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Scope: Electronica starlet Annette Strean returns home to Whitefish Up Front: Doctors discuss the ethical side of assisted suicide Up Front: Recession forces art museum to get creative with auction

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nside Cover Story Officially, wild wolves do not live in Colorado. The nearest established population is in Wyoming, where gray wolves were introduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995. But rumors of wolf sightings abound in Cover photo courtesy of National Park Service Colorado, and during a routine day of field work, biologist Cristina Eisenberg found exactly why..............................................14

News Letters Coming to Tester’s defense, and Big Sky’s bison .........................................4 The Week in Review Equality, payday loans and films.............................................6 Briefs Stimson deal, blood tests and wild hogs.........................................................6 Etc. Why the Flathead should think green .................................................................7 Up Front Doctors discuss ethical side of assisted suicide .........................................8 Up Front Recession forces art museum to get creative with auction........................9 Ochenski Napolitano, Oath Keepers, and the revolution.......................................10 Writers on the Range Bison need a temporary home with Turner .......................11 Agenda The Missoula Labor Film Festival. ...............................................................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan Got (truly organic) milk?..............................................................19 Happiest Hour The Central Bar-N-Grill...................................................................20 Ask Ari Utensil dysfunction......................................................................................21 8 Days a Week Howling at the moon......................................................................22 Mountain High Snowbowl Cup Gelande Championship, brah..............................37 Scope Electronica starlet Annette Strean returns to Whitefish................................38 Noise Birthday Suits, So Cow, Sideways Reign and Charlotte Gainsbourg.............39 Film Lehane novel sets table for Scorcese’s Shutter Island.....................................40 Film The Last Station lives up to its Oscar hype .....................................................41 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films..................................................42

Exclusives Street Talk ..................................................................................................................4 In Other News..........................................................................................................13 Classifieds ...............................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess ..............................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle ..................................................................................................C-7 This Modern World..............................................................................................C-11

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STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

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Asked on the corner of Broadway and Higgins Tuesday morning.

Q:

The Missoula Art Museum hosts its annual art auction this weekend—the institution’s largest annual fundraiser—and it arrives with some significant changes due to the current economy. How have you changed your lifestyle, if at all, to cope with the recession?

Follow-up: What’s one thing, come hell or high unemployment rates, that you’ll never go without?

Nora McDougall-Collins: My work in web development has actually increased and I’ve had to pass on some work to my students. And now, because of the economy, I’m teaching a computer class to Smurfit-Stone retirees.

Logged on: My computer!

Jennifer Savage: We’re eating at home more, eating leftovers and not driving as much. Holy trinity: Coffee. I won’t drink bad coffee or bad beer. And good child care. But not necessarily in that order.

Christopher VandenBrand: We just got back from Japan so we haven’t noticed too much.

We are using our Japanese savings though, over our U.S. savings, because the yen is stronger than the U.S. dollar right now. Plugged in: The Internet, so we can watch movies and get our news and information.

In the beginning, the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival (see “A fan’s guide to the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival,” Feb. 11, 2010) committed to screen my film, Hear The Buffalo, at this year’s event. This film advocates ending the Yellowstone Park bison hunt and for the safety of the herd. The film is controversial. In the end, however, Big Sky censored the film from screening for esoterically lame reasons of their own. Janet Rose, on the other hand, welcomed our film at her CINE event at the Roxy. Go figure.

Frankly, I have no problem with Big Sky yanking off a bison advocacy film.

That is entirely their business. What disturbs is the exploitative use of the bison image in all their advertising. Higgins Street is inundated with their bison image ads. Their website flaunts mega images of the bison. And their preview guide is emblazoned with bison. People in our region care deeply about wildlife.

How is it that the Big Sky Film Festival censors a buffalo advocacy film, yet hypocritically exploits the image to sell seats? Is this business as usual?

And why should anyone complain about the white buffalo image, sacred to Native Americans, plastered upon a tub of popcorn on the Independent’s front page? It makes good business sense, right?

All is not lost, however. Anyone wishing to view Hear The Buffalo, can see it for free, that is, no charge, on the website www.worldwidefilmexpedition.org.

Enjoy!

Gene Bernofsky Director World Wide Film Expeditions Missoula Editor’s note: Festival director Mike Steinberg says he did originally agree to show Hear The Buffalo, but it was removed, per the festival’s written regulations, after it screened locally at CINE.

Follow Tester’s lead

Marco Simmons: My lifestyle doesn’t change for me because I make now what I made back in 1974. I’m a classical horse trainer and classical pianist. I work for love so I can survive any economy.

I don’t need to achieve anything more—I’m very happy. In a word: Love.

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Marilyn’s Olsen’s letter on Sen. Jon Tester’s forest bill (see “Tester taken to task,” Feb. 11, 2010) got one thing right: More people need to read Tester’s bill.

The levels of timber treatment called for in the bill are sustainable precisely because the mandates include a range of activities, not just commercial logging.

Mechanical treatment can include pruning the understory of overgrown stands, hauling forest materials that are building

up on the ground, doing selective thinning in the wildland-urban interface, among many other activities. What’s more, the bill only mandates a level of acres to be treated, not an amount of board feet to be cut. And the 21 amendments that Tester has proposed make sure that restoration work is done within a set amount of time, that only local mills will get the contracts, and that treatment projects are prioritized in the wildland-

And why “ should anyone complain about the white buffalo image, sacred to Native Americans, plastered upon a tub of popcorn on the Independent’s front page?

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urban interface.

The mandates in the bill can be met using a very broad range of treatments, but the critics of Tester’s bill love to talk about commercial logging because that’s the bogeyman that frightens other environmentalists.

Thankfully, most Montanans are getting beyond scare tactics and following Tester’s lead. Tester is talking about much more than commercial logging. He’s talking about getting more work done in lands that are already roaded and suffering from extensive beetle kill. He’s trying to forge a future for our timber mills that focuses on restoration instead of just “getting the cut out.”

He’s trying to work alongside timber

industry leaders to preserve our options for the local management of our forests.

And, he’s trying to make sure that we protect the headwaters of Rock Creek, Monture Creek, the North Fork of the Blackfoot and the Clearwater River.

These are Montana rivers and last time I checked there isn’t even one other bill that stands half a chance of protecting them.

Tester just introduced 21 proposed changes to a bill that was already quite good. For some people, it will never be enough. For Tester and for most Montanans, though, enough is enough.

We aren’t going to get a bill that is perfect for everyone, that’s why we compromise and work together on these things, something you know if you’ve spent much time at all in the West. We need to designate these 670,000 acres of new wilderness and get more work done in the woods. Here’s to Tester and to Sen. Max Baucus for backing a fine bill.

Emma Young Missoula

Unnecessary tinkering Why would Rep. Denny Rehberg propose changes to Sen. Jon Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act when Montana mill owners say it won’t work?

During his tour of southwest Montana, Rehberg told Montanans he wanted to “fix” the bill by adding complicating provisions. But Sherm Anderson, owner of Sun Mountain Lumber in Deer Lodge and a former Republican state legislator, said he fully supports the bill as it is. Anderson also said he doesn’t think Rehberg’s plan would work. Anderson said the proposal would upset the compromise and be impossible to sell in Congress. He’s right. Not one single bill with trigger language has passed in Congress. After 10 years in Washington, Rehberg must know his plan won’t work.

Tester’s bill is supported by a broad spectrum of Montanans, including mill owners and respected Republican leaders such as former Gov. Marc Racicot, former Senate Majority Leader Bob Brown and state Sen. Dave Lewis.

Rehberg’s suggestions would do nothing more than maintain the status quo and keep Montana in gridlock, losing good jobs in the woods and mills. As Rehberg himself said, “Doing nothing is not an option.” Montanans need leadership, not politics.

Leticia Romero Missoula

etters Policy: The Missoula Independent welcomes hate mail, love letters and general correspondence.

Letters to the editor must include the writer’s full name, address and daytime phone number for confirmation, though we’ll publish only your name and city. Anonymous letters will not be considered for publication. Preference is given to letters addressing the contents of the Independent. We reserve the right to edit letters for space and clarity. Send correspondence to: Letters to the Editor, Missoula Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801, or via e-mail: editor@missoulanews.com.

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WEEK IN REVIEW • Wednesday, February 17

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by Cathrine L. Walters

Montana Sled Dog, Inc. honors Sand Coulee resident Rick Larson as the winner of the 25th annual Race to the Sky sled dog race during a reception at the Lincoln Community Hall. Larson and his team of 12 dogs completed the four-day, 350-mile race on Tuesday afternoon ahead of 12 other mushers.

• Thursday, February 18 Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer and British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell sign a memorandum of understanding banning mining and coal and gas development in the Canadian portion of the Flathead River Valley. The agreement ends a 30-year transboundary dispute over energy development in the region.

• Friday, February 19 Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock wagers on Missoula Mayor John Engen by appointing him to a three-year term on the state Gaming Advisory Council, replacing Pam Kennedy of Kalispell. The council oversees all aspects of gambling in Montana.

• Saturday, February 20 The Griz crush Sacramento State at Dahlberg Arena, 86-58, improving to 19–8 on the season. Senior guard Anthony Johnson scores 16 points to become the first two-year player in school history to reach the 1,000-point mark.

• Sunday, February 21

A packed house at the Wilma Theatre watches a Feb. 17 screening of Sweetgrass during the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

The film, which garnered the largest turnout of the week, follows Montana cowboys on their final trip leading sheep to pasture in the Absaroka-Beartooth mountains.

Wild pigs Hogging the landscape

Local residents lacking the luxuries of cable ballyhoo NBC’s call to air the U.S.A.-Canada Olympic hockey game on MSNBC instead of the flagship station.

Disappointed fans miss U.S. beating Canada (5 - 3) at their own game for the first time since 1960.

• Monday, February 22 The Montana Human Rights Network officially kicks off its Montana Equality Campaign, in Missoula. The statewide effort aims to ensure gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people have legal recourse if discriminated against.

• Tuesday, February 23 A coalition in Helena calling itself “400% Interest is Too High; Cap the Rate” proposes a ballot initiative to do exactly what its name implies: limit the amount of annual interest on payday and title loans. According to the group, 82 of the 116 payday loan establishments in Montana are owned by out of state firms.

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One of the region’s preeminent bear biologists, Chuck Jonkel, of the Missoula-based Great Bear Foundation, finds himself sounding the alarm about an environmental scourge potentially headed to Montana: wild pigs.

“If we’re going to do anything about it, the time to do it is now,” Jonkel says.

According to pig expert Jack Mayer, of the Savannah River National Laboratory in Aiken, S.C., only six states remain hog-free—Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island. But Mayer warns that an introduction into Montana could be inevitable.

“There are wild pig populations currently persisting in four Canadian provinces, with animals numbering in the thousands,” Mayer says. “I would assume that Montana would be just as acceptable as a home to this adaptable generalist.”

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can wreck a fishery. The U.S. Department of Agriculture adds that the “rooting and wallowing activities of wild pigs cause serious erosion to river banks and areas along streams. These destructive animals have been known to tear through livestock and game fences and consume animal feed, minerals and protein supplements.” Jonkel says conflicts between people and bears pale in comparison to the problems pigs present.

Mayer, meanwhile, urges Montana wildlife officials to be proactive.

“Montana needs to stay on top of this situation,” he says. “Most of the recent expansion of wild pigs in the U.S. has been manmade. The most likely future origin of wild pigs in Montana would be from a clandestine illegal release”—some point to trophy hunters as the culprits—“rather than animals spreading or expanding their distribution from surrounding states/provinces.”

Mayer recommends that Montana make it illegal to release pigs, monitor for evidence of pigs in the field, and implement a rapid response eradication plan should pigs appear.

“Somebody’s going to bring ’em here,” Jonkel says. “Hell, there could be someone coming right now in a pickup with nine pigs in it.”

Matthew Frank

Health care Coverage costs skyrocket Earlier this month, Anthem Blue Cross of California announced huge rate increases—as much as 39 percent—for individuals who buy its health insurance coverage, sparking a furor around the country and emboldening supporters of health care reform. Turns out, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Montana (BCBSMT) is raising its individual insurance rates, too—and, in some cases, by just as much as Anthem.

The state auditor’s office has seen a surge this year in the number of Montanans complaining about soaring health insurance rates.

“What we’ve been hearing—and there’s definitely been an increased number of calls—is [an increase] from Blue Cross and Blue Shield some-

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where from 39 to 43 percent,” says spokesperson Jackie Boyle, stressing that her office likely hears only about the extreme cases.

BCBSMT is a nonprofit, mutual benefit company—unlike Anthem, Blue Cross’ for-profit model— and is Montana’s largest insurer, covering more than 250,000 people. Tim Warner, the company’s senior director of external affairs, says most rate hikes this year fall between 10 and 20 percent, on par with recent years. Warner acknowledges some increases around 40 percent, but calls them “exceptionally unlikely.” He says any increase is a function of everrising health care costs.

“As the costs of health care have gone up, and the amount that hospitals and doctors are charging have gone up, and the use of prescription drugs and the reliance on prescription drugs and the price of prescription drugs have gone up,” Warner says, “it stands to reason that you would expect health insurance rates to go up.”

A BCBSMT letter to a member, dated Feb. 10 and obtained by the Independent, notifies of a roughly 40 percent rate increase with an effective date of April 1. Such an increase, Warner explains, results from a high utilization rate and a high medical loss ratio within a specific group.

“Anybody who has bought into a health insurance product from our company and there’s a premium increase that high,” Warner says, “they really should…contact us so we can work with them to see if there’s a better solution.”

The auditor’s office lacks authority to crack down on rate increases, but Boyle says it plans to better track complaints to inform future legislative initiatives.

Matthew Frank

Bonner Spruced up Stimson site After taking its share of blows, Bonner is getting some good news this month. Less than a week after Stimson Lumber Co. announced that it will pay to clean up toxic contaminants on its shuttered mill site—a significant barrier to any new investment— Missoula real estate developer Scott Cooney says he’s prepared to purchase a portion of the property.

“We have a buy-sell agreement,” Cooney says.

Cooney declined to reveal any details until after the deal is inked. But if all goes as planned, his portion of the old mill site—an undisclosed chunk of the 170-acre parcel—will likely stay industrial. The developer says he aims to use the property, at least in part, to process forest products, beef up the local economy and create jobs.

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“That’s first and foremost,” he says of job creation.

Cooney’s announcement comes as Stimson Lumber signs off on a commitment to spend $6 million cleaning up 85,000 cubic yards of toxic byproducts—that’s about 8,500 dump trucks of waste—lingering from wood processing on and around the old mill.

The state Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit in December 2008 asking a Montana District Court judge to force the company to clean up the site.

The news comes as relief to the community,

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says Charles Erickson, chairman of the Bonner Milltown Community Council.

“I know everyone in our community would like to see some kind of new industries on that site and new jobs created as soon as possible,” he says. “It’s real frustrating to our community to see that site just sitting vacant when it has so much potential.”

Cooney, too, says he’s happy with the cleanup plan. After all, he’s got a lot invested in the area.

Before the pending deal he owned 116 acres of Stimson’s former site—a log yard on the other side of the river—as well as the post office in Bonner and 42 nearby homes.

The Department of Environmental Quality is taking public comment on the proposed cleanup plan through March 31 and will hold a public meeting on March 16 at 7 p.m. at the Bonner School Library.

Jessica Mayrer

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DUI Council goes for blood Civil libertarians say the Missoula City Council risks treading on constitutional protections if it adopts an ordinance making it a crime to refuse a police officer’s request to submit to alcohol or drug testing.

As it stands, refusing to submit to a drug or alcohol test is a civil offense, punishable by a six-month suspension of one’s driver’s license. If the proposed law passes after a public hearing slated for March 22, refusal would also become a misdemeanor within city limits punishable by a $300 fine.

Most of the debate so far has focused on whether the criminalization of Breathalyzer refusal would fly under the Montana Constitution, which includes strict protections against police searches. But blood tests to detect drug use raise an even trickier legal question, according to Missoula attorney John Smith.

“That’s highly invasive,” Smith says. “That’s a little different than asking you to blow into a machine.”

Smith’s not the only one questioning the proposed ordinance’s constitutionality. Refusing a police officer’s request would immediately classify someone as a criminal, forcing people to prove their innocence.

“That’s just simply wrong,” Missoula resident Jed Taylor told council members last week.

But Missoula officials insist something must be done to curb DUIs. Councilman Dave Strohmaier, who introduced the ordinance, says he hopes it “provides an incentive for folks before jumping in their car, driving and refusing the test.”

Nearly 41 percent of people stopped for drunk driving within city limits refuse to submit to drug or alcohol testing, according to Missoula Police Chief Mark Muir. He says the lack of physical evidence makes it difficult to prosecute.

Missoula City Attorney Jim Nugent also backs the ordinance. As for the potential problem with blood tests, he cautions that officers rarely call for them due to the time and expense involved. Even so, he maintains it’s an important and necessary tool.

“If you’re under the influence,” he says, “we don’t want to put you back on the street and have you kill someone.”

Jessica Mayrer

BY THE NUMBERS

14,622

Record spring enrollment reported by the University of Montana this week. Total enrollment is up 797 students over spring 2009, but UM notes a drop of 300 students since the fall semester.

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Ever dream of having a cobra- and buffalo-skin tablecloth for those intimate third dates? Or hitting the town in a shiny pair of eel-skin leather boots? This week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced an online auction of forfeited and abandoned wildlife products through Lone Star Auctioneers in Austin, Texas. This stuff makes a neighborhood garage sale look like the lost-and-found box at a preschool.

Fish and Wildlife has selected some 300,000 items from an inventory of 1.5 million housed at the National Wildlife Property Repository in Denver (yes, they’ve got a repository for this stuff). Besides the tablecloth and eel boots, we found Siberian weasel furs, monitor lizard watchbands, python-skin pumps and troca shell necklaces. We’ve never seen anyone sport a troca shell in Missoula—it’s an elegant little white spiral shell—but it certainly looks trendy enough to sport at the Finn and Porter.

Fish and Wildlife stresses that none of the products up for bid are made from threatened or endangered species.

Also, no hunting or wildlife parts will be sold. Mostly, the items come from import businesses that failed to follow basic regulations or obtain the proper permits. That’s all well and good, but leaves one question unanswered: Just how bad must things be at the National Wildlife Property Repository to have to hold a public auction?

The answer: pretty bad. According to a Fish and Wildlife release, the repository was so overwhelmed in 2009 that it “forced the facility to temporarily suspend receipt of all shipments from Service law enforcement officers across the country.” The release also states this is the first time it has held an auction like this since 1999.

Clearly the issue of abuse of wildlife isn’t exclusive to Montana’s poaching and illegal commercial outfitting rings, the subject of a recent Indy cover story. Casting off the aforementioned fur coat—the making of which required more than a few Siberian weasels to reluctantly give their lives—sounds about as wasteful as lopping the head off a big horn sheep and leaving the carcass to rot. If you hadn’t already heard, Washington resident Alan T. Sweet appeared in Ravalli County District Court this week facing those exact charges.

Fortunately, proceeds from the online auction (found at www.lonestaronline.com) will be used to “educate the public about wildlife trade and global conservation.” And, last time we checked, bids for the items averaged a modest $20. That seems a small price to pay for better education of a growing problem—and, we guess, some choice ostrich skin belts.

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The Montana Supreme Court’s December 31 ruling upholding a physician’s right to prescribe life-ending medication generated weeks of commentary from legislators, the public and the religious community. But the group still waiting on organized debate is the one most challenged by the new legality of physicianassisted death (PAD): physicians.

To that end, Missoula cancer specialist Stephen Speckart hopes to build awareness of how the Supreme Court’s decision impacts Montana doctors. Aid in dying is a game-changing move in the medical field, he says, and raises questions far more complex than just its legality.

healer, would be difficult or impossible to control, and would pose serious societal risks.”

Chief among those risks, perhaps, is the well-being of physicians themselves.

Rebecca Anderson, a hospitalist at Community Medical Center in Missoula, says physicians simply aren’t used to dealing with the level of responsibility involved in helping a patient die.

“We’re here to help the patient in their health and not necessarily trained emotionally and psychologically for assisting the patient in actively, to a certain extent, committing suicide,” Anderson says. “I think I would have difficulty managing the emo-

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Cancer specialist Stephen Speckart says the largest piece still missing from the physician-assisted death debate is how the practice will impact physicians themselves.

“Physicians do have an ethical obligation to relieve suffering and pain,” Speckart says. “The problem is how do you describe suffering and pain? Is that to allow it to continue so it’s perhaps intolerable to the patient, or are you dealing with suffering and pain by assisting patients in dying?

That’s something that can only be answered by the individuals involved, and can be argued on either side.”

The ethical implications of participating in a patient’s death tie directly to the principles that have guided medical practitioners for centuries. Physicians traditionally consider it their solemn duty to maintain the health of those they treat. And while the Hippocratic Oath may be silent on the specific issue of PAD, organizations across the country have adopted a firm stance in their codes of medical ethics. The American Medical Association (AMA), for example, has condemned the prescription of life-ending medications since the early 1990s.

“Allowing physicians to participate in assisted suicide would cause more harm than good,” the AMA’s code reads.

“Physician-assisted suicide is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as

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tions around that, because as a practicing physician I work so hard at keeping the patient comfortable and helping the patient control the disease process.”

Like many Montana physicians, Anderson is opposed to the practice now supported by the Supreme Court. In her 19 years treating patients in Missoula, she’s fully embraced the palliative services of efforts like hospice. Others agree that comfort—not death—is the best way to approach end-of-life treatment.

“It’s hard to argue for killing people,” says Thomas Roberts, a physician at the Western Montana Clinic in Missoula. “It’s not hard to argue for keeping people comfortable.”

Speckart views the ethics issue much differently. He acknowledges the strides physicians have made in keeping terminally ill patients comfortable through the dying process, and adds he helped found the first hospice service in Montana back in the late 1970s. He says PAD is reserved for rare and extenuating situations.

“It’s for a very small number of patients who have terminal suffering that becomes intolerable to them and they have

an honest fear of the loss of function, the loss of dignity and the problems of pain,” Speckart says. “They wish not to go through additional short months or weeks of continued suffering. That does not add value to their lives.”

Speckart points to the only two states besides Montana to have legalized the practice—Washington and Oregon—to show the rarity of PAD. In 2008, physicians in Oregon wrote 88 prescriptions for life-ending medication. According to the Oregon Public Health Division, 54 of the 88 recipients chose to take the drugs.

Separate from the question of professional ethics is the issue of how PAD will play into a physician’s individual moral beliefs. Addressing those moral implications is one of the goals the Center for Ethics at the University of Montana has set for a panel discussion March 17. While the court’s ruling makes PAD defensible in court, the state still lacks a law governing the practice, leaving room for critics to use societal dilemmas like morality as leverage in making PAD illegal. Speckart volunteered to help facilitate the March event to promote understanding of the guidelines needed in pending legislation.

But some believe no matter how well crafted the law might be, PAD will take a heavy toll on doctors.

“I think legislation would help take some of the angst away on the physician’s part, but I don’t think that’s the only issue here,” Anderson says. “Dealing with the issue of, ‘Oh, I wrote a prescription for a patient who used it to kill themselves’ creates a sense of almost guilt and responsibility that I think physicians would have a hard time embracing. That’s just not how we’ve been wired all our lives.”

Speckart believes PAD will ultimately hinge on personal morality. Since 1977, when he first established an oncology practice in Missoula, Speckart has heard few requests from terminally ill patients to prematurely end life. Those were tough conversations to have, he says, due not only to his powerlessness at the time, but also to the emotions involved. That fact isn’t bound to change.

“To sit down and write a prescription for a certain medication that you know could be lethal for the patient, and to understand at that moment that the patient may take it…is a dramatic change from what physicians are used to,” Speckart says.

“I think it will be very hard and very difficult for most doctors to feel comfortable and correct morally, and in terms of their relationships with patients, in doing that.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Art on a limb Economy forces art museum to get creative with auction

by Erika Fredrickson

Laura Millin understands change isn’t easy. As the executive director of the Missoula Art Museum (MAM) for 20 years, she’s had to adjust and readjust her institution’s strategy for maintaining the museum’s free admission and affordable classes, while still keeping artists happy and the museum financially stable. Within a recession, finding that balance becomes even more difficult— especially when it all comes together in an annual art auction that acts as both the museum’s largest fundraiser and a major social event

Hilton. The capacity limit also impacts local artists who donate artwork to the event—instead of receiving comp tickets as a thank you, as they have in the past, the artists must buy their own ticket if they want to attend.

That last change received the most immediate criticism, and Millin responded with a letter to local artists explaining the importance of filling the room with more potential art buyers than artists, and managing expenses.

“We’re certainly responding to the recession, to what has happened in

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Laura Millin, executive director of the Missoula Art Museum, says the current economy forced the museum to make significant changes to its annual art auction. Those changes included a greater emphasis on the Artini Auction, above, a more casual—and affordable—fundraiser that occurs a week prior.

among the city’s most avid art patrons.

Over the years and under Millin’s direction, the auction has consistently gained ground and raised significant funds. In 2003, MAM recorded a net profit of $50,270 from the auction. By 2008, the net profit reached $127,708. But last year, the event made just $90,005, the first time since 2002 the net profit failed to surpass the previous year.

Following last year’s downturn, and the continued state of the economy, Millen and MAM’s board made major changes in advance of the Feb. 27 event.

Instead of hosting the auction at a local hotel, like last year’s Hilton Garden Inn Ballroom, it will be held inside the art museum. The smaller space requires other changes: a tapas menu replaces the usual sit-down dinner because the building can’t accommodate enough dinner tables, the number of auction items up for bid will drop from close to 90 pieces to 57, and attendance will be capped at 225 as opposed to the approximately 500 who attended at the

recent years and what happened last year at the auction,” says Millin. “[By holding the auction at the museum] we’re able to control our costs much more—in all ways. It makes a big difference in our percentage of profit.”

Leslie Van Stavern Millar, a local painter and vocal advocate for Missoula artists, donated a piece to this year’s auction. She says the letter from Millin showed good communication from MAM and that, by and large, the artists she’s spoken with understand MAM’s position.

“They have a size limitation so that makes them feel like they need to maximize each person that’s there,” Millar says. “They’re having to be very strategic.”

In a perfect world, says Millar, the museum could accommodate more people, the economy would be robust and the auction would effortlessly raise money hand over fist.

“But that’s not what’s going on,” she says. “So I’ve thought about it long and hard and my feeling is that, of

course I would love to go, but I’m not going to pay $100 for a ticket. So if by me staying home, somebody who actually pays $100 goes, and that person pays full value for my work and my friends’ work, that’s what I’d want to happen every time.”

One way Millin says MAM has tried to address accommodation and affordability issues is through the Artini Auction—a more casual auction thrown a week before, with a lower ticket price and comp tickets for artists.

“Our relationship with artists is extremely important,” says Millin. “One of our commitments is to sell the art as best we can and we’re working hard to represent the artists’ value. The artists’ primary concern, too, is to sell well. So it’s more an issue of wanting to fill those seats with bidders than us not wanting to spend the money on the artists. But we regret that part of it.

That’s been hard.”

As for the main auction, Millin maintains the necessary changes may prove valuable, even beyond any financial gains. She envisions a more freeflowing evening, as guests liberated from a formal sit-down dinner can walk among bars and food tables set up throughout the multi-level, art-filled building. The auction itself will be shorter, and include a dessert and champagne intermission. More than anything, she believes it’s important to hold MAM’s signature event inside the actual museum.

“It is a celebratory event that really needs to be about MAM,” says Millin. “I feel like bringing everyone here really underlines that. It supports our mission. It just makes sense.”

But Millin has enough experience to know not to guess what will or won’t work.

MAM will evaluate the event afterwards, and take into consideration more than just the bottom line. In the meantime, she hopes people understand the museum, like every other arts organization in this economy, is simply trying new things to keep MAM in its best state.

“I think a lot of it is just a really understandable reaction to change,” she says, “but we have to try to make a certain amount of money just to be here…We’re kind of backed up against the wall.”

The 38th Annual Art Auction starts at the Missoula Art Museum Saturday, Feb. 27, at 5 PM. $125/$100 members/$150 at the door. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Things are getting weirder and weirder in Washington, D.C., these days as evidenced last weekend when Janet Napolitano, the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, told an annual gathering of governors that “domestic extremism” is now as big a threat to the nation as international terrorism. Perhaps not coincidentally, a new article in the March-April issue of Mother Jones magazine explores the issue and provides startling evidence that maybe things really are starting to spiral out of control in the good ol’ USA. Titled “Oath Keepers and the Age of Treason: Meet the fast-growing ‘patriot’ group that’s recruiting soldiers to resist the Obama administration,” the article opens with a young soldier looking longingly at the .50 caliber rifle and scope he intends to buy to defend himself against, you guessed it, Janet Napolitano. He’s sure that a declaration of martial law is just around the corner and plans on using the skills he learned in the military to fight against his own government when that time comes.

In belief that the federal government is “already turning on its citizens,” the soldier and his military pals are “stashing weapons, running drills, and outlining a plan of action,” writes Justine Sharrock.

Moreover, the young man and five of his fellow soldiers have joined a group called Oath Keepers, which was formed just last spring by a Yale-educated lawyer and a former Ron Paul aide. Sharrock says the groups is “unique” because “its core membership consists of men and women in uniform, including soldiers, police, and veterans. At regular ceremonies in every state, members reaffirm their official oaths of service, pledging to protect the Constitution—but then they go a step further, vowing to disobey ‘unconstitutional’ orders from what they view as an increasingly tyrannical government.”

The “plan” that the young soldier and his cohorts have is to “go AWOL [Absent Without Leave] and make their way to their ‘fortified bunker’—the home of one comrade’s parents in rural Idaho—where they’ve stocked survival gear, generators, food, and weapons.” It’s from this base that, “if it becomes necessary, they say, they will turn those guns against their fellow soldiers.” Just to make sure they have plenty of lead, the young soldier’s pal “sends 500 rounds of ammunition home to Idaho each month.” ( You can read the whole story online at motherjones.com.)

Ironically, Napolitano got in very hot water last April when her agency’s Extremism and Radicalization Branch, Homeland Environment Threat Analysis

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Division, coordinated with the FBI to issue an intelligence assessment to law enforcement officials warning that “the economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for right-wing radicalization and recruitment,” and suggested some “military veterans facing significant challenges

“Shethatadmitted the government simply does not have a good idea of how to prevent people from becoming violent

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extremists.

reintegrating into their communities could lead to potential emergence of terrorist groups or lone wolf extremists capable of carrying out violent attacks.”

In a footnote, the report also defined right-wing extremism as “broadly divided into those groups, movements, and adherents that are primarily hate-oriented (based on hatred of particular religious, racial or ethnic groups), and those that are mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.”

It cited Timothy McVeigh, who engineered the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building as someone who had turned to domestic terrorism after leaving the armed service and warned that: “Returning veterans possess combat skills and experience that are attractive to right-wing extremists,” raising the concern that “right-wing extremists will attempt to recruit and radicalize returning veterans in order to boost their violent capabilities.” It went on to state: “The high volume of purchases and stockpiling of weapons and ammunition by

right-wing extremists in anticipation of restrictions and bans in some parts of the country continue to be a primary concern to law enforcement.”

The report outraged some veterans’ groups and brought calls for Napolitano’s resignation or firing, which didn’t happen.

Instead, Napolitano’s response was to apologize, saying: “We do not mean to suggest that veterans as a whole are at risk of becoming violent extremists.”

Only a month prior to that report, Napolitano’s agency had issued another intelligence assessment that defined leftwing extremists as those who embrace anti-capitalist, communist or socialist beliefs and want “to bring about change through violent revolution rather than through established political processes.”

The reports drew fire from both Republicans and Democrats on the House committee that oversees Homeland Security, prompting Rep. Bennie Thompson of Missouri, the senior Democrat on the committee, to question both privacy and civil liberty issues in a letter to Napolitano saying: “This report appears to have blurred the line between violent belief, which is constitutionally protected, and violent action, which is not.”

Where it all gets weirder is that the reports are routinely issued to alert law enforcement agencies to possible security threats. But if you believe the Sharrock article and its extensive references, those members of the military or law enforcement that belong to Oath Keepers now know what Homeland Security knows and, obviously, how best to disguise their intentions.

In her latest statements, Napolitano asked: “What really is it that draws a young person being raised in the United States to want to go and be at a camp in Yemen and then come back to the United States with the idea of committing harm within the United States? Where in that person’s formulation is there an opportunity to break that cycle?” She did not, however, have any answers to her own question and admitted that the government simply does not have a good idea of how to prevent people from becoming violent extremists.

We have morphed, it appears, into a very paranoid nation in recent years. And unfortunately, as the famous line from the cartoon character Pogo says: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”

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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Helping the herd Yellowstone bison need a temporary home with Turner

by Jeff Welsch

Sometime soon, a stock truck will pull alongside a prison-like fence in the upper Yellowstone River valley of Montana.

Moments later, a gate will open and dozens of Yellowstone National Park bison will be herded like cattle onto the truck, just like some 1,400 of their wild brethren back in the bleak winter of 2007-08.

Only this time—for the first time— instead of heading off to an undignified demise in a slaughterhouse, these first of 88 Yellowstone bison will be destined for a long-overdue date with freedom.

After two years in quarantine pens north of the park, they are to be turned loose to roam across 12,000 acres of remote sagebrush and forest southwest of Bozeman. For anybody who cherishes iconic American wildlife, seeing these bison amble off the truck and wander toward a new horizon will be a moment worth celebrating. Some 150 years ago, the last great herds thundered across the Great Plains by the millions. Today, the bison is the only wild animal in America still largely confined by the boundaries of a national park.

Think about that. Such creatures as deer, elk, pronghorn, coyotes, bears, wolverines, badgers, skunks, eagles, marmots, moose, grizzly bears and even wolves are limited only by available food sources and their ability to coexist with humans.

But wild bison are treated like livestock, kept behind invisible fences on territory that is a fraction of their historic haunts.

When they follow their natural instincts and leave the deep snows of Yellowstone in search of winter forage, they are either hazed back into the park or rounded up and killed.

The dispersal of this small remnant from Yellowstone’s priceless gene pool is an important first step toward a larger vision: Restoring wild, free-roaming American bison to appropriate public and tribal lands across the West.

Because media mogul Ted Turner owns these 12,000 acres, some are decrying the decision by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks to park wildlife for five years on a pri-

vate ranch. But just as these 88 bison were oblivious to the political boundary separating freedom in Yellowstone from likely slaughter just to the north, so will they be blissfully unaware that the vast expanses on which they’ll feed come with a deed.

It is true that the temporary solution isn’t ideal, but given that bureaucratic grid-

For anybody “who cherishes iconic American wildlife, seeing these bison amble off the truck and wander toward a new horizon will be a moment worth

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celebrating.

lock has thus far prevented the relocation of these disease-free bison to wildlife refuges, state parks or tribal lands, it is still a solution. At best, these bison would remain confined to the holding pens until they’re necessarily returned to the park, where many would undoubtedly contract brucellosis and migrate back out during the next harsh winter—only to be herded like cattle onto a stock truck headed in the wrong direction. At worst, they’ll be slaughtered immediately to make room for the next wave of migrating bison, and two years

of careful taxpayer-funded monitoring would be for naught.

Such treatment is almost unfathomable for this symbol of the American West, which is so otherwise revered that its likeness appears on our money, our flags, our national park logo and on the helmets of dozens of professional and college football teams. Now, the move of these bison to Turner’s ranch, after numerous failed attempts to relocate them to tribal lands and a state park in Wyoming, is one of many hopeful signs that the conversation about bison is finally changing.

We could be on the cusp of an opportunity to create an American wildlife legacy that would rank along with the restoration of the wolf to Yellowstone as one of the great ecological success stories of the 21st century. Montana is at long last taking steps toward creating a plan that could allow the return of bison to lands that haven’t trembled under their hooves for 150 years, lands such as the C.M. Russell Wildlife Refuge and Fort Peck Indian Reservation.

In addition, Wyoming’s state veterinarian supports moving disease-free Yellowstone bison to Guernsey State Park.

But this isn’t just a Yellowstone or Montana or Wyoming issue. Bison will continue to reproduce at prolific rates beyond Yellowstone’s carrying capacity. They will migrate out of the park in winter, and as populations grow they will need homes outside of the Northern Rockies.

Yellowstone bison continue to need champions to stop the slaughter and protect this icon of the West.

Jeff Welsch is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He is the director of communications for the Greater Yellowstone Coalition in Bozeman.

Editor’s note: This column appears as a response to last week’s critical opinion of the Turner agreement. Read that column— and other Writers on the Range essays—at www.missoulanews.com.

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They scrub the toilets at your work, make sure your garbage can isn’t overflowing with trash, and leave the hallways of your office sparkling clean. These people are custodians, and they perform a laborious and important job that’s often overlooked and underappreciated.

This week you’ll be able to renew your respect for their hard work during a screening of The Philosopher Kings—a documentary, pictured here, about janitors who work at prestigious American universities—during the Missoula Area Central Labor Council’s Labor Film Festival, a visual examination of the highs and lows faced by working people.

The festival kicks off Friday with a screening of Demand, which exposes the seedy underbelly of sex

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 25 Climate change skeptics need not apply: Confront the root causes of climate change with creative conflict by heading to a weekly meeting of Northern Rockies Rising Tide, an environmental/social justice organization which meets this and every Thu. at 6 PM at Break Espresso, 432 N. Higgins Ave. Free to attend. Visit northernrockiesrisingtide.wordpress.com.

You probably won’t get permafried from a night of films about permaculture—radical farming techniques developed by farmer Sepp Holzer—when Paul Wheaton presents Farming with Nature and Terraces and Raised Beds at 6:30 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free, with a Q&A session to follow the films. Call Marilyn at 239-8343 and visit permies.com.

He’s what I’d call a true freedom lover: Steven Watt, National ACLU Human Rights Program Attorney, discusses the CIA’s rendition project—as well as the ACLU of Montana’s lawsuit to help get a Montana teen out of solitary confinement—during the discussion “CIA Rendition and Torture in Montana,” which starts at 7 PM in Room 101 of UM’s Law School Building. Free. Call 443-8590.

FRIDAY FEBRUARY 26 Support those who need end-of-life care—and help build a community hospice house in Missoula—during The 29th Annual Hospice Ball: All That Jazz, a fundraiser for The Hospice Care Foundation that features music by the Ed Norton Big Band, Big Sky High School Jazz Band, and the Tom Cats, starting at 7 PM at the Minuteman Aviation Hangar, at the Missoula International Airport, 5225 W. Broadway St. Tickets: $75 and up. Also features a silent auction, poker drawing and other activities. Visit hospiceball.com for tickets or call 541-2255.

He doesn’t care about your “Alcohol and Pills,” he just wants to play: Fred Eaglesmith peddles stories about rural life, machines, booze and everything in between when he plays alt country at the Top Hat at 8 PM. Cover TBA.

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trafficking and those trapped in the industry. It’s followed by American Casino, a look at the causes of the subprime lending crisis and its impact on the working class. On Saturday night, The Philosopher Kings screens, along with Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin’s final silent film that uses humor to convey the struggles of overtaxed factory workers in the 1930s.

–Ira Sather-Olson The Missoula Labor Film Festival begins Fri., Feb. 26, at 6:30 PM, and resumes Sat., Feb. 27, at 6:30 PM, all at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. Suggested donation: $9 both nights/$5 per night. Visit Missoula-labor.info and call 251-7207.

Those looking to control their eating habits can get support from others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Mon. at 5:30 PM on the second floor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. Visit www.oa.org.

If you’re 18 or under and your life has been affected by someone else’s drinking, get support with others by joining the Alateen 12-Step Support Group, which meets this and every Monday at 7 PM at First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free, use alley entrance. Call 728-5818 or visit www.al-anon.alateen.org.

What’s “universal” got to do, got to do with it? I’m not sure, but perhaps he’ll touch on it: T.R. Reid, an NPR correspondent and fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation, presents the lecture “The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, Fairer Health Care” at 7 PM at the University Theatre.

Free. Call Megan at 243-4576.

TUESDAY MARCH 2 Find the strength and will to survive in the company of others during a breast cancer support group at St. Francis Xavier Parish, 420 W. Pine, every first and third Tue. of the month at noon. Free. Call 329-5656.

This is what I continually ask myself: T.R. Reid, NPR correspondent and fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation, presents the talk “Health Care Reform: What Now?” at noon at the conference center at St. Patrick Hospital, 500 W. Broadway St. Free. Call Megan at 243-4576.

You’ve got a roof over your head, so why not help others with the same? Habitat for Humanity of Missoula presents its first of six “Building With Habitat” classes, which offers building training to interested volunteers from 6–8 PM this and every Tue. and Thu. until March 18 at the West Campus of UM’s College of Technology, 3639 South Ave. W. Applications are due Fri., Feb. 26 and can be downloaded at habitatmsla.org or received by calling 549-8210.

If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM on the second floor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. Visit www.oa.org.

Missoula’s YWCA, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts weekly support groups for women every Tue. at 6:30 PM, where groups for Native women and children meet as well. New group members with children are asked to arrive at 6:15, without kids at 6:25. Free.

Call 543-6691.

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Veterans can find support with trained facilitator Chris Poloynis every Mon. at 2 PM, when PTSD group Spartans Honour meets at the Missoula Veterans Affairs Clinic, 2687 Palmer St. Free. Call 829-5400.

A “black market” job search this ain’t: UM’s Office of Career Services presents a Job Search Workshop from 3:30–5 PM in Room 154 of UM’s Lommasson Center. Free. Call 243-2022.

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

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

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - After recognizing themselves in a surveillance video on TV, two women went to the police station in DeLand, Fla., and, according to sheriff’s official Brandon Haught, “wanted to know what is going on.” Investigators stepped in and determined from the video that the women were at a beauty store when it was robbed and one of them, Myesha Williams, 20, committed the robbery.

When a man and a woman tried to sell a ring to a jewelry store in Joplin, Mo., owner L.T. Newton recognized it as stolen and called the police. Officers couldn’t find the ring on either suspect, but while questioning the man, he began to cough uncontrollably and eventually coughed up the ring, which he had swallowed.

DUCK AND COVER - Earth remains at risk from potentially devastating asteroids because Congress won’t fund its own project for the United States to defend the planet. The government spends about $4 million a year looking for big and obvious near-Earth objects, but in 2005 Congress ordered a broader survey to find near-Earth objects as small as 460 feet in diameter.

These smaller objects “can cause huge damage on Earth,” warned University of Maryland astronomer Mike A’Hearne, who helped chair the National Academy of Sciences report, “Defending Planet Earth: Near-Earth Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies.” It said more than 2 million space objects have a near-Earth orbit and that objects only 165 feet wide could cause destruction equal to that of a nuclear explosion.

The report warned that if the government won’t pay for space probes to orbit Venus and track threats to Earth, it should at least give scientists a bigger telescope so they can detect 90 percent of the smaller asteroids by 2030. Meanwhile, since launching spacecraft to divert an asteroid’s path needs planning, the report advised nations to rely on organized evacuations and other civil defense efforts to deal with small asteroids.

EXTRA CRISPY - A police officer who saw a man in flames in Portland, Ore., reached for a fire extinguisher in the trunk of her patrol car but instead accidentally grabbed a large can of pepper spray used in riot control. The pepper can sprays are red like a fire extinguisher, according to Police Bureau Chief Rosie Sizer, who said the victim, Daniel Shaull, 26, set himself on fire in an apparent suicide attempt. Sizer noted that although the spray didn’t put out the fire, it isn’t flammable and “didn’t have any additional reaction with him already being on fire.” Shaull died at a hospital.

Police investigating a one-car crash in Prince George’s County, Md., located the driver, Kenneth R. Taylor, 28, nearby. After talking to him briefly, officers went to the crashed vehicle. Police Officer Henry Tippett said that Taylor jumped into one of the officers’ cruisers and sped off. Officers didn’t pursue the cruiser, which ran off the road about a mile away, crashed into a tree and burst into flames. Firefighters responding to the first crash arrived at the second one but were unable to put out the fire and pronounced Taylor dead at the scene.

HOLY SCANNER - Grzegorz Sowa, a Catholic priest in the Polish town of Gryfow Slaski, installed an electronic reader to check fingerprints of schoolchildren so he could monitor their attendance at mass. Attending 200 masses in three years exempts them from having to pass an exam before they can be confirmed. “This is comfortable,” one pupil, identified as Karolina, told the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza. “We don’t have to stand in line to get the priest’s signature in our confirmation notebooks.”

DOWNHILL SLIDE - British police officials reprimanded a group of officers after a passerby recorded them using their riot shields as makeshift sleds and posted the video on YouTube.

Conceding that snow brings “out the child in all of us,” Thames Valley Police Superintendent Andrew Murray said he told the officers “that tobogganing on duty, on police equipment and at taxpayers’ expense is a very bad idea.”

WRITER’S CRAMP JUSTICE - Fiji’s attorney general urged the country to adopt a modern court recording system to replace having magistrates record proceedings by hand. “Currently, lawyers in court were sometimes asked to speak as fast as the magistrate could write,” Aiyaz SayedKhaiyum said. “As such, lawyers could get lost in what they were trying to say because they had to slow down.”

MARKETING MAGIC - After the Iraqi government paid $84 million to a British company for 1,500 dowsing rods the company insisted could detect explosives, detectives questioned Jim McCormick, 53, a former police officer who runs the company, ATSC (UK) Ltd., about widespread claims that the company’s products don’t work. ATSC describes its ADE “Advanced Detection Equipment” as able to detect “all known drug and explosive based substances,” using “non-vapour” methods. A simple plastic holder is fitted with a special piece of cardboard which has been prepared using “the proprietary process of electrostatic matching of the ionic charge and structure of the substance” to be detected. The device uses no electronics, being “charged” by the body of the user. Attached to the holder is a metal wand held at right angles to the user’s body. The wand is said to drift in the direction of any explosive, drug or whatever else the cardboard insert has been “electronically matched” to—even contraband ivory or truffles—at ranges of up to half a mile.

“Whether it’s magic or scientific, what I care about is it detects bombs,” Major General Jehad al-Jabiri of the Iraqi interior ministry told the New York Times last year after arranging a demonstration by one of his police officers. When a reporter couldn’t get the dowsing rod to work, the general stated, “You need more training.”

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LUCKY DAY - The Missouri treasurer’s office paid a Jefferson City man $1.6 million from its unclaimed assets fund. Treasurer Clint Zweifel said the unidentified man lost track of a stock fund, and the brokerage had lost track of him. After the treasurer’s office held the stock for 18 months, it cashed it in 2007, just before precipitous market declines, and added to its $600 million account on behalf of 3.5 million unaware people or households. The unclaimed assets office’s 14-person staff eventually traced the man, who received his money in January.

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Wolves from Idaho and Montana began showing up in eastern Oregon and Washington at least a decade ago, and now both states have breeding pairs of wolves. Utah has confirmed six sightings since 1994, but no evidence of breeding wolves. Recent evidence suggests gray wolves may have now made their way to western Colorado.

ast April, in a narrow mountain valley in northwestern Colorado, Cristina Eisenberg was searching for scat. The diminutive, darkhaired biologist and two members of her field crew had set up a kilometer-long transect through elk habitat, and the trio was walking slowly along the line. It was a raw day, cold and windy with spells of freezing rain, and the biologists had been moving through meadows for hours, looking for elk poop, deer poop, coyote poop, mountain lion poop. This was old-fashioned wildlife biology—hardly glamorous work—but in it lay the story of the landscape, of the pursuers and the pursued, and Eisenberg was absorbed in the tale.

Then, on the edge of an aspen grove, one of the biologists saw something unusual: a scat roughly as long and wide as a banana, tapered at the ends, perhaps two months old. When Eisenberg examined it, she saw that it contained hair from deer or elk and shards of bone, some almost as long as a fingernail.

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It smelled distinctively earthy, like a shady forest floor.

In the course of her research, Eisenberg had seen and handled thousands of scats just like this one, but not here, not in Colorado. Everything about it—the size, the shape, the smell, the contents—indicated a creature that had been extirpated from the state more than 70 years ago. Everything about it said wolf.

Within an hour and a half, the crew found a similar scat, some 500 yards away. Later that day, in another aspen grove about five miles away, they found two more. Less than a week later, Eisenberg’s lead tracker, Dan Hansche, found a wolf-like scat with a similar, smaller scat laid on top—suggesting, Eisenberg says, that an adult wolf had been teaching its pup to mark territory.

As the weather warmed last summer, the field crew found 11 more wolf-like scats, and Hansche documented a set of tracks with wolf characteristics.

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Then, at dawn on July 27, Eisenberg and another biologist were driving down a winding valley road, deep in a discussion about statistics, when Eisenberg spotted a black shape running across a bright green alfalfa field, perhaps 100 yards away. The stance, the gait and the set of the ears all suggested the wolves Eisenberg had spent so much time observing near her home in northwestern Montana.

This past November, during another trip to her Colorado study area, she found another set of wolflike tracks, fresh prints that extended at least a quarter-mile up a snowy ranch road. All in all, Eisenberg and her crew found some 18 separate signs of wolf activity during visits over a seven-month period. This animal—or animals—was no mere passerby.

Officially, wild wolves do not live in Colorado.

The nearest established population is in Wyoming, where gray wolves were introduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995. But rumors of wolf sightings abound in Colorado, and in recent years, at least two

wolves have died in the state. In 2004, a young radio-collared female wolf from Yellowstone was killed on Interstate 70 near Idaho Springs, about 30 miles west of Denver. In the winter of 2009, another young female collared wolf traveled a 1,000-milelong route from the Yellowstone region to the Meeker, Colo., area, roughly 20 miles from where Eisenberg and her crew work. That wolf ’s death, in April, is still under investigation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and neither state nor federal officials will comment on the matter.

Like most scientists, Eisenberg and her colleagues are cautious. For months, even among themselves, they half-jokingly spoke of “visitors from the North,” reluctant to name a species as controversial as the gray wolf. They emphasize that DNA testing, now underway at a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, is needed to back up their identification of the animal or animals that produced the scat and tracks. But whatever the animal

is, it appears to be eating what wild wolves eat, and traveling over the landscape the way wild wolves do.

When wolves arrive in an ecosystem, everything changes: the ecology, the politics, relationships both animal and human.

“We know more about wolves, and the management of wolves, than we do about many other forms of wildlife,” says Douglas Smith, leader of the Yellowstone wolf project. “But we rarely get to put it into practice, because people freak out, flat-out freak out, when a wolf shows up.”

Wolves herald a grand experiment—and in Colorado, that experiment may already be under way.

The chunk of northwestern Colorado where Eisenberg works is called the High Lonesome Ranch.

Bordered on the south by Interstate 70 and on the west by the rippling shale and sandstone curtain of the Book Cliffs, it encompasses desert flats, river valleys and high-elevation aspen stands. With the recreation, outfitting and grazing permits it holds on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land adjoining its property, the ranch operates on a roughly circular 300 square miles—an area larger than Lake Powell at full pool.

“It’s an overwhelming landscape,” says Eisenberg, who, with conservation biologist Michael Soule, flew over the ranch in a helicopter last May. “Even from the air, practically everything you can see

is the ranch. You think, ‘How are we ever going to measure this?’”

On winter afternoons, fading light glows in the snowy fields and sagebrush near ranch headquarters. High, rocky ridges rise in every direction, silencing the nearby interstate. Despite the dense,

ning guests posed with their trophies: bull elk, bears, mountain lions, colossal trout. “While you’re here,” one slogan goes, “you own the place.”

Not really, of course. That privilege belongs largely to Paul Vahldiek Jr., the president, CEO and chairman of the board of High Lonesome Ranch.

“Officially, wild wolves do not live in Colorado.

The nearest established population is in Wyoming, where gray wolves were introduced to Yellowstone National Park in 1995. But rumors of wolf sightings abound in Colorado.”

almost palpable quiet, the High Lonesome Ranch is a busy place, with a full-time staff of 40, a commercial kitchen, a well-stocked gift shop, and enough pickup trucks and road equipment to outfit a small highway department. Experienced guides lead hunting and fishing expeditions into remote ranch valleys; masseuses knead sore muscles; chefs prepare elaborate multi-course meals. In the ranch dining room, leather-bound albums display photos of grin-

Vahldiek, a tall, heavyset Houston trial lawyer with a boyish face and an attitude of expansive hospitality, is a man of epic enthusiasms: for wildlife, for travel, for good food and drink. A dedicated outdoorsman since his seventh-grade basketball coach took him fishing for trout and redfish on the Gulf Coast in the 1960s, Vahldiek spends several weeks each year on the property—yet he rarely leaves ranch headquarters, and almost never hunts. Instead, he conducts a

whirlwind of meetings with business partners, contractors, scientists, architects and staff, often becoming so absorbed in conversation that he loses track of time.

“When he drives,” says his wife, Lissa, “my job is to say, ‘Paul, the road. Paul, the road.’”

Petite and blue-eyed, with arching eyebrows, Lissa Vahldiek grew up in the news business: Her father, the son of a sharecropper, rose from a bookkeeping position at a Florida newspaper to found Southern Newspapers Inc., now a chain of 17 small and mid-sized papers in Texas, Alabama and Georgia. Lissa has spent most of her career with the company, and now serves as its vice president and CEO. She loves the outdoors—on her cell phone, she proudly displays a photo of one of her prize High Lonesome Ranch catches, a 14-pound rainbow trout—and is supportive of Paul’s work with the ranch, but the place is clearly his realm.

“Where newspapers are truly my passion, I think it’s truly his passion,” she says.

Like so many heat-weary Texans, Paul dreamed of a mountain getaway. Unlike many, he and Lissa had the funds to buy one. A big one. He wanted snowy peaks, not desert cliffs and sagebrush, and at first the valleys of northwestern Colorado held little appeal. But he also wanted a property that could be managed for conservation, and a friend who had hunted in the area pointed out that lower-elevation lands were accessible year-round—to humans and wildlife. In 1994, Vahldiek bought the first piece of

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The sun sets over a duck pond on the High Lonesome Ranch near the Roan Plateau in western Colorado. The ranch is being managed for wildlife, including the possible existence of wolves.

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But wolves from Canada were, in fact, recolonizBiologists have long recognized the power of what would become the High Lonesome, complet- by training, Eisenberg put aside her watercolors to ing the purchase of one valley before going on to the raise her children, and in Montana, she learned ing the area, and by 1996 there were an estimated 75 predators in ecosystems. In the 1930s, Aldo wolves in northwestern Montana. On the 20 acres Leopold, who advocated wolf extirpation early in his next, and then the next. The North Dry Fork Valley, about the natural world alongside them.

“They always wanted to know, ‘What’s that bird? where Eisenberg and her family live, a metamorpho- career, began to realize that the killing of predators where ranch headquarters now sits, alone comprisWhat’s that tree?’” she remembers. “They were my sis began. had helped create what he called “the modern curse es 18 former homesteads.

“In Texas, you can have a long fenceline, but teachers.”

“In three or four years, everything changed on the of excess deer and elk.” In 1980, ecologist Robert Paine coined the term “trophic there’s always some guy in a truck cascades” to describe the ripple driving along the other side, waveffects of predators on herbiing at you,” he says. “Here, the vores, and herbivores on plants.

Book Cliffs are our fence. There’s Researchers continue to investino one waving at us.” gate and debate exactly how From the start, Vahldiek says, trophic cascades operate, but he wanted to protect the land for they find these so-called topthe long term, so he set about down effects at work throughout learning how to be a good steward. the natural world: Predators The ranch sits in the gas-rich ranging from mountain lions to Piceance Basin, but Paul used his otters to sea stars have dramatic legal expertise to cut off oil and gas impacts on the ecosystems they company access to mineral leases. inhabit. (“I haven’t been the normal ranchIn 2006, Eisenberg began er in dealing with them,” he says.) her Ph.D. research with William He decided to run 400 head of catRipple, an Oregon State tle, a fraction of the number perUniversity professor who studies mitted by the BLM. After a misguidtrophic cascades in Yellowstone ed attempt at pond-building by a National Park and elsewhere. In former ranch manager—an under2000, he and his colleagues pubtaking that eventually led to a setlished evidence of what had been tlement with the federal dubbed the “ecology of fear”— Environmental Protection Agency— that predators altered ecosysVahldiek hired a team of stream tems not only by killing prey, but experts to repair the damage and also by scaring it. In Yellowstone, plan a new large-scale stream nervous elk became less interestrestoration project. He funded a ed in eating and more interested ranch-wide biodiversity survey by in moving, apparently allowing scientists from the Academy of more young willows, cottonNatural Sciences in Philadelphia, photo by JT Thomas woods and aspens to sprout in and commissioned detailed maps some places. of his private and permitted lands. Biologist Cristina Eisenberg, who lives in northwestern Montana, first discovered wolf scat on the High Lonesome Ranch Eisenberg has spent the past And he recently hired Jones and last April. All in all, Eisenberg and her crew found some 18 separate signs of wolf activity during visits over a seven-month four years gathering data for a disJones, a Seattle-based firm of archi- period. sertation on the effects of wolves tects, landscape architects and planon elk, aspen and songbirds in ners, to come up with a conservaIn a landscape with large predators, they pro- land,” she says. “Deer were no longer standing around Glacier and Waterton Lakes national parks. It’s a tion plan. Two years ago, he sold minority shares in the ranch to several partners, including conservation- tected themselves by learning to recognize tracks; and eating all day—they were on the move. Plants that demanding study that has brought her face-to-face with wolf dens, wolf kills and, of course, wolf scat. In ist David Ford, a former general partner of Goldman wildlife field guides were among the girls’ first had been shrubs were suddenly six feet tall.”

Sachs. Today, the official mission statement for the books.

By 2005, a three-acre meadow near their house 2007, Eisenberg spoke about her work and about In the mid-1990s, like many other local resi- had been overtaken by cottonwoods, conifers and trophic cascades at a Boone and Crockett meeting— High Lonesome describes a “model of sustainability” to an audience that included Paul Vahldiek. that maintains biodiversity and open space while dents, the family started seeing what they thought shrubs such as serviceberry and wild rose.

Vahldiek wasn’t the only one seeing trouble in allowing a mix of uses—primarily ranching and recre- were wolf tracks, and hearing howls that didn’t As her daughters grew older, Eisenberg began to the aspen stands: Foresters throughout the Rocky ation—for its financial support.

Mountains had reported unusually rapid and wideBut in the midst of all his activity, Paul noticed spread aspen die-offs, and, like Vahldiek, they’d that in the high reaches of the ranch, in the aspen “Wolves make people absolutely nutty. You get all noticed that young trees were scarce. By 2006, close stands, something was wrong. The trees were dying, to 150,000 acres of Colorado aspen were dead or and there were few young sprouts to replace them. the pro-wolf people saying, ‘God, we’re finally damaged, according to aerial surveys. By 2008, the The trees were on his mind in August 2007, when he apparent peak of the die-off, the damaged areas traveled to Montana for a meeting of the conservasaved, the ecosystem is in balance,’ and you get exceeded half a million acres, with 17 percent of the tion and education committee of the Boone and state’s aspen showing declines.

Crockett Club, the venerable hunting and conservathe other side saying it’s proof that Satan has Researchers blame the die-off—now known as tion organization founded by Theodore Roosevelt.

Sudden Aspen Decline, or SAD—on a combination There, he met Cristina Eisenberg, who told a story of culprits, including insects and diseases emboldabout aspen, elk and wolves. returned to Earth.” ened by drought and higher temperatures. But hungry elk, which love to munch on tender aspen shoots, may also play a role in the trees’ troubles, —Ed Bangs, gray wolf recovery coordinator, both recent and long-term. As Vahldiek listened to Fifteen years ago, with two daughters barely out U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Eisenberg, he began to wonder if the aspen on his of diapers, Eisenberg and her husband, a software ranch could use a few more predators. designer, moved from coastal California to a remote Eisenberg and Vahldiek struck up a conversaproperty in northwestern Montana. Eisenberg, whose father worked in the Mexican diplomatic sound much like coyotes. Eisenberg reported her search for a new career, and in 2004, she enrolled in tion, and Eisenberg was intrigued. She was working service, had a cosmopolitan childhood—in Tokyo, observations to wildlife officials, who were polite an environmental studies graduate program at on a book about trophic cascades, and was especialToronto, Vancouver and elsewhere—but she had but dismissive.

Prescott College. The transformation of her backyard ly interested in the conservation of predators on pri“I was a housewife with two kids in tow,” she fresh in her mind, she focused her studies on wolves vate lands. After she visited the ranch, Vahldiek asked always been drawn to cold places with mountains, her to propose a study of aspen, elk and predators big trees and what she calls “real weather.” An artist says. “I didn’t look much like a credible source.” and their ecological roles.

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Hurryy in and wolves to live where they find habitat, and permit a variety of measures—including, in some cases, lethal methods—to deal with problem wolves.

But before wolves could be delisted in Colorado, a population would have to meet recovery goals set by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Such goals don’t even exist yet, and are unlikely to be considered unless and until evidence of breeding wolves emerges. “We haven’t talked about what a Colorado [recovery] plan might look like,” says Ed Bangs, the Western gray wolf recovery coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. His agency, he adds, has “no plans for active recovery in Colorado, It’s easier for a wolf to get from Yellowstone to no active discussion to put wolves there, take them out of there, do anything with them.”

Colorado than it might sound.

For a wandering wolf hoping to settle down, “Wolves are just driven to travel,” says Douglas Smith, the Yellowstone wolf biologist. “For them, it Colorado offers habitat—and prey. Independent wildlife biologist Carlos Carroll, who has coreally isn’t a big deal.” authored several studies While wolves are of potential wolf habitat wary of humans, they are in Colorado and elseable to pass through where, says the state developed landscapes— could support a populaeven, apparently, the tion of at least 1,000 ranchlands and gas fields wolves. of southern Wyoming.

“Colorado, Montana, Single wolves, or small Idaho and Wyoming are coalitions of two and in the same league in three animals, regularly terms of the numbers of strike out in search of wolves that each state can unoccupied territory. hold,” he says, “and The risks are high, as they’re quite a bit above the deaths of the two the other states in the radio-collared wolves in West.”

Colorado demonstrate.

In Colorado, howevBut the potential reer, potential habitat is wards—wide-open terrifragmented into smaller tory, abundant prey—are chunks, and Carroll says enormous. Even journeys that a wolf population of hundreds of miles would depend largely on “aren’t in any way eyethree disjunct swaths of brow-raising,” says Smith. public land in western So no matter what Colorado—one in the left the scat and tracks on San Juan Mountains of the High Lonesome southwestern Colorado, Ranch, wolves are likely one southwest of Aspen, to keep venturing into and one in the Flattop Colorado. Wolves from Mountains, just northeast Idaho and Montana of the High Lonesome began showing up in Ranch. eastern Oregon and To preserve their Washington at least a genetic diversity, says decade ago, and now Carroll, wolves in both states have breeding Colorado would need to pairs of wolves. Utah move among these three has confirmed six sight“source populations”— ings since 1994, but through the mostly prino evidence of breeding vate land that separates wolves. them.

The wolf populations Courtesy of the Wildlands Network “If wolves aren’t able in Idaho and Montana, to persist [on private along with wolves in eastern Washington, eastern Oregon and northeastern lands] or move across them without getting killed, Utah, were taken off the federal endangered species that poses some risk to the source populations,” list last April. But wolves that wander into Colorado he says.

But the protection of wolves on private land are considered endangered species, and their management is led by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. requires the presence of another notable species: In 2004, a working group of livestock producers, rural landowners with a soft spot for predators.

“Wolves can live pretty much anywhere people wildlife advocates, scientists, sportsmen and others appointed by the Colorado Division of Wildlife will allow them to live,” says Shane Briggs, wildlife developed a management plan, focused on transient conservation programs supervisor for the Colorado wolves and on the state’s responsibilities once its Division of Wildlife. “The real questions for managwolves are removed from the endangered species ing wolves aren’t biological—they’re social and list. The group recommended that the state allow political.” on his property. He and his business partners said they were interested in serious science, and willing to fund it.

Though Eisenberg knew of the recent wolf sightings, both rumored and confirmed, in Colorado, she assumed the animals were transients. But as she spent more time on the ranch, and as she and her field crew started searching its meadows and aspen stands for scat, she realized Colorado might already have a new resident predator.

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Paul Vahldiek had plenty of questions when he first heard about the wolf evidence on the ranch. Would wolves shrink his prized elk herd, which attracted so many of his clients? Would they unsettle his cattle, and lower their birthing rates?

“I didn’t wake up one morning and cheer and say, ‘Okay, wolves!’” he says. “But it’s the hand we’re dealt.

And if they help the land be healthier, I’m for that.”

His neighbors may not share his equanimity.

Though surveys indicate widespread support for wolves among Coloradans in general—the most recent, a 2001 poll funded by foundations and conservation groups, found that well over 60 percent of Southern Rockies residents even supported deliberate wolf reintroduction—ranchers and other rural residents are not as enthusiastic as city dwellers. Even some staff members at the High Lonesome Ranch are less than thrilled about the possibility of wolves in the area.

Scientists and managers who work with wolves often remark on the uniquely powerful human responses, both positive and negative, that the animals provoke: “Wolves make people absolutely nutty,” says Ed Bangs. “You get all the pro-wolf people saying, ‘God, we’re finally saved, the ecosystem is in balance,’ and you get the other side saying it’s proof that Satan has returned to Earth.”

But on the ranch, as the evidence of wolves emerged, the science proceeded calmly. Eisenberg continued to visit and develop a final plan for her research, and she sought the advice of Michael Soulé, a wellknown conservation biologist and the president of the nonprofit Wildlands Network. Soulé, whose angular features and grave manner belie a healthy sense of humor, calls wolves an “inexpensive and practical tool” for restoring ecosystems and improving their resilience to climate change. He envisions corridors of public and private protected areas throughout North America, including along the spine of the Rocky Mountains, that would aid the restoration and conservation of ecosystems and their keystone species, including large predators. When Eisenberg told him about the High Lonesome, he visited the place for himself, and presented the Wildlands Network vision to Vahldiek.

“I thought it was a brilliant vision, a necessary vision,” Vahldiek says now. “Did I think it was achievable? Not initially. My first thought was, ‘Let’s bring reality into the equation.’”

In January 2009, at the invitation of the Wildlands Network, Vahldiek attended the Western Conservation Summit, a gathering of conservation leaders in California. “So here I was, this hunter, this rancher, this duck out of water, kind of sneaking around,” says Vahldiek. He mostly listened for two days—“not an easy thing for me to do,” he admits with typically self-deprecating humor. During the conference, he spotted a sixfoot-high wall map of the Wildlands Network Spine of the Continent conservation initiative, and he located his ranch.

“On the scale of that map, the High Lonesome— well, I don’t think it was as big as a half dollar, but it was bigger than a quarter,” he says. “I thought, ‘Dang, well, I’m a butcher’s son from south of Houston, and with people’s belief and help, I put a quarter-plus on this map. And there are millions of people and organizations out there that work towards conservation. If I could put down a quarter, why couldn’t other people put down half dollars, or dimes, or nickels, if they thought it was going to make the world and wildlife a better place?’

“At that point,” he says, “I didn’t think it was so silly anymore.”

Vahldiek is now a board member of the Wildlands Network, and Soulé serves as an unpaid science advisor

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to the High Lonesome Ranch. Vahldiek emphasizes that he and his partners are more interested in conservation than profit.

“None of the partners need anything to be sold or done on this ranch to complete any financial planning,” he says. “They’re more concerned about how to care for it into perpetuity.”

Vahldiek hopes that recreation, ranching and other enterprises on the ranch will support conservation for the long term, and he’s confident that his partners and heirs will continue to protect the land. But the ranch, it’s worth remembering, is no national park: There are as yet no guarantees of protection for posterity—the partners are considering conservation easements, but have not yet put any in place on the main ranch properties. And as on most private lands, much of the decision-making power rests, for good or ill, in one set of hands.

Eisenberg and Vahldiek, during a conversation about their collaboration, say the needs of science and the demands of landownership have, so far, coexisted peacefully. Vahldiek smiles and adds, “Well, you know, Cristina doesn’t get a vote.” Eisenberg smiles at the joke, which, of course, is not really a joke. The High Lonesome Ranch, with or without wolves, is a landscape controlled from the top down.

During a few short, sunny days in December, the Vahldieks come to the ranch to discuss research, conservation and wolves with Eisenberg, Soulé and state wildlife officials. In two days, despite a raging head cold, Paul will fly to the Bahamas, where he and one of the High Lonesome partners recently bought a threemile-long island off Grand Bahama called Deepwater Cay—a historic bonefishing resort that Paul also plans to manage, like the ranch, for conservation. “That was the one place we used to actually go and relax,” says Lissa with amused dismay. “Now, it’s work, and we’re walking around with clipboards.”

But business, for the moment, has been set aside, and Lissa, Eisenberg and Soulé walk along a quiet, snow-covered dirt road, toward a stand of aspen near where the first wolf-like scat was found.

This stand looks more vigorous than many on the ranch, with small aspen trees scattered among the larger trunks. It appears that few aspen sprouted here between 1920 and 1995, but then young trees began to spring up, Eisenberg says. And she wonders: Why is this stand apparently healthier than so many others on the ranch? Could mountain lions, whose populations rebounded in Colorado in the 1970s as hunting regulations took effect, be hunting here now, protecting some of these young trees from hungry elk? Does the eradication of wolves help explain the 75-year lack of new growth?

Eisenberg hopes to answer such questions by studying the patterns of predators and prey on the ranch, and examining the relationships of those patterns with aspen growth. Any effects of returning wolves on elk and deer, and in turn on aspen, won’t be evident for years. For now, she will continue to gather data, and ponder the ecological influences of predators—including the visitors from the North.

“Aspen are complicated,” says Soulé with a smile, calm in the knowledge that scientific questions always create more questions.

The return of wolves to this valley, and to the state of Colorado, raises the most complicated questions of all. But Soulé, as he surveys the vast ranch landscape for signs of predators, remains serene.

“It feels wonderful,” he says. “I’m not frightened at all.”

This story first appeared in High Country News. editor@missoulanews.com

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FLASHINTHEPAN Small-ag activists and organic watchdog groups found themselves in terra incognita recently: cheering the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for tightening the definitions of organic meat and dairy. On February 12 the agency published a “final rule and request for comments” regarding organic standards for livestock. It’s been called the most sweeping rewrite of federal organic standards since their inception in 2002.

Titled “Access to Pasture,” the rule closes several loopholes that mega-dairies have used to exploit the organic market with milk from farms that hardly resemble the farms that inspired the now $24.6 billion organic industry. It mandates that meat and dairy cattle branded organic must graze for a minimum of 120 days on pasture. At least 30 percent of the animals’ total annual caloric intake must come from grazing.

While definitive with regard to dairy, the rule leaves one significant question open with regard to meat production: Whether beef cows should be exempt from the above grazing requirements during a four-month fattening, or “finish feeding,” period, after which they are slaughtered. A 60-day comment period closes April 19.

The new rule is a major blow to certain megadairies that for years took advantage of the previous rule requiring only that organic cows have “access to pasture.” The real-life manifestation of this famously ambiguous phrase was often a warehouse door opening to a muddy side yard.

Clarifying “access to pasture” has been under discussion between the National Organic Program (NOP) and USDA since 1994, and a rule similar to the new rule was first proposed in 2005. It languished in Bush’s USDA for a variety of reasons, some of which are currently under investigation. When the draft was opened for public comment, 80,327 were lodged, of which a large majority—all but 28—favored clarifying the phrase “access to pasture.”

In addition to clarifying pasturing requirements for cattle, the rule tightens up several other cracks in the federal definition of organic. It expands and strengthens the language prohibiting antibiotics in organic feed, requires that any edible bedding (like straw and corn cobs) be certified organic, and mandates that pastures be managed as a crop—that is, to produce abundant forage.

Much of the new 160-page rule consists of com-

ments, which are parsed and organized into arguments for or against the rule’s measures. Of the 26,970 public comments USDA received, 26,000 supported more pasture time for organic cattle. All but 130 of the comments arrived via three modified form letters.

Many small-ag types were skeptical of President Obama’s appointment of former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack as secretary of agriculture. Vilsack’s cozy relationship with corporate agribusiness earned him “Governor of the Year” kudos from the Biotechnology Industry Organization.

One of Secretary Vilsack’s first moves was to rip up the plaza in front of the USDA building in Washington

and install a certified organic garden. He then recommended that all USDA facilities around the country do the same. Then Vilsack appointed Kathleen Merrigan as deputy administrator, the USDA’s number two spot.

She’s credited with writing the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990, in which Congress gave the USDA authority to oversee the organic industry.

While organic cheerleaders appear to have much to celebrate, some unfinished business will soon tell us more about which direction the USDA is really headed, and how much the public’s hands are guiding it.

Public comment just ended on the USDA’s December 2009 determination that Monsanto’s genetically engineered (GE) alfalfa seed meets USDA stan-

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dards. The determination came despite the agency’s acknowledgement that the GE alfalfa is likely to crosscontaminate with non-GE alfalfa.

Not one comment in a brief online survey of the registered comments favored approving this contagious alfalfa for planting. If the pattern holds, the response to these comments could create a showdown between Vilsack’s biotech interests and the newly comment-friendly agency he leads.

Another looming question is what will replace the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) proposal, which was recently scrapped in another victory for small ag. NAIS would have forced all livestock farmers great and small to keep painstaking and expensive records of their animals.

And finally, the burning item of business that the access to pasture rule leaves unresolved for another 60 days: “We are requesting comments on the exceptions for finish feeding of ruminant slaughter stock.”

As it stands, the USDA exempts beef cattle from the requirement that 30 percent of nutrition come from forage for a period of 120 days prior to slaughter.

In practice, this exemption allows organic beef cattle to be confined and fed grain for four months prior to slaughter, a practice known as feedlot finishing.

The rule notes, “The sentiment among most of the commenters is that there is no place in organic agriculture for the confinement feeding of animals nor should there be any exception for ruminant slaughter stock.”

If that sentiment holds, the organic feedlot exception should end. But if the exception is upheld and “organic” beef is allowed to be “finished” in confinement, that would not only cast doubt on what appears to be a newly inclusive and democratic USDA, it would arguably violate several key aspects of organic livestock production. Confined feeding goes against the organic tenet that animals be allowed to express their true nature, and feeding grain to animals not only produces a different kind of meat that’s much less healthy, it’s also much more energy-intensive and environmentally destructive.

Perhaps the real discussion shouldn’t even be about whether organic beef cows can be confined and grain fed for the last 120 days of their lives. The discussion should be about whether organic cattle should be fed any grain at all.

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LISTINGS $…Under $5 $–$$…$5–$15 $$–$$$…$15 and over Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Where Myrtle Avenue ends at Bernice's, a tiny bakery sits as a veritable landmark to those who enjoy homestyle baked goods, strong coffee, community, and a variety of delicious treats. Join us for lunch if you'd like. Crazy delicious. Crazy cheap. 30 years and still baking. Open Every Day 6AM to 8PM. $ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a "biga" (pronounced beega) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making.

Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as

artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Blue Canyon Kitchen 3720 N. Reserve (adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn) 541-BLUE www.bluecanyonrestaurant.com We offer creatively-prepared American cooking served in the comfortable elegance of their lodge restaurant featuring unique dining rooms. Kick back in the Tavern; relish the cowboy chic and culinary creations in the great room; visit with the chefs and dine in the kitchen or enjoy the fresh air on the Outdoor Patio. Parties and special events can be enjoyed in the Bison Room. Hours: Tavern hours Monday-Saturday 3pm11pm, Sunday 3pm-10pm . Dining Room hours MondaySaturday 5pm-10pm, Sunday 4pm-9pm. $$-$$$ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins Ave. 542-0002 Dine-In, Drive-Thru, Delivery... Truly a Missoula find.

Popular with the locals. Voted Missoula's best pizza. Everything from hand-tossed, thin-crust, stone deck pizza to wild salmon burri-

tos, free-range chicken, rice bowls, ribs, pasta, salads, soups, sandwiches & "Pizza by the Slice." And now offering gluten-free dough.

Local brews on tap and wine by the glass. Open every day for lunch & dinner. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 37 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. $ Ciao Mambo 541 S. Higgins Ave. 543-0377 Ciao Mambo, at the end of the Hip Strip on 4th and Higgins, serves up fresh, classic, immigrant style Italian food seven days a week. Terrific service and an extensive domestic and Italian wine list. Try our Wednesday all you can eat Spaghetti!

Dinner only and take out service available. Ciaomambo.com or 543-0377. $$-$$$

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by TJ Maxx & Ross 549-5595 In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of ... ice cream! ColdStone is home-made, super-premium and more delicious than it should be, it seems! Cast your eyes on all our mix-ins and choose your favorites, be it for a cone, icecream cake or ice-cream sandwich! Many a fine folk will find ... It's a Great Day for Ice-Cream! $-$$ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave • 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffeehouse/Cafe located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch seven days a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and an espresso bar till close. Open Mon-Thurs 7am-8pm, Fri & Sat 8am4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ 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 free-range 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. $–$$ Harry Davids 2700 Paxson Street, Suite H • 830-3277 Kicking off in February is LIVE BAND KARAOKE and LADIES NIGHT at Harry David’s every Thursday night at 9:30pm. Drink specials for the Ladies! Part Karaoke / Part Dance night with the band Party Trained, this is your opportunity to sing like a rockstar with a live band backing you up – and it will be every Thursday! If Karaoke is not your thing – no problem the band will be playing in between karaoke songs to keep you on the dance floor!

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 $-$$ HuHot Mongolian Grill 3521 Brooks • 829-8888 At HuHot you’ll find dozens of meats, seafood, noodles, vegetables and homemade sauces for

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the timid to the adventurous. Choose your favorites from the fresh food bars. You pick ‘em…we grill ‘em. We are as carnivore, vegetarian, diabetic, lo-salt and low-carb friendly as you want to be! Start with appetizers and end with desserts.

You can even toast your own s’mores right at you table. A large selection of beer, wine and sake’ drinks available. Stop by for a great meal in a fun atmosphere. Kid and family friendly. Open daily at 11 AM. $-$$ Indulge Bakery 700 SW Higgins Ave. 544-4293 indulgebakery.wordpress.com Now open! Enjoy international flavors from baci di dama to pizzelles, gourmet cupcakes, scones and decadent cinnamon rolls. Specialty breads hot and fresh between 3 and 5pm daily.

Open M-F 7am-6:30pm; Sat. 9am-4pm See us on Facebook!

Call to find out more (406)523-3951. $ 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. Not matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $-$$ Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins Ave. • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch and we use no MSG products. Featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive hot and ice tea menu including bubble tea. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Free Tea Tasting second Saturday every month 4:30-5:30pm Open Mon-Sat, lunch an dinner. $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • 721-1312 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. Special senior menu & a great kids’ menu. 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. $$-$$$

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HAPPIESTHOUR The Central Bar-N-Grill Claim to fame: Downtown’s newest bar. Jenny Rudh and Ryan “Rusty” Faris— former Badlander bartenders—opened The Central Friday, Feb. 5, with chef Gus Dazaobre-gon. They’re still honing the bar’s identity, but it already has one thing the rest of the Badlander/ Palace/Golden Rose complex doesn’t: food. They also have Stella Artois on tap in chilled glasses, which seems to have the barflies buzzing.

What you’re drinking: Beer, wine and cocktails, but Rudh’s specialty is The Dark and Stormy ($6.50).

How the barkeep makes it: Toss in two shots of dark rum, some ginger brew and a lime.

What you’re eating: Dazaobregon’s proud of his food and he’s constantly seen checking up on his patrons. You could order a full meal but the best accompaniment for your beer: Fried plantains, sweet potato fries, wings or nachos.

The kitchen’s open until 3 a.m. Thu.–Sat., and

11 p.m. all other nights.

Where you’re sitting: The Central features a wideand-roomy horseshoe bar. As one patron said, “It’s wide enough that you aren’t face-to-face with that guy sitting across from you, who might get pissed because he thinks you’re staring him down and so he throws a punch.” Sounds like this patron is talking from experience.

Atmosphere: Still developing, but a relaxed feel similar to an old hotel bar. Large mirrors cover the back wall, full windows overlook Broadway and all the vintage dressings— dimmed wall lights, archways, copper molding—give it a touch of class. Bottom line: tons of potential.

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

Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins Ave. • 541-4541 From Latté to Lassî, Water to Wine, Tea Cup to Tea Pot, Liquid Planet has the best beverage offering this side of Neptune -- with a special focus on allnatural, organic, and sustainability. Their distinctive and healthy smoothie menu is worth the visit too! Quick and delicious breakfast and lunch is always ready to go; pastries, croissants, bagels, breakfast burritos, wraps, salads, and soups.

Open 8 am to 10 pm daily. $-$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 Don't feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that?

Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day!

Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $6.95. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $6.95. Eat in or take-out.

M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$.

Pearl Café & Bakery 231 E. Front St. 541-0231 Country French Specialties, Bison, Elk, Fresh Fish Daily, delicious salads and appetizers. Breads and desserts baked in house. Reservations recommended for the warm & inviting dining areas, or drop in for a quick bite in the wine bar. Now, you may go to our website Pearlcafe.US to make reservations or buy gift certificates, while there check out our gorgeous wedding and specialty cakes. 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, 46 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 on our park side patio or 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.-Sat. 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 locally produced specials as well as international cuisine and traditional Irish fare. FULL BAR, BEER, WINE, MARTINIS, 100% SMOKE FREE. "Where the Gaelic and the Garlic Mix!" $-$$ Staggering Ox 1220 SW Higgins • 542-2206 123 E Main • 327-9400 Home of the famous Clubfoot Sandwich unique, portable, delicious! We serve fantastic sandwiches on fresh-baked bread. With two convenient locations, it’s easy to call in your order and pick it up on your way to play. $-$$

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549-7979. $$–$$$ 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!! Monday Sunday 8a.m. - 3p.m. $-$$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming • 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

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Utensil dysfunction Dear Flash, I am confused about which type of utensil to use while cooking.

I have heard that plastics can leach cancer-causing chemicals into foods and liquids when heated and cooled. I have also heard that wood cannot be sterilized because it is porous. I know metal can scratch up and ruin pots and pans. Where does that leave me when reaching for a spatula, ladle or spoon? Any suggestions?

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Brazil. They’re made of very hard wood, making them somewhat impervious to bacteria, and, I don’t know, I’ve never had any problems with them and I’m not too worried about it. I really like the feel of wooden utensils and I don’t believe it’s possible or beneficial to live in a completely sterile environment, but if I were a little paranoid I’d probably soak my wooden utensils in a bleach solution.

Otherwise, metal utensils are a great option.

Most pans that metal would harm are going to be the coated, no-stick variety, which are very nonfeng shui and potentially toxic as well. Who knows what pan coating will be declared safe today and poisonous tomorrow? So if germs are a high priority, ditch the coated pans and use metal utensils in cast-iron or stainless steel cookware.

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some work, so bring them to another installment of Creative Movement Class every Thu. at 4 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

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

Get those endorphins pumpin’ late in the day when you join professional runner Meg Lerch for tempo runs and drills during Thursday Tempo Runs, every Thu. at 5:30 PM starting with a stretch at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Cost TBA/free to Run Wild Missoula Members. Visit www.runwildmissoula.org.

After the revolution we’ll need a new Betsy Ross, which is why you should pick up some tips every Thu. at Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins Ave., where their Sewing Lounge begins at 6 PM. $9–10 hour. Call 541-7171.

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You won’t be the Judge Judy of wildlife films, but you will be a taste-maker of sorts.

Missoula’s International Wildlife Media Center and Film Festival is currently looking for preliminary judges for its upcoming International Wildlife Film Festival in May. Judging will occur through early March, so visit wildlifefilms.org or call 728-9380.

If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program for babes up to 36 months at 10:30 AM every Thu., Fri. and Tue. MC Bubbles gets down with MC Squared during UM’s SpectrUM Discovery Area’s activity “Bubbles,” which features activities all about bubbles from 3:30–7 PM at the discovery center bench, Room 166 in UM’s Skaggs Building. $3.50/free children under 3. Visit spectrum.umt.edu Even if your toddler makes some smooth dance moves, your 3- to 6-year-old might need

Climate change skeptics need not apply: Confront the root causes of climate change with creative conflict by heading to a weekly meeting of Northern Rockies Rising Tide, an environmental/social justice organization which meets this and every Thu. at 6 PM at Break Espresso, 432 N. Higgins Ave. Free to attend. Visit northernrockiesrisingtide. wordpress.com.

Seriously, he just wants a hug and a chance to call you his family. Portland’s Keegan Smith and the Fam bring their pop, funk, soul and reggae wares to the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, for a show at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. Random bursts of thought have always led to some sort of creative revelation, right? Find out during The Creative Movement, a class taught by local artist Katie Ludwick where you’ll blend up writing, drawing, object exploration, and works on paper to create an idea smoothend your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Feb 26, 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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You probably won’t get permafried from a night of films about permaculture—radical farming techniques developed by farmer Sepp Holzer—when Paul Wheaton presents Farming with Nature and Terraces and Raised Beds at 6:30 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free, with a Q&A session to follow the films. Call Marilyn at 239-8343 and visit permies.com.

something to pop and lock about every Thu. at 7:20 PM during beginning and intermediate Hip-Hop Class. Call 541-7240 for pricing and visit ddcmontana.com.

The Flock of Seagulls hairstyle probably gets an update, and much, much more: BoomSwagger and Dead Hipster DJ Night team up for the first annual Avant-Garde Hair Show, where stylists push their scissors to the aesthetic limit while Chris Baumann and Mike Gill bring musical fiyah from their laptops starting at 8 PM at the Badlander. Free, but $3 cover starting at 9 PM.

Let’s talk about hate, baby: The Montana Museum of Art and Culture presents a panel discussion on the exhibit Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, featuring comments by artists Dana Boussard, Steve Glueckert and Lisa Jarrett at 7 PM in the Montana Theatre, in UM’s PARTV Center. Free.

The event will be moderated by Ken Toole, former director of the Montana Human Rights Network. Call 243-2019.

They drink, eat and excrete the blues: The Taj Mahal Trio paints Missoula in a nice hue of indigo when they play blues at the Wilma Theatre at 8 PM. $31/$29 advance at all GrixTix outlets and griztix.com.

Let the flying spaghetti monster be your guide to questioning everything under the sun during another installment of Socrates Cafe, a philosophy discussion group which meets at 7 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Feel the Cuban funk: Cuban master drummer Miguel Angel Bernal Nodal and master dancer Freila Merencio Blanco come to Polson for a performance at 7 PM at the Polson High School Auditorium, 111 Fourth Ave. E. $10/free ages 18 and under. Call Amy at 849-5209.

They can give it up, so why can’t you? The Peace and Justice Film Series continues with a screening of No Impact Man—which follows a Manhattan-based family and their quest to live a year without making an impact on the environment—at 7 PM at the University Center Theater. Free. Visit peaceandjusticefilms.org.

It’s just getting worse, no? Flathead Valley Community College’s Honor Symposium presents the talk “Overview of the Economics of a Changing World” with Gregg Davis, of UM’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research, which starts at 7 PM in the large community meeting room of the college’s Arts and Technology Building, 777 Grandview Drive in Kalispell. Free. Call 756-3864.

Don’t expect to be speaking in binary code when Brian Jameson offers a devotional singing and chanting program with live music and a casual vibe at 7:15 PM at Hamilton’s Common Ground Center, 258 Roosevelt Lane. Donation requested. Call 363-4026.

The real hip-hop is over here. The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., gives you

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These are what you’d call some real cutthroat salesmen. Montana Rep Missoula presents its rendition of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross—which follows two days in the lives of some crooked real estate agents—with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10/$5 student rush at 7 PM. Visit montanarep.org and call 243-4581.

Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit, Missoula’s newest trivia night, begins its run with sign ups at 6:45 PM and trivia at 7 PM at the Brooks and Browns Lounge, at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. Free. Includes drink specials by Bayern Brewery, prizes and trivia categories that change weekly. E-mail Katie at kateskins@gmail.com.

He’s what I’d call a true freedom lover: Steven Watt, National ACLU Human Rights Program Attorney, discusses the CIA’s rendition project— as well as the ACLU of Montana’s lawsuit to help get a Montana teen out of solitary confinement—during the discussion “CIA Rendition and Torture in Montana,” which starts at 7 PM in Room 101 of UM’s Law School Building.

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

Now’s your time to juggle a beat with your feet in a cavernous setting when DJ DC rocks the AmVets Club with hits starting at 9 PM. Free.

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

Feel free to flail around like a rock star whilst busting out your best version of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” during karaoke at Deano’s Casino near Airway Blvd., 5318 W. Harrier, this and every Thu. at 9 PM. Free.

They want you to blow heavy chunks of rock out your nose: Locals _pollen, Bridgebuilder and At Home in the Cosmos heave rock at you that ebbs and flows between mellow and heavy when they play the Palace at 9 PM. $5.

Women celebrate their womanhood with cheap libations and a bit o’ karaoke with help from the band Party Trained during Ladies’ Night and Live Band Karaoke at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, this and every Thu. at 9:30 PM. Free to attend. Call 830-3277.

Dance with a cougar or two, or not, every Thu. at 10 PM when the James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., hosts The Social Club, featuring DJ Fleege spinning an expansive array of tech house and progressive electro dance tunes. Free.

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.

He’ll cure your tremors with a sweet shot of country: Russ Nasset hits up the Old Post,

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103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free.

I wouldn’t recommend actually “grinding” up against people: The Top Hat hosts a “Swing & Grind” party featuring the swingy Americana of Cash for Junkers and the gut bucket blues of MudSlide Charley at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Get farcical during a story about a mayor who shoots his ear–and his upper crust buds who try to sweep the details under the rug–during the Flathead Valley Community College Theatre’s rendition of Neil Simon’s Rumors, which starts at 7 PM at the Black Box Theatre, in FVCC’s Arts and Technology Building on the campus, 777 Grandview Drive in Kalispell. $10/$5 students and seniors. Get tickets at the FVCC bookstore or by calling 756-3814.

The Missoula Public Library hosts a preschool storytime geared toward children 3–6 years old every Fri. at 10:30 AM. This week, Conservative Victory: Defeating Obama’s Radical Agenda by Sean Hannity. Just kidding. (Did I need to tell you that?) Free. Call 721-BOOK.

She brings the post, and the punk, with metaphor and meter: Poet, nonfiction writer, and UM Hugo Visiting Writer Eileen Myles presents a reading of her most recent work at 7 PM at the Dell Brown Room, in UM’s Turner Hall. Free. Call Karin Schalm at 243-5267.

Invigorate that spine of yours during a Classical Pilates Mat Class taught by Alison Laundrie every Fri. at Main Street Pilates, 214 E. Main St., at 11 AM. $12. RSVP 541-2673.

Support those who need end of life care—and help build a community hospice house in Missoula—during The 29th Annual Hospice Ball: All That Jazz, a fundraiser for The Hospice Care Foundation that features music by the Ed Norton Big Band, Big Sky High School Jazz Band, and the Tom Cats, starting at 7 PM at the Minuteman Aviation Hangar, at the Missoula International Airport, 5225 W. Broadway St. Tickets: $75 and up. Also features a silent auction, poker drawing and other activities.

Visit hospiceball.com for tickets or call 541-2255.

He literally bows his musical slave: Robert McDuffie, renowned violinist and music prof, hosts a master music class at 3:10 PM at UM’s Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building. Free. Call 243-2981. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Congratulations and Way to Go!

Stavern Millar and other female artists. Visit manyfacesofwomen.com and call Thea at 543-3550 Ext. 238.

Let the fermented grape juice tickle your tongue and slide sweetly down your gullet during Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery’s tasting room opening, which runs from 4–8 PM at the winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Free to attend, but the wine costs ya. Call 549-8703 and visit tenspoon.com.

nightlife Just watch out for the mandolin, it plucks pretty hard: Gypsy jazz is the name of the game when El 3-Oh plays from 5:30–8 PM at the Brooks and Browns Lounge, at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. Free.

Sex trafficking and the subprime lending scandal rendezvous on the screen during the first night of the Fifth Annual Missoula Labor Film Festival, which starts at 6:30 PM with a screening of Demand, followed at 7:45 PM with a screening of American Casino, all at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $9 both nights/$5 one night. Visit missoulalabor.info. (See Agenda in this issue.)

Get your artistic sneak peek on during the Many Faces of Women: Meet the Artist Reception, which features a chance to check out artworks that’ll be donated to WORD’s upcoming Many Faces of Women Art Gala Fundraiser in March, with the sneak peek reception from 6:30–9 PM at Molly Murphy’s studio, upstairs at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. Free, with snacks and wine available.

Includes work by Molly Murphy (and a chance to meet her), along with pieces from Janet Whaley, Leslie Van

They rock it new school, from the old school: The Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre presents its annual fundraiser “An Affair to Remember,” an evening of music and dance featuring classical music from Los Angeles’ The Rossetti Trio, starting with a silent auction at 7 PM, followed by the concert at 8 PM, all at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $45. Visit rmbt.org or call 549-5155 for tickets.

A black teen deals with several blows in life but finds hope thanks to a sympathetic teacher during the University Center Theater’s screening of Precious, which starts at 7 PM at the theater. $5/$3 students. Call 243-5590.

These are what you’d call some real cutthroat salesmen. Montana Rep Missoula presents its rendition of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross—which follows two days in the lives of some crooked real estate agents—with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $15/$5 student rush at 7 PM. Visit montanarep.org and call 243-4581.

You can hear about what $3.5 million sounds like, but you can’t touch it: Robert McDuffie, renowned violinist and music prof, presents the lecture “The Seasons Project: The Overlapping Agendas of Antonio Vivaldi and Philip Glass,” which starts at 8 PM at the University Theatre. Free. Call 243-2981. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

SPOTLIGHT

keep it rolling

At first, the chilling ambient music grabs your attention. But then you see a silhouette battleship passing by Jupiter, and soon enough, a hammer and sickle slides past the screen, along with an array of space detritus. It’s all very dark and mysterious, but then animated scenes of butterflies and the countryside quickly get spliced in and out of the screen, injecting a sense of calm into something slightly enigmatic.

Those are just a few of the scenes from Aurora, pictured here, a stop-motion silhouette film by Indy contributor Andy Smetanka about the “last lonely moments of the 1928 Soviet space program.” It’s one of Smetanka’s 15 new Super 8 and 16mm films—plus a smattering of short ad spots and animations—that he plans to screen on Sunday night.

This visual salmagundi of sorts features a handful of his other animated flicks, plus shorts that run the gamut from footage cut at barbeques and river outings during Total Fest, to clips of folfing trips up Blue Mountain. In fact, you might recognize some faces.

Other highlights include Missoulaqatsi, a WHAT: 15 new movies from Andy Smetanka WHEN: Sun, Feb. 28, at 7:30 and 9 PM WHERE: Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. HOW MUCH: $7

Koyaanisqatsi-like film of time-lapsed Garden City landmarks, including shots of the Clark Fork, UM’s campus and Out to Lunch, all backed by a dramatic, synth-driven song from the band Chainsmoker. Every Other World is quite the gem too, as it’s Smetanka’s first attempt at scratch-animation—a process that involves scratching away film emulsion using various sharp objects. That one’s an abstract visual feast, and syncs up perfectly with a backing song by the Joggers.

—Ira Sather-Olson

He doesn’t care about your “Alcohol and Pills,” he just wants to play: Fred Eaglesmith peddles stories about rural life, machines, booze and everything in between when he plays alt country at the Top Hat at 8 PM. Cover TBA. An elixir consisting of fried dill pickles and fermented mare’s milk keeps The Lifers rocking solid when they play the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free.

You could say they’re part of a folky Coalition of the Willing: Kathy Colton and The Reluctants show no hesitation to tear you up with blues, folk and originals when they play the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. No cover, but pass-the-hat donations welcome.

Call 741-2361.

In case you missed it in Missoula, you can still figure out where that Jay-Z song came from: The Hamilton Players presents its rendition of the musical Annie, which follows the life of an orphan determined to find her parents and features songs like “It’s the Hard Knock Life,” at 8 PM at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road. $14/$8 children 18 and under. Call 375-9050 or visit hamiltonplayers.com for tickets.

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

Airstream Safari play the Palace at 9 PM. $5.

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

How many times do I have to tell you? The theme is red and black, not atomic tangerine and Xanadu. The Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St., hosts the first annual Red and Black Affair, a party featuring RMF Entertainment’s DJ Chunkiye, as well as drink specials and giveaways starting at 9:30 PM. $5.

If you liked Tolkien’s mines of Khazad-dum, you’ll love tunneling through the AmVets Club, where DJDC rocks dance music to slay orcs to at 9 PM. Free.

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

They’re the harbingers of awesome: JD Smith and the Three Legged Dog hitch a ride from Troy to the Garden City to serve steaming hot countrified rock licks when they play the Badlander at 9 PM. $5.

Missoula’s three musketeers of rock, power pop and indie aim their axes at your fun receptors when Volumen, Secret Powers and

Don’t worry, they don’t care about the size of your vines: Browning’s Vine lets the rock spread up and out when they play the Wolf Den in Polson, 218 Main St., at 9 PM. Cover TBA.

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.

You should feel guilty, very, very guilty: No Shame lets you off the hook for good behavior when they bring rock to Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2.

Sure, they’ll let you take a plug off their formaldehyde filled flask: Whiskey Rebellion makes your firewater shoot up into flames when they play Americana and country at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

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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.

If there’s an award for “most enthusiastic dad,” this guy gets it: Portland’s Keegan Smith and the Fam reigns over western Montana for one more night when they play pop, funk, soul and reggae at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Locals Greenstar open.

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AM–4 PM at Hamilton’s Human Council Building, 316 N. Third St. sliding scale fee at the door. Enter northeast entrance. Call 642-3601 friendsofthetrees.net.

Resource $30-$20 from the and visit

They probably didn’t bring cigars, but they brought spicy riddims. Cuban master drummer Miguel Angel Bernal Nodal and master dancer Freila Merencio Blanco visit Missoula to teach a series of dance and drum classes, starting with a dance class at 10:15 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Drum and dance classes follow from 12:30–5:30 PM. $45 all four classes/$25 any two classes/$15 one class. Call 541-7240 for a complete schedule and visit ddcmontana.com.

Just stop it down a notch, will ya? The Rocky Mountain School of Photography, 216 N. Higgins Ave., helps you expose your images predictably and consistently during its two-day PHOTOfocus course “Fundamentals of Exposure: F-Stops and Shutter Speeds,” which runs from 9 AM–6 PM at the school, and starts again at the same time on Sun., Feb. 28. $279. RSVP by visiting rmsp.com or calling 543-0171.

Those suffering from illness or loss can find solace during one of Living Art Montana’s Creativity for Life workshops at the lower fellowship hall of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St., at 10:30 AM. This week features the program “Textile Treasures” with a TBA workshop leader. Free, but donations appreciated and accepted. Register by calling 549-5329 or visit livingartofmontana.org.

Ride the horsey, c’mon, just do it: Corvallis’ Sapphire Event Center, 1750 Eastside Hwy., hosts the sixth annual Bittteroot Buckle Series, an open horse show for youth and adults which starts at 9 AM at the center. Free to spectate. Fees to enter vary. RSVP by calling Johanna Appelhans by 9 PM Fri., Feb. 26, at 370-0459.

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.

Delve into the radical farming/gardening techniques of permaculture when Michael Pilarski leads the all day course “A Permaculture Approach to Food Production & Biomass in Agriculture and Gardening,” from 9

Get your pow pow face on while watching skiers jump 200 feet in the air during this year’s Snowbowl Cup Gelande Championship, which starts around 11 AM at Montana Snowbowl, 1700 Snow Bowl Road. Free for spectators. It starts up again Sun., Feb. 28, at 11 AM, and costs $3. Call 549-9777 and visit montanasnowbowl.com.

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Free, but donations accepted. Call 274-7878 or e-mail info@footloosemontana.org.

Brewing Co., 114 Main St. in Stevensville, at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 777-0680.

Get your online geekdom on during GeEks 2010, a look at UUe, Venus Colloquia and other upcoming projects from Link Starbureiy’s Egglepple Portfolio, which runs from 1–5 PM at UM’s Urey Underground Lecture Hall. $39.99.

Register and find out more info by visiting geeks.egglepple.com.

Ravinwolf tears musical flesh but begs you not to eat it when they bring blues and folk rock from the Cherokee Nation to the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, for a show at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT.

Actually, he is wearing something: The Missoula Children’s Theatre presents its rendition of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic The Emperor’s New Clothes at 3 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $9/$5 children. Call 728-PLAY and visit mctinc.org for tickets.

nightlife Keep the aesthetics flowing and the art growing during the Missoula Art Museum’s 38th Annual Benefit Art Auction, which features an auction of 57 artworks, as well as dinner, wine and piano music by Ryan Maynes, starting at 5 PM at the art museum, 335 N. Pattee St. $150 at the door/$125 non-members until noon on Feb. 26/$100 members.

Purchase tickets by calling 728-0447 or visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

Fred Eaglesmith plays alt country with full-on sparkle Fri., Feb. 26, at 8 PM at the Top Hat. Cover TBA.

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The Back Country Horsemen of Missoula—a group of back country horse riders—present their membership roundup, which starts at 6 PM at the Lolo Community Center, 12345 Hwy. 93 S., and features a potluck dinner, music by Shane Clouse, door prizes and a silent auction. Free to attend. Memberships cost: $40 family/$30 individual. Call 251-2163 and visit bchmt.org/missoula/default.htm.

Custodians get a shout out and Charlie Chaplin shows us just how demanding factory work can be during the second night of the Fifth Annual Missoula Labor Film Festival, which features a screening of The Philosopher Kings at 6:30 PM, followed by Modern Times at 8:15 PM, all at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $9 both nights/$5 one night. Visit missoula-labor.info. (See Agenda in this issue.)

Trust me, he’ll be wearing something: The Missoula Children’s Theatre presents its rendition of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic The Emperor’s New Clothes at 5 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $9/$5 children. Call 728-PLAY and visit mctinc.org for tickets.

Get farcical during a story about a mayor who shoots his ear–and his upper crust buds who try to sweep the details under the rug–during the Flathead Valley Community College Theatre’s rendition of Neil Simon’s Rumors, which starts at 7 PM at the Black Box Theatre, in FVCC’s Arts and Technology Building on the campus, 777 Grandview Drive in Kalispell. $10/$5 students and seniors. Get tickets at the FVCC bookstore or by calling 756-3814.

The Black Mountain Boys always enjoy incinerating your lungs when they smoke you out with a set of bluegrass at the Blacksmith

A black teen deals with several blows in life but finds hope thanks to a sympathetic teacher during the University Center Theater’s screen-

ing of Precious, which starts at 7 PM at the theater. $5/$3 students. Call 243-5590.

Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING.

The Discount Quartet freshens up your insides with jazz that trickles sweetly down your esophagus when they play Finn and Porter, 100 Madison St., from 7–9 PM. Free.

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

No cigar smoke allowed, but smoking dance moves are approved: Cuban master drummer Miguel Angel Bernal Nodal and master dancer Freila Merencio Blanco come to Missoula via Portland for a performance at the Union Hall, 208 E. Main St., at 7 PM. $15/free for children. Call Amy at 849-5209.

These are what you’d call some real cutthroat salesmen. Montana Rep Missoula presents its rendition of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross—which follows two days in the lives of some crooked real estate agents—with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $15/$5 student rush at 7 PM. Visit montanarep.org and call 243-4581. $3.5 million never sounded so good: Robert McDuffie, renowned violinist and music prof, is the star of the night when he performs with his $3.5 million violin from the 1700s during the concert “Missoula Symphony Orchestra featuring Violinist Robert McDuffie,” which starts at 7:30 PM in the University Theatre. $25–$15 depending on seats. Call 721-3194 or visit missoulasymphony.org for tickets. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

In case you missed it in Missoula, you can still figure out where that Jay-Z song came from: The Hamilton Players presents its rendition of the musical Annie, which follows the life of an orphan determined to find her parents and features songs like “It’s the Hard Knock Life,” at 8 PM at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road. $14/$8 children 18 and under. Call 3759050 or visit hamiltonplayers.com for tickets.

The Lifers find that rubbing butterfat around your ears and nose increases your longevity tenfold when they rock the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free.

Country bumpkins are never barred from shaking a tail during a Missoula Senior Center Saturday night dance with “City Slickers,” which runs from 8–11 PM at the center, 705 S. Higgins Ave. $5. Call 543-7154.

Scott Kirby gives the ghost of Scott Joplin something to joyously moan about when he plays ragtime piano during an art show/concert at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. No cover, but pass-the-hat donations welcome. Call 741-2361.

Solid Sound Karaoke proves that music can also be a liquid or a gas, but never plasma, at

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

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

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

He’ll glitch you up, and caress you with his deep bass: Venice, Calif.’s Kraddy brings his mix of glitch-hop and bass heavy breakbeat flavors to the Palace at 9 PM. $10. Opening support from former Missoulian Enzymes and Missoula’s Cadence.

They’ll let you lick the guillotine clean: Shodown makes sure country music never gets executed when they play Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2.

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Just because you ask Tom Catmull and the Clerics to flagellate their instruments doesn’t mean they will when they play Americana/roots music at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

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Let the rumba rumble your insides during a Rumba Party led by Cuban master drummer Miguel Angel Bernal Nodal and master dancer Freila Merencio Blanco at 9:30 PM at Charlie B’s, 428 N. Higgins Ave. Cost TBA. Axshin Slaxs rewires your brain when they play a set of what’s likely to be rock at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Nope, they didn’t bring cigars, so I wouldn’t ask.

Cuban master drummer Miguel Angel Bernal Nodal and master dancer Freila Merencio Blanco visit Hamilton to teach

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SPOTLIGHT

lavish strings

You can’t put a price on greatness, but you can put a price on the rich, soaring sounds that emanate from one of Joseph Guarnerius del Gesu’s rare violins. Need proof? Just ask renowned violinist Robert McDuffie, who, along with 15 other investors, purchased one of del Gesu’s instruments in 2001 for a whopping $3.5 million.

This weekend you can literally hear what a few million bucks sounds like when McDuffie and his stringed friend from 1735 stop in Missoula to play two concerts with the Missoula Symphony Orchestra.

If you’re not quite up to snuff with modern classical music, you should know this: McDuffie is a big deal.

Actually, I’d say he’s the genre’s equivalent to a rock star. The Grammy-nominated artist has an impressive history that’s landed him in front of some of the most prestigious orchestras in the world, including the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics, as well as the Toronto Symphony and Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome. More recently he’s gotten props from influential composers like Philip Glass, who wrote a work specifically for McDuffie titled Concerto for Violin No. 2, The American Four Seasons.

WHO: The Missoula Symphony Orchestra featuring violinist Robert McDuffie WHEN: Sat., Feb. 27, at 7:30 PM and Sun., Feb. 28, at 3 PM WHERE: University Theatre HOW MUCH: $25–$15 depending on seats MORE INFO: missoulasymphony.org and 721-3194

dance and drum classes, starting with a dance class from 1–2:30 PM, followed by a drum class from 3–4:30 PM, all at the River Street Dance Theatre, 421 N. Second St. in Hamilton. $10 per class. Call Amy Edwards at 849-5209.

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In case you missed it in Missoula, you can still figure out where that Jay-Z song came from: The Hamilton Players presents its rendition of the musical Annie, which follows the life of an orphan determined to find her parents and features songs like “It’s the Hard Knock Life,” at 2 PM at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road. $14/$8 children 18 and under.

Call 375-9050.

For his Garden City gigs, expect to hear McDuffie and the Missoula Symphony Orchestra mix the old school with the new when they perform a piece by contemporary composer Jennifer Higdon, along with classic tunes by Tchaikovsky and Sibelius. And even if classical music isn’t quite your bag, you should consider this a rare chance to see a prominent violinist in his prime, and to hear his posh instrument in action.

the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $9/$5 children. Call 728-PLAY and visit mctinc.org for tickets.

Like I said before, $3.5 million never sounded so good: Robert McDuffie, renowned violinist and music prof, is the star of the afternoon when he performs with his $3.5 million violin from the 1700s during the concert “Missoula Symphony Orchestra featuring Violinist Robert McDuffie,” which starts at 3 PM in the University Theatre. $25–$15 depending on seats. Call 721-3194 or visit missoulasymphony.org for tickets. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

nightlife

Align yourself with poses that pair your breath to the movement of your body during a Vinyasa yoga class, where instructor Brian Baty leads you through the flow this and every Sun. from 3–4:15 PM at Inner Harmony Yoga, 214 E. Main St. Ste. B. $10 drop-in/$8 students. Call 581-4093 and visit yogainmissoula.com.

Trust me, he’ll be wearing something: The Missoula Children’s Theatre presents its rendition of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic The Emperor’s New Clothes at 5 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $9/$5 children. Call 728-PLAY and visit mctinc.org for tickets.

Actually, he is wearing something: The Missoula Children’s Theatre presents its rendition of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic The Emperor’s New Clothes at 3 PM at

His way with words makes Lex Luthor cry: UM’s Second Wind Reading Series continues with a reading from Greg Luther at 5 PM at the Palace. Free.

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—Ira Sather-Olson

Lend your hands to our neighbors in Haiti during Musicians and Artists Supporting Haiti, a concert featuring music from Rob Quist, John Dunnigan, Andre Floyd, Tim Torgerson and renowned songwriter Annette Strean, which starts with an art auction at 6 PM, followed by music at 7 PM, all at the Whitefish Central School Auditorium, 600 E. Second St. Free, but donations to the organization World Vision are encouraged. Also includes comments by World Vision consultant Vaden Earle.

Call Luke Dowler at 270-5649. (See Scope in this issue.)

The Cuban funk awaits your booty and your appreciation: Cuban master drummer Miguel Angel Bernal Nodal and master dancer Freila Merencio Blanco come to Hamilton via Portland for a performance at the River Street Dance Theatre, 421 N. Second St., at 7 PM. $10. Call Amy at 849-5209.

No need to worry, they’ll be back, they always come back: Missoula’s Dolce Canto, a 26-voice choir, performs “A Tour Farewell Concert” for their upcoming trip to Seattle at 7 PM at Frenchtown High School’s auditorium, 17620 Frenchtown Frontage Road. Free, but donations

are encouraged and accepted at the door. Includes performances by the Frenchtown High choir and percussion ensemble. Call 544-4923 and visit dolcecanto.info.

David Horgan and Beth Lo pilot your ascent into la la land when they play smooth jazz at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 100, at 7 PM. Free.

He’s got an itchy finger for editing, and an eye for silhouettes: Current Indy contributor and filmmaker Andy Smetanka presents 15 new movies

by Andy Smetanka—running the gamut from silhouettes and footage from Total Fest barbecues, to a Koyaanisqatsi-like homage to Missoula—during a screening at 7:30 PM, and again at 9 PM, at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $7. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

What’s “universal” got to do, got to do with it? I’m not sure, but perhaps he’ll touch on it: T.R. Reid, an NPR correspondent and fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation, presents the lecture “The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, Fairer Health Care” at 7 PM at the University Theatre. Free. Call Megan at 243-4576.

Kick off the latter hours of your day of rest when the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night welcomes saints and sinners alike with jazz DJs and jazz bands starting at 7:30 PM. Free. This week: jazz from Donna Smith, The Front Street Jazz Group and DJs Gary Stein and Ryan Wendel.

It’s like your radio never got turned off: Los Angeles’ Colbie Caillat brings her radio-ready acoustic/soul/pop vibes to Missoula when she plays with special guest Justin Young at the Wilma Theatre at 8 PM. $28/$25 advance at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketfly.com.

Impress your friends, significant other, or anyone who will listen when you rock the karaoke mic at Harry David’s, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, which is back in action with free karaoke at 9:30 PM, Sun.–Thu. each week. Call 830-3277.

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Veterans can find support with trained facilitator Chris Poloynis every Mon. at 2 PM, when PTSD group Spartans Honour meets at the Missoula Veterans Affairs Clinic, 2687 Palmer St. Free. Call 829-5400.

nightlife Don’t worry dude, pre-existing conditions don’t matter for this: St. Patrick Hospital’s Institute of Medicine and Humanities presents a reception/ meet and greet with T.R. Reid, an NPR correspondent and fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation, at 5 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $40 couple/$25 person. Call Megan at 243-4576.

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

Alcohol and bowling go hand over foot during Monday Madness at Five Valley’s Bowl, 1515 Dearborn Ave., which features $1 bowling after 9 PM as well as $1.25 Coors Light cans this and every Mon. at the bowling center. Free to attend. Call 549-4158.

Kick off your week with a drink, some free pool and an array of electronic DJs and styles for das booty during Milkcrate Mondays with the Milkcrate Mechanic at 9 PM every week, at the Palace. Free. This week: Beats from DJ Mikee Sev, The Mermaid, Mankiisi and Up. See if you can become a star under the spotlight at Sean Kelly’s open mic night, hosted by Mike Avery at 9:30 PM. Free.

TUESDAY

02

March

If you can’t read this, you may be a baby below the age of 36 months, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

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

Uninspired parents and kids need not apply: The Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St., presents ParentToddler Art Fun with Alli DePuy, a class which runs from 11 AM–noon this and every Tue. for three weeks where parents spend time with their children creating with clay, paint, glue and other mediums, and learn ways to explore art in safe ways at home.

Open to kids ages 2–3. $33/$30 members. Call 728-0447 and visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

Discover just how difficult it can be to adjust to life outside the slammer during UM’s Le Cercle Francophone French club film festival screening of Il y a Longtemps que je T’aime, which starts at 7 PM at the University Center Theater. Free. E-mail lecerclefrancophone@hotmail.com.

This is what I continually ask myself: T.R. Reid, NPR correspondent and fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation, presents the talk “Health Care Reform: What Now?” at noon at the conference center at St. Patrick Hospital, 500 W. Broadway St. Free.

Call Megan at 243-4576.

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

Let skin cancer know you ain’t gonna take it when the Minerva Society of Community Medical Center presents a lecture by Dr. Lance Hinther titled “Prevention and Recognition of Skin Cancer,” which starts at 5:30 PM at the Rehab Center Dayroom of the medical center, 2827 Fort Missoula Road. Free. Call Lisa at 327-4141.

This is a place where kids probably enjoy doing school work: Garden City Montessori hosts an open house from 5:30–7:30 PM at the school, 3035 S. Russell St. Free. The school is currently enrolling children ages 3 through the fourth grade. Call 240-0290 and visit garden citymontessori.com.

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Doors open at 8pm, $3 cover starts at 9pm, so get there early and stay for the Dead Hipster Dance Party after the show.

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You’ve got a roof over your head, so why not help others with the same?

Habitat for Humanity of Missoula presents its first of six “Building With Habitat” classes, which offers building training to interested volunteers from 6–8 PM this and every Tue. and Thu. until March 18 at the West Campus of UM’s College of Technology, 3639 South Ave. W. Applications are due Fri., Feb. 26 and can be downloaded at habitatmsla.org or received by calling 549-8210.

M i s s o u l a ’ s Y W C A , 1 1 3 0 W. Broadway, hosts weekly support groups for women every Tue. at 6:30 PM, where groups for Native women and children meet as well.

New group members with children are asked to arrive at 6:15, without kids at 6:25. Free. Call 543-6691.

Follow your dreams of becoming the next Willie Nelson, and get buy-oneget-one-free drink tickets, during an open mic night 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. E-mail moorebeej@yahoo.com.

Author Susan Resnick sheds light on the bleakness of Montana’s 1943 Smith coal mine disaster when she reads and signs copies of Goodbye Wifes and Daughters at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free.

Call 721-2881.

These are what you’d call some real cutthroat salesmen. Montana Rep Missoula presents its rendition of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross—which follows two days in the lives of some crooked real estate agents—with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10/$5 student rush at 7 PM. Visit montanarep.org and call 243-4581.

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,

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here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with.

Ready? Clean, jerk, and snatch are terms used in which activity? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

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

Rehash the music of others, or have the guts to play a few of your own, when the Canyon Creek Ramblers host an open mic night this and every Tue. at 9 PM at the Great Northern Bar & Grill, 27 Central Ave. in Whitefish. Free, with free beers for performers.

They just might be able to out-chug you in a 40 drinking contest: Missoula punks Hangover Saints cure your shakes and bloodshot eyes with doses of punk when they play the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

Union, Wash.’s Sideways Reign leads you to a land of chlorinated springs and preemptive birthday strikes when they play acoustic rock/Americana at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. (See Noise in this issue.)

WEDNESDAY

03

March

Fictional characters dance and prance around your child’s imagination during Ready Set Read, an early literacy program for kids ages 3–7 that includes art projects, games and interactive story time at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front. St., at 11 AM. $4.25/free under age 1. Call 541-PLAY. Bev Glueckert peddles only the best aesthetics to youngsters when she leads Art for Homeschoolers, an art class for kids ages 5–12 that meets this and every Wed. for four weeks from 1–2:30 PM at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. $45/$40.50 members. RSVP by calling 728-0447 and visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

Teens ages 13–18 stir their creative juices during Teen Media Club every Wed. at 4 PM at the Missoula Public Library computer classroom, where video creation, music mixing and digital art formulation are all the rage. Free. Call 721-2665.

Suck out some knowledge from an expert in the know when Kevin Lafferty leads the UM Ecology Seminar Series talk “Ecosystems Affect Parasites: Parasites Affect Ecosystems,” which starts at 4:10 PM in Room 110 of UM’s Interdisciplinary Sciences Building.

Free. Call Jeanne at 243-5292.

nightlife See just how sharp today’s youth are in the realms of international affairs, world geography, history and other categories during Academic WorldQuest 2010, which brings together over 200 high school students from across the state to test their intellect starting at 5 PM at the University Center Ballroom. Free to attend. Includes emceeing from Mayor John Engen. Visit montanaworldaffairs.org and call 728-3328.

Sip on some heady brews in order to promote stewardship in the Bitterroot during a Community Unite pint night for the SelwayBitterroot Foundation at the Kettlehouse Northside Taproom, 313 N. First St. W., from 5–8 PM. 50 cents from each pint sold is donated to the foundation, a local nonprofit. Free to attend. Call 728-1660.

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

Free. Call 755-9463.

It’s once again time to render flesh, muscles and an assortment of body parts from a live model into a work of genius during the Missoula Art Museum’s non-instructed figure drawing classes, from 6–8 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. $7/$5 members. Participants must be 18 and over. Call 728-0447.

If you know the difference between His Knobs and His Knees, bring that skill to the Joker’s Wild Casino, 4829

N. Reserve St., where the Missoula Grass Roots Cribbage Club invites players both new and old to see how many ways they can get to that magical number 15 at 6:30 PM. Free. Call Rex at 360-3333.

In case of emergency, break finger puppet: Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like stories, fingerplays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 6:30 PM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

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Having fully bitched out Barnes & Noble, the Missoula Stitch ‘N’ Bitch needlework circle brings the circle of warm fuzzies to the Good Food Store, where you can knit purls of wisdom every Wed. at 7 PM. Free.

BYO yarn and needles, and check out missoulaknits.blogspot.com.

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Playing the flute and mouth congress come alive: Birds & Bees LLC, 1515 E. Broadway St., presents the sexual finesse workshop “A Blow Job:

By Any Other Name Would Still Taste as Sweet,” taught by instructor Billie Becker from 7–8:30 PM at Birds & Bees. $8, with a price reduction for bringing friends. RSVP by calling 544-1019 and visit aboutsexuality.org.

These are what you’d call some real cutthroat salesmen. Montana Rep Missoula presents its rendition of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross—which follows two days in the lives of some crooked real estate agents—with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10/$5 student rush at 7 PM. Visit montanarep.org and call 243-4581.

Predator struggles with prey, but in an artistic way: UM’s School of Theatre and Dance presents Dance in Concert, a dance showcase featuring nine works by students, staff and noted choreographer Bebe Miller at 7:30 PM at the Montana Theatre, in UM’s PARTV Center. $18/$14 students and seniors/$8 children 12 and under. Visit umtheatredance.org and call 243-2870.

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,

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Beer Drinkers’ Profile "Going Our Way"

Zach, Brielle, Anthony

this and every Wed. at 8 PM. Free.

Call 542-1471.

The tenets of women’s lib broadens to include cheap drinks and DJs spinning dance tracks when Feruqi’s hosts Ladies’ Night every Wed. at 9 PM. Free.

Don’t worry, he doesn’t lace his tea and biscuits with Irish whiskey: Ireland’s So Cow squeezes guitar pop into indie-leaning rock when he plays the Palace at 9 PM. $5. Minneapolis’ Birthday Suits and Colin Johnson open. (See Noise in this issue.)

What brings you to the 'Horse today?

We were going for coffee, we scratched that and came for the Buffalo Chicken Salad and beer. We're extending our weekend starting now.

Your schedule sounds wide open, is it?

Yup. We drove around randomly on the way over. We're not on a schedule. We're going to run around and do what we want.

Luau Cinder would rather you not dip your hand in sulfuric acid when they shoot dub, funk and rock from the stage of the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

THURSDAY

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March

Beer of Choice?

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If art loses hands-down to video games, then the Missoula Public Library’s your gig, where Game On! invites teen gamers to glue their eyes on Guitar Hero, Rock Band and more on the big screen and mow snacks at 3:30 PM the first Thu. of every Month. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

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tion and displacement wash over your senses when Wyoming artist Ashley Hope Carlisle discusses her Hurricane Katrina-inspired exhibit Dissemination Nation, with the talk starting at 5 PM in Room 356 of UM’s Social Sciences Building. Free.

A gallery reception for her exhibit follows at UM’s Gallery of Visual Arts until 7 PM. Call Cathryn Mallory at 243-2813.

Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs detoxify your dirty pores when they scrub you down with a set of alt country/folk at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. Let your inner geek flag fly astonishingly high for just a few minutes during Ignite Missoula V.2, an event where you talk about your nerdiest creative obsession for only five minutes at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St., starting at 6:15 PM. Free. Get tickets, or sign up to participate, by visiting ignitemissoula.com. Interested participants should sign up before Feb. 25. Call 543-9211.

Let those permies permeate your brain during a night of films about permaculture—radical gardening/ farming techniques developed by farmer Sepp Holzer—when Paul Wheaton presents two short films about the practice at 6:30 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free, with a Q&A session to follow the films. Call Marilyn at 239-8343.

He’s a supa freak for peaks: UM prof Keith Bosak presents the talk “Stories from Nanda Devi: Daughter of the Himalaya,” in which he discusses mountaineering, trekking and other activities from India’s highest peak, at 7 PM in Room 210 of UM’s McGill Hall. Free.

Call 243-5172.

These are what you’d call some real cutthroat salesmen. Montana Rep Missoula presents its rendition of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross—which follows two days in the lives of some crooked real estate agents—with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10/$5 student rush at 7 PM. Visit montanarep.org and call 243-4581.

Predator struggles with prey, but in an artistic way: UM’s School of Theatre and Dance presents Dance in Concert, a dance showcase featuring nine works by students, staff and noted choreographer Bebe Miller at 7:30 PM at the Montana Theatre, in UM’s PARTV Center. $18/$14 students and seniors/$8 children 12 and under.

Visit umtheatredance.org and call 243-2870.

They never brutalize their instruments of choice, trust me: Mezzo soprano Angela Andersen chirps while pianist Aneta Panusz presses some white and black keys when they perform a faculty and guest

artist recital, at 7:30 PM in UM’s Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building. $10/$5 students and seniors. Call 243-6880.

His fiddle emits so much heat, you’re guaranteed to have “Bloodshot Eyes.”

Dennis Stroughmatt et L’Esprit Créole—aka Dennis Stroughmatt’s Creole Spirit Trio—brings its Mississippi River Creole music to Ronan’s Performing Arts Center at Ronan Middle School, 35885 Round Butte Road, for a show at 7:30 PM. $14/$12 advance at True Value Hardware in Ronan. Call 800-8234386 or visit www.access montana.com/bigproductions.

They shred so hard, they’ll make your fingers bleed. Atlanta’s Sevendust brings the rock and lets hardcore and metal seep into your pores when they play the Wilma Theatre at 7:30 PM. $27/$25 advance at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketfly.com.

Keep it classy, and keep it clean: The Whitefish Theatre Co. presents a play that touches on class, love and a cleaning lady who isn’t so keen on her job during a rendition of Sara Ruhl’s The Clean House, which features a sneak preview performance at 7:30 PM at the O’Shaughnessy Cultural Arts Center, 1 Central Ave. in Whitefish. $8, with tickets sold only at the door. Visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

Just make sure you don’t have blues intolerance: Bernice’s Bakery, 190 S. Third St. W., keeps the bread flowing

and puts blues on tap during its inaugeral Blues and Bread Series, a first Thursday event from 8–10 PM featuring blues music by MudSlide Charley, as well as filled sourdough hard rolls for $1. Free to attend. 25 cents from every hard roll sold goes to the Missoula Food Bank. Call Marco Littig at 728-1358.

Give them a cotton swab and they’ll gladly remove your earwax: Locals Elephant Gun and The Lion. The Tamer lead you to the outer edges of experimentation when they play rock at the Palace at 9 PM. $5.

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

Impress your friends, significant other, or anyone who will listen when you rock the karaoke mic at Harry David’s, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, which is back in action with free karaoke at 9:30 PM, Sun.–Thu. each week. Call 830-3277.

Dance with a cougar or two, or not, every Thu. at 10 PM when the James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., hosts The Social Club, featuring DJ Fleege spinning an expansive array of tech house and progressive electro dance tunes. Free.

Get ready for bass to tickle your senses during this month’s round of Bassface, a dubstep/jungle DJ night featuring TBA DJs at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Free.

We all like to sneak a peek now and then, don’t we? This week, you’ve a chance to check out art that’ll be featured at WORD’s Many Faces of Women Art Gala in March during the Many Faces of Women: Meet the Artist Reception, on Fri. Feb. 26, from 6:30–9 PM at artist Molly Murphy’s studio upstairs at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. The reception is free, comes with complimentary snacks and wine, and offers a glimpse at artwork from Murphy, as well as Leslie Van Stavern Millar, Kelly Smith, and other local female artists. For more of the lowdown, contact Thea Rae Delamater at 5433550 Ext. 238 and visit manyfacesofwomen.com. Until then, keep the events flowing by Sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Feb. 26, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Overlord c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control

These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana

541-7387 C.J.

C. J. didn't get to go along when his family moved, and now this big, gentle fellow is looking for a new home. He'd prefer one with no other dogs (but cats are all right), and he'd really like one with lots of people to love.

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KNIGHT

Knight should have been adopted months ago, but he just keeps being overlooked by shelter visitors. He's a happy, energetic young dog who gets along with absolutely everyone and would love to have a real home again.

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STEPHEN

Reggie's family decided to clean house, and brought all their pets in to our shelter. He is a great young fellow with so much energy and camaraderie to bring to his new family.

SHILOH

Shiloh is a nine-monthold Border Collie/Jack Russell Terrier cross. As you can probably guess, she is filled with energy just waiting for an outlet! She needs an active companion devoted to keeping her mind and body busy!

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Stephen is a small, shy cat with an endearing expression on his face and a beautiful orange and white fluffy coat.

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REGGIE

DUCE

Duce is one of four German Shorthair Pointers at the shelter right now. He's a great older fellow with lots of personality and good manners, which we think is a wonderful combination!

He has lots of good years left.

PA U L

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These pets may be adopted at AniMeals 721-4710 EMMA

My name is Emma and I have been at the shelter for a very long time. A person found me as a small cat inside of a woodpile and brought me to AniMeals so I could find a nice home. Well, I’m still here!

THE COUNT

Hello there! I am The Count! I was found wandering Missoula during a cold snap. The people who found me brought me to AniMeals to make sure I was taken care of and kept warm. I get along well with others and would love to go to a home where I could be an indoor/outdoor cat.

PEPPER

My name is Pepper. I was previously adopted from a shelter in Oregon, and my owners had to give me up to AniMeals here in Montana. I would love to go to a home where I could see the Big Sky Country, but will be ok having a place just to call home.

TIMBER

My name is Timber and as you can see I am quite the Big Boy!!! I have been here at AniMeals for quite some time. I would love to go to a home that can pamper me. I still have many years to come and would love to spend them being the center of attention with my new forever family!

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If your outdoors lifestyle motto is “Go, go, go,” then you’re in luck this week as I’ve got a flash flood of events for your docket. So let’s jump in head first: On Thu., Feb. 25, get your roll on and look good doing it with wet exits, exercises and roll practices during the Montana River Association’s (MRA) last installment of its Whitewater Kayak Pool Sessions, which runs from 6–8 PM at Currents Aquatics Center, 600 Cregg Lane. $15, includes MRA membership/$5 MRA members. The session is open to all ages and abilities, so there’s no excuse for slacking on this, buddy. Call 370-4436 or 721-2437.

Moving on, Fri., Feb. 26, offers you a chance to be a raptor voyeur of sorts during the Bitterroot Audubon Society’s Winter Raptor Workshop, which starts with an evening class at a TBA time, followed by a field trip Sat., Feb. 27. Steve Hoffmann, the Montana Audubon Society’s executive director, gets ill with it as your guide and plans to inject your mind with info on raptor ID, behavior, habitat and migration. $30/$20 members. Space is limited, and more details will follow when you RSVP, so I’d do that quickly by calling Leslie Nyce at 961-3808.

Or you could get your birding satisfaction from other places on Sat., Feb. 27. Just make sure you don’t drink too much cactus juice on Friday night so you can rise early and meet at 8 AM at the middle parking lot near UM’s Adams Center to carpool to a Five Valley’s Audubon Society-sponsored jaunt to view birds in the Mission Valley.

Those who’d rather drive alone can head north to Ninepipes Lodge, 40962 Hwy. 93, but be sure to make it there by 9 AM. Once you’ve settled in your birding pose, binoculars and all, ready yourself for a titillating display of what could be hawks, bald and golden eagles, falcons and other birds. Free, but bring your own lunch. Call Larry Weeks at 5495632 and visit fvamissoula.org.

Of course, if you flush with excitement watching others jump 200 feet in the air on skis, then you should get your pow pow face on Sat., Feb. 27, for this year’s Snowbowl Cup Gelande Championship, at Montana Snowbowl, 1700 Snow Bowl Road. The championship starts

around 11 AM, runs all day, and is free for spectators. It starts up again Sun., Feb. 28, at 11 AM, and costs $3. Call 549-9777 and visit montanasnowbowl.com.

Sat., Feb. 27, can also be spent chilling with the Rocky Mountaineers, who take a break from bagging peaks to go on a cross-country ski trip to the Chief Joseph Ski trails, just east of Lost Trail pass. Free. Find out more specifics, like the meet-up time, by contacting trip leader Alden Wright at alden@wrightmontana.net or by calling 542-1966.

Visit rockymountaineers.com.

Then again, you could laugh all the way to the finish line on Sat., Feb. 27, during the Cheetah Herders Athletic Club-sponsored Snow Joke HalfMarathon, a 13.1-mile race around Seeley Lake on plowed roads that begins with registration from 8:45–10:30 AM at Seeley Lake Elementary’s gym, 200 School Lane. $10/$5 under age 20. Visit cheetahherders.com/snowjoke.html and call 677-2661.

These next guys peddle the purist form of excitement on wheels: Missoulians on Bicycles (MOBI) gets jiggy with it Sat., Feb. 27—for 18 miles to be exact—during a trip down the Bitterroot Bike Path that takes you from Lolo to Florence. If you’re up for it, meet at 1 PM at the Conoco station in Lolo, just past the Hwy. 12 intersection, or meet at Missoula’s K-Mart parking lot at 12:30 PM to carpool. You’ll then ride down the path to Caffe Firenze to replenish all those calories you lost with a bite to eat. Free.

Visit missoulabike.org.

The ball literally gets whacked around in your kids’ court on Sat., Feb. 27, during the Missoula Parks and Rec/Montana Tennis Association’s free, indoor, “mini-tennis” clinic and summer regis-

tration event for kids ages 3–16, which runs from 1–3 PM at City Life Community Center, 1515 Fairview Ave. Call Sarrah Carlson at 529-5889 and visit Montana.usta.com. Also note another Montana Tennis Association-sponsored free “mini-tennis” event for kids ages 3–16 occurs Sun., Feb. 28, from 1–4 PM at the PEAK Health and Wellness Center, 5000 Blue Mountain Road. RSVP for the Feb. 28 session by calling PEAK at 251-3344.

Your beastie gets their sleuthing fill Sat., Feb. 27, during the Montana Natural History Center’s animal tracking program “Special Track Detective with Elliott Parsons,” which starts at 2 PM at the center, 120 Hickory St. $2 per child/free MNHC members. Open to kids ages 5 and up. Visit montananaturalist.org and call 327-0405.

On Sun., Feb. 28, hail the cycling gods and get down one more time with MOBI during a 10-mile bike ride which begins at 10 AM at Adventure Cycling, 150 E. Pine St., and stops at the Montana Club on Reserve St. Free. Call John Crull at 543-3230.

And now, we finish off with a slew of UM Outdoors program events: Try your legs at a beginner cross-country skiing class on Sat., March 6, which you must sign up for by Tue., March 2. $30. RSVP by calling 243-5172. Or get burly during a basic mountaineering class on Sat., Photo by Chad Harder March 6, which you must be registered for

by Wed., March 3. $50. Finally, wet it up during a handful of fundamentals of whitewater kayaking classes that start Thu. March 4.

Register by Wed., March 3. $185. Grab detailed descriptions of these courses at life.umt.edu/crec/Outdoor/classes.php.

Well, if that doesn’t keep you busy, I don’t know what will.

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Electronica starlet Annette Strean returns to Whitefish

by Bob Wire

“Singing and songwriting are definitely my thing,” she An all-star cast of performers will appear at a Haiti some folders to one character and then leave the shot, but fundraiser Saturday night in Whitefish, including Rob I just stood there. They ended up not using it. You can see says. “I would hope that I would always be considered a Quist, John Dunnigan, Andre Floyd, Tim Torgerson and me in the background, though.” She laughs off the whole singer-songwriter.”

Music was always a big part of Strean’s upbringing. the Good Wood Trio. But event organizer Luke Dowler’s experience and stresses that no, she did not catch the act“My dad was a logger who played guitar,” she says. ace in the hole is Whitefish native Annette Strean, now a ing bug from it.

“We all sang at home a lot—old country songs, old New York City denizen who sings with the popular elechymns.” tronica trio Venus Hum. Dowler played with Strean and She and her three siblings all loved to sing. From her husband Kirk Cornelius last year (appearing as 1980 to 1994, their music teacher at Whitefish Central Anniversary Party) in Whitefish, and when Dowler heard School always had a Strean in his choir. When Annette was she would be coming back to Montana for a visit this in sixth grade her sister’s boyfriend gave her a mix tape month, he contacted her about contributing a live perthat contained songs by the Cure, Depeche Mode and formance to the fundraiser.

Siouxsie and the Banshees. It opened her eyes to a whole “I still see Whitefish as this beautiful, idealistic place,” new world of music. says Strean in a phone interview from her NYC home. “I’m “Having those older siblings show me this music in love with the less stimulated lifestyle in Montana, allowed me to live in different decades,” she says because it allows me to have more imagination.”

More recently, Venus Hum released its third album, Although she enjoys the nerve-jangling Mechanics and Mathematics, in 2009, and the trio’s curexcitement of life in New York, Strean still rently working on a live-performance DVD. The band longs for her home state. She misses the operates under a thoroughly modern dynamic, with the expansiveness, the wide-open spaces and three members collaborating while living in separate not having people living all over you. “I love cities. Musician Kip Kubin also pursues a filmmaking that space, and I love feeling like you’re a part career in his home base of Nashville, and Miracle of something,” she says. lives in Cincinnati, where he is involved in the In New York, she’s a part of somepreservation and history of that city’s architecthing called Venus Hum, a captivating tural legacy. The two multi-instrumentalists electronica band that came together in e-mail music files back and forth with Strean, Nashville, of all places, in 1999. Strean, sharing ideas and honing songs. When they a singer-songwriter, had moved to do meet up in meatspace, the sessions tend Music City—with a brief detour in to be intense and productive, she says, as Portland, where she cut her first they try to squeeze the most out of their album with her brother-in-law, infrequent time together.

Arne Boveng—to try to make a “We’re three very, very different peosplash with her songwriting. She ple,” Strean laughs, adding that the constayed with a friend, singertrast is what keeps the band’s music songwriter Kristi Neumann, interesting. and through some industry connections was soon introVocally, Strean’s been compared to duced to the two musicians a less-acrobatic version of Björk, but you who would help her form Venus can also hear a real Natalie Merchant qualiHum. ty in some of her phrasing and vocal timbre.

The band’s name comes from a Her silky, bell-clear tone provides a warm, rare medical condition affecting Tony Miracle, human counterpoint to the electronic growls, beeps the band’s multi-instrumentalist. and other robotic sounds that decorate the band’s throb“It’s called ‘venous hum,’ and it’s when you always bing compositions. hear your heartbeat in your ears,” explains Strean.

Although Venus Hum’s music is usually characThe condition is caused by a huge increase in terized as electronica, it’s much more accessible blood flow to the brain, causing the walls of the than the frosty-synth, dance-club drones that are veins to vibrate, which is constantly audible to the typical to that genre. The trio’s songs are built afflicted. It’s a harmless condition, but one can’t around more classically pop-oriented structures, help but wonder if a musician is tempted to often containing a traditional bridge or a major-key write every song at 72 beats per minute. chorus. That emotionally satisfying approach, coupled with Strean’s gorgeous, expressive The band has toured internationally, and vocals, gives their music a real human quality early in their career opened up for Blue Man that helps it rise above the cold techno/elecGroup. Strean provided vocals for Blue Man’s tronica mainstream. Call it a heartbeat. biggest hit, a 2003 cover of Donna Summer’s Strean performs solo for the “I Feel Love.” That successful collaboration Musicians and Artists Supporting Haiti was followed by another one, when benefit Saturday, Feb. 28, at the Hollywood producer/director J.J. Whitefish Central School Auditorium, Abrams (“Lost,” “Felicity,” Star Trek) with an art auction at 6 PM and music contacted the band about recordat 7 PM. Vaden Earle, a World Vision ing some music for his popular TV Vocalist Annette Strean grew up singing country and hymnals in consultant, will speak about his two thriller, “Alias.” That partnership led to an Whitefish before she formed pop electronica trio Venus Hum and trips to Haiti since the earthquake.

EP, Songs For Superheroes, and a bit part made her home in New York City. “I’m in love with the less stimuFree, but donations encouraged. for Strean in the show. lated lifestyle in Montana,” she says, “because it allows me to “I played this CIA agent” she says. “I have more imagination.” was really bad. I was supposed to hand arts@missoulanews.com

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Birthday Suits The Minnesota: Mouth to Mouth Nice and Neat

Welcome, attention-deficit listeners, to the sparkling rock world of Birthday Suits. The Minneapolis-via-Japan duo delivers a new album of songs with almost none longer than two minutes and some less than one. Not only that, but the hurricane riffs and battling drums tend to burst into pop hooks, jazzy rhythms, dirty walls of noise and bright chord strums in the blink of an eye. There’s no waiting around for the next surprise. And especially for fans of the Ramones, the Gits and the angular rock of Urge Overkill, it’s instant gratification.

Guitarist Hideo Takahashi and drummer Yuichiro Matthew Kazama play the patchwork of sounds seam-

So Cow Meaningless Friendly Tick Tack Totally Records

Irish multi-instrumentalist Brian Kelly—head, ahem, heifer in So Cow— starts this LP by singing, “I had my heart set on a string of greatest hits…” before essentially explaining that “you” found his cherished demo, burned it and threw it from a boat.

“Start Over” then goes on to successfully rhyme “magazine” and “what an asshole you have bEEn” while, in the bridge, sounding like the title song to Tom Hanks’ onehit-wonder band flick, That Thing You Do, if only it were played by an endearingly bitter Irishman inside a tin can.

Sideways Reign A Stand for All Stages self-released

Sideways Reign claims to be “a band representative of the artistic sensibilities of the masses.” It may seem at first a brazen claim, but I think it’s actually fairly accurate. The unfortunate irony, though, is that the masses don’t have much in the way of artistic sensibility.

Sounding quite a bit like the late-1990s band Dispatch, Sideways Reign offers a blend of blues, rock and reggae that is well played, but could use a boost of originality and a touch of finesse.

That being said, A Stand for All Stages does have its high points. Lead singer Justin Stang boasts a gravelly, gritty, cigarettes-and-whiskey voice, which effective-

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lessly, with unrestrained confidence. Both handle vocals, which sometimes are layered and chorallike, and other times consist of odd vocal spasms, kooky barks and birdcalls.

The whoa-whoas of “Quarter Helps a Lot Man” give off an arena rock steaminess. For one second the bouncing riffs of “38th Parallel 2010” feel straight off a Van Halen album, but then they dive bomb into disco punk wiliness.

It’s an album full of musical athleticism for all its sudden twists and turns. But fortunately the technical creativity doesn’t override the sense that these guys are playing for the fun of it. (Erika Fredrickson) Birthday Suits plays the Palace Wednesday, March 3, at 9 PM with So Cow and Colin Johnson. $5.

Really, those two minutes tell you a lot about So Cow—honest, spunky lyrics set to some seriously lo-fi pop hooks. If Kelly kept Meaningless Friendly to this effortlessly witty and endlessly catchy formula, you’d hear no complaints.

But a few of these 16 tracks (counting the bonus ones) tread into more adventurous territory, including a shimmery low-key number (“Shut Eye”), something that sounds like Billy Bragg set to a techno beat (“Girl Racer”) and a 7-minute experiment that strings together approximately seven different songs into one (“International Waters”).

No matter what So Cow serves up, I found something to chew on. Even the song with South Korean lyrics—Kelly lived there once—left me thankful Kelly decided to “Start Over.” (Skylar Browning) So Cow plays the Palace Wednesday, March 3, at 9 PM with Birthday Suits and Colin Johnson. $5.

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ly livens up limp lyrics.

And, while the band’s barchord-driven tunes are fairly predictable, there are some shining guitar moments: The bluesy, electric solo in “Oxygen” stands out, as does the soaring instrumental “C2h2.” The lone acoustic tune, “Love Song Suicide,” showcases a refreshingly different sound, which the band ought to consider pursuing.

While at times a bit clunky, Sideways Reign does display musical skill. Perhaps even more of the masses will appreciate the band as its artistic sensibilities develop. (Melissa Mylchreest) Sideways Reign plays the Top Hat Tuesday, Mar. 2, at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Charlotte Gainsbourg IRM Because Music/Elektra

On one hand, Charlotte Gainsbourg’s inspiration for her new album, IRM, seems perfectly reasonable.

In 1997, the Parisian singer/actress suffered a brain hemorrhage leading to several IRMs (French for MRI), which led to her musical inquiry into modern technology and her own mortality. And the album, which was actually composed and co-written by Beck, affects that down-the-rabbit-

hole sense of life turned upside down. The wispy orchestrals punctuated by just enough machine-like cacophony, often work well with Gainsbourg’s pretty vocals. “In the End” has a haunting clarity. “Trick Pony” brings out a little soulful sensuality, while “Dandelion” is a throwback to Donovon-styled coolness.

On the other hand, the robotic feel of the title track and hollow songs like “Master’s Hand” almost come off as hazy soundtracks to some drug-induced 1960s cult film. Knowing the concept of the album might make it easier to swallow, but in some ways it’s just trying too hard to pinpoint an overwrought, existential moment.

The tribal drumming, symphonic crescendos and synthesized frills don’t give the album enough warmth. And though I like Gainsbourg’s vocals, sometimes it just feels like she’s not there. Or she’s merely a puppet. In this case, Beck’s. (Erika Fredrickson)

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Deep secrets Lehane novel sets up Scorcese’s Shutter Island

by Nick Davis

For me, the weekend showing of Shutter Island had disaster written all over it. I missed the Friday night show due to general tardiness and one too many Double Hauls (when it comes to the local IPA, two can be one too many for motivational purposes), which probably turned out to be a good thing because based on the early sell-out of the Saturday afternoon showing, where my wife and I were denied tickets, there likely wouldn’t have been a seat for me anyway.

I had brought the wife along as insurance because based on advance buzz (a different sort than the one I experienced Friday) there seemed a high probability of creepy, suspenseful, holy crap! moments—and my bet-

and labyrinthine tale built with a narrative foundation strong enough to corral even the most skeptical viewer, yet peppered with enough subtle cracks to support the surreal twists that ultimately take this movie into rarefied air.

Leonard DiCaprio plays U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels, sent to investigate the inexplicable disappearance of a prisoner (or “patient,” as Daniels is constantly corrected) from an institution for the criminally insane located on an isolated island outside of Boston Harbor. The opening scenes feature Daniels barely hanging on to his sanity as he traverses a rough sea for which he has an unexplained but immense fear, and to

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ter half, unlike me, can watch those moments without cringing and shuttering her eyeballs behind her fingers.

To compensate for my handicap, and to fulfill the obligation of the reviewer to be fully informed, I wanted her there to fill in any details my clenched fingers may have obscured.

You may be thinking about now that the reviewer also has an obligation to actually write about the movie in question, and on that count you’d be right. However, as this lengthy preamble can attest, Shutter Island is one of those movies that forces a reviewer into a precarious position—precarious enough to make it damn difficult to write about.

For if, as I did, a viewer lacks any pre-knowledge of the narrative structure and plot development of the movie’s source novel, anything more than a cursory discussion of story in this review would do serious damage to that viewer’s experience of the movie. Shutter Island is an exquisitely wrought head trip, and with movies in that category so few and far between, the obligation to preserve that veil of wonder for qualifying viewers would seem to supersede the obligation of the reviewer, whatever that might be, to stay on topic.

Good gravy, have I burned up enough words yet?

No? All right, here’s an attempt to provide a shade of context without, hopefully, revealing any significant content.

As it turns out, the wife’s inability to make a later showing didn’t hurt me, as Shutter Island contains surprisingly few seat-jumping moments—the sort of music-building-to-a-crescendo, hand-grasping-fromthe-darkness, violence-so-sudden-and-fierce-it-freaksyou-right-the-hell-out moments employed by director Martin Scorcese to varying and successful effect in movies like Goodfellas, Cape Fear and The Departed.

What Scorcese achieves in Shutter Island is a dark

be honest DiCaprio’s over-the-top portrayal in the early going (leaning over the boat railing he puffs madly, like an arthritic blowfish, on a cigarette poached from his new partner) had me fearing the worst.

But as the movie develops and Scorcese, working with a script adapted from the novel by Dennis Lehane, continues to build the twin walls of foundation and deception, two things happen simultaneously: The movie catches up to DiCaprio’s performance, and DiCaprio’s performance becomes more nuanced, as the dramatic world around his character slowly loses its shape.

DiCaprio’s work here is supported by a host of fine actors—Ben Kingsley, Max von Sydow, Michelle Williams and Elias Koteas, to name a few—and each of them adds a subtle and specific shade of gray to the movie. But the real star here is the novelist Lehane, whose work has driven directors like Clint Eastwood (Mystic River) and Ben Affleck (Gone Baby Gone) into genius territory, and who can now add the venerable Scorcese to that list.

I cannot personally attest to the veracity of Lehane’s written work, but it has clearly positioned the Harvard fiction teacher at the top of all contemporary film-source scribes. And the cumulative brilliance of the movies made from his books is a necessary and reassuring reminder that even in this age of CGI flash and pyrotechnic bang, story still reigns supreme.

Shutter Island is a film that burrows like a worm through your eyeballs (no finger barrier here!) and into your brain for days after you view it, in the best way possible. And if you’ve made it through this entire non-review, that’s an experience you certainly have earned.

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Bait and switch The Last Station lives up to its Oscar hype

by Scott Renshaw

There are moviegoers who use the annual Academy Awards nominations as a guide for what not to miss in any given year. And then there are movie nerds who view that list with considerably more…skepticism.

The Oscars have provided plenty of reasons over the years to laugh heartily at the notion that they truly represent the best of cinema: Ordinary People over Raging Bull, Crash over Brokeback Mountain, etc. Every

Paul Giamatti is not amused.

fall and winter, the studios trot out their prestige-laden “Oscar bait” films, and every year the bait is gobbled up.

The whiff of importance has been an irresistible pheromone to Oscar voters, leading to nominations and awards for stuff that they seem to be suggesting we should all see because it’s good for us—without challenging us too deeply, or making us too uncomfortable.

So, if you looked at The Last Station, noticed it had received two acting Oscar nominations, and was about the last months of War and Peace author Leo Tolstoy in 1910 Russia, you could be forgiven for asking yourself if you’d rather just take your two-hour nap at home than pay to take one in a theater seat. And you’d miss out on something with more charm and energy than you might expect.

Director/screenwriter Michael Hoffman (Restoration)—adapting the historical novel by Jay Parini—begins with on-screen captions describing Tolstoy’s “living saint” stature in 1910 Russia.

Revered not just as a great writer but also as a social philosopher, the 81-year-old Tolstoy (Christopher Plummer) has inspired an entire movement based on asceticism, pacifism and renunciation of private property. Among his young adherents is Valentin ( James McAvoy), a would-be writer who relishes the opportunity to become Tolstoy’s personal secretary.

But he’s also being placed in the household by leading “Tolstoyan” Vladimir Chertkov (Paul Giamatti), who wants reports on the efforts by Tolstoy’s wife, Sofya (Helen Mirren), to hold onto the family’s assets rather than have Tolstoy sign them over to the movement. And Sofya, in turn, sees Valentin as a potential ally in finding out what Chertkov is plotting.

The duel of wills between Chertkov and Sofya— with the nervous, idealistic Valentin caught in the middle—becomes fodder for some broad comedy, which isn’t necessarily where The Last Station is at its best.

Mirren—one of the aforementioned 2010 Oscar nominees, and a previous winner for stench-ofrespectability Hall-of-Famer The Queen—has a fun role as the overly dramatic Sofya, whose passions for her husband spill over into rages that he’d even consider surrendering his family’s inheritance. This isn’t to say that it’s a particularly challenging role—it’s easy to get people to notice you when you’re smashing dishes and throwing yourself into the nearest lake.

Mirren does, however, certainly keep things in The Last Station hopping, and provides enough spark to make the rest of the film’s content even more engaging. Hoffman spends a fair amount of time on Valentin’s relationship with Masha (Kerry Condon), a fellow member of the Tolstoyan commune with a considerably less orthodox approach to the movement’s tenets. Their romance allows Valentin to challenge his own perspectives, but it also serves as an entry point to an intriguing look at how quickly any movement can veer from focusing on underlying principles to nitpicking the trappings that collect around those principles.

It’s here that Plummer—the second acting nominee—really earns his honor. Unlike other philosophers and religious teachers who didn’t live to see their ideas become fodder for bitter in-fighting, Tolstoy is already somewhat amused to see Chertkov and the commune’s leaders becoming “better Tolstoyans than I am.” For all his sincere activism, he stands in a place between the attachments to people and things represented by Sofya and the abstracted fundamentalism of Chertkov. Hoffman and Plummer allow us into the great man’s anguish over the war between those sides, and the inability of each to moderate itself toward the center.

That anguish eventually leads to an illness that’s telegraphed by any number of coughing fits and a final act that descends into the kind of melodrama that the rest of the film had managed to avoid. The Last Station is much more about finding the love at the core of all great movements, and at times radiates the warmth of that love. Only near the end does it turn into the kind of drama that the Oscar tag could lead you to fear it might be.

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THE BLIND SIDE Sandra Bullock plays an upper-crust mom who takes in a homeless teen and helps him realize his dreams of playing pigskin. Carmike 10: 4:20 and 7:10 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:25.

THE BOOK OF ELI Denzel Washington meanders through a wretched

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EDGE OF DARKNESS Mel Gibson plays a retired detective who shatters windows, pulls guns on peeps and fights tooth and nail to find out the true cause of his daughter’s death. But things get even hairier when he realizes his daughter’s political activism means he’ll have to sift through heaps of b.s. involving cover-ups and other treachery. Carmike 10: 4:10, 7:05 and 9:40 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:15. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 6:35 and 9:15 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

FROM PARIS WITH LOVE Jonathan Rhys Meyers sits low on the CIA operative totem pole as a part-time agent in Paris. That’s until his first major assignment with special agent John Travolta—a bald and bellicose ass kicker. Can the duo bring down a terrorist organization, or do Travolta’s manic ways jeopardize the situation?

SHUTTER ISLAND Martin Scorcese bounces back to the screen in a story where Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo play federal agents on the hunt for a batty murderer who disappeared from a remote institution for the criminally insane. After a few days in the nuthouse, though, DiCaprio starts acting a little loco too. Carmike 10: 4:05, 7:10 and 10:15 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:45 and 9:15 with additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:20, 3:30, 6:30 and 9:30 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:10, 4:15 and 7:30. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 7 and 9:30 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30.

THE TOOTH FAIRY Dwayne Johnson plays a cynical hockey player who has no qualms about dispelling myths to eager ears, but everything changes when he gets summoned to the joyous job of sticking money under the pillows of toothless children. Village 6: 7:30 and 9:50 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1 and 4:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:25 and 3:55.

VALENTINE’S DAY Your heart might just sink with sadness or lift with elation in this story about a diverse group of Los Angelenos—including Jessica Alba, Ashton Kutcher and Julia Roberts—as they experience heartbreak, romance and all those other love-induced feelings on that day single people love to hate. Carmike 10: 4:05, 7 and 9:55 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:10. Village 6: 7 and 9:55 with with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:10 and 4:05. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 1:10, 3:10, 4:10, 7:10 and 9:10 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at 10:05 and midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:10, 3:35, 4:10, 7:10 and 9:10. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 6:50 and 9:15 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:45.

“Show it to me live, Bob Costas!” Cop Out opens Friday at the Carmike 10.

1, 4:15, 7 and 9:40 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 7 and 9:30 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30.

THE CRAZIES Timothy Olyphant plays a sheriff in a small town where people are going bonkers after something rancid contaminates their water supply. Can Olyphant, his wife, Radha Mitchell, and others survive against their zombified peers? Village 6: 7:20 and 10 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:45 and 4:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:15, 2:35, 5, 7:30 and 9:50 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:45, 4:05, 7:25 and 9:45.

THE LAST STATION Christopher Plummer gets suited up and bearded up as Leo Tolstoy while Helen Mirren plays his wife, Sofya, in this biopic about the raging sparks that flew during the last tumultuous years of their marriage. Wilma Theatre: nightly at 7 and 9.

SUPER WHY Super Why, Princess Presto and Alpha Pig are all about literacy in this animated kids’ flick that takes place in a comic book. Soon enough, though, the toons realize they’ll have to go up against a cruel character named Eraser if they want to continue their bookish fun. Village 6: 1 only Sat.–Sun.

NOW PLAYING AVATAR Sam Worthington gets a 3-D makeover as he plays an ex-Marine whose alien body and human mind is sent to pillage a new planet for its resources, but

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post-apocalyptic wasteland, toting around a special book he claims is the key to saving the last scraps of humanity. But when Gary Oldman gets word of its power, who comes out alive? Village 6: 7 and 9:40 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:30 and 4:15.

CELINE DION: THROUGH THE EYES OF THE WORLD Fans of Canadian crooner Celine Dion will rejoice at this behind the scenes documentary that features several clips from concerts. Stadium 14 in Kailspell: 2 only on Sat.–Sun. CRAZY HEART Jeff Bridges plays a hard-drinkin’ country singer down on his luck, low on dough, and relegated to playing a small town circuit. But things might turn around for the better during a chance meeting with music journalist Maggie Gyllenhaal. Village 6: 7 and 10 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1 and 4. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:20, 4, 6:45 and 9:20 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

DEAR JOHN Amanda Seyfried falls for Special Forces soldier Channing Tatum after running into him at the beach. Things go well until Tatum gets deployed, again and again. Does distance make Seyfried’s heart fonder, or does she grow cold and ditch her unavailable warrior? Carmike 10: 4, 7 and 9:35 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1. Village 6: 7:20 and 10 with additional Sat.–Sun. show at 4:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:05, 3:50, 7:05 and 9:40 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Entertainer in Ronan: 4, 7 and 9:10.

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Carmike 10: 10 only. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:25, 2:40, 4:50, 7:20 and 9:45 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:40, 4, 7:20 and 9:45.

THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS Terry Gilliam doses us with a few drops of surrealism in this fantasy story where Christopher Plummer plays a theater troupe leader that strikes a deal with devilish Tom Waits in order for Plummer to save his daughter Lily Cole. Along the way, Heath Ledger comes to help save Cole, along with assistance from Johnny Depp, Colin Farrell and Jude Law. Wilma Theatre: 7 and 9:10 nightly, with no shows Sun. or Thu. PERCY JACKSON & THE OLYMPIANS: THE LIGHTNING THIEF Logan Lerman is a troublesome high schooler whose life takes a wicked shift when he finds out he’s the son of Poseidon. This means he’s a demigod who has to halt warring gods bent on destruction, as well as save his mom, Catherine Keener. Includes guest spots by Uma Thurman and Pierce Brosnan. Carmike 10: 4:15, 7:05 and 9:50 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10 with additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:10, 1:15, 3, 4:20, 6, 7:15 and 9 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at 10 and midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:15, 3, 4:20, 6, 7:15 and 9. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 6:50 and 9:15 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:45. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4, 7 and 9:20.

WHEN IN ROME Kristen Bell is a happily single New Yorker until a trip to Rome lands her in the sight of Journo Josh Duhamel. Her prospects seem promising until she snatches up coins from a “fountain of love,” which in turn gets dudes like Danny Devito and Will Arnett begging her for dates. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:30 and 6:40 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:05 and 6:40.

THE WOLFMAN Benicio Del Toro shows up at his dad Anthony Hopkins’ place after a suspicious creature snuffs out his bro. Del Toro hopes to sniff out the cause himself, but turns demonic after the beast bites him. Carmike 10: 4:35, 7:10 and 9:35 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:55. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:25 and 9:45 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:30, 4:05, 6:55 and 9:30. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:15.

Capsule reviews by Ira Sather-Olson.

Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., Feb. 26. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm.

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

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THE NEWBORN ULTIMATUM My wife has gone baby crazy. She’s demanding I get her pregnant—between screaming, “You’re a horrible person,” “I know why your ex cheated on you,” and “You’re a cold and heartless machine.” We’re both 42, and have been married for eight months. Last year, she had a miscarriage.

She’s always been difficult, but things have gotten really bad. A counselor we’re seeing deemed her a “loose cannon.” He said we should get our relationship healthy, then consider having a baby, and set up rules for us that my wife ignores. Last time I reminded her we agreed to wait on the baby, she called me “pure evil,” and for the third time, threw her engagement and wedding rings at me and said to sell them.

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—Shell-Shocked Should you bring a child into the world with a raging psycho who can occasionally be nice? Um…well…sure…assuming you’ve already struck out with all the crackaddicted prostitutes. (“Aww, look, little feller’s got his daddy’s eyes and his mommy’s Hep C.”) While other guys’ wives spend long hours reading self-help books, yours apparently favors how-to guides to totalitarianism (“The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Despots”?). Now, it is possible some of her behavior traces to some postpartum-type upset; maybe hormones running wild after her miscarriage. Then again, you made it clear in our e-mail exchange that she was rather witchy prepartum. Sure, it’s tough for a woman who sees her eggs on the reduced-for-quick-sale rack. But, clearly, there’s something radically wrong here— something that begs for more intervention from a mental health professional than a set of rules. Regarding her ticking clock (with the loose cannon attachment), there are a lot of things you can call a woman who goes off on you like she does, but let’s hope the last thing anybody’ll be calling her is “Mommy.”

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It’s fine by me if you want to hang around looking for the good in some woman while she bends silverware with her screams, but you and your wife aren’t just two people making each other miserable. One of you is desperately trying to make a third person. You need to do everything in your power to see that your as-yet-unborn child remains unborn. While I’m not usually one to explicitly advise people to end relationships, in your case, let me make this perfectly plain: Get out before she straps you down, hooks up the vacuum cleaner, and takes your sperm.

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FRESH PRODUCE THIS SUMMER! Turner Farms is a small family farm in Missoula. We grow a wide variety of vegetables W/O any chemicals, fertilizers or pesticides. We are taking reservations for our 2010 CSA program.

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And by the way, here’s a big secret: To the extent that you do glory in the complications, the complications will enlighten you, amuse you, and enrich you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): This is one time when you can be both the river and the bridge.

In fact, I strongly suggest that you make every effort to be both the river and the bridge. I’ll leave it up to you to interpret how this metaphor applies to your life, but here’s a clue to get you started. Be a force of nature that flows vigorously along even as you also provide a refuge for those who want to be close to your energy but are not yet ready to be inside it and flow along with it.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Last night I had a dream in which I was addressing a crowd of thousands of Cancerians in a large stadium. I was referring to them as dolphins rather than as crabs. “I say unto you, my fellow dolphins,” I proclaimed (I myself was born June 23), “that you have been given a sacred assignment by the great gods of time themselves. And that assignment is to master the art of Timeology.” When I awoke from the dream, I was awash with feelings of deep relaxation and ease, although I wasn’t sure why. I had never before heard that word “timeology,” so I googled it. Here’s how the Urban Dictionary defined it: “spending time doing what you want to do, not accomplishing anything major but also not wasting time.” It so happens that this prescription is well-suited to our current astrological omens. I suggest that you and I be as playful as dolphins.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In an episode of the animated TV sci-fi series “Futurama,” we get to see inside the headquarters of Romanticorp, where “love research” is being done. One of the experiments involves robots delivering various pick-up lines to actual women. The line that works best is “My two favorite things are commitment and changing myself.” I recommend that you make that your own catchphrase, Leo—not just this week but for the foreseeable future. The entire year of 2010 will be an excellent time to deepen your commitments and transform yourself, and the weeks ahead will bring unprecedented opportunities to intensify those efforts.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Be not forgetful to entertain strangers,” advises a passage in the Bible, “for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” While that’s always good counsel, it’s especially apt for you in the coming days. I believe you will come into contact with people who can provide you with valuable teaching and healing, even if they’re disguised as baristas or pet shampooers or TV repairmen—and even if this will be the one and only time they will provide you with teaching and healing.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): If you were going to launch a career as a rap artist any time soon, I’d suggest that maybe you use the alias “Big Try” as your stage name. If you were planning to convert to an exotic religious path and get a new spiritual name, I’d recommend something like “Bringit Harder” or “Pushit Stronger.” If you were about to join an activist group that fights for a righteous cause, and you wanted a new nickname to mark your transformation, I’d urge you to consider a tag like “Radical” or “Prime” or “Ultra.” And even if you’re not doing any of the above, I hope you’ll carry out some ritual of transition to intensify your commitment to your life’s vital dreams.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Metaphorically speaking, you have recently begun crossing the water in a dream boat that has a small leak. If you keep going, it’s possible you will reach the far side before sinking. But that’s uncertain. And even if you were able to remain afloat the entire way, the shakiness of the situation would probably fill you with anxiety. My suggestion, then, is to head back to where you started and fix the leak.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): More than a few fairy tales feature the theme of characters who accidentally find a treasure. They’re not searching for treasure, don’t feel worthy of it, and aren’t fully prepared for it. They may initially not even know what they’re looking at, and see it as preposterous or abnormal or disquieting. Who could blame them if they ran away from the treasure? In order to recognize and claim it, they might have to shed a number of their assumptions about the way the world works. And they might have to clear up a discrepancy between their unconscious longings and their conscious intentions.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Almost exactly ten years from now, you will be blessed with an eruption of personal power that’s so crafty and so practical that you will be able to visualize a solution to a problem that has stumped you for a long time. It may take you months to actually carry out that solution in its entirety, but all the while you will have the luxury of feeling perfect certainty about what must be done. And you know what the weird thing is, Gemini? Something very similar is in the works for the next few weeks: an eruption of crafty, practical power that will help you materialize the key to solving an old dilemma, hopefully followed by months of carrying out your lucid plan.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF HEARING The Missoula County Park Board will conduct a public hearing on a request from the Missoula Horseman’s Council to construct a 175’ x 300’ open-air Western Events Arena at the Missoula Equestrian Park, located on leased County land at Big Sky Park on Tower and Spurgin Roads. The property is legally described as PLAT P, PARCEL 006, EXEMPT-TR 6 COS 3323 IN SW1/4 NW1/4 SE1/4 PLAT P 25-13-20 4.12AC (DEDICATED PUBLIC PARK) and PLAT H, PARCEL 001, EXEMPT-TRACT 1 COS 3325 IN E1/2 W1/4 PLAT H 25-13-20 34.51AC. This request will include an amendment to the Tower Street Park Complex Management and Utilization Plan, the guiding plan for Big Sky Park located in Section 25 of T13N, R20W. The public hearing will be held on Thursday, March 11, at 1:30 p.m. in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, Montana. Interested parties are invited to attend and provide comments on the proposal. Information relating to this proposal is available for public inspection at the Missoula County Parks Office, 317 Woody, Missoula, Montana. For additional information, please contact Lisa Moisey at 258-4716. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-3432. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF HEARING The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a public hearing on the following items on Wednesday, March 17th, 2010, at 1:30 p.m. in the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, Room 201, at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, Montana. Missoula County Growth Policy 2005 Update: Amendments proposed Due to changes in state law, Missoula County’s Rural Initiatives Office has been directed to develop minor amendments to the County’s 2005 Growth Policy dealing with sand and gravel extraction and the Wildland Urban Interface. The amendments are proposed to be adopted as an appendix to the Growth Policy after review by the Planning Board and the County Commissioners through the public hearing process. The Planning Board conducted a public hearing on the proposed amendments on February 2, 2010 and made formal recommendations on the amendments to the County Commissioners. The Board of County Commissioners will conduct a public hearing on the proposals and Planning Board recommendations on March 17th at 1:30 p.m. in Room 201 of the County Courthouse annex at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana. Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The amendments and Planning Board recommendations are available for review and can be obtained at the Rural Initiatives

office, on-line at www.co.missoula. mt.us/rural or via email at: ri@co.missoula.mt.us. Call 258-3432 if you need further assistance accessing a copy.

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MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Commissioners (the “Board”) of Missoula County, Montana (the “County”) will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010, at 1:30 p.m., M.T., in Room 201, 2nd Floor of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, for the purpose of conducting a public hearing on amending the “Public Works Construction Manual” originally adopted by Resolution No. 2008-149 on December 22nd, 2008. Any interested persons may appear and will be heard at the public hearing at the time and place stated above or may file written comments with the County Clerk and Recorder/Treasurer prior to the date of such hearing. Further information regarding the proposal is on file and available for public inspection in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder/Treasurer. For additional information on the proposed resolution, contact Erik Dickson, Road and Bridge Engineer, or Tim Elsea, County Engineer, Missoula County, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana 59808 or by calling 406-258-4753.

Dated: February 8, 2010 /s/ Michelle Landquist BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Commissioners of Missoula County, Montana will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, March 10, 2010, at 1:30 p.m., M.T., in Room 201, 2nd Floor of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, for the purpose of conducting a public hearing on a proposal to install public sanitary sewer within a portion of Upper Miller Creek Road. Utility installations are being proposed by the City of Missoula in conjunction with Miller Creek Road reconstruction project.

Approximately 300 lineal feet of public sanitary main is proposed to be installed south of the intersection of Miller Creek Road and Upper Miller Creek Road. Any interested persons may appear and will be heard at the public hearing at the time and place stated above or may file written comments with the County Commissioners prior to the date of such hearing. Further information regarding the proposal is on file and available for public inspection in the office of the County Public Works Department. For additional informa-

tion on the proposed project, contact Greg Robertson, County Public Works Director, Missoula County, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana 59808 or by calling 406-258-4753.

Dated: February 12, 2010 BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a petition has been filed with the County Commissioners requesting to abandon that certain county road specifically described as: Name of road if any: Woodworth Road as described by Book 116 at Page 543 Deeds, located in Section 33, T16N, R14W., Subdivision Name: Emerald Lake Estates. It is the intent of this action to vacate Book 116 Page 543 (Deeds) and not any underlying portion of Woodworth Road as described in Book 238 (Micro) Page 1356. The abandonment of this county road is necessary and advantageous for the following reasons: 1) The route described in Book 116 at Page 543 is erroneous (traveling through lake) 2) The route does not coincide with the existing Woodworth Road 3) There is no road constructed with the alignment described in Book 116 at Page 543.

(For more information, please see the petition on file in the Clerk & Recording Office at 200 West Broadway, 2nd Floor., Missoula, MT) A PUBLIC HEARING on the above requested abandonment will be held before the Board of County Commissioners at their regular meeting on March 10, 2010 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, 200 W. Broadway St. Missoula, MT 59802

By Kim Cox , Assistant Chief Deputy Clerk and Recorder/Elections (406) 258-3241 Date: February 17, 2010 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DN-08-12 Department No. 2 Judge Robert L. Deschamps, III SUMMONS AND CITATION IN THE MATTER OF DECLARING T.D.H., AYOUTH IN NEED OF CARE. TO: THE DWIGHT BREECE JR. AND ALL PUTATIVE FATHERS OF T.D.H., BORN DECEMBER 14, 2007, TO WHITNEY HOWARD. YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division (CFS), 2677 Palmer, Suite 300, Missoula, Montana 59808, has filed a Petition for Termination of the Mother’s and Father’s Parental Rights and Grant of Permanent Legal Custody to CFS With the Right to Consent to Adoption for said youth to be otherwise cared for; Now, Therefore, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED AND DIRECTED to appear on the 9th day of March, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. at the Courtroom of the above entitled Court at the Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Missoula County,

Montana, then and there to show cause, if any you may have, why your parental rights to T.D.H. should not be terminated; why permanent legal custody of T.D.H. should not be granted to CFS with the right to consent to adoption; why T.D.H. should not be adjudicated a youth in need of care as a consequence of your conduct; and why the Petition should not be granted or why said youth should not be otherwise cared for. The Dwight Breece, Jr., and all putative father’s of T.D.H. are presently represented by the Office of Public Defender, 610 Woody, Missoula, MT 59802, by Court-appointment: (406) 523-5140. Your failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a denial of your interest in custody of the youth, which denial will result, without further notice of this proceeding or any subsequent proceeding, in judgment by default being entered for the relief requested in the Petition. A copy of the Petition hereinbefore referred to is filed with the Clerk of District Court for Missoula County, telephone: (406) 258-4780. WITNESS the Honorable Robert L. Deschamps III, Judge of the above-entitled Court and the Seal of this Court, this 29th day of January, 2010. /s/ Robert L. Deschamps, III District Court Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DR-10-193 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Kari Jo Cranney, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Kari Jo Cranney to Kari Jo Matthews. The hearing will be on March 30th, 2010 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County.

DATED: February 17, 2010. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: Amy M. Day, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Cause No. DR-10-73 Honorable Robert L. Deschamps, III Presiding SUMMONS IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF ALEXANDRA ANDREBUSEMAN, Petitioner, and MICHAEL KIRKLAND, Respondent. STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE NAMED RESPONDENT: YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to respond to the Petition for Declaration of Invalidity of Marriage as filed in the office of the Clerk of Court, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to file your response and serve a copy thereof upon Petitioner’s attorney within 20 days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the date of service; and in case of your failure to appear or respond, judgment will be taken against you by default, for the relief demanded in the Petition. WITNESS my hand and seal of said Court the 27th day of January, 2010. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley Faust, Clerk of District Court By: Bobbi Hamline, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 4 Cause Probate No. DP10-16 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LEONARD F. SCHOMBEL, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed CoPersonal Representatives of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Linda S. Andrus, Stephen L. Schombel and Trudy Anne Denton, the Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested at GEORGE LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 210 North Higgins Ave., Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED February 10, 2010. /s/ Linda S. Andrus /s/ Stephen L. Schombel /s/ Trudy Anne Denton Co-Personal Reprsentatives

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-10-20 Ed McLean Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FLORENCE E. HERBENSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Dorothy Ann Hawkins, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Paul Fickes at Christian, Samson & Jones, 310 West Spruce Street, Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 9th day of February, 2010. /s/ Dorothy Ann Hawkins, Personal Repre sentative of the Estate of Florence E. Herbenson MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-10-72 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF PETER J. LIBERTI, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Misty Eleanor Liberti has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Misty Eleanor Liberti, the Personal Representative, certified mail, return receipt requested, in care of Milt Datsopoulos, Datsopoulos, MacDonald & Lind, P.C., 201 West Main Street, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 27th day of January, 2010. /s/ Milt Datsopoulos, Attorney

for Misty Eleanor Liberti, Personal Representative of the Estate of Peter J. Liberti MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Case No. DV-10-109 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Collin Emerson Enes, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Collin Emerson Enes, has petitioned the District Court for the 4th Judicial District for a change of name from Collin Emerson Enes to Collin Emerson Orton, and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 11th day of March, 2010 at 9:00 a.m. in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway. At any time before the hearing, objection may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 1st day of February, 2010. /s/ John W. Larson, District Court Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Case No. DV-10-137 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of, Justin Lee Smith, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Justin Lee Smith, has petitioned the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District for a change of name from Justin Lee Smith to Justin Lee Edwards, and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 8th day of April, 2010 at 9:00 a.m., in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, in courtroom number 2 South. At any time before the hearing, objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 12th day of February, 2010. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: Maria A. Cassidy, Deputy Clerk of Court

NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER DEED OF TRUST. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: 1. Notice is hereby given to the public and to the following: Thomas Bruce Maclay, 8337 Lamar Trail, Lolo, MT 59847 Bitterroot Trails, LLC, 17005 Old Highway 93, Florence, MT 59833 Thomas Bruce Maclay a/k/a Thomas B. Maclay, Tom B. Maclay and Tom Maclay, 17000 Old Highway 93, Florence, MT 59833 Lynn Louise Jacobsen Maclay, c/o Evonne Smith Wells, 222 East Pine, PO Box 9410, Missoula, MT 59807 Bank of Montana, 125 Bank Street, Missoula, MT 59802 Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802-4216. 2. Property. This Notice concerns the following described real property (the “Property”) located at 17000 Old US Highway 93, Lolo, Montana 59847, and more particularly described as follows: Tract 1 of Certificate Survey No. 4449, located in the SE1/4SW1/4 of Section 14, Township 11 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Missoula County, Montana. 3. Loans Secured by the Property.

First Interstate Bank made a loan to Bitterroot Trails, LLC. Thomas Bruce Maclay executed a Commercial Guaranty to guarantee payment and satisfaction of the indebtedness of Bitterroot Trails, LLC to First Interstate Bank. Thomas Bruce Maclay also executed a Deed of Trust (described below) to secure payment and satisfaction of the loan obligation. a. Loan No. 1401615858 i. Deed of Trust. Grantor Thomas Bruce Maclay executed and delivered to First Interstate Bank (beneficiary) a Deed of Trust described as follows: Date: September 12, 2007 Grantor: Thomas Bruce Maclay Original Trustee: Western Title & Escrow Lender/Beneficiary: First Interstate Bank. Recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana as follows: Date: September 18, 2007 Book/Page: Book 805, page 1341, Document No. 200724335 ii. Substitute Trustee. The following was substituted as Trustee: Dean A. Stensland, Boone

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PUBLIC NOTICES Karlberg, PC, 201 West Main, Suite 300, PO Box 9199, Missoula, MT 59807-9199 Telephone: (406) 543-6646 Facsimile: (406) 549-6804 by a written document recorded in the records of Missoula County, Montana as follows: Dated: October 15, 2009 Recorded: October 19, 2009 Document No. 200925243 Book/Page: Book 849 of Micro Records at Page 491. iii. Promissory Note. The Deed of Trust was given to secure payment of a Promissory Note in the original amount of Two Hundred Twenty Seven Thousand Five Hundred Thirty One Dollars and Fifty Cents ($227,531.50) from Bitterroot Trails, LLC to First Interstate Bank. A Change in Terms Agreement was executed by Bitterroot Trails, LLC on March 18, 2008, which extended the maturity date of the loan to September 12, 2008. A subsequent Change in Terms Agreement was executed by Bitterroot Trails, LLC on December 17, 2008, which extended the maturity date of the loan to March 12, 2009. iv. Default. Thomas Bruce Maclay and Bitterroot Trails, LLC have defaulted under the Promissory Note and Deed of Trust.

Thomas Bruce Maclay and Bitterroot Trails, LLC are in default due to failure to pay all principal, interests, fees and costs not yet paid on the maturity date of March 12, 2009. v.

Amount Owing. The amount owing on the Promissory Note is as follows: Principal: $227,531.50 Interest Through 11/30/09: $18,446.41 Late Charges: $191.16 Fee Balance through 11/30/09: $1,849.22 Trustee’s Sale Guarantee: $914.77 Property Taxes through 2008: $2,961.92 Interest continues to accrue on the Promissory Note and Deed of Trust at the daily rate of $60.7789 from December 1, 2009 until paid. The total balance due on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is the sum of the above items, plus attorney fees and costs allowed by law.

The exact amount owing as of the date of sale will be provided upon request made to the undersigned prior to the date of said sale. vi.

Acceleration. Notice is hereby given that the Beneficiary under the Deed of Trust has previously elected to consider all principal and interest immediately due and payable in consequence of the default of Thomas Bruce Maclay and Bitterroot Trails, LLC under the Promissory Note, Commercial Guaranty and Deed of Trust. 4. Notice of Sale. Notice is hereby given that the Beneficiary under the Deed of Trust and the Trustee hereby elect to sell or cause to be sold the Property described above to satisfy the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. The sale will be held at the following date, time and place: Date: April 20, 2010 Time: 10:00 a.m. Place: Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT The Trustee will sell the Property at public auction to the highest bidder, in cash, in lawful money of the United States, all payable at the time of the sale.

DATED the 2nd day of December, 2009. /s/ Dean A. Stensland, Successor Trustee.

STATE OF MONTANA): COUNTY OF MISSOULA) This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 2nd day of December, 2009, by Dean A. Stensland.

(SEAL) /s/ A. Melissa Otis, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, Montana My Commission Expires: August 15, 2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/29/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200731027, Book 809, Page 928, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in

which Kyle Cirincione, 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 14A of Daly’s Addition, Block 52, Lots 13 & 14, a platted Subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official 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 07/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of December 22, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $239,642.84. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $216,740.51, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on May 3, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.18546) 1002.102457-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/27/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200722736, Bk-804, Pg-1169, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Cindy E. Hext & Michael S. Hext, as joint tenants was Grantor, Mortgage

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Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage LLC was Beneficiary and Title Services, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 11 of FortyFour Ranch Estates, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Chase Home Finance LLC. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 11/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of December 22, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $432,476.21. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $391,198.88, 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 30, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7037.03940) 1002.141523-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/25/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200510019, Bk 751, Pg 950, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Valerie L. Rayevich was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 12 in Block 8 of Linda Vista Seventh Supplement - Phase 6, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200915770, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the holders of Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust Inc., Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-WF2. Beneficiary

has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 03/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 17, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $234,183.90. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $217,789.77, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on March 29, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, 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 nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.05026) 1002.127342-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/26/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200725637, Bk. 806, Pg. 790 and re-recorded on October 25, 2007 as Instrument No. 200728089, Bk. 807, Pg. 1449, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Kristin D. Marshall, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Parcel I: Tract 5A-2A of Certificate of Survey No. 2582, located in the W 1/2 of Section 27, Township 15 North, Range 21 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana.

Parcel II: A60’right-of-way for roadway purposes and for the installation and maintenance of utilities over the 60’private road and public utility easement shown on Certificate of Survey No. 1155, which extends from the above-described real property to the county road. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 03/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

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As of January 8, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $390,441.76.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $356,238.20, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on May 20, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, 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 nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.05994) 1002.130901-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/25/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200430650, Bk. 742, Pg. 663, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Michael V. McGee and Karen L. McGee, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and First American Title Co was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Co as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 48 of Skyview Addition No. 1, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 08/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of January 8, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $117,895.07. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $111,974.16, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on May 20, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.09767) 1002.144296-FEI

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/13/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200632269, Bk 789, Pg 150, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Carleton M. Clifford, Jr. and Joan B. Clifford was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Group One Lending, a division of Northwest Mortgage Group, Inc. was Beneficiary and Title Services was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 4 of Wild Flower Hills, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of December 31, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $414,612.32. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $403,424.43, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on May 12, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.09395) 1002.143257-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 12, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 3, BLOCK 1 OF THE WILLOWS ADDITION TO FAR VIEWS HOMESITES, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. EXCEPTING THEREFROM; BEGINNING AT A POINT 140 FEET SOUTHERLY ON THE WESTERLY BOUNDARY OF LOT 3, BLOCK 1 OF THE WILLOWS ADDITION TO MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, THENCE RUNNING 82.85 FEET IN A SOUTHEASTWARDLY DIRECTION ALONG SAID BOUNDARY TO A POINT, THENCE RUNNING NORTHEASTWARDLY 81.3 FEET ALONG THE SOUTHERLY BOUNDARY OF SAID LOT, TO A POINT, THENCE RUNNING NORTHWESTWARDLY 74.83 FEETALONG THE EASTERLY BORDER OF SAID LOT, THENCE RUNNING SOUTHWESTWARDLY TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, WHICH PARCEL IS THE SOUTHERLY PORTION OF LOT 3, BLOCK 1 OF THE WILLOWS ADDITION TO MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. RECORDING REFERENCE IS IN BOOK 350 AT PAGE 949 MICRO RECORDS. Dennis Caliman and Jessica R. Acevedo, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated September 25, 2006 and Recorded on September 29, 2006 under Document # 200625058, in Bk-784, Pg-307.

The beneficial interest is currently held by

Nationstar Mortgage LLC. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,514.65, beginning February 1, 2209, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of December 5, 2009 is $274,508.47 principal, interest at the rate of 7.375% now totaling $18,779.74, late charges in the amount of $872.73, escrow advances of $4,038.19, and other fees and expenses advanced of $32.74, plus accruing interest at the rate of $55.47 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, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On December 1, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3438746 02/11/2010, 02/18/2010, 02/25/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 12, 2010, at 11:00 o”clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PREMISES, IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, TO-WIT: LOT 14 IN BLOCK 30 OF SOUTH MISSOULA, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. SUBJECT TO: A) POTENTIAL TERMS, PROVISIONS AND ASSESSMENTS OF THE MISSOULA VALLEY WATER QUALITY DISTRICT AS DISCLOSED

BY RESOLUTION NO. 92-098 OF THE MISSOULA BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS AND A NOTICE OF INTENTION TO CREATE DATED NOVEMBER 4, 1992, RECORDED NOVEMBER 6, 1992, IN BOOK 366, PAGE 1093, MICROFILM RECORDS OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, DOCUMENT NO. 9224412, RERECORDED NOVEMBER 12, 1992, IN BOOK 366, PAGE 2292, MICROFILM RECORDS OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, DOCUMENT 9224885; B) AN EASEMENT IN BOOK 74 AT PAGE 1335 MICRO RECORDS. TAX MAP OR PARCEL ID NO.: 247145 Nicholas J. Marvin and Lynne M. Marvin, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to American Pioneer Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Beneficial Montana Inc. D/B/A Beneficial Mortgage Co., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October

PUBLIC NOTICES 26, 2006 and Recorded on October 31, 2006 under Document # 200628253, in Bk-786, Pg-446. The beneficial interest is currently held by Beneficial Montana Inc. D/B/A Beneficial Mortgage Co.. 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 $2,013.60, beginning September 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of November 25, 2009 is $240,017.00 principal, interest at the rate of 8.7% now totaling $31,845.93, late charges in the amount of $1060.00, and other fees and expenses advanced of $685.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $57.21 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash at the time of sale. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed.

The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 1, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 586021097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On December 1, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson , Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3438658 02/11/2010, 02/18/2010, 02/25/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 13, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in the NW1/4 of section 21, township 13 North, range 20 west, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as tract 3C of certificate of survey No. 2151.

Brian E Holm, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated November 1, 2004 and recorded November 8, 2004 in Book 743, page 114 under Document No.200431585. 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 $1,064.95, beginning December 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of December 30, 2009 is $76,865.80 principal, interest at the rate of 4.875% now totaling $4,357.23, late charges in the amount of $548.94, escrow advances of $3,521.89 and other fees and expenses advanced of $375.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $10.27 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may

be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors.

If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash at the time of sale. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: December 7, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On December 7, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson , Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3443381 02/18/2010, 02/25/2010, 03/04/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 19, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 100 OF PONDEROSA HEIGHTS, PHASE 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Anthony M Cerasani, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated December 11, 2008 and Recorded on December 17, 2008 under Document #200827443 in B: 830 P: 1031.

The beneficial interest is currently held by US Bank, NA. 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 $3,357.61, beginning February 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of December 30, 2009 is $417,000.00 principal, interest at the rate of 6.625% now totaling $27,519.05, late charges in the amount of $534.04, escrow advances of $6,013.20, and other fees and expenses advanced of $219.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $75.69 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors.

If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash at the time of sale. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale pur-

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r chaser 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 8, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On December 8, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson , Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 09/22/2013 ASAP# 3445719 02/18/2010, 02/25/2010, 03/04/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on April 23, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lots 19 and 20 in Block 71 of SUPPLEMENTARY ADDITION OF CARLINE ADDITION, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Aaron D. Musick, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 7, 2008 and Recorded on July 8, 2008 as Document No. 200815930. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage LLC. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,942.85, beginning September 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of January 01, 2010 is $221,026.91 principal, interest at the rate of 6.875% now totaling $18,994.50, late charges in the amount of $1,194.09, escrow advances of $4,706.31, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,904.75, plus accruing interest at the rate of $42.28 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 14, 2009 Charles J Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On December 14, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3450540 02/18/2010, 02/25/2010, 03/04/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. Pursuant to 71-1-301, et seq. of the Montana Code Annotated, the undersigned hereby gives notice of a trustee’s sale to be held on the 28th day of April, 2010, at 1:00 o’clock p.m., on the steps of the Courthouse of Missoula County located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, of the following described real property located in Missoula County, Montana. LOT 32-B-11 OF ORCHARD COURT ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Jim P. Matelich, as Grantor, conveyed the above-described real property, and the improvements situated thereon, if any, to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to CIT Group/Consumer Finance, Inc., who was designated as Lender in a Deed of Trust dated October 15, 2003 and recorded on October 21, 2003 as Document 200340336 in Book 720 at Page 800 of the official records of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). Green Tree Servicing, LLC has been granted a limited power of attorney to act as servicer of the above Deed of Trust on behalf of CIT Group/Consumer Finance, Inc. Anne Blanche Adams, a licensed Montana attorney, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated November 19, 2009 and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. Jim P. Matelich has defaulted in the performance of the said Deed of Trust and associated Promissory Note by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $961.88 for the month of June, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. As of November 5, 2009 the sum of $4,953.67 is past due. As of November 5, 2009 the principal balance due was the sum of $135,583.44 in principal, plus $4,701.58 accrued interest, with interest continuing to accrue on the principal at the rate set out in the Promissory Note, which is currently 7.49% per annum, and other fees and expenses that may be advanced. The Beneficiary may disburse any amounts as may be required to protect Beneficiary’s interest. If Beneficiary elects to make such disbursements, sums paid shall become additional indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust. IN accordance with the provisions of the Deed of Trust and Promissory Note, the Beneficiary has elected to accelerate the full remaining balance due under the terms of the Deed of Trust and Promissory Note and has elected to sell the interest of Jim P. Matelich, the original Grantor, his successors and assigns, in and to the aforedescribed property, subject to all easements, restrictions, encumbrances or covenants existing of record or evident on the property at the time of sale to satisfy the remaining obligation owed.

Beneficiary has directed Anne Blanche Adams, as Successor Trustee, to commence such sale proceedings. Those with an interest in the property and who appear from the public record to be entitled to notification of these proceedings are: Occupants, 11 Orchard Court, Missoula, MT 59803. James P. Matelich, 32880 Piney Meadows Lane, Huson, MT 598469712. Montana Department of Revenue, PO Box 5805, Helena, MT 59604-5805.

Jim Matelich Painting, 32880 Piney Meadows Lane, Huson, MT 59846-9712.

Jim P. Matelich, 11 Orchard Court, Missoula, MT 59803. Internal Revenue Service, District Director, Rocky Mountain District, 1999 Broadway, MS 5021 DEN, Denver, CO 80202-240.

Attorney General Steve Bullock, Department of Justice, PO Box 201401, Helena, MT 59620-1401. Successor Trustee is unaware of any party in possession or claiming right to possession of the subject property other than those persons noticed herein. DATED this 18th day of

December, 2009. /s/ Anne Blanche Adams, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA) :ss. County of Missoula).

This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 18th day of December, 2009, by Anne Blanche Adams, Successor Trustee.

(SEAL) /s/ Susan Marshall, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana My commission expires: 17, March 2011

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by Matt Jones

Missoula County Government

MISSOULA COUNTY NOTICE OF HEARING The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board will conduct a public hearing on the following item on Tuesday, March 16, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W Pine Street in Missoula, Montana. The Board of County Commissioners will hold a public hearing on this item on April 7, 2010, at 6:00 p.m. in Room 201 of the County Courthouse annex located at 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana. North Lolo Growth Policy Update and Rural Special Zoning District The Missoula County Rural Initiatives Office has been working with landowners in the North Lolo area on a proposal to replace the

North Lolo interim zoning due to expire on May 30, 2010. The proposal to replace the North Lolo interim zoning includes both a growth policy amendment to the 2002 Lolo Regional Plan and a zoning proposal for a rural special zoning district. The North Lolo area is approximately 900 acres in size. The triangular area is located immediately south of Bird Lane. It is bounded by Ridgeway Drive to the south and Highway 93 to the east. The growth policy amendment proposes changes in land use designations to reflect historical uses and increases in residential densities for some properties in this area. The North Lolo Rural Special Zoning District calls for a mix of residential and mixed use zoning classifications that would implement the land use designations called for in the growth policy amendment. It also establishes a specific set of general requirements, nonconforming use provisions, and conditional use requirements. See Map O for the North Lolo area, which is the only area affected by the growth policy amendment and zoning proposal. The growth policy amendment and zoning proposal for the North Lolo area is available for public and agency comment. It can be viewed at www.co.missoula.mt .us./rural. It is also available for public inspection at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants (City Hall, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula), Missoula County Rural Initiatives (office location: 317 Woody Street, Missoula) and the Missoula County Commissioners Office (Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula). Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. Comments may be directed to Missoula County Rural Initiatives at 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT, 59802 or via email to ri@co.missoula.mt.us. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-3432.

Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

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1 Convertible's cover 7 Frowned-upon aerosol chemicals, for short 11 Controversial flavoring 14 Without a compass 15 Slave in Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Earth" 16 iPhone program 17 Her hair hissed 18 Rapper with the hit single "How Low" 20 Anguish over a huge credit card bill?

22 Goes to the TV screen 23 Waste of fireworks 24 Bill Cosby's late son 26 Shaq, once 28 "Gone With the Wind" plantation 31 "See ya" 32 What perverts did to dream of being more perverted?

35 Skosh 38 Gnarls Barkley singer ___Lo 39 Conk out 40 Suffix with Power or Gator 41 Textiles elevated to a higher status?

45 "Parklife" group 46 Capital on a fjord 47 Fish, on an Italian menu 51 They help you limber up 53 Washroom, to a Brit 55 Airport stats 56 Did a baby care activity (or this puzzle's theme, literally) 60 Home of a chicken mascot 61 Mafioso's code of silence 62 "The Fifth Beatle" Sutcliffe 63 Menial laborer 64 Laura of "The Squid and the Whale" 65 ___ Willy (schoolyard annoyance) 66 In ___ (at heart) 67 Venomous snakes

1 Flautist Jean-Pierre ___ 2 Title role for Hilary Swank 3 Suddenly lose power 4 Secured tightly 5 Brewer's kiln 6 Kilt pattern 7 Hades rarity, it's said 8 Chimney passage 9 Contemptible guys 10 Rickman, in the "Harry Potter" films 11 Red sauce 12 Full of life 13 Navigational tracker 19 "Why ___?"

21 Scissors users 25 "Soldier of Love" singer 27 Flavorful 29 It may list sped-up terms and conditions at the end 30 Garage sale condition 33 Take back property 34 Hatchery noise 35 Fro-yo establishment, for short 36 Earmark 37 It's cheaper by the dozen 42 Threesome 43 "Finished!"

44 Where the diving boards are 48 "Tristram Shandy" author 49 President who won the Nobel Peace Prize 50 College application pieces 52 Take shots (at) 54 String quartet member 57 The Bee ___ 58 Inflated self-images 59 In the center of 60 Dir. opposite NNE

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By Brint Wahlberg, 2010 MOR President Hughes Gardens exemplified the essence of Missoula as the "garden city." The area—now occupied by a rock climbing facility, an indoor tennis and athletic club, an assisted living center, and several clusters of town homes—is a metaphor for the changes that have occurred in Missoula in the past few decades. Instead of Hughes Gardens, there are now community gardens scattered throughout the Missoula area.

After several years of open space funding, Missoulians can see how their open space bond money is working. Perhaps there are now houses on some lands that had been used for agriculture, but some have been preserved. At a time when there is a rising consciousness about the need for a community to be able to feed itself

without relying on fossil fuels and the trucks to carry food in from a distance, Missoula can look to examples where large pieces of land close by will remain agricultural in perpetuity.

Missoulians have been clear about the importance of open space, twice passing the open space bonds. Looking at a map of Missoula County showing all the land that is either publicly or privately held, and not available for development, the contradictions begin to bounce back and forth like marbles in a pinball machine. We want open space; we need land for housing; we want to preserve agricultural land close to Missoula; we want housing close to services and infrastructure; we are against density; we are against sprawl.

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These contradictions point to the need for Missoulians at all levels—government, private enterprise, non-profits, private citizens, landowners—to have a serious, thoughtful dialog about how we reconcile them. How do we preserve open space and at the same time provide sufficient housing for our children who want to stay here? There can’t be a tug of war to see whether open space or development is going to prevail.

This isn’t a win/lose, right/wrong, good/bad issue. A Missoula to treasure includes open space in a community where people can live where they work.

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REAL ESTATE HOMES 1,2,3 bedroom homes with money to help first time homebuyers. 3278787 porticorealestate.com 10250 Valley Grove Dr., Lolo MLS#902264 - $299,000 Beautiful 2 bd, 2 ba log home 5 minutes from Missoula Anne Jablonski - Wind ermere Real Estate - 546-5816 131 S. Higgins 6-4 & 6-5 MLS#907544 - $389,000 Luxury 6th floor condo in historic Wilma Building. Upscale living in heart of Msla. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816 2 bdrm, 2 bath one level home with garage, central air, fenced yard, u/ground sprinkling and patio. $166,500 MLS# 908650 Janet

532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 www.missoulahomesonline.com Text: 44133 Msg:12889 for pics 2663 Stratford, Target Range MLS#907889 - $216,000 Well maintained 3 bed, 2 bath ranch.

Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816 3 Bed, 2.5 Bath home on West Sussex. Close to parks, school, and shopping. Hardword floors and fenced yard with detached garage. $212,500. MLS#10000137. Pat McCormick, 240-SOLD (7653). pat@properties2000.com 3 Bed/2 Bath/2 Car Garage, Lg kitchen, hickory cabinets. In floor radiant heat, fireplace. Fenced and landscaped yard. $234,000 • MLS# 10000024. Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 riceteam@win-

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3BD/2BD home, vaulted ceilings, two-car garage, large patio, nature trail 45 minutes from Missoula. $240,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.YourMT.com

3322 B Connery Way MLS#908163 - $191,000 Unique 3 level condo. 2 bd, plus loft & 3 bath. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816 3BD/1 Ba Nice home on 3 city lots with privacy fenced yard in Alberton, $125,000 Kevin & Monica Ray of Access Realty at

3BD/3BA Luxury Home on 10 acres, 4 car garage, lrg tiled walkin shower, soaking tub, office/den, timber-framed cathedral ceilings $688,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.YourMT.com 4322 Capy Ln. - MLS#904419 $435,000 Wonderful executive style home on 1 acre lot. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816

4BD home, 39.5 acres. Certainteed siding, radiant heat, fireplace, wildlife, gravel pit! $824,900 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.YourMT.com 5 Bed/2 Ba in Bonner. New wood laminate floor. Large kitchen with island. Fenced yard in front w/private deck area in back. New roof.

Mature trees. $219,900 MLS# 906641. Windermere RE Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 Text:44133 Msg:12591 for pics 5999 Cunningham Ct., Florence MLS#905057 - $390,000 Beautiful 3 bd, 4 ba home on 3 acres. Mins from Msla. Anne Jablonski Wind ermere Real Estate - 546-5816 928 Elm St. - MLS#904910 $229,000 Great rental property in

low Rattlesnake. Turn key & low ma intenance. Anne Jablonski - Wind ermere Real Estate - 546-5816 Affordable, nice, newer home in central Missoula with 3 br, only $174,500, 1947 12th St 327-8787 porticorealestate.com BEAUTIFULLY UPDATED TARGET RANGE HOME. WALK TO THE RIVER. 4 Bdr/2 Bath, 4 Carg Garage, Sun Room with Hot Tub, great family room with full wet bar and much more. $334,900.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy11 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com GORGEOUS FLORENCE AREA HOME ON 2 ACRES. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, great views inside and out, large deck, outdoor sauna, and

more. $285,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy3 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com GORGEOUS LEWIS & CLARK NEIGHBORHOOD HOME. 4 Bd /2.5 Bath, double garage, hardwood floors, 9’ + ceilings, stainless steel appliances, & more. $279, 000. Prudential MT. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy5 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Great house with hardwood floors and big backyard, 3 bdr., updates.

933 Woodford 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

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REAL ESTATE HANDCRAFTED CUSTOM HOME ON PETTY CREEK. 3 Bdr/2.5 Ba, 3.3 acres, slate & hardwood floors, vaulted ceilings, guest quarters, heated dble garage, $695,000.

Prudential MT. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy6 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Immaculate home in a great neighborhood. 3 bdrms, sauna, nice yard, 135 Kensington 327-8787 porticorealestate.com Lot 1 Georgetown Vista Manor MLS#905530 - $109,000 2.87 acres in Georgetown Lake with easy year round access. Anne Jablonski Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816 Lot 2 Georgetown Vista Manor MLS#905531 - $129,000 2.25 acres in Georgetown Lake with easy year round access. Anne Jablonski Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816 NATIONWIDE FORECLOSED HOME AUCTION. 600+ Homes/Bids Open 3/1. Open House: 2/20, 27, 28. View full listings. www.Auction.com

Bitterroots $344,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185 www.YourMT.com

Upper Rattlesnake Home with 2 Fireplaces, 2 Bedrooms, 2 Bonus Rooms, 2 Baths $279,900 3278787 porticorealestate.com

Price Reduction! Beautiful home w/ views of the Mission Mountains!

4BD/2BA. Hardwood floors, fireplace, loft over family room, basement, large carport & private deck! $199,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.YourMT.com

Well cared for 4 bed, 2.5 bath home w/ hot tub, A/C, & UG sprinklers. Near parks and trails. $319,900. 5501 Bonanza. Pat McCormick, 240-SOLD (7653). pat@properties2000.com

Set up for Horses 5bd/3ba 3700+sf home on 3+ acres set up for horses. Frenchtown School District. 406.360.6113 Must see to appreciate the ammenaties!!

SOUTH HILLS CONDO WITH A SINGLE GARAGE . 2 Bdr/2 Bath, 2 balconies. great views, master with walk-in closet & master bath, laundry, and much more. $199,900.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy18 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

NHN Applegate & Prarie Rd., Helena MLS#809493 $2,500,000 - Great investment to get in at the beginning of a cem etery development. Anne Jablonski Windermere RE - 546-5816

SOUTH HILLS HOME 2 BLOCKS FROM CHIEF CHARLO SCHOOL .

4 Bdr/2 Ba, deck, double car gar age, family room, lrg laundry/ utility room, & much more. $199, 900.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy2 to 74362, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

Nice, spacious home in South Hills close to Chief Charlo, updated kitchen $224,900 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

University area home, 3 bd, 2 ba, nice studio apartment above garage. 616 E Sussex 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

Older Home with Vintage charm in great central Missoula neighborhood. 321 Tremont 327-8787 porticorealestate.com Past Bitterroot Parade of Homes winner NEW 4 BD/3BA w/ many upgrades Alder cabinets, Large Master Suite, Tile, & Views of the

LAND FOR SALE 19,602 SQ FT lot in Mullan Road area with great views. Sewer stubbed to the lot. Close to river access, golf and shopping $79,999 MLS# 908063 riceteam@windermere.com Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503.

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Nice Improvements. Further information call 406-899-5600 or email: trails4@qmail.com 5BD/3BA 3,000+ sq. ft. Lolo home on 15.6 Acres, updated kitchen, cozy fireplace, $415,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185 www.YourMT.com

Text Mindy14 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Beautiful 14 acre parcel just west of Huson. Meadow with trees & pasture. Modulars or double wides on foundation ok.

1255 sq ft, 3 bd/2 ba one level townhomes.

6112 Rains Place/Mullan Rd West Includes radiant $169,000 heated floors, garage, fire suppression sprinklers, covered back porch.

Beautiful Home Granite counters, stainless steel appliances, hardwood floors, stone fireplace. Built-in lockers off garage entrance, lots of storage, 2 hot water heaters, RV pad, RV dump and a hot & cold water spicket, backyard adjourns a park.

3631 Brandon Way, Msla $269,900 • MLS# 908640 Large 5 BD Home

3.5 ACRES ON PETTY CREEK. Great location less than 3 miles from I-90. Awesome building spot overlooking creek w/ valley/ mountain views. Builder available. $185,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696,

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330 N. Easy St. • $195,900 priscillabrockmeyer.com

Wonderful location at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac. Home has been well cared for, many updates. It is over 1,000 sq. ft. and has a large garage plus a huge storage shed. There is a master bedroom, 2 additional bedrooms.

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333 Martin Lane • MLS# 10000160 • $249,900 University home only 2 blocks from campus and 1 block from Bonner Park. Hardwood floors, coved ceilings and lots of charm. Gorgeous, huge corner lot with large trees. 4 bedrooms all above ground with 3 baths & an extra kitchen too!

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