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nside Cover Story Missoula archaeologist Martin McAllister is the foremost expert in a field he essentially pioneered: He puts dollar values on vandalism at cultural sites, works with undercover investigations to bust looting rings, and trains law enforceCover photo by Cathrine L. Walters ment officials and archaeologists across the country in how to better protect vulnerable cultural resources. But McAllister’s biggest case may be convincing more people just how important it is to protect our history. .......................14

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Letters Trails, traps and Tester .....................................................................................4 The Week in Review Right-to-die, Stimson waste and Madness ................................6 Briefs Schweitzer, the Dalai Lama and anti-environmentalists....................................6 Etc. Staycations offers a little something for everyone ................................................7 Up Front A Hellgate senior copes with gradual loss of vision ....................................8 Up Front Statewide election filings reveal changing strategies...................................9 Ochenski Democrats put themselves through the grinder.......................................10 Writers on the Range Woven wire barriers put wildlife at unnecessary risk...........11 Agenda Fahima Vorgetts on “Women in Today’s Afghanistan” .................................12

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by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday afternoon on the corner of Spruce Street and N. Higgins Avenue.

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March 15 marked the filing deadline for state races, and a record number of candidates—337 in all—have decided to run for office. To what do you attribute this historic rush to get involved in political office? Follow-up: Which current politician do you most— or least—respect?

Sharon Schinn: They’re running because of Obama. He hasn’t done yet what he has promised. Other candidates are trying to get in and help the middle class, because Obama is not. Obstructed: I respect Jon Tester because he is trying to do good to all. I least respect Obama, because he’s not doing much that he promised he would.

Dolly Evans: People just want to be in higher power. You betcha: I respect Sarah Palin because she is outspoken and to the point. There is no one out there that I really don’t respect.

Tim Hodges: A need for change. We keep re-electing the same people over and over. Maybe with the new political climate—i.e., Obama—new people are taking an interest. Holding out hope: Obama, because if given a chance he’s going to do good. Denny Rehberg—it’s time for him to go, just like it was for Burns.

I was disappointed to see the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s (RMEF) statement against I-160, the Trap-free Public Lands Initiative (see “Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation sounds confused,” Indy Blog, Feb. 24, 2010). David Allen, the CEO of RMEF, should research matters before he spews out such outright falsehoods. Allen claims I-160 is a “backdoor anti-hunting measure backed by out-of state financiers.” This is simply untrue. There has never been any discussion that gives credence to this preposterous statement. In addition, similar initiatives passed in other western states have not been followed by anti-hunting measures. The “out-of state financiers” claimed by Allen are a figment of his imagination. Montanans for Trap-free Public Lands is a Montana grassroots effort on a low budget. This is simply propaganda, and Allen knows better! Allen further claims initiatives remove the “science” behind wildlife management and open it to “emotional influences.” Doesn’t Allen know wildlife policies in the state are set by the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks’ commission, which is a political group appointed by the governor? In fact, it was the lack of commission action on trapping issues that brought about I-160. Allen believes wildlife should be managed by “professionals, sportsmen, and landowners.” That sounds good but, considering the political oversight of the commission, professionals don’t always have their say. And what about landowners? What scientific input and expertise are they providing by simply owning property? Besides, I-160 does not affect trapping on private land, which is the majority of Montana. Allen needs to be less emotional himself, and give the RMEF the responsible, objective leadership it needs. I agree with another writer, a hunter, who stated: “Trappers make a bad name for all hunters here in Montana. Trapping is not fair chase and is just plain cruel.” Mike Koeppen Florence

Preserve our way of life

Damien Margo: It feels like the winds of change are here, and with the emerging laws there’s opportunities right now for plenty of work to be done. Tip of the iceberg: I voted for Obama but I’m not a fan. I’m kind of uneasy about him. But he was handed the Titanic and it hasn’t sunk yet.

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I am writing today to express that we all need to push for the passing of Sen. Jon Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act (see “etc.,” March 11, 2010). As a Montanan I feel it is important to preserve our way of life that we have become so accustomed to and grateful for. This bill would help to maintain many benefits of our residence here in Montana, and create new jobs that we so desperately need in our state. Tester sees that light-on-the-land stewardship logging would help to preserve our forests from beetle kill and help prevent disastrous forest fires from harming our communities. It would also allow continued maintenance of campgrounds and trails

so Montanans could enjoy the wilderness without impacting its wildlife and natural beauty. This bill would ensure not only our natural beauty that we so treasure here in Montana, but also put people to work in the timber industry while protecting our watersheds and big game habitat. Tester’s bill is supported by hunters, anglers, loggers, conservationists and outdoor enthusiasts of all stripes. It not only protects the forests that we value, but protects the rights of Montanans to enjoy them.

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ture, and retrofitting buildings to be more efficient are all a simple matter of job creation and economic stimulation. America is falling behind in these areas— China plans on dominating the manufacturing industry for solar panels and wind turbines, and they have already begun this huge investment. As a young person, I fear for my future. Why is it normal to regularly pump mercury and arsenic into the Big Sky of Montana? Those poisons are found in coal emissions, and coal is currently the main energy source in Montana. We are contaminating the rivers and forests of Montana that I fell in love with as a kid. Those trout I caught with my father? They likely have dangerous levels of mercury in their systems. As a young person, I demand recognition by our country’s leaders that the environment, the economy and global health are all connected and must all be at the center of our nation’s focus. We need Sens. Baucus and Tester to act this spring and pass a climate bill in the Senate. Zachary Brown Missoula

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I welcome the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Forest Service’s willingness to work with local citizens to help manage our public lands and I look forward to passing the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act and getting to work protecting and preserving Montana’s way of life. Nate Watson Missoula

Clean energy campaign Over the last few weeks, and in the months ahead, thousands of young people are meeting at local senate offices across the country in a campaign titled “Show Me Democracy.” We are doing this because we share a common vision of a clean energy future. The benefits of creating a clean energy economy transcend the issue of climate change. We would be investing renewable energies that actually have a long-term economic viability. Why profit from a coal plant for 50 years when you could profit from a wind farm for centuries? A clean energy economy will create millions of new jobs for Americans who are currently out of work. Manufacturing solar panels and wind turbines, reshaping our electrical infrastruc-

Trail to safety In 1910, approximately 2,000 to 3,000 small fires already burning in Idaho, Washington and Montana turned into one fire. It burned about 3 million acres in 18 hours, when a 70-mile-anhour wind came up. At that time, U.S. Forest Service workers complained that there were not enough trails for access to fight the fire. Today, with about 3.6 million acres of bark beetle damaged forest, we have the possibility of the same scenario happening again. We need plans for more trails and escape routes for all the people and wildlife. All the spotted owls we have paid to protect and all the other wildlife could be lost in this disaster. In 1910, 86 lives were lost. Today, 360,000 people are at risk, along with approximately $21 billion of their personal real estate. The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) response to this possibility should not be to send the districts in this area more body bags. Let’s find a better way. Instead of getting rid of trails, let’s keep them open. Let’s make more corridors to fight fires. In the 2010 Department of Interior’s budget, there is approximately $200 million in funding for the Clean Air Act and global warming. At the same time, the Forest Service plans to burn again all the areas that have been burnt. I wonder what kind of air filter all that smoke would take. As an avid outdoor sportsman, it bothers me that our trails have been and are continuing to be dismantled when more trails are needed for better forest management. Vern Greyn Dutton

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The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission unanimously approves the purchase of about 41,000 acres in the Fish Creek drainage south of Alberton from The Nature Conservancy, which acquired it from Plum Creek Timber Co. as part of the Montana Legacy Project. The agency proposes a 6,188-acre state park in the area.

• Thursday, March 11 The Montana Department of Environmental Quality informs the Missoula County Commission of its plan to haul nearly 65,000 tons of toxic soil at the Stimson Lumber Co. site in Bonner to the Missoula landfill. The most toxic soil, laden with PCBs, will be shipped out of state.

• Friday, March 12 Seven months after John Wardell, the longtime director of the Environmental Protection Agency in Montana, died in a climbing accident near Libby, the agency names Julie DalSoglio the new director of its state office. DalSoglio served as deputy director under Wardell, and has worked on the Milltown, Anaconda, Libby and Clark Fork River Superfund sites.

• Saturday, March 13 Bagpipers, muscle cars and senior citizens riding go-karts stream down Higgins Avenue from the Iron Horse Brew Pub to Grizzly Grocery for Missoula’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Afterward, St. Anthony’s Parish Hall hosts a traditional Irish meal of corned beef and cabbage with music and step-dancing.

• Sunday, March 14 Four days after the University of Montana’s thrilling comeback victory over Weber State in the Big Sky title game, the NCAA selection committee announces the Griz will open March Madness as a No. 14 seed against New Mexico on March 18. CBS’s Clark Kellogg tells viewers to watch for “explosive” Griz guard Anthony Johnson in a possible upset.

• Monday, March 15 Documents detailing an investigation by Montana prison officials, obtained by the Associated Press, reveal that former Deer Lodge inmate Michael Murphy, 36, convinced at least five female prison employees to have sex with him or perform other illegal favors. In each of the cases, the female employees were caught and forced out of their jobs.

• Tuesday, March 16 Two Montana doctors and an attorney affirm the legal and ethical soundness of physician-facilitated death for chronically ill patients during a panel hosted by the Center for Ethics at The University of Montana. The panel echoed a December Montana Supreme Court decision that said nothing in state law prevents patients from seeking physician-assisted suicide.

Teams of up to three sledders were judged on speed and creativity as they bombed down the Montana Snowbowl bunny hill March 13 during “Schlittentag,” a special event sponsored by Red Bull. Schlittentag is a German word that means “sledding day,” but was defined by the sponsor as “daredevils willing to propel themselves down a snow-covered hill and over a jump on a sled they built themselves.”

Elections Corporate cash Last Thursday, Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock was served with a lawsuit filed by an organization “dedicated to fighting the radical environmentalist agenda” and a Bozeman-based Tea Party activist challenging the state’s century-old ban on corporate political spending. The suit, which also names Commissioner of Political Practices Dennis Unsworth, follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial Jan. 21 ruling that blocked the ban on corporate political spending, a ruling Bullock opposed. The plaintiffs are the Colorado-based Western Tradition Partnership, which calls itself “the leading organization fighting the anti-jobs, anti-taxpayer policy agenda of extreme environmentalist front groups,” and Bozeman’s Champion Painting, owned by Ken Champion, a member of the Gallatin County Campaign for Liberty and the Bozeman Tea Party. Champion, according to the lawsuit, “is concerned with the

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way inflation, taxation, and spending are exploiting, impacting, and bankrupting America and Montana’s small businesses,” and he seeks to spend corporate funds to support candidates with similar political beliefs. Should the plaintiffs prevail, state conservation groups fear a profusion of corporation money could tip the balance in favor of proindustry candidates. “I think the Western Tradition Partnership would like to eviscerate the very laws that protect Montana’s clean air, cold rivers and public health, and it sounds like they’d love to use corporate money to do it,” says Sarah Cobler, program director with Montana Conservation Voters. “I’m pretty nervous about Exxon or Arch Coal or someone else pulling out the stops and airing TV ads in state legislative races where individuals can only contribute $160 each, and where candidates are teachers, farmers and other regular folks.” In 1912, in the era of Montana’s “Copper Kings,” 76 percent of Montana voters approved Initiative 118, banning corporate contributions

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to political candidates. Twenty-three other states have similar laws, all threatened by the Supreme Court’s ruling. “Corporate electioneering,” Bullock wrote in a friend-of-the-court brief filed last year, “corrupts the relationship between public officials and the public interest.” Western Tradition Partnership and Champion filed their lawsuit in Helena District Court. The case is currently pending. Matthew Frank

Environment Is Schweitzer overstepping? After ordering a moratorium on natural resource extraction in the Flathead National Forest this week, Gov. Brian Schweitzer finds himself under fire from those who believe he may be overstepping his power. The Montana Legislature’s chief lawyer, Greg Petesch, says state law may not explicitly permit the governor to unilaterally halt permitting of natural gas, oil or gravel mining operations.

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“I’m unaware of that authority,� Petesch says. Schweitzer directed the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to halt permitting such operations along the North Fork Flathead River Basin on March 15. The move comes on the heels of an agreement Schweitzer signed off on last month with the British Columbian government that protects the ecologically diverse Flathead region from resource extraction on both sides of the border. DEQ Director Richard Opper supports Schweitzer’s decision. “I have a directive staring me in the face from the governor,� he says, “and I have every intention of following it.� The directive is a stopgap measure as Interior Secretary Ken Salazar evaluates—at Schweitzer’s request—the legality of oil and gas exploration leases granted during the ’80s under then Secretary of State James Watt. “Even though the Watt Interior Department improperly leased them,� Schweitzer says, “[the companies] are still standing on first base. And if something should move, then they are the ones that would be able to come around the bases and drill. What we’re saying is that you improperly got to first base, and you should go back to the dugout where you belong.� But even the Montana Environmental Information Center (MEIC), which opposes mining in the Flathead, questions the governor’s authority to act unilaterally. “That is not a legal action for the state to take,� says MEIC Executive Director Jim Jensen. Schweitzer maintains otherwise, but still acknowledges the likely next step. “If you’re going to sue the state of Montana, stand in line,� he says, “because virtually any decision that we make relative to natural resources, for or against, there’s somebody who would like to take us to court.� Jessica Mayrer

Dalai Lama A holy visit Georgia Milan tells the story like this: In fall 2009, Gochen Tulku Sang-ngag Rinpoche joined a delegation before the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled political and spiritual leader, in Washington, D.C. The Dalai Lama, having heard of Rinpoche’s efforts to establish a Buddhist garden north of Arlee, called Rinpoche forward and asked when he would be invited to Montana for the consecration.

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“Rinpoche, in his infinite wisdom, said, ‘When it’s done,’â€? says Milan, coordinator for the Dalai Lama’s pending Montana appearance. “His Holiness told him, ‘Let me know.’â€? Confirmation came this week with the announcement that the Dalai Lama will visit the Missoula area by fall 2011 to celebrate the completion of the Ewam Garden of 1,000 Buddhas. Rinpoche could not be reached for comment, as he’s traveling in Asia until March 19. But according to Milan, receiving the famed Buddhist leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner will be no easy task. “To welcome someone of his stature,â€? Milan says, “we need to be very organized and‌inclusive as a community.â€?

Before Milan can set a date, Ewam International must finish the six-phase, $1 million garden as well as 570 of the site’s 1,000 Buddha statues. Raquel Castellanos with Ewam International says she hopes to finalize fundraising plans for the garden by April to keep the project on track for next year. With the Dalai Lama’s blessing, the garden will become an international peace center. The work won’t end there. Milan says the most difficult preparations will come in organizing the spiritual leader’s stay, which she adds could last four days. Simone Ellis, a member of Rinpoche’s sangha, or local community of practicing Buddhists, says appearances by the Dalai Lama attract enormous attention and require large public venues. “One of the last times I covered him was in Idaho,� says Ellis, who also works as a journalist. “Boy, those 10,000 tickets for his public talk went literally overnight. We really need a big space for him to do a public talk so everybody can go, and

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it’s customary to have the tickets be free. He doesn’t like to make profit off his appearance.� Further details on the Dalai Lama’s visit will be released as plans are finalized. Alex Sakariassen

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City Council The Missoula City Council lost a long-waged legal battle this week to acquire an easement that would have allowed for a pedestrian trail on a prime stretch of property along the Clark Fork River. “I think the judge’s decision is reasonable and fair,� says Missoula Mayor John Engen. For years the city’s been cobbling together easements aimed at building a public trail system to extend the Kim Williams Trail east to the confluence of the Clark Fork and Blackfoot rivers. When development company Neighborhood by Design (NBD) proposed a 33-home subdivision on 47 acres east of Deer Creek Road in 2007, the city approved it, but with conditions. The most controversial condition required NBD to give the city a 20-foot-wide easement along the Clark Fork River. NBD owner Bob Brugh balked at the condition as well as three others, and filed a lawsuit alleging the city was taking his property without compensation. “You can’t just say, ‘You’ve got riverfront property, we want a trail,’� says NBD attorney Alan McCormick. Though Engen now acknowledges the city acted aggressively in its push to expand the public trail system, city attorneys at the time argued the development needed a cohesive trail system to ease traffic concerns. And municipal officials said the requirement wasn’t unfairly burdensome because it didn’t result in economic loss. On March 15, Fourth Judicial District Judge Ed McLean sided with NBD, stating: “For the city of Missoula to arbitrarily decide that it wants an easement along the Clark Fork Riverbank (Condition 15) is a taking of the most valuable land in the subdivision.� Office of Planning and Grants Director Roger Millar says he’s examining McLean’s findings for technical flaws. If he finds none, the city will likely abstain from filing an appeal and make due with the easements it has, including a path the developer plans for the other side of his property along Deer Creek Road. “We can get you to where the Milwaukee Trail will hook up,� Millar says. Jessica Mayrer

Montana schools that received full accreditation from the Montana Office of Public Instruction. The Montana Board of Public Education approved the historic number of recommendations—67 more than last year—on March 12.

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When the economy first hit the skids nearly two years ago, and gas prices skyrocketed, travel gurus made the phrase “staycation� part of our everyday lexicon. Now, it’s become a local business. Staycations, a new venture on S. Third Street, offers rented rooms with ridiculous—and no doubt relaxing— amenities. Hot sand, “happy lights� and high-def televisions that transmit tranquil ocean scenes make up just a few of the plush options available to customers. It seems odd to open a lavish indoor escape on the eve of Montana’s most inviting time of year, but we’re not ones to quibble. In fact, as we daydream about the virtues of spray tans and oxygen bars in our fluorescentlit basement, we can’t help but think of who deserves a Staycations stop more than us. Take Anthony Johnson, the University of Montana senior guard who re-wrote the Big Sky record book by dropping 42 points in a title game victory over Weber State. Johnson’s individual performance—arguably the best by a Griz athlete ever, considering an NCAA tournament berth was on the line—included a 34-point second half in which he single-handedly outscored the Wildcats. If anyone deserves a breather, we think it’s AJ, and suggest he kick back with a massage before pursuing his pro career. Johnson’s classmates may consider a similar treatment rather than dropping serious coin in Cabo. Spring break starts in about 10 days, and Staycations owner Joy Twite tells us that enhanced oxygen boosts energy and helps fight hangovers. In fact, the co-eds may want to book early—we know at least a few local politicians who may prefer to stay off the streets (or water) and saddle up to this bar instead. Speaking of politicians, Staycations’ group therapy room sounds like the perfect getaway for the embattled staffs of U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg and Gov. Brian Schweitzer. Rehberg could trade hunting stories with state director Randy Vogel and field rep Mike Waite—both were on the trip that landed Vogel citations for poaching and obstructing an officer—in an atmosphere featuring aromatherapy, individual sun lamps and the island music of their choosing. Schweitzer’s crew can bask under the so-called “happy lights�—special bulbs that mimic the sun’s warm glow—and brainstorm even more ways to strip away the state’s real natural beauty. Arch Coal’s reported $86 million bid for Otter Creek’s coal tracts should make paying for his staff’s stay that much easier. We could go on with other possible staycationers— both sarcastic and sincere—but we’ve suddenly lost our focus. How much do you think it’d cost to install “happy lights� in our basement?

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Shober may be losing her sight, but serious eye injury a couple years ago, Misfortune usually gives little warning. Jane Shober, for better or worse, has not necessarily her vision. As the center- making him sensitive to vision troubles. The other component of Shober’s been warned. The first indication came piece of her senior project at Hellgate, while at summer camp about a year and Shober has organized a “Dining in senior project is learning Braille, a task a half ago. Running through a dark forest Darkness” event for Saturday, March 20, her instructor, Kathy Sehorn, says Shober toward a lake for a late-night swim, at Missoula’s DoubleTree Hotel. As many has embraced. “Most kids take between three and Shober realized she couldn’t see the as 400 people will spend the evening blindfolded. Attendees will eat, drink, lis- four years to get through the Braille protrees. “I know there are trees,” she remem- ten to live music, and participate in a gram,” Sehorn says, “but she has just hit it bers saying to herself, “but I don’t know blind auction. The proceeds from the head-on and she’s almost through the entire program. She where they are. And doesn’t know it perfectly, where did everyone go?” but she’s probably been Soon after, Shober the most enthusiastic. visited an optometrist for She’s really worked hard a new pair of glasses, but to learn Braille even was told her vision though she doesn’t need couldn’t be corrected. it at this time.” Within two weeks she Shober’s other found herself visiting a teachers offer equally specialist in California effusive descriptions of who diagnosed her with Shober’s maturity and retinitis pigmentosa, courage in confronting commonly known as RP, RP. Her English teacher, a rare genetic, degeneraShaun Gant, describes tive and so far incurable her as “unflappable.” eye disease that can leave “She’s got this big its victims completely smile for the whole blind. Night vision tends world,” Gant says, “and to go first. she’s so beautiful and so “Each case of RP confident that you never progresses differently,” guess that she has this Shober explains, “so condition.” there’s no way for the Photo by Cathrine L. Walters One sign, however, doctor to say, ‘At this point in your life, you’ll Doctors diagnosed Hellgate senior Jane Shober with a rare may be the technology genetic, degenerative and so far incurable eye disease that probably be able to see can leave its victims completely blind. The condition inspired Shober must now use in this much.’ In some her to organize this Saturday’s “Dining in Darkness” event to the classroom. In her math class, for example, cases, it will progress for raise funds and awareness about the disease. a camera sends video of two years and then stop, and then maybe not progress for 10 years. $30/plate dinner will be donated to the the classroom’s whiteboard to a computFoundation Fighting Blindness for er screen on her desk. In her science It’s different in each individual case.” When you meet Shober, a senior at research to prevent, treat and cure retinal class, another device magnifies papers Hellgate High School, you can’t tell that degenerative diseases, and to Missoula and displays them on a monitor. “I was really grateful to be involved the ebullient and eloquent 18-year-old is County Public Schools to buy classroom gradually going blind. But she tells of her technology for low-vision or blind stu- with the meetings that have gone on about dents. Shober says 250 people have how to address her classroom needs,” Gant frustrations, especially in low light. “I run into walls. I trip over park already purchased tickets, available at says, “because it gave me a lot of insight into knowing that there are kids all the time that benches,” she says. “Basically there’s no Rockin Rudy’s. Shober designed the event to raise I’m teaching that have things going on that definition.” And she describes her deteriorating money for and awareness about blind- I can’t see. And so Jane taught me that.” Shober admits preparing for blindness, but also to raise sensory awareness. sight even in full light. “It’s quite an experience [losing a ness has been trying, but she also says it “When I’m staring at someone’s face,” she explains, “the right half of their face is sense],” Shober says. “It really enhances has fostered personal growth. “Before I never really had anything kind of blurred out…If I were looking at all of the other senses. We thought the a plain blue piece of paper, it would just dinner might be a cool fundraising idea, in my life that was really big, or somebe fuzz. And when I’m looking at a word, so we put it into motion. It’s gotten a lot thing that I worked so hard for,” she says. “It’s definitely changed my perspective part of the word disappears. Like ‘there.’ bigger than we thought it would be.” The DoubleTree agreed to donate on a lot of things in life.” If I’m looking at the word ‘there,’ I might She adds: “It’s really opened my think it just says ‘the,’ because I can’t see the food, staff and ballroom space for the the ‘r’ and the ‘e.’ I’m not aware of them event. General Manager Dan Carlino says eyes.” being there. They would look just like the he was receptive to the idea in part because his own daughter sustained a background of it.” mfrank@missoulanews.com

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Off to the races Obama factor alters state election filings by Alex Sakariassen

President Barack Obama hasn’t visited Montana since speaking in a Belgrade airport hangar last August, but his presence appeared to have a significant impact on the state’s March 15 filing deadline for legislative candidates. Both Republican and Democratic leaders in the state attributed this year’s recordbreaking 337 candidates to Obama, either positively or negatively. State Republicans consider Obama the catalyst of conservative movements nationwide in 2009 and 2010, and point

Greenwood. “We love that people want to get involved. I know from the perspective of a candidate—an incumbent or otherwise—that it’s easier not to have a primary, but easier isn’t always better. There’s nothing like a good warm-up lap before the real race begins to get you going.” But tough campaigning during primaries could significantly reduce a candidate’s financial resources. And with money tight in the state, those primary races may have a greater impact on the general election, where Republicans will

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Bryce Bennett, a 25-year-old University of Montana graduate, filed for the House District 92 seat in the 2011 Legislature. An increased number of young candidates is just one of a number of changes noted in the current election cycle.

to his failed efforts on health care, the economy and job creation as reason for the surge of candidates. “He’s the gift that keeps on giving,” says Republican Party Chairman Will Deschamps. “He’s helped homogenize a lot of the people in the conservative movement, because they see a great danger in where this nation could be heading…I think it’s just awakened the sleeping giant.” That giant, however, creates a logistical problem for the party. While the GOP welcomes growth in its conservative base across the state, the number of Republicans filing for state office could have an unexpected drawback. Of the 337 candidates who filed to run this year, 188 registered with the GOP. That glut of Republican hopefuls means GOP incumbents in 11 legislative seats face opposition from fellow party members in June primaries. By comparison, only six Democratic incumbents are running against inner-party opposition. “More people filing is good. More active Republicans is good,” says Montana GOP Executive Director Bowen

face additional competition from other conservative factions. Increased activity on the far right in western Montana has prompted a number of candidates to run under the banners of the Constitution or Libertarian parties, a potential vote-splitter among conservatives in this fall’s general election. The trend isn’t unprecedented, but Deschamps notes split votes have proven problematic in the past. “Certainly I have a concern, because…in some cases a good conservative candidate, a member of the Republican Party, has an opportunity to win a race and doesn’t because a Constitutionalist gets in,” Deschamps says. “Go back to Conrad Burns’ [2006] race. No matter how nasty it was, there was a Constitutionalist in that race. If you had taken that Constitutionalist and given three-fourths of his votes to Burns, the Republicans would have won.” Deschamps and others say they hope to garner support from citizen organizations formed in response to Obama’s presidential campaign for support in 2010. But

many members of groups like Hamiltonbased Celebrating Conservatism don’t consider the GOP conservative enough. For example, Dan Cox, a prominent member of Celebrating Conservatism, filed in Senate District 44 as a Libertarian, and will likely draw voters away from the GOP’s candidate. Meanwhile, Democrats are riding a different wave generated by the 2008 presidential race. Montana Democratic Party Chairman Jim Elliot says he’s now one of only two staff members with the state’s Democratic Party over the age of 30. Sen. Carol Williams, D-Missoula, adds the passion generated by Obama’s campaign has paid off in the form of more young candidates filing as Democrats in legislative races. She offers Bryce Bennett, a 25-year-old founding member of Forward Montana and 2010 candidate for House District 92, as evidence that Montana’s youth are eager to step into the political arena. “These candidates, they’re showing an intense enthusiasm for being part of the process for the first time,” says David Benson, the Democratic Party’s executive director. “And we are providing training that shows them how to work the doors…Through that process and that excitement and that energy level, they become a really valuable candidate for our races.” The power of youth is far from lost on Republicans. Greenwood says he’s seen a dramatic spike in activism among groups like the College Republicans since the 2008 cycle, and Deschamps says the party will put an emphasis on new media, particularly social networking, to reach younger voters. The Montana GOP’s website has been “woefully insufficient” over the years, Deschamps admits. “We’re making efforts to reach out and make sure that we’re on Facebook, MySpace, that we’re updating our website,” Deschamps says. “We want to keep the younger demographics involved, ’cause they’re the ones who are going to be paying the bill.” How widely each party embraces these changes, and how well the GOP is able to unify its scattered conservative base, will likely shape the outcome of legislative races this fall. But with so much riding on the primaries for the GOP, the “odd, odd year” of 2010, as Deschamps says, will be heating up well before summer. asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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There’s an old saying in politics that “anyone who likes sausage or respects the law should never watch either being made.� If ever there was proof positive of the wisdom behind this maxim, it’s the current sad state of affairs as the Democrats struggle to pass what they call “health care reform.� And unfortunately for them, the whole world is watching as they mix up some really bad sausage. It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Really, it wasn’t. A bright and energetic young president rode a wave of popular sentiment into the White House, promising to reverse the course the nation had taken during the Bush years. In the meantime, voters handed Democrats a solid majority in the House of Representatives and an almost unheard of 60 seats in the Senate—guaranteeing them a filibusterproof majority to move legislation through that most stodgy of political antiquities. Nor was there any shortage of issues on which the Democrats could act. After all, they were elected by a populace grown tired of the endless wars, the paranoia and intrusion of the Patriot Act, the runaway military spending, and the closed-door policies of the Bush era. All the Democrats had to do was use their majorities to keep their campaign promises, and fulfill the “change and hope� for which our restless and divided nation longed. But something happened—or I should say, many things didn’t happen. It was as if the Democrats were given the Magic Lamp, rubbed it, out came the genie, and then they couldn’t figure out what to wish for as they argued among themselves. Poof! The genie vanished back into the lamp and, rub as they would, the genie never reappeared. Worse yet, while they were rubbing away, their filibuster-proof Senate majority, like the genie, also vanished. Montanans watched this debacle in perhaps a more intense way than many of our fellow citizens because it was our senior senator, Max Baucus, who chaired the powerful Senate Finance Committee, who took on the task of putting together the Democrats’ health care reform effort, and who ultimately is responsible for spending a year courting Republicans in a futile and senseless effort at achieving a “bipartisan solution� to health care. Moreover, while Baucus rubbed the Republicans, whatever momentum for change and progress the Democrats and Obama carried with them from the elec-

tion simply dissipated, vanishing like mist in the hot sun of August. Meanwhile, the Tea Party stormed across the nation, disrupting town hall meetings with angry protests and literally cowing Democrats who, after all, had nothing to hold up as progress. Worse yet, despite protests at Baucus’ offices statewide, at his cheesy “Camp Baucus� lobbyist shakedown at Big Sky, and a corresponding national effort, Baucus uni-

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laterally declared that sensible, easy-toexplain solutions like single-payer, universal health care for all were “off the table.� The decision outraged and enervated his party’s progressive base. In the meantime, Obama, to the amazement of many and in direct contradiction to his campaign pledges of open and transparent government, held closed-door talks with drug companies and traded away price controls and the ability of government to bargain for lower prices in exchange for an amorphous promise that Big Pharma wouldn’t increase their prices as much as they had planned. The parallels to Vice President Dick Cheney’s infamous closed-door meetings with rapacious energy companies left liberals gasping for air and wondering how things could have gone so wrong so quickly. Which brings us to this week’s ongoing Democratic disaster, in which Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi says that House Democrats will pass the Senate bill but won’t have to vote to do so. Why they won’t have to vote is sim-

ple, at least in Pelosi’s mind—because far too many House members won’t accept the terrible Senate bill and its industryfriendly provisions and special pork-barrel handouts. So instead of having a recorded vote for a bill they do not support, House members will suffer a torturous, Byzantine process whereby they’ll vote on a rule that will “deemâ€? the Senate bill to be passed if two other pieces of legislation intended to “fixâ€? the Senate bill are also passed. Republicans, meanwhile, are having a field day with the Democrats’ dilemma, despite contributing exactly nothing to the effort so far except their steadfast refusal to vote for any of the other party’s bills. They are, once again, totally unified in their opposition to all of the bills being offered—and to the way in which the process is being manipulated in an effort to pass the measures. And, of course, the Tea Party is likewise having a party roasting the hapless Democrats over the fire onto which they’ve thrown themselves. To make it worse, some organized labor and liberal groups are now threatening Democrats who don’t vote for the bill with primary challengers in the coming election. Like the British cavalry’s Charge of the Light Brigade, the Democrats ride on, as poet Alfred Tennyson put it, “into the jaws of Death, into the mouth of Hell‌cannon to right of them, cannon to left of them, cannon behind them‌storm’d at with shot and shell.â€? And as William Russell, a war correspondent who witnessed the Battle of Balaklava, wrote “our Light Brigade was annihilated by their own rashness, and by the brutality of a ferocious enemy.â€? If the bills were a true reform of our health care system, perhaps it would be worth the risk of perishing for the greater glory. But that is simply not the case. Instead, the Democrats, should they actually manage to pass something, wind up with a sorry quid pro quo measure that trades minimal insurance reform for a guaranteed 30 million new customers for the insurance cartels. It’s sad to see it come to this when it could have been so much better. Although the Democrats are putting themselves through the meat grinder, the unfortunate result is simply some very bad sausage. 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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Fatal fences Woven wire barriers put wildlife at unnecessary risk by Wendy Beye

This winter a small tragedy took place on a ridge above the Bitterroot Valley of western Montana near where I live. I was nearly home when two neighbors out for a walk frantically flagged my truck down. They’d found a deer silently struggling, hanging upside down by one back leg, gripped in a loop of the woven wire fence surrounding a yard at a house where nobody seemed to be home. Did I have a pair of pliers to cut the fence and free the animal? I pulled into the yard and dug through my toolbox. The pliers I found couldn’t cut the wire. I dug deeper and grabbed a pair of wire cutters. With shaking hands, we worked together to chisel through the top wire and free the frightened young doe. She fell with a thump, unable to get up. The puzzled look in her eyes when she discovered that her legs couldn’t respond was heartbreaking. She must have been hanging all night; her front hooves had dug a trench in the lawn. I hoped that her ordeal had only temporarily paralyzed nerves in her legs, but I suspected that her injuries were more serious. I told the good Samaritans that I’d call the Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks division as soon as I got home, but when I finally reached a game biologist, he was 40 minutes away. I ran back to check on the doe, and found that she had crawled about 20 feet, dragging her back legs. I cried as I slowly walked back to my house. An hour later, my phone rang. It was the biologist calling to say he had put the doe down. Her back was broken. It was the second call he’d gotten that day about a trapped deer. “Woven wire fences are the very worst for killing wildlife,” he said. “I wish we could ban them.” When I bought my house 15 years ago, there were only three other homes in the area. One owner had some cattle, so his land was fenced, but no one else

felt the need to erect a barrier around their little piece of Montana heaven. Elk, deer and moose wandered freely up and down the ridge, foraging on native grasses and shrubs. Some mornings we saw as many as 75 elk cows and calves filing through the trees below our house. Then the first lot sold in the subdivision next door, and soon, new houses sprouted up. Still, elk and deer contin-

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ued to roam through the neighborhood, though the moose apparently found new routes to the river. Two years ago, the neighbors in whose fence the doe was entangled put up woven wire to contain their two hunting dogs. A worthy endeavor, because loose dogs chase wildlife, but an unfortunate choice of fence style. And now, it seems, the wrong kind of fence building has become a trend. This year, three more woven-wire fences went up, and we no longer see the elk ghosting through the trees at dawn. I haven’t asked, but I bet some of those folks who put up fences have no idea why the local wildlife seems to be disappearing. The University of Utah conducted a survey along more than 600 miles of ranch fences in northeastern Utah and northwestern Colorado to determine what kind

of fencing causes the highest wildlife mortality rates. The worst culprit was woven wire (a 6-inch heavy-gauge mesh) with a barbed wire strand a few inches above it and a total fence height of more than 42 inches. Animals that tried to jump over a fence like that frequently caught a hoof in a fatal twist of unbreakable wire and died of their injuries or of starvation. Very young animals were unable to jump high enough to get over the fence and could not crawl under the woven wire. The herds of deer, antelope, mountain sheep or elk left them behind to die. Most of the mortalities were young animals, with more than two-thirds caught in the top two wires of fence. In addition to losses due to entanglement, for every mile of fence, at least one ungulate died next to a fence, and almost all were fawns curled up in the grass, waiting for mothers who failed to return. Though the fences studied were on ranches, the same risks apply anywhere people want to insulate their property from wildlife or contain the domestic animals they own. If we insist on building our homes where wildlife loves to roam, the least we can do is refrain from constructing deadly traps that kill them. And what is the best fence to build? None at all. But if you have to build one, flag it so wildlife can easily see it. Build it so wildlife can go under it or jump over it, with a height under 40 inches and top wires separated by at least 12 inches. (Information on building wildlife-friendly fences is available at http://fwp.mt.gov/wildthings/LivingWithW ildlfe.) Small changes can go a long way toward easing suffering.

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Blindness, as well as Missoula County Public Schools to buy classroom technology for low vision/blind students. Call Jane at 396-5489.

Help granny and gramps get a delicious meal served to their door during the 2010 March for Meals campaign, a donation drive for the Meals on Wheels program that runs throughout the month of March. Call Missoula Aging Services at 728-7682 to participate, or stop by its office at 337 Stephens Ave. for an informational form. They want to study here, so hook an international student up. The STS Foundation is currently looking for interested families to host an international high school exchange student for the 2010-2011 school year. For more information, contact Craig or Mary at mary@stsfoundation.org or call 1-800-5224678. Visit stsfoundation.org.

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For a number of years now, Afghan native Fahima Vorgetts has helped empower women in her homeland by offering them a chance to break free from the chains of oppression. Her list of good deeds in Afghanistan is extensive, but her most notable accomplishments include opening a number of schools for girls, creating literacy programs for women, and arranging a shipment of medical supplies to a women’s hospital in the city of Herat. At present, Vorgetts serves as a board member with Women for Afghan Women (WAW), an organization dedicated to securing and protecting the rights of Afghani women and girls. She’s also the director of the Afghan Women’s Fund, a WAW program that raises money for specific, on-the-

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These peaceniks know what’s up: The Whitefish High School Young Democrats host a peace rally in protest of the war in Iraq starting at 4 PM at the corner of Second St. and Spokane Ave. in Whitefish. Free to attend. A limited amount of materials to make signs will be available, but participants should bring their own signs. Call Josh at 250-9432.

SATURDAY MARCH 20 Lend your hands and your vehicle to a sustainable nonprofit when you join Home Resource’s Moving Caravan, where volunteers and their trucks and trailers help transport materials throughout the day, starting at 9 AM, from Home Resource’s old location, 825 W. Kent, to its new location at the intersection of Russell and Wyoming streets. Call 5418301 and visit homeresource.org for a full list of volunteer opportunities. Sharpen your taste, touch and smell while also lending a hand to fund research to prevent and cure retinal diseases during Dining in Darkness, a sensory awareness experience where you dine blindfolded at the Doubletree Hotel, 100 Madison St., from 6–8 PM. $30, with tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s. All funds will be donated to the Foundation Fighting

Fahima Vorgetts speaks Wed., March 24, at 7 PM at Hellgate High School, 900 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 728-3328 and visit montanaworldaffairs.org.

SUNDAY MARCH 21 Those looking to build their own abodes with the help of Habitat for Humanity are invited to a family selection application meeting, which starts at 2 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free to attend, with no child care provided. Call 549-8210.

MONDAY MARCH 22 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.

TUESDAY MARCH 23 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.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 24 Old schoolers can get some perspective during the Missoula Senior Center’s “Perspective on Aging” discussion panel, which features comments on community based services, long-term care planning and other topics from a host of local experts from 7–9 PM at the center, 705 S. Higgins Ave. Free to attend. Call 543-7154. Those looking to build their own abodes with the help of Habitat for Humanity are invited to a family selection application meeting, which starts at 7 PM at Opportunity Resources, 2821 S. Russell St. Free to attend, with no child care provided. Call 549-8210.

THURSDAY MARCH 25 If you’ve got an interest in preserving Missoula’s historic hotspots, and live in the southwest area of town located south of the Clark Fork, west of Higgins Ave. and north of Brooks St., apply as a southwest area representative of the Historic Preservation Commission. Pick up an app at City Hall, 435 Ryman St. or online at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/vacancy. Apps are due by 5 PM Thu. March 25. Call 552-6078.

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History

Looters ransack archaeological sites throughout the West, but Montana officials notice a surprising lack of in-state incidents. A Missoula specialist says they’re just not digging deep enough. by Alex Sakariassen • photos by Cathrine L. Walters

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t 2 a.m. on Dec. 22, 1977, Martin McAllister received a phone call from law enforcement officers with the Tonto National Forest in Arizona. Several armed men were suspected of raiding a pre-historic pueblo site in a remote portion of Yavapai County and McAllister’s expertise in archaeological fieldwork was needed to collect evidence and assess the damage. McAllister gathered his crew of U.S. Forest Service archaeologists and prepared to meet with officials for an investigation at dawn. That morning McAllister watched from a ridge as local sheriff ’s deputies and Forest Service officers apprehended Thayde Jones and Robert Gevara (a third man, Kyle Jones, fled on foot but was caught later in the day walking along a nearby dirt road). McAllister and his crew waited for the all clear, then set to work assessing the site and cataloging an impressive collection of disturbed artifacts, including 16 ornate pots and a complete human skull. The job took all afternoon. When McAllister was finished, the evidence completely filled the flatbed of a quarter-ton pickup. An appraiser later placed the value of the looters’ haul at $1,217, but McAllister insists the figure would have been much higher had the items made it to the commercial antiquities market. And the story doesn’t stop with Jones, Jones and Gevara. While McAllister assessed the site, law enforcement stumbled on Don Lowden, a looter unaffiliated with the other three, digging at a pueblo site no more than a mile away. Lowden became the third looting operation busted in the immediate area in two days. For McAllister, the incident stands out as the most grotesque display of disrespect for the nation’s archaeological resources he’s ever witnessed. And, in the kind of ironic twist expected of odd entrepreneurial endeavors, it represents the catalyst for McAllister leaving his traditional fieldwork and founding a new, specialized type of archaeology. He now runs Archaeological Damage Investigation and Assessment (ADIA), a Missoula-based private contracting firm that’s operated in some form since the mid-1980s. McAllister makes a living putting dollar values on vandalism at cultural sites, working with undercover investigations to bust looting rings, and training law enforcement officials and archaeologists across the country in how to better protect vulnerable cultural locations through the federal Archaeological Resources

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Martin McAllister founded Archaeological Damage Investigation and Assessment in the mid-1980s, a Missoula company that specializes in cultural resource crime.

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and Protection Act (ARPA). Colleagues point to him as the foremost expert in a field he essentially pioneered. “He found a great niche for himself and for us in terms of being an advocate for ARPA and law enforcement, for the kind of case work that needs to go into ARPA to make it effectively work,” says Carl Davis, the U.S. Forest Service’s regional archaeologist in Helena. “Truthfully, there is a lot of reluctance by a lot of archaeologists to get into law enforcement, particularly when it involves bad guys that do meth and have felony arms violations and poach deer.” McAllister knew exactly what he was getting into when he started ADIA. In his experience, looting often ties directly to more sensational crimes, like illegal arms sales and trafficking of methamphetamine and marijuana. For exactly that reason, McAllister believes looting should be a higher priority for U.S. law enforcement. “It’s not to say it’s the most serious crime going on in the United States today, but we ought to be trying to stop it,” McAllister says. “These items are like threatened and endangered species. Eventually someone’s going to kill the last grizzly bear and there aren’t going to be any more grizzly bears in the Lower 48. The same thing happens with artifacts. Archaeological sites are being made all the time, but [looters] tend to target a certain kind of archaeological site. Until we invent a time machine, the sites, they’re not coming back. Once they’re gone, they’re gone forever.” But McAllister fights a larger problem than just looting: widespread ignorance and a general lack of urgency among officials who should be on the lookout for criminals ransacking sacred sites. Sitting in his home office in the upper Rattlesnake Canyon, he explains that most of his work takes place in the Southwest, where high-profile cases such as Jones, Jones and Gevara have forced federal law enforcement officials to put more emphasis on patrolling for ARPA violations. Though based in Missoula for more than a decade, his company has conducted little business in Montana. It’s not that there isn’t a need, McAllister says, but rather that the state—like much of the country—simply isn’t familiar with the problem. “I hope this doesn’t hurt anybody’s feelings, but I think the reason that we’re not getting more ARPA cases in Montana is that people just aren’t looking,” McAllister says. “I think the violations are occurring, we just don’t have enough eyes out there watching the sites.” The Bitterroot National Forest is no stranger to looting. In 1992, a historic location in the SelwayBitterroot Wilderness known as the Magruder Massacre site was picked clean by a casual artifact collector from Lewiston, Idaho. The massacre had occurred in 1864, when a band of outlaws murdered three residents of a local mining town, including a merchant named Lloyd Magruder. The men responsible for the massacre were eventually apprehended, and their trial and subsequent hangings were the first on record in the Territory of Idaho. “A book had just come out on the Magruder Massacre, and this individual had read it,” says Milo McLeod, a retired Forest Service archaeologist who worked on the Bitterroot at the time of the looting. “He wanted to go find the site and see if he could find some artifacts that related to the massacre.” The items were later recovered by local Forest Service personnel—bullet casings, a watch fragment, nothing overtly spectacular—and had little market

Historic artifacts like these were recovered in the Bitterroot National Forest, where the site of the Magruder Massacre was picked clean in 1992 by a casual looter from Idaho.

value, but McLeod doesn’t measure the loss in dollars. Had those artifacts been properly excavated, they may have yielded rare information on exactly how the Magruder Massacre unfolded. Once disturbed, the items can no longer tell their story. “Looting had been a problem on both pre-historic sites and our historic sites for decades,” McLeod says. “The first people didn’t think very much of it. It was good recreation to go out and look for arrowheads or collect bottles. But what they didn’t realize was archaeological sites hold keys to the past. By excavating…we can learn a lot about what happened in the past, and when those artifacts are taken away, it’s almost like tearing pages from a book.”

of Montana’s battlefield sites—Little Bighorn, the Big Hole, the Bear Paw—these sites have been collected. And there is trafficking of artifacts, and if you can prove that a cartridge case or arrowhead came from Little Bighorn, it has high monetary value.” Casual looting has been the primary concern among Montana’s archaeologists for generations. Bitterroot National Forest archaeologist Mary Williams says many Montanans grew up with the belief that artifact hunting was a recreational hobby, not a crime. She still struggles with people getting in her face and telling her it’s their right to collect arrowheads or old fragments of pottery, even if the land is federally owned. Her rebuttal is simple: No, it isn’t.

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McAllister says rock art sites like this group of petroglyphs on Bureau of Land Management property near Santa Fe, N.M., aren’t even safe from vandalism and theft. Looters will chip away at cliff faces to remove such images and sell them on the antiquities market.

McLeod breaks Montana’s archaeological resources down into two types: pre-historic and historic. The former applies to nomadic American Indian tribes, whose burial plots are specifically targeted by looters who use jury-rigged tools made from car antennas to hunt artifacts and even human remains. The latter encompasses battlefields, mining structures and logging camps—anything related to the settlement of the West. “It’s not the same as the Southwest, where they have the exquisite pottery,” says McLeod. “But a lot

“The laws spell out very clearly what is and isn’t allowed,” Williams says, referring to both ARPA and the state’s own Antiquities Act. While the acceptance of casual collecting as Montana tradition doesn’t necessarily include commercial gain, Williams says it’s far too easy for the two to overlap. The Official Overstreet Indian Arrowheads Identification and Price Guide—what McAllister calls the Bible of looting—lists the market value of a single pre-historic lance point found in Beaverhead County at $8,000 to $14,000. Selling a

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projectile point like that is perfectly legal if it’s recovered from private property with permission from the landowner. But with thousands of dollars in potential profits, recreational collection can be an effective cover for commercial looting on public lands. “It’s something that, on federal properties, is quite prevalent unfortunately,” says Dean Wyckoff, a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Billings. “It kind of ranges across the whole spectrum, from somebody out casually collecting to somebody actually that’s very organized and methodical at hitting sites that are rich with those resources. Excavating to screening, what have you. There’s a market for that stuff.” Wyckoff says he’s currently working several ARPA investigations, though he could not offer details on the nature of the crimes. He understands that while most may see the consequences as minimal, they are very real. “A lot of times it seems the looters and even the public…they don’t see the victims,” Wyckoff says. “It seems like it may be a victimless crime, but it really isn’t because those activities really affect our ability to gather historical importance related to the sites. If you have somebody in there that’s looting, they haphazardly collect a lot of the time and a lot of the very important information regarding the artifacts is lost when it’s not done by a trained archaeologist.” McAllister’s introduction to looting came nearly a decade before his work on the Jones, Jones and Gevara case. As a young archaeologist in 1969, McAllister traveled to Guatemala to help excavate Mayan sites threatened by urban encroachment in the capital of Guatemala City. The teams worked throughout the day to unearth artifacts and gain a better understanding of the nature of the site. At night, however, local looters would plunder McAllister’s grids for any relics that might net a profit on the black market. “We had to post guards on our excavations at night,” McAllister says. “If we didn’t, people would actually be in digging in our excavations while we slept.” In the late ’70s and early ’80s, McAllister took an increasing interest in aiding Forest Service law enforcement crackdowns. The passage of ARPA in

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1979—a reaction by the U.S. Congress to mounting publicity of high-profile cases like Jones, Jones and Gevara—strengthened the federal government’s ability to prosecute looters on federal land and established first-time penalties of $20,000 in fines and one year in prison. Soon McAllister was dealing almost exclusively with ARPA investigations, his typical duties as an archaeologist falling by the wayside. By the time he left the Forest Service and founded Archaeological Resource Investigations, now ADIA, he had begun training law enforcement officers and fellow archaeologists in the art of assessing damage and successfully building cases against looters. “Eventually the training and consulting on archaeological crime just outstripped everything else,” McAllister says. “People always want to ask me questions about the archaeology of Montana, because I’m an archaeologist in Montana. But that’s not what I do.” What McAllister does do is essentially work backwards at a scene. Field archaeologists normally excavate a site systematically, making sure not to dislodge artifacts before their precise locations are mapped and documented. The data determines the pre-historic or historic significance of the object. McAllister’s job is to put looted items back in the ground—figuratively—and assess their value and the extent of the damage. At the same time, he has to place suspected looters at the scene of a particular crime. Forensic techniques like soil matching are the backbone of his science. “You catch a guy with an artifact in his truck driving down the road or he’s trying to sell it at a dealer, the burden of proof is on the government to prove that that item was illegally obtained in violation of ARPA or one of the other laws that protect these sites,” McAllister says. “That’s not always easy.” McAllister’s passion for cultural resource law enforcement is to some degree contagious. Liv Fetterman, a former employee of McAllister’s who continues to help instruct ADIA courses, started in the field as an undergraduate in archaeology at Boston University. She worked throughout the East and Southwest for years in cultural resource management before her growing distaste for looting drove her to law school at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island. Sitting across from McAllister in his Missoula office, Fetterman explains that her first lofty goals were to change how the justice system views looting. Most attorneys have never heard of that type of crime, she says. Without solid evidence against looters, even those well versed in archaeological crime find it too complex to tackle. “There isn’t enough case law that makes ARPA a really easy hit,” Fetterman says. “Add that to the fact that a lot of law enforcers aren’t providing a lot of evidence and the U.S. attorneys aren’t always aware, it becomes a pretty tenuous connection.” When Fetterman met McAllister she still knew little about investigating archaeological crime. Federal agencies have it on their radar, she says. But just as McAllister seeks to educate more state and local law enforcers on the problems of looting, Fetterman hopes to build awareness among attorneys across the country. McAllister’s business has offered her a chance to bring her seemingly disparate academic pursuits together. She’s the closest thing McAllister has to a disciple. “It’s just something that irks the hell out of me to know that people feel they can desecrate archaeological sites, and it is to me also a very limited resource,” Fetterman says. “We’ve got tons of environmentalists working to save the environment, but we just don’t have enough people working to stop the desecration of cultural resources.”

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Attorney Liv Fetterman helps McAllister instruct courses on archaeological crime for federal, state and tribal employees. “There isn’t enough case law that makes ARPA a really easy hit,” says Fetterman of the challenge in prosecuting looters.

Fetterman has had numerous casual encounters with looters, or people who know people who loot. Before moving to Missoula, she had several prospective renters inspect her New Mexico apartment. When asked what she did for a living, Fetterman replied she was an archaeological lawyer. A man responded by telling her “Oh, my buddy digs up graves.”

“There’s no way to tell [how much slips through the cracks],” McAllister says. “Somebody could be doing a search warrant here in Missoula tonight and they could come into a house and see all these Clovis points. If they thought they were just rocks, they might not be identified as potential contraband.”

“By excavating…we can learn a lot about what happened in the past, and when those artifacts are taken away, it’s almost like tearing pages from a book.” —Milo McLeod, retired U.S. Forest Service archaeologist “Because I had the pleasure of working both in academia as an archaeologist and in cultural resource management, I could see this disparity of education for the public,” Fetterman says. “When you’re in [cultural resource management], you end up working with construction workers a lot. When I was in Nevada, I was monitoring these construction workers and they were like, ‘There’s this great Indian mound. You should go check it out. We’ve got tons of pots from there.’ I’m like, ‘Seriously? You’re going to talk to me about taking pots from a mound? That’s illegal.’” McAllister believes that same lack of awareness is exactly why Montana has so few ARPA cases on the books. It’s not that looting simply isn’t a problem here, he says, but rather that the activity slips under law enforcement’s radar.

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On March 1, 52-year-old antiquities dealer Ted Gardiner shot himself in a house in Holladay, Utah. Gardiner had worked for two and a half years as an undercover informant for the FBI in one of the largest ARPA investigations in history, playing a pivotal role in the government’s attempt to bust a network of antiquities looters, dealers and collectors extending from the West Coast to Europe. Gardiner wasn’t the first death linked to the case. Two defendants also committed suicide since prosecutors handed down 24 indictments last year. A federal judge in Denver responded to Gardiner’s death by delaying the first trial, originally set for later this month. Gardiner was the prosecution’s star witness, and the legality of using his videotaped testimony is now under question.

McAllister refers to the case—code-named “Cerberus Action” by federal agents—often when talking about the country’s looting epidemic. The number of defendants and the 115 felony charges involved in the Cerberus investigation go a long way in supporting his point that archaeological crime is a very serious threat. And, as previously mentioned, he has no doubts about why Montana appears blessed with a drought of such activity. “State and local officers and a lot of tribal law enforcement officers…this may be a whole new deal to them,” McAllister says. “If you went up to a cop here in Missoula, a Missoula city police officer or even a Missoula County sheriff, and you started to say, ‘There are people out there that steal artifacts and sell them and they get money and it’s tied into meth,’ they’d say, ‘What? First of all, what’s an artifact?’” The problem with such widespread ignorance, says McAllister, is that looting has clear connections to crime local law enforcement officials already make a priority. Meth traffickers, for instance, have been known to use high-end artifacts to help fund their operations. In Oregon, a joint effort among federal, state and tribal agencies known as “Operation Bring ’em Back” turned up six looters suspected of drug trafficking in 2006. In the course of the investigation, one of the largest of its kind, agents discovered four meth labs linked to the case, seized 57 illegal firearms and recovered more than 100,000 stolen artifacts. The problem’s so prevalent in the Southwest that officials refer to the connection between drugs and antiquities theft as “twigging,” a nickname based on the looters’ habit of tweaking while digging up artifacts. Mark Long, Montana Narcotics Bureau chief, says he has yet to witness this phenomenon in the state, but concedes that drug task force officials aren’t really looking for it. “To my knowledge, that’s nonexistent,” Long says. “I’m not aware of any of it, narcotics related…

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But we could have encountered this and not even known it.� For the narcotics bureau at least, the issue is partly a matter of priority. Law enforcement at the state level has a lot of ground to cover, and a lot of outside concerns in drug investigations that for now outweigh the illegal theft and trade of items protected by the state’s Antiquities Act. “We prioritize by our estimation of its impact on public safety and public health,� Long says. “When meth labs were predominant all over the state, that was our number one priority and it took virtually 100 percent of our resources. Not only is there the meth addict, there’s the meth labs, the toxic waste and the violence that went with it.� McAllister doesn’t fault any law enforcement agency for not recognizing the problem. He understands that the average peace officer wouldn’t necessarily think to keep an eye open for artifacts during an investigation, as their training doesn’t typically include the type of specialization he offers federal agents in his classes. But the fact remains that Montana is ringed by states where looting is a recognized problem. Assistant Special Agent Beth Hall with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) hasn’t had a single recorded case of looting in her three years with the agency in Billings. But in her prior work with the National Parks Service at Badlands National Park in South Dakota, she and her coworkers regularly dealt with plundered American Indian burial sites. In those cases, it fell on personnel like Hall to contact the appropriate tribe to conduct reinterment ceremonies. Hall only dealt with one such incident personally, but says she became all too familiar with the crime.

Mary Williams, an archaeologist with the Bitterroot National Forest, says some people are under the mistaken impression that it’s their right to collect artifacts, even if they do so on federal land. “The laws spell out very clearly what is and isn’t allowed,� she says.

“I view it as a big problem nationwide, because I did come from a resource-based agency and that was one of the high priorities of the job when I was working there,â€? Hall says. “We were more in sync with those types of crimes, and you’d see it all the time in the papers‌I personally feel that they’re prevalent, and most likely growing.â€? Earlier this month, the Army Corps of Engineers contacted McAllister via e-mail to investigate a case of vandalism at Red Elk Rock Shelter, a roughly 2,500year-old Nez Perce pictograph site near Lewiston, Idaho. He’s already busy prepping for three cultural resource law enforcement courses later this year, but can’t pass up a chance to work close to home.

Fetterman says her own first brushes with looting came while working in cultural resource management in Idaho. She was helping conduct damage assessment at the sites and simply couldn’t believe how many holes had been dug illegally. She and McAllister agree if the problem exists just over the border, surely it exists here. “It’s occurring in Montana,� McAllister says, “and for whatever reason the people aren’t being caught.� McAllister’s come to realize, however, that his toughest converts might be his peers. Fetterman is one of the exceptions, an archaeologist bothered by the same nagging frustration. Archaeologists are as important as federal agents and state officers in maintaining the integrity

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The dog food diet FLASHINTHEPAN People spend more money on organic meat for a range of health, environmental and ethical reasons. At my local store, none of the meat for sale is organic except the dog food. Unfortunately for my dog, I’ve been eating most of it myself. I blame Francis. She works at the store’s deli counter, and is a passionate dog lover who believes that dogs, being natural hunters and carnivores, do best on a diet of raw meat. Since Francis also believes in the value of organic food (even if the store’s management doesn’t), she drives around the state to various organic farms in order to make bulk purchases of frozen blocks of cheap animal parts, like chicken backs and cow intestines. At the store, Francis has a little freezer set up near the checkout aisle in which she stocks her organic dog food, at such low prices she’s probably not making a penny. One day I noticed some beef bones in Francis’ freezer. They had a good amount of meat attached, and were labeled organic. I bought them and baked ’em until the meat was nice and brown, and made soup. On my next visit it was chicken backs, which are what’s left after all the breasts, thighs, wings and legs have been removed. A chicken back is mostly fat and bone but there is a bit of meat attached (Francis says uncooked chicken bones, which are less brittle than cooked bones, are okay for dogs to eat). I removed the fat and gave it to the dog, apologized for eating the rest of her food, and proceeded to make a tasty pot of chicken back soup. Standing in line at the store a few days later I noticed a three-pound bag of frozen beef cheeks in Francis’ freezer. At $1.67 per pound, it was some of the cheapest organic beef I’d ever bought, with no shred of fat or bone. The frozen cheeks were sliced into cubic rectangles about the size of chalkboard erasers. Some readers may be familiar with barbacoa, a popular taco filling. Barbacoa is Spanish for beef cheeks that have been braised, baked, steamed or boiled to tenderness. This is no easy feat, as the cheeks are perhaps the toughest cut of meat on the cow thanks to the exercise those muscles get from all

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guignon can be an immensely involved recipe—Julia Child’s version includes 45 steps—but the French classic can be approximated as easily as putting meat in a pot with red wine and baking with the lid on until tender. Start by placing the desired quantity of beef cheek, salted, in a pan under the broiler, turning often until browned on all sides. Put the browned meat in a Dutch oven and cover with a 50/50 mix of red wine and stock, with five bay leaves, a leaf or two of sage and a cup of brewed coffee per pound of meat (if you wish). Braise in the oven with the lid on until tender (four to six hours at 300 degrees). Check the fluid level often, adding wine as necessary to keep the meat at least half-covered. When the cheeks finally become tender, taste and adjust seasoning with salt if necessary. Carrots, potatoes, whole red chile pods (with seeds removed) and whole cloves of garlic may all be added at this point, and are fabulous additions to the joues de boeuf. When the veggies are done, keep cooking until the liquid concentrates to your desired thickness—remember, it will thicken as it cools. Whatever you do, for the love of dog food, don’t let the liquid evaporate. The softened meat absorbs sweet fruitiness from the wine, and a bite combined with a wine-soaked clove of garlic is Photo by Ari LeVaux heavenly. There will likely be chewy veins already on the wane, was buried for good when the of gristle in the meat that haven’t completely broken threat of mad cow disease turned anything in the vicin- down, and these can be set aside or given to the dog, who may be quite hungry if you ate its dinner. ity of a cow’s brain into a potential biohazard. It’s not like I’m trying to save a buck by wolfing To prepare barbacoa for tacos, many cooks simply sprinkle the cheeks with salt, wrap them in alu- dog food. I have a freezer full of meat from deer, elk minum foil and bake them for five to six hours at 300 and a grass-fed cow named Wendell. It’s just that degrees until the gristle melts. When the foil is many so-called “off-cuts” of meat such as beef cheeks opened the cook is rewarded with meat that’s crispy are so delicious I couldn’t care less if they strike on the outside and creamy on the inside. The meat some as depression-era food, or dog food. Steak is teased apart with forks or fingers and served in tor- snobs are welcome to their opinions—lack of tillas with cilantro, avocado, raw onion and a demand is why I can buy organic beef cheeks for $1.67 a pound. On the other hand, if more people squeeze of lime. I’ve been playing around with a recipe that would eat these parts we could get away with raising applies the principle of boeuf bourguignon, aka beef fewer animals for slaughter. And if it came to that, I’d braised in burgundy, to cow cheeks. Boeuf bour- happily pay more for this delicacy. the chewing cows do. In addition to the dense, finegrained muscle fiber, beef cheeks are also crisscrossed with gristly connective tissue. This gristle renders undercooked cheeks virtually inedible to those without cheek muscles as strong as a cow’s. But when sufficiently cooked, the connective tissue melts into a creamy substance that, in terms of flavor and mouth feel, is nearly indistinguishable from fat. Back in the day, the entire cow head was baked in a pit lined with mesquite coals. After hours of pit cooking the cheeks, tongue, brain and other bits of flesh were stripped from the skull and eaten. This practice,

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HAPPIESTHOUR Seeley Axe White ents belie), it tastes a bit like a wheat hefeweizen, but it also has a pale ale-like hoppiness lacking in every other gluten-free beer I’ve tried.

Breaking beer news bull e t i n : Th e g o o d p e o p l e a t Missoula’s Kettlehouse Brewing Co. have brewed an experimental “gluten-reduced” beer called Seeley Axe White. It’s very likely gluten-free, but the brewery is reluctant to call it that until it can be tested for gluten proteins.

Will it stick around? Kettlehouse owner Tim O’Leary says reviews have been positive so far, and that it could be a “sleeper hit.” “We’re testing it in our taprooms, and if it seems commercially viable, at least in Missoula, we’ll figure out what we have to do to continue making it,” he says. “What we’re trying to do is get a recipe dialed in that we can offer if there are any bars around that want to have it on tap.”

Why I care: Because three years ago I discovered I have celiac disease, an inherited autoimmune disease in which the lining of the small intestine is damaged from eating gluten proteins found in wheat, barley and rye. That meant my Kettlehouse growler was relegated to a spare change collector, and my love of beer spoiled. Beer became my forbidden fruit.

Where to get it: The Kettlehouse’s taproom at 602 Myrtle Street. It’s not currently available at the Northside location, but that could change. —Matthew Frank

What’s Seeley Axe White? Seeley Axe— get it? We gluten-intolerants are called “celiacs”—is a beer brewed with the gluten-free grain sorghum and, in the tradition of Belgian white beers, bitter orange peel and coriander.

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There is nothing inherently wrong with packaging wine in boxes. In fact, it’s arguably a better way of packaging than in bottles. The stigma that boxed wine carries results from the fact that most of the first wines packaged in boxes did truly suck. Since then, the quality of boxed wines has diversified to include some good stuff, though blanket dismissals of boxed wine remain common. Boxes, which contain a plastic bladder inside that holds the wine, do a better job at preserving wine than bottles by preventing oxidation. When a bottle is opened, the oxygenation starts immediately. While a little breathing is generally good for the wine’s flavor, too much oxygen can cause it to spoil. Even if the bottle is re-corked, the clock has begun ticking on the remaining wine.

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But in a box, the plastic bag collapses around the wine as it flows out the one-way valve and into your glass, breathing as it streams through the air. There are environmental and economic advantages to wine boxes as well, especially the five-liter boxes, which utilize less packaging and create less waste per unit of wine than a bunch of bottles. With a big box you pay more for wine and less for packaging. Boxed wines are often blends of several different kinds of grape—a merlot blend could have grapes from Washington, California and Oregon. Wine culture seems to hold blended wines in a measure of contempt, but blind taste testers regularly choose cheap blends over aged, expensive single grape vintages. So next time someone disses your boxed wine, set up a blind taste test for a row of panelists that pits a cabernet of his choice against your boxed red. It will shut them up. Send your food and garden queries to flash@flashinthepan.net

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nightlife Perfect those jazz hands while absorbing photos and documents of American jazz legends traveling the world as cultural ambassadors during Jam Session: America’s Jazz Ambassadors Embrace the World, the Montana Museum of Art and Culture’s newest exhibit in UM’s Paxson and Meloy Galleries which features an opening reception from 5–7 PM in the lobby of UM’s PARTV Center. Free. Call 243-2019. Also includes a performance by pianist David Morgenroth. It looks digital, but it’s nowhere near any binary code. The Missoula Art Museum presents Artini: Peaks, where you can peruse artist

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Griff Williams’ impressively painted and enormous works, hear him talk about his process, as well as shake a leg to Dead Hipster DJs Mike Gill and Chris Baumann from 5:30–9 PM at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Williams’ talk starts at 6 PM. Call 728-0447 and visit missoulaart museum.org. (See Scope in this issue.) Internet junkies shouldn’t space going to a public meeting hosted by Mayor John Engen about Missoula’s application to be a test site for Google Fiber, Google’s high speed Internet experiment, which runs from 5:30–7 PM at Missoula’s City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Free to attend. The public is invited to talk about how Missoula could benefit from the project. Visit ci.missoula.mt.us to view the city’s application. Controversy and allegations of conspiracy mix with anger over health care reform, the media, land use, and other issues during a screening of Beneath the Beauty, a documentary filmed in Hamilton, which screens at 6 PM at Libby’s The Dome Theater, 602 Mineral Ave. in Libby. $6. Visit beneaththebeauty.com. Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit, Missoula’s newest trivia night, begins its run with sign ups at 6:45 PM and trivia at 7 PM at the Brooks and Browns Lounge, at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. Free. Includes drink specials by Bayern Brewery, prizes and trivia categories that change weekly. E-mail Katie at kateskins@gmail.com. See what life is like for low-wage South and Southeast Asian workers on U.S. military end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., March 19, 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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bases in Iraq, along with the plight of two Western Shoshone sisters, during a screening of Someone Else’s War, followed by American Outrage, starting at 7 PM in the University Center Theater. Free. Visit peaceandjusticefilms.org. Slam others with alliteration, or watch metaphors get spit with grace, during the Big Sky High School Aerie/UM’s Oval-sponsored Sixth Annual Citywide Spoken Word Poetry Slam, which starts at 7 PM upstairs at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. $9 couple/$5 person, all ages. The band Borland plays just before the slam. Anyone planning to read should show up at 6:30 PM to sign up. Call 728-2401 Ext. 8644. Journos and media freaks, don’t sleep on this: UM’s School of Journalism presents the lecture “Making Journalism and Global Coverage Relevant in the Internet Age,” a talk with Rebecca Blumenstein, deputy managing editor and international editor of The Wall Street Journal, at 7 PM in Room 123 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free. Call 243-4001. A pilot searches for an abducted 12-year-old while also delving into her dead mother’s past during the UM School of Theatre and Dance’s rendition of Ellen McLaughlin’s Tongue of a Bird, with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Masquer Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $14/$12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 for tickets or visit www.umtheatredance.org. An old coot listens to his past on tape and three people in urns hash out the details of a love affair, during the Montana Actors’ Theatre’s An Evening of Beckett, which includes a rendition of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, followed by Play, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10. Visit mtactors.com for tickets. UM president George Dennison shreds on his guitar—while faculty and students show off their artistic skills—during a talent show to raise funds for earthquake victims in Haiti and Chile, which starts at 7:30 PM at the University Center’s North Ballroom. $5/$3 UM students with ID and those 21 and under. All ticket proceeds will be donated to Doctors Without Borders. Call Kelsey at 303-250-8657. Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks

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Find out what could lie ahead for our neighbors in Haiti when UM adjunct prof Thomas Sullivan presents the talk “Flight to Crisis Mission In Haiti: Observations on the Past and Future of a Devastated Country,” which starts at noon in Room 333 of UM’s University Center. Free. Call 243-2288.

nightlife Craig Lancaster brings to life a story about a man with Asperger’s syndrome whose personal walls start getting punctured over the course of 25 days when he reads and signs copies of his book 600 Hours of Edward at 5 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881. Help some Missoula teens make a wicked public mural by attending the Missoula ArtReach Exhibition/Fundraiser, an exhibit featuring work by a host of local artists priced at $100 or lower that will help raise funds for a community mural to be created by teens—with the help of UM students—with the exhibit/fundraiser running from 5–8 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. Free to attend. Call Michael Parker at 813846-2000 and visit missoulacommunity mural.blogspot.com. Controversy and allegations of conspiracy mix with anger over health care reform, the media, land use, and other issues during a screening of Beneath the Beauty, a documentary filmed in Hamilton, which screens at 6 PM at Troy’s Lincoln Theater, 211 E. Kootenai Ave. in Troy. $5. Visit beneath thebeauty.com. Get your social side moving with the Singles of Missoula, who meet at 7 PM at Paradise Falls, 3621 Brooks St. Free, with snacks provided.

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A pilot searches for an abducted 12-year-old while also delving into her dead mother’s past during the UM School of Theatre and Dance’s rendition of Ellen McLaughlin’s Tongue of a Bird, with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Masquer Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $14/$12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. C a l l 24 3 - 4 581 f o r t i c k e t s o r v i s i t www.umtheatredance.org. They give war hawks something to ponder. Higgins Alley Upstairs, 424 N. Higgins Ave., hosts the Poets for Peace and Justice Extravaganza, where peace/justice activists speak out and confront pressing issues through poetry—while remembering the invasion of Iraq—from 8–10 PM at Higgins Alley Upstairs. $5 suggested donation, with all proceeds going to a justice cause voted on by attendees. To sign up to read your poetry, call Tahj at 818-1111 or Rita at 544-9026. And a few of our own hit the big stage: Dead Hipster Promotions presents a Missoula showcase featuring Victory Smokes, Wartime Blues, The Racquet and Vera, all hitting the stage of the Wilma Theatre starting at 8 PM. $8, all ages. Advance tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s. They’ll gnaw on your appendages in the gnarliest of ways. Kalispell’s Gnarwail shreds you down and lets the Flathead Reservation’s War Cry and Helena’s Bloody Blood Orgy have first dibs when all three metal bands play The Wolf Den in Polson, 218 Main St., at 8 PM. Free. He’s that neighbor with a wicked Vulcan grip: Neighbor John trades licks with Ray Allen when they play bluegrass and blues at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. No cover, but pass-the-hat donations welcome. Call 741-2361. Son of a Gun ushers in spring by taking a quick dip into a tub consisting of gun powder and almond milk when they play country during a “Welcome Spring Stomp” at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Call 543-6346. Love, cars and drive-ins mix with hip swiveling, gum chewing and singing during the MCT Community Theatre’s Performance of Grease, which starts at 8 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. Show is sold out. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org. If you liked Tolkien’s mines of Khazad-dum, you’ll love tunneling through the AmVets

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Club, where DJDC rocks dance music to slay orcs to at 9 PM. Free. They’ve got a sweet hookup for pomade: Great Falls’ The Cold Hard Cash Show chugs a cold one for the “Man in Black” when they play Johnny Cash cover songs at 9 PM at the Badlander. $5. Dance like an autobot but don’t get too trashy during this month’s installment of Robotrash, a dance party which features a funky house/electro set by local Still D.R.E., West Coast house beats from local Mike Stolin, along with prime cuts from DJ Kris —who celebrates the release of his Moon— new mix CD “The Get Right”—at 9 PM at the Palace. $3. Includes a raffle for Moon’s CD and a limited run edition of “Robotrash” Tshirts. Strange Brew cures your nightmares with classic rock and country at Florence’s High Spirits Lounge & Casino, 5341 Hwy. 93 N., at 9:30 PM. Free. Zeppo MT postdates your rent check so they can probe your yogurt for some very important information when they play blues and R & B at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free. He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799. Keep glowsticks out of mouth, please: The Top Hat hosts Bring Your Friends VI, which features house/electro from Chicago’s Santiago, plus local tech house flavors from Fleege and electro from DJ Coma, at 10 PM. $10/$7 advance at brownpaper tickets.com. Includes free glowsticks.

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Lend your hands and your vehicle to a sustainable nonprofit when you join Home Resource’s Moving Caravan, where volunteers and their trucks and trailers help transport materials throughout the day, starting at 9 AM, from Home Resource’s old location, 825 W. Kent, to its new location at the intersection of Russell and Wyoming streets. Call 541-8301 and visit homeresource.org for a full list of volunteer opportunities. Get rid of some of your old sleeping bags, backpacks and other outdoors gear in order to help out the Mountain Shepherds—a

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community run, eco-tourism organization located in the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve in India— during the Nature-Link Institute’s Gear for the Garhwal drive, which runs through April 30 with drop off locations at Pipestone Mountaineering, The Trail Head, Aerie Wilderness Medicine and UM’s Outdoor Program. Call 3702294 and visit visit nature-link.org. She’ll push your aesthetic limits, and you’ll love it. The Ravalli County Museum, 205 Bedford St. in Hamilton, presents a workshop with artist Pamela Caughey that includes a Power Point presentation on gesture, contour and blind counter from 10 AM–noon at the museum. Free. Attendees should bring graphite, charcoal or pen and ink, as well as a 12” by 16” or 18” by 24” drawing pad. RSVP by c a l l i n g 36 3 - 3338 a n d v i s i t brvhsmuseum.org. Those suffering from illness or loss can find solace during one of Living Art Montana’s Creativity for Life workshops at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St., at 10:30 AM. This week features the prog r a m “ F l o w e r Fa i r i e s ” w i t h Beth Jaffe. Free, but donations appreciated and accepted. Register by calling 549-5329 or visit livingartofmontana.org. Your child expresses innovative abstraction through dance, claps, singing and more during Kids’ Vibrations with Matthew Nord and Lynn Talarico of Tangled Tones, where the imagination rolls at 11 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Free. Call 396-3352. A madam and a school teacher get down with the days of yore during “Two Gals Gossiping About Early Montana,” a program where Kim Kaufman and Evelyn Widhalm take on the personas of old school Missoulians Emma Dickenson and Madam Mary Gleim and talk about late 1800s Montana, starting at 11 AM at the Holt Museum at Travelers’ Rest State Park, half a mile west of Lolo on Hwy. 12. Free. Call 273-4253 and visit travelersrest.org. If you want 1-D art, look somewhere else: The Killdeer Artisans Guild hosts a reception for its spring exhibit of 2-D and 3-D works of art from 2–4 PM at Arlee’s Hangin Art Gallery and Coffee House, 92555 Hwy. 93. Free, with refreshments. Call 726-5005. Love, cars and drive-ins mix with hip swiveling, gum chewing and singing during the MCT Community Theatre’s Performance of Grease, which starts at 2 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. Show is sold out. Call 728-PLAY and visit mctinc.org for tickets. Exploding galaxies, supernovas and pulsars pulse into your eye sockets

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during the Missoula Area Secular Society’s screening of episodes one and two of Cosmos by Carl Sagan, which starts at 3:30 PM at the downstairs meeting room of the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free, with families welcome. Visit secularmissoula.org.

nightlife Controversy and allegations of conspiracy mix with anger over health care reform, the media, land use, and other issues during a screening of Beneath the Beauty, a documentary filmed in Hamilton, which screens at 5:30 PM at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $5. Visit beneaththebeauty.com. Prepare to get rocked, in the most sensuous and acoustic way, when Seattle’s acoustic duo Everyday Jones plays a gig during their “Rockumentary Tour” at the Brooks and Browns Lounge at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St., from 6–9 PM. Cover TBA. Seattle solo artist Nick Deonigi opens. Sharpen your taste, touch and smell while also lending a hand to fund research to prevent and cure retinal diseases during Dining in Darkness, a sensory awareness experience where you dine blindfolded at the Doubletree Hotel, 100 Madison St., from 6–8 PM. $30, with tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s. All funds will be donated to the Foundation Fighting Blindness, as well as Missoula County Public Schools to buy classroom technology for low vision/blind students. Call Jane at 396-5489. The only thing you need to worry about is how saxy you want the saxophonist of Odyssey to get when they play rock and blues at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. A pilot searches for an abducted 12-year-old while also delving into her dead mother’s past during the UM School of Theatre and Dance’s rendition of Ellen McLaughlin’s Tongue of a Bird, with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Masquer Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $14/$12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 for tickets or visit www.umtheatre dance.org. An old coot listens his past on tape and three people in urns hash out the details of a love affair, during the Montana Actors’ Theatre’s An Evening of Beckett, which includes a rendition of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, followed by Play, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $15. Visit mtactors.com for tickets. Shoot through musical turbulence and then get ready to chill during the Missoula Symphony

Orchestra and Chorale Concert, which features guest vocalist Suzanne Morales and performances of pieces by Wagner, Fauré and others at 7:30 PM at the University Theatre. $25–$15 depending on seats. Visit missoulasymphony.org for tickets or call 721-3194. Keep it ethnic but totally casual during a Missoula Folklore Society heritage contra dance, which starts with a beginners workshop at 7:30 PM and glides into dance mode with music by Skippin’ A Groove and calling by Mark Matthews at 8 PM at UM’s Turner Hall Ballroom. $8/$6 Missoula Folklore Society members and students with Current Griz Card. Visit montanafolk.org. Dance in your seat and perhaps laugh and weep when New York City’s The Klezmatics bring their neo-Klezmer chops to Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center, 20 Central Ave., for a show at 7:30 PM. $30–$25 depending on seats. Call 862-5371 and visit whitefishtheatreco.org for tickets. Love, cars and drive-ins mix with hip swiveling, gum chewing and singing during the MCT Community Theatre’s Performance of Grease, which starts at 8 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. Show is sold out. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org. They’re like an eggplant hoarding coalition of the stringy. The Montana Rockies Bluegrass Association presents a concert with Baba Ganoush and the Bluegrass Coalition starting at 8 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $10/$8 association members/$6 students. Visit mtbluegrass.com and call 777-7028. The fish and the zoo cavort and make sweet beats during FractaL LovE and The ZooKeepRz host Round 1: Equinox Celebration, a DJ dance party featuring Whitefish/Missoula DJs N.V., FractaL LovE, Mikee Sev, Lui, Hase and others starting at 8 PM at the Whitefish VFW Lounge, 20 Baker Ave. Cover TBA. Son of a Gun ushers in spring by banning coffee and guzzling flaming cups of kerosene when they play country during a “Welcome Spring Stomp” at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Call 543-6346. Here’s your chance to get freaky on the dance floor. AmVets Club offers up DJDC and his dance music to the hungry horde at 9 PM. Free. This complex is due for a few floggings: The Badlander/Palace Complex celebrates its third birthday with a party featuring Absolutely DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo in the Badlander, —who celeand Secret Powers— brate the release of their new CD—

SPOTLIGHT xx lens Walter Pennon literally can’t take his eyes off of TV news anchor Suzanne Scoope. The socially awkward dude obsessively watches her newscasts while he’s working and when he’s at home alone in his bathrobe. But his fixation doesn’t stop there—he also sends her flowers as a sign of his affection. He sounds a little off balance, don’t you think? Thankfully, Pennon isn’t real. He’s a character played by local actor Jeff Medley, pictured here, in Smitten, a short film produced by KECI anchor/UM media arts grad student Hasalyn Harris, along with fellow grad student Logan Modine. “It’s tongue in cheek, “ Harris says. “Being on television, you get a lot of viewer feedback and a lot of interaction with people, and the main character Walter is my imagined version of the far end of the spectrum of a television viewer.” This week, you’ll be able to see Walter in all his infatuated glory along with 10 other nationally and internationally produced short films during Lunafest, a touring film festival hosted by the makers of the Luna nutrition bar, and aimed at showing films “by, for and about women.” But, of course, you don’t have to carry an XX chromosome to get in on the action. There’s someWHAT: Lunafest WHEN: Wed., March 24, at 7 PM WHERE: Wilma Theatre HOW MUCH: $10/$5 students MORE INFO: lunafest.org

thing for everyone. One highlight includes The Kinda Sutra, a hilarious documentary by Jessica Yu where people recount their misconceptions about where babies came from and offer responses running the gamut from a stork and sun particles, to our bowel movements. Omelette follows a Bulgarian mother in the mid-1990s as she struggles to deal with inflation, and A Vida Politica is a poignant doc about a black Brazilian hairstylist who talks about how she uses beauty as a way to make her fellow brothers and sisters stronger. But this visual soiree isn’t just about watching film. It also doubles as a fundraiser, with 85 percent of profits going to fund scholarships for the YWCA’s GUTS! leadership program, and 15 percent going to the Breast Cancer Research Fund. For Hasalyn Harris, it’s also about celebrating the strides women have taken in filmmaking. “It’s pretty cool to get to be part of what I think is a growing trend of women not just being in front of the camera,” she says, “ but actually playing roles behind it.” —Ira Sather-Olson

along with Reverend Slanky in the Palace, all starting at 9 PM in both venues. Free. (See Noise in this issue.) Keep the party out of your pants for this one: Local experimental quartet Elephant Gun celebrates the release of their CD with a show titled “Party of the Century,” which also features a set by locals Modality, starting at 9 PM at Higgins Alley Upstairs, 424 N. Higgins Ave. $3. Includes DJs between sets and beer specials. Throw this rapper a bone, and he’ll keep ya busy: Rapper Bizzy Bone, best known as the founder of Bone Thugs–N–Harmony, crushes skeletons and exoskeletons with his rhymes when he plays with Ta Smallz at 9 PM at the Elks Club, 112 N. Pattee St. $20/$17 advance at the Elks Lodge office. Includes VIP tables for $200 and meet and greet passes for $100. Call 549-0542. The Rockaholics urge you to chug a bottle of kefir in order to sweat out all the cactus juice

you’ve been consuming when they play variety tunes at Hot Springs’ Creekside Inn, 207 A St., at 9 PM. Free. Call 253-0428. Strange Brew estimates your net worth in terms of your flighty personality when they play classic rock and country at Florence’s High Spirits Lounge & Casino, 5341 Hwy. 93 N., at 9:30 PM. Free. Tom Catmull and the Clerics suggest dabbing your canker sores with bedbug juice for quick pain relief when they play Americana and roots music at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free. Cabin Fever asks you if their handkerchiefs smell like chloroform when they rock you out and knock you out with what’s bound to be rock at 9:30 PM at the Lucky Strike Bar, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Free. Call 549-4152. The remedy is a dirty shot o’ funk. Bozeman’s Cure for the Common keeps the funk ultra funky when they play the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. DJ Dodge plays in between sets.

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Get a taste of local food at a lower price and learn more about a participatory business model when you check out the Missoula Community Food Co-op’s Sunday Public Shop, a chance to shop at the co-op before you join from 10 AM–5 PM at the co-op, 1500 Burns St. Free to attend. Non-members are welcome to shop three times before b e c o m i n g a m e m b e r. C a l l 728-2369 and visit missoula communitycoop.com. Love, cars and drive-ins mix with hip swiveling, gum chewing and singing during the MCT Community Theatre’s Performance of Grease, which starts at 2 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. Show is sold out. Call 728-PLAY and visit mctinc.org for tickets.

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The human pretzel adds flattery to the face. Cirque Mechanics’ Birdhouse Factory, an acrobatic/theater performance, shows Sun., March 21, at 7:30 PM at the Hamilton Performing Arts Center, 327 Fairgrounds Road. $35/$32.50/$30 depending on seats. Visit bartc.org for tickets and call 363-7946.

My plate has pesticide-laden beef on it, how about yours? The Community Food and Agriculture Coalition and The Good Food Store present a screening of What’s on Your Plate?, a documentary which follows two 11-year-old girls as they explore the origins of their food, with a screening at 2 PM in the large meeting room of the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call Lauren at 274-0437.

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Shoot through musical turbulence and then get ready to chill during the Missoula Symphony Orchestra and Chorale Concert, which features guest vocalist Suzanne Morales and performances of pieces by Wagner, Fauré and others at 3 PM at the University Theatre. $15. Visit missoulasymphony.org for tickets or call 721-3194.

nightlife This cheese just might open your mind: UM hosts an Italian Film Festival screening of Il Vento Fa il suo Giro, which follows a French family as they settle into a conservative town in the Italian Alps to produce goat cheese, with a screening at 5:30 PM, and again at 7:30 PM, at the University Center Theater. Free. E-mail Peter at umcircoloitaliano@hotmail.com. They’ll hook you up with some heady verbs and adjectives. UM’s

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Second Wind Reading Series continues with work by visiting UM faculty member Brian Blanchfield and UM MFA student Inga Aesoph, at 6:30 PM at the Palace. Free. 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 Donna Smith, The Front Street Jazz Group, and DJs Gary Stein and Ryan Wendel. This is where machines meet their acrobatic masters. The Bitterroot Performing Arts Council presents Cirque Mechanics’ Birdhouse Factory, an acrobatic/theater performance where performers juggle, tumble and contort themselves with the help of machines in order to tell a story involving love, loss and birdhouses, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Hamilton Performing Arts Center, 327 Fairgrounds Road. $35/$32.50/ $30 depending on seats. Visit bartc.org for tickets and call 3637946. (See Spotlight in this issue.) Kristen Stout lets notes float from her flute while Katie Hoyrup lets the reed of her saxophone do the talking when they perform a student recital at 7:30 PM at the UM Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building. Free. Call 243-6880.

Even staunch Castro loyalists can’t help but let a leg twitch when San Diego’s B-Side Players play from a spicy soup of Latin American influenced funk, reggae, jazz and rock at the Top Hat at 9 PM. $9. Locals Fiancée open.

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We’re MySpace friends, right? Right? UM’s President’s Lecture Series presents the seminar “Friendship and Other NonMoral Values,” a discussion with Princeton prof Alexander Nehamas at 3:10 PM in Room 123 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free. C a l l 24 3 - 29 81 a n d v i s i t umt.edu/president/lectures.

nightlife Give a nod to our native sisters during “Salish Women: Power, Place and Story,” a presentation with Salish educator Julie Cajune and Salish poet Jennifer Greene, which starts at 5 PM in Rooms 332-333 of UM’s University Center. Free. Call 243-2584. What reason have you got for lying around the house watching the tube when Florence’s High Spirits offers Free Pool at 6 PM? Free. If

you’re an adult and you like to hit, blow or toot on an instrument, don’t miss the first weekly rehearsal for the Missoula Community Concert Band, which starts at 7 PM in the band room of Sentinel High School, 901 South Ave. W. Free to rehearse. Open to all woodwind, brass and percussion players. Call Diana Nash at 542-7664. It’s strictly platonic, I swear: UM’s Le Cercle Francophone French club film festival continues with a screening of Un baiser s’il vous plaît, which follows a French man who asked for a kiss but got a story instead, with a screening at 7 PM at the University Center Theater. Free. E-mail lecerclefrancophone@hotmail.com. Larry Hirshberg separates the red grapes from the white grapes with the power of his mellow vibes when he plays folk and Americana at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 100, at 7 PM. Free. He only manipulates strings, I swear: Ryan Berkshire makes his violin weep with wondrous notes when he plays a student recital at 7:30 PM at the UM Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building. Free. Call 243-6880. This is all about friends with philosophical benefits: UM’s President’s Lecture Series continues with “Because It Was He, Because I t Wa s I : Th e G o o d o f Friendship,” a discussion with Princeton prof Alexander Nehamas which starts at 8 PM at the University Theatre. Free. Call 2432981 and visit umt.edu/president/lectures.

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ing. $15/$10 students, seniors and members of Friends of Irish Studies. Call 243-4471. Keep an eye out for intellectual snipers during “Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan,” a talk by Owen Sirrs of UM’s Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center Defense Critical Language/Culture Program which starts at 7 PM in Rooms 203-204 of UM’s James E. Todd Building. Free, with a community discussion to follow the talk. Visit umt.edu/mansfield. Immerse yourself in the stringiness. The U M Symphony Orchestra presents a performance at 7:30 PM at the University Theatre. $10/$5 students and seniors. Call 243-6880. A pilot searches for an abducted 12-year-old while also delving into her dead mother’s past during the UM School of Theatre and Dance’s rendition of Ellen McLaughlin’s Tongue of a Bird, with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Masquer Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $14/ $12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 2434 581 f o r t i c k e t s o r v i s i t www.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? K is the symbol for what element? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.) He bounces beats like he’ll bounce you outta the bar if you get too rowdy. The Palace presents a DJ set by SUPAJ–DI. JAMERICAN, aka the Badlander/Palace’s bouncer Jimmy, starting at 9 PM. Free.

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Diversity-appreciation cap is a must: UM continues its Ecology Seminar Series talk with the lecture “African Field Trip” with Ken Dial, which starts at 4:10 PM in Room 110 of UM’s Interdisciplinary Sciences Building. Free. Call 243-5292.

nightlife Keep a true DIY art institution growing while downing a heady brew or two during a Community Unite Pint Night that benefits the Zootown Arts Community Center, and runs from 5–8 PM at the Kettlehouse Northside Tap Room, 313 N. First St. W. Free to attend. A portion of proceeds from every pint sold goes to the ZACC. Attendees can also bring a shirt and use the ZACC’s portable screen printing station to create a wearable piece of art. Visit zootownarts.com. She’ll also take you on a long walk, fo’ real. Poet Jill Beauchesne uses lyric and metaphor to tap into the known and unknown, conscious and unconscious, and everything in between when she reads poetry from her manuscript The Aquamarine Experience at 7 PM at Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. W. Free. Visit jillbeauchesne.com. Let’s hope their situation has improved: Hellgate High School, 900 S. Higgins Ave., hosts “Women in Today’s Afghanistan,” a talk with Fahima Vorgetts of the organizations Women for Afghan Women and the Afghan Women’s Fund, at 7 PM at the school’s auditorium. Free. Visit montanaworldaffairs.org. (See Agenda in this issue.)

Do the math. Between March 15 and the end of the season, come up and buy a lift ticket. Come up again and buy another lift ticket. Come a third day, and the lift’s on us. Just show us the other two at the ticket window and you’ll get the third day FREE.* Now how’s that for giving you a Spring Break? For more info, call 549-9777 or visit montanasnowbowl.com. *Offer begins March 15, 2010. First two tickets must be left intact and attached to your jacket. Old, mutilated or detached tickets will not be accepted. Offer expires at the end of the 2009/2010 season.

You never know, but they might be blasting Thomas Dolby’s hit “She Blinded Me With Science” during the 55th Annual Montana State Science Fair, which is open to the public from 8–11:30 AM at UM’s Adams Center. Free to attend. Visit www.mtsciencefair.org.

nightlife Follow your dreams of becoming the next Willie Nelson during an open mic/jam night hosted by Louie Bond and Teri Llovet every Tue. at the Brooks and Browns Lounge at the Holiday Inn– Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St., from 7–10 PM, with sign-up at 6 PM. Free. E-mail terillovet@hotmail.com. Contrary to popular belief, he doesn’t bleed green if he shreds too hard. UM Irish Studies guest artist Tommy Sands presents his Celtic folk music program “The Troubles,” with a performance at 7 PM at the UM Recital Hall, in the music build-

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Tuesday, March 23, at 7pm • University of Montana Recital Hall Tickets are available at the door, or you can reserve in advance by calling Terry at 406-544-0311. $15 general admission, $10 students, seniors and members of The Friends of Irish Studies. www.irishmontana.com • TommySands.com • lxtlanartists.com Sponsored by The Friends of Irish Studies

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A man gets a little too obsessed with a TV news anchor while a young Israeli immigrant struggles to transition to life in America during Lunafest, a touring film festival of 11 short films by, for and about women which starts at 7 PM at the Wilma Theatre. $10/$5 students. Tickets can be purchased in advance by calling YWCA Missoula at 543-6691. Proceeds benefit the YWCA’s GUTS! program, and the Breast Cancer Research Fund. (See Spotlight in this issue.) A female pilot searches for an abducted 12-year-old while also delving into her dead mother’s past during the UM School of Theatre and Dance’s rendition of Ellen McLaughlin’s Tongue of a Bird, with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Masquer Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $14/$12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 for tickets or visit www.umtheatre dance.org. Organist Nancy Cooper commands keys and gives a shout out to Bach during Bach ‘n All, a musical performance celebrating Bach’s 325th birthday that also features Beth Antonopulos on oboe, which starts at 7:30 PM at Holy Spirit Episcopal Church, 130 S. Sixth St. E. Free. Call 243-2080. You better be sorry: The Montana Actors’ Theatre presents another round of song, dance and hilarity with a dark twist—and likely a scantily clad cast—during “Sorry ‘Bout It,” this month’s installment of its popular cabaret, which starts at 8 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10. Visit mtactors.com. Extend yourself beyond regular ballet using emotion through movement to tell stories and interpret music when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., presents Lyrical Class every Wed. at 8:30 PM. Call 5417240 for pricing and visit ddcmontana.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: The letter K is the symbol for potassium, so keep eating up all those bananas, ya hear? The tenets of women’s lib broadens to include cheap drinks and DJs spinning dance tracks when Feruqi’s hosts Ladies’ Night every Wed. at 9 PM. Free. Be sure you’ve downed enough pitchers of PBR in order to have the courage to sing “Flash Light” by Parliament (believe me, the beer helps), during Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

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Tag it and put it in a bag, then be ready to discuss Property: A Novel by Valerie Martin during the Bitterroot Public Library’s “Brown Bag It” book discussion, which starts at noon at the library, 306 State St. in Hamilton. Free. Call 363-1670.

nightlife The Joan Zen Duo would prefer that you overdress for the occasion and give a thumbs down to gentrification when they play acoustic music with saxophone, guitar and vocals at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. Yet another session of the World Rhythm Youth Hand Drumming Class hits Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W., this and every Thu. where kids ages 7 and up smack out smooth grooves from 6:15–7 PM. $30/month, drum rental available. RSVP 3963352 or visit tangledtones.com. The question “What do you think of America?” elicits some interesting answers from people in 14 different countries during a Peace and Justice Film Series screening of The Listening Project, at 7 PM in UM’s University Center Theater. Free. Visit www.peaceandjusticefilms.org. Celebrate a quarter century of stringin’ out during the String Orchestra of the Rockies Silver Anniversary Concert, a chamber concert to benefit the SOR which features cellist Amit Peled, pianist Christopher Hahan, as well as the SOR players with a social hour/silent auction starting at 7 PM, followed by the concert at 8 PM, all at the Doubletree Hotel, 100 Madison St. $35 per person/$300 table of ten. Call 4932990 and visit sormt.org. The real hip-hop is over here. The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., gives you something to pop and lock about every Thu. at 7:20 PM during beginning and intermediate Hip-Hop Class. Call 541-7240 for pricing and visit ddcmontana.com. Christopher Kirkpatrick blows out only the chillest of notes when the clarinetist plays a faculty and guest artist recital at 7:30 PM at the UM Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building. Free. Call 243-6880. Swing it and get funky during the Sentinel High School Band and UM Jazz Band “Spring Jazz Concert,” which features jazz styles including swing, standards and funk starting at 7:30 PM at the Margaret Johnson Theater at Sentinel High School, 901 South Ave. W. Free,

with a free reception with desserts/ beverages to follow. Call Gary Gillett at 728-2403 Ext. 2403. You better be sorry: The Montana Actors’ Theatre presents another round of song, dance and hilarity with a dark twist—and likely a scantily clad cast—during “Sorry ‘Bout It,” this month’s installment of its popular cabaret, which starts at 8 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10. Visit mtactors.com. Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptop-fueled hip-hop, crunk, electronic, pop and mashed-up tunes hit the Badlander every week where Dead Hipster DJ Night gets the booties bumpin’ and the feet stompin’ at 9 PM. $3. They make your Twitter feed scream for more distortion: Locals At Home in the Cosmos, Elephant Gun, and FagRag bring experimental rock and lo-fi dance punk to your twitchy feet when they play the Palace at 9 PM. $5. Dance with a cougar or two, or not, every Thu. at 10 PM when the James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., hosts The Social Club, featuring DJ Fleege spinning an expansive array of tech house and progressive electro dance tunes. Free. Madison, Wisc.’s The Lucas Cates Band asks you to slap a ham and write them a 666 word report on the results when they play an amalgam of acoustic pop, rock, reggae, alt country and jam at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Locals Luau Cinder open. (See Noise in this issue.) If you’d like to help local youth make a stunning mural for Missoula, I’d suggest checking out the Missoula ArtReach Exhibition/Fundraiser Fri., March 19, from 5–8 PM at the Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 N. First St. W. It’s free to attend, and local artists will have their aesthetic wares on sale for less than $100. Proceeds from the exhibition benefit a planned community mural that will be created by teens, with the help of UM students. Find out more about the project by clicking to missoulacommunitymural.blogspot.com. Until then, keep me briefed about your artistic soirees and money raising endeavors by sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., March 19, 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.”

If you’re an outdoors gear packrat, I bet you have stacks of tents, down jackets and boots sitting idly around your house or stuffed away somewhere in your garage. This week, you have the chance to unload some of that gear for a good cause: On Sat., March 20, the Nature-Link Institute begins its Gear for the Garhwal drive, which runs until Fri., April 30, with drop-off locations at UM’s Outdoor Program, Pipestone Mountaineering, The Trail Head and Aerie Wilderness Medicine. If you’re unfamiliar with the institute, here’s a rundown. It’s a locally based, sustainable nonprofit study abroad organization that, since 2005, has offered an accredited summer course for UM students to study within the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve in India. In that time, it developed a relationship with Mountain Shepherds, a community-run, eco-tourism organization located in the reserve that is owned and operated by 44 local youths. And here’s where your old sleeping bags, backpacks, boots, climbing gear and technical shells come into the picture: On May 18, UM students will hand deliver a duffel bag full of your gear to the Mountain Shepherds. According to the organization, the act of giving has helped to jumpstart this grassroots organization so that it can provide high quality services to all kinds of international and national markets. Visit nature-link.org and call Eric at 370-2294. With that, let’s jump into this week’s events. The first is a reminder from Missoula’s Parks and Rec that Thu., March 18, is the final day to sign up for a snowshoe adventure at Marshall Mountain, which occurs Sat., March 20, from 10 AM–3 PM. $12. The excursion is for those 12 and up, and covers backcountry terrains and avalanche awareness, among other things. Call 721-PARK to register and visit missoulaparks.org. Also don’t forget a fly tying class on Thu., March 18, taught by experts at Missoulian Angler Fly Shop, 401 S. Orange St., which starts at 7 PM. $7. RSVP by calling 721-PARK. Or you can tune into monitoring on Thu., March 18, when the Ninemile Wildlife Workgroup presents a lecture by Mike Mitchell titled “Monitoring Wolves in the Northern Rockies,” which starts at 7 PM at the Ninemile Ranger Station, 20325 Remount Road. Free. Visit ninemilewildlife.org.

On Fri., March 19, witness slick spins and impressive jumps by well dressed peeps during the Missoula Figure Skating Club’s Glacier Challenge, a figure skating competition which runs from 1–6 PM at the Glacier Ice Rink, 1101 South Ave. W. Free to spectate. The Competition starts again Sat., March 20, and begins at 8 AM. Visit missoulafsc.org. Later on Fri., March 19, skip a trip to your local watering hole and instead get buzzed in the great outdoors when the Rocky Mountaineers lead a jaunt to Mt. Haggin in the Pintlers, which starts with a drive towards Anaconda just after work. A plan to camp that night at Hearst Lake is in the works, with the climb occurring Sat., March 20. Contact trip leader Chris Dunn at hammaneater@gmail.com and visit rockymountaineers.com.

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On Sat., March 20, even those with gluten intolerance can sign up for the Wheat Montana 5K, a race that benefits Missoula Aging Services which starts with registration at 8 AM at Wheat Montana, 2520 S. Third St. W. $16/$14 advance. The race starts at 9 AM and consists of a 3.3. -mile loop near Big Sky High School. Call Sara at 546-1619. Of course, a day of competitive shredding on pow is always an option Sat., March 20, during Montana Snowbowl’s Best of the Bowl race, which features alpine, telemark and snowboard races judged on speed and style starting at 1 PM at Snowbowl, 1700 Snowbowl Road. Registration is free. Call 549-9777.

These next guys are the ultimate backcountry party hounds: The Montana Backcountry Alliance hosts its Lolo Luau Party at the Pass on Sat., March 20, at noon at the “Clear Cut,” two miles before Lolo Pass. Free. Expect barbecue fixings, a skin race and a radical time. Visit montanabackcountry.org. Or pedal hard when you join Missoulians on Bicycles Sat., March 20, at 10 AM for the 30-mile ride known as the Frenchtown Frenzy for Fries and Frolic. Free. Call Tom at 7288319 and visit missoulabike.org. MOBI has another ride Sun., March 21, so you should check their website for details. The bird truly is the word for your kid age 5 and up during the Montana Natural History Center’s (MNHC) Saturday Kids’ Activity “Springtime Eggstravaganza,” which starts at 2 PM at the center, 120 Hickory St. $2/free MNHC members. Call 327-0405 and visit montananaturalist.org. Boating and sea scouting meet and greet with Montana’s U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary Sat., March 20, during the Sea Scout Ship 102 sponsored event “Meet the U.S. Coast Guard,” which runs from 1:30–4:30 PM at the American Legion Hall, 825 Ronan St. Free. Expect a host of demonstrations from Team Coast Guard, and find out more by calling Chris at 549-3090 and visiting seascout.org. Later on, swap stories with your fellow outdoors friends on Sat., March 20, during the Hellgate Hunters and Anglers’ fourth annual Wild Night for Wildlife, which starts at 5:30 PM at Fort Missoula’s Heritage Hall. $20/ free kids under age 16. Price of admission includes a membership to the conservation organization, plus appetizers and plenty more. Call Tim at 5433144 and visit huntingandfishingjournal.org. On Sun., March 21, watch thousands of avians migrate into Montucky during the MNHC’s “Snow Geese Migration at Freezeout Lake,” a full-day excursion that runs from 7 AM–6 PM, starting with a meet up at MNHC’s headquarters, 120 Hickory St. $40/$30 members. RSVP by calling 327-0405. Finally, impress your friends at Burning Man with your astonishing navigational skills when you check out Missoula Parks and Rec’s Maps and Compass Skills class, which meets Wed., March 24, at 8 PM at Currents Aquatics Center, 600 Cregg Lane. $10. Call 721-PARK. Now go on and get to diggin’ for your old gear. calendar@missoulanews.com.

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Beyond the numbers with systematic painter Griff Williams by Erika Fredrickson

In 1993, after moving to San Francisco, Williams Williams says his colorful landscapes don’t depict Paint-by-numbers isn’t usually the technique to which an artist aspires. The pre-mixed colors and num- any particular place. Instead, the flower images are dis- founded his own gallery, Gallery 16, along with a printbered outlines of a paint-by-numbers kit have made it torted versions of old Dutch still life paintings, while making studio called Urban Digital Color. With federal a metaphor for mindless conformity. It is, in fact, gen- his mountains are presented with the symmetry of a arts funding in crisis the gallery and printmaking stuRorschach test. Those are the imagined, heightened dio served to balance each other. erally seen as the opposite of creative artistry. “I saw it as a new model to support visual arts proversions of romanticized landscapes that people Not for Griff Williams. A decade ago, when the Montana native took note desire, while the cyclone represents a darker, more gramming in that we could use the revenues created of his young son’s paint-by-numbers kit, a light went empirical reality. It’s an exploration of the idea that we from one to support the other,” he says. Williams says his paintings take on a different feel on. He took the idea of the design and created his own all simultaneously occupy life in our heads and in the real world. And those, he says, are two very different when they move from his San Francisco gallery to system. Montana. Here, where traditional landscape artists like “I’d gotten really bored with the way I was mak- experiences. “It’s like eyewitness testimony in court,” says Thomas Cole and C.M. Russell have often dictated peoing paintings,” he says. “I found that systematizing gave me this whole new lease on life with painting. It Williams. “It never really holds up. Our experiences are ple’s view of the land, Williams’ paintings seem loaded freed me up to sort of not have to make subjective decisions.” Williams outlines his paintings in advance, breaking them up into sections across the canvas. He defines each element with a specific color, and then premixes those colors before pouring them into their delegated spots. Of course, it’s still a subjective process, no matter what Williams says. The color mixtures are of Williams’ own choosing, not of some company design. And Williams designs the way in which a painting will be broken into pieces and how it will be colored. In the end, it’s certainly a strategic, tidy way to create a painting, but definitely not mindless. The result is something both orderly and Montana native Griff Williams uses his own paint-by-numbers system in pieces like “Every Echo,” above, which is offbeat. His most recent part of his current MAM exhibit, It Is Not Down In Any Map; True Places Never Are. “The landscape is a seduction,” says Williams, “but it ultimately leads to these dark realities.” series, which shows at the Missoula Art Museum (MAM) through the end of April, is called It Is Not so malleable, so mired in our desires and our own way with editorial statements about perception. It’s a realDown In Any Map; True Places Never Are. The seven of remembering things. I think we all kind of experience ist message, couched in abstract art that both celeenamel and resin paintings utilize glossy combina- the world differently and I think the paintings present brates landscape and attempts to reveal its hidden qualities. And it’s not far flung from the context of a tions of the same bright variety of colors. Black ink these two polarities in the way we experience things.” It’s hardly surprising that Williams’ themes center family of political activists. drawings of cyclones made up of tiny silhouettes of “The landscape is a seduction but it ultimately people, monkeys, hawks and other creatures appear on the idea of landscapes and ideas of wilderness, to swirl from the bright flowers and mountains of when you consider his family background. Williams is leads to these dark realities,” says Williams. “It’s true of what might otherwise be considered a straightfor- the son of former U.S. Congressman Pat Williams, who the way that the land has been treated, it’s true of the ward landscape. It’s Williams personal take on the art represented Montana from 1979 to 1997 on platforms way that we consume and consume. That cyclone, protecting wilderness and state land, and current state those tornadoes, that swirling imagery in black that go of landscape. “I don’t find myself having a great kinship with Sen. Carol Williams. Griff was born in Butte, went to through these paintings are really referring to the link landscape painting or landscape photography,” junior high in Helena and moved to D.C. with the fam- that connects us through history.” Williams says. “They’re often less about the landscape ily when his father was elected. He moved back to Griff Williams gives a gallery talk at a reception and more about people’s desires, like the things that Missoula to get his bachelor’s degree in fine arts. When you wish to be true about the land, that we kind of he moved back to D.C. yet again, the struggle for for It Is Not Down In Any Map; True Places Never Are romanticize and mythologize—the wild spaces. That’s National Endowment for the Arts funding was in full at MAM’s Artini on Thursday, March 18, at 6 PM. Free. been true for centuries. And, for me, it’s always rung swing, and he ended up joining his father to advocate on behalf of fighting for the arts. kind of hollow.” efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Secret Powers Lies and Fairy Tales self-released

Lies and Fairy Tales arrives with still more unabashedly catchy songs from these local masters of feel-good summertime pop. While 2009’s Secret Powers and the Electric Family Choir indulged in a rangy, jamhappy style, Lies and Fairy Tales is tight, shiny and contained. Most songs stay under the four-minute mark, and every chorus sets its hooks deep. Secret Powers settles easily into playlists packed with the current crop of Pet Sounds-inspired, sweet-toned indie pop bands, but its sound, anchored by Shmed Maynes’ McCartney-esque keyboard, is more proudly retro than anything coming out of hipsterdom. It achieves a fine balance between the best elements of ’60s and ’70s pop and rock. The power of Secret Powers lies in simplicity of

Greensky Bluegrass All Access: Volume 1 Big Blue Zoo

On Greensky Bluegrass’ two-disc live album, the lulls between songs sound like an orchestral warm-up. You can hear the instruments separately like pieces of a puzzle not quite solved yet: guitar scales, intermittent banjo pluckings, warm mandolin flutterings, rich upright bass thumps and the rumble of the dobro. The intermezzos and the whooping of the crowd illuminate exactly what makes a live album worth doing. I don’t always think much of a live recording if the

Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band Greatest Hips Volume II self-released

Listening to Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band made me realize that the only funk I can really get behind is the old-school brand pioneered by artists like James Brown. Call me a purist, but I dig the fact that Brown and his cohorts kept it relatively minimal, refraining from long-winded solos or jammy freakouts. Unfortunately, that’s not the case with Greatest Hips Volume II. A majority of these funk and funk rock tunes include lots of accompanied solos that flirt with jam vibes. To be fair, this is an album of live cuts, so a bit

Lucas Cates & Kenny Leiser Live from Jensen Hall self-released

If you like John Mayer, Jack Johnson or Dave Matthews, chances are you’ll get some pleasure out of Lucas Cates and Kenny Leiser. The two members of The Lucas Cates Band recently put out a live acoustic album full of breathy pop songs with a lot of “yeah-eah, yeah-eah” and “no, no, no” fillers, plus indulgent guitar solos. The suave affectation and cheesy lyrics make this album perfect-

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approach. Simple may be an odd word for a band that threads complex and heavily layered harmonies through every song, both on instruments and vocals, but the ultimate effect, like that of the great Phil Specter megaproductions, is joyous simplicity: lyrics that paint idyllic pictures of summer evening romance and tree-swinging, lawnlounging innocence sung to tunes that encourage humming. From the punchy “Tangerine” to the lush “I’m So in Love” and on through the darker territory of “The Lie,” Lies and Fairy Tales is pure proud pop. (Ali Gadbow) Secret Powers plays a CD release party at the Palace Saturday, March 20, at 9 PM with Reverend Slanky. Free. sound quality is lacking because of it, but the recording of this Kalamazoo, Mich., bluegrass band is crystal clear: You can hear every tap and twang, the way in which a chord comes out rich or raw, bright or heavy. Despite smart covers of Bob Dylan, Townes Van Zandt and the Beatles, it’s the songs by mandolin player Paul Hoffman that are the most stunning. He weaves dark, haunting laments into bright instrumentation. In “Reverend” he sings, “There are reasons I worry, there are answers I fear. Is there love enough to save us, will it find us out here,” before launching into the chorus, “Can you carry more if you leave me back?” His sober sincerity and ironclad songwriting won’t go unnoticed for long. (Erika Fredrickson) Greensky Bluegrass plays the Top Hat Thursday, March 18, at 10 PM with Lil Smokies. Cover TBA. of noodling is expected. But I can’t say it makes for much of a compelling listen; the solos—along with the somewhat monotonous nature of these songs—bored me halfway through the first spin. That’s not to say this Asheville, N.C,. six-piece lacks chops. They are tight musicians and they definitely mix it up by throwing in a few surprises—the affected vocals on “Bottle Rocket” come to mind. Still, I’d be inclined to keep this disc in rotation if they adopted more of a bare-bones approach to their sound. (Ira Sather-Olson) Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band plays the Palace Thursday, March 18, at 9 PM. $10. ly suitable for the most innocuous tastes of dude-bro college boys. Clearly, both Cates and Leiser have lovely voices and play pretty chords. But songs like “Crucial Tactics” derail them with inane lines like, “Didn’t catch her name. She was hot as hell. It’s a real nice party…Give a million dollars, one night with her.” Seriously? Not sure which is worse, that sort of her-body’s-a-wonderland treacle or the historical jam “1492,” in which Cates plays the role of a colonizer. There’s perhaps a hint of humor in “Cougarville” (wouldn’t you think?) about older ladies in which Cates sings, “Doin’ good girl, rockin’ my world, that’s right. Come on over and I can rub your shoulders…tonight.” But the polite audience clapping throughout the album and the duo’s earnestness makes me realize they’re all too serious. (Erika Fredrickson) The Lucas Cates Band plays the Top Hat Thursday, March 25, at 9:30 PM. Cover TBA.

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Asperger’s syndrome is a psychological disorder stores in green folders in an elaborate filing system often categorized as a kind of high-functioning organized by name. At the heart of the book is Edward’s tempestuautism. Those affected with Asperger’s often engage in obsessive routines, are drawn to complex pat- ous relationship with his father, Ted. An egoistic, terns and are unusually sensitive to sensory stimuli. bombastic man, Ted Stanton is uniquely unsuited to A basic symptom of the syndrome is a perceived lack be the father of a man with Asperger’s syndrome. of empathy for others, which results in poor com- Ted’s impatient, egoistic and short-tempered. He munication and social skills. People with Asperger’s yells when frustrated with his son, communicates often take things very literally. Still, those with the infrequently with him, too often using a lawyer and official legal correspondence to condition typically have aboveexpress displeasure. Edward, average verbal skills. In short, meanwhile, remembers happy you could see how, as a literary memories as a child with his device, Asperger’s syndrome father, and is a devout follower could stand, writ large, for all of of the Dallas Cowboys, the main our own clumsy stabs of commushared passion between the two. nication, for our psychological He desperately seeks approval isolation, trapped as we are in from his father, who he feels is the cage of our limited viewashamed to have a son afflicted points. It certainly works for the with a mental illness. Edward narrator of Craig Lancaster’s needs his father to love him. novel, 600 Hours of Edward. Lancaster really shows some The narrator, Billings resident skill and daring in his portrait of Edward Stanton, is the son of a Edward. Giving a narrator a menwealthy oil executive and combattal illness is not a novel approach ive pro-business Yellowstone in literature—Mark Haddon’s County Commissioner, Ted The Curious Incident of the Dog Stanton. Banished to a small house in Night-Time and Jonathan by his parents after the “Garth 600 Hours of Edward Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn Brooks incident,” in which the Craig Lancaster are two recent detective novels singer took out a restraining order paperback, Riverbend Publishing with such narrators—but it’s an against Edward after he received a 278 pages, $14 approach that needs deft maneuseries of compulsively written comvering to avoid either a patronizplaint letters, Edward battles to ing or too-clinical tone. In 600 Hours of Edward, maintain a semblance of order in an alien world. And no wonder. Edward, who constantly reminds Lancaster gives us a realistic character struggling us he “prefers facts,” finds himself surrounded by with limited tools to navigate his fears and yearn“normal” people who inhabit a world of conjecture, ing—and he seems an able representative of all of us. If there’s something to criticize in Lancaster’s who are ruled by their imagination and emotion. They are irrational, often mean something completely dif- work, it’s that the end is too pat, too overly sentimenferent from what they say and are easily rattled by tal. Edward’s search for parental approval finds a neat Edward’s direct, clumsy style. Too often, Edward’s and extraordinary closure of which even his therapist interaction with this outside world leads to police dryly notes of knowing people “who have waited all intervention and endangers the stipend his father their lives to hear something like this.” Indeed. Where Lancaster was bold in narration, craft and characterigives him for his house and living expenses. To keep himself under control and out of trou- zation, he’s too gentle in his story. Someone once ble, Edward maintains a strict schedule. He wakes said in a writing class long ago that fiction is the art of up nearly the same time every day, keeps a strict creating beautiful, compelling characters and then record of the daily temperature as published in the doing terrible things to them. And maybe there’s wisBillings Gazette and his waking time. He watches dom in that, because it’s at moments of extreme crirecorded episodes of “Dragnet” every night prompt- sis that our character is revealed. Still, it’s an extraordinary first novel, one free ly at 10 p.m. His week revolves around the appointment with his therapist, Dr. Buckley, who serves as from the usual self-indulgent excesses of first novelhis guide and interpreter throughout. But this mys- ists. It’s a spare, elegantly crafted whizz-bang of a terious, irrational world conspires against him, book that, on its surface, is as quiet and orderly as works to draw him out. New neighbors move in Edward Stanton, but underneath, also like Edward, across the street—a boy and his mother, who draw a cauldron of barely repressed rage and desire seekhim out of his seclusion—and there’s a note for him ing escape. in his Internet dating mailbox. Craig Lancaster reads from 600 Hours of Edward’s most poignant means of communicating are his letters of complaint, which Buckley Edward at Fact & Fiction Friday, March 19, at encourages him to write, but not to send. Every 6:30 PM. Free. night, Edward writes a letter to someone who has confused or upset him that day, which he then arts@missoulanews.com

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Stand alone Firth’s singular performance fuels Single Man by Andy Smetanka

Also to the liquor store for gin—he’s got one A lot of reviewing movies is just making mental lists: good things, bad things, other movies last date with Charley, who even now is laying with which the movie at hand has things in com- down an industrial coating of groovy 1962 makeup. mon. Besides a seventh pair of 3-D glasses, I left Picking up the gin, George literally drives into a Alice in Wonderland last week with a pretty screen filled with a bedazzling illusion that contindecent mental list of movies in which characters ues to baffle long after you recognize its image as throw drinks at mirrors. There was nothing like that of Janet Leigh. A Single Man makes a great deal that in the Tim Burton movie, which maybe shows out of eyes and mirrors, and, in fact, has the same just how indiscriminatingly eager I was to place tenor of quiet desperation that usually distinguishes the type of movie in which people hurl drinks my thoughts elsewhere for the awful third act. It’s better when a movie defies list making. through mirrors. No one here actually throws one, Better still when a movie makes me forget about lists entirely: Only long after leaving A Single Man did I try thinking in lists as a way to fix some tentative coordinates on the movie, on the shimmery feeling it left me with. I grasped for a list of other movies that elicited Is your mouth on fire, or are you just happy to see me? that same vibrating response the first time I saw them, like a gong ringing without but George and Charley both seem on the verge, a mighty whap or a snare drumhead rattling to a spe- Charley at all times. On his way out of the package store, George litcial frequency in the room. I could think of other movies with characters going about their final days erally runs into a young Spanish hustler ( Jon on earth before suicides or other potentially life-end- Kortajarena), an Iberian James Dean. George drops ing events planned beforehand, other movies with the gin and the bottle breaks, soaking the hustler’s variable dreamlike qualities and of course about a cigarettes, so he obligingly goes back in to buy him hundred “blank-blank-Man” titles and favorite period another pack. Then, though he hasn’t lit up in years, pictures set in an idyllic Los Angeles of yore. But he bums one. George and the hustler sit in the parking lot nothing that seemed to whack exactly the same giant talking. A Single Man is a period recreation, but it’s tuning fork. George Falconer (Colin Firth), a professor of glorious somehow to see this moment out in the English literature at a Los Angeles junior college, has open: something supposedly happening in 1962 calmly decided to shoot himself. Jim, his partner of that you’ll never see in a movie from 1962, an actu16 years—though I doubt Falconer would ever have al human discussion between two explicitly gay used the term “partner;” was there such a gender- movie characters. There’s an unnatural pink light neutral, orientation-neutral, value-neutral, thor- from the afternoon sun coming through the fog. oughly bloodless term back then, for what was then Kortajarena’s performance as the hustler is beautialmost unspeakable in public?—has recently died in fully restrained, perfectly measured, dreamlike it its a car accident while home in Colorado. George was- own way. All the performances are like this: small n’t invited to the funeral. It’s only thanks to a decent dream interactions in which everyone says just the cousin calling with the news that he learned of the right thing somehow. Only the last 90 seconds of the movie broke the death before the funeral, and, months later, he finds himself despondent, alone and adrift. Not entirely spell for me, and then not disastrously. I could deal alone: He’s got his old friend Charley ( Julianne with it—should even have seen it coming, perhaps. Moore), a fellow British expat, who is in love with The ending also confirms a lack of depth to A Single Man, a disconnect between dialogue and characterhim and in denial about his orientation. But he’s had enough, and he decides to end it. building that should have been evident from the justFirst, though, he’s got a long day of putting his so quality of the dialogue. Perhaps those both gayer affairs in order, starting with teaching his final class and more jaundiced than myself will take a cynical and clearing out his office. On his way out, for good, view of A Single Man and Firth’s celebrated performa young student named Kenny—wearing, it must be ance. At some level, A Single Man is just the kind of said, a fabulous angora sweater—accosts him. Why sexless, no-frontal nudity, not-much-kissing “gay” such a heavy scene, professor? (This campus is movie Hollywood and straight people everywhere already crawling with beatniks and Nico look-alikes, find it easy to love—but I was too entranced to over coolly puffing away in class). The student starts get- think it at the time, and for a good bit after. ting to him—he’s gorgeous, for one thing—but A Single Man continues at the Wilma Theatre. Falconer shies him on and drives away. What’s the point? He’s going to shoot himself. In fact, he’s headed to the gun shop to get ammo. arts@missoulanews.com

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Scope OPENING THIS WEEK DIARY OF A WIMPY KID Zachary Gordon plays a middle schooler who tries his best to navigate his way through pre-teen life in an institution filled with “morons.” Carmike 10: 4:10, 7:15 and 9:30 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:25. Village 6: 7 and 9:20 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 12:15, 2:30 and 4:45. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:20 and 9:30 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:25, 4:05, 7 and 9:15. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:45. Entertainer in Ronan: 4, 7 and 9.

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9:10 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:20, 4, 6:45 and 9:20 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. GREEN ZONE Matt Damon gets his war on as a chief warrant officer during the early days of the war in Iraq. He’s on an unsuccessful hunt for WMDs, and wants to know why people keep dropping like flies, but can he track down a confidential media source in order to find out the truth of the matter? Carmike 10: 4:15, 7:05 and 10 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1:30. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10 with additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun.

THE GHOST WRITER A writer assigned to pen the memoir of a former British prime minister finds some serious skeletons in the politician’s closet. As Ewan McGregor digs deeper into the life of Pierce Brosnan, he soon finds himself in dire straits. Carmike 10: 4, 7 and 9:55 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:40, 3:40, 6:50 and 9:40 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:15, 4:25 and 7:30.

NOW SHOWING ALICE IN WONDERLAND Tim Burton makes his 3-D mark in this phantasmagorical classic which features Johnny Depp playing the Mad Hatter, Mia Wasikowska as Alice and Anne Hathaway as the White Queen. Carmike 10: 4:20, 6:10, 7, 8:45 and 9:35 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1, 1:30 and 3:35. Village 6 in 2-D: 7 and 9:35 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 4:20. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10 with additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at noon, 1:15, 2:30, 4, 5, 7:40 and 9:40 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at 10:20 and midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 2, 3:30, 4:30, 6, 8:40 and 9:40 with additional Tue.–Wed. show

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REMEMBER ME Rob Pattinson plays a slightly introverted rebel who has a crappy relationship with his less than stellar dad Pierce Brosnin. But when Emilie de Ravin comes into his life, Pattinson starts to come out of his shell. Carmike 10: 4:35, 7:15 and 9:55 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:55. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:30, 4:10, 7:05 and 9:45 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. SHE’S OUT OF MY LEAGUE Jay Baruchel plays an airport security guard who’s a “nice guy” who just can’t seem to find a girl— until he meets foxy Alice Eve. Will Eve go for the seemingly average Baruchel, or leave him in the dust? Village 6: 7:20 and 9:50 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:45 and 4:30. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:25, 4:25, 7:15 and 9:50 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

REPO MEN Jude Law plays a repo man in an alternate future who reclaims high-tech artificial organs from people who slip behind on their payments. But when Law suffers from a work-related injury, he awakens with a new heart, a heap of debt, and the possibility that Forest Whitaker might be hunting for him. Village 6: 7:10 and 9:50 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:35 and 4:20. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:50, 3:55, 6:55 and 9:35 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:10, 3:55, 6:55 and 9:35. THE BOUNTY HUNTER Gerard Butler has trouble finding work as a bounty hunter, until he snags the lucky gig of going after his bail-jumping ex Jennifer Aniston. Along the way, Aniston evades Butler’s cuffs, and in the process they both find themselves in some sticky situations. Carmike 10: 4:05, 7 and 9:40 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30. Village 6: 7 and 9:40 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:30 and 4:05. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1, 4:20, 7 and 9:45 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:45.

PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF Logan Lerman is a troublesome high schooler whose life takes a wicked shift when he finds out he’s the son of Poseidon. This in turn means he’s a demigod who has to halt warring gods bent on destruction, as well as save his mom Catherine Keener. Includes guest spots by Uma Thurmun and Pierce Brosnan. Carmike 10: 4:15 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:45 and 3:45 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:10 and 3:45.

“Here’s to tax headaches.” The Ghost Writer opens Friday at the Carmike 10. some bills. Along the way, the buds get caught up saving a lovely Latina, while also asking a stoned out Seann William Scott for some help tracking down the elusive piece of memorabilia. Carmike 10: 7:05 and 9:50. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:35, 4:15, 6:45 and 9:35 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:05, 3:50, 7:10 and 9:40 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 7 and 9:15 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30.

THE CRAZIES Timothy Olyphant plays a sheriff in a small town where people are going bonkers and croaking after something rancid contaminates their water supply. Can Olyphant, his wife Radha Mitchell, and others survive against their zombified peers, or does a trigger-happy military take them out first? Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 6:40 and 9:20 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS Terry Gilliam doses us with a few drops of surrealism in this fantasy story where Christopher Plummer plays a theater troupe leader who strikes a deal with devilish Tom Waits in order for Plummer to save his daughter. Along the way, Heath Ledger comes to help save the girl, along with assistance from Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law. Wilma Theatre: 9 nightly with a Sun. matinee at 3 and no shows Fri.–Sat. and Tue.–Wed.

CRAZY HEART Jeff Bridges plays a hard-drinkin’ country singer down on his luck, low on dough, and relegated to playing the small town circuit. But things might turn around during a chance meeting with music journalist Maggie Gyllenhaal. Village 6: 7 and 10 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1 and 4. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and

LAST STATION Christopher Plummer gets suited up and bearded up as Leo Tolstoy while Helen Mirren plays his wife Sofya in this biopic about the raging sparks that flew during the last tumultuous years of their marriage. Wilma Theatre: 7 nightly with a Sun. matinee at 1 and no shows Fri.–Sat. and Tue.–Wed.

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SHUTTER ISLAND Martin Scorcese bounces back to the screen in a story where Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo play federal agents on the hunt for a batty murderer who disappeared from a remote institution for the criminally insane. After a few days in the nuthouse, though, DiCaprio starts acting a little loco too. Carmike 10: 4:05, 7:10 and 10:15 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:15, 3:35, 6:35 and 9:30 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:15 and 4:20 with an additional Mon.–Wed. show at 7:20. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4:15, 6:50 and 9:15. A SINGLE MAN Colin Firth plays a gay college prof who becomes suicidal when his longtime partner dies. Does he decide to join his love, or can he find hope elsewhere? Wilma Theatre: 7 and 9 with Sun. matinees at 1 and 3. STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE: THE BERRYFEST PRINCESS MOVIE Strawberry Shortcake enlists the help of some buds in order to make sure an upcoming spring festival and parade goes off without a hitch in this animated kids flick. Village 6: 1 only Sat.–Sun. Capsule reviews by Ira Sather-Olson. Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., March 19. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 10/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-F I LM; S t a d i u m 14 i n K a l i s p e l l – 752 - 78 0 4 . Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): From what I can tell, your excursion to Fake Paradise didn’t exact too serious a toll. The accidental detour may have seemed inopportune in the moment, but you know what? I think it slowed you down enough to keep you from doing something rash that you would have regretted later. And are you really sorry you were robbed of your cherished illusions? In the long run, I think it was for the best. As for the scratches on your nose from when you stuck it into business you weren’t “supposed” to: They’re a small price to pay for the piquant lesson you got in how not to live. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some people are here on the planet to find success, while others are here to find themselves. In the big scheme of things, I’m not sure which category you fit into, Taurus. But I’m pretty sure that for the next few weeks you’ll be best served by acting as if you’re the latter. Even if you think you’ve found yourself pretty completely in the past, it’s time to go searching again: There are new secrets to be discovered, in large part because you’re not who you used to be. So for now at least, I encourage you to give your worldly ambitions a bit of a rest as you intensify your selfexplorations. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Being a paragon of moral behavior can be fun and rewarding. It’s amazing how many interesting people want to play with me just because they think I’m so #%&@ high-minded. But I’ve got to confess that my commitment to discipline and righteousness is sometimes at odds with my rebellious itch to give you mischievous nudges and outrageous challenges. Like right now, the conscientious teacher in me might prefer to advise you to keep a lid on debauchery, voracity, excess, uproar, slapstick, wise-cracking, fireworks, and limit-pushing. But the rabble-rousing agitator in me feels obligated to inform you that at no other time in 2010 will the karmic price be lower for engaging in such pursuits.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s time for you to stop specializing in furtive glimpses and start indulging in brazen gazes. You’re ready to phase out your role as a peripheral influence and see if you can be more of a high-intensity instigator and organizer. Yes, Cancerian, you’ve earned the right to claim more credibility and clout—to leave your tentative position outside the magic circle and head in the direction of the sweet hot spot.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy,” wrote Annie Dillard in Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. “If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn’t believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe . . . No claims of any and all revelations could be so farfetched as a single giraffe.” (Dillard’s entire passage is here: http://bit.ly/TinkerCreek.) Reading this passage is a good way for you to prepare for the immediate future, Leo. Why? Because you’ll soon be invited to commune with outlandish glory. You’ll be exposed to stories that burst from the heart of creation. You’ll be prodded to respond to marvelous blips with marvelous blips of your own. But here’s the catch: It may all remain invisible to you if you’re blinded by the false belief that you live a boring, ordinary life.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The storm is your friend right now, Virgo. So are the deep, dark night and the last place you’d ever think of visiting and the most important thing you’ve forgotten about. So be more willing than usual to marinate in the mysteries—not with logical ferocity but with cagey curiosity. The areas of life that are most crucial for you to deal with can’t be fully understood using the concepts your rational mind favors. The feelings that will be most useful for you to explore are unlike those you’re familiar with.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here’s your mantra for the coming week: “I disappear my fear. I resurrect my audacity.” Say it and sing it and murmur it at least 100 times a day. Let it flow out of you after you’ve awoken each morning and are still lying in bed. Let it be the last sound on your lips as you drop off to sleep. Have fun with it. Dip into your imagination to come up with different ways to let it fly—say it as your favorite cartoon character might say it, like a person with a Swedish accent, like your inner teenager, like a parrot, like a grinning sage. “I disappear my fear. I resurrect my audacity. I disappear my fear. I resurrect my audacity.”

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Have you ever heard about how some all-night convenience stores blast loud classical music out into the parking lot in order to discourage drug dealers from loitering? In the coming days, use that principle whenever you need to drive home a point or make a strong impression. Your aggressive expressions will be more effective if you take the darkness and anger out of them, and instead fill them up with forceful grace and propulsive compassion.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The Hebrew word chalom means “dream.” In his book Healing Dreams, Marc Ian Barasch notes that it’s derived from the verb “to be made healthy and strong.” Linguist Joseph Jastrow says that chalom is related to the Hebrew word hachlama, which means “recovery, recuperation.” Extrapolating from these poetic hints and riffing on your astrological omens, I’ve got a prescription for you to consider: To build your vitality in the coming weeks, feed your dreams. And I mean “dreams” in both the sense of the nocturnal adventures you have while you’re sleeping and the sweeping daytime visions of what you’d like to become.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I just found out the American shipping company UPS has legally trademarked the color brown. The grass-roots activist in me is incredulous and appalled. But the poet in me doesn’t really care; it’s fine if UPS owns drab, prosaic brown. I’ve still got mahogany at my command, as well as tawny, sepia, taupe, burnt umber, tan, cinnamon, walnut, and henna. That’s especially important for this horoscope, Capricorn, because I’m advising you to be very down to earth, be willing to get your hands dirty, and even play in the muck if necessary in order to take good care of the basics. But don’t do any of that in a boring, humdrum “brown” way. Do it exotically and imaginatively, like mahogany, tawny, sepia, taupe, burnt umber, tan, cinnamon, walnut, and henna.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You are hereby excused from having to know a single nuance about the inside story of Angelina Jolie’s secret love tryst with Lady Gaga, or the addictions of conspiracy theorists who lose huge sums of money gambling on the end of the world, or the agony that millionaires suffer from having to support social services with their taxes. In fact, it’s a good time to empty your mind of extraneous, trivial, and useless facts so that you can clear vast new spaces for more pressing data, like how you can upgrade your communication skills, why you should do some upkeep on your close alliances, and what you might do to streamline your social life.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In my astrological opinion, you don’t need anything that shrinks you or deflates you or tames you. Influences that pinch your imagination should be taboo, as should anything that squashes your hope or crimps your life force. To make proper use of the vibrations circulating in your vicinity, Pisces, you should gravitate toward situations that pump up your insouciance and energize your whimsy and incite you to express the most benevolent wickedness you can imagine. You’ve got a mandate to fatten up your soul so it can contain a vaster sense of wonder and a more daring brand of innocence.

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by a national banking association located in the state of Montana or a banking association incorporated under the Laws of Montana; or a bid bond or bond executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the state of Montana. THE CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED TO THE LOWEST RESPONSIBLE QUALIFIED BIDDER WHOSE BID PROPOSAL COMPLIES WITH ALL THE REQUIREMENTS. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Proposals for County Road Dust Abatement, Missoula County Work Order Number 10-5604” and addressed to: Missoula County Public Works “2010 Dust Abatement Bid” 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808. By order of the Board of County Commissioners this 12th day of March, 2010. /s/ Tim Elsea

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PUBLIC NOTICES MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT Missoula County is currently accepting applications from governmental or health and human service non-profit organizations that provide basic/critical needs assistance to at-risk populations in the Missoula area. For more information or to receive a Community-Based Organization (CBO) application form, please call 258-3712. Applications may be picked up at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT, or on the web, http://www.co.missoula.mt.us/opgweb/Grants/. The deadline for submittal is Wednesday, April 14, 2010. MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF HEARING The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing on the proposed expenditure of Open Space Bond proceeds on the following project: 1. Madsen Rock Creek Conservation EasementA hearing on a proposal to use $40,000 in Open Space bond funding towards the purchase of a conservation easement on 157 acres of land in the Rock Creek area. The appli-

cant is Fred Madsen/Four Bar M Ranch, LLC., represented by Five Valleys Land Trust. The proposed match is approximately $2.75 for every dollar of open space funding expended. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 24, 2010, in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W Broadway, Missoula, Montana. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may speak at the hearing and/or submit written or other materials to the Commissioners at the hearing or by mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, FAX (406) 7214043. Copies of the proposed project are available for public inspection at the Missoula County Office of Rural Initiatives, 317 Woody, Missoula, Montana. Telephone 258-3432; or you may contact Pat O’Herren in Rural Initiatives at 258-4981. If anyone attending these meetings needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-3422. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids & services.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of Missoula and the Missoula County Commissioners will hold a joint public hearing on Monday, April 5, 2009 at 7:00 o’clock p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to hear public com-

ment on two open space proposals: 1) to purchase a 216 acre parcel for open space purposes using proceeds from the 2006 Open Space Bond, located adjacent to the Mt. Jumbo City Open Space on the east side of Mt. Jumbo in Marshall Canyon, Missoula County, MT and 2) to contribute towards the purchase of a conservation easement that will be held by Five Valleys Land Trust on 304 acres in the North Hills located north of the landfill. For further information contact Jackie Corday, at 552-6267. All persons interested may appear to be heard or may file written comments with the City Clerk prior to the date of hearing. Mail any comments to: Public Hearing Comment, City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF CLOSE OF REGISTRATION Notice is hereby given that regular* registration for the Special District Elections to be held on May 4, 2010, will close at 5:00 p.m., on April 5, 2010... *NOTE: If you miss this regular registration deadline, you may still register for the election by showing up at the Missoula County Fairgrounds Election

Center up to and including on Election Day. Between noon and the close of business on the day before Election Day, you can drop off a late voter registration card, but you will need to return to the election center on Election Day to pick up and vote a ballot. All active and inactive electors of the Special Districts are entitled to vote at said election. Ballots will be automatically mailed to Active Electors only. If you are a registered voter and do not receive a ballot, contact the county election office to update your information as necessary and receive a ballot. Persons who wish to register and who are not presently registered may do so by requesting a form for registration by mail or by appearing before the County Election Administrator. If you have moved, please have your registration transferred to your present address. DATED this 2nd day of March, 2010. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier Election Administrator Missoula County MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING PROPOSED RURAL SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT (RSID) FOR SPRING MEADOWS ADDI-

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for this bridge by visiting the Missoula County Office of Public Works (address above) during regular office hours. Copies of these items will be made available to the successful Engineering Consultant. This solicitation is being offered in accordance with state requirements governing procurement of professional services. Accordingly, the Missoula County Board of Commissioners reserves the right to negotiate an agreement based on fair and reasonable compensation for the scope of work and services proposed, as well as the right to reject any and all responses deemed unqualified, unsatisfactory, or inappropriate. DBE Goals: There are no DBE/WBE goals for this work, but firms are strongly encouraged to utilize DBE firms if applicable. A Montana certified DBE Consultant list is available and can be found on the MDT web page, http://www.mdt.mt.gov/business/contracting/civil/dbe.shtml Nondiscrimintation Compliance: Consultants will be subject to Federal and Montana nondiscrimination laws and regulations (see attached notice). MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DR-10-193 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Kari Jo Cranney, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Kari Jo Cranney to Kari Jo Matthews. The hearing will be on March 30th, 2010 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. DATED: February 17, 2010. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: Amy M. Day, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Cause No. DP-10-35 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ALBERTA LOUISE HEMPSTEAD, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative, Paula G. Homuth, return receipt requested, at The Modine Law Office, 215 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 11th day of March, 2010. /s/ Paula G. Homuth, Personal Representative, 1790 Mullan Trail, Missoula, MT 59808 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-10-28 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RALPH SIDNEY WARD, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (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 Michael S. Ward and Suzanne M. Gonstad, the Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, in care of Tipp & Buley, 2200 Brooks, PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 2nd day of March, 2010. /s/ Michael S. Ward, Personal Representative /s/ Suzanne M. Gonstad, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-10-29 NOTICE OF HEARING OF PETITION FOR FORMAL PROBATE OF WILL, DETERMINATION OF TESTACY AND HEIRS AND APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JERRY GRANT GREENOUGH, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Lana Greenough has filed in the above Court and cause a Petition for the formal probate of the Will of Jerry Grant Greenough, deceased, for determination of testacy and heirs, an dfor the appointment of Lana Greenough as Personal Representative of said Will and estate. For further information, the Petition, as filed, may be examined in the office of the clerk of the above Court. Hearing upon said Petition will be held in said Court at the courtroom in the courthouse at Missoula, Montana, on the 31st day of March, 2010, at the hour of 1:30 o’clock p.m. at which time all interested persons may appear and object. Dated this 23rd day of February, 2010. /s/ Lana Greenough, PO Box 321, 51 St. Regis Street, St. Regis, MT 59866 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Case No. DV-10-137 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of, Justin Lee Smith, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Justin Lee Smith, has petitioned the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District for a change of name from Justin Lee Smith to Justin Lee Edwards, and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 8th day of April, 2010 at 9:00 a.m., in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, in courtroom number 2 South. At any time before the hearing, objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of

PUBLIC NOTICES name. DATED this 12th day of February, 2010. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: Maria A. Cassidy, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-10-25 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF PAMELA A. MOTTA, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed 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 Jon Garvin, 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 23rd day of February, 2010. /s/ Jon Garvin, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-10-31 Dept. No. 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF MARY C. CHESBRO, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four (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 CHARLES A. CHESBRO, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 1500 St. Ann Drive, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated the 19th day of February, 2010. /s/ Charles A. Chesbro, Personal Representative, 1500 St. Ann Drive, Missoula, MT 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-10-32 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF LARRY L. HILL, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four (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 JEANETTE L. HILL, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2222 42nd Street, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated the 9th day of March, 2010. /s/ Jeanette L. Hill, Personal Representative, 2222 42nd Street, Missoula, MT 59803 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-10-7 Dept. No. 3 Judge John W. Larson NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of Kathryn R. Stack, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above 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 their claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to EDWARD STACK, the personal representative, return receipt requested, in care of his attorneys, Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 South 4th East, Suite 100, PO Box 7099, Missoula, Montana 5988077099, or filed with the Clerk of the Court. Dated: January 8, 2010. /s/ Edward Stack, Personal Representative MONTANA TWENTY-FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, RAVALLI COUNTY, Department No. 2 Cause Probate No. DP-10-14 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF EARL KENT II, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Nichole Lee Kent, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Thiel Law Office, PLLC, 315 West Pine, PO Box 8125, Missoula, Montana 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled court. DATED March 4, 2010. /s/ Nichole Lee Kent, Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/19/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200521653, Bk 758, Pg 830, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Domenic R. Sette, Jr. was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 3, Block 3, of El Mar Estates Phase 4, 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 HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee for Wells Fargo Home Equity Trust 2005-3. 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 02/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 12, 2010,

the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $199,263.04. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $180,613.60, 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 May 25, 2010 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# 7023.04463) 1002.126531-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/11/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200819053, Bk. 824, Pg. 1035, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Jodey J. Richards and Rebecca A. Richards, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 17A A tract of land located within the East one-half of Section 8, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, P.M., Missoula County, Montana, and more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the Northeast corner of Section 8, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, P.M.; thence S. 17 degrees 48’ 46” W., 2317.20 feet to the True Point of Beginning; thence S. 49 degrees 05’06” E., 736.76 feet to a point on a curve to the right with a radius of 70.00 feet; thence clockwise along said curve an arc distance of 162.79 feet; thence S. 84 degrees 09’ 32” W., 520.74 feet; thence N. 00 degrees 00’ 00” E., 658.06 feet to the True Point of Beginning. 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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 May 25, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.09955) 1002.144620-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/19/03, recorded as Instrument No. 200331389, Bk 715, Pg

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r 1138, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Mikeal Piediscalzzi and Kindra Piediscalzzi, as joint tenants with right of survivorship 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 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 13 in Block 7 of Lakeview Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200917474, Bk 843, Pg 1116, 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 04/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 19, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $120,228.71. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $110, 409.96, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on June 1, 2010 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 & are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.05635) 1002.129408-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/11/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200701747, Book 790, Page 1285, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Randie M. Pringle was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in the SE 1/4 of Section 7, Township 15 North, Range 22 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract D of Certificate of Survey No. 1816. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 08/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 26, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $362,575.12. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $321,336.14, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on June 8, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually

incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.00671) 1002.111968-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/05/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200731695, Book 810, Page 23, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Sylvia Mikulski, an unmarried individual was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for First Horizon Home Loans was Beneficiary and Insured Titles was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 11 in Block 4 of Foothills Estates No. 2, a platted Subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. Book 833, Page 1181, 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 09/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 27, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $262,439.02. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $227,889.38, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on June 7, 2010 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# 7037.17883) 1002.112413-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/26/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200512952, Bk 753, Pg 896, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which John H. Hill 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: Parcel I: The Southeast 7 feet of Lot 16, all of Lots 17 and 18 in Block K of C.P. Higgins Addition, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Recording Reference: Book 440 Page 2175 Micro Records. Parcel II: Lots 19 and 20 in Block K of C.P. Higgins Addition, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 02/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 28, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $566,723.31. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $517,950.39, 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 sat-

isfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on June 9, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.03814) 1002.125062-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/05/03, recorded as Instrument No. 200320548, Bk 708, Pg 1169, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which John L. Cross, a married person and Lei Ann Cross was Grantor, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc. was Beneficiary and First American Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in and being a portion of Lots 1 and 2 in Section 26, Township 15 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the point where the original centerline of the highway intersects the Flathead Indian Reservation Boundary line, said point bears S. 53 degrees 13’ 51’’ E., 281.32 feet from the intersection of the Indian Boundary line and the North line of said Section 26; thence S. 43 degrees 47’ W., 298.35 feet; thence N. 47 degrees 57’ 25’’ W., 139.02 feet; thence N 43 degrees 47’ E., 285.5 feet to a point on the Flathead Indian Reservation Boundary line; thence S. 53 degrees 13’ 51’’ E., along said boundary line a distance of 140.00 feet to the Point of Beginning. 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 06/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 4, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $71,327.96. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $67,173.02, 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,

EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owning delinquent storage rent 147, for the following units:1 211, 215, 337, 485, 497, 568, 632, 633, 665, and 669. Units contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday, March 29, 2010 by appt only by calling 251-8600. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59803 prior to Tuesday, March 30, 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.

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ACROSS 1 Get a hold of 5 Group of wives 10 "Ay ___" 14 Dinner extra 15 Take ___ (ride around town, perhaps) 16 "___ go bragh" 17 Part of Julius Caesar's dying words 18 Vocal qualities 19 Corkboard fastener 20 With 31-across, clue to the first word of the mystery phrase 23 Ask for, as a cigarette 24 Baseball stat enthusiasts' group 25 ___ in "apple" 28 Like grapefruit 31 See 20-across 35 Tree branch 37 Cedar Rapids' state 39 ___ Loa 40 Clue to the second word of the mystery phrase 43 Book with Brazil and Bhutan 44 Possesses, old-school style 45 Remini of "The King of Queens" 46 With 55-across, clue to the remaining three words of the mystery phrase 48 Make ghost noises 50 Guitarist Cooder and others 51 Gets the bad guy 53 Part of an Indian landmark 55 See 46-across 62 Manilow nightclub 63 Palindromic bridge bid 64 Comedian Williams 65 Entertainment center component 66 ___ the Sunshine Band 67 "___ Almighty" 68 Effortlessness 69 Dispose of, as confidential documents 70 Latvia's capital

DOWN 1 Actor Kinnear 2 Boring way to learn 3 Low part in a womens' choir 4 Book jacket passage 5 Nastygrams 6 Tiny particle 7 Rajah's wife 8 Business chiefs 9 Accident 10 Original company behind the Almond Joy bar 11 Asian sea that's really a lake 12 Flickr posts, for short 13 Tattoo stuff 21 Instinct source 22 Manhattan Project weapon, for short 25 Take ___ of faith 26 "We ___ please" 27 Olfactory sense 29 ___ Hashanah 30 When some bars close 32 German painter Albrecht ___ 33 Retract a comment 34 They may be taken with a hand in the air 36 EEG detection 38 Prefix for pilot 41 "From hell's heart, ___ at thee"-Melville 42 "How bizarre" 47 Kindle stuff 49 Get a little rest 52 Coordinate, with "up" 54 Wild card, often 55 Musical finale 56 Makes a selection 57 ___-wheel drive 58 Feminine suffix 59 "Avatar" race 60 Male-only 61 Sicilian volcano 62 Ernesto Guevara, familiarly

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 10, 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 4 of Corrected Plat of El Dorado, a plated subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 13 of Plats at Page 9. Ashley Miller, 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 September 21, 2007 and Recorded September 21, 2007 in Book 806, Page 109, as Document No. 200724956. The beneficial interest is currently held by Primary Capital Advisors LC. 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 $1,125.35, beginning November 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of December 15, 2009 is $172,443.94 principal, interest at the rate of 6.625% now totaling $8,967.56, and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,260.54, plus accruing interest at the rate of $31.01 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or

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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: December 30, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On December 30, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3473062 03/11/2010, 03/18/2010, 03/25/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 10, 2010, 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 40 OF SUNNY MEADOWS NO. 2. A PLATTED

SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Keith A Walt and Michelle L Walt, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank-Missoula, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated December 16, 2005 and Recorded on December 21, 2005 under Document # 200533821, in Bk-766, Pg469. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. as successor in interest to ABN Amro Mortgage Group Inc., f/k/a ABN Amro Mortgage Group, 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 $1,406.22, 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 December 28, 2009 is $186,300.85 principal, interest at the rate of 6.375% now totaling $4,837.43, late charges in the amount of $866.72, escrow advances of $189.24, and other fees and expenses advanced of $265.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $32.54 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: December 31, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On December 31, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 09/22/2012 ASAP# 3476718 03/11/2010, 03/18/2010, 03/25/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD

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FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on May 17, 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: LOTS 1 AND 2 IN BLOCK 70 OF SCHOOLADDITION, IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Peter Cox, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Suntrust Mortgage, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 10, 2008 and Recorded on March 17, 2008 under Document # 200805762, in Bk-815, Pg-0337. The beneficial interest is currently held by Suntrust Mortgage, 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 $782.46, 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 January 18, 2010 is $123,818.97 principal, interest at the rate of 3.5% now totaling $2,007.54, late charges in the amount of $113.00, escrow advances of $1,271.88 and other fees and expenses advanced of $100.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $11.87 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: January 7, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On January 7, 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 ASAP# 3484189 03/18/2010, 03/25/2010, 04/01/2010

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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 May 17, 2010 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# 7023.06887) 1002.133046-FEI

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3BD/3BA Luxury Home on 10 acres, 4 car garage, huge tiled walk-in shower, soaking tub, office/den, timber-framed cathedral ceilings $688,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.YourMT.com 2 bdrm 2 bath manufactured home. Addition for possible den or office. Shop & extra space in dbl garage. Zoned for multifamily or commercial. $129,900. MLS#906610. Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 Windermere RE. Text:44133 Message: 12594 for pics

4BD home, 39.5 acres. Certainteed siding, radiant heat, fireplace, wildlife, gravel pit! $824,900 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.YourMT.com 5 acres & a 4 bedroom home on a branch of the Clark Fork on Third Street minutes from downtown! House sits towards water. Your own private retreat beckons across the water. Enjoy quiet while you watch the wildlife & fish for trout. Private showings only. 3720 S.3rd W. $679,999, MLS#906926. JoyEarls@windermere.com 531-9811

Affordable home, remodeled bath & kitchen w/island, newer roof, updated electrical & fenced yard w/fruit trees. 3 bed, 1 bath. 925 2nd Street, West Riverside. $174,900. Pat McCormick, 240-SOLD (7653). pat@properties2000.com Affordable Lewis & Clark area home with wood floors, 90% eff. furnace, updated wiring, 2 bed, 1 bath, and garage. 2121 Park, Missoula. $198,900. MLS# 10001157. Pat McCormick, 240-SOLD (7653). pat@properties2000.com

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Price Reduction! Beautiful home with views of the Mission Mountains! 4BD/2BA. Hardwood floors, fireplace, loft over the family room, basement, large carport and private deck! $199,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.YourMT.com

East Missoula—321 Speedway —don’t miss this immaculate property with large heated shop garage and attached garage, beautiful 3 bed, 2 1/2 baths with deck, stamped concrete and privacy fencing. perfect for family, students at U, or work at home in shop. $224,900 MLS 10001025. JoyEarls@windermere.com 531-9811 EXECUTIVE HOME ON 1.03 ACRES IN THE LOLO CREEK VALLEY. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, Main floor master suite, great room, family room & rec room, formal and casual dining rooms, great mountain and valley views. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, Text Mindy20 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

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HANDCRAFTED CUSTOM HOME ON PETTY CREEK. 3 Bdr/2.5 Bath, 3.3 Acres, slate and hardwood floors, vaulted ceilings, guest quarters, heated double garage, $695,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, Text Mindy6 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

NEWER LEWIS & CLARK NEIGHBORHOOD HOME. 4 Bdr/2.5 Bath, double garage, hardwood floors, 9’ + ceilings, stainless steel appliances, and much more. $279,000. Prud ential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy5 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

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Fifties style home located on Missoula's South side. No through traffic on this street and just a short distance to the mall, stores and Park. Home has been used as an owner occupied rental for years and features 2 bedrooms 1 bath on the main level with an additional 2 bedrooms 1 bath and full kitchen downstairs. The enormous 2 car garage has room for all your toys. MLS # 100000047

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Borders Lolo National Forest. Ski out your back door, drive 10 minutes to Snowbowl Ski area, or take a hike in 3 different directions in the summer! L o c a t e d j u s t 15 m i n u t e s f r o m d o w n t o w n 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

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Pabst or Rainier

$7.89

$2.99

2 for $3

$14.99

Don Julio Tortilla Chips

Little Penguin Australian Wine

bag

38 oz.

Boneless Beef Cross Rib Roast

US No. 1 Idaho Russet Potatoes

$2.29

$1.59

$1.25

Smithwick’s, Harp, Guinness Stout or Draught

$6.99

10 oz.

10 lb. bag

24 pack

$5.39 .75 liter

lb.

Family Pack Boneless Pork Sirloin Steak

$1.59

California Minneolas

99¢

lb.

Craven's Conventional Coffee Beans

$7.79

lb.

Sub Sandwich

$4.49 each

12 oz.

Family Pack Bone-In Beef Ribeye Steak

$5.99

lb.

2 lb. Bag California Carrots

Western Family Ice Cream

99¢

$4.77

bag

5 qt. pail

Sunflower Seed Bread

$1.99

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