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FOLLOW THE MONEY: QUESTIONS RAISED ABOUT ETHICS, LEGALITY OF HOSPITAL SALE PROCEEDS

HANGOVER HELPERS LYFT OFF? PROPOSAL TO S. CARLSON DIGS FOOD ARTS ERIC NEWS FOR NEW YEAR’S DAY BRING SERVICE TO CITY DEEP FOR INSPIRATION

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News

Voices/Letters Legislature rules and hospital sale..........................................................4 The Week in Review Buddy DeFranco, Fred Van Valkenburg and winter weather .......6 Briefs Torture-free city, whitebark pine and Lyft ............................................................6 Etc. Why four buried snowmobilers are especially lucky................................................7 News Dispersement of hospital sale proceeds raises ethical questions .........................8 News The long road from jail to society .........................................................................9 Opinion Underground storage can help stanch invisible drought...............................10 Feature Bold predictions for 2015................................................................................12

Arts & Entertainment

Arts Eric S. Carlson digs a little deeper for inspiration.................................................16 Music Greenwood, Ryan Adams and Whitey Morgan ...................................................17 Music In defense of cellphones at concerts ..................................................................18 Film Oscar-worthy Wild lets the healing begin .............................................................19 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ......................................................20 Munchies The morning after ........................................................................................21 Happiest Hour The Montana Distillery........................................................................23 8 Days a Week Looking into a crystal ball....................................................................24 Mountain High Resolution Run 5K ..............................................................................29 Agenda Moscow Monday at Montgomery Distillery .....................................................30

Exclusives

Street Talk .......................................................................................................................4 In Other News ..............................................................................................................12 Classifieds....................................................................................................................C-1 The Advice Goddess...................................................................................................C-2 Free Will Astrolog y ....................................................................................................C-4 Crossword Puzzle .......................................................................................................C-5 This Modern World...................................................................................................C-12

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Benefits us all

STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Monday, Dec. 29, on the University of Montana campus.

What’s your bold prediction for 2015?

Follow-up: Do you have a personal New Year’s resolution?

Diego Burgos: Due to environmental concerns plastic will be forbidden everywhere and replaced with organic materials. It will be a global initiative.

Taking a break: I will definitely try to do more exercise and watch movies instead of studying.

Suzie Chiem: A lot more high-end chain stores are coming into town and I predict Missoula will become a touristy place and lose its local and fun appeal. The glass is half full: I think it’s going to be an exciting year. I want to be as positive as possible so that it is infectious. It’s more of a life motto I want to start in 2015. I guess I should work out more than once, too.

Bob Athearn: I want people to become kinder and more thoughtful and stop hurting each other. I realize that with the levels of corruption and greed this is unlikely. Practicing presence: I want to work on being more focused and in the moment with whatever I’m doing, whether in conversation, shoveling snow or meditating.

Sky Fowler: There will be peaceful resolution to the racial inequality issues that cropped up in 2014. Restore balance: To be more mindful. Not only about myself but about my community as well.

Tyler Swank: A great year of epic snowfall in Montana creates a lot of runoff so I can go kayak the rivers. Me time: To stop doing what other people want and start doing what I want. I’m in video production and have been working on other people’s projects and I want to stop and work on my own stuff.

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I’m writing to support Community Medical Center’s board of directors and their decision on the allocation of more than $70 million in proceeds resulting from the pending sale to Billings Clinic and RegionalCare. I’m confident CMC’s board did their due diligence in ensuring the money from the sale supports the legacy of Community and benefits all of us by improving health care in western Montana.

As a board member of the University of Montana Foundation, I’m thrilled by the positive impact this sale will have on our community. I was born and raised in Billings and know firsthand that Billings Clinic is an outstanding community partner that will benefit Missoula for years to come.

The $10 million gift to the UM Foundation will fund three health care related projects: the CMC Legacy Health Professions Complex, program initiatives (such as continuing education) for health professionals and CMC Promise Scholarships to benefit students pursuing healthcare-related fields. Additionally, Billings Clinic RegionalCare has pledged a $500,000 gift to help fund the health care programs and health care infrastructure at the new Missoula College to be constructed on East Broadway, pending approval of the sale by Attorney General Tim Fox. These gifts to UM will support essential infrastructure for attracting new students to study medicine and health and train health professionals in a contemporary environment and provide excellent care to low-income people and those with disabilities.

The remainder of the roughly $64 million will benefit western Montana through investment in a new Community Hospital Legacy Foundation that focuses on improving quality patient care and satisfaction, improving the health of Western Montana’s population and reducing the per capita cost of health care. The new CMC foundation will continue in the spirit of the previous hospital foundation, respecting the wishes of thousands of local and regional donors who have given generously over the years. Best of all, it will be governed by nine members who live in Missoula surrounding communities.

Local control by volunteers guarantees the foundation will operate in a manner

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true to the history of CMC for generations to come.

Mary Olson Missoula

Changing the rules The new Speaker of the House recently proposed, then rescinded a dress code he was trying to impose on the Montana Legislature. While there was a great deal of negative press regarding this issue, there are other, more dangerous rules that are being forced upon the legislature by a minority within the GOP leadership.

These rules range from being simply insulting to Democrats to being extremely dangerous to the legislative process. The following are a few of them.

“These rules range from being simply insulting to Democrats to being extremely dangerous to the legislative process.”

In a move that can only be seen as sticking a thumb in the eye of Democrats, GOP leaders in the House Rules Committee stripped the titles of all house Democrats serving as vice chairs of their committees.

No valid reason was given for this action aside from a stated desire to “emulate the traditions in the U.S. Congress.” I have never, ever had a constituent request that our Montana Legislature be more like the U.S. Congress, but there you have it.

GOP leadership also jammed through a rule allowing committee chairs to bar electronic devices from committee hearings at their whim. This means that anyone attending hearings (including legislators) would not be allowed to use their cellphones, laptops, iPads or other electronic devices during a hearing. Although the point was raised that many people use the Internet for researching facts and figures during a hearing, which is of great benefit to our constituen-

cies, our objections were disregarded.

In a move that can best be described as clever, but undemocratic, GOP leadership amended our rules in such a way that a great deal of power will now be concentrated in the hands of the Speaker of the House. Bear with my explanation here, as I think this strategy was crafted by lawyers, for lawyers.

Under current rules, a speaker can redirect practically any bill that comes out of a committee to the Appropriations Committee. Some speakers have tried to use this as a weapon, referring bills they did not like to this committee for quiet disposal, but as a check to this power, the legislature could override the speaker with a simple majority vote. The GOP leadership faction is trying to change the override requirement to a super majority (60 votes). This will allow the speaker to kill bills he doesn’t like regardless of majority opinion. That’s undemocratic in that it negates a basic principle of our legislature—that the majority of members decide an issue.

The rules of the legislature are supposed to provide for rule by the majority while protecting the rights of the minority party. These rules being proposed by do neither. To add insult to injury, the GOP leadership has taken the extraordinary step of excluding the people of Montana from the House floor. This is completely unacceptable.

Montana currently has a rule in place that excludes lobbying on the House floor for two hours prior to a voting session to two hours after. It’s a good rule. What GOP leadership seeks to impose is a 24 hour ban on all citizens from the House chamber.

When legislators like myself objected, pointing out that the House belongs to the people of Montana, we were told that the need for representatives to have a “refuge” outweighed the need for citizens to have access to us. This is disturbing.

Taken as a whole, the actions of a few GOP leaders show a willingness to disregard custom and principles in their bid to consolidate power in their own hands. Perhaps they will see the error in their ways and rescind these new rules of 2015, but this will only happen if the citizens of Montana raise their voices against these undemocratic rules. It’s your legislature and your voice.

Let it be heard.

Rep. Tom Woods Democrat Bozeman

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WEEK IN REVIEW

VIEWFINDER

by Cathrine L. Walters

Wednesday, December 24 Renowned jazz clarinetist Buddy DeFranco dies at the age of 91 in a Florida hospital.

A member of the American Jazz Hall of Fame, DeFranco lent his name in 2000 to the annual jazz festival held at the University of Montana.

Thursday, December 25 Missoula residents wake up to a white Christmas after a few inches of overnight snowfall, then spend the rest of the day nursing hangovers, avoiding family, building Legos and/or watching Netflix.

Friday, December 26 In response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Missoulian, Missoula County Public Schools releases disciplinary letters that reveal two former Sentinel High School administrators were suspended for engaging “in an inappropriate relationship” on school property.

Saturday, December 27 On the same day four snowmobilers survive an avalanche northwest of Seeley Lake, the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office releases the names of two snowmobilers— Derek Flesch and Kurt Starkel—who died Friday while attempting to cross the lake at

Sunday, December 28 As snow, wind and frigid temperatures enter western Montana, Missoula-area law enforcement requests drivers stay off the roads and temporarily closes westbound lanes of Interstate 90 at the Wye to respond to multiple crashes.

Monday, December 29 Community leaders and members of the public gather at the Missoula County Courthouse to celebrate the career of retiring County Attorney Fred Van Valkenburg. The controversial prosecutor served nearly 20 years in the state legislature before being elected to four terms in his current position.

Tuesday, December 30 The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services releases a report indicating 22,618 Montanans acquired health insurance through healthcare.gov this year, nearly twice as many as signed up through the online exchange in 2013.

Hikers enjoy a morning soak in the hot pools at Goldbug Hot Springs in Elk Bend, Idaho, on Dec. 27.

Transportation

Preparing for Lyft off This past August, while on disability from his day job, Tim Herbrand started driving his electric Nissan Leaf around Puyallup, Wash., and picking up passengers for Lyft, an app-based ride service. He soon earned a nickname: Ninja Lyft.

“The name is because [my car is] so quiet, it’s black, it creeps up on people,” Herbrand says. “I’m trying to not really assassinate taxi fares but show people there’s a different company out there.”

Herbrand is planning to bring his stealthy vehicle—and his challenge to traditional taxi service—to Missoula in 2015. “You guys have the college, you have all this stuff, and I thought this would be a fun service and a much-needed service for that area,” he says.

Lyft is among a number of new smartphone-enabled transportation services, including Uber and Sidecar, that are revolutionizing how urbanites get around. They’re also chipping away at the dominance of traditional taxi services. According to the Los An-

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geles Times, the number of trips taken with licensed cab companies in that city dropped 21 percent from the previous year in the first half of 2014, the steepest decline ever recorded.

The rise of app-based ride services has been attributed to the convenience they offer customers, the flexibility they offer drivers and the reduced overhead they offer the tech-savvy companies that operate them. Much like Uber and Sidecar, Lyft relies on a network of what it calls “community drivers”—people who have other jobs and who use their own cars to pick up passengers. Requests for rides are made via an app and are sent to nearby drivers who must respond immediately. If they agree to honor the request, pictures of the car and the driver are sent to the passenger, so they know what and who to look for. Lyft cars also typically feature a quirky plush pink mustache, either on the grill or the dash, to indicate that they’re affiliated with the service.

Justin Kraske, chief legal counsel for the Montana Public Service Commission, says he knows of no exist-

ing app-based ride services in the state. However, he does say the PSC would have regulatory oversight over any such services. That means Herbrand, like any potential taxi operator, will have to apply for a Public Convenience and Necessity Certificate and meet four criteria in order to begin operation: demonstrate a public need for the service, prove that existing motor carriers cannot or will not meet the public need, be fit to perform the services proposed, and show that existing transportation services will not be harmed by the granting of a new license.

Though Herbrand hasn’t yet submitted his application, history suggests getting Lyft off the ground won’t be easy. Green Taxi’s path from concept to operation was riddled with obstacles, including successful challenges from Yellow Cab in 2007 over claims the new service would undermine its business. More recently, a former Yellow Cab driver was able to navigate around some of PSC’s regulations by making his new ride service, Ucallus, a nonprofit. But Ucallus has since gone defunct.

With Yellow Cab and Green Taxi the only existing taxi options, Evan Rosenberg of the Missoula County DUI Task Force says there’s a real public-health need for diversification. “The issue is, there just aren’t rides available for people to get sober rides home,” he says.

To increase options, Rosenberg has helped start a

[news] subcommittee of the task force devoted to bringing an app-based ride service to Missoula—or developing a new, local service from scratch. Though he isn’t familiar with Herbrand’s plan to launch Lyft, Rosenberg says the task force will be available to act as “facilitator to get the right people together to make it happen. We’re happy to reach out to anyone and everyone who’s willing to play a role in creating more safe rides.”

Ted McDermot

Whitebark pine

Slippery jack to the rescue When most Westerners venture into the woods in search of fungus, they’re looking for dinner. When Cathy Cripps goes mushroom hunting, she’s trying to save a tree.

The tree in question is the whitebark pine, an iconic species that’s been devastated throughout the Northern Rockies by mountain pine beetles and a fungal disease called blister rust. While most people are accustomed to thinking of fungi as a danger to biodiversity, Cripps is captivated by an opposite theory—a certain fungus may be what whitebark pine needs to survive.

That notion emerged from years of fieldwork in whitebark pine forests throughout the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. There, Cripps noticed the soil was rife with a particular fungal species: Suillus sibericus, aka Siberian slippery jack. Suillus sibericus is a mycorrhizal fungus, meaning it forms close symbiotic relationships with the roots of plants. The fungus draws sugar from roots, and in turn pipes nutrients back to its host tree.

“Each root tip gets surrounded by the fungus, just like a little sock,” Cripps says.

Cripps, a mycologist at Montana State University, wondered if mycorrhizal fungi could change the survival odds for whitebark pine seedlings grown in nurseries and planted for restoration. Cultivating whitebarks is an arduous process—among other complications, the seeds have to be exposed to elaborate temperature cycles in order to germinate—and not always successful. One graduate student who surveyed more than 100,000 whitebark seedlings planted in the region found that just 42 percent lived.

That low success rate is partly due to the fact that whitebark seedlings are often outcompeted by rival trees, like spruce and fir. Slippery jack offered a solution: While many other mycorrhizal fungi are “promiscuous”—they partner with more than one tree species—slippery jack almost exclusively cohabitates with whitebark and its relatives. “We figured sibericus would give whitebark pine an advantage, without helping the tree species that are competitive with it,” Cripps says.

That’s when the hunt began. Cripps and a graduate student named Erin Lonergan foraged for slippery jack’s

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lemon-curd-colored mushrooms in the mountains around Yellowstone and Canada’s Waterton Lakes National Park. Back at MSU, they used a coffee grinder to mill the underside of the mushrooms, where spores reside, into a powder. Finally, Cripps diluted the powder with water and employed an inoculation gun—the kind you’d use to vaccinate cattle—to implant her spore concoction into the soil around whitebark seedlings growing in the Glacier National Park nursery.

In September 2010, volunteers planted about a thousand seedlings from the Glacier nursery at test sites across the border in Waterton. This summer, Cripps and Lonergan reported that, after three years, the fungal inoculation had enhanced survival by 11 percent.

“Given how difficult it is to grow seedlings, even a small increase in survival is very important,” Cripps says.

Parks Canada agrees with her. They’ll be using slippery jack on future whitebark plantings in Waterton, Banff and Jasper National Parks. (Nurseries in the U.S. haven’t yet committed to the technique, but they’re interested.) Cripps still isn’t positive how slippery jack benefits pines, though she suspects it aids the tree by helping it take up nitrogen. Just as scientists are still coming to understand how certain trees die, they have a ways to go in figuring out why others live.

But for all the concern about whitebark survival, Cripps is equally worried about the other side of the symbiotic coin. “If you have a whitebark pine ghost forest where all the trees are just skeletons,” she wonders, “how long can these specific fungi persist in the soil?”

Ben Goldfarb

Resolutions

A town without torture On Dec. 9, the Senate Intelligence Committee released what The New York Times deemed a “sweeping indictment” of the Central Intelligence Agency’s use of torture to root out suspected terrorists after Sept.

11, 2001. Two days later, Missoulian Deacon F. Randles wrote to city council, urging members to pass a resolution condemning such tactics.

“I realize that as a city council you are not in a position to prosecute or hold accountable the indi-

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Years Missoula County Attorney Fred Van Valkenburg served as chief prosecutor before his retirement. On Jan. 1, the newly elected Kirsten Pabst takes over.

viduals and agencies that committed the atrocities of torture, rape and murder,” Randles wrote. “However, I am asking that you consider a resolution that expresses the sense of our community that such practices are morally wrong and legally indefensible.”

Soon after, Randles submitted a draft resolution that closely mirrors one passed in 2012 in Chicago and proclaims Missoula “a torture-free zone.” In part, the document declares the city “will not tolerate, support or allow torture to be practiced by its employees or residents.”

According to Councilwoman Emily Bentley, who has agreed to sponsor the measure, it isn’t meant to address existing abuse but to prevent future injustice.

“I don’t think we have a problem with torture in our jails here,” Bentley says. “I think, for the most part, our police department does a stand-up job. So [the aim is] definitely prevention.”

Some, however, don’t see the resolution’s value.

“It seems like a waste of time to me, to be perfectly honest,” says Councilman Adam Hertz.

“Our job as a city council is to make sure that people’s roads are plowed out and potholes are filled and parks are taken care of. Spending time attempting to make political statements on broader national and international issues isn’t in the scope of what the city council’s tasked with doing.”

But Bentley believes such statements are integral to council’s role.

“I ran for city council,” she says, “and part of leadership is to stand up and use the pulpit that I have, and use it to say when things are wrong and, specifically, not to condone things that are wrong by ignoring them or looking the other way.”

The resolution is expected to come before council for a vote sometime in January.

Ted McDermott

ETC. Lucky.

The word creeps into Seeley-Swan Search and Rescue chief Gerry Connell’s account of the Dec. 27 avalanche that caught four snowmobilers in the Mission Mountains northwest of Seeley Lake. Two were partially buried, the other two completely. The former extricated themselves and all were able to ride out on their own, Connell says. But based on the details they relayed to him, it could have been much worse.

For starters, Connell learned one of the snowmobilers wasn’t wearing a locator beacon— and he’d been buried at least three feet below the snow. Beacons are a standard backcountry safety tool, due to the fact that they significantly increase the likelihood of discovery after a slide.

“Just lucky,” Connell says, “lucky they were able to locate him without having that transceiver on.”

The other buried snowmobiler also managed to defy the odds. In recent years, research out of British Columbia has placed the chances of surviving burial in an avalanche at 79 percent after five minutes. The odds drop even lower when you pass the 10-minute mark, which is about how long Connell says it took the group to extract their second snow-entombed comrade. The avalanche trapped him roughly 10 feet down, adds Missoula County Sheriff’s Senior Deputy Bob Parcell.

“He was so far down, by the time they got him out he was snoring, meaning he was unconscious for 10 to 15 minutes,” Parcell says.

“Not a good situation.”

Parcell adds it took search and rescue about 45 minutes to rendezvous with the snowmobilers at a nearby warming hut and lead them out to a waiting ambulance crew.

Dudley Improta with the West Central Montana Avalanche Center says he still hopes to speak with the men involved in the incident to learn more about what happened leading up to the slide. Their account could help inform others about existing hazards and provide lessons in backcountry safety and avalanche response. Improta did try to get into the area with Connell on Dec. 28 to follow up on the incident, but conditions were even more unstable than before.

“The place has gotten way more snow than anywhere else in the state that we know,” Improta says of the Seeley-Swan area. And especially after getting hammered by an inch of snow an hour, “it’s going to need time to settle out.”

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Follow the money Dispersement of hospital sale proceeds raises ethical questions

by Jessica Mayrer

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The pending sale of Community Medical Center hit a milestone on Dec. 17 when the nonprofit hospital’s board of directors released its much-anticipated decision on how it intends to disperse the $74 million generated from the transaction. But the particulars of that announcement haven’t appeased critics of the deal and have set off a new round of questions regarding the ethics and legalities of a sale that will significantly affect local health care.

By law, proceeds generated from liquidation of the nonprofit Community Medical Center must serve charity. The board decided to create a new “Community Hospital Legacy Foundation” that would receive roughly $62.5 million and provide grants to regional entities dedicated to improving health care. The board also proposed allocating $10 million to the University of Montana College of Health Professions and Biomedical Sciences to lay the groundwork for a new physician assistant program, provide scholarships and expand the Skaggs Building.

The entire sale of the nonprofit hospital to Billings Clinic and the for-profit RegionalCare Hospital Partners of Brentwood, Tenn., is being vetted by Montana Attorney General Tim Fox. If Fox’s office finds the board’s proposal not in the public’s interest, he can nix the deal.

Critics of the asset allocation plan point to a general lack of transparency with the process, as well as the appearance of conflicts of interest. For instance, the outgoing board, which voted to sell the hospital in March, will be allocated four slots on the new nine-member Community Hospital Legacy Foundation governing body. Monica Weisul, who once raised money to help build Community Medical Center and is married to the hospital’s former chief medical officer, wonders if that’s an ethically appropriate governing structure.

“If people on the board voted to sell the hospital, I really don’t think you should be on a board to dole out the money,” she says. “That just doesn’t seem right.”

Also under scrutiny is UM’s role in the transaction. Dale Woolhiser, who says he’s contributed to both the university and Community Medical Center over the years, believes UM isn’t an appropriate beneficiary of the sale’s proceeds. He specifically notes that, if the attorney general approves the asset plan, hundreds of thousands of dollars annually will be set aside to staff UM’s planned physician assistant program, even before the program begins accepting students.

“All I know is it’s $960,000 per year of expense and that could be used for an awful lot of medicine for people,” Woolhiser says.

As Weisul has questioned whether the asset plan is ethically sound, Woolhiser also wonders if the board was blinded by their own causes when drafting the proposal. For example, board member Bill Johnston directs the UM Alumni Foundation. Suzanne Peterson, also a hospital board member, serves on the UM Foundation board of trustees.

Meanwhile, Barry Kenfield, Community Medical Center’s former CFO and a voting board member, directs the Western Montana Area Health Education Center, which is slated to receive a subcontracting agreement worth $150,000 if the sale is approved.

Kenfield also manages the nonprofit Family Medicine Residency of Western Montana. The UM-sponsored residency program could also receive financial support from the university donation, according to Reed Humphrey of the College of Health Professions and Biomedical Sciences.

Kenfield did not return requests to comment for this article. Board Vice Chair Scott Hacker said in an email to the

Independent that Kenfield “abstained from any and all votes involving UM or UM Foundation.” Hacker added that Kenfield wasn’t involved in the board’s decision to allocate $150,000 to the Western Montana Area Health Education Center.

Woolhiser admits he “has a dog in this fight” due to his involvement with the Montana Community Foundation, a nonprofit that unsuccessfully appealed to the hospital board for proceeds from the sale. But he says his outrage over the pending university donation isn’t about “sour grapes.” Instead, it’s about using the proceeds in a way that best serves low-income locals.

“I think the best thing for the University of Montana to do real quickly is to say, ‘We won’t accept this money,’” Woolhiser says.

Despite criticisms, the Community Medical Center board defends its decision.

Hacker says the makeup of the new foundation’s governing body will allow for continuity and ensure the hospital’s core values are followed.

“The reason for the CMC Board members’ position on the new Foundation Board is to assure that the CMC mission is being adhered to and to take advantage of the work the Board has done researching foundations,” Hacker says.

That still doesn’t sit well with Weisul.

As the attorney general continues to collect public opinion, Weisul hopes more residents get engaged in the issue and raise questions about the sale.

“I don’t want people to wake up in a year and say, ‘Well we didn’t really understand, nobody really explained it,’” she says.

“Health care’s not the most attractive subject.

Nobody thinks about it unless they need it.

So it’s kind of like, ‘That sale’s not really going to affect me.’ Well yeah, it probably will.

We just don’t know in what way.” jmayrer@missoulanews.com

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Marked man The difficult path from prison back to society

by Jessica Mayrer

Fevold says he understands the ration- serves as an advocacy network, uniting In 2008, when Missoula native Eric Fevold was first incarcerated at a high-secu- ale of UM, the church and the federal justice felons with a system of volunteers who help rity federal penitentiary in Beaumont, Texas, system to take precautionary measures, but secure housing, jobs and social support.

In an effort to pool resources and more he lied about the conviction that brought the hurdles can feel daunting. him there. In a hierarchical prison system, “They’re trying to prevent the worst sce- effectively handle housing demands, Partpeople like Fevold who commit crimes in- nario from happening,” says Fevold, who adds ners for Reintegration approached the Misvolving children can be subject to scorn and he feels like there’s a target on him. “I realize soula City Council this past year for support. Council approved the resolution worse. Fevold worried that his conviction that I’m marked for (institutional scrutiny).” for receiving and possessing child pornogFevold’s challenges are not uncommon in November.

The group now hopes Missoula’s supraphy would make him a target, so he said among those newly released from prison, instead that he was doing time for gun says Casey Dunning of Partners for Reinte- port will help persuade state lawmakers to charges. gration, a volunteer group that helps peo- back initiatives at a statewide level. Jana StaIt didn’t take long for the other in- ple like Fevold readjust to life in Missoula. ton, co-chair of Partners for Reintegration’s mates, with access to a law library, to figure He says the issues Fevold’s facing are among steering committee, says they’re asking the out the truth. “They saw through that immediately,” Fevold recalls. He says he was ostracized and spent most of his sentence alone, reading and studying math.

In August, Fevold, who’s now 55, returned to Missoula under a conditional release.

He’s now facing the same predicament he encountered in prison: cover his crime or openly disclose his past.

He’s aggressively chosen the latter, and is now speaking publicly about the challenges he photo by Cathrine L. Walters and other newly released felons have when arriving back in their Convicted felon Eric Fevold says an array of mandates governing his behavior is making it tough for him to reintegrate into the Missoula community. communities.

“That’s what I’m facing,” he says, pulling a letter from a stack the reasons nearly half of all released felons 2015 Montana Legislature to pass a proof papers. The letter advises that his appli- end up back in jail. posal introduced by Rep. Margie MacDoncation for graduate school admission at the “It can get to a situation—and it often ald, D-Helena, that would authorize the University of Montana is on hold until he does—where it’s just easier to go back to Department of Corrections to fund housing provides a typewritten account of his crime prison than to make it in the community,” vouchers for parolees who, without such assistance, would not be eligible for release. and an explanation of why he’s required to Dunning says.

“Partners is trying to work on a comregister as a sex offender.

Hundreds of convicted felons return Next he produces another piece of annually to the Missoula community and 43 munity level,” Statin says, “not just an indipaper from the same stack. It’s a “Contract percent are sent back to jail within three vidual level.”

As for Fevold, he’s looking for work for Sex Offenders” provided to him by his years, typically for a technical violation such church, Immanuel Lutheran, obligating him as consuming alcohol or drugs, according and hopes to begin classes at the university to have one or more chaperones accom- to data compiled by the Montana Depart- this semester, depending on findings from UM’s Admissions Review Committee. As for pany him while he’s on church premises ment of Corrections. and attending congregation functions. It Partners for Reintegration, which is the attention he will likely receive for telling also mandates that Fevold move to a differ- comprised of churches, social service his story, Fevold says it’s a relief to share it ent seat if a child 2 years old or younger sits providers and local citizens working with publicly. As he learned in prison, the truth next to him at a church function. the Montana Department of Corrections, is bound to come out anyway.

A third piece of paper includes the aims to curb the personal and institutional “Then there’s going to be other reperterms of Fevold’s release from the federal costs associated with that trend. The aver- cussions that are almost more difficult to penitentiary, which, among other things, age cost to house an inmate at Montana handle than being honest in the first place,” prohibit him from being “in the company State Prison is $97.63 per day, while one Fevold says. of any child under the age of 18,” viewing year of probation or parole supervision pornography and consuming alcohol. jmayrer@missoulanews.com costs $1,691. Partners for Reintegration

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missoulanews.com • January 1–January 8, 2015 [9]

[opinion]

Winter flow Underground storage can help stanch drought

by Paul VanDevelder

When spring floods devastated river towns and ranch lands that produce much of the nation’s fruits, farmlands along the Missouri River in 1927, Congress vegetables and beef.

To keep up with demand, growers have been ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to prepare a comprehensive hydrological report on the million- doing what they always do in low water years: They square-mile Missouri River Basin. The Corps’ engi- make up the deficit by drawing from groundwater neers spent the next five years preparing a aquifers. The groundwater drawdown in California’s bells-and-whistles study, from Fort Peck, to St. Central Valley between 2003 and 2012, for example, Charles, Mo. It’s a thing of beauty, this opus, with was equivalent to the entire storage capacity of Lake foldout maps drawn from geologic surveys of every Mead, the nation’s largest reservoir.

Alarmed hydrologists state the obvious: This bend, island and sandbar in the river.

Privately, the agency viewed this enterprise as an trend is not sustainable. Even when the rains return, opportunity to slam the door on all those hair- aquifers will be severely depleted for decades to brained irrigation and flood-control schemes forever come. It takes decades for a melted snowflake to perbeing promoted by dry-land farmers and politicians. colate down to an aquifer.

Faced with this daunting problem in parts of The Corps had learned its lessons on that “mad eletheir own state, hydrologists from phant of a river” the hard way: resOregon State University and the cuing stranded paddle wheelers Walla Walla Basin Watershed Counyear after year. By 1927, it had other rivers to tame—let the Big “Now, ‘silted-in’ cil came up with a remarkable solution in 2004; it’s even relatively Muddy run wild. rivers can’t do cheap, at just 1 percent the cost of In February 1934, the Corps’ a conventional dam, reservoir and director, Gen. Lytle Brown, predistribution system. sented the 1,245-page masterpiece the job, and The solution is something to Congress with a stern warning: called “infiltration galleries.” HyDon’t even think about building aquifers are drologist Bob Bower convinced flood-control dams on the Missouri farmers and skeptics at Oregon’s River above Sioux City, Iowa. His drying up water and environment agencies chief concern was that the river’s that a series of these large, swimperennial “siltation problems” across the ming pool-sized basins could colwould clog hydro-turbines and lect the surplus winter flow from keep dredges working in perpetuWest. Fast.” the Milton-Freewater River in cenity at a cost of billions of dollars. tral Oregon, use it to recharge the Nonetheless, after the 1943 floods aquifer through percolation and, devastated Iowa and Nebraska, Congress demanded action and approved five major as a bonus, also enhance the river’s natural habitat.

“The infiltration galleries succeeded beyond our dams on the main stem of the river.

But, as Brown warned, siltation remains a major wildest expectations,” says John Selker, one of the sciproblem to this day, and the biggest and most devas- entists working on the project. “What we realized tating consequence was one that never occurred to was, ‘Wait a minute, we’ve got all this surplus winter agency engineers. When silt settled behind dams flow that runs out to the sea. Why don’t we recharge along 2,500 miles of river-bottom, it not only clogged the aquifer with a portion of that surplus and use the hydro-turbines and kept dredges running, it also aquifer as a storage basin? That way we know exactly formed an impenetrable blanket of muck that how much water has been returned to the aquifer stopped the river from recharging one of our nation’s and is available for summer use.’”

The infiltration galleries have been so successful most important water resources, the Ogallala aquifer.

When you think of the Ogallala aquifer—stretch- in Oregon that another eight have been built, two ing from southern Canada to northern Texas—imag- more are under construction and five more are ine an invisible ocean. Rivers once recharged it planned. During the 2013 season, they “infiltrated,” as well as other aquifers. Now, “silted-in” rivers can’t or stored, 1.93 billion gallons of surplus winter flow do the job, and aquifers are drying up across the in depleted aquifers, at a tiny fraction of what it would have cost to build a catchment reservoir and West. Fast.

“The Western Hemisphere is experiencing a distribution system.

“At a time when groundwater resources are vanishdrought of crisis proportions,” writes Science magazine’s editor-in-chief, Marcia McNutt, in the Septem- ing at an alarming rate across the West,” says Selker, ber 2014 issue. She notes that crops are failing across “recharging our vast underground storehouses with the Americas, millions of Central Americans who de- ‘winter flow’ is an idea whose time has clearly come.” pend on rainfall to grow food are facing starvation and ships using the Panama Canal will soon have to Paul VanDevelder is a contributor to Writers on the lighten their loads to keep from running aground Range, a column service of High Country News. He (thereby increasing the prices of field-to-market lives in Oregon and is the author of Savages and goods grown in the American West). At home, Scoundrels: The Untold Story of America's Road to drought is rapidly spreading to the very farm and Empire through Indian Territory.

[10] Missoula Independent • January 1–January 8, 2015

[quirks]

these are the good old days.

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN – When Damontay Wright, 19, drove himself unaccompanied to a road-test facility in Jonesboro, Ark., for his driver’s license, a police officer approached to ticket him for driving without a license, but Wright sped off. He smashed into a state trooper’s patrol car and then, with police in pursuit, lost control of his car and plowed through the wall of a house. Officers who charged Wright with felony fleeing added that the license plate on his car had been reported stolen. (The Jonesboro Sun) SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT BEING FIRST – After the crash of Virgin Galactic’s space tourism rocket SpaceShipTwo in California’s Mojave Desert during a test flight, “about 20” of the people holding tickets on the craft’s initial space voyage requested a refund, company representative Jess Gilbert said. Tickets originally cost $200,000 each but later rose to $250,000. (The Hollywood Reporter) SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION – Korean Air executive Heather Cho delayed the departure of her flight from New York to Incheon by demanding the removal of a flight attendant who served her macadamia nuts in a bag instead of on a plate. The incident prompted Cho’s resignation but boosted macadamia sales in Korea nearly 12-fold. (BBC News) Police said two customers at a Tim Hortons store in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, threw a garter snake at an employee during an argument that began because they wanted the onions diced for their breakfast order.

(Saskatoon’s The Star Phoenix) California authorities accused Kathy Rowe of harassing a couple who bought a house in a Carmel Valley neighborhood that Rowe had placed an offer on, calling it her “forever home.” The criminal complaint said Rowe signed the wife up for sex ads online that encouraged visitors to drop by unannounced while her husband was at work. The couple also received unwanted magazines, books and junk mail, and Rowe allegedly sent romantic Valentine’s Day cards from the husband to his female neighbors. “Losing that house was devastating to my family and broke our hearts,” Rowe said, calling her actions “stupid pranks.” (ABC News)

SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES – Indiana conservation officers said that when a shooter in Martin County used modern smokeless powder in a muzzle-loading rifle designed for black powder, the weapon turned into a grenade, which exploded, causing the shooter to lose a couple of fingers. (Indianapolis Star) SECRET SECRETS – The National Security Agency informed the Federation of American Scientists that

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CAREER MOVES – Hoping to attract and retain more career women, Facebook and Apple began paying up to $20,000 for employees to freeze their eggs until they’re ready to become parents. (NBC News)

STATING THE OBVIOUS – Steve Wadsworth won an “exciting competition” to name the new leisure center in Selby, England, scheduled to open this spring. “I was really surprised and excited,” said Wadsworth, who came up with the name “Selby Leisure Centre.” (Selby District Council News)

LOSER OF THE WEEK – Police responding to an emergency call of screams at an apartment in Oslo reported the sounds came from a male chess player “frustrated by constantly losing against his own PC.” (Norway’s The Local) NO PLACE LIKE HOME – Utah’s Housing First began a program in Salt Lake City to end homelessness by giving homeless people homes. Instead of spending more than $20,000 a year on care, Housing First reckons putting someone into permanent housing costs the state just $8,000. The program not only saves money, but also provides stability that allows them to turn their lives around. After 22 months, none of the 17 people placed in homes around the city when the program started were back on the streets. Subsequently, the number of Utah’s chronically homeless fell by 74 percent. (The New Yorker) The Italian company WASP has developed a 20-foot-tall 3-D printer that can turn mud and fiber into homes.

WASP CEO Massimo Moretti said the process will provide cheap housing in impoverished regions, starting this year in Sardinia, which has abundant wool to use as a fibrous binder in the printer’s mud. Moretti said that using the machine to work more closely with natural forms rather than the common square-shaped brick dwellings will help people express the power of their mind, rather than just of constructing something by hand. (MAKE Magazine)

HOW LAWS GET MADE – After North Hempstead, N.Y., posted signs warning residents to pick up after their dogs or risk a $250 fine, community leaders discovered the town code states the fine is $25. Rather than pay to replace hundreds of signs, officials said they’re considering raising the fine to match the amount actually posted. (New York’s WCBS-TV) GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS – Talking on hand-held cellphones while driving has declined in the past six years, according to a survey by State Farm insurance company. But the percentage of drivers who admit to accessing the Internet while driving has doubled, from 13 percent in 2009 to 26 percent in 2014, and the share of drivers who said they read email while behind the wheel rose from 15 percent to 25 percent.

Those who said they read social media while driving went from 9 percent to 20 percent. (USA Today) FISCAL FOLLIES – The District of Columbia’s 2015 budget includes $2.7 million in anticipated proceeds from civil seizures of cash and property. Believing that provision creates incentive to seize property for slush funds, the city council introduced a bill that would require police to meet higher standards of proof before seizing property. Law enforcement officials objected, saying the measure “would lead to a loss of significant forfeiture revenues,” according to former D.C. Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier insisted the department isn’t building its budget on civil seizures, simply using them to pay informants and rewards. (The Washington Post)

missoulanews.com • January 1–January 8, 2015 [11]

he start of a new year may seem as simple as the flipping of a calendar page or the drop of a glittery ball, but historically it’s meant much more. The ancient Babylonians promised the gods at the start of each year that they’d repay their debts and return borrowed goods. The Romans marked the new year by praying to Janus, the god of new beginnings. Today, many people make New Year’s resolutions or announce intentions for the coming months. For whatever the reason, the arrival of Jan. 1 means an opportunity to hit reset, wipe the slate clean and look forward to better things.

That New Year’s-inspired optimism fills our third annual list of bold predictions. While there’s certainly no shortage of ominous developments throughout the world, we’ve found more than a dozen different forecasts that lean toward ... hopeful? Idyllic? Positive? Trust us, we’re as surprised as you are; rose-colored glasses aren’t usually the best look for a bunch of cynics like us. But like the new year itself, we’re ready to embrace the positive outlook and prepare for the best. Considering how we and our guest prognosticators did in 2014 (see sidebar), there’s even a good chance a few of these things will actually happen.

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Distilleries become the new craft craze The opening of two new craft distilleries in Missoula, coupled with the establishment of several previously rumored distilleries in Great Falls, propel Montana’s reputation for spirits to new heights. Headframe Spirits in Butte officially be-

wing now enjoys near-complete control of the House, and I predict that 2015 will be the year Knudsen, et al. overplay their hand. Thwarting Medicaid expansion and diverting public money to private schools will startle voters with the gap between the traditions conservatives claim to support and the sweeping changes they actually pursue. The 2015 session will probably hurt Montana, but it will restore our appetite for bipartisan government—and that will ultimately help.

breaking ground in Missoula. Ongoing discussions with local cyclists and Missoula Parks and Recreation lead to the finalization of a site along the Kim Williams Trail near the mouth of Hellgate Canyon.

Conceptual designs are released, tantalizing bikers who have never had an official park to ride in. The progress also smoothes over tensions regarding illegal dirt jumps up in the Rattlesnake, which were once again bulldozed by the city last June. I Ride For Tanner still has much to do in 2015 and is best known as Juno’s dad, the guy in those Farmer’s Insurance commercials or “that guy” in any number of other projects. With such a breakout performance, the Academy will elevate Simmons this year from “that guy” to “The Man.”

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GUEST PROGNOSTICATOR: DAN BROOKS, INDY COLUMNIST AND WRITER AT COMBATBLOG.NET

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gins construction of a massive third facility, setting the stage for increased production and making Headframe the largest distillery west of the Mississippi. As patrons flood into new and existing tasting rooms, the tax revenue generated from retail liquor sales takes another giant leap, crossing the $50,000 mark. And by this time next year, whiskey becomes the local buzzword as Montgomery Distillery inches closer to releasing its first batch of single malt in early 2016.

Missoula breaks ground on memorial BMX park After hitting its fundraising goal of $100,000 in 2014, the effort to build a memorial BMX park for Tanner Olson—the 14-year-old cycling enthusiast killed in a 2011 car crash—moves closer to

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beyond, though, driving the group to continue fundraising through events like Missoula Bicycle Works’ annual Helmet Project even as the park moves from concept to reality.

Montana Republicans overplay their hand Fans of Montana politics anxiously await the 2015 legislative session, when our tradition of ro-

UM alumnus J.K. Simmons wins an Oscar It hasn’t opened in Missoula yet, but an advance screening—and reviews from across the nation—confirms that Whiplash may be a career-changing film for character actor and UM alumnus J.K. Simmons. The story of a vicious music teacher (Simmons) who terrorizes a talented young drummer, Whiplash debuted at Sundance and immediately generated Oscar buzz.

Specifically, that buzz has followed Simmons, who

[12] Missoula Independent • January 1–January 8, 2015

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bust debate briefly takes second stage to our tradition of merciless conservatism. The party’s right

A multinational investment firm attempts to purchase Caras Park from the city, and privatize it—but fails Missoula presents some attractive amenities for outside corporate entities, and the latest target will be Caras Park.

The multinational investment firm eyeing our downtown gathering place will have at least $100 billion in assets across the globe and employ a former George W. Bush cabinet member with ties to the defense industry. As details of the pending transaction emerge, locals will learn that the company intends to double the cost of rides at A Carousel for Missoula, as well as fence off the entrance to Brennan’s Wave and Dragon’s Hollow in order to charge for admission. Concerts at Caras Park will no longer be free, but will feature headlining national tours. The firm will point to these high-profile events as a boon to the local economy and a way to better capitalize on Montana’s tourist industry. All the fees will be explained away as part of a “new economic reality.”

there’s the fact that pot is becoming legal in a growing number of states, especially in the West.

With legal marijuana a real possibility on reservations and in more nearby states—and without fear of another federal crackdown—a sufficient number of pro-business and pro-freedom conservatives will join with pro-common sense Democrats to give the state a significant economic boost, provide sick people with an effective natural remedy and pass a sensible new medical marijuana law. photo by Cathrine

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Aghast locals will fill newspaper opinion pages and social media sites, drawing attention to the many thousands of volunteer hours that went into building the park and its amenities, not to mention the city redevelopment funds used to erect structures such as the Caras Park pavilion. The Carousel, specifically, becomes a rallying point. “School children collected pennies to pay for those ponies,” one protester will yell in vain. “How is it possible carousel ponies could be privatized?”

By mid-year, the weekly protests on the Higgins Avenue bridge—plus a front-page Indy cover of an elementary school student holding a “Keep your hands off our ponies” sign—present too much bad publicity for the investment firm, which ultimately withdraws its offer.

The state legislature opens up medical marijuana While the 2015 Montana Legislature is so stodgy it tried to ban fleece and leggings from the House floor, this will be the year it finally acts to institute real reform to the state’s medical marijuana program. Specifically, lawmakers will increase regulation of growers and providers, improving access for patients, providing long-term stability for the industry and opening the door for future legalization of recreational use.

Don’t get the wrong idea: The Republican-controlled body won’t do this because of a sudden appreciation for Bob Marley and “Adult Swim.” It will happen because lawmakers will see the writing on the wall—and the dollar signs inscribed there.

For one thing, a huge spending bill passed in December prohibits federal agents from raiding medical marijuana operations in states where

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they’re legal. That effectively puts an end to the threat of the federal government doing what it did in 2011: shutting down seemingly legit pot dispensaries. Also in December, the U.S. Justice Department told its prosecutors they could no longer prosecute federal drug law on Indian reservations, opening the door for tribes to legalize marijuana on their sovereign land. And then, of course,

GUEST PROGNOSTICATOR: REP. NICK SCHWADERER, R-SUPERIOR

The Montana Legislature enacts key privacy provisions During a difficult session seeing Democrats and Republicans doing battle over government spending, regulation, taxation and the role of government, sweeping majorities on both sides will unite to pass key privacy and civil liberties legislation.

Republicans such as Matt Rosendale and Daniel Zolnikov, and Democrats like Bryce Bennett and Kelly McCarthy will pass bills to deal with surveillance, rights and privacy following the 2013 NSA revelations.

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Come summer 2015 Montanans will have their emails and social media private messages protected from surveillance unless there is a warrant. Car black boxes will not be surveilled or data mined without a warrant. License plate readers and facial scanners will be prohibited, much in the fashion that Montana banned automatic enforcement traffic cameras.

Montana will also have new protections against police militarization with sideboards on what types of equipment law enforcement can inherit from the feds, keeping implements of war used in the Middle East off our streets.

Local and state government will have to go through new scoping, guidelines and public comment procedures before installing new CCTV cameras to spy on people. Civil asset forfeiture will, following Minnesota’s reforms, either be wholly eliminated or further scrutinized to protect innocent Montanans’ rights to their own hard-earned property. Following the lead of states like California, Montana will refuse to aid federal officials in implementing sections 1021 and 1022 of the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act, which in effect legalized indefinite detention without charge or trial.

The session itself probably will not be pretty, but Republicans and Democrats will take pride in the privacy policy and rights-based policy infrastructure that is laid down to protect Montanans from a dystopian Big Brother police-state future.

Cereal becomes the next hipster food trend

GUEST PROGNOSTICATOR: TOPHER WILLIAMS, COMMUNITY OUTREACH COORDINATOR, MOUNTAIN LINE

It sometimes takes a little while, but hip foodie trends popular in big cities eventually trickle to our little burg. The cronut, for instance, made headlines last year when New Yorkers waited in line for hours to try one of the über flaky confections at Dominique Ansel Bakery. Not to be outdone, Burns St. Bistro unveiled its own limited-edition version, which came with chopped candied bacon on top.

Artisanal toast is currently making waves, with shops like Rocket Coffee and Black Coffee Roasting Company offering their own takes, with rich butter and toppings slathered on thick slices of bread.

Mountain Line has more riders in 2015 than ever before, and shows a 45 percent increase in ridership over the next three years Beginning in January, support from 14 community partners allows Mountain Line to pilot a three-year zero-fare demonstration project. That

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Prepare for the next hipster food trend to make its way here: cereal. A London cafe is currently making headlines for opening up a store that serves 100plus brands, available with several different kinds of milk. A sample order for our new trend: “I’d like a double Lucky Charms with non-GMO vanilla almond milk, hold the horseshoes, please.”

means anyone and everyone can get on the bus without having to pay a fare. In addition, as a result of a 2013 voter supported mill levy, Mountain Line is making route 2 a “Bolt!” route with 15-minute service. With the late evening service lasting until 10 p.m. on routes 1, 2, 6 and 7, as well as increased support for vanpool service for older Missoulians and people with disabilities, the community bus system will break ridership records in 2015 and, over the next three years, show a 45 percent increase in ridership.

The Boss plays Missoula

Griz football wins the Big Sky

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There was an eight-year gap between when the Rolling Stones played Washington-Grizzly Stadium in 2006 and Paul McCartney took the stage last summer, but don’t expect a similar wait for the next big-ticket concert at the venue. What legendary artist can follow Sir Paul and Mick and Keith and the gang? None other than The Boss.

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The University of Montana football team was once considered an annual lock to win the Big Sky Conference. The only question entering a season was how far the team would go in the playoffs.

But recent years haven’t been so kind. After 12 straight seasons of either winning or sharing the title, from 1998 to 2009, the Griz have spent four of the last five years looking on as others hoisted the trophy. UM, meanwhile, has had its hands full dealing with off-field problems, coaching changes and a drawn-out NCAA investigation.

When athletics director Kent Haslam named Bob Stitt head football coach last month, it signaled a new era for the program. The offensive innovator has no ties to the Griz, unlike immediate predecessors Mick Delaney, Robin Pflugrad and Bobby Hauck, and arrives with a completely clean slate. Just as importantly, his arrival—not to mention his up-tempo style—will shake up a team in need of change.

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Since 2009, a community Facebook page called “Bruce Springsteen in Missoula” has been “working on the dream” to bring the hardest working man in show business to town, to no avail. In 2015, that dream is realized when Springsteen and his E Street Band finally throw down for the Treasure State—one of only four states he hasn’t played—with a mindblowing set featuring favorites like “Thunder Road,” “Glory Days” and, of course, “Born in the U.S.A.”

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And that change will extend beyond a new guy on the sidelines and a truckload of “Stitt Happens” T-shirts in the stands. The new ball coach makes his first big splash by bypassing his current crop of quarterbacks and naming either a true freshman ( Willy Pflug?) or FBS transfer (Chad Chalich?) as the starter. The scoreboard short-circuits at least once with scores that rival the basketball team’s. North Dakota State wins the season opener, but Stitt and co. steamroll through their Big Sky schedule en route to the team’s first outright championship since 2009.

late 2014 as a promotional stunt for Frontier Airlines … ). Also, I will turn 40 in February.

Missoula becomes a model for arts in public education In August 2013, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts named Missoula County Public Schools the 13th participant in its Any Given Child

GUEST PROGNOSTICATOR: CHRIS FAIRBANKS, COMEDIAN AND MISSOULA NATIVE

Sony was behind its own cyber attack In early 2015, an investigation reveals the Sony email hack was done internally as promotion for The Interview. Sony canceled the controversial film’s release in order to build up publicity, then blamed the email hacking on the North Korean

government because of the film’s portrayal of a plot to assassinate their oddly hair-cutted leader (which, in retrospect, is as ridiculous as the manufactured Ebola scare, which was conjured up in

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Hank Green steals the virtual spotlight Missoula resident Hank Green is, by now, a celebrity of sorts, specifically in the realm of YouTube. The entrepreneur, musician, vlogger (video blogger) and inventor first gained recognition with the Vlog Brothers YouTube channel he created with his brother, John. They coined the phrase “Don’t Forget to Be Awesome,” which has become a mantra for many YouTubers, including their legion of fans known as Nerdfighters.

The Greens also co-created VidCon, the world’s largest video blogger convention. (Think ComicCon, but for vloggers; this year they plan to host 20,000 participants.)

GUEST PROGNOSTICATOR: JOE BERRYMAN, BARTENDER, BAYERN BREWING

Missoula breweries create record-breaking canned food drive After directly challenging other area breweries to a January canned food drive, Bayern Brewing collects truckloads of goods to replenish shelves at the Missoula Food Bank. Bayern also

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Initiative. The national program aims to make arts a more integral part of K-8 education, just like when you were growing up, back before budget cuts and standardized test scores and suspended school administrators dominated the public education news.

After a year of “strategic planning” guided by the Kennedy Center with a group of Missoula community members, Any Given Child is set to take its first steps toward implementation. In December, Chris Neely started as the program’s executive director. In 2015, the program will start to work its way into the classroom through community partnerships, teacher training and handson arts projects. Considering how Missoula rallies around the arts, Any Given Child moves to the head of the class and becomes a model for the rest of the nation to follow.

In 2015, Hank’s series of Missoula-produced science videos, the SciShow channel, will rocket from 2 million subscribers to 10 million. Hank will appear on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” and “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” Ira Glass will do a segment on Hank for his popular “This American Life” radio program, which will lead to a video spin-off—like a video version of “Serial” or “Planet Money”—where Hank explores science culture and myths.

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While Hank is incredibly popular and well known locally, it’s safe to say he stands in the shadow of his brother. John wrote the popular young-adult novel The Fault in Our Stars, which was adapted into a major motion picture in 2014.

John also spent last year appearing on “The Colbert Report,” being profiled by The New Yorker (among many others) and being named to Time’s Top 100 influential people. All of it is much deserved, but now it’s time for Hank to take the spotlight.

wins the competition, proudly displaying a trophy in its taproom—most likely a gold spraypainted can of corn. The effort builds on the now nine-year-old brewery blanket drive held in December, and becomes the epitome of the friendliest competition in the world.

The report card So, how’d we do last year?

Montana becomes the beeriest state of all: Despite our best (hiccup!) efforts, no.

Montana remains second in breweries per capita. But Missoula’s Draught Works was named best small brewing company at the 2014 Great American Beer Festival, and Kettlehouse’s Double Haul IPA won gold at the World Beer Cup. Barry Beach is freed from prison (again, and for good): Somehow, no. But the Montana Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in February 2015 on a petition by Beach to be resentenced.

Grizzlies get delisted: Hold your horses, er, bears. We felt pretty confident this one would happen, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is still weighing the decision to delist the Yellowstone population.

Mayor John Engen: Something majorly controversial will happen (and we’ll survive): The mayor played this smartly, leaving it open to interpretation. Also open to interpretation is how the city’s faring in its fight for ownership of Mountain Water.

Columnist Dan Brooks: That controversy mentioned by the mayor? Missoula buys Mountain Water Co.: Nope. Carlyle Group did broker a deal to sell Mountain Water—but to a Canadian company that was also willing to take other assets. The city of Missoula’s condemnation trial is slated for court in March.

A major program lures away Griz basketball coach Wayne Tinkle: Boom shakalaka!

Nothing but net here, readers. Our prediction wasn’t just right, it even nailed where Tinkle landed: Ore-

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gon State (“Top-tier schools— think Washington State, Oregon State or even Stanford—will take notice and lure Tinkle away...”).

The “and one” of this predication came with our added note that Tinkle’s new school would benefit by recruiting the coach’s son, Tres.

Sure enough, the Hellgate standout committed to play for his dad before starting his senior season.

A gay bar opens in Missoula: No, but same-sex marriage was a nice consolation prize.

Moms Demand Action’s Nancy de Pastino: U.S. Congress passes expanded background checks on gun sales with help from Montana’s delegation: An optimistic misfire. Even after 60 percent of voters in Washington state approved a Nov. 4 ballot initiative expanding background checks, efforts by Democrats at

the federal level to revive the issue in this year’s lame-duck session failed. Meanwhile, antigun violence groups report nearly 100 school shootings since Sandy Hook.

Montana’s medical marijuana industry rebounds: There has certainly been some progress as the federal government appears disinterested in trampling state laws. But considering the legalization efforts in other parts of the country, Montana is still lagging behind.

Calendar model Lance “Lando” Hughes: We’re all gonna die because of that damn Yellowstone caldera: Well, you’re reading this, right?

State Sen. Ellie Boldman Smith: Montana politics steal the national spotlight: Sorta!

Sen. Max Baucus’ sudden retirement certainly grabbed headlines, as did the plagiarism scandal that plagued his replacement, John Walsh. It’s not exactly what Smith had in mind, but technically the state did demand national attention.

Missoula City Councilman Adam Hertz: Daines wins the Senate; Republicans take back majority: A double shot for Hertz comes up aces. Daines easily defeated Amanda Curtis in November, helping the GOP retake the Senate.

Washington-Grizzly Stadium finally hosts another blockbuster concert: Another score! Sir Paul McCartney headlined the first football stadium concert since the Rolling Stones almost blew up the place back in 2006.

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[arts]

Animal instincts Archaeological illustrator Eric S. Carlson digs a little deeper for inspiration

by Sarah Aswell

W

hile conducting archaeological fieldwork this summer outside of Talkeetna, Alaska, Eric S. Carlson and his coworkers took a rowboat onto a remote lake. It was the middle of the night, but the sun was still shining on the horizon, and the group heard the distinctive loon calls that had permeated their four-month trip. One member on the boat called back, and everyone was surprised when the loons let the boat approach and share the water. There, they quietly watched as the loon mothers carried their babies on their backs and called into the eerie light of the Alaskan night.

For many people, the experience would have ended there—a fond memory. But for archaeologist and artist Eric Carlson, life experiences are only the beginning of the adventure. Over the next few weeks, while still in the field, he sketched his rendering of the loon encounter.

When he returned to Missoula in the fall, he began to paint the birds on a large scale, in bold swirls and sweeps of black and blue. In the work, two of the birds have small men on their backs, adorned with mysterious loon regalia, seemingly transforming into birds themselves.

“The reason I do this art is to make sense of my experiences,” he explains from his small studio in the Brunswick Building. “Everything you see in this room was motivated by actual events. Encounters with animals, birds, wolves, elk. It’s an analytic process of searching deeply into an object. Learning about it

through drawing. The final step is conveying and communicating that to the viewer.”

Carlson’s career, artistic path and personal life all seem to intertwine and mirror each other—a complex mixture of correlations and causations. Like the loonmen, or any of the transformative creatures that populate his art, it’s hard to say what is begetting what, or where the final result will be.

Carlson grew up in Juneau, Alaska, where he was deeply influenced by Tlingit art and mythology, and where he spent long, isolated winters experimenting with art with his brother. Later, at the University of Oregon, he continued to study art but received a dual degree in anthropology and psychology. While in school, he also met mentor Lance Peterson, a formally trained illustrator who taught Carlson traditional drawing techniques using a metal-nibbed stylus and ink.

After graduation, Carlson embarked on a career as an archeological illustrator, traveling the world both for public museums and private archeology firms. This delicate, exacting work might include recreating every tiny chisel, chip, shadow and edge of an ancient arrowhead.

“As an archaeological illustrator, part of the process is to analyze and interpret the artifact,” he says. “How was it made? How was it used? What are some of the important or culturally significant parts of the artifact? What makes it temporally diagnostic? In the illustrative process,

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you need to know the answers to these questions. You spend this intimate time with these objects and you learn about them over the course of hours.”

Carlson discovered that the process of making art was also necessarily a process of learning. It was a discovery that, along with many of his illustrative techniques, began heavily affecting the art he was creating out of the office. His artistic style was evolving as he continued to study art and art history in his spare time. His line work was affected by learning extensively about 16th century engravers, while he integrated multiple viewpoints into his art after developing an interest in early cubism. The techniques helped him better understand his life experiences and better express his ideas about transformation and animal nature.

The result of Carlson’s process are big, dynamic pieces that make the viewer feel an almost uncomfortable connection with their primitive or animal side; a moment of feeling free or feral. The pieces, which will be shown in Carlson’s first solo exhibition, Transformations, at The Brink beginning on Jan. 2, are filled with action, change and the sense of energetic learning. There are echoes of Carlson’s professional career, both the techniques he uses to draw artifacts and the experiences he has had when working in the field.

“Crewmembers are in an environment where they can shed elements of their personalities that they may

have had imposed upon them, or they feel are unnatural, and experiment and practice new ways of self-expression,” he says. “The paintings at The Brink explore these ideas of changeability, symbolized in the human-tobird/animal transformations.”

As Carlson’s personal works evolve—in size, technique, and complexity—his field is evolving, too. The advent of technology, scanning and 3D printing is making many archaeologists think that human illustrators are obsolete.

But Carlson knows better.

“People aren’t being taught traditional illustration.

There aren’t many of us left,” he says. “But my main argument is that the digital representation isn’t an informed representation. It’s the same battle that the early cubists were fighting. I see the digital representation as just a veneer. Illustrations are about truly understanding the object at a deeper level and conveying that to viewer.”

To see that Carlson is right—that he’s really, truly, right—you don’t have to look further than the men riding the loons.

Eric S. Carlson’s Transformations opens at The Brink Gallery Fri., Jan. 2, with a First Friday reception from 5 to 8 PM. arts@missoulanews.com

[music]

Wall flower Greenwood respectfully declines your full attention Let’s be honest: It’s difficult to review ambient rock albums.

You start out really, really, trying to concentrate on the music, on the lyrics, on the artists’ likely influences—but then suddenly it’s 45 minutes later, the album is over and you are pleasantly staring at a wall or inexplicably walking down a foggy logging road, lost in your thoughts. You notice the silence of the record ending more than you ever noticed the music. Though that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Greenwood, the moniker of Michael Kimball’s oneman ambient-indie-rock effort, is no different. From the opening track to the bonus material, the eponymous album creates an aura for something you can think to, something you can write to. It doesn’t demand attention. It’s not the life of the party. But it does create an appealing atmosphere and mood—a veil over your world.

Kimball, who recently moved from Minneapolis to Missoula, delivers a distinctive brand of ambient rock—one that updates what most of us are probably familiar with from when the genre was popular in the early ’90s. His songs, like standout tracks “Skin” and “Thaw,” borrow familiar sounds from more recent indie rock artists like Bon Iver and The National, but take them down a notch by distorting the vocals, adding more down-tempo beats and experimenting with background noise. The result is a pleasant float through nine tracks, all lyrics totally ignored, all song transitions absolutely missed.

Like so much of the high-quality ambient music of the past, Greenwood’s effort seems almost altruistic or even self-sacrificing. The album just wants you to have a nice time, even if that means not paying much attention to the album itself. And I had a nice time listening to Greenwood. (Sarah Aswell)

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Ryan Adams, Ryan Adams Ryan Adams is tough to pin down and he seems to like it that way. From his vulnerable altcountry/folk debut Heartbreaker to early high-profile bands like Whiskeytown and the Cardinals to more recent forays into punk and metal, the North Carolina musician follows whichever muse he chooses, often to the dismay of his former record labels. His eponymous album nestles itself comfortably in the middle of his musical extremes, alternating between simmering rock ’n’ roll and quiet, loner ballads that conjure a vintage, late ’70s/early ’80s atmosphere.

Adams paints a moody picture using jukeboxfriendly, heartland rocker brushstrokes a la Bruce

Springsteen while managing to avoid overdone sentimentality.

The Grammy-nominated single “Gimme Something Good” immediately sets the bar high with a straightforward hook, perfectly overdriven guitar tones and smoky organ vibes courtesy of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Bentmont Tench. The rest of the record fails to meet that track’s vigor, but other sleeper gems include the breathy, Fleetwood Mac-ish “Am I Safe” and the muted guitar chug of “I Just Might.” The songwriter sounds a bit resigned on this album, but aside from being perhaps too middle-of-theroad after such an eclectic history, this record has few misses. (Jed Nussbaum)

Whitey Morgan, Grandpa’s Guitar Country outlaw Whitey Morgan has put together a nearly flawless tribute to his grandfather, William Henry Morgan, in his latest release, Grandpa’s Guitar. The Flint, Mich. musician is known for a more bombastic approach to country music, like in Honky Tonks and Cheap Motels, his 2008 debut with his band The 78’s, which was released by rock label Small Stone Records.

Grandpa’s Guitar is a striking departure—a strippeddown collection of mostly voice and guitar recordings, with some fiddle and pedal steel sprinkled in.

In the liner notes, Morgan refers to an old Memorex tape he keeps of his grandpa singing and playing songs on the very guitar on which Morgan ultimately

learned to play. Grandpa’s Guitar reflects many of those old songs, combined with others that Morgan found inspiring while traveling long nights on the road. The title track is a Morgan original, but most of the songs bear songwriting credits with names like Jennings, Haggard and Springsteen. He even delivers a gutsy rendition of the Jagger/Richards tune, “Dead Flowers.”

Grandpa’s Guitar closes with a recording from the Memorex cassette of the man who started it all, grandpa William Henry Morgan, picking and singing the Howard/Hart classic, “It Takes One to Know One, And I Know You.” It’s a beautiful close to a beautiful record. (Chris La Tray)

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[music]

Kids these days Why it’s okay to bring cellphones to concerts

by Kate Whittle

Smartphones are such a new and radical addition In a short YouTube video that recently made the rounds on my Facebook feed, a fan climbs onstage while to our daily life that the etiquette and culture surthe metalcore band Every Time I Die is playing. As the rounding their appropriate use is struggling to catch dude whips out his cellphone and tries to take a selfie up. I’m not defending the dude who blocks your viwith the lead singer, the guitarist deftly karate-kicks the sion while he angles for the perfect shot, nor the lady phone out of the fan’s hand. The video of the incident who blatantly ignores the music while swiping through Tindr. But people will always behave in ways that irriwas, of course, taken with a smartphone.

Now then, your reaction to this video could go a tate us at shows, and I’ll take the amateur videogracouple ways. You might think the video is hilarious and phers or social-media-obsessives over, say, the the overbearing fan deserved what he got, and move on, drunken ass-gropers any time. (I see far fewer thinkor you might take it as an example of how portable de- pieces deriding dudes who grope women in public, vices have invaded our music-going experience to a and I guarantee you, it is far more offensive of a probridiculous extent. ( You might also ask what the hell “met- lem at concerts.)

People who advocate for removing phones from alcore” is, but that’s a topic for another time.) I’m willing to bet that where you fall on the spectrum of outrage has concerts say that it’s important to really be present in the moment, and it cera lot to do with what gentainly is. But I defend eration you belong to. everyone’s right to take Using phones at “I’ll take the pictures of concerts— concerts bothers a vast array of people; a brief amateur videographers or within reason—simply because memory is such Google search digs up infaulty process. We take dignant sputtering from social-media-obsessives aphotos, and it’s become outlets including the such a common thing to Huffington Post, NPR, over, say, the drunken do at concerts in particCNN, Mic and more. Muular, because they help sicians seem to be most ass-gropers any time.” us remember. I can be up-in-arms about it, with “in the moment” and people like Jack White still take a few snapshots declaring how much they hate seeing phones at concerts. I recently bought tickets that, months or years from now, will jar my recollection for the June 6 Neutral Milk Hotel show at the Wilma, of events that might otherwise have been lost to beerand rolled my eyes when I saw the notice that no pho- soaked forgetfulness. I understand why a singer on a tography or video is allowed. I’ll respect that request, stage doesn’t like to look out at a sea of cameras flashbut I think they’re fighting a losing battle. Why? Because ing, but to get upset about it is to miss the point that I find it really difficult to give a damn about phones. fans want to capture a beautiful, intangible feeling.

Every time I flip (or scroll) through my digital photo Noticing whether anyone is using a phone at a show is like noticing whether they’re holding a beer can; I’m albums, I am grateful for the pictures that I thought to not likely to care unless you hit me on the head with it. take, even the lousy and blurry ones. For instance, none As a millennial—the generation born roughly be- of the shots I took of Paul McCartney’s August show at tween early ’80s and early 2000s—I can only dimly re- Washington-Grizzly Stadium are frame-worthy. Nor are member a time before cellphones or the Internet. I’ll the ones I took of Neko Case at the Wilma last May. But agree that mobile devices have become ubiquitous in when I look at them, I remember exactly where I was, ways that are certainly extraordinary and perhaps un- who I was with and how much fun I had—but I cannot, no matter how much I search my brain, remember if settling if you grew up unaccustomed to them.

But Kranzberg’s first law states, “Technology is nei- anyone else around in the crowd was using their phone ther good nor bad; nor is it neutral,” meaning we can or not. acknowledge the ways it changes life without becoming nostalgic Luddites. kwhittle@missoulanews.com

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

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[film]

Long walk home Oscar-worthy Wild lets the healing begin

by Molly Laich

“Shouldn’t have packed the cast-iron pan.”

Most everyone I’ve encountered in Montana understands without needing to be told that to walk alone in the wilderness is a sacred, transformative act. That might even be why you live here; your job and family make you crazy but you can always see sanity sprawled out ahead on the mountain skyline whispering your name. But it’s dangerous, too. Who knows how the woods will change you? When you come out the other side, will you recognize yourself? Wild stands on that intersection between a ruined life and the thorny, winding road to redemption.

The film stars Reese Witherspoon as Cheryl Strayed, the real life author of the memoir of the same name, adapted for the screen by novelist Nick Hornby (High Fidelity, About a Boy) and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée (Dallas Buyer’s Club). Cheryl Strayed’s influence buzzes around these parts in unexpected ways. I first came across her writing at an online literary magazine called The Rumpus, curated by Stephen Elliot, where for a few years she wrote an anonymous advice column called “Dear Sugar.”

I found her advice filled with wisdom, humor and warmth. She always called the reader “Sweet Pea,” and the advice seemed predicated on a life’s worth of experience. Her ex-husband in the film (known in the movie as “Paul”) is a real guy, Marco Littig, who co-owns Bernice’s Bakery in Missoula. Strayed lives in Portland, Ore., with her husband and a couple of kids. These are your friends and neighbors, and it makes the story feel close.

As for the movie: We meet Cheryl just as she’s about to set out alone on the 1,000-mile hike up the west coast known as the Pacific Crest Trail. She thinks back to everything that’s gone wrong and all the ways this hike will help. Through skillfully blended-in flashbacks, we learn that she’s lost her mother (Laura Dern) to cancer, that her relationship with Paul has fallen apart due to her drug use and promiscuity—in short, the trip is a metaphorical-made-very-real attempt at “walking back to being the woman her mother wanted her to be.” I think that makes sense to a Montanan. If you haven’t ever found yourself walking on blistered feet down a trail that never ends, then the movie has more work to do on you. You can almost see the thought bubbles fizzing and cracking around her head. On the trail, you

get a song on the brain for 20 miles and there’s nothing to be done. Things you’ve said that you wish you could take back instead echo interminably. You spend a lot of time in pain, regret and longing. But something happens along the trail once you’re too exhausted to keep searching for it. You start to heal.

In some ways, this is just a fun picture for backpacking nerds. She’s setting up her tent and stove for the first time on the trail and it’s a clumsy effort. What an amateur, right? She didn’t do a trial run in her living room first? I like when she’s hanging out at one of the checkpoints and a man helps her lighten her pack.

Surely she doesn’t need those heavy binoculars and all 12 condoms, but it’s a real sex-positive, go feminism moment when she saves one of them. It’s also some pretty heavy-handed foreshadowing that Cheryl is probably going to get laid later, and hey, she earned it.

It’s still a rare thing in film to see a woman in such an actionable position. A lot of men give her these sideways looks, like, “You sure you want to do this? It’s dangerous out there.” If they’re talking about wild animals, sure, but really, is the strength of a man so much greater than that of a lady when you’ve got a 12-foot grizzly bearing down on you? It’s a sad truth that Cheryl’s biggest problem is other men, and yeah, a few sketchy characters show up. But women have just as much a right to hurl themselves into danger as men, don’t they?

Cheryl knows it’s dangerous and that doesn’t stop her.

Wild hits all the right notes of Strayed’s memoir. It’s an inspiring, sometimes sad and beautifully shot film that with its limited scope and substance falls a little short of anything spectacular. There’s not much plot to speak of, which isn’t always a deal breaker, but at a nearly twohour running time, like Cheryl’s hike, the film starts to feel tedious and without point. Director Vallée shows us action as best he can that essentially amounts to a lady walking down a path with a lot on her mind. As for Witherspoon’s performance and dreams of Oscar—it’s a solid performance and I think she’s got a fighting chance. Tears and bruises go a long way.

Wild continues at Carmike 12. arts@missoulanews.com

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[film] INTO THE WOODS Meryl Streep chews on hella scenery as a witch who assigns a couple with daunting fairy tale tasks. Update: it has come to my attention that this is a musical, which the trailer works pretty hard to disguise. Proceed accordingly.

Also starring Anna Kendrick and Chris Pine.

Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex.

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: SECRET OF THE TOMB Larry the museum guard embarks on an epic quest to save magic or something. Starring Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Owen Wilson.

Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR The goofy flightless avians hatch a plan to prevent the evil Dr. Brine from carrying out his plans. Featuring the voices of Tom McGrath, Chris Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

“And this little piggy needed a hug after the scary movie.” Babadook opens Friday at the Roxy.

OPENING THIS WEEK THE BABADOOK A single mother and her son are threatened by an ominous presence that may or may not be real. And dear god, just the trailer gives me the heebie-jeebies. Starring Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman and Daniel Henshall. Not rated. Screening at the Roxy Fri., Jan 2-Sun., Jan 4 and Fri., Jan 9Sun., Jan 11 at 7 and 9 PM. EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN Director Ang Lee’s 1994 dramedy finds a chef and his three grown daughters coming together each week and resolving their issues over dinner.

Starring Sihung Lung, Yu-Wen Wang and ChienLien Wu. Not rated. Screening at the Roxy Wed., Jan. 7, at 7 PM. GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES Little kids try to survive in wartime Japan in this 1988 animated tearjerker. Screening at the Roxy Wed., Jan. 7, at 7:15 PM, and Sun., Jan. 11, at 4 PM, as part of a monthlong Isao Takahata retrospective.

THE INTERVIEW The comedy about assassinating the North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un has a 52 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, but hey, you be the judge.

Starring James Franco, Seth Rogen and Randall Park. Rated R. Pharaohplex.

USHPIZIN An Orthodox Jewish couple in modern-day Jerusalem finds miracles in everyday life that turn into trials. Starring Shuli Rand, Michal Bat-Sheva Rand and Shaul Mizrahi. Rated PG. Screening at the Roxy Sun., Jan 4, at 5 PM, as part of Har Shalom’s Jewish Film Festival.

THE WOMAN IN BLACK 2: ANGEL OF DEATH Children evacuated from WWII-era London arrive at the haunted Eel Marsh house and awaken a dark spirit. Good going, guys. Starring Helen McCrory, Jeremy Irvine and Phoebe Fox. Rated PG13. Carmike 12, Pharoahplex.

NOW PLAYING ANNIE Quvenzhané Wallis stars as a foster kid taken in by a business tycoon in the remake of the classic musical your choir teacher always made you watch before winter break. Also starring Cameron Diaz and Jamie Foxx. Rated PG. Carmike 12, Pharoahplex.

BIG EYES A successful 1950s painter fights with her money-grubbing husband over the rights to her works. Starring Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz and Krysten Ritter. Rated PG-13. Carmike 12.

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UNBROKEN Angelina Jolie directs the harrowing story of an Olympian taken as a POW by the Japanese navy. Starring Jack O’Connell, Takamasa Ishihara and Domhnall Gleeson. Rated PG-13.

Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

THE GAMBLER Ol’ Marky Mark is a high-stakes gambler who gets in deep with a loan shark; plus, he’s boning one of his students. Also starring Jessica Lange and John Goodman. Rated R. Carmike 12.

CITIZENFOUR A reporter documents how Edward Snowden uncovered illegal surveillance programs, and finally, we get another picture of the guy to use with articles. Not rated. Wilma.

A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT Director Ana Lily Amirpour’s feature is described as the first “Iranian vampire western,” which sounds pretty flippin’ rad. Starring Sheila Vand, Arash Marandi and Marshall Manesh. Not rated.

Screening at the Roxy Fri., Jan. 2–Sun., Jan 4, at 7:15 and 9:15 PM. (See Spotlight in 8 Days A Week.)

FORCE MAJEURE (TURIST) A Swedish man's lousy choice in the face of an impending crisis causes a falling-out with his wife and family over the course of a ski vacation. Starring Johannes Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli and Clara Wettergren. Rated R. Wilma.

THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES Peter Jackson’s bloated CGI-fest comes to a close with nearly three hours of battle scenes featuring the exploits of Bilbo and company. I’m rooting for Smaug this time. Starring Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman and Richard Armitage. Rated PG-13.

Opening Tue., Dec. 16. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Entertainer.

THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 Katniss Everdeen meets President Coin and decides whether to lead a rebellion. #TeamGale.

Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth. PG-13. Carmike 12, Pharaohplex, Showboat.

THE HOMESMAN Hilary Swank plays a tough broad who's retrieving women escaping the pioneer life; but she's gotta get Tommy Lee Jones to help get them across the Nebraska Territories. Also starring Grace Gummer and Miranda Otto. Rated R. Wilma.

Capsule reviews by Kate Whittle.

Planning your outing to the cinema? Visit the arts section of missoulanews.com to find up-to-date movie times for theaters in the area. You can also contact theaters to spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 12 and Village 6 at 541-7469; Wilma at 728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 961-FILM; Showboat in Polson and Entertainer in Ronan at 883-5603.

[dish]

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photo courtesy of Alexander Vasin

The morning after

by SOUStown CHEF Everyone has a New Year’s Eve story. Mine involves a long night of a well-intentioned bow tie-wearing dude experimenting with espresso martinis to help an aging crowd party past midnight. I wouldn’t touch the things, mind you—I’m more of a beer can sorta guy; bottle on special occasions—but my date did. She drank approximately 92 variations, including the one with marshmallows and chocolate shavings. Needless to say, she had a long night—and an even longer morning.

It was the morning I remember best. We had promised her parents we’d meet them for brunch. That meant I had to peel my date out of bed, prop her and her aching head in the car and ever so gently drive to her parents’ house. I was going about 20 mph down a rural road when she pleaded for me to slow down. I did. It wasn’t long before, clear as the winter’s day, someone moseyed past us on horseback. We were 45 minutes late to brunch.

Hangovers are the worst. While I’d like to think I’ve mostly outgrown the splitting headaches and gut-churning nausea my date felt years ago, there are certain days of the year you still find yourself letting loose, tossing a few more back and forgetting to pop a couple aspirin before crashing. And on the mornings after those nights, there’s nothing you want more than for the pain to stop and a great meal to help settle your belly. (Before you nap, of course.)

I have two go-to meals on these days—one that requires a bit of planning, another that can be made on the spot. They’ve made my hangover emergency list because they’re both super filling and super easy to make.

If I can’t make it to Paul’s Pancake Parlor, Burns St. Bistro or The Shack, I’m making one of these.

Egg and cheese casserole What you need: 14 slices white bread, 3 tablespoons melted butter, 4 cups shredded cheddar cheese, 4 eggs, 3 cups whole milk, ½ teaspoon salt, fresh ground black pepper, ½ teaspoon paprika, chopped fresh parsley, cooked crumbled bacon.

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How to make it: Grease 13-by-9 pan with butter.

Trim crusts from bread, and then butter the bread.

Arrange half of the bread slices in pan, layer with 1⁄2 of the cheese. Repeat with the rest of the bread and cheese.

In a large bowl, mix eggs, milk, salt, pepper and paprika.

Pour the mixture over your layers of bread and cheese, cover and refrigerate overnight.

The next morning, uncover, let stand at room temperature about 1 hour. Cook at 350 degrees for about an hour. Top with parsley and bacon.

Why to make it: Yes, you have to make it the night before. But a little advance planning pays off big in the morning. In other words, make this on New Year’s Eve and thank me later.

Double cheese and bacon quiche What you need: 1 1⁄3 cups cracker or tortilla chip crumbs (about 1 sleeve of crackers; see below), 3 tablespoons melted butter, ½ cup milk, ½ cup cottage cheese, 2 tablespoons Dijon or honey mustard, ¼ teaspoon kosher salt, ¼ teaspoon fresh ground black pepper, 3 eggs, 1 cup grated sharp cheddar cheese (about 1 ⁄4 pound), 1 cup chopped bacon, 4 chopped scallions.

How to make it: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a medium bowl, mix together crumbs and butter. Press mixture into a standard pie pan to form the crust’s bottom and sides; bake 10 minutes.

In a large bowl, whisk together milk, cottage cheese, mustard, salt, pepper and eggs. Scatter ½ cup cheese over bottom of crust, then pour in egg mixture. Toss remaining ½ cup cheese with bacon and scallions, then scatter over eggs, pressing down gently. Bake quiche until eggs are set and top is golden, about 50 minutes.

Why to make it: It’s a quiche that doesn’t suck.

Plus, anything that involves the words “double cheese” and “bacon” is good by me. I think it’s especially cool that any cracker or tortilla chip works with this dish. I prefer Ritz, simply because there’s always a sleeve in the pantry for some reason. A family member uses saltines.

Oh, and if you’d prefer ham to bacon, knock yourself out. Both work fine in this dish.

SATURDAYS 4PM-9PM

MONDAYS & THURSDAYS ALL DAY

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[dish] Bagels On Broadway 223 West Broadway 728-8900 (across from courthouse) Featuring over 25 sandwich selections, 20 bagel varieties, & 20 cream cheese spreads. Also a wide selection of homemade soups, salads and desserts. Gourmet coffee and espresso drinks, fruit smoothies, and frappes. Ample seating; free wi-fi. Free downtown delivery (weekdays) with $10.00 min. order. Call ahead to have your order ready for you! Open 7 days a week.

Voted one of top 20 bagel shops in country by internet survey. $-$$ Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 bernicesbakerymt.com Nothing says Bernice's like the cold, grey month of January. Come in, sit quietly, or share a table with friends in our warm and cozy dining room.

Enjoy a cup of joe, a slice of cake, or a breakfast pastry as the sun beams in through our large glass windows.

Want a healthy lunch? Come by in the afternoon and try a salad sampler or Bernice's own Garlic Hummus Sandwich on our Honey Whole Wheat Bread. Bless you all in 2014! xoxo bernice. $-$$ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a “biga” (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Black Coffee Roasting Co. 1515 Wyoming St., Suite 200 541-3700 Black Coffee Roasting Company is located in the heart of Missoula. Our roastery is open Mon.–Fri., 7:30–4, Sat. 8-4. In addition to fresh roasted coffee beans we offer a full service espresso bar, drip coffee, pour-overs and more. The suspension of coffee beans in water is our specialty. $ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula’s Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula’s place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to 10:30 pm. $-$$ Brooks & Browns Inside Holiday Inn Downtown 200 S. Pattee St. • 532-2056 Martini Mania with $4 martinis every Monday. The Griz Coaches Radio Show LIVE every Tuesday at 6pm, Burger & Beer special $8 every Tuesday. $2 well drinks & $2 PBR tall boys every Wednesday. Big Brains Trivia every Thursday at 8pm. Have you discovered Brooks & Browns? Inside the Holiday Inn, Downtown Missoula $-$$ Burns Street Bistro 1500 Burns St. • 543-0719 burnsstbistro.com We cook the freshest local ingredients as a matter of pride. Our relationship with local farmers, ranchers and other businesses allows us to bring quality, scratch cooking and fresh-brewed Black Coffee Roasting Co. coffee and espresso to Missoula’s historic westside neighborhood. Handmade breads & pastries, soups, salads & sandwiches change with the seasons, but our commitment to delicious, affordable food and over-the-top fun and friendly service does not. Mon-Fri 7 AM – 2 PM. Sat and Sun Brunch 9 AM – 2 PM. Reservations for Prix Fixe dinners on Fri and Sat nights. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 42 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. $

Cafe Zydeco 2101 Brooks • 406-926-2578 cafezydeco.com GIT’ SOME SOUTH IN YOUR MOUTH! Authentic cajun cuisine, with an upbeat zydeco atmosphere in the heart of Missoula. Indoor and outdoor seating. Breakfast served all day. Featuring Jambalaya, Gumbo, Étouffée, Po-boys and more. Beignets served ALL DAY! Open Monday 9am-3pm, Tuesday-Saturday 11am-8pm, Closed Sundays.

Doc’s Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc’s is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you’re heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc’s is always an excellent choice. Delivery in the greater Missoula area. We also offer custom catering!...everything from gourmet appetizers to all of our menu items. $-$$ Eagles Lodge #32 Missoula 2420 South Avenue • 543-6346 Tailgate with us before each Griz home game, and get a FREE ride to the game on our shuttle.

Soup, salad and burgers served for lunch Monday thru Friday 11:00am to 2:30pm. Don’t forget to stop in for our Thursday Night Matadors & Friday Night Burgers, 6:00 to 8:00pm both nights. Live music EVERY Friday and Saturday night and admission is always FREE! El Cazador 101 S. Higgins Ave. • 728-3657 Missoula Independent readers’ choice for Best Mexican Restaurant. Come taste Alfredo’s original recipes for authentic Mexican food where we cook with love. From seafood to carne asada, enjoy dinner or stop by for our daily lunch specials. We are a locally owned Mexican family restaurant, and we want to make your visit with us one to remember. Open daily for lunch and dinner. $-$$ The Empanada Joint 123 E. Main St. • 926-2038 FREE DELIVERY DOWNTOWN. Offering authentic empanadas BAKED FRESH DAILY! 9 different flavors, including vegetarian and gluten-free options. NOW SERVING BREAKFAST Empanadas! Ask us about our Take and Bake Service! Plus Argentine side dishes and desserts. Super quick and super delicious! Get your healthy hearty lunch or dinner here! Wi-Fi, Soccer on the Big Screen, and a rich sound system featuring music from Argentina and the Caribbean. Mon-Thurs 11 am - 6 pm. Friday and Sat 11-8 pm Downtown Missoula. $ Good Food Store 1600 S. 3rd West • 541-FOOD The GFS Deli features made-to-order sandwiches, Fire Deck pizza & calzones, rice & noodle wok bowls, an award-winning salad bar, an olive & antipasto bar and a self-serve hot bar offering a variety of housemade breakfast, lunch and dinner entrées. A seasonally-changing selection of deli salads and rotisserie-roasted chickens are also available. Locallyroasted coffee/espresso drinks and an extensive fresh juice and smoothie menu complement bakery goods from the GFS ovens and Missoula’s favorite bakeries. Indoor and patio seating. Open every day 7am-10pm $-$$ Grizzly Liquor 110 W Spruce St. • 549-7723 www.grizzlyliquor.com Voted Missoula’s Best Liquor Store! Largest selection of spirits in the Northwest, including all Montana micro-distilleries. Your headquarters for unique spirits and wines! Free customer parking. Open Monday-Saturday 9-7:30 www.grizzlyliquor.com. $-$$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 hobnobonhiggins.com Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. MC/V $-$$ 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. Stop by & stay awhile! No matter what you are looking for, we’ll give you something to smile about. $$-$$$

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[dish] Iza 529 S. Higgins • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com Contemporary Asian cuisine featuring local, vegan, gluten free and organic options as well as wild caught seafood, Idaho trout and buffalo. Join us for lunch and dinner. Happy Hour 3-6 weekdays with specials on food and drink. Extensive sake, wine and tea menu. Closed Sundays. Open Mon-Fri: Lunch 11:30-3pm, Happy Hour 3-6pm, Dinner 5pm-close.

Sat: Dinner 5pm-close. $-$$ Jimmy John’s 420 N. Higgins • 542-1100 jimmyjohns.com Jimmy John’s - America’s Favorite Sandwich Delivery Guys! Unlike any other sub shop, Jimmy John’s is all about the freshest ingredients and fastest service. Freaky Fast, Freaky Good - that’s Jimmy John’s. Order online, call for delivery or visit us on Higgins. $-$$ Le Petit Outre 129 S. 4th West • 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $ Lucky Strike Sports Bar. Casino. Restaurant 1515 Dearborn Ave. 549-4152 Our restaurant offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. Are you looking for Delivery without all the extra charges? Call 549-4152 and talk to Jacquie or Judy for more details. You can also get lunch and Coffee from Bold Coffee in the parking lot. Come into the casino for your chance to play Plinko, Spin the Wheel, or Roll the Dice for machine play. Open Mon-Sun 7am2am. $-$$ Market on Front 201 E. Front St. marketonfront.com The Market on Front is more than a market with a restaurant. It is an energetic marketplace which offers an epicurean experience to excite the senses. It is also an energetic, vibrant marketplace creating an opportunity to taste and take home the products of artisans who create excellent products at awesome prices. This community centered specialty food destination features gourmet yet traditional prepared foods, sandwiches, salads, specialty cheeses, charcuterie, local brews, wines, espresso and so much more! $-$$ Missoula Senior Center 705 S. Higgins Ave. • 543-7154 (on the hip strip) • themissoulaseniorcenter.org Did you know that the Missoula Senior Center serves delicious hearty lunches every weekday for only $3?

(Missoula County residents over 60: $3, only $6 if younger and just stopping by) Anyone is welcome to join us from 11:30-12:30 Monday- Friday for delicious food and great conversation. For a full menu, visit our website. $ The Mustard Seed Asian Cafe Southgate Mall • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian fusion cuisine.

Original recipes and fresh ingredients combine the best of Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences. Full menu available at the bar.

Award winning desserts made fresh daily , local and regional micro brews, fine wines & signature cocktails. Vegetarian and Gluten free menu available.

Takeout & delivery. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve327-0731 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. $$-$$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 South Orange St. 543-3188 www.orangestreetfoodfarm.com Experience The Farm today!!! Voted number one Supermarket & Retail Beer Selection. Fried chicken, fresh

meat, great produce, vegan, gluten free, all natural, a HUGE beer and wine selection, and ROCKIN’ music.

What deal will you find today? $-$$$ Parker’s Restaurant 32 East Front Street Exit 153, Drummond 406-288-2333 Find us on Facebook, Yelp or Foursquare.

Offering over 125 different Burgers. Parker’s burgers are ground fresh daily. We patty them 1/4 pound at a time.

We also have 1/2 pound and pound burgers! Most burgers are available all the time too, except for seasonal items. We’re open Tuesday thru Saturday 11am to 8 pm. We’ve also got Steaks, Pastas, Salads, Daily Specials and NOT the usual variety of home made desserts. Private parties and catering available. $-$$

The Montana Distillery HAPPIEST HOUR

Pearl Cafe 231 East Front St. 541-0231 • pearlcafe.us Country French meets the Northwest. Idaho Trout with Dungeness Crab, Rabbit with Wild Mushroom Ragout, Snake River Farms Beef, Fresh Seafood Specials Daily. House Made Charcuterie, Sourdough Bread & Delectable Desserts. Extensive wine list; 18 wines by the glass and local beers on draft. Reservations recommended for the intimate dining areas. Visit our website Pearlcafe.us to check out our nightly specials, make reservations, or buy gift certificates. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Plonk 322 N Higgins • 926-1791 www.plonkwine.com Plonk is an excursion into the world of fine wine, food, cocktails, service and atmosphere. With an environment designed to engage the senses, the downtown establishment blends quality and creativity in an all-encompassing dining experience. Described as an urban hot spot dropped into the heart of the Missoula Valley and lifestyle, Plonk embodies metropolitan personalities driven by Montana passions.

Roxiberry Gourmet Frozen Yogurt Southgate Mall Across from Noodle Express 317.1814 • roxiberry.com Bringing Missoula gourmet, frozen yogurt, using the finest ingredients (no frozen mixes), to satisfy your intense cravings with our intense flavors. Our home-made blends offer healthy, nutritional profiles. We also offer smoothies, fresh-made waffle cones, and select baked goods (gluten-free choices available). Join Club Roxi for special offers. See us in-store or visit our website for information. $-$$ Taco Del Sol 422 N. Higgins 327-8929 Stop in when you’re in the neighborhood.

We’ll do our best to treat you right! Crowned Missoula’s best lunch for under $6. Mon.-Sat. 11-10 Sun 12-9. $$$ Taco Sano 115 1/2 S. 4th Street West Located next to Holiday Store on Hip Strip 541-7570 • tacosano.net Once you find us you’ll keep coming back. Breakfast Burritos served all day, Quesadillas, Burritos and Tacos.

Let us dress up your food with our unique selection of toppings, salsas, and sauces. Open 10am-9am 7 days a week. WE DELIVER. $-$$

photo by Cathrine L. Walters

Where you are: At Missoula’s newest home for homemade spirits.

What you’re drinking: While there are plans to produce whiskey and gin, the distillery only offers vodka for now. Made from sugar beets, the vodka comes both straight and infused with various flavors, including bacon, huckleberry and pepper. You can buy pints or fifths to go, or you can order a shot or mixed drink in the taproom. Among the highlights of the still-developing cocktail list is the cucumber Moscow mule. Like the distillery in general, it’s a drink that’s rooted in tradition (a copper mug, ginger beer) but improves on convention, in this case with the use of a crisp and distinct cucumber vodka.

Ambience: The distillery spreads out over three storefronts. One is devoted to production and packaging. A second includes space for an office and merchandise. The third is a taproom, which features both a bar and a dimly lit lounge area with a plush furniture. Overall, it’s a spare but comfortable atmosphere, a good place to take a date or a book, depending on your mood.

Where it came from: The taproom has only been open since Dec. 13, but the Montana Distillery has a long and tangled history.

When Mark Hlebichuk and Sharie McDonald bought the operation in 2012, it was based in Rexford and was called Flathead Distillers.

You might recognize the logo of a cowboy tipping his hat (and missing the top of his head), which the new owners continue to incorporate in their packaging. Many other things have changed, however, from the shape of the bottles to the ingredients used.

When it’s open: Like other craft breweries and distilleries, the Montana Distillery has restricted hours. It’s open from noon to 8 p.m., seven days a week.

How to find it: The Montana Distillery is located at 631 Woody St. While the owners have been too busy to put up much signage yet, look for the silver stills in the window of what once was Go Fetch! and you’ll be there.

–Ted McDermott Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, email editor@missoulanews.com.

Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Dr. 549-8703 www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Soak in the harvest sunshine with a view of the vineyard, or cozy up with a glass of wine inside the winery. Wine sold by the flight or glass. Bottles sold to take home or to ship to friends and relatives. $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

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January 1–January 8, 2015

All signs point to “yes.” Best Westerns play the Top Hat Sat., Jan. 3, at 10 PM. No cover.

THURSDAYJAN01 Get a spiffy start to the year by venturing out on the town to see Holy Lands, who are holding down the fort at the VFW’s Thursday night residency for January. Shows start around 10 PM, with covers ranging from free to a couple bucks, and with guests like Wormwood and Dragon Parfait.

The Missoula Public Library’s online book club discussion kicks off today on Goodreads.com, featuring Jerry Spinelli’s YA classic Stargirl, which you probably identify with if you were/are a quirky teenager. Ahem.

Visit the Accounts desk at the Miso-

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sula Public Library for a copy to check out.

Soon-to-be mommas can feel empowered, relaxed and nurtured during a prenatal yoga class, this Thu. at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks Ave., at 4 PM. $11/$10 with card.

Drop-ins welcome. Call 360-1521.

nightlife Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.

Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30– 10 PM. Thursday night is far too digni-

fied these days, kids, and so the Dead Hipster DJs have returned to set things to rights with the bumpin’ dance par-tay at the Badlander. Now with no cover, and cheap drinky specials.

Hone your performance skills at the Broadway Inn’s open mic night, with singing and prizes at 9 PM. Includes $3 Big Sky beer special. 1609 W. Broadway St. No cover.

Bottoms up at the Drop Culture Dance Party, featuring hot beats, cheap drinkies and people of assorted genders shaking their tailfeathers.

Monk’s Bar. 9 PM. Slide on a blazer (don’t forget to roll up the sleeves) and drop some “In Soviet Russia” jokes at Homegrown Stand-Up Comedy at the Union Club.

Sign up by 9:30 PM to perform. Free.

Let the midnight special shine that everlovin’ light while the Dark Horse Country Band gets the year off to a proper start at the Sunrise Saloon, 9:30 PM to close. No cover.

FRIDAYJAN02 Self-deprecating is the order of the day when Parker Beckley (boasting 84 followers on Instagram) presents Overpriced Art by Unknown Artist at Butterfly Herbs, reception from 5:30-8 PM.

Art aficionados and downtown revelers alike can enjoy First Friday in Missoula, wherein shops, cafes, bars and galleries host free art viewings for all to enjoy. Sometimes there’s totally excellent free wine and snax, too. Runs about 5-8 PM every first Friday of the month. Check out missoula cultural.org/gallery-guide.

Get a hit of cardiovascular exercise during Nia: The Joy of Movement, from 9-10 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $12/$10 members.

Call 541-7240.

You’ll be in stitches at Yarns at the Library, the fiber-arts craft group that meets at the Missoula Public Library from noon-2 PM Fridays.

The Women in Black stand in mourning of international violence every Friday on the Higgins Bridge from 12:15-12:45 PM. Visit jrpc.org/calendar to learn more.

Baby, put your blue jeans on and meet me at the Missoula Senior Center for the Line Dancing Group, where all skill levels are invited to step to it starting at 1 PM. $1.50. Visit missoulaseniorcenter.org.

The Women’s Circle Group Acupuncture at Mountain Sage Acupuncture Clinic, 725 W. Alder St. Ste. 1, focuses on women’s health issues and sounds comfy and nice. 2– 5 PM, last appointment at 4 PM. Sliding scale treatments $20-40 with a first time administration fee of $10. Call (503) 593-7073.

photo courtesy Mark Chase

Goodnight, sweet prints. Larry Hirshberg plays the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins., Mon., Jan. 5, at 7 PM. No cover.

Teens go toward the literary light during the Missoula Public Library’s Teen Writers Group, which meets every Fri. at 3:30 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Check out the flora and foliage in Rebecca Durham’s watercolors at the First Friday shindig out at Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. Reception starts at 4:30 PM.

nightlife Illustrator and archaeologist Eric S. Carlson displays his otherwordly creatures in Transformations, on display at the Brink Gallery. First Friday reception from 5-8 PM. (See Arts.)

Sol Exposure Photography’s images of wilderness, critters and inspiring natural scenes are on tap for the First Friday reception at Inner Wisdom Hypnotherapy, 127 N. Higgins, Third Floor Atrium. Reception with cheese ‘n beer from 5-8 PM. Local artists with disabilities showcase their array of works in painting, digital art, prints and pottery at Unexpected Beauty, hosted by the E3 Convergence Gallery, 229 W. Main St. Reception from 5-9 PM, with live tunes from Boston McDonald.

All the cool kiddos should check out Mismo Gymnastics’s Friday Night Children’s Party, where ages 5-plus play games and explore obstacle courses with guidance. 1900 W. Broadway St. 5:30-9:30 PM. $25/$20 for members, plus $10 for additional siblings. Limited to 80 kids, so zoom over to mismogym.com or call 7280908 to sign up ahead of time.

Chilluns can play while Mom and Pop get their whiskey on with Family

Friendly Friday at the Top Hat, 6-8 PM, with a rotating group of live, local musicians. No cover.

Sip a Guinness and be whisked away to the Emerald Isle with the Irish Music Session, every Friday at the Union Club from 6-9 PM. No cover.

First Friday Free Fencing offers just that with the energetic swordsfolk of the Missoula Fencing Association.

6:30-7:30 PM at 1200 Sherwood Street; just bring a water bottle and wear gym clothes. All ages.

Cut a rug when the Golden Age Club hosts dancing and live music in an alcohol-free environment. 727 S. Fifth St. in Hamilton. 6-10 PM. $3. Call 240-9617 to learn more.

Soak it up and sing it down to some 67,000 tunes when The Outpost Restaurant & Saloon, 38500 W. Hwy. 12 at Lolo Hot Springs, presents karaoke with KJ Mark, starting at 9 PM. Free. Call 273-4733.

Sing a happy tune at the Evaro Bar’s Friday night karaoke and you just might win a prize. Starts at 9 PM, free to sing.

17025 US Highway 93 North.

DJ Dubwise spins hot old-school and new dance party traxx at Feruqis, 318 N. Higgins Ave., starting at 10 PM. Free.

Hula-dance your way into the Badlander for the Fish Bowl Friday: Get Lei’d edition, with beach wear encouraged and hot-hot-hot tunes from Digifreq, Milkcrate Mechanic, Chadabox and Mikee Sev. 9 PM. No cover, plus the eponymous five dolla fishbowl special.

Take a funky ride when Dirt Rhodes, the arteests formerly known

as Kung-Fu Kongress, bang-a-rang at the Palace. 9 PM. No cover.

John “Poncho” Dobson hosts open mic at Fergie’s Pub every Fri., where you’re bound to mingle with a mix of resort celebs, odd locals and dizzy soakers. You never know who’ll show up and play. It could be you. Starts at 3 PM. 213 Main Street in Hot Springs. Sign up ahead at 406721-2416 or just show up.

Land-locked state be damned, y’all can drink like fish while the Bottom Feeders (who, the website notes, range in age from “keep up with this if you can” to “maybe shoulda hung up his spurs”) provide the rockin’ country and country rock. Union Club. 9:30 PM. No cover.

Celebrate the very first First Friday of twenty-fifteen by taking to the dance floor for Zeppo’s bluesy ways at the Top Hat. 10 PM. No cover.

SATURDAYJAN03 Arlee Elementary Salish teacher Frances Vanderburg presents Salish Winter Tales, as part of the traditional storytelling series at the Holt Visitor Center at Traveler’s Rest State Park in Lolo. 11 AM. $5/free for kids under 18 and members of the TRPHA. Complimentary hot cocoa, tea and treats available.

Get a hit of cardiovascular exercise during Nia: The Joy of Movement, from 9-10 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $12/$10 members.

Call 541-7240.

Get musical while finding your flow when Brian Baty leads a live music Vinyasa yoga class, which features music by Nathan Zavalney, every Sat. from 9:30–10:45 AM at Inner Harmony Yoga, 214 E. Main St. Ste. B. $10/$8 students drop-in. Visit yogainmissoula.com.

Your bedtime tales of college-age debauchery fall a little short of the mark. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library.

Free. Call 721-BOOK. Learn about maintaining healthy relationships at Co-Dependents Anonymous, which meets at 11:30 AM on Saturdays at the Fourth D Alano Club, 1500 W. Broadway. Contact Koryn for more information at 4934431.

The guild that sews together, stays together, so join Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins Ave., at Craft Vigilantes, its monthly Modern Quilt Guild for beginners and pros alike. 12–5 PM. $20 (first few sign-ups are free).

nightlife KVD! KVD! Shout it to the rooftops, sister, when Kevin Van Dort plays Draught Works, 6-8 PM. No cover.

Right this way, madam, where Travis “The Yostess with the Mostest” Yost will dazzle you with live music at Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Tasting starts at 4 PM, tunes from 6-8. No cover. Bring your own snacks, or grab a Biga antipasto plate.

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[calendar] A bunch of ragtag musicians with who-knows-what kind of instruments get together from 7 to 9:30 PM on the first Sat. of every month for the Bitterroot Valley Good-Time Jamboree at the Grange Hall, 1436 South First St. in Hamilton. $3 donation encouraged. Call Clem at 961-4949.

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The Missoula Folklore Society Dance invites one and all to cut loose at the Union Hall, with tunes from Sassafras Stomp. 7:30 PM. $9/$6 for members and students/free for volunteers and kids.

Soak it up and sing it down to some 67,000 tunes when The Outpost Restaurant & Saloon, 38500 W. Hwy. 12 at Lolo Hot Springs, presents karaoke with KJ Mark, starting at 9 PM. Free. Call 273-4733.

Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family friendly, from noon–8 PM.

DJ Dubwise spins hot old-school and new dance party traxx at Feruqis, 318 N. Higgins Ave., starting at 10 PM. Free.

The Jack Saloon and Grill (formerly the venerated Lumberjack) presents live music on Saturdays. 7000 Graves Creek Road. 9 PM.

Our deputy calendar editor will show off a move she calls the “Sexy Tractor,” and you better be there to catch it when the Country Boogie Boys play the Sunrise Saloon.

9:30 PM. No cover.

You’ve heard the rest, now put on your dancin’ boots and prepare for the Best Westerns, providing top-notch country. Top Hat. 10 PM. No cover.

SUNDAYJAN04 The Missoula Area Secular Society presents the M.A.S.S. Lunch, where atheists, secular humanists, agnostics and other freethinkers meet. Take note the group is now meeting on the first and third Sunday of every month for brunch at 10 AM at the Stone of Accord, 4951 N. Reserve St. Free to attend, but the food costs you. Visit secularmissoula.org.

Strut your stuff, burgeoning wordsmiths, with the seventh annual Writing Contest hosted by Missoula Public Library, for writers ages 8 and up, in fiction and nonfiction.

Entries accepted through Feb. 20.

Sign up and find contest rule brochures at the library, starting today, and you could win a cash prize. Visit missoulapubliclibrary.org or call 7212665.

Dancer-types take note, the global, 14-day Morning Sojourn invites dancers to gather in the morning for meditation, spontaneous dance and journaling. Downtown Dance Collective hosts the local gathering from Jan. 5-18, 7:15-8:15 AM. $5 donation appreciated. Visit themorningsojourn.com.

Absolutely DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo deliver the primo Saturday nite party at the Badlander. Doors at 9 PM. Two-fer-one Absolut vodka drinks until midnight. No cover.

Dial in, tune up, drop out when Tom Catmull’s Radio Static plays the Union Club, starting ‘round 9:30 PM. No cover.

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As BlizzardPocalypse 2015 approached this past Sunday, my carefully laid plans to attend A Girl Who Walks Home Alone At Night seemed ridiculous. With the Interstate closed and travel restricted to emer-

WHAT: A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night WHERE: The Roxy WHEN: Fri., Jan. 2-Sun., Jan. 4, at 7 and 9 PM HOW MUCH: $5-$7 MORE INFO: theroxytheater.org

gency driving only, would it be worth it to bundle up, leave my cozy house and trek through snowdrifts to the Roxy Theater just to see an “Iranian vampire western”?

The answer: absolutely. Director Ana Lily Amirpour’s brilliant, minimalist film, shot in rich tones of black and white, is set in a desolate Iranian ghost River streets. Players of all levels are invited to bring their acoustic instrument, or just sit a spell and listen. 2-4 PM. Call John at 381-2483. Free.

Your bedtime tales of college-age debauchery fall a little short of the mark. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like storytelling, finger plays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM on Sat. and 2 PM on Sun. at the Missoula Public Library.

Free. Call 721-BOOK.

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Kick out the jams down the ‘Root at the dining room of the Sapphire Lutheran Homes, corner of 10th and

The Lolo Squares host beginning square dance lessons for all you hotsteppers at the Lolo Square and Round

John Floridis Trio brings the heat, you bring the sweet to Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave., 5-7 PM. No cover.

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town called Bad City, where townsfolk idly walk by ditches filled with dead bodies. Girl Who Walks Home Alone was filmed in California, and Elijah Wood is listed as a producer, but all dialogue is in subtitled Persian. In the wonderfully mysterious story, a striking young woman draws kohl around her eyes, dons a chador and stalks her hapless victims. There’s a twist, in the form of a handsome young man, named Arash, with big dark eyes and James Dean-style bad-boy good looks that even a vampire could love. There’s no overt Twilight drama or sparkles here, only restraint and sensual intrigue.

The cinematography is stunning: all long shadows, carefully composed shots and dramatic lighting. Oh, and there’s a pudgy, cute calico cat.

For women, walking home alone is often when we feel most vulnerable. But in Girl Who Walks Home Alone, it’s actually the beautiful young woman standing on the street corner who poses the greatest threat. She uses her powers to get revenge in utterly satisfying ways, and it’s completely worth leaving the house to see, even in a blizzard.

—Kate Whittle

Dance Center, 2.5 miles west of Lolo on Highway 12. Sundays at 5:30 PM. Call 273-0652 to learn more.

Celebrate your Sunday Funday with Newtflix, the new curated film screening and B.S.-ing session (just guessing on that last part) hosted by Newton Wise, the first Sunday of the month at the VFW. Jan. 4 features Night of the Creeps, 6-8 PM. No cover, plus dranks are half-off all day. (See Spotlight.)

Sundays are shaken, not stirred, at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night, with $4 martinis all evening, live jazz and local DJs, plus a selection of local coffees and tees for your apéritifs. Music starts at 8 PM. Free.

Mark the Sabbath with some Black Sabbath or whatever else twangs your heartstrings at the Sunday Funday evening karaoke at the Lucky Strike, 1515 Dearborn Ave., featuring $1 domestic drafts and wells. Free.

Relax and realign with Yoga for Wellness, a gentle class led by Rasa O’Neill, with an emphasis on mindfulness. Beginners are welcome, but previous experience is helpful. Meets at the Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave., Mondays from noon-1 PM. $45 for six classes, or $10 drop-in. Call 721-0033 or visit redwillowlearning.org.

Trained Affordable Care Act Navigators are on hand to help you learn about health insurance enrollment with drop-in sessions at the Missoula Public Library, Mondays, noon-1:30 PM, Tuesdays, 6-7:30 PM, and Thursdays, 10-11:30 AM, until mid-February, with closures on holidays. Free, no appointment needed.

Brush up on your skillz with the Bridge Group for beginners/those in need of a refresher course. Missoula Senior Center, Mondays at 1 PM. $1.25.

Anyone affected by epilepsy can come to the Epilepsy Support Group at Summit Independent Living Center, 700 SW Higgins Ave. 2–3:30 PM. Free. Call 721-0707.

Former military members are invited to the Veterans For Peace Western Montana Chapter meeting, which will work to inform and advocate about peace issues. Meets at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave., on the first Monday of every month at 4 PM. Visit veteransforpeace.org to learn more.

nightlife Local Deadheads have got you covered when the Top Hat presents Raising the Dead, a curated broadcast

[calendar] of two hours of Jerry Garcia and co. from 5 to 7 PM. Free, all ages.

Let’s get physical, physical, at the Zumba Fitness Classes at Lolo School cafeteria. Mondays and Wednesdays from 6-7 PM. $2/free for Lolo residents.

Register by calling Kathy at 273-0451.

Bingo at the VFW: the easiest way to make rent since keno. 245 W. Main.

6:45 PM. $12 buy-in.

Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen. Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays.

Hang out with Mulder, Scully, Smoking Man and discover what truths are out there at the Roxy’s screening of selected “The X-Files” episodes from throughout the series.

Mondays at 7 PM. $5. Treats from Tandem Doughnuts will be on hand.

The one and only Larry Hirshberg, winner of the coveted KBGA Hirshberger award at least one year in a row, plays acoustic tunes at Red Bird Wine Bar, inside the Florence Building. 7-10 PM. No cover.

Get mindful at Be Here Now, a mindfulness meditation group that meets Mondays from 7:30 to 8:45 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St.. Free, but donations appreciated. Visit openway.org.

Rock the mic when DJ Super Steve rocks the karaoke with the hottest Kamikaze tuneage this side of the hemisphere at the Dark Horse. Are you brave enough to let the computer pick your songs? 9 PM. Free.

Maintain dignity for best results at Super Trivia Freakout. Winners get cash prizes and shots after the five rounds of trivia at the Badlander. 9 PM. Free. To get those neurons sparking, here’s a question: 16th century French seer Nostradamus never said exactly when the world would end, but he did say that his prophecies only extended as far as what year? Find answer in tomorrow’s nightlife.

Jars of clay. Josh DeWeese’s “Large Covered Jar” is on display at the Missoula Art Museum, starting Jan. 6, as part of the Ruby Jubilee art exhibit and Jan. 15 auction.

Dance cuz everybody’s watching at the American Cabaret Style bellydance class at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. This class is great for beginners and experienced dancers alike. 6–7 PM. Visit madronadance.wordpress.com.

You’ll be seeing stars at Bingo on Broadway, with cash prizes, $3 Sam Adams pints and food specials. Broadway Inn, 1609 W. Broadway St. 8 PM. $6 buy-in.

Discover different approaches to raising kiddos at Empowered Parenting With Balanced View, which meets at Break Espresso from 7:15-8:15 AM.

The ongoing Weekly Sit Meditation invites folks who’ve already dabbled in meditation to a weekly lunch hour class to help de-stress and re-engage. Learning Center at Red Willow, Thursdays from noon-1 PM. $35 for four classes, or $10 drop-in. Visit redwillowlearning.org.

Cancer survivors at any stage of recovery are invited to the Yoga Beyond Cancer class with Dena Saedi, which focuses on gentle stretching, meditation, breath work and body scanning. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. 4-5 PM. $40.

Students must have doctor’s okay.

Live in SIN at the Service Industry Night at Plonk, with DJ Amory spinning and a special menu. 322 N. Higgins Ave. 10 PM to close. Just ask a server for the SIN menu. No cover.

TUESDAYJAN06 It’s hip 2 be hanging out at the monthly Square Dance at the Top Hat, where steps will be taught as you go and beginners are welcome.

7:30 PM. First Tuesday of the month.

Jan. 6 features Balled in Burlap. 21plus after 9 PM.

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nightlife The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at 5:30-6:30 PM at a soonto-be-updated location. Call Clare at 273-8378.

It’s always a glutenous good time when Wheat Montana, out on the corner of Third and Reserve, presents Black Mountain Boys Bluegrass from 5:30-8 PM. Free. Call 327-0900.

Let’s get physical, physical, at the Zumba Fitness Classes at Lolo School cafeteria. Mondays and Wednesdays from 6-7 PM. $2/free for Lolo residents. Register by calling Kathy at 273-0451.

Envision a more graceful, calm self before taking the T’ai Chi Chuan class with Michael Norvelle. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. First Wednesday of the month from 6:30—7:30 PM. $40 for six weeks/$9 drop-in.

B-29, you’re doing fine, I-30, dirty gertie, N31, get up and run, G-32, buckle my shoe, O-33, come in for tea. What’s that spell? Yell it with me: BINGO! Every week at the Lucky Strike bar, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Runs 6:30-9:30 PM, followed by karaoke with whiskey specials. (Bingo Lingo not necessarily included.)

Put on your red shoes and dance at the Country Dance Lessons, Tuesdays at the Hamilton Senior Center. The shindig steps off at 6 PM with a line dance, followed by 7 PM two-step and 8 PM country cha-cha.

Dust off that banjolin and join in the Top Hat’s picking circle, from 6 to 8 PM. All ages.

The Unity Dance and Drum African Dance Class is sure to teach you some moves you didn’t learn in junior high when it meets Tuesday from 7 to 8:30 PM at the Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave. All ages and skill levels welcome. $10, $35 for four classes. Email tarn.ream@umontana.edu or call 549-7933 for more information.

Impress your friends! Crush your enemies!

Or at least strum a guitar tunefully, same diff, at Stage 112’s Open Mic, hosted by Joey Running Crane. 9 PM. No cover. Call him up at 229-0488 to get a slot.

Strum some post-trivia victory chords at the Singer-Songwriter Showcase, now on Tuesdays at the Badlander at 9 PM. No cover. Dec. 30 features Coywolf, Patrick Kirkley Jam and Bryan Nickerson. Trivia answer: 3797, the 38th century.

WEDNESDAYJAN07 Get money on your mind and mind on your money (laaaaid back) with the four-hour Quickbooks class, led by Jamie Ballas, which goes over the at-home accounting software from 10 AM-3 PM, with a break for lunch. Free, but registration is required at tinyurl.com/mplQuickBooks.

Phish heads, phish heads, roly poly phish heads get together for Sharin’ In The Groove, a screening of live Phish shows with audio and video at the Top Hat. 4:30 PM, which as we all know, is just 10 minutes after 4:20. No cover.

nightlife Practice empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a peaceful communication weekly practice group, where you’ll role-play stressful situations and practice responding calmly. Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Wednesdays at noon. Free.

Dena Saedi presents the Yoga for Chronic Pain class at the Learning Center at Red Willow, which uses gentle stretches, meditation and breath work geared toward easing conditions like chronic back pain, fibromyalgia and arthritis.

Wednesdays from 5-6 PM. Prerequisite one-onone screening with Dena required. To schedule an appointment, call 406-721-0033.

Let your inner Katy Perry roar at Kamikaze Karaoke, where you can get a free shot for letting the computer randomly pick your song at the Badlander. 9 PM. No cover, plus $2 kamikaze shots at the bar to work up that courage.

Local DJs do the heavy lifting while you kick back at Milkcrate Wednesday down in the Palace. 9 PM. No cover, plus $6 PBR pitcher special. Find this week’s lineup and info at facebook.com/milkcrateproductions.

I’ll bring the peanut butter, y’all bring that sweet jaaaaam to the Soul Kitch’n Blues Boogie sesh at the Dark Horse, starting at 9 PM. $50 prize for best act each week.

No cover.

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WHAT: Newtflix: Night of the Creeps WHERE: VFW, 245 W. Main St. WHEN: Sun., Jan. 4 at 6 PM HOW MUCH: Free MORE INFO: “Newtflix at the VFW” Facebook page

Win $50 off your bar tab by using your giant egg to answer trivia questions at Brains on Broadway Trivia Night at the Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway Ave. 7 PM, plus specials on wings, pizza and pitchers.

Live those “American Idol” fantasies at the Wednesday night karaoke at Eagles Lodge Missoula, 2420 South Ave. W, with drink specials.

7:30-10:30 PM. No cover.

Show ‘em mad skillz when Mad Dawg Karaoke gets rolling at the Sunrise Saloon, starting at 8 PM. No cover.

Show your Press Box buddies you know more than sports and compete in Trivial Beersuit starting at 8:30 every Wednesday. $50 bar tab for the winning team.

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Trained Affordable Care Act Navigators are on hand to help you learn about health insurance enrollment with drop-in sessions at the Missoula Public Library, Mondays, noon-1:30 PM, Tuesdays, 6-7:30 PM, and Thursdays, 10-11:30 AM, until mid-February, with closures on holidays.

Free, no appointment needed.

Meditation newbies can check out techniques like compassionate meditation practice and loving kindness, along with discussion on current findings in neuroscience. Learning Center at Red Willow, 825 W. Kent Ave. Thursdays, noon1 PM, until Jan. 29. $40 for the four-week course.

Soon-to-be mommas can feel empowered, relaxed and nurtured during a prenatal yoga class, this and every Thu. at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks Ave., at 4 PM. $11/$10 with card. Dropins welcome. Call 360-1521.

“If you scream, you’re dead,” warns the tagline for Night of the Creeps. In director Fred Dekker’s 1986 horror classic, teens must fight against a plague of alien parasites that enter the body through the mouth and take over the brain, turning the host into a fearsome zombie.

Night of the Creeps screens Sunday for the inaugural Newtflix, a series of campy/cult classic films curated by the one and only Newton Wise, a longtime manager of the now-departed Village 6 theater and occasional cashier at the Wilma. He’ll show a movie every first Sunday of the month at the VFW. Wise says he picked Night of the Creeps because it’s one of his favorite films, an “homage to classic bmovies without being as painful to watch,” and has genuinely funny moments. (It also offers a convenient opportunity for a parody poster.) In the film, all the main characters are named after famous horror and

Release some stress during t’ai chi classes every Thursday at 10 AM at The Open Way Center, 702 Brooks St. $10 drop-in class. Visit openway.org.

The Missoula Parkinson’s Disease Support Group meets the second Thursday of each month at the Ronald McDonald House, 3003 Fort Missoula Road. 1 PM. Call Cindy Cone at 728-8283 or Ann Houston at 543-8939 for more info. Free.

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Trained Affordable Care Act Navigators are on hand to help you learn about health insurance enrollment with drop-in sessions at the Missoula Public Library, Mondays, noon-1:30 PM, Tuesdays, 6-7:30 PM, and Thursdays, 10-11:30 AM, until mid-February, with closures on holidays.

Free, no appointment needed.

Mary Place and Blue Moon heat up the afternoon with jazz at the Union Club every Thursday from 5:30-8 PM. No cover.

Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.

It’s Kira Means, and that gal means business when she plays Draught Works, 915 Toole Ave. 6-8 PM. No cover.

sci-fi directors, like George Romero, John Carpenter and Cynthia Cronenberg. Wise adds that the grizzled Detective Landis, played by Wally Taylor, is “one of the best characters ever.”

Unleash your cogent understanding of the trivium at Brooks and Browns Big Brains Trivia Night. $50 bar tab for first place, plus specials on beer. 200 S. Pattee St. in the Holiday Inn Downtown. 7:30–10 PM.

Newtflix isn’t so much a formal screening as it is a chance to warm up, sip whiskey, exchange witty banter and revel in ridiculous and/or amazing movies; and it sounds like a great way to wrap up a weekend.

—Kate Whittle

The Student Recital Series features the talents of juniors Clay Kellog on French horn and Molly Trindle on oboe, at the Music Recital Hall starting at 7:30 PM. Free.

THURSDAYJAN08 Connect with other new or expecting parents at Meet the Doulas, an informational session hosted by the Missoula Birth and Postpartum network. Nursing Nook, 734 Kensington. Jan. 8, Feb. 5 and March 5 from 5:30-7:30 PM. Call 552-8319 or email melinda@thelotusprojectmt.org.

The Transportation Technical Advisory Committee (TTAC up in the house, y’all) meets at the City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St., to consider approving the proposed 2015-2019 Transportation Program Amendment and other items. 9:30 AM.

Know what this bleak time of year calls for?

Some loud guitar noises and whiskey, that’s what.

Calapatra is all set to tear it up when postpunk/metal San Fran bands Sexless and Fish Breath kick ass at Stage 112, along with Weather Control. 9 PM. No cover.

Get a spiffy start to the year by venturing out on the town to see Holy Lands, who are holding down the fort at the VFW’s Thursday night residency for January. Shows start around 10 PM, with covers ranging from free to a couple bucks, and with guests like Wormwood and Dragon Parfait.

Sippin’ on gin and juice. Submit events at calendar@missoulanews.com at least two weeks in advance of the event. Don’t forget to include the date, time and cost. If you must, snail mail to Calapatra c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801. You can also submit online. Just find the “submit an event” link under the Spotlight on the right corner at missoulanews.com.

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commonly quoted statistic holds that about 90 percent of New Year’s resolutions fail, and most will fail by February. I couldn’t find a valid source to back up any of the assertions I saw on the Internet, but I don’t really need one to know that it sounds pretty damn true. Each year, I emerge from the fog of New Year’s Eve shenanigans determined to be more healthy and less neurotic. Unfortunately, surveying last year’s resolutions indicates that I failed to join a gym or waste less time on Facebook, but (humblebrag) I did read more novels, practice yoga more often and travel in search of good tacos.

Many psychologists say that resolutions are all about setting realistic goals for what you can really achieve, and setting up a healthy rewards system. And

to that end, what better motivator is there than the series of runs held in Missoula throughout the year? The Runner’s Edge hosts the Resolution Run 5K up in the Rattlesnake on New Year’s Day, with built-in incentives like camaraderie and hot cocoa. And if a 5K seems intriguing but out of reach for you at the moment, might I suggest a resolution for 2016?

—Kate Whittle Tortoises and hares alike are invited to the Resolution Run 5K, which starts at Rattlesnake Elementary on Thu., Jan. 1, at 11 AM, with post-race music, treats and hot soup to follow. $30 day of/$25 to register at RunnersEdgeMT.com. Some proceeds benefit the Missoula Nordic Ski Club.

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THURSDAY JANUARY 1 Catch a view of songbirds, woodpeckers and red fox while taking in the freshest of air at Lone Pine State Park’s First Day Hike, a ranger-led 1.5-2 mile trip along forested areas. Kids should be able to hike or be easily carried. Meet at the parking lot for an 11 AM hike.

If you’re kicking it in Helena for the holidays, get outta the house for the First Day Hike at Spring Meadow Lake State Park, where volunteers Bill and Marti will lead a kid-friendly educational hike and Jim and Martha will lead one oriented toward adults.

2715 Country Club Drive at 10 AM, with cookies and hot cocoa afterward.

Start off 2015 on the right foot with the First Day Hikes hosted by Montana State Parks.

Missoula’s is at Traveler’s Rest out in Lolo at 11 AM, where you can hike the historic campsite and then check out the spankin’ new trail connecting the park to Highway 12. Find directions and info at stateparks.mt.gov/travelers-rest.

FRIDAY JANUARY 2 The Women’s Avalanche Level One Course, presented by SheJumps, invites intermediate skiers to bring their avalanche equipment and skins/snowshoes up to the Yurt Ski for two nights and three days of the AIARE-1 course. $495 includes lodging, meals and instruction, Jan. 2-4. Call 721-1779 or visit yurtski.com to learn more.

SATURDAY JANUARY 3 The Cross-Country Ski Outing, hosted by the UM Outdoor Program, invites newbies and experienced

folk alike to a junket up Lolo Pass, 8 AM-5 PM. $40 includes rental, instruction and transportation. Outings are on Jan. 3 and Jan. 10. Call 243-5172 to learn more or register.

SUNDAY JANUARY 4 UM grad and running expert Jack Daniels gives a presentation and Q&A on his Daniels Running Formula at the Roxy Theater. Doors at 3 PM, talk from 3:305 PM. $10, tickets available at the Runner’s Edge.

MONDAY JANUARY 5 The Winter Walking Tours series invites folks on guided winter walks/hikes through conservation lands in the Missoula area. Snowshoes provided if they’re necessary. Meets at Currents Aquatic Center on Mondays at 9 AM, hot cocoa provided after. Jan. 5 features Marshall Mountain. $5. Call 721-7275.

Drink like the fishes, for the fishes this time around when the Montgomery Distillery’s Moscow Monday benefits the Westslope Chapter of Trout Unlimited, noon-8 pm. Party with raffle tickets and prizes starting at 5 PM. Visit westslopetu.org.

TUESDAY JANUARY 6 As the earth tilts on its axis, the Montana Dirt Girls switch gears to host weekly hikes in the Missoula area, Tuesday evenings at 6 PM, November through March, with the chance to grab dinner afterward. Foot-grippers and headlamps advisable.

Find out locations and info by signing up for the mail list at mtdirtgirls.tripod.com. calendar@missoulanews.com

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thewilma.com Quick quiz: what’s the Montana state fish? It’s the cutthroat trout, in fact, and I won’t pretend like I knew that before I Googled it. Cutthroats, named Salmo clarki, in honor of William Clark, who wrote about the species on the 1804-1806 expedition, are beautiful fish, named for their distinctive orange markings under the jaw. The Westslope subspecies traditionally has ranged through the Missouri, Milk and North Saskatchewan rivers, and south into the Madison, Gallatin and Jefferson systems and in isolated populations throughout the west in Oregon and Washington. But these gorgeous natives are under serious threat from habitat loss and introduction of non-native species, like kokanee salmon and lake trout, which chomp on cutties.

If something is worth being a symbol of our state, it’s certainly worth saving. And the Missoulabased WestSlope Chapter of Trout Unlimited nonprofit works to protect local fisheries with volunteering, monitoring of legislation, kids’ camps and more. At the Moscow Monday benefit, you can purchase raffle tickets and sign up for the WCTU’s upcoming February gala.

—Kate Whittle Montgomery Distillery’s Moscow Monday, Jan. 5., benefits the Westslope Chapter of Trout Unlimited, noon-8 pm. Party with raffle tickets and prizes starting at 5 PM. Visit westslopechaptertu.org.

[AGENDA LISTINGS] THURSDAY JANUARY 1 Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.

Find out how the Garden City grows at the weekly Missoula City Council meeting, where you can no doubt expect ranting public commenters, PowerPoint presentations and subtle wit from Mayor Engen.

Missoula council chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Meetings are the first four Mondays of every month at 7 PM, except for holidays.

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The Women in Black stand in mourning of international violence every Friday on the Higgins Bridge from 12:15-12:45 PM. Visit jrpc.org/calendar to learn more.

Discover different approaches to raising kiddos at Empowered Parenting With Balanced View, which meets at Break Espresso from 7:15-8:15 AM Tuesdays.

SATURDAY JANUARY 3

Knitting For Peace meets at Joseph’s Coat, 115 S. Third St. W. All knitters of all skill levels are welcome.

1–3 PM. For information, call 543-3955.

Learn about maintaining healthy relationships at Co-Dependents Anonymous, which meets at 11:30 AM on Saturdays at the Fourth D Alano Club, 1500 W. Broadway. Contact Koryn for more information at 493-4431.

SUNDAY JANUARY 4 The Missoula Area Secular Society presents the M.A.S.S. Lunch, where atheists, secular humanists, agnostics and other freethinkers meet. Take note the group is now meeting on the first and third Sunday of every month for brunch at 10 AM at the Stone of Accord, 4951 N. Reserve St. Free to attend, but the food costs you. Visit secularmissoula.org.

The 1,000 Hands For Peace meditation group uses ancient mudras for cleansing the heart. Meets Tuesdays at 5:30-6:30 PM at a soon-to-be-updated location. Call Clare at 273-8378.

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 7 Practice empathy with Patrick Marsolek during Compassionate Communication, a peaceful communication weekly practice group, where you’ll role-play stressful situations and practice responding calmly.

Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Wednesdays at noon. Free.

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Sip a fancy soda for a cause at this edition of Moscow Monday at the Montgomery Distillery, 129 W. Front St. A dollar from every drink sold is donated to a cause each week. Family friendly, from noon–8 PM.

Connect with other new or expecting parents at Meet the Doulas, an informational session hosted by the Missoula Birth and Postpartum network. Nursing Nook, 734 Kensington. Jan. 8, Feb. 5 and March 5 from 5:30-7:30 PM. Call 552-8319 or email melinda@thelotusprojectmt.org.

Former military members are invited to the Veterans For Peace Western Montana Chapter meeting, which will work to inform and advocate about peace issues. Meets at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave., on the first Monday of every month at 4 PM. Visit veteransforpeace.org to learn more.

Overcome your fears and take a stand when Treasure State Toastmasters mentors folks in leadership and public speaking. Community Medical Center meeting rooms, 2827 Ft. Missoula Road. 6–7 PM. Free.

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 email 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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There are times it makes sense to chase a man, like if he's wearing Lycra knickers and making a dash for the end zone or he's just run out of your house with your TV. However, chasing a man is an especially bad strategy when you're looking for love. The reason for this goes back millions of years and comes down to what anthropologists call "parental investment" and how biology sticks women with the lion's share of it. As I've explained here from time to time, before the invention of reliable birth control, a single romp in the bushes could leave a woman with a hungry kid to haul around and feed. So women evolved to be the choosier sex—to cross their legs until the man vying to be their sex partner showed he'd be likely to stick around to provide for any ensuing Neander-browed children.

Men, in turn, coevolved to expect this choosiness from women. And though we're living in modern times, we've got some pretty antique psychology still driving us, so when a man today encounters a woman who seems easy to have, he tends to get the message that she isn't worth having. This may seem awful and unfair, but it's just how things are. So lamenting the need for "game playing" is like expecting something different from gravity. Drop an apple and it's going to fall; it will not lift off, circle your head a few times, and then try to make it to Cleveland on tail winds before nightfall.

As for this guy, sure, you want him, but letting attraction and enjoyment alone determine whom you have a relationship with is like letting your taste buds do your grocery shopping. (Dunno about yours, but mine would not be lingering in

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the broccoli section.) Before you get involved with a man, you need to check to see that he's available, and immediately disqualify any man who isn't single or emotionally ready for a relationship.

Once you have a viable candidate, take steps to avoid seeming desperate, like by setting the timer on your phone for 20 minutes or an hour before you return a text. The more you do this sort of thing the more natural it will feel, until you become hard to get instead of just playing it. Should you feel tempted to fall back into old chase behaviors, just remind yourself of your ultimate goal—inspiring a man to want you instead of inspiring him to fill out paperwork to keep you 100 feet away from him at all times.

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LAWN AND ORDER How can I get the guy I'm dating to shave his neck beard? He shaves his face but not this thick scrubby hair he has all down and around his neck. Mercifully, the hair is relatively short; it isn't Amishlength or otherwise truly beardy. But it really is not attractive.

—Not Liking The View Word has it that the Brazilian wax is out; pubic hair is back. This may be so—but not under your boyfriend's chin.

There are practical reasons for a neck beard. For example, if a guy's car were to go off a mountain road, he might survive a few extra days on trapped Cheetos dust.

Assuming this sort of situation is unlikely, you can put in a request for neck beard removal. Because criticism tends to make people feel hurt and defensive, it's most successful when reformatted as flattery. In other words, tell him how hot he is, but tell him you think he'd look even hotter with a cleanshaven neck, and ask him to try that for you for the next time you see him. Be ready to counter possible objections, like that he gets razor bumps. Magic Razorless Cream Shave, a drugstore product designed for black men, can help him prevent them while also removing the Brillo pad making love to his neck. This area can be a powerful erogenous zone -- just not when it's hard to figure out whether it's saying "Kiss me!" or "Use me to clean your oven!"

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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL CHIP TRUCK DRIVERS NEEDED • Local hauls • Home daily • Good pay • Benefits • 2 years exp. required Call 406-493-7876 9am-5pm M-F. GRAVEYARD SUPERVISOR Burger King is accepting applications for a GRAVEYARD SUPERVISOR at our E. Broadway Street operation. DUTIES: Will assist manager as necessary in managing staff, scheduling and supervising workers engaged in preparing and serving food. Will wait on customers, take orders, cook, prep and clean. Work shifts range between 10pm and 8am. QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants must have a positive attitude, enjoy working with people. working in a fast paced atmosphere have reliable transportation and a proven ability to work with limited supervision. Position is responsible for delivering quality food products, maintaining 100% guest satisfaction and insuring that all company standards and policies are followed and completing other duties as assigned during the ALL NIGHT HOURS. Prior supervisory experience in food service, retail/hospitality industry is a plus.

HOURS/DAYS Work shift ranges between 10pm and 8am PAY:Base pay is $8.05/hr plus $1.00/hr for night shift ($9.05) and above that DOE. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10098142 Maintenance II Lolo school has an opening for a Maintenance II position to maintain a clean and orderly environment for students and staff and handle minor repairs. High school diploma or GED required. Appli-

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PROFESSIONAL CASHIER / BUSINESS MANAGER A local college seeks a CASHIER / BUSINESS MANAGER. This employee serves as primary cashier at the college and helps to assure timely and accurate financial information and reporting to both the college and university. This includes providing accurate information to students and parents regarding tuition/fees, and policies and procedures; managing travel for the dean’s office; providing support for the departments with Griz Mart; preparing invoices for facility and program use; providing front-line business services support to students, in-

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Other duties include accounts receivable and payable functions, overseeing fiscal activity related to printing processes and parking permits, and scheduling classrooms. Requirements include an associate degree and two years of progressive accounting experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. A bachelor’s degree in a related field is preferred. $12.43 Hourly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10098011 CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE MANAGER A local employer seeks a CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE, MEDIA, AND SYSTEMS (CMS) MANAGER to work on a team in Richmond, Virginia. The team processes, catalogs, inventories, photographs, and reports on cultural materials held by the Naval History and Heritage Command. This position is responsible for systems, network, and database administration, cyberinfrastructure support, photo data support, reporting and record keeping, data management and maintaining data protocols; designing, constructing and implementing servers; maintenance of servers and data storage associated with computer hardware and desktop support; purchasing, implementing, installing, and upgrading computer facilities; incremental and level 0 backups; management of software and software licensing; redevelopment and consultation of network routes; maintenance and administration of modems and Wifi routers; and general support to the project personnel

in the installation, upgrade and implementation of networked computer systems. The manager acts as lead on technical aspects of system administration, as well as database management. He or she is also responsible for the maintenance, back-up and editing of photographic data collected, including maintaining a complex spreadsheet, directories, backups, and use of Nikon photo editing software, Capture NX-D and use of Adobe Photoshop. Requirements include a bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems or related field or three years of related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. The successful candidate must be able to obtain a Common Access Card for security clearance. Position is funded from a grant and is contingent on funding. Highly qualified individuals may be eligible for higher rate of pay. $27.10 Hourly. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job #10098063 Dedicated Truck Driver - Dollar Tree features weekly time at home, up to $0.36per mile* and a predictable work schedule. Truckers will haul and unload multi-stop freight to this Fortune 500 company and benefit from consistent miles with a primary travel area of OR, WA, ID, MT, or WY. It’s all about consistency when you join Schneider’s Dedicated division.

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SKILLED LABOR Machinist A local dental manufacturing company has an opening for a Machinist to use lathe, mill and surface grinders, create and build fixtures and read blue prints. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. employmissoula.com Job # 10098094

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here are three of my top wishes for you in 2105: You will have a clear, precise sense of what's yours and what's not yours … of what's possible to accomplish and what's impossible … of what will be a good influence on you and what won't be. To help ensure that these wishes come true, refer regularly to the following advice from Cancerian author Elizabeth Gilbert: "You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. That's a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind.

That's the only thing you should be trying to control."

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The Greek god Zeus had seven wives. Themis, Leto, Eurynome, and Hera were among them. Another was his older sister Demeter, and a sixth was his aunt Mnemosyne. Then there was the sea nymph Metis. Unfortunately, he ate Metis— literally devoured her—which effectively ended their marriage. In 2015, Gemini, I encourage you to avoid Zeus's jumbled, complicated approach to love and intimacy. Favor quality over quantity. Deepen your focus rather than expanding your options. Most importantly, make sure your romantic adventures never lead to you feeling fragmented or divided against yourself. This is the year you learn more than ever before about what it's like for all the different parts of you to be united.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Maybe you have had a dream like this: You're wandering around a house you live in, and at the end of a long hallway you come to a door you've never seen before. How could you have missed it in the past? It must have been there the whole time.

You turn the knob, open the door, and slip inside. Amazing! The room is full of interesting things that excite your imagination. What's more, on the opposite wall there's another door that leads to further rooms. In fact, you realize there's an additional section of the house you have never known about or explored. Whether or not you have had a dream like that, Taurus, I'm betting that in 2015, you will experience a symbolically similar series of events in your waking life.

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Most salamanders reproduce by laying eggs, but the alpine salamander doesn't. Females of that species give birth to live young after long pregnancies that may last three years. What does this have to do with you? Well, I expect you to experience a metaphorical pregnancy in the coming months. Even if you're male, you will be gestating a project or creation or inspiration. And it's important that you don't let your the incubation period drag on and on and on, as the alpine salamanders do. I suggest you give birth no later than July.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Author Robert Moss has published 27 books. When he talks about the art of launching and completing big projects, I listen attentively. There's one piece of advice he offers that would be particularly helpful for you to keep in mind throughout the first half of 2015. "If we wait until we are fully prepared in order to do something, we may never get it done," he says. "It's important to do things before we think we are ready." Can you handle that, Leo? Are you willing to give up your fantasies about being perfectly qualified and perfectly trained and perfectly primed before you dive in?

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The fish known as the coelacanths were thought to have become extinct 66 million years ago. That was when they disappeared from the fossil record. But in 1938 a fisherman in South Africa caught a live coelacanth. Eventually, whole colonies were discovered in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa and near Indonesia. I foresee a comparable phenomenon happening in your life during the coming months, Virgo. An influence you believed to have disappeared from your life will resurface. Should you welcome and embrace it? Here's what I think: Only if you're interested in its potential role in your future, not because of a nostalgic attachment.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "Nothing brings people closer than business," said composer Arnold Schoenberg. You could be living proof of that hypothesis in 2015, Libra. Your drive to engage in profitable activities will be at a peak, and so will your knack for making good decisions about profitable activities. If you cash in on these potentials, your social life will flourish. Your web of connections will expand and deepen. You will generate high levels of camaraderie by collaborating with allies on productive projects.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Deathwatch beetles have a peculiar approach to the mating game. Their seduction technique consists of smacking their heads against a hard object over and over again. This generates a tapping sound that is apparently sexy to potential partners. I discourage you from similar behaviors as you seek the kind of love you want in 2015. The first rule of romantic engagement is this: Sacrificing or diminishing yourself may seem to work in the short run, but it can't possibly lead to lasting good. If you want to stir up the best results, treat yourself with tenderness and respect.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707) was a German composer whose organ music is still played today. He was a major influence on a far more famous German composer, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). When Bach was a young man, he decided it was crucial for him to experience Buxtehude's music first-hand. He took a leave of absence from his job and walked over 250 miles to the town where Buxtehude lived. There he received the guidance and inspiration he sought. In 2015, Sagittarius, I'd love to see you summon Bach's determination as you go in quest of the teaching you want and need.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Even in normal times, you are a fount of regeneration. Your ever-growing hair and fingernails are visible signs of your nonstop renewal. A lot of other action happens without your conscious awareness. For example, your tastebuds replace themselves every two weeks. You produce 200 billion red blood cells and 10 billion white blood cells every day. Every month the epidermis of your skin is completely replaced, and every 12 months your lungs are composed of a fresh set of cells. In 2015, you will continue to revitalize yourself in all these ways, but will also undergo a comparable regeneration of your mind and soul. Here's my prediction: This will be a year of renaissance, rejuvenation, and reinvention.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living," says a character in Jonathan Safran Foer's novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. If you have ever felt that way, Aquarius, I predict that you will get some relief in 2015. Your bones won't be straining as much as they have in the past because you will be living at least one of the lives you have wanted to live but haven't been able to before. How you will handle all the new lightness that will be available?

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Erotomania” is a word for the erroneous fantasies people entertain when they imagine that a celebrity is in love with them. Laughable, right? Just because I have dreams of “Game of Thrones” actress Lena Headey texting me seductive notes doesn't mean that she genuinely yearns for my companionship. And yet most of us, including you and me, harbor almost equally outlandish beliefs and misapprehensions about all kinds of things. They may not be as farfetched as those that arise from erotomania, but they are still out of sync with reality. The good news, Pisces, Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES.

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DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATION BEFORE THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF MONTANA REGULATORY DIVISION DOCKET NO. D2014.12.99 IN THE MATTER OF the Joint Application of Liberty Utilities Co., Liberty WWH, Inc., Western Water Holdings, LLC, and Mountain Water Company for Approval of a Sale and Transfer of Stock NOTICE OF APPLICATION AND INTERVENTION DEADLINE On December 15, 2014, Liberty Utilities Co. (“Liberty Utilities”), Liberty WWH, Inc. (“Liberty WWH”), Western Water Holdings, LLC (“Western Water Holdings”), and Mountain Water Company (“Mountain Water”) (collectively, “Joint Applicants”) filed a Joint Application for Approval of Sale and Transfer of Stock with the Montana Public Service Commission (“Commission”). Liberty WWH seeks to merge with and into Western Water Holdings, and Liberty Utilities, as a consequence of such merger, to acquire the stock of Western Water Holdings. Mountain Water is a closely held Montana corporation wholly-owned

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Park is currently a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Water Holdings. Western Water Holdings is currently controlled by Carlyle Infrastructure Partners Western Water, L.P., (“Carlyle”).

On September 19, 2014, Liberty Utilities, Liberty WWH, and Western Water Holdings executed a Plan and Agreement of Merger (“Merger Agreement”).

Pursuant to the Merger Agree-

ment, Liberty WWH and Western Water Holdings will merge, and, once the merger is effective, the surviving entity, Western Water Holdings, will become a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of Liberty Utilities. A copy of Joint Applicants’ filing is available for inspection at the Commission’s business office, 1701 Prospect Avenue, P.O. Box 202601, Helena, Montana 59620-2601 or on the Commission’s website at http://psc.mt.gov/Docs/ElectronicDocuments/pdfFiles/D201 4 - 1 2 - 9 9 IN_20141216_APP.pdf. The filing is also available at the Montana Consumer Counsel’s (MCC) business office, 111 North Last Chance Gulch, Suite 1B, P.O. Box 201703, Helena, Montana 59620-1703 and the business offices of Mountain Water, 1345 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802-2239.

The MCC is available and may be contacted to assist and represent the interests of the consuming public in this matter. Any interested person who is directly affected by Joint Applicants’ filing before the Commission and who wants to be a party to the docket must file a Petition to Intervene with the Commission no later than January 12, 2015. By the intervention deadline, a person petitioning for intervention must: (1) Submit the petition electronically (e-file) on the Commission’s website at http://psc.mt.gov (“Account Login/Registration” under “Electronic Documents” tab); and (2) physically deliver or mail the original petition to the Commission at 1701 Prospect Avenue, P.O. Box 202601, Helena, Montana 59620-2601. The Commission will not post an e-filed petition to its website until it re-

MNAXLP ceives the original from the petitioner. A person petitioning for intervention in this docket must also serve a hard copy of the petition on the MCC and Joint Applicants at the addresses above.

An interested person who does not wish to formally intervene in this docket may submit written public comments on the matter to the Commission at the above address, or through the Commission’s website at http://psc.mt.gov (“Comment on Proceedings”).

Mountain Water is a Montana corporation providing water utility service in and near Missoula, Montana, and is subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission.

The Commission’s jurisdiction over this matter is provided at Title 69, MCA. The Commission has consistently exercised authority over mergers, sales, and transfers of utilities and utility property. Or. 7149c ¶ 19 (June 28, 2011). The substantive and procedural law applicable is Title 69, MCA, especially at Ch. 3 (public utilities), ARM Title 38, Ch. 5 (utilities), Title 2, Ch. 4, MCA (MAPA), ARM Title 38, Ch. 2 (PSC procedural rules), and any prior orders of the PSC which may bear on the issues presented. BY THE MONTANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION W. A. (BILL) GALLAGHER, Chairman BOB LAKE, Vice Chairman KIRK BUSHMAN, Commissioner TRAVIS KAVULLA, Commissioner ROGER KOOPMAN, Commissioner MONTANA FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, LEWIS AND CLARK COUNTY Cause No. DDA-2014-57 NOTICE OF PROCEEDINGS AND HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS IN THE MATTER

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OF THE PARENTAL RIGHTS TO BABY GIRL M. TO: The unknown father of Baby Girl M., who was born on June 26, 2014, in Butte, Silver Bow County, Montana. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a petition for the termination of your parental rights to Baby Girl M. has been filed with the Montana First District Court, Lewis and Clark County, 228 Broadway, Helena, Montana 59601. The Court has scheduled a hearing for the determination of your parental rights starting at 1:30 P.M. Mountain Time on Thursday, January 15, 2015.

Pursuant to Montana Code Annotated Section 42-2-605(2), your failure to appear at the hearing will constitute a waiver of your interest in custody of the child, and will result in the Court’s termination of your parental rights. Pursuant to Montana Code Annotated Section 422-616(1), if you appear at the scheduled hearing and object to the termination of your parental rights and request custody of the child, the Court will then set deadlines allowing the parties to complete discovery, and will set a hearing on the determination of your rights to the child. DATED: December 18, 2014. FRANZ & DRISCOLL, PLLP /s/ William P. Driscoll William P. Driscoll, Attorney for Petitioner MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 3 Cause No. DP-14-256 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF INEZ IRENE HEGGE SEINES a/k/a , Inez I. Hegge and Inez Hegge Seines, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above! named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to KAREN LYNNE HUNT, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Reely Law Firm, P.C., 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 19th day of December, 2014. /s/ Karen Lynne Hunt, Personal Representative REELY LAW FIRM, P.C. 3819 Stephens Avenue, Suite 201 Missoula, Montana 59801 Attorneys for Personal Representative By: /s/ Shane N. Reely, Esq. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-14-239 Dept. No. 2 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GERALD HUBERT MUELLER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first

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PUBLIC NOTICES publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Charlene Ann Mueller, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court.

I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. Dated this 24th day of November, 2014. /s/ Charlene Ann Mueller, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DP-14-247 Dept. No. 1 Honorable Ed McLean Presiding. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF EVELYN M. BENEDETTI, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Vicki C. Scalise, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

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Personal Representative SKJELSET & GEER, P.L.L.P. /s/ Douglas G. Skjelset, Attorneys for the Estate MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 1 Cause Probate No. DP-11-198 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JOHN W. HEINRICH, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Sandra K. Heinrich, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested at GEORGE LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 210 North Higgins Avenue, Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED: November 14, 2011 /s/ Sandra K. Heinrich Personal Representative’s Attorney: GEORGE LAW FIRM, PLLC, 210 N. Higgins Ave., Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 Under penalty of perjury, I declare the foregoing is true and accurate to the best of my knowlege and belief. DATED: January 9th, 2013. /s/ Andrew A. George, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY De-

MNAXLP partment No. 3 Cause Probate No. DP-14-209 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DORIS L. HOGAN, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Michael Hogan and Richard Hogan, the Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested at GEORGE LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 210 North Higgins Avenue, Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED: November 24, 2014 /s/ Michael Hogan /s/ Richard Hogan Personal Representative’s Attorney: GEORGE LAW FIRM, PLLC, 210 N. Higgins Ave., Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 4 Cause Probate No. DP-12-32 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LAURA I. SHERWOOD, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal 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 Judith A. McKay and Paula Sherwood, the Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested at GEORGE LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 210 North Higgins Avenue, Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED: February 28, 2012 /s/ Judith A. McKay, CoPersonal Representative of the Estate of Laura I. Sherwood, Deceased /s/ Paula Sherwood, Co-Personal Representative of the Estate of Laura Sherwood, Deceased Personal Representative’s Attorney: GEORGE LAW FIRM, PLLC, 210 N. Higgins Ave., Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 1 Cause No. DV-14-1299 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION KURTH J. LA BURE and JOHN ATWOOD PEARSON, JR., Plaintiffs, v. CAROL ANN SMITH LA BURE, THE ESTATE OF CAROL ANN SMITH LA BURE, AND ALL UNKNOWN OWNERS, UNKNOWN HEIRS, OR ANY UNKNOWN DEVISEES OF ANY DECEASED PERSON, AND ALL OTHER PERSONS, UNKNOWN, CLAIMING OR WHO MIGHT CLAIM ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE OR INTEREST IN OR LIEN OR ENCUMBRANCE UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFFS’ OWNERSHIP

OR CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFFS’ TITLE THERETO, WHETHER SUCH CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM BE PRESENT OR CONTINGENT, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANTS, GREETINGS: You are hereby SUMMONED to answer the Complaint to Quiet Title in this Action which is filed with the above-named Court, a copy of which is served upon you, and to file your written answer with the Court and serve a copy thereof upon Petitioner’s attorney within twentyone (21) days after service of this SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION, or such other period as may be specified by law, exclusive of the day of service. Your failure to appear or answer will result in judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. A filing fee must accompany the answer. This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title the following-described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: The West Half of the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 30, Township 16 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M. Missoula County, Montana. Recording Reference: Book 157 of Micro Records at Page 2417. DATED this 10th day of December, 2014. /s/ Shirley E. Faust By: /s/ Kersten Seilstad, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 2 Probate No. DP-14-254 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ES-

PUBLIC NOTICES TATE OF MARIAN L. WONG, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Marlene J. Wiles, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg P.C., P. O. Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807-9199, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. I declare, under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana, that the foregoing is true and correct.

DATED this 9th day of December, 2014, at Missoula, Montana. /s/ Marlene J. Wiles BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs, Esq. P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Marlene J. Wiles, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 3 Cause No. DP-14-253 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF: DONALD P. GARRAMONE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Kathy J. Garramone has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Kathy J. Garramone, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o, GEISZLER STEELE, PC, 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 5th day of December, 2014. GEISZLER STEELE, PC. BY: /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative. I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 5th day of December, 2014. /s/ Kathy J. Garramone, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No. 3 Probate No. DP-14-237 NOTICE OF HEARING OF APPLICATION FOR APPOINTMENT AS SUCCESSOR PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT ATCHISON, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Pamela Jo Atchison Archer and Jeffrey D. Atchison by and through their counsel of record have filed in the above Court and cause an Application for Appointment as Successor Co-Personal Representatives of said estate. For further information, the Application, as filed, may be examined in the office of the clerk of the above

Court. Hearing upon said Application will be held in said Court at the courtroom in the courthouse at Missoula, Montana, on the 15th day of January, 2015, at the hour of 9:00 o’clock a.m., at which time all interested persons may appear and object. Service of this notice is being made in accordance with the attached Certificate of Service. Dated this 17th day of December, 2014.

BOONE KARLBERG P.C. By: /s/ Julie R. Sirrs P. O. Box 9199 Missoula, Montana 59807 Attorneys for Co-Applicant Pamela Jo Atchison Archer MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No.: 1 Cause No.: DP-14-233 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF: SAM A. ROBERTS, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Kathleen Roberts, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Bjornson Law Offices, PLLC, 2809 Great Northern Loop, Suite 100, Missoula, MT 59808, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 18th day of November, 2014. /S/ Kathleen Roberts, Personal Representative Bjornson Law Offices, PLL By /s/ R. Nick Jones Attorneys for Kathleen Roberts, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept.

No.: 1 Ed McLean Cause No.: DP-14-250 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF PATRICIA M. FURNISS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that George Furniss has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to George Furniss, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Christopher W. Froines, FROINES LAW OFFICE, Inc., 700 Southwest Higgins, Suite 200, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 4th day of December, 2014. FROINES LAW OFFICE, Inc. By: /s/ Christopher W. Froines, Attorneys for the Personal Representative I declare under penalty of perjury and under the laws of the state of Montana that the foregoing is true and correct. DATED this 4th day of December, 2014. /s/ George Furniss, Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR

MNAXLP CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 6, 2015, 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 Northeast one-quarter of the Northwest one-quarter of Section 20, Township 13 North, Range 16 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Parcel 1 of Certificate of survey no. 2453. Daniel E Orr and Melinda J Orr, 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 on May 19, 2009 and recorded on May 26, 2009 in Book 840, Page 79 as Document No. 200912240. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association, (FNMA), a corporation organized and existing under the Laws of the United States of America. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., 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 $1,868.14, beginning April 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 18, 2014 is $320,227.00 principal, interest at the rate of 5.00% totaling $8,751.41, late charges in the amount of $186.82, escrow advances of $2,330.66, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,622.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $43.87 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors.

If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of

Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: September 30, 2014 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss.

County of Bingham) On this 30th day of September, 2014 before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Seterus V Orr 42008.943 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 6, 2015, 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: THAT PORTION OF LOTS 5, 6, 7 AND 8 LYING WEST OF THE MILLER-KELLY-CAVE-GANNON CONSOLIDATED IRRIGATION DITCH IN BLOCK 21 OF LOW’S ADDITION TO THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. RECORDING REFERENCE; BOOK 756 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 110 Rory Burmeister, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration

Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 10, 2008 and recorded January 11, 2008 in Book 811, Page 993 as Document No. 200800760. The beneficial interest is currently held

by Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., 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 $944.93, beginning September 1, 2012, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 21, 2014 is $112,253.50 principal, interest at the rate of 6.62% totaling $15,281.02, late charges in the amount of $998.86, escrow advances of $4,708.90, and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,422.43, plus accruing interest at the rate of $20.37 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors.

If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale

may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: September 30, 2014 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 30th day of September, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Shannon Gavin Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 01/19/2018 Ocwen V Burmeister 42046.158 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 9, 2015, 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 112 of Drew Creek Addition -Phase VII to the Double Arrow Ranch, a Platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Robert H Seabrook, Jr and Sondra G Seabrook, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on September 9, 2010 and recorded on September 28, 2010 in Book 866, Page 799 as Document No. 201018706. The beneficial interest is currently held by Federal National Mortgage Association. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., 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 $933.12, beginning February 1, 2013, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 19, 2014 is $172,480.31 principal, interest at the rate of 4.75000% totaling $14,058.72, late charges in the amount of $513.22, escrow advances of $4,173.29, and other fees and expenses advanced of

$4,530.24, plus accruing interest at the rate of $22.45 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors.

If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or

EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 32, 82, 236, 295, 355, 456, 510, 629 and 643. Units can contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, & other misc. household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday January 5th 2015. All auction units will only be shown each day at 3 P.M. written sealed bids may be submitted to storage office at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59804 prior to Thursday January 8th 2015 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

CLARK FORK STORAGE

will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 53, 64, 85, 94, 102, 148, 241, 250, 256, 263. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting 1/19/2015 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to 1/22/2015 at 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

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PUBLIC NOTICES implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up

to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 1, 2014 /s/ L J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss.

County of Bingham) On this 1st day of October, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 02/18/2020 Seterus Vs Seabrook 42008.947

MNAXLP NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 9, 2015, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: All that parcel of land in the city of Missoula, county of Missoula, State of Montana as more fully described in Document 200809847 and being more particularly described as follows: Lot 2 of Country Crest No. 4, a Platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official recorded Plat thereof.

Matthew J Plute and Wendy R Plute, Husband and Wife, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Bank of America, N.A., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on July 21,2009 and recorded on September 14,2009 in Book 847, Page 420 as Docu-

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ment No.200922374. The beneficial interest is currently held by Green Tree Servicing LLC. First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., 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 $1,379.58, beginning May 1, 2014, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of September 11, 2014 is $256,163.91 principal, interest at the rate of 4.0% totaling $4,603.93, late charges in the amount of $158.57, escrow advances of $561.75, plus accruing interest at the rate of $28.08 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary an-

ticipates 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, ex-

press or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, whereis basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up

to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: October 2, 2014 /s/ Lisa J Tornabene Assistant Secretary, First American Title Company of Montana, Inc. Successor Trustee Title Financial Specialty Services PO Box 339 Blackfoot ID 83221 STATE OF Idaho)) ss. County of Bingham) On this 2nd day of October, 2014, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Lisa J Tornabene, known to me to be the Assistant Secretary of First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that she executed the same. /s/ Dalia Martinez Notary Public Bingham County, Idaho Commission expires: 2/18/2020 Green Tree Vs Plute 42072.306

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EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY

All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal and State Fair Housing Acts, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation, or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, marital status, age, and/or creed or intention to make any such preferences, limitations, or discrimination. Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians, and pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18. This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-877-7353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1-800-929-2611

APARTMENTS 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $575, LEASE INCENTIVES. Downtown, coin-op laundry, carport, offstreet parking, W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 1 bedroom, 1 bath, $575, N. Russell, coin-op laundry, storage, off-street parking, H/W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking.

GATEWEST 728-7333 1315 E. Broadway #6. 2 bed/1.5 bath, close to U, coinops, pet? $800. Grizzly Property Management 542-2060 2 bedroom, 1 bath $705, downtown & near University, coin op laundry, off street parking & carport. W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking. GATEWEST 728-7333 2 bedroom, 1 bath, $650, N. Russell, coin-op laundry, storage, off-street parking, H/W/S/G paid. No Pets, No Smoking.

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MOBILE HOMES Lolo RV Park Spaces available to rent. W/S/G/Electric included. $425/month 406-273-6034

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www.gatewestrentals.com MHA Management manages 5 properties throughout Missoula.

All properties are part of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program.

The Missoula Housing Authority complies with the Fair Housing Act and offers Reasonable Accommodations to persons with Disabilities.

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control 541-7387 SPUDS• Spuds is a 6-7 year-old male American Pit Bull. This muscle-bound man is as gentle as they come. He spent the last several years tied up in a yard, and is grateful for every ounce of affection he can get. Spuds does have a grain allergy and sensitive skin, so would need

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WATSON•Watson is a 8-9 year-old brindle Golden Retriever mix. This older guy would be perfect for someone who is not as active. He's a mellow guy who loves affection and is good with other dogs. Watson is rather overweight and would need an owner who could be diligent about a

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SAM•Sam is a 1-year-old black Lab/Pit Bull mix. He is a sweet and playful young man. Sam would need to be an on-leash South Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59801 dog as he has a tendency to run when off 2330 Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) • Drive-thru: 7:30am-6:00pm (Mon-Fri) leash. He also can be fearful of men. He is great with older kids, minds well on 3708 North Reserve Street, Missoula, Montana, 59808 Lobby: 9:00am-5:00pm (Mon-Fri) leash, and knows how to sit and lay down.

IMOGENE•Imogene is a 5-7 year-old female long-haired gray Tabby. She has a lovely disposition and enjoys being brushed out. Imogene is a clever little girl who knows how to open cupboards and likes to find little areas to hide.

To sponsor a pet call 543-6609

ALLIE•Allie is a 2-year-old female white and orange Domestic Medium Hair. She is a very small adult cat and can often be found enjoying the view out the window.

Allie is good with other cats and would love to find a feline friend to snuggle with.

Allie does have a corn allergy and would

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MARTIN•Martin is a 6-8 year-old male gray Tiger Domestic Short Hair. He is a very social boy, who often asks for attention by rubbing up against your leg. Martin loves to lounge about and is not overly active. He'd be a great family cat, as his laidback personality allows him to get along with a wide variety of people and pets.

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These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana 549-3934 LUCKY• Lucky is a handsome Bluetick/Walker Hound mix and he loves people and attention! This 3-year-old boy is very playful and he gets along well with other dogs. Lucky is ready to find his forever family to take him on outdoor adventures and car rides. If you are interested in meeting Lucky, come visit him today!

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ANGELICA• Angelica is a friendly lap cat with a big personality. She loves to spend her time playing with feather toys, using her scratching post and napping in a cozy lap. You can visit Angelica at the Humane Society of Western Montana. We are open 1-6 Tuesday- Friday and 12-5 on

RUDOLPH•Rudolph is a fun-loving Chihuahua and he is ready to find his forever Montana family. If you are interested in meeting this friendly boy, stop by The Humane Society of Western Montana and ask to meet with Rudolph today!

MAVERICK•Maverick is an energetic 7-month-old Lab and he is ready to find his forever family! This playful boy enjoys hikes and would be the perfect companion to explore the great outdoors with. If you are interested in spending some time with Maverick, stop by The Humane Society of Western Montana today!

MOLLY• Molly is a long-haired beauty looking for a caring home. She would prefer to be the only cat and to be treated like a princess. She enjoys primping her nails on her cardboard scratching post and finding a warm lap to relax on. Come visit Molly at the Humane Society of Western Montana. We are open 1-6 Tuesdays through

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POINSETTIA• Poinsettia is a beautiful long-haired tuxedo and recently transferred to us from another shelter. Poinsettia is 8 years old and would love for you to come visit her and take her home today!

If you would like to meet this sweet girl, stop by the Humane Society of Western Montana. We are open 1-6 Tuesday-Friday

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 10955 Cedar Ridge. Loft bedroom, 1 bath on 20+ acres with guest house & sauna near Blue Mountain Recreation Area. $299,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 1633 South 4th West. 1920’s era 4 bed, 2 bath with fenced yard, patio and many new upgrades. $299,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 2407653 pat@properties2000.com 1807 Missoula Avenue. 3 bed, 2 bath cottage-style near Rattlesnake Creek and park. $299,900. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653. pat@properties2000.com 2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Rose Park Home with commercial space. $265,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, Central Missoula home. $275,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, East Missoula home. $225,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3 Bdr, 2 Bath, East Missoula home. $249,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 3010 West Central. Five acres bordering DNRC in Target Range with 3 bed, 1 bath home. $450,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com

David Loewenwarter. Prudential Montana Real Estate. LOEWENWARTER.COM. 406-241-3321 “Go Griz” let me help you find your way back home to Missoula. David Loewenwarter, Realtor Prudential MT Real Estate 241-3221 loewenwarter.com I can help you find your new home! Celia Grohmann @ Banana Belt Realty. 406-550-1014 • celiamontana@gmail.com.

Visit my website at www.on93.com Let me help save you time and energy. I know about Missoula and have lived here 30+ years. David Loewenwarter. Prudential Montana Real Estate.

LOEWENWARTER.COM. 406241-3321 Put my experience and dedication to work for you. JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate.

(406) 214-4016 • jay.getz@prumt.com • www.JayGetzMissoula.com Rattlesnake Farmhouse A friendly home with large garden in the middle Rattlesnake.

1145 Lolo Street. At corner of Gilbert and Lolo Streets. 3 bed-

room, 2 bath, 10,200 sq. ft. lot [0.23 acres] Fruit trees. Access to town and trails. For sale by owners of 24 years. $279,000. Main and Second floors have 1,375 Sq. Ft. Unfinished basement 240 Sq.Ft. Parking off street. Fenced yard and garden. All SIDs paid including city sewer,sidewalk.

Natural gas heat. Roof one year old. Taxes $2304.33 in 2014.

Pictures on craigslist. 406-4371800 or masirr@yahoo.com RE/MAX All Stars; combining local ownership, experienced agents, and the power of #1 RE/MAX. Complimentary real estate advice. Call 406-5428644 We’re not only here to sell real estate, we’re your full service senior home specialists. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway.

(406) 7282621. www.clarkforkrealty.com When considering a move please call Missoula native JAY GETZ, Prudential Montana Real Estate. (406) 214-4016 • j a y. g e t z @ p r u m t . c o m • www.JayGetzMissoula.com WHO CARES? We do, in good times & bad... Auto; SR-22;

Renters; Homeowners. JT Zinn Insurance. 406-549-8201. 321 SW Higgins. Find us on Facebook.

Uptown Flats #306. 1 bed, 1 bath top floor unit with lots of light. W/D, carport, storage & access to exercise room. $162,000. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES

Uptown Flats #312. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $151,900.

Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 546-5816. annierealtor@gmail.com

1823 H Montana. 3 bed, 2.5 bath near Good Food Store & Source Gym. $140,000. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

Uptown Flats. Upscale gated community near downtown. All SS appliances, carport, storage and access to community room and exercise room plus more.

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3811 Stephens #30. 2 bed, 1.5 bath in Lewis & Clark neighborhood with single garage. $135,500. Mary Louise ZappKnapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate.

532-9296 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com 4801 Bordeaux. 2 bed, 2 bath with A/C & 2 car garage. $168,000. Rita Gray, LambrosERA Real Estate 532-9283. ritagray@lambrosera.com

THE UPTOWN FLATS

Modern 1 bed, 1 bath with all the amenities! #210 $149,000 #20136817 #312 $151,900 #20146315 2014 Best Real Estate Agent

101 Church Street, Stevensville $255,000 Commercial or residential opportunity in turn-of-thecentury building.

Currently Mission Bistro Restaurant.

Zoned C-1 MLS# 20143430

Ranch style home, south of Florence. Magnificent views of the Bitterroot Mtns, 5 acres, fenced and cross fenced for horses. Attached dbl car garage, 44 x 32' shop with office, small tack room and barn.

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1625 Lot 12A Cote Lane. Level 1 acre with fantastic views. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9296. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com

435 Ernest Dr, Stevensville $310,000

Uptown Flats #210. 1 bed, 1 bath modern condo on Missoula’s Northside. $149,000.

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4 Bdr, 2 Bath, University District home. $439,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com 4700 Nicole Court. 6 bed, 4 bath high-end Linda Vista home with 3 car garage and Missoula views. $419,500. Anne Jablonski, Portico Real Estate 5465816. annierealtor@gmail.com 612 Parkview. 3 bed, 2 bath in Farviews with a nice 2 car garage. $289,900. Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula.

239-8350 shannon@prudentialmissoula.com 9755 Horseback Ridge. 3 bed, 3 bath with mother-in-law apartment on 5 view acres. $385,000. Pat McCormick, Properties 2000. 240-7653 pat@properties2000.com Are your housing needs changing? We can help you explore your options. Clark Fork Realty. 512 E. Broadway. (406) 728-2621. www.clarkforkrealty.com Buying or selling homes? Let me help you find your way home.

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REAL ESTATE

Lot 33 Old Mill Loop, St. Regis.

1.02 acre with 150’ of Clark Fork River Frontage. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate 532-9296. mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com NHN Arnica. Pattee Canyon acreage with great view of Missoula. Mary Louise Zapp-Knapp, Lambros ERA Real Estate. 5329296 mlzappknapp@lambrosera.com

NHN Rock Creek Road. 20 acres bordered on north by Five Valleys Land Trust. Direct access to Clark Fork River. $189,900.

Shannon Hilliard, Prudential Missoula 239-8350. shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

OUT OF TOWN

COMMERCIAL

2 Bdr, 2 Bath, Stevensville home. $180,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com

Rose Park commercial building with attached rental. $265,000.

Prudential Montana. For more

4 Bdr, 2 Bath, Nine Mile Valley home on 12.3 acres. $350,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit www.mindypalmer.com 4 Bdr, 3 Bath, Frenchtown home on 5.4 acres. $300,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696,

or visit www.mindypalmer.com 5 Bdr, 3 Bath, Florence area home on 3.2 acres. $479,000.

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

MORTGAGE We are experts in the home lending process. Call Astrid Oliver, Loan Officer at Guild Mortgage Company. 1001 S Higgins Suite A2, Missoula. Office: 406-2587522 or Cell: 406-550-3587

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