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Vol. 20, No. 16 • April 16–April 23, 2009

Western Montana’s Weekly Journal of People, Politics and Culture

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Up Front: The Indy publishes a carbon-neutral Earth Day issue Ochenski: Why developing Otter Creek coal is still a bad idea Soundcheck: DragonForce sheds the shredder reputation

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Vol. 20, No. 16 • April 16–April 23, 2009

Western Montana’s Weekly Journal of People, Politics and Culture

by Wistar Watts Murray

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nside Cover Story Usually it’s a good thing to receive a free Tshirt and get your name in the paper, but not if you’re a winner of a Muzzle Award from the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression. Each spring members of the Cover illustration by Kou Moua center’s board of trustees decide who should be distinguished for First Amendment infractions out of the hundreds of people and institutions nominated. The Muzzle nominees always come from across the political spectrum, the far right and the far left being essentially in agreement on most First Amendment issues. This year’s list even starts off with a bipartisan flair, honoring incidents from both national conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15

News

Letters Touting transparency in state government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The Week in Review Dairy Queen robbed, Baucus divorced . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Briefs State digs up Legacy Project funding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Etc. Checking the score at the W.R. Grace trial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Up Front The Indy moves to reduce its carbon footprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Up Front Dummy cop fools drivers around Flathead Lake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Ochenski Mining undeveloped coal tracts remains a bad idea . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Writers on the Range Interior Secretary Salazar is on the right track . . . . . . . . 11 Agenda Amy Goodman graces Missoula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Arts & Entertainment

Flash in the Pan Foraging for truth in new farm bills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 8 Days a Week This line has been redacted by the editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Mountain High Pick your poison on Saturday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Scope Roy Zimmerman provides a parody of the times . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Noise Secret Powers, Blessiddoom, 1090 Club and The Whore Moans . . . . . . 33 Soundcheck DragonForce sheds the shredder reputation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Also Playing Judging Zac Efron. Plus: Happy-Go-Lucky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

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STREET TALK

Inside Letters Briefs Up Front Ochenski Range Agenda News Quirks

by Ashley Sears

Asked Tuesday morning in downtown Missoula.

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In honor of Earth Day on April 22, the Indy asked a local environmental consulting firm to assess the paper’s carbon footprint. If you had your home or business similarly reviewed, what’s one conservation step they’d surely recommend?

Follow-up: Reduce, reuse, recycle. Which do you feel is most important?

Stephanie Tuke: Recycling everything instead of just beer bottles and cans. I don’t think enough people know where and what they can recycle. I think someone should publish a list. It’s out there: Reduce. It creates less that will need to be recycled or reused in the future.

Alice Marquardt: The only thing I can think of is having fewer lights. We have such a small space for our business. I know we have a footprint but I just don’t really know where else we could conserve. More with less: All three of them are important, but probably reduce so there’s less stuff out there.

Christopher, aka “Freedom”: I guess my imprint is made up of candy and cigarettes. I don’t have a home, so the earth is my home. Cuttin’ back: Reduce. It cuts down on the other two.

Justin Crouch: I consider myself pretty good. I bought all those energy-efficient light bulbs, and I highly recommend those to everyone. Also, I would suggest that people buy a computer and start getting their news online and stop buying newspapers.

Pretty much everything in my house is electronic so I really cut back on paper waste. Waste not, want not: Recycle. I think it should be a law that people have to recycle glass and plastic and paper instead of producing more, because we already waste so much.

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Touting transparency We write to urge Gov. Brian Schweitzer and the Montana Legislature to emulate and go beyond the advances in bringing more openness to governmental expenditures put forth by over two dozen states, in addition to the federal government.

While the undersigned do disagree on many other issues, we believe in a strong and informed electorate and share a strong belief that taxpayers should be able to easily access clear and concise information on how their tax dollars are being spent by governments at all levels.

Over the past few years, governors and legislatures across the country have issued executive orders and passed legislation that enables citizens to easily search for and find on the Internet detailed information about state revenues and expenditures. To cite just a few examples, Missouri allows its citizens to track $20 billion a year in spending with a website that was created by executive order and runs entirely on existing staff and revenues. Oklahoma created a site with $40,000 from its existing budget. Texas implemented its transparency website and identified over $8 million dollars in immediate and future savings.

At the federal level, the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 created a free, publicly searchable website for all federal programs and grants. Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle came together and joined forces to move in the right direction. The website, which was signed into law on September 26, 2006, and implemented in December 2007, tracks over $2 trillion in spending, cost less than $1 million to implement, and was strengthened by an amendment in July 2008.

We urge you to work expeditiously to make the full text of all your written state expenditures and contracts, ranging from procurement of goods and services to grants, leaseholds and labor contracts available to the public on the Internet in a clear and searchable format. We encourage you to require not only state agencies to disclose their revenue sources, expenditures and contracts, but also to extend this requirement to all subdivisions of government, including school districts, counties, cities, special districts and public authorities.

We come from different policy and programmatic backgrounds, but here we arrive at the same conclusion: Transparency is one of the core principles of representative democracy. Another way of putting it is that “information is the currency of democracy.” Today’s tech-

nology allows us to easily place information in our citizens’ hands, and they deserve no less.

Matt Singer CEO, Forward Montana Missoula Carl Graham President, Montana Policy Institute Bozeman

What’s the answer?

I think we have all heard the saying “your silence is deafening.” This seems to be the case of pastors and priests by not commenting on the stimulus bill.

This nation is founded on Christian beliefs, including the VII Commandment, “Thou shall not steal,” and the Golden Rule, “Do unto others as your would have them do unto you.”

“What will your

answer be when

God says, ‘I gave you the greatest nation on earth and you squandered it by not following my Command-

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ments’?

We, as Christians, stand idly by and watch future generations literally sold into the slavery of crushing debt. Having violated two tenets of the church by standing by and doing nothing is the same as approval. The question is if you believe in life after death and a final judgment day, what will your answer be when God says, “I gave you the greatest nation on earth and you squandered it by not following my Commandments with no thoughts for the future”?

Mike Dey Missoula

See the forest There’s an old cliché that one can’t see the forest for the trees. It is used to describe people who are so focused on some detail that they fail to see the big picture. Nowhere is this failure to see the forest for the trees more evident

than the rush to utilize dead trees for biomass fuels and/or the presumed need to “thin” forests to reduce so called “dangers” and/or “damage” from wildfire and beetle outbreaks.

Dead trees are not a “wasted” resource. An abundance of dead trees, rather than a sign of forest sickness as commonly portrayed, demonstrates that the forest ecosystem is functioning perfectly well. For far too long we have viewed the major agents responsible for creation of substantial qualities of dead trees—beetles and wildfire—as “enemies” of the forest, when in truth they are the major processes that maintain healthy forest ecosystems.

Recent research points out the multiple ways that dead trees and down wood are critical to the forest. One estimates suggests that 2/3 of all species depend on dead trees/down wood at some point in their lives.

Once a tree falls to the ground and gradually molders back into the soil, it provides home to many small insects and invertebrates that are the lifeblood of the forest, that help recycle and produce nutrients important for present and future forest growth. For instance, there are hundreds of species of ground nesting bees that utilize down trees for their home. These bees are major pollinators of flowers and flowering shrubs in the forest.

Ants are among the most abundant invertebrates in the forest and many live in down trees and snags. Ants play a critical role in the forest, helping to break down wood, aerate soil with their burrows, and protect trees against the onslaught of other insects.

One study found that ants killed 85 percent of the tussock moths that attacked Douglas fir and there are many other examples of how ants protect trees from tree predators.

Logging, thinning, biomass removal and other forest management introduce all kinds of negative impacts to the forest ecosystem from the spread of weeds to soil compaction to alteration of water flow, disturbance to wildlife, creation of new ORV trails, increases in sedimentation, that all lead to the degradation of the forest ecosystem itself. Most of these negative impacts are ignored or glossed over by proponents of thinning and biomass removal.

Forest “management” is so focused on trees and wood products that it represents a critical failure to see the forest through the trees.

George Wuerthner Richmond, Vt.

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• Wednesday, April 8

News Quirks

by Chad Harder

Passenger train advocates hold a “Rally for Rail” at the University of Montana to express their support for restoring Amtrak’s North Coast Hiawatha, which, until it was discontinued 30 years ago, passed through Missoula. A banner is signed thanking Sen. Jon Tester for amending a train bill to study the feasibility of bringing it back.

• Thursday, April 9 Montana Sen. Max Baucus and wife Wanda announce they are divorcing after 25 years of marriage. In a joint statement, the Baucuses said, “We are grateful for the opportunities we have had together and now as we pursue individual lives we appreciate everyone’s understanding and respect for our privacy.’’ Baucus and his first wife divorced in 1982.

• Friday, April 10 Sen. Jon Tester and Mayor John Engen appear on S. Higgins Avenue to celebrate Missoula’s first shovelready stimulus project: a roundabout at the intersection of Higgins and Beckwith. Stimulus money should cover the cost of the project, an estimated $600,000. Construction is scheduled to start in June.

• Saturday, April 11 A robber holds up the Dairy Queen on S. Higgins Avenue with a knife. No employees at the popular neighborhood ice cream joint are injured, but the suspect gets away with the till. Missoula police say they’re looking for a man in his early 20s with brown hair, bushy eyebrows, dark colored eyes and about 6-feet tall with a thin build.

• Sunday, April 12 The PEAS Farm celebrates Easter Sunday by introducing 250 egg-laying chicks to the community.

Residents bid on the baby birds during the open house in hopes of bringing them home in November, once the chicks are fully grown. In the meantime, the farm expects to offer weekly egg shares starting in July.

• Monday, April 13 Gov. Brian Schweitzer signs HB 190, which clarifies the public’s rights in accessing the state’s rivers and streams from bridges. “It’s been 24 years,” says Schweitzer, “since anglers and recreationalists have had a law pass the legislature that said, yes, in Montana you can access our rivers and streams from public bridges.”

• Tuesday, April 14 A power outage hits approximately 3,000 NorthWestern Energy customers on Missoula’s Northside around 1:30 p.m. The outage also affects traffic signals, prompting the Missoula Police Department to ask drivers to avoid West Broadway between Russell and Scott streets—a rush-hour thoroughfare—for the day.

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Legacy Project Pushing the Potomac purchase A bill killed in committee that would have allowed the state to purchase about 26,000 acres of Montana Legacy Project lands found new life when legislators packaged it with a revolving loan fund designed to aid the state’s ailing timber industry.

Rep. Chas Vincent, R-Libby, introduced HB 674, which authorizes the state to sell $21 million in bonds to buy 25,700 acres of land ringing the Potomac Valley. The bill cleared a Senate committee 10-1 last week after passing in the House 98-2.

The first iteration of the bill, HB 14, introduced by Rep. Bill Nooney, R-Missoula, appeared dead on arrival early in the session, partly because bonding requires a two-thirds vote.

“There started to be some discussions about how we might be able to make it happen,” says Rep. Jill Cohenour, D-East Helena, “and the best way to do that is to try to tie it to something that everyone could agree on.”

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panion committee bills, HB 669 and HB 674, as a work-around. The first bill sets up a $7.5 million revolving loan fund to help timber businesses, while the second means the former Plum Creek lands purchased by the Nature Conservancy will be conveyed to the state and managed—like most Legacy Project lands—for timber. The bills’ contingency language states if one bill dies, the other becomes void.

And as part of a compromise, the state must offset its 25,700-acre purchase by selling an equal amount of land elsewhere—likely grazing land in central or eastern Montana—through its land banking program.

Cohenour says HB 14 didn’t stand a chance because it came down to party lines. Combining the bills “squelched that thought process,” she says, “or at least brought it around to, ‘Yeah, there’s a reason why we need this.’ Because not only does the land purchase help the timber industry, but the revolving loan fund then backtracks and helps out with the state lands and fire suppression.”

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That return, he says, will be more timber in Montana’s mills, money in the local school trust fund and intangibles like public access to the land.

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and exposed woodwork. Bjelland says employees from Bayern Brewing, which used to call the building home, hardly recognize the place.

Bjelland moved Le Petit’s baking operations to the new location last September. He’s currently focusing on streamlining his wholesale business, including ramping up production of Mexitana tortillas by mid-summer. Le Petit purchased the popular local tortilla brand last year.

Bjelland hopes to use profits from his wholesale upgrades to float construction on the spacious retail spot. That means new packaging, new distribution routes and taking advantage of the untapped Flathead market.

“We’re anxious, but as of now it sounds like he has so many irons in the fire that the retail spot is still a little ways out,” says Charlie Beaton, co-owner of Big Dipper.

Retail is simmering on the backburner mostly due to engineering setbacks. The scale of work needed to renovate the new building surprised both businesses, and Bjelland says he’s already spent $400,000 moving the baking operation.

He also hit an economic snag last year when flour prices tripled. “It kicked our ass,” Bjelland says.

Although he declines to estimate when the new retail spot will open, Bjelland remains optimistic about eventually cutting the ribbon with Beaton.

“It’s good synergy,” Bjelland says. “It’s Gestalt theory…the whole is better than the sum of its parts.”

Alex Sakariassen

Master Plan Crash course on cycle tracks As Missoula’s City Council begins to examine the final draft of the Downtown Master Plan, one issue is proving to be a stick in their spokes.

The council is weighing whether or not to adopt the use of protected bike lanes, also known as cycle tracks. At first glance, the answer to the question—barring funding problems— seems to be a no-brainer. As Ward 3 Councilmember Stacy Rye observes, parents are more likely to ride bikes with their small children with the assurance that the little ones are protected from traffic. Danish research has also shown that cycle tracks may increase ridership 18 to 20 percent.

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But local biking advocates say cycle tracks are actually less safe than well-maintained bike lanes.

“When we look at where cars and bicycles crash, they almost never happen in the middle of the block,” says Phil Smith, the city’s bicycle pedestrian program coordinator. “The concern that I have about the rhetoric around cycle tracks is this word, ‘protected.’”

Jim Sayer, head of the Adventure Cycling Association, points to a study of cycle tracks by Alta Planning and Design, a company Sayer

describes as one of the premier bike/walk planning consultants in the United States. That study notes that by separating bicyclists from cars, cycle tracks are more dangerous.

“As bicyclists are not traveling directly alongside automobiles, motorists may not be aware of their presence, leading to increased vulnerability at intersections,” the study says.

Bob Giordano of the Missoula Institute of Sustainable Transportation agrees, and thinks City Council shouldn’t abandon its current bicycle network.

“At first, we thought cycle tracks were the way to go,” he says. “[But after further research] we’re advocating for wide bike lanes on all arterials away from the door zone, maintained and connected. Nobody is really getting hit in the straight sections. It’s at intersections.”

Jesse Froehling

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Economy Empty seats save jobs While job losses mount across the country, Missoula officials have found a way to cut positions without actually handing anybody a pink slip.

The city and county government has basically decided to wait this year to hire replacement workers. When an employee leaves due to attrition or retirement, officials assess whether they can finish the fiscal year without replacing the person. Between the county and the city, at least a dozen vacancies have been intentionally left open after officials figured they could make do with smaller staffs.

Missoula County Chief Administrative Officer Dale Bickell says he’s holding six vacancies, all of which relate to the construction industry.

“We have two vacancies that we’re not going to fill, and I think that’s going to be permanent for FY 2010,” he says. “We’re hoping to be able to hold the line on the rest of them.”

Bruce Bender, the city’s chief administrative officer, says the policy has saved at least three employees from being laid off from the Building Inspection Division. The city has less budgetary control over the division, Bender says, because it must support itself through building fees. If work declines, revenue declines and workers must be let go. The city retained the three employees by transferring them to vacant positions in other departments—two took similar front-office jobs with the Finance Department and the other, a building inspector, was hired to replace signs and paint traffic lines for Parks and Recreation.

“Otherwise,” Bender says, “we would have had to lay people off.”

Another benefit of vacancies comes at budget season. Some departments will be forced to shrink in 2010, Bender says, and an open position is easier to cut than a full-time worker.

“The Police Department is a prime example of that,” Bender says. He believes some current vacancies will become permanent cuts in next year’s budget.

“We’ve made it one of our priorities is to try to retain positions,” says Bender. “And we’re hopeful that going into next year’s budget, we’ll be able to cut other costs rather than eliminating people.”

Jesse Froehling

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Catcalls a Missoula Independent reporter received while rocking a kilt during Snowbowl’s season-ending celebration April 12. Snowbowl originally planned to close April 5, but remained open an extra week due to heavy late-season snowfall.

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In the famous words of former Griz great Michael Ray Richardson, “The ship be sinkin’.” In this case, we’re talking about the leaky tugboat known as the government-led prosecution in the ongoing W.R. Grace criminal trial. By all accounts, the good guys—those attempting to prove Grace executives covered up knowledge of deadly asbestos in Libby—are taking on water like the Titanic.

It doesn’t take Johnnie Cochran to size up the situation.

Just step into the courtroom and look for yourself. You’ll find enough defense lawyers to take up every seat on one side of the room. You’ll hear those same high-priced defense lawyers deftly cross-examine witnesses, rarely receiving any objections. And you’ll notice their questioning usually follows a pragmatic line that, in our experience, ends rather elegantly. The defense attorneys sound straight out of a TV courtroom drama.

On the other hand, when lead prosecutor Kris McLean takes the podium, he’s regularly bombarded with objections from the sizeable defense team. By the time the objections are sorted out, we can hardly remember McLean’s original question. The prosecution looks overwhelmed and outmatched, and nothing like Perry Mason.

The clearest example of the mismatch occurred last Wednesday when District Judge Donald Molloy launched into one of his signature rebukes. After a day filled with sloppy questioning and sustained objections—law professor Beth Brennan likened it to “a law school evidence exam” on the Grace Case blog—Molloy cleared the jury from the courtroom and bluntly told McLean the score.

“Six weeks we’ve been at this,” he said, “and I don’t know what the conspiracy is. Where’s the conspiracy? At some point you have to prove that there was a conspiracy to do something illegal. I have listened as carefully as I can. I have visited with my law clerk to test my memory. What is the agreement to do something illegal?”

McLean attempted to explain the government’s case, but Molloy immediately shot him back down. “Maybe you don’t like it, and maybe it’s morally wrong,” Molloy said, “but they have to have an agreement to do something illegal.”

Molloy’s second statement cuts deep to those who feel Grace executives are clearly deserving of severe punishment.

But morally wrong doesn’t always equal criminally guilty, and this case seems to be underlining that harsh lesson. We’re not ready to call the case closed, but we’re certainly starting to reach for the life vests.

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Speed trap Dummy cop fools drivers along Flathead Lake

by Alex Sakariassen

Sharif proves less intimidating when not seen through the windshield of a speeding car. He sports a sheriff ’s hat from Sitka, Alaska, a naval officer’s nameplate and a hodgepodge of patches.

A custom-made star emblem on the car’s door says “Lakeside Decoy.” It’s an unconvincing ruse, unless you’re passing by at 50 mph.

“It’s very obvious if you just sit for five minutes during rush hour and see the brake lights come on,” says Ed Kerley, who sometimes borrows Sharif for speed traps in Somers. “Everybody slows down, even the local people that know that he’s a decoy. It’s the mere fact that, ‘Hey, it’s a patrol car, I need to slow down and check my speed.’

It’s been fantastic.”

Kerley says community support of Sharif has been overwhelming. The Lakeside Community Club has held a number of fundraisers to collect money for the car’s insurance and registration. The latest, a joint fundraiser with nearby Tamarack Brewing Company, is tentatively set for May. “It’s an ongoing expense with tires and batteries and oil changes and insurance,” Kerley says.

Photo by Alex Sakariassen Lucky and Sharif have Speeding on U.S. Highway 93 poses a danger to communities like Lakeside. become a favorite photo stop for Jeremy Newell and his wife created decoy Omar Sharif to help calm the motorists, and Newell mentions problem. few problems with vandalism. He knows of one rock thrown at the Egyptian actor. Since his appearance as a ing down that hill. It’s dangerous to be in car and points out marks on the hood speeding deterrent in May 2008, Sharif ’s town here.” that he suspects are the result of lateThe Newells noticed motorists tear- night breakdancing. slowed traffic on residential stretches of ing through crosswalks when remodeling U.S. Highway 93 to a crawl.

“And somebody put a citation on it,” “He’s got a following of his own in their Lakeside Mercantile storefront four adds Newell. “It looked like they took the the community,” says Sharif ’s creator, years ago. They hatched the idea for a back of a cigarette packet and wrote, ‘You Jeremy Newell. “Some of the girls ask me, dummy, but needed a convincing car to are in violation of the parking ordinance complete the setup. In 2008, Martin and must be fined.’ It was hilarious.”

‘What’s Omar doing tonight?’”

Lounging on a wicker couch in the I first met Sharif driving (okay, speed- Tetachuk, a real estate agent and reserve ing) through Somers on my way to a ski deputy sheriff for Lake County, found the now-shuttered Lakeside Mercantile, weekend in Whitefish. The sight of a vehicle: a used Crown Victoria from the Newell can’t help basking in the glow of Crown Victoria and that red-and-blue Lake County Sheriff ’s Department. Lake Sharif ’s success. He nods across the light bar triggered a braking instinct in the County Sheriff Lucky Larson was happy street, calling the decoy his hobby. As line of cars ahead of me. By the time any to donate the car, which the Newells traffic peters by, drivers do double takes.

“You can almost see who’s in the car, of us realized the mustachioed man with dubbed “Lucky” in his honor.

Deborah Newell then built Sharif and instead of these blurs,” Newell says. He aviator sunglasses was a dummy, we’d outfitted him in army thrift clothes. The adds a minute later: “I’m getting a kick, slowed to well below the speed limit.

That’s exactly what Newell and his Newells approached Flathead County just sitting here watching the people go Sheriff Mike Meehan with the idea, and by. They’re behaving so well.” wife, Deborah, hope for.

To prove a point, Newell parks the “The whole purpose of the whole Meehan discussed the situation with the thing is awareness,” he says. “Heck, we county attorney. Both officials gave the car around back. Within 10 minutes trafgreen light, asking only that Sharif be fic speeds up noticeably. wish we had a second car in town.”

“If I had one goal, I’d like to get a Speeding is a serious problem on the home by dark to avoid any vandalism.

“They’ve licensed it, they’ve insured radar transmitter,” Newell says, hoping to western banks of Flathead Lake. Highway 93 snakes through a string of small it, they park it in different spots through- further fool speeders with radar signal towns, with speed limits dropping from out the course of the day and take it detectors. “It’s not in our budget, but it’s 70 to 35 miles per hour with little warn- home at night,” Meehan says. “It’s just on our bucket list.” ing. The Montana Department of there to slow down traffic, and it’s really asakariassen@missoulanews.com Transportation reports five fatal crashes effective.”

Lakeside’s favorite cop doesn’t write tickets. He doesn’t work major holidays or during a heavy snow. But according to many residents and local law enforcement officials, he’s the best thing to happen to traffic in the Flathead Lake hamlet in the last year.

Not bad for a guy made of paper mache. Meet Lakeside decoy Omar Sharif, named for his resemblance to the famed

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between Lakeside and the intersection north of Somers since 2004. Newell remembers a young boy hit in Somers in 2007, and a man in his 80s killed by an RV in Lakeside years ago.

“I think in the last year, we’ve seen more sheriffs and more highway patrol cars in the area,” Newell says. “But it was unbelievable just the average speed driving through town—a lot of truckers com-

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Baby steps The Indy moves to reduce its carbon footprint

by Jesse Froehling

During the last year, ClearSky soon as he walked into our Orange Street ly paper—approximately 22,000 copies, Climate Solutions has successfully helped offices. The building utilizes an open 52 weeks a year, on 60 percent recycled some of Missoula’s largest local business- floor plan, which isn’t the most energy- newsprint with soy-based ink. The es become carbon neutral. The company efficient design. We use approximately Independent began printing at the teamed with the University of Montana in 7.49 dekatherms of natural gas on a Missoulian last September, and Lee February to “go green” for a men’s bas- monthly basis, with that number nearly Enterprises declined to provide any ketball game, and with the Big Sky tripling during the winter months. Our information for ClearSky’s report, citing Documentary Film Festival to do the electricity use was even higher—58,700 “company policy.”

Handler did offer a rough estimate same with its signature event. In each kilowatts powered our air conditioning, case, ClearSky performed an appraisal of our 25 computers and our light bulbs, on the printing costs, figuring a year’s worth of papers weigh roughly the business, measured the 392,500 pounds, or 196.25 approximate amount of greentons. After calculating the curhouse gases normally prorent cost of newsprint— duced—aka, the carbon footapproximately $670 per ton, print—and then worked to offa c c o r d i n g t o Pa p e r A g e set that amount to zero.

Magazine—Handler plugged Sounded pretty cool to us. the total cost into a tool creatSo, in honor of Earth Day ed by the Carnegie Mellon on April 22, we asked ClearSky Green Design Institute to find to perform a similar appraisal of that newsprint accounts for the Independent. Our goal: to another 191 metric tons of CO2 publish at least one carbonneutral issue. per year. That number includes To get started, ClearSky emissions from the paper mill, CEO Keegan Eisenstadt and logging, truck transportation— project developer Stephen the whole process.

Handler visited the Indy offices “This is a rough—very last week to assess our daily rough—guess,” says Handler. operations. We provided raw Nevertheless, that leaves us data, such as how many miles producing nearly 6 metric tons each employee drives to and of CO2—298 divided by 52—a from work. ClearSky then put week. To put that number in that information into a workperspective, an airplane flying sheet that factors not only how 2,000 miles emits a metric ton much CO2 was emitted during of CO2. An average household the drive, but also the energy emits a metric ton of CO2 over that was expended while the course of two months. And Photo by Chad Harder drilling for the oil, processing it, one grazing Ugandan dairy cow turning it into gasoline and The Indy staff used 185 reams of office paper last takes eight months to emit a year, as well as 10 boxes of envelopes and 10 boxes shipping it to Montana. metric ton of CO2. of letterhead. That use—which doesn’t include printOverall, their report shows ing of the actual finished newspaper—translates to We graze zero cows at the we produced approximately more than a ton of CO2.

Indy, but we’re still committed 298 metric tons of CO2 last year. to producing a single carbonnot all of which are energy-efficient. neutral issue of the paper. Lynne That’s not too bad, Handler says.

“The Independent’s overall footprint Electricity ends up contributing nearly 12 Foland, the paper’s general manager, surprised me as being pretty low—your percent—or 25.63 metric tons—of our says the Indy will continue to explore ways to reduce its carbon footprint by company travel and air travel in particular footprint. “[The electrical use] would be worth conserving electricity and natural gas. were very small contributors compared to other organizations we’ve investigat- investigating to see where the low-hang- In the meantime, we purchased $90 of ing fruit might be,” Handler says. “I’m carbon offsets to help this issue become ed,” he says.

Even so, the Independent still has confident there’s plenty of fat to be carbon neutral.

The idea proves a bit abstract, but some areas that need improvement. trimmed off of that number.”

As to be expected, paper also Handler says that by investing in certain Although the majority of the paper’s 23 employees live within a few miles of our accounted for a huge chunk of our CO2 alternative energy projects, we make up Orange Street office, we still manage to emissions. The Indy staff used 185 reams for our own emissions. The Independent drive 778.5 miles every week. (One of office paper last year, as well as 10 chose to invest in the Montana employee makes up the majority of this boxes of envelopes and 10 boxes of let- Rangeland Carbon Sequestration Pool, a total, commuting daily from Hamilton.) terhead. That use—which doesn’t include group of ranchers committed to respon“This is a pretty large proportion of printing of the actual finished newspa- sible grazing practices. your footprint, and it could be reduced per—translates to more than a ton of CO2.

That means that you, dear reader, easily by offering more incentives/oppor- Despite the fact that we recycle our paper can peruse this issue knowing that yes, tunities for employees to walk/bike/car- with Missoula Valley Recycling, Clear Sky we made a mess in bringing it to you, pool,” writes Handler in his report. also estimated we produced 208 cubic but at least this time we cleaned up after Another main contributor to our yards of waste in 2008. ourselves. footprint is electricity and natural gas One major area of the report use, something Eisenstadt noticed as involves the printing of the actual weekjfroehling@missoulanews.com

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Otterly wrong Mining undeveloped coal tracts remains a bad idea

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Like a zombie in a horror movie, the development of the Otter Creek Coal Tracts has once again been re-animated by Gov. Brian Schweitzer in his bid to fuel the nation with Montana coal. But mining Otter Creek coal started out as a bad idea and continues to be a bad idea for many reasons. When the members of the Land Board consider leasing the coal at its monthly meeting next Monday, they would do well to let dead zombies—and Otter Creek’s coal—lie undisturbed.

For those new to Montana, a short explanation of the history of Otter Creek may prove helpful in understanding the decision the Land Board now faces. The story starts back in the ’90s, when Republican Marc Racicot was governor and overwhelming Republican majorities dominated the legislature. A huge, open-pit gold operation dubbed the New World Mine had been proposed for development on the northern border of Yellowstone National Park. The key word here is “proposed,” since no mine was ever developed and no mining jobs were ever created.

Nonetheless, the federal government decided the threat to Yellowstone was untenable, so it paid millions to the owners of the non-existent mine to abandon the project. That should have been the end of the story, but unfortunately, the Republican mindset stepped in.

Racicot, using rather bizarre and theoretical logic, decided the feds owed Montana something for the loss of the non-existent mining jobs that may have been created had the mine ever been developed. The federal government acquiesced to his demand and offered either $10 million in hard cash or, at the request of Racicot and some of his mining cronies, to cede the state the Otter Creek coal tracts.

Now here’s where the story gets real interesting. In testimony before the Land Board, the former head of the Montana Coal Council urged the state to take the money—not the coal. This was a radical position for the state’s leading coal mining association to take, but the logic behind the advice was pretty simple: The coal was already federally owned and could have been leased like other federal coal deposits, but no one had ever bothered to lease it because it was a hugely complicated and expensive proposition.

Unfortunately, Racicot ignored what may well have been the best advice ever to come out of the Coal Council and the state took control of the Otter

Creek Tracts from the feds in 2002.

But here’s the deal: The Otter Creek tracts are merged with the checker-boarded sections the federal government gave to the railroads about a century and a half ago. Over the years, those checker-boarded sections passed from the railroad to their current owners, Great Northern Properties. Great Northern has tried to push development for many years, but has been met with unrelenting resistance from ranchers and environmental advocates over a number of issues.

“ What makes

anyone think

now is the time to lease a billion tons of undeveloped coal for top dollar?

”

For one thing, before Otter Creek can be developed, there has to be some way to move the coal to where it can be used. Rail is the only feasible way to move coal and since there’s no rail line nearby, a proposal to build the Tongue River Railroad arose. Besides being incredibly expensive, the rail line would run through and disrupt numerous ranching operations, hence the ranchers’ opposition, which has recently been joined by Forrest Mars Jr., a billionaire scion to the Mars candy business and owner of a huge Montana ranch.

Further complicating development is that the coal deposits sit literally on the border of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation. The tribe actually sued the state to ensure that its religious and cultural sites would be honored and preserved, that tribal members would be hired if and when mining commenced, and that the tribe’s environmental resources, such as surface

and ground water, wouldn’t be degraded. The state settled with the tribe and agreed to the stipulations, which were adopted by the Land Board.

Republican Judy Martz followed Racicot as governor and continued the push for Otter Creek development. In fact, she was so adamant about mining the coal that, at her request, the legislature appropriated several hundred thousand dollars to do an appraisal of the state-owned coal.

That appraisal has now been completed and Schweitzer and others are waving around an estimate that the Otter Creek tracts could produce $1.4 billion in royalty payments to the state over the next 40 years. In this week’s Associated Press story, Schweitzer says he wants the mine developed “but only if the state gets top dollar for its assets.” The story also paraphrases the governor saying “environmental concerns were superceded by the state’s obligation to bring in revenues from its land.” “We can only sell it one time,” Schweitzer is quoted as saying. “We have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize the value of school trust land.”

There are several problems with Schweitzer’s logic on this issue. First, the state’s responsibility to maximize revenue from state school trust lands is counter-balanced with the provision to use those lands to benefit the people of Montana. Plus, the constitutional provisions of Article IX require “the state and each person” to “maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment in Montana for present and future generations.” Hence, neither the governor nor members of the Land Board can supercede environmental protection in favor of revenue generation. Finally, given the state of the economy, global climate change and the uncertain future of coal due to future carbon taxes, what makes anyone think now is the time to lease a billion tons of undeveloped coal “for top dollar”?

Land Board members include Schweitzer, Attorney General Steve Bullock, Secretary of State Linda McCulloch, Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau and State Auditor Monica Lindeen. For all the reasons listed above, they should say no to Otter Creek leasing and kill this zombie once and for all.

Helena’s George Ochenski rattles the cage of the political establishment as a political analyst for the Independent. Contact Ochenski at opinion@missoulanews.com.

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Clearer forecast Interior Secretary Salazar is on the right track

by Michelle Haefele

I’m a third-generation Colorado native, and for me, the Rockies have always been all about blue skies and fresh air. Yet I’m old enough to remember the brown cloud that used to hover over Denver. I also remember that after amendments to the Clean Air Act took effect in 1990, I could once again see Pikes Peak from 100 miles away.

Unfortunately, our long vistas are being clouded over again, this time by the oil and gas industry. Its supporters immediately—and predictably— denounced Ken Salazar’s farsighted new direction for the Department of the Interior.

In his first weeks in office, Interior Secretary Salazar made several important decisions: He suspended the issuing of 77 Bureau of Land Management leases in Utah that would have allowed drilling near some of the West’s most iconic national parks or on lands proposed for wilderness designation. This was not a great loss for the energy industry, which already has 3.6 million acres of Utah’s BLM lands under its control but not yet in development. Drilling those contested leases would have been an unnecessary sacrifice of our public lands.

Salazar also drew fire for his February decision to suspend the Bush administration’s new round of oil shale lease sales for “research, development, and demonstration.” I remember “Black Sunday,” the infamous day in 1982, when Exxon’s attempt to squeeze oil from shale went bust, devastating communities on Colorado’s Western Slope. The water and energy now necessary to extract oil from shale are enough to make this new goround another bad bargain. We need to have lots of questions answered before we charge off in pursuit of this perennial will-o’-the-wisp.

Perhaps most important, Salazar has announced that he will make the development of renewable energy on public lands a top priority. That’s a move that makes perfect sense. A study by the

American Solar Energy Society estimates that in Colorado alone, renewable energy and energy efficiency already account for over 90,000 jobs. Cleaner energy and a cleaner environment will bring a diversity of industries to provide jobs for the region’s people.

The decision to promote renewable energy is also a huge step toward clearing the West’s air and maintaining the values

The enormous “increase in oil and gas drilling in the Rockies over the past eight years has contributed to alarming declines in regional air quality and damaged wildlife habitat, water quality and cultural

”

resources.

that attract so many to the region. The enormous increase in oil and gas drilling in the Rockies over the past eight years has contributed to alarming declines in regional air quality and damaged wildlife habitat, water quality and cultural resources. The most recent case study is rural Sublette County, Wyo. Drilling there for natural gas has so fouled the air that Wyoming Gov. Dave Freudenthal

had to request official dispensation as a “non-attainment” area—and this was in a rural community that only a few years ago enjoyed crystal-clear air.

Perhaps it is the clouded vision so often caused by oil and gas development that has led many Westerners to overestimate the industry’s economic importance. Although still an important player in some local economies, the industry has not been a large part of the broader regional economy in the last three decades—even during prior booms. It certainly hasn’t been one during the most recently ended boom. Oil and gas drilling accounts for less than 1.5 percent of jobs and 1.3 percent of income in the Rocky Mountain states.

Contrary to what we’ve been told by the industry, it does not drive the region’s economy, and it should not be allowed to drive other industries—and our blue skies—away.

Recently, I visited the Pawnee Buttes in northern Colorado. The horizon was rimmed with wind turbines silhouetted against the sky, revolving mightily. They weren’t the only things using the wind; a pair of prairie falcons spiraled above the cliffs. Windy days like this clear the air and remind me of the Colorado skies I grew up with. They also serve to remind all of us that our region is blessed with abundant renewable energy resources that can be carefully developed to create new jobs, not to mention cleaner air.

Westerners follow in the footsteps of settlers who seized the hope of striking out in a brand-new direction. Now we have the opportunity to embrace Salazar’s vision of an energy future that moves us away from polluting fossil fuels and towards sustainable economic growth—and clearer skies.

Michelle Haefele is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). She lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, and works as an economist for The Wilderness Society.

Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of the Interior

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—Jonas Ehudin “Democracy Now!” host Amy Goodman appears at 7 PM on Tue., April 21, in the UM Adams Center West Gym during a speaking and book-signing tour to benefit the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. Suggested donation: $10/$15 reserved seats available. Call 543-3955.

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Undercover lovers unite into teams of four to six for Sex & Politics Trivia Night, a benefit for Planned Parenthood of Missoula, which begins at 5:30 PM in the Stensrud Building. $20/$10 students. RSVP 728-5490, ext. 24, or kate.geranios@ppmontana.org.

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The UM Peace and Justice Film Series continues at 5:30 and 7:30 PM in the UM University Center Theater, where screenings of Burning the Future: Coal in America are followed by group discussions. Free, donations appreciated. Visit peaceandjusticefilms.org.

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Love your mother as Earth Week begins at roughly 10 AM, with the Caras Park Clark Fork River clean-up (visit clarkfork.org, or call 5420539, ext. 200), a Mount Sentinel prairie restoration project (e-mail umt.restoration@gmail.com) and many other ways to greenly up yourself throughout the coming week. Visit umt.edu/earthday for the full scoop, or call 243-5153.

Consume for non-consumption with the WildWest Institute, which hopes you’ll Dine Out for the Earth this evening at Scotty’s Table, Biga Pizza, The Bridge or Posh Chocolat, where a portion of your tab goes to protecting our planet’s edible and non-edible natural resources. Price depends upon appetite. Call 396-0321 or visit wildwestinstitute.org.

Sun. 19 April Reduce your carbon footprint to a mere big toe smudge with the help of MUD, which hosts the Earth Day Celebration “Going Green Makes Cents!” from noon–7 PM in Caras

Park, with all the info, activities, music, raffles, food and booze you’d expect. Free. E-mail kara@mudproject.org.

The doors spring open at 6 PM at Biga Pizza, 241 W. Main St., where a fundraising dinner for the Community Food & Agriculture Coalition nourishes both body and righteousness for just $10. Visit missoulacfac.org.

Mon. 20 April Forward Montana’s Progressive Happy Hour presents “Schooled,” a school-board-themed swill-a-thon at 5:15 PM at the Badlander, where you’ll have a chance to meet ‘n’ grill incumbent boarder Rick Johns and challenger Marcia Holland before you cast your ballot in the May 5 election (absentee ballots are already available). Free. Call 542-VOTE. This 4/20, get the red out and fill your head with visions of revolution when rabble-rouser Woody Holton presents the UM President’s Lecture Series lecture “Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution” at 8 PM in UM’s University Theatre. Free.

Tue. 21 April Pretend coal’s not powering the projector during an Earth Day Eve Film Fest, which begins at 3 PM in the UM University Center Theater and features this triple-shot: Kilowatt Hours, Grizzly and Burning the Future. Free.

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Thu. 23 April Before you invest in a can of pencils to sell outside the soup kitchen, check out the Missoula Job Service Career Fair, which begins at 3 PM in the Hilton Garden Inn. Free. Call 728-7060, or visit employmissoula.com.

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.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Police investigating the theft of $400,000 worth of prescription drugs from a pharmacy in Upper Darby, Pa., had few leads until a man called to say he was concerned because he saw keys in the trunk of his neighbor’s car. The Philadelphia Daily News reported that officers responded, opened the trunk and found crowbars, a diagram of the pharmacy and a gym bag containing most of the stolen drugs with the neighbor’s name, Thomas Ferkler, on it.

They arrested Ferkler, 43.

Elias Efremidis, 52, lived in Front Royal, Va., without incident for 21 years until he was arrested for shining a laser pointer at police. While charging him, officers learned Efremidis had been wanted in Massachusetts on drug trafficking charges since 1988. He was returned to authorities in Boston.

ALWAYS THE LAST PLACE YOU LOOK - After emergency crews rescued a man stuck in a toilet at a rest area in Filer, Idaho, he explained he couldn’t find his car keys after using the lavatory and reckoned they must have fallen in. The Twin Falls Times-News reported the man removed the base of the toilet and climbed in to search but couldn’t climb back out. “It took some lifting to get him out, and he had cut himself pretty good trying to get himself out,” Police Chief Cliff Johnson said, noting that while the man was rinsing off with a fire hose “he discovered the keys were still in his back pocket.”

MENSA REJECT OF THE WEEK - Matthew F. Dugger, 21, was treated for shrapnel wounds at a hospital in Cape Coral, Fla., after one of the bullets he was hitting with a hammer in his driveway exploded.

SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION - A judge in Lincoln, Neb., sentenced Carlos Lupercio, 49, to prison for firing a crossbow at his neighbor after the two argued about the breed of the neighbor’s dog.

Police in Upper Darby, Pa., accused Lyndel Toppin, 50, of biting his fiancée’s wrist and attacking her with a kitchen knife after he “became enraged due to the victim not placing cheese on his hoagie roll correctly,” according to the arrest affidavit. “Wait until he gets a load of the prison food,” Superintendent John Reilly Jr. told the Philadelphia Daily News.

Sheriff’s officials in Port Richey, Fla., said the 18-year-old driver of a car hit a 26-year-old passenger with a fish tank and then a beer bottle because the passenger refused the driver’s request to pay $3 for gas.

WHACKING DAY—WITHOUT BARRY WHITE - Hundreds of Australians in five communities across northern Queensland celebrated the state’s first “Toad Day Out” by killing thousands of poisonous cane toads. The Associated Press reported the hunt and accompanying festivities involved capturing the toads alive and unharmed and bringing them to collection points to be euthanized. “To see the look on the faces of the kids as we were handling and weighing the toads and then euthanizing them was just…,” Townsville City Councilmember Vern Veitch said, his voice breaking off with emotion. “The children really got into the character of the event.”

WAY TO GO - Joseph Rusin, 87, died after he caught fire while riding his bicycle in Bethpage, N.Y. Fire official Vincent McManus said Rusin was apparently smoking a cigarette, which ignited the nylon jacket he was wearing.

Haider Kadhim, an Iraqi soccer player on a local team in Hilla, was shot dead as he tried to score the tying goal in the final minutes of a match. Reuters reported that police arrested a fan of the opposing team in the crowd who they said fired a pistol at the player.

DAMNED IF YOU DO, DEAD IF YOU DON’T - By getting less sun and using more high-protection sunscreen, Americans could be trading a lower risk of skin cancer for a higher risk of osteoporosis and fractures, heart disease, infections and some other cancers, according to a study showing that people aren’t getting enough vitamin D. Reporting in the Archives of Internal Medicine, researchers from Harvard University and the University of Colorado at Denver said that 70 percent of whites, 97 percent of blacks and 90 percent of Hispanics in the United States had vitamin D levels below the level considered adequate for health.

SECOND OPINION - Police and medical examiners who concluded that Anthony Crockett, 49, died of natural causes changed their minds after funeral-home workers embalming the body in Kansas City, Mo., found three bullet wounds, two of them in the head. The Kansas City Star reported that authorities never visited Crockett’s home to inspect his body or the scene, instead taking the word of a paramedic who told them he believed the death had occurred naturally after he found prescription medication for high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes at the scene. Investigators did not collect forensic evidence, and by the time they realized they needed it, Crockett’s relatives had cleaned the house. “This kind of mistake is a pretty bad mistake,” former Jackson County medical examiner Thomas Young said.

NO RESERVATIONS - Jose Santiago, 57, was run over while standing in a gas line at a station in Lee County, Fla., trying to hold a spot for his wife. Sheriff’s deputies arrested Miguel Angel Neira, 46, who pulled into the line behind Santiago. “The victim stated that he held up his hands for the suspect to stop, however the suspect lunged forward with his vehicle, striking the victim in the knees,” deputy Eric Freese reported. “The victim started yelling at the suspect to stop, at which point the suspect intentionally moved the vehicle forward again, striking the victim again in the knees, causing bruising and swelling.”

MISTER MANNERS - Canadian citizen Desiderio Fortunato, 54, said that when a U.S. border inspector ordered him to turn off his car at the Pacific Highway crossing in Washington, he insisted the inspector say “please.” Instead, Fortunato told the Bellingham Herald, the agent sprayed him “right in the face” with pepper spray, pulled him from the car and handcuffed him. Pointing out the “gentleman was very aggressive to me,” Fortunato conceded that perhaps “my body language or something I’m not aware of” triggered the incident.

LIVING DANGEROUSLY - Authorities charged Charles L. Clemens Jr., 61, with bigamy after they learned he was married to two women in the same apartment complex in Overland Park, Kan. Court records show Clemens married his first wife 22 years ago and the second in January 2006.

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We’re talking about Best of Missoula, the Indy’s annual look at all things amazing about our little neck of the woods. While we certainly have our own opinions about what makes this place special, we ask you to put in the research, wrestle with the choices, make the ultimate decisions and write it all down.

In exchange, we’ll make it worth your while.

We’re hosting our annual Best of Missoula Party at Caras Park Thursday, July 9—the same day your winners are announced in print—and we want you to join us. There’ll be food, drinks, live music from some of Missoula’s best bands—the works. All you have to do is fill out a ballot, and we’ve tried to make that as easy as possible. You can vote in hard copy with this page, or visit www.missoulanews.com and vote online. Note that we’re once again offering 50 additional online-only categories (like “Best Bartender”). They’ll be announced at the same time as the traditional categories.

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sually it’s a good thing to receive a free T-shirt and get your name in the paper, but not if you’re a winner of a Muzzle Award from the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression.

Each spring members of the center’s board of trustees decide who should be distinguished (around Mr. Jefferson’s birthday, no less) for First Amendment infractions out of the hundreds of people and institutions nominated. The Muzzle nominees always come from across the political spectrum, the far right and the far left being essentially in agreement on most First Amendment issues. Even the center’s board reflects bipartisanship, with Brit Hume of Fox News working alongside Dahlia Lithwick of Slate.com.

And the nominees come from all over the country, mostly due to an egalitarian nomination form on the Thomas Jefferson Center’s website.

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the Charlottesville, Virg., center, points out that these days the Internet casts an especially wide net for new Muzzlers. Unfortunately, more violators are precisely what the center does not want to see. So how did our free speech rights fare in the final year of the Bush administration?

The 2009 Muzzle Awards dubiously honor a range of free speech violations, although this year the honorees highlight Time, Place and Manner, or TPM regulations or limitations on speech.

TPM regulations are subject to less judicial scrutiny than content-based regulations (the “We don’t like that so you can’t say it” variety), but they still dictate when, where and how an individual can exercise her First Amendment rights, and hence can easily cross a line into censorship territory.

For instance, Denver law enforcement allowed protesters at the Democratic National Convention (DNC), but those protesters had to

exercise their free speech rights within certain hours and within certain walls—restrictions that seem to negate the word “free.” The areas designated as “free speech zones,” “protest pens” and “freedom cages” all have an oxymoronic ring to them, moronic being the operative part of that word. How can someone be free and also limited?

How can someone be simultaneously unrestricted and caged in concrete?

Who knew the Bill of Rights had so many strings attached?

This year’s Muzzle Awards point out the hypocrisy of these First Amendment “zones” in Denver, in St. Paul and on retrogressive college campuses scattered nationwide. It seems absurd to allow students only two hours of free speech activity per week in an isolated area of campus and only with advance approval of the administration, but that’s exactly what the student handbook at Yuba County Community College in Sacramento,

Calif., demands. And the South Campus free speech zone at Tarrant County College in Texas recalls the Free Speech Gazebo at Texas Tech that came under fire from activists in 2003.

Maybe people should only be able to practice their religions in Tolerant TwoCar Garages.

But TPM regulations were not the only challenges to the First Amendment in 2008. Camp Lejeune military base in North Carolina started cracking down on the content of civilian bumper stickers last year. And a high school in South Carolina prohibited the distribution of an independently funded student newspaper because it featured a frontpage editorial about gay marriage. Not to mention the omnipresent T-Shirt Police that patrols the corridors of our nation’s public schools. Perhaps one day the Thomas Jefferson Center will happily end the year with zero Muzzle nominations to review. Until then, here are this year’s winners.

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Sure, the Secret Service will allow your political protest. This is America, after all. We just ask that you protest from a cage during specific hours of the day, out of the line of sight of television cameras, and we also request that you adjourn when the delegates begin arriving at the national convention. No big deal.

Also, if you refuse to comply with this request and you choose to set foot outside your “freedom cage,” we will arrest you for trespassing, disorderly conduct or worse, even if you happen to be a 78-year-old nun or a respected journalist like Amy Goodman. And so the National Republican Convention 2008 (RNC) in St. Paul begins. Did I mention that the same rules applied to the protesters at the 2008 DNC? They did not fare any better in Denver than they did in St. Paul.

the convention began. He kept the bulk of them as “evidence,” even though one flier would seem to suffice in that regard.

The riot police in St. Paul were criticized for looking overly aggressive, as if they were preparing for a war on words. And these law enforcement officers were indeed looking for a fight. Some 800 people were arrested during the RNC, including more than 40 members of the press. On the first day of the DNC, 100 people were arrested. In both conventions the overwhelming majority of those arrested had their charges later dropped.

The Case Against Bumper Stickers A father who lost his son in the 2000 U.S.S. Cole attack off the coast of Yemen was forbidden from driving his car onto the Camp Lejeune mili-

“Denver law enforcement allowed protesters at the Democratic National Convention, but those protesters had to exercise their free speech rights within certain hours and within certain walls— restrictions that seem to negate the word ‘free.’”

The two layers of concrete and chain-link fencing that confined protesters to the 47,000square-foot demonstration zone at the DNC were challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) at the beginning of August. But Federal Judge Marcia S. Krieger overruled their objections, citing security concerns. The same security concerns kept protesters’ words and images an ineffectual distance of 700 feet from delegates attending the convention. Calling the establishment of free speech zones “content neutral,” Krieger defended the interpretation of security laws that would keep protesters away from the intended recipients of their message.

It seems that not much has changed in the four years since the last time the Thomas Jefferson Center dispatched Muzzles to the Democratic and Republican national parties.

The First Amendment infractions were both overt and subtle this year. During the RNC a judge refused to return fliers seized during a raid before

tary base due to the content of his car’s bumper stickers. The offending decals on Jesse Nieto’s Scion included an exhortation to “Remember the Cole, 12 Oct. 2000.” His car was also barred from the grounds of Arlington National Cemetery where his son is buried.

Nieto has worked as a civilian at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina for 15 years, but his views about Islam and terrorism have become more angry and extreme since the attack that killed his son.

Other bumper stickers on his truck read “Islam = Terrorism” and “Disgrace My Countries [sic] Flag And I will SHIT on your Quran,” and one depicts a cartoon Calvin peeing on a Muslim. When Nieto was issued an Armed Forces Traffic Ticket last July, he complied with the base traffic court’s request to remove three bumper stickers. But when he was summoned two weeks later to remove the remaining decals, Nieto refused. That’s when

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Some 800 people were arrested during the 2008 National Republican Convention in St. Paul, including more than 40 members of the press. The overwhelming majority of those arrested had their charges later dropped.

under 24-hour house arrest while he tries to overturn his conviction. The Thomas Jefferson Center has filed a brief in the case.

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Offensive bumper stickers can bar a vehicle’s entrance into “Federal Installations,” although there’s no objective criteria for what is deemed offensive.

his vehicle was barred “from this (and every other Federal Installation) until the offensive stickers [are] removed from it.”

Military base commanders are understandably prickly about offending people whose country we happen to be occupying, but the constitutional issue here is that base employees aren’t given any objective criteria for what their commanders deem offensive. Other decals that have been spotted at Lejeune in the past five years without objection include Confederate flags, Calvin peeing on all manner of symbols, and the question “Why experiment on animals when there are so many Democrats?”

The decision to target Nieto’s opinions seemed purely content-based and arbitrary, hence Nieto is suing the powers-that-be at Lejeune for their violation of his First Amendment rights.

The Cost of Grievance Oh Virginia, why did you make it so hard for your residents to exercise free speech last year?

In December 2008, Circuit Judge Westbrook J. Parker of Gloucester County ordered 40 citizens to pay the exorbitant legal fees of four county supervisors whom they had unsuccessfully petitioned to leave office. Never mind that trifling clause in the First Amendment that gives Americans the right to “petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The price of the petition in this case was $80,000, which the 40 citizens are in the process of appealing.

The four members of the Gloucester County Board of Supervisors were not saints by anyone’s standards. In July 2008 they had been indicted on 14 misdemeanor charges of malfeasance and misuse of office.

The criminal charges were eventually dropped for lack of evidence and the petition to have them removed from office (signed by 6,000 concerned citizens) languished as well due to technical errors with the signatures. But the court still held the 40 organizers of the petition accountable for most of the $100,000 in legal fees incurred by the supervisors in defending their offices.

That’s $2,000 per petitioner for the privilege of questioning government officials. As newspaper columnist Michael Paul Williams wrote about the case, “[T]he First Amendment…guarantees the right of citizens ‘to petition the government for a redress of grievances.’ I missed the clause that says, ‘but bring your checkbook.’”

One good thing has come out of this case. In February of this year the General Assembly passed a bill that will protect petitioners from financial reprisal in the future. The bill is crucial to the integrity of the First Amendment because for most people monetary concerns would prohibit the free voicing of grievances.

Illegal Bible Quoting

When is a free speech zone not a free speech zone? When it’s a 12-foot concrete platform isolated from the human traffic to which the free speech is directed. Last year Tarrant County College (TCC) in Texas rejected an e-mail request from students to protest their college’s concealed gun laws by wearing empty gun holsters on campus.

The symbolic protest was coordinated with a nationwide Students for Concealed Carry on Campus (SCCC) “Empty Holster Protest,” but Juan Garcia, the vice president for student development at TCC, outlawed the wearing of empty holsters anywhere on campus and restricted the protest itself to the South Campus free speech zone, an area so far removed from the attention of passersby as to be essentially ineffectual.

The concealed carry license holders and their supporters were left wondering why, in a protest involving 3,800 students from 600 campuses nationwide, they were discriminated against by their college’s administration.

According to the lawsuit filed by the SCCC students, the First Amendment restrictions placed on them by TCC were unconstitutional and content-based, thereby subject to a stricter degree of judicial scrutiny. The lawsuit cited the Supreme Court precedent set in 1969 in Tinker v. Des Moines, the case that allowed students in U.S. public schools to wear black armbands in protest of the Vietnam War.

Illegal Top Ten List Humorous fliers distributed by members of the Young Conservatives of Texas ( YCT) on the campus of Lone Star College-Tomball during club rush were confiscated last year because the college administration objected to entries on the “Top Ten Gun Safety Tips” list.

The entries in question included “If your gun misfires, never look down the barrel to inspect it,” “Always keep your gun pointed in a safe direction, such as at a Hippy or a Communist,” and “No matter how excited you are about buying your first gun, do not run around yelling, ‘I have a gun! I have a gun!’”

The fliers were confiscated and then reprinted without the top ten list, but upon later review of the fliers, the YCT students were threatened with probation and disbandment of their group. The administration cited the memory of the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting in objecting to the fliers.

Pro-life Zone In 2007 Cypress College in California demanded that members of the pro-life group “Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust” relocate their graphic presentations to a free speech zone near a construction area completely removed from student traffic.

When the three people wouldn’t vacate the premises, they were arrested and kept in the back of squad cars for an hour before being charged with a crime. After all the charges were dropped, the pro-lifers turned around and sued Cypress College and the district for tens of thousands of dollars. And yet after all that, the restrictive free speech laws were not remanded on campus.

In 2008, police were called again when members of Survivors were found advocating their pro-life views outside of Cypress’s free speech zone. Same story: All charges were summarily dropped and a lawsuit is pending.

Two Hours of Freedom a Week Yuba County Community College in Sacramento, Calif., maintains the stingy First Amendment policy of requiring its students to obtain permission two weeks in advance for their free speech activities and to limit said activities to two hours per week.

In February, Ryan Dozier sued his college after he was threatened with both arrest and expulsion by a campus police officer. The charge?

“Conducting an assembly without a permit.” If he had expressed his religious beliefs between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. on Tuesday or Thursday after receiving permission from his school administration and following numerous other restrictions, he would have been in the clear.

A Baptist preacher and community activist in Benton Harbor, Mich., was arrested last year for writing a newspaper editorial condemning the Freedom Writers Diary actions of a local judge. In citing the Bible and the At the beginning of 2008, a 27-year veteran wrath of God to take care of Judge Alfred M. high school teacher in Indianapolis was placed Butzbaugh of the Berrien County Criminal Court, under administrative leave for assigning Erin Rev. Edward Pinkney was ordered to serve a three- to 10-year sentence for issuing a “true threat,” violating the terms of his probation.

Pinkney did not personally threaten Butzbaugh (although he did call him “racist and dumb”), but he did reflect on what God might do to the judge based on his own reading of the Book of Deuteronomy. Pinkney forecast that if the judge didn’t change his ways, God would punish him “with consumption and with a fever and with an inflammation and with extreme burning.”

According to fellow Judge Dennis Wiley, Pinkney’s editorial constituted a true threat “because of his status as a Reverend, that he has some particular— I guess, direct line to the Lord, and…a reasonable person would consider this to be a threat.”

Jailed for a year for quoting the Bible, ACLU attorneys at last managed to release Pinkney on bail during his A 27-year veteran high school teacher was suspended for assigning her class Erin Gruwell’s awardwinning book, Freedom Fighters. Hillary Swank, above left in the film based on the book, organized appeals process. Meanwhile he’s still a legal team with the film’s producers to defend the teacher.

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Gruwell’s The Freedom Writers to her at-risk 11th grade students, even after receiving permission from nearly 150 parents. Connie Heermann was suspended without pay for 18 months, all because the Perry Meridian High School Board indefinitely delayed granting her permission to teach the book.

An interesting sidebar to this story is that Hilary Swank and producers of the Freedom Writers movie based on the book have organized a legal team to defend Heermann. The story has been covered internationally due to the irony of a teacher’s actions being restricted because she shared with students a book about freedom.

Freedom of the High School Press In November of last year, the Horry County School District in South Carolina banned distribution of a student-produced newspaper because it featured an editorial advocating same-sex marriage. The two teenaged authors of the paper had failed to request express permission for the editorial from the school administration even though the quarterly paper was an independent project.

Ronnie Burgess, the principal of the Academy for Arts, Science & Technology, was concerned that the front-page article and accompanying

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photo of two young men holding hands would be disruptive to his student body. He gave the two journalists $500 to reprint 500 copies of the paper without the article, even though they normally financed the newspaper independently through ad sales and not through school support.

Aurora Superintendent of Schools John Barry disciplined the student. He claimed that Dalton was suspended because the T-shirt was disruptive and not because he disliked the content of its message.

Public school officials sometimes forget that controversy and healthy dialogue are not the same things as disruption. editor@missoulanews.com

Vigilant T-shirt Police Nearly two-dozen Millard South High School students in Omaha, Neb., were suspended last year for wearing T-shirts with the phrase “R-I-P Julius,” honoring a former classmate who was murdered in May. The murder of 18year-old Julius Robinson hit especially close to home for the students because two other teenagers were arrested as suspects in the possibly gang-related slaying.

The 23 students were suspended on August 29 because school officials thought the shirts violated the dress code that barred “disruptive” clothing.

The ACLU soon got involved, defending the shirts as an expression of the students’ grief, not as a message intent on disrupting learning.

Further west, an elementary school student wore an anti-Obama T-shirt to class in Aurora, Colo., last year and was suspended for three days. Eleven-yearold Daxx Dalton would not change or reverse his shirt, which read “Obama – A Terrorist’s Best Friend,” and so

After Colorado elementary school student Daxx Dalton refused to turn his T-shirt reading “Obama – A terrorist’s best friend” inside-out, he was suspended for three days.

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$–$$...$5–$15 Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzone, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using "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. Lunch and dinner, Mon.-Sat. $-$$ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins Ave. 542-0002 Dine-In, Drive-Thru, Delivery... Truly a Missoula Find. Popular with the locals.

Voted best Pizza. Everything from hand-tossed, thin-crust, stone-deck pizza to wild salmon burritos, free-range chicken, rice & noodle bowls, ribs, pasta, salads, soups & sandwiches, "Pizza by the Slice." Local brews on tap and wine by the glass. Open every day for both lunch & dinner. $-$$ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave 721-6033 Missoula “Original” Coffeehouse/Cafe located across from the U of M campus.

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salads, baked goods and an espresso bar til close.

Mon thru Thurs 7am - 8pm Fri & Sat 7am - 4pm Sun 8am - 8pm. www.thinkfft.com $-$$

Good Food Store 1600 South 3rd West 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted free-range chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm. $–$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. We also offer catering. www.justinshobnobcafe.com MC/V $-$$ HuHot Mongolian Grill 3521 Brooks 829-8888 At HuHot you’ll find dozens of meats, seafood, noodles, vegetables and homemade sauces for the timid to the adventurous. Choose your favorites from the fresh food bars.

You pick ‘em…we grill ‘em. We are as carnivore, vegetarian, diabetic, lo-salt and low-carb friendly as you want to be! Start with appetizers and end with desserts. You can even toast your own s’mores right at you table. A large selection of beer, wine and sake’ drinks available.

Stop by for a great meal in a fun atmosphere. Kid and family friendly. Open daily at 11 AM. $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Getting ready for outside seating? So are we. Not matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $-$$

The Mustard Seed Asian Café Located outside Southgate Mall Paxson St. Entrance 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our all new bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Take out & delivery available. $$–$$$.

Noodle Express 2000 W. Broadway 541-7333 Featuring a mixture of non-traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Polynesian contemporary dishes.

Phone ahead ordering is enhanced with a convenient PickUp window. $-$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 Don't feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks • 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes.

Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $6.95. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $6.95. Eat in or take-out. MF 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$.

Posh Chocolat 119 South Higgins 543-2566 Next to the Historic Wilma Building in downtown Missoula. The chocolate lovers paradise is now also a great place for lunch. With a total remodel, serving freshly made sweet and savory crepes, delicious quiches, soups, seasonal salads and artisanal European style pastries. And don't forget what's been keeping us busy since 2005; stop in and try our single origin, 100% Ecuadorian, hand crafted Truffles. www.poshchocolat.com. $-$$

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the The Press Box 835 E Broadway 721-1212 Enjoy our breakfast special, Monday through Friday, 7 AM to noon. We have great pizza, burgers & appetizers, and more! 21 beers on tap.

Continually voted best sports bar in Missoula. Enjoy any game, any time at The Press Box. pressboxsportsbar.com. $-$$$ SA WAD DEE 221 W. Broadway 543-9966 Sa-Wa-Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors-no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisines. Now serving Beer and Wine! $-$$ Sean Kelly’s 130 West Pine 542–1471 Open for Lunch and Dinner! Check out our new menu: Sesame House Salad, Soba Vegetable Pasta, Warm Brie Salad, the Dubliner, Eggplant Parmesan Sandwich, and Great Italian Pastas.

Irish favorites, too: Pasties, Fish and Chips & Shepherd’s Pie. “where the Gaelic and the Garlic mix!!” $-$$ Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day. Daily Lunch Specials.

All Soups, including our famous Tomato Soup, are made from scratch. Voted best milkshakes in Missoula for 12 straight years. Great Food, Great Service, Great Fun!!

Monday - Sunday 8a.m. - 3p.m. $-$$ Vietnam Noodle 2100 Stephens 542-8299 A true Vietnamese dining experience!

Enjoy our authentic beef noodle soup, spring rolls, pad thai, Vietnamese style hot & sour soup, noodle soup bowls & daily lunch/soup combo specials. We suggest that you also try our new stuffed

hot peppers. For your cooking pleasure at home, we have an Asian grocery next to our restaurant! Get a free meal on your birthday when you bring 5 or more friends. $-$$ 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. $-$$ Wok-ee Mountain Asian Restaurant 11300 US Hwy 93, Lolo 273-9819 Brand new Thai & Chinese cuisine featuring original recipes. Specializing in curry. Extensive menu, vegetarian options and many soup options as well including Vietnamese style pho, Tom Yum, wonton and more.

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$...Under $5 Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Where Myrtle Avenue ends at Bernice's, a tiny bakery sits as a veritable landmark to those who enjoy homestyle baked goods, strong coffee, community, and a variety of delicious treats. Join us for lunch if you'd like. Crazy delicious. Crazy cheap. 30 years and still baking. Open Every Day 6AM to 8PM. $

Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 36 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. $

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Le Petit Outre 129 South 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. $

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My inbox has been pummeled recently by a slew of e-mails warning me of the evils of a bill currently working its way through the U.S. Congress.

Sponsored by Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., HR 875—aka the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009—is one of a raft of bills introduced in the wake of the peanut butter-borne salmonella outbreak.

All of these proposed bills, which ostensibly seek to improve food safety with increased regulation, threaten to jeopardize local food systems with over-regulation. Unfortunately, it’s been difficult to get a grip on the bills’ true dangers because of all the alarmist hype that’s accompanied them—especially, for some reason, HR 875.

“If [HR 875] passes, say goodbye to organic produce, your Local Farmer’s market and very possibly, the GARDEN IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD!!!!!” one e-mail announced.

Another warned that HR 875 would result in “…criminalization of seed banking, prison terms and confiscatory fines for farmers.”

Nearly all the e-mails claim, “DeLauro’s husband Stanley Greenburg works for Monsanto!”

It turns out Stanley Greenberg is indeed the CEO of a polling firm that did, indeed, contract with Monsanto. But it’s no more true to say he works for Monsanto than to say he works for Nelson Mandela—another former client.

“There is a perfectly legitimate conversation to be had about how we can have food safety regulation without jeopardizing small farms and local food systems,” says Patty Lovera, assistant director of Food and Water Watch, a national nonprofit. “But it’s hard to have a rational conversation via these forwarded e-mails. It’s not happening in a way that’s going to change the policy.”

Lovera says HR 875 wouldn’t regulate seed saving, backyard gardens, or farmers’ markets. It would, however, split the Food and Drug Administration into separate agencies, one for food and one for drugs.

Food and Water Watch supports that. Unfortunately, Lovera says, splitting the FDA might be too daunting a task for lawmakers to take on right now, and the proposed bill probably won’t make it to law.

More likely to reach a vote, Lovera says, is HR 759, called the Food And Drug Administration

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diverse, integrated farms—especially if the farm contains livestock. These and other aspects of HR 759 boil down, once again, to rules that would place disproportionate burden on small, family farms in their attempt to regulate the large factory farms where most food safety problems originate.

HR 875 and HR 759 are but two of several proposed bills (some others are HR 814 and SR 425) that are supposedly aimed at preventing E. coli in spinach, downer cattle in school lunches, feathers in chicken patties and other horror stories we’ve grown used to hearing. But by extending these regulations to the small farms that typically are not the sources of these problems, the playing field will further tilt in favor of corporate agriculture. And this is truly cause for concern.

“What people don’t realize is that if any of these bills pass, we lose. All we will have left is industrial food.” So says Deborah Stockton, executive director of the National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association, which pro-

motes unregulated farmer-to-consumer trade and the commercial availability of locally grown and home-produced food products.

One of Stockton’s top priorities is ending the controversial National Animal Identification System (NAIS). Implemented by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 2003 without congressional approval, NAIS is a federal registry program for livestock and for the premises where animals live or visit. The system’s stated purpose is to aid state and federal government response to outbreaks of animal disease.

“NAIS is a safety net for the corporate livestock industry,” Stockton told me. “They’re the ones with the practices that are creating problems for human and animal health, and they’re the ones who need NAIS to cover their backs when something goes wrong. The main threats to food safety are centralized production, processing and long-distance transportation.”

And while she too dislikes NAIS, Lovera says the bills currently under consideration are aimed at the FDA, and NAIS is not an FDA program. It’s USDA. While she sees many problems with the current bills, strengthening NAIS isn’t one of them.

Stockton disagrees. If any of these bills pass, she says, it would ratify NAIS and strengthen USDA’s ability to make it mandatory that all livestock, including your flock of backyard chickens, be registered.

A food safety bill palatable to locavores will have to protect local food systems with specific language that guarantees small family farms, backyard gardens, personal livestock, farmers’ markets, and all forms of food self-sufficiency and farmer-direct purchasing are exempted. These regulations need to target the factory farms where the problems lie, and not the small farms that could and should be the solution. I’m hardly alone in believing the right to buy milk from your neighbor or grow your own food is as inalienable as the right to bear arms. And if lawmakers try to take this right away, they’re going to see a backlash to make the NRA seem like a bunch of flowerwagging Hare Krishnas.

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Last week I put out a call on behalf of “Kitchen Aid,” someone looking for a local commercial kitchen in which to make fried potato burritos to sell at the People’s Market this summer. Well, I guess I’ve got an “L” on my face (for “Lame”) because my response failed to mention a facility that recently opened in the area. Several people e-mailed to tell me about Montana Food Products, the state’s first privately owned food processing center, which opened in January in Lolo and was covered in this paper. Kudos to the Indy’s Matt Frank for getting the story out; he’ll be happy to know that it was well-read. And I

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Globalization Act. While this proposed bill has drawn less attention than the others, she thinks it’s more likely to cause big problems for small farmers.

HR 759 would make recordkeeping requirements that currently apply to food processors extend to farms, and require that such recordkeeping be done electronically. It would also mandate that all farms become certified in so-called “Good Agricultural Practices.” Following these practices, which are mostly aimed at controlling microbial contamination, turns out to be easier for farms that grow just a few things than it is for

accept my lameness here for not knowing about it, before I even left town for New Mexico.

Montana Food Products includes a $500,000 facility run by Ron Oberlander of Florence. He hopes to rent the space to local food entrepreneurs as well as use it for his own businesses, Montana Cattle Co. and US Omega 3 Foods. You can reach Oberlander at 273 -2181.

Well, my bruised ego has been partially soothed by another letter that just arrived—one of several responses to my top-10 list of things I miss about Missoula. I can only print part of it, thanks to a little too much information included.

“Thanks for reminding us of so many amazing things that are at the core of our community. It’s truly magical. And even though our food system has a long way to go, so many of those edible, agricultural community virtues already exist here, have momentum and, as you illustrate, are an important part of what makes this whole place so special.”

For another entertaining and, er, informative take on the same list, check out the online comment below last week’s column.

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Stare at the black dot on the left for 60 seconds, then peer directly at the sun for a startling afterimage. No, really, don’t. Dave “The Voice” Walker brings his vast vocal experience—from Savoy Brown to Fleetwood Mac to Black Sabbath—to bear on the Top Hat, where the Dave Walker Band gets the joint to rockin’ at 10 PM on Sat., April 18. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865.

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Every Thu. in April, generation cell phone—and everybody else, of course—is invited to GYT: Get Yourself Tested, a free sexually-transmitted disease screening and treatment event at Planned Parenthood, 219 E. Main St. Free. Call 728-5490 or visit gyt09.org.

Fit to Fight, an eight-week exercise support group for those who’ve fought or are fighting cancer, takes place at the Peak Health and Wellness Center. Free. Call 251-2323 for time and registration.

Be the blender for a fruit smoothie of movement traditions every Thu. at 5 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, where Shake, Rattle and Pose: Yoga Dance Fusion carries you through the motions and delivers you at Oneness’ door. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Undercover lovers unite into teams of four to six for Sex & Politics Trivia Night, a benefit for Planned Parenthood of Missoula, which begins at 5:30 PM in the Stensrud Building, features appetizers and a no-host bar and offers prizes for the top three teams. $20/$10 students. RSVP 728-5490, ext. 24, or kate.geranios@ppmontana.org.

nightlife The UM Peace and Justice Film Series continues at 5:30 and 7:30 PM in the UM University Center Theater, where screenings of Burning the Future: Coal in America are followed by group discussions. Free, donations appreciated. Visit peaceandjusticefilms.org.

It’s time for another mid-level-society art function, as the Missoula Art Museum presents Artini: Many Hats at 5:30 PM, wherein a poetry reading leads to an art talk by James Bailey relating to the exhibit Engaged Abstraction by John Armstrong.

Drinks and dank grub abound. Free. Call 728-0447.

All genres are encouraged—excepting, perhaps, death metal—every Thu. at 5:30 PM at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 1/2 South Ave. W., where musicians bring their noise makers and synergy builds a joyful sound during the Tangled Tones Pickin’ Circle. Free.

Call 396-3352.

Jazzy chanteuse Donna Smith plays Hamilton’s Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St., at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

If helping teens and sharing Gospel information is at the top of your to-do list, then don’t miss Youth for Christ’s 23rd annual Fundraising Banquet, which begins at 6 PM at the City Life Community Center, 1515 Fairview Ave. Free, donations appreciated. Call 532-1560.

Get it together, Missoula, and add your infrastructure funding ideas to the pot during a City-Wide Public Meeting on the subject, which begins at 6:30 PM in the Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Free.

Touring speaker and single mother of three Nadia Castellanos offers the presentation “Women Resisting War in Colombia” at 7 PM in UM’s Urey Lecture Hall. Free. Call 696-3892.

Pull out all the stops and bust out your finest chops when Hamilton’s Chapter One Book Store opens up the stage at 7 PM for Poetry Out Loud, where memorization’s best, but not required, and enthusiasm will be rewarded.

Free. Call 363-5220.

If your normal swing spot’s become jampacked with losers, head to the Eagle’s Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., where swing lessons begin every Thu. at 7 PM and the dance party gets going in earnest at 8. $5.

Award-winner Frank Ferrante channels that famously hirsute funnyman when the Hamilton Performing Arts Center hosts his one-man show An Evening with Groucho Marx at 7:30 PM. $17.50–22.50. Call 3637946 or visit hamiltonpas.org. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., April 17, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Comrade Calendar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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Our own much-hailed vocal ensemble Dolce Canto shares the UM Music Recital Hall stage with the Missoula Coyote Choir at 7:30 PM for the concert “Sing Joyfully Around the World.” Suggested donation: $10/$5 students. Call 544-4923.

Kris Koch, Ryne Mading and Darah Foggarty play to the wineimbibing crowd at Lake Missoula Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, at 7:30 PM. Free. Call 541-8463.

Bring your axe—or banjer, for you backwoods types—and reminisce about music’s good ol’ days at the weekly Old Timey Music Sessions at Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., at 7:30 PM. Free. Call 726-3765 or 880-6834.

The Elk’s Lodge promises you’ll be horrified at the things you’re compelled to do when the adult-oriented ZOTZ! Comedy Hypnosis Show

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A stray dog nearly splits up a happily married couple when the Hamilton Players present Sylvia at 8 PM at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road. $8–14. Call 375-9050 or visit hamiltonplayers.com.

Montana Rep Missoula stages the final production of their ‘08/’09 season with the Pulitzer Prize-winning tearjerker Rabbit Hole at 8 PM at the Crystal Theatre. $7/$5 student rush at 7:30. Visit montanarep.org.

Let it all hang out—well, maybe not all of it—during L.I.V. Karaoke’s Ladies’ Night at the High Spirits in Florence starting at 9 PM. Free. Call 273-9992.

Looking for skull-splitting metal riffs?

Well, look elsewhere, as Hillstomp and Travis Sehorn and the Pebble Light bring an entirely different vibe to the Palace Lounge at 9 PM. $5.

Take in the first of three big nights of dancing, leather and motorcycles when Leather Forever XVI thrums into the Florence Building’s Governor’s Room at 9 PM. $24. Call 721-2154, or visit mtharley.com.

The heavens open, the price of well drinks plummets and a tsunami of pure unabashed booty dancing hails your arrival every Thu. at the Badlander, where Dead Hipster DJ Night rewards you with rock, indie, krunk, pop and more at 9 PM. $2.

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

The tallest alt-country/Americana picker in the universe—aka Bob Wire—plays Sean Kelly’s at 9:30 PM. Cover TBA. Call 542-1471.

Begin the process during the first round of a Singer/Songwriter Showcase at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865.

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Help acclimate art students to parting with their wares during the threeday UM Spring Art Fair, which runs 9 AM–6 PM through Sat., April 18, in the UM University Center Atrium.

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Take a mid-day break when Families First dishes up the slices during Pizza for Parents: Recess, Fighting, Friends and Bullies at 11:45 AM at the Lewis & Clark School. Free, childcare provided.

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When you freak out in public, it embarrasses us all: Get a grip when Brad Boylan presents Anger Management for Parents at noon at Families First, 815 E. Front St., Ste. 3. $25. RSVP 721-7690.

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Never try to bag a peak on an empty stomach: UM Associate Professor Kelly Dixon presents the lecture “An Archaeology of Desperation: The Donner Party’s Winter in the Sierra Nevada” at 12:30 PM in the UM University Center Theater. Free.

Call 243-2541.

A new definition of inclusion begins at 3 PM, as the Paws Up Ranch’s three-day Wine and Bitch Weekend welcomes guests and their pooches to the Greenough ranch, where lazy days of eating, drinking, getting massaged and basking in luxury are the name of the game. And with prices starting at $1,108 for the weekend, can you really afford not to go? Visit wineandbitch.com or call (800) 473-0601.

Boys aged 7–13 can express that excess energy in an aesthetic way every Fri. at 3:30 PM, when the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W., presents their Boys’ Art Group and encourages artsy exploration of the gross and the weird in a

variety of media. $65/four classes. Call 549-7555 or visit zootownarts.com.

Looking for a varied buzz? Try a weekly wine tasting at the Loft of Missoula, 119 W. Main St., where the sweet juice of divinity begins flowing at 5 PM every Fri. $10.

nightlife The grand entry kicks of the 41st A n n u a l Ky i -Yo C e l e b r a t i o n “Walking in Two Worlds” at 6 PM at the UM Adams Center, where two days of champion American Indian dancers and drummers comprise a celebration of communities across the region. $5/$12 weekend pass.

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Help people who care just a bit more than you keep up the good work—pardon my snark—when you attend Big Brothers Big Sisters of Missoula’s Spring Gala: A Taste of Montana, which begins at 6 PM at the UM University Center Ballroom, features cocktails and hors d’euvres, a silent and live auction, buffet and prize drawings—top prize: a trip to Las Vegas—and more. $70/$700 table of ten. RSVP 721-2380 or bbbsmissoula.org.

If helping teens and sharing Gospel information is at the top of your todo list, then don’t miss Youth for Christ’s 23rd annual Fundraising Banquet, which begins at 6 PM at the City Life Community Center, 1515 Fairview Ave. Free, donations appreciated. Call 532-1560.

A tradition continues as the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., hosts another Third Friday Social Dance Night, which this month means Magnus and Rebecca McCaffery offer Ceilidh dance lessons at 7 PM, with the group party beginning at 8:30. $10/$8 members/$5 dance only. Call 541-7240.

The UM Creative Writing Program’s Spring Reading Series keeps on keepin’ on as German/Turkish poet Zafer Senocak presents a reading at 7 PM in the Dell Brown Room of UM’s Turner Hall. Free. Call 2435267. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Dan Dubuque offers an evening of blues, rhythm and soul at the Hangin Art Gallery and Coffee House in Arlee at 7 PM. Call 726-5005.

The three-day Nature Energy Universe (NEU) Celebration kicks off at 7 PM at Ruby’s Inn, 4825 N. Reserve St., with presentations and demonstrations from three of the event’s headliners. Free. Call 2278401 or visit neucelebration.com.

I’m forbidden from revealing the name of the Missoula Public Library’s Cheap Date Night film selection, but suffice it to say that Daniel Craig returns as Bond—James Bond—at 7 PM. Free.

Sarah Vap and Cynthia Hogue wow you with words during the next installment of the New Lakes Reading and Performance Series, which begins at 7 PM at the Dana Gallery, 246 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 549-2041.

Chris Lane and Stan Anglen play to the wine-imbibing crowd at Lake Missoula Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, at 7:30 PM. $10. Call 541-8463.

Live music of an unspecified nature shakes things up at 8 PM at The Raven in Bigfork, 39 Orchard Lane, which should add some spice to the Walleye Fish Fry as well. Visit sleepeatdrink.com.

A stray dog nearly splits up a happily married couple when the Hamilton Players present Sylvia at 8 PM at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road. $8–14. Call 3759050 or visit hamiltonplayers.com.

Montana Rep Missoula stages the final production of their ‘08-’09 season with the Pulitzer Prize-winning

tearjerker Rabbit Hole at 8 PM at the Crystal Theatre. $15/$5 student rush at 7:30. Visit montanarep.org.

Woe be the regal subject who forgets an offering of fealty when the Country Kings with Richie Reinholdt play the Missoula Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Call 207-0498.

Take in the second of three big nights of dancing, leather and motorcycles when Leather Forever XVI thrums into the Florence Building’s Governor’s Room at 9 PM. $27. Call 721-2154, or visit mtharley.com.

Rock ‘n’ noise is graced by a healthy splash of horns when Boy Eats Drum Machine plays the Palace Lounge at 9 PM, where the festive atmosphere of a Secret Powers CD release party is sonically buttressed by Volumen and 1090 Club as well. $5.

The Bay Area’s missing a few legends, but the Badlander’s not exactly sounding an Amber Alert: Zion I, Zaki Ibrahim and Kev Choice spit all manner of choice nugs once local vocals by Ambedext and Tahjbo are paired with sounds from DJ Brand One at 9 PM. $10/$12 under 21.

They take it all up another notch during a Blessiddoom CD Release Party at The Other Side, where Universal Choke Sign and Walking Corpse Syndrome get the metallic party started at 9 PM. Cover TBA. Kalispell’s Blue Canyon Kitchen and Tavern, 1840 Highway 93 S., delivers your ears to the bluegrass, blues and western swing of Good Wood at 9 PM. Free. Call 758-2583.

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

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SPOTLIGHT deny the umlaut?

If you’ve spent little time thinking about the status of Turks in Germany, that’s okay, as the issue doesn’t come up all that much in conversation. To fill the gap, the world is endowed with poets like Zafer Senocak, who’s taken on an ad hoc role as culturebridger in his adopted homeland.

Born in Turkey in 1961, Senocak’s migration was a common one for Turks, who remedied Germany’s labor shortage resulting from the Wirtshaftswunder, or “economic miracle,” of the ’60s and ’70s. Turkish immigrants soon represented the largest proportion of guest workers in the country, and their everincreasing numbers and pride in maintaining their own culture has been at the heart of German-Turkish relations ever since.

WHO: Poet Zafer Senocak WHAT: UM Creative Writing Program’s Spring Reading Series WHEN: Fri., April 17, 7 PM WHERE: UM Turner Hall’s Dell Brown Room HOW MUCH: Free

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And considering that a 2008 report published in Die Zeit revealed that more than 775 percent of surveyed Turks felt inadequately represented by German Chancellor Angel Merkel, Senocak’s clearly got his work cut out for him. His prolific response has included books in both German and Turkish, as well as regular contributions to radio stations and newspapers from his home in Berlin.

The wordsmith’s served as writer-in-residence at M.I.T., Dartmouth, Oberlin and UC Berkeley, to name a few.

As it’s hard to understand our own societal issues for difficulties of proximity, here’s a chance to examine the ways Germans and Turks are working toward a mutually agreeable meld.

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invites you to the 2009 Dean Stone Lecture Jack Womack, CNN Senior Vice President for Domestic News Operations and Administration, presents:

“The New Media Is Already the Old Media” Thursday, April 16, 2009 7:00 p.m.

169 Skaggs Building Free and open to the public

SPOTLIGHT make it so In an overblown nod to jittery fans of the soonto-be-released Star Trek movie, I’ll employ an analogy even a Tribble could understand.

Whenever Kirk et al. needed to assess a situation, they’d send a small squad—which often included one bit of red-shirted cannon fodder—down to a planet to suss things out. Known as an “away team,” the mini-crew was highly mobile, and if they wound up in the belly of some monster, well…

This week, Bozeman sends Missoula an away team from Montana State University’s 70-piece Symphony Orchestra. They’re not looking for dilithium crystals, but rather ducats to fund their upcoming mission to boldly go where no American university orchestra’s gone for the past 50 years: Vietnam.

WHAT: Music: The Language of the Heart WHEN: Sun. April 19, 2 PM WHERE: St Francis Xavier Church, 420 W. Pine St. HOW MUCH: Free, donations appreciated MORE INFO: msuasiatour.org

Beginning on May 22, the whole 90-person entourage will travel, under the direction of professor (read: admiral) Shuichi Komiyama, from MSU’s transporter room to tsunami-torn Phuket, Thailand on the way to the Academy of Music in Hanoi. On their route, the troupe will give away nine cellos to their various hosts.

This Sunday, your chance to monetarily support their efforts—though the event’s technically free— comes in the form of the aforementioned threepiece away team’s recital, presentation and reception, led by Komiyama himself, at St. Francis Xavier Church. And do what you can to protect any poor red-shirt they choose to send along.

—Jonas Ehudin

Belt out a few bars of somethin’ sexy at East Missoula’s Reno Casino and Cafe’s karaoke night, brought to you

by Karaoke by Figmo, every Fri. and Sat. night at 9 PM. Free.

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

Like a pack of rabid dogs, the Wild Coyotes fleck their frothy licks all over Florence’s High Spirits at 9 PM. Free.

Get all that alt-country rock out of your system with a little help from Shane Clouse and Stomping Ground, who play the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Despite the rumors etched in bathroom stalls across the valley, Tom Catmull and the Clerics are diseasefree and ready to rock at 9:30 PM at Sean Kelly’s. Cover TBA. Call 542-1471.

Bring your dancing shoe and hope to turn it into a pair when spicy locals Salsa Loca inspire serious hip swinging at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865.

He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.

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Today’s Kundalini Yoga class, led

by Sylvia Robert at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., begins at the godly hour of 7 AM and features mainly singing and chanting. $80 for eight classes/$60 for six classes/$12 drop-in. Call 541-7240.

Two days of community earth-moving comprise the start of the Lowell School Garden Project, which kicks off this weekend with 9 AM-5 PM

work days on the school’s new outdoor classroom. Free. Call 532-9865.

The Rattlesnake Creek Watershed Group calls all volunteers and their tools for a Tree Planting and Weed Pull in the Bugbee Nature Area from 9 AM–5 PM, but don’t park on Missoula Ave. In fact, don’t drive at all—ride your bike. Call 531-2527.

The Missoula Nature Energy Universe (NEU) Celebration continues at 9 AM at Ruby’s Inn, 4825 N. Reserve St., and runs through Sun., April 19, with presentations and demonstrations regarding that which is not quite so obvious to most people. $5/$20 and up for workshops. Call 227-8401 or visit neucelebration.com.

Who says toxic sludge has to be a bad thing? Not the organizers of the Superfun(d) Run, a three-tiered running event that begins at 9:30 AM at the new trails in Bonner. All kinds of prizes are yours for the taking, and nobody leaves without a commemorative Milltown hanky. $20/$17 children. Visit friendsof2rivers.org or runwildmissoula.org, or call 546-6026.

Love your mother as Earth Week begins at roughly 10 AM, with the Caras Park Clark Fork River cleanup (visit clarkfork.org, or call 5420539, ext. 200), a Mount Sentinel prairie restoration project (e-mail umt.restoration@gmail.com) and many other ways to greenly up yourself throughout the coming week.

Visit umt.edu/earthday for the full scoop, or call 243-5153.

Turn in your clean used boats and gear

by Fri. evening, then show up at 10 AM today as Kalispell’s Silver Moon Kayak Company, 1215 N. Somers Road, hosts their second annual Kayak & Kayaking Gear Swap. Free. Call 7523794 or visit silvermoonkayak.com.

Lead the struggle against Nature Deficit Disorder when you bring the herd to the

Great Bear Foundation between 10 AM and 3 PM, where the Missoula Children and Nature Network hosts an animal tracking activity. Print a “Got Nature?” Passport beforehand when you visit missoulachildrenandnature.org.

Free. call 721-7275.

Platinum-grilled producers-to-be can attend a Digital Recording Workshop and learn to use Apple’s GarageBand at 10 AM at the Tangled Tones Studio, 2005 South Ave. W., which is followed by an hour of music lab time. $35. RSVP 5292601 or lcleminshaw@bresnan.net.

Renew your child’s commitment to feeling the rhythm when Tangled Tones hosts Kids Vibrations at 11 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $4/two for $6/three or more for $10. Call 541-7240.

Alison Laundrie gets you in shape and provides a few moments away from your spawn every Sat. at 11 AM during a Pilates class at Sunflower Montessori School, 1703 S. Fifth St. W. $10 includes childcare. RSVP 214-7247.

It’s drier than it sounds and there won’t be a single campfire when the second annual Missoula Barcamp, a techie, nonprofit and design “unconference,” takes place from noon–5 PM at MonTEC, 1121 E. Broadway. $15. Visit missoulabarcamp.org.

The second of three grand entries resumes the 41st Annual Kyi-Yo Celebration “Walking in Two Worlds” at noon at the UM Adams Center, where a full day of champion American Indian dancers and drummers comprise a celebration of communities across the region. $8 day/$5 evening/$12 weekend pass.

Call 243-5302 or visit umt.edu/kyiyo.

The Montana Rockies Bluegrass Association and the Missoula Folklore Society present the 10th annual Oldtime Bluegrass Festival, which

begins at noon at the Stevensville Junior High School, features 18 hot string bands and will not include limbo and/or wet T-shirt contests. $5/$3 members. Call 821-3777.

Practice your rapid eye movement when you check out all that’s new during a Twenty Minute Tour every Sat. at noon at the Missoula Art Museum. Free. Call 728-0447.

Join Habitat for Humanity and the Howard family at their 38th Groundbreaking Ceremony at 1 PM at 4213 Muggle Lane in Missoula’s Windsor Park subdivision.

Free. Call 549-8210.

Now that we’ve become a zerowaste society, we can use trash for positive purposes, which you youngster can learn all about when the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St., presents the Saturday Kids’ Activity Garbage Art! at 2 PM. $2/members free. Call 327-0405.

Here’s your chance to take a peek at this year’s entries in the Ernst Petersen “Photograph Montana” Contest and Exhibit, which opens at 2 PM at the Ravalli County Museum.

Admission TBA. Call 363-3338.

Artists, activists and malcontents alike are invited to a Shantytown Planning Meeting at 5 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W., where you can get more info on the upcoming May 2 event, design a shanty of your own, plot some bizarre performance art and much, much more. Free. Call 549-7555.

nightlife Consume for non-consumption with the WildWest Institute, which hopes you’ll Dine Out for the Earth this evening at Scotty’s Table, Biga Pizza, the Bridge or Posh Chocolat, where a portion of your tab goes to protecting our planet’s edible and non-edible natural resources. Price depends upon appetite. Call 396-0321 or visit wildwestinstitute.org.

Satisfy that thirst for something beyond ordinary wine at the Hidden Legend Winery, at Sheafman corner and Highway 93 S., where the honey wine flows and the local music rolls every Sat. at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 363-6323.

He eats music and belches concertos: Tom Catmull plays Hamilton’s Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St., at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

Listen, you heap of rosy-eyed hippies, we all know there’s but one silver bullet in the War on Drugs, so here’s your chance to rid humanity of our one ancient scourge: The Teen Challenge Banquet begins at 6 PM at the Hilton Garden Inn and features a keynote address by author Monty Christensen. $35/$350 table of 10. Call 626-2507 or 543-1912.

Get your all-ages on when you head into a different kind of underground, the Northside’s BSMT, 235 N. First St. W., for a 7:30 PM show featuring Salt Lake City’s finest, Cherubin and Laughter, who play with local-ish support from Thug Nasties, Blue Boy Destroy, Tripping Up Stairs and Great Falls’ Progress. $4.

Try this on for a mash-up: L.A.’s Gospel Hummingbirds perform a set or two of their trademark “Rhythm and Gospel” music at 7:30 PM at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center. $32. Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

The Missoula Folklore Society throws a Contra Dance in the Union Hall, with lessons beginning at 7:30 PM and the booty-shakin’ getting underway at 8 PM, with music from the AM String Band. $8/$6 members. Call 543-6508.

The UM School of Fine Arts celebrates two of their own at 7:30 PM in the University Theatre, where Odyssey of the Stars: A Celebration of Artistic Journeys honors Monte Dolack and Mary Beth Percival with a program of music, dance and film. $30/$15 students. Or, you can really part with some dough when you pursue the VIP options: $125 for couples/$200 for foursomes. Call 243-4971.

Get lucky as the Lolo Square and Round Dance Center, 9955 Highway 12 west of Lolo, presents a Spring Fling Dance at 8 PM. Cover TBA. Call 273-0652 or 273-0141.

A stray dog nearly splits up a happily married couple when the Hamilton Players present Sylvia at 8 PM at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road. $8–14. Call 3759050 or visit hamiltonplayers.com.

Montana Rep Missoula stages the final production of their ‘08–’09 season with the Pulitzer Prize-winning tearjerker Rabbit Hole at 8 PM at the Crystal Theatre. $15/$5 student rush at 7:30. Visit montanarep.org.

Woe be the regal subject who forgets an offering of fealty when the Country Kings with Richie Reinholdt play the Missoula Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Call 207-0498.

Solid Sound Karaoke proves that music can also be a liquid or a gas, but never plasma, at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. Support Partners in Health’s global health-promotion effort whilst rocking with Seattle’s The Bismark, who donate their share of the loot to the nonprofit when they play the Palace Lounge at 9 PM with The Whore Moans, Victory Smokes and Deny the Dinosaur? $5/$7 under 21.

Visit pih.org.

Take in the last of three big nights of dancing, leather and motorcycles when Leather Forever XVI thrums into the Florence Building’s Governor’s Room at 9 PM. $27. Call 721-2154, or visit mtharley.com.

You know you want to follow the band back to their room at the Doubletree: Reverend Slanky funks with the Badlander’s head at 9 PM. $5.

I, for one, can think of no better band than Bob Wire and the Magnificent Bastards to usher in the final day before a different kind of Great American Smokeout, which they willingly do at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Americana country is the ultimate tomato-lobbing music, which is why traveling band Lost Dogma hopes you’ll take it all out on openers the Tom Cook Band at 9 PM at The Other Side. $7.

In a move that’s sure to set a new standard for “classy,” the Broadway Sports Bar, 1609 W. Broadway, hosts the Traffic Light Glow Stick Party at 9 PM, where you choose from three colors of glow stick to wear (green=single, yellow=cheating, red=taken) and then enter into the groping fray. This respect-fest also features nut and bolt matchups, an iPod for the best flirt and a selection of “adult games.” $5.

Like a pack of rabid dogs, the Wild Coyotes fleck their frothy licks all over Florence’s High Spirits at 9 PM. Free.

Known as “The Voice,” frontman Dave Walker casts aside memories of his days with Fleetwood Mac and Black Sabbath to lead the Dave Walker Band to glory at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865.

DJ Dubwise supplies dance tracks all night long so you can take advantage of Sexy Saturday and rub up against the gender of your choice at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.

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You’re hereby invited to Hamilton’s Carriage House, 310 N. Fourth St., every Sun. at 9 AM, in order that you might bear witness to Rev. Kathianne Lewis’ message from the Center for Spiritual Living in Seattle. Free. Call 375-9996.

Sunday brunch at 10 AM with jazz from Three of a Kind is classy so don’t just roll out of bed and head into the Blue Canyon Kitchen &

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Tavern, located in the Hilton Garden Inn at 3720 N. Reserve Street. Free.

Reduce your carbon footprint to a mere big toe smudge with the help of MUD, which hosts the Earth Day Celebration “Going Green Makes Cents!” from noon–7 PM in Caras Park, with all the info, activities, music, raffles, food and booze you’d expect.

Free. E-mail kara@mudproject.org.

Declare victory over high prices, poor quality, a lack of taste and an abundance of chemicals when you attend a Victory Garden Class at 1 PM at The Green Light, 128 W. Alder St. $25. RSVP 541-8623.

The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation urges you to walk it off at 2 PM at UM’s Dornblaser Field, where the Walk to Cure Diabetes coaxes teams to harness the power of bipedalism to raise much-needed cash. Local bands and mascots, kids games, a raffle and barbecue take this one over the top. Visit jdrf.org, or call 243-5299.

A stray dog nearly splits up a happily married couple when the Hamilton Players present Sylvia at 2 PM at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road. $8–14. Call 3759050 or visit hamiltonplayers.com.

In order to raise awareness about the full MSU Symphony Orchestra’s impending goodwill trip to Southeast Asia, a three-person splinter group presents Music: The Language of the Heart, a concert, presentation and reception at 2 PM at St. Francis Xavier Church, 420 W. Pine St. Free, donations appreciated. Call 9943562, or visit msuasiatour.org. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

The Alpine Kids! Theatre Project, an afterschool education and outreach program, presents a 40-student cast in High School Musical at 2 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. $15/$12 students/$7 under 12. Visit alpinetheatreproject.org or call 860-SHOW. UM scientists turn day into night and try to keep your wee one from voiding with excitement during the 2 PM program Wonders of the Night Sky at the Missoula Public Library.

Free. Call 721-2665.

In honor of their new grand piano, the Missoula Art Museum presents New Music in New Spaces at 2 PM, in which a composition by Charles Nichols written expressly for this day is performed by Christopher Hahn and the UM Contemporary Chamber Players. Free. Call 728-0447.

nightlife The doors spring open at 6 PM at Biga Pizza, 241 W. Main St., where an all-you-can-eat fundraising dinner for the Community Food & Agriculture Coalition nourishes both body and righteousness for just $10. Visit missoulacfac.org.

Find your muse at the bottom of a highball glass when Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School rolls into the Union Hall at 6 PM for three hours of modeling by the incredible Eden La Trobe and the mysterious Raven Digitalis, music by DJ Mermaid, delicious cocktails, drawing and debauchery.

Dry art media are encouraged. $8.

Visit sketchymissoula.com.

Once the 6:30 PM social hour’s done with, two southern ladies croon famous ballads as the hit country musical Honky Tonk

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Laundry sets to sudsin’ up at 8 at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. $25. Call 728-0560 or e-mail MOR@missoularealestate.com.

Comedic minstrel Roy Zimmerman brings his repertoire of light-hearted songs about ignorance, war and greed to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Missoula, 102 McLeod Ave, at 7 PM. Suggested donation $12, though no one will be turned away. (See Scope in this issue.)

Kick off the latter hours of your day of rest when the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night welcomes saints and sinners alike with jazz DJs at 7 PM, live jazz by Donna Smith at 7:30 and a rotating cast of bands thereafter. Free.

All the single ladies, and probably a few hitched ones as well, lay it all on the line when the UM Women’s Chorus gets to belting out the tunes at 7:30 PM in the UM Music Recital Hall. Free.

My advice is to avoid metal detectors for a few days: DragonForce brings an extra trailer full of speed thrash to the Wilma Theatre at 8 PM. $24/$22 advance.

Euchre is one of those games that goes great with beer because you can tell what the cards look like even if your vision is a little blurry. See what I mean, or try to anyway, tonight at Sean Kelly’s just-for-fun Euchre Tournament at 8 PM. Free.

Hear ye, hear ye: AmVets Club offers a new spin on karaoke night, and it’s known as “Jheryoake.” Delve into the mystery at 9 PM, when Happy Hour gets the crowd loose until 10. Free.

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The two-day Montana Indian Business Conference and Showcase, which features booths open to the public, begins at 9 AM at the Hilton Garden Inn. Admission free. Call 454-6255.

Two sessions of the popular World Rhythm Youth Hand Drumming Class take place at the Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W. every Mon.: At 4:30 PM, kids aged 5–7 can get their grooves on, and a class for those 8 and above begins at 5:15. $30 per month/drum rental: $15 per month. RSVP 396-3352 or visit tangledtones.com.

Forward Montana’s Progressive Happy Hour presents “Schooled,” a school-board-themed swill-a-thon at 5:15 PM at the Badlander, where you’ll have a chance to meet ‘n’ grill incumbent boarder Rick Johns and challenger Marcia Holland before you cast your ballot in the May 5 election (absentee ballots are already available). Free. Call 542-VOTE. If you devote 5:30 to 8:30 PM on Monday or Wednesday nights to silent meditation, political drinking or other non-kid-friendly endeavors, the Parenting Place offers free child care and dinner at 1644 S. Eighth St. Call 728-KIDS to reserve a spot.

nightlife What reason—aside from today’s date—have you got for lying around the house watching the tube when Florence’s High Spirits offers at 6 PM? Free. Call 273-9992.

Start down the path that ends in a Las Vegas dressing room every Mon. at 6 PM when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., presents Show Girl 101. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

See how well smooth guitar can pair with a nice French Bordeaux—and any other vices—when John Floridis plays the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave., at 7 PM. Free. Call 549-2906.

Don’t miss your chance to hear Sheryl Noethe read from her new book of poems, As Is, at 7 PM at Shakespeare & Co., 103 S. Third St. W. Free. Call 5499010. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Help embolden the West Coast Swing movement here in Zoo City when you get your basic moves down every Mon. at 7 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., where Cathy Clark presents Beginning West Coast Swing and Beyond. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

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

The Alpine Kids! Theatre Project, an afterschool education and outreach program, presents a 40-student cast in High School Musical at 7 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. $15/$12 students/$7 under 12. Visit alpinetheatreproject.org or call 860-SHOW. There’s a meditation group at Osel Shen Phen Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center, 441 Woodworth Ave., where sadhana practice, visualization and mantra recitation cleanse the doors of perception at 7 PM. Call 543-2207.

Experience momentum, balance, and timing tuned with a strong drummerdancer connection every Mon. at 7:30 PM with West African Sabar dance class at the Teranga Arts School, 2926 S. Third St. W., across from Hawthorne Elementary. $10.

Call 721-3854 and drum up directions at terangaarts.googlepages.com.

At Be Here Now Sangha you can learn the basics of meditation every Mon. night at 7:30 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Open to all religions and levels of practice. Free, but donations appreciated.

This 4/20, get the red out and fill your head with visions of revolution when rabble-rouser Woody Holton presents the UM President’s Lecture Series lecture “Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution” at 8 PM in UM’s University Theatre. Free.

It’s coming on summer here, which means it must be time for a visit from Tech N9ne, who raps himself all over the Wilma Theatre at 8 PM with a little assist from special guest Murs. $28/$26.50 advance.

Unite the clans with Geneva Bybee, w h o p r e s e n t s Tr i b a l F u s i o n Bellydance at 8 PM every Mon. and Wed. at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 5417240 for pricing.

Join sex doctor Lindsey Doe for this week’s Mondate, Sexual Positioning, which offers over 100 ways to arrange your bodies for maximum style points and a minimum of pelvic contusions, at 8:30 PM in Room 330 of UM’s University Center. $6.

Visit doctordoe.com.

For once in your life, leave the bar with a slightly thicker wallet with DJ Hickey’s Rawk and Roll Bingo Night every Mon. from 8:30 PM until midnight at the Badlander. $1 per card, and the opening round’s always free.

Pick the shake out of your teeth and head to the Elk’s Lodge, where the Go Green Bash features tabling from great local groups working to save our dumb species and live music from Whitewater Ramble, OutPost, Kevin Van Dort, Voodoo Horseshoes and the Zookeepers at 9 PM. $10/$8 for Way To Go Club members.

The Milkcrate Mechanic keeps the groove fine tuned when he presents random music for random people, featuring rotating DJs and acts, free pool and mad krunk every Mon. at 9 PM at the Palace Lounge. Free.

Bring a big ol’ sack of what cops in this town like to call “low priority” to Sean Kelly’s open mic night, hosted by Mike Avery at 9:30 PM, and see if you can convince the kitchen to start making “magic bangers and mash.” Free.

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Bend, stretch and play every Tue. and Thu. at Happy Mama, 736A S. First St. W., where Yoga for Everybody eases the suffering at 9:30 AM. $12 drop-in/$10 advance.

Call 880-6883.

Historically speaking, Afghans have proven to be impossible to control, but you’ll have plenty of guidance when you join the group Knitting for Peace, which meets every Tue. from 11 AM–1 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-3955.

New moms discuss the ups and downs of motherhood when Families First presents another New Moms Support Group at 11 AM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-7690.

Toes will tap and fingers will snap (in the painless way) when the Rocky Mountain Rhythm Kings ride into Snappy Sport Senter, 1400 Hwy. 2 E., every Tue. at noon. Free, donation suggested. Call 257-7525.

Find strength and the will to fight at the Breast Cancer Support Group, which meets at noon each Tue. at St. Francis Xavier Church, 420 W. Pine St. Free.

The Shootin’ The Bull Toastmasters Club meets at noon at the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, 5705 Grant Creek Road. The first few are free. Call 529-5488.

For the latest Latin cardio dance craze, try a dose of Zumba every Tue. at noon at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Get gooey during Open Instructed Studio at the Clay Studio, 1106-A Hawthorne St., every Thu. at 6 PM through May 5. $168/eight-week session. Call 543-0509.

Pretend coal’s not powering the projector during an Earth Day Eve Film Fest, which begins at 3 PM in the UM University Center Theater and features this triple-shot: Kilowatt Hours, Grizzly and Burning the Future. Free. Call 549-1142.

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APRIL 20: REDUCED SERVICES AT MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER’S OFFICE On Monday, April 20, 2009 Missoula County Treasurer’s office will be processing tax payments only.

Motor Vehicle services will not be conducted on Monday due to final preparations for deployment of the new motor vehicle MERLIN system on April 21.

No title work or registration renewals will be performed due to the limited use of the new system.

Motor Vehicle transactions will resume on Tuesday, April 21.

Be prepared for longer lines and allow yourself extra time to complete transactions over the next few weeks. We encourage you to mail in your registration renewals to avoid waiting in line.

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It’s Tuesday, and you ate your last roach from yesterday’s overindulgence for breakfast, so why not Dine With the Elks from 5:30–7 PM? This week, slow braised beef top round, mashed potatoes, steamed veggies and chocolate cake accompany the flashy pianizing of Adrienne Dussault. $9 per plate. RSVP 549-0542.

Every Tue. at 5:30 PM, Intermediate Bellydance/World Fusion meets at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave., but be warned that prior dance experience is recommended. $7. Call 531-3000.

Jody Mosher offers another weekly dose of playful, happy and fantastic cardiovascular exercise—aka Nia—every Tue. at 5:30 PM at the Teranga Arts School, 2926 S. Third St. First class free/$6 each thereafter.

Don’t it make your green grass blue? The pickin’ circle begins at 6 PM, and house pickers Pinegrass play at 9:30 PM at the Top Hat. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865.

It’s a spicy good time when the Downtown Dance Collective’s Heather Adams presents beginning salsa dance lessons at 6 PM, followed by intermediate/advanced at 7, every Tue. at the Badlander. $5.

The YWCA of Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts weekly support groups for women every Tue. at 6:30 PM, where groups for Native women and children meet as well. New group members with children are asked to arrive at 6:15, without kids at 6:25. Free. Call 543-6691.

What do we want? Democracy! When do we want it? Now! Join the peace-loving horde in UM’s Adams Center West Gym at 7 PM for a lecture and book-signing from left-wing whacko Amy Goodman—just kiddin’, Ames—to benefit the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. Suggested donation: $10/$15 advance reserved seats.

Call 543-3955. (See Agenda in this issue.)

Hamilton’s Chapter One Book Store, 252 Main St., hosts the reading “What’s Your Story?” at 7 PM, in which Hamilton High School students share the personal stories they unearthed when they fanned out into the community to interview their neighbors. Free. Call 363-5220.

The Alpine Kids! Theatre Project, an afterschool education and outreach program, presents a 40-student cast in High School Musical at 7 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. $15/$12 students/$7 under 12. Visit alpinetheatreproject.org or call 860-SHOW. You’re invited by Turning the Wheel to take part in some Body-Centered Creative Expression to

live music every Tue. at 7 PM. $5–10 donation.

Call 543-4414 for location and more details.

The Rocky Mountain School of Photography, 210 N. Higgins Ave., presents Doug Johnson, whose fast-flowing 7 PM lecture “The Essentials of Photographing Water” will have you itchin’ to learn more about the Coriolis effect. Free. Call 543-0171.

Leave the fine crystal at home when UM Opera Theatre hits all the right notes at 7:30 PM in the UM Music Recital Hall. $10/$5 student and seniors.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with. Ready? Where did Wally hide my egg during last week’s Easter Fancy Bike Ride and Games Session? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

You’ve practiced in front of the mirror long enough—head to the High Spirits in Florence, where open mic night features a drum set, amps, mics and recording equipment and awaits you and your axe at 8 PM. Free. Call 273-9992 to reserve your spot.

Montana Rep Missoula stages the final production of their ‘08–’09 season with the Pulitzer Prize-winning tearjerker Rabbit Hole at 8 PM at the Crystal Theatre. $10/$5 student rush at 7:30. Visit montanarep.org.

It’s still bigger than disco: The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., keeps on keepin’ it real every Tue. at 8 PM, when Hip Hop Class puts the “back” back in “back in the day.” Call 541-7240 for pricing.

With a voice more powerful than Brennan’s Wave and a soul reportedly more ancient than a trilobite, Brandi Carlile leads the Wilma Theatre’s audience to rejoice with song after Angel Taylor opens at 8:30 PM. $23/$20 advance.

Pretend it’s yesterday all night long when Reggae Night at the Badlander features New Hampshire’s finest “reggae-jam dubtronica hybrid,” Roots of Creation, once Karl K spins a touch of roots and dub at 9 PM. $5.

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

Be your own American Idol during “Jheryoake”—that’s karaoke with Jerry Reeb— every Tue. at 9 PM—with happy hour until 10— at the AmVets Club. Free.

Forego the weekly shower and join Unwashed Productions for live music and moist DJs Harvey and Heyska when Punk Rock Tuesday fumigates the Palace Lounge every Tue. at 9 PM. Free.

L.I.V. Karaoke night gives your larynx a weekly workout with a 9:30 PM sesh at the Elbow Room. Free. Call 531-7800.

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Take a load off in the company of friends every Wed. from 9–11:30 AM as Aspen Hospice, 107 Bell Crossing West, hosts the Caregiver Coffeebreak. Free. Call 642-3010.

It’s healthier than heroin: Lunchtime Junkies Jogging and Walking Club offers a one-hour community run and training session every Wed. through April 22, so meet at noon at Currents Aquatic Center in McCormick Park. $10. RSVP 721-PARK or 552-6266.

On this day spent in celebration of the planet, you’re invited to two screenings of EARTH, which has never been shown in the U.S.

before, at 3:30 and 7 PM at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $4. Call 728-9380.

nightlife Learn how to set financial goals, create budgets and savings plans, understand credit reports and much more when you attend Financial Fitness Classes at homeWORD, 127 N. Higgins Ave., Ste. 303, every Wed. through May 6, at 6 PM. $10. RSVP quickly 532-4663, ext. 14, or visit www.homeword.org/hoc/ff_registration.htm.

The wheel in the sky keeps on turning during Beginning Pottery at The Clay Studio, 1106A Hawthorne St., which meets every Wed. at 6 PM through May 6, with no class April 8. $168/eight-week class. Call 543-0509.

Combine a relaxed and supportive atmosphere with live models in their birthday suits—

SPOTLIGHT no implied warranty One mark of an effective ritual has to do with the priestess blending seamlessly into the background of the experience.

In order to facilitate Sheryl Noethe’s fade to transparent, let’s get some stuff out in the open.

Noethe directs the Missoula Writing Collaborative, which focuses on placing writers in classrooms to act as midwives as young people work to bring forth, clarify and amplify their voices.

The native Minnesotan came to Missoula by way of New York City, and if she had to carry an Oscar-like trophy

WHO: Poet Sheryl Noethe WHAT: Reading and Signing As Is WHEN: Mon., April 20, 7 PM WHERE: Shakespeare & Co., 103 S. Third St. W. HOW MUCH: Free

for each award she’s claimed, she’d have to hitch a trailer to her considerable animal herd.

But enough about Noethe. She’s going to vanish, remember? Her newest book of poetry, As Is, should make a disappearing act fairly easy.

The collection is riveting for the poet’s caustic honesty, as well as her ability to zero in on topics that cause a stir. From recalling the beatings suffered by a child to fire as a thematic ribbon throughout—“The sacred and the bad of fire is only part of the story./Just because fire is common doesn’t mean we have tamed it./Lightning continues its restless foraging nightly./Fire is nature in delirium tremens.”—Noethe held this reader tight in her grip and seemed almost like a watchful shadow in the corner of my room.

And my guess is you can expect nothing less on Monday at Shakespeare & Co. —Jonas Ehudin

18 and over only, please—and you’ve got the Missoula Art Museum’s Hump Day Figure Drawing group every Wed. from 6–8 PM. $7/$5 members. Call 728-0447.

Develop eloquence in the face of inebriation, as well as impressive business contacts, when Toastmasters meets this, and every, Wed. at 6 PM in St. Patrick Hospital’s Duran Learning Center. Free. Call 728-9117.

Gillian Kessler asks only that you embrace your inner diva as she fuses slick Brazilian moves with modern techniques for her Afro-Brazilian Dance Class, which takes place every Wed. at 6 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Learn to bump and grind, shimmy and shake and strut your stuff like a pro every Wed. evening at 6 PM during a Burlesque Dance Class at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. Call Kelli Neumeyer at 531-2482.

A revolving cast of local singers and musicians makes up the band Katy and Friends, who do the rocking every Wed. at 6:30 PM at the Cottage Inn in Kila. Free. Call 755-8711.

For the last time, frothing settlers and the rockhurling displaced don’t count: Biologist and national park director Avi Lourie presents the lecture “Wildlife of Israel” at 7 PM at the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St. $4 suggested donation. Call 327-0405.

If you think Montana wouldn’t be affected, guess again: The UM Multicultural Film Series continues with A Day Without a Mexican at 7 PM in the University Center Theater. Free. Call 243-5776.

Rehash the dirty past of a group that spent all their days scribbling about matters most heathenly during a discussion of America’s Nature Writers at 7 PM at the Missoula Public Liubrary. Free. Call 721-2665.

The UM Women’s Center and the Zootown Arts Community Center reap the rewards when you attend This Night of Mayhem and Creativity, which begins at 7:30 PM at the Badlander and features local poets as well as Baba Ghanoush’s Erin Snyder and Doug Brinkerhoff, Butter and Friedrich’s Teeth. $5.

Celebrate our planet’s special place in the galaxy—or maybe it’s about something else—as Lake Missoula Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, presents a reading of Rita Barkley’s new abstract play A Hole in the Universe at 7:30 PM. Free. Call (480) 296-3361.

Montana Rep Missoula stages the final production of their ‘08–’09 season with the Pulitzer Prize-winning tearjerker Rabbit Hole at 8 PM at the Crystal Theatre. $10/$5 student rush at 7:30. Visit montanarep.org.

Wednesdays are for the tango, and nobody knows this like the Downtown Dance Collective, where Abby and Diego offer three tango options beginning at 8:30 PM every week. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Feel the estrogenous rush when Ladies’ Night at the Palace Lounge features L.A.’s The

Deep Sea Goes, who play at 9 PM with locals Vera and “a band with no name.” $3.

Colorado bluegrass sensation Yonder Mountain String Band embarks on the first of two evenings of performance at 9 PM at the Wilma Theatre, so be sure and slap on a good 48-hour dose of patchouli. $25/$20 advance/$35 two-day ticket.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but neither will help you emit that high lonesome sound every Wed., when the Old Post Pub hosts a Pickin’ Circle at 9 PM. Free. The answer to this week’s really-unfair-to-99percent-of-the-population trivia question: For those of you who weren’t there—and I was alone—Wally hid my egg amid the old logging equipment on display at Fort Missoula.

Spit the gorf out of your taorht with Bassackwards Karaoke every Wed. at 9 PM at Deano’s Casino on North Reserve Street.

Free. Call 531-8327.

L.I.V. Karaoke puts the crowd in high spirits at the High Spirits in Florence starting at 9 PM. Free. Call 273-9992.

This Missoula legend has nothing to do with ground beef: Wasted Wednesday at the Top Hat offers unlimited tap beer and M-Group at 10 PM and the wisdom you’ll gain is worth the $7 cover many times over. Call 728-9865.

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Quick! Bidding ends today in the Clay Studio’s 2009 POTSKETCH auction, so aim that pesky browser of yours over to theclaystudioofmissoula.org and start the process. Or call 543-0509.

Explore movement as an avenue for deeper self-understanding every Thu. at 9 AM when Hillary Funk Welzenbach hosts an Authentic Movement Group at Teranga Arts School, 2926 S. Third St. W. $25/session. RSVP 541-2662.

Student groups demonstrate green initiatives, cooking demonstrations put the green back in eating and Governor Schweitzer makes an appearance when the UM Sustainability Fair begins at noon in the University Center.

Free.

Try a high energy, low impact workout on for size every Thu. at noon at the Downtown Dance Collective, where African Boogie gets you sweating with the basic body forms found in African dance. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

School’s out early, which means it’s time for the Teen Zine Club, which meets every Thu. at 2:30 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First Ave. W., for the continuing adventures of the self-publishing and somewhat famous. $10 per month.

Call 239-7718 or e-mail info@slumgullion.org.

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Camouflage it ain’t. UM’s Adams Center bursts into spring bloom as the 41st Annual KyiYo Celebration “Walking in Two Worlds” begins with the first of three grand entries at 6 PM on Fri., April 17. The pow wow continues at noon on Sat., April 18. $5 Fri./$8 allday Sat./$5 Sat. eve./$12 weekend pass. Call 243-5302 or visit umt.edu/kyiyo.

See how you can help draw more people to the valley when you attend the Missoula Convention and Visitors Bureau board meeting at 3 PM in the MonTEC Conference Room, 1121 E. Broadway. Free. Call 532-3250.

Before you invest in a can of pencils to sell outside the soup kitchen, check out the Missoula Job Service Career Fair, which begins at 3 PM in the Hilton Garden Inn. Free.

Call 728-7060, or visit employmissoula.com.

Junior detectives aged 5–8 team up with the Montana Crime Lab and the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., to process footprints, fingerprints, DNA and more at Afterschool Adventures: W.O.W. at 3 PM. $4.25/Free for members. Call 541-PLAY. The UM Peace and Justice Film Series continues at 5:30 and 7:30 PM in the UM University Center Theater, where screenings of Pickaxe, which illustrates how direct action does indeed sometimes “get the goods,” are followed by group discussions. Free, donations appreciated. Visit peaceandjusticefilms.org.

nightlife Discover a new meaning for the phrase “double trouble” when the Joan Zen Duo plays Hamilton’s Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St., at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

Young folk aged 13–18 are invited to the Missoula Art Museum at 6 PM, where pro oil painter Andy Cline takes you deep into that intoxicating world during Teen Open Studio Night: Truth is Stranger Than Fiction. Free.

Call 728-0447 ext. 230.

Figure out how to stop this crazy thing at 6:30 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, where the Sustainable Business Council presents the panel discussion “Montana Businesses: A Discussion of Political and Practical Solutions to Climate Change.” Free. Call 465-1141.

The Montana Community Autism and Aspergers Network invites you to their monthly meeting at 6:30 PM in the large meeting room at the Missoula Public Library. Free.

Help Missoula figure out how to keep our bridges aloft and whatnot when you attend this month’s Community Forum at 7 PM in the City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Free. Call 552-6081.

Simple chants and melodies from the world’s spiritual steams inhabit your body and mind when the Common Ground Center, 258 Roosevelt Lane in Hamilton, hosts an evening of Devotional Singing at 7 PM. $3 donation. Call 363-4026.

Lake Missoula Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, hosts a Local Artist Showcase featuring whichever artists happen to show up at 7 PM. Free, dropins welcome. Call 541-8463.

UM art professor Bobby Tilton moderates a diverse panel discussion—one participant is

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a bear, for cryin’ out loud—related to the exhibit Campus Picks at 7 PM in the UM PARTV Center’s Meloy Gallery. Free. Call 243-2019.

Architect, artist and author Lee Kierig reads from and signs his new book Where, Is Infinite Love at 7 PM at Hamilton’s Chapter One Book Store, 252 Main St. Free. Call 363-5220.

Come to The Cottage Inn in Kila for a 7 PM Irish jam session and stay for the weekly cribbage tournament at the world famous home of “Turbo Crib.” Free. Call 755-4572.

The Ronan Performing Arts Center presents US National Fingerstyle Guitar Champion Chris Proctor, whose blurred fingers dance across the fretboard like butter on smokin’ cast iron at 7:30 PM. $14/$12 advance/free under 19.

Call 676-2427 or e-mail cmc@ronan.net.

Even though this show begins at 8 PM, youse gotsta be 18: Oregonoid bands Dream Killer and Bitchin’ Summer fill the hole in your head bored out by Montanians Priapism and Out the Lights at the Elk’s Lodge. $5.

A stray dog nearly splits up a happily married couple when the Hamilton Players present Sylvia at 8 PM at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road. $8–14. Call 375-9050 or visit hamiltonplayers.com.

Montana Rep Missoula stages the final production of their ‘08–’09 season with the Pulitzer Prize-winning tearjerker Rabbit Hole at 8 PM at the Crystal Theatre. $10/$5 student rush at 7:30. Visit montanarep.org.

Join the ranks of the Missoula Metal Mulletia, led by Slit Throat, Sought After Death and Dripping Orifice at the Palace Lounge at 9 PM. $3.

As though last night never happened, Colorado bluegrass sensation Yonder Mountain String Band jams out a second evening of their trademark high-energy improv at 9 PM at the Wilma Theatre, so don’t go combing the dreads out of your hair just yet. $25/$20 advance/$35 two-day ticket.

Missoula’s most ballady balladeer, Russ Nasset, graciously picks up a gig at the Old Post Pub, playing every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free.

Continue the process during the second round of a Singer/Songwriter Showcase at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865.

You know I love hearing from you, so how come you never write? Just kidding—your recent submissions have been simply marvelous. Well, all except for you people who can’t seem to understand deadlines, but don’t worry, I’ll get you properly trained one of these days. Your first lesson is this: Send your event info by 5 PM on Fri., April 17, to calendar@missoulanews.com.

Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Comrade Calendar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 5434367. And for Peet’s sake, don’t submit events through our website. Just don’t do it.

Well, folks, it would appear ski season’s really and actually over.

And for real this time. For your amusement, I’ve posted this gnarly pic of me about to bomb down some sick backcountry terrain last Sunday at Snowbowl.

All right, so I wasn’t even there. That photo’s not of your good Comrade Calendar, but of some other chap who actually made the effort to get out there for one last hurrah down the resort’s totally ungroomed trails. Sweet icy patches, folks. And it’s a wrap.

This week, we look forward to a bright and shiny new season of warmth, dry conditions and long, long days. I, for one, have been busy renovating a rickshaw or two, and if we’re all lucky, they should be unleashed upon the populace right about the time you’re reading this.

Of course, in outdoor recreation as in all things, we must stress the importance of placing safety first. So it’s with that in mind that I’m pleased to tell you about Montana River Guides’ upcoming series of three-day Whitewater Rescue Technician courses, the first of which begins on Fri., April 17. It’s $295, but money spent on safety is money well spent. Visit montanariverguides.com or call 777-4837.

This happens every so often, and it’s happening again this week: Saturday’s simply packed, and thus it gets its own special heading: Saturday, April 18 We begin at the beginning, with a reminder that the GrizzlyMan Adventure Race and the Black Bear Challenge take place today at the Paws Up Resort and Lubrecht Forest. You can register through Fri., April 17, at grizzlymanrace.com, there are solo and paired categories and probably also some great people watching.

Race on, grizzly men and ladies!

Beginning at 9 AM on this most auspicious of days, two opportunities to reintroduce your kids to the natural world arise, and the one you choose probably has much to do with how much you want to drive. Our northern readers will take advantage of Glacier National Park’s free “Reconnecting Children with Nature” workshop, which begins at 9 AM at the West Glacier Community Building. Call 888-7935 about that one. Missoula folks probably

ought to head over to the Great Bear Foundation on East Front Street, where the Missoula Children and Nature Network offers a similar workshop from 10 AM–3 PM. Call 721-7275.

Take nature into your own hands, quite literally, when you head to the Rattlesnake’s Bugbee Nature Area, where an Earth Day weeding project takes place from 9 AM–4 PM, involves coffee, donuts and lunch. Just don’t park on Missoula Avenue, okay?

Of course, we all know toxic sludge makes a superb running surface, which is why the organizers of the Bonner’s Superfun(d) Run request your presence at 9:30 AM at the new trails for either the 1K, 5K or 10K variety. Prizes await, as does somebody on the other end of this phone number: 546-6026.

Registration forms are also available at friendsof2rivers.org.

Another option to give a little back to the planet you’ve basically been mooching off of your whole life comes during the Mount Sentinel Trail Restoration Project, which begins at 9:30 AM at the “M” trailhead.

Lunch is provided, but it’s bring-yourown-gloves. And call 243-6642.

Maybe you’re more about waterways than trails, which is cool. If that’s the case, then your day’s philanthropy will include the annual Clark Fork River Clean-up, which begins at 10 AM at Caras Park, aims to scour seven miles of shoreline and promises a noon barbecue for your efforts. You can arrive as early as 9 AM for registration, and you’re to call 542-0539, ext. 200, with your questions.

Now, not everyone wants to spend the day locked into service, which is certainly their prerogative. One such blob of selfishness is Missoulians on Bicycles (MOB)—here’s hoping they’re also thickskinned—who offer two rides on this glorious day. Choose between the Perma Loop Ride (RSVP 745-4549) and the two-day Hot Springs Ride (RSVP 728-4126). Either way, the road will certainly rise

up to meet you, and you can always save the planet some other day.

Moving right along, it’s time to think about boating again, and how are you going to properly ply our waterways with that crappy old gear?

Here’s an idea: Clean it up and sell it to some other poor sap when Kalispell’s Silver Moon Kayak Co. hosts their annual Kayak and Kayaking Gear Swap from 10 AM–5 PM at 1215 N. Somers Road. Gather all the details you need at silvermoonkayak.com, or by calling 752-3794.

And, last but not least, the smaller inhabitants of the valley can use trash in a positive way when the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St., presents the Saturday Kids’ Activity “Garbage Art!” at 2 PM. The $2 fee is waived for members, and you can call 327-0405.

And that’s it for Saturday. But the events just don’t quit. On Sun., April 19, the MOB offers another ride, the 55-mile Mule Train to Ninemile, for which you’re to meet at 10 AM at the Reserve Street Perkins. Call 728-8262.

Finally, friends, we take leave of the weekend with an event sponsored by that bastion of naturalists, the Montana Natural History Center.

At 7 PM on Wed., April 22, biologist Avi Lourie presents the adultoriented lecture “Wildlife of Photo by Chad Harder Israel,” which he draws upon his experience with the Wild Animal Protection Division of Israel’s National Parks. $4 suggested donation. Call 327-0405.

AAHHHhh! Ski poles on fire! Now that I’ve got your attention, remember that Sun., April 19, marks the final collection day for the Gear for the Garhwal gear drive (nature-link.org, 3702294). Drop off used, but useful, clean and safe outdoor equipment at Bob Ward’s, the Trailhead, Pipestone Mountaineering and everywhere else you’d expect. Just quit dumping it in my back yard.

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Parody of the times Roy Zimmerman brings 20 years of musical satire to Missoula

by Erika Fredrickson

Roy Zimmerman sings songs like “Abstain with Me,” “Kill a Doctor for Christ” and “Intelligent Design.” The Marin, Calif., satirist has been at this form of tongue-in-cheek wordplay since he founded his band, The Foremen, in 1988, and signed with Warner Bros. His swipes at fundamentalist rightwingers— though he’s prone to pick on anybody—netted him shows with George Carlin, counterculture icon Paul Krassner, Bill Maher and the Pixies’ Frank Black. He’s been compared to Tom Lehrer, a preeminent 1960s musical satirist and his style jumps from the Beach Boys to Pete Seeger to Ani DiFranco.

He’s Weird Al with an edge.

Since going solo in 2006, Z i m m e r m a n’ s r e l e a s e d Homeland and Security—a double disc featuring “Jerry Falwell’s God” and “One World, One Bank”—and his newest album, Thanks for the Support, where he sings about a love affair between George W. Bush and Iraq titled “I’ll Pull Out.” Zimmerman hits Missoula this week on his “Real American” tour of all 50 states.

Here he shares with the Indy his encounter with Oliver North, his love for Unitarians and why he thinks the end of the Bush administration isn’t the end of satire.

Indy: You once sang a song called “Ollie Ollie Off Scot Free” to Oliver North on his radio show. How did that go?

Zimmerman: You know what makes that unsurprising? He’s a huge egotist like all of these guys are. So it doesn’t matter to him that it’s insulting—it’s about him and that’s all he cares about. He did censor the song, through his producer. There’s a line that says, “Who knows the market price for lobster and cocaine?” which was a reference to the drug sales on the streets of Los Angeles, which funded the Contra war. It’s pretty esoteric now but it had a devastating effect on inner city Los Angeles and there was a direct tie to the covert war that the U.S. was funding in Nicaragua. Anyway, he didn’t like the cocaine reference, so he said he wanted us to change it. So, we sang “Who knows the market price for lobster and innocent civilians?” And he was okay with that.

Indy: That’s weird. But, still, you’ve had to pull punches?

Zimmerman: That’s one of the regrets. If that was one of your questions we can go ahead and skip ahead to that one. That was a regret that I had, that I changed the song. You know I should have just sort of, in insurgent fashion, said, “Oh sure, sure we’ll change that” and then go on the air and sing it the right way. I was never going to get invited back anyway.

Indy: Have you had any other encounters with people you’ve satirized?

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Zimmerman: I would love to. My song “Ted Haggard is Completely Heterosexual” is in this documentary that Alexandra Pelosi did that’s been on HBO recently called The Trials of Ted Haggard, and her intent was to come film me playing the song and then play the song for him and film him watching the song.

And that isn’t how it ended up in the film, unfortunately. I would love to either see that footage or actually go do the song for him.

one who does analytical political music? And they’re unafraid to laugh in church. I love that.

Indy: Is laughter the best medicine?

Zimmerman: Penicillin is the best medicine, but it isn’t funny. Okay, we went through eight years where we had to laugh. Now we’re in an era where we get to laugh. We don’t know if all these problems are going to get worked out, if Obama is going to be successful bringing Democrats and Republicans together, Roy Zimmerman sings songs like “Abstain with Me,” “Kill a Doctor for Christ” and “Jerry Falwell’s God.” “In a sense,” he says, “recessionary times and times of international conflict and apprehension, these are good times for satirists because people stay vitally interested in what’s happening.”

Indy: Tell me about sharing the stage with people like George Carlin or Paul Krassner.

Zimmerman: George Carlin was a very generous person. I got to meet him just that once when I did a show with him down in Long Beach and got to hang with him back stage. It was great to be able to sit there and be a fly on the wall. He and Paul Krassner were hanging out and the two of them were reminiscing about Lenny Bruce and so forth. And they got on the subject of songs that get stuck in your head, like mind worms I guess you’d say, and what you do to get that song out of your head. They each had a song they’d sing to get the other song unstuck and [it] turned out to be the same song. [It was] called “Poor Little Rhode Island” and it was written long enough ago that it refers to “the greatest state in the 48.” It’s a catchy little tune, and they began belting it out backstage. That was pretty cool, hearing the two of them do a kind of Everly Brothers thing.

Indy: Why do you perform in Unitarian churches on tour?

Zimmerman: The Unitarians [have] a liberal faith community. It’s a very welcoming open space. The joke is: They don’t burn a cross on your lawn, they burn a question mark. Doubt is a valuable part of the Unitarian experience. What could be better for some-

for instance, but we do know he’s capable of uniting a subject and a predicate.

Indy: What happens to satire now that the Bush administration is gone?

Zimmerman: The worst thing is not that we have a progressive administration in place—that’s fine, that’s cool. The worst thing would be apathy, like what happens in good times when people stop caring. In a sense, recessionary times and times of international conflict and apprehension, these are good times for satirists because people stay vitally interested in what’s happening.

Indy: Why tour to Missoula?

Zimmerman: It’s heartening to me to get out of Marin County, the bluest county in the bluest state of the union and meet the most progressive people in the least progressive places. I like to find out that all of America is hotbed of progressive sentiment and action.

Roy Zimmerman plays the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Sunday, April 19, at 7 PM. $12 suggested donation. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Secret Powers

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If you don’t know what local super-group Secret Powers sounds like, what have you been doing lately? Really, get out of the house more often. Here’s a sneak preview: Secret Powers sounds like pop. It sounds like washing your tricycle on a bright waxy blue sunny day. It sometimes sounds like long feathered tresses and platform shoes, sometimes like Nehru jackets and sensitive facial hair. It sounds like girl-watching and dopey desire. It sounds like melted ice cream, dirty feet, and sticky

Blessiddoom Dystopium

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The debut from this local quartet sounds like a throwback to early 1980s metal, but with the sheen of modern production and a decidedly stronger political and social bent. And while at times it seems rather derivative, Dystopium has enough musical and lyrical meat that almost any metal fan should find something interesting to chew on.

Political tirades like “Governmental Sodomy” and “D.A.C. (Decimate, Ascimilate [sic], Conform)” pair guitar riffs that sound like slower versions of early Slayer, Celtic Frost or Venom with the vocal beltings of Eddie Johnson, who has a style that alternates between a Glenn Danzig wail or death metal howls and growls. In fact, the band sounds its best on

1090 Club

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Love’s ripples can come to shore with the force of tsunamis. Hurtful words, acts of betrayal— it’s in the flotsam and jetsam of this storm’s aftermath that the 1090 Club floats its latest release, the aptly named Natural Selection.

Soul-tugging violin and tumbling piano compositions remain 1090 Club’s staples, but are brought to new power with this album’s despondent lack of romance. The Billings-based rock quartet pulls together 10 tracks dedicated to the jealous, the jaded

The Whore Moans Hello From the Radio Wasteland Mt. Fuji Records

The band’s name is both a pun and a complete sentence, and the lyrics aren’t illiterate either, but any band that calls itself The Whore Moans is risking ridicule. And yet, I have to admit it sends a pretty clear message to a certain segment of the population. It says, “Don’t invite your parents.” It says, “Hello, youth of America.” If you’ve been to a rock show in the last 10 years, this is a band name that says, “High-energy old-school punk, boy-heavy melodic punk, or super dirty rock.” In this case, expect all three.

Hello From the Radio Wasteland features several big-bragging Detroit-influenced dirty rock songs somewhere between The Murder City Devils and

faces. It sounds like a big old dog-and-baby party.

Secret Powers and the Electric Family Choir in particular might bring back repressed memories of your time on the commune (I swear it was not a cult, whatever the feds think). At least five out of these 10 songs will have listeners swearing they’ve heard them somewhere, maybe on the radio.

The sophomore effort brings the band one step closer to the big time with clever, layered, hook-laden pop songs thrown together with the casual ease of real musical talent. If you are violently allergic to cute, you may sniff at a song or two, but sunshine makes me sneeze and I like it anyway. (Ali Gadbow) Secret Powers plays a CD release show at the Palace Friday, April 17, at 9 PM. Volumen, Boy Eats Drum Machine and 1090 Club open. $5.

Dystopium when Johnson sticks to the screaming and rumbling, because his forays into Danzig-esque vocals sometimes border on the grandiose cheesiness found in the power metal genre.

Nevertheless, Johnson and the rest of his bandmates flex their musical chops throughout this album. Blessiddoom manages to pay homage to classic metal bands like Black Sabbath or Judas Priest, yet retain a distinctive flavor with varied tempo changes and song structures. (Ira Sather-Olson) Blessiddoom plays a CD release party at The Other Side Friday, April 17, at 9 PM. Universal Choke Sign and Walking Corpse Syndrome open. Cover TBA. and the suspicious. It’s an album bred from the mounting failures of the hopeless romantic, and each line rings with a familiarity you’ll instinctively deny.

There are no happy characters here. The woman fleeing pain (“Claire”), the man spewing verbal abuses (“Things Inside”), gathered together in the discord of cutting remarks we’ve all made and instantly regretted. They drive the narrative forward, never tiring, through a series of alternatively techno and dirge-like ballads.

One finds no hope for a happy future in the beautifully bleak Natural Selection, only a world where love is “so corrosive it seems/like acid once created it chews through our dreams.” (Alex Sakariassen) 1090 Club plays the Badlander Friday, April 17, at 9 PM, with Secret Powers, Volumen and Boy Eats Drum Machine. $5. our own International Playboys, and an equal number of hard-strumming punk ballads. “Dead Man’s Drink” is pure Dropkick Murphys while “Here Comes America” has all the elements of a great Rancid song, including location markers like “in Montana on a highway heading east.”

This band pulls out all the stops and uses all the right licks, but they are still settling on a sound. Ask not, in other words, for whom the whore moans.

They’re not sure yet, but they’ve got a pretty solid segment of the population picked out, and you all know who you are. Right? (Ali Gadbow) The Whore Moans play the Badlander Saturday, April 18, at 9 PM, with The Bismarck, Deny the Dinosaur? and Victory Smokes. $5.

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Guitar jedi DragonForce sheds the shredder reputation

by Marty Demarest

interludes that rage like a child having a tantrum or “About 15 to 30 minutes. Maybe.”

Herman Li is one of the lead guitarists and a sugar-rush. “It was just a natural progression. We founding members of DragonForce—the band that wanted to fuse different types of things. More weird has set new speed records for speed metal; the stuff. Chaos patterns.”

Li also serves as one of the band’s chief songGrammy-nominated, top-20-charting band that contributed the epic encore track “Through the Fire and writers and producers, and he takes his ideas from the Flames” to the videogame “Guitar Hero III;” and everywhere. The band’s lyrics range from tales of the band that will be playing at the Wilma Theatre mythical medieval warriors to ninjas. And broad, cinthis Sunday night—and Herman Li is telling me that ematic harmonies occasionally arise from the torhe only practices 15 to 30 minutes each day. Maybe. rents of rock music.

“Everything we listen to influences us,” Li “Well, we’re on tour now,” he says on the phone from Japan. “We really don’t have that much time. I explains. “We gain stuff from music everywhere. We don’t even have the guitar in my hands that much have to learn more than just one thing. So we listen when I’m not performing. By the time you travel and to other types of music. People always think, ‘Now plug the amp in and get the guitar tuned and play that you’ve done that, what else is there left for you the show, you’ve used up as much time as you’re to do?’ But you can always do more.”

I ask him what he’s paying attention to now. going to get.”

“Videogame music,” he says. “I’m in Japan right Since their debut in 2003 with the album Valley of the Damned, DragonForce has specialized in a sound that mixes metal with impetuous virtuosity. It’s an impressive sound, handmade and unbelievably skillful at a time when anything fast and technical is relegated to machines. And it Photo courtesy of Adam Bielawski has earned DragonForce a Speed metal superstars DragonForce feature lead guitarist Herman Li. “I growing base of think that about 95 to 99 percent of what we do on the album we can do fans who might in concert,” says Li. “And in concert we can even improvise a little bit.” otherwise ignore metal. Orchestras have been inspired to perform now, and people here are buying CDs of just DragonForce’s music, with the result that an entire videogame music. I don’t think you can find that anyensemble of conservatory educated professionals where else in the world. There’s a whole audience here for it. They have lots of CDs which are basically sounds helplessly slow. only videogame music.”

Even Li admits that their music is difficult.

The connection seems obvious on some levels.

“The songs were hard to play in the old days,” he laughs. “We made mistakes. We were human. But now Videogame music, like that of DragonForce, is relentwe’ve really come a long ways. Now we’re better. I less, composed in torrents of notes and drenched in think that about 95 to 99 percent of what we do on electronic effects. But Li is listening even deeper. “I the album we can do in concert. And in concert we like videogame music,” he states. “It’s part of a saga— can even improvise a little bit. We can jump all over maybe more than other kinds of music.”

As for the band’s inclusion in the mega-popular and swing around—have some fun. We’ve been doing this for a while now, and it’s fun to really play with it.” “Guitar Hero III,” Li has no problem with the fact The sense of playful confidence extends to the that millions of people fake musical talent to the band’s most recent album. Released last year, Ultra sound of his playing.

“It’s cool,” he says of the game. “I think they did Beatdown expands the DragonForce sound into a good job of it. It reflected our music in contrast to new directions.

“The new album is doing really good,” Li says, the other music in the game. And we definitely got “which is nice, because it’s more dynamic. There are lots of exposure from it.” lots of changes. It’s not just shredding all the time.

But Li doesn’t play the game himself. He’d prefer We wanted to show different ideas. Our previous to relax by working on more music. “When we’re not album was our fastest album—the most intense. But on tour we can do anything we want,” he says. “It’s there’s more on this album.” another time and space. We can actually practice.”

While DragonForce’s music has always had DragonForce plays the Wilma Theatre strong melodic underpinnings, those are now Sunday, April 19, at 8 PM. Cynic opens. $24/$22 allowed to unfurl into more lyrical sections. And the advance. band’s trademark speed occasionally comes unhinged, flying into out-of-control instrumental arts@missoulanews.com

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Fish-out-of-water premises—body swapping, time travel, cross-dressing—may be a dime a dozen, but when you plug in the hot up-and-comer du jour, it’s like the cinematic equivalent of a duplicate bridge tournament. When everyone’s playing basically the same cards, you find out who’s really got game.

And the results over the years have been decidedly mixed. Michael J. Fox (Back to the Future), Tom Hanks (Big) and Lindsay Lohan (Freaky Friday remake) are among those who scored hits. On the other hand, Charlie Schlatter cavorted as a teen George Burns in 1988’s 18 Again!, and basically disappeared into workmanlike obscurity. Now it’s High School Musical star Zac Efron’s turn, and 17 Again sort of works.

This 30th-verse-same-as-the-first variation opens in 1989, where high-school basketball stud Mike O’Donnell (Efron) is looking at a college scholarship—except that he opts to do “the right thing” and marry his girlfriend Scarlett when she gets pregnant.

Twenty years later, Mike (Matthew Perry) is a defeated pharmaceutical salesman, and Scarlett (Leslie Mann) is tired of feeling like the scapegoat. Facing divorce and unemployment, Mike encounters a mysterious janitor (Brian Doyle Murray) and suddenly finds himself transformed back to his 17-yearold self.

Screenwriter Jason Filardi (Bringing Down the House) and director Burr Steers (Igby Goes Down) fill the story with all the requisite elements. There’s the one person who knows the truth—in this case, Mike’s nerd-turned-software millionaire best friend Ned (Reno 911!’s Thomas Lennon)—to act as our protagonist’s confidant. There’s a jerk adversary— bullying jock Stan (Hunter Parrish)—to provide external conflict. And there are plenty of moments for awkward reaction takes. Most of these elements are pretty perfunctory.

What they didn’t count on is Lennon. He’s hilarious as a one-time loser who has succeeded to the point where he can fill his house with nerd-arobilia like life-sized Darth Vaders, but still has no idea how to get a date. A subplot involving Ned’s flailing attempts to woo the high-school principal serve up nearly all of the film’s biggest laughs, and Lennon’s deadpan delivery steals absolutely every scene he’s in. At a certain point, it begins to seem like a much better movie would have abandoned Efron’s character entirely.

Efron occasionally nails Perry’s mannerisms.

But the fact is that it’s generally much harder to make the teen-playing-grownup side of this concept work. You need a bit of soul beyond your years to pull off the weary wisdom of a guy flipped from mid-life crisis to big man on campus. When Efron attempts a tearful monologue expressing Mike’s love for his wife, he just seems like a kid play-acting at understanding those emotions. The scene shows Efron’s limitations, as well as those of this repackaged setup.

17 Again opens at the Carmike 10 Friday, April 17. arts@missoulanews.com

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NEW ON DVD Happy-Go-Lucky Directed by Mike Leigh Starring Sally Hawkins and Alexis Zegerman Rated R

Some movie characters are much bigger than their film. They help define a time, reflect an ethos or set such a stunning example that audiences anoint the character a classic. I don’t think Poppy from writer/director Mike Leigh’s Happy-Go-Lucky quite reaches these lofty heights, but the irrepressibly optimistic heroine couldn’t have arrived at a more opportune time.

In a stretch of history when all the news seems drenched in apocalyptic negativity, perhaps a character with Poppy’s outlook is exactly what we need. She’s a single, middleaged teacher impervious to bad mojo, oblivious to rudeness and unaffected by society’s ills. When her bike gets stolen early in the film, she says to nobody in particular, “And I didn’t even get to say goodbye.” And that’s it.

She moves on, smiling all the way.

I found myself mesmerized by Poppy’s impenetrable bubble of optimism. She’s borderline manic, often downright annoying. In fact, I spent the first 30 minutes of the film openly questioning whether I could last two hours with such an irrationally hopeful character. But the longer Leigh puts Poppy through everyday motions—taking Flamenco lessons, teaching at her elementary school, partying at a rave—the more you get the sense there’s something deeper at play. Hold onto that feeling. The third act of this patient character study delivers a few necessary surprises.

Sally Hawkins deserves the bulk of the praise for keeping Poppy so interesting. Her sneaky smile seems so natural, her little quips so spot-on, and her rapport with the other characters displays the true patter of awkward conversation. The best scenes come when Poppy’s forced to share a car with a high-strung driving instructor (Eddie Marsan). Even in the face of bald detestation and harsh criticism, Poppy perseveres.

The film offers a simple message of hope, and even those stingiest with their emotions will find it hard not to embrace. In one scene, Poppy’s friends try to nudge her to reality, telling her she can’t possibly make everyone happy. “There’s no harm in trying, though, is there?” she replies. After a little trepidation, I’d say, no, there’s not.

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body they share until poppa Billy Ray decides it’s reboot of the family-pleasing Disney franchise. time for a road trip to Tennessee. Rated G. Showing Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 5:10, FLATHEAD SHOWTIMES 17 Again Imagine you had the chance to be, um, 17 again at the Carmike 10 at 5, 7:15 and 9:30 with 7:30 and 9:50 with Fri.–Sat. matinees at12:30 17 Again Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at and re-do your life, this time avoiding such pitfalls Fri.–Sun. matinees at 12:30 and 2:45. Also playing and 2:50.

Slumdog Millionaire noon, 2:25, 4:45, 7:05 and 9:30 with Mon.–Thu. at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 and 9 with as marrying your pregnant high school girlfriend Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) directs a cast of at 1:55, 4:35, 7:05 and 9:30. Also playing at the and tossing away a basketball scholarship. Now Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Mountain in Whitefish at 4:15, 7:15 watch the film. Rated PG-13. Showing and 9:30 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at at the Carmike 10 at 4:30, 7:30 and 1:45 and at the Showboat in Polson 10, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30. at 4, 7:15 and 9:10.

Also playing at the Pharaohplex in Dragonball: Evolution Hamilton at 6:50 and 9:10 with Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 in Kalispell at 1:40 and 4:20 and show on Sun. Mon.–Thu. at 1:50 and 4:20.

Crank: High Voltage Duplicity In this touching treatment of male intiShowing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 macy issues, Jason Statham struggles in Kalispell at 6:40 and 9:25. to “reconnect with his heart.” Actually, Fast and Furious his flesh-and-blood ticker’s been Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 swiped, so he must regularly deliver in Kalispell at 1, 3:30, 6:50 and 9:30. massive shocks to the battery the Also playing at Showboat in Polson at Chinese mafia installed in his chest 4:15, 7 and 9:15. while he seeks to unravel the mess in Hannah Montana: The Movie this sequel to, you guessed it, Crank.

Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 Rated R. Showing Fri.–Sun. at the in Kalispell at 12:05, 2:30, 4:55, 7:15 Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:15, 2:40, and 9:45 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:35, 5, 7:25 and 9:50 and Mon.–Thu. at 4:20, 7:15 and 9:45. Also playing at 1:45, 4:25, 7:25 and 9:50. the Mountain in Whitefish at 4, 7 and State of Play 9:15 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30.

Super-edgy-thriller time, people: An The Haunting in Connecticut all-star cast spins a tale of conspiracy Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 and political maneuvering, which of in Kalispell at 12:10, 2:35, 4:50, 7:10 course always sloshes over into murand 9:20 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:45, der, now, doesn’t it? Spend a coupla While it pales in comparison to last Wednesday’s Tax Day tea-bagging at the Post Office, this shower nozzle 4:25, 7:10 and 9:20. hours with Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, scene’s still pretty hot. 17 Again opens Friday at the Carmike 10.

I Love You, Man Rachel McAdams and Robin Wright Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 Penn. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Bollywood stars, who carry the weight of this wellThe Haunting in Connecticut in Kalispell at 1:20, 4:15, 7:30 and 9:50.

Carmike 10 at 7 and 9:35, with Fri.–Sun. matiBased on a true story, this film chronicles the edited tale of a Mumbai street urchin’s surprising Knowing nees at 1 and 4. creepy tale of a family who moves into a nice, big success on the TV game show, a performance Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at Victorian home, only to discover the hard way that raises suspicions leading to revelations of 1:10, 4, 6:55 and 9:40.

NOW PLAYING about its haunted past. Rated PG-13. Showing at poverty, brutality and a yearning for love. Rated R. Monsters Vs. Aliens 3D Adventureland Director Greg Mottola (Superbad) brings us the the Carmike 10 at 5, 7:15 and 9:30, with Fri.–Sun. Showing Fri.–Sat. at the Wilma Theatre at 7, then Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell it’s gone, so last chance for chaiwalla. at 1, 2:15, 3:30, 4:30, 6, 7, 8:15 and 9:15 with story of James Brennan, a recent college grad matinees at 12:30 and 2:45.

I Love You, Man Taken Fri.–Sun. matinees at noon. Also playing, yet forced to take the only job he can get—working at Paul Rudd scrambles to find an acceptable best Liam Neeson is a retired CIA agent who turns into sadly not in 3-D, at the Mountain in Whitefish Adventureland theme park, in the summer of ’87.

Plenty of vulgar humor, awkward sex and pot man to serve in his upcoming nuptials in this a “crime-fighting machine” when his daughter is at 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30 with Fri.–Sun. matinees smoking ensue. Rated R. Showing at the Village 6 overblown statement on male intimacy in our cul- kidnapped in Paris by Albanian sex slave traders. at 1:45 and at the Entertainer in Ronan at 4, 7 at 4:15, 7:30 and 9:50 with Sat.–Sun. matinees ture. Rated R. Showing at the Village 6 at 7 and Rated PG-13. Showing at the Village 6 at 4:20, and 9:10.

Observe and Report 9:30 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1 and 4. 7:05 and 9:20 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1:30. at 1:15.

Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at Showing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 Two Lovers The Class Chosen by many reviewers as one of the top 10 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 When heart-broken and unhappy Leonard 12:25, 2:50, 5:10, 7:40 and 9:55 and Mon.–Thu. (Joaquin Phoenix) moves back in with his parents, at 2, 4:30, 7:40 and 9:55. films of 2008, this French film tells the story of a show on Sun. Knowing they try to set him up with the daughter of a fam- Race to Witch Mountain dedicated teacher attempting to motivate teenage students in a tough Paris neighborhood. Rated Get this: Nicolas Cage tries to save the world. ily friend. He goes along with it, only to become Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at PG-13. Showing nightly at the Wilma Theatre at 7 Really. From a huge disaster. And he may have to enchanted by his new neighbor Michelle 12:30, 2:50 and 5:05 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:40 make “the ultimate sacrifice.” Ooooh! Rated PG-13. (Gwyneth Paltrow). She, of course, is shacking up and 4. and 9:15 with no 9:15 shows Sun.–Thu. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 7 and 9:55 with with a rich and married man. At some point, two State of Play Dragonball: Evolution Six mystical balls may control the fate of the uni- Fri.–Sat. matiness at 1 and 4. Also playing at the people become lovers. Rated R. Showing Fri.–Sat. Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at verse, so watch a crack team of warriors grab and Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 6:50 and 9:10 with at the Wilma Theatre at 9:10, with Sun.–Thu. 1:05, 4:05, 7 and 9:45. Also playing at the Mountain in Whitefish at 4, 7 and 9:15 with hold on tight to those balls in this screen adapta- Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. shows at 9:15.

Monsters Vs. Aliens 3D Waiting for My Real Life Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30. tion of the popular Japanese manga. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 5:30, 7:45 and 10 In DreamWorks’ latest animated 3D film, young This week’s Carmike 10 independent film is the Sunshine Cleaning Susan is transformed into a giant monster after award-winning documentary about Jeremy Amy Adams and Emily Blunt star as sisters in this with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1 and 3:15. being struck by a meteor. She’s whisked away to Norman, a 23-year-old man who was diagnosed tale of a start-up crime scene cleaning business, Duplicity Undercover lovers Clive Owen and Julia Roberts a secret military location, where she meets other at a young age with a rare disease that makes with support from Alan Arkin and Steve Zahn. are ex-spooks turned corporate spies, who find monstrous folk the government has been collect- everything he eats turn to fat. Weighing over 800 Rated R. Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in themselves in competition to steal a massive ing over the years. When aliens attack the planet, pounds, Jeremy sought a gastric bypass surgery Kalispell at 1:30, 4:10, 6:45 and 9:10. company secret. Rated PG-13. Showing at the there’s no better group to save it. Rated PG. that almost resulted in his death, and took his abil- Taken Carmike 10 at 7 and 9:50 with Fri.–Sun. matinees Showing at the Carmike 10 at 5, 5:30, 7:15, 7:45, ity to walk. With more surgery his only option, Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at at 1 and 4. Also playing at the Pharaohplex in 9:30 and 10 with Fri.–Sat. matinees at 12:30, 1, Jeremy continues his struggle to live a normal life. 7:20 and 9:25.

Hamilton at 6:50 and 9:10 with Sat.–Sun. mati- 2:45 and 3:15. Also playing, but in 2-D, at the Showing Sat. at the Carmike 10 at noon.

Capsule reviews by Jonas Ehudin Village 6 at 5:30, 7:45 and 10, with Sat.–Sun. Watchmen nees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. In this highly anticipated adaptation of the celeand Anne Pastore. matinees at 1 and 3:15, and at the Pharaohplex Fast and Furious The fourth film in this series picks right back up in Hamilton at 7 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at brated mid-‘80s graphic novel, a group of retired superheroes reunites after the murder of one of Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as where it all started, with Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Observe and Report their own to investigate a nefarious plot that holds of Fri., April 17. Show times and locations are subMichelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster staging Seth Rogen is a mall cop with great aspirations who the future of humanity at stake. Rated R. Showing ject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. a reunion for yet another two hours of sex, drugs and really fast cars. Rated PG-13. Showing at the finds himself competing with police officer Ray at the Village 6 at 4:30 and 8 with Sat.–Sun. mati- Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm. Theater Carmike 10 at 5:10, 7:30 and 9:50 with Fri.–Sun. Liotta to bust a flasher. And he does it all for the nees at 1.

The Widow’s Might love of low-cut make-up counter lady Anna Farris. phone numbers: Carmike 10/Village 6—541matinees at 12:30 and 2:50. Also playing at the When an elderly widow faces the loss of her Rated R. Showing at the Village 6 at 7:15 and 9:45 7469; Wilma—728-2521; Pharaohplex in Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 and 9 with home due to outrageous property taxes, a pair of Hamilton—961-FILM; Roxy Twin in Hamilton— with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1:20 and 4.

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Hannah Montana: The Movie Cabbie Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson picks up two this adventure comedy. Showing Mon.–Thu. at Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and The bifurcated personalities of Hannah teens who happen to be aliens on the lam in this the Carmike 10 at 4 and 9:55.

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Beating A Dad Horse My husband and I have never had a good relationship. We got married six years ago because he needed someone to save him from drinking and destructive behavior, and I was seeking some sort of rebellion. I forced him to clean up his act by threatening to leave. He went back to school, graduated with honors, has a great job, and is respected by his peers. At work, he never misses a deadline or detail, and would never disappoint a colleague. At home, he’s a completely uninvolved father, husband, and household member. The simplest chore is too much. He only does what he’s absolutely nagged to death to do. Spending time with our two children is another chore. For instance, he was excited about our 5-year-old signing up for soccer, but found the kids’ league dull and became uninterested in taking him to games and unwilling to even take him to practice. But for the kids, there’d be no question about getting a divorce. It was stupid to get married, but here we are.

—Married Single Mom Sorry, but who “rebels” by becoming a suburban housewife?

What are you, from a long line of pimps, prostitutes, and smackaddicted death metal artists?

At least you’re clear on the fact that you married a man whose interest in children is akin to that of a guy I saw in Starbucks last month: intently reading the paper as his toddler ran around the place trying to pull a large iron sign over on himself, then seeing if he could crack his head open on any sharp objects. Yes, there’s hands-on parenting, handsoff parenting, and “Hey, wait—is that thing mine?”

Your husband may have detached his lip from the beer bong and started getting gold stars at the office, but drinking was just a symptom of the person he was—and still is: an addict. Addicts are adult babies who refuse to endure boredom, disappointment, and life’s struggles, grabbing for short-term gratification— no matter how destructive—and never mind how it mucks up tomorrow. As addiction treatment specialist Dr. Stanton Peele explains in 7 Tools to Beat Addiction, changing takes deciding another behavior—like giving your best to parenting—has more value than the momentary escape, whether it’s into Wild Turkey country or just sitting there with your thumb up your nose watching TV instead of taking your kid to soccer.

By trying to turn having a family into a form of rehab, you made your bed and you could be the only one ever making it. That might not be fair, but forget fair and go with what’s most important—encouraging your husband to step up and dad. Note the word “encourage.” Because men are achievement-oriented, you don’t get anywhere by nagging. Instead, praise the guy for what he’s accomplished so far, and explain that kids with an involved dad do better in school, social relationships, self-worth, and even in their own adult relationships (per a bunch of studies out of Oxford). In other words, by enduring a little tedium with the soccer league, he’ll actually be making a substantial difference in the whippersnapper’s life. Give him props for even the smallest effort he makes with the kids, and he might eventually find it within himself to take out the trash—and before it starts looking ready for a trainer and a cage.

Hearse Case Scenario Eight months ago, I got dumped by my boyfriend right as I began falling in love. The next guy I dated killed himself days after our second date (not because of anything to do with me). The only guy who’s asked me out since canceled last minute to go to his grandmother’s funeral. He promised to reschedule, but hasn’t called. I’m an attractive, intelligent, vivacious 20something, but I’m so discouraged at this point, I’m considering giving up.

—Three-Time Loser Oh, did you take The Wizard of Oz literally? Because you’re pretty much coming out of your apartment and stamping your feet, “Hey! Where’s my yellow brick road?!” Let’s see…one guy dumps you, another doesn’t call you again because he’s dead, and a third cancels on you because his grandma’s dead, then flakes on rescheduling, and you’re ready to buy a rifle and a rocking chair and retire to the woods. Hate to be the first to break it to you, but life is rough. It kicks you in the teeth, then you get to the dentist and they don’t take your insurance. You can give up dating as one of life’s great hardships, or accept that it’s hard, and consider yourself lucky when a guy doesn’t call you again simply because he’s “just not that into you,” not because all that remains of him has been poured into an urn.

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

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): At the risk of endangering her own safety, a Capricorn woman I know intervened to protect a 14-year-old neighbor girl who was being beaten on the porch by her father. Another one of my Capricorn acquaintances informed her boss that she was offended by a certain unethical practice she’d discovered the company engaged in. You may not summon such extreme courage in the coming week, but I bet you’ll get close to it. It’s the Season of Fierce Integrity for you—a time to dig deeper as you demonstrate your intensely practical commitment to your core values.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I actually kind of hope that your brain is in major overload right now. I hope that you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the new information you’ve absorbed, and that your imagination is a blur of wheels within wheels within wheels spinning at top speeds. In fact I’ll go so far as to say that if this is the case, you’re definitely on the right track. You’re doing what’s necessary to prepare for rebuilding your foundation in May. And if for some reason there are no wheels within wheels within wheels spinning at top speeds—if your mind is as empty and clear as a cloudless blue sky in Montana—then you’re probably doing something wrong.

So get out there and start stuffing it with new ideas, radical theories, crazy speculations, wild guesses, and raw perceptions.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I’m beginning to understand myself,” said jazz pianist Dave Brubeck. “But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.” While this might sound discouraging, it’s actually a prelude to some very good news: You now have extraordinary power to dramatically deepen your self-knowledge. Between now and May 20, you might even be able to extract insights into your own mysteries that would normally only be available to an 82-year-old.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Cracked.com ran an article on “5 Things You Think Will Make You Happy (But Won’t).” Here’s a hint about what those things are: fame, wealth, beauty, genius, and power. You might want to go and read the essay at tinyurl.com/d974te. Even if you don’t entirely agree with its points, it should inspire you to get more realistic about what specifically does increase your levels of well-being. It happens to be an excellent phase of your astrological cycle to home in on the surprising and idiosyncratic truths about what helps you feel like you belong here on this planet.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In Salmon Rushdie’s book The Enchantress of Florence, an exasperated ally of the manipulative 16th-century politician Machiavelli tells him, “It’s your curse to see the world too f——— clearly, and without a shred of kindness.” Some of you Scorpios suffer from a milder version of the same curse, and judging from the astrological omens, I’d say that right now you’re especially susceptible to the problems it can create. I do think there’s a way out for you, however; there’s a shift you can make to turn the curse into a blessing. Here’s what you have to do: See the world as f——— clearly as you dare, but with a dose of compassion added.

Then your shrewd perceptiveness will heal you and energize you. You may even spawn minor miracles by penetrating to the slippery truths hiding beneath the superficial appearances.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Some celebrities have hired ghostwriters to communicate for them via Twitter. In a recent tweet from rapper 50 Cent, actually sent by his operative Chris Romero, his fans were told that “My ambition leads me through a tunnel that never ends.”

I hope you won’t follow 50 Cent’s lead in the coming weeks, Leo—either in the sense of hiring a ghost-Twitterer or in the sense of following your ambition down a tunnel that never ends. In my astrological opinion, you need to work on eliminating middlemen and go-betweens as you pursue your ambition through sunlit fields that lift your spirit.

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Kalispell, MT – In celebration of warmer weather, the Humane Society of Northwest Montana is reducing adoption fees and hosting a week-long “Spring Fling” AdoptA-Thon beginning Tuesday, April 14 – Saturday, April 18, 2009. The adoption center will be open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day and the public is invited to stop in and visit the orphaned animals.

The Humane Society is located at 3499 Hwy 93 N in Kalispell. During the Adopt-A-Thon, cat adoption fees will be reduced to $25 and dog adoption fees will be reduced to $45 and include vaccinations, dewormer, spay or neuter surgery, microchip identification and a free vet exam. All proceeds from this event will help care for the homeless animals at the Charlotte Edkins Animal Adoption Center. Call (406) 752-7297 (PAWS) for more information.

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Ellie Ellie is a gorgeous shepherd cross, with so much to offer. She loves to play and spends her time looking for fun with anyone willing.

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Fashion for Compassion. The Humane Society of Northwest Montana along with S.M. Bradford Co. and the Whitefish Community Center will host a fashion show luncheon on Saturday, May 2 at 12 p.m. The “Fashion for Compassion” event will include fashions from S.M. Bradford Co., area models and orphaned animals from the Charlotte Edkins Animal Adoption Center. The fashion show will be held at the Whitefish Community Center located at 121 2nd Street E in Whitefish and the ticket price is $20. Tickets may be purchased from S.M. Bradford Co., the Whitefish Community Center or at the Humane Society, 3499 Hwy 93 N in Kalispell. Proceeds will benefit the Whitefish Community Center and the homeless animals at the adoption center. For more information, call 752-7297 (PAWS) or 862-4923 or visit www.hsnwmt.com.

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DRIVER / WAREHOUSE WORKER, FT, Msla. Local auto glass employer seeking a Full Time DRIVER / WAREHOUSE WORKER. This position will be a combination of many responsibilities that involve every aspect of local Branch operations. Duties will include: working in the warehouse, making deliveries to customers, completing paperwork and doing a limited amount of work on the Branch computer. Pay will be $8.50 to $9.00 per hour.

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SKILLED LABOR LOCKSMITH, FT, Msla. Employer is seeking a full time Locksmith.

Requires mechanical aptitude as you will be doing wiring installation as well as installing locks and performing all duties of a locksmith.

Must be able to multitask, well organized and able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment.

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DEVELOPMENT OFFICER, FT, Msla. Employer is seeking a DEVELOPMENT OFFICER to create & implement an annual fundraising plan including identification, cultivation, & solicitation of foundations, individuals, and corporate donors. Duties include: supervising the Agency’s public relations staff, identifying, defining, and acquiring financial resources available to the agency, aggressively seek new donors, direct community relations efforts including participation in community and professional organizations, radio/TV appearances, & serving on task forces & committees. Employer requires a minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in public administration, communications, nonprofit, or related degree and three to five years of progressively responsible fund raising experience. This is a full-time permanent Management position, with hours ranging outside the standard workday on occasions. This is a salaried position, paying $39,528 to $48,500 per year depending on experience. Full job description is available at the Missoula Workforce Center front desk. A completed application must be submitted. A resume will not be accepted in lieu of an application. Open until filled. #2975285 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

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DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT, FT, Msla. Missoula nonprofit youth organization is seeking a development professional with strong experience to help increase capacity to achieve funding goals & visions.

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WILDLAND FIREFIGHTERS, Seasonal, Msla. WILDLAND FIRE FIGHTERS needed: FFT1 or FFT2 or ENGINE BOSSES. Looking for crew to man Type 3, 4 and Type 6 Engines, Weed Wash Station, AirOps Trailer, and Mobile Fill Station—for Wildland Fires. Duties will vary depending on qualifications and position. Job requirements: Proper training and certifications, must have all credentials on paper.

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HEALTH CAREERS CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT CNA, PT-Temp, Msla. Missoula employer is seeking CNA’s for temporary staffing throughout Western Montana. Lodging and travel is provided. We service rural hospitals in Western MT and Missoula physician offices. Nursing staff will directly care for patients within their scope of licensure. #2975290 Missoula Workforce Center 7287060 HAB Trainer Express Employment Professionals is looking for an exceptional caregiver who can assist individuals to acquire, retain, and improve the self-help, socialization, and adaptive skills necessary to reside successfully in home and community settings. Must have 2 years of college. Contact Express at 542-0323 or apply on line at www.expresspersonnel.com RESPIRATORY THERAPIST, PT, Msla.

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Saturday April 18th and Sunday April 19th, 7am - 2pm. 5084 Victor Ct., Missoula.

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CLASSIFIEDS Automotive

Automotive

Automotive

08 Chevy Aveo 4 Dr. AT Was $11,995 Now Only $9,995 SAVE $2,000 call Toby Kundig 406-871-1830 WWW.RONANDODGE.COM

‘05 Subaru Outback L.L. Bean edition (stk 8332B), 55k miles, white, $16,999 www.flanaganmotors.com 406-721-1381

‘04 Jeep Liberty (stk8610LA), 59k miles, maroon, $10.999 www. flanaganmotors.com 721-1381

04 Chevy Malibu Sedan Ltd. Was $9,995 Now Only $7,695 SAVE $2,300 call Tina Baltz 406-2613660 WWW.RONANDODGE.COM 08 Chrysler PT Cruiser Was $12,995 Now $11,495 SAVE $1,500 call Tina Baltz 406-2613660 WWW.RONANDODGE.COM ‘07 Dodge Caliber SXT (stk9070LA), 7k miles, black, $ 1 3 , 9 9 8 w w w. f l a n a g a n motors.com 406-721-1381

‘08 Ford Focus Sedan (stk8550LA), 8k miles, white, $ 1 2 , 9 9 9 w w w. f l a n a g a n motors.com 406-721-1381

09 Ford Fusion Sedan Was $17,995 Now Only $15,495 SAVE $2,500 call Toby Kundig 406-871-1830 WWW.RONANDODGE.COM 05 Ford Focus ZX3 Was 9,995 Now Only $7,695 SAVE $2,300 call Toby Kundig 406-871-1830 WWW.RONANDODGE.COM 06 Pontiac G6 GTP Was $15,995 Now Only $10,995 SAVE $5,000 Toby Kundig 406-8711830 WWW.RONANDODGE.COM 05 Pontiac Sunfire Coupe Was $9,995 Now Only $6,995 SAVE $3,000 call Toby Kundig 406871-1830 WWW.RONANDODGE.COM

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‘06 Toyota Corolla Sedan (stk8114B), 53k miles, maroon, $ 1 1 , 9 9 7 w w w. f l a n a g a n motors.com 406-721-1381

‘06 Toyota Matrix HB (stk8445C), 15k miles, tan, $15,788 www.flanaganmotors.com 406721-1381

08 Toyota Camry 4dr, low miles Was $19,995 Now Only $17,995 SAVE $2,500 call Toby Kundig 406-871-1830 WWW.RONANDODGE.COM ‘04 Volkswagen New Beetle GL TDI (stk9082LA), 46k miles, silver, $ 1 2 , 8 8 8 w w w. f l a n a g a n motors.com 406-721-1381

06 Volkswagon Jetta Was $14,995 Now Only $11,695 SAVE $3,300 call Tina Baltz 406261-3660 WWW.RONANDODGE.COM 04 VW Jetta GLS Leaving the country, must sell! 57k mi, power everything. $9000 OBO 509-570-4707

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TRUCKS 98 Chevrolet XCab Diesel 4x4 Was $10,995 Now $6,995 SAVE $4,000 call Tina Baltz 406-261-3660 WWW.RONANDODGE.COM 94 Chevy S-10 XCab 4x4 Was $5,995 Now Only $2,895 call Toby Kundig 406-871-1830 WWW.RONANDODGE.COM 02 Dodge Ram 1500 Quad Cab Diesel, 4x4 Was $12,995 Now Only $9,995 SAVE $3,000 call Tina Baltz 406-261-3660 WWW.RONANDODGE.COM

VANS 05 Kia Sedona LX Van Van Was $10,995 Now Only $8,495 SAVE $2,500 call Toby Kundig 406-871-1830 WWW.RONANDODGE.COM

MOTOR HOMES/RVS 2007 Montana 3650RK 5th Wheel Trailer, like new, great floor plan, 4 slides, big kitchen, fireplace, hookup for washer & dryer, customized skirting.

Contact Julie (707)326-0985 WE TAKE RVs ON TRADE! call Toby Kundig 406-871-1830 or Tina Baltz 406-261-3660 WWW.RONANDODGE.COM

MOTORCYCLES ‘06 Harley Davidson H-D FLTRI (stk9098LA), 4k miles, purple, $16,888 www.flanagan motors.com 406-721-1381

‘04 Honda 450R (stk8601LC).

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05 Kia Rio Sedan Was $8,995 Now Only $6,695 SAVE $2,300 call Tina Baltz 406-261-3660 WWW.RONANDODGE.COM ‘06 Mazda 3s (stk9023la), 29k miles, $11,825 www.flanaganmotors.com 406-721-1381

08 Chrysler Pacifica AWD Was $19,995 Now Only $16,995 SAVE $3,000 call Toby Kundig 406-871-1830 WWW.RONANDODGE.COM 03 Jeep Grand Cherokee Was $10,995 Now Only $7,895 SAVE $3,100 call Tina Baltz 406261-3660 WWW.RONANDODGE.COM ‘06 Hyundai Santa Fe Limited FWD (stk8270C), 74k miles, black, $12,784 www.flanaganmotors.com 406-721-1381

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2008 Chrysler Sebring Convertible

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‘08 Smart Car fortwo passion cabrio (stk9108LA), 6k miles, orange $17,988 www.flanaganmotors.com 406-721-1381

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CULVER’S FOREIGN CAR SERVICE INC. AND SALES See us for your service needs and used vehicle inspections WE BUY SUBARUS, SAABS AND TOYOTAS FOR RECONDITIONING AND RESALE 2302 McDonald 721- 5857 Proudly SERVICING MISSOULA SINCE 1978

CLASSIFIEDS Automotive

Automotive

PUBLIC NOTICE!

Flanagan's Jeep Mazda, Lincoln, Mercury has acquired special liquidated Suzuki inventory comprised of rental units and excess dealer inventory. These six vehicles are specially

priced for immediate sale!

'08 Suzuki Forenza Sedan, Only 15 miles, Silver, auto (stk#9119LA)

$11,925 '07 Suzuki SX4 Sport (HB), 28,233, Black, Local Trade (stk#9110LB)

$12,888 '08 Suzuki SX4 Sport, Only 52 miles, Blue, Auto, Sedan (stk#9120LA)

$13,935 '08 Suzuki Grand Vitara, 5,647, Red, Auto, Alloy Wheels (stk#9109LA)

$17,968 '08 Suzuki XL7 Luxury, 13,894 miles, Black, Auto, V6, AWD, Sunroof, 7 psngr

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$18,839 '08 Suzuki XL7 Luxury, Only 3,429 miles, Gray, Auto, V6, AWD, Sunroof, 7 psngr (stk#9084LA)

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Public Notices

Public Notices

Public Notices

Public Notices

Public Notices

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing on the use of County rightof-way for public sewer main extension. Project extents include connection of sanitary sewer to the Community Sewage Lift Station extending east in South Avenue generally between 26th Avenue and 27th Avenue. The sewer extension will serve Mountain Home Montana located at 2606 South Avenue West. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing on this matter on April 22, 2009 at 1:30 PM in Room 201 of the County Courthouse at 200 West Broadway in Missoula. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may speak at the hearing and/or submit written or other materials to the Commissioners at the hearing or by mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, FAX (406) 721-4043.

Additional information on the hearing may be obtained from Morrison Maierle, Inc at 3011 Palmer Street Missoula, MT 59808 or by calling 406-542-8880.

Engineers, PC 1620 Regent Ave Suite C, Missoula, Montana 59801.

All questions regarding interpretation of the technical specifications should be directed to Erik Dickson, at (406) 258-3772. Prospective bidders must qualify as required by the State of Montana and Missoula County Missoula, Montana. All proposals must be submitted on the regular forms furnished with the specifications, and each must be accompanied by cash, certified check, or bid bond in the amount no less than ten percent (10%) of the total bid. A corporate Surety and Payment Bond in the full amount of the contract will be required to guarantee its faithful performance.

All proposals shall be submitted in an envelope marked “Bid Proposal for “ReConstruction of Bridge Over LaValle Creek, Deschamps Lane.” The Board of Missoula County Commissioners reserves the right to reject any or all bids, waive, formalities, or to accept any bid or combination thereof which appears to serve the best interest of the county. By order of the Board of Missoula County Missoula County, Montana /s/ Bill Carey, Chairman Dated this 10th Day of April, 2009

Marigold Ct) has an existing driveway and significant landscaping that would conflict with construction of a new intersection. The driveway would have to be re-routed and would create steeper driveway grades. The new alignment of a driveway would significantly reduce access and parking for this lot owner. The new alignment would also cause dangers conditions for pulling in and out. 2) The topography at the intersection of Honeysuckle Lane/Marigold Court and proposed Marigold Drive has a 3 to 4 foot grade difference. The grade is too steep for construction of Marigold Drive within the right of way without adversely affecting lots 7, 8, and 9 of Spring Meadows Addition. Construction would also encumber lot 22 of the Williams Addition Subdivision. 3) Because a traffic signal is not planned by the Department of Transportation at the intersection of Snap Dragon and Highway 93, the primary access for traffic traveling to Missoula is Lady Slipper. The construction of Marigold Drive would cause a 3 way intersection and stop signs that would disrupt the flow of traffic to Ladyslipper Lane and the future traffic signal. The existing curve in the roadway at Marigold Court and Honeysuckle Lane provides for traffic calming. 4) Established trees and other landscaping of lot 7 of Spring Meadows Addition (9515 Honeysuckle Lane) as well as the fence adjacent to Marigold Drive would be lost if the road were constructed. 5) By not constructing Marigold Drive, it eliminates the cut through traffic that may occur by residents living in the northeast corner of Running W Ranch when driving home from Highway 93.

The northbound traffic on Highway 93 would not have the option of turning on Snapdragon Drive and then accessing Marigold Court through Marigold Drive. They would most likely use Ladyslipper and Paintbrush. A PUBLIC HEARING on the above requested abandonment will be held before the Board of County Commissioners at their regular meeting on April 22, 2009 at 1:30 P.M., Room 201, Missoula County Courthouse.

Interested parties are requested to be present at that time to be heard for or against the granting of this petition. Written protest will be accepted by the Commissioners’ Office, Room 204, Missoula County Courthouse, prior to the hearing date. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier, Clerk & Recorder/Treasurer By Kim Cox, Assistant Chief Deputy Clerk & Recorder, 200 W. Broadway Street, Missoula, MT 59802 (406) 258-3241. Date: March 30, 2009

amount of ten percent (10%) of the Bidder’s maximum Bid price and in the form of cash, a cashier’s check, certified check, or bank money order drawn and issued by a national banking association located in Montana or by any banking corporation incorporated under the laws of Montana; or a Bid Bond (on form attached if a form is prescribed) issued by a surety authorized to do business in Montana meeting the requirements of Paragraph 5.01 of the General Conditions. The bid security shall identify the same firm as is noted on the bid proposal forms. The bid bond shall act as a guarantee that the bidder, if his bid is accepted, will promptly execute the Contract, secure payment of worker’s compensation insurance, and furnish a satisfactory faithful performance bond in the amount of 100 percent of the contract price and a payment bond in the amount of 100 percent of the contract price.

CONTRACTOR’S REGISTRATION: CONTRACTOR’s and any of the CONTRACTOR’s subcontractors bidding or doing work on this project will be required to be registered with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI). Forms for registration are available from the Department of Labor and Industry, P.O. Box 8011, 1805 Prospect, Helena, Montana 59604-8011. Information on registration can be obtained by calling 1406-444-7734. All laborers and mechanics employed by CONTRACTOR or subcontractors in performance of the construction work shall be paid wages at rates as may be required by the laws of Missoula County and the state of Montana. The CONTRACTOR must ensure that employees and applicants for employment are not discriminated against because of their race, color, religion, sex or national origin. BIDS TO REMAIN OPEN: The Bidder shall guarantee the Total Bid Price for a period of 90 calendar days from the date of bid opening. Bidders are required to be licensed in accordance with and comply with the Public Contractors License Law of the State of Montana. Proposals must be sealed and marked “Wye Area Sanitary Sewer Phase 2B, opening April 23, 2009,” and marked “Sealed Bid” with the CONTRACTOR’s name, address, Montana Contractor’s Registration Number, and be addressed to: Missoula County Public Works Department, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808. No facsimile bids will be accepted. Any objection to published specifications must be filed in written form with the Office of County Commissioners prior to the scheduled time of bid opening. No bid will be considered which includes Federal excise tax, since the County is exempt therefrom and can furnish to the successful bidder certificates of exemption. WAGE RATES: The CONTRACTOR shall not pay less than the latest Montana Labor Standard Provisions minimum wage as determined by the U.S. Secretary of Labor. A copy of said wage rate is attached as part of the specifications in Section 00910. Bidder is subject to 18-2-401, et. Seq., Montana Code Annotated and amendments thereto and regulations issued there under, relating to prevailing wages, benefits, and other requirements. No claim for additional compensation will be allowed based upon a lack of knowledge or a misunderstanding of any such requirements by Bidder or failure to include in bid adequate increases in such wages over the term of the Contract. PRE-BID CONFERENCE: Prospective bidders are encouraged to attend a prebid conference, which will be conducted jointly by the OWNER and ENGINEER at Missoula County Public Works Office, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808 at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 14th, 2009.

PROJECT ADMINISTRATION: All questions relative to this project prior to the opening of bids shall be directed to the ENGINEER. It shall be understood, however, that no specification interpretation will be made by telephone, nor will any “or equal” products be considered for approval prior to award of contract.

The ENGINEER for this project is: WGM Group, Inc. 3021 Palmer P.O. Box 16027, Missoula, MT 59808-6027 ATTENTION: Cody Thorson (406) 728-4611.

OWNER’S RIGHTS RESERVED: The OWNER reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive any informality in a bid, or to accept the lowest responsive and responsible bid and bidder, and to make awards in the interest of the OWNER. The low bid shall be determined on the basis of the lowest Basic Bid, or lowest combination of Basic Bid and accepted Alternative Bids if alternatives are included. The OWNER may accept in any order; any, all, or none of the Alternative

Bids. AWARD CONTINGENT: Without limiting the foregoing, it is expressly stated that final award of the Contract is contingent upon securing appropriate financing.

Owner: Missoula County. By: Bill Carey, Chair

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT CALL FOR BIDS IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA RECONSTRUCTION OF BRIDGE OVER FINLEY CREEK ON DONEY ROAD. The Board of County Commissioners will receive sealed proposals for furnishing all materials, equipment, and labor, to construct a new Bridge over Finley Creek on Doney Road in Arlee, Montana. Bids will be received at the Missoula County Road Department, 6089 Training Drive Missoula, Montana 59808 until 10:00 o’clock a.m. May 1st, 2009 and immediately thereafter the proposals will be publicly opened and read. A contract will be awarded or bids rejected within forty-five (45) days after their opening.. This contract includes supplying all labor, equipment, and materials necessary to construct the bridge with perched abutments and a Modular steel superstructure with asphalt wearing surface over Finley Creek, in accordance with plans and specifications.. Plans and specifications may be examined at the Missoula County Road Department 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana 59808 or at the office of Muth Consulting Engineers, PC 1620 Regent Ave Suite C, Missoula, Montana 59801. All questions regarding interpretation of the technical specifications should be directed to Erik Dickson, at (406) 258-3772. Prospective bidders must qualify as required by the State of Montana and Missoula County Missoula, Montana.. All proposals must be submitted on the regular forms furnished with the specifications, and each must be accompanied by cash, certified check, or bid bond in the amount no less than ten percent (10%) of the total bid. A corporate Surety and Payment Bond in the full amount of the contract will be required to guarantee its faithful performance.

All proposals shall be submitted in an envelope marked “Bid Proposal for Re-Construction of Bridge Over Finley Creek, Doney Road.” The Board of Missoula County Commissioners reserves the right or to accept any bid or combination thereof which appears to serve the best interest of the county. By order of the Board of Missoula County, Missoula County, Montana /s/ Bill Carey, Chairman Dated this 10th Day of April, 2009 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT CALL FOR BIDS IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA RECONSTRUCTION OF BRIDGE OVER LAVALLE CREEK DESCHAMPS LANE The Board of County Commissioners will receive sealed proposals for furnishing all materials, equipment, and labor, to construct a new Bridge over LaValle Creek on Deschamps Lane in Missoula, Montana. Bids will be received at the Missoula County Road Department, 6089 Training Drive Missoula, Montana 59802 until 10:00 o’clock a.m. May 1st, 2009 and immediately thereafter the proposals will be publicly opened and read. A contract will be awarded or bids rejected within forty-five (45) days after their opening. This contract includes supplying all labor, equipment, and materials necessary to construct the bridge with driven pipe pile abutments and tri-deck superstructure of Bridge over LaValle Creek, in accordance with plans and specifications.

Plans and specifications may be examined at the Missoula County Road Department 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana 59802 or at the office of Muth Consulting

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT Missoula County has issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) seeking lead design services to assist in developing and implementing a voice and data communications network to support coordinated operation of the Missoula County 9-1-1 Center, Emergency Operations Center, and associated field operations by emergency service agencies. A copy of the RFQ is available on the Missoula County W e b s i t e , http://www.co.missoula.mt.us/bidsandproposals or by contacting: Barbara Berens Missoula County Auditor 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT 59802 Phone: (406) 258-3277 Fax: (406) 721-4043 email: bberens@co.missoula.mt.us.

Responses to the RFQ must be received by Barbara Berens no later than 5:00 p.m., Friday, May 15, 2009.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF HEARING SEELEY LAKE – MISSOULA COUNTY WATER DISTRICT MAIN LINE INSTALLATION. The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing on the installation of approximately 30,000 feet of pipe, a new 500,000 gallon water storage tank and the expansion of the treatment plant. This upgrade will improve fire flows and pressure within the District.

The Commissioners will conduct the hearing at their regularly scheduled Public Meeting on April 22, 2009, at 1:30 p.m., in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex.

Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to the Commissioners and/or speak at the hearing. Comments may also be submitted anytime prior to the hearing by mail or personal delivery to the commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802; by fax at (406) 721-4043: or by e-mail at bcc@co.missoula.mt.us Additional information on the hearing may be obtained from the Seeley Lake – Missoula County Water District: (406) 677-2559, PO Box 503, Seeley Lake, MT 59868.

DATED this 3rd day of April, 2009. /s/ Bill Carey, Chairman Board of County Commissioners MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a petition has been filed with the County Commissioners requesting to abandon that certain county road specifically described as: Marigold Drive, located in Sections 21 & 22, T14N R20W, Running W Ranch, Phases 1 & 2. From: Intersection with Snapdragon Drive. To: Intersection with Honeysuckle Lane & Marigold Court. And further described in the Road Book of Missoula County Surveyor as: Marigold Drive. (For more information, please see the petition on file in the Clerk & Recording Office at 200 West Broadway, 2nd floor.) The abandonment of this county road is necessary and advantageous for the following reasons: 1a) Lot 8 of Spring Meadows (9045 Marigold Ct) has an existing driveway and significant landscaping that would conflict with construction of a new intersection. The driveway would have to be re-routed and would create steeper driveway grades. The new alignment of a driveway would significantly reduce access and parking for this lot owner. 1b) Lot 9 of Spring Meadows (9015

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT SECTION 00100 INVITATION TO BID RECEIPT OF BIDS: Sealed bids will be received at the office of the Missoula County Public Works Department, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana, 59808, until 2:00 p.m. local time on Thursday, April 23, 2009, for the construction of the “Wye Area Sanitary Sewer - Phase 2B” RSID 8489 Project. DESCRIPTION OF WORK: The work includes approximately 8,400 lineal feet of sanitary sewer gravity main (8” to 12”), approximately 5,340 lineal feet of sanitary force main (8”), one wastewater pumping station, and appurtenant work. SITE OF WORK: The site of the work is located in Missoula County immediately northwest of the City of Missoula. COMPLETION OF WORK: All work must be substantially completed within 150 calendar days after the commencement date stated in the Notice to Proceed.

OPENING OF BIDS: The bids will be publicly opened and read starting at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 23, 2009 at Missoula County Public Works Department, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana (Phone (406) 258-4753).

OBTAINING CONTRACT DOCUMENTS: The documents are entitled “Wye Area Sanitary Sewer - Phase 2B”.

Copies of the Contract Documents may be purchased by mailing check or money order to: WGM Group, Inc. 3021 Palmer P.O. Box 16027, Missoula, MT 59808-6027 Attn: Cody Thorson (406) 728-4611 Documents will be shipped via UPS Second Day Service. If shipping by other means is required, Bidder shall include their UPS/Federal Express/Airborne account number with their request for documents. Copies of half-size set of Drawings and Contract Manual may be obtained upon paying a non-refundable fee of $100.00. Full-size drawings are not available for bidding. Make checks payable to “WGM Group, Inc.” BID SECURITY: Each Bid shall be accompanied by Bid Security made payable to OWNER in an

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT SHERIFF’S SALE GES, INC., A MONTANA CORPORATION, Plaintiff Against GEORGE MASTEL and LAVERNE MASTEL, Defendants. To Be Sold at Sheriff’s Sale: TERMS: CASH, or its equivalent; NO personal checks On the 5th day of May A.D., 2009, at 10:00 o’clock A.M., at the front door of the Court House, in the City of Missoula, County of Missoula, State of Montana, that certain real property situate in said Missoula County, and particularly described as follows, to-wit: The Defendant’s undivided 50% interest in the following described real property: Township 13 North, Range 20 West Section Four (4), Northwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (NW 1/4 NW 1/4); Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (SW 1/4 NW 1/4), less Chicago, Milwaukee, St, Paul & Pacific Railroad right-of-way. Township l4 North, Range 20 West Section Thirty-Three (33), Southwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SW 1/4 SW 1/4), Northwest Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (NW 1/4 SW 1/4), South of Grass Valley French Canal, Approximately 35 acres; Southwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (SW 1/4 NW 1/4), South and West of Grass Valley French Canal, Approximately 7 acres; Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (SE 1/4 NW 1/4), South of Grass Valley French Canal, Approximately 9 acres; Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter, South of Grass Valley French Canal, Approximately 39 acres; Southeast Quarter of the Southwest (SE 1/4 SW 1/4), except Southeast corner, an area of one acre, more or less, east of slough which is excluded; Approximately 39 acres; Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SW 1/4 SE 1/4) area North of slough, Approximately 24 acres; Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NW 1/4 SE 1/4) South of Grass Valley French Canal, Approximately 39 acres, more or less; Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter (SW 1/4 NE 1/4) South of Grass Valley Canal, Approximately 9 acres; Recording reference in Book 462 at Page 882 Micro Records. AND Lands lying in Section 33, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. The Northeast Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (NE 1/4 SE 1/4) South of the Grass Valley French Canal and West of the existing fence. Recording Reference in Book 726 of Micro Records at Page 676. AND Lands lying in Section 33, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. That parcel in the Southeast corner of the Southeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter (SE 1/4 SW 1/4) East of, and surrounded by the forks of, the Slough. Recording Reference in Book 726 of Micro Records at Page 677. Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. Dated this 2nd day of April A.D., 2009.

MICHAEL R. McMEEKIN Sheriff of Missoula County, Montana By: /s/ Patrick A. Turner, Deputy MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT VICKIE M. ZEIER, MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER, HEREBY NOTIFIES MISSOULA COUNTY TAX PAYERS THAT THE SECOND HALF OF 2008 REAL ESTATE TAXES LEVIED AND ASSESSED WILL BE DUE AND PAYABLE BEFORE 5:00 P.M. ON JUNE 1, 2009. UNLESS 2008 TAXES ARE PAID PRIOR TO THAT TIME, THE AMOUNT THEN DUE WILL BE DELINQUENT, WILL ACCRUE INTEREST AT THE RATE OF 5/6 OF 1% PER MONTH AND WILL BE ASSESSED A 2% PENALTY FROM THE TIME OF DELINQUENCY UNTIL PAID . IF YOU INTEND TO PROTEST YOUR TAXES, YOU MUST MAKE PAYMENT BY THE DUE DATE AND MUST INCLUDE A LETTER OF PROTEST WITH YOUR PAYMENT. THE LETTER OF PROTEST MUST INCLUDE YOUR NAME, PROPERTY DESCRIPTION, GROUNDS FOR PROTEST AND THE AMOUNT YOU ARE PROTESTING PURSUANT TO MCA § 15-1-402.

VICKIE M. ZEIER MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-09-57 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF GLADYS W. INMAN, Deceased.

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

Claims must either be mailed to James William Inman, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of TIPP & BULEY, 2200 Brooks Street, PO Box 3778, Missoula, MT 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 1st day of April, 2009. /s/ James William Inman, Personal Representative

due for the 10/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 6, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $222,410.78. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $216,361.06, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on June 19, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

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

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immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

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

(TS# 7023.19787) 1002.111646-FEI

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(“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 2 of Hawthorne’s a platted subdivision of Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 22 of Plats at Page 32. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 11/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 11, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $136,843.50.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $134,176.76, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the

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

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on June 22, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these

sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

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

(TS# 7023.00823) 1002.111969-FEI

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY. Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-08-181 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT L. WHITE, 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 Karen J. Hertzog, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Boone Karlberg, P.C., PO Box 9199, Missoula, Montana 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 2nd day of April, 2009. /s/ Karen J. Hertzog, Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/30/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200702738 Bk 791 Pg 759, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Brian D. Hanna, A single man was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage LLC was Beneficiary and Western Title & Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Western Title & Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in the N1/2 of Section 34, Township 15 North, Range 21 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being a portion of Tract C-1 of Certificate of Survey No. 2432 and being more particularly described as follows: Northerly Portion: Commencing at said center one-quarter corner; thence N. 01 degree 30’36” E., 83.64 feet to the first point of beginning; thence for the next five courses along the Northerly rightof-way limit of the Frenchtown Project M-8-a-1 Lateral: Northwesterly along a non-tangent curve, concave to the Southwest with radius point bearing S. 42 degrees 08’23” W., 93.20 feet, an arc length of 4.59 feet; thence N. 50 degrees 41’00” W., 109.79 feet; thence N. 27 degrees 15’00” W., 100.89 feet; thence Northwesterly along a tangent curve, concave to the Southwest with radius of 93.20 feet, an arc length of 88.65 feet; thence N. 81 degrees 45’00” W., 45.82 feet: thence N. 01 degrees 30’36’’ E., 198.31 feet; thence along the Southerly right-of-way limit Of the Burlington Northern Railroad, S. 70 degrees 04’00” E., 268.90 feet; thence along a line of boundary agreement as recorded in Book 64 of Micro Records at Page 392, S. 01 degrees 30’36 W., 325.07 feet to the first point of beginning. Recording Reference: Book 538 of Micro Records at Page 1634. Beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/22/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200604311, Book 769, Page 773, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Thomas J. McMahon, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Title Services was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 5 of Kona Rapids, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 6, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $400,380.66. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $385,527.11, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on June 19, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/19/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200632526, Bk 789, Pg 407, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Connie Sheets, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot A66 of Canyon East, Phase 4, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 11/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 9, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $148,140.21.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $144,492.14, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on June 19, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/11/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200701747, Book 790, Page 1285, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Randie M. Pringle was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in the SE 1/4 of Section 7, Township 15 North, Range 22 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract D of Certificate of Survey No. 1816. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 08/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 9, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $335,050.58. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $321,336.14, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on June 22, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

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

(TS# 7023.00671) 1002.111968-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 07/07/03, recorded as Instrument No. 200324929, Book 711, Page 508, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Patricia F.J. Dobrowski and Dale R. Dobrowski, wife and husband was Grantor, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Inc. was Beneficiary and Title Services was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/24/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200506718, Book 749, Page 1072, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Harry J. Melnikoff Sr, a Married Man was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for GreenPoint Mortgage Funding, Inc. was Beneficiary and First American Title was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County,

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Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 16 in Block 2 of Seeley Lake Homesites No. 4, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 11/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 9, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $104,162.92. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $101,592.29, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on June 22, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

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

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gage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Herb V. Peterson II, a married man as his sole and separate property was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for AHM Mortgage was Beneficiary and Western Title and Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Western Title and Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 2 of Seely Lake Estates, Block 2 Track 6, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. , beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A..

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 11/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 16, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $186,528.84.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $181,982.85, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on June 26, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured)

and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

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

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/29/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200526136, Book 761, Page 906, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Bethany Burns was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Heritage Bank was Beneficiary and Title Services, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: The North 72 feet of the West 45 feet of Lot 13 in Block 16 of Smith Addition Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, recording reference: Book 681 Micro Records, Page 47. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. Book 833, Page 1362, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 11/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 2, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $99,043.85.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $97,283.48, plus accrued interest,

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accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on July 10, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time.

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

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will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

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by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10’ 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. Dated, January 20, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On January 20, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Jessica Hopkins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 ASAP# 3042143 04/02/2009, 04/09/2009, 04/16/2009

tions secured by the Deed of Trust.

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

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash at the time of sale. The conveyance will be made

by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. Dated: January 22, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On January 22, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson , Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Jessica Hopkins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 ASAP# 3042147 04/02/2009, 04/09/2009, 04/16/2009

the monthly payments due in the amount of $729.17 for the month of September, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. As of January 10, 2009, the sum of $4,034.55 is past due. As of February 16, 2009, the principal balance due was the sum of $99,846.78 principal, plus $4,176.08 accrued interest; with the interest continuing to accrue on the principal at the variable rate set out in the Loan Agreement, which is 6.601% per annum, and other fees and expenses that may be advanced.

The Beneficiary may disburse any amounts as may be required to protect Beneficiary’s interest. If Beneficiary elects to make such disbursements, sums paid shall become additional indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust. In accordance with the provisions of the Deed of Trust and Loan Agreement, the Beneficiary has elected to accelerate the full remaining balance due under the terms of the Deed of Trust and Loan Agreement and has elected to sell the interest of Betty L. Bennett, the original Grantor, her successors and assigns, in and to the aforedescribed property, subject to all easements, restrictions, encumbrances or covenants existing of record or evident on the property at the time of sale to satisfy the remaining obligation owed. Beneficiary has directed Dan G. Cederberg, as Successor Trustee, to commence such sale proceedings. Those with an interest in the property and who appear from the public record to be entitled to notification of these proceedings are: Occupants, 110 N. 2nd St. W., Missoula, MTt 59802. Betty L. Bennett, 110 N. 2nd St. W., Missoula, MT 59802. Betty L. Bennett, 110 2nd St. Northwest, Missoula, MT 59802. Betty L. Bennett, 110 N. 2nd St., Missoula, MT 59802. Betty L. Bennett, 3 Creek Crossing Court, Missoula, MT 59802-3018.

Beneficial Montana Inc., d/b/a Beneficial Mortgage Co., 3075 North Reserve, Suite #N, Missoula, MT 59808.

Montana Department of Revenue, PO Box 5805, Helena, MT 596045805. State of Montana Attorney General, Steve Bullock, Department of Justice, PO Box 201401, Helena, MT 59620-1401. Successor Trustee is unaware of any party in possession or claiming right to possession of the subject property other than those persons noticed herein.

DATED this 19th day of February, 2009. /s/ Dan G. Cederberg, Successor Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA) :ss. County of Missoula). This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 19th day of February, 2009, by Dan G. Cederberg, Successor Trustee.

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/05/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200731695, Book 810, Page 23, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Sylvia Mikulski, an unmarried individual was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for First Horizon Home Loans was Beneficiary and Insured Titles was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 11 in Block 4 of Foothills Estates No. 2, a platted Subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Chase Home Finance LLC. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 17, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $243,182.74. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $227,889.38, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on June 29, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time.

The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 1, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 3 in Block 12 of KNOWLES ADDITION, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 1 of Plats at Page 25 Kim L Richardson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 29, 2007 and Recorded January 29, 2007 in Book 791, Page 394, as Document No. 200702373.

The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc., successor by merger to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated January 13, 2009, and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. A default has occurred in the performance of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,086.17, beginning September 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of January 17, 2009 is $173,469.83 principal, interest at the rate of 6.1250% now totaling $4892.85, late charges in the amount of $221.35, escrow advances of $74.28, and other fees and expenses advanced of $67.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $29.11 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

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

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash at the time of

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 1, 2009, 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 5A of Crestview Heights Phase IIIA, an amended subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Charles Jennings, 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 October 26, 2006 and Recorded October 31, 2006 in Book 766, page 467, as Document No. 200628274. The beneficial interest is currently held by Indymac Federal Bank FSB. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated January 9, 2009, and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. A default has occurred in the performance of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,337.65, beginning October 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of December 31, 2008 is $198,698.01 principal, interest at the rate of 7.125% now totaling $4,702.92, late charges in the amount of $176.97, escrow advances of $2,122.07, suspense balance of $0.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $58.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $38.79 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 obliga-

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. Pursuant to 71-1-301, et seq. of the Montana Code Annotated, the undersigned hereby gives notice of a trustee’s sale to be held on the 24th day o f June, 2009, at 1:00 o’clock p.m., on the steps of the Courthouse of Missoula County located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, of the following described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: LOTS 17 AND 18 AND THE WEST 10 FEET OF LOT 19 IN BLOCK 86 OF RAILROAD ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 317 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 2148. TAX MAP OR PARCEL ID NO.: 5864753. Betty L. Bennett, as Grantor, conveyed the abovedescribed real property, and the improvements situated thereon, if any, to I.R.E., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Beneficial Montana Inc., d/b/a Beneficial Mortgage Co., a Delaware corporation authorized to do business in Montana, who was designated as Beneficiary in a Deed of Trust dated May 24, 2006 and recorded on May 31, 2006 as Document No. 200612542 and put of record in Book 755 at Page 505 of the official records of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). Dan G. Cederberg, a licensed Montana attorney, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated January 16, 2009, and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. Betty L. Bennett has defaulted in the performance of the said Deed of Trust and associated Loan Agreement by failing to make

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17-foot ceilings, office/den, master suite, 2-car garage. 44 Ranch, $297,000!

Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.AccessRealty.net 4 Bedroom, cedar home on 11 acres, double garage. Private location with lots of surrounding trees. $339,900 MLS#705221 Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 riceteam@windermere.com.

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5 bdrm, 2 baths, centrally located with hardwood floors, large yard, garage & 2 fireplaces. $275,000 MLS 809246 Windermere RE Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 Text:44133 Message:12596 for pics 832 Cherry St. $239,500 Lower Rattlesnake - 2bed/1bath, brand new kitchen & bath, garage KD Dickinson – Portico Real Estate – (406) 240-5227 838 Stoddard - 3bdrm +1 bonus, huge yard, west side, tons of room. $234,900. KD Dickinson - Portico Real Estate 240-5227

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BEAUTIFULLY REMODELED NORTH SIDE HOME. 4 Bdr/2 Bath, fenced yard, detached garage, covered porch, hardwood floors, and more, $199,900. Prudential Montana.

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FLORENCE AREA HOME ON 2 ACRES. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, bonus rooms, great deck and mountain and valley views, large sauna, just 20 minutes to Missoula. $295,000.

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CENTRAL MONTANA BUSINESSES FOR SALE Gotta Have It Gift Store, $425,000. Main Street Bistro Restaurant, $139,000.

Animal Crackers Infants/Childrens Apparel/Toy Store, $105,000. Mountain View Motel, $450,000. www.shobe auction-realty.com United Country, Shobe Auction & Realty, Lewistown, MT 406-538-5125

2300 Regent, Suites 205-206-207 Three Wonderful 2 year old commercial Condos, one with reception area, conference room, production space, and 6 work cubicals. There are 2 more additional condo units with added work areas, and separate entrances. All 3 condo’s comes with 10 deeded parking spaces. Suites 205 and 206 can be sold separately for $240,000. Suite 207 sold separately is $510,000.

All 3 sold together, priced at $745,000. See LA for more details. MLS: 901538 & 901542 & 901535.

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ALBERTON AREA HOME ON 3 ACRES. 3 Bdr/2.5 Bath, bonus room, great views, lots of space, just 30 minutes to Missoula. $295,000.

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921 S 4th St W. $249,500 McCormick Park - 2bed/1bath & bonus room, classy upgrades, dble garage KD Dickinson – Portico Real Estate – (406) 240-5227

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3 bdrm 2 bath on large lot in Elmar Estates. City Sewer, underground sprinkling, single garage. $103,900 MLS# 809491 Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 Windermere RE. Text:44133 Message:12598 for pics

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2 BD Apt - Uncle Robert Lane, $620/mo.

4 BD House - 2225 Mount, $1195/mo.

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Room for rent 1 room available in great house with quiet, laidback, clean roomates. 400/month 546-2307 Room for Rent Room avail. in 3 bdrm house. $375 a month all utilt. incld. also incld internet and cable. located off expressway near direct t.v. call (406)360-3866

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514 W. Spruce • Missoula 406.327.8777

247 W. Front • Missoula #228,949

Fabulous downtown locale includes 11 parking spaces!

Seats 36+, outside seating, basement with lots of storage. Long time established Missoula restaurant with cabaret license included. $150,000 MLS# 901625

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GORGEOUS TARGET RANGE HOME FROM THE 2008 PARADE OF HOMES. 4 Bdr/2.5 Bath, beautiful design, old-world craftsmanship, $468,500.

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IMMACULATE LEWIS & CLARK AREA HOME. 2 Bdr/1 Bath, single level, hardwood floors, new roof, large fenced back yard, lots of windows, $198,500.

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2409 Snafflebit Way- Spacious 4BD home, 17 ft. ceilings, office/den. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.AccessRealty.net

ing, interior paint, updated kitchen, new furnace and more, $149,900.

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GORGEOUS TARGET RANGE HOME FROM THE 2008 PARADE OF HOMES. 4 Bdr/2.5 Bath, beautiful design, old-world craftsmanship, $468,500.

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log home w/ acreage in town Miller Creek horse property.3.82 acres. 5bed 3bath 3500sq ft. Beautiful! Creek frontage & mature landscaping. $449,900: 396-1397

Price reduced: $185,900 - 2 story in a cul de sac, central neighborhood with large yards, raised beds and 2 car garage. Priscilla @ Pru Missoula 370.7689

UPDATED POTOMAC AREA HOME ON 16.5 ACRES.3 Bdr/2 Bath, Open floor plan, deck and covered porch, very private and quiet, $273,900.

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Hot Springs Retreat Hot Springs Retreat: 2 1/2 city lots on edge of town. Includes two homes, so great income potential. Secluded & quiet, within walking distance of hot mineral plunges. Call Trudy 741-3737, Century 21 Big Sky.

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UPDATED CENTRAL MISSOULA HOME. 2 Bdr/1 Bath, single level, single attached garage, new floor-

lovely university house 5Br/2ba + basement apartment. gas fireplace, garage,$450K, 542-0589 Newly remodeled 2BD Clark Fork Riverfront retreat! Open floorplan, large deck, hardwood floors. $275,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.AccessRealty.net

RICE TEAM Janet Rice 532-7903 Robin Rice 240-6503 riceteam@windermere.com www.missoulahomesonline.com • Centrally located 3 Bdrm 2.5 Bath • Wood and tile floors • Double attached garage • Landscaped, UG sprinklers • $191,900 • MLS# 809722 Text:44133 Message: 12591 for pics

• 3 bdrm/2 bath/10 Acres • Covered deck / fenced acreage • 28 x32 garage / 40x49 Quoncet shop • RV hookups behind garage • $275,000 • MLS# 902389 Text:44133 Message: 12592 for pics

• Remodeled 3 Bd/ 1 Bath • Single detached garage • Fenced yard/Near School • Drummond, MT • $89,900 • MLS# 808575 Text:44133 Message: 12883 for pics

• 3 Bed / 2 Bath on 3 Acres • Bitterroot home with great views • Low maintenance vinyl siding • Large double car garage • $269,000 • MLS# 902482 Text:44133 Message: 12590 for pics

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Well-maintained 3BD house, 45 minutes from Missoula, hardwood floors, storage shed, updated appliances. $125,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-2071185. www.AccessRealty.net

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NEW 4BD/2.5 BA home in Missoula 44 Ranch Subdivision Spacious, master suite, full basement, gourmet kitchen. 2409 Snaffle Bit Way $297,000 • MLS# 809362 Kevin & Monica Ray

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Out of Town 800 square foot cabin near hunting, fishing, and skiing in beautiful Haugan, MT. $83,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185. www.AccessRealty.net

For Lease • 1001 SW Higgins, Suite 104

RESIDENTIAL REAL ESTATE AUCTION Thurs. May 7, 6:30 P.M., 1521 Meadowlark Dr., Great Falls, MT. Remodeled 3 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath home on 2 lots. A beautiful home in a great location. www.shobeauction.com United Country, Shobe Auction & Realty, Lewistown, MT 406-538-5125

Mortgage & Financial CASH FOR GOLD! We buy Gold, Silver, Platinum. Get Cash NOW! Highest Payouts - Satisfaction Guaranteed 1-877-548-1550 Mountain West Mortgage. Best Mortgage Loan Products. 35 Years experience. John Timmons 406543-8945 Lic #6,7 REAL ESTATE LOANS Up to 70% LTV. We specialize in “NonBankable Deals” Hard money lending with a conscience. We also buy Private Notes & Mortgages.

Creative Finance & Investments, LLC. 406-721-1444; 800-9994809. Info@creative-finance.com MT Lic.#000203. 619 SW Higgins, Ste O, Missoula, MT 59803

Professional office space in the Panorama Park Building. 1,335+ sq. ft., 2 offices, large reception area, bathroom and kitchen.

Could easily be converted into more office spaces. $1,650 a month. Most Utilities Paid • Broker Owned

Two 5 acre parcels 15 minutes from Missoula with nice building sites and access to the Blackfoot River. $159,000 for either 5 acre parcel or buy both for $299,000.

Mary Mar ry REALTOR®, Broker Office 406-728-9295 • Cell 406-544-2125 mmarry@bigsky.net

Missoula Independent Page 50 April 16–April 23, 2009

Missoula Independent Page 51 April 16â&#x20AC;&#x201C;April 23, 2009

and The Missoula Blues & Jazz Society present

Monday, 4/20/09 Montana Jazz Ensemble Missoula's Youngest Divas Margi & The Smoking Jackets Basement Boys

Tuesday, 4/21/09 Grizzly Jazz Hellgate Jazz Band Garden City Jazz Silk Stocking The Donna Smith Trio

Wednesday, 4/22/09 Psycho Jazz Lori Conner & Jodi Marshall The Jubileers - UM Jazz Choir David Morgenroth & Eden Atwood w/ Craig Hall & Sam McKenzie 3D's - Dexter Payne, David Horgan, Don Maus

Thursday, 4/23/09 Melody Anderson w/ Nan Bovingdon, Jodi Marshall & Pete Hand Chuck Florence w/ Jim Driscoll, Pete Hand & Sam McKenzie Hall of Fame Awards: Lance Boyd - Jazz Band Director Buddy & Joyce DeFranco - Jazz Ambassadors Dexter Payne - Brazilian Clarinet

Music begins @ 6pm

All shows at St. Anthony's Parish Center 217 Tremont Monday night: FREE admission Other nights: $7 or $5 students/seniors Jazzoula button: $15 - good for all shows including the Saturday Night Jam Session w/ the stars from the Buddy DeFranco Show Jam session music begins Sat. at 10pm

Great food & full bar available Tickets and buttons available at Rockin For more info, call 542-0077

Rudy's.

Jazz Week in Missoula April 20 - 25!

Buddy DeFranco Jazz Festival April 24 - 25 â&#x20AC;˘ University Theatre featuring * Benny Golson * Dave Samuels * Randy Sandke * Steve Smith Info: umt.edu/defrancojazz