mean the one that everyone’s playing but no one’s acknowledging they’re playing. The rules of the game had held steady for quite some time, but recently they began to shift. Now even the game’s rewards are in the process of metamorphosing. My advice? You don’t necessarily need to splash a big dose of raw candor all over the place, but I do recommend that you at least tell yourself the truth about what’s going on.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): My Facebook friend Robert Goldberg has come up with terms for you Libras that puts a more positive spin on your reputation as a fence-sitter. He suggests “fence dancer” or “fence warrior.” You don’t always deserve to be bestowed with those honorable titles, of course. Sometimes you really do molder there in your intermediate position, paralyzed by indecision and unable to do what’s in the best interests of anyone, including yourself. But on other occasions—like now—you have the power to use your in-between status dynamically, coordinating the opposing interests to work as a whole that’s greater than the sum of the parts.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I cannot seem to feel alive unless I am alert,” wrote author Charles Bowden, “and I cannot feel alert unless I push past the point where I have control.” Yikes! That’s a pretty extreme approach. But I suggest that you consider trying it out in the coming week. If you hope to seize even one of the multiple opportunities that are swirling in your vicinity, you will need both supreme focus and a loosey-goosey willingness to respond to novelty. So don’t tense up and blank out and try to wrestle the mysterious flows into submission. Use your sixth sense to find the groove, and relax into it.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried,” said Winston Churchill. He was defending his favorite political system, asserting that its imperfections are superior to the flaws of monarchy, plutocracy, anarchy, theocracy, and the rest. I invite you to use a similar gauge as you evaluate the belief system that’s at the center of your life. Does it sometimes lead you astray, cause you to see things that aren’t really there, and fill you with confusion—but in ways that are more life-enhancing than any other belief system you know of? Or is your belief system actually kind of toxic? Should you consider replacing it with another set of organizing principles? If it’s the latter, now would be a good time to begin making a change.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Connie Post, my beloved former editor at the Dayton Daily News, sent me a haiku-like poem that I’d like you to ponder: “November trees/which are living?/which are dead?” I’m hoping this will put you in the mood to mull over an even bigger question, namely: What parts of your own life are withering and what parts are thriving? In my astrological opinion, it’s very important that you know the difference, and act accordingly.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Numerologists say the number 10 signifies completion, wholeness, totality. It could rightly serve as your lucky number in the coming weeks—a symbol of your power to draw long-term processes to a climax on your own terms. But you might also want to consider using 11 as your emblem of good mojo. That number denotes the drive to surpass the success you’ve earned before—to transcend easy triumphs and conventional wisdom so as to reach for a more challenging conquest. Either way, Aquarius, I think you’ll be flying high for the foreseeable future, so there’s no need to worry about which way you should go. If you do choose 11, the risks will be somewhat greater and the rewards more interesting.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In Moby Dick, Herman Melville suggested that ideally a person should be a “patriot to heaven.” Poet Gary Snyder wrote, “I pledge allegiance to the soil/one ecosystem/in diversity/under the sun/with joyful interpenetration for all.” Seminal environmentalist Edward Abbey said, “My loyalties will not be bound by national borders…or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language or culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.” I recommend you experiment with this perspective in the coming weeks, Pisces. You don’t have to tone down your love for your tribe or country. Just see if you can expand your sense of belonging…extend the borders of your comfort zone…and feel at home everywhere you go. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.
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AQUATICS PROGRAM SPECIALIST. Administers recreation program services in the areas of aquatic facilities for Missoula Parks and Recreation. Bachelor’s degree in recreation, or business administration or related field and one year of aquatics program experience, or three years experience in aquatics and fitness programming, including program management and employee supervision and a minimum of 2 years experience in concessions management. Must have or be able to obtain a Montana driver’s license within 30 days of hire. Current Life Guard, CPR/AED and first aid, American Red Cross certifications LGI, WSI preferred. Certifications in Water Park LGI, AFO, or CPO preferred. Position closes 12/05/2010. #2978659 Missoula Job Service 728-7060
FARMERS UNION ELEVATOR at Ray ND is seeking a qualified CEO / General Manager. This is a successful grain and agronomy cooperative located in NW ND with sales of $45 million. Successful agricultural business management experience preferred. Send or fax (888-6535527) resume ASAP to: Larry Fuller, 5213 Shoal Drive, Bismarck, ND 58503, Email larry.fuller@chsinc.com GREAT CAREER OPPORTUNITY in Montana’s service of first choice. Earn more with the skills you have. Learn more of the skills you need. In the Montana Army National Guard, you will build the skills you need for a civilian career, while developing the leadership skills you need to take your career to the next level. Benefits: $50,000 Loan Repayment Program. Montgomery GI Bill. Up to 100% tuition assistance for college. Medical & dental benefits. Starting at $13.00/hr. Paid job skill training. Call 1-800-GOGUARD. NATIONAL GUARD Part-time job...Full-time benefits RECEPTIONIST. City of Missoula is seeking a regular full-time receptionist. Under close supervision, provides reception, customer service & routine clerical
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HELPING OTHERS ACHIEVE MAXIMUM POTENTIAL Habilitation Assistants You make a difference every moment by taking our adult clients with developmental disabilities on community outings, assisting them to live as independently as possible, and also perform personal care as needed. Experience preferred, but not required if you are ready to learn new talents to open doors of learning and opportunities for our consumers. We currently have all shifts (day, evenings and graveyards) available. We also offer a highly competitive benefit and paid time off package for those who work a minimum of 24 hours per week! You also gain extensive new hire orientation and training throughout your employment and work in a home atmosphere. Must have High School Diploma or equiv., pass background check and drug screen, and have valid MT Driver’s License. If interested, apply at 1005 Marshall St., Missoula. Questions? Call Misty at 728-5484, ext. 130. EOE.
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for full time experienced bookkeeper / administrative professional with a solid background in AP and AR. Assistant will provide support to the Financial Manager and other staff as needed. Duties include bookkeeping for multiple companies in addition to general clerical, receptionist and project based work. Multi-tasking, attention to detail, and experience in nonprofit accounting required. Competitive salary and benefits. Please submit cover letter and resume by November 22 to angelaklinefelter@gmail.com with Subject Line: Help Wanted. PARALEGAL. Busy law firm seeking experienced paralegal. We have an immediate opening for a bright, articulate, and energetic paralegal with experience in corporate/business law. Litigation experience is also helpful. #9949011 Missoula Job Service 728-7060 PART-TIME OUTREACH LIAISON Seeking PT Outreach Liaison in local Audiologist practice. Responsible for outside marketing to physicians, businesses, and community organizations. 2+ yrs sales/marketing/community outreach exp, MS Office, medical background a plus. Must have valid driver’s license/insurance. Apply online at https://audiologyjobs-audigygroup.icims.com/jobs/intro. EOE SCHOOL BASED MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT SPECIALIST to provide school-based (CSCT) services to a Missoula school. Full-time position with competitive salary and benefits which will start in January, 2011. A licensed professional is preferred (LCSW or LCPC) but not required. A Bachelor’s degree in Social Work, Psychology, Counseling or Education is preferred, but not required. This position will remain open until filled. #2978652 Missoula Job Service 728-7060 AUTO DETAIL SHOP FOREMAN. Must have two years plus auto detail shop foreman experience. No Trainee’s. Oversee daily operation of business, do pricing, givE estimates, supervise 1 to 2 employee’s. Must be bondable. Must have actual auto shop buffing experience. Must also have a Montana driver’s license. Will be working 6:30 A.M. to 5 P.M. Monday through Fridays. Pays $800.00 every two weeks. #2978666 Missoula Job Service 728-7060 BROADCAST MAINTENANCE ENGINEER. Duties include installation, maintenance and repair of broadcast equipment including: audio, video, microwave systems, and television transmitters. Other duties include computer repair and maintenance, software installation, and maintenance of computer related equipment. A valid Montana driver’s license as this position involves operating 4X4 vehicles on rugged mountain roads, operating snowmobiles in remote locations to elevations up to 9000 feet. Candidates for this position should be in good physical condition. Position may include working weekends and holidays and must be willing to be on call after hours and weekends. Hours vary and pay is depending on experience. Benefits include: 401k, medical / dental / life insurance, vacation, sick and holiday pay. EOE
EMPLOYMENT Position Closes 11/12/10. #2978651 Missoula Job Service 728-7060 EASTERN MONTANA JOHN DEERE has opening for experienced or tech trained mechanics. Attractive benefits package, wages DOE. Call Sunrise Equipment 406-488-3112 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, 1800-545-4546
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PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING THE MISSOULA CITY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT will be conducting a public hearing at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, December 1, 2010, Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine, Missoula, MT, on the following items: 1. A request by Blake & Caryn Ludwig for three setback variances to construct a two-car garage with a dwelling unit above, located at 405 S 5th St W, and zoned RT2.7. SEE MAP C. 2. A request by Gene Senne for three variances to allow the required parking of a proposed 4-plex to be located in front of the building, located at 1854 S. 8th St W, and zoned RM1-45. SEE MAP H. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling the Missoula Office of Planning & Grants at 2584657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. For additional information regarding the variance request you may contact Hilary Schoendorf at the same number or email hschoendorf@co.missoula.mt.us.
CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 130 & 90. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting N ove m b e r 22nd, 2010 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to November 24t h, 2010, 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reser ved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.
EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 2, 35, 62, 251, 336, 477, 633, 677 and 632. Units contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday, November 22, 2010 by appt only by calling 2518600. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59803 prior to Friday, November 26, 2010, 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All sales are final.
CITY OF MISSOULA
NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on December 6, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider a resolution to annex and zone City and UM parcels consisting of the City’s Mount Sentinel Open Space Lands and the portion of UM land with the Field House and M trail as well as a smaller parcel owned by the University that is contiguous. The property is located in the southeast quadrant of the City and annexing the area into the City of Missoula boundary and zone the property OP-1 Open Space, OP-2 Open and Resource Lands and OP-3 Public and Institutional Lands. Parcel 1 is currently unzoned and upon annexation is proposed to be zoned as OP-1 (Open Space). Parcels 2 and 3 are currently zoned C-A1 (Open and Resource) and upon annexation is proposed to be zoned as OP-2 (Open and Resource). Parcel 4 is currently zoned as CRR1 (Low Density Residential) and upon annexation is proposed to be zoned as OP-1 (Open Space). Parcels 5-8 are currently zoned as C-O1 (Public Lands and Institutions) and upon annexation is proposed to be zoned as OP-3 (Open Land). A copy of the resolution with a map of these parcels is on file and available for public viewing in the City Clerk office. For further information, contact Carla Krause, Public Works, at 5526348. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on December 6, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana to consider an ordinance and an emergency ordinance amending Chapter 15.44 and renaming the chapter from “House Moving” to “Oversize Loads and House Moving” and amending Chapter 5.70 “House Moving” to include oversize loads and update fees and regulations, enacted as an emergency ordinance in order to become effective before the previous emergency ordinance expires. A copy of the ordinances is on file in the City Clerk office. For further information, contact Steve King, Public Works Director at 5526353. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein CMC, City Clerk
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Request for Proposals – Forestry Thinning on Mount Jumbo The City of Missoula, Parks & Recreation Department is requesting proposal statements for a forest thinning project on Mt. Jumbo. Proposals are requested from interested professional foresters. Mt. Jumbo is a public conservation area located within the Missoula City limits and managed primarily for native habitat. Management goals for Mt. Jumbo’s saddle area include selectively thinning small diameter pines from across roughly 200 acres. The density of trees per acre is quite variable across the site depending on slope, age of stand and available moisture. The contractor shall perform work necessary to reduce susceptibility of forest to pine beetle attack, decrease wildfire danger and restore historic (pre-fire suppression) forest conditions on the property.. Contractors interested in submitting proposals are required to attend a pre-bid tour of the project area on Wednesday, December 1, 2010, at 11:00 a.m. Contractor must contact the city Conservation Lands Manager if they plan to attend the pre-bid tour to find out where to meet. The tour will visit seven individual management units, and contractors can submit pricing on any or all of the units. Proposals are due December 17, 2010, at 4:30 p.m. at the Missoula Parks Operations Office. Late proposals will not be accepted. Copies of the request for proposals are
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INVITATION TO BIDDERS- BIDS will be received by Larchmont Golf Course until November 24, 2010 at 12:00 pm; and then at said office publicly opened and read aloud at 12:01 pm on. November 24, 2010. Each BID must be submitted in a sealed envelope, addressed to Bill Galiher, Larchmont Golf Course, 3200 Fort Missoula Rd., Missoula, Montana 59804. Each sealed envelope containing a BID must be plainly marked on the outside as “Proposals for Larchmont Golf Course Pump System Improvements” and the envelope should bear on the outside the name of the BIDDER, his or her address, and his or her license number. If forwarded by mail, the sealed envelope containing the BID must be enclosed in another envelope addressed to: Larchmont Golf Course, 3200 Fort Missoula Rd., Missoula, Montana 59804. Scope of project includes installation of new 15 hp, 100 hp & 125 hp well pumps, modification of two existing 12” well casings, two new VFD control panels, electrical improvements required for pumps, a pump shed and approximately 750 LF of new mainline as required to connect wells to irrigation system. All BIDS shall be submitted on the form provided with the Contract Documents. Contract documents may be secured from: The Land Group, Inc. at 462 E. Shore Dr., Eagle, Idaho 83616. All blank spaces for BID prices must be filled in, in ink or typewritten, and the BID form must be fully completed and executed when submitted. Only one copy of the BID form is required. The OWNER may waive any informalities or minor defects or reject any and all BIDS. Any Bid may be withdrawn prior to the above scheduled time for the opening of BIDS or authorized postponement thereof. Any BID received after the time and date specified shall not be considered. No BIDDER may withdraw a BID within seven days after the actual date of the opening thereof. Should there be reasons why the contact cannot be awarded with the specified period, the time may be extended by mutual agreement between the OWNER and the BIDDER. Each bidder will be required to be registered with the Montana Department of Labor. BIDDERS must satisfy themselves of the accuracy of the estimated quantities in the BID Schedule by examination of the site and a review of the drawings and specifications, including ADDENDA. After BIDS have been submitted, the BIDDER shall not assert that there was a misunderstanding concerning the quantities of work or of the nature of the work to be done. The OWNER shall provide to BIDDERS prior to BIDDING, all information that is pertinent to the project being BID. The CONTRACT DOCUMENTS contain the provisions required for the construction of the project. Information obtained from an officer, agent, or employee of the OWNER, or any other person shall not affect the risks or obligations assumed by the CONTRACTOR or relieve him or her from fulfilling any of the conditions of the contract. Each BID must be accompanied by a BID guarantee bond payable to the OWNER for ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the BID. As soon as the BID prices have been compared, the OWNER will return the bonds of all except the lowest responsible BIDDERS. When the contact is executed the bonds of the two remaining unsuccessful BIDDERS will be returned. The BID BOND of the successful BIDDER will be retained until the PAYMENT BOND and the PERFORMANCE BOND have been executed and approved, after which it will be returned. A certified check may be used in lieu of a BID
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BOND. No oral interpretations will be made to any BIDDER as to the meaning of the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS or any part thereof. Every request for such an interpretation shall be made in writing to the Architect/Engineer. Any inquiry received ten (10) or more days prior to the date fixed for opening of BIDS will be given consideration. Every interpretation made to a BIDDER will be in the form of an ADDENDUM to the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS, and when issued, will be on file in the office of the OWNER and the office of the ENGINEER or ARCHITECT at least four (4) days before BIDS are opened. In addition, all ADDENDA will be mailed to each person holding CONTRACT DOCUMENTS, but it shall be the BIDDER’S responsibility to make inquiry as to the ADDENDA issued. All such ADDENDA shall become part of the CONTRACT and all BIDDERS shall be bound by such ADDENDA. It shall be the responsibility of the BIDDER to obtain such ADDENDA prior to submitting his or her proposal. A PERFORMANCE BOND and a PAYMENT BOND, each in the amount of 100 percent (100%) of the contract price (with a corporate surety approved by the GRANTEE) will be required to ensure faithful performance of the contract. Attorneys-in-fact who sign BID BONDS or PAYMENT BONDS and PERFORMANCE BONDS must file with each BOND a certified and effective dated copy of their power of attorney. The party to whom the contract is awarded will be required to execute the CONTRACT and obtain the PERFORMANCE BOND and PAYMENT BOND within ten (10) calendar days from the date when NOTICE OF AWARD is delivered to the BIDDER. The NOTICE OF AWARD shall be accompanied by the necessary contract and BOND forms. In case of failure of the BIDDER to execute the CONTRACT, the OWNER may at his or her option consider the BIDDER in default, in which case the BID BOND accompanying the proposal shall become the property of the GRANTEE. Within ten (10) days of receipt of acceptable PERFORMANCE BOND, PAYMENT BOND and CONTRACT signed by the Party to whom the CONTRACT was awarded, the OWNER shall sign the CONTRACT and return to such party an executed duplicate of the CONTRACT. Should the OWNER not execute the CONTRACT within such period, the BIDDER may by written notice withdraw his or her signed CONTRACT. Such notice of withdrawal shall be effective upon receipt of notice by the OWNER. The NOTICE TO PROCEED is scheduled for December 6th, 2010. SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION is scheduled for April 1, 2011. Should construction be interrupted by the OWNER and or weather, a time extension agreed upon by OWNER and CONTRACTOR may be granted. The OWNER may make such investigations as he or she deems necessary to determine the ability of the BIDDER to perform the work, and the BIDDER shall furnish to the OWNER all such information and data for this purpose as the GRANTEE may request. The OWNER reserves the right to reject any BID if the evidence submitted by, or investigation of, such BIDDER fails to satisfy the OWNER that such BIDDER is properly qualified to carry out the obligations of the CONTRACT and to complete the work contemplated therein. A conditional or qualified BID will not be accepted. Award will be made to the lowest responsible BIDDER. All applicable laws, ordinances and the rules and regulations of all authorities have jurisdiction over construction of the project throughout the term of the CONTRACT. Each BIDDER is responsible for inspecting the site and for reading and being thoroughly familiar with the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS. The failure or omission of any BIDDER to do any of the foregoing shall in no way relieve any BIDDER from any obligation to his or her BID. The OWNER reserves the right to accept or reject any or all bids, to waive irregularities, to evaluate the bids submitted and to accept
the proposal which best serves the interest of the OWNER. The ARCHITECT is: Greg Baer, Irrigation Consultant The Land Group, Inc. 462 E. Shore Dr., Eagle, Idaho 83616 Ph. (208) 939-4041, Fax. (208) 9394445. The OWNER is: Larchmont Golf Course 3200 W. Fort Missoula Rd Missoula, Montana 59804 Ph. (406) 7214416 Fax. (406) 721-4435
MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT
FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPLICATION The Office of Planning & Grants has received a floodplain application from Fred Stout to work within the Clark Fork River floodplain. The project is located adjacent to 10635 Mullan Rd and includes the installation of riprap designed by the NRCS to protect an existing residence. The full application is available for review in the Office of Planning and Grants in City Hall. Written comments from anyone interested in County floodplain permit application # 11-07 may be submitted prior to 5:00 p.m., December 3, 2010. Address comments to the Floodplain Administrator, Office of Planning & Grants, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802 or call 258-4841 for more information.
MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT
INVITATION TO BID AIRPORT IMPROVEMENTS MISSOULA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MISSOULA, MONTANA Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received and publicly opened at 2:00 p.m. local time on Tuesday, November 23, 2010 by the Missoula County Airport Authority at the Airport Terminal Conference Room for the construction of “Airport Improvements” to include the following: Construction of a New Air Traffic Control Tower This work is to include all tools, equipment, materials and labor to complete this project. Bids must be sealed and delivered to: Missoula County Airport Authority, 5225 Highway 10 West, Missoula, MT 59808 at or before 2:00 p.m., local time on Tuesday, November 23, 2010, and marked “Bid for Airport Improvements at the Missoula International Airport.” The bidder’s name, address and state Contractor’s Registration Number shall appear in the lower left hand corner of the envelope. All bids must be accompanied by lawful monies of the United States or a Cashier’s Check, a Certified Check, Bid Bond, Bank Money Order or Bank Draft, drawn and issued by a National Banking Association located in the State of Montana, or by any Banking Corporation incorporated under the Laws of the State of Montana, in an amount equal to not less than ten (10) percent of the total bid, payable to the order of the Missoula County Airport Authority as liquidated damages in the event said successful bidder shall fail or refuse to execute the contract in accordance with the terms of his bid. After a contract is awarded, the successful bidder will be required to furnish a separate Performance and Payment Bond, each in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract. Plans, specifications, bidding and contract forms may be inspected at the Airport Director’s Office – Missoula International Airport, or at offices of the consulting engineer, MorrisonMaierle, Inc., at 1 Engineering Place, Helena, Montana; 315 N. 25th Street, Suite 102, Billings, Montana; 2880 Technology Blvd West., Bozeman, Montana; 1321 8th Avenue North, Suite 104, Great Falls, Montana; or 3011 Palmer Street, Missoula, Montana. Copies of these documents may be obtained from the office of MorrisonMaierle, Inc., 3011 Palmer Street, Missoula, Montana 59803 – Phone: (406) 542-8880, on the payment of One Hundred TwentyFive Dollars ($125.00) non-refundable, for each complete set. The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive irregularities. The Contractor will be required to comply with the wage and labor requirements and to pay minimum wages in
accordance with the schedule of wage rates established by the United States Department of Labor as referenced in the Contract. Contractors and any subcontractors doing work on this project will require registration with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry. Forms for registration are available from the Department of Labor and Industry, P.O. Box 8011, 1805 Prospect Avenue, Helena, Montana 59604-8011. Information on registration can be obtained by calling 1-800-556-6694. Contractors are required to have been registered with the Department of Labor and Industry prior to bidding on this project. The Bidder must supply all the information required by the bid documents and specifications. The Bidder is required to submit a Certification of Nonsegregated Facilities (included in the Proposal form). A Contractor having 50 or more employees and his subcontractors having 50 or more employees and who may be awarded a subcontract of $50,000 or more will be required to maintain an affirmative action program, the standards for which are contained in the specifications. To be eligible for award each bidder must comply with the affirmative action requirements which are contained in these specifications. The proposed contract is under subject to Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965, and to the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Federal Labor Provisions. The Missoula County Airport Authority has established an overall DBE goal for the year. Under this contract, the Airport Authority is adopting a race-neutral means of facilitating DBE participation. The bidder shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, or sex in the performance of this contract. The bidder shall carry out all applicable requirements of 49 CFR Part 26 in the award and administration of DOT assisted contracts As required by 49 CFR Part 26, the Airport Authority is required to create a bidders list, consisting of information about all DBE and non-DBE firms that bid or quote on DOTassisted contracts. The purpose of this requirement is to allow use of the bidder’s list approach to calculating future overall DBE goals. As per the requirements of the Proposal section, all Prime Bidders submitting bids on this project must submit, with their bid, a list including the name, address, and DBE/non-DBE status of all subcontractors and suppliers that bid or quote for work under this contract. Failure to provide this information, as outlined in the Proposal section, will make the bidder non-responsive and not eligible for award of the contract. This contract will be funded in part by a grant from the Federal Aviation Administration. Therefore, award of the Contract by the Sponsor will be made subject to concurrence of FAA. Bidders may not withdraw Proposals for a period of sixty (60) days after the bid opening date. The pre-bid conference is hereby established at 10:00 a.m. (local time) Tuesday, November 9, 2010, at the Airport Terminal Conference Room, Missoula International Airport. A tour of the work site at the Missoula International Airport will be conducted following the pre-bid conference. Signed: /s/ Cris Jensen Airport Director Missoula County Airport Authority
MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT
MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-10-493 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE OF SALE. ESSEX VENTURES, LLP; DAVID A. TRIPP; THE WEEKS ALASKA COMMUNITY PROPERTY TRUST; KTM, LLC; FLOYD C. BOSSARD; MARGARET J. BOSSARD; J&MC, L.L.P.; C. RUSSELL BROOKS; GRACE M. BROOKS; RICHARD C. BOSSARD AND MARGARET B. BOSSARD REVOCABLE TRUST; and SWAN LANDING, LLP, Plaintiffs, vs. BONNIE G. SNAVELY; MILODRAGOVICH, DALE, STEINBRENNER & N Y G R E N , P. C . ; S U L L I VA N ,
PUBLIC NOTICES TABARACCI & RHOADES, P.C.; DOUGLAS MILLER; YELLOWSTONE FLY, LLC; KEITH B. ST. JOHN, PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR THE ESTATE OF MICHAEL ROBINSON SNAVELY; and NANCY L. ISSERLIS, CHAPTER 11 TRUSTEE FOR THE ESTATE OF BONNIE G. SNAVELY DEBTOR IN CASE NO. 07-11283 U.S. BANKRUPTCY COURT, WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON. Defendants. TO BE SOLD at Sheriff’s Sale on November 18, 2010, at 10:00 o’clock a.m., at the Missoula County Courthouse, located at 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana, the following real property: Parcel I: Tract A of Certificate of Survey No. 3554, a tract of land located in the Southeast one-quarter of the Southeast one-quarter of the Northwest one-quarter of Section 9, Township 13 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. Parcel II: Tract B of Certificate of Survey No. 939, a tract of land located in the Southwest one-quarter of Section 16, Township 13 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. This sale is to be to the highest bidder, for cash, to satisfy a judgment of $3,588,883.17, together with interest accruing at 15% per year, from August 25, 2010, and continuing until the date of sale, together with associated costs, fees and attorney’s fees. This sale is being held in accordance with MCA 25-13-704(1), upon Writ of Execution entered in the Missoula County District Court Cause No. DV 10493, and issued October 8, 2010. DATED this 28th day of October, 2010. /s/ MICHAEL R. McMEEKIN Sheriff of Missoula County, Montana By Patrick A. Turner, Deputy NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 3, 2011, 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 9, IN BLOCK 7 OF SEELEY LAKE HOMESITES NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Corey K. Withrow, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 7, 2007 and recorded on June 14, 2007 in Book 799, Page 482 on Document No. 200714949. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,274.25, beginning January 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of July 30, 2010 is $136,192.25 principal, interest at the rate of 7.125% now totaling $6,431.47, late charges in the amount of $141.90, escrow advances of $2,308.04 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,188.11, plus accruing interest at the rate of $26.59 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby
cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 23, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On August 23, 2010, 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 LBPS v Withrow 42008.023 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 3, 2011, 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: THE NORTH 75 FEET OF LOTS 16, 17 AND 18 IN BLOCK 29 OF CARLINE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Doreen M Bermingham, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated February 13, 2006 and Recorded on February 14, 2006 under Document # 200603411, in Bk-768, Pg1410. The beneficial interest is currently held by American Home Mortgage Servicing, Inc.. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $868.44, beginning March 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 26, 2010 is $99,522.93 principal, interest at the rate of 7.500% now totaling $4,263.82, late charges in the amount of $109.08, escrow advances of $103.02, other fees and expenses advanced of $49.20, plus accruing interest at the rate of $20.45 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 23, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA) ) ss. County of Stark) On August 23, 2010, 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. STEPHANIE L. CRIMMINS Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 American Home Mortgage Corp V.bermingham/doreen NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 3, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: LOT 13 IN BLOCK 5 SEELEY LAKE PINES, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF . A.P.N. : 2227302 JOHN A. ANTONUCCI AND LINDA L. ANTONUCCI, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to INSURED TITLES, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS,INC., as Beneficiary, by DEED OF TRUST DATED MARCH 1, 2007 AND RECORDED MARCH 7, 2007 IN BOOK 793 PAGE 253 UNDER DOCUMENT NO. 200705438. AND RERECORDED APRIL 27, 2007 IN BOOK 796, PAGE 250 UNDER DOCUMENT NO. 200710208. The beneficial interest is currently held by US Bank National Association. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of MISSOULA County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,385.17, beginning March 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of jULY 26, 2010 is $$169,962.34 principal, interest at the rate of 6.500% now totaling $4,348.40, late charges in the amount of $222.48, escrow advances of $820.55, suspense balance of $ and other fees and expenses advanced of $99.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $30.27 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 23, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss.County of Stark) On August 23, 2010, 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. Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2010 Us Bank V. Antonucci/john A. And Linda 41810.329
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 3, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: Tract 2 of Certificate of Survey No. 4846, located in the Southwest one-quarter of Section 16, Township 13 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. Robert J. Loran and Elizabeth K. Loran, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary, by DEED OF TRUST RECORDED MARCH 7, 2007 IN BOOK 793 PAGE 199 UNDER DOCUMENT NO. 200705384. The beneficial interest is currently held by US Bank National Association as Trustee. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of MISSOULA County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $3493.68, beginning April 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 6, 2010 is $539480.94 principal, interest at the rate of 6.37500% now totaling $14,801.07, late charges in the amount of $1048.08, and other fees and expenses advanced of $116.75, plus accruing interest at the rate of $94.22 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation.The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 24, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On August 24, 2010, 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 GMAC V. Loran/Robert & Elizabeth 41965.346 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 1 Probate No. DP-10-176 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARGARET KATHLEEN MURPHY JERRIM, a/k/a MARGO JERRIM, Deceased. Notice is given that the undersigned was appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed 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 the claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Kathryn Jerrim Ybarra, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 227 South 4th West,
Missoula, Montana 59801 or filed with the clerk of the above court. Dated: November 3 2010. /s/ Kathryn Jerrim Ybarra, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-10-170 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BARBARA K. CORRICK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Thomas Kevin Corrick, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 22nd day of October, 2010. /s/ Thomas Kevin Corrick Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-10-167 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF VIRGINIA J. HACKMAN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Warren R. Hackman has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named 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 their claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 310 West Spruce, Missoula, MT 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 20th day of October, 2010. CHRISTIAN, SAMSON & JONES, PLLC. /s/ Kevin S. Jones MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-10-169 Honorable John W. Larson, Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF DONALD SCHMAUTZ, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to David Schmautz, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 25th day of October, 2010. /s/ David Schmautz, Personal Representative. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Attorney for the Estate MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DV-10-1476 Notice of Hearng on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Tammy Jo Townsend, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Tammy Jo Townsend to Tammy Jo Billingsley. The hearing will be on December 23, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Dated November 4, 2010. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By Diane Overholtzer, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-10-165 IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT L. SPARR, Deceased. NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Roberta M. Sparr has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent, Robert L. Sparr, 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 Roberta M. Sparr, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o John Spangler Law Office, P.O. Box 567, Superior, Montana, 59872, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 13th day of October, 2010. /s/ Roberta M. Sparr, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY John W. Larson Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DV10-1387 NOTICE OF HEARING ON CHANGE OF MINOR CHILD IN THE MATTER OF THE NAME CHANGE OF: SALA Z. THOMAS: BROOK E. CLARK, Petitioner, on behalf of SALA Z. THOMAS, Minor Child. This is Notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court to change a child’s name from Sala Zenzele Thomas to Sala Robin Clark. The hearing will be on Thursday the 9th day of December, 2010 at 9:00 o’clock a.m. at the Missoula County Courthouse. DATED this 19th day of October, 2010. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By /s/ Michelle Vipperman Deputy Clerk of Court
NOTICE OF POST ELECTION AUDIT Notice is hereby given that a post election audit of the November 2, 2010 Federal General Election, which is open to the public, will be starting at 8:30 a.m. on Friday, November 12, 2010 at the Missoula County Record’s Center, 2147 Ernest Avenue, Missoula, Montana. DATED this 17th day of September, 2010. Vickie M. Zeier Election Administrator Missoula County NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER DEED OF TRUST TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: 1. Notice is hereby given to the public and to the following: Laramie D. Loewen 2711 South Higgins Avenue Missoula, MT 59801 Laramie D. Loewen P.O. Box 5623 Missoula, MT 59806-5623 Laramie D. Loewen 913 Stephens Avenue Missoula, MT 59801-3804 Laramie D. Loewen 915 Stephens Avenue Missoula, MT 59801-3804 Laramie D. Loewen 2443 Dixon Avenue Missoula, MT 59801 Laramie D. Loewen 710 Mount Avenue Missoula, MT 59801-5702 Laramie D. Loewen 717 Cherry Street Missoula, MT 59802-3703 Laramie D. Loewen 120 West Franklin Street Missoula, MT 59801-3849 Laramie D. Loewen 820 Woodworth Missoula, MT 59801 Occupant 2711 South Higgins Avenue Missoula, MT 59801 Larry Loewen a/k/a Larry Lowen 8815 Pickering Missoula, MT 59808 Larry Loewen a/k/a Larry Lowen 5656 West Harrier, Unit 1 Missoula, MT 59808 2. Property. This Notice concerns the following described real property (the “Property”) located at 2711 South Higgins, Missoula, Montana 59801, and more particularly described as follows: Tract D of Beck’s Home Addition amended plat of Parcel 2, Lots 14, 15, 16, 17 and South one-half of Lot 13, Block 10, Beck’s Home Addition to the City of Missoula, Missoula County, according to the official plat hereof in Book 11 of Plats, Page 100, records of Missoula County, Montana. 3. Loans Secured by the Property. First Interstate Bank made a loan to Laramie D. Loewen. To secure the loan, Laramie D. Loewen executed a Deed of Trust (described below) to secure payment and satisfaction of the loan obligation. a. Loan No. 1401617220 i. Deed of Trust. Grantor Laramie D. Loewen executed and delivered to First Interstate Bank (beneficiary) a Deed of Trust described as follows: Date: September 9, 2009 Grantor: Laramie D. Loewen Original Trustee: Stewart Title of Missoula County Lender/Beneficiary: First Interstate Bank Recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana, as follows: Date: September 10, 2009 Book/Page: Book 847, Page 239 Document No. 200922193 ii. Substitute Trustee. The following was substituted as Trustee: Dean A. Stensland Boone Karlberg PC 201 West Main, Suite 300 P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, MT 59807-9199 Telephone: (406) 543-6646 Facsimile: (406) 549-6804 by a written document recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana as follows: Dated: August 17, 2010 Recorded: August 19, 2010 Document No.: 201015950 Book/Page: 864/842 iii. Promissory Note. The Deed of Trust was given to secure payment of a Promissory Note in the original principal amount of Seventy Thousand Four Hundred Twenty Three Dollars and Fifty Cents ($70,423.50) from Laramie D. Loewen to First Interstate Bank. iv. Default. Laramie D. Loewen has defaulted under the Promissory Note and Deed of Trust due to his failure to pay monthly interest payments. As the result of the default, First Interstate Bank has declared the entire unpaid principal balance, interest, late charges, costs and attorney fees, immediately due. v. Amount Owing. The amount owing on the Promissory Note is: Principal: $70,423.50 Interest through 8/19/10: $2,279.27 Late Charges: $101.85 Trustee’s Sale Guarantee: $374.00. Interest continues to accrue on the Promissory Note and Deed of Trust at the daily rate of $12.5411 from June 28, 2010 until paid. The total balance due on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is the sum of the above items, plus attorney fees and costs allowed by law. The exact amount owing as of the date of sale will be provided upon request made to the under signed prior to the date of said sale. vi. Acceleration. Notice is hereby given that the Beneficiary under the Deed of Trust has previously elected to declare all principal and interest immediately due and payable in consequence of the default of Laramie D. Loewen under the Promissory Note and Deed of Trust. 4. Notice of Sale. Notice is hereby given that the Beneficiary under the Deed of Trust and the Trustee hereby elect to sell or cause to be sold the Property described above to satisfy the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. The sale will be held at the following date, time and place: Date: January 11, 2011 Time: 10:00 a.m. Place: Missoula County Courthouse 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT The Trustee will sell the Property at public auction to the highest bidder, in cash, in lawful money of the United States, all payable at the time of the sale. DATED this 20th day of August, 2010. By: /s/ Dean A. Stensland Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA) COUNTY OF MISSOULA) This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 20th day of August, 2010, by Dean A. Stensland. /s/ Lisa Radcliffe Wallace Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Florence, Montana My Commission Expires: April 8, 2014
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 3, 2011, 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 8 of Huson Heights, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Forrest L Dyer, III, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J Peterson at Mackoff, Kellogg, Kirby & Kloster, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to PHH Mortgage Services, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated July 31, 2003 and Recorded and August 1, 2003 at 4:56 o’clock P.M., in Book 713, Page 886, under Document No. 200328292.. The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH Mortgage Corporation. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,269.04, beginning September 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 06, 2010 is $109,853.67 principal, interest at the rate of 7.25% now totaling $8,073.49, late charges in the amount of $327.72, escrow advances of $3,623.39, and other fees and expenses advanced of $701.71, plus accruing interest at the rate of $21.82 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 23, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark On August 23, 2010, 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. Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Phh V. Dyer 41392.428 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/14/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200803359, Bk 813, Pg 454, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which William P. Corette Jr., a married man was Grantor, Wachovia Mortgage Corporation was Beneficiary and First American Title Insurance Company of Montana was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Insurance Company of Montana as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 15 and 31 of Sorrel Springs, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof. Beneficiary
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PUBLIC NOTICES has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 03/28/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of August 23, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $218,213.42. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $209,493.86, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on January 4, 2011 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# 7023.76782) 1002.169037-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/15/98, recorded as Instrument No. 199834018, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which David E. Chamberlain, a single person was Grantor, Norwest Mortgage, Inc. was Beneficiary and First Montana Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First Montana Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Parcel E of Certificate of Survey No. 3983, located in the Northwest quarter (NW1/4) of Section 17, Township 12 North, Range 17 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Less and excepting therefrom any right, title or interest in any minerals, mineral rights or related matters, including but not limited to oil, gas, coal, and other hydrocarbons. 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 02/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 9, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $77,367.30. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $72,311.23, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on January 20, 2011 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# 7023.73996) 1002.156751-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. 200703700, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which David S. Zrowka and Jeanne A Zrowka, husband and wife was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Quicken Loans Inc. was Beneficiary and Title Source, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Source, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 9-B-2 of Certificate of Survey No. 1813, located in the NE1/4 of Section 35 and the NW1/4 of Section 36, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. By written instrument beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for J.P. Morgan Alternative Loan Trust 2007A2. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 06/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 14, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $391,334.22. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $383,846.53, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on January 26, 2011 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# 7037.09748) 1002.171712-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/22/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200534297 Bk. 766, Pg. 945, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Karen L. Rausch, a single person 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: Unit A as shown and defined in the Declaration of Unit Ownership for KTT Townhomes Owners Association, Inc. as recorded June 5, 2009 in Book 840 of Micro Records, Page 1322, records of Missoula County, Montana and as amended by Amendment to KTT Townhomes Owners Association, Inc., Declaration of Unit Ownership recorded July 6, 2009, located on the South one-half of Lot 2 in Block 1 of Mosby’s Leisure Highlands Addition No. 5, a platted subdivi-
sion in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Together with an interest in the General Common Elements and an interest in the Limited Common Elements as set forth in the Declaration of Unit Ownership for KTT Townhomes Owners Association, Inc. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200822127, Book 826, Page 1311, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, NA, as Trustee for NHEL Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 2006-WF1. 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 September 14, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $191,513.82. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $146,412.80, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on January 24, 2011 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# 7023.17629) 1002.99756-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/13/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200632269, Bk 789, Pg 150, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Carleton M. Clifford, Jr. and Joan B. Clifford was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Group One Lending, a division of Northwest Mortgage Group, 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 4 of Wild Flower Hills, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. B 853, P 537, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 23, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $439,682.48. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $403,424.43, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on February 2, 2011 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# 7023.09395) 1002.143257-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/27/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200607077, Bk 771, Pg 326, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Patrick T. Beers was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Financial Inc. d/b/a Mann Mortgage was Beneficiary and Title Services, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: The South one-half of Lots 16, 17, 18 and 19 in Block 20 of Car Line Addition a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to US Bank National Association, as Trustee for CSMC 2006-6. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 03/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 17, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $159,944.74. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $148,683.65, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on January 31, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7777.13715) 1002.172506-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/01/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200408722, Bk 729, Pg 83, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Sharon E. Oliver was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Financial Inc. d/b/a Mann Mortgage was Beneficiary and Insured Titles, LLC. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance
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Company has succeeded Insured Titles, LLC. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 14A of Car Line Addition No. 2, Block B, Lots 13, 14 15 and 16, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 06/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 17, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $146,476.45. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $140,941.04, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on January 31, 2011 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# 7023.78546) 1002.172549-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/03/07, recorded as Instrument No. 20076730, Bk. 807, Pg. 90, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Timothy J. Cook & John P. Cook, as tenants in common 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: Lot 13 in Block 14 of School Addition, to the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official map of plat thereof now on file and of record in Book 1 of Plats at Page 48 in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder of said Missoula County, Montana. By written instrument beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Chase Home Finance, LLC. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 06/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 20, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $166,551.01. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $162,093.12, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on January 31, 2011 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# 7037.70120) 1002.172550-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/25/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200715078, Bk 799, Pg 611, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Michael F. Kraai, and Peggy Jo Kraai, husband and wife was Grantor, Wachovia Mortgage Corporation was Beneficiary and First American Title Insurance Company of Montana was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Insurance Company of Montana as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A parcel of land situated in the State of Montana, County of Missoula, with a street located Address of 3030 Eaton St; Missoula, MT 59801-7616 currently owned by Michael F. Kraai and Peggy J. Kraai having a Tax Identification Number of 04-2200-32-2-0201-0000 and being the same property more fully described in Book/Page or Document Number 691-1082 Dated 10/30/2002 and further described as Carline #3-Lot 17 Blk Q. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 23, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $95,855.91. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $87,247.75, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on February 2, 2011 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# 7023.72631) 1002.172754-FEI Notice of Trustee’s Sale THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on February 8, 2011, at the hour of 11:00:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following
described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JAMES M. CONNOLLY, AND SHERRY E. CONNOLLY, AS JOINT TENANTS WITH RIGHT OF SURVIVORSHIP as Grantors, conveyed said real property to INSURED TITLES, LLC as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 09/13/2007 and recorded 09/14/2007, in document No. 200724035 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 805 at Page Number 1041 In the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 28A OF CANYON RIVER, PHASE 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 5277 CANYON RIVER ROAD, Missoula, MT 59802. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 06/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $417,000.00 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.00% per annum from 05/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: September 23, 2010 ReconTrust Company, N.A. Successor Trustee 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407 Richardson, TX 75082. T.S. NO 10-0123961 FEI NO 1006.113311 Notice of Trustee’s Sale THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on February 9, 2011, at the hour of 11:00:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which TROY A MAGRUDER, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN as Grantors, conveyed said real property to CHARLES A PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 06/14/2005 and recorded 06/14/2005, in document No. 200514382 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 754 at Page Number 687 In the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: PARCEL I: TRACT 5-B-1D OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 2595 LOCATED IN THE
PUBLIC NOTICES SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 3, TOWNSHIP 11 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. PARCEL II: TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT FOR ACCESS AS SHOWN ON CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 2595. Property Address: 14010 SAPPHIRE DR, Lolo, MT 59847-9637. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 06/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $128,422.50 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.75% per annum from 05/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: September 01, 2010 ReconTrust Company, N.A. Successor Trustee 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407 Richardson, TX 75082. T.S. NO 10-0110367 FEI NO 1006.110534 Notice of Trustee’s Sale THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on February 9, 2011, at the hour of 11:00:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which SANDRA A. DEAL as Grantors, conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY OF MONTANA to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 12/13/2006 and recorded 12/19/2006, in document No. 200632433 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 789 at Page Number 314 In the office of the Clerk and
Recorder Missoula, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT B19 OF CANYON CREEK VILLAGE PHASES 5. 6, 7 AND 8, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 4711 ADALAIDE LANE, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 06/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $107,937.31 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 4.375% per annum from 05/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: September 24, 2010 ReconTrust Company, N.A. Successor Trustee 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407 Richardson, TX 75082. T.S. NO 10-0124750 FEI NO 1006.113581 Notice of Trustee’s Sale THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE sold FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on January 24, 2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which LARSON, DONALD D AND DIANE M. AS JOINT TENANTS as Grantors, conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES, INC. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 06/29/2007 and recorded 07/02/2007, in document No. 200716765 in
JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r Book/Reel/Volume Number 800 at Page Number 970 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula, Montana County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 6 IN BLOCK 9 OF LAKE VIEW ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THERFOF. Property Address: 320 OCONNELL DRIVE, LOLO, MT 59847. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on JUNE 01, 2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $164,730.66 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.375% per annum from May 01, 2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: September 08, 2010 ReconTrust Company, N.A. Successor Trustee 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407 Richardson, TX 75082. T.S. NO 10-0113743 FEI NO 1006.111584 Notice of Trustee’s Sale THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on February 23, 2011, at the hour of 11:00:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JOE LONG as Grantors, conveyed said real property to TITLE SERVICES, INC as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 10/11/2006 and recorded
10/16/2006, in document No. 200626757 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 785 at Page Number 371 In the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE NORTH ONE-HALF OF LOT 1 AND THE NORTH ONE-HALF OF LOT 2 IN BLOCK 14 OF BUTTE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 1847 WEST SUSSEX AVENUE, Missoula, MT 59801. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 08/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $135,959.86 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.00% per annum from 07/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: October 12, 2010 ReconTrust Company, N.A. Successor Trustee 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-9840407 Richardson, TX 75082. T.S. NO 100135090 FEI NO 1006.115377 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 27, 2010, 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 19 in Tract 15 of 5 Acre Tracts in the North one-half of School addition, in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Shy A Obrigewitch and Marla A. Obrigewitch, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 6, 2005 and Recorded October 7, 2005 in Book 761, Page 1499 under Document Number 200526729. The beneficial interest is currently held by US Bank National Association as Trustee for
RASC 2005KS12. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1132.70, beginning June 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 29, 2010 is $112,491.81 principal, interest at the rate of 5.00% now totaling $11,752.27, late charges in the amount of $643.62, escrow advances of $1,728.49 and other fees and expenses advanced of $5,975.13, plus accruing interest at the rate of $15.41 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: August 17, 2010 /s/ Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On August 17, 2010, 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. /s/ Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 GMAC V Obrigewitch 41965.049
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“5 CC Injection, Stat!”—it’s not a lot, but it makes a difference.
by Matt Jones
AC ROSS 1 “Rub-a-dub-dub, three men in ___...” 5 They get busier in the winter: abbr. 9 Visibly took notice 14 Frank Herbert classic 15 Sabermetrician’s data 16 Kitchenaid competitor 17 Guy who voted Republican in 2008? 19 Ox stocks 20 Critical hosp. wing 21 Word after both “he” and “she” 22 Most confident 23 1997 movie to be rereleased in 3D in 2012 25 “___ little time...” 26 Gripper used only on roads? 31 Melissa Etheridge’s “___ Am” 34 Grope (around) 35 Obnoxious laugh sound 36 “Convoy” singer C.W. representing the U.S.? 41 “___ blimey!” 42 Comfort 43 Checklist component 44 Clip from a 1983 Mr. T. comedy? 49 Crimson Tide 50 Habitrail walker 54 Aesop’s stories 56 It replaced the Belgian franc 57 “Yay, toreador!” 58 Van Gogh locale 59 Place where everything just...happens? 61 “Mr. Belvedere” mom ___ Graff 62 Panda Express cookers
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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control
These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana
541-7387 CHARLIE
Charlie is a handsome, happy dog who lost his home when his family moved to a place that didn't allow dogs. We know he misses his home, but he's still behaving well and waiting patiently for a new family to discover him.
549-3934 ESTELLA BOOTS
CLARENCE
Clarence is a big, good-looking dog with tons of good qualities and only one potential problem -- there are some other male dogs that he simply doesn't like. A caring owner with a firm hand could take care of that with no trouble at all!
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M O L LY
Molly is one of several good-looking black and white cats at the shelter right now. She's a real sweetheart, but if it turns out she's not exeactly what you want, you could check out the others for the perfect match! 2420 W Broadway 2310 Brooks 3075 N Reserve 6149 Mullan Rd Clark Fork River Market
S I LV I A
Silvia is an orange and white beauty who is longing for a home of her own. She's such an impressive cat that the woman who found her as a stray has sponsored her whole adoption fee! She hopes that helps Silvia become part of a new family.
Estella Boots, our longest shelter resident, now faces her second winter here wondering if she will ever find a home. Not a clingy type, Boots’ physical and emotional needs are simple. The right person will have no other pets and can appreciate Boots’ lazy, independent nature.
To sponsor a pet call 543-6609
BIANCA
Bianca is a gentle, quiet declawed lady who would love to have a real home again. Right now she's in our section of the adoption center at Petsmart, hoping that just the right family will discover her there. Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at
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BABY
Baby really wants to be your friend, but not in your face. She’ll hang around with you, but not hang onto you. Catch her emerald eye and she’ll call out to you. She isn’t keen on the company of other animals and would do best as an only pet.
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SUZY
Senior black and white beauty Suzy asks for nothing more than to live out her life with a human family once more. She knows the requirements and comforts of indoor life, has lived with cats and dogs, and really misses a human’s warm lap.
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Looking for an older gentleman with good manners and not many demands? That would be Porter! We call him the elder statesman of the cat room because of his regal manner and his calm demeanor.
PENNY
Like many senior cats, Penny has been overlooked for too long. This gorgeous gray beauty has the best years of her life ahead of her! The perfect home for Penny would include no other pets and lots of comfy napping spots and large picture windows.
The world is not enough for this girl, so Galaxy is an appropriate name. Well past the busy-body kitten stage, Galaxy seeks the comfort of a sunny window, a soft voice and room to meet life on her own terms. Bring Galaxy or any cat aged 7 and over into your home this month and there’s no adoption fee.
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CLEO
Those stunning green eyes will peer up at you. “Are you the one who’ll take me into your home and heart?” she must be asking. As one of our senior cats, Cleo deserves a chance in a home of her own.
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These pets may be adopted at AniMeals 721-4710 BAILEY
He was trapped. It was an extremely inconvenient turn of events. He had things to do and this was most certainly interrupting his timeline. When he realized what was going on (trap, neuter, release program) he let everyone know that he was NOT feral.
DOLLY
Dolly’s story is no fairy tale, but the ending could be. This beautiful little girl came from a hoarding situation where she had to fight for her food. Every day was a struggle to survive. She was found bedraggled and extremely underweight. Make Dolly’s dreams come true by taking this sweet girl home with you.
LIZZY
She is one of nine beautiful cats were transferred to us by Missoula Animal Control due to overcrowding in their shelter. We were very happy to be able to help out in their time of need. Do you believe in second chances? The Divine Nine do.
SOPHIE
They were out of money. They hadn’t paid the rent in months and the landlord had run out of patience. The family lost everything and Sophie lost her family. She tried to do her part by bringing mice to pay the rent, but the landlord wanted nothing to do with that. Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at
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APARTMENTS APARTMENTS FOR RENT 1 & 2 Bedroom FURNISHED, partially furnished or unfurnished apartments. UTILITIES PAID. Close to U & downtown. 549-7711. Check our website! www.alpharealestate.com 1024 Stephens #7 1bd/1ba $550 with rent incentive New carpet, paint, Gas FA and coinops onsite. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 118 West Alder- Historic Park Place Hotel at the heart of downtown –Secured entry, Studio units now offering newly remodeled loft style living with great views, coin-ops and flat rate for gas heat. Rent $525-$595. Contact PPM for rent specials. 721-8990 1826 4th: 2-bedroom, carport, laundry, central, cat welcome!,$750, $100 Costco Gift Certificate!$695, GCPM, 5496106, gcpm-mt.com 2201 W. Railroad #106 $900/$900 deposit. MOVE in special-2 weeks free. 2 bed/1.5 bath, G/S paid, D/W, Washer/dryer & Micorwave. Carport & storage. NO PETS. GATEWEST 728-7333 2339 Mary #4 - $650 w/ Rent Incentive! Heat Paid, 2 bd rental w/ coin-ops on site. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 807 Pattee Creek #C (55+ neighborhood) 2 Bdrm single level condo, $795/mo (406)5329300 www.RE-MG.com 951 Ronald #204 $625/$350 Deposit. Condo AGE 62 & OVER. 1 bed/1 bath, H/W/S/G & extended basic cable paid. Coin op laundr y. NO PETS. GATEWEST 728-7333 967 Airport Road, Stevensville 4 bdrm/2 bath home on 7 acres, trash/heat paid $800/mo (406)532-9300 www.RE-MG.com Newer 2 bedroom apartment $775/month $500 deposit. W/G/S paid, washer/dryer. 1951 Kensington 721-5484
Spruce Street Plaza Newly built loft-style apartment in the old meadow gold Building. Walk to downtown and river trail. Enjoy roof-top terrace, ac, full-size w/d, dw, built-in micro and automatic ice maker. Rent $650-$725 Contact PPM for more details. 721-8990
RENTALS OUT OF TOWN COUNTRY HOME 2 Bed on idyllic 9ac. Alberton-Petty Creek. 37 min. to Missoula. On the creek, prime recreational area. $900 month. 552-1346
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REAL ESTATE 912 Defoe • $169,900 3 bedroom two full bath home with GIGANTIC shop/garage. Brand new carpet just installed. Come take a look! Across from the Northside Trail System. MLS #10003358
Just Reduced! 435 Mount
435 Mount • $199,000 $203,900 Right across from lovely Rose Park. This home has had many upgrades including remodeled kitchen featuring Hickory Cabinets, Brazilian Hickory laminate flooring throughout, all new stainless steel appliances. New blinds in the living room and solid core doors in all the main level rooms. The new roof was put on in May. The yard features a nice array of perennials. There is parking in the rear under the carport and a shed for extra storage. Call Mary Marry for a showing today. MLS # 10005191.
Priced $13,400 Below Recent Appraisal!!
514 W. Spruce St. • $249,000 1920’s era house has been revamped while retaining all of its original charm. Updated electrical, plumbing, handicapped accessible bath, security alarm, offstreet parking, underground sprinklers, and air conditioning in harmony with original bullseye woodwork, mahogany flooring, high ceilings, and all right downtown on West Spruce. Zoned B2-2 for a variety of commercial or residential uses. MLS#10001940
Mary Mar ry
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HOMES FOR SALE 1 Bed, 1 Bath, Garage, U area Condos. Assume contract for deed! Buy one condo or all t h r e e . M L S # ’s 1 0 0 0 4 2 7 6 / 10004273 / 10004274. Priced starting at $143,900. L a r a D o r m a n , R e a l t o r, GRI. (406) 531-5582 laradorman@aol.com 2 Bed, 1.5 bath adorable home completely remodeled. Seller will put a wall up in the bonus room upstairs to make into a 3rd bedroom. $139,500 MLS # 10002211. Jeremy & Betsy Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com 3 bed, 1 bath home on a large lot near the end of a quiet street in East Missoula. Tons of potential lies in this home with original hardwood floors, wood accents, french doors, a huge finished attic space, and an unfinished basement. Lots of room to grow! MLS # 10004818 • $160,000 Jeremy & Betsy Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com. Beautiful 3br/3ba home in a beautiful setting in desirable Lincoln Woods neighborhood close to walking trails, parks, wilderness area, Rattlesnake creek. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com
B E A U T I F U L L Y U P D AT E D NORTHSIDE BUNGALOW. 2 Bdr/1 Bath, hardwood floors, new windows, new kitchen w/stainless appliances & tiled countertops, updated bath, great deck & private back yard, close to downtown. $182,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, Text Mindy0 to 74362 or visit...
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BEAUTIFULLY UPDATED ROSE PARK BUNGALOW WITH A GREAT YARD. 3 Bdr, 1.5 baths, gorgeous hardwoood floors, built-ins, updated baths, bright, sunny kitchen, and a fantastic oasis of a back yard. $259,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, Text Mindy4 to 74362, or visit...
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Best priced home in Canyon Creek! 2 bed, 2 bath & double garage. Fenced yard. Motivated s e l l e r. w w w. 4 6 4 9 bordeauxblvd.com. 4649 Bordeaux, Missoula. $149,900. MLS#10007213 Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507 Charming 6-plex across the street from Orange Street Food Farm, parks, and within easy biking or walking to the University and downtown. Very nice neighborhood and well
maintained units. Low vacancy rate. 234 Edith, Msla. MLS#10004704. $379,900. L a r a D o r m a n , R e a l t o r, GRI. (406) 531-5582 laradorman@aol.com Classic University Home, Great floor plan, fireplace, hardwood floors, Nice sized rooms, Lots of Bonus Rooms downstairs w/kitchenette, well maintained, oversized 2 car garage, 116 E. Sussex. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com Fantastic Oppor tunity for income qualified first time homeowners, great 2bdr. condo along the river, attached single car garage, bonus room, pets allowed, 1401 Cedar St #12 327-8787 porticorealestate.com Farm Houses w/land in Missoula, these funky far m houses boast lots of land to spread out and do your thing or develop. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com GORGEOUS CRAFTSMAN STYLE TARGET RANGE HOME ON 0.94 ACRES. 5 Bdr/3.5 Bath, double garage, hardwood & tile floors, gourmet kitchen, breakfast nook, main floor master, 2 family rooms. Close to schools, shopping, and the Bitterroot River. $469,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-
6696, Text Mindy12 to 74362, or visit...
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GORGEOUS HANDCRAFTED HOME IN 3.3 ACRES ON PETTY CREEK. 3 Bdr/2.5 Baths, Main floor master suite, great room, gorgeous kitchen, hardwood floors, heated double garage, with guest quarters, and great views. $595,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, Text Mindy8 to 74362, or visit...
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GORGEOUS SETTING ON 16.5 ACRES. Beautifully updated 3 Bdr/2 Bath Potomac area home. Great floor plan, large deck and covered porch, very private and quiet setting, tons of wildlife, trees and pasture. $219,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy15 to 74362, or visit...
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Handsome, Spacious Home on Prime Upper Miller Creek Acreage, 5+ bedrooms, with out of town living on quiet cul-desac, and acres. Rodeo Rd. 3278787 porticorealestate.com Immaculate home in great neighborhood. 2 bdrms, 2 bth, family room, sauna, nice yard, Vintage touches, hardwood floors, everything’s in fantastic
condition! 135 Kensington 3278787 porticorealestate.com Just Listed! 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage. Master bed w/ closet/office area, Large storage shed, new deck & underground sprinklers $220,000 • MLS # 10007009. Jeremy & Betsy Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com Just Listed! 5 bed, 3 bath home in South Hills. House has central air, vaulted ceilings, big family room with gas fireplace. Yard w/ underground sprinklers and privacy fence. 2 car garage. Great home for entertaining! MLS # 10007275. $265,000. Jeremy & Betsy Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com MAKE AN OFFER! 2002 Atlantic home w upgraded energy package. Over 1700 sq. ft. of living space. 3 Bed, 2 Bath, 3 Car Garage. Very nice floor plan. Large detached 28 x 40 heated shop, easy access. All on 20 treed acres w views! 36201 Berthoud, Potomac. $215,000. MLS#10002286. Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507 One of a Kind Listing, Nine Mile Schoolhouse with all the charm, romance and history one would expect. Unlimited possibilities an outstanding property. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com
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406-544-2125
BEST DEAL IN POTOMAC ON 20 ACRES
AFFORDABLE LIVING CLOSE TO U MLS#'s 10004276 / 10004273 / 10004274 Priced starting at $143,900
$215,000 2002 Atlantic home w upgraded energy package. Over 1700 sq. ft. of living space. Very nice floor plan. Large detached 28 x 40 heated shop with water, easy access. All on 20 treed acres with views! MLS#10005731.
GRANT CREEK LOG HOME 26+ PRIVATE ACRES
Lara Dorman Realtor GRI
406.531.5582 laradorman@aol.com
$419,000 Located just 15 minutes from downtown Missoula! The main house is a 3 bd, 2 bath, 3 story log home, with completely renovated bathrooms, newer 3 car open garage with tons of storage built above it and a small guest cabin! MLS#10001348 www.11815benchroad.com
BEST PRICED HOME IN CANYON CREEK! $149,900 2 bed, 2 bath & double garage. Fenced yard. Motivated seller. www.4649bordeauxblvd.com
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Missoula Properties Glasgow Cell:(406) 544-7507 • glasgow@montana.com
Missoula Independent Classifieds Page C14 November 11 – November 18, 2010
Assume Contract for Deed! Buy one condo or all three! You can't beat this price and live so close to downtown, WALKING distance to the university, Dairy Queen, Caras Park, Bonner Park! These sweet condo's are nestled in the perfect location for all Missoula has to offer. Very well maintained: new windows, new hot water heater, new roof, u/g sprinklers.
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riceteam@bigsky.net Robin Rice Janet Rice missoularealestate4sale.com 240-6503 240-3932 WALLACE CREEK ESTATES • 4 Bed, 3 Bath, Double Garage • Well maintained tri level home • 1 fenced acre of land • Mountains surrounding the area • $220,000 • MLS#10006717
2 creeks down each side of property • 4 Bed, 1.5 Bath, 3 Car Garage • Guest or rental set up • 2 seperate Kitchens • Lots of room to stretch! • $299,000 • MLS#10005332
NEW LISTING • 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage • 32435 Bible Lane, Alberton • Deck in private backyard • Close to river & outdoor recreation • $174,900 • MLS#10004303
919 COLOMA WAY, POTOMAC • 3 bdrm/2 bath/10 Acres • Covered deck / fenced acreage • 28x32 garage / 40x49 Quonset shop • RV hookups behind garage • $259,900 • MLS#10002960
REAL ESTATE
Judi Rivers
Cute home with 1 bedroom and 2 bonus rooms cozy fireplace. Includes 1100 sqft heated shop W/ office for home based business. On two lots,fenced, Great rental, One Year Home Warranty included.
Great starter home or investment property. Walk to the UM or downtown from this cozy 3 bed239-1127 judi@windermere.com room 1 bath home. Located on two lots with private fenced yard. Great rental history. One Year Home Warranty included.
Peaceful 3bed/2bath country retreat nestled in the woods on 11.64 acres on Cedar Ridge, 15 minutes from downtown. 9625 Cedar Ridge Rd. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com 1840 Burlington, Missoula $149,000 • MLS#10007444
1114 Wolf St., Missoula $135,000 • MLS#10007439
OPEN HOUSE NOV. 14 • 1-3PM • 3 bed, 1 bath home in great condition • Modern floor coverings w/ large kitchen area • Fantastic fenced yard • Kitchen Appliances stay & home qualifies for all loan programs
$179,900
13041 Kimwood Dr.
MLS# 10006352
Lolo, MT
Jon Freeland 406-360-8234 jfreeland@missoulahomes.com
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3 Bed, 2 Bath, Storage shed 3 new homes to choose from Great central location Close to mall, bike/hiking trail
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MLS#'s 10006605, 10006638, 10006639 KEN ALLEN REAL ESTATE 800 Kensington Suite 205 406-239-6909 • allenmsw@bresnan.net
New Listing • Newly built Fourplex • Stylish, quality construction • Currently mixed-use • Convert to all residential!
$359,000 MLS# 10007378
1951 Kensington Missoula
Hank Trotter 406-360-7991
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SINGLE LEVEL LIVING CLOSE TO THE BITTERROOT RIVER. 4 Bdr/3 Bath single-level Stevensville home. Great, open floor plan, incredible mountain views, next to public park, walk to Downtown Stevi or Bitterroot River. $219,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy10 to 74362 or visit...
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SOUTH HILLS HOME LESS THAN 1 BLOCK FROM CHIEF CHARLO SCHOOL . 4 Bdr/2 Bath, deck, double car garage, family room, laundr y/utility room, great views, and much more. $189,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy6 to 74362, or visit...
and lots of gorgeous wood throughout, 327-8787 porticorealestate.com View or list properties for sale By Owner at www.byowner missoula.com OR call 550-3077
OUT OF TOWN H O T S P R I N G S R E T R E A T. Homestead for sale in Hot Springs, MT. hotspringshome.wordpress. com Price reduced $75,000/OBO. 406-741-2299
LAND FOR SALE 3.5 ACRES BARE LAND ON PETTY CREEK. Gorgeous bare land parcel straddling Petty
Creek. Septic, well, and utilities in place. Gorgeous building spot with mountain, creek, and valley views. Custom builder available. $149,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @239-6696, or visit...
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Beautiful 14 acre parcel just west of Huson. Meadow with trees & pasture. Modulars or double wides on foundation ok. $174,900. MLS#906774. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties. Beautiful 20 acres fenced pasture land. Seasonal stream and pond. Great get away or build your dream home. No power to area. $170 per year road maintenance fee. $149,900 MLS# 905366. Janet 240-3932
or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties. Nice 1 acre lot, beautiful country setting west of Missoula. City Sewer available. Great view. Now $95,000. MLS#908159. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties. Price Reduced! Large 4 bed/3 bath w/ great views on nearly 6 acres set up for horses. Attached sunroom w/ deck & hot tub pad. Kitchen opens to living and dining room. $275,000 • MLS # 10006316. Jeremy & Betsy Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com PRICE REDUCED! 19,602 SQ FT lot in Mullan Road area with great views. Sewer stubbed to the lot. Close to river access, golf
and shopping. $84,900. MLS# 10003279. Janet 240-3932 or R o b i n 2 4 0 - 6 5 0 3 . riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.
COMMERCIAL DARBY COMMERCIAL BUILDING IN GREAT DOWNTOWN LOCATION ON MAIN ST. Two main floor retail/professional spaces featuring 10 ft ceilings, storage/back room spaces, and lots of windows plus two second floor residential rentals. Great income potential and priced to sell! $135,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @239-6696, or visit...
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South Side of Hamilton 2 Bed, 1.5 Bath, extra large finished 2 car garage. Kitchen has lots of cabinets, lower level is unfinished. $159,900 • MLS#10006753. Janet 2403932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties. SPECTACULAR HORSE PROPERTY ON THE RIVER. Gorgeous 4 Bdr/3 Bath Florence area home on 10.4 acres on the Bitterroot River. Beautiful landscape with multiple decks, amazing mountain views, spacious horse barn, cross-fencing, and more. Just 20 minutes to Missoula. $474,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy11 to 74362, or visit...
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Townhouse along the Clarkfork for income qualified first time homeowners, this jewel lies along the river, incredible views! Check this out! 1401 Cedar St. #5 327-8787 porticorealestate.com Unique log home on 26+ private acres, bordering FS, min. to Snowbowl, hiking, 15 min to dwntwn. 3 Bed, 2 Bath, 3 carport, w/tons of storage above. Small cabin on property. www.11815benchroad.com. SELLER WILL LOOK AT ALL OFFERS. They are motivated to sell! 11815 Bench Rd, Missoula. $419,000. MLS#10001348. Rochelle Glasgow @ Prudential Missoula Properties. 544-7507 Unique Lower Rattlesnake home near Bugbee Nature Area, 3Brm, 4Ba, Tree-top views, Lots of upgrades like granite countertops
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