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nside Cover Story The 2011 legislative session has been underway for a little more than a week now and it’s shaping up to be a bare-knuckle brawl. Although hammering out a balanced budget is the primary goal, there remain many ongoing side stories that touch virtually every aspect of our state, and will affect our lives, for better or worse, for years to come. ..................................14

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Cover photo by Chad Harder

News Letters Gutsche responds to Ochenski, and moral rectitude....................................4 The Week in Review Rehberg’s new role, skier deaths and council candidates .....6 Briefs Coal coaxing, repurposing Christmas trees and MAC funding .......................6 Etc. Remembering Hal Fraser .....................................................................................7 Up Front How one pro profits off a rocky real estate market...................................8 Ochenski Examining the real roots of the violence we inflict ..................................9 Writers on the Range Giving lead-free bullets a shot.............................................11 Agenda Observing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day........................................................12

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STREET TALK

by Chad Harder

Asked Tuesday afternoon on Higgins Avenue in downtown Missoula.

Q:

The Montana Legislature started its 90-day session last week and already more than 2,000 bills have been requested. What’s your greatest hope for Montana’s legislative body in 2011?

Follow-up: What’s your greatest fear?

Alex Duncan: My greatest hope is that they abolish the death penalty. I mean, how is punishing someone who killed somebody by killing them just? It doesn’t make sense. Revolving door: I don’t really have any fears, except that they’ll fail to get rid of corruption, bribes and lobbyist money, but unfortunately that isn’t going to happen.

Darrel Two Teeth: Well, when I walk around town everyday I look around and I see homeless people everywhere. I had a family member who died from the cold once, so I feel sorry for them. I guess my hope is that they provide food and housing for those that can’t afford it. Workin’ man: My fear is that the Legislature isn’t doing anything to help people needing jobs find any.

Paul Bishop: My hope is that they can ramp down the vitriol, both in language and just the divisiveness in general. Just in the last five years we’ve seen a dramatic change in tone, and I don’t like it. Loggerheads: My greatest fear is that we’ll end up with gridlock. With a Democratic governor and conservative control of the Legislature, I fear we’re just in for more of the same.

Andrew George: My greatest hope is that the Legislature will cultivate in Montana an environment that fosters economic growth. Montana has the luxury of being somewhat isolated from the rest of the country, and therefore isolated from the recession, so we might fare a lot better than the rest of the country. Ration this: My greatest fear is the same as with any legislature—that they might just behave completely irrationally. I’d say there’s a 100 percent chance of that happening.

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PSC politics Last week the Montana Public Service Commission (PSC) elected its chair under the newly elected Republican majority. The elections took place amid rancor, divisive partisanship and discord within the Republican majority. Not only were the proceedings and the outcome of the election marred by the rancor, it also took the commission a day and a half to elect its new leadership. The new chair and vice chair are Bill Gallagher, a freshman, and Brad Molnar, a seasoned commissioner with a checkered history. Both are Republicans.

In his column last week titled “Out of Commission,” George Ochenski wonders why the two Democrats on the commission didn’t simply vote for newcomer Travis Kavulla, the other Republican freshman who supposedly transcended partisanship in his abstaining vote for Molnar.

The answer is simple: inexperience. It is imprudent to elect as chair a brand new commissioner who has never participated in a utility hearing nor attended a single commission work session. We don’t elect freshmen legislators to be Speaker of the House—and with good reason—and we ought not to have elected a freshman to be the chair of the PSC. There is no precedent for such an outcome. In addition, the commission is known for its history of bipartisanship and decorum. In 1992, the Democratic majority on the commission elected a Republican to serve as chair.

Why? The reason was simply because he was the most qualified candidate. In many instances, the commission has elected a chair from one party and a vice chair from the other, completely ignoring party politics and instead doing what is best for the thousands of utility and transportation customers served by the PSC. Kavulla had another problem: He was at loggerheads with Molnar over several personal and professional issues, some of which were publicly laundered during the proceedings. Given the animosity between the two of them it became abundantly clear that neither would support the other for chair.

Molnar, the other Republican candidate for chair, can claim the most experience on the commission. Unfortunately, he can also claim the foulest mouth, the hottest temper and a questionable ethical compass. Molnar, who spiced the proceedings with a profanity-laden outburst and numerous derisive comments aimed at Kavulla, demonstrated repeatedly throughout the election process why he

is not fit to be chair. In addition, his ongoing entanglement in an ethics violation (of which he has been found guilty) clearly disqualified him. In the end, all three Republicans were uniquely unqualified for the job. That is why I voted for none of them.

So, here we are. Republicans hold the majority and both leadership seats on the commission. Now it is up to them to lead. Let us hope that this inauspicious

“Republicans hold the majority and both leadership seats on the PSC. Now it is up to them to lead. Let us hope that this inauspicious beginning is not a sign of things

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beginning is not a sign of things to come.

The rate-paying citizens of Montana deserve a PSC dedicated to a fair, unbiased and ethical stewardship of energy policy, free of political wrangling. Buckle up. This could be one wild ride.

Gail Gutsche Public Service Commissioner Missoula

Moral rectitude Is the global warming debate over?

Definitely (see “Climate change is not real,” Jan. 6, 2011). Thank you political

left/global warming believers for finally ascending to the moral high ground so long held, and in contempt, by the political right. I see now that there you are drinking mightily from the glass of moral rectitude. But beware: Too much of that intoxicating brew can cause a bad hangover of which history is rife with examples. Was it not moral rectitude that started the Crusades and the sacking of Constantinople? Was it not responsible for the burning of the witches at Salem?

Was it not responsible for the prohibition of alcohol and drugs? Was it not responsible for the wholesale racism of people of color in America? And was it not moral rectitude responsible, in part, for driving a bullet through the brain of an Arizona congresswoman?

Now that you have moral rectitude, global warming believers, how long before you start pumping lead into global warming deniers? “Oh, but we would never do that, we’re too open minded.” If you believe that line obviously you believe the lines “I never had sex with that woman” and “This war is not about oil, it’s about weapons of mass destruction.”

“But we know we’re right and we’re certain of it!” That’s what all of the above said too and look what it has done to us.

John Marshall Hot Springs

Backing Wolken As a resident of Ward 2, I am writing to urge City Council members to vote for Cynthia Wolken for the Ward 2 vacancy on the council. I raised my family in Missoula and I have made it my home for over two decades. I first met Ms. Wolken when she agreed to represent me pro bono and help me with my housing needs. She is committed to affordable, quality housing in this city and was willing to do whatever it took to obtain this for my family and me. Ms. Wolken truly cares about Missoula and its residents.

She is always looking for the best way to help people and improve lives. I have had the pleasure of volunteering with her on issues such as raising the minimum wage, providing health insurance for low-income children and helping curb predatory payday and title lending.

Ms. Wolken conducts herself with integrity and is truly committed to the values of our ward and will be the best representative of our community.

Patricia Lawson Missoula

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WEEK IN REVIEW • Wednesday, January 5

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On the day U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg is sworn in for his sixth term as Montana’s sole voice in the House of Representatives, he cosponsors a constitutional amendment requiring the federal government to balance the budget. The federal budget deficit is over $1.3 trillion, and the federal debt topped $14 trillion in the final days of 2010.

• Thursday, January 6 Christopher Looper, a medical marijuana patient, pleads not guilty in Missoula District Court to a felony charge of distribution of dangerous drugs.

Looper sent his father, who lives in Washington state, a batch of marijuana-laced cookies, but claims he meant to send a regular batch.

• Friday, January 7 U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg is appointed chairman of the House Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, and says he will use the position to weaken the health-care reform law passed by Congress last year.

“I will de-fund ‘Obamacare’ if we’re not successful repealing it,” he says.

• Saturday, January 8 A gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, shoots Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., in the head during a political gathering in Tucson before opening fire on a crowd and killing six people. Giffords survives the incident. Sen. Jon Tester and other Montana representatives say they won’t be discouraged from meeting with constituents.

• Sunday, January 9 An early morning fight between two men grows into an altercation involving roughly 10 people outside the Iron Horse Brew Pub in downtown Missoula. The dispute prompts police to deploy pepper spray twice and cite 26-year-old Colt Elam for misdemeanor disorderly conduct along with obstructing a police officer.

• Monday, January 10 Missoula’s City Council chooses candidates it will interview as possible replacements for Ward 2’s outgoing representative, Roy Houseman. Those selected include Cynthia L. Wolken, Myrton R. Charney, Patrick Maddison, Adam Hertz, Miles McCarvel, Nancy Wilson, Gabriel Furshong, Matthew B. Lowy and W. Jordan Hess. Council will select Houseman’s replacement by Jan. 24.

• Tuesday, January 11 The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments surrounding a water dispute between Montana and Wyoming.

Attorney General Steve Bullock says Wyoming ranchers are using more water from the Tongue and Powder rivers than they’re entitled to under an agreement signed off on in 1951.

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Piles of ice chunks cover the beach at Jacob’s Island, the result of a freeze-thaw cycle that has piled ice high along many Montana rivers and raised concerns about destructive ice jams. In an effort to educate people about the potential dangers of river ice, the National Weather Service has named Jan. 13 “Montana Ice Jam Awareness Day.”

Environment Coal coaxing Last week, Gov. Brian Schweitzer traveled to southwestern Washington to woo the Cowlitz County Board of Commissioners, a body that could, surprisingly, stand in the way of the Montana governor’s energy ambitions.

“We have 56 counties in the state of Montana, but the most important county to the people of Montana today is Cowlitz County,” Schweitzer reportedly said last Wednesday.

That’s because Cowlitz County is key to Schweitzer’s mission to mine the massive Otter Creek coal tracts south of Miles City and ship the trove off to Asia. Millennium Bulk Logistics proposes to build a coal export terminal near Longview, the first such facility on the Pacific Coast, which would send some 5.7 million tons of Montana and Wyoming coal across the ocean every year.

While the commissioners approved the facility, sending it to the state for further review, a couple dozen protesters greeted Montana’s governor, reminding him that public opposition is one of the

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obstacles that may impede the coal’s path.

Another is the courts. Back in Montana, District Court Judge Joe Hagel on Tuesday denied a motion by the state and Arch Coal—the company that paid Montana $86 million last year for the rights to mine Otter Creek—to dismiss a suit brought last year by environmental groups. The Sierra Club and Montana Environmental Information Center argue the state should have taken environmental, economic and public health threats into consideration before leasing 587 million tons of coal to Arch.

“The court said that the project’s environmental impacts could implicate our constitutional right,” said MEIC program director Anne Hedges.

“Montanans have a constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment and environmental review is a critical process that allows citizens to protect that right.”

Steve Running, University of Montana professor and Nobel Peace Prize-winning member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, calculates the combustion of Otter Creek coal would result in about 2.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions over the life of the mine, 50 times

Montana’s total current annual emissions. But it would probably be burned in China. The question facing regulators in Washington, and Montana courts, is whether where the coal is burned matters.

Matthew Frank

Flathead Greening erosion control Flathead geomorphologist Mark Lorang approached PPL Montana and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service about four years ago with an unconventional proposal: Instead of using concrete walls and rip-rap to control erosion on Flathead Lake’s northern shoreline, why not employ a greener solution—specifically, discarded Christmas trees?

“I’ve been working on the San JoaquinSacramento Delta down in California for quite a few years,” says Lorang, a research assistant professor with the University of Montana’s Flathead Lake Biological Station. “A guy down there uses Christmas trees, old orchard pear trees, brush…just to minimize the waves and the currents and trap sediment that the river brings down. It’s

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nothing new. They’ve been doing this in Europe for decades.�

Lorang’s pitch proved successful, and citizens in Kalispell and neighboring communities have donated some 2,500 Christmas trees annually to the effort.

Volunteers collected about 500 last weekend. This year alone, Lorang says, the trees have saved 10,000 yards of gravel that would otherwise have been used in the project. And the cost savings resulting from the recycling initiative are impressive. “This job in ’96 was I think bid with concrete seawalls at a little over $8 million,� Lorang says, “and we’ll get this whole project done for under $2 million.�

PPL Montana, the project’s financial backer, is required to stabilize the shoreline in question to mitigate the Kerr Dam’s effects on wildlife habitat.

Lorang has worked closely with the Kalispell Parks and Recreation Department over the past four years, relying on the city to help with tree collection. Normally the city would recycle the trees for use in local landscaping, says Kalispell Parks Superintendent Chad Fincher.

Lorang’s project has provided a major cost savings for the city as well. “We don’t have a number to go with it, but the benefit to us is we don’t end up having to chip all the trees or mulch all the trees,� Fincher says, adding the work can put extreme wear on the city’s equipment.

The erosion control project will be completed this year, Lorang says, and the need for Christmas trees will subsequently end, unless private landowners express interest in similar measures.

Alex Sakariassen

Religion Electricity and illumination Locals fighting climate change have a new and influential ally: churches. In the last few months, a consortium of congregations calling itself Green our Faiths has emerged to help foster a stronger environmental ethic among faith communities, with a specific focus on climate change. “The climate crisis is critically important,� says group coordinator Claudia Brown, “and so faith communities have a natural, moral and ethical—as well as spiritual—reason to be involved in this.�

Green our Faiths has so far brought together about 10 congregations, all taking steps to minimize their carbon footprints. Blessed Trinity Catholic Church, for example, initiated a plan to replace 20-

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year-old furnaces, installed programmable thermostats, and created a community garden to grow its own vegetables. The Har Shalom Jewish congregation plans to install energy efficient windows in its sanctuary to bring in more natural light requiring “less electricity for illumination.�

Green our Faiths evolved, Brown says, from Missoula’s decade-old Caring for Creation Network, and has been influenced by, and may eventually join, Interfaith Power & Light, a national ecumenical organization mobilizing a religious response to climate change with affiliates in 35 states, but not Montana. Green our Faiths adapted its name from Green My Faith, a program of Bozeman’s The Tributary Fund.

Rev. John Lund, director of Emmaus Campus Ministry, says scientists have shown incontrovertible evidence that the climate is changing, and now it falls to social groups to act. “Most successful social movements in this country have had some kind of religious or spiritual basis to it,� Lund says. “This one doesn’t have to. I think people can care about the future and care about the environment without that component, and certainly that’s happening. But I think the religious community can provide a strong base for that, a strong ethic.�

Green our Faiths convenes monthly. Its next meeting is Thursday, January 21 at noon at Missoula’s University Congregational United Church of Christ. “Our aim is to provide resources, education, encouragement and support to faith communities to green their congregations,� Brown says.

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MAC gets cash infusion Missoula Aids Council Executive Director Christa Weathers is breathing a little easier this month after learning the state will provide $166,980 to help fund statewide HIV and hepatitis C prevention efforts crippled last year by a funding cut. “They stepped in and filled a major need,�

Weathers says of the grant awarded Jan. 1 through the Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS).

Last year was a tough one for Weathers and the Missoula AIDS Council (MAC). The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in June did not renew a grant that had paid the nonprofit roughly $325,000 every year for 10 years. MAC used the money to fund its Montana Targeted Prevention program (MTAP), which paid subcontractors—specifically gay men, American Indians and recovering drug addicts— to educate their own high-risk communities about how to prevent the spread of incurable and expensive-to-treat bloodborne disease. Outreach workers also conducted hepatitis C and HIV testing.

Losing the CDC grant forced Weathers to lay off 14 MTAP outreach workers across the state. Plus, the federal money constituted half of MAC’s annual operating budget, leaving the organization on unstable financial footing.

The new DPHHS grant will now enable MAC to hire five outreach workers who will work under a new program called Actively Reaching Montana (ARM). As with the now defunct MTAP, ARM will deploy subcontractors who are uniquely equipped to communicate with their defined demographics.

The program will serve communities in Kalispell, Missoula, Butte, Great Falls and Billings.

Laurie Kops, supervisor of Montana’s STD and HIV prevention programs at DPHHS, was instrumental in securing the new grant. She says as HIV and hepatitis C continues to spread in Montana, the funds came as a relief. “I didn’t expect to get it,� Kops says.

Though the new grant will bolster prevention efforts, it’s a one-time offering. Weathers is acutely aware of that fact and remains concerned about MAC’s financial future. “It’s a band-aid. It’s not a permanent fix,�

Weathers says. “There’s still a lot of work to be done.�

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Fatalities at Whitefish Mountain Resort last Saturday. A 68-year-old man died after suffering a heart attack in the middle of a ski run. A 29year-old snowboarder was found unconscious in a tree well and later pronounced dead. The latter is the second tree-well-related death at the resort this month.

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The Missoula City Council, like many Missoulians, mourned the passing of local legend Hal Fraser at its Jan. 10 meeting. The 68-year-old civic leader and senior vice president of First Security Bank died unexpectedly in his University Avenue home earlier that day.

Ward 3’s Stacy Rye choked up, saying, “We strive to be like him..� Mayor John Engen carried with him a Fraser bobblehead created as a Missoula Osprey promotion in 2008. “‘When they built you, brother, they broke the mold.’ And that’s Hal Fraser,� Engen said, drawing from Bruce Springsteen’s 2007 tune “Terry’s Song.�

The outpouring reflected the immeasurable impact Fraser had on the Missoula community. Without Fraser’s shrewd yet visionary approach to banking, friends and associates agree this mountain town wouldn’t be the groovy place it is.

Count Rockin Rudy’s among the community cornerstones that form Fraser’s legacy. Owner Bruce Micklus says Fraser proved “instrumental� in helping the store acquire its building off Higgins Street back in 1991. “Had we not had this building and the opportunity to expand into new and different and various product lines, we probably would have gone the way of 99 percent of all the record stores that flourished in America in the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s,� Micklus says.

They may not have seen eye to eye on Major League matters—Micklus is a Giants fan, Fraser cheered for the Dodgers—but Micklus always admired Fraser’s “citizen spirit.� He played a key role in helping the Missoula Children’s Theatre find its current location, and worked with the Missoula Redevelopment Agency since its inception to stimulate downtown commerce. “He was more than just a banker,� Micklus says. “He was the spirit behind it.�

Fraser even played a key role in starting this very paper. Indy co-founder Erik Cushman says Fraser provided a loan early on when few other lenders would have. “We were idealistic, passionate, smart, but not experienced business people and not backed with a lot of capital,� says Cushman, now publisher for the Monterey County Weekly in California. “We had to finagle collateral for him to make the loan, and he helped us with that.�

Micklus and Cushman agree Fraser wasn’t the type to simply write a blank check. He was, after all, a banker by trade. But he saw a clear vision for Missoula, one he helped make a reality. “If he was here for another 10 years, I know we would have many, many other positive things in our community that I hope we can still accomplish,� Micklus says. “But with Hal you knew it was going to happen.�

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When a foreclosed-upon property On Monday morning just after 11 a.m., I am there,” says Gosselin, who spends three bargain hunters gather on the many weekday mornings on the courthouse reverts to the bank—as was the case with the Missoula County Courthouse steps as a fast- steps eyeing potential deals. (He wasn’t Montana Street home auctioned off Monday talking lawyer begins auctioning off a home there Monday because only a mobile home morning—the industry refers to it as “realestate owned,” or “REO.” A handful of local was on the auction block.) in foreclosure.

Gosselin declines to disclose how real estate brokers and agents, like Merle “The property is sold on an as-is basis,” says attorney John Nowakowski, represent- many homes he’s purchased off the court- Unruh of Montana Westgate Realty in the ing the mortgage holder, Wells Fargo Bank. house steps. But he says his dealings can Bitterroot Valley, specialize in buying and The opening bid for 1806 Montana yield a profit as high as 20 percent. It isn’t selling those bank-owned properties. Unrah Street is $93,369, Nowakowski announces. easy, though. He says making money this says repossessed homes for sale through his Apparently the price is too high because way requires significant time and resources, office are lien-free. And he’s got plenty of nobody bites, and Wells Fargo keeps the largely because a house going into foreclo- REOs to unload.

“The last year and a half has been the sure can sit neglected for months, if not house.

Such auctions on the courthouse years. Without regular maintenance, paint highest [number of REOs going up for sale] we’ve ever had—ever,” steps—ground zero for the Unruh says.

Missoula foreclosure marUnruh’s office conket—have become increasingtracts with one of the ly common over the past five nation’s largest mortgage years. Between 2005 and lenders, Fannie Mae. When 2009, bank repossessions the lender forecloses on a quadrupled in Missoula property, it typically asks County, jumping from 46 to Unruh to help formulate a 204. According to the sales price and market it.

Missoula Organization of Unruh estimates that Realtors, defaults held steady between two and four last year, with lenders reposnew REOs come through sessing 151 homes during the Westgate per month. He first three quarters of 2010. quickly produces listing Properties in default information on a dozen generally sell for the value of such homes for sale, the mortgage note, which is including a $54,900 twotypically significantly lower bedroom home for sale in than today’s market value.

Darby that needs a signifiThe discrepancy presents an Photo by Chad Harder cant amount of TLC, and a opportunity for enterprising real estate pros looking for Cary Gosselin, right, of Missoula-based Home Savers of 38-acre Corvallis parcel deals in Missoula and across America, spends many mornings on the Missoula County with a 4,000-square-foot the nation. In fact, in Courthouse steps buying foreclosed properties. “Just don’t three-bedroom home concall me a flipper,” he says. “I grew up in this town.” structed in 2008 that’s California, which has seen a significant spike in foreclosures, real estate peels, pipes freeze and mold grows. never been lived in. The bank wants agents hold foreclosure bus tours for thrifty Sometimes transients make a home in $399,900.

“They’re typically at or near what the shoppers. Searching for dirt-cheap homes empty properties. And it’s not unusual for has become such a widespread phenome- property owners in default, or others with mortgage was—unpaid principle, initially, non that the industry has coined the term access to a residence, to strip houses of any- anyway,” Unruh says.

After properties sit for a bit, banks “house porn.” And AOL.com last month thing with value, including fixtures, carpets begin to drop the price. cited “house flipping” as one of the top-10 and toilets.

“They want to keep the investment “Cabinets, in about a third of the propcrazes of the past decade.

The term “house flipping” doesn’t sit erties, they’re gone. The toilets are gone,” moving,” Unruh says.

Gosselin, too, likes to keep his investwell with Cary Gosselin of Missoula-based Gosselin says. “I add value to the property. ments moving. That’s why he stays away Home Savers of America, which special- Basically, we make the house right.”

Among the impediments to newbies from high-end homes. The amenity market izes in renovating and reselling foreclosed entering the fray, buying foreclosed houses has been hardest hit by declining values. properties.

“Just don’t call me a flipper,” says the requires cash, since trustees on the court- Sales of homes priced over $275,000 blue-eyed 46-year-old with a close-cropped house steps don’t deal in mortgages. And dropped by more than 40 percent between you have to be savvy to ensure a new real 2007 and 2009, according to the Missoula haircut. “I grew up in this town.”

Gosselin may not call himself a house estate investment doesn’t come with an out- Organization of Realtors.

However, homes priced between flipper, but he’s among a growing number standing second mortgage or an old tax bill.

“It’s risky,” Gosselin warns those aspir- $170,000 and $220,000 are still selling. of profit-minded investors in Missoula “It’s the market that’s actually holding becoming increasingly adept at maneuver- ing to get rich quick.

For those with little cash on hand, value,” Gosselin says. ing—and profiting from—an uncertain real there are other, safer ways to scoop up deals estate market.

“Every day a house goes on the market, on bank-repossessed property. jmayrer@missoulanews.com

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Soul search Examining the real roots of the violence we inflict Every day innocent and not-so-innocent people are gunned down on innercity streets all across our country. Every day, somewhere around the globe, Americans kill people of other countries through wars, black ops or outright assassinations. Every day of every week of every month, year in and year out, the killing goes on. It’s only when a highprofile figure—a president, rock star, or in the latest tragedy, a congresswoman and federal judge—is gunned down that we momentarily consider why violence is so prevalent in the United States. This time appears no different. But what spews from grandstanding politicians, pundits and political parties only serves to distract us from taking a realistic look at what really might be wrong with America’s soul.

Reading, listening to or watching the outpouring of opinion on the causes of Saturday’s assassination attempt on U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (DAriz.) is particularly revealing about how we deal with societal violence and, in particular, violence carried out with firearms. Our usual “cult of personality” approach looks to the shooter, 22-yearold Jared Loughner, and analyzes why this troubled young man decided to empty his pistol into a crowd after shooting Giffords in the head.

The left points fingers at Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and a host of other right-wing nutballs for their pronouncements about targeting political opponents, putting crosshairs on campaign materials and inciting the disgruntled populace to violence against those with whom they disagree.

There’s plenty of evidence to back up those claims, even extending to Montana’s former candidate for attorney general, Tim Fox, whose 2008 campaign website not only showed a big “D” in the crosshairs of a bullet-pocked target, but was accompanied by text saying “Democrats—in the GOP’s crosshairs this November.”

The right is off on its own version of the blame game, calling Loughner a “leftist” because he cited Ken Kesey’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” on his Facebook page. Or maybe because he may have smoked pot. Who knows, he may have even liked NASCAR and light beer, too.

And then there’s the whole “Second Amendment solution,” which can be pretty easily translated to: “That’s why we have the right to bear arms—to shoot people.”

But the fact remains that focusing

our attention on the gun, and who pulled the trigger, completely misses the main issue—and ignores why America has become one of the most violent societies on the planet.

Take President Obama. His sincere condolences went out to the victims of the shooting while he praised those who

Focusing “ our attention on the gun, and who pulled the trigger, completely misses the main issue— and ignores why America has become one of the most violent societies on the

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planet.

wrestled the shooter to the ground. But on the day after the shooting, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton proclaimed that the tiny nation of Yemen was “a global threat,” while Secretary of Defense Gates likewise whipped up national fear over his prediction that North Korea would be a nuclear threat to the United States in five years. And yes, this is the same President Obama who sanctioned assassination—political assassination—of dissident Americans abroad.

In the meantime, a befuddled and bitterly divided Congress does what?

Does it turn down the dial on the U.S. violence meter and decide maybe we don’t need to have a thousand military bases abroad, endorse “regime change” for those we don’t like and engineer devastating wars—open and clandestine— across the globe? No, it doesn’t.

Instead, what’s supposed to be “the greatest deliberative body on earth”

blabs on about new gun control measures—as if they can somehow put the Second Amendment genie back in the bottle. Their opponents, meanwhile, trot out the same old tired slogans that “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.”

Incidentally, Giffords was herself a gunrights advocate.

The simple truth is that short of banning possession of firearms, we will never stop people who want a gun from getting one. The street gangs should never be able to obtain guns under the existing laws, yet they are heavily armed and have no problems getting whatever firearms they want. Everyone knows this and it’s only Congress that seems incapable of understanding the futility of their driveling while, once again, they line up opposing forces to continue the partisan battles.

What our nation needs to do, and what we seem so incapable of doing, requires a considerably wider form of introspection than trying to manage the symptoms of our out-of-control violence.

Ever see a violent TV show or movie?

One in which people get shot? Or maybe a video game where shooting the “bad guys” scores you points? Ever see young kids watching those shows and movies or playing those games?

But that’s just down here at the civilian level. Our government thinks it’s okay to snuff suspected “insurgents” (aka, citizens of other countries) from the sky with predator drones. Do we kill innocents, too? Why sure, but that’s called “collateral damage” when we wipe out a wedding party, slaughter women and children in their sleep and rationalize it all away with “we’re at war.”

Well, the war isn’t just abroad these days, it’s come home—again. If, as a nation, we really believe lethal force is not the preferred method of conflict resolution, we should reflect on the violence we inflict. President Obama should halt the assassinations, stop the predator drone killings, and end the wars. If we want peace at home, we must stop glorifying killing abroad and seek peace with those with whom we may not agree. Until the president, Congress, and the American people face the reality that we are one of the most violent nations on Earth, all the blather about shooters and guns are simply cheap and meaningless shots.

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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Clean kill Give lead-free bullets a shot

by Paul W. Hansen

It is time for those of us who hunt to quit using outdated lead bullets and start moving toward high-tech copper bullets— even if they are more expensive. Lead bullets are bad for everyone: They contaminate the meat we bring home as well as the gut piles we leave behind, and they also poison any scavengers that consume the contaminated meat.

Moreover, the evidence against lead bullets is now solid. In a North Dakota study of 738 people whose blood was tested, those who ate a lot of wild game had higher lead levels than those who ate little or none. And the more recent the consumption of wild game harvested with lead bullets, the higher the level of lead in the blood. That is why the federal government now urges pregnant women and children under the age of six not to consume any game shot with lead bullets.

In Jackson Hole, the Beringia South Research Institute has found that 50 percent of ravens have elevated levels of lead in their blood during the hunting season, compared to only 2 percent during the non-hunting season. In the Greater Yellowstone area, 85 percent of the bald eagles tested had elevated levels—more than half of them at levels that can cause impairment or death.

What happens after a bullet kills a big game animal is surprising. According to a Minnesota Game and Fish study, an average of 141 bullet fragments per carcass dispersed far from the wound channel, for an average maximum distance of 11 inches. That means routine trimming of a bullet wound will not remove all of the lead. Because most lead particles in venison are too small to see, feel or sense when chewing, they’re liable to be unknowingly consumed.

For centuries, lead has been known to be a broad-spectrum poison for humans and wildlife, and recently the Environmental

Protection Agency described it as “one of the most dangerous neurotoxins in the environment.” The young of all species are at higher risk because their growing bodies absorb more lead than adults do and their developing brains are more easily damaged by it.

makes no “It sense to contaminate our hunt by bringing home tainted meat or leaving toxic lead in the

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field.

Lead has been banned from paint, gasoline, toys and even tire-balancing weights. In 1991, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ordered a ban on lead shot for hunting migratory waterfowl. The agency took action because about one to two million ducks, geese and swans were dying each year from eating spent lead-shot pellets. Now, the Wildlife Society—the professional association of the nation’s leading wildlife biologists—advocates replacing all lead-based bullets used in the field.

Hunters already have alternatives.

They can either buy bullets with no exposed lead—a heavy copper case sur-

rounds the lead core—or they can buy a solid copper bullet that fragments very little and leaves no lead behind.

Hunters contribute a great deal to wildlife conservation through license fees, an excise tax on gear, the purchase of habitat conservation stamps and donations to wildlife conservation groups. Given this great conservation legacy, it makes no sense to contaminate our hunt by bringing home tainted meat or leaving toxic lead in the field. When informed of the problem, 90 percent of Arizona hunters in regions critical to the endangered California condor voluntarily switched to copper.

Unfortunately, this issue has become unnecessarily polarized. After making a well-referenced case for banning lead in the field, the nonprofit Center for Biological Diversity then overreached by petitioning EPA to ban the manufacture of all lead bullets. The group is now suing the agency. The lawsuit over-reaches because most lead bullets are fired in target practice, which presents little hazard to wildlife or people. The issue is what happens during hunting, and that is where federal and state governments should take a stand and eliminate lead bullets.

This fall, I killed an elk using a leadcore bullet with a copper case. I found the bullet, with the lead core intact within the copper case. Advanced ballistics make these bullets very accurate and more likely to make a clean kill.

It was nice to come home and process the elk with no second thoughts about the lead I brought home, or left behind.

Paul Hansen is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is a lifelong conservationist and former executive director of the Izaak Walton League of America. He lives in Jackson, Wyoming.

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To quote late civil-rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., “Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve.”

This week, you can heed King’s wise words when the National Coalition Building Institute and others celebrate his legacy with a host of activities aimed at giving back to the community and promoting diversity.

Monday’s “Day of Service” is hosted by First Baptist Church, where you can lend your benevolent hands to a variety of service projects at places like the YWCA and the Poverello Center from 9 a.m.–3 p.m.

Then, at 5 p.m., head to Caras Park for a rally against anti-gay bullying that features music from Kira Means, and comments from local pastor Amy Carter and Alex Apostle, superintendent of Missoula County Public Schools.

A candle-lit march to First United Methodist

Church follows the rally at 6 p.m., and includes a keynote address by Mehrdad Kia—director of UM’s Central and Southwest Asian Studies Center— titled “No Mosque in My Backyard: Understanding and Addressing Islamophobia.” After Kia’s comments, stick around for tunes by the likes of Amy Martin, plus the presentation of awards to the winners of youth essay and art contests.

–Ira Sather-Olson

THURSDAY JANUARY 13

The Holiday Inn-Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. hosts “No Patient Left Behind,” a gala benefit for Citizens for Responsible Crime Policy—which promotes safe access to medical cannabis, among other aims—that features a catered dinner, live/silent auction, raffle, and music by House of Quist and others, from 4:30 PM–midnight. $5 for music and entertainment/$75 for VIP tickets, which includes dinner. Get tickets at all GrizTix outlets or local caregivers. Call 285-1034 or e-mail responsiblemontanans@gmail.com for more info.

Missoula’s Board of County Commissioners announces that it seeks applicants for a new Missoula County Fairgrounds Advisory Committee. Applications are available at the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 W. Broadway St., and online at co.missoula.mt.us/ mbcc.forms.htm. Applications are due by 5 PM Fri., Jan. 28.

Keep it greener than your greenbacks when the Sustainable Business Council presents its Shot Series with the topic “Sustainable Banking: Can it Be? A Conversation with First Interstate Bank vice president Sue Larew,” which begins with refreshments at 5:30 PM, followed by Larew’s presentation at 6, all at The Loft of Missoula, 119 W. Main St. Free. E-mail Drew at sbc.stsp@gmail.com and visit sbcmontana.org.

Head over to Bonner to check out “Considering the Effects of the Mega-loads,” a panel discussion about the potential effects of the Kearl Module Transportation Project in the Milltown and Bonner area, starting at 7 PM at St. Ann Catholic Church, 9015 Hwy. 200 E. in Bonner.

Free. Call Judy at 258-6335 or visit friendsof2rivers.org.

FRIDAY JANUARY 14 Missoula’s County Commissioners are looking for a few good volunteers to apply for a position on the Missoula Consolidated Planning Board. Grab applications at the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 W. Broadway St., or online at co.missoula.mt.us/mcbcc/ forms.htm. Applications are due by 5 PM on Feb. 4.

Call 258-4877.

UM’s College of Technology announces that it’s offering free college prep classes for qualified veterans, including courses in math, writing and basic computer skills, starting on Feb. 7. Orientation takes place at 5 PM on Feb. 7 in the College of Technology’s dining room, 909 South Ave. W. For more info or to enroll, call 877-356-VETS.

SATURDAY JANUARY 15 If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM in Room 3 in the basement of First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free. Visit oa.org.

Literacy Volunteers of Flathead County presents a literacy volunteer training to help others learn English as a second language, with the training from 9 AM–5 PM at Northridge Lutheran Church, 323 Northridge Drive in Kalispell. Free, but bring your own lunch. Call 257-7323 to RSVP.

Missoula’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration begins at 9 AM Mon., Jan. 17, at First Baptist Church, 308 W. Pine St., and runs throughout the day. Free. To volunteer for the “Day of Service,” call 549-4555 by Fri., Jan. 14. Visit ncbimissoula.org for a complete schedule.

MONDAY JANUARY 17 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.

All brain injury survivors and caregivers are cordially invited to the Missoula Brain Injury Support Group Meeting, which features the topic “Grief–A Way of Recognizing and Dealing with Grief from a Brain Injury” and begins at 6:30 PM in the Duran Learning Center of St. Patrick Hospital, 500 W. Broadway St. Free.

Call 544-6629.

TUESDAY JANUARY 18 Find the strength and will to survive in the company of others during a breast cancer support group at St. Francis Xavier Parish, 420 W. Pine, every first and third Tue. of the month at noon. Free. Call 329-5656.

Missoula’s YWCA, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts weekly support groups for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, including groups for native women and teens, every Tue. staring with dinner at 5:30 PM, followed by meetings at 6:30 PM. Free. Those with children are asked to arrive at 6:15. Call 543-6691 for more info and visit ywcaofmissoula.org/?q=node/57.

Get a handle on your finances during homeWORD’’s “Financial Fitness” workshop, which meets from 6–9 PM tonight through Jan. 20 at homeWORD, 127 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 303. $10 per person. Register and pay online at homeword.org. Childcare vouchers are also available. Call 532-HOME.

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 19 Sorry dude, no munchies provided. The Missoula County Commissioners currently seek an applicant to serve on the Marijuana Initiative Oversight Committee. Grab an application at the Missoula County Courthouse annex, 200 W. Broadway St., or online at co.missoula.mt.us/mcbcc/forms.htm. Applications are due by 5 PM on Wed., Jan. 26. Call 258-4877.

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

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I N OTHER N EWS Curious but true news items from around the world

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Police responding to a break-in at a home in Campbell, Ohio, found Todd J. Moffie, 34, stuck between two steps on the basement stairs. Detective Sgt. John Rusnak said he doesn’t know why Moffie tried to crawl through the narrow opening since there was plenty of room to walk around the stairs. (Youngstown’s The Vindicator) A British court convicted Amir Ali, 28, of throwing two bricks through the window of a West Sussex pub while his unidentified accomplice followed with a Molotov cocktail. Security cameras showed the firebomb bounce back and accidentally hit Ali, engulfing him in flames. The fire went out immediately, but panic-stricken Ali fled and ran headfirst into a lamppost. (Britain’s The Telegraph) FROM O.P.E.C. TO O.L.E.C. - The U.S. strategy to end dependence on foreign oil by promoting hybrid and all-electric motor vehicles could create dependence on foreign lithium, which powers costly, bulky batteries for those vehicles. Chile and Argentina produce more than half the world’s lithium, found mostly in salt beds high in the Andes Mountains. Worldwide demand has spurred a mining boom there, but geologist Horacio Dias declared, “We think there is enough here to last many years.” (The Washington Post) DEAL MAKER - Former Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson, who led the Bush regime’s battle against the still-raging housing downturn, paid $4.3 million in August 2006 for a villa-style home in northwest Washington, D.C. He put it on the market last April for $4.6 million but later lowered the asking price to $4.15 million. The house sold in December for $3.25 million—a 24.4 percent drop in value. (Reuters) CHRONICLE OF LOWER EDUCATION - The Oregon Department of Education said students at middle and high schools may use their computers’ spell-check feature to correct their work before submitting answers to state writing tests. “We are not letting a student’s keyboarding skills get in the way of being able to judge their writing ability,” Superintendent Susan Castillo said. (Portland’s The Oregonian) Scholars found dozens of factual errors in two history textbooks used by Virginia schools. “I absolutely could not believe the number of mistakes—wrong dates and wrong facts everywhere,” said Ronald Heinemann, a former history professor at Hampden-Sydney College, who reviewed “Our Virginia: Past and Present.” He recommended it “should be withdrawn from the classroom immediately.”

Among the mistakes in “Our Virginia” and “Our America: To 1865” are that New Orleans began the 1800s as a bustling U.S. harbor (actually a Spanish colonial port), that the Confederacy included 12 states (actually 11), that thousands of black soldiers fought for the South (disputed by most mainstream historians) and that the United States entered World War I in 1916 (actually 1917). The books’ author, Joy Masoff, isn’t a trained historian and admitted relying on the Internet for her research.

Five Ponds Press of Weston, Conn., publishes both books, which the Virginia Department of Education approved and many local school districts favor, according to Kenneth Bassett, social studies supervisor for Prince William County schools, because Five Ponds Press books are “substantially less expensive than the … next highest-rated competitor.” (The Washington Post) WORST RESPONDERS - Marvin Chase, 32, a volunteer firefighter in LaFayette, Ga., admitted starting as many as 15 arson fires, then responding to help put them out. “He stated that he just liked fighting fires,” police Detective Stacey Meeks said. “He’d start these fires, then leave himself enough time to go home and get dressed in his fire gear.” Investigators indicated the suspect’s motive was also financial; every fire he fought paid him $22. (Atlanta’s WXIA-TV)

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Fan Appreciation Tailgate Mark your calendars for next Saturday, January 22, as it will be our Second Annual Fan Appreciation Tailgate. In between the women’s Griz-Cat basketball game and the men’s Griz-Cat basketball game there will be a special tailgate for all interested Griz Fans in the West Auxiliary Gym. Hot dogs and beer will be served for $1 each.

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British firefighter Julian Lawford, 49, admitted causing the death of a farmer while driving to a fire in Somerset. Exeter Crown Court heard that Harold Lee, 75, was moving 100 or so dairy cows along a country road when the siren on Lawford’s fire engine startled the herd, which trampled Lee to death. (Reuters) Police officers arrived at a house in Hertfordshire, England, where two drug dealers had taken a hostage, only to find it empty and a pizza deliveryman standing outside. The suspects had ordered two pizzas, but before they arrived the hostage escaped, so they fled. “Because the pizza deliveryman could not deliver the pizzas, the police who were at the scene did not realize the significant potential of this evidence, so they offered to buy the pizzas at a reduced rate for themselves and ate them,” prosecutor Sally Meaking-McLeod said at the trial of Anthony Costello, 42, and Darren Barker, 35. “It was only subsequently that the pizza boxes were found in the back of a police car and a phone number was found on them and it came to light that the officers had eaten the evidence.” (Britain’s Daily Mail) THE END OF REGIFTING - Amazon has devised a system that lets people return unwanted gifts before receiving them. The online retailer’s patent, which is 12 pages long and involves diagrams and complicated algorithms to address various gift situations, includes an option that lets users flag gifts from designated senders “because the user believes that this potential sender has different tastes than the user.” Once alerted, the system converts any gift from specified senders to a gift certificate and automatically sends “a thank you note for the original gift, even though the original gift is converted.” (The Washington Post) WORKSHOP FOLLIES - Fire investigators in St. Joseph, Missouri, concluded a blaze that destroyed a home and sent the homeowner to the hospital was sparked by the man’s smoking a cigarette while repairing a lawnmower in his bedroom. (KQTV-TV) CASH AND CARRY - A German company installed an ATM at an upscale mall in Boca Raton, Fla., that dispenses 24-carat gold bars and coins. Shoppers insert cash or credit cards, paying a 5 percent service charge, then use a computer touch-screen to choose the weight and style they want.

The gold-leaf-covered machine, which is attended by an armed guard and can hold up to $150,000 in gold and cash, delivers the order in a black box with a tamper-proof seal. Thomas Geissler, CEO of Ex Oriente Lux and inventor of the Gold To Go machines, said the company already has gold ATMs in the United Arab Emirates, Germany, Spain and Italy and plans to install a few hundred more worldwide in 2011. Its Abu Dhabi machine is so popular, Geissler said, that it needs restocking every two days. (Associated Press)

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The hollowed halls of the Montana Capitol.

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photos by Chad Harder The 2011 legislative session has been underway for a little more than a week now and it’s shaping up into a bare-knuckle brawl between Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer and the Republican majorities in both the House and Senate. For Schweitzer, it’s the first time in his six years in office that he faces a united Republican legislature. And for the Republicans who swept into office during the so-called “Red Tide” of November, it’s no-holds-barred as they face a governor whose routine insults of legislators are not forgotten nor taken lightly.

It is against this background that the political drama of the next four months will be staged. Although hammering out a balanced budget is the primary goal of every legislature and, hopefully, the end result this year, there remain many ongoing side stories that touch virtually every aspect of our state, and will affect our lives, for better or worse, for years to come.

Major players The Gov Gov. Schweitzer stands front and center this session as he tries to defend his proposed budget. But in many ways, Schweitzer has painted himself into a corner not only on budgetary matters, but on a host of ancillary issues as well. Plus, his overtures to the Legislature have been rather schizophrenic. One day he tells legislative leaders there “is no bridge too far” to work together. An hour later, he tells reporters he will not appear in front of legislative committees to discuss his budget priorities, nor allow his department heads to do so. One day he says he is “cut from the same cloth” as Senate President Jim Peterson. The next day, Schweitzer accuses the Legislature of being “big boozers,” and cites increased alcohol sales in Helena during legislative sessions as proof of his accusation.

And, of course, Schweitzer actually went so far as to sue the 2009 Legislature last year over a two-year old bill that he claimed was unconstitutional. Although the court dismissed his suit, you can bet that legislators— all legislators—will remember the governor’s actions.

Needless to say, Schweitzer’s reputation for bullying both friends and enemies has not gone away. In fact, many wonder just how the governor will actually be able to justify his own rhetoric. Take, for instance, his 180-degree turn on energy development in Montana. Remember when the newly elected Schweitzer threw his massive, corporate-sponsored inaugural ball in Helena’s Civic Center at the same

Gov. Brian Schweitzer posing with a .22 rifle in his office last week. It’s the first time in his six years in office that he faces a united Republican legislature.

time he was passing out “New Day” pins and proclaiming himself to be free from undue corporate influence?

Now, that seems laughable. The “clean and green” Schweitzer has morphed into the Coal/Gas/Oil Cowboy, who just made a trip to the Washington coast to make sure pesky environmental concerns don’t get in the way of plans to ship millions of tons of Montana coal to China. Yep, the same China that the governor once cited as a huge polluting nation in need of direction from none other than Brian Schweitzer so he could show them how to use his “clean coal.” Now, he argues there’s no difference between burning the coal in power plants in Montana and shipping the energy out or simply shipping the coal to China so they can burn it there.

Heck, even his dog Jag must be confused since Schweitzer once claimed Jag would “sniff out oil and gas lobbyists” that the governor would then shun.

Only now if Jag sniffs out an oil and gas (or coal) lobbyist, it’ll be the governor who runs over to shake his hand and talk about more development of the Bakken oil fields, Alberta’s tar sands and Otter Creek’s coal.

If it sounds like a challenge to try and negotiate with someone who changes his mind, his commitments and his priorities from day to day, welcome to the 2011 session. The fact that Republican ideology is likewise shot through with hypocrisy on any number of issues only compounds the problem of communication between the governor and the Legislature.

Legislative leaders Given the Republican majorities in both chambers of the 2011 Legislature, if you want to discuss what the legislative leadership is going to do, you’ll be talking about Senate President Jim Peterson, RBuffalo, and Speaker of the House Mike Milburn, RCascade.

In terms of experience, Peterson far exceeds Milburn, having served in the House from 2003 to 2006 prior to moving to the Senate. But in terms of influence, the 68–32 majority the Republicans carry in the House gives them the ability to override the governor’s veto without a single vote from a

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Democrat. And while the Senate’s 28–22 Republican majority means it can pass whatever bills it wants without Democratic support, they’ll need at least five Dem votes to override a veto. While that number may seem daunting, when it comes to the multitude of bills now targeting Montana’s environmental regulations—particularly on energy and mining exploration, development and reclamation—it’s certainly not inconceivable that the Senate may well be capable of joining the House to neuter Schweitzer’s veto power.

Although Peterson and Milburn set the agendas for the Senate and House, it is in the committees where that business is largely conducted. And here, the legislative leaders have been picked for very specific purposes. For instance, the third most powerful person in the 2011 Legislature is perhaps Sen. Dave Lewis, R-Helena, who was budget director for a decade and served under both Republican and Democratic governors.

Lewis will chair the Senate’s Finance and Claims Committee and will, in all likelihood, be the sole gunslinger facing the governor over the budget at session’s end. While the Montana Constitution requires all appropriation bills to originate in the House, the working reality of the Legislature is that when the conference committee dust settles, it’s Senate Finance and Claims that calls the final shots.

There’s no reason to believe, especially with both chambers controlled by one party, things will be any different this time around.

We can also expect to see some fireworks from the Democrat’s House Minority Leader Jon Sesso.

Having chaired House Appropriations last session, Sesso, D-Butte, is well acquainted with the budgeting process. This session, Sesso is carrying one of the major bills required to transfer funds to balance the governor’s budget, and will likely face a tremendous uphill battle to see it passed.

Big issues It’s safe to say the biggest issue at the 2011 Legislature will be the budget. But it’s equally safe to say that with more than 2,000 bills already requested, there’s a ton of ancillary issues—like medical marijuana, environmental regulation, education, health care and social services—that promise to be both high profile and highly controversial.

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All of which brings up the harsh reality facing the Throughout the years, Montana has variously state: Without the fund transfers, Schweitzer’s budget enjoyed times of plenty and times of severe budget doesn’t work because it isn’t balanced. Consequently, shortages. This time around the money is short. How the Republicans, if they stick to their guns about seekshort depends on whose point of view you want to ing a “structurally balanced” budget, say they’ll cut around $383 million in proposed spending from the embrace.

Schweitzer, whose legal duty is to present the governor’s budget to be in line with shortfalls in future Legislature with a budget, did so in November, lauding revenues. Where they cut that money will be the nexus the state’s fiscal condition. He claimed Montana is of the budget battle and will roll across all the various “one of only two states with budgets in the black” and agencies and divisions of government.

The real “off-budget” 800-pound gorilla in the aggressively defended his budget as “balanced.”

Capitol, however, is the nearly $3 billion shortfall in Republicans disagree, and point to tens of milthe Public Employees’ Retirement System and the lions of dollars of fund transfers in the governor’s Teachers’ Retirement System. The enormous losses budget. They say it’s “structurally unbalanced” because projected revenues do not meet projected both systems incurred in the stock market crash have left their ability to cover expenditures without the future benefits in serious fund transfers.

“If it sounds like jeopardy. It’s not something While this may seem an Schweitzer takes into account arcane point to many people, with his claim of the state a challenge to try the issue is significant. For “being in the black,” but instance, one of the goverthere are already highly connor’s fund transfers takes and negotiate with tentious bills that would, if almost $18 million from the they pass and become law, Treasure State Endowment someone who significantly change the penProgram, and nearly $5 milsion system. lion from the regional water changes his mind, Since state retirement system account, and sticks it pensions are based on an all in the general fund. The his commitments employee’s top three years of move, contained in House earnings, Sen. Dave Lewis, RBill 11, and carried by Rep. and his priorities Helena, has said he’ll seek a Jon Sesso, is troubling for sevstate referendum to cap most eral reasons. First, those state employees’ salaries at from day to day, funds are intended for use by twice Montana’s mean local governments to help household income. Needless finance necessary infrastrucwelcome to the to say, the proposal has set ture projects. By moving the the public employee unions money to the general fund, 2011 session.” on fire, in no small part local governments that develbecause by using the referenoped and submitted successful grant applications now face a grim choice—either dum, the Legislature can skirt the governor’s veto pen drop the projects or shift the funding to the backs of and go straight to the ballot box in the next election.

You can bet Lewis won’t be the only one using referenlocal taxpayers.

Even worse—and a point that bolsters the dums to nullify veto power.

Republicans’ contentions—is that the bill makes a change in law to allow such transfers at any time in the The environment Plenty of people will argue there are more imporfuture. So now, instead of having a stable program to tant issues than the environment. But without clean which local governments know they can turn, there air, water and land, humans are toast. will be no guarantee that future legislatures and goverSo far, Montanans have set examples of environnors won’t simply de-fund the program whenever they mental protection that are the envy of the world. The need a few million more to “balance” their budgets.

Montana Constitution requires reclamation of all Likewise, a similar measure, HB 42, carried by lands disturbed by the taking of natural resources. It Rep. Galen Hollenbaugh, D-Helena, performs similar also guarantees every Montanan a “clean and healthful fiscal sleight-of-hand—and makes a similar law change environment.” Our citizen-passed bans on nuclear to allow fund transfers into the future. Hollenbaugh’s wastes and, more recently, on the perpetual pollution bill would pull $6 million from the state’s coalbed caused by cyanide heap-leach gold mining are testamethane account to the general fund. ments to the love and respect with which Montanans Current law says: “Money deposited in the treat their homeland. And the foundational Montana account must be used to compensate landowners and Environmental Policy Act guarantees every Montanan water right holders for damages attributable to coal the right to take part in major actions of their governbed methane development as provided in this part.” ment that affect the environment.

It’s not like Montana has come anywhere close to But now, all those shining lights in the dim gloom determining the full impacts from coalbed methane of an industrially polluted world are at risk. Already extraction, especially as projections are for tens of there are hundreds of bill draft requests to change— thousands of new wells to be drilled in the future. mostly for the worse—Montana’s environmental laws.

Once again, ripping off these dedicated funds to bal- Make no mistake, the Republicans and even some ance Schweitzer’s proposed budget is extremely short- Democrats have targeted the reduction or elimination sighted. of environmental regulation as their main goal this sesBut as Sen. Lewis, chair of the Finance and Claims sion. When Speaker of the House Milburn released the Committee, pointed out: “To do the transfers, those GOP “priority list” early this week, he said: “Our main bills will have to pass.” It is telling that Democrats, not objective is to help natural resource opportunities.” Of Republicans, are carrying the bills to do so—and given course the old saw that you can somehow make it easthe fact that Democrats hold less than one-third of ier, quicker and less risky to develop extractive indusHouse seats, the chances of those bills ever making it tries and still protect the environment was trotted out to the Senate are slim indeed. once again. But Montana’s long experience and histo-

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Sen. Dave Lewis (R-Helena)

Rep. Mike Milburn (R-Cascade)

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ry with the aftermath of mining, drilling, logging and power plants suggests just the opposite.

Unfortunately, this is one more arena where the governor and the Democrats who follow his lead have painted themselves into a corner. Schweitzer claims “jobs are my No.1, No. 2 and No. 3 priority,” and his words were echoed by Democratic Senate Minority Leader Carol Williams last week.

And so the bogus “jobs versus the environment” argument is back in play. But if jobs are the No. 1 priority for the governor and Democratic legislative leadership, as well as the Republican majorities, where does that leave the environment? Here’s a hint: Tim Lindsay, chairman of the board of Revett Minerals, told legislators at last weekend’s “business forum” that the state needed to streamline its permitting process and not allow it to get waylaid by legal actions or other delays. In other words, if you live downstream, downwind, or use water in the vicinity of natural resource extraction projects, your future may well be in jeopardy in the next four months.

The state offers a number of different ways to follow the action in Helena and make your voice heard.

Watch, listen and learn

Taxation Both Schweitzer and the Republican leaderThe Montana House convenes during the first week of the 2011 Legislature. The budget stands ship say new taxes are off the table for this ses- out as lawmakers’ top priority. sion. In fact, despite the hundreds of millions of dollars in projected revenue shortfall, Schweitzer the Capitol when he came to testify at an interim com- gram. And that says nothing about Schweitzer’s effort says he supports getting rid of the business equipmittee hearing, and who is currently facing criminal to privatize at least a portion of Medicaid services. Yes, ment tax for all except the very largest of Montana charges of felony intimidation in Missoula. Christ’s that would be a Democratic governor supporting pribusinesses. What’s likely to happen, however, is that Republicans will take the governor’s proposal and organization is responsible for helping thousands of vatization of currently public services. expand it to all businesses—which will throw patients register with the state program after meeting with doctors through video teleconference, rather Wildlife Schweitzer’s budget even further out of balance.

This summer’s decision by Federal District Ironically, neither the governor nor the than with in-person visits.

Tom Daubert, founder of Patients and Families Judge Donald Molloy to put wolves back on the Republican leadership want to end the tax holiday for United and one of the primary backers of the successendangered species list has spawned a host of bills new oil and gas wells that exempts the first 18 months of production—typically when they get the most out ful 2004 initiative, understands the challenges of the to counter the ruling. In the meantime, a recently announced proposal by the Schweitzer administraof the wells—from taxation. So the oil and gas compa- upcoming session.

“With two-dozen medical cannabis-connected tion to place quarantined Yellowstone Park bison in nies in the highly profitable Bakken Formation will bills in the works, most of them draconian, we fear an state wildlife management areas or in federal wildercontinue to get the tax break—and Montana’s other overreaction by the Legislature that could make a bad ness areas is being met head-on with bills that will taxpayers will have to pick up the slack. situation worse for everyone, especially patients, since prohibit any such move. they will make it harder for true patients to access Education medical cannabis for their conditions,” he says. “But Besides the predictable fight over education making it harder is not the same thing as making it spending, the single greatest battle in the education function correctly and in line with what Montanans arena this session is likely to be over the establishment want and what would work best for all concerned. So of private charter schools, and issuing tax vouchers for we’re teaming up with other cannabis-related groups Anyone who tries to look into the crystal ball and those who wish to send their children there instead of in Montana to coordinate an ambitious public and accurately predict the outcome of a legislative session public schools. Public education advocates will claim patient education effort to help the Legislature devel- this early in the game has their work cut out for them. this amounts to funding private and perhaps religious op and adopt changes that will truly allow the pro- But for what it’s worth, here goes. private schools with public revenue. Charter school It’s highly likely the Republicans will indeed cut gram to work as voters intended.” advocates will claim they have a right to send their chilDaubert and his fellow advocates for medical mari- Schweitzer’s budget instead of transferring all the dren to non-public schools because they believe juana will have their work cut out for them. Speaker of funds he has proposed. How and where they’ll cut they’ll get a better education. It’ll be a battle, to be the House Milburn, for instance, has already submitted remains a mystery, since the biggest chunk of money sure, and the outcome is far from predictable.

HB 161, a bill to repeal the entire medical marijuana law. will always be in education, corrections and health and social services. But thanks to the many burrs Medical marijuana under the saddle on environmental regulation, don’t Health care As most readers know, Montana’s Medical Montana’s U.S. Sen. Max Baucus was the architect be surprised to see cuts directed there as well.

Marijuana Initiative received more votes than any of of the federal health insurance reform act signed into The health care debacle will only worsen, perhaps the politicians running for office when it was approved law by President Obama last year. Baucus has continu- significantly. With what is expected to be a gridlocked in 2004. Since that time, almost 30,000 Montanans ally lauded the benefits of the measure, but it has been U.S. Congress for the next two years at least, the entire have followed the prescribed process to obtain the met with almost universal opposition from national health care effort may well simply grind to a halt. legal right to use marijuana for medical purposes— Republicans nationwide. Montana’s GOP is no excepSocial issues such as abortion and gay rights most commonly, chronic pain. tion, and repealing what they call “Obamacare” has appear to be taking a back seat as Republican prioriNot coincidentally, Montana’s medical marijuana become a top priority for Republicans in both ties, but undoubtedly individual legislators will carry business rapidly expanded to meet the demand, with Congress and state legislatures this year. There is their torches on these bedrock conservative issues. large commercial greenhouses and backyard plots already a bill in the hopper to force Attorney General It looks like some rough seas ahead for now in virtually every city and town.

Steve Bullock to join the 20 other states that are cur- Schweitzer. As a lame-duck governor, his power is conCritics say the law is being abused and allowing rently suing the federal government over the health siderably reduced since the end of his final term in what should be illegal drugs to those who merely want care law in Florida courts. office is in sight. Thanks to his wide swings in posito use them recreationally. To bolster their case, they Ironically, the effort to repeal the Obama health tions on any number of issues, both Schweitzer and point to the antics of medical marijuana promoter care law has spilled over into other arenas and now Democrats in general are going to have a tough time Jason Christ, the owner of the Montana Caregivers there are suggestions that perhaps Montana should derailing Republican proposals that appear to coinNetwork who smoked a large pipe openly in front of consider radically revamping its entire Medicaid pro- cide with the “jobs, jobs, jobs” mantra.

Moving forward

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The Legislature website provides live broadcasts of floor sessions and committee hearings, as well as archived footage. For live coverage, floor sessions generally begin at 1 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 8 a.m. most Saturdays.

To access both audio and video broadcasts, visit www.leg.mt.gov/broadcast.

The session is also broadcast on cable television. Western Montana stations include: Missoula: Channel 67 Bigfork: Channel 67 Kalispell: Channel 67 Columbia Falls: Channel 67 Hamilton: Channel 17 Libby: Channel 17 Stevensville: Channel 37 Polson: Channel 97 Ronan: Channel 97

Speaking up Find your legislator—and their e-mail address —at http://leg.mt.gov/css/finda legislator.asp.

If you want to leave a message for a legislator by phone, call the Session Information Desk at (406) 444-4800. This service is available from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Fridays, and from 8 a.m. to adjournment on Saturdays.

To reach a legislator by mail, address letters to: Senator (NAME) Montana Senate P.O. Box 200500 Helena, MT 59620-0500 Or Representative(NAME) Montana House of Representatives P.O. Box 200400 Helena, MT 59620-0400

Geek out Find more information on the 2011 Regular Session, including a database of bill draft requests and status, at http://leg.mt.gov/css/sessions/62nd/default.asp. For more information than you could possibly want about current laws, the lawmaking process and the history of state government, visit http://leg.mt.gov.

But remember the physics of politics—every action has an equal and opposite reaction. If the Legislature goes too crazy in any one direction, you can expect the opposition to rise accordingly. In the case of the environment and natural resource extraction, it would be wise to remember that Montana’s citizens already approved the cyanide heap-leach ban by initiative and would likely pass other measures to protect our state’s unique and precious environmental assets. The same goes for the medical marijuana “reforms” being contemplated. The people, by a wide margin, approved the use of medical marijuana, and efforts to simply repeal the measure are likely to backfire.

Four months from now, we’ll see how it all turns out.

Helena’s George Ochenski rattles the cage of the political establishment as a political analyst for the Independent. Read his weekly column on page 9, or contact Ochenski at opinion@missoulanews.com.

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My first lettuce crop, transplanted from the clutches of winter, is already two inches tall in the window, and I’ve already ordered more seeds. Still, I feel the clock ticking, and a faint nervousness that I’m forgetting to do something. In the mountains where we live, the growing season between hard frosts is a moving target.

Barely past the solstice, the days are only yet inching their way longer; soon the change will become dramatic. My neighbor—the old hippy farmer who lives in a mud house—has a weather station that tracks the length of the days. Today it was eight hours and thirty-two minutes. Solstice, the shortest day, was 8:26.

At about 10 hours of sunlight, stuff really starts to grow, he said recently, with a sense of urgency, as he fretted over his imminent seed order. A lot of the places he likes to order from run out early, he said.

That may be true, but the good news is never in history have pickings been as diverse and accessible to the would-be seed purchaser. The options are, if anything, overwhelming.

Ordering seeds is an endeavor where caution, like the seeds themselves, can be safely thrown to the wind. For the home gardener, few purchases are more forgiving than seeds. A packet costs less than a beer in most towns, and the contents can change your life. The worst that can happen is nothing.

More likely, if you keep those plants alive and pay attention to what happens, you’ll learn something about what grows well in your home ground.

But the carrots stole the show. As promised in the catalog, the Hercules were indeed “broad shouldered.” Even the two-pounders were perfectly sweet.

Some of the leafy plants went to seed at the end of the summer and, right before it got really cold, some baby lettuce, escarole and cilantro plants sprouted. I dug them up and put them in seedling trays by a south-facing window. They’re growing so well that now I’m scheming ways to harvest even more sunlight through the windows. Every snagged photon is money in the bank when my sweetpie reaches for her salad spinner.

The old hippy says the best greenhouse tomato is Sungold cherry tomato, and he offered to dig me some seedlings that sprouted under his years-old Sungold tree to plant in buckets near those windows. I’ll have to save some room for trays of shallot seedlings, which should be started in March. Another reason to place that seed order ASAP. Today’s seed orderer has a bounty of options, most of them available in hard-catalog or online. Who you order from depends most on where you are and what Photo by Chad Harder you want to grow. My default is Johnny’s fuls. The only real order to this planting was that I Seeds, for its selection, photos, shipping speed, cultivation information and customer service. I also like devoted half the patch to carrots.

I had a hunch about carrots because of their FedCo for overall coolness factor, most whimsical lush, shady foliage, which I envisioned shading the catalog, rambling honesty and a fantastic selection of ground, reducing water lost to evaporation, and heirlooms. Interestingly, both of those are from encouraging a more humid, microbially active soil, Maine. But there are so many other great seed outwhich is key to healthy crops. And because carrots fits that it’s almost unfair to start naming names. grow straight down I figured they wouldn’t compete Since I did, here are a few more: High Mowing, Seed Savers Exchange, Peaceful Valley, Jung’s, Territorial. with the garlic bulbs underground.

I got packets of Purple Haze and Deep Purple, Many more exist as well, and by all means, in your because I’m a sucker for the sharp contrast between seed-spreading, consider spreading seeds from more their bright orange and purple when they’re in the than one of these companies.

The old hippy likes Gourmet Seed, Totally mix, and because both varieties are tasty, crispy and big. I also planted some mild white carrot seeds, and Tomatoes and Southern Exposure. I ordered some chocolate habaneros from totallytomato.com. The some tapered orange carrots called Hercules.

I scattered the other half randomly: lettuce, catalog says they have lots of flavor. Habaneros get escarole, radicchio, broccoli, corn, peas, cilantro and attention for their heat, while their amazing flavor gets overlooked, so I have high hopes for these. spinach seeds, just to see what would happen.

I’ll start those habaneros in the south-facing winThis understory, shaded by the garlic, inherited the full sun in July when we dug the garlic. The dow, alongside the shallot seedlings and Milfy’s salad seedy understory developed a canopy. Many salads’ patch. And when daylight hits 10 hours, I’ll start hurling my seeds at the garlic patch all over again. worth of leaves were harvested.

Last summer, one of my plots became something of a seed ecosystem. It began the year as the garlic patch, which was planted the prior fall. As the garlic came up in the spring I observed, as I do every spring, how much unused space there is between garlic plants—36 square inches if you plant them six inches apart.

Last spring, however, I was prepared, having ordered several kinds of seed to plant in the spaces between the garlic plants. When they were about eight inches tall, I planted the seeds in hurled hand-

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Who’s pouring your drinks: Thor Morten is the feisty bartender who knows your name. He’s a quick draw when it comes to pouring drinks, and he always has a friendly smile and a twinkle in his eye when he’s slinging out the sass, too.

What you’re drinking: Happy Hour at the lounge hits between 3 and 6 PM each day with $1 off pitchers and 50 cents off draft beer and well drinks. There’s usually a bartender’s special, as well. Get there early enough and Thor might let you pick it.

What you’re eating: You can’t resist the fried chicken. (A regular dinner is two breasts and two wings for $8.50.) And if you’re smart you’ll pair it with a pint of red beer—light beer and either clamato or tomato juice—to help digest all the grease. Plus, it’s cool because the chicken arrives via a dumbwaiter from the kitchen upstairs.

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When to go: Anytime you need to go underground. Or, when it’s your birthday since you can get a chicken dinner for free. Yes. Free.

How to find the lounge: It’s called “Double Front” for a reason. Enter through the door at 122 W. Alder and head downstairs, or make you’re way through the Railroad St. entrance near the train tracks.

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

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Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 Don’t feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks • 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $8.50. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $7.75. Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$.

Pearl Café & Bakery 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 Country French specialties, bison, elk, trout, fresh fish daily, delicious salads and appetizers. Breads and desserts baked in house. Three course bistro menu with wine $30, Tues. Wed. Thurs. nights, November through March. Extensive wine list, 18 wines by the glass, local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the warm and inviting dining areas. Go to our website Pearlcafe.us to check out nightly specials and bistro menus, make reservations or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Red Robin 2901 Brooks Street 830-3170 www.redrobin.com Half the price, twice the fun! Halfy Hour at the Southgate Mall Red Robin®! Half price bar drinks Monday – Friday, 4-6 p.m. and Monday – Saturday, 9-10 p.m. Enjoy a drink with one of our insanely delicious Gourmet Burgers, Bottomless Steak Fries.

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SA WAD DEE 221 W. Broadway 543-9966 Sa-Wa-Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors-no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisines. Now serving Beer and Wine! $-$$ Scotty’s Table 131 S. Higgins Ave. 549-2790 Share a meal within the warm elegance of our location at the historic Wilma Building. Enjoy our seasonal menu of classic Mediterranean and European fare with a contemporary American twist, featuring the freshest local ingredients. Serving lunch Tues-Sat 11:00-2:30, and dinner Tues-Sun 5:00-Close. Beer and Wine available. $$-$$$ Sean Kelly’s 130 West Pine 542–1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for Lunch and Dinner, featuring a Sat.-Sun. Brunch 11-2pm. Great Fresh food With Huge Portions. Featuring international & Irish pub fare as well as locally produced specials.

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Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day. Daily Lunch Specials. All Soups, including our famous Tomato Soup, are made from scratch. Voted best milkshakes in Missoula for 14 straight years. Great Food, Great Service, Great Fun!! Sun - Wed 83pm, Thurs - Sat 8-8pm $-$$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

BITTERROOT Burger Shack 205 Main St., Stevensville 777-2370 Come take a bite out of our 1/2 pound big & beefy burgers. The only burger joint in Missoula and the Bitterroot serving 100% Certified Angus Beef, hand pattied, charbroiled and made to order. We have over a dozen mouth watering specialty burgers to choose from, like the Inside Out, stuffed with creamy gorgonzola cheese and fresh chopped bacon. Or the Philly Cheesesteak made with 100% Certified Angus top sirloin - touted to be the best outside of Philly! It's not just a burger, it's a destination. The Burger Shack is open Monday - Saturday, 11:00am to 8:00pm. Also serving beer & wine. Orders to go 7772370. $-$$ Spice of Life 163 S. 2nd St., Hamilton 363-4433 Spice of Life welcomes you to the Bitterroot’s best locavore dining experience. Serving up fresh and fun food in a conscientious manner. For lunch try one of our hand made burgers from Lolo Locker or one of our fabulous fresh salads. Dinner selections include natural beef which contains no growth hormones or antibiotics ever, sustainable seafood selections and pasta dishes made from Montana wheat from Pasta Montana. Quench your thirst with beer from right here in Hamilton or try one of our reasonably priced yet fantastic wine selections.

Children’s menu available. No reservations. So come as you are to Spice of Life! 163 S 2nd St. Hamilton, MT. Lunch: Mon - Fri 11:00 to 2:00 Dinner: Wed - Sat 5:00 to 9:00.

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Leave no angle unexamined. UM MFA printmaking candidate Stephanie Johnsen presents her woodcuts and etchings during a Second Friday opening at the Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 N. First St. W., on Fri., Jan. 14, from 5:30–8:30 PM. Free. Call 549-7555.

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If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program for babes up to 36 months at 10:30 AM every Thu., Fri. and Tue. Free. Call 721-BOOK. You’ll just have to ride a pony somewhere else, since A Carousel of Missoula is closed for annual maintenance through Jan. 21. It reopens at 11 AM on Sat., Jan. 22.

Call 549-8382.

Missoula’s Office of County Commissioners announces that it seeks applicants for a new Missoula County Fairgrounds Advisory Committee. Applications are available at the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 W. Broadway St., and online at co.missoula.mt.us/mbcc.forms.htm.

Applications are due by 5 PM Fri., Jan. 28.

Destination Missoula, the official convention and visitors bureau for Missoula, hosts its monthly board meeting from 3–5 PM at the conference room of MonTEC, 1121 E. Broadway St. Free. Call 532-3250.

End your afternoon with a fine glass of fermented grape juice when the Missoula Winery hosts its tasting room from 4–7 PM at the winery, 5646 W. Harrier. Free to attend, but the wine costs you. Call 8303296 and visit missoulawinery.com.

It’s time for some warm gluten during the Missoula Senior Center’s all you can eat Swedish pancake supper, which begins

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nightlife Put a smile on your face and a tune in your head—join guitarist Craig Wickham every Thu. from 5–7 PM at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463.

Sip on some well fermented spirits when Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery hosts its wine tasting room, which runs from 5–9 PM, with last call at 8:30 PM, at the winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Free to attend, but the wine costs you. Call 549-8703.

Keep it greener than your greenbacks when the Sustainable Business Council presents its Shot Series with the topic “Sustainable Banking: Can it Be? A Conversation with First Interstate Bank vice president Sue Larew,” which begins with refreshments at 5:30 PM, followed by Larew’s presentation at 6, all at The Loft of Missoula, 119 W. Main St. Free.

E-mail Drew at sbc.stsp@gmail.com and visit sbcmontana.org.

Bone up on your bones when The Minerva Society presents “Osteoporosis: What You Need to Know About Bone Health,” a talk presented by Dr. Justin Jacobson that begins at 5:30 PM in the Gallagher Board Room of Community Medical Center, 2827 end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Jan. 14, 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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Idaho’s Ethan Tucker mashes it up when he plays a mix of folk, reggae and other styles at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. Get into the know about permaculture when Paul Wheaton presents a lecture series on the topic with a talk plus films by permaculture pioneer Sepp Holzer, starting at 6:30 PM in the large conference room of the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Visit permies.com/ permaculture/Missoula for more info.

Getting buzzed is always allowed: Th e L u c k y S t r i k e B a r, 1515 Dearborn Ave., presents Buzz Time Trivia, which starts at 7 PM this and every Thu. and features trivia plus specials on Jello shots and homemade pizzas. Free to attend. Call 549-4152.

Help support the creation of a film titled Montespaña—which will document the lives of guitarists in Montana and Spain—during the Montespaña Benefit Concert, which features a silent auction plus sets by Butter, Javier Ryan, the Dodgy Mountain Men, Zeppo MT and Kung Fu Kongress, starting at 7 PM. $5. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Head over to Bonner to check out “Considering the Effects of the Mega-loads,” a panel discussion about the potential effects of the Kearl Module Transportation Project in the Milltown and Bonner area, starting at 7 PM at St. Ann Catholic Church, 9015 Hwy. 200 E. in Bonner. Free. Call Judy at 2586335 or visit friendsof2rivers.org.

Leisure suit plus beer goggles not r e q u i r e d : Tr i v i a l B e e r s u i t , Missoula’s newest trivia night for the layperson, begins with sign ups at 7:30 PM and trivia shortly thereafter at the Brooks and Browns Lounge, at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. Free. Includes $7 pitchers of Bayern beer, prizes like a $50 bar tab, and trivia categories that change weekly. E-mail Katie at kcgt27@gmail.com.

Bowling and karaoke go together like malnutrition and perdition during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free.

Call 541-SING. Sorry ladies, but Thu. nights belong to the dudes at Men’s Night at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where the testosteronefueled karaoke begins at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969.

Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptop-fueled hip hop, electronic, pop and mashed-up tunes hit the Badlander every week where

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Dead Hipster DJ Night gets booties bumpin’ at 9 PM. $3.

Women give a thumbs up to spirits during Ladies’ Night at the Silver Slipper Sports Bar and Grill, 4063 Hwy. 93 S., which features half-off drinks for women and occurs this and every Thu. starting at 9 PM at the bar. Free. Call 251-5402.

See a plethora of patterns and colors—after a few pitchers—and muster up the courage to belt out some prize-winning classics during Kaleidoscope Karaoke every Sun.–Sat. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9 PM. Free. Call 721-1798.

Break off the chastity belt and dive into a musical potpourri when Cabin Fever plays a variety of tunes at The Sunrise Saloon, on the 1100 block of Strand Ave., at 9 PM. Free.

Women celebrate their womanhood with cheap libations and a bit of karaoke during ladies’ night and live karaoke with Party Trained at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, this and every Thu. at 9:30 PM. Free to attend.

Call 830-3277.

He’ll cure your tremors with a sweet shot of country: Russ Nasset hits up the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free.

Cross your karaoke sword with others during Combat DJ and Karaoke nights, this and every Thu. at the Press Box, 835 E. Broadway St., at 10 PM. Free.

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Families can get help narrowing their search for quality child care and find out if they qualify for assistance with Child Care Assistance, which is offered by Child Care Resources from 8 AM–5 PM Mon.Fri. at its office, on the lower level of 105 E. Pine St. Free. Call 728-6446 and visit childcareresources.org.

The Missoula Public Library hosts a preschool storytime geared toward children 3–6 years old every Fri. at 10:30 AM. This week, The Dead by James Joyce. Just kidding. (Did I need to tell you that?)

Free. Call 721-BOOK. The Western Montana Combined Federal Campaign announces that it is accepting applications from federations and charitable organizations to serve as the administrator for the 2011 federal employee fundraising drive.

Interested agencies should submit an application by Jan. 24. Call 5496104 for more info. Submissions can be sent to the Local Federal Coordinating Committee, PO Box 7395, Missoula, MT, 59807.

Donate some of your blood and you get to enter into a drawing to win one

SPOTLIGHT musical exchange Four guitarists, two of them from Montana and two from Spain, are about to prove to the world that music is indeed a universal language. Montespaña, a documentary directed by local Nic Davis will profile all four musicians as they join forces in an international collaboration to create a song. Although the film is still in the works, Davis reports that he’ll soon be on his way to Spain to shoot more footage.

The benefit concert for the film features sets by local dark indie- folk group Butter, and solo guitar slinger Javier Ryan.

Self-described “stompgrass” outfit The Dodgy Mountain Men, pictured, also plans to play, along with R&B hotshots Zeppo MT. The night culminates in a funk-tastic showcase from nine-piece funk band Kung Fu Kongress, which recently played at First Night Missoula.

WHAT: Benefit concert for Montespaña WHEN: Thu., Jan. 13, 7 PM–2 AM WHERE: The Top Hat HOW MUCH: $5

Photo courtesy of KBD photography

Toss in live painting from several local artists, and a silent auction featuring the chance to win a Yamaha guitar and other prizes, and I’d call this a heel-kicking recipe for benevolent cinematic success. And if you bring a roll of paper towels or toilet paper to the show to donate to the Watson Children’s Shelter, you’ll get a free CD featuring tunes by the bands playing that night. Here’s one last thing to note: Once Montespaña is finished, all camera equipment that was purchased will be donated to the UM group Students for Film, which plans to offer students the chance to submit a proposal to access the equipment for one year in order to produce a film or documentary.

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month’s payment on your mortgage or rent—not to exceed $1,500— when the American Red Cross presents its “Home Is Where the Heart Is” campaign, which runs throughout January. Call 543-6695.

Missoula’s County Commissioners are looking for a few good volunteers to apply for a position on the Missoula Consolidated Planning Board. Grab applications at the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 W. Broadway St., or online at co.missoula.mt.us/mcbcc/ forms.htm. Applications are due by 5 PM on Feb. 4. Call 258-4877.

High schoolers go toward the literary light during the Missoula Public Library’s Young Adult Writers’ Group, which meets at 3:30 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free.

Call 721-BOOK. End your afternoon with a fine glass of fermented grape juice when the Missoula Winery hosts its tasting room from 4–7 PM at the winery, 5646 W. Harrier. Free to attend, but the wine costs you. Call 830-3296 and visit missoulawinery.com.

nightlife Sip on some well fermented spirits when Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery hosts its wine tasting

room, which runs from 5–9 PM, with last call at 8:30 PM, at the winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive.

Free to attend, but the wine costs you. Call 549-8703.

Be one with the fur and party once more with some animals when Mike Gill, of Victory Smokes and the Dead Hipster Dance Party, presents his art featuring “whimsical animals” during a Second Friday opening reception at Betty’s Divine, 521 S. Higgins Ave., from 5–7 PM. Free.

UM’s College of Technology announces that it’s offering free college prep classes for qualified veterans, including courses in math, writing and basic computer skills, starting on Feb. 7.

Orientation takes place at 5 PM on Feb. 7 in the College of Technology’s dining room, 909 South Ave. W. For more info or to enroll, call 877-356-VETS. Explore the dynamic nature of relationships in an aesthetic way when UM MFA printmaking candidate Stephanie Johnsen presents her woodcuts and etchings during a Second Friday art opening at the Zootown Ar ts Community Center, 235 N. First St. W., from 5:30–8:30 PM. Free. The gallery is also open Mon.–Fri. from noon–6

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Our post-holiday sale continues, with markdowns throughout the store.

PM and on Sat. by appointment. Call 549-7555 and visit zootownarts.org.

Shake your moneymaker to a family string band when The Blue Mountain Music Makers—which features Jen Slayden, her children and her niece—play the Top Hat’s “Family Friendly Friday” concert series, from 6–8 PM. Free, all ages.

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Put your potbelly to good use by shaking it with enthusiasm when EL3-OH! plays Gypsy jazz at 6 PM in the tasting room of the Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Free. Call 549-8703.

Get touched and embraced with grace when Patrick Marsolek and Grace Hodges lead Tango Night, which starts with beginning tango at 7 PM, intermediate tango at 8 and Milonga at 9, all at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $15 entire evening/ $7 class/$5 Milonga only. Call 541-7240.

Don’t worry about ducking for cover when the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., presents its “World Wide Cinema” program with a screening of Bomber, starting at 7 PM in the large meeting room of the library. Free. Call 721-BOOK and visit missoulapubliclibrary.org for a movie description and updates on titles.

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The Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts, 526 Electric Ave., presents a performance of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, which is being produced by local scholarship recipient Jonathan May, with a performance at 7:30 PM. $5 at the door. Visit bigforktheater.org.

Pump up the solo acoustic jams when Chris Pumphrey plays a set at 8 PM at the Symes Hotel, 209 Wall St. in Hot Springs. No cover, but pass-the-hat donations welcome. Call 741-2361.

Don’t even think about beating on those sugar beets so you can scoot your sneakers to The Country Boogie Boys when it plays at 8 PM at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W. Free.

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

Learn to sing “Dancing Queen” in tongues when Bassackwards Karaoke invades the Alcan Bar & Grill in Frenchtown, 16780 Beckwith St., every Fri. at 9 PM. Free. Call 531-8327.

Feel free to flail around like a rock star whilst busting out your best version of Hall and Oates’ “Kiss on My List” during Combat Karaoke at the Deano’s Casino near Airway Blvd., 5318 W. Harrier, this and every Fri. at 9 PM. Free.

Shake it like a salt shaker when DJ Sanchez cranks out the jams at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in

Hamilton, every Fri. at 9 PM. Free.

Call 363-6969.

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

Call 543-5678.

Belt out a few bars of somethin’ sweet at Karaoke by Figmo at Joker’s Wild Bar and Restaurant, 4829 N. Reserve St., which features “Brain Strain” trivia and “Scaryoke Karaoke” and begins at 9 PM. Free.

Spark up your personality with some heady tuneage during Fully Loaded, a reggae party featuring music by Supa J, DJ Green and King Karl, at 9 PM at the Badlander. Free.

Singe your eyebrows and bow down to the musical goddess when locals Luau Cinder plays dub, funk and rock at 9 PM at the Palace. $5. Sybling Species, a reggae-influenced side project of Luau Cinder, opens.

Zoo City will not execute a search warrant on your personality when it plays rock at 9 PM at The Dark Horse, 1805 Regent St. Free. Call 728-1559.

Bowling commingles with a laser light show and some DJ tunage from Kaleidoscope Entertainment every Fri. and Sat. at 9:30 PM at Five Valleys Bowling Center, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Free. Call 549-4158.

Photo courtesy of Andy Brown

Tangled up in coat hangars. Local indie-folk band Butter plays the Top Hat Thu., Jan. 13, at 7 PM during a benefit concert for the film Montespaña. $5. Butter also continues its monthly residency at the Top Hat with shows on Thu., Jan. 20, and Thu., Jan. 27, from 6–8 PM. Free, all ages.

Nibble on your callouses to fight off the man when The Workers play a mix of country, rock and Americana, at 9:30 PM at the Union Club. Free.

Tax your toes and slip a rose under someone’s nose when County Line plays the Sunrise Saloon, 1100 block of Strand Ave., at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 728-1559.

The Balboas make your large intestine feel just fine when it plays hard rock at 9:30 PM at Harry

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Davids Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H. $2. Call 830-3277.

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.

Go easy on the brass monkey so you can shake your gams to the Soulaphone Brass Band when it plays instrumental funk at 10 PM at the Top Hat. $5.

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Literacy Volunteers of Flathead County presents a literacy volunteer training to help others learn English as a second language, with the training from 9 AM–5 PM at Northridge Lutheran Church, 323 Northridge Drive in Kalispell.

Free, but bring your own lunch. Call 257-7323 to RSVP. The Red Willow Learning Center, a nonprofit created to provide holistic body/mind healing services to people who have experienced trauma, presents an open house with demos on yoga, Tai Chi Chuan, 1000 Hands qigong and more, from 10 AM–2 PM at the center, 825 Kent St. Free. E-mail Rachel at rgooen@gmail.com.

The Whitefish Library Association presents a genealogy workshop, which starts at 10 AM at the library community room in the Whitefish Public Library, 9 Spokane Ave. Free.

Call 862-1233.

Kids move to a smooth groove during the Kids’ Vibrations Music, Rhythm and Dance Program, which is open to children of all ages, and occurs from 11 AM–noon at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $5-$20 suggested donation.

Travelers’ Rest State Park, one half-mile west of Lolo on Hwy. 12,

presents its “Winter Storytelling Series” featuring a talk with Salish Elder Frances Vanderburg on Salish stories, language, family history and oral traditions starting at 11 AM. $3 per adult/free for children under age 18 and all current Travelers’ Rest Preservation and Heritage Association members. Visit travelersrest.org or call 273-4253.

Keep it anonymous and free during a “Freedom of Information Rally” that aims to take the fight against censorship to the streets, with the rally beginning at 11:45 AM on the southeast corner of Higgins Avenue and Fourth Street. Free. E-mail anontana@gmail.com for more info.

Snag a bunch of free VHS and cassette tapes when the Missoula Public Library hosts a giveaway of these items from its collection, from noon–5:30 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free, but each person is limited to two bags of items and you’re asked to bring your own bag. Call 721-BOOK. Rid the dead stuff from your head when romance, suspense and mystery writer T. Marie Benchley signs copies of her new novel Once Wicked Always Dead, from noon–4 PM at Barnes & Noble, 2640 N. Reserve St. Free.

Visit tmariebenchley.com.

The woolen warriors of Missoula’s Stitch ‘N’ Bitch needlework circle bring the world to drink every Sat. at 2 PM at Bernice’s Bakery, 190 S. Third St. W. Free. BYO yarn and needles, and check out missoulaknits.blogspot.com.

The Holiday Inn-Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. hosts “No Patient Left Behind,” a gala benefit for Citizens for Responsible Crime Policy—which promotes safe access to medical cannabis, among other aims—that features a catered dinner, live/silent auction, raffle, and music by House of Quist and others, from 4:30 PM–midnight. $5 for music and entertainment/$75 for VIP tickets, which includes dinner. Get tickets at all GrizTix outlets or local caregivers.

Call 285-1034 or e-mail responsiblemontanans@gmail.com for more info.

nightlife Sip on some well fermented spirits when Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery hosts its wine tasting room, which runs from 5–9 PM, with last call at 8:30 PM, at the winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive.

Free to attend, but the wine costs you. Call 549-8703.

Joust with your boss and then toss a few back when The Workers rock your suds with a mix of Americana, country and rock at 6 PM at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton. Free. Call 363-PINT. Suck down that sake with the smooth sounds of jazz, world and new age ambient music when guitarist Nathan Zavalney and cellist Lee Zimmerman play a set at IZA

Asian Restaurant, 529 S. Higgins Ave., from 6–8 PM. Free.

Bring your family and your own non-alcoholic beverage of choice and enjoy a screening of Blue Lady when the North Valley Public Libray, 208 Main St. in Stevensville, hosts its “Cheap Movie Night” starting at 7 PM. Free. Doors open at 6:45 PM. Call 777-5061.

Get dusty with a wild-west opera when The Met: Live at the Roxy presents Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West, with an encore screening at 7 PM at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $19/$17 students and seniors. Get tickets at morrisproductions.org or at Rockin Rudy’s. (See Scope in this issue.)

The Bigfork Center for the Performing Arts, 526 Electric Ave., presents a performance of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, which is being produced by local scholarship recipient Jonathan May, with a performance at 7:30 PM. $5 at the door. Visit bigforktheater.org.

Catch a snowflake on your tongue while scootin’ your boots in a boxy way when the Lolo Square and Round Dance Center, 9955 Lolo Creek Road near Lolo, hosts a “Snowflake Ball” starting with pre-rounds at 7:30 PM, followed by the dance from 8-10 PM. Cost TBA. Call 237-0652 or 273-0141.

Don’t even think about beating on those sugar beets so you can scoot your sneakers to The Country Boogie Boys when it plays at 8 PM at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W. Free.

Keep it smooth and jazzy when Alex Chilowicz and Pete Hand play jazz on the saxophone and bass, starting at 8 PM at the Missoula Winery, 5646 W. Harrier. $5. Call 830-3296.

Go against the flow when Turning Tide turns you downside up with a set of Celtic music at 8 PM at the Symes Hotel, 209 Wall St. in Hot Springs. No cover, but passthe-hat donations welcome. Call 741-2361.

Solid Sound Karaoke proves that music can also be a liquid or a gas, but never plasma, at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free.

Call 541-SING. Spice up your soggy clogs with hot dance moves when Hot Salsa Nights presents a night of salsa dancing starting at 8:30 PM at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. $7, includes free dance lessons.

DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo are guaranteed to keep you dancing to an assortment of hip hop, electronic and other bass-heavy beats ‘til the bar closes during Absolutely at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

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

Feel free to perform “Bella Ciao” by Mirah & The Black Cat Orchestra during karaoke night at 9 PM at the VFW but don’t be surprised if someone tells you we’re in Missoula, and so it’s time to start talking American. Free.

When DJ Sanchez commands the turntables every Sat. at 9 PM at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, nobody’s exempt from the mandatory “dance down the bar” rule. Free. Call 363-6969.

Sing a fast tune or five during Greyhound Karaoke at Larry’s Six Mile Bar & Grill in Huson, 23384 Huson Road, every Sat. at 9 PM. Free.

Bust out a cover tune and dance the night away when Combat Karaoke overtakes Deano’s Casino near Airway Blvd., 5318 W. Harrier, with a combo of karaoke tunes and dance music this and every Sat. at 9 PM. Free.

Belt out a few bars of somethin’ sweet at Karaoke by Figmo at Joker’s Wild Bar and Restaurant, 4829 N. Reserve St., which features “Brain Strain” trivia and “Scaryoke Karaoke” and begins at 9 PM. Free.

Zoo City will not execute a search warrant on your personality when it plays rock at 9 PM at The Dark Horse, 1805 Regent St. Free. Call 728-1559.

The Wild Coyotes gnaw away at your neurosis when it plays country and classic rock at the Valley Club Bar & Cafe in Ronan, 407 Third Ave. NW, at 9 PM. Free.

Forget that bile-chugging contest and get ready to shred when locals Mageddon, Beefcurtain and Pound play metal with Kalispell’s Boldly Stride the Damned, at 9 PM at the Palace. $5.

Bowling commingles with a laser light show and some DJ tunage from Kaleidoscope Entertainment every Fri. and Sat. at 9:30 PM at F i v e Va l l e y s B o w l i n g C e n t e r, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Free. Call 549-4158.

Dance like you have red ants in your socks when a DJ spins dance music at Florence’s High Spirits Club and Casino, 5341 Hwy. 93 N., this and every Sat. at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 273-9992.

Tax your toes and slip a rose under someone’s nose when County Line plays the Sunrise Saloon, 1100 block of Strand Ave., at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 728-1559.

The Balboas make your large intestine feel just fine when it plays hard rock at 9:30 PM at Harry Davids Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H. $2. Call 830-3277.

Shane Clouse & Stomping Ground want to see your version of the inversion two-step when they play country at the Union Club, at 9:30 PM. Free.

DJ Dubwise supplies dance tracks all night long so you can take advantage of Sexy Saturday and

rub up against the gender of your choice at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free.

Call 728-8799.

Stop suckling on moth balls and let a live electronic band buzz your mind when MOTH plays the Top Hat at 10 PM. $5.

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If you don’t have one already, you’ll be able to build your own recycled recumbent or four-wheel bike after you volunteer for two hours at Missoula Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., on Sundays at a TBA time. Call 800-809-0112 to RSVP. It’s all about the palms during a Reiki Share Potluck open to beginners that runs from noon–6 PM or later at the Union Place Community Room, 2500 Great Northern Ave. Bring a potluck dish to share, and a $5 suggested donation if you can. You must RSVP for the potluck by Sat., Jan. 15. Call 255-8504 or 274-2977 to RSVP. Visit reikishare.webs.com.

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Get wacky in character when the MCT Community Theatre presents auditions for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, from 12:30-6 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. Free. American Indian males ages 25–50, men ages 20–70 and women ages 20–50 are encouraged to audition. Visit mctinc.org and call 728-PLAY. Playing bingo at 2 PM at the Missoula Senior Citizens Center is your chance to yell, “Who wants to get slimed?” Free. Call 543-7154.

Bonner’s St. Ann Catholic Church, 9015 Hwy. 200 E., hosts a program on the achievements and challenges of the Bonner Mill union, known as Local 3038, from 2–4:30 PM. Audience members are invited to share their stories.

Free. Call Judy at 258-6335 and visit tworivershistory.net.

Find instructions and support for discovering mental and emotional stability, unending clarity, stressfree living and more during an Open Meeting with Balanced View and Great Freedom with Cheyenne Rivers, which begins at 4 PM at Hothouse Yoga, 127 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 9. Free. Visit greatfreedom.org.

Witness the life of infamous Nigerian artist and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti with a mix of dance, theater and music when Morris Productions presents a screening of the National Theatre Live’s performance of Fela!, starting at 4 PM at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $16/$14 seniors/$11 students.

Get tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and online at morrisproductions.org.

(See Scope in this issue.)

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Seek connection, mutual life, or even death using the ancient Japanese strategy game Go when a group of enthusiasts meets to play the game this and every Sun. at 4:30 PM at Break Espresso, 432 N. Higgins Ave. Free. E-mail goinmissoula@yahoo.com.

nightlife Get moving with a moving picture when the Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 N. First St. W., presents its Winter Cinema Film Series, which runs from 6–9 PM. Cost TBA. Call 549-7555 and visit zootownarts.org.

Tap into clarity when you head to a “Clarity Book Meeting with Great Freedom/Balanced View,” which runs every Sun. at 7 PM in the meeting room of the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Enter from the back entrance. Visit greatfreedom.org for more info.

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Kick off the latter hours of your day of rest when the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night welcomes saints and sinners alike with $4 martinis, plus jazz DJs and jazz bands starting at 7:30 PM. Free.

This week: Amur River Jazz.

Sit back and enjoy some wickedly smooth and refined dance moves when New York City’s Ailey II— considered one of the most popular dance troupes in the country— presents a performance starting at 7:30 PM at the Hamilton P e r f o r m i n g A r t s C e n t e r, 3 2 7 Fairgrounds Road. $32.50 and $27.50 depending on seats. Visit bitterrootperformingarts.org for tickets or call 363-7946. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Euchre is one of those games that goes great with beer because you can tell what the cards look like even if your vision is a little blurry.

See what I mean, or try to anyway, tonight at Sean Kelly’s just-for-fun Euchre Tournament at 8 PM. Free.

Bellow out your favorite pop tune so you can impress your friends and perhaps win a prize during a karaoke contest this and every Sun. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9 PM. Free.

Call 721-1798.

Men always get to belt out a slick tune or two during Man Night featuring Karaoke, which occurs this and every Sun. starting at 9 PM at the Silver Slipper Sports Bar and Grill, 4063 Hwy. 93 S. Free. Call 251-5402.

Enjoy a brew and a moving picture when the Palace hosts a movie night starting at 9 PM. Free.

Impress your friends, significant other, or anyone who will listen when you rock the karaoke mic at Harry David’s, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, which offers free karaoke at 9:30 PM, Sun.–Thu. each week.

Call 830-3277.

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You’ll just have to get your book/periodical and web browsing fix somewhere else today, since the Missoula Public Library is closed in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The library reopens on Jan. 18 at 10 AM. Call 721-BOOK. Honor the life of Martin Luther King Jr. by participating in Missoula’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration, with events running all day including a day of service at 9 AM at First Baptist Church, followed by a rally at 5 PM at Caras Park, and a candlelight march to First United Methodist Church at 6 PM for a keynote address. Free.

Visit ncbimissoula.org for more info and call 549-4555 by Jan. 14 to participate in the day of service.

(See Agenda in this issue.)

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.

nightlife Missoula’s Blue Mountain Clinic, 610 N. California St., seeks tasteful, wearable art pieces— which could include bras, dresses, suits, ties and accessories that celebrate safe sex—during its final call for art for the Off the Rack fundraiser in February.

Submissions are due today. Drop them off at the clinic, or email your entry to annie@bluemountainclinic.org. Visit bluemountainclinic.org for a submission form and call 721-1646.

All brain injury survivors and caregivers are cordially invited to the Missoula Brain Injury Support Group Meeting, which features the topic “Grief–A Way of Recognizing and Dealing with Grief from a Brain Injury” and begins at 6:30 PM in the Duran Learning Center of St. Patrick Hospital, 500 W. Broadway St. Free. Call 544-6629.

Build bridges with some fellow Missoulians with an informal game when The Garden City Duplicate Bridge Club hosts bridge lessons and informal games for newcomers and beginners every Mon. at 7 PM at the Bridge Club, 3108 S. Clark St. Call Michael at 890-0743 or e-mail him at Studd_31@hotmail.com for pricing.

Russ Nasset would rather you drink from the goblet than bite into a fermented tomato when he plays a solo set from 7–10 PM at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 100. Free.

Alcohol and bowling go hand over foot during Monday Madness at

F i v e Va l l e y ’ s B o w l , 1515 Dearborn Ave., which features $1 bowling after 9 PM as well as $1.25 Coors Light cans this and every Mon. at the bowling center.

Free to attend. Call 549-4158.

Have a drink and take a load off in the company of your fellow laborers during the Badlander’s Service Industry Night, which runs this and every Mon. and includes drink specials for service industry workers starting at 9 PM. Free. Also, if you have an iPod, bring it in and they’ll play it.

See if you can become a star under the spotlight at Sean Kelly’s open mic night, hosted by Mike Avery every Mon. at 9 PM. Free.

Call 542-1471 after 10 AM on Monday to sign-up.

Kick off your week with a drink, some free pool and an array of electronic DJs and styles for das booty during Milkcrate Monday with the Milkcrate Mechanic at 9 PM every week, at the Palace.

Free. This week: “Random Music for Random People” with DJs Logisticalone, Mirror Minds, Milkcrate Mechanic and Mikee Sev. Men drink on the cheap and can enjoy a game of pigskin, as well as karaoke, during Men’s Night at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, this and every Mon. at 9:30 PM. Free to attend. Call 830-3277.

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If you can’t read this, you may be a baby below the age of 36 months, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Shoot the bull and polish your public speaking skills when the Shootin’ the Bull Toastmasters Club meets every Tue. at noon, at the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, 5705 Grant Creek Road. Free. Visit shootinthebull.info.

Plug into “An Introduction to Social Media Success,” a seminar on how companies are using social media, from 1–4 PM at Averill’s Flathead Lake Lodge, 150 Flathead Lake Lodge road near Bigfork. $25 per person. RSVP requested by calling 837-3334 or by e-mailing seminars@bigforkweb.com. Visit bigforkweb.com.

nightlife Ladies, celebrate your feminist tendencies with cheap drinks when the Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St. in Frenchtown, hosts Ladies’ Night every Tue. from 5 PM to close. Free. Call 370-3200.

M i s s o u l a ’ s Y W C A , 1 1 3 0 W. Broadway, hosts weekly support groups for survivors of domes-

tic violence and sexual assault, including groups for American Indian women and teens, every Tue. starting with dinner at 5:30 PM, followed by meetings at 6:30 PM. Free. Those with children are asked to arrive at 6:15. Call 5436691 for more info and visit ywcaofmissoula.org/?q=node/57.

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. Email terillovet@hotmail.com.

See if your buzzed mind can correctly guess the answer to something easy or hard during Buzz Time Showdown Trivia, which features free trivia—along with drink specials—and runs from 6–9 PM every Tue. at the Lucky Strike Bar, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Free. Call 549-4152.

Keep your mind outta the gutter.

Learn what exactly the “backdoor” is while wrapping your head around the “stop and go” and slurping down a fuzzy navel during free poker lessons at 6 PM this and every Tue. at the Lucky Strike Bar, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Free. Includes drink specials. Call 549-4152.

All genres are encouraged— except, perhaps gangsta rap— every Tue. at 6 PM at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 1/2 South Ave. W., where musicians bring their noise makers and synergy builds a joyful sound during the Tangled Tones Pickin’ Circle. Free. Call 396-3352.

Get a handle on your finances during homeWORD’s “Financial Fitness” workshop, which meets from 6–9 PM each night through Jan. 20 at homeWORD, 127 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 303. $10 per person. Register and pay online at homeword.org. Childcare vouchers are also available. Call 532-HOME. Tell color to take a hike when the Rocky Mountain School of Photography presents “Seeing in Black and White with Eileen Rafferty,” a lecture on black and white photography that runs from 7–9 PM in the quarry of the school, 216 N. Higgins Ave. Free.

Visit rmsp.com and call 543-0171.

Run and walk over to the Wilma Theatre to see seasoned runner Jeff Galloway when he signs copies of his books and presents a talk on his run/walk technique, starting at 7 PM. Free. (See Mountain High in this issue.)

Those who have problems with anorexia or bulimia can find a shoulder to lean on during a meeting of Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous, which meets this and every Tue. at 7:30 PM in the Memorial Room of St. Paul Lutheran

Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. E-mail abamissoula@gmail.com.

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?

Here’s a history question: A group of U.S.-supported rebels called

Enjoy Tunes on Tuesdays with Christian Johnson from 8:30–11 PM, an acoustic open mic jam every Tue. night at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463.

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

Rehash the music of others, or have the guts to play a few of your own, when the Canyon Creek Ramblers host an open

See a plethora of patterns and colors—after a few pitchers—and muster up the courage to belt out some prize-winning classics during Kaleidoscope Karaoke every Sun.–Sat. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9 PM. Free. Call 721-1798.

Ask them about their secret “Bob” handshake: Locals Bob Kain play rock during the Badlander’s “Live and Local” night at 9 PM. Free.

Peoples opens.

Keep it on the cool side when you listen to some hip hop and enjoy a drink special or two during Hip-

SPOTLIGHT ambassadors of movement In choreographer Robert Battle’s piece “The Hunt,” six male dancers examine the relationship between modern sports and gladiators with wild hand gestures, swoops, fast kicks, and herky-jerky motions. In another part of the performance, the dancers intertwine their bodies and move forward and backward, looking much like a flower that’s opening and closing.

That mesmerizing piece is one of 26 that comprise the repertory of Ailey II, pictured, a modern dance troupe out of New York City that’s a junior touring company of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, a renowned dance organization created in 1958 by the

WHAT: Ailey II dance performance WHEN: Sun., Jan. 16, at 7:30 PM WHERE: Hamilton Performing Arts Center in Hamilton, 327 Fairgrounds Road HOW MUCH: $32.50/$27.50 depending on seats MORE INFO: bitterrootperformingarts.org or call 363-7946

the contras operated in what country? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

You have practiced in front of the mirror long enough—head to the High Spirits in Florence, where open mic night features a drum set, amps, mics and recording equipment and awaits you and your axe at 8 PM. Free. Call 2739992 to reserve your spot.

Chance mixes with money and prizes during bingo night at the Silver Slipper Sports Bar and Grill, 4063 Hwy. 93 S., which occurs this and every Tue. starting at 8 PM at the bar. Free. Call 251-5402.

Photo courtesy of Eduardo Patino

late Alvin Ailey. That said, if you don’t know Ailey, know this: In the dance world, he’s a big deal. The famous choreographer and dancer is best known for his contributions to American modern dance, and his organization was once recognized in a congressional resolution as a “Cultural Ambassador to the World.”

In1974, Ailey created Ailey II, and since then, the group has been a proving ground of sorts for young dancers and choreographers eager to hone their styles.

The troupe visits Hamilton this week for the Bitterroot Performing Arts Series, and from what I’ve read (including kudos from the New York Times) and seen via YouTube, it should be quite a night filled with lots of swiveling hips, swirling bodies, and other expressive moves in modern, ballet and other dance styles.

—Ira Sather-Olson

mic night this and every Tue. at 9 PM at the Great Northern Bar & Grill, 27 Central Ave. in Whitefish. Free, with free beers for performers.

Ladies get their drink on and celebrate themselves with $1.50 well drinks during Ladies’ Night at the Lucky Strike Bar, 1515 Dearborn Ave., which runs this and every Tue. starting at 9 PM. Free to attend.

Call 549-4152.

All royalty gets irie during Royal Reggae Night, which features free pool plus reggae, dancehall and hip-hop remixes spun by an array of DJs starting at 9 PM at the Palace. Free.

Hop Tuesday with Wapikiya Records, which features DJs spinning beats along with guest MCs starting at 9:30 PM at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H. Free.

Call 830-3276.

Be sure to belt out something twangy when Solid Sound Karaoke hits The Sunrise Saloon, on the 1100 block of Strand Ave., every Tue. at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 728-1559.

Groove out to a band that Justin Timberlake gives his seal of approval to when Memphis’ FreeSol plays a mix of hip hop, soul and rock, at 10 PM at the Top Hat. $5. (See Noise in this issue.)

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The Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton, presents its “preschool story time” with the program “One Mitten” with storyteller Sally Blevins, starting at 10:30 AM in the children’s corner of the library. Free. Call 363-1670.

Spend lunchtime polishing your public speaking and leadership skills when the Hamilton chapter of Toastmasters meets this and every Wed. from noon–1 PM at Perkin’s Restaurant & Bakery in Hamilton, 1285 N. First St. W. Free.

Call Mark at 381-9832.

Teens grades 7–12 go with the media flow during the Missoula Public Library’s Teen Media Lab, which features the opportunity to make short videos, mix music and learn new ways to use media, this and every Wed. at 4 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Sorry dude, no munchies provided.

The Missoula County Commissioners currently seek an applicant to serve on the Marijuana Initiative Oversight Committee. Grab an application at the Missoula County Courthouse annex, 200 W. Broadway St., or online at co.missoula.mt.us/ mcbcc/forms.htm. Applications are due by 5 PM on Wed., Jan. 26. Call 258-4877.

nightlife Enjoy a local brew and support a local organization during the Kettlehouse Nor thside Tap Room’s Community U-N ITE Pint Nights, which occur this and every Wed. from 5–8 PM at the tap room, 313 N. First St. W. Free to attend. A portion of the proceeds from each pint sold goes to a different organization each week. Visit kettlehouse.com.

Missoula’s Catholic Schools host an open house at St. Joseph School, 503 Edith St., at 5:30 PM featuring a general assembly, classroom tours and refreshments. Free.

Then, at 7 PM, Loyola Sacred Heart, 320 Edith St., hosts a free open house featuring an assembly, the chance to meet teachers and refreshments. Call 549-1290.

Come for the supper and stay for the tunes when the Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave., presents “Potluck Supper with m u s i c a l e n te r t a i n m e n t b y Charlie Seitz,” which starts with supper at 5:30 PM. $5 per person.

Call 543-7154.

Pianist Jodi Marshall tickles your senses with her deft piano skills while you munch Chinese food when she performs every Wed. from 6–9 PM at Hong Kong Chef, 2009 Brooks St. Free to attend, with free potstickers. Call 549-6688.

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Smooth jazz makes the sake and pad thai go down easy when IZA Asian Restaurant, 529 S. Higgins Ave., presents live jazz every Wed. at 7 PM. Free to attend. Call 830-3237.

Satisfy your urge to know all you can about Stieg Larrson’s infamous trilogy of books when the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., presents a screening of Millennium: The Story, a documentary about Larrson that screens at 7 PM in the library’s large meeting room. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Missoula’s Trivial Beersuit, a trivia night for the layperson, expands its tentacles to the Press Box for four rounds of trivia with sign ups at 7:45 PM, followed by the game at 8, this and every Wed. at the Press Box, 835 E. Broadway St. Free. You can also find clues to every week’s game by befriending “Trivial Beersuit” on Facebook. E-mail Katie at kcgt27@gmail.com.

Hump day isn’t just for binge drinking anymore. It’s also a day for playing games of chance with other like-minded booze lovers when Sean Kelly’s presents Hump Day Bingo, this and every Wed. at 8 PM. Free.

Call 542-1471.

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 contras operated in Nicaragua as a group of rebels aiming to quash the country’s left wing government. The group is also known for its violations of human rights.

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.

Don’t ever worry about getting into a sing-off during Combat Karaoke, which runs this and every Wed. at Deano’s Casino on North Reserve, 5550 N. Reserve St., starting at 9 PM. Free.

Just don’t speak in acronyms during WTF Wednesdays and Ladies’ Night at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, where drink specials mix with music by The Tallest DJ in America every Wed. starting at 9 PM at the bar. Free.

Be sure you’ve downed enough pitchers of PBR in order to have the courage to sing “Another Brick In The Wall Part II” by the Pink Floyd (believe me, the beer helps), during Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

Git it done with a nice shot of metal/punk to your dome when Denver’s Git Some (featuring members of Planes Mistaken for Stars and Kingdom of Magic) plays the Palace at 9 PM. $6/$8 under age 21. Locals Tidal Horn, Judgment Hammer and Lb open. (See Soundcheck in this issue.)

Grant that pomegranate a pardon and just bust a move when Kris Moon and DJ Coma play an array of electronic music styles at 10 PM at the Top Hat. $3.

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UM’s Dance Program presents an informal showing of Susan Marshall & Company’s Cloudless Suites, plus a new work in progress by company member Luke Miller, from 2–4 PM in Room 005 of UM’s PARTV Center. Free. Call 243-2832

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nightlife Raise your glass in honor of the Missoula Art Museum’s 39th Benefit Auction Exhibition during Artini: Art & Soul, which runs from 5:30–9 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St., and features 102 works of art on display, a panel discussion on contemporary art at 6 PM from Karen Shimoda, Matt Hamon and Gretel Stoudt, plus music by Pterodactyl Plains and Churchmouse, and an art project with Josh Quick. Free. Call 728-0447 and visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

Chew the peat moss and keep your slaphappy hands to yourself when Dan Dubuque plays slide slap guitar at 6 PM at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton.

Free. Call 363-PINT. Butter up your folk biscuits when locals Butter plays indie folk during the Top Hat’s “Artists-In-Residence” family-friendly concert series every Thu. this month from 6–8 PM. Free.

Families First presents the talk “Big Brains, Bad Grades: Understanding Underachievement,” which meets at 6:30 PM at Chief Charlo Elementary School, 5600 Longview Drive. Free. Call 721-7690 and visit familiesfirstmontana.org.

Get your literary fix during the Missoula Public Library’s Third Thursday Book Group, which meets to discuss The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, starting at 7 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptop-fueled hip hop, electronic, pop and mashed-up tunes hit the Badlander every week where Dead Hipster DJ Night gets booties bumpin’ at 9 PM. $3.

Work your mind and your tentacles on the dancefloor during Synergy in the Zoo!, a DJ night presented by the folks that brought you the Synergy Music Gathering featuring an array of electronic styles from Mirror Minds, Rustallion, 35th Octave & Uttara Praana, Dagga and Logistalone, starting at 9 PM at the Palace. Free. Also includes visuals by Kameon/Flowfiles.

Save a spot in your sleeping bag for the afterparty when the UF Okies play the Sunrise Saloon, 1100 block of Strand Ave., at 9 PM. Free. Call 728-1559.

Women celebrate their womanhood with cheap libations and a bit of karaoke during ladies’ night and live karaoke with Party Trained at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, this and every Thu. at 9:30 PM. Free to attend. Call 830-3277.

Nate Hegyi, lead singer/songwriter of Wartime Blues, keeps the folk and Americana flowing free when he plays with a rotating cast of friends this and every other Thu. at the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., at 10 PM. Free.

Folks, keep doing what you do best by hooking a brother up with a barrel full of arts and entertainment goods and follow my simple weekly request of sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Jan. 14 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 to me online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”

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eff Galloway could be considered a running master of sorts. He was a member of the 1972 U.S. Olympic Team, and broke the U.S. 10-mile record for runners in 1973 by finishing a race in 47 minutes and 49 seconds. Then, in 1978, Galloway decided to develop injury-free training programs for runners, which consist of a run/walk technique over long distances. Since that time, Galloway has authored several books and numerous articles in Runner’s World on the technique, and has coached his system to over 200,000 runners and walkers.

You’ll get to hear about his program this week when Run Wild Missoula (RWM) presents a

book signing and talk with Galloway that aims to give you the tools, and confidence, to complete a half or full-marathon using his tried-and-true method.

Here’s something else you should know: If you dig Galloway’s talk, you’ll have a chance to learn his technique in-depth during RWM’s “Jeff Galloway Run/Walk Missoula Marathon Training Class,” which begins on Jan. 23 and meets until the Missoula Marathon on July 10.

Runner Jeff Galloway signs copies of his books and presents a talk on Tue., Jan. 18, at 7 PM at the Wilma Theatre. Free. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

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THURSDAY JANUARY 13 Runners can stretch it all out during Run Wild Missoula’s Yoga for Runners, a course that includes stretching, strengthening and balancing poses aimed to complement all the running you do each week, which meets at 6 PM every Thu. (except March 17) until April 7 at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. $87/$78 Run Wild Missoula members.

Visit runwildmissoula.org to register.

FRIDAY JANUARY 14 Keep it g reen and shred on the cheap when Bozeman’s Bridger Bowl, 15795 Bridger Canyon Road, celebrates its 56th birthday with $15 lift tickets if you carpool to the ski area with three or more riders in your car. Visit bridgerbowl.com for more info and call 587-2111.

SATURDAY JANUARY 15 Slide and glide around up north with avians in your scope when the Flathead Audubon hosts a morning of cross-country skiing in Glacier National Park, starting with an 8 AM meet up at the trailhead near the concession barn on Apgar Lookout Road.

Free, but a park pass/fee is required for entrance into the park. Call Steve at 892-7406 to RSVP, and visit flatheadaudubon.org.

Hit the trail with your favorite mountaineers when Tom Hanou of the Rocky Mountaineers embarks on a hike up Kootenai Creek, beginning at 9 AM at the trailhead. Free. E-mail Tom at thanou@aol.com or call 360-3564 to arrange transportation. Visit rockymountaineers.com.

Hurl your booty over to the Queen City for Helena’s HURL Fat Ass 50k, a race that features one 31-mile loop—and includes an ascent of 2,400 feet on snowpacked, icy or dirt roads—starting at 9 AM at 815 11th Ave. in Helena. Those less inclined for the full race can participate in the two-person Half-Ass Relay, or the multi-person Skinny Ass Relay. The race is free, but organizers note you won’t have any aid or support along the race. E-mail mpmiller@yahoo.com or ring 459-6296.

Get the good word on birds when the Five Valleys Audubon Society leads a beginning birding field trip, which covers basic bird ID, including use of binoculars and field guides, starting at 10 AM at the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge, 4567 Wildfowl

Lane, outside of Stevensville. Free. Families and children are welcome. Call Larry at 549-5632 and visit fvamissoula.org.

Enjoy a bloody mary or three while watching slick skiers bust out wicked tricks during Snowbowl’s Northern Division Freestyle Competition, a threeday event that begins at 10:45 AM on Sat. and features seasoned powderhounds trying their hand at United States Ski and Snowboard Association-sanctioned mogul, freestyle and jumping competitions.

Free to watch. Get details on how to sign up to shred by visiting ndfreestyle.com/?do=schedule or by calling Paulette at 880-4988.

SUNDAY JANUARY 16 Run until you’re out of sweat when Bozeman’s Big Sky Wind Drinkers present the 36th Andy Blank Free One Hour Run, a race where you run as far as you can in an hour, starting at 1 PM at the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse on the campus of Montana State University. Free, but bring your own lapcounter. Visit winddrinkers.org.

TUESDAY JANUARY 18 Any and all women who want to hike in the company of their fellow XX chromosome holders are hereby invited to a Ladies’ Hike Group that meets every Tue. and Thu. at 4 PM in Missoula. Contact Rissa at simpleretreat@yahoo.com to find out meeting locations and to finalize plans.

THURSDAY JANUARY 20 Figure out where you are or where you want to be when trekking it in the woods when REI MIssoula presents its “GPS Basics” class, which features info on GPS setup, capturing and navigating waypoints, and working with coordinates, starting at 6:30 PM at REI, 3275 N. Reserve St. Ste. K-2. Free. RSVP quickly by visiting rei.com/stores/72.

Learn how to deal with the elements when it’s really freaking cold outside when the Swan Ecosystem Center hosts the program “Winter Survival with David Cronenwett,” a presentation that features info on winter survival skills that includes outdoor demos starting at 7 PM at the U.S. Forest Service Work Center in Condon, 6887 Hwy. 83. $10 per person/$20 per family. RSVP by Jan. 13 by calling 754-3137. calendar@missoulanews.com

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The Met broadcasts offer Missoula new angles on age-old operas

by Erika Fredrickson

According to the New York Times, Puccini’s Tosca from the extra dimension that live broadcasts allow. Das the rest of the orchestras get to eat off of. We were lucky.” received the “loudest and most sustained” booing in Rheingold, for instance, used a set with elaborate planks After five years in Milan, Morris finished a master’s memory when the New York Metropolitan Opera recently that could shift in ways to produce the illusion of a river degree in performing arts management and decided to produced it in 2009. The new staging of the Italian libret- and, in the next instance, become a maze of underground head back to his hometown, Missoula, sharing his newto led by Swedish director Luc Bondy replaced Met audi- tunnels aided by CGI images. It managed to impress audi- found passion for opera in the form of HD broadcasts. ence’s long-favored Franco Zeffirelli version—and the New ences at the Met, but it also offered broadcast audiences Missoula’s audiences have jumped from the 70 in attenYork opera crowd apparently didn’t like the way Bondy more eye candy as well. dance for Tosca, to 150 in attendance at last week’s La “It was embracing a new technology,” Morris says, Fanciulla del West. Morris has also begun broadcasting interpreted the piece. The action scenes, the Times report“They were able to use camera angles to further distort the live productions from London’s National Theatre, as well ed, “failed to impress.”

Around the world, however, as Met attendees image for broadcast.” as recent recordings of live productions including this It’s not just the sets that have changed, says Morris. week’s FELA!, which is a world music hybrid of theater, watched Bondy’s Tosca with dismay, 1,500 movie houses in 46 different countries streamed a live broadcast of it to The Met’s newest general manager, Peter Gelb, apparent- dance and music. more receptive audiences. As it turned out, the live cine- ly has a new vision for the opera singers, too, that will add “With the National Theatre,” says Morris, “this is matic broadcast, which uses swooping camera angles and to both the in-person and broadcast experiences. only their second season but they’re taking a much “Peter Gelb doesn’t like his singers to ‘park and more encompassing approach than the Met, covering a close-up shots of the opera stars on stage, did a better job of capturing the stage action. The controversial Tosca pro- bark,’” Morris says. “For a long time that’s what these much wider range of dramaturgical works. There’s freduction also marked the first Missoula broadcast of The Met: Live in HD series.

At the Roxy Theater where 70 people gathered to attend the show, there was no booing to be heard.

“The things that the audience disliked about the set design and staging in the actual production didn’t really come across in the cinema,” says Andy Morris, Missoula’s producer of The Met: Live in HD. “The [broadcast] had opportunities to create angles and create drama and tension with the camera. And it ended up being more static for people sitting in the Met audience than for those watching it on the screen.”

It’s a counterintuitive idea: that watching a filmed version of a staged opera could, in any way, trump the experience of being in the actual audience at the Met. However, in a recent Live in HD broadcast in Missoula of Puccini’s western, La Fanciulla del West, the benefits The Met: Live in HD series includes February’s upcoming live broadcast of composer John Adams’ opera Nixon seemed obvious. As the opera singers in China. Currently 1,500 movie houses in 46 countries—including the Roxy Theater in Missoula—participate in the series that provides live streaming of New York Metropolitan operas. belted out songs about bandits and gold mining, the camera swooped above and through the set providing a high-definition singers would do. You can envision this huge Wagnerian quently new works being produced whereas with opera view of the singers’ facial expressions and gestures. soprano parking in front of the stage and just going for it you’re dealing with works that are between 150 and 200 Even more stunning was the ability to see up close the for three hours. That was what they did. More and more years old.” details of the set—not just books on shelves and bar- you see singers really having to take on more acting and Still, the Met is experimenting with new ideas, too. room props, but the immense work and depth of the more movement.”

February’s Met opera Nixon in China by American comMorris knows what it’s like to experience opera in its poser John Adams is a far cry from Verdi and Puccini, and mining camp setting, with its realistic storefronts and a backdrop of the snowy Sierra Madre Mountains, which liveliest forms. The Missoula native spent his post-gradu- is bound to challenge conventional opera-goers. For made it feel more like an endless, real place than simply ate years as a French horn player studying music at Morris, it’s just one more step in the quest to expand London’s Royal Academy, the Hochschule academy of broadcast audiences and expose them to what’s happena stage with limiting boundaries.

You can’t exactly pretend you’re at the Met, but the music in West Berlin and the Zurich Opera House ing in the most storied venues for performing arts.

20-minute intermissions and the fact that people actually Orchestral Academy. But it was when he won a spot with “It’s creating this dialog,” says Morris, “where everyclap at curtain call differentiate the opera broadcast from Milan, Italy’s orchestra, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano one around the world is seeing these for the first time an average movie-watching experience, adding to the live- Giuseppe Verdi (aka La Verdi), that opera piqued his inter- together.” action feel. Backstage interviews with performers and doc- est. La Scala, the renowned opera house in Milan, had its FELA! screens at the Roxy Theater Sunday, Jan. umentary tidbits between acts give the broadcast an added own elite house orchestra that got the main gigs, but 16, at 4 PM and Tuesday, Jan. 21, at 7:30 PM. $16/$14 feature. During one La Fanciulla del West intermission, Morris’ orchestra got to take on any extra work as well as seniors/$11 students. An encore presentation of La for instance, they showed the secret to making stage stage its own concerts.

Fanciulla del West screens Saturday, Jan. 15, at 7:30 snow: a dozen men above the set took turns churning out “There’s a saying in Italy about classical music fund- PM. $19/$17 seniors and students. confetti over the stage. ing,” laughs Morris. “It’s that La Scala is the snail that eats Other recent Met productions have also benefited everything in its path and the slime that’s left behind is what efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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FreeSol RockNRolla self-released

Covering and remixing is dicey business, and tough to get just right. With that in mind, I’ll admit that the new mixtape from Memphis hip-hop act FreeSol, centered thematically on remixes or reinterpretations of 1990s alterna-rock, is a bold production, and includes some catchy, clubby successes as well as a few grating failures and plenty in between.

Oddly, the successes succeed for the same reason the failures fail: The “reinterpretation” of a chosen song often hangs on borrowing the chorus. It’s not a new device, but it’s not one of my favorites, often sounding clunky, failing to put an appealing enough spin on the source to justify the large-scale appropria-

Mud Pill Palace The Sophisticated Monster Show self-released

Bozeman band Mud Pill Palace takes psychedelic punk and sends it on a trip through a curio shop.

By that time it’s wearing a pirate hat, carrying a surf board and reciting gypsy folktales in mumbled tones. Therein lies the primary charm of the group’s debut album The Sophisticated Monster Show. This isn’t psychedelic rock content to sit around in its mom’s basement and do mushrooms. It wants to get out and see something.

The Decemberists The King is Dead Capitol

Those disappointed by an excess of faerie queens and shape-shifters of The Decemberists’ last outing will find sweet simplicity on the band’s latest, The King is Dead. Frontman Colin Meloy’s flirtations with concept albums and 15-minute prog-rock epics are nowhere to be found here. Instead, the troop has returned with their folksiest effort yet. It’s almost a proper country album.

That shouldn’t be too surprising. The Portland, Ore., rockers have always been a folk band at heart.

But that sound is much more pronounced here, complete with lap slide guitar, soaring fiddles and some serious harmonica. A stark contrast to the pseudo-metal shredding in 2009’s Hazards of Love,

Jónsi Go XL Recording

Serious Sigur Rós fans don’t need my sales pitch, since they’ve already bought this album. For the rest of you: Most of Sigur Rós singer Jónsi’s solo album sounds a lot like Sigur Rós, which, in case you don’t know, means delicious falsetto singing over sprightly, eerie, distinctly Icelandic soundscapes that manage to be utterly pop and utterly beyond ordinary music. So that’s all happening here, thanks this time to collabora-

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tion. This is the case on “Cannonball,” where guest artist MoneyPenny does a fair Deal twin impression, but a song this is not. It’s more like listening to somebody sing along with the Breeders in the middle of a crowded party. When this strategy does work, I’m less than willing to give credit to the semi-cover artist for the hook that makes the hit—I’m looking at you, Black Eyed Peas—but I’m happy to say that “What’s Goin’ On” transforms one of the 1990’s most annoying choruses into a slick hook for a fine number. (Ali Gadbow) FreeSol plays the Top Hat Tuesday, Jan. 18, at 9 PM. $5.

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Musically, the band tosses Jimi Hendrix, Tom Waits and Nick Cave into the blender with elements of old world music and Americana. The result is a little messy, a little chaotic, but often quite memorable. Chunky electric guitar riffs do most of the work, moving from barroom stompers to surf rock instrumentals to touches of reggae in the space of a few songs. Considering the album’s diverse musical palette, it’s no surprise that it meanders thematically either, using everything from graveyards to the pirate-ridden high seas for its backdrops.

Some may read that as a lack of focus, but it sounds to me like an album that just can’t sit still.

Listeners who aren’t careful might find themselves with a case of their own wanderlust by the final track. (Cameron Rasmusson) the band pulls off the tight-but-not-too-tight play-style effortlessly.

And that rustic emphasis produces some of the more memorable inclusions of the band’s back catalogue, from sweet seasonal reflections to energetic rabble-rousers.

“Don’t Carry It All” is a powerful album-opener, while “Rox In The Box” is as strong a single as the band has ever produced.

The only real disappointment here is Meloy’s comparative timidness. The Hazards of Love was one of his weaker efforts, but his willingness to explore territory as audacious as rock opera melodrama was impressive.

As a follow-up, Kings is satisfying but ultimately safe.

(Cameron Rasmusson) tion with composer Nico Muhly and percussionist Samuli Kosminen.

“Go Do,” the album’s opener, is a command difficult to ignore. It makes you want to, like, stretch, and then accomplish stuff. The hectic “Animal Arithmetic” injects an aggressive new energy, but just when the bouncy beat gets to be too much, “Tornado” brings us back down. Driven by piano, strings, and classic Jónsi singing—intriguingly, in English as mysterious as his Icelandic phrases or his nonsense noises ever were—“Tornado” is epic. And we’re only three songs in. The loveliness does not let up. Not one of these nine songs will be ignored, and the album is perfectly arranged. Totally in character and totally accessible, this album is highly recommended for inclusion in every music fan’s collection. (Ali Gadbow)

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Lights on Git Some hits the switch with Loose Control

by Jason McMackin

drummer Andrew Lindstrom gives lessons at the local Guitar Center. Add to that all the members’ music sideprojects and you’ve got some busy dudes who admit they find sleeping on a stranger’s floor and eating Deli Express roast beef sandwiches a relaxing bit of fun.

The current tour finds the band rolling with a group that quite possibly rates as the spookiest folk-rock outfit of all time, Woven Hand. (Unfortunately, Woven Hand will be skipping Missoula and heading from Bozeman to Pullman, Wash.) This past summer Woven Hand opened for the radio-friendly Tool on tour. The chance to tour with musicians that are one remove from one of the biggest heavy bands in the world is an opportunity that Fairchild says the band was unwilling to pass up, regardless of the fact that it is January in the Rocky Mountains and La Niña is in full effect.

Git Some isn’t just riding the coattails of other bands. The release of Loose Control on Alternative Tentacles means it joins an elite list of iconic punk and post-punk groups such as NoMeansNo, SNFU and D.O.A. on the label owned by legendary Dead Kennedys’ frontman Jello Biafra. To say that the band is stoked to be a part of the Alternative Tentacles family is an understatement, says Fairchild— though the honor doesn’t come Git Some features, from left, Chuck French, Andrew without strings attached.

Lindstrom, Luke Fairchild and Neil Keener.

Apparently Biafra spends plenty of All this mayhem, plus a quick listen of the band’s time at the band’s Denver shows—his parents live in latest bombastic album, Loose Control, would lead you Boulder, Col.—and, as a man known for not holding to believe the group is nothing more than a gang of back on his opinion, Biafra sometimes has a few minor furious misanthropes carelessly wielding instruments critiques for the band.

According to Fairchild, Biafra often asks, “Why like household knives. But the truth is, Git Some’s lead vocalist Luke Fairchild feels a touch bad about the don’t you have any choruses?” and, “How come you whole Total Fest incident. He has fond memories of never look at the audience?”

To which Fairchild replies, “Well, Jello, I’m sorry.”

Missoula (for those still using MySpace you can see the Because, really, what else can you say to one of the band’s tour schedule with a luminous announcement in pink letters saying, “Git Some Loves Missoula!”) and great punk rock icons/curmudgeons of all time?

In the end, the band does what it wants, and the his past trips to Total Fest with former band Kingdom of Magic beat out other experiences, including the pop- tone of Loose Control mirrors the band’s incorrigible attitude. The album is a full-throated, post-punk beatular SXSW festival in Austin.

“Total Fest is probably my favorite festival,” he says. down. Grim, crushing guitars pop, grind and squeal “Lots of great bands, great backyard barbecues and with forlorn energy, and the gnashing, aggressive bass hanging out with friends. There’s really nothing else lines and juiced up, roided-out drumming evokes the Jesus Lizard and Big Black. The lyrics, often delivered in like that anywhere else.”

According to guitarist Chuck French, touring is a driving mid-throat wail, are dark and abstract to essential to Git Some, since the band’s emphasis is on reflect the music. Song titles like “Entrails for the Altar” stage antics. But traveling around in a van also keeps and “There is So Much Blood” might best describe the band’s power-outage sound, but it’s the title of the last the Git Some bandmates from getting restless.

“Being on the road keeps us from going insane,” song, “Bought the Ticket, Take the Ride,” that, accordFrench says. “After being in a touring band for years, ing to Fairchild, best describes the band’s trajectory.

“We asked for this,” he says. “And there’s no turnyou get accustomed to getting in the van, and so if we don’t tour for a few months, we all get froggy. And we ing back.”

Git Some plays the Palace Wednesday, Jan. 19, need to jump, so to speak.”

Being on the road can be hard work, but for Git at 9 PM with Tidal Horn, Judgment Hammer and Some, it’s actually a vacation. At home, Fairchild and Lb. $6.

French each work three different bartending jobs, bassist Neil Keener does his duty as a barista, and arts@missoulanews.com In fall 2008, Denver-based band Git Some kicked off its European tour with the following pro-wrestlingstyle announcement via its blog: “We are gonna spill our guts in ancient cities! We are gonna throw-up blood, chunks, and rock-n-roll on the pretty shoes of you people! We will cough up filthy, perverted guitar chords! You won’t smell the same as when you showed up to see us!”

A year later, in August 2009, the provocative band made one of its more rock and roll moves by temporarily shutting down the ninth annual Total Fest— Missoula’s independent music festival—when its overthrottled amps caused not one, but two electrical outages.

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Country Strong hits sour notes

by Dave Loos

The dog days of summer come early for movie lovers—so early that many may still be nursing New Year’s Eve hangovers when studios begin dumping the worst of the worst films on unsuspecting and undeserving audiences. It’s essentially the opposite of December, when we see a mix of big holiday films and small gems with Oscar dreams. It’s not until the first of the year that we get 2010’s leftover big-budget disasters and other promising-sounding projects with big stars that are just unsalvageable bad films. I’m guessing the logic here among industry executives is that critics have a short memory and will forget these movies when writing their “Worst of 2011” lists 350 days later.

This is all a long way of saying that when presented with a choice of films to review this week, the list consisted of Season of the Witch and Country Strong, two movies that currently have a combined Rotten Tomatoes score of 22 percent. Suffice it to say nothing was opening at the Wilma last weekend.

Because I dislike country music far less than I now dislike any film starring Nicolas Cage, I chose Country Strong. I suppose I should thank my editor for even giving me Rocky road. a choice.

So let’s not mince words. Country Strong is a really bad film. But more than that, Country Strong is a lazy bad film. It takes a tried-and-true formula that at the very least should result in a mediocre movie and somehow manages to make everything much worse. Given the plot (redemptive tale of a country singer), the subplots (two up-and-coming singer-songwriters as the opening acts) and the actors involved (the ever-capable Gwyneth Paltrow and country singer Tim McGraw), this was a softball. So how did the producers, director and especially the screenwriters all swing and miss so badly, ending up with a mindless, irritating melodramatic piece of crap?

It’s not as if they didn’t have a good recent model to work with. Crazy Heart, which came out way back in December 2009, took a minimalist approach to the same basic formula of down-and-out country star and ended up as a masterpiece that garnered Jeff Bridges his first Oscar. Go back and watch the last 10 minutes of it sometime. It is affecting on a level rarely reached in film these days.

I didn’t expect Country Strong to be a masterpiece, and, perhaps, Crazy Heart set the bar too high. But the degree to which this movie fails is astounding to the

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The combination of mindless script and nonsensical plot development seems like an ambush on the actors. (Maybe I’m being too kind here). Paltrow is Kelly Canter, a country superstar whose selfdestructive behavior lands her in rehab after falling off a stage during a concert in Dallas. We pick up the story as she’s about to be released after a yearlong stay, and her controlling husband James (McGraw) is eager to get her back on tour. Beau, the beautiful rising country star happens to be an orderly in the rehab center, where he can play his songs for Kelly. And sleep with her, apparently. Mind you, we’re about five minutes into the movie at this point.

It gets plenty worse.

Within a week or two Kelly is back on a minitour, with Dallas looming as the final tour stop, where—we are constantly reminded—she can redeem herself after last year’s disaster. There’s not a nuanced scene to enjoy here as Kelly quickly regresses back into a troubled diva. Beau continues to sleep with her until he realizes what a nut job she is, at which point he moves on to sleeping with the younger, prettier and less-nutty Chiles. I should note that before their affair ends, we do get the most preposterous montage in recent film history after Beau and Kelly somehow jump a train and travel the rails in a boxcar while holding onto ropes and staring longingly at each other.

Since some of you may still see this film, I won’t ruin the ending. But I will say that if you are expecting this clichéd redemptive tale to end as most clichéd redemptive tales do, then you are in for a surprise. Just when you think Country Strong has maxed out on lazy melodrama, the writers take a cue from Spinal Tap and turn it all the way up to 11. I didn’t see this one coming. Does that count as a compliment?

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THE FIGHTER Mark Wahlberg is the knockout star of this Rockyesque, biographical sports drama about the life of East Coast boxer “Irish” Micky Ward, who punched his way to the top thanks to expert training from his ex-convict half-brother, played by Christian Bale.

Carmike 10: 4, 7 and 9:45, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:20, 4:10, 6:55 and 9:40, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

GULLIVER’S TRAVELS Funnyman Jack Black is Lemuel Gulliver in this modern 3-D adaptation of the classic 18th century novel. The story follows Black as he sets sail to the

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an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight, and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 3:30, 7:10 and 9:35.

SEASON OF THE WITCH Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman are 14th century crusaders given the not-so-fun task of transporting a witch—who allegedly caused the Black Plague— to a monastery, in the hopes her powers of pestilence will be destroyed. Along the way, some evil things start to happen. Carmike 10: 4:15, 7 and 9:30, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:20. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:25, 2:45, 5, 7:30 and 9:40, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight, and

on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:35, 3:40, 6:45 and 9:30, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight, and Mon.–Thu. at 1:10, 4:05, 6:45 and 9:30.

TRUE GRIT The Coen brothers offer up their stylish adaptation of the 1968 novel, and 1969 movie, of the same name. Jeff Bridges is a booze-loving U.S. Marshal, enlisted by a 14-year-old girl to track down shady drifter Josh Brolin, after Brolin kills the girl’s dad. Matt Damon co-stars. Carmike 10: 4:15, 6:30, 7, 9 and 9:30, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1, 1:30 and 3:45. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat.–Sun. mati-

THE GREEN HORNET Seth Rogen is a financially well-off son of a newspaper publisher who decides to put bad guys in their place by becoming a masked ass-kicking crime fighter in this 3-D adaptation of the classic 1930s radio program. Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) directs. Carmike 10: 4:30, 7:10 and 9:45, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:35. Village 6 in 2-D: 7:25 and 10, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1:55 and 4:50. Pharaohplex in Hamilton in 2-D: 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 9:35, with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at noon, and an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 7 and 9:15, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30. Entertainer Cinema in Ronan: 4, 7 and 9:20.

THE KING’S SPEECH After English aristocrat Colin Firth gets crowned King George VI of England, he tries to rid himself of a nasty stammer so he can give good speeches to his fellow Brits, who are on the brink of World War II. Critics are already predicting that this flick is bound for an Oscar. Wilma Theatre: nightly at 7 and 9:10, with a 7 only show on Tue., and Sun. matinees at 1 and 3:10. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:45, 3:50, 6:50 and 9:30, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight, and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 3:50, 6:50 and 9:30.

NOW PLAYING BLACK SWAN Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream) delivers yet another psychological head trip with a story that pits two ballet dancers, Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis, against each other as they fight for stage prominence during a production of Swan Lake. Wilma Theatre: nightly at 7 and 9, with a 9:10 show only on Tue., and Sun. matinees at 1 and 3. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:20, 4, 7:05 and 9:45, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4:15, 7:15 and 9.

THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER The third film based on C.S. Lewis’ fantasy trilogy gets a little 3-D love in a story that centers around Edmund Pevensie and company venturing to the end of the world in a ship, and features lots of eye candy like eerily glowing swords and shapeshifting humans. Village 6 in 2-D: 7:30 and 9:55, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1:30 and 4:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:05, 4:05, 7:20 and 9:05, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

COUNTRY STRONG Gwyneth Paltrow is a faltering country singer struggling with the bottle and trying to get her musical act back on track by touring with up-andcoming cowboy crooner Garrett Hedlund.

Country musician Tim McGraw stars as Paltrow’s hubby. Carmike 10: 4, 7 and 9:45, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1, 3:55, 6:40 and 9:20, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

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This is what you call the “bro-face.” The Dilemma opens Friday at the Carmike 10.

Bermuda Triangle to write a fluffy travel article.

Along the way, Black gets shipwrecked, taken captive by small people, and is enlisted to help fend off a rival horde of tiny folks using things like his giant belly. Village 6 in 2-D: 7 and 9:30, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1 and 4. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 only, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 9:30 only, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 1 The first part of the seventh (and, thankfully, last) installment of this ever popular book/film empire follows Harry and his pals Ron and Hermione as they try to bring down the dark lord known as Voldemort. Village 6: 7:30, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 4:30.

LITTLE FOCKERS Your favorite Focker Ben Stiller returns in this third, and last, installment of the comedy series that began with Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers. This time around, Stiller has to contend with parenthood, a midlife crisis, and his nosierthan-thou father-in-law Robert De Niro. Carmike 10: 4:30, 7:30 and 9:55, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30. Village 6: 7:15 and 9:45, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1:15 and 4:15. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:10, 2:25, 4:45, 7:10 and 9:35, with

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Mon.–Thu. at 1:10, 4, 7:30 and 9:45. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:45.

TANGLED The Rapunzel fairy tale gets a 3-D makeover in this “action-packed” animated version starring the voice of Mandy Moore as the girl with really long hair. Carmike 10 in 2-D: 4:15, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:15. Village 6 in 2-D: 7 and 9:20, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1:15 and 4:15. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:15, 2:35, 4:55 and 7:25, and Mon.–Thu. at 1:25, 4:10 and 6:55.

THE TOURIST Two good looking people—Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie—meet on a train, and sparks fly.

Depp, however, finds himself in hot water after he realizes people think he’s a criminal wanted in 14 countries. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 9:40 only, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

TRON: LEGACY This 3-D sequel to the 1982 classic ought to make your inner sci-fi freak scream with delight. It follows Garrett Hedlund as he plugs into a digital world— filled with flashy costumes and awesome looking spaceships—so he can find Jeff Bridges and return him back to reality. Carmike 10: 4, 7 and 9:50, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1. Village 6 in 2-D: 7 and 9:50, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1 and 4.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 9 only, with no 9 show

nees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:05, 3:45, 7:15 and 9:45, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:45. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4, 7 and 9:15.

YOGI BEAR This 3-D flick features Dan Aykroyd getting his bear on as the voice of Yogi Bear, who, with his pal Boo Boo, voiced by Justin Timberlake, must save Jellystone Park from getting bought and cut down by loggers. Carmike 10: 7:15 and 9:30. Village 6 in 2-D: Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 2:30, 4:50 and 7:10, and Mon.–Thu. at 1:30, 4:05 and 7:10.

Capsule reviews by Skylar Browning and Ira Sather-Olson.

Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., Jan. 14. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm.

Theater phone numbers: Carmike 10/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-FILM; Stadium 14 in Kalispell–752-7804. Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.

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Support groups for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault each Tuesday at YWCA Missoula. Orientation Group, Living in Peace, and Domestic Violence Native Women’s Talking Circle. Groups also available for children/teens.

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“I’LL HAVE THE SCRIMP COCKTAIL!” I’d love your take on a bizarre first date. I suggested happy hour drinks, but he wanted to take me to dinner, and picked a really nice restaurant. When we were ordering, he suggested we play “a fun game,” which entailed closing our eyes and picking a number (the entrees were numbered). I said okay, then he said I couldn’t pick numbers between 20 and 25 because those entrees were expensive. Completely disenchanted, I opened my eyes and chose something cheap. Later, the bill came, and sat and sat. He finally picked it up, muttered audibly about who had what, and eventually put his card out.

Obviously, I turned down his request for a second date.

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FLIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL I sympathize with “On Hold,” the guy sick of girls saying they wanted to see him again and then not returning his calls. Why do women think it’s okay to ignore a guy—the guy they let buy them dinner...the very same guy they agreed to see again when he walked them to their car?!

—Been There, Resented That When a woman isn’t returning your call, you want to hope for the best—that it’s because she died, is still in a coma, or was kidnapped by Bolivian terrorists while picking up a prescription at the drugstore.

But, you know—we all know—what no callback almost always means. And it isn’t that women think it’s okay to ignore a guy. It’s just that lying and saying they’ll see him again seems kinder and less awkward than being honest to his face. Sure, a woman could say something vaguely honest, like “I just don’t think it’s going to happen for us.”

But, the guy could end up pressing her for what’s really on her mind: “You aren’t as cute as I thought you’d be, and you chew like you’re bad in bed.”

By the way, it isn’t just women who’ll say whatever it takes to close the door on a date. Men will pledge a sinceresounding “I’ll call you!” while thinking “You sucked the oxygen out of the room. Couldn’t you hear the sound of my brain cells dying?”

Shaking your fist at the sky because rejection doesn’t come in your preferred form won’t make it any less a rejection; it’ll just make you increasingly bitter, making you increasingly unattractive to women. Understand that not getting a promised callback is a common side-effect of modern dating—especially if it was a first date, especially if it originated on the Internet. When you’re just getting to know a woman, make dates cheap, short, and local—drinks rather than dinner. Hope for the best, but until a woman’s getting into your car to go on date two, think of “I’d love to see you again” as an announcement akin to “I’m going to go home and give birth to a litter of squirrels.”

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It’s a tough economy, and people are increasingly worried that they’ll be dining on Fancy Feast casserole at 80 (or 45).

More than ever, men need to be wary of gold diggers. But, this guy had good intel that you aren’t one of them. The girl who suggests happy hour drinks is not the girl who orders the lobster dinner —and then adds, “Oh, and can I get another one of those to go?”

He’s the one who chose to up the price tag of getting to know you. The reasonable assumption would be that he was inviting you, not you and your Visa card. Assuming he didn’t lose his job between “Pick you up at 8?” and appetizers, he’s either a pathological cheapskate trying to pass himself off as Mr. Big Spender or is convinced that all women are out to milk ‘n’ bilk him. Either way, a date with him seems like a twist on “L’Oreal—because you’re worth it.” His motto: “Don’t even think of incurring the $2 substitution fee for onion rings— because you’re not.”

The ironic thing is, even if you’d picked one of the pricier entrees, how much more would it have cost him...$10 plus tip? He ended up spending a whole bunch of money on a girl who now never wants to see him again—charming as some may find it when a guy mutters over the check, “Let’s see, you had that extra packet of ketchup—that’s probably two cents right there...”

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PROFESSIONAL Software Developer The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, a hunter based non-profit wildlife/habitat conservation organization seeks a Software Developer to analyze, design, develop, document, and support new and existing software solutions. Exp in writing HTML, JavaScript, C#, SQL and TSQL, and strong customer service skills are required. Degree in CS, IS, Business Administration, Accounting, or equivalent technical expertise required. Email cover letter and resume to jobs@rmef.org Closes 1/15/11.

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TRAINING/ INSTRUCTION CHEMISTRY TUTORS needed for the 2011 academic year.

Assignments range from Chemistry, AP Chemistry and college level Chemistry. Assignments typically involve 1-2 sessions/week for an 1-1.5 hrs/visit and require some availability late afternoon through the early evening and sometimes weekends. You must have demonstrable capability in the level of Chemistry called for in any assignment. BS or BA preferred although some outstanding college juniors or seniors will be considered. One year of teaching or tutoring experience is required. #9610562 Missoula Job Service 728-7060 SPANISH TUTORS needed for the 2011 academic year. Beginner level through AP Spanish.

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Staying Healthy Through the Winter: Join Herbalist Jessica Maisel as she shows us how to use medicinal herbs in our food, home and daily routine to keep us healthy throughout the cold and flu season. Thursday January 27, 79 pm, Cost: $20. 180 S. 3rd St. W., Missoula.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): What empire are you building, Aries? What master plan are you in the midst of carrying out? As you gaze out upon your realm, are you content with the way it’s evolving? Judging from the current astrological omens, I’d say it’s an excellent time to ponder questions like those. And if your inventory reveals that you’re missing some pieces of the big picture’s puzzle, I suggest you set out on a quest to locate them.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In a famous psychology experiment, test subjects watched a video of six people passing basketballs to each other. Their assignment was to count how many passes were thrown and caught by the three people wearing white shirts, while ignoring passes between the three wearing black shirts. But there was a trick embedded in the exercise. Midway through the video, a person wearing a gorilla suit ambled into the scene, thumped his chest, and quickly departed.

Half of the test subjects did not notice this intrusion. They were too focused on the task of counting the passes made by the players in white. (Watch it here: tinyurl.com/TrickGorilla.) In the coming week, Taurus, I expect that you will experience at least one similar trick. Look for the unexpected.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Astrologer Hunter Reynolds says that when you are at your best, you Geminis specialize in “enlightened impatience.” You don’t get trapped expressing polite deference in situations that drain your energy. You don’t tolerate boring experiences just because they’re supposed to be good for you. You’d rather “err on the side of learning-through-too-much-movement” than get bogged down in “principled sluggishness.” But while that’s how you are when you’re at your peak, you can also be susceptible to the dark side of this talent. Sometimes you abort a potential breakthrough by prematurely fleeing a useful but difficult scene. I suspect you may be prone to that kind of behavior right now. My advice: Be skeptical of your escape reflex.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In her poem “Heathen,” Lesley Wheeler describes a young boy who puts his ear up against his mother’s ear “so that the god in your head can talk / to the god in mine.” The coming weeks would be an excellent time for you to try something similar with people you care for. It’s a ripe moment to raise the stakes in your intimate life…to get closer than you’ve dared to get before…to retire the familiar stories you and your allies are in the habit of exchanging so that you can tune in to the deeper hum of each other’s wilder truths.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There’s a guy on the Internet—calls himself Tian—whose mission is to correct Westerners who misunderstand and misuse Chinese characters. Many of the people who write to him for advice are Americans who have come to suspect that the Chinese characters they got tattooed on their flesh don’t really mean what they were led to believe (bit.ly/WrongTat). For example, Tian informed one person that a tattoo whose character supposedly says “to learn as much as possible” actually means “empty, hollow, bare, deserted.” I offer this up as a cautionary tale, Leo. In the coming days, make sure you’re not under a misapprehension about what you’re taking on and taking in. Choose only the very best imprints—and verify that they are what you think they are.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I regard 2011 as an excellent time for you to cultivate your unique talents, some of which may still be latent or undiscovered. With that in mind, consider these thoughts. Ernest Hemingway said a person had to have “the guts of a burglar” to develop his or her talent. Neurologist and author Dr. Alice W. Flaherty believes that the drive to use one’s talent is even more important than the amount of raw talent one has. And here’s novelist Erica Jong: “Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that ‘talent’ to the dark place where it leads.” P.S. If you do venture into those dark places, you’ll eventually uncover ten suns’ worth of illumination.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Back in 1962, an American company named Corning created a product that was so revolutionary, no one could figure out how to exploit it in practical ways.

It was “Gorilla glass,” a glass that’s so strong it’s almost impossible to break or even scratch.

Only recently has it found a commercial application, first in cell phones and other mobile devices and next in a new generation of ultra-thin TV screens. I foresee a comparable development in your immediate future, Libra: some ahead-of-its-time breakthrough you made a while ago that can finally be used to improve your life.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When I arrived at my acupuncturist’s waiting room, there were just two magazines on the table next to my chair: The celebrity rag People Style Weekly and the spiritually oriented Shambala Sun. The first offered articles on “hot new handbags and shoes under $99” and “easy ways to get gorgeous hair, skin, and nails.” The second provided a “guide to mindful living,” with advice about how to get centered, focused and relaxed. I thought that was metaphorically similar to the choice you will face in the coming week, Scorpio. It’s up to you: Which way do you want to go?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I can almost categorically guarantee that in 2011 you will have no encounters with fire demons, wart-ridden vampires, two-headed dogs, moaning ghosts, wayward werewolves, or extraterrestrial robots. Nope. You can pretty much go ahead and make plans based on the assumption that you won’t have to account for intrusions like that. But I can also assure you that the lack of crazy encounters with unhinged monsters does not mean your life will suffer from blahs or boredom. On the contrary: I think this could be one of your most interesting years in a decade. To prepare yourself, make sure you don’t unconsciously equate adventure with chaos; imagine what it would be like to experience mystery and intrigue that uplift you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past,” said comedian Lily Tomlin. I recommend that you make this a keynote during the next six months.

According to my understanding of the astrological omens, you will have the best opportunity you’ve had in a long time to put some of your unsettling memories to sleep for good. This is your big chance to graduate from old anxieties that can never be resolved. You’re finally ready to declare your independence from messy burdens and maddening riddles that have haunted you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you want to be healed, whether from a physical malady or a psychic wound, there’s one prerequisite you have to meet: You have to be willing to learn a lesson that your suffering has invited you to study. I would go so far as to say that no one, no matter how skilled a healer, can help cure you until you have taken that first step. So what teaching is it that you would need to explore in order to transform your distress into wisdom?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you ready to get the fun surprise you were promised in your dreams? Are you fully prepared to collect the elegant prize you were guaranteed before you were born? I don’t think you are—mostly because you’re not thoroughly convinced that you deserve these wonders. From what I can tell, your self-doubts are still more substantial than your self-worth. And as long as that holds true, you will continue to hold your just rewards at bay. So let’s make it your project in the next three weeks to elevate your levels of self-worth. It doesn’t mean you’ll have to completely shed your self-doubts, so don’t worry about trying to pull off that impossible project. All you need to do is adjust your self-worth to self-doubt ratio so it’s at least 51 percent to 49 percent.

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA INVITATION TO BID Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received at the City Clerk’s Office, City Hall, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, 59802-4297 until 1:00 p.m., Tuesday January 18th, 2011 and will be opened and publicly read in the Mayor’s Conference Room, City Hall at that time. As soon thereafter as is possible, a contract will be made for the following: Purchase of five police patrol cars. Bidders shall bid by City bid proposal forms, addressed to the City Clerk’s Office, City of Missoula, enclosed in separate, sealed envelopes marked plainly on the outside, “Bid for Police Patrol Cars., Closing, Tuesday January 18th, 2011”. Pursuant to Section 18-1-102 Montana Code Annotated, the City is required to provide purchasing preferences to resident Montana vendors and \ or for products made in Montana equal to the preference provided in the state of the competitor. Each and every bid must be accompanied by cash, a certified check, bid bond, cashier’s check, bank money order or bank draft payable to the City Treasurer, Missoula, Montana, and drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the State of Montana or by any banking corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of Montana for an amount which shall not be less than ten percent (10%) of the bid, as a good faith deposit.

The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal forms. No bid will be considered which includes Federal excise tax, since the City is exempt there from and will furnish to the successful bidder certificates of exemption. The City reserves the right to determine the significance of all exceptions to bid specifications.

Products or services that do not meet bid specifications must be clearly marked as an exception to the specifications.

Vendors requesting inclusion or preapproved alternatives to any of these bid specifications must receive written authorization from the Vehicle Maintenance Superintendent a minimum of five (5) working days prior to the bid closing. The City reserves the right to reject any and all bids and if all bids are rejected, to re-advertise under the same or new specifications, or to make such an award as in the judgment of its officials best meets the City’s requirements. The City reserves the right to waive any technicality in the bidding which is not of substantial nature. Any objections to published specifications must be filed in written form with the City Clerk prior to bid opening at 1:00 p.m., Tuesday January 18th, 2011; Bidders may obtain further information and specifications from the City Vehicle Maintenance Division at (406) 552-6387. Bid announcements and bid results are posted on the city’s website at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/bids. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein CITY OF MISSOULA SECTION 00100 INVITATION TO BID RECEIPT OF BIDS: Sealed bids will be received at the office of the City Clerk, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, until 2:00 p.m. on January 26, 2010, and will then be opened and publicly read in the Mayor’s Conference Room for the furnishing of all labor, equipment and materials for construction of the Milwaukee Railroad Path Project.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK: The work includes approximately 6,200 linear feet of asphalt trail, concrete curb and gutter, patterned concrete sidewalk and islands, and miscellaneous concrete construction; new storm drainage and irrigation piping and associated structures; clearing and grubbing, excavation, asphalt and concrete removals and replacement, fencing, signing, striping, landscaping to include irrigation and associated work.

PROJECT FINANCING – The project is funded by MRA URD III and the MDT CTEP Program, and is subject to all applicable federal/state regulations, as indicated within the specifications. SITE OF WORK: The project is located between Davis Street on the west and Russell Street on the east, and is located on portions of Davis Street, Curtis Street, Trail Street West, Justus Lane, Trail Street East, Catlin Street, and Russell Street, while also crossing Johnson Street, Grant Street, and Garfield Street, in Missoula, Missoula County, Montana.

COMPLETION OF WORK: All work must be substantially completed within 140 calendar days after the commencement date stated in the notice to proceed.

Additional contract time will not be allowed for any accepted bid alternatives. OPENING OF BIDS: Bids will be

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publicly opened and read aloud at the time and place stated above. OBTAINING CONTRACT DOCUMENTS: A complete set of the Contract Documents and Project Manual will be furnished the Contractors making application therefore from WGM Group, Inc., 1111 East Broadway Street, Missoula, MT 59802, upon payment of $50.00 by company check, cashier’s check, or bank money order (cash cannot be accepted) made payable to City of Missoula Parks and Recreation. Full amount of payment will be refunded upon request within ten (10) City business days following bid opening provided that complete plans and bid proposal package are returned in good, unmarked condition. A Project Manual submitted for bid is retained for legal purposes and is therefore not refundable.

After 10 City business days, the remaining checks will be deposited; no reminder calls will be made. The following locations will have plans available for review only (not for bidding): Missoula Plan Exchange 201 N Russell, Msla 59801 mpe@vemcoinc.com MT Contractors Accn. 1717 11th Ave. Helena 59604 kathy@mtagc.org BID SECURITY: Each bid shall be accompanied by bid security made payable to the city of Missoula in an amount of ten percent (10%) of the bidder’s maximum bid price and in the form of cash, a cashier’s check, certified check, or bank money order drawn and issued by a national banking association located in Montana or by any banking corporation incorporated under the laws of Montana; or a bid bond (on form attached if a form is prescribed) issued by a surety authorized to do business in Montana meeting the requirements of Paragraph 5.01 of the general conditions. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal forms. The bid bond shall act as a guarantee that the bidder, if his bid is accepted, will promptly execute the contract, secure pay-ment of worker’s compensation insurance, and furnish a satis-factory faithful performance bond in the amount of 100 percent of the contract price and a payment bond in the amount of 100 percent of the contract price. CONTRACTOR’S REGISTRATION: Montana law requires all contractors to register with the Department of Labor prior to execution of the contract agreement. Forms for registration are available from the Department of Labor and Industry, P.O. Box 8011, 1805 Prospect Ave., Helena, Montana 59604-8011. Information on registration can be obtained by calling 1406-444-7734. All laborers and mechanics employed by the contractor or subcontractors in performance of the construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by law. The contractor must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex or national origin. DOMESTIC MATERIALS: All iron or steel materials to be permanently incorporated into the Project shall be produced in the United States, and certified as indicated within the specifications. BIDS TO REMAIN OPEN: The bidder shall guarantee the total bid price for a period of 60 calendar days from the date of bid opening. Proposals must be sealed and marked “Milwaukee Railroad Path, opening January 26, 2010,” and marked “Sealed Bid” with the contractor’s name and address, and be addressed to: City of Missoula Clerk’s Office 435 Ryman Street Missoula, MT 59802 Facsimile bids will not be accepted.

WAGE RATES: The Contractor shall not pay less than the latest Montana labor standards provisions minimum wage rates as determined by the Department of Labor and Industry. A copy of the applicable wage rates are attached as part of the specifications in Section 00910.

FUNDING AGENCY PROVISIONS: Attention bidders: Please direct your attention to the Funding Agency Special Provisions of the contract documents (section 00900). The successful bidder shall be required to comply with all applicable articles therein. PRE-BID CONFERENCE: Prospective bidders are strongly encouraged to attend a prebid conference, which will be conducted jointly by the owner and engineer at WGM Group, Inc., 1111 E. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 at 2:00 p.m. on January 18th, 2010, with an optional walk-through of the project site upon completion of the meeting (weather dependent). PROJECT ADMINISTRATION: All questions relative to this project prior to the opening of bids shall be directed to the engineer. It shall be

understood, however, that no specification interpretation will be made by telephone, nor will any “or equal” products be considered for approval prior to award of contract. The engineer for this project is: WGM Group, Inc., 1111 East Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, with questions addressed to Melissa MatassaStone (406) 728-4611. OWNER’S RIGHTS RESERVED: The city of Missoula reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive any informality in a bid, or to accept the lowest responsive and responsible bid and bidder, and to make awards in the interest of the city.

The low bid shall be deter-mined on the basis of the lowest base bid, or lowest combination of base bid and accepted alternative bids if alternatives are included. The city may accept in any order; any, all, or none of the alternative bids.

AWARD CONTINGENT: Without limiting the foregoing, it is expressly stated that final award of the Contract is contingent upon securing appropriate financing. Publication Notice Dates: January 6, 2011, January 13, 2011 Owner: City of Missoula By: /s/ Martha L. Rehbein City Clerk

days from the opening thereof. All bidders are advised to examine the site to become familiar with the site conditions.

The screening remodel project and revolving door addition will be shown to interested bidders at 2:00 pm local time, on Wednesday, January 12, 2011 in the Conference room, Missoula International Airport. Any questions regarding bids are to be directed to the office of CTA Architects, Rob Porche, 406-728-9522

MISSOULA COUNTY INVITATION FOR BIDS The Missoula County Facilities Management Department is currently soliciting sealed bids for a water cooled centrifugal chiller for the Missoula County Detention Center located at 2340 Mullan Rd, Missoula, MT. Bids will be accepted until 3:00PM, Wednesday, January 19, 2011 by the Office of the County Auditor at which time bids will be opened and read. All work is to be performed in accordance with Invitation for Bid specifications posted on the Missoula County website at http://www.co.missoula.mt. us/bidsandproposals/bidandproposals.ht m. Proposals must be accompanied by security in the amount of ten per cent (10%) of the amount bid and must be in a form specified in MCA 18-1-201 thru 206. The security is subject to forfeiture if the successful bidder does not enter into the contract within 30 days of bid acceptance. Interested parties may contact Bob Schieder, Systems Engineer, (406) 531 -0377 or bschiede@co.missoula.mt.us for additional information.

Proposals must be sealed and marked “Invitation for Bid – Detention Center Chiller” and 4 copies submitted to: Barbara Berens, County Auditor, 200 W Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802.

Missoula County reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Cause No. DP-10-203 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JESSE EUGENE GEDDES, 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, Nicholas A. Geddes, 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 5th day of January, 2011. /s/ Nicholas A. Geddes, Personal Representative, 10412 Tookie Trek, Missoula, MT 59801

MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE TO PROSPECTIVE BIDDERS Partnership Health Center is inviting proposals for a two year contract for clinical laboratory services, courier services, and data analysis. Interested parties may obtain specifications, bid procedures, and a list of the lab tests for which pricing is sought from the Finance Office, Partnership Health Center, 323 W. Alder Street, Missoula, MT 59802, (406)258-4181. Proposals will be accepted until 3:00PM, Wednesday, February 9, 2011, and must be sealed, marked “Proposals for PHC Lab Services”, and addressed to the Finance Director, Partnership Health Center, 323 W. Alder Street, Missoula, MT 59802.

Technical questions may be directed to Doreen Boyer, Finance Director, Partnership Health Center, (406)2584181.

Partnership Health Center/Missoula County reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

MISSOULA COUNTY INVITATION FOR BIDS FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO MISSOULA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Sealed bids for a screening exit remodel and the addition of revolving doors of the existing terminal building at Missoula International Airport, 5225 Hwy 10 West, Missoula Montana, will be received at the Administration Office of the Missoula County Airport Authority until 1:00 PM local time on January 18, 2011, and then opened, read aloud and canvassed. A complete set of Plans, Specifications and Contract Documents may be obtained on or after Wednesday December 29, 2010 at the Airport Administration office located on the second floor of the terminal building, or by calling 406-728-4381, there is a non refundable deposit of $50.00 for each set of bid documents. The Missoula County Airport Authority reserves the right to waive any informality in or to reject any or all portions of the bid. No proposal may be withdrawn for a period of 60

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No 1 Cause No. DP 11 3 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT C. McGIFFERT, 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 (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 BRIAN S. McGIFFERT, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 10th day of January, 2011. /s/ Brian S. McGiffert, Personal Representative

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 3 Cause Probate No. DP-10-202 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY E. PENGELLY, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice of said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Laure Pengelly Drake, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Maclay Law Firm, PO Box 9197, Missoula, Montana 59807-9197, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 30th day of December, 2010. /s/ Laure Pengelly Drake, Personal Representative, c/o Maclay Law Firm, PO Box 9197, Missoula, MT 59807-9197 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-10-200 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of FREDALINE M. YONCE, 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 Barbara A. Palmer, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 2937 Grassland Dive, Missoula, Montana 59808 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 28th day of December, 2010. /s/ Barbara A. Palmer, Petitioner, 2937 Grassland Drive, Missoula, MT 59808 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Case No. DP-10-201 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF RICHARD HOWARD WILLIAMS, 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 Darinda Williams, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at Tipp & Buley, P.C., PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 5th day of January, 2011. /s/ Darinda Williams, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-10-199 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF C. CALVIN NESS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Julie K. Gosselin, 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 20th day of December, 2010. /s/ Julie K. Gosselin, Personal Representative

PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST Deed of Trust: Dated August 12, 2005 Grantor: Kim Alan Hunt (a/k/a Kim Allen Hunt) 2217 West Whitton Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85015 Original Trustee: Western Title and Escrow 1200 South Reserve, Suite M Missoula, Montana 59801 Beneficiary: First Security Bank of Missoula P.O. Box 4506 Missoula, Montana 59806 Successor Trustee: Christopher B. Swartley Attorney at Law Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC P.O. Box 8957 Missoula, Montana 59807 -8957 Date and Place of Recordation: September 2, 2005 in Book 759, Page 621, Micro Records of Missoula County, Montana The undersigned hereby gives notice that on the 29th day of March, 2011, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. at the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, West Broadway side, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, Christopher B. Swartley, as Successor Trustee under the above-described instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of the above-named Trustee, Successor Trustee, and Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, without warranty or covenant, express or implied, as to title or possession, in the following described real property: Tract I: Lot 2 in the SE 1/4 NE 1/4 of Section 16, Township 14 North, Range 19 West. (Grant Creek) Tract II: An unrecorded lease affecting the premises herein stated, to the lessee herein named, for the term and upon the terms, covenants and conditions therein provided. Constructive notice of said lease is given by recital in instrument.

Recorded: September 23, 1999 Book/Page: Book 596 of Micro Records at Page 1941 Lease Dated: July 1, 1999 Lessor: State of Montana Lessee: Kim Allen Hunt Terms: 25 years Affects: Said premises Subject to easements and encumbrances of record. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are the failure of the above-named Grantor, and all of his successors and assigns, to pay when due the entire balance of principal and interest on the maturity date of the loan, which was August 20, 2010; together with late charges in the amount of Eighty-seven and 99/100ths Dollars ($87 .99); and the failure to pay real and personal property taxes and assessments for the years 2009 and 2010 (first one-half). The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is Twenty-four Thousand Eight Hundred Ninety-three and 97/100ths Dollars ($24 ,893 .97), plus interest thereon at the rate of seven and one-half percent (7 .5%) from and after the 16th day of August, 2010 to November 3, 2010, in the amount of Four Hundred Four and 10/100ths Dollars ($404 .10), plus per diem interest thereafter at the rate of Five and 12/100ths Dollars ($5 .11519), plus all costs, expenses, attorney’s and trustee’s fees as provided by law. DATED this 22nd day of November, 2010. /s/ Christopher B. Swartley Christopher B. Swartley, Successor Trustee Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC P.O. Box 8957 Missoula, Montana 59807 -8957 STATE OF MONTANA :ss. County of Missoula This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 22nd day of November, 2010,

by Christopher B. Swartley, Trustee. /s/ Roxie Hausauer Notary Public for the State of Montana. (NOTARIAL SEAL) Residing at: Lolo, Montana My commission expires: January 6, 2013 NOTICE OF SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST Deed of Trust: Dated July 11, 2005 Grantor: Kim Alan Hunt (a/k/a Kim Allen Hunt) 2217 West Whitton Avenue Phoenix, Arizona 85015 Original Trustee: Western Title and Escrow 1200 South Reserve, Suite M Missoula, Montana 59801 Beneficiary: First Security Bank of Missoula P.O. Box 4506 Missoula, Montana 59806 Successor Trustee: Christopher B. Swartley Attorney at Law Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC P.O. Box 8957 Missoula, Montana 59807 -8957 Date and Place of Recordation: July 28, 2005 in Book 757, Page 155, Micro Records of Missoula County, Montana The undersigned hereby gives notice that on the 29th day of March, 2011, at the hour of 10:05 a.m. at the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, West Broadway side, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, Christopher B. Swartley, as Successor Trustee under the above-described instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of the above-named Trustee, Successor Trustee, and Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, without warranty or covenant, express or implied, as to title or possession, in the following described real property: Tract I: Lot 2 in the SE 1/4 NE 1/4 of Section 16, Township 14 North, Range 19 West. (Grant Creek) Tract II: An unrecorded lease affecting the premises herein stated, to the lessee herein named, for the term and upon the terms, covenants and conditions therein provided. Constructive notice of said lease is given by recital in instrument.

Recorded: September 23, 1999 Book/Page: Book 596 of Micro Records at Page 1941 Lease Dated: July 1, 1999 Lessor: State of Montana Lessee: Kim Allen Hunt Terms: 25 years Affects: Said premises Subject to easements and encumbrances of record. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are the failure of the above-named Grantor, and all of his successors and assigns, to pay when due the monthly payments provided for in the Deed of Trust in the amount of One Thousand Seven Hundred Nineteen and 31/100ths Dollars ($1 ,719 .31) for the months of August 2010 through November 2010; together with late charges in the amount of Four Hundred Dollars ($400 .00); and the failure to pay real and personal property taxes and assessments for the years 2009 and 2010 (first one-half). In addition, Grantor has failed to make Lease payments to the Montana Department of Natural Resources and

Conservation as provided in the Deed of Trust and Grantor’s Lease. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is Two Hundred Thousand Eight Hundred Forty-two and 56/100ths Dollars ($200, 842. 56), plus interest thereon at the rate of 6 .375% from and after the 5th day of August, 2010 to November 3, 2010, in the amount of Three Thousand One Hundred Fifty-seven and 08/100ths Dollars ($3 ,157 .08), plus per diem interest thereafter at the rate of Thirty-five and 08/100ths Dollars ($35 .07866), plus all costs, expenses, attorney’s and trustee’s fees as provided by law. DATED this 22nd day of November, 2010. /s/ Christopher B. Swartley Christopher B. Swartley, Successor Trustee Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC P.O. Box 8957 Missoula, Montana 59807 -8957 STATE OF MONTANA :ss. County of Missoula This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 22nd day of November, 2010,

by Christopher B. Swartley, Trustee. /s/ Roxie Hausauer Notary Public for the State of Montana. ((NOTARIAL SEAL) Residing at: Lolo, Montana My commission expires: January 6, 2013 NOTICE OF SALE UNDER MONTANA DEED OF TRUST Deed of Trust: Dated: December 20, 2005 Names of Original Parties: Grantor: Todd D. Runkle 24696 Wallace Creek Road Clinton, Montana 59825 Todd D. Runkle 5054 Lower JC Road Darby, Montana 59829 Todd D. Runkle P.O. Box 235 Conner, Montana 59827 Trustee: First American Title P.O. Box 549 Missoula, Montana 59806 Beneficiary: Dan Russell Family, L.P. c/o Daniel G. Russell 9905 Inspiration Drive Missoula, Montana 59808 Successor Trustee: Christopher B. Swartley Attorney at Law Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC P.O. Box 8957 Missoula, Montana 59807 -8957 Date and Place of Recordation: December 21, 2005 in Book 766, Page 473, Micro Records of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana The undersigned hereby gives notice that on the 19th day of April, 2011 at the hour of 10:00 a.m. at the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, West Broadway side, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, Christopher B. Swartley, as Successor Trustee under the above-described instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of the above-named Trustee, Successor Trustee, and Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, without warranty or covenant, express or implied, as to title or possession, in the following described real property: : Queen Mary Survey No. 9702 Embracing a portion of Sections 17 and 18 in Township 12 North of Range 16 West of the Montana Meridian, in the Wallace, unorganized, Mining District, Missoula County, Montana, and bounded, described and platted as follows: Beginning at Corner No. 1, a fir post 4 feet long, 5 inches square, marked 1-9702, with mound of earth and stone, from which the East Quarter corner of Section 18 in Township 12 North of Range 16 West of the Montana Meridian, bears N6˚26’W., 374.7 feet distant; then, first course N66˚59’W., 242.05 feet to a point from which discovery shaft bears S9˚55’W., 85 feet distant; 462.36 feet to corner No. 2, a pine post 4 feet long, 5 inches square, marked 2-9702, with mound of earth and stone; thence second course, S17˚49’W., 532.3 feet to corner No. 3, a granite stone 24x8x6 inches marked 3-9702, with mound of earth and stone; thence third course, S77˚16’E., 190.5 feet to corner No. 4, a granite stone 24x8x6 inches marked 4-9702, with mound of earth and stone; thence fourth course, S21˚56’W., 964.93 feet to corner No. 5, a pine post 4 feet long, 5 inches square, marked 5-9702 and P.I. 4139 – 7609, with mound of earth and stone; situate at the point of intersection of line 1 – 2 of Survey No. 4139, with Aladdin lode claim with line 3 – 4 of Survey No. 7609 the Cape Nome lode claim; thence, fifth course, S66˚59’E., 330 feet intersect line 1 – 2 of Survey No. 7607, the Bullion lode claim, at S37˚9’W., 39.6 feet from corner No. 2; 616 feet to corner No. 6, a spruce post 4 feet long, 5 inches square, marked 6-9702, with mound of earth and stone; thence sixth course, N9˚55’E., 53.87 feet intersect line 2 – 3 of said Survey No. 7607, at S70˚2’E., 264.48 feet from corner No. 2; 186.2 feet to corner No. 7, a pine post 4 feet long, 5 inches square, marked 7-9702, with mound of earth and stone; thence seventh course, N7˚5’E., 1,330.65 feet to corner No. 1, the place of beginning; - expressly excepting and excluding from these presents all that portion of the ground hereinbefore described; embraced in said mining claim or Survey No. 7607. Recording Reference: Book 673 of Micro Records at Page 351. Subject to easements and encumbrances of record. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are the failure of the above-named Grantor, and all of his successors and assigns, to pay when due the monthly payments provided for in the Deed of Trust in the amount of Seven Hundred Forty-seven and 01/100ths Dollars ($747 .01) for the months of June 2010 through the present; together with late charges in the amount of Five Hundred Dollars ($500 .00); and the failure to pay real and personal property taxes and assessments for the years 2009 and 2010 (first one-half). The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is Sixtyone Thousand Two Hundred Eleven and 42/100ths Dollars ($61 ,211 .42), plus interest thereon at the rate of eight and one -half percent (8 .5%) from and after the 20th day of May, 2010, to November 20, 2010, in the amount of Two Thousand Six Hundred One and 49/100ths Dollars ($2 ,601. 49), plus per diem interest thereafter at the rate of Fourteen and 27/100ths Dollars ($14.2 7), plus all costs, expenses, attorney’s and trustee’s fees as provided by law.

DATED this 22nd day of November, 2010. /s/ Christopher B. Swartley Christopher B. Swartley, Successor Trustee Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC P.O. Box 8957 Missoula, Montana 59807 -8957 STATE OF MONTANA

:ss. County of Missoula This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 22nd day of November, 2010, by Christopher B. Swartley, Trustee. /s/ Roxie Hausauer Notary Public for the State of Montana. Residing at: Lolo, Montana My commission expires: January 6, 2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/31/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200900014 Bk. 831 Pg.444, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Tyler J. Harbour, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 461 of Pleasant View Homes No. 4, Phase 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 08/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 9, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $294,961.22. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $264,712.74, 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 March 21, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and

attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.09011) 1002.141031-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/02/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200705409, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Darwin L. Kinyon and Jill M. Kinyon, husband and wife was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Challenge Financial Investors, Corp. was Beneficiary and Title Services of Missoula Inc. was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services of Missoula Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 12, Forty-four Ranch Estates, according to the official plat thereof, as filed in the Clerk and Recorder’s office Missoula County, Montana. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Chase Home Finance LLC. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 11/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 19, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $208,032.57. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $190,016.00, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on April 4, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time.

The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close

of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all 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

PUBLIC NOTICE

The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board will conduct a public hearing on the following items on Tuesday, February 1, 2011, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana. 1. Missoula Development Park, Block 4, Lot 1 The Missoula County Airport Industrial District and Missoula County Special Projects request to rezone the subject property from the “Neighborhood Commercial” Sub-district to the “Light Industrial” sub-district of the Missoula Development Park Special Zoning District. The property is located at the inter-

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(TS# 1002.178688-FEI

or USA7037.72357)

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/26/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200702634, Book 791, Page 655, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Mark W. Knight and Laura A. Knight, husband and wife was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Home123 Corporation was Beneficiary and First American Title Insurance Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Insurance Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 55-B of Snider Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200807848, Bk. 816, Pg. 1024, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, National Association as Trustee for Deutsche Alt-A Securities Mortgage Loan Trust, Series

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING THE MISSOULA CITY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT will be conducting a public hearing at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 26, 2011, Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine, Missoula, MT, on the following items: 1. A request by David McClain for a setback variance to rebuild and expand the rear portion of his nonconforming house located at 2204 South 8th W, and zoned R5.4.

SEE MAP R

COMMENTS ON CITY’S ANNUAL ACTION PLAN REQUESTED

The City of Missoula has developed an Annual Action Plan describing activities that it will undertake as a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Entitlement City and as a Home Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) Participating Jurisdiction for the program year beginning April 1, 2011. The City’s Program Year 2011 Annual Action Plan is now available for public review and comment.

A public hearing on the Plan has been requested before City Council at its regular meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, January 24, 2011, in the City Council Chambers at 140 West Pine Street in Missoula.

Public comments on the City’s proposed activities submitted by February 9 will be included in the final version of the Annual Action Plan submitted to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Comments may be made in writing or in person at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants (OPG), 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT, 59802; by phone at 258-4934, or via email to nharte@co.missoula.mt.us. The City of Missoula and OPG welcome comments on its HOME and CDBG activities, Consolidated Plan and annual Action Plans on a year-round basis.

Copies of the Action Plan are available for review at OPG in Missoula City Hall, 435 Ryman; at the Missoula City-County Library, 301 East Main; or on OPG’s website at www.co.missoula.mt.us\opgweb. Persons wishing to receive a copy of the Action Plan or to review it in an alternative format should contact Nancy Harte at OPG, 258-4934.

section of Expressway and Butler Creek Road (see Map O). 2. Article 9 Public and Private Improvements, Missoula City Subdivision Regulations The Office of Planning and Grants, in cooperation with the City Engineering Division, is initiating a revision to the Missoula City Subdivision Regulations, Article 9 Public and Private Improvements. The intent of this item is to update and revise the regulations to better reflect current practices. The Board of County Commissioners will hold a public hearing on item #1 at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 16, 2011, in Room 201 of the County Courthouse at 200 West Broadway in Missoula. The City Council will conduct a public hearing on item #2 at a time to be determined. Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The project files are available for public inspection at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, City Hall, 4 3 5 Ry m a n , M i s s o u l a , Montana. Telephone 258-4657.

If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-4657. The City of Missoula or will provide auxiliary aids and services.

2. A request by Roger Hall represented by the Jackie Johnson Group and Edgell Building & Development for a front yard setback variance for Lots 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the River Place Subdivision located in the RT10 zoning district. SEE MAP Q

If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling the Missoula Office of Planning & Grants at 2584657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. For additional information regarding the variance request you may contact Hilary Schoendorf at the same number or email hschoendorf@co.missoula.mt.us.

2007-AR3. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 24, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $805,190.60. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $599,322.54, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on April 6, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred.

Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 135, 33, 16 and 7. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting January 17, 2011 by appt only by calling 5417919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to January 20, 2011, 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale.

All Sales final.

EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 2, 35, 251, 301, 380, 407, 477, and 670. Units contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc household goods.

These units may be viewed starting Monday, January 24, 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 Thursday, January 27, 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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PUBLIC NOTICES defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com.

(TS# 7777.26264) 1002.97599-FEI Notice of Trustee’s Sale THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on April 18, 2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which THOMAS E RANDALL, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEYAT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 09/20/2006 and recorded 09/22/2006, in document No. 200624228 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 783 at Page Number 880 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOTS 24 AND 25 IN BLOCK 78 OF DALY’S ADDITION NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT OF RECORD IN BOOK 2 OF PLATS AT PAGE 31. Property Address: 2250 10TH SOUTH ST WEST, Missoula, MT 59801-3255. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 09/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any.

TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $112,637.14 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per annum from 09/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: December 02, 2010 ReconTrust Company, N.A. Successor Trustee 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407 Richardson, TX 75082. T.S. NO 10-0156693 FEI NO 1006.121260 Notice of Trustee’s Sale THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on February 9, 2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which TROY A MAGRUDER, AN UNMARRIED WOMAN as Grantors, conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 6/13/2005 and recorded 06/14/2005, in document No. 200514382 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 754 at Page Number 687 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: PARCEL I: TRACT 5-B-1D OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 2595 LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST ONEQUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST ONEQUARTER OF SECTION 3, TOWNSHIP 11

NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. PARCEL II: TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT FOR ACCESS AS SHOWN ON CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 2595. Property Address: 14010 SAPPHIRE DR, Lolo, MT 59847-9637. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held

by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 06/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any.

TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $128,422.50 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.75% per annum from 05/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation Dated: September 24, 2010 ReconTrust Company, N.A. Successor Trustee 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407 Richardson, TX 75082. T.S. NO 10-0110367 FEI NO 1006.110534 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 18, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: LOTS 11 AND 12 IN BLOCK 69 OF DALY’S ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Being the same property conveyed to James A McGahee and Karolina V McGahee by deed from Mark Bradford and Cristy K Bradford f/k/a/ Cristy K Carpenter, dated May 5, 2003 and recorded May 8, 2003 in the Office of the Clerk of Missoula County, Montana, under File No. 200316158. Parcel ID # : 3338006 James A McGahee, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of trust recorded July 10, 2008 in Book 822 Page 871 under Document No. 200816091. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. Successor in interest to 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 $1,031.50, beginning December 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 October 1, 2010 is $137,002.14 principal, interest at the rate of 6.2500% now totaling $7849.05, late charges in the amount of $557.05, escrow advances of $974.46, and other fees and expenses advanced of $143.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $23.46 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

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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: October 11, 2010 /s/ Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On October 11, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Citi Mortgage V. Mcgahee 42011.143 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 18, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: LOT 36 OF STILLWATER ADDITION AT MALONEY RANCH PHASE II, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Douglas H McCollum, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of trust dated February 22, 2005 and Recorded March 2, 2005 in Book 748 Page 1163 under Document No. 200504917. The beneficial interest is currently held by EverBank. 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 $1457.46, beginning July 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 21, 2010 is $301,162.08 principal, interest at the rate of 3.12500% now totaling $2,868.53, late charges in the amount of $145.74 and other fees and expenses advanced of $102.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $25.78 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: October 11, 2010 /s/ Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On October 11, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Everhome V. McCollum 41470.206 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 22, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT

59802, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: THE EAST 1/2 OF LOT 10, ALL OF LOTS 11 AND 12 AND THE WEST 1/2 OF LOT 13 IN BLOCK 4, COOK’S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Richard J. Styler and Teri L. Styler, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company Of Montana, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of trust dated July 11, 2008 and recorded July 18, 2008 in Book 823, Page 267 under document No. 200816886. The beneficial interest is currently held by Guild Mortgage Company. 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 $1,711.76, beginning April 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 1, 2010 is $182,189.05 principal, interest at the rate of 6.500% now totaling $6,913.25, late charges in the amount of $451.42, escrow advances of $2,044.18, and other fees and expenses advanced of $165.38, plus accruing interest at the rate of $32.57 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: October 14, 2010 /s/ Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On October 14, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Guild V Styler 41291.390 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 25, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: ALL THAT PARCEL OF LAND IN CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, STATE OF MONTANAAS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN DEED BOOK 417, PAGE 2148, ID#5301078, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LOT 5, BLOCK 9, HILLVIEW HEIGHTS NO. 4. BY FEE SIMPLE DEED FROM JAMES TIMOTHY GREENE AS SET FORTH IN DEED BOOK 417, PAGE 2148 DATED 06/27/1994 AND RECORDED 6/27/1994, MISSOULA COUNTY STATE OF MONTANA. James Greene and Janet Greene, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Tucker Harris, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to CitiFinancial Mortgage Company, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 31, 2001 and Recorded on August 09, 2001 under Document # 200119439, in Bk-666, Pg386. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. Successor in interest to 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 $1,545.02, beginning September 15, 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 September 29, 2010 is $113,732.45 principal, interest at the rate of 6.02% now totaling $37,994.78, late charges in the amount of $459.94, escrow advances of $31,697.66, other fees and expenses advanced of $2520.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $18.76 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: October 18, 2010 /s/ Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On October 18, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Citimortgage V. Greene 41499.823 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 28, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE SOUTH 65 FEET OF LOT 11 AND THE SOUTH 65 FEET OF THE WEST 20 FEET OF LOT 12 IN BLOCK 132 OF WOODY ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 276 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1300 Gwen K Harlan, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services of Missoula, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 15, 2003 and recorded October 20, 2003 in Book 720, Page 638, under Document No. 200340174. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, 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 $1,058.88, beginning June 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 4, 2010 is $125,726.37 principal, interest at the rate of 6.250% now totaling $11,196.53, late charges in the amount of $795.34, escrow advances of $2,450.54, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,911.33, plus accruing interest at the rate of $21.53 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid 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

PUBLIC NOTICES 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: October 19, 2010 /s/ Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On October 19, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Citimortgage V Harlan 41533.889 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 28, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT C45 OF WINDSOR PARK PHASE IV, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. A.P.N.: TO BE ASSIGNED Frank E. Gehring and Jennifer L. Gehring, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 28, 2008 and Recorded on February 01, 2008 under Document # 200802341, in Bk-812, Pg-1000.

The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, 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 $1,321.99, beginning June 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 1, 2010 is $165,641.47 principal, interest at the rate of 6.25% now totaling $4,313.60, late charges in the amount of $168.08, escrow advances of $-66.76, and other fees and expenses advanced of $199.30, plus accruing interest at the rate of $28.36 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: October 19, 2010 /s/ Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On October 19, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is

subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Citimortgage V. Gehring 42011.151 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 4, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: PARCEL 12 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 351 LOCATED IN THE NORTH ONE-HALF OF SECTION 13, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 22 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Vern L. Rollins and Lois M Rollins, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of trust dated June 3, 2009 and recorded June 8, 2009 in Book 840, Page 1378 and under Document No. 200913539. The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH Mortgage Corporation. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of MISSOULA County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,801.57, beginning June 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 1, 2010 is $293,551.07 principal, interest at the rate of 0.06125% now totaling $6,059.01, late charges in the amount of $540.36 and other fees and expenses advanced of $42.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $49.26 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: October 25, 2010 /s/ Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On October 25, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Phh V. Rollins/vern & Lois 41392.693 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 4, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 9 IN BLOCK 3 OF SCENIC VIEW ESTATES ADDITION NO. 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISON IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. David R. Krause and Jodie L. Hooker, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 31, 2006 and Recorded on September 06, 2006 under Document # 200622780 Book 782 Micro Records Pg. 820. The beneficial interest is currently held by OneWest Bank, FSB. 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 $1,490.17, beginning November 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 November 11, 2010 is $173,019.40 principal, interest at the rate of 7.25% now totaling $13,898.59, late charges in the amount of $1,119.80, escrow advances of $3,383.18, suspense balance of $1,024.77 and other fees and expenses advanced of $363.34, plus accruing interest at the rate of $34.37 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: October 25, 2010 /s/ Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On October 25, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Onewest V. Krause & Hooker 41969.538 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 7, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE SOUTH ONE-HALF OF LOTS 19 AND 20 IN BLOCK M OF CAR LINE ADDITION NO. 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Doreen M Bermingham, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 30, 2006 and Recorded on March 31, 2006 in Book 771, Page 353 under Document # 200607104. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company Americas as Indenture Trustee for American Home Mortgage Investment Trust 2006-2. 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 $852.14, 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 November 19, 2010 is $98,968.87 principal, interest at the rate of 7.25% now totaling $9,342.61, late charges in the amount of $105.15, escrow advances of $1,932.07 other fees and expenses advanced of $2,423.54, plus accruing interest at the rate of $19.66 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: October 26, 2010 /s/ Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On October 26, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 American Home Mortgage V. Bermingham 41537.432 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 7, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 9 of Lake Homesites, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Pat thereof Jane Goffe and Doug McIntosh, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to New Century Mortgage Corporation, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated November 8, 2005 and recorded November 14, 2005 in Book 764, Page 142, as Document No. 200530158. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the GSAMP Trust 2006-NC1 Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-NC1. 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 $1,327.66, beginning August 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 November 15, 2010 is $162,738.45 principal, interest at the rate of 9.475% now totaling $21,193.04, late charges in the amount of $2,326.94, escrow advances of $2,020.78, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,889.29, plus accruing interest at the rate of $42.25 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: October 27, 2010 /s/ Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF

KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On October 27, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Litton V Goffe-McIntosh 41462.656 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 7, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT 1 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5171, LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST ONEQUARTER OF SECTION 26, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Caylee Kittelson-Hehn and Brian Hehn, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 06, 2009 and Recorded on April 10, 2009 under Document # 200908088, in Bk-837, Pg-124.

The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC. 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 $1,475.60, beginning June 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 5, 2010 is $217,488.26 principal, interest at the rate of 5.0% now totaling $5,437.20, late charges in the amount of $397.18, escrow advances of $12.06, and other fees and expenses advanced of $71.25, plus accruing interest at the rate of $29.80 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: October 26, 2010 /s/ Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On October 26, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 GMAC V. Kittelson-Hehn 41965.397 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 7, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in MISSOULA County, Montana: LOT 16A OF CAR LINE ADDITION BLOCK 18, LOTS 15AAND 16A, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. KORY KNIE, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary, by DEED OF TRUST DATED ON APRIL 27, 2007 AND RECORDED ON JUNE 3, 2007 IN BOOK 796, PAGE 805 UNDER DOCUMENT NO. 200710763.

The beneficial interest is currently held by

Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee of the IndyMac INDX Mortgage Trust 2007-FLX4, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-FLX4 under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated May 1, 2007. 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 $732.01, beginning June 1, 2010, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 12, 2010 is $164,024.30 principal, interest at the rate of 6.625% now totaling $4,855.24, late charges in the amount of $420.30, escrow advances of $.70, and other fees and expenses advanced of $69.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $29.77 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: October 26, 2010 /s/ Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On October 26, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Onewest Bank V Knie 41969.530 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 7, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PREMISES IN MISSOULA COUNTY, STATE OF MONTANA: LOT 157 OF PLEASANT VIEW HOMES NO. 2, PHASE III, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO GARY L. HANNINEN AND CAROL R. HANNINEN, AS JOINT TENANTS AND TO THE SURVIVOR OF SAID NAMES JOINT TENANTS BY DEED FROM PLEASANT VIEW HOMES, INC. RECORDED 09/30/2003 IN DEED BOOK PAGE 200337678, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. TAX ID# 3790302 GARY L. HANNINEN AND CAROL R. HANNINEN, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to WILLIAM T. STEVENS, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary, by DEED OF TRUST DATED ON FEBRUARY 22, 2006 AND RECORDED ON APRIL 4, 2006 IN BOOK 771, PAGE 651 UNDER DOCUMENT NO. 200607402. The beneficial interest is currently held by HSBC Mortgage Services, 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 $1,526.62, beginning July 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 October 6, 2010 is $185,369.28 principal, interest at the rate of 8.99% now totaling $26,291.46, late charges in the amount of $107.58, escrow advances of $2845.28, and

other fees and expenses advanced of $125.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $45.67 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: October 26, 2010 /s/ Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On October 26, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Stephanie L Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Hsbc V Hanninen 41472.525 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 8, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 26 of Meriwether, a platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof Richard J Bateman, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Comp., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated December 14, 2006 and recorded December 18, 2006 in Book 789, Page 42 under Document No. 200632161. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Morgan Stanley, MSAC 2007-HE5. 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 $1,431.51, beginning April 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 November 15, 2010 is $216,798.03 principal, interest at the rate of 8.000% now totaling $25,350.65, late charges in the amount of $57.27, escrow advances of $3,418.05, suspense balance of $-2,499.40 and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,954.52, plus accruing interest at the rate of $47.51 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 prop-

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PUBLIC NOTICES TRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which MAUREEN ANNE GRAHAM, AND VERNON E CLINCH, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 11/15/2005 and recorded 11/23/2005, in document No. 200531329 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 764 at Page Number 1313 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 14 IN BLOCK 2 OF MILLER CREEK VIEW ADDITION PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 7014 ALISHA DR, Missoula, MT 59803-3502. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held

by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING LP. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 07/01/2010, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $186,658.08 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per annum from 07/01/2010 until paid, plus all accrued late

charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. Dated: 10/15/2010; ReconTrust Company, N.A., Successor Trustee; 2380 Performance Dr. TX2-984-0407; Richardson, TX 75082; T.S. NO. 10-0136217 FEI NO. 1006.115992

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erty, 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: October 29, 2010 /s/ Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On October 29, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Saxon V Bateman 41744.252 Notice of Trustee’s Sale: THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 03/01/2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor, his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802. RECON-

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, the 15th day of February, 2011, at the hour of 10:00 a.m., at the front door of the Missoula County Courthouse, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802, Martin S. King, Attorney at Law, Successor Trustee, in order to satisfy the obligations set out below, has been directed to sell and has elected to sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, payable at the time of sale, and without warranty or covenant, express or implied as to title, possession, encumbrances, condition, or otherwise, the interest of the Successor Trustee, Martin S. King, and of the Grantor SUN PEAK CONSTRUCTION, INC. in and to the following described real property, situated in Missoula, Montana, to wit: The Southeast one-quarter of the Northeast one-quarter of the Northeast onequarter of Section 34, Township 11 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County Montana. Now described as Lots 1, 2, 4 & 5 of Hall Addition a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof. The Real Property or its

address is commonly known as Jones Road, Florence, MT 59833. Said sale will be made in accordance with the statutes of the State of Montana, and the terms and provisions of: that certain Deed of Trust dated June 22, 2007, and recorded June 26, 2007 in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, in Book 800 of Micro at page 352 as Document No. 200716147, wherein SUN PEAK CONSTRUCTION, INC. is Grantor, FIRST INTERSTATE BANK is the named Beneficiary, and INSURED TITLES is named Trustee; that certain Modification of Deed of Trust recorded February 26, 2009, as Document No. 200904200 in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana; Those certain Change in Terms Agreements dated June 22, 2007 and July 23, 2009; that certain Appointment of Successor Trustee dated September 3, 2010, and recorded September 8, 2010, in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana, as Document No. 201017331, wherein the Beneficiary substituted Insured Titles with Martin S. King, attorney at law, as Successor Trustee; and This foreclosure is made because the Grantor SUN PEAK CONSTRUCTION, INC., its co-borrowers, guarantors of the note, and successors in interest, have defaulted in the terms of said Deed of Trust and the corresponding Promissory Note, and subsequent Modification of Deed of Trust and Change in Terms Agreements in that they have failed to pay the payment due upon maturity when due and otherwise defaulted on said Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the terms of the Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has exercised its option to declare the full amount secured by such Deed of Trust immediately due and payable. That the principal sum now owing on the obligation secured by said Deed of Trust is the sum of One hundred Eightythree Thousand Four Hundred Ninety-five and 94/100 ($183,495.94), together with interest at the default rate of 8.75% per annum, until the date of sale. That on the date of sale, presuming no other payments are made and that the sale is not postponed, there

will be due and owing the sum of One Hundred Eighty-three Thousand Four Hundred Ninety-five and 94/100 Dollars ($183.495.94) in principal; Eighteen Thousand Three Hundred Forty-three and 29/100 Dollars ($18,343.29) in interest; and Ninety-one and 99/100 Dollars ($91.99) in late fees, totaling the sum of Two Hundred One Thousand Nine Hundred Thirty-one and 22/100 Dollars ($201,931.22) together with costs and expenses of foreclosure and related trustee fees, costs and attorney fees allowable by law. DATED this 12th day of October, 2010. /s/ Martin S. King, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA):ss). County of Missoula). On this 12th day of October, 2010, before me, the undersigned a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Martin S. King, Attorney at Law, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within Notice of Trustee’s Sale as Successor Trustee, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same as such Successor Trustee. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Rhonda M. Kolar, Notary Public for the State of Montana, Residing at Missoula My commission expires: January 24, 2012

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, the 1st day of March, 2011, at the hour of 10:00 a.m., at the front door of the Missoula County Courthouse, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802, Martin S. King, Attorney at Law, Successor Trustee, in order to satisfy the obligations set out below, has been directed to sell and has elected to sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, payable at the time of sale, and without warranty or covenant, express or implied as to title, possession, encumbrances, condition, or otherwise, the interest of the Successor Trustee, Martin S. King, and of the Grantor PRINGLE LANDHOLDING, LLC. in and to the following described real property, situated in Missoula, Montana, to wit: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NW 1/4 OF SEC-

TION 28, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 22 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 917. The Real Property or its address is commonly known as 28030 Highway 10 West, Huson, MT 59846. Said sale will be made in accordance with the statutes of the State of Montana, and the terms and provisions of: that certain Deed of Trust dated October 31, 2007, and recorded November 2, 2007 in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, in Book 808 at page 517 as Document No. 200728880, wherein PRINGLE LANDHOLDING, LLC is Grantor, FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MONTANA, INC. is the named Beneficiary, and FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY is named Trustee; that certain Appointment of Successor Trustee dated October 27, 2008, and recorded October 28, 2008, in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana in Book 828 at page 860 as Document No. 200824474, wherein the Beneficiary substituted Trustee First American Title Company with Martin S. King, attorney at law, as Successor Trustee; and that certain Loan Modification Agreement dated April 8, 2009, This foreclosure is made because the Grantor PRINGLE LANDHOLDING LLC, and its successors in interest, have defaulted in the terms of said Deed of Trust and the corresponding Promissory Note in that it has failed to pay the monthly payments and otherwise defaulted on said Deed of Trust and that certain Loan Modification Agreement dated April 8, 2009, and pursuant to the terms of the Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has exercised its option to declare the full amount secured by such Deed of Trust immediately due and payable. That the principal sum now owing on the obligation secured by said Deed of Trust is the sum of Four Hundred Sixty-four Thousand Six Hundred Nineteen and 04/100 Dollars ($464,619.04), together with interest at the default rate of 18% per annum, until the date of sale. That on the date of sale, presuming no other payments are made and that the sale is

not postponed, there will be due and owing the sum of Four Hundred Sixty-four Thousand Six Hundred Nineteen and 04/100 Dollars ($464,619.04) in principal; One Hundred Fifty-seven Thousand Eight Hundred Ninety-five and 69/100 Dollars ($157,895.69) in interest; and One Thousand Eight Hundred Fifty and No/100 Dollars ($1,850.00) in late fees, Eight Thousand Seven Hundred Sixty and No/100 ($8,760.00) for force-place insurance costs, totaling the sum of Six Hundred Thirty-three Thousand One Hundred Twenty-four and 73/100 Dollars ($633,124.73) together with costs and expenses of foreclosure and related trustee fees, costs and attorney fees allowable by law.

DATED this 20th day of October, 2010. /s/ Martin S. King, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA):ss). County of Missoula). On this 20th day of October, 2010, before me, the undersigned a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Martin S. King, Attorney at Law, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within Notice of Trustee’s Sale as Successor Trustee, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same as such Successor Trustee. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.

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Missoula Housing: What's Next?

By Diane Beck, 2011 MOR President As the calendar turns to 2011, we wanted to take a moment to look forward. However, predications can be a tricky business. I’m reminded of the saying, “Every prediction is wrong; some are just more wrong than others.” With that disclaimer in mind, as 2011 President of the Missoula Organization of REALTORS®, I would like to review the available data for 2010 and analyze what that may mean for 2011.

Recession: Missoula has seen an effect from the recession. According to the MOR Market Trends statistics, which are available at www.missoularealestate.com (updated monthly), Missoula had 830 residential sales in 2010, down 9% from 2009 and 22% from the high of 1443 in 2006.

Income Tax Credit: Individuals who planned on buying did so early which caused the summer months, usually the busiest, to be unusually slow.

Nationally, July saw a record 27% drop in existing home sales from the month prior as the tax credit expired. But as we moved into the second half of the year, agents started noticing a turn for the better. In December the number of sales

was 56, six more than December 2009 when the tax credit was originally supposed to expire. Consumers in the Missoula market are shopping and they don’t need an incentive to do so.

Foreclosures: Foreclosures, which rose by almost 90% the previous two years, have dropped a small percentage or at least steadied. For the first three quarters of 2010 there were 151, 16 less than the same time in 2009, a reduction of almost 10%. Even with the jump in foreclosures since 2007, it represents only about 1% of owner-occupied housing, a healthy number in a normal market.

Affordability: The fact that our housing prices haven’t dropped as dramatically as in other parts of the nation is good for homeowners. However, that means that affordability for potential buyers has not increased as much as it has in other parts of the nation. Nevertheless, assuming income levels from 2009 are still accurate and with a median price of $202,500, a four-person household has 101% of the income they need to afford that home. The affordability index has not been at that level since 2003! Even with the modest decreases in housing

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So what does all this information tell us for 2011?

As many economists estimate a slow recovery, the housing market will most likely follow suit. However, the health of the market is local, even hyper-local in some cases. For sellers, what neighborhood your home is in or the price range you’re selling in could dramatically affect its value or how quickly it sells. For buyers, neighborhood and price range may be determining factors of affordability, and therefore the possibility of homeownership in 2011.

Finally, any predictions I make here depend on the confidence of the consumer. With the high number of December sales, it seems that people are beginning to put their foot back into the water, but the question remains: Will it last?

What we do know is that affordability has been regained and as the economy slowly rebuilds, homeownership in the Missoula market may be a reality for even more consumers in 2011.

$175,000 MLS # 10000927

102,108 & 116 E. Hickey St. Philipsburg

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Enjoy the unobstructed views of Georgetown Lake and the Anaconda Pintler Wilderness Area from this beautiful 9-acre parcel.

The property is a mix of meadow and trees gently sloping to within 100' of the lake shore. USFS land separates the parcel from the actual shoreline. Access is year round and power and phone are available.

The final plot is recorded and septic is approved. The fishing in the lake is fantastic and the surrounding area offers unlimited year round recreational opportunities.

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$184,000 Deeded Creek Access. This great 1 br, 1 ba cabin is situated on 1.5 acres with deeded access to "Blue Ribbon" Rock Creek. The home features tile floors, Viking range and hood, gas fireplace with electric back-up heat in all rooms, lg walk-in steam shower and custom wood blinds. Great views, trees, easy access, and the entire 1.5 acres is grass with full u/g sprinkler system. Located just 8 miles up Rock Creek on paved, county maintained road. Commute to Missoula is about 35 minutes.

3 acres just 9 miles up, on the creek side of a paved, county maintained road. Beautiful level ground w/ septic system. Power and phone are to the property and wells in the area are shallow. Deeded access to Rock Creek from the property. Enjoy watching the Big Horn Sheep that roam the surrounding cliffs and hillsides. This is a great spot for a year round home or vacation cabin.

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 2 bdrm 2 bath manufactured home. Addition for possible den or office. Shop & extra space in dbl garage. Zoned for multifamily or commercial. $124,900.

MLS#906610. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

3 bed, 1 bath with large living room, a new bathroom & new flooring throughout bathroom & kitchen, new siding, and windows as well as a new roof. Convenient location.

2402 McDonald $148,000 MLS # 10006235 Jeremy & Betsy Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com 3 bed, 2 bath Potomac area home. Covered deck, fenced acreage and great views. The 28 x32 garage has double doors, attached storage in the back and small car port. RV hookups behind garage. 40x49 Quoncet shop with 200 amp service, air compressor, snap on car lift, crane, water. $259,900.

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3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage.

Master bed w/ closet/office area, Large storage shed, new deck & underground sprinklers $220,000 • MLS # 10007009. Jeremy & Betsy Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com 4 bed, 2 bath, 1 car garage.

Centrally located home, large living room & family room in daylight basement • $174,900 MLS # 10004809. Jeremy & Betsy Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com 5 bed, 3 bath home in South Hills. House has central air,

vaulted ceilings, big family room with gas fireplace. Yard w/ underground sprinklers and privacy fence. 2 car garage. Great home for entertaining! MLS # 10007275. $265,000. Jeremy & Betsy Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com 5 bedroom, 3 bath, 2 living rooms (one upstairs, one downstairs). Nice house in nice Missoula area. Large lot. Lots of updates. Must see! $275,000.

406-534-0553, 541-786-0742 BEAUTIFULLY REMODELED UNIVERSITY DISTRICT HOME. Gorgeous 3 Bdr/2 Bath home in a prime University District location. Gorgeous hardwood floors, built-ins, french doors, bright, sunny kitchen, great yard, and much more. $399,900. Prudential Montana.

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GORGEOUS CRAFTSMAN STYLE TARGET RANGE HOME ON 0.94 ACRES. 5 Bdr/3.5 Bath, double garage, hardwood & tile floors, gourmet kitchen, breakfast nook, main floor master, 2 family rooms. Close to schools, shopping, and the Bitterroot River. $469,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, Text Mindy12 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

IMMACULATE HOME ON A 20,000 SQ FT LOT. Beautifully updated and maintained 4 Bdr/3 Bath Lolo area home.

Great yard and deck, spacious living room and family room, great kitchen with breakfast bar & dining area, master bedroom and more. $269,900.

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GORGEOUS HANDCRAFTED HOME IN 3.3 ACRES ON PETTY CREEK. 3 Bdr/2.5 Baths, Main floor master suite, great room, gorgeous kitchen, hardwood floors, heated double garage, with guest quarters, and great views. $595,000.

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LOG HOMES. Hand peeled, hand crafted, saddle notch, full scribe, full length logs. Top quality craftsmanship at very affordable prices. missioncreekloghomes.com or (406)7452110 NEWER HOME IN A GREAT NEIGHBORHOOD. 3 Bdr/2 Bath East Missoula home in the great Hiddel Trails subdivision.

Great floor plan, vaulted ceilings, lots of natural light, open kitchen and living area, double

garage. $199,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, text Mindy4 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Price Reduced! 5 Bed/2 Bath in Bonner. New wood laminate floor. Large kitchen with island.

Fenced yard in front with private deck area in back. New roof.

Mature trees. $209,900 MLS#906641. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

Bdr/3 Bath single-level Stevensville home. Great, open floor plan, incredible mountain views, next to public park, walk to Downtown Stevi or Bitterroot River. $219,000.

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PRICE REDUCED! 55+ COMMUNITY 2 Bed, 2 Bath, large family room. Homeowners fee is $370/mo. includes clubhouse, sewer, garbage, land lease, snow removal & lawn care. $129,900 • MLS#10006023.

Janet 240-3932 or Robin 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net.

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2511 Sunridge Court • 5 bed, 3 bath home in South Hills • Central air, vaulted ceilings, • Yard w/ underground sprinklers & privacy fence.

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9745 Glacier Lily, Frenchtown • 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage • Master bed w/ closet/office area • Large storage shed, new deck & underground sprinklers • $220,000 • MLS # 10007009

979 Eaton • 4 bed, 2 bath, 1 car garage • Centrally located home • Large living room & family room in daylight basement • $174,900 • MLS # 10004809

912 Defoe • $169,900 3 bedroom two full bath home with GIGANTIC shop/garage.

Brand new carpet just installed. Come take a look! Across from the Northside Trail System. MLS #10003358

435 Mount • $199,000 Right across from lovely Rose Park. This home has had many upgrades including remodeled kitchen featuring Hickory Cabinets, Brazilian Hickory laminate flooring throughout, all new stainless steel appliances. New blinds in the living room and solid core doors in all the main level rooms. The new roof was put on in May. The yard features a nice array of perennials. There is parking in the rear under the carport and a shed for extra storage.

Call Mary Marry for a showing today. MLS # 10005191.

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