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Up Front: Mayor Engen voices support for new Poverello Center Ochenski: Republicans wasting time on inane legislation Flash in the Pan: Roundup Ready alfalfa threatens organics

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Up Front: Mayor Engen voices support for new Poverello Center Ochenski: Republicans wasting time on inane legislation Flash in the Pan: Roundup Ready alfalfa threatens organics

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News Letters Defending trapping and why enviros aren’t crying wolf...............................4 The Week in Review Legislative actions and Rehberg’s announcement..................6 Briefs Swamping Mitchell Slough, dog fighting and bison slaughtering ..................6 Etc. In defense of essential services—like snowplowing ...........................................7 Up Front Missoula leaders voice support for new Poverello Center ........................8 Up Front The Bitterroot’s new treasurer in over her head.......................................9 Ochenski Republicans losing it at the Legislature...................................................10 Writers on the Range Abandoned animals highlight need for slaughterhouses ...11 Agenda Queer (In)Justice reading at Fact & Fiction. ...............................................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan Genetically engineered game changer.........................................20 Happiest Hour The Old Post ...................................................................................21 8 Days a Week Make it an extra large tub of popcorn, with extra butter ..............23 Mountain High The Backcountry Film Festival.......................................................33 Scope Isaac McElderry fuels his faith with Airstream Safari ....................................34 Noise Secret Powers, Chali 2na, Goldenboy and Motörhead ..................................35 Books Anders Halverson’s An Entirely Synthetic Fish.............................................36 Film Cameron’s Sanctum drowns in poor writing ..................................................37 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films..................................................38

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STREET TALK

by Chad Harder

Inside Letters Briefs Up Front Ochenski Range Agenda News Quirks

Asked Tuesday afternoon in UM’s University Center in Missoula.

Q:

This week the Independent reports on the inability of Ravalli County’s newly elected treasurer to balance the county’s books.

How balanced are your books?

Follow-up: When’s the last time you found yourself in way over your head?

Bob Giordano: Perfectly balanced, with pencil, paper and the occasional computer spreadsheet. And that’s both professionally and in my personal life.

Wheelin’ and dealin’: This morning. FreeCycles has hired two new people, and we’re trying to find a way to raise enough money to meet all of the bicycling needs in Missoula.

Caitlin Parker: I’m glad I can say balanced, because this is my first year having a job as a student. I mean, I haven’t had to ask my parents for money, and I feel pretty good about that. Interest-ing: Well, it hasn’t come to that point yet, and hopefully it doesn’t soon. It’ll probably hit me once I graduate and am faced with all those student loan payments.

Kendra Candler: My finances are, well, kind of not at their best right now. But it’s the beginning of the semester and I think that’s to be expected.

Present moment: Last semester, right before Christmas, I kept running out of spots to put Christmas presents in places where they wouldn’t be found. I had presents for 15 people, and finding that many spots was hard.

Mr. Bryant attacks conservation groups for continuing to press for a better deal for wolves (see “Moving target,” Feb. 3). If he were the wildlife supporter he claims to be, he might want a better deal too—one that’s based on science.

C u r r e n t l y , Wy o m i n g , I d a h o a n d Montana are committed to maintaining just 100 to 150 wolves per state—outdated, unscientific numbers identified in 1987. There is no evidence to suggest those numbers make up a healthy, recovered wolf population.

It would be nice to believe that states would never reduce wolf populations from more than 1,500 wolves in the region to fewer than 500. But Idaho, when asked to stand behind its voluntary plan to maintain at least 500 wolves, immediately withdrew that plan in favor of an earlier one calling for around 100150 wolves. Meanwhile, Wyoming has been crystal clear it will maintain only the minimum number of wolves and will eliminate them from nearly 90 percent of the state. So far, Gov. Brian Schweitzer’s administration has stuck with its plan to maintain higher wolf numbers statewide but the current Legislature may overrule that plan and the next governor will not be bound by it.

Leaving wildlife populations at the mercy of politics is not a gamble we should take with any species. All wildlife is supposed to be managed according to the best available science. Wolves deserve no less than any other species.

That’s why conservation groups continue to work for a science-based plan for returning wolves to state management— one that ensures a healthy population over the long run.

If we abandon core wildlife management principles like science and sustainable populations for wolves, will we also abandon them for other species? That’s the most important question every wildlife supporter should be asking.

Mike Leahy Defenders of Wildlife Bozeman

In defense of trapping

Theresa Argentina: Well, considering that I’m a poor college student, I’d say I’m doing the best I can. But I still should be more stringent. Book ’em: I’m studying for a resource conservation degree, and just last month I had to buy all these schoolbooks. That alone had me dropping $400 or so.

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Not crying wolf

Much has been written in the Missoula area about the pros and cons of trapping. Connie Poten’s Feb. 3 letter to the editor (see “Trapping indefensible”) against trapping merits a response from a

wildlife professional. I have two degrees in wildlife biology, worked 31 years as a wildlife biologist, published a dozen papers in wildlife journals, and started trapping almost 50 years ago. I feel qualified to discuss trapping.

The Wildlife Society supports regulated trapping as an effective method of managing or studying furbearers, and recognizes the economic and recreational benefits of trapping and that it’s an important component of the lifestyle of many people.

“Leaving wildlife populations at the mercy of politics is not a gamble we should take with any

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species.

This viewpoint is based on science, biology and natural resource management principles. The same principals are used to manage forests, rangelands, fish and wildlife. Natural resource management based on emotions is bad and expensive.

Animal rights groups say that for every target animal trapped, two other animals are killed. That statement was made by former predator control agent Dick Randall in 1976. (He later became a consultant for the Humane Society.)

Randall’s tenure coincided with a time when predator control agents often used large, exposed baits (such as dead livestock) that were laced with poison and surrounded with many traps. That method did kill a lot of unintended wildlife. But there have been laws against that practice in place for a long time. To continue using Randall’s statement about his activities long ago is misleading in today’s world. Some hunters used to drive buffalo herds over cliffs, but that is not practiced today either.

In any group, there are people who act unethically, unlawfully and obnoxiously. But it is unfair to brand all trappers based on the actions of a few. There are bad drivers, bad hunters, bad athletes, bad lawyers, bad politicians and bad trappers. If you don’t like something, don’t do it. Don’t try to make a law against someone else’s activity because you don’t like it. If you don’t like fishing, don’t fish. If you don’t like football, don’t watch football. And if you don’t like trapping, don’t trap. But let other people do what people have been doing in Montana for over 200 years.

Paul C. Fielder Thompson Falls

Can’t handle the truth Your paper is pathetic. You print silly, meaningless letters and you can’t handle those with the hard truth. I’m sure you get your news elsewhere.

Delmar McDaniel Emigrant Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) has a position statement supporting trapping, pointing out that it’s regulated by state laws and supported by wildlife managers nationwide. The agency believes trapping is biologically sustainable and provides wildlife management information, and it’s taken measures to minimize incidental captures.

Correction: In last week’s issue we incorrectly identified the proponent of a new list of guardian ad litem guidelines in the Fourth Judicial District Court. The key proponents were a group of social workers, psychologists, attorneys and standing masters known as the CASE group. The Indy regrets the error.

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WEEK IN REVIEW • Wednesday, February 2

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by Chad Harder

In a hearing before the House Human Services Committee, House Speaker Mike Milburn, RCascade, calls for the repeal of Montana’s Medical Marijuana Act. Testifying opponents of House Bill 161 outnumbered proponents 3-1, but the committee would pass the bill two days later by a vote of 10 to 5.

• Thursday, February 3 Missoula City Councilman Dave Strohmaier says he’s considering a run for Montana’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. “I’ve been sorely disappointed with our representation in Congress over the past 10 years,” he tells the Missoulian. “Hence, here I am today giving serious thought to whether it’s time for a change.”

• Friday, February 4 The Montana House votes 68-32 in favor of a bill that would change the language in the Montana Constitution guaranteeing Montanans the right to a “clean and healthful environment” by adding “and economically productive.” Two-thirds of legislators must approve the bill for the amendment to make the ballot in 2012.

• Saturday, February 5 Congressman Denny Rehberg announces his candidacy for U.S. Senate at a Lewis and Clark County Republican Party event in Helena. “Montana needs new leadership in the United States Senate,” Rehberg says. “If I’m elected to be Montana’s next senator you’ll see me doing things a lot differently [than Jon Tester].”

• Sunday, February 6 Christina Aguilera’s botching of the national anthem and the Tron-inspired Super Bowl halftime show with Black Eyed Peas, Slash and Usher aren’t enough to kill the appetites of oodles of Green Bay Packers fans at Desperado. The Missoula bar goes through 189 orders of hot wings.

• Monday, February 7 The Missoula City Council approves a $527,733 contract with L.S. Jensen Construction and Ready Mix for an expansion of the Milwaukee Railroad Path between Russell and Reserve streets. When completed, the project will link existing portions of the popular pedestrian trail.

• Tuesday, February 8 Mayor John Engen unveils the Missoula Economic Partnership’s Best Place Project, a community-wide growth initiative calling for, among other things, aggressive recruitment of new business in the region.

The project aims to create 2,500 new jobs and recruit 25 “best-fit” companies to Missoula.

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An eight-foot-long snow centipede appeared in front of Main Hall after a storm delivered nearly a foot of new snow to the University of Montana campus Monday. According to the National Weather Service, Missoula has already received more than 3 feet of snow this winter, more than doubling last year’s total of 18 inches. The 9.7-inch dump on Monday ranked as the third snowiest February in recorded history.

Waterways Bill mires Mitchell Slough The controversial Mitchell Slough debate dried up in the wake of the Montana Supreme Court’s unanimous 2008 ruling that the slough, a fork of the Bitterroot River, was in fact a public side-channel, not a private ditch. But a bill moving through the Montana Legislature seeks to effectively reverse the court’s decision, and thereby remove thousands of miles of waterways from the public domain.

House Bill 309, sponsored by Rep. Jeffery Welborn, R-Dillon, would clarify the prohibition on recreational access to ditches. Opponents of the bill, including Montana Trout Unlimited, argue there isn’t a problem with people recreating on irrigation ditches, and claim the bill amounts to an attack on Montana’s Stream Access Law. “The unfortunate reality,” says Montana Trout Unlimited Conservation Director Mark Aagenes, “is that in order for [the bill’s proponents] to fully make sure Mitchell Slough would be overturned, they needed to write the bill so broadly that it just makes it really difficult to see where the Stream

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Access Law would apply anymore.”

The bill would limit public access by privatizing waterways where the return flows from irrigation make up the majority of the flow, and by privatizing side-channels of braided rivers and streams where control structures are constructed at the head of a braid.

“All of this in the guise of clarifying the present, clear statutory definition of private ditches that are off-limits to public recreation,” wrote Bob Lane, chief legal counsel for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, in his statement prepared for the Jan. 27 hearing.

Lane went on to describe the bill as senseless, pointing out that even the Bitterroot River—which, at least during irrigation season, fills with three times more returning diverted water as the primary flow of the river—would be defined as a ditch.

“In fact almost all rivers and streams in Montana, except those in wilderness areas and the headwaters of streams on Forest Service land, could no longer be used by the public,” Lane said. “HB 309 not only doesn’t work, it just doesn’t make any sense.”

Still, on Feb. 3, the Republican-dominated

House Agriculture Committee passed HB 309 by a vote of 13 to eight, sending it to the House floor, where it was expected to be debated by the end of this week.

Matthew Frank

City Council Hellegaard’s end-around City Councilwoman Lyn Hellegaard was unable to quash the city’s new special tax districts, which impose assessments for parks and streets, when the governing body debated the issue last year, so Hellegaard took a different tact: helping to draft a state law to severely narrow how special districts can be created, and what they can be used for.

“I think we need clarification,” says Hellegaard, who believes citizens and lawmakers are “very confused” about the distinctions between maintenance districts, special improvement districts and special districts.

Hellegaard hopes House Bill 304, sponsored

by Gordon Hendrick, R-Superior, will clear up the confusion. But it does much more than that, to the dismay of city officials who see special dis-

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tricts as crucial revenue streams in a time of municipal belt-tightening.

“The most significant change is [the bill] removes the ability of city councils to initiate the consideration of this type of district,” says Bruce Bender, Missoula’s chief administrative officer.

The bill also drops the percentage of residents required to protest the creation of a special district from 50 to 15 percent. And it says district funds “may not be used to maintain facilities existing prior to creation of the special district.”

“Well, that was our main reason for creating these districts—to give us a funding source to maintain facilities, maintain the streets and maintain the parks,” Bender says. “So that [provision] really narrows its use.”

In an interview with the Independent Hellegaard didn’t elaborate on why she disapproves of special districts, but Councilman Bob Jaffe thinks it’s because she and her conservative cohorts consider it a deceptive way to balance the budget.

“Of course it’s an effort to balance the budget,” Jaffe says.

“What’s the issue there?”

But more than anything, it irks Jaffe that Hellegaard would “go over our heads.” He expects the bill to pass, especially if Republican legislators see it as an opportunity to “screw” Missoula, the state’s bastion of liberalism.

Says Jaffe: “For a couple Republicans to go write the language and find a bunch of other Republicans to pass their bill to show Missoula its place, it seems like that would be a pretty easy one—a lot easier than getting a protest here, or actually winning elections here.”

Matthew Frank

Legislature Blood sport Animal protection advocates want the Montana Legislature to make watching dogs or roosters fight for sport a felony.

“I think one of the things that may startle people is to think that there actually is animal fighting,” said Sen. Kim Gillan, D-Billings, during last week’s committee hearing on Senate Bill 220, which would criminalize being a willing spectator to the blood sport. “There are people who do engage in animal fighting. It’s not just something we read about in the news.”

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It’s difficult to gauge the pervasiveness of animal fighting in Montana. The last conviction for facilitating the sport occurred 12 years ago. However, animal advocates say evidence appears in the form of scarred and aggressive dogs showing up in animal shelters.

Dave Pauli, regional director of the Humane Society of the United States, says his Billings office receives reports of dog fighting from local law enforcement agencies, animal shelters and citizen whistleblowers on a semi-regular basis.

“During each of the last three years, I have gotten calls from local sheriff ’s departments,” Pauli says.

When fights occur, dogs are directed to battle until one dies or is severely injured. Prior to a cock-

fight, gaffs—sharp spikes—are placed over the rooster’s natural leg spur.

“It’s a very unnatural event,” says Pauli, who’s been working with Gillan to pass the legislation. “It’s a fight to the death.”

Montana is one of only two states that hasn’t made it a crime to watch animal fighting for sport.

Twenty-four states have made it a felony. Others classify the activity as a misdemeanor. Since Wyoming and Idaho in 2008 adopted more stringent penalties, animal advocates like Pauli say Montana’s leniency lends it to becoming an animal-fighting destination.

“There is pressure for people to come in where the penalties are nonexistent or greatly reduced,” he says.

Jessica Mayrer

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News Quirks

Bison Kill crisis Unusually high snow levels in Yellowstone National Park drove an estimated 382 bison over the park’s northern boundary early last week, prompting management officials to corral the animals at Stephens Creek. Park spokesman Al Nash says that of the roughly 200 ungulates already checked for brucellosis exposure, one-third tested positive and could be in line for slaughter this winter.

Critics of the park’s bison management strategies quickly decried the possibility of a large-scale bison kill, fearing a repeat of the brutal 2008 winter when 1,400 captured bison were shipped off to slaughterhouses. The Buffalo Field Campaign and several other groups and individuals filed an emergency injunction in federal court in Missoula on Feb. 3 in an attempt to prevent the park from taking similar action this year.

“Those bison and their ancestors have lived on that ground not surrounded by fences forever,” says Dan Brister, director of the Buffalo Field Campaign, which was founded after the first mass bison slaughter in 1997. “So the more intensive management that happens, the more that wildness is eroded. The more we treat them like livestock, the more they’ll become like livestock.”

According to the Interagency Bison Management Plan (IBMP) that directs treatment of Yellowstone’s wild bison, the proposed slaughter is completely defensible. The current bison population rests somewhere around 3,700, Nash says, well above the 2,100-bison benchmark agencies have set in the IBMP for ceasing all lethal brucellosis management activities. Any kills carried out this season aren’t expected to impact the genetic viability of the herd, Nash adds, a position the plaintiffs dispute.

That mindset doesn’t sit well with environmentalists in Montana. Chuck Irestone, co-founder of Missoula’s Sustainable Business Council and a longtime advocate for wild Yellowstone bison, believes the bison—and their history with the American Indians—should be revered as a symbol of sustainability. Instead, he says, the policy of slaughtering bison that migrate out of the park is characteristic of the state’s negative views of free-roaming herds “Kansas has a live buffalo on their [state] quarter,” Irestone says. “In Montana, we put the skull on.

You ever notice that?”

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Minute traffic delay caused by ConocoPhillips’ first oversized shipment on Highway 12 last week. In response, the Idaho Transportation Department asked ConocoPhillips to submit a new transportation plan. Legally the loads cannot delay traffic for more than 15 minutes..

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When it snows it dumps.

A storm that produced 9.7 inches of fresh powder within a 24-hour period—that’s two more inches than average for the entire month of February—left many locals grumbling this week as we shoveled sidewalks, scraped windshields and, with our fingers crossed, trekked across town on some seriously slick roads. Not since Feb. 6, 1975, when 14.4 inches fell, has the Garden City seen so much snowfall at one time.

While it looks like it will continue to be a lucrative winter for area auto repair shops, the rest of us are paying the price. In fact, two different Indy staffers recently fell victim to the snow-packed streets. A truck that slid out of control off South Avenue while carrying, ironically, a plow blade hit one staffer’s small Subie. Days later, the driver of a Chevy truck lost control outside the Independent’s offices and punched a good-sized hole in another staffer’s Pathfinder.

Nearly $4,000 in repairs later, we understand the impulse to complain about Missoula’s barely plowed streets. The loudest grumbles, though, are coming from city hall. The bills for street maintenance are piling up as fast as the snow. By December, funds tagged for plowing and deicing Missoula’s 300-plus miles of pavement had already been drained. As of January 17, overtime accrued by plow drivers was already more than three times the season’s entire $4,950 budget. Fuel and material costs— the lion’s share of Missoula’s snow-removal budget—were also on the way to far surpassing expectations. Municipal number crunchers project by the end of the season Missoula’s plowing and deicing budget will run roughly $130,000, or 27 percent over projections.

In order to keep snowplows running through the winter, Mayor John Engen asked all city departments to shave 1 percent from their budgets. Savings will be forwarded into the plowing pot, along with taxes generated through Missoula’s newly created special districts.

There’s a crusted layer of irony in all of this. The moaning over Missoula’s unplowed streets comes as our representatives in Helena and Washington, D.C., indiscriminately slash budgets, justified by fervent calls—locally and across the country—for smaller government and lower taxes. But shrinking government until it’s rendered completely ineffectual will only lead to more criticism of government—and more budget cuts.

Here’s a radical notion: If we want essential services— like snowplowing—we need to pay for them. We can’t let tax revenue slide and get traction, too.

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In search of quarters Missoula leaders voice support for new homeless shelter

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included in the survey, people come to Missoula and stay here primarily because of what has already been built—a supportive, cohesive, welcoming community of friendly, good people. They also come because of family and friends who live here. Although services are mentioned, on the whole, these are an afterthought.”

Missoula’s Downtown Business Improvement District Director of Operations Rod Austin says retailers are paying attention to Jacobson’s data. He points to the finding that serial inebriates constitute only about 11 percent of the overall homeless population.

“Businesses get kind of bad-mouthed a little bit for their harsh approach to what I’ll call ‘the incorrigibles,’” Austin says. “A lot of folks associate that with what happens generally at the Pov. Normally, the Pov client is not the person that’s causing the problems downtown. Even though those folks do use their services, the vast majority of the people that the Pov serves are not [incorrigibles].”

Austin says if business interests see Missoula working to continue curbing serial inebriates’ bad behavior they’ll likely be more amenable to supporting—and even help fund—a new Pov. “If we’re able to address that issue effectively, an awful lot of the Photo by Chad Harder other fears, I think, would be tempered quite a bit,” Austin says. “You Missoula’s Poverello Center, erected in 1919, is frequently overcrowded, sleepmay see some business interests, I ing dozens on the floor during the winter months. Original plumbing and electrical systems are failing, says Interim Director Eran Fowler. “The state of the think, trying to rally somewhat and see if we can’t help the situation.” building is atrocious,” she says.

City law enforcement last sumdown version of the plan it introduced last like, “How long has it been since you last mer hired a full-time officer to police downfall, which called for erecting a $7 million had permanent housing?” and “Why did town streets. Police Chief Mark Muir has facility on Spruce Street, around the corner you come to Missoula?” said he hopes to do that again this year. from the Pov’s current location on Ryman Poverello Center Interim Director Eran Last week, PRAXIS rolled out its report, Street. titled “Homelessness and Housing Fowler says it’s a relief to see Missoula coa“We’ve been talking about a much Instability in Missoula.” One finding that’s lescing around the idea of a new shelter. smaller budget,” he says, “but a budget we garnering significant interest, especially as “We all have to come together,” Fowler think is a lot more realistic.” stakeholders reengage in discussions about says. “That’s the only way that it’s been Missoula’s homeless population grew a Pov expansion, centers on whether effective and impactful in other communiby 17.5 percent between 2009 and 2010, Missoula is indeed suffering from the “build ties is when it’s an across-the-board comprehensive approach, with all interested according to the Montana Continuum of it and they will come” phenomenon.

The survey results appear to debunk parties.”

Care Coalition. Amid the contentious disMeanwhile, the mayor aims to contincussion about how best to help homeless that theory. The plurality of respondents— people, Missoula’s Poverello Center has 43 percent—said they owned or rented in ue working with the Pov and community served as a flashpoint. The issue flared up Missoula immediately prior to becoming stakeholders in the coming weeks to help identify a viable property for a larger last April when the Pov announced plans homeless.

“One of the most profound survey find- Poverello Center. to build a new shelter down the street “I believe it’s an essential community from its dilapidated and often overcrowd- ings challenges the idea that building more ed Ryman Street digs. Dozens of business services in Missoula will bring more home- asset,” Engen says. “I feel a responsibility to owners expressed concern, saying they’d less people to the city to use them,” the be a steward of that asset.” had enough of serial inebriates asking for report states. “The findings suggest otherhandouts and spooking shoppers. wise. It appears that, for at least those jmayrer@missoulanews.com In the wake of last week’s release of a homeless needs assessment, Missoula Mayor John Engen says he supports construction of a new Poverello Center in downtown Missoula, a project he asked the homeless shelter’s management to put on hold 10 months ago.

“We’ve been talking with the Pov about what a place looks like that makes some sense for them,” Engen says. “We’ve been talking with them about some sites. We’ve been talking about size and shape and all that stuff, what might work and what might not work.”

Engen says his support of a new Pov is contingent on the nonprofit’s willingness to move ahead with a significantly scaled-

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Building a new Pov downtown, some said, would lure more undesirable behavior and exacerbate an already tough business climate.

Engen asked the Pov to hold off on expansion until stakeholders could assess whether Missoula has—because of services like the Pov—become a magnet for the down and out. City and county officials paid $15,087 to hire former University of Montana social work professor Maxine Jacobson to answer that question and evaluate Missoula’s housing assistance programs as a whole.

In November, Jacobson’s firm, PRAXIS—Building Knowledge for Action, polled 240 area homeless people, asking questions

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Bungling the books The Bitterroot’s new treasurer in over her head

by Alex Sakariassen

“Not only are you responsible for the when elected. The commissioners are now Ravalli County’s finances are in a troubling state of disorder. Treasurer Mary county in our county, we’ve got 70 other checking in with Hudson-Smith on a daily Hudson-Smith, who was elected off the districts relying on us,” Murphy says. “Our basis, Kanenwisher says, and will begin Republican ticket last November, has failed school districts, our irrigation districts, our weekly public meetings with her next week.

Hudson-Smith failed to return several to balance the county’s operating accounts fire districts, our water districts; there’s a for nearly two months. She’s failed to dis- lot of people that, because of state law, messages from the Independent seeking perse money to various city and county have to run everything through the county, comment.

Officials have pointed to the situation agencies. She’s failed to transfer operating and that’s…a big responsibility for a perfunds into a higher-interest account as has son who held the position of a tax clerk for as a prime example of why many counties been standard practice in the county for all those years and just dealt with collecting in Montana long ago folded treasurer responsibilities into the clerk and recorder years. And if the county’s cash doesn’t start people’s checks.”

The issue came to a head on Jan. 28 office, claiming that more requirements are flowing smoothly soon, the consequences when Hudson-Smith appeared before the called for when dealing with such an could be considerable.

“We don’t know what our monthly bal- Ravalli County Board of Commissioners important governmental role.

“For the county attorney position, that ances have been,” says Duby Santee, super- requesting permission to hire a candidate intendent of the Hamilton School District. for tax clerk at a higher employment grade position is required to be an attorney, so at least you know you have some edu“Usually by mid-January we get the cation requirements that are report for December, and we don’t expected to come with the job,” have that yet. Now we’re going into Murphy says. “Fifty years ago a Febr uar y, so we won’t have treasurer could be pretty much January’s. And of course as a disanyone who had a good sense for trict, we report that out to the bookkeeping, but even in our small [board of trustees] every month. state that position has morphed We’ve not been able to balance our into an incredibly responsible job.” books now for two months, and Murphy adds that she can and that’s definitely an issue.” will step in to help if asked by the Hudson-Smith began her term commission, though her role is far as treasurer at the beginning of different from that of the treasurer.

January, following a surprising genTo date she has not been asked, eral election victory over her former and says, “I’ve been reminded I’m boss, Democratic incumbent JoAnne not the treasurer.”

Johnson. Despite Hudson-Smith’s 16-year career with the county tax For now the pressure is squareoffice, many in the Bitterroot ly on Hudson-Smith. If she doesn’t Valley—including outgoing and get up to speed soon, her poor perincoming commissioners—quesformance could reflect badly on othPhoto by Chad Harder tioned her familiarity with and qualers within the county. Santee says ifications for a position that requires Republican candidates swept the Ravalli County he hopes the Hamilton School handling some $10 million of feder- election last November, claiming 14 victories in District Board of Trustees underal, state and county money per 14 county races. But one of those victors, stands why his business manager Treasurer Mary Hudson-Smith, can’t seem to get a month. She repeatedly defended her handle on her new duties. has been unable to present financial ability to handle the responsibilities reports. But, he adds, Hudsonbefore and after taking office, both to coun- than advertised. Hudson-Smith’s defense Smith may already have cost the district revwas that the candidate, if hired, could help enue it’s budgeted for by failing to invest disty officials and the local press.

“After she was elected, before we were train her and her deputy treasurer in their trict resources in a timely fashion. sworn in, I personally made her aware of duties. The commission green-lighted the With so much on the line, the Ravalli several opportunities she could avail her- candidate, but not before voicing grave County Commissioners remain unsure just self of to get some training, to get some concern over Hudson-Smith’s motives. what course of action is left should the sit“I made the point that, ‘Well, gosh, you uation persist. They can’t simply remove advice, to try to get in front of this a little bit,” says Ravalli County Commissioner increase your salary by about 70 percent another elected official, Kanenwisher says, Matt Kanenwisher. “She said—the message I when you got elected…and you’re hiring but at some point they may have to interunderstood was—‘Don’t worry about it, somebody at half of your salary to train you vene on behalf of the county’s citizens. and your deputy how to do your job?’”

I’ve got it under control.’”

“It’s not clear in the law what is an Reality has played out differently, and Kanenwisher says. “On its face it’s unfair, unforgiveable sin,” Kanenwisher says.

Hudson-Smith’s inability to reconcile the and this tax clerk we’re hiring has a job to “Where has she crossed the line? So we county’s operating accounts for December do. Part of her job description isn’t to train have to give ourselves an internal thermoalone could have a serious trickledown [Hudson-Smith].” stat or barometer to say, ‘At what point have According to Kanenwisher, Hudson- we crossed the line where we can’t allow effect for dozens of individual districts. As Ravalli County Chief Financial Officer Smith backpedaled on her statements dur- her to continue?’ And frankly, the process Klarryse Murphy says, “Every dime that ing a meeting on Feb. 1, stating she felt the for that isn’t completely clear either.” comes into the county goes through the candidate was the most qualified to fill the position Hudson-Smith herself vacated treasurer.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Republicans losing it at the Legislature If the rumors are true, Montana’s Republicans were completely stunned by the size of their electoral victories last November. Suddenly they had a 68-32 majority in the House of Representatives, far beyond what either party predicted.

Democrats had actually thought they were going to take control of the House while Republicans hoped to gain five seats. Now, the lack of actual planning for Republican majorities in the House and Senate is becoming painfully clear.

Bill by bill, the GOP and its Tea Party pals continue to jump off the deep end with unbelievably bad legislation.

It’s hard to know where to start.

There are so many inane measures popping up as the session’s mid-point approaches and with it the deadline for transmitting general bills from the chamber of origin to the second house. Given the backlog of bills that have yet to be introduced—let alone heard in committee, voted upon and sent to the floor for debate—there’s reason to hope the clock will simply run out. Unfortunately, while a host of truly important issues for Montana’s future are ignored, the majority party is wasting time and energy on measures that are unconstitutional and ineffectual.

Take, for instance, the proposal by Wendy Warburton, R-Havre, to establish a “home guard.” House Bill 278 would allow citizens to form their own minimilitias and arm them. Now some folks would say, “Well, we already have the National Guard,” and wonder why we would need additional “firepower” on the home front. Are we that worried that the military isn’t enough and we now need an informal paramilitary, too? And who would these theoretical citizen-soldiers be shooting? Canadians swarming over the border for a beer on Sundays— or would it be fellow Montanans?

Or how about the cluster of bills to discourage further development of renewable energy sources? Even Gov. Schweitzer, who sideslipped from “clean and green” to “all forms of energy development” in the last six years, is having a tough time gulping down some of these measures. As Kyla Weins, energy lobbyist for the Montana Environmental Information Center, asked: “Why would anyone oppose putting up solar panels on someone’s home so they can sell excess electricity back to the power company at cost which the utility can then resell for a profit?” Good question, and one these purported supporters of the free market might want to answer truthfully one of these days.

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Of course there’s also the big debate over the horrors of medical marijuana. My goodness, what a threat to our civilization people growing their own medicine has become. Yet, the initiative by which medical marijuana was legalized garnered more votes than any politician or issue on the ballot when it was passed. That’s called

a host of “While truly important issues for Montana’s future are ignored, Republicans are wasting time and energy on measures that are unconstitutional

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and ineffectual.

“vox populi”—the voice of the people—but for some reason, the new Republican majorities think they know better.

And so, even though there are more than 27,000 Montanans who have gone through the legally prescribed steps to obtain the right to use marijuana medicinally, none other than House Speaker Mike Milburn, R-Cascade, decided that the only solution to the issue is to repeal the measure entirely. Forget that even the folks who supported the original initiative have fully endorsed changes to deal with unforeseen circumstances.

Forget that prescription painkillers are, according to Attorney General Steve Bullock, a huge and growing plague in Montana. Forget making conscientious changes to the law—just repeal it and “start over” is the Republican answer.

Does anyone out there remember the Tea Party and Republican campaign promises to “get government off our backs”? How does that comport with bills that put government in our bedrooms, hospital rooms and bodies? Take the measure requiring that women seeking to terminate a pregnancy must first have

an ultra-sound image taken prior to abortion? Or that the measure initially made it a felony with up to 10 years in prison for any health care provider who refused to do so. (Thanks to an amendment, now it’s only a misdemeanor with a $1,000 fine and six months in jail.)

When it comes to the environment, you’d have to believe that pollution is partisan to figure out why Republicans think gutting environmental regulation, citizen involvement and judicial review is a good thing.

When the plume of industrially polluted water comes down-gradient to wells thanks to the “streamlined” permits issued to the upstream mine, mill or factory, Republicans must assume it will go around their wells and only pollute the water of those whining liberals.

Right…very far right.

The idiocy—and there’s no other word for it—seems endless. The tragedy is that it wasn’t always like this. Back when Republicans ruled Montana and controlled the House, Senate and Governor’s Office, we saw some horrendous measures such as electricity deregulation enacted. But in those pre-term limit days, apparently there were still some Republicans with enough public policy experience to understand that what goes around comes around.

Compared to the new batch of inexperienced and unknowledgeable Republican and Tea Party legislators, the old-style Republicans would now be defined as moderates or maybe even RINOS— Republicans in Name Only—because they occasionally supported such things as libraries and education.

It’s frustrating to watch the session tick away with so little progress made on the issues that really count while the bills, quotes and votes spin ever further into radical, surreal fringe ideology.

Montanans deserve better. Anyone with any experience knows Montana’s political pendulum swings back and forth from Democratic to Republican control to 50-50 splits. To treat the future as if we were all extreme right-wingers isn’t just wrong, it’s insulting. But heads up, radical Republicans and Tea Partiers.

Montanans have long memories. The next election will be here before you know it—and the pendulum will surely swing again.

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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No home on the range Abandoned animals highlight need for slaughterhouses

by Wendy Beye

A recent letter in the Missoulian suggested a solution to two emerging problems facing the area: the growing numbers of wolves and the abandonment of large animals to starvation. The writer suggested building a fence around the town, then releasing excess wolves from the Sapphire and Bitterroot ranges along with the llamas left behind after their caretakers went broke trying to feed over 1,000 hoofed animals through the winter. Yes, it’s a tongue-incheek solution.

But it is true that the number of abandoned and neglected animals is multiplying with epidemic speed since unemployment skyrocketed in the United States. We’re not just talking about kittens and puppies. With high hay costs, drought conditions and climbing grain prices, more and more backyard ranchers are finding that they can no longer afford to feed their hungry hobby animals. Kind-hearted animal lovers won’t turn the critters down during a frigid winter, but many rescuers soon find they’ve reached the ends of their financial ropes.

Front page photos of furry little donkeys with hooves as long as snowmobile skis have been heartbreaking. The rescuers have not only emptied their bank accounts for food, but veterinary and farrier services for the multitude of animals in their care have become nonexistent.

Animal rescuers generally start small: a neighbor here, a friend there; word-ofmouth spreads, optimism about future financing grows, more corrals are built, and more animals show up on the doorstep.

They ask for donations, even set up nonprofit organizations, but the money can’t keep up with the demand.

The latest breakdown occurred in the small town of Niarada, Mont. A woman who had a high-paying job and a soft spot for animals set up a 400-acre rescue ranch with the help of her husband. Before they knew it,

they had over 1,000 four-footed guests on the place. But then the woman lost her job and had to take one that paid much less. She and her husband struggled to keep the project going, but other animal rescuers had to final-

More and “ more backyard ranchers are finding that they can no longer afford to feed their hungry

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hobby animals.

ly step in to find homes for all those hungry and neglected animals. In this economy, that is proving to be a monumental task.

Years ago, there was another option for owners of horses who could no longer afford their pets—slaughterhouses that process horses. None remain. The Montana Legislature is now reconsidering the issue, though the state’s chambers of commerce don’t seem eager to host a horse-slaughtering operation that would become a magnet for animal-rights protestors.

But let’s face it: The alternative to a humane end to the lives of animals is often starvation and neglect. That’s why the American Quarter Horse Association, the American Association of Equine Practitioners, the American Veterinary Medical Association, and nearly 200 other horse industry groups support slaughter-

houses as a solution to the growing numbers of unwanted horses, mules and donkeys.

Animal rights defenders argue that veterinary-assisted euthanasia is a better solution, but the expense of this option is more than many horse owners can afford. Rescue organizations are obviously already stretched to their limits. Not long ago, a conference called Summit of the Horse was held in Las Vegas, Nev., attended by many of the people who, in 2007, helped shut the doors of the last horse slaughterhouses in the United States. Some of those same people have now reconsidered their good intentions and are pushing for well-regulated slaughterhouses.

Public education about the responsibilities and expense of owning large animals is essential, but that is a long-term solution.

Each year there may be up to 100,000 horses with no place to go and no one to care for them. Curtailment of marginal breeding programs would help, but many owners of mares can’t resist the idea of a cute little foal in the pasture, so there is soon one more “hayburner” to feed and care for.

In Montana, the temptation is to simply open a gate and let the animals fend for themselves on publicly owned land. In other states with scarce open range, some desperate owners haul their horses to equine events, unload them and tie them to a participant’s trailer—then disappear down the road.

We love our symbols of the Wild West, and I know from experience how difficult it is to face ending the life of an animal that has become a part of the family. The alternative, however, is even more heartbreaking: watching an animal starve.

Wendy Beye is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). She is a pilot and freelance writer living in Roundup, Mont.

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Back in 2002, in San Francisco, a gay transgender man named Jeremy Burke was beaten, stripsearched and arrested by several female police officers. He was then put in a holding cell naked, and forced to wear a dress and expose his genitals to a police officer. In 2003, police in Highland Park, Mich., stormed a private nightclub frequented

by LGBT African Americans, arrested over 350 people, and detained them for up to 12 hours. They were “loitering inside a building,” and police reportedly hurled homophobic slurs at detainees, among other transgressions.

These incidents are touched on in Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States, a book that examines America’s criminal legal system through an LGBT lens. It focus-

es on topics including discriminatory laws, police harassment, courtroom proceedings, prison abuse and brutality.

You’ll get to learn more about these issues when Kay Whitlock, a co-author of the book, presents a reading and signing this week. A Montana resident, writer and organizer, Whitlock has long been involved in activism and recently served as a representative for LGBT issues for the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization.

–Ira Sather-Olson

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Tax Assistance program, which offers tax assistance every Sat. until March 12 from 9 AM–4 PM in Room 119 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Visit irs.gov and search “VITA” to find a list of info to bring along.

The Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., hosts a public meeting/open house to learn about survey work, specifically an investigation and search for old munitions at the former Blue Mountain Training Area, from 5–7 PM. Free. Call 329-1024 and visit bluemountainrifs.org.

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Small business owners are invited to unite with others in order to advance policies good for small business, its employees, and communities, when the Montana Small Business Alliance hosts an informational meeting from 5:30–6:30 PM at the Badlander. Free. E-mail amanda@mainstreetalliance.org.

Slip into a talk where the relationship between the faithbased community and sustainability is analyzed when the Sustainable Business Council presents the talk “Sustainability in a Faith Community Context and its Business Implications,” which features comments by pastor Peter Shober, and begins with refreshments at 5:30 PM, followed by the talk at 6, at The Loft of Missoula, 119 W. Main St. Free. Visit sbcmontana.org and call 824-7336.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 11 Help support a nonprofit that aims to offer girls ages 10–18 such things as exercise classes and running clinics, plus workshops on nutrition and job skills, among other activities, during The Girls Way Sneak Peak Fundraising Event, which runs from 6–9 PM at The Girls Way, 1515 Wyoming St. Ste. 300, and features the chance to check out the digs of the nonprofit, enjoy live music and bid on silent auction items. Free. Visit thegirlsway.org.

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Find out the not-so-sweet truth about the chocolate industry when Hellgate High School’s chapter of Amnesty International presents a screening of The Dark Side of Chocolate—which exposes the human trafficking and child labor that fuels the world’s chocolate industry—with a screening at 6:30 PM at the Roxy Theater, 618 S. Higgins Ave. $10, with a fair trade chocolate tasting following the screening. Call 5293336 to reserve a seat.

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 12 Missoulians who make under $49,000 per year are eligible to get free tax preparation and e-filing from qualified volunteers as part of the Volunteer Income

Kay Whitlock reads and signs Queer (In)Justice the Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States on Tue., Feb. 15, at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2811.

The Girls Way, a new nonprofit that aims to offer girls ages 10–18 such things as exercise classes and running clinics, plus workshops on job skills and other topics, hosts The Girls Way Grand Unveiling Event, which features the chance to check out its digs, plus enjoy food, music and a guest appearance by the Hellgate Rollergirls, all from 9:30 AM–4 PM at The Girls Way, 1515 Wyoming St. Ste. 300. Free. Visit thegirlsway.org.

Find out how bicycle and pedestrian advocacy translates to things like bike lanes, sidewalks, paths, special events and festivals when the Bike/Walk Alliance for Missoula hosts its annual meeting, which features info on these topics plus food and beer/wine, from 7–9 PM at Christ the King Church, 1400 Gerald Ave. The meeting is free, but dinner is $5 for non-members/free for members. Visit bikewalkmissoula.org.

MONDAY FEBRUARY 14 Get in the know when City Club Missoula presents its monthly City Club Forum with the topic “Recovery of Damaged Knees, Brains and Rivers: Why Research at the University of Montana Matters for You and Your Family,” a talk with UM’s Joe Fanguy that runs from 11:30 AM–1 PM at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. $16/$11 members/$5 no-lunch option. RSVP by noon Feb. 11 by calling 541-2489.

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 15 homeWORD Inc., 127 N. Higgins Ste. 303, hosts a financial fitness workshop, starting at 6 PM and running each night at the same time until Feb. 17. $10, register and pay online at homeword.org. Call 532HOME. Vouchers are also available for the Busy Hands Fun Center.

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 16 The Montana World Affairs Council presents “A Real Plan for a Palestinian State,” a lecture with Hussein Ibish, senior fellow with the American Task Force on Palestine, starting at 7 PM in the University Center Ballroom. $5/free for students and World Affairs Council members. Visit montanaworldaffairs.org.

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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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - After police investigating the shooting death of a convenience-store clerk in Pasadena, Texas, identified Michael Ray Morris, 29, as one of their two suspects, Morris returned to the crime scene to complain to a television reporter that he’d merely been a customer.

The reporter jotted down Morris’s license plate number and passed it along to police. Detectives contacted Morris, who’d also called the police station to object to being named a suspect. During questioning, Morris gave detectives information he thought was bolstering his alibi but that led police to Daniel J. Stiner, 22, who confessed to the shooting and implicated Morris as his accomplice.

(Houston’s KRIV-TV) During a routine traffic stop in Dallas, Texas, Mario Miramontes, 22, hoped to conceal his arrest warrant by giving the officer the name of his cousin, Christopher Ayala, 25. He’d used the name before, but this time the officer’s search disclosed that the cousin also had a warrant, on charges of fondling an underage relative. “I thought the name was clean,” said Miramontes, who wound up spending 13 months in the Dallas County Jail without access to a lawyer. He was finally released after Ayala’s attorney, who said he told prosecutors many times that they had the wrong man in custody, finally convinced Judge Larry Mitchell of the mix-up. (The Dallas Morning News)

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SUCCESS BREEDS FAILURE - Red-light cameras, which many motorists insist are aimed at enhancing revenue rather than safety, have reduced the number of tickets issued in Chicago suburbs so successfully that jurisdictions which counted on the fines in their budgets are experiencing significant shortfalls. Libertyville, Ill., for instance, projected net revenues from red-light violations at $462,000 this fiscal year, but after six months, only $32,000 had been taken in. Although municipal officials agree the decreased revenue is manageable if it promotes safer driving, Gary Biller, executive director of the National Motorists Association, which opposes red-light cameras, suggested, “It’s not that driver behavior is being modified. It’s just that people avoid those areas.” (Chicago Tribune) WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED - A 49-year-old Australian mother told police in Mackay that a man wearing a leather mask broke into her home and attacked her with a rubber dildo. Prosecutor Sgt. Sabine Scott said the dildo “appeared to be wrapped in such a way with duct tape to make it a better bludgeoning weapon.” (Mackay’s The Daily Mercury) Police said they arrested Carolee Bildsten, 57, after she raised a “clear, rigid feminine pleasure device” over her head and attacked an officer at her apartment in Gurnee, Ill. She claimed selfdefense, explaining the officer had accompanied her while she got money to pay her meal check at a nearby restaurant. “I’m counting my cash to make sure I take out enough, and the officer walks into my bedroom and startles me,” Bildsten said. “I got scared, and the only thing in my sock drawer besides my socks and my cash was a dildo.” (Chicago Tribune)

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WAY TO GO - Authorities blamed carbon monoxide for the deaths of five boys, ages 16 to 19, in a motel room in Hialeah, Fla., that they rented for a birthday celebration. Investigators reported that the teens had borrowed a friend’s car, but it wouldn’t start and needed a jump. Reluctant to turn off the engine in case they couldn’t start it again, they left the car running in the single-car garage attached to their motel room. The cleaning lady who discovered their bodies the next afternoon said the smell of gasoline filled the room. (The Miami Herald) Fire officials in San Bernadino, Calif., determined that Steven Vego, 44, died after he heard a “pop” and saw a fire in his backyard, then went out to douse it, accidentally stepped on a downed power line and was electrocuted. His wife, Sharon Vego, 43, tried to rescue him but also stepped on the power line and was electrocuted. Their son, Jonathan Cole, 21, tried to rescue his parents but he, too, stepped on the power line and was electrocuted. (Los Angeles’s KABC-TV) NOT-SO-GREAT ESCAPE - When a police officer approached Jona Zeigler, 40, in Moses Lake, Wash., to arrest her for an outstanding felony warrant, she drove away. At one point, she decided to flee on foot. “She tried getting out of her car as it was rolling and tripped and was dragged underneath her vehicle,” police Capt. Dave Sands said, adding that Zeigler was taken to the hospital for treatment prior to her arrest. (Moses Lake’s Columbia Basin Herald) FOOD FIGHT - Competing potato chip distributors Richard Stackiewicz, 69, and Raymond Auringer, 56, have sabotaged each other’s chips for the past decade at stores they service in Syracuse, N.Y., sometimes crushing each other’s chips, other times slicing open bags. Their rivalry turned physical when Auringer found Stackiewicz on his knees stocking a shelf, jumped on him and began punching. “I’d gone to four stores and spent over an hour just cleaning my racks from him smashing them around,” Auringer said. “Then I walk in the fifth store, and there he is. It’s like God gave me a gift. I just went crazy on him.” (Syracuse’s The Post-Standard) TAX DOLLARS AT WORK - When U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents detained Jose Centeno after investigating his immigration status and visa because of a previous felony drug conviction, the agency prescribed sex hormones so he could maintain his appearance as a woman.

ICE officials said that since 2006, they’re aware of 45 transgendered detainees who’ve been prescribed taxpayer-funded hormones. Although Centeno, now known as Krystal, hasn’t undergone gender-altering surgery, he insisted that if he’s denied the drugs to control his facial hair and breasts, “you start going back to the person you weren’t happy with—then it turns into depression mode.”

“If he is depressed, then there are anti-depressants he could be put on—certainly prison is a depressing place,” said U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas. He added he doesn’t believe taxpayers should be footing the bill just because Centeno “doesn’t want to have facial hair in prison.” (Houston’s KHOU-TV) FENCES, SCHMENCES - National Guard troops operating a remote video surveillance system near Naco, Ariz., observed drug smugglers using a catapult to hurl marijuana across the International Border fence. Border Patrol agents notified Mexican officials, who seized the metal-framed device, powered by heavy-duty elastic and mounted on a trailer, and 45 pounds of pot. (Tucson’s KVOA-TV)

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n the 1976 film Kicking the Loose Gravel Home, poet Richard Hugo talks with his small class of University of Montana students about poetry. “There’s no reason this can’t be one hell of a good poem,” he tells one of them, “but you’re going to have to sound like you mean it…and you keep right on meaning it and you stop this goddamned nonsense.” The film, produced and directed by local filmmaker Annick Smith, is one of the most powerful reminders of Hugo’s fierce love for the written word, and why he is still so revered and referenced decades after his 1982 death. Besides the intimate portrait of his unapologetic and magnetic classroom conduct, the film—which screens at the Wilma Saturday, Feb. 12, at 3:15 p.m.—includes Hugo reading

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several of his most famous poems like “The a 10-day spread, Big Sky will screen films on Milltown Union Bar” and “Degrees of Gray in nature, art, music and international politics. In Philipsburg,” to a backdrop of dreamy illustra- addition to highlighting 10 of this year’s most tions and photographs. compelling films, we take a closer look at four of Kicking the Loose Gravel Home is one of sev- the festival’s biggest attractions, including Yo La eral literary documentaries set to play during the Tengo’s live score of Jean Painlevé’s ground“Writers’ Blocks” section of the eighth annual Big breaking underwater short films and a retrospecSky Documentary Film Festival. Besides the Hugo tive of a man known for making retrospectives. film, the themed collection includes older films, It’s exactly the kind of diverse line-up that makes like the 1975 look at Henry Miller, titled Asleep this annual festival an event not to be missed. and Awake, and 2010 releases, such as In the Wake of the Flood, Ron Mann’s film about Margaret Atwood, and a recent biography of Harper Lee called Hey Boo. “Writers’ Blocks” provides just one All screenings February 11–20, at the Wilma promising point of entry into this year’s Theatre and Pipestone Mountaineering. festival. Among the 142 films offered over

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Tickets available at the Wilma box office or online.

Single screening ticket before 5 p.m.: $6 Single screening ticket after 5 p.m.: $7 All-screenings pass: $100 All-access pass: $250 Yo La Tengo (without pass): $18/$20 day of show For more information visit www.bigskyfilmfest.org

AN ALL-ACCESS LOOK AT THE 2011 BIG SKY DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL LAST RIGHTS Coming to grips with How to Die in Oregon The seminal moment in director Peter D. Richardson’s How to Die in Oregon is perhaps one of the most emotionally charged and painful ever screened for audiences. Period.

Cody Curtis, the 54-year-old wife and mother whose story provides the backbone of the film, stares out a hospital window while her husband queries her oncologist on the chances she’ll survive recurrent cancer of the liver through the Christmas holiday. But Curtis’ gaze suddenly breaks away from the window, and the flash of decisiveness in her eyes is only briefly interrupted by a wince of pain.

“I think this is enough,” she tells her husband, Stan. “I can’t do any more.”

There’s never been a more fitting time for Missoula to host a screening of a documentary on physician-assisted suicide. The Montana Legislature is currently considering two separate bills on the issue, one establishing clear regulations for physicians prescribing life-ending medication and another banning the practice entirely. If the former succeeds, Montana will become the third state to officially legalize aid in dying. Oregon legalized the practice in 1994, followed

by Washington in 2008.

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The debate over the moral and professional implications of the practice has rocked Montana for years. Billings trucker Robert Baxter, a man suffering from terminal leukemia, was one of several plaintiffs in a 2008 lawsuit arguing that the Montana Constitution guaranteed a patient’s right to death with dignity.

Baxter died the same day a district court ruled in the plaintiffs’ favor, without learning the outcome of the litigation.

The case was appealed to the Montana Supreme Court, which ruled on Dec. 31, 2009, that the state’s constitution does not specifically forbid physicians from prescribing life-ending medication to terminally ill, mentally competent patients. Baxter’s victory, which came a year and some days after his death, gave physicians the legal grounds on which to defend against any lawsuits resulting from their actions, but physician-assisted suicide remains an uncertain and controversial topic in Montana.

With that local backdrop comes How to Die in Oregon, a film produced

by HBO that boasts considerable power well beyond Curtis’ meeting with her oncologist. Richardson’s opening scene alone is enough to stir mixed emotions among moviegoers as he documents the last moments of Roger Sagner, the 342nd person to act on Oregon’s Death with Dignity law. The pain and indignity sometimes suffered by the terminally ill become strikingly apparent as Sue Dessayer Porter, a volunteer with the aid-in-dying advocacy organization Compassion and Choices, questions Sagner on his understanding of what will happen when he drinks the lethal dose of the barbiturate Seconal that’s waiting for him.

“My mind’s not changing,” Sagner tells her and those gathered around him.

“It will kill me and make me happy.”

Some might question Richardson’s call to show Sagner’s death on screen.

Many HBO staff members reportedly refused to watch the entire movie, and a recent showing at the Sundance Film Festival garnered both tears and empty seats. That hasn’t stopped How to Die in Oregon from securing an esteemed position in the film community: It won the Grand Jury Prize for documentary film at Sundance in late January.

“People should not be misled by the title of the film,” Compassion and Choices President Barbara Coombs Lee stated in response to the award. “This is not a ‘how-to’ film. Only a tiny handful of Oregonians access the very personal choice of aid in dying each year. The film’s title could imply aid in dying is common in Oregon.”

Since 1994, only about 500 people have acted on Oregon’s Death with Dignity law.

Richardson’s contribution to the physician-assisted suicide debate—which took him four years and $750,000 to complete—does display competing viewpoints. The director interviews several physicians opposed to the practice, and includes a brief segment on a man out-

raged by the state’s offer to fund his lifeending medication but not his prostate cancer treatment. A skillfully interwoven side-story on one woman’s fight to help legalize the practice in Washington could even prove useful for those in Montana and elsewhere pioneering the same cause.

But the majority of the film focuses on Curtis’ declining state of health, her protracted battle with both extreme pain and devastating uncertainty, and the

know it, you’ve got a league full of tough, tattooed women in hot pants ready to rumble.

That’s the edited version, of course.

It takes some real time and commitment to build a team from scratch—though Missoula’s Hellgate Rollergirls league only needed a year before it decided to host a public bout. It also takes time— and several ass kickings—before newbie teams start to enjoy some wins. Those struggles are exactly what give all roller

sidebar. Instead, a roller derby coach who works at Voodoo Donuts in downtown Portland provides a primer on the rules by using various glazed and frosted donuts to explain the roles of pivots, blockers and jammers.

“We’ll use cake donuts for the jammers,” he says at one point as he moves the donuts on an imaginary track across the bakery counter.

It’s an effective—and mouth-watering—way to learn.

derby teams a natural story arc. Plus, the elements of roller derby itself make the sport inherently dramatic. It’s a full-contact affair, for one thing, with all the blood, bruises and injuries that come with that. It attracts strong personalities and requires a certain amount of pageantry. It’s about winning and losing, and team spirit. It’s about personal transformation. And, as one might suspect, it’s perfect fodder for a documentary.

Brutal Beauty: Tales of the Rose City Rollers follows Portland, Ore.’s roller derby league a few years after its 2004 inception. The film—a year and a half project—starts out profiling a handful of the competitors, who embrace derby names like Madame Bumpsalot, Cadillac, Blood Clottia and Scratcher in the Eye. Here we get a sense of why they each joined roller derby and what it’s come to mean to them via interviews peppered generously with swears and sassy jokes.

By the late middle, when the film starts covering the league’s fight to win in regional competitions, we’re invested in those players enough to sincerely root for a Portland win.

But director Chip Mabry doesn’t just rely on the girls’ personalities and the inherent drama of the sport to drive his film. For instance, explaining the rules of the game could have made for a tedious

Mabry also captures the roller derby fever that springs up among the roller girls’ friends and family. In particular, he focuses on Cadillac’s boyfriend—a dude who probably should get the Most Supportive Boyfriend Ever award for his endearing enthusiasm. For many of the hetero women in roller derby, it’s not just about partner support, it’s about a clear shift in more traditional gender roles. In this game, guys are always on the sidelines.

“I’m fine being her cheerleader and she being my quarterback,” the boyfriend says at one point.

Like any dramatic story about sports, the footage of the actual games doesn’t always provide adequate tension. You get to see the action and the scoreboard, but it’s not always clear which moments on the track are pivotal to the game’s conclusion. Still, it’s a rush to watch the way the players race around the track, sometimes gracefully threading their way through other players, other times flying into the ground with a glorious violence, only to get back up again.

In interviews off the track, longtime veterans talk about their conflicting feelings about retiring from the game, and injured players who will be benched indefinitely put on brave faces with heartbreaking effect. In deftly capturing the

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reactions of her friends and her two children to her final decision. The scenes feel at times voyeuristic, almost surreal— Curtis talking about writing goodbye letters to her family, teaching her son a family-revered holiday recipe—until one realizes the point Richardson and his subject are trying to make. How to Die in Oregon isn’t simply some macabre tale of grief and death; it’s a story of empowerment at life’s end, and the fulfillment of a wish for control when all else is dominated by chaos.

—Alex Sakariassen Showing: Wilma Theatre, Friday, Feb. 11, at 6:30 p.m.

YEAR OF THE DERBY Kicking ass means more in roller skates The story of roller derby is, in many ways, the same wherever you go. It starts with a few badass girls talking over beers about how they always dreamed of being a roller girl. Then they start getting serious—holding meetings, learning the rules of the game, re-learning how to skate, raising money, wrangling gear and pinning down a practice space. They start skating several times a week, doing brutal lunge workouts and learning knee skids and how to fall. And, before you

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ing the business more than four decades ago. He makes documentaries: There’s Superstar, which delves into the life and times of Andy Warhol, and another on avant-garde cinema called Visionaries. He also produced and directed The Source, a documentary about the Beat generation.

All three of these films will screen in Missoula.

Then there’s his montage work for the Oscar ceremonies over the years.

Though he’s not working on this year’s show, in the past Workman has often been tasked with producing the “In Memoriam” segment for the show, otherwise known as the montage of both famous and lesser-known influential members of the motion picture industry who died the previous year. But there are other projects as well, including the Academy Awards’ opening sequence, which he has produced 10 times.

He’s even earned an Oscar of his own, for the 1986 live action short Precious Images, an eight-minute film commissioned by the Directors Guild of America for their 75th anniversary. When Workman won the Oscar at the 1987 cer-

players’ love for the sport—that sense that, for some girls, roller derby is everything—Mabry makes the action on the track that much more charged.

—Erika Fredrickson Showing: Wilma Theatre, Saturday, Feb. 12, 9:45 p.m.

CHUCK-FEST A retrospective on the master of retrospectives Unless you’re in the top one or two percent of movie buffs, chances are you’ve never heard of Chuck Workman.

But even the most casual of movie enthusiasts—particularly those who watch the Academy Awards ceremony every year— have seen his work. And if you appreciate a good movie montage, you owe a debt of gratitude to the man who will be honored with a retrospective at next week’s Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

“Chuck-fest” is what the man himself has wryly dubbed it.

Now how to describe that work? It’s difficult to articulate the filmmaking niche that Workman has carved out since enter-

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OUR CRITICS HIGHLIGHT NINE OTHER NOTEWORTHY FILMS

by Erika Fredrickson, Dave Loos, Jed Nussbaum, Andy Smetanka, Jessica Mayrer and Skylar Browning

Granito In 1982, Pamela Yates filmed the bloody conflict between Guatemala’s military and the guerrillas living in the mountains. As it turns out, she was also filming evidence of genocide. That documentary, When the Mountains Trembled, became forensic evidence 25 years later in an investigation and indictment against de facto dictator Efrain Rios Montt for the death and disappearance of

200,000 citizens. Granito is the story of how this all came about.

Even if you know this story from beginning to end, you must see this film. Yates is a master documentary filmmaker and in Granito she deftly crafts the story with all the elements of a criminal mystery—except, of course, this is all very real, and Yates’ thoughtful approach keeps the drama from ever feeling cheapened.

The story covers both past and present. It’s an astonishing peek into how Yates gained access to indigenous villagers, mountain guerrillas, the military and the dictator himself as a young filmmaker. The unfolding of the investigation 25 years later is fraught with danger, sorrow and, also, hope. Numerous scenes will have you holding your breath, but one scene in particular captures one of the overriding messages—why documentaries are important in the realm of international politics. In the scene, a new generation of Guatemalan villagers—mostly young children—watch When the Mountains Tremble. There they see scenes of their own villagers 25 years earlier crying on their porches where the murdered bodies of family members lay. It’s intense, but there’s something fantastic about this idea: telling the story over and over so that no one ever forgets, and so it never happens again. (EF) Showing: Wilma Theatre, Thursday, Feb. 17, 4 p.m. (Finalist in the feature competition.)

and immediately learn they were Holocaust survivors. And that her grandmother wrote a memoir that was discovered only after she died in 2001.

The overall story is a familiar one.

“One death is a tragedy,” said Josef Stalin. “A million deaths is a statistic.” It’s an interesting corollary that individual stories of the Holocaust continue to fascinate us even as reiterations of the larger picture have lost some of their force to time and familiarity. Liselotte Fertigova’s story must speak for tens of thousands of women who found themselves in a similar predicament: Jewish and pregnant when the Nazis came in and took over.

Fertig pieces the story together with stock footage, home movies and pen-and-ink animation that starts off a little on the whimsical side, but gathers a good deal of foreboding and poignancy as the film progresses. Grandmother Fertigova’s memoir is not without humor; “It’s Hitler’s fault I got married,” she gripes.

With our historical hindsight, her trials are grimly predictable and predictably grim, but Yizkor is a potent essay on a tragedy so enormous it can only be grasped by the details. (AS) Showing: Wilma Theatre, Thursday, Feb. 17, at 8 p.m. (Finalist in short film competition.)

Yizkor One of the problems historians face in narrating huge events of the relatively past—the Holocaust, for example—is that the narratives are by now so familiar that they seem almost preordained. In Ruth Fertig’s hybrid Super 8/animated short Yikzor, we see the director’s elderly grandparents in ’70s home movies

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Corner Store The extent of many Americans’ knowledge of the ongoing clash between Israel and Palestine is probably limited to brief glimpses on the evening news.

Corner Store, however, digs deep beyond 30-second clips to tell a compelling and distinctly human story.

This 70-minute documentary chronicles the life of Yousef Elhaj, a father of three who, unable

emony, the film—which is composed of 470 splices of movie segments covering the entire history of the motion picture—was shown in its entirety during the ceremony.

That short will show at the Big Sky festival, too, which is hardly a surprise. In the 25 years since its release, Precious Images has become the most widely shown short in history.

“I do a lot of different things,” says Workman in a phone interview with the Indy. “What I don’t do is commercial film or commercial television, but at the same time I work on the Oscars, which is the most commercial awards show out there.”

To watch Precious Images today feels like something of a time warp, not only because a clip from Ghostbusters appears to be the newest film in the montage, but also because of the era in filmmaking that it represents. The short film itself could stand as a metaphor for the twilight of the analog age. When you consider that the frenetically paced film was produced without the assistance of digital editing equipment, the accomplishment becomes even greater.

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to make a living in an increasingly conflict-ravaged Palestine, leaves his wife and three children at home in Bethlehem to open a corner store in San Francisco’s Castro District.

Filmmaker Katherine Bruens and her colleagues provide a wide-angle look at how the conflict has torn apart Elhaj’s family. For 10 years, Elhaj saves money to bring his wife and children to the United States He sells tall boys, cigarettes and frozen food to hipsters. He eats alone and walks solo through San Francisco’s streets. Sending money home, he waits for immigration officials to grant his wife and children permission to emigrate to America.

The documentary follows Elhaj as he makes a 60-hour voyage from California to his home in Bethlehem, his first trip to Palestine in a decade.

He hugs his children, now teenagers. Elhaj sees that while he’s been gone, Israeli settlements have moved even further into what was once Palestinian territory. More shops have shuttered and Arabs have continued to, like Elhaj, flee, leaving to make lives elsewhere.

The film clearly portrays the Middle Eastern conflict through Palestinian eyes; Israel is portrayed as the aggressor. But the film steers clear of getting tangled in the long and complicated history behind the Arab-Israeli conflict, instead providing a compelling look into another fight, one that aims to keep families and cultural identity intact despite seemingly insurmountable odds. ( JM) Showing: Wilma Theatre, Saturday, Feb. 12, 1:45 p.m. (Finalist in the feature competition.)

The Secret To a Happy Ending: A Documentary About the Drive-By Truckers Dirty, filthy, mean, miserable, wonderful.

These are the words used by guitarist Jason Isbell to describe The Drive-By Truckers, a Georgiabased band that has been delivering songs about

the grittier side of Americana culture with distorted guitars and a southern drawl since their formation in 1996.

This description comes to life in The Secret to a Happy Ending, filmmaker Barr Weissman’s intimate and unapologetic look at the history and inner workings of the Truckers’ universe. It’s a classic hard-working rock band’s success story— heavy on the hard work and uncertain about the success—brought to life through archival footage and interviews with various bandmates, influences, supporters and family members. The film follows the Truckers over the course of three years, tracing their rise in popularity and their dealings with personal issues and lineup changes, all set to an autobiographical soundtrack comprised of live performances by the band.

The film is not without its faults, and the emphasis is clearly not on production quality and flashy cinematography. The Secret to a Happy Ending is often rough around the edges, but this complements the subject matter well in delivering an unflinching and unpretentious story of friendship, class struggles, hard times, family, and, ultimately, rock and roll. ( JN) Showing: Wilma Theatre, Friday, Feb. 18, 9:45 p.m.

Everyday Sunshine It’s the Anvil gambit: Take a band 25 years or so past its heyday but still bent on living the dream and stick them in a documentary that starkly illustrates the gulf between their onetime potential (Anvil, of course, being heavy metal’s ultimate also-rans) and the vastly diminished circumstances of the present. In other words, make a nonfiction This is Spinal Tap. Everyday Sunshine gives the treatment to Fishbone, ska/punk/soul/metal mavericks with roots in the L.A. hardcore scene and a silo’s worth of documentary fodder amassed over the band’s

three-decade history. It’s not an especially great documentary, but its directors could hardly go too wrong by choosing such a flamboyant subject.

Singer/sax player/theraminist Angelo Moore is an engaging lunatic who dresses to the nines just to check the mailbox.

Critics adored Fishbone but mainstream success eluded them, and with each successive album released they seemed less certain of who their audience was. It’s significant that guitarist Vernon Reid is among those interviewed here (along with, um, Tim Robbins and the ubiquitous Flea). Like Fishbone, Reid’s group Living Colour was an allblack rock band somewhat vexed over its inability to reach a black audience.

What documentaries like this always add to a band saga is the meta-ish promise of redemption, restored success and bigger audiences in the future. If The Story of Anvil and This Is Spinal Tap are anything to go by, moving to Japan might not be a bad move. (AS) Showing: Wilma Theatre, Friday Feb. 11, at 10:15 p.m.

Lines I once read about a boarding school in Austria that doubles as a national ski academy of sorts, where alpine prodigies as young as 7 or 8 go to hone their craft in hopes of one day representing their country in its most popular sport. In Los Angeles, a new school has a similar goal, except the sport is skateboarding.

Students at the Venice Boarding School are required to skateboard, and Lines, the 27-minute documentary by Joselito Seldera about the school, introduces us to some of the students who hope to one day become professional boarders.

Unfortunately, the film fails to capture the character of the school or its students. It’s a clunky documentary that desperately needs a narrator to move the story along. Instead, we are left clueless

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about the history and background of the school’s formation and unattached to any of the students when it comes time for the climatic competition.

There’s a lot of footage of the students doing what skateboarders do at the school’s on-site skate park, but almost nothing about the academics. We get quick glimpses into the lives of a few of the teenagers, but overall Lines feels like a clumsy and hastily edited infomercial for the school. (DL) Showing: Former Pipestone Mountaineering location, Friday, Feb. 18, 7 p.m.

And Everything Is Going Fine Steven Soderbergh’s delicately crafted documentary sets out to provide Spalding Gray’s final monologue—a daunting task considering Gray’s body was pulled from New York’s East River in 2004 after an apparent suicide, and that Gray made a career of being an exceptional and singular storyteller. A native New Englander with a noticeable accent, Gray was known for riffing on intimate details of his own life that were both laugh-out-loud funny and darkly tragic. He often performed while sitting at a wooden desk with only a glass of water, a microphone and a notebook. His shows exposed both the writer and the man, with very little distraction.

Soderbergh doesn’t mess with the formula. By editing together staged monologues, one-on-one interviews and home movies, the director manages to seamlessly present Gray on Gray as if Gray had written it all out himself; almost no one else speaks in the film. It’s a remarkable accomplishment by Soderbergh.

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There is a beauty to the choreography of the clips that cannot be overstated. Using a half-dozen or so of the most famous cinematic songs and scores of the 20th century, Workman tells the story of film, with film. In the digital age we take for granted montages like this, but 25 years ago it wasn’t so easy.

Workman repeats this feat in his other shorts, which also will be screened during the retrospective. In Pieces of Silver, the seven-minute short from 1989 that commemorates the 100th anniversary of Thomas Edison’s purchase of Eastman Kodak film, Workman integrates clips from 310 movies, television shows and commercials. And in Words, the 13minute short from 1989 produced for the Writers Guild Foundation, Workman gives us just about every famous line of dialogue, almost faster than the audience can process what they’re seeing.

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benefit of the audience, viewers learn that Gray’s mother went crazy and committed suicide. Gray himself battled clinical depression. He talked a lot about mortality.

“Everyone knows they’re going to die, but no one really believes it,” he says at one point.

You get the sense Gray did, and it’s part of what made him—and makes this film—so powerful. (SB) Showing: Wilma Theatre, Thursday, Feb. 17, at 9:45 p.m.

Sayed Kashua: Forever Scared Sayed Kashua is an Arab writer and journalist who lives in Israel and writes in Hebrew, and his day-to-day life reflects the paradox and controversy that he has in some ways encouraged. To say he’s a conduit for criticism from both sides is putting it lightly. “The Arabs think I suck up to the Jews, and the Jews think I’m anti-Zionist,” he says early on in this 54-minute documentary by Dorit Zimbalist.

Zimbalist filmed Kashua over a period of seven years last decade, capturing Kashua as he deals with discrimination, works on his new book and

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While Workman is at his best with the shorts, his full-length 1990 documentary on Warhol is still worth a viewing. Released three years after Warhol’s death, Superstar is essentially a 90minute eulogy to the pop art icon.

Interviews with family members, friends and former colleagues paint a colorful picture of the often-controversial man.

Superstar shines when it demonstrates just how exasperating Warhol could be as an interview subject, and how his eccentricities made him equally beloved and hated. As one friend says in describing the seemingly asexual Warhol living through the height of the sexual revolution, “Andy wouldn’t have the strength to have sex.”

The film is littered with similarly sly observations about the mysterious man.

It’s as much a film for Warhol fans as it is for those whose knowledge of the artist

speaks to both Jewish and Arab audiences. There are a few too many mundane scenes that slow down the film’s pace, but overall Kashua is an interesting subject. He’s entertaining when cracking jokes about his predicament, but even better when defending Israel’s Arab population to groups of students. To see him get fired up and to engage with teenagers about the genesis of the conflict and the root of what causes suicide bombers is both educational and compelling. That Kashua can turn around and satirize the subject, as he does in his books and weekly newspaper column, makes it all the better. (DL) Showing: Wilma Theatre, Sunday, Feb. 20, 2:15 p.m.

Doc There is something compelling about H.L. “Doc” Humes, with his introductory line—“Ladies and gentlemen and fellow bums”—and his strange fascination with clouds. There’s also something completely off-putting about him, a guy who even Norman Mailer describes as “vain and intellectually arrogant.” A guy who comes to dinner at people’s houses and ends up crashing there for three days, a guy who seems more interested in lecturing his adoring student disciples than paying much attention to his own three daughters. But the writer, beatnik and co-founder of the Paris Review gets fair treatment in this documentary by his daughter, Immy Humes. Despite a tumultuous childhood, the filmmaker tenderly creates a portrait that unveils her father’s quirks, pitfalls and genius.

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runs no deeper than a soup can—if only people take the time to pay attention.

“I want people to watch movies more carefully,” Workman says. “Don’t just let it wash over you. It’s not just seeing, but looking.”

—Dave Loos Showing: Pieces of Silver and Visionaries screen at the Wilma Theatre Saturday, Feb. 19, at 1:30 p.m. The Source and Words screen at the Wilma Saturday, Feb. 19, at 4 p.m. Precious Images and Superstar screen at the Wilma Saturday, Feb. 19, at 6:10 p.m.

GOING BENEATH THE SURFACE Twenty-one things you might learn during Yo La Tengo’s The Sounds of Science In 2001, the San Francisco International Film Festival commissioned

the search for Doc’s long lost film (called Don Peyote) add drama to the portraiture. It’s also a fascinating peek into the beat and Yippie era—the passionate politics, the riots, the long druginduced nights—through the story of one man who lived it.

By the end it’s clear that despite his madness and self-centeredness, Doc was a very interesting, intelligent person with an overwhelming desire to change the world. (EF) Showing: Pipestone Mountaineering, Monday, Feb. 14, 7:00 p.m.

Summer Snapshot A word of advice to future filmmakers: If anyone ever offers you a Super 8 camera, think twice before accepting. Definitely twice if they’re trying to sell it to you—you’ll be throwing good money after bad soon enough. There is no richer, more evocative medium for recording memories, but nowadays you’d be hard put to find a more recklessly expensive one, either.

For a three-minute cartridge of color film, $15 is a damn good deal. For mail-in processing (no sound, and by the way you’re going to need to find a projector to watch the footage), add another $25 or so, including shipping both ways

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experimental rock trio Yo La Tengo ( YLT) to score eight silent films made by French scientist/educator/filmmaker Jean Painlevé. For the first time in four years, and only the 12th or 13th time ever (the band isn’t sure of the exact number), YLT will perform the entire soundtrack live as the films play on the Wilma’s big screen.

The pairing of two unconventional artists makes for a fascinating study in everything from the creative process to the sexual habits of octopi. This strangely captivating, deceptively educational and entirely engrossing collaboration has so many different things to offer viewers and listeners that we thought we’d break it down into a list of things you might learn during the rare performance.

1. Painlevé is not your typical science dork. While he graduated from Sorbonne

to the only facility in North America that still processes it. Want the footage digitized so you can edit on a computer? Add another $10. The bulb in your pawn-shop projector is certain to burn out the first time you use it (add $60–$75 to replace), and chances are you’ll have spent this much this far only to discover you had no idea what you were doing with that free camera, which naturally didn’t come with a manual.

Hmm. Some of those other buttons must do something.

But if you luck out with a good camera and know what you’re after, as Summer Snapshot director Ian McCluskey did when he loaded up a vintage Wagoneer with friends and some vintage cameras with (now discontinued) Kodachrome for a trip to the river, the look simply cannot be improved upon. Only Super 8 could have captured this sunny, uninhibited day in all its glistening fleshtones and glittering sun-dapples the way McCluskey and his friends remember it. Tellingly, their reminiscences describe the quality of the film as much as the events of the day. This is why simulated Super 8 sequences still pop up all the time in Hollywood movies: Anyone knows this is what memories really look like. (AS) Showing: Wilma Theatre, Wednesday, Feb. 16, at 9:45 p.m.

with a degree in physics, chemistry and biology, he’d often escape his nerdy colleagues by indulging in Paris’ 1920s avant garde film scene. According to biographers and film scholars, this made Painlevé an unusual and highly controversial scientist for his era.

2. Painlevé was also heavily influenced by Dadaism and surrealist art. It’s hard not to recognize those interests in what would otherwise be straightforward nature films. “They kind of purport to being scientific movies, but they’re not—at all,” says YLT bassist James McNew in a recent interview with the Indy. “Painleve was not a scientist—at all. He made these great, psychedelic, dreamy nature films that are simply amazing.”

3. YLT guitarist Ira Kaplan put it this way when talking about the project for a 2008 Painlevé documentary: “A lot of it looks like compelling abstract art that just happens to be done with…fish.”

To be more specific, the films cover crabs, sea urchins, sea horses, shrimp, jellyfish, mollusks, liquid crystallization and the aforementioned octopus sex.

4. The star of the first short film, Hyas and Stenorhynchus, is neither a hyas (a stocky little crab) nor a stenorhynchus (a slender, Yo La Tengo stick-like crab). A 6-inch-long spirograph worm steals the show their own and, as McNew says, “kept those with gorgeous footage of it extending out moods in mind when we got together to of a tube and exploding, as the film sug- play.” The rest of the process was a matter gests, like “fireworks” into a full bloom of of mixing and matching different pieces of tentacles. music to each of the eight films.

5. Painlevé had a sense of humor.

7. YLT includes bassist McNew, guiBefore seeing footage of two hyas getting tarist Kaplan and drummer Georgia into a tussle, the subtitle reads, “Like all Hubley, yet keyboards are one of the crustaceans, they are arm-wrestling score’s more prominent instruments. enthusiasts.”

8. Sections of the How Some Jellyfish 6. YLT didn’t create a by-the-book Are Born music resemble the intro to a soundtrack. “We never wanted to create a long-lost Doors track. YLT offers no literal translation of the action,” says shortage of anxious keyboard and dark McNew. In fact, the band hardly watched bass lines here. the films when making the music. Instead, 9. A newborn jellyfish looks like what each band member watched the films on you see in a tissue after you blow your nose.

10. Liquid Crystals reportedly reminds YLT of a “psychedelic light show that leant itself to a psychedelic freakout.” This six-minute stretch of film and music intends to melt faces.

11. The subtitles in Liquid Crystals explain that the liquids’ transformations in structure, form and color occur with certain changes in temperature and pressure. All of this looks like a kaleidoscope.

12. The Sea Horse will forever change the way you look at sea horses.

Along with the spirograph worm, it’s the evening’s biggest onscreen attraction.

13. The sea horse is the only aquatic vertebrate to “stand upright.” It’s also the

only fish with a prehensile tail, meaning it can hold things.

14. Painlevé thinks sea horses have a “pouting lower lip” and “shifting eyes,” giving them a look of “worry” and “unease.” Never have you thought more about the mental well-being of sea horses than during this short film.

15. A male sea horse—not a female—nourishes embryos in his pouch, and gives birth. Delivery takes several hours. “An anguished expression accompanies the rolling of his eyes,” reads the subtitles. You don’t say.

16. A sea horse embryo looks, according to Painlevé, “like a King Charles spaniel.”

17. Sea horses are not as fast as thoroughbreds. The closing scene of The Sea Horse, which transposes images of the sea creature with footage from an actual horse race, proves this pretty definitively.

18. Don’t expect YLT to interact with the audience during the show. “We’ve always played for each other, and to each other,” says McNew. “That’s not different than most of our shows, whether a movie is playing or not. We just don’t look up much.”

19. Expect a certain element of improvisation to the score.

“The movements have a skeletal structure with lots of room to move within every one,” says McNew. “And we take advantage of that room.”

20. Octopus sex looks—and, thanks to YLT, sounds—like something Charlie Sheen would be involved in, which is to say chaotic and unpleasant.

21. This has little to do with the films, but YLT plans to get into the studio to record a new album later this year.

“It’s time,” says McNew. —Skylar Browning Showing: Yo La Tengo performs The Sounds of Science, a live score to Painlevé’s eight films, Tuesday, Feb. 15, at 8 p.m. editor@missoulanews.com

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Genetically engineered game changer FLASHINTHEPAN After years of wrangling, Monsanto finally got the U.S Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) blessing to sell its patented Roundup Ready alfalfa. The seed’s DNA has been genetically engineered (GE) to allow the plant to survive contact with glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup. Opponents fear that once the seed is planted commercially, various Monsanto-made and owned GE traits will drift through the alfalfa fields of the world, making non-GE alfalfa hard or impossible to find.

On Jan. 27, USDA deregulated Roundup Ready alfalfa, which means not only that farmers are free to plant GE alfalfa, but that USDA won’t even be tracking who plants it and where. There will be no monitoring, no notification system, and little reason to believe Monsanto will be held liable for any business lost to the genetic contamination that is likely to result. If the decision stands, and GE alfalfa is planted commercially, we can probably kiss organic dairy and beef as we know them goodbye.

Alfalfa is the main forage crop for dairy cows and one of the principle foods for beef cows, especially grass-fed cattle. The plant is bee-pollinated, which means that every time GE alfalfa is planted, every other alfalfa plant within about five miles is subject to contamination with GE pollen. Alfalfa is a perennial, commonly living 10 to 25 years in the United States, while Mexico and France claim centuries-old alfalfa patches. A single established plant can produce as many as 16,000 seeds per year.

Last June, the notoriously business-friendly U.S. Supreme Court upheld a ban on the planting of Roundup Ready alfalfa until the USDA produced an environmental impact statement (EIS). That EIS was released in December 2010, after a public comment period in which most of the 200,000-plus comments were against GE alfalfa. Many voiced concerns about the possible effects of GE alfalfa on the organic dairy and beef industries.

The EIS concludes, somewhat confusingly: “...consumer preferences for organic over GE foods are influenced in part by ethical and environmental factors that are likely unrelated to minor unintended presence of GE content in feed crops.”

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I added the italics because there’s little basis for “likely” in the public comments, or for critics not being concerned about “minor” contamination. There’s nothing minor about the threat posed by Roundup Ready alfalfa. If planted commercially it will probably spread its mutant genes and seeds across the nation, contaminate the alfalfa fed to organic animals, and produce Roundup-resistant superweeds that will require chemicals more toxic than Roundup to destroy.

When the organic rules were drafted in 1997, Big Ag tried hard to include GE products in the organic definition. In response, USDA received more than 275,000 comments against GE organics. It was the largest num-

ber of comments USDA ever received on an issue. How today’s Tom Vilsack-led USDA managed to conclude that organic consumers are likely unconcerned by GE contamination of organic products is a mystery—that is, perhaps, until we recall that he used to fly around in Monsanto’s corporate jet, and was named “Governor of the Year” by the Biotechnology Industry Council.

When Vilsack was named Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture in late 2008, sustainable-food activists felt duped. The appointment followed a flood of opposition to his consideration, which resulted in Vilsack’s name being removed from Obama’s short list of candidates.

Foodies let down their guard, excited by the possibility of having a voice in this discussion, and then Vilsack was quickly appointed. Two years into the job, he’s tried to be a proponent of both organic and GE foods, in a kind of separate but equal way he calls “coexistence.” This ruse depends on the belief that it is not only possible to keep GE and non-GE DNA separate, but that the United States will succeed in doing so. It’s kind of like believing

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the lion will quietly lie down next to the lamb, and not maul it at the first opportunity.

According to a Jan. 24 statement from Whole Foods, “The policy set for GE alfalfa will most likely guide policies for other GE crops as well. True coexistence is a must.” Among the food far left, like the Organic Consumers Association, the prospect of coexistence is as divisive as a two-state solution in the Middle East, and Whole Foods becomes the enemy by voicing hope that coexistence is even possible.

This is understandable. The deregulation of GE alfalfa is a step toward the GE equivalent of a singlestate solution to our food system, where the possibility of non-genetically engineered food options may no longer exist. And if history is any guide, victims of genetic contamination will not only have no legal recourse, but may even face Monsanto lawsuits for illegal use of the company’s patented genes.

Kristina Hubbard, director of advocacy for the Organic Seed Alliance, points out that deregulation of GE alfalfa puts conventional farmers at risk as well. Via e-mail she told me: “We believe USDA’s decision to deregulate alfalfa puts the integrity of organic and nongenetically engineered seed—and thus the integrity of organic food—at risk. While the media paints this as organic versus biotechnology, it’s important to note that conventional producers, including exporters, also feel threatened by GE alfalfa. In fact, the lead plaintiff in the alfalfa lawsuit is a conventional seed producer. I represent organic interests at OSA, but I’ve noticed that more conventional stakeholders are standing up in opposition to GE alfalfa than any other GE crop type (i.e., corn, soy, etc.) that has been deregulated.”

The divide between organic and conventional is at the level of choosing between extra labor and chemicals. These are important distinctions, but what’s different about GE seeds is they have the potential to cause drastic problems in other fields, potentially anywhere in the world. They can take away choices available to other farmers as well as entire industries, like organic dairy. If and when GE alfalfa seed is actually planted, it will be interesting to see how long it takes before evidence of Roundup Ready genes start to show up in organic milk.

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Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 If you have not tried one of Bernice’s special Valentine treats you are missing out! From February 4th until February 14th Bernice’s will be featuring the sweetest line of lovable goodies: conversation heart cookies, linzer cookies, heart shaped cakes for two, truffles, profiteroles, cupcakes, passion bars, chocolate dipped hearts.

Blue Canyon Kitchen 3720 N. Reserve 541-BLUE (adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn) www.bluecanyonrestaurant.com We offer creatively-prepared American cooking served in the comfortable elegance of their lodge restaurant featuring unique dining rooms. Kick back in the Tavern; relish the cowboy chic and

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culinary creations in the great room; visit with the chefs and dine in the kitchen or enjoy the fresh air on the Outdoor Patio. Parties and special events can be enjoyed in the Bison Room. Winter Hours: 4pm - 9 pm Seven Days a Week. $$-$$$ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins Ave. 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip.

Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients.

Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to late. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 38 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts.

Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $

the Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery service within a 3 mile radius.

Family Dental Group Southgate Mall • 541-2886 The annual exam your dentist performs should include a screening exam for oral cancer. People who use tobacco and drink alcoholic beverages are more likely to get oral cancer. The screening exam for oral cancer is an important part of a regular dental exam. The survival rate of patients with oral cancer is not good.

Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave. • 721-6033 Missoula’s Original Coffeehouse/Cafe located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch seven days a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and an espresso bar till close. WE DELIVER On Campus & to the area between Beckwith, Higgins & 5th Street. Delivery hours: M-F 11-2. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 South 3rd West • 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted cage free chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm $-$$

Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins Ave. • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch, featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive tea menu. Missoula's Original Bubble Teas.

Beer, Wine and Sake available. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Jazz Wednesdays starting at 7pm. Lunch 11:30-3:00, Happy Hour 3-6, Dinner 5 - close. $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere.

Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve • 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Oil & Vinegar Southgate Mall • 549-7800 Mon.-Sat. 10:00 AM-9:00 PM Sun. 11:00 AM6:00 PM. With a visit to Oil & Vinegar, you will discover an international selection of over 40 estate-produced oils & vinegars suspended in glass amphora-shaped containers on a dramatic backlit wall. Guests can sample the varieties and select from various shapes & sizes of bottles to have filled with an “on-tap” product of choice.

Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. We also offer catering. www.justinshobnobcafe.com MC/V $-$$

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. $-$$

Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Chilly weather is here. Stop in, warm up, & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$

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. $–$$.

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HAPPIESTHOUR The Old Post Pub Atmosphere: The old brick and woodpanel interior lends the Old Post a sort of Prohibition-era look befitting a place that masks its location with modest, muted signage.

Flanked as it is by flashy establishments like Sean Kelly’s and the Iron Horse, the Old Post often gets overlooked by the throngs of weekend drinkers, says bartender Will Deschamps.

But the place has more charm than an orphan with a three-legged kitten. Take Charlie, the Old Post’s mascot, a stuffed bobcat donated long ago by one of the kitchen staff. He took a tumble recently and had to go to the taxidermist for reconstructive surgery, but he’s back to greeting patrons from his perch above the back door.

What you’re drinking: Happy hour hits every day from 4 to 6 p.m. with all Big Sky brews on special for $2.75. Not sure what’s on tap? Take a look above the bar, where bartender and waitress Meaghan Gateley has kindly illustrated the selections. Also note Gateley’s hilarious depiction of the “de-evolution” of man, a nasty side effect of tasty beer.

What you’re eating: The best bar food in town, in Deschamps’ opinion. And he’s not the only one with a palate for Old Post fare. Mayor John Engen stops by regularly—he strolled in while the Indy was in the midst of some bar-side research.

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Claim to fame: The bar is operated by the American Legion Forgotten Warriors Post #101.

Translation: It’s a nonprofit establishment with strong ties to the local community. “Quality of people, quality of atmosphere, quality of community involvement,” Deschamps says. “And it’s one of the only bars Brad Pitt will visit when he comes to Missoula.”

Where to find it: Head inside 103 W. Spruce in downtown Missoula, directly behind Worden’s Market.

—Alex Sakariassen 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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Pearl Café 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 Country French specialties, bison, elk, trout, fresh fish daily, delicious salads and appetizers. Breads and desserts baked in house. Three course bistro menu with wine $30, Tues.

Wed. Thurs. nights, November through March. Extensive wine list, 18 wines by the glass, local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the warm and inviting dining areas. Go to our website Pearlcafe.us to check out nightly specials and bistro menus, make reservations or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Red Robin 2901 Brooks Street • 830-3170 www.redrobin.com Half the price, twice the fun! Halfy Hour at the Southgate Mall Red Robin®! Half price bar drinks Monday – Friday, 4-6 p.m. and Monday – Saturday, 9-10 p.m. Enjoy a drink with one of our insanely delicious Gourmet Burgers, Bottomless Steak Fries.

Or, snack on one of our shareable starters with friends! $-$$ SA WAD DEE 221 W. Broadway • 543-9966 Sa-Wa-Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors-no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisines. Now serving Beer and Wine! $-$$

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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. FULL BAR, BEER, WINE, MARTINIS. $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI Sushi Hana Downtown offering a new idea for your dining experience. Meat, poultry, vegetables and grain are a large part of Japanese cuisine. We also love our fried comfort food too. Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner. Corner of Pine & Higgins. 549-7979. $$–$$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive • 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic

wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins • 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day. Daily Lunch Specials. All Soups, including our famous Tomato Soup, are made from scratch. Voted best milkshakes in Missoula for 14 straight years. Great Food, Great Service, Great Fun!! Sun Wed 8-3pm, Thurs - Sat 8-8pm $-$$ 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. 363-4433.

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Just keepin’ it business casual. San Antonio’s Mexicans with Guns plays dubstep and other bass-heavy electronic music styles at the Palace on Fri., Feb. 11, at 9 PM. $5/$10 for those under 21. Vancouver’s Sharps and locals Ebola Syndrome open.

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Show love to your fellow humans when The Artists’ Shop, 304 N. Higgins Ave., presents “Lovefest,” a food and fund drive for the Missoula Food Bank that offers you the chance to win treats, drawings or gift certificates when you drop off non-perishable food or money to the shop to donate to the food bank. The drive runs each day until Feb. 28.

Call 543-6393.

The UM Natural Resources and Environmental Policy Forum presents a talk by author Charles Wilkinson on the topic of “Writing Tribal

History,” which also features comments from others, starting at noon in the Castles Center, in UM’s School of Law. Free. Copies of Wilkinson’s book “The People are Dancing Again” will be available for purchase.

Your chance to mark your artistic territory on a skateboard comes to fruition during a call for artists for On Deck VI, the sixth annual skateboard art auction for the Montana Skatepark Association that occurs in May at the Brink Gallery.

Submissions are due Feb. 11, so click over to montanaskatepark.org/ondeck for more info.

UM presents The Indian Land Tenure Foundation Speaker Series with the topic “Lessons of Our Land,” a talk with guest speaker Charles Wilkinson that begins at 4 PM in Room 105 of the Payne Family Native American Center. Free, with a reception following the talk.

February is Radon Action Month!

nightlife The Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., hosts a public meeting/open house to learn about survey work, specifically an investigation and search for old munitions at the former Blue Mountain Training Area, from 5–7 PM. Free. Call 329-1024 and visit bluemountainrifs.org.

Small business owners are invited to unite with others in order to advance policies good for small business, its employees, and communities, when the Montana Small Business end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Feb. 11, 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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Okay reader, here’s an assignment for you: Write a rap verse in 30 minutes or less, and make it tight and catchy. Go. It’s not so easy, huh? Well, that’s a job Bay Area rapper Del the Funky Homosapien was asked by a music producer to jump into after toiling the day away in the studio on a side project.

But Del tackled the challenge, and the rhymes he penned on the spot ended up on a track called “Clint Eastwood”— which became the breakout single off the debut album by the Gorillaz. Funny enough, in an interview with the music blog Spinner, Del notes that he wrote those rhymes shortly after he read the book How to Write A Hit Song.

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Still, the rapper made his mark on the scene WHO: Del the Funky Homosapien with openers Bukue One, Serendipity Project, Zoo Effort and Bocks Elder WHEN: Wed., Feb. 16, at 9 PM WHERE: The Palace HOW MUCH: $15/$20 for those under age 21

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Slip into a talk where the relationship between the faith-based community and sustainability is analyzed when the Sustainable Business Council presents the talk “Sustainability in a Faith Community Context and its Business Implications,” which features comments by pastor Peter Shober, and begins with refreshments at 5:30 PM, followed by the talk at 6, at The Loft of Missoula, 119 W. Main St. Free. Visit sbcmontana.org and call 824-7336.

Howl at the indigo moon when Black Mountain Moan plays blues and roots music during the Top Hat’s “Artists-In-Residence” family-friendly concert series every Thu. this month from 6–8 PM. Free, all ages.

Local teens ages 13–18 explore the dynamics of sound when the Missoula Art Museum presents “Teen Open Studio Night with Burke Jam: Sound Art,” which runs from 6–8 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Call 728-0447 or visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

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years before this, beginning with his 1991 critically acclaimed debut I Wish My Brother George Was Here. Since then, the cousin of Ice Cube has had his foot firmly planted in underground hip hop as an innovator, offering up lyrics steeped in complex rhyme schemes that are rife with imagery and often injected with a dope dose of humor. Not only that, but he’s kept busy over the years with several projects, including the futuristic super group known as Deltron 3030, along with his role in the hip-hop collective Hieroglyphics.

With a career spanning some 20 years and eight solo albums, many consider this funky rhyme slinger to be a legend. I certainly do, and I think you will too.

Find your external groove in the throes of a funk brigade when New York City’s Sister Monk plays a mix of folk, funk, world beat and pop, at 6 PM at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton. Free. Call 363-PINT. The Bitterroot Public Library’s Fellowship Club meets to discuss The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World by Lynne McTaggart, starting at 6 PM at the library, 306 State St. in Hamilton. Free. Call 363-1670.

Lick those fingers with joy during the Arlee Community Development Corporation’s annual Chocolate Lovers’ Festival, which raises money for the Jocko Valley Library and youth programs in the area and starts with tasting at 6:30 PM, followed by an auction for treats at 7:30 PM, all at the Brown Building Community Center, 26550 Hwy. 93 N. in Arlee. $5 family/$2 per person.

To enter a chocolate dish, get details by calling 726-5550.

Fry something up on your literary grill when author Anders Halverson reads and signs copies of Entirely Synthetic Fish, starting at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. (see books this issue.)

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Know your rights the next time you encounter the po po when the Peace and Justice Film Series presents a screening of 10 Rules for Dealing with Police, at the University Center Theater at 7 PM. Free. Visit peaceandjusticefilms.org.

Tap into some artistic history when the Montana Museum of Art & Culture presents “A Good Likeness: Portraiture in the 18th–20th Centuries,” a talk with UM prof Valerie Hedquist that begins at 7 PM at the Montana Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center.The Paxson and Meloy galleries will also be open for your perusal briefly before and after the lecture. Free.

Call 243-2019.

Wet your adventurous mind when paddler Doug Ammons presents “Wildwater–A Love Story,” a presentation with Ammons that features a screening of his award-winning film of the same name, plus comments about his whitewater adventures, starting at 7 PM at UM’s Urey Lecture Hall. The talk serves as a fundraiser for Friends of Dolpa, a charity that supports schools in the poorest and most remote part of Nepal. Free. Visit friendsofdolpa.org.

Nature and the written word join forces when the Wild Mercy Reading Series presents environmental and nature writing from UM students Nathaniel Miller and Lauren Koshere at The Missoulian Angler Fly Shop, 401 S. Orange St., at 7 PM. Free.

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. Includes $7 pitchers of Bayern beer, prizes like a $50 bar tab, and trivia categories that change weekly. Free. E-mail Katie at kcgt27@gmail.com.

Show your lover a little aural variety when Big Productions presents a Valentine’s show with Reno, Nevada’s Colin Ross and Mig O’Hara when they play jazz standards, blues, boogie woogie, swing, rockabilly and Americana, at 7:30 PM at the auditorium at Polson High School, 1712 Second St. W. $14/$12 advance/free age 18 and under. Get tickets at Fiddle Sticks School of Music in Polson, or at True Value Hardware in Ronan.

Hang with the slickest country crooner and rhyme slinger you’ll ever see when Sandman The Rappin’ Cowboy plays at 8 PM at Fergie’s Pub in Hot Springs, 213 Main St. Free.

Bowling and karaoke go together like gutting Montana’s medical marijuana act and realizing that its one of the few industries actually creating jobs during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free.

Call 541-SING. 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.

Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptopfueled hip hop, electronic, pop and mashed-up tunes hit the Badlander every week where Dead Hipster DJ Night gets booties bumpin’ at 9 PM. $3.

Throw the lease agreement away and cut a rug with the This Sign for Rent Band when it plays at 9 PM at The Sunrise Saloon and Casino, on the 1100 block of Strand Ave. Free.

Call 728-1559.

Take a bite out of a lyrical sandwich during Wapikiya Hip Hop Night, which features DJ Erock plus performances by MCs Frodie, Overtime, Dice and Koshir, starting at 9 PM at the Palace. $5.

Slice some time out for a night of experimental theater when The Missoula Oblongata stops in town to present a performance of the play

Clamlump, starting at 9 PM at Zoo City Apparel, 139 E. Main St. $5–$10 suggested donation. Visit themissoulaoblongata.com.

Adams St. $10. Visit rmbt.org and call 549-5155.

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.

Missoula Catholic Schools presents a “Valentine Carnival,” which features bingo, carnival games, a silent auction and other events, from 5–9 PM at St. Joseph Elementary School, 503 Edith St. $20 for a wrist band to get you into all of the games. Call 546-6553 for more info.

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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The Missoula Public Library hosts a preschool storytime geared toward children 3–6 years old every Fri. at 10:30 AM. This week, Death of a Dude by Rex Stout. Just kidding.

(Did I need to tell you that?) Free.

Call 721-BOOK.

Check out the digs of an old-school copper magnate when the Daly Mansion, 251 Eastside Highway near Hamilton, announces that it’s open for self-guided tours from noon–4 PM. $9 adults/$8 seniors/$6 children/free children under age 6. The grounds of the mansion will also be open to cross-country skiers depending on the weather.

Call 363-6004.

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Hang out with some mommas that know how to rock when Casey Jo, a mom and mom guitar plus vocals duo, plays the Top Hat’s “Family Friendly Friday” concert from 6–8 PM. Free, all ages.

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Help support a nonprofit that aims to offer girls between the ages of 10-18 such things as exercise classes and running clinics, plus workshops on nutrition and job skills, among other activities, during The Girls Way Sneak Peak Fundraising Event, which runs from 6–9 PM at The Girls Way, 1515 Wyoming St. Ste. 300, and features the chance to check out the digs of the nonprofit, enjoy live music and bid on silent auction items. Free. Visit thegirlsway.org.

Don’t fight that gypsy jazz feeling when EL3-OH! plays at 6 PM in the tasting room of the Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Free.

Call 549-8703.

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Those up north near Glacier National Park get out of the house for a weekend of activity during the 33rd annual Cabin Fever Days, which features activities like a kids’ carnival, a barstool race, beard contests, door races, music, food and more, starting today and running through Feb. 13 in Martin City, just past Hungry Horse on Hwy. 2. Admission is a $3 button, good for all events. Visit cabinfeverdays.com for specific details.

Find a new furry friend when the Humane Society of Western Montana (HSWM) presents its fifth annual Adopt-A-Thon, which runs from 4–9 PM today, and noon–4 PM on Sat., all at the HSWM, 5930 Hwy. 93 S. The adoption fee for cats is $14, and the fee for dogs is $41. Call 549-3934.

Tickle your toes with an afternoon of ballet when the Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre presents Home is Where the Heart Is, the ballet’s annual fundraiser performance that features new work with Montana themes, plus a screening of From China with Love, a documentary on the company’s 2010 tour to China, starting at 4 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N.

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a dinner theatre performance of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, a hilarious musical revue of all the stages of love, starting at 6 PM with a three-course dinner, plus dessert and a glass of champagne, followed by the performance, all at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $65. Visit mtactors.com for tickets.

Soak up all kinds of culture on the silver screen during the 2011 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, which kicks off its 10 day run with a free screening of How to Die in Oregon at 6:30 PM at the Wilma Theatre.

With 140 films slated to screen at the Wilma and the old Pipestone Mountaineering building through Sun., Feb. 20, I’ll have to direct you to our cover story as well as bigskyfilmfest.org for a taste of what’s on tap.

Tickets are $7 for one screening after 5 PM/$6 for one screening before 5 PM. $250 all access pass/$100 full festival pass. Tickets can be bought online, or at the Wilma’s box office.

Find out the not-so-sweet truth about the chocolate industry when Hellgate High School’s chapter of Amnesty International presents a screening of The Dark Side of Chocolate— which exposes the human trafficking and child labor that fuels the world’s chocolate industry—with a screening at 6:30 PM at the Roxy Theater, 618 S. Higgins Ave. $10, with a fair trade chocolate tasting following the screening. Call 529-3336 to reserve a seat.

Go ahead and LOL during “Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage,” a free marriage video series that begins at 7 PM at the World Theater and Events Center, 2023 S. Higgins Ave. Free. The screening continues at 9 AM on Sat. Visit laughy ourway.com/video.

Tickle your toes with a night of ballet when the Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre presents a performance of

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Home Is Where the Heart Is, the ballet’s annual fundraiser performance that features new work with Montana themes, plus a screening of From China with Love, a documentary on the company’s 2010 tour to China, starting with a silent auction fundraiser at 7 PM, followed by the show at 8, all at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $22. Visit rmbt.org and call 549-5155.

Chris Lane shows you life in the not-so-fast but not-too-slow lane when he plays folk, blues and Americana at 8 PM at the Symes Hotel, 209 Wall St. in Hot Springs. No cover, but pass-the-hat donations welcome. Call 741-2361.

City Life Community Center, 1515 Fairview Ave., presents “Friday Night Hang Out: High School Beach Bash,” an event open to teens in grades 9–12 that occurs from 7–11 PM at the center. $4. Call 532-1555.

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.

Get a dose of something worldly when the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., presents its “World Wide Cinema” program with a screening of Nurse.Fighter.Boy, starting at 7 PM in the large meeting room of the library. Free. Call 721BOOK and visit missoulapubliclibrary.org for a movie description and updates on titles.

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.

Load up on refreshments and enjoy the show when the University Center Theater presents a screening of Megamind at 7 PM. $5/$3 with a Griz card.

Let the reed do the talking when the UM music program’s Faculty and Guest Artist Series presents a performance by saxophonist Johan Eriksson at the Music Recital Hall in the Music Building, at 7:30 PM. $10/$5 students and seniors. Call 243-6880.

Git bit by the boogie when The Wild Coyotes serve up a set of country and classic rock at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free.

Massacre your senses and make blood shoot out of your ears during the St. Valentine’s Day Metal Massacre, which features sets by metal bands Universal Choke Sign, Blessiddoom and Great Falls’ Switch Off Safety, starting at 9 PM at The Dark Horse, 1805 Regent St. $5. Call 728-1559.

Jump out of the cesspool and into the arms of some men in black when The Cold Hard Cash Show, a Johnny Cash tribute band, plays at 9 PM at the Badlander. $5.

Let your body succumb to the bass mafia when San Antonio’s Mexicans with Guns plays dubstep and other bass-heavy electronic music with a Mexican, British and dirty south rap influence at 9 PM at the Palace. $5/$10 for those under 21. Vancouver’s Sharps and locals Ebola Syndrome open.

Quit playing with the ore in your pants and bust a coppery move to the Copper Mtn Band when it plays at 9 PM at the Sunrise Saloon and Casino, on the 1100 Block of Strand Ave. $2. 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.

Spread your seed money on the dancefloor when the Whiskey Rebellion rocks a set of outlaw country at 9:30 PM at the Union Club. Free.

Buzz your internal circuit board and don’t feel bad about it when No Shame plays at 9:30 PM at the High Spirits Club & Casino in Florence, 5341 Hwy. 93 N. Free. Call 2739992.

Peel the surreal orange and take hearty bite when Chereal plays a variety of tunes at 9:30 PM at Harry Davids, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H. $2.

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.

Saddle up on a rockin’ jetstream when local indie rockers Airstream Safari and power poppers Secret Powers play a joint CD release party at 10 PM at the Top Hat. $5. (See Scope and Noise in this issue.)

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Missoulians who make under $49,000 per year are eligible to get free tax preparation and e-filing from qualified volunteers as part of the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program, which offers tax assistance every Sat. until March 12 from 9 AM–4 PM in Room 119 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building.

Visit irs.gov and search “VITA” to find a list of info to bring along.

The Girls Way, a new nonprofit that aims to offer girls 10–18 such things as exercise classes and running clinics, plus workshops on job skills and other topics, hosts The Girls Way Grand Unveiling Event, which features the chance to check out its digs, plus enjoy food, music and a guest appearance by the Hellgate Rollergirls, all from 9:30 AM–4 PM at The Girls Way, 1515 Wyoming St. Ste. 300. Free. Visit thegirlsway.org.

Celebrate the life of a legendary printmaker and painter during HOOKed on Art, an event from 10 AM–4 PM at Bonner School, 9045 Hwy. 200, which honors the late artist Walter Hook featuring an exhibition of his work, an art market, a gallery talk with George Gogas at 11 AM, plus live music throughout the day from Noah Eikens, the Childbloom Quar tet, John Floridis and others. Free. Visit friendsof2rivers.org for more details. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Chug down a cup of joe and rock out to some acoustic tunes when Los Meurtos Caballeros plays from 10 AM–2 PM at Liaisons Coffee House in Hamilton, 111 N. Second St. Free.

Call 363-3163.

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Deciphering the artistic morse code. The experimental theater group The Missoula Oblongata performs the play Clamlump at Zoo City Apparel, 139 E. Main St., on Thu., Feb. 10, at 9 PM. $5–$10 suggested donation. Visit themissoulaoblongata.com.

Don’t get lost when the Rocky Mountain Map Gallery, 1706 Brooks St., co-hosts an open house with Dan Townsend Fine Art & Framing to celebrate the map gallery’s new location, from 10 AM–5 PM. Free, includes refreshments and the chance to win prizes. Call 541-1959.

Your bedtime tales of college-age debauchery fall a little short of the mark. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like stories, fingerplays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Travelers’ Rest State Park, one half-mile west of Lolo on Hwy. 12, presents a program featuring Salish coyote (creation) stories told by Tony Incashola starting at 11 AM at the Holt Museum and Visitor Center at the park. $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.

Kids and adults create valentine’s using flexible printing plates and bright inks when the Missoula Art Museum hosts its “Saturday Family Art Workshop: Pull-aP’heart Print Valentines,” which runs from 11 AM–12:30 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. $5 per participant. Children under 7 must be accompanied by an adult. Call 728-0447 Ext. 228 to RSVP.

Enjoy an opera about Richard Nixon meeting with China’s Mao Zedong when Morris Productions presents The Met: Live at the Roxy with a screening of Nixon in China, starting at 11 AM at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $19/$17 students and seniors. Get tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and online at morrisproductions.org.

Check out the digs of an old-school copper magnate when the Daly Mansion, 251 Eastside Highway near Hamilton, announces that it’s open for self-guided tours from noon–4 PM. $9 adults/$8 seniors/$6 children/free children under age 6. The grounds of the mansion will also be open to cross-country skiers depending on the weather.

Call 363-6004.

The Missoula Urban Demonstration Project, 629 Phillips St., hosts the workshop “Eco-friendly Plaster Alternative,” which meets from noon–3 PM at MUD. $20/$10 members. Call 721-7513 to RSVP or visit mudproject.org.

Let the love flow down your gullet when the Western Montana Vegetarian Society hosts its monthly potluck with the theme “Heartfelt/Loving Food” starting at noon at 102 McCleod Ave. $4 donation/free if you bring a vegan plant-based entree to share.

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SPOTLIGHT hook it up When you browse work by late artist Walter Hook, it appears the guy had a serious case of artistic ADD. From a cartoon-looking lithograph print of a cow, to an abstract painting of grass, it’s obvious Hook didn’t want to limit himself to one style. His eye for aesthetic variety makes sense considering that the Milltown native studied art, math and physics as a student at the University of Montana.

Sometime after this, Hook ended up serving in the Navy in World War II, and then worked for the Atomic Energy Commission in New Mexico.

Eventually, he landed a masters degree in art. Then, he came back to this neck of the woods to teach in UM’s art department from 1955–1977, and served as the department chair.

He was a busy guy, to say the least, and quite a prolific artist, too. Before his death in 1989, Hook tallied a total of 80 one-man shows, and snagged 90 awards from juried exhibits.

WHAT: HOOKed on Art WHEN: Sat., Feb. 12, from 10 AM–4 PM WHERE: Bonner School, 9045 Hwy. 200 HOW MUCH: Free MORE INFO: Visit friendsof2rivers.org

Enjoy a cold one and help raise funds for Caras Park when the Missoula Downtown Association/ Octagon Capital Partners presents the Winter Brewfest, which features food, beer/wine, plus music by The Lil’ Smokies and Tom Catmull and The Clerics, from 1–7 PM in the Missoula Mercantile Building (formerly Macy’s), 110 N. Higgins Ave. $10 per person, and $1 per additional drink token. Call 543-4238.

Learn the facts of life from some gut bucket busters when MudSlide Charley shoots you up with a set of blues at 6 PM at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton.

Free. Call 363-PINT.

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Load up on refreshments and enjoy the show when the University Center Theater presents a screening of Megamind at 7 PM. $5/$3 with a Griz card.

Prove your point on the dancefloor when the Lars Pointer Project delivers “soul-driven rock” at the Blacksmith Brewery, 114 Main St. in Stevensville, at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 777-0680.

Fall in love all over again when the Montana Actors’ Theatre presents a dinner theatre performance of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, a hilarious musical revue of all the stages of love, starting at 6 PM with a three-course dinner, plus dessert and a glass of champagne, followed by the performance, all at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $65. Visit mtactors.com for tickets.

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This weekend, the town of Bonner celebrates Hook during the sixth annual installment of HOOKed on Art, an all-day fete at Bonner School that honors his legacy. It features a display of Hook’s work from the Missoula Art Museum’s permanent collection, including the pictured painting from 1968 titled Phase B Has More. After you absorb his mesmerizing images, you can check out live music throughout the day from an array of locals like John Floridis and The Blue Mountain Music Makers. You’ll also have the chance to sample art from other local artists at an art market, and catch the good word from artist George Gogas when he presents a gallery talk at 11 AM. Obviously, there’s a lot to take in. But in a way, it seems like exactly the kind of event Hook would find alluring.

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Cure your case of dehydration with a nice glass of fermented grape suds and the music of guitarist George Carlton when he plays at 6 PM in the tasting room of the Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Free.

Call 549-8703.

Tap into that special feeling when the Alpine Theatre Project presents My Funny Valentine 2: Love Letters, a performance of song and dance by tap dance duo Two on Tap, plus performances by Betsi Morrison and Luke Walrath, starting at 7 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. $37–$25 depending on seats. Get tickets online at alpinetheatreproject.org or by calling 862-SHOW. Freak the folk out with some sweet folk dance moves during a Flathead

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contra dance at the Kalispell Salvation Army Church Gym, 110 Bountiful Drive in Kalispell, which starts with dancing at 7:30 PM and features music by Sassafras Stomp and calling by Mark Matthews. $15 family/$7 adults and teens. Call Sherry at 752-8226.

Get bit by the boogie when The Wild Coyotes serve up a set of country and classic rock at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free.

Warm up your cochlea with a night of hot gypsy jazz when The Hot Club of San Francisco with Isabelle Fontaine presents Meet Me in Paris, a concert invoking the Parisian experience, starting at 8 PM at the Hamilton Performing Arts Center, 327 Fairgrounds Road. $27.50– $22.50 depending on seats. Get tickets online at bartc.org or call 363-7946.

Just let it be when the Bigfork Center for the Per forming Ar ts, 526 Electric Ave., presents Imagine: Remembering the Fab Four, a tribute concert by Imagine featuring the tunes of The Beatles, starting at 8 PM. $29.50. Get tickets online at bigforktheater.org or in Bigfork at Merry Gems. Call 837-1476.

Wash the sludge from your dirty mind when the Dirty Corner Band plays dance music during a Valentine’s dance at 8 PM at the Symes Hotel, 209 Wall St. in Hot Springs. No cover, but pass-the-hat donations welcome. Call 741-2361.

Eat your spicy heart out on the dancefloor when Hot Salsa Nights presents a per formance by Cocinando during its Valentine’s Day Ball, which begins at 8:30 PM at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. $12, 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, with visuals by V3R. Quit playing with the ore in your pants and bust a coppery move to the Copper Mtn Band when it plays at 9 PM at the Sunrise Saloon and Casino, on the 1100 Block of Strand Ave. $2. Call 728-1559.

Be someone’s slutty buddy on the dancefloor when AuralFixation presents Dark Dreams: Tainted Love, the crew’s annual antiValentine’s Day party featuring a dance performance by The Happy Homewreckers, sets of various electronic music styles by HAuLi, Geeter and ir8prim8, plus a set of dark jungle by Kris Moon, starting at 9 PM at the Palace. $5. Also includes visuals by Greatersun, and the first 25 entrants get a copy of Moon’s new mix CD. Clean the shame out of your brain when No Shame plays at 9 PM at The Dark Horse, 1805 Regent St. Free.

Peel the surreal orange and take hearty bite when Chereal plays a variety of tunes at 9:30 PM at Harry Davids, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H. $2.

Put a cap on your gaseous emissions when you move your boots to Tom Catmull and The Clerics when they play at 9:30 PM at the Union Club. Free.

Sho Down wonders if Peter Piper really picked a peck of pickled peppers when it plays country at 9:30 PM at the High Spirits Club & Casino in Florence, 5341 Hwy. 93 N. Free.

Call 273-9992.

Ape it out all night long when London downtempo producer Bonobo DJs a set of electronic music with openers Proper Motion at 10 PM at the Top Hat. $15, with advance tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and Ear Candy Music.

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Have a brew and support the Bitter Root Water Forum when the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in

Hamilton, hosts a pint night benefit for the organization from 2–7 PM, with music by Pinegrass at 4 PM. Free, with 50 cents from every beer sold going to the organization. The event also includes a silent auction, 50/50 split the pot and a raffle. Call 363-PINT. A legendary tale about love, duty, and good and evil hits the stage when Morris Productions presents a screening of the National Theatre Live’s performance of King Lear, 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.

nightlife Please your inner art addict and chocoholic when The Alpine Artisans present its 16th annual Wine and Chocolate Social and Art Auction, which features live and silent auctions of art by over 30 artists, plus wine, free appetizers and luscious chocolates, from 1–4 PM at Lindey’s Prime Steakhouse, 3129 Hwy. 83 N. in Seeley Lake. $15/$12 advance. Get advance tickets in Seeley Lake at Stage Station and the Grizzly Claw Trading Post, and at the Swan Ecosystem Center in Condon.

Call 677-0717.

Fall in love all over again when the Montana Actors’ Theatre presents a dinner theatre performance of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, a hilarious musical revue of all the stages of love, starting at 6 PM with a three-course dinner, plus dessert and a glass of champagne, followed by the performance, all at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $65. Visit mtactors.com for tickets.

Squeeze the love between your fingers when the The Clay Studio of Missoula, 1106 Hawthorne St., Unit A, presents its Valentine’s Day Weekend Celebration, where you and your significant other create a pottery piece together—much like Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore in the movie Ghost—while choice scenes from that movie play in the background, from 6–9 PM at the studio. $25 per couple/$15 for singles.

The event includes pizza and a beverage. Call 543-0509.

Catch a literary gust when UM’s Second Wind Reading Series hits the Top Hat at 6:30 PM with a reading from Indy contributor Andy Smetanka, as well as second-year MFA creative writing student Becky Margolis. Free.

Let out your cyborg side when the Speculative Movement, a group for those interested in science fiction, fantasy and horror, meets to discuss its sci-fi zine and other projects at 7 PM at 1843 S. 14th St. W. Free. Email darknight8@gmail.com.

A romantic evening of scenes and songs awaits when the Hamilton Players present its Valentine’s Day Dessert Show with the program

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It’s pointe shoes for the win when the Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre presents its annual fundraiser performance Home Is Where the Heart Is at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St., on Fri., Feb. 11, at 4 PM. $10. A second performance featuring a silent auction fundraiser occurs at the same venue at 7 PM and costs $22. Call 549-5155.

“...And They Lived Happily Ever After,” which begins at 7 PM at the Daly Mansion, 251 Eastside Hwy. $35.

Get tickets by calling 375-9050 or by visiting hamiltonplayers.com.

Take an aural puff of some smokin’ tunes when the Top Hat hosts the HotCats! Music Showcase, an event where you get to judge what band you like best, starting at 8 PM with sets by Without Annette, Barnaby Wilde, Rattletrap, Gladys Friday and Slowly But Shirley. $5, includes a free drink and a ballot.

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 8 PM. Free. This week: jazz from Amur River Jazz.

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.

March 18, 2011 at the Best Western Heritage Inn Speaking Engagement: 7 p.m.

Book Signing: 8 p.m.

Sponsored by the C.M. Russell Museum and hosted by the Western Masters Art Show.

Purchase tickets at www.cmrussell.org

Enjoy a brew and a moving picture when the Palace hosts a movie night, featuring screenings of Return to Oz and Labyrinth, starting at 9 PM. Free.

Impress your friends, significant other, or anyone who will listen when you rock the mic at karaoke with Whitney at Harry Davids, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, which offers free karaoke every Sun. and Mon. night at 9:30 PM. Call 830-3277.

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Get in the know when City Club Missoula presents its monthly City C l u b Fo r u m w i t h t h e t o p i c “Recovery of Damaged Knees,

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Brains and Rivers: Why Research at the University of Montana Matters for You and Your Family,” a talk with UM’s Joe Fanguy that runs from 11:30 AM–1 PM at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. $16/$11 members/$5 nolunch option. RSVP by noon Feb. 11 by calling 541-2489.

nightlife Fall in love all over again when the Montana Actors’ Theatre presents a dinner theatre performance of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, a hilarious musical revue of all the stages of love, starting at 6 PM with a three-course dinner, plus dessert and a glass of champagne, followed by the performance, all at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $65. Visit mtactors.com for tickets.

A romantic evening of scenes and songs awaits when the Hamilton Players present its Valentine’s Day Dessert Show with the program “...And They Lived Happily Ever After,” which begins at 7 PM at the Daly Mansion, 251 Eastside Hwy. $35. Get tickets by calling 375-9050 or by visiting hamiltonplayers.com.

Just make sure you made a reservation when Jodi Marshall and Lori Conner play from 7–10 PM at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 100. Reservations required due to Valentine’s Day. Call 549-2906.

Hang with some writers in a love shack when the Missoula Writing Collaborative (MWC) presents Wings & Arrows 2011: Valentine’s Day Poetry, Dessert and Champagne, an event featuring MWC writers sharing poems of love, starting at 7:30 PM at The Shack Restaurant, 222 W. Main St. $15 couple/$10 per person.

Warm the cockles of your cold heart with a night of indie folk from Seattle’s

19 8 5 a n d O l y m p i a , W a s h .’ s Autococoon, when they play in support of the Honudras Accompaniment Project starting at 8 PM at the Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 N. First St. W. $5, all ages. Locals The Lion the Tamer, The Keys Knees and Tyson Ballew open.

Feel free to bust out your heart shaped box dance when the Lolo Square and Round Dance Center, 9955 Lolo Creek Road, hosts a Valentine’s Day Dance from 8–9:30 PM. Call 2730652 for pricing.

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 5421471 after 10 AM on Monday to sign-up.

Take a slurp from a lyrical milk jug when Milkcrate Monday at the Palace presents a hip-hop night featuring MCs Gutterslugs, Oxymorons, Pallas Athena, Dar, Frodie and Conceit, starting at 9 PM. Free.

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. Also, if you have an iPod, bring it in and they’ll play it. Free.

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UM’s School of Art presents Archie Bray Day, which runs from 10 AM–7 PM in the UM Art Annex and features current resident artists from the Archie Bray Foundation with demos from 10 AM–1 PM, and again from 2–5:30 PM, followed by slide lectures starting at 6 PM. Free. Call 243-7476 for info.

Beer Drinker’s Profile nightlife YWCA Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts “YWCA Tuesday Night Support Groups,” which includes “The Living Peace Support Group” for women who want to continue to heal through mindfulness, connection with others and explorations of topics including new tools for living, plus a domestic violence talking circle and a Native American women’s group, which all meet for dinner and fellowship every Tue. from 6:30–8 PM. Free. Call 543-6691.

Follow your dreams of becoming the next Willie Nelson during an open mic/jam night hosted by Louie Bond and Teri Llovet every Tue. at the Brooks and Browns Lounge at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St., from 7–10 PM, with sign-up at 6 PM. Free. E-mail terillovet@hotmail.com. homeWORD, 127 N. Higgins Ste. 303, hosts a financial fitness workshop, starting at 6 PM and running each night at the same time until Feb. 17. $10, register and pay online at homeword.org. Call 532-HOME. Vouchers are also available for the Busy Hands Fun Center.

Valley Christian School, 2526 Sunset Lane, hosts its annual high school information night, starting at 7 PM. Free. Call 549-5047.

UM hosts the first installment of its “Community Lecture Series” with the topic “Brain History: Evolution from Molecules to Mind,” a talk with prof Chris Comer that begins at 7 PM in the University Center Theater. $5 at the door if seats are available. The complete lecture series costs: $20/$15 alumni association members/$10 students. Call 243-6439 to purchase tickets.

Get some snappy photography tips from a pro when the Rocky Mountain School of Photography continues its lecture series with “Editorial Portraiture with Linda Thompson,” a talk with the Missoulian photographer that begins at 7 PM in the quarry of the school, 216 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Visit rmsp.com and call 543-0171.

Trip out to undersea documentary footage accompanied by music from some indie rock legends when Yo La Tengo presents The Sounds of Science, a live performance of the band set to films by French avantgarde filmmaker Jean Painlevé, starting at 8 PM at the Wilma Theatre. $20/$18 advance at Ear Candy Music or online at bigskyfilmfest.org.

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.

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

Jam the indigo out of your system when Harry Davids, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, presents Blues Jam and Microbrews night with Kevin Van Dort, where a full blues band plays along with guest artists every Tue. starting at 9:30 PM. Free, with $1 off microbrews. Contact Kevin at 3965731 to play.

Catch a grassy bullet in your mullet when The Dodgy Mountain Men, a self-described “stompgrass” band, plays the Badlander’s Live and Local night at 9 PM. Free. Peoples open.

Let Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe blow your aural horns when the funk band plays with opener Chali 2na (formerly of Jurassic 5) with the House of Vibe, at 10 PM at the Top Hat. $25/$22 advance at Ear Candy Music or online at seafarerentertainment.com. (See Noise in this issue.)

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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.

Enjoy a local brew and support a local organization during the Kettlehouse Northside Tap Room’s Community U-NITE Pint Nights, which occur this and every Wed. from 5–8 PM at the tap room, 313 N. First St. W. Free to attend. A portion of the proceeds from each pint sold goes to a different organization each week. Visit kettlehouse.com.

Ron Dunbar sets the bar high when he delivers folk rock at the Blacksmith Brewery, 114 Main St. in Stevensville, at 5:30 PM. Free.

Enjoy a tune while gnawing on your steak when Jerry Clemens sings and plays classic songs on piano, guitar and harmonica, every Wed.–Sat. from 6–10 PM at The Winchester Steak House in Kalispell, 2205 Hwy. 93 S. Free. E-mail jerryclemens@excite.com.

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.

The World Affairs Council of Montana presents “A Real Plan for a Palestinian State,” a lecture with Hussein Ibish, senior fellow with the American Task Force on Palestine, starting at 7 PM in the University Center Ballroom. $5/free for students and World Affairs Council members. Visit montanaworld affairs.org.

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

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Butter yourself up with some dark indie folk when local band Butter play an early set at 8 PM at the Top Hat. Free. The event coincides with the Big Sky Documentary Film Fest and includes a raffle.

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 8:30 PM, 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.

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. Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, is the only national capital that borders two different countries, which are Austria and Hungry.

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Hear about the the criminal legal system through an LBGT perspective when author Kay Whitlock reads and signs copies of Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States, starting at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881. (See Agenda in this issue.)

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 geography question: What’s the only known national capital that borders two different countries? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

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U M’s Climate Change Studies Program and the Wilderness Institute present the Conservation and Climate Change Lecture Series, which continues with the topic “Water in a Warming West: Policy Options to Respond to Climate Change Impacts,” a talk with Sarah Bates starting at 7 PM in Room 106 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building.

Free. Call 243-6596.

Let the brass do the talking when the UM Music Department’s Faculty and Guest Artist Series presents a performance by trumpet player Allen Vizzuti at the Music Recital Hall in the Music Building, at 7:30 PM. $10/$5 students and seniors. Call 243-2880.

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Check out our President’s Day Camp, Robots & Explosions!

2/21 9am-4pm • Ages 8-11 • $45/nonmembers, $40/members.

THURSDAY 2/10 PUBLIC HOURS: Test robots, including LEGO Mindstorms and PICO Crickets. Which robot will win?

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.

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Get plucked when The Hot Club of San Francisco performs with vocalist Isabelle Fontaine as part of the Bitterroot Performing Arts Series at the Hamilton Performing Arts Center, 327 Fairgrounds Road, on Sat., Feb 12, at 8 PM. $27.50–$22.50 depending on seats. Visit bartc.org or call 363-7946 for tickets.

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 “Buddy Holly” by Weezer (believe me, the beer helps), during Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

Play some licks, read your newest haiku, or make others giggle at your jokes during The Craggy Range Open Mic, an open mic night for musicians and other artists that features a number of house instruments for your use, every Wed. starting at 9 PM at The Craggy Range, 10 Central Ave. in Whitefish. Free.

Call 862-7550.

Get a binary buzz with DJs Pillar, J@cob and a weekly cast of other rotating DJs when they play electro, breaks and progressive electronic tunes every Wed. at 9 PM at The Broadway Bar & Grill, 1609 W. Broadway St. $3.

DJ MVP plugs your dancing tentacles into a feedback loop when he plays a variety of tunes at 9 PM at the Sunrise Saloon and Casino, on the 1100 block of Strand Ave. Free. Call 728-1559.

Spend the night with a lyrical overlord when Del the Funky Homosapien plays hip hop with tourmates Bukue One and the Serendipity Project, at 9 PM at the Palace. $15/$20 for those under age 21. Locals Zoo Effort (featuring Tonsofun, Traffic & Brand One) and Bocks Elder open. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

He’s full of Tony, not baloney: Portland., Ore.’s Tony Furtado brings folk rock and Americana to the Top Hat for a show at 10 PM. $10.

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ture on the “Wofati Eco Building Technique,” 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.

Celebrate a slice of history at the University of Montana’s Charter Day 2011 Celebration, commemorating the 118th anniversary of the UM’s chartering by the Montana Legislature, starting at noon in the University Center Atrium. Free.

It’s all about cycling, post-divorce dating and life as an unattached woman when author Nancy Brook reads and signs copies of Cycling, Wine, and Men: A Midlife Tour de France, starting at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

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Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptop-fueled hip hop, electronic, pop and mashedup tunes hit the Badlander every week where Dead Hipster DJ Night gets booties bumpin’ at 9 PM. $3.

UM’s Outdoor Program presents an information session on Mountaineering and Trekking in the Andes, which offers a slideshow and other info on the program’s upcoming summer trip to Peru, starting at 5 PM at the Outdoor Program, in UM’s Fitness and Recreation Center. Free.

Call 243-5172.

Slip into a silver screen dream when the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St., hosts “Artini: Reel Art,” an event featuring a talk with filmmaker Chuck Workman and a screening of his clips at 6 PM, plus DJ’d music and live break dancing, all from 5:30–9 PM at the museum.

Free. Call 728-0447.

Howl at the indigo moon when Black Mountain Moan plays blues and roots music during the Top Hat’s “Artists-In-Residence” family-friendly concert series every Thu. this month from 6–8 PM. Free, all ages.

John Schiever just might ask you about your affiliation with the pineapple cake mafia when he plays acoustic music at 6 PM at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton. Free. Call 363-PINT. Grab some green knowledge from a man in the know when permaculture expert Paul Wheaton presents a lec-

Wrestle out your restlessness with a steady dose of Cabin Fever when it plays at 9 PM at the Sunrise Saloon and Casino, on the 1100 block of Strand Ave. Free. Call 728-1559.

Put down the jumper cables and just chill when Dubble Trubble presents “Birds of Paradise,” a night of tribal, world and ambient/psychill music from Fatty Acid, Sounds!That Happen, Kameon and Logisticalone, at 9 PM at the Palace. Free.

It’s the season of love, so show me some (and help keep my stress levels down) by getting me things on time by sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Feb. 11 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.”

MOUNTAIN HIGH I n the world of ski films, the focus is generally consumed by “steeze”—also known as style and ease. The gravity defying tricks and college party attitude of those kinds of films is entertaining, but this perspective often lacks one ingredient: soul. That same component, however, comes across perfectly in Sweetgrass Productions’ short film Desert River. The flick follows a group of skiers as they trek through deep backcountry snow in order to find the perfect line, and it offers a surprising amount of depth and maturity, successfully conveying this passion as an art, not a party.

Desert River is just one of a handful of films featured during The Backcountry Film Festival, which hits Missoula this week and showcases films from

grassroots filmmakers intent on coupling backcountry riding with important environmental issues. Other flicks slated to screen cover topics like forsaking mechanical transportation in the quest for untouched slopes in Deeper, and the impact of climate change on whitebark pine populations in Whitebark Warrior.

Besides a night of sweet outdoors films, proceeds from the festival go to support the Missoula Backcountry Alliance, a local nonprofit dedicated to advocating traditional, human-powered backcountry recreation.

The Missoula Backcountry Alliance presents The Backcountry Film Festival Thu., Feb. 10, at 7 PM at the Roxy Theater. $10. Visit montanabackcountry.org.

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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 10 Wet your adventurous mind when paddler Doug Ammons presents “Wildwater–A Love Story,” a presentation with Ammons that features a screening of his award-winning film of the same name, plus comments about his whitewater adventures, starting at 7 PM at UM’s Urey Lecture Hall. Free.

The talk serves as a fundraiser for Friends of Dolpa, a charity that supports schools in the poorest and most remote part of Nepal. Visit friendsofdolpa.org.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 11 Have a bloody mary or two and check out three days of slalom races from some of the best young skiers in the area when Montana Snowbowl, 1700 Snowbowl Road, hosts the Montana Ski Education Foundation Classic, w h i c h r u n s t o d a y t h r o u g h Fe b . 13 . Vi s i t montanasnowbowl.com or call 549-9777.

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 12 Let your soles take control during Run Wild Missoula’s Scrumpy Jack Scramble, a two-person by two-mile relay race that begins at

McCormick Park and benefits Hellgate High School’s Cross Country team. Rush to runwildmissoula.org for details.

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 16 Learn how to lead while rock climbing when UM’s Outdoor Program presents its “Rock Climbing Leading and Beyond” class, which meets from 5–8 PM on Feb. 22 and 24 at UM’s climbing wall and focuses on rope management, clipping, ratings and guide books, falling, cleaning a route and other topics. $30, cost includes instruction, gear and coaching. RSVP by Feb. 16 by calling 243-5172.

Learn what sliding and gliding is all about, and get one heck of a workout, when UM’s Outdoor Program presents a “Beginner Cross-Country Skiing” class, which covers basic techniques and includes a ski outing, beginning with a pretrip meeting at 6 PM at the Outdor Program, in UM’s Fitness and Recreation Center. A ski day follows Feb. 19. $30, includes instruction, rentals and transportation. RSVP by Feb. 15 by calling 243-5172. calendar@missoulanews.com

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Isaac McElderry fuels his faith with Airstream Safari

by Erika Fredrickson

Isaac McElderry emanates a certain vagabond quality.

He’s a charming musician with dark eyes and a disarming grin—a laidback type who once, in January 2005, bought a roundtrip ticket to Hawaii to visit a friend and ended up staying for four years. That decision cut short his career as a student at the University of Montana, but it was exactly the sort of semi-permanent vacation from school he was looking for. In Hawaii he played acoustic guitar in fine dining restaurants like Torchy’s and Rooster’s on the beach, and he also worked as a carpenter.

“Musically, I made decent money,” McElderry says.

“Enough to get by. But my main income came from learning how to build houses.”

The good pay and good surf kept him tethered to the island for a while, but after four years he got the itch to come home again.

“Island fever set in,” he says. “It’s a common thing. I was feeling claustrophobic.”

Still, it was the time spent in Hawaii that drove McElderry to push his musicianship further. After his return to Missoula he played coffee shops and solo shows, including the 2008 Rock Against Racism show at Caras Park where he was the only acoustic musician on the roster. That experience convinced him to start up a full-on band.

“I felt kind of weird because I was the only guy at the show with an acoustic guitar and everybody else was rockin’ out and going crazy,” he says. “I thought I should get a band together, so I put an ad on Craigslist.”

That band, Airstream Safari, is currently compromised of the original bass player, Miles Cottrell, and the group’s fourth drummer, Jacob Allington. The band has played several shows over the last few years, bringing in solid crowds—a built-in fan club of friends—and landing coveted opening spots playing with local stalwarts Secret Powers and Volumen. The band’s new eponymous album (which features drummer Ryan Weingardt who recently quit the band due to time constraints) offers up an array of songs about God, drugs and friends—themes McElderry says continue to pop up in his songwriting.

The band’s name fits McElderry’s adventurous, easygoing demeanor perfectly, but the musicians went through several ideas before “Airstream Safari” ever came up—despite the fact that Airstreams were right under their noses. At the time of their formation, McElderry had been putting the carpentry skills he honed while working in Hawaii to good use. In early 2009, he helped his friend Rory Burmeister start up a business called Mintage Airstreams in East Missoula renovating Airstreams.

“It’s his brainchild,” says McElderry, “but we went in on a trailer together and bought it and fixed it up, tried to flip it really fast and make some money. He decided to go for it. He got some investors and now he’s doing all right.”

McElderry refurbished Airstreams by day and practiced with his unnamed band in the loft above Mintage Airstreams by night. At the time, NASA had just discovered water on the moon and the musicians discussed calling themselves Moon Water and, when that seemed not quite right, Cold Smoke. McElderry laughs at his attempts and failures to pin down a good moniker.

“For one show, Rock Against Racism [2009], we were called Isaac’s Lazer and the Gnarly Charlies,” he says. “And that wasn’t very good either.”

McElderry knew he wanted “Airstream” to fit into the

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Airstream Safari is comprised of, from left, Miles Cottrell, Isaac McElderry and Jacob Allington. The name comes from McElderry’s experience working at an Airstream renovation shop in East Missoula, which the singer/guitarist helped jumpstart with his best friend.

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name somehow, and sitting next to a 1957 Safari Airstream in a garage one day smoking a bowl, one of McElderry’s friends suggested Airstream Safari.

“And that was it,” he says.

Airstream Safari’s sound is, in some ways, just as the name implies: the sort of bright, hooky rock and roll that makes for a good road trip soundtrack. At the same time, it’s not so easy to pinpoint. Reggae riffs evoke mid-1990s jam rock bands, but there’s also an Old 97s’ Americana undertone in songs like “The Ride,” and a 1950s pop sheen in songs like “Bombshell Breeze.” And though some of McElderry’s lyrics offer free-flowing stories of friends and drugs, there are also songs about murder, like “Memento,” and others, like “Tuesday Morning,” which correlates the empty pleasures of cocaine to the emptiness of religion. In that song he sings: “The devil’s son was a friend of mine, hand in hand we would walk the line you’ve been drawing since the beginning.”

The rebellious tones of those songs run deep for McElderry who grew up in St. Ignatius in a religious family. After his parents divorced, he eventually drifted from his parents’ church to find something else he could believe in.

“I started to realize what was going on with religious people all over the place,” he says. “I’ve always felt forsaken and cheated and lied to through the church and I think that really comes out in most of my songs, realizing people are living for something that doesn’t matter. What matters are your experiences and your friends, having good people around you.”

If anything, says McElderry, music has filled that spiritual role for him. In the short term, Airstream Safari is planning a summer tour and working on songs for another album. But McElderry’s long-term sights are, like many other bands, set on one day making a living playing music.

And with a name like Airstream Safari, the musicians could go the distance.

“If we were ever to get big and Airstream came to hunt us down, I don’t know how that would work out,” laughs McElderry. “Maybe they’ll sponsor us. Maybe they’ll give us an Airstream to go on tour.”

Airstream Safari plays a CD release party at the Top Hat Friday, Feb. 11, at 10 PM with Secret Powers. $5. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Like a 1980s comedian I’m saying what everyone is thinking: Secret Powers emulates ELO. Okay, that isn’t completely true. And, anyway, who gives a turkey who they emulate? The band’s latest is one of the most huggable, touchable, squeezable collections of power pop gems since Lies and Fairy Tales. The kinds of gems that make me don my frock, skip to the river and lick lollipops with my special gal.

“Generation Ship” is a touchstone for those new to Secret Powers’ secret powers, having all the typical ingredients of a sugary Secret Powers jam (nod-a-long verse, juicy Beatles-esque vocal harmonies, heaps of intriguing instrumental arrays, a delightfully abrupt chorus reminiscent of good vinyl skips, and lyrics about

Chali 2na Fish Market Part 2 Decon

Chali 2na gets around.

The original member of groups Jurassic 5 and Ozomatli has lent his robust vocal presence to dozens of other artists’ projects, from Linkin Park t o Ta l i b K w e l i . T h i s propensity to share the mic is on full display with his latest mixtape, Fish Market Part 2, a buffet-style serving of 2na’s collaborations.

The artists that join 2na on this outing will be relatively unknown to most, but they hold their own in the presence of 2na’s formidable talent and reputation.

Goldenboy Sleepwalker Eenie Meenie Records

It’s tough to talk about Goldenboy without referencing Elliott Smith. Band frontman and multi-instrumentalist Shon Sullivan got his start playing in the late icon’s backing band, where he began writing material of his own. But comparison between the two isn’t quite fair. If Smith created primarily autumn and winter records, then Goldenboy’s third album Sleepwalker has the feeling of summer all over it.

It’s an easy-going summer, too. Opening track “Different Moon” typifies the record, launching into blustery guitar and big drums before the delicate vocals bring the number down a couple notches. No matter how intense the backing band gets, Sullivan’s slow

Motörhead The Wörld is Yours EMI

Yo u e v e r h a v e t h a t dream where you’re riding in Lemmy’s side-car shooting Nazis in the face while his throat bellows hot coals into the sky instantly broiling insidious Luftwaffe aircraft flying above? If not, you will after listening to the bloody amaranthine crust of Lemmy’s vocals on “Born to Lose.” But this ain’t just the Lemmy show. The 35year-old power-trio mule-kicks off the album with an

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girls—said in a British accent). If this nimble arrangement doesn’t make you wanna ride, Captain, ride on this mystery ship you best get to steppin’, landlubber. “ Ta r a n t u l a , ” i s stripped down, straight-up melodic rocking, delivering an affecting Tom Petty-like intro and verse. However, the creamy, “Tra-la-la” chorus is all Secret Powers; it will stick in your ear like a wet cobweb.

Another name for the album might have been The Consequences of Cultivating Ear Worms. Every iPodpacking gardener knows ear worms can goad, but like Secret Powers they tend to grow on you. (Jason McMackin) Secret Powers plays a CD release party at the Top Hat Friday, Feb. 11, at 10 PM with Airstream Safari. $5.

The music’s strength often lies in its substantial contributions from female emcees, such as Tanya Stephens’ reggae delivery on “No Bad Mon.” Others, like his collaboration with successful dubstep producer Rusko on “Go Go Gadget” falls short of awe-inspiring, though his rich vocals mirror the bass-heavy style so well that he almost pulls it off.

While some of the tracks suffer from unimaginative beats, others treat the listener to creative samples of horns, flute, string sections and an old Yardbirds refrain put to anthemic use in “4 the Luv.” Aside from a handful of uninspiring skits and fleeting, undeveloped musical interludes, hip hop’s most well-known baritone has delivered another collection of heavy hitters. (Jed Nussbaum) Chali 2na plays the Top Hat Tuesday, Feb. 15, at 10 PM with Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe. $25/$22 advance at Ear Candy Music or online at seafarerentertainment.com

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singing has the strange ability to mellow everything out. The result is an album that feels like an idyllic teenage July, complete with warm afternoons, an awkward romance and plenty of firefly light.

Sleepwalker is very well produced—maybe a little too much so. With the tight instrumentation and rocksolid mixing, there’s a slick veneer over the surface that would be fun to see chipped away at a live show. But beneath that production’s surface, it’s clear that Sullivan has earned the right to step out from his mentor’s shadow for evaluation on his own merits.

(Cameron Rasmusson) elephantine riff big enough to topple nations, past and present. Iterations of double bass drums and overdriven-to-oblivion guitar riffs careen to a chorus that guarantees 120 fist-pumps-a-minute. Absolute “rawk.”

On “I Know How to Die,” the seemingly immortal 65-year-old delivers, with little irony, the lines, “No I ain’t no angel, broken wings don’t fly / I know the law, I know how to die,” as the band kicks butts and stomps nuts in the gritty way that only four-on-the-floor rock and roll can.

Lemmy’s lyrics typically abhor humanity, but “Brotherhood of Man,” gets right to the album’s crux, “We kill for money, wealth, and lust, for this we should be damned / We are a disease upon the world, brotherhood of man.” This is Motörhead’s world; we’re just contaminating it. (Jason McMackin)

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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach earnest, but, it is to be feared, a duller, as well as a a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. But give more effeminate, and less bold and spirited nation.” a fisherman a fish and he may well insist that you keep In other words, Americans were turning soft. And stocking his local Bureau of Reclamation reservoir until Marsh (whose comments, hysterically enough, were the cows come home. That’s one lesson to be taken part of a report on Vermont’s dwindling fisheries) figfrom Anders Halverson’s An Entirely Synthetic Fish. ured more regular exposure to fighting fish was just the Another, in what’s becoming a familiar but reliably thing to toughen them up. fascinating narrative underlying almost every aspect of Thus began more than a century of policy human endeavor outside of Facebook, is that messing designed to take America fishing. with mother nature—nice or The perfect fish to firm not—almost always ends up up America’s flagging manopening a Costco-sized can of hood turned out to be a worms. salmonid known variously as Halverson’s can-opener is Sacramento River trout, comthe rainbow trout, the iconic mon mountain trout, redpiscatorial prey of the clearwabanded trout, and in the local ter West, an economic engine native tongue, syóolott, aka of the post-industrial age, and rainbow trout. That this parwatery repository for homo ticular fish swam only in the sapiens’ ongoing battle for, waters of the west coast was and with, the world as we considered no deterrent to found it. But slice one of those American ingenuity, leading slippery little ichthys open to an almost unbelievable and inside, if you know what story in which repurposed you’re looking for, you’ll find military airplanes carpeta history of human meddlebombed high mountain lakes someness that’s redrawn the and reservoirs alike with milmap of America’s faunal landlions of fingerling trout, pausscape as a tangle of unintending occasionally to poison ed consequences. entire watersheds to rid them Hardcore Montana fish of less desirable natives and aficionados may be familiar An Entirely Synthetic Fish: How Rainbow make way for the preferred with Halverson’s drift, and Trout Beguiled America and Overran the interlopers.

Montana biologists and fishery World Halverson, a Ph.D. in ecolmanagers are well represented Anders Halverson ogy from Yale and research hardcover, Yale University Press in his history. But one needn’t 288 pages, $26.00 associate at the University of be a fisherman or a scientist to Colorado’s Center of the appreciate the tale.

American West, is a fly-fisher, and that avocation lends The story starts, engagingly enough, with an inci- An Entirely Synthetic Fish a light personal touch that dent during the Crimean War, when 670 British cavalry spins his story smoothly through what could have been charged with predictable fruitlessness into a phalanx of an unnavigable knot of bureaucratic resource manageRussian artillery. The soldiers’ suicidal bravery became ment, equal parts well-intentioned and misguided. His a global cause célèbre, and inspired Alfred Lord indictment of a naïve and inertial fisheries policy that’s Tennyson to pen “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” led to pointless expenditure, outbreaks of whirling diswith its now-classic lines: “Theirs not to wonder why / ease, and hybridization with, for instance, Montana’s Theirs but to do or die.” native westslope cutthroat trout is sympathetic, as Across the ocean, Vermonter George Perkins befits the benefit of hindsight.

Marsh, an early American conservationist, had another If there’s a nit to pick, it’s that subtitle: How explanation for the soldiers’ unblinking valor. It was Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the rooted, Marsh thought, in lessons learned by field and World. That beguiled is a bit of miscasting. Rainbows stream. seems less to have beguiled America than to have been In contrast, Marsh wrote to the Vermont kidnapped, indentured in servitude to the country’s Legislature in 1857, “The people of New England self-serving fetish for wild nature. It’s a final irony that are suffering, both physically and morally, from a in enabling Americans to feel better about their protoo close and absorbing attention to pecuniary gressive and steady disconnection from the outdoors, interests, and occupations of mere routine … We rainbows themselves have become enfeebled, fisheryhave notoriously less physical hardihood and hatched and genetically diffuse.

Don’t blame the fish. endurance than the generation which preceded our Anders Halverson reads from An Entirely own, our habits are those of less bodily activity; the sports of the field, and the athletic games with Synthetic Fish at Fact & Fiction Thursday, Feb. 10, which the village green formerly rung upon every at 7 PM. Free. military and civil holiday, are now abandoned, and we have become not merely a more thoughtful and arts@missoulanews.com

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into the cave are also compelling, but by the 20-minute mark of the film it becomes easy to forget that Sanctum includes that extra dimension.

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Okay, just one more: Vin Diesel made more in 2010 ($18 million) than Martin Scorsese. People, if you stop going to see every sequel to The Fast and the Furious (four and counting), they will stop making them.

But I bring up this list because of the man in the top position, who you will not be surprised to learn is James Cameron. What might surprise you is that Cameron made two-and-a-half times more money last year than number two on the list, Johnny Deppâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and Captain Jack Sparrow made $100 million. Cameron didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t actually make a film last year, but that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t prevent him from taking in a cool quarter-billion dollars worth of Avatar residuals.

With that kind of dough you can pick your projects, which makes Cameronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to lend a few bucks, some 3D camera equipment and, most importantly, his name to Sanctum all the more odd. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s credited as the producer, but if you watched any of the previews or commercials for the film, in which his name is prominently displayed, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably enter the theater with heightened expectations.

If you do, prepare to be disappointed. Avatar this is not. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not even close to on par with The Abyss, the 1989 underwater alien thriller that Cameron wrote and directed. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re no aliens in Sanctum, which is set almost entirely in a labyrinth of underwater caves in Papua New Guinea. There is, however, an unoriginal plot, soap opera-level acting and some of the least-subtle foreshadowing Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen in quite some time.

But it is pretty, at least for a while. The problem is that the most riveting shots, as well as those that make the best use of the 3D cameras, almost all occur above ground, with wonderful panning shots of the South Pacific rainforest and the enormous gaping hole in the ground that looks right out of Return of the Jedi. The first few scenes where our team of explorers descends

but letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s be honest, if we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know their names, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going be the first to bite it when the caves start to flood, thanks to a nasty above-ground monsoon.

The rest of the film revolves around finding that escape route. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty standard mediocre thriller fare, with claustrophobic squeezes, dramatic deaths, mutinous crewmembers and father-son bonding. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the writing that really fails here: â&#x20AC;&#x153;This caveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not gonna beat me â&#x20AC;Ś. This cave will kill you in a heartbeat â&#x20AC;Ś You understand, whatever happens down here, never give up â&#x20AC;ŚThereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no such thing as God down here â&#x20AC;Ś Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sorry I could never be a good father to you â&#x20AC;Ś You must save the Naâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;vi.â&#x20AC;?

Okay, I made that last one up, but the others are all too real, delivered without irony. By the midway point of Sanctum, the most entertaining thing about the film is trying to figure out who dies next. Also, I started really wishing for aliens, or at least a shark or two.

To be fair, Sanctum isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t nearly as bad as Country Strong, which set a high bar with which all bad films will be judged this year. In fact, I saw Sanctum the same day I bought my tickets for next weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s screening of The Sounds of Science at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, during which rock trio Yo La Tengo will provide a live score for eight underwater documentary shorts by French avant-garde filmmaker Jean PainlevĂŠ. As I grimaced my way through 105 minutes of Sanctum, it occurred to me how much better the film would be if similar measures were taken: Cut the dialogue, throw in a riveting soundtrack and enjoy the scenery. In other words, if you must see Santum, wait for the DVDâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and then make liberal use of the mute button.

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THE EAGLE It’s the year 140, and former Roman soldier Channing Tatum heads to the northern reaches of England with a slave to ferret out the truth 20 years after the disappearance of his father and his father’s army. This film adaptation of a book by Rosemary Sutcliff co-stars Donald Sutherland and Mark Strong. Village 6: 7:15 and 9:55, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1:30 and 4:25. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:40, 3:40, 7 and 9:40, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight, and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 3:40, 7 and 9:40.

127 HOURS Director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionare, Trainspotting) returns with a film about every hardcore mountaineer’s worst nightmare. It follows the true story of adventurer Aron Ralston— played by James Franco—who decides to head out to Robber’s Roost in Utah to explore canyons, but ends up stranded after a gigantic boulder crushes his arm. Carmike 10: 4, 7:30 and 9:55, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:15. Stadium 14 in

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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 in 2-D: 4:30, 7:10 and 9:45, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:35. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:30, 3:30, 6:30 and 9:20, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight, and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 3:45, 6:30 and 9:20.

GNOMEO AND JULIET Shakespeare’s tale of unrequited love gets adapted for the 3-D CGI generation. This time, the story revolves around two garden gnomes—a red hat gnome and a blue hat gnome—who try to forge a relationship amid a fight between their respective gnome peoples.

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JUST GO WITH IT Adam Sandler shows his classy side as a single plastic surgeon The worst kind of snot check. The Eagle opens Friday at the Village 6. who lies about being married in order to get into the pants of THE KING’S SPEECH ladies. Things go well until he asks his co-work- Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:30 and After English aristocrat Colin Firth gets crowned 9:45, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight, er Jennifer Aniston to join in on a fib by pretendKing George VI of England, he tries to rid himself ing to be his wife. Carmike 10: 4:40, 7:25 and and Mon.–Thu. at 1:15, 4, 7:30 and 9:45. of a nasty stammer so he can give good speech10, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:35. Village 6: BALLET IN CINEMA: CALIGULA es to his fellow Brits, who are on the brink of 7:25 and 10, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1:35 Slap on some pointe shoes and get ready for The World War II. The film received 12 Oscar nominaand 4:40. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and Paris Opera Ballet’s rendition of Caligula, which tions. Wilma Theatre: nightly at 7 and 9:10.

9:10, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 follows the life of the Roman Emperor of the Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10, with show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. same name who was an eccentric with despotic Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on at 12:50, 3:45, 6:50 and 9:35, with an addition- tendencies. Carmike 10: 7:30 only on Thu. Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:45, al Fri.–Sat. show at midnight, and Mon.–Thu. at 3:50, 6:50 and 9:30, with an additional Fri.–Sat. 1, 3:45, 6:50 and 9:35. Mountain Cinema in BLACK SWAN show at midnight, and Mon.–Thu. at 1:05, 3:50, Whitefish: 4, 7 and 9:15, with Fri.–Sun. mati- Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem for a Dream) 6:50 and 9:30. nees at 1:30. Entertainer Cinema in Ronan: 4, 7 delivers yet another psychological head trip with a and 9:20. story that pits two ballet dancers, Natalie Portman THE MECHANIC and Mila Kunis, against each other as they fight for The testosterone just oozes out of this remake of JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER stage prominence during a production of Swan the 1972 original: Jason Statham is an ace assasYou’ll either cry out in irritated agony or in pure joy Lake. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 4:15 and 9:30. sin who teaches Ben Foster the bloody tricks of while watching this 3-D biopic about the teenage the trade after Foster’s dad, Donald Sutherland, YouTube sensation turned teeny bopper musician. THE DILEMMA gets snuffed out. Carmike 10: Fri.–Tue. at 7:20 Features live footage plus appearances by Usher Vince Vaughn witnesses the wife of his cowork- and 9:50. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 7:25 and 9:45, and, well, lots of admiring teens. Carmike 10: 4, 7 er/best friend smooching another guy, and has to with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. and 9:35, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1. Village 6 in figure out the most dude-friendly way to break the 2-D: 7 and 10, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1 and bad news to his buddy. Jennifer Connelly, Winona NO STRINGS ATTACHED 4. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at noon, 2:25, Ryder and Queen Latifah co-star. Carmike 10: Yes, this movie is about gettin’ it on. Ashton 4:50, 7:15 and 9:45, with an additional Fri.–Sat. 4:15, 7 and 9:40, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30. Kutcher and Natalie Portman are old friends show at midnight, and Mon.–Thu. at 1:25, 4:15, Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:15 and 6:55, with an who start knocking boots, and then Kutcher 7:15 and 9:45. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. realizes he’s got a heart-on for Portman. Village 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 6: 7 and 9:45, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1:35 THE FIGHTER 1:45. and 4:15. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9, Mark Wahlberg is the knockout star of this Rocky- with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show esque, biographical sports drama about the life of on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1, 3:55, 7:05 OPERA IN CINEMA: East Coast boxer “Irish” Micky Ward, who punched and 9:40, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA/PAGLIACCI It’s aria time on the silver screen with this dou- his way to the top thanks to expert training from midnight. ble header of two classic operas that were his ex-convict half-brother, played by Christian recently performed at the Teatro alla Scala in Bale. Carmike 10: 7 and 9:45. Mountain Cinema THE ROOMMATE Milan, Italy and which weave in themes of in Whitefish: 4, 7 and 9:15, with Fri.–Sun. mati- You ever had a psycho roommate in college? tragedy, adultery and revenge. Carmike 10: 7:30 nees at 1:30. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4, 7 This movie plays on that fear as the story foland 9:15. only on on Wed. lows Leighton Meester and Minka Kelly, one of

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whom stops taking her meds and goes violently loco. Village 6: 7:20 and 9:50, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1:45 and 4:35. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:25, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35 and 9:50, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight, and Mon.–Thu. at 1:30, 4:05, 6:45 and 9:15.

SANCTUM James Cameron showcases his wicked awesome 3-D photography techniques (the ones he used in Avatar) as executive producer in this thriller adventure story about a crew of people who get stuck in an intricate cave system after a flash flood dampens their plans. Carmike 10: 4:20, 7 and 9:50, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:25. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1, 3:50, 6:40 and 9:15, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

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: 4:20, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:20.

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THE RITE A young priest with doubts about faith has a change of heart after he becomes an apprentice for exorcist Anthony Hopkins and notices that people are starting to act a little, well, evil. Village 6: 7:05 and 9:45, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1:20 and 4:10.

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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, 7 and 9:30, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:05, 3:45, 6:45 and 9:25, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

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 in 2-D: 4 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:20, 2:50 and 5, and Mon.–Thu. at 1:30 and 3:50.

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Looking for a unique dog? Want one that doesn't look like all the others? Come check out Ginger!

She's a short-legged sweetheart with a shy nature and a look all her own.

J O H N H E N RY

The mythic John Henry was strong and determined, and our John Henry has those characteristics too. He's also quite good looking, willing to please, and happy all the time.

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SHERLOCK

Sherlock is an active 1year-old cattle dog mix.

This little guy is full of gusto and would make a great running partner. Be sure to check out the Adopt-AThon at the Humane Society on Friday, 2/11, 4-9pm and Saturday, 2/12, 124pm, to meet pets like Sherlock.

SQUEEZER

Squeezer is a fabulous senior gal who enjoys fluffy beds and scratches behind her ears. Come visit her and she will surely melt your heart with her big green eyes and fuzzy fluffy fur. Squeezer is seeking a peaceful home where she can lounge about as she reflects on life’s mysteries.

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ANNIE

Annie is just a youngster, and she has all the energy and spirit that you would expect from an adolescent dog. She could benefit from some training, but all the right instincts are already there.

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GRIZELDA

We think Grizelda has one of the sweetest faces we've ever seen.

She's shy and quiet, but she loves attention and would really blossom in a home filled with loving people.

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LEBOWSKI

We can't understand why this big, handsome cat is still living at the shelter. We thought he'd be snapped up as soon as he was available for adoption. He's much too special to be lanquishing in our cat room!

MOLLY

C RY S TA L

3-year-old Crystal adores humans. She truly feels as though she understands them and is thinking of rescuing one of her own.

She would prefer a human who will spend lots of time with her. This gem is a social butterfly and gets along well with dogs and humans.

Molly is one of our longest and most beautiful residents at the shelter. She continues to wait patiently for her forever person and never loses hope that they will come to adopt her soon. This 2-year-old Classic Tabby is a fan of cat treats, soft blankets and classical music.

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Sato is quite a reserved cat, and she looks very regal as she sits back and watches everything from her top-row cage in our cat room. She would like a quiet, adult home where demure nature will be appreciated.

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TIKI

5-year-old Tiki has easily become a favorite here at the shelter. With her laid-back demeanor and delightful personality, she’s surely a winner. This lovely lady likes to take walks and can easily sniff out a fallen treat that other dogs would miss.

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My name is Harvard... I was given to AniMeals from another rescue because I had a cold... I also had a poor diet before. But now my coat is starting to shine, and I am such a gentle fella! I would love for you to take me home!

C A S A N O VA

8-month-old Casanova makes every day feel like Valentine's Day. He is a cat as sweet as a box of chocolates and will surely melt your heart.Be sure to check out the Adopt-A-Thon at the Humane Society on Friday, 2/11, 4-9pm and Saturday, 2/12, 12-4pm, to meet pets like Casanova.

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This is Shy. He came from a hoarding situation, and like his name implies, he is very timid. He needs someone to be patient, and understand that he is not used to being the center of anyone's universe. He would love to have a forever home so he can see what it is like to be the shining star!

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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

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Dinner at 5:30, groups start at 6:30. Please arrive by 6:15 if you have children. 1130 W. Broadway. 543-6691 for more information.

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cat Last seen evening of January 27th. Escaped from our home at 2105 Trail St.(Behind Emma Dickenson School).

“Tuck” is 17 lbs, black with white running from forehead, down nose, throat thru belly with white on all 4 paws. Could be headed to our old house (we moved just a month ago) at 2120 Inverness.

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PET OF THE WEEK DODGER. 1 year-old Dodger is recovering nicely from his hip surgery at the shelter. This sweetie pie has gained the nickname ‘Mr. Snuggles’ because he has been extra affectionate toward the staff and volunteers lately. Dodger loves walks, treats, car rides and frolicking through the snow while taking the occasional break to taste falling snowflakes. We can only hope that this sweet boy finds his loving forever home soon.

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YOU MAKE LOVING FUND

Here’s a woman who always has your best interest at heart. In fact, she’s willing to offer you several percentage points less than you’d get at Payday Loans.

Four months into wedded bills, uh, bliss, you’re walking around muttering, “Aren’t a husband and wife supposed to support each other?” Well, yes, unless they start their marriage by making other arrangements. Absurdly, you agreed to the family values financial plan—the husband takes care of all the expenses. Typically, the husband does this because the wife is taking care of their home, their dogs, their ferrets, and their three overscheduled children. But, hey, at least your wife’s got your back. Your back pocket, that is—the one where you keep your wallet.

What spouses put into a marriage doesn’t always work out to 50/50, but there should at least be the spirit of 50/50. If you saw that in any way from your wife, you might have hope for a loving marriage. What you have instead seems like a marriage made in pragmatism. Chances are, she saw age 40 on final approach and figured she’d better lock in a funding source (you were conveniently located). Chances are, you realized she was out of your league, but figured you could bribe her into marrying you. You perhaps assumed that marriage would inspire her to act wifelike; as in,

like a partner, not a prostitute with a decorating budget.

You claim you don’t want to end your marriage. You’re probably making a common error in rationality—deciding to continue investing based on how much you’ve already invested instead of on what the future payoffs will be (or, in your case, payouts). You also claim to love your wife—not for her stunning exterior, but for who she is on the inside (um, greedy, selfish, narcissistic and snippy?). Come on. Surely what you love is preserving your ego—telling yourself whatever it takes to avoid admitting, “Gee, was I ever gullible.” Hey, whatever makes you happy, but it won’t change who you’re with—a woman who sees you as her $chmoopie, her moneybunny, her blank checkiepoo. That aside, you can’t help but admire the lady for being a gogetter (why wait for the divorce to take a guy for all he’s worth?).

ONE SURPRISE FITS ALL I’ve been with my boyfriend five months, and want to make him a romantic dinner. What should I serve? What should I wear? What would make it romantic, fun and special for him? How can I surprise, excite and charm him?

—Clueless I find that nothing says “I love you” like a case of anaphylactic shock—when the dinner meant to take a guy’s breath away becomes the dinner that causes him to stop breathing. A severe allergic reaction is the sort of thing that can happen when you ask a total stranger what your boyfriend of five months would find tasty, romantic and sexy. (Don’t bother making dessert. The hospital will give him a fruit cup after he’s deintubated.)

What’s actually romantic and special is getting the sense that the person you’re dating gets you—that they’ve been paying attention to what you’re into and even remarks you’ve made in passing. This evening should reflect that, and you should have fun figuring out what, exactly, would surprise, excite and charm the guy.

If you’re totally at a loss, pay attention to what he says and does in the future, and for now, do as I do: Come to the door naked with a chicken on a spear. (My UPS man really seems to like that.)

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com).

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Firewood for sale! Save money on your heating bill. We have cords of lodgepole that are dry and ready to burn. This wood lights easily and burns hot. Will deliver anywhere in Missoula or the greater Missoula area (i.e., Potomac, Blackfoot, Seely, Bitterroot, Arlee, Alberton). Cords can be rounds or split, or a combination. Ask us about our multi-cord discount. Single cords: rounds are $100/cord and split is $125/cord. Stacking fee negotiable. Call Greg at 406-2444255 or 406-546-0587 to order yours today. Wood available all winter long.

Firewood for sale! Save money on your heating bill. We have cords of lodgepole that are dry and ready to burn. This wood lights easily and burns hot. Will deliver anywhere in Missoula or the greater Missoula area (i.e., Potomac, Blackfoot, Seely, Bitterroot, Arlee, Alberton). Cords can be rounds or split, or a combination. Ask us about our multi-cord discount. Single cords: rounds are $100/cord and split is $125/cord. Stacking fee negotiable. Call Greg at 406-2444255 or 406-546-0587 to order yours today. Wood available all winter long.

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My wife and I have been married four months after dating a year. She’s 40; I’m 34.

Before we married, we agreed (because of our values) that the man pays the daily living expenses (rent/mortgage, bills, taxes, groceries). She said I should never rely on her for money, but said she’d help me if I needed it. I’m buying us a home, and I’m overwhelmed by bills. She wants a $3,000 mattress and a high-end bedroom set, and I asked her to help pay for them. She said she would, but I’d have to pay her back.

What? Aren’t a husband and wife supposed to support each other? She works full time as a manager and banks her earnings or spends money on herself.

Before we married, we could compromise. Now she cuts me down and wants everything her way. And she could ask me how my day was once in a while. When I mentioned that, she said I was acting like a girl. She’s very beautiful—a former model—but I’ve always told her I love her for who she is, not her beauty. I still love her and don’t want to end our marriage.

—Strapped

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CIAN and Farm Mechanic (2 positions) MSU-AESCARC - Moccasin, MT. Details at www.montana.edu/ jobs, Lewistown Job Service, or call 406-423-5421. Screening Date: 1/27/11. MSU-Bozeman is an ADA/EEO/AA/Vet Pref Employer TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING. Complete programs and refresher courses, rent equipment for CDL. Job Placement Assistance. Financial assistance for qualified students.

Century Companies, Inc., a highly reputable asphalt paving contractor, based in Lewistown, MT, is accepting applications for the 2011 construction season. _________________ We are looking for experienced team players for the following positions:

CONCRETE FINISHERS & LABORERS Individuals need to be willing to work in Eastern Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming.

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EMPLOYMENT SAGE Technical Services, Billings/Missoula, 1-800-5454546 WANTED PRESS OPERATOR for Goss Community Web Press and Ryobi sheet fed press. Chance to manage small, but busy, print shop in North Central Montana. Possible purchase opportunity for the right individual. Send resume to Printer Position, P.O. Box 847, Cut Bank, MT 59427

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Work two days per week in Granite County. Requires a baccalaureate degree from a university with a program in nursing accredited by National League for Nursing or a certificate of public health nursing from a university program approved by National League for Nursing. One year nursing experience preferred. Missoula Job Service 728-7060

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Spring Cleansing for the Body Series Spring is the perfect time to do a cleanse. Join Herbalist Jessica Maisel and learn how to effectively cleanse and purify your body in a safe and nourishing way from the inside out. This three part series will cover the reasons we need to actively cleanse our bodies, which herbs and supplements to use and how to use them properly for maximum benefit. We will prepare and share some Spring Tonic Soup at the last class! Tuesdays, February 22, March 1 and 8, 7-9 pm, Cost: $60. Healthy Skin from the Inside Out Join Meadowsweet’s Kimberly DeVries to learn about healing the skin from the inside out.

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Thursday March 24 7-9 pm, Cost: $20. Makng your Own Natural Body Care: Healthy Skin from the Outside In Join Meadowsweet’s own Kimberly DeVries to learn how to make your own natural body care. Kim will show us how to make a face lotion, face toner and a face scrub using herbs, essential oils, clays, fixed oils and other natural products. Thursday March 31, 7-9 pm, Cost: $20. Take home each product you make for an additional $10. Meadowsweet Herbs, 180 S. 3rd St. W., Missoula, MT 59801 728-0543 www.meadowsweet-herbs.com

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Before I loved you, nothing was my own,” wrote Pablo Neruda to his lover in one of his sonnets. “It all belonged to someone else—to no one.” Have you ever experienced a sense of being dispossessed like that, Aries? A sense of there being nowhere and nothing in the world that you can call your own? And have you ever fantasized that your emptiness could be remedied by the intimate presence of a special companion? I wish for you to have that consoling experience in the coming week. In fact, I predict it. Happy Valentine Daze!

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’re very familiar with the inexhaustible longings that you harbor in your depths. Your primal hungers for love and connection are never far from your awareness. But the sad thing is that you often regard this as a problem—as a vulnerability that disempowers you.

This Valentine season I’m asking you to change all that. I’m urging you to see your enormous yearnings as strengths…to celebrate them as essential fuel for your vitality…to treat them as crucial ingredients in your lust for life. Take it from someone who has seen too many people crippled by their lack of passion: You’re lucky to be so well endowed with desire.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Happy Valentine Daze, Gemini! Here’s my prescription for making best use of the current cosmic currents: Be enchanting, but in an understated way. Be slyly charismatic and innocently flirtatious and serenely wild. Show how sexy it is to be sublimely relaxed.

Make judicious use of small acts of friendly mischief. Be affectionately unpredictable, always in the service of showing how much you care.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your love story has elements of a farce mixed with a soap opera, fairy tale and ghost story. For a normal human being, it might be too intense and convoluted to deal with; it requires so much willing suspension of disbelief and involves so much letting go of certainty that no one in their right mind would agree to its demands. Luckily, you’re not a normal human being these days, and you’re not particularly in your right mind. That’s why I say unto you: Ride this snaky tale for all it’s worth. Enjoy every plot twist and riddle as if you’ve been given an epic myth you can ponder and learn from for the next ten years. Happy Valentine Daze, Cancerian!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “I think, therefore I am,” declared the philosopher Descartes. Couldn’t he have equally said, “I feel, therefore I am” or “I sense, therefore I am”? During this Valentine season, I suggest that you put the emphasis on those other proofs of identity, not Descartes’.

From what I can tell, intimacy is most likely to thrive if you liberate it from excessive thinking and lubricate it with generous amounts of trans-rational contact. For love’s sake, empty your head of abstractions, opinions and theories. Make lots of room for the aroma of freshly washed hair, the shimmer of peaceful excitement, the shuddering solace of moist skin, the zing of poignant empathy, the wisdom of wandering hands, and the telepathy of shared perceptions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Happy Valentine Daze, Virgo! What’s the best way for you to celebrate the season of love? In accordance with the astrological omens, here’s a good suggestion: Write haiku-like poems on scraps of red paper and leave them around for a special someone to find. You can borrow the following samples, adopted from the work of Raymond Roseliep. 1: “mist on my mouth—air you touched.” 2: “I tried to bring you that one cloud in this cup of water.” 3: “black raspberries— your name breaking in the soft burst.” 4: “love song: I enter your mirror.” To get more inspiration, check at tinyurl.com/brisk88.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Happy Valentine Daze, Libra. It’s my astrological opinion that you need more jokes, comedy and humor in your romantic adventures. If you’re too serious about seeking the pleasures of love, you can’t get what you want. To inspire your efforts, I present the winning entry from last year’s Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. It was judged the worst possible opening line for a novel, but it’s perfect fodder for the project I’ve assigned you: “For the first month of Ricardo and Felicity’s affair, they greeted one another at every stolen rendezvous with a kiss—a lengthy, ravenous kiss, Ricardo lapping and sucking at Felicity’s mouth as if she were a giant cage-mounted water bottle and he were the world’s thirstiest gerbil.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This Valentine season, you have considerable potential to bring more lyricism into your close relationships. To stimulate you in that noble effort, I’m borrowing from the poetry of Andre Breton. See if you can adopt this style of expressing yourself (or steal the actual words) as you reach out to a person you’d like to be closer to: “Your neck is pearled barley. Your hair is a wood fire. Your mouth is a bouquet of stars. Your eyelashes are a child’s first stroke of writing. Your eyebrows are the edge of a swallow’s nest. Your shoulders are dolphins’ heads under the ice. Your fingers?

The ace of hearts. Your armpits? Beechnut and midsummer night. Your arms are the sea foam and flood gate foam. Your feet are bunches of keys.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Love that stammers, that stutters, is apt to be the love that loves best,” wrote poet Gabriela Mistral. That’s an important theme to keep in mind during the season of amour. Your job as a lover is not to be inflated with the perfect knowledge of how to proceed, not to stride forcefully into each romantic nuance with your confidence exploding…but rather to stumble along humbly, waging experiment after experiment, striving to kindle the spark, unleash the deluge, conjure the whirlwind, burrow into the dirty, sacred depths—or whatever the idiosyncratic truth of the moment calls for. Happy Valentine Daze, Sagittarius!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Happy Valentine Daze, Capricorn! Borrowing words from poet Amy Lowell, I’ve created the nucleus of a love note for you to use as your own. Feel free to give these words (and others you write yourself) to a person whose destiny needs to be woven more intimately together with yours. “Your shadow is moonlight on a plate of silver; your footsteps, the seeding-place of lilies; the mystery of your voice, a chime of bells across the windless river air. The movement of your hands is the long golden running of light from a rising sun. Young horses are not more limber than your thoughts. Your laughs are bees buzzing around a pear tree. I dare to reach to you. I dare to touch the rim of your brightness.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When some Westerners hear the term “tantra,” they think it’s a New Age codeword for lavish sex. But in its original form, tantra is a philosophy that advocates spiritual union with all of creation, not just erotic union with an attractive partner. Tantric practitioners might engage in metaphorical “love-making” with lizards, birch trees, clouds, toasters, rivers and quirky friends, among other wonders. I recommend that you experiment with this perspective, Aquarius. I bet you’ll find that cultivating lusty compassion for the entire world will enhance your personal intimacy with the people you care about. Happy Valentine Daze!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In many of the weddings I’ve been to as a guest, the love birds have sealed their vows with a chaste kiss—a formal gesture that wasn’t imbued with much spontaneous passion. But in a recent marriage ceremony I attended, the new husband and wife showed little inhibition at the climax. They French-kissed in a prolonged embrace that also included ample groping. In the coming week, I urge you to put yourself as much as possible in situations where you can express that kind of free-wheeling spirit. Happy Valentine Daze, Pisces!

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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) FOR: URD III Curb & Sidewalk Needs Assessment and a Probable Cost of Construction Report URD III, City of Missoula, Montana. NOTICE TO CIVIL ENGINEERING FIRMS: In furtherance of the Missoula Redevelopment Agency’s (“MRA”) goals in URD III of reducing blight and fostering private investment, notice is hereby given that the MRA, acting as Project Owner (“Owner”) for the City of Missoula, will receive written statements of qualifications and proposals from civil engineering firms to conduct an URD III Curb & Sidewalk Needs Assessment and produce a Probable Cost of Construction Report for filling in URD III curb and sidewalk gaps identified in the Needs Assessment. The report shall quantify the curb and sidewalk gaps in URD III and provide the Owner with a probable construction cost along with a timeline for design, engineering, construction, and an engineering and construction phasing strategy to complete the construction of the curb, sidewalk, and related infrastructure identified in the Needs Assessment, altogether hereinafter referred to as the “Project”. At the discretion of the MRABoard of Commissioners and the Missoula City Council, curb and sidewalk engineering and construction could proceed with financing under an URD III Tax Increment Bond if warranted. If at such time the work proceeds, the Engineer may be retained to provide design development, engineering, and construction management for construction of the curb, sidewalk, and related infrastructure within the boundaries of URD III, the “Project Area”; or MRAmay at its discretion issue subsequent RFP’s for design and engineering for the various Project phases. STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS & PROPOSAL CONTENTAt the discretion of the MRA, incomplete proposals may be rejected and returned to the respondent in their entirety.

Information to be submitted by prospective firms in their written statements, qualifications, and professional proposals should also include: 1. Qualifications of the firm: The successful respondent shall demonstrate the firm’s experience in generating probable costs for public infrastructure construction projects, developing projected budgets for similar types of projects, and specify the accuracy of the firm’s budget projections. The firm’s statements of qualifications shall demonstrate the firm’s ability to develop an all encompassing projected budget for the Project within the Project Area with enough confidence that MRA could define the terms of a tax increment bond to finance the Project, if warranted. The successful respondent shall demonstrate an understanding and appreciation of URD III - commercial corridors and residential areas, the redevelopment goals of the MRA in URD III, and URD III’s significance in the Missoula Valley. Public relations, public meetings, and meetings with property owners along with communications with MRA staff, and City officials are important components of the Engineer’s scope of work. The selected Engineer will be required to follow applicable City, State and Federal regulations.

The successful respondent shall also include a list of land-use planning projects completed in conjunction with public agencies, along with design, engineering, and construction management of public infrastructure projects completed by the firm over the last five years in the URD III vicinity. The agency name and phone number of the contact person who worked most closely with the firm on these projects should be included along with information regarding construction dates, nature of the project, project cost, and project financing sources. 2. Approach to the Project: Proposals shall describe the firm’s approach in conducting the curb and sidewalk Needs Assessment in URD III including methods of gathering data and calculating preliminary engineering and construction costs, and working with the Owner to develop an implementation strategy to build-out the curb and sidewalk gaps over the diverse urban geographic area of URD III under potential time limitations of tax increment bond financing. 3. Key Personnel: This section shall include a list of the key personnel in the firm and describe their experience managing public infrastructure projects and communicating with property owners in the URD III vicinity. Also include a statement regarding any intention to subcontract any portion of this work to any other firm, a description of that work, and experience of the subcontracted personnel. 4. Proposed Schedule: Submittals shall include a proposed schedule for conducting the curb and sidewalk Needs

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Assessment and producing a Probable Cost of Construction Report. Include projected work load and availability of key personnel to complete the work within the proposed schedule. 5. Additional Information: Any additional information that is relevant for MRA to consider in reviewing and comparing the firm’s proposal. 6. Scope of Services: A contract for professional services with the selected Engineer will include the provisions identified in 6.A. and 6.B. below. The Engineer’s Scope of Services may be amended, at the discretion of the MRA Board, to include provisions 6.C.through 6.F. if the Board and the City Council act to complete the Project in its entirety using a tax increment bond. If the Board determines not to move forward with the Project in its entirety the Engineer’s Scope of Work will be deemed complete at the end of the work described here under provision 6.B. Scope of Services, or the Engineer’s Scope of Services may be amended, at the discretion of the Board, to include provision 6.C. through 6.F. for a smaller phase of the Project: A. Needs Assessment and Probable Cost of Construction Report. The selected engineer will conduct a Needs Assessment to identify curb and sidewalk gaps in URD III along with a report on the probable cost estimate to design, survey, engineer, administer a construction contract, and construct the curb, sidewalk, and related infrastructure identified in the Needs Assessment. The engineer’s report shall provide a map of the infrastructure identified in the Needs Assessment and detail the linear feet of curb, the square feet and linear feet of sidewalk (including commercial driveways), and quantify drainage features and other related infrastructure required to build-out the curb and sidewalk gaps identified in the Needs Assessment. B. Project Phasing. The selected engineer shall conduct the necessary field work and data collection to advise the Owner in the development of an implementation strategy to phase-in construction in compliance with potential terms of a tax increment bond as may be determined by the MRA Board, the City, and bond counsel. Proposals shall describe the firm’s ability to meet the Scope of Services as outlined in 6.C. through 6.F. should the Board move the Project forward and amend the Engineer’s Scope of Services. If the Board determines not to move forward with the Project in its entirety the Engineer’s work will be deemed complete at the end of the work described here under provision 6.B., or the Engineer’s Scope of Services may be amended at the discretion of the Board to include provisions 6.C. through 6.F. for a smaller phase of the Project, or the MRA may at its discretion issue further RFP’s for various phases of the Project. C. Design Development. The selected engineer will provide the following during preliminary design of the Project within the Project area: public notification of the Project or Project Phases; field surveying and engineering; curb and sidewalk alignment to accommodate existing utilities and/or ditch crossings; drainage plan; asphalt patching to existing pavement; soils investigation, utility relocation, and/or right-of-way acquisition if applicable; and preliminary cost estimates. The engineer’s preliminary design will be reviewed by City Public Works officials for approval, prior to MRA approval. The engineer will hold a public meeting or meetings with adjacent land owners in the Project area or individual construction phases to present preliminary design, and also provide for public outreach and communications with property owners to mitigate design and encroachment issues prior to bidding the work. D. Final design.

Upon City Engineer and MRA approval of preliminary design and cost estimates, the selected engineer will prepare construction drawings and specifications of the Project including typical details of curbs, flow lines, drainage facilities, and sidewalk sections. In addition, the selected engineer will provide final cost estimates, prepare contractor bidding documents, advertise bid, assist owner in analyzing bids, and make a recommendation regarding award of a construction contract to complete the Project or Project Phase.

E. Construction Management. The selected engineer will conduct weekly on-site meetings with contractor, MRA and City Public Works officials. Engineer will also inspect, oversee, and review contractor submittals, contractor work progress, and contractor’s adherence to contract specifications and construction schedule. The selected engineer will provide or prepare the following: construction surveying, construction staking, materials quality testing and compaction testing, field changes, change orders, and as-built

drawings. Additionally, the engineer will review and recommend approval of contractor’s requests for payment, and coordinate inspections by City officials. F. Project Close-Out. The selected engineer will make an inspection with MRA and City Public Works officials, certify Project construction, and prepare a Certificate of Substantial Completion. The selected engineer will prepare a punch-list of items remaining for completion or correction prior to final inspection with MRA and City Public Works officials. In addition the selected engineer will provide a warranty inspection with MRA and City Public Works officials one year after the completion of the Project. An Engineer will be chosen by a selection committee using the following process: A. Four (4) copies of written statements, qualifications and professional proposals shall be submitted to the Missoula Redevelopment Agency, 140 W. Pine St, Missoula, Montana 59802, on or before 5:00 p.m., local time the 1st day of March, 2011, enclosed in an envelope clearly marked “Response to Request For Proposals for URD III Curb & Sidewalk Needs Assessment and Probable Cost of Construction Report. Written statements, qualifications, and professional proposals submitted will be evaluated by a selection committee appointed for this purpose.

Qualified candidates will be evaluated based on their written proposal. MRA, at its discretion, may contact respondents for an interview to gather further information on respondent’s qualifications. B. Proposals will be analyzed based on the following criteria: 1. Qualifications of the firm and professional personnel to be assigned to the Project: 50% 2.

Knowledge of MRA’s redevelopment goals in URD III, redevelopment opportunities in URD III, and engineer’s approach to the Needs Assessment and Probable Cost of Construction Report: 35% 3.

Related experience on similar City of Missoula or MRA infrastructure projects: 15% The proposal chosen by the selection committee will be presented to the MRA Board of Commissioners for Board approval. The MRA reserves the right to accept the proposal deemed to be in the best interests of the City and Urban Renewal District III, and to reject any proposals deemed not to be in the best interests of the City and Urban Renewal District III. Upon MRABoard approval of the selected engineer, a negotiation process for an Agreement for Professional Services between the selected engineer and the MRA will follow. Once an acceptable Agreement for Professional Services has been reached, the Agreement will be presented to the MRA Board of Commissioners for approval. If upon MRABoard approval, the Agreement will be executed and work will begin as soon thereafter as possible. The MRA anticipates making a selection for an engineer at the March 16, 2011 regular meeting of the MRA Board of Commissioners. The selected engineer will be required to be registered with the State of Montana and carry liability insurance agreeable with City liability insurance standards.

Questions regarding the Project should be directed to Tod Gass, Project Coordinator, Missoula Redevelopment Agency, 140 W. Pine St, Missoula, MT 59802 or by calling (406) 552- 6159. This solicitation is being offered in accordance with state statutes governing procurement of professional services. Accordingly, the MRA reserves the right to negotiate an agreement based on fair and reasonable compensation for the scope of work and services proposed, as well as the right to reject any and all responses deemed unqualified, unsatisfactory or inappropriate. The City of Missoula and the Missoula Redevelopment Agency are EEO/AA, M/F, V/H Employers. Qualified women, veterans, minority and handicapped individuals are encouraged to submit proposals.

MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a petition has been filed with the County Commissioners requesting to relocate a public utility and drainage easement specifically described as: The twenty (20) foot wide utility easement located along the northerly boundary of Spring Meadows Addition, Lot 53 located in NW _ Section 22, T14N, R20W From the entire easement area within the boundaries of Lot 53 And further described in the Spring Meadows Addition subdivision plat as: A 20 foot public utility and drainage easement (For more information, please see the petition on file in the Clerk & Recording Office at 200 West Broadway, 2nd floor, Missoula MT.) The relocation of this public utility and

drainage easement is necessary and advantageous for the following reasons: 1.

The previous owners of Lot 53 constructed the home, deck and septic system partially within this easement. The current property owners of Lot 53 are performing an amended subdivision plat in conjunction with the neighboring property owners which will replace the existing public utility and drainage easement with a revised replacement easement. 2. The Missoula City/County Health Department fully supports the repositioning of this easement. Although the septic system was permitted by Missoula County, It is a violation of the health code to have a septic system located within a utility and drainage easement. 3. No utilities exist within the current easement location and all affected utility companies and agencies have agreed to the repositioning of the utility and drainage easement as depicted on the amended subdivision plat. A PUBLIC HEARING on the above requested relocation will be held before the Board of County Commissioners at their regular meeting on February 16, 2011 at 1:30 P.M., Room 201, Missoula County Courthouse, Missoula MT. Interested parties are requested to be present at that time to be heard for or against the granting of this petition. Written protest will be accepted by the Commissioners’ Office, Room 204, Missoula County Courthouse, Missoula, MT prior to the hearing date. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier Clerk & Recorder /Treasurer By /s/ Kim Cox Assistant Chief Deputy Clerk & Recorder Date: January 11, 2011 MISSOULA COUNTY FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPLICATION The Office of Planning & Grants has received a floodplain application from Duane Roy to work within the Lolo Creek floodplain. The proposed project is located at 5520 Monty Lane in Section 35, Township 12N, Range 20W and includes the construction of an addition onto an existing residence.

The full application is available for review in the Office of Planning and Grants in City Hall. Written comments from anyone interested in County floodplain permit application # 11-10 may be submitted prior to 5:00 p.m., February 25, 2011.

Address comments to the Floodplain Administrator, Office of Planning & Grants, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802 or call 258- 4841 for more information.

MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF HEARING HEARING TO CONSIDER ADOPTION OF FEES RELATING TO PETITIONS FOR ROADS AND SPECIAL DISTRICTS The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing to consider adoption of fees for processing petitions for roads and special districts.

The Commissioners will conduct the hearing at their regularly scheduled Public Meeting on February 16, 2011, at 1:30 p.m., in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to the Commissioners and/or speak at the hearing. Comments may also be submitted anytime prior to the hearing by mail or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802; by fax at (406) 721-4043; or by e-mail at bcc@co.missoula.mt.us Additional information on the hearing may be obtained from the Clerk & Recording Office at 200 West Broadway, 2nd floor. DATED THIS 25th DAY OF JANUARY, 2011 /s/ Vickie M. Zeier Missoula County Clerk & Recorder/Treasurer MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF HEARING Private Road Name Change MISSOULA - The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing on changing the private road name known as Crawford Court to Aubrey Ann Court.

This subdivision was platted as Crawford Addition with the private access named as Crawford Court. The new owners of Crawford Addition request a road name change through the road naming change process, and that special conditions exist.

When Crawford Court was named, Mr. Crawford was the land developer. Mr. Crawford has since sold the subdivision development and the new owners are requesting a road name change to Aubrey Ann Court to reflect the new ownership.

The Commissioners will conduct the hearing at their regularly scheduled Public Meeting on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 1:30 p.m., in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802.

PUBLIC NOTICES Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to the Commissioners and/or speak at the hearing. Comments may also be submitted anytime prior to the hearing by mail or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802; by fax at (406) 721-4043; or by e-mail at bcc@co.missoula.mt.us Additional information on the hearing may be obtained from Deb Evison, Missoula County Public Works, at (406) 258-3702 or by email at devison@co.missoula.mt.us BY ORDER OF THE MISSOULA BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS DATED THIS 12TH DAY OF JANUARY, 2011 MISSOULA COUNTY The Seeley Lake sewer district is issuing a Request for Proposal (RFP) from interested manufacture and suppliers of a (SBR) sequential batch reactor or a (MBR) Membrane bioreactor systems and equipment, for a new waste water treatment plant. Completed proposals will be accepted at Great West Engineering, PO Box 4817 Helena Mt. 59604 until February 24th 2011 and will be publicly opened. Interested manufactures should contact Craig Pozega for a full copy of the PRP at 406-449-8627. Do not contact the district regarding the RFP. MISSOULA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT INVITATION TO BID AIRPORT IMPROVEMENTS MISSOULA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MISSOULA, MONTANANotice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received and publicly opened at 2:00 p.m. local time on Thursday, February 17, 2011 by the Missoula County Airport Authority at the Airport Terminal Conference Room for the construction of “Airport Improvements” to include the following: Terminal Building Entrance Sidewalk Rehabilitation Project This work is to include all tools, equipment, materials and labor to complete this project. Bids must be sealed and delivered: Missoula County Airport Authority 5225 Highway 10 West Missoula, MT 59808 at or before 2:00 p.m., local time on Thursday, February 17, 2011, and marked “Bid for Airport Improvements at the Missoula International Airport.” The bidder’s name, address and state Contractor’s Registration Number shall appear in the lower left hand corner of the envelope. All bids must be accompanied by lawful monies of the United States or a Cashier’s Check, a Certified Check, Bid Bond, Bank Money Order or Bank Draft, drawn and issued by a National Banking Association located in the State of Montana, or by any Banking Corporation incorporated under the Laws of the State of Montana, in an amount equal to not less than ten (10) percent of the total bid, payable to the order of the Missoula County Airport Authority as liquidated damages in the event said successful bidder shall fail or refuse to execute the contract in accordance with the terms of his bid. After a contract is awarded, the successful bidder will be required to furnish a separate Performance and Payment Bond, each in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract. Plans, specifications, bidding and contract forms may be inspected at the Airport Director’s Office – Missoula International Airport, or at offices of the consulting engineer, Morrison-Maierle, Inc., at 1 Engineering Place, Helena, Montana; 315 N. 25th Street, Suite 102, Billings, Montana; 2880 Technology Blvd West., Bozeman, Montana; 1321 8th Avenue North, Suite 104, Great Falls, Montana; or 3011 Palmer Street, Missoula, Montana. Copies of these documents may be obtained from the office of MorrisonMaierle, Inc., 3011 Palmer Street, Missoula, Montana 59803 – Phone: (406) 542-8880, on the payment of Fifty Dollars ($50.00) nonrefundable, for each complete set. The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive irregularities. The Contractor will be required to comply with the wage and labor requirements and to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedule of wage rates established by the United States Department of Labor as referenced in the Contract. Contractors and any subcontractors doing work on this project will require registration with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry. Forms for registration are available from the Department of Labor and Industry, P.O. Box 8011, 1805 Prospect Avenue, Helena, Montana 596048011. Information on registration can be obtained by calling 1-800-556-6694.

Contractors are required to have been registered with the Department of Labor and Industry prior to bidding on this project. The Bidder must supply all the information required by the bid documents and specifications. The Bidder is required to submit a Certification of Nonsegregated Facilities (included in the Proposal form). A Contractor having 50 or more employees and his subcontractors having 50 or more employees and who may be awarded a subcontract of $50,000 or more will be required to maintain an affirmative action program, the standards for which are contained in the specifications. To be eligible for award each bidder must comply with the affirmative action requirements which are contained in these specifications. The proposed contract is under subject to Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965, and to the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Federal Labor Provisions. This contract will be funded by revenue generated through the Airport’s PFC program. Bidders may not withdraw Proposals for a period of sixty (60) days after the bid opening

date. The pre-bid conference is hereby established at 2:00 p.m. (local time) Tuesday, February 8, 2011, at the Airport Terminal Conference Room, Missoula International Airport. A tour of the work site at the Missoula International Airport will be conducted following the pre-bid conference. Signed: /s/ Cris Jensen Airport Director Missoula County Airport Authority MONTANA 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DV-11-18 SUMMONS

BY PUBLICATION DONNA L. GAMBLE Plaintiffs, v. BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY, MONTANA RAIL LINK, INC., CITIBANK, N.A., U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION and all other persons, unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate or interest in or lien or encumbrance upon the real property described in the complaint adverse to the Plaintiff’s ownership or any cloud upon Plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent. Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA sends greetings to the above named Defendants and all other persons, unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate or interest in or lien or encumbrance upon the real property described in the complaint adverse to the Plaintiff’s ownership or any cloud upon Plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you in the County wherein you reside, and to file your answer to the Complaint and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney within 20 days. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you, be default, for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title to land situated in Missoula County as further described as: A tract of land being a portion of Montana Rail Link Railroad right-of-way, located in and being a portion of Section 9, Township 11 North, Range 16 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana and being more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the quarter corner common to Section 8 and Section 9, Township 11 North, Range 16 West; thence along the section line common to said Sections 8 and 9, N00º44’06”E, 289.58 feet to a point on the southerly right-of-way of the Montana Rail Link Railroad, said point being the True Point of Beginning; thence continuing along said section line, N00º44’06”E, 63.01 feet to a point on the southerly right-of-way of the former Milwaukee, St. Paul and Minneapolis Railroad; thence along said former railroad right-of-way, S88º21’59”E, 2089.20 feet to the intersection with the northerly right-of-way of the Montana Rail Link Railroad; thence along said northerly right-of-way, S79º03’22”E, 2490.07 feet to a point on the westerly boundary of that property described in Bk. 856 (micro), pg. 545, records of Missoula County; thence along said westerly boundary, S10º56’38”W, 70.50 feet to a point on the westerly boundary of that property described in Bk. 849 (micro), pg. 809, records of Missoula County; thence the following four (4) courses along said westerly boundary 1) S72º12’41”W, 5.60 feet; 2) S29º37’34”W, 52.85 feet; 3) S03º52’26”E, 53.71 feet; 4) S46º08’47”E, 9.65 feet; thence S10º56’38”W, 219.58 feet to a point on the southerly right-ofway of the Montana Rail Link Railroad; thence along said right-of-way, N79º03’22”W, 4540.58 feet to the True Point of Beginning. Containing 33.76 ACRES, more or less, and being subject to all easements or rights-of-way as shown, existing, apparent or of record. WITNESS my hand and Seal of said Court this 27th day of January 2011 By: Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court (SEAL) By: /s/ Richard Goodwin, Clerk of Court (SEAL) MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-11-4 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR FORMAL PROBATE OF WILL, DETERMINATION OF TESTACY AND HEIRS, AND APPOINTMENT OF PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE IN RE THE ESTATE OF MARCIA JEAN STRAILE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Lisa Bomberger has filed in the above Court and cause a Petition for the formal probate of the Will of Marcia Jean Straile, deceased, for determination of testacy and heirs, and for the appointment of Lisa Bomberger as Personal Representative of said Will and estate. For further information, the Petition, as filed, may be examined in the office of the clerk of the above Court. Hearing upon said Petition will be held in said Court at the courtroom in the courthouse at Missoula, Montana on the 9th day of February, 2011 at the hour of 1:30 o’clock p.m. at which time all interested persons may appear and object. Dated this 14th day of January, 2011. /s/ Lisa Bomberger MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DV-10-1069 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. BRIAN SALONEN, Plaintiff, vs. NUTEC COMMUNICATIONS, Inc. d/b/a ROCKY MOUNTAIN COMMUNICATIONS, Inc., MONTANA 5— MINERAL LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, GOLD CREEK CELLULAR OF MONTANA LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, and all other persons, unknown, claiming or who might claims any right, title, estate, or interest in or lien upon the real property described in the complaint herein, adverse to the Plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS; Nutec Communications, Inc. d/b/a Rocky Mountain Communications, Inc.; all all other persons,

unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate, or interest in or lien or encumbrance upon the real property described in the complaint herein, adverse to the Plaintiffs’ title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent. YOU ARE HEREBY Summoned to answer to the Complaint in this action as filed in the office of the Clerk of Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiffs’ attorneys within 20 days after the service of this summons, exclusive of the date of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default, for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title to land situated in Missoula County, Montana and described as follows: A tract of land located in the Southwest one-quarter (SW 1/4) of Section 10, Township 12 North, Range 19 West, Principal Meridian Montana, Missoula County, Montana, and being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the South one-quarter corner of Section 10; thence S.88º21’06”W., along the South line of said Section 10 a distance of 909.50 feet to the true point of beginning; thence continuing S.88º21’06”W., along the South line of said Section 10 a distance of 675.00 feet to a point in the centerline of an existing road; thence the following three courses along the centerline of said existing road: N.15º46’58”W., 92.1 feet; thence N.13º38’11”E., 268.23 feet; thence N.03º14’36”E., 145.00 feet; thence leaving the centerline of said road and running N.39º07’13”E., 976.92 feet to a point on a compound curve, said point being in the centerline of an existing road, thence Southeasterly along the centerline of said road and along said compound curve being concave to the Northeast and having a radius of 157.44 feet a distance of 169.90 feet to the point of compound curvature; thence continuing Southeasterly along said compound curve being concave to the North and having a radius of 539.43 feet a distance of 97.61 feet; thence leaving the centerline of said road and running S.07º40’E., 706.56 feet; thence S.35º03’30”W., 548.78 feet to the true point of beginning. WITNESS my hand this 20th day of January, 2011. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of the District Court By: /s/ Diane Overholtzer, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No.: 1 Cause No.: DV-09-1091 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION AMERICAN GENERAL FINANCIAL SERVICES, Plaintiff, -vsDANIEL ARNEY and SALLY ARNEY, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANTS DANIEL ARNEY AND SALLY ARNEY: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action which is filed with the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action is brought to collect a debt owed by the Defendants to Plaintiff. WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL this 21st day of January, 2011. SHIRLEY E. FAUST, Clerk of Court /s/ Richard Goodwin, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-11-63 Dept. No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps III Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Derek Burchartz, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Derek Christopher L. Burchartz to Derek Christopher L. Moree’. The heariing will be on March 1, 2011 at 11:00 a.m.

The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. DATED January 20, 2011. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court (SEAL) By: /s/ Dawn M. Duffy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-11-24 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF VIRGINIA M. HEMPHILL, 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 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 Jenda Hemphill, 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 1st day of February, 2011. /s/ Jenda Hemphill, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DV-11-25 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Adam Russell Luce, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Adam Russell Luce to Adam Russell Freeman. The hearing will be on February 22, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Dated January 6, 2011. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By Cori Ollin, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DV-10-1564 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Shayne Dean Dicks, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has

asked the District Court for a change of name from Shayne Dean Dicks to Shayne Dean Spence. The hearing will be on March 3, 2011 at 9:00 a.m.. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. DATED January 27, 2011. /s/ Judge John W. Larson, District Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DV-10-1649 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION ETRADA CO., LLC, Plaintiff vs. MOUNTAIN WEST BANK, N.A.; CAPITAL ONE BANK (USA), N.A., MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE; LeROY TRIPP; and all other persons, unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate, or interest in or lien or encumbrance upon the real property described in the complaint adverse to Plaintiff’s ownership or any cloud upon Plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANTS AND TO ALL OTHER PERSONS UNKNOWN: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title to the land situated in Missoula County, Montana, legally described as follows: An Undivided onehalf interest in and to Lot 2 of RASER COMMERCIAL TRACTS NO. 1, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 19 of Plats at Page 78. WITNESS my hand and seal of said Court, the 21st day of January, 2011. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: /s/ Susie Wall Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-11-14 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF VIOLET H. QUIRIN, a/k/a VI QUIRIN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned was appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Kristine Fankell, the personal representative, return receipt requested, at Dye & Moe, P.L.L.P., PO Box 9198, 216 West

MULLAN MINI STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for units 140, 192, 228 and 236. Units contain office furniture, household furniture and miscellaneous. These units may be viewed starting Feb. 14, 2011 by appointment only by calling 7218710. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 2855 Mullan Road, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to Feb. 16, 2011, 3:30 p.m. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered for sale. Only cash will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale.

All sales final.

Main, Suite 200, Missoula, Montana 59807, or filed with the clerk of the above-entitled court.

Dated: January 18, 2011 /s/ Kristine Fankell, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-11-15 Dept. No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF STANLEY T. RING, a/k/a STANLEY THOMAS RING, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to LINDA WOLFE, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 27705 Blixit Creek Road, Bonner, Montana 59823 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 18th day of January. 2011 /s/ Linda Wolfe, Personal Representative 27705 Blixit Creek Road, Bonner, MT 59823 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on Tuesday, the 8th 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 LINDAJ. SNYDER in and to the following described real property, situated in Missoula, Montana, to wit: A tract of land located in and being a portion of the NE 1/4 of Section 14, Township 13 North, Range 19 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, and being more particularly described as Parcel 2 of COS 5692. Said sale will be made in accordance with the statutes of the State of Montana, and the terms and provisions of: that certain Trust

All sales are final.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING THE MISSOULA CITY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT will be conducting a public hearing at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 23, 2011, Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine, Missoula, MT, on the following items: 1. A request by Morgan and Rhianna Hirshenberger, represented by Wade Hoyt of Hoyt Homes, for a variance to allow a 2nd story balcony to encroach into the side setback for a house located at 405 N. Grove, and zoned RT10. SEE MAP L

terms of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiary has exercised his option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. 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 principal sum of One Hundred Fifty Thousand Four Hundred Eighty and No/100 ($152,000.00), plus interest at a rate of Ten Percent (10%) per annum totaling Forty-four Thousand Four Hundred Fifty-two and 45/100 Dollars ($44,452.45), real property taxes of Ten Thousand Three Hundred Sixty-eight and No/100 Dollars ($10,368.00), Six Thousand One Hundred Twenty-two and 33/100 Dollars ($6,122.33) in attorney fees and foreclosure costs through October 25, 2010, for a total amount due of Two Hundred Twelve Thousand Nine Hundred Forty-two and 78/100 Dollars ($212,942.78), together with costs and expenses

PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board will conduct a public hearing on the following item on Tuesday, March 1, 2011, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana. 1. Rezoning Request – 2000 Raymond and adjacent lands A request from Bonnie Thompson, represented by Ken Jenkins of Montana Northwest Company, to rezone property located at 2000 Raymond and adjacent lands as shown on Map X from RT5.4

PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board will conduct a public hearing on the following item on Tuesday, February 15, 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 intersection of Expressway and Butler Creek Road (see Map O).

2. A request for a public forum by the YMCA for a wall sign that is not in compliance with the zoning regulations of the OP3 zoning district, located at 3000 S. Russell. SEE MAP R

3. A request by the Clark Fork City Church for a variance to not have to screen the roof mounted mechanical equipment for the building located at 2811 Latimer, zoned M1R-2/EC. SEE MAP S

EAGLE SELF STORAGE

will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 34, 159, 193, 285, 294, 296, 336, 410, 493, 499, 578, 633, 639, 666, 677 and 578. Units contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday, February 21, 2011 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, February 24, 2011, 4 PM. 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.

Indenture dated January 19, 2007, and recorded January 19, 2007, in Book 790 at Page 1109 as Document No. 200701571 in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, wherein LINDA J. SNYDER is Grantor, EARL M. PRUYN is the named Beneficiary, and STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA COUNTY, INC. is the named Trustee; that certain Appointment of Successor Trustee dated March 5, 2009, and recorded March 27, 2009, in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana, in Book 836 at page 268 as Document No. 200906833, wherein the Beneficiary substituted Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc. with Martin S. King, attorney at law, as Successor Trustee. This foreclosure is made because the Grantor, LINDA J. SNYDER, and her successors in interest, have defaulted in the terms of said Trust Indenture and the corresponding Promissory Note in that she has failed to pay the monthly payments and pursuant to the

(Hearing continued from Feb. 1, 2011 Planning Board.) The Board of County Commissioners will hold a public hearing on this item at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 2, 2011, in Room 201 of the County Courthouse at 200 West Broadway in Missoula.

(Hearing rescheduled; originally scheduled for Feb. 16, 2011.) Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The request and exact legal description is available for public inspection at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, City Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana. Telephone 258-4657. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-4657. The Office of Planning and Grants will provide auxiliary aids and services.

If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling the Missoula Office of Planning & Grants at 258-4657. 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.

(two-unit/townhouse), UZ (unzoned lands) and OP2 (Open and Resource Lands) to RM 2.7 (residential multi-dwelling), R5.4 (single unit residential), RT5.4 (two-unit/townhouse), and OP2 (Open and Resource Lands). See Map X. 2. Subdivision Request – Glacier Creek Meadows A request from John Keller, represented by Dale McCormick of Professional Consultants, Inc., to subdivide a 98.36 acre parcel into 20 lots, located adjacent to Styler Drive and Remicks Road, west of Highway 83, in Condon. See Map E. The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on Item #1 at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, March 28, 2011, in the City Council Chambers at 140 West Pine Street in Missoula. The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will hold a public hearing on Item #2 at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 16, 2011, in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse at 200 West Broadway. Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The request and exact legal descriptions are available for public inspection at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, City Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana.

Telephone 258-4657. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-4657. The Office of Planning and Grants will provide auxiliary aids and services.

montanaheadwall.comMissoula Independent Classifieds Page C5 February 10 – February 17, 2011

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"Sign Off"–unsettling astral changes.

by Matt Jones

ACROSS 1 Game where you create people, with "The" 5 Boy band with the 2001 hit "Every Other Time" 8 Bob who won the 1986 PGA Championship 12 Clothing catalog 13 Not silicone 14 Dublin's country, locally 15 "It's ___ to the finish..."

16 Domestic car model which changes during April and May? 18 Film star who changes during July and August?

20 Morphine or codeine 21 Pompous asset?

22 "Trading Spaces" network 24 Arthur of "The Golden Girls" 25 React to acid 28 More hip 30 ID on a 1040 31 Currency exchange figures, often 33 "That ___ true!"

34 "The Simpsons" villain who changes during October and November?

37 Taj Mahal's locale 40 Hawkins of school dances 41 Texted exclamation 44 Thingamawhatsis 47 Like some generals: abbr.

48 Boisterous laugh syllable 49 Code hidden in a bar code 50 Actress Thompson 52 Tommy Hilfiger's New York birth city 54 With "The," "Hair" song that changes during January and February?

58 New 13th zodiac sign that would cause all these changes (if astrologers took it seriously) 59 It gets threshed 60 Mess up completely 61 Adjective describing the Last week’s solution

Addams Family 62 Mr. ___ (con man on "Green Acres") 63 Suffix after Rock or Raisin 64 Roulette picks: abbr.

65 "Guarding ___" (Shirley MacLaine movie)

DOWN 1 Minor boo-boos 2 From Qazvin, e.g.

3 Pilgrim's destination 4 Beverage option on Southern menus 5 Early pope called "The Great" 6 Bedroom comedy, often 7 Pensioner's qualifier 8 Dakota, once: abbr.

9 Nintendo "diagnosis" 10 Cactus bumps 11 Toady's response 12 Fashion designer Marc 13 "Mayberry ___" 17 Like two peas in ___ 19 Hulu offering 23 ___-Magnon man 26 Peeves 27 Coming from either end, so to speak 29 Angelina Jolie made-for-TV movie 32 LP option 34 Came down with 35 Ankle-___ 36 Skeezy district type 37 Spam, most often 38 Break down 39 Camp in the great outdoors 41 Cleveland residents, for instance 42 Gets hitched 43 Word before shot or knot 45 Former outfielder Moises 46 Alert system in action movies 51 Sound that triggers "Gesundheit" 53 Jazz singer Carmen 55 "___ kleine Nachtmusik" 56 Birds that look sorta like penguins 57 Course code for studying Freud, perhaps 58 Smelted stuff

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PUBLIC NOTICES of foreclosure and related trustee fees, costs and attorney fees allowable by law. DATED this 28th day of October, 2010. /s/ Martin S. King, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA):ss.

County of Missoula) On this 28th 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 Sale of Real Property Under a Deed of Trust 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 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN by BENJAMIN P. HURSH, as successor Trustee, of the public sale of the real property hereinafter described pursuant to the “Small Tract Financing Act of Montana” (Section 71-1-301, et seq., MCA). The following information is provided: THE NAMES OF THE GRANTOR, ORIGINAL TRUSTEE, THE BENEFICIARY IN THE TRUST INDENTURE, ANY SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE BENEFICIARY OR GRANTOR, ANY SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE, AND THE PRESENT RECORD OWNER ARE: Grantor: CANYON HOLDINGS, L.L.C. (“Grantor”) Original Trustee: WESTERN TITLE AND ESCROW Successor Trustee: BENJAMIN P. HURSH, an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Montana (the “Trustee”) Beneficiary: INTERVESTMORTGAGE INVESTEMENT COMPANY (the “Beneficiary”) Present Record Owner: CANYON HOLDINGS, L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY COVERED BY THE TRUST INDENTURE IS: The real property and its appurtenances in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Units 101 through 111, 201 through 211, 301 through 311, 401 through 405 and 407 through 411 of MULLAN HEIGHTS CONDOMINIUMS, CONDO000169, as defined in the Declaration of Unit Ownership for Mullan Heights Condominium Homeowners Association, Inc. recorded on March 11, 2008 in Book 814 of Micro Records at Page 771.

Together with an interest in the general and limited common elements as defined in the Declaration of Unit Ownership for Mullan Heights Condominium Homeowners Association, Inc. referenced above. RECORDING DATA: The following instruments and documents have been recorded in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office in Missoula County, Montana. Trust Indenture dated August 6, 2007, and recorded September 7, 2007, at Book 805 of Micro Records at Page 410; and, Substitution of Trustee dated December 1, 2010, and recorded December 6, 2010 at Book 870 Page 641.

THE DEFAULT FOR WHICH THE FORECLOSURE IS MADE IS: Nonpayment of monthly installments of $13 ,381. 11 due under the Promissory Note dated September 22, 2008, as extended, which is secured by the Deed of Trust. The borrower is due for the March 22, 2010 payment and for each subsequent monthly payment. THE SUMS OWING ON THE OBLIGATION SECURED BY THE TRUST INDENTURES AS OF NOVEMBER 24, 2010 ARE: Principal: $6 ,360 ,786 .44 Interest: Interest continues to accrue at a rate of 6. 2537% per annum. As of November 24, 2010 the interest balance is $514 ,708 .61 and interest accrues at the rate of $1,089.82 per day. Late fees: $22,03804 Other Charges: As may be allowed under the Note and Deed of Trust. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the real property, including but limited to amounts for real property taxes that may become due or are delinquent, unless such amounts or taxes are paid by the Grantors or successor in interest to the Grantors. If such costs, fees or other amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, those amounts will be added to the obligation secured by the Trust Indenture. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of the sale include the Trustee’s and attorney’s fees, and costs and expenses of sale. THE TRUSTEE, AT THE DIRECTION OF THE BENEFICIARY, HEREBY ELECTS TO SELL THE PROPERTY TO SATISFY THE AFORESAID OBLIGATIONS. THE DATE, TIME, PLACE AND TERMS OF SALE ARE: Date: April 29, 2011 Time: 1:00 p.m., Mountain Standard Time or Mountain Daylight Time, whichever is in effect. Place: Crowley Fleck PLLP, 305 South Ave. 4th Street East, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59801 Terms: This sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, and excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. Dated: December 7, 2010. /s/ Benjamin P. Hursh BENJAMIN P. HURSH Trustee STATE OF MONTANA : ss.

County of Missoula This instrument was acknowledged before me on December 7, 2010,

by BENJAMIN P. HURSH, as Trustee. /s/ Dawn L. Hanninen Dawn L. Hanninen [NOTARY SEAL] Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, Montana 48310-001 My commission expires: 02/14/2012 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/30/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200926473, Bk 850, Pg 322, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Robert C. Garrard and Tonia D. Garrard, as joint tenants (and not as tenants in common) and to the survivor of said named

joint tenants, and to their heirs and assigns of such survivor, who acquired title as Robert Che Garrard and Tonia D. Garrard, as joint tenants (and not as tenants in common) husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and None Specified was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded None Specified as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in the SE1/4 of Section 4, Township 15 North, Range 22 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract B-7 of Certificate of Survey No. 2310. Together with a road easement through the S1/2 of Section 4, Township 15 North, Range 22 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana and further described as follows: Beginning at the most Northwesterly corner of Tract “B”, Certificate of Survey No. 2172; thence S. 89 degrees 26’ 18’’ E., 1008.05 feet which line described the Northerly boundary of a thirty (30) foot wide private road easement; thence the next two (2) courses along the center line of a thirty (30) foot wide private road easement being fifteen (15) either side of the described line; thence S. 00 degrees 32’ 57’’ E., 655.75 feet along the North South mid section line; thence S. 89 degrees 20’ 48’’ E., 631.29 feet to the Westerly boundary of Tract B-6 and B-7 of Certificate of Survey No. 2310. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of December 9, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $317,231.28. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $310,603.12, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on April 20, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

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

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.91081) 1002.180483-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/15/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200803721, Bk 813, pg 816, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Camson N. Adenuga, 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: Unit E-4 of Grandvue Village, according to the Declaration under the Unit Ownership Act recorded as Document No. 443148 on March 27, 1979, located on Lots 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15, Block 2, Hillside Homes No. 1, according to the official plat thereof as filed in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office, Missoula County, Montana. Together with an undivided 1/20 interest in the common elements appertaining to the above described unit and the limited common elements appurtenant thereto as set forth in the Declaration. 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 12/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of December 14, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $149,180.32. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $139,268.44, 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,

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Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on April 25, 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# 7023.72609) 1002.152802-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/04/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200526489, Bk 761, Pg 1259, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Justin Kelly, 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 28 of Wallace Creek Estates, 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 02/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of December 20, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $234,540.44. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $217,782.26, 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 27, 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# 7023.72908) 1002.153589-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/14/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200429576, Bk 741, Pg 1164, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which John T. Vein and Kimberly A. Vein, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and First American Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 13 of Traveler’s Rest Estates, 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 08/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of December 11, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $262,723.17. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $254,306.08, 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 25, 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# 7023.90174) 1002.180705-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/30/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200928678, Bk 851, Pg 1128, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Todd Hoose and Tracie Hoose, as joint tenants (and not as tenants in common), and to the survivor of them, and to the heirs and assigns of such survivor married 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: Parcel 20B2 of Certificate of Survey No. 2665, located in the SE1/4 of Section 27, Township 14 North, Range 23 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana.

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of December 14, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $225,642.95. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $219,417.80, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on April 25, 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# 7023.91238) 1002.180737-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/13/03,

recorded as Instrument No. 200330476, Bk 715, Pg 225, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which David M. Huerta and Georgie A. Huerta, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc. was Beneficiary and Stewart Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Stewart Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 33, of Pleasant View Homes, Phase III, 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 06/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of December 10, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $113,760.21. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $107,105.06, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on April 22, 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# 7023.91146) 1002.180637-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 May 16, 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 BONNIE M BRIGGS, as Grantors, conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEY AT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to COUNTRYWIDE BANK, FSB., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 08/21/2008 and recorded 08/29/2008, in document No. 200820235 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 825 at Page Number 818 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY: IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, TO-WIT: LOT 41 OF SHELBY ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 12961 KIMWOOD DR, Lolo, MT 59847-9519. 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 10/01/2010 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

PUBLIC NOTICES $146,122.21 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.25% per annum from 10/01/2010 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: 12/29/10 ReconTrust Company, N.A. Successor Trustee 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407 Richardson, TX 75082. T.S. NO 100166687 FEI NO 1006.124432 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 May 24, 2011, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee at the following place: on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which GEORGE J. KAPPEL as Grantors, 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 Trust Indenture Dated 10/03/2006 and recorded 10/10/2006, in document No. 200626225 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 784 at Page Number 1474 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 10 IN BLOCK 1 OF MACLAY ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. LESS AND EXCEPTING THAT PORTION CONVEYED

BY BARGAIN AND SALE DEED TO THE STATE OF MONTANA, RECORDED JULY 23, 1991 IN BOOK 333 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 2144. Property Address: 2010 RESERVE STREET, Missoula, MT 59801. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP, FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP, by BAC GP, LLC, ITS GENERAL PARTNER, AS ATTORNEYIN-FACT 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 10/01/2010, 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 $230,325.82 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 7.375% per annum from 10/01/2010 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: 01/07/2011 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. Successor Trustee 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407 Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO 110000685 FEI NO 1006.125560 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 May 16, 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 Leslie I Connell, as Grantors, 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 Trust Indenture Dated 09/25/2008 and recorded 09/30/2008, in document No. 200822419 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 827 at Page Number 204 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LEGAL DESCRIPTION: LOT 448 OF PLEASANT VIEW HOMES NO. 4, PHASE 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 3841 Lexington Avenue, Missoula, MT 59808. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING, LP FKA COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS 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 10/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any.

TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $223,424.51 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per annum from 09/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. Dated: 01/12/2011 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. Successor Trustee 2380 Performance Dr. TX2984-0407 Richardson, TX 75082 T.S. NO 100108987 FEI NO 1006.110520 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 11, 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 3 of LOLO GREENS, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Janet A. Robideau and Francine M. White, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated June 29, 2004 and recorded June 30, 2004 at 3:43 o’clock P.M. in Book 735., Page 573, as Document No. 200418266. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc successor by merger to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc.. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee 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 $1,286.66, 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 November 25, 2010 is $145,575.96 principal, interest at the rate of 6.25% now totaling $4,389.31, late charges in the amount of $292.68, escrow advances of $856.18, and other fees and expenses advanced of $142.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $24.93 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty

of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 1, 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 December 1, 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 Robideau 41926.202 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 11, 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 A13 OF ALLOMONT, PHASE 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Rachel Monson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 2, 2007 and recorded October 3, 2007 in Book 806, Page 1531, under Document No. 200726378.. 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 $1,095.69, 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 October 29, 2010 is $183,799.56 principal, interest at the rate of 2.8750% now totaling $2,166.77, escrow advances of $489.40, and other fees and expenses advanced of $61.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $14.48 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 1, 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 December 1, 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. Monson 42011.197 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 11, 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 7 OF PROSPECT PHASE III-B, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT OF RECORD IN BOOK 23 OF PLATS AT PAGE 41. Jackie J Johnson and Robert C Johnson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank-Missoula, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 22, 2006 and recorded March 27, 2006 in Book 770, Page 1620, under Document No. 200606626. 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 $2,567.54, beginning May 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 29, 2010 is $395,486.54 principal, interest at the rate of 6.2500% now totaling $14,255.15, late charges in the amount of $1,455.78, and other fees and expenses advanced of $190.90, plus accruing interest at the rate of $67.72 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale.

The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 1, 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 December 1, 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 Johnson 42011.196 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 4, 2011, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 9 in Block 1 of Webber Addition, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Eugene Karl Schafer A/K/A Gene Schafer and Janet Lindquist Schafer A/K/A Janet L Schafer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to U.S. Bank National Association ND, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 25, 2000 and recorded February 25, 2000 in Book 609, Page 894 under Document Number 200003673.. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association ND. 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 $Revolving, beginning January 25, 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 December 17, 2010 is $26,864.32 principal, interest at the rate of 5.25% now totaling $1,360.84, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,936.20, plus accruing interest at the rate of $3.86 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: November 24, 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 November 24, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Us Bank Home Mortgage V Schafer 41345.112 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 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: LAND SITUATED IN THE COUNTY OF MISSOULA IN THE STATE OF MT: LOT 4 OF MODERIE LOTS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Jack C. Westre, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Source, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on January 27, 2007 and recorded on February 15, 2007 in Book 792, Page 28 as Document No. 200703753. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company as Trustee for GSR Mortgage Loan Trust 2007-OA1, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-OA1. 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 $1,666.96, 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 November 28, 2010 is $457,500.61 principal, interest at the rate of 6.625% now totaling $22,531.35, late charges in the amount of $1,693.98, escrow advances of $2,680.70, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2811.24, plus accruing interest at the rate of $83.04 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: November 12, 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 November 12, 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 Litton V. Westre 41462.822 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 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: LOT 4 OF K/O ESTATES, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDINGTO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. John T. Oberg and Christine E. Oberg, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Montana First Credit Union, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 13, 2007 and recorded April 16, 2007 in Book 795, Page 581, under Document No. 200708886. 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 $2,990.43, beginning August 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 19, 2010 is $364,393.79 principal, interest at the rate of 6.25% now totaling $6,863.59, escrow advances of $123.83 and other fees and expenses advanced of $548.54, plus accruing interest at the rate of $62.40 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: November 12, 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 November 12, 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 Oberg 41392.707 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 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: Lot 3 of Ruth Addition, a platted Subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Plat of Record in Book 19 of Plats at Page 43 CHRISTIAN HUGHES AND DUSTIN L HUGHES, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 1, 2006 and recorded in Book 773, Page 658 under Document No. 200609909. 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 $1,534.94, 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 01, 2010 is $177,841.55 principal, interest at the rate of 6.3750% now totaling $4,723.90, late charges in the amount of $1,056.49, escrow advances of $166.75, and other fees and expenses advanced of $284.30, plus accruing interest at the rate of $31.06 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: November 12, 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 November 12, 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 Hughes 42011.125 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 29, 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: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN AND BEING APORTION OF SECTION 8, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 14 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE N1/4 CORNER OF SECTION 8; THENCE S.18°19’10” E., 2104.57 FEET; THENCE

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PUBLIC NOTICES SOUTH 465.73 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE EAST, 792.29 FEET TO A POINT ON THE SOUTHWESTERLY RIGHT-OF WAY LINE OF MILWAUKEE RAILROAD; THENCE S.33°00’ E. ALONG SAID RIGHT- OF- WAY LINE , A DISTANCE OF 192.94 FEET TO A FOUND IRON PIN ; THENCE LEAVING SAID RIGHT -OF-WAY LINE RUNNING WEST, 897.37 FEET TO A FOUND IRON PIN; THENCE NORTH, 161.81 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF BEGINNING. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 34 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1666. NOTE: ANY CONVEYANCE OR SECURITY INSTRUMENT MUST INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING: TOGETHER WITH ACCESS EASEMENTAS DESCRIBED IN DEED FROM DONALD K. MEECH AND DORIS K. MEECH, HIS WIFE, SIMMS, MONTANA DATED JULY 1, 1969, TO GRANTORS AND GRANTEES HEREIN. John C Ruyle and Cindy S Ruyle, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to David R Chisholm, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of trust recorded May 16, 2005 in Book 752 Page 694 under Document No.200511393. The beneficial interest is currently held by US Bank National Association. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of MISSOULA County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,564.80, 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 $244,376.04 principal, interest at the rate of 5.9500% now totaling $6,058.50, late charges in the amount of $312.96, escrow advances of $964.55, and other fees and expenses advanced of $84.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $39.84 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: November 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 November 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 Us Bank V. Ruyle/john C. 41810.384 Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: LaVern D. Blue 14900 Harpers Bridge RoadMissoula, MT 59808 Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT 59802 Charles D. Blue 14900 Harpers Bridge Road Missoula, MT 59808 Current Occupant 14890 Harpers Bridge Road Missoula, MT 59808 Jeffrey Showell PO Box 62 McGaheysville, VA 22840 Palisades collection LLC Assignee of HSBC c/o Chad Glenn, Rausch, Sturm, Israel & Hornik, SC, PC 105 N. 2nd Street, Suite 225 Livingston, MT 59047 Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, notice is hereby given: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: 14N 21W 36 IN W2 NW4, SUID #905507. Parcel No. 905507. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: PARCEL I ATRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE WEST ONE-HALF, NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER (W_NW_) OF SECTION 36, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN MONTANA AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHEASTERLY CORNER OF THAT CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND DESCRIBED IN MISSOULA COUNTY RECORD OF DEEDS MICROFILM BOOK 28, PAGE 397; THENCE N. 0º30’E . ALONG THE EAST BOUNDARY OF SAID LAND A DISTANCE OF 1306.36 FEET; THENCE S. 89º30’E. A DISTANCE OF 470.94 FEET; THENCE S. 0º30’W. A DISTANCE OF 1439.94 FEET TO AN EXISTING FENCE ON THE NORTHERLY RIGHT OF WAY BOUNDARY OF MISSOULA COUNTY ROUTE NO. 16, THENCE N. 86º45’ W. ALONG SAID FENCE AND ALONG SAID RIGHT OF WAY BOUNDARY A DISTANCE OF 137.42 FEET; THENCE N. 71º43’45” W. ALONG SAID FENCE AND ALONG SAID RIGHT OF WAY BOUNDARY A DISTANCE OF 140.25 FEET; THENCE N. 68º30’15” W. ALONG SAID FENCE AND ALONG SAID RIGHT OF WAY BOUNDARY A DISTANCE OF 214.92 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 676 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 759.

PARCEL II A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTHEAST ONE-QUARTER (NE_) OF SECTION 35 AND THE NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER (NW_) OF SECTION 36, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN MONTANA AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF SAID SECTION 36; THENCE N. 89º41’ E. ALONG THE NORTH BOUNDARY OF SAID SECTION 36 A DISTANCE OF 870.30 FEET, FROM WHICH POINT THE NORTH ONE-QUARTER CORNER OF SAID SECTION 36 BEARS N. 89º41’ E. A DISTANCE OF 1770.70 FEET; THENCE S. 0º30’ W. A DISTANCE OF 59.87 FEET; THENCE N. 89º30’ W. A DISTANCE OF 470.94 FEET TO A FOUND IRON PIN IN AN EXISTING FENCE CORNER; THENCE WESTERLY ALONG AN EXISTING FENCE AND ALONG THE NORTHERLY BOUNDARY OF THAT PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN MISSOULA COUNTY RECORD OF DEEDS, MICROFILM BOOK 28, PAGE 397 TO THE RIGHT BANK OF CLARKS FORK RIVER; THENCE NORTHERLY ALONG SAID

RIVER BANK TO THE NORTH BOUNDARY OF SAID SECTION 35; THENCE N. 89º41’30” E. ALONG THE NORTH BOUNDARY OF SAID SECTION 35 ADISTANCE OF 122.0 FEET MORE OR LESS TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 688 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1415. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on May 31st, 2007. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax sale held on July 18th, 2007. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax sale on July 18th, 2007, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Montana Land Project, LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 1952, Great Falls, MT 59403, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6.

As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax $1623.75 Penalty $ 32.52 Interest $ 625.16 Costs $635.36 Total $2916.79. The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to Montana Land Project, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The interested party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy.

Dated this 10th day of February, 2011. Montana Land Project, LLC Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: Diddel Construction Inc. 8000 Double Tree Lane, Missoula, MT 59804. Missoula County Treasurer 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. Diddel Construction Inc. PO Box 17514 Missoula, MT 59804 Current Occupant 1313 Bridgecourt Way, Missoula, MT 59802 Diddel Construction Inc. PO Box 17514 Missoula, MT 59808 Wesmont Builders-Developers, Inc. 2401 Brooks Street, Suite 222 Missoula, MT 59801 Wesmont Builders-Developers, Inc. PO Box 17437 Missoula, MT 59808 Diddel Construction Inc. c/o Thomas C. Diddel, Registered Agent 8000 Double Tree Lane Missoula, MT 59804 Diddel Construction Inc. c/o Thomas C. Diddel, Registered Agent PO Box 17514 Missoula, MT 59804 Diddel Construction Inc. c/o Thomas C. Diddel, Registered Agent PO Box 17514 Missoula, MT 59808 Wesmont BuildersDevelopers, Inc. c/o Perry Ashby, Registered Agent 1821 South Ave West 3rd Flr Missoula, MT 59801Bridgecourt Village Homeowners Association 2120 S. Reserve Street PMB 226 Missoula, MT 59403-1952 Bridgecourt Village Homeowners Association 1318 Bridgecourt Way Missoula, MT 59801 Bridgecourt Village Homeowners Association c/o John Diddel 8000 Double Tree Lane Missoula, MT 59801 Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, notice is hereby given: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: Subdiv.-BCV BRIDGE COURT VILLAGE PHAS Lot- MON Block- COM 13N 19W 29 BRIDGE COURT VILLAGE PHASE BRIDGE COURT VILLAGE PHASE 1, BRDGCT VLG PARK & COMMON AREAS OF BRIDGECORT VILLAGE 29-13-19, SUID #3444706. Parcel No.

3444706. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: COMMON AREAS #1,2,3,4,5,6,7 AND 8 OF BRIDGECOURT VILLAGE PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. AND LOT 16 OF BRIDGECOURT VILLAGE PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVSION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, ALSO DESIGNATED AS “PARK”. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on November 30th, 2006. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax sale held on July 18th, 2007.

4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax sale on July 18th, 2007, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Montana Land Project, LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 1952, Great Falls, MT 59403, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax $ 120.90 Penalty $ 2.43 Interest $ 48.89 Costs $ 355.80 Total $ 528.02 . The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to Montana Land Project, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The interested party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy.

Dated this 10th day of February, 2011. Montana Land Project, LLC NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED (Pursuant to Montana Code Annotated 15 -18- 211) TO: Roger A. Garman PO Box 1191 Bonner MT 59823 1191 Current Occupant 25580 Hwy. 200 E. Bonner, MT 59823 Roger A. Garman 25580 Hwy 200 E Bonner MT 59823 Annie Cathey, Deputy Treasurer Missoula County Treasurer 200 W Broadway St. Missoula, MT 59802 -4292 Pursuant to Section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the following described real property in which you may have an interest: Short Legal Description: 13N 16W 08 Plat D4, Parcel XXX, in NE1/4, NE1/4, E of Hwy Plat D4 8-13-16 11.658 AC, SUID #5812863 Geocode: 2203-081-01-01-0000 Full Legal Description: A tract of land being all that portion of Section 8 lying Northeasterly of the Northeasterly right-of-way limit of Montana Highway 200, in T.13 N., R.16 W., Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the corner common to Sections 4, 5, 6, and 9, T.13 N., R.16 W., Principal Meridian, Montana; thence, S.00_05’30”W., 1111 .42 feet to the Northeasterly right-of-way limit of Montana Highway 200; thence N.40_47’00”W., 1170 .02 feet along said right-of-way limit; thence N.49_13’00”E., 10.00 feet along said right-ofway limit to a nontangent curve with center being S.49_13’00”W., 2945.00 feet radial distance; thence counterclockwise along said curve

and right-of-way limit an arc distance of 308 .06 feet to the line common to Sections 5 and 8; thence S.89_48’10”E., 971 .51 feet along said line to the corner common the Sections 4, 5, 8, and 9 and the true point of beginning; containing 12 .258 acres, more or less; being surveyed and monumented according to the Certificate of Survey No. 1505. Subject to all easements and restrictions apparent or of record. Tax ID: 5812863 2. The property taxes assessed for tax year 2006 first became delinquent on or before July 1, 2007, and subsequent tax assessments for 2007 and 2008 became delinquent on or before July 1, 2008, and July 1, 2009, respectively.

Taxes for 2009 and the first half of 2010 are also delinquent. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 18, 2007, with additional liens attaching on or before July 31, 2007 and July 31, 2008, for the 2007 and 2008 tax assessments respectively. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 18, 2007, by Missoula County, 200 W. Broadway St., Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to John Gullo, PO Box 373, Milltown, MT 59851 and a tax deed will be issued to Mr. Gullo unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of taxes due, including penalties, interest and costs, is $4 ,331 .48. 7. The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the date of giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6, plus all interest, penalties and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, a tax deed may be issued on the day following the date that the redemption period expires. 10. The business address and telephone number of the county treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 W. Broadway St., Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258 -4847. FURTHER NOTICE FOR THOSE PERSONS LISTED ABOVE WHOSE ADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: 1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2.

The published notice meets the legal requirements 3. The interested party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. DATED this 1st day of February, 2011. /s/ Darrel Moss NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED (Pursuant to Montana Code Annotated 15- 18 -211) TO: Rebecca C. Kiner Amy A. Tongen PO Box 1035 Seeley Lake MT 598681035 Current Occupant 511 Pine Drive Seeley Lake, MT 59868 Rebecca C. Kiner Amy A. Tongen 511 Pine Drive, Seeley Lake MT 59868 Annie Cathey, Deputy Treasurer Missoula County Treasurer 200 W. Broadway St. Missoula, MT 59802 -4292 Pursuant to Section 15 -18- 212, Montana Code Annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the following described real property in which you may have an interest: Short Legal Description: Seeley Lake Homesites No. 10A, SLY HMS 10A, Lot 12 of Seeley Lake Homesites No. 10A, BLK 1, 3-16-15 Geocode: 2504-03-4-14-03-0000 Full Legal Description: Lot 12 in Block 1 of Seeley Lake Homesites Addition No. 10A, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Tax Id: 1825906 2.

The property taxes assessed for tax year 2006 first became delinquent on or before July 1, 2007, and subsequent tax assessments for 2007 and 2008 became delinquent on or before July 1, 2008, and July 1, 2009, respectively. Taxes for the last half of 2008, 2009 and the first half of 2010 are also delinquent. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 18, 2007, with additional liens attaching on or before July 31, 2007 and July 31, 2008, for the 2007 and 2008 tax assessments respectively.

4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 18, 2007, by Missoula County, 200 W. Broadway St., Missoula, MT 59802. 5.

The lien was subsequently assigned to John Gullo, PO Box 373, Milltown, MT 59851 and a tax deed will be issued to Mr. Gullo unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest and costs, is $2, 108 .53. 7. The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the date of giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6, plus all interest, penalties and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to the date the redemption period expires, a tax deed may be issued on the day following the date that the redemption period expires. 10. The business address and telephone number of the county treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 W. Broadway St., Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258 -4847. FURTHER NOTICE FOR THOSE PERSONS LISTED ABOVE WHOSE ADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: 1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2.

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STATE OF MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATION BEFORE THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF MONTANA REGULATORY DIVISION DOCKET NO. 201118 IN THE MATTER OF the Consolidated Petition by Mountain Water Company for Declaratory Rulings and Application for Approval of Sale and Transfer of Stock in Park Water Company NOTICE OF APPLICATION AND INTERVENTION DEADLINE On January 24, 2011, Mountain Water Company (Mountain Water) filed a Consolidated Petition for Declaratory Ruling and Application for Approval of Sale and Transfer of Stock (Filing) with the Montana Public Service Commission (Commission).

Mountain Water is a closely held Montana corporation wholly-owned by Park Water Company (Park), which is a closely held California corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the California Public Utilities Commission. On December 21, 2010, Park entered into a merger agreement pursuant to which a wholly-owned subsidiary of Western Water Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, controlled by Carlyle Infrastructure Partners Western Water, L.P., (Carlyle) will merge with and into Park. In the filing, Mountain Water requested declaratory rulings that there is no basis for the Commission to claim implied power to review the sale and transfer of Park stock to Carlyle and that even if it has the power to review and approve the sale and

transfer, the Commission decline to exercise its jurisdiction. Mountain Water requested that, if the Commission has the power to review and approve the sale and transfer and does not decline to exercise such power, the Commission approve the sale and transfer of Park stock to Carlyle. Mountain Water also requested that the Commission adopt an expedited procedure and issue a decision in this matter no later than May 19, 2011. A copy of Mountain Water’s filing is available for inspection at the Commission or on the Commission website at http://psc.mt.gov/eDocs/eDocuments/pdfFiles/D 2011-1-8_IN_20110124_AP1.pdf. The filing is also available at the Montana Consumer Counsel (MCC) and the business offices of Mountain Water, 1345 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59806. The MCC, 111 North Last Chance Gulch, P.O. Box 201703, Helena, Montana 59620 -1703, telephone 406 -444 -2771, is available and may be contacted to assist and represent the interests of the consuming public in this matter. Any interested person who is directly affected by Mountain Water’s filing before the Commission, and who wants to be a party to the docket must file a Petition to Intervene with the Commission, 1701 Prospect Avenue, P.O. Box 202601, Helena, Montana 59620- 2601, no later than February 16, 2011. Any Petition to Intervene must be electronically submitted (efiled) on the Commission’s website at http://psc.mt.gov/eDocsLogin.asp. The filing party must also deliver or mail the original Petition to Intervene in paper format to the Commission by the filing deadline. The Commission will upload e-filed documents to the Commission’s website after the paper original has been officially received at the Commission office. One copy must be served on Mountain Water’s attorney, John Alke, Hughes, Kellner, Sullivan & Alke, 40 W. Lawrence, Suite A, P.O. Box 1166, Helena, Montana 59624 1166, and the MCC (address above). Any interested person who does not prefer to formally participate in the matter as an intervenor, may submit written public comments to the Commission at the above address. Public comments may also be submitted to the Commission through the Commission’s web-based comment form at http://psc.mt.gov/Consumers/comments. The Commission will consider all public comments regarding the application, written or electronic, received before it issues a final order in this matter. Mountain Water is a Montana corporation providing water utility service in and near Missoula, Montana, and is subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission. The Commission’s jurisdiction over this matter is provided at Title 69, MCA. The substantive and procedural law applicable is Title 69, MCA, especially at Ch. 3 (public utilities), ARM Title 38, Ch. 5 (utilities), Title 2, Ch. 4, MCA(MAPA), ARM Title 38, Ch. 2 (PSC procedural rules), and any prior orders of the PSC which may bear on the issues presented.

A procedural order governing the procedure and schedule in this matter may be issued prior to the deadline for intervention. The PSC and persons having petitioned for intervention in this proceeding may direct discovery to Mountain Water at anytime up to and including the procedural schedule final date for discovery on the utility application. Mountain Water must respond within fourteen calendar days to all data requests directed to it more than fourteen calendar days prior to the deadline. If there are no intervenors in this docket the Commission may schedule a hearing on its own motion, or may rule on the application based on the information contained in the Mountain Water filing. The Commission initially notices proceedings through use of general service lists. Interested persons not intervening, but wishing to remain on the service list to receive notices and orders, must notify the PSC in writing by the date fixed for intervention.

Failure to submit notification will result in removal from the service list in this docket. BY THE MONTANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION W.A. (BILL) GALLAGHER, Chairman BRAD MOLNAR, Vice-Chairman GAIL GUTSCHE, Commissioner TRAVIS KAVULLA, Commissioner JOHN VINCENT, Commissioner

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By Diane Beck, 2011 MOR President Perhaps it is the chill in the air, the sunshine, or the wrap-up of holidays spent with families and loved ones, but members of the Missoula community are experiencing an unmistakable buzz. And according to testimonials from Missoula REALTORS®, that buzz is translating into interest in the housing market.

During the January Board of Directors meeting at the Missoula Organization of REALTORS®, discussion focused on consumer confidence. It seems that polls completed in January of this year reflect unanticipated and dramatic positive shifts in consumer confidence and optimism in the economy. Numbers haven’t been so favorable since April of 2007.

• The Conference Board’s measure of Consumer Confidence rose to its highest level in eight months, indexing 60.6 from 53.3 in December. While polls tend to see optimism in January, that increase far exceeds the increase that economists had predicted.

• CNN/Opinion Research Polls revealed that 43% of those surveyed thought

things were going well in the country. That is up 14% since December. The number of those surveyed who believe things are going badly dropped from 71% to 56% in that same period of time.

• In a Pew Research Center poll, they found that the percentage of those who said they were hearing mostly bad news dropped from 42% to 24% since last summer. The drumbeat of bad economic news in the media is lessening, and consumers have taken note.

These national polls tell us that the buzz we’re feeling goes beyond Missoula or Montana. It seems consumers in the United States are beginning to feel better about the economy and the direction that we’re heading; so what does this mean for us?

Nationally: • Companies have been earning profits, but have been reluctant to spend that capital expanding operations or product lines. These high levels of con-

PRICE REDUCTION

• 5 bedroom, 3 bath home • Great, big open kitchen.

• Great Views off the deck • Priced competitively with the other homes in the area

• 3 bed, 2 bath, 3 car garage • Beautiful 4300' sqft home • Broad southern views of Flint Mtns • Completed in 2006, open floorplan

MLS #303231

Polson, MT

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$79,000

• Reduced to sell! Seller retiring! • Burger drive thru with deck dining • Com'l kitchen in a nostalgic fifties dining car • Leased Polson central downtown city lot 2 2nd Street E @ hwy 93

sumer confidence might be just the incentive they need to move forward.

• Pending home sales improved further in December, marking the fifth gain in the past six months, according to the National Association of Realtors®.

Locally: • Many economists say that the housing market will stabilize when affordability has been regained. Using the 2010 median price of $202,500, a four-person household can afford a home for the first time since 2003!

• The Best Place Project, initiated by Mayor Engen, has garnered widespread community support and is moving forward. The project is looking at long term goals of increasing economic diversity and bringing high paying jobs to Missoula.

As with many things, we can only surmise that the increased consumer confidence will translate to improvements in our community in the long term.

However, we can recognize that it is a positive next step as we move out of the Great Recession.

$639,000 MLS# 10002764

$324,900

27 Papson Court • Hall

MLS#20110236

6821 Kelsey Court

Savoir Faire Properties 883-3346

Tom Rue (406) 691-6900

Jon Freeland

cell 261-9293 • www.savoirfaireproperties.com

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Wilma Mixon Hall

Beautiful Georgetown Lake Acreage

$495,000

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.

Fantastic Rock Creek Cabin

406-360-8234

Rock Creek Road, Clinton

$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.

$159,000

Call Kelly Vigne-Lee • 546-8798 • www.streamsiderealty.com

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Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, and pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-877-7353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611

2705 Lyon Creek Road $1200 per month 2 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom, stainless steel appliances, tons of pantry and storage space. 10 acres, pets welcome, triple car garage.

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218 Barclay St. – B 1bd/1ba Lolo rental….$525 Everything included! Grizzly Property Management 542-2060

118 West Alder- Historic Park Place Hotel at the heart of downtown –Secured entry, Studio and 1 bedroom units now offering newly remodeled loft style living with great views, coin-ops and flat rate for gas heat. Rent $525-$595.

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Located on the corner of 39th and Russell. 2bd/2ba, gas fireplace, single car garage, DW, w/d hookups, covered patio/deck, gas hot water heat. Apply this week and receive your application fee free! Contact PPM for more details.

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Convenient 7th St. location. $1200/mo. Contact Lily 3960997.

1610 12th: 3-bedroom, 2baths, 2-kitchens, den, double

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Price Reduced!

Large 4 bed/3 bath w/ great views on nearly 6 acres set up for horses.

Attached sunroom w/ deck & hot tub pad. Kitchen opens to living and dining room. $255,000 • MLS # 10006316. Jeremy & Betsy Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com

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149 W. Broadway 1 BR $450 $500 deposit/heat paid

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REAL ESTATE Beautiful River home on Bitterroot just minutes from Missoula. 3 bed 2 bath with a deck that could hold the whole party. $979,000 or Equity Shares available. MLS 10006007.

Call Anne 546-5816 for showings.

Windermere Real Estate

Fantastic Opportunity for income qualified first time homeowners, great 2bdr. condo along the river, attached single car garage, bonus room, pets allowed, 1401 Cedar St #5 327-8787 porticorealestate.com Farm Houses w/land in Missoula, these funky farm houses boast lots of land to spread out and do your thing, Development potential. 3278787 porticorealestate.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.

MLS#10002960. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

BEAUTIFULLY REMODELED UNIVERSITY DISTRICT HOME. Gorgeous 3 Bdr/2 Bath home in a prime University District location.

Gorgeous hardwood floors, builtins, french doors, bright, sunny kitchen, great yard, and much more. $399,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy2 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Classic University Home, Great floor plan, fireplace, hardwood floors, Nice sized rooms, Lots of Bonus Rooms downstairs w/kitchenette, well maintained, oversized 2 car garage, 116 E. Sussex. 3278787 porticorealestate.com

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

Condo Along the River -Close to the U, one-of-a-kind 2br Edgewater Condo, highly desirable, hardwood floors, lots of character, fantastic location. 521 Hartman #2, 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

GORGEOUS CRAFTSMAN STYLE TARGET RANGE HOME ON 0.94 ACRES. 5 Bdr/3.5 Bath, double garage, hardwood & tile floors, gourmet kitchen, breakfast nook, main floor master, 2 family rooms.

Close to schools, shopping, and the Bitterroot River. $469,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy12 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

Affordable Condo, Didn’t think you could afford to buy your own place? This sweet, new, green-built development may be cheaper than rent. 1400 Burns, 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

Deck Overlooks Clarkfork River for income qualified first time homeowners, great 2bdr condo, attached 2 car garage, like new, pets allowed, 1401 Cedar St #22 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

HOMES FOR SALE 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

Five bedroom 4+ bath townhome on golfcourse with excellent views and gracious space. $445,000.

MLS 10007754. Call Anne 5465816 for showings. Windermere Real Estate

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

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy8 to 74362,

or visit... www.mindypalmer.com GORGEOUS HIDDEN TRAIL TOWN HOME JUST MINUTES FROM DOWNTOWN MISSOULA. 2 Bdr/1.5 Baths, Sngl Garage. End unit with a great open floor plan, lots of natural light, laundry, hardwood & tile floors, easy access to trails. $199,900.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy0 to 74362 or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

PRICE REDUCED AGAIN

FOR SALE

BY OWNER $182,000: 3+ bedroom, 2 bath, East Missoula. NEW ROOF IN 8/10; Large bonus room could be used as additional bedroom, home office, or family room; NEW paint, carpet, trim throughout; tile in entry, kitchen, baths; gas hot water heat; 1,400 square foot home, 10,000+ square foot lot; two large decks; close to U, downtown, parks, trails, golf; Eligible for USDA Rural Development financing.

Call Lori at 721-2017 or 396-9306

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Great vacation or hunting property.

4 bed, 1. 5 bath, 3 car garage and basement. Guest or rental set up ( 1977 Marlette). 2 separate Kitchens-and lots of room to stretch!

This would make a great primary or vacation home! 208 N Cristisen Rd, Darby. $299,000.

MLS#10005332. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 240-6503.

riceteam@bigsky.net.

Preferred Properties.

Montana

Handsome, Spacious Home on Prime Upper Miller Creek

RICE TEAM 370-7689

Janet Rice • 240-3932

Robin Rice • 240-6503

1331 Bulwer St #B 2 bed 1 bath $139,900 www.bulwercondo.isnowforsale.com

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

• $240,000 • MLS # 10007275

Mullan Heights • Missoula's finest new riverfront Condos.

• Spacious 1, 2 & 2+ Bd units available • Underground parking, Elevators, Mountain & River • Views, Privacy Decks & Much More!!

Starting @$139,900

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

New! To be built!

Megan Lane, Frenchtown • 3 Bed, 2 bed home on 1 acre • $2000 appliance allowance • $1300 landscaping allowance • $199,900 • MLS #1000716!

PRICE REDUCED

Rochelle Glasgow

544-7507 glasgow@montana.com www.rochelleglasgow.com

Missoula Proper ties

REAL ESTATE

Acreage, 5+ bedrooms, with out of town living on quiet cul-de-sac, and acres. Rodeo Rd. 327-8787 porticorealestate.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.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy16 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com LOG HOMES. Hand peeled, hand crafted, saddle notch, full scribe, full length logs. Top quality craftsmanship at very affordable prices. missioncreekloghomes.com or (406)745-2110 New! To be built! 3 Bed, 2 bed home on 1 acre. Buyer can pick colors & finishing touches. $2000 appliance allowance & $1300 landscaping allowance. $199,900 â&#x20AC;˘ MLS #1000716! Jeremy & Betsy

Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com NEWER HIDDEN TRAIL HOME JUST MINUTES FROM DOWNTOWN MISSOULA. 3 Bdr/2 Baths, Great open floor plan, lots of natural light, laundry room, Dbl garage, easy access to trails. $199,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy4 to 74362 or visit... www.mindypalmer.com OPEN HOUSE SAYURDAY 2/12/11 12-3 pm. 4 bedroom, 2 bath home on large fenced lot, deck, fire pit, close to schools, walking paths and shopping. Newer furnace, water heater, gas fireplace. $245,000. MLS# 20110384.

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

Montana Preferred Properties.

PRICE REDUCED! 2 bdrm 2 bath manufactured home. Addition for possible den or office. Shop & extra space in dbl garage. Zoned

for multifamily or commercial.

NOW ONLY $119,900.

MLS#906610. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 240-6503.

PRICE REDUCED! 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. $240,000. Jeremy & Betsy Milyard 880-4749 www.hotmontanahomes.com Rattlesnake Home on Large Lot, nice 3br home sits on very rare lot, mature landscaping, tennis court, home has lots of upgrades, 506 Redwood 327-8787 porticorealestate.com SINGLE LEVEL LIVING CLOSE TO THE BITTERROOT RIVER. 4 Bdr/3 Bath single-level Stevensville home. Great, open floor plan, incredible mountain views, next to public park, walk to Downtown Stevi or Bitterroot

River. $219,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy10 to 74362 or visit... www.mindypalmer.com SOUTH HILLS HOME LESS THAN 1 BLOCK FROM CHIEF CHARLO SCHOOL . 4 Bdr/2 Bath, deck, double car garage, family room, laundry/utility room, great views, and much more. $175,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy6 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Unique Lower Rattlesnake home near Bugbee Nature Area, 3Brm, 4Ba, Tree-top views, Lots of upgrades like granite countertops and lots of gorgeous wood throughout, 327-8787 porticorealestate.com View or list properties for sale By Owner at www.byownermis soula.com OR call 550-3077

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES

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3344B Connery Way. Modern three level townhome. Easy maintenance yard, 2 bed 3 bath double car garage. $192,000. MLS 10006082. Call Anne 546-5816 for showings. Windermere Real Estate

Beautiful 20 acres fenced pasture land. Seasonal stream and pond.

Great get away or build your dream home. No power to area. $170 per year road maintenance fee. $149,900 MLS# 905366.

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

Montana Preferred Properties.

Uptown Flats Unit #213 1 bed 1 bath and all the amenities included in this Quality Downtown Condo. $149,900. MLS 20110263. Call Anne 546-5816 for showings.

Windermere Real Estate

LAND FOR SALE 3.5 ACRES BARE LAND ON PETTY CREEK. Gorgeous bare land parcel straddling Petty Creek. Septic, well, and utilities in place. Gorgeous building spot with mountain, creek, and valley views. Custom builder available. $149,000. Prudential

Secluded 20 Acres 15 Minutes to Missoula, property boasts nice choices for building site, a healthy and beautiful forest setting, and easy commute. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

COMMERCIAL 321 N. Higgins for sale. Many updates to this grand ole downtown building. $875,000. MLS 10003350. Call Anne 546-5816 for showings. Windermere Real Estate

DARBY COMMERCIAL BUILDING IN GREAT DOWNTOWN LOCATION ON MAIN ST. Two main floor retail/professional spaces featuring 10 ft ceilings, storage/back room spaces, and lots of windows plus two second floor residential rentals. Great income potential and priced to sell! $135,000. Prudential Montana.

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The Girls Way Grand Opening!

1515 Wyoming Street (in Home ReSource) Friday, 2/11, 6-9pm Sneak Peek Event Silent Auction • Refreshments • Live Music by David Boone

Saturday, 2/12: 9:30am-4pm Grand Unveiling Event Join Mayor Engen at 9:45 to officially unveil the space!

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Hooked on Art

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Saturday, 2/12, 10am - 4pm Bonner School, Bonner MT Free Admission Missoula Art Museum Exhibit Community Art Market Live Music • Heritage Lunch Carl Rohr Quilt Exhibit Preview artists, performers and program: friendsof2rivers.org

2011 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival February 11-20 Downtown Missoula 140 Films and a live Performance

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