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News Letters Christians, clean energy and mom ...............................................................4 The Week in Review Snow, wind and an alleged space alien..................................6 Briefs Indigenous studies, Apostle and Phish............................................................6 Etc. Elouise Cobell’s long fight gets longer ...............................................................7 Up Front New hair study hints at grizzly growth trend.............................................8 Up Front Imperial Oil generates mixed feelings on Highway 200............................9 Ochenski How long until the Gulf disaster is recreated in Montana? ....................10 Writers on the Range Why Black Sunday won’t ever happen again ......................11 Agenda U.S. Army Col. Ann Wright. .........................................................................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan Asparagus leek soup for mom......................................................19 Happiest Hour Garden City BrewFest.....................................................................20 Ask Ari Aghast over agave nectar .............................................................................21 8 Days a Week Reminiscing about the T-Bird Twins...............................................22 Mountain High Free bike maintenance course.......................................................37 Scope IWFF features the somber, as well as the sublime ........................................38 Theater MAT makes magic with Midsummer Night’s Dream ..................................39 Arts Sutton’s strange objects make for intimate still lifes ........................................40 Film Fanning plays it cool in The Runaways ...........................................................41 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films..................................................42

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Asked Tuesday morning on the corner of Ryman and Broadway in downtown Missoula.

This week the Indy reports on how rural communities are reacting to Imperial Oil’s proposed Kearl Module Transportation Project, which would bring ginormous “modules” through western Montana starting in October. How do you feel about the company’s plan? Follow-up: What’s the biggest load you’ve had to haul?

Robbie Russell: Until we quit driving—and quit oil—we gotta make room for this stuff. I’m cool with it because I’m not ready to quit driving. Wheeled migration: When I winter in Arizona I haul an RV with a motorcycle trailer.

Charles Martin: I don’t like it. Is $68 million enough to repair all the damage that will be done to our roadways in Montana? So’s your goatee! The weight of the world is on my shoulders.

Not all Christians When I read the Independent article on the passing of the non-discrimination ordinance (see “Diversity and respect,” April 15, 2010) I was saddened to see no mention of the substantial support for the ordinance by people of faith. The article mentioned pastor Russ Smith who thanked the council for uniting Christians on one issue. The article did not, however, mention that this statement could not be more wrong. Many, many people of faith, including several pastors from different denominations, spoke out for equality. When the Independent prints a statement that Christian opinion is unanimously against equality, and takes no steps to counter this perception, they perpetuate a lie that causes immense damage to both faithful Christians who believe in a God of love, and LGBT people who have been damaged by hateful, unchristian attitudes spread in the name of the church. I know many people who have been harmed by the vile falsehood that God hates them for who they are. It would have been nice if the Independent had not assisted in perpetuating that lie. As I look at how churches are treating faith, I see hope. More and more denominations are ordaining LGBT clergy. More and more pastors are preaching messages of love, not fear, from their pulpits. More and more churches are realizing that discrimination is incompatible with Christian values. I only wish the Independent’s coverage had reflected that fact. Daniel Viehland Missoula

Clean energy now Wolf Redboy: It’s turning Highway 200 and the Lochsa— the same highway that has given birth to great poets and is the passage for many a university student to Jerry Johnson and Weir Hot Springs—into Reserve Street. This is just another episode of man destroying nature and himself in the process. Not so beautiful day: Well, Bono from U2 was given the world’s record for carrying the biggest load of shit. And I like to think I come in a close second thanks to Fiberall— nature’s delicious cleanser.

Earl Rowe: Nervous. Yesterday in Lolo a traffic light got blown over. Accidents happen all the time. I worry about the impacts the trucks will have on the creeks and rivers. Time to reload: I grew up on a ranch and had to haul a lot of machinery and hay bales. One day our hitch broke and we dumped hay bales all over the road. Accidents happen.

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Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Joe Lieberman, IConn., were prepared last week to introduce comprehensive clean energy legislation that would mark a vital step forward in putting America back in control of its energy future (see “Happy Earth Day?” April 22, 2010). Yet due to political uncertainty over which legislative item should be of highest priority, it appears Senate leaders and one of the bill’s cosponsors, Sen. Graham, might miss a golden opportunity to move forward with this legislation this year that will cut carbon pollution, create jobs and strengthen our national security. My fellow citizens of Montana and America, it is of supreme importance that we urge the Senate, especially Sens. Baucus and Tester, to get their priorities straight. We have the necessary skills,

resources and technology to make America the global leader in a new clean energy economy. We just need the bipartisan leadership that will usher in a brighter future for all Americans. Baucus and Tester should urge their colleagues to seize this opportunity to pass a meaningful climate and energy policy this year. This is what we voted them into office for, isn’t it? Their priorities should be to hear the people, to speak as the people, to move and work as the people—not to sit in meetings and lunch-

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eons, just to turn around and say to us that they are moving forward with our concerns, later to find out through the media that they have decided to put the Clean Energy Bill on the back shelf! We need to act fast and make our voices heard again before we are swept under the carpet, once again fooled by the flattery of politicians. Robin Burnett Missoula

Peaceful proclamation Today Mother’s Day is all about honoring our mothers with flowers and gifts. But the idea of Mother’s Day in the United States arose out of a desire for peace. In 1870, Julia Ward Howe, in reaction to the horrors of death and carnage of the Civil War, wrote the following proclamation calling on mothers of the nation to come together and protest what she saw as the futility of their sons killing the sons of other mothers. She called for an international Mother’s Day celebrating peace and motherhood.

Arise, then, women of this day! Arise all women who have hearts, Whether your baptism be that of water or of tears Say firmly: “We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands shall not come to us reeking of carnage, For caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience. “We women of one country Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.” From the bosom of the devastated earth a voice goes up with Our own. It says, “Disarm, Disarm!” The sword of murder is not the balance of justice! Blood does not wipe out dishonor Nor violence indicate possession. As men have often forsaken the plow and the anvil at the summons of war. Let women now leave all that may be left of home For a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them then solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means Whereby the great human family can live in peace, Each bearing after his own time the sacred impress, not of Caesar, But of God. In the name of womanhood and humanity, I earnestly ask That a general congress of women without limit of nationality May be appointed and held at some place deemed most convenient And at the earliest period consistent with its objects To promote the alliance of the different nationalities, The amicable settlement of international questions. The great and general interests of peace. Julia Ward Howe had penned “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” in 1902. The U.S. Congress approved Mother’s Day in 1914. Happy Mother’s Day, Montana! Lynn Peters Suzanne Luepke Polson

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Workers in parts of Yellowstone National Park report that a spring snowstorm drops in some areas as much as a foot of snow in two hours. The unseasonable weather knocks out power and causes the closure of almost all of the park’s roads that had opened for the season.

• Thursday, April 29 President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden reportedly interview federal appeals court judge Sidney Thomas, 56, of Billings, as a possible replacement for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who is retiring this summer. The interviews take place at the White House.

• Friday, April 30 Butte’s Emily Stearns, 20, a University of Montana student and accomplished pianist who in 2007 performed on the National Public Radio show “From the Top,” dies in a Seattle hospital from complications of leukemia.

• Saturday, May 1 Approximately 1,500 workers from offices headquartered in Missoula, Great Falls and Billings begin knocking on the doors of roughly 170,000 residents who didn’t return U.S. Census forms in the mail. In Montana, approximately 67 percent of households responded.

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Rainfall and warmer spring temperatures beckon arrowleaf balsamroot blossoms, creating a sea of yellow on Missoula’s Waterworks Hill.

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A SkyWest Airline flight from Helena to Salt Lake City is forced to make an emergency landing in Idaho Falls after a man bangs on the cockpit door and reportedly tells flight attendants that he’s a space alien and wants to fly the plane.

• Monday, May 3 Winds gust upwards of 50 mph in western Montana, flipping a semitrailer on Highway 93 north of Florence and knocking out power to some 3,000 Flathead Electric Cooperative customers north of Flathead Lake between Libby and Essex.

• Tuesday, May 4 Missoula voters pass a $195,962 levy for K-8 schools to fund, among other costs, educational programs, textbooks and maintenance. In the same election, Shelly Wills retains the school board seat she was appointed to last August, defeating Ethan Heverly with 64 percent of the vote.

The Missoula County Public Schools (MCPS) district looks more and more like a game of musical chairs these days. Superintendent Alex Apostle recently rearranged which administrators sit where for the second time in two years, and there’s no indication that he’s done. MCPS announced the latest round of reassignments late last month, a personnel adjustment that has three principals and one assistant principal switching spots. Public Affairs Director Lesli Brassfield admits the changes—generated by the retirement of a Big Sky High School dean—are a bit hard to follow, but does her best to sum them up for the 2010-2011 academic year. For starters, acting Big Sky Principal Paul Johnson will take over for Bob Gearheart this fall as principal of Washington Middle School. Gearheart will then move to C.S. Porter Middle School, Brassfield says, where he’ll serve as assistant principal. That leaves current C.S. Porter Assistant

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Principal Lisa Hendrix free to take the helm at Meadow Hill Middle School, presently under the administration of Principal Nick Carter. Carter will replace the retiring dean at Big Sky High School, and a new principal will be hired for Big Sky. Brassfield says no one will be fired, and MCPS Personnel Director Larry Johnson says none of the relocated administrators will take a pay cut. These sorts of reassignments have occurred periodically in the past, Johnson says, though the district has seen more change in the past two years—since Apostle’s arrival—than in the previous two. “You can look at this as an effort to bring new ideas to different schools,” Johnson says. “And that I think is pretty fundamental.” Brassfield and Johnson won’t speak to the specific reasons behind the reassignments. Johnson only assures that none were made for disciplinary reasons. He credits the moves largely to Apostle’s five goals for greater student achievement at MCPS, which include restructuring. “Last year, he made several moves in restructuring,” Johnson says. “So this is just a continuation of

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that effort.” And if Apostle’s past actions speak to future direction, he’ll likely be starting up the music again soon. Alex Sakariassen

LGBT Nugent puzzled by petition City Attorney Jim Nugent is scratching his head trying to figure out why Not My Bathroom (NMB) Chairman Tei Nash again submitted a petition to overturn Missoula’s newly approved anti-discrimination ordinance. Nugent already told Nash once that he’s ineligible to do so because he’s not a city resident. “If they really want to get going with this, why don’t they just submit a city resident?” Nugent asks. “I don’t know why they won’t change that. It’s really odd.” Nash initially submitted a petition aiming to put the issue before voters days after City Council approved the ordinance three weeks ago. The new law provides legal recourse to individuals discrimi-

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nated against based on sexual orientation or gender identification. But Nugent refused to sign off on the petition paperwork, citing a variety of legal problems with the application, including the fact that Nash lives in the Miller Creek area, outside city limits. Nash submitted the second petition last week. Nash was unavailable for comment before press time, but outspoken NMB leader Dallas Erickson, who lives in Stevensville, said his group doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t buy Nugentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legal rationale and intends to stand its ground. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a total disagreement on how the law reads,â&#x20AC;? Erickson says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The law does not address at all who submits the petition or who circulates itâ&#x20AC;ŚWeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll go to court if we have to.â&#x20AC;? Petition approval constitutes one of several steps NMB must take before putting the law up for a citywide vote. And as Nugent again reviews the paperwork, he says many of the issues that caused him to nix the original petition remain. For instance, NMB never actually requests a repeal of the law. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make any sense,â&#x20AC;? Nugent says. Should Nugent unexpectedly give the thumbs up, NMB would have to gather 6,395 signatures within 60 days of the ordinanceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passage on April 13 to freeze it and qualify the issue for next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ballot. If NMB succeeds, the vote would likely happen Sept. 13, 2011, during the Missoula municipal primary election. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wrong with giving the people a right to vote?â&#x20AC;? Erickson asks. Jessica Mayrer

Music Phish flops Some make a mockery of Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s liberal leanings, saying the best part about the city is that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only 30 minutes from Montana. Those same critics rag on the neo-hippies who flock here from the East Coast, driving old Volvos with bumper stickers naming their elite New England liberal arts alma maters and blaring Phish. Well, maybe not Phish. Judging by last weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s screenings of the jam bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new film, Phish 3D, it seems Missoula area Phish-heads have taken to new waters. Only 13 people came to the Carmike 10 Saturday night for the 7 p.m. showing of the film documenting last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Halloween-weekend Festival 8 concert in Indio, Calif. Matt and Elenie King, both 24, were the first to

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enter the theater, shocked to find it empty. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re â&#x20AC;&#x153;newbs,â&#x20AC;? as veteran Phish fanatics would call them, because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve only seen one Phish show. But theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re dedicated. Matt and Elenie, who currently live in Kalispell but are originally from the East and Midwest, respectively, bought tickets to the film online well in advance, and trekked from the Flathead down to Missoula. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We thought it would sell out,â&#x20AC;? Matt said, holding his 3-D glasses as the previews rolled. With only 10 others trickling into the theater, the scene wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come close to matching the vibe

of most Phish concert films aired in theaters across the country. Phish fans are known to dance and yell out song requests in jest as if at a live show. At the Carmike, heads barely bobbed. Even trippy 3-D balloons and puffs of smoke that appeared on-screen failed to elicit a response. Two attendees abruptly left during the opening notes of an acoustic version of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Curtain With,â&#x20AC;? missing the selections from Phishâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;musical costume,â&#x20AC;? during which the band covers the Rolling Stonesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Exile on Main St. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a total flop. Theater manager Richard Taylor says the film did much better on Friday, when 147 tickets were sold to the two screenings. He blames Maggot Fest and BrewFest for the small crowds Saturday night. Regardless, Saturdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s die-hards left satisfied. Matt and Elenie loved the film. And Brian McKernan, 35, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seen a few dozen Phish shows, said the band, which returned last year from a five-year hiatus, sounded tight. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They definitely got their groove back,â&#x20AC;? he said. Matthew Frank

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UM Indigenous studies debated Only 23 percent of American Indian students who enroll at the University of Montana graduate within six years. In an effort to improve that number, UM officials are working on a plan to evaluate and address barriers to academic success among indigenous people. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of meant to be a map for the next five years,â&#x20AC;? says UM professor Kathryn Shanley, chair of the committee drafting the plan. According to the committee, increasing retention involves gaining a greater understanding of historical and contemporary indigenous realities. Shanley says challenges are sometimes alleviated simply by providing information about the academic system, and cites an example of a frustrated student who came to her asking advice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even know there was such a thing as an incomplete,â&#x20AC;? Shanley says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If people donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t teach you these things, you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know them.â&#x20AC;? The plan, dubbed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Strategic Initiatives to Guide Native American and Indigenous Education,â&#x20AC;? calls to expand indigenous curriculum and enhance graduate education for American Indian students. The plan goes before UMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Faculty Senate May 6 for a vote. But after drawing lengthy and at times heated debate during last monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meetingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the Faculty Senate eventually tabled the issueâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it remains to be seen if the advisory body will approve it. UM history professor Linda Frey says concerns she voiced during last monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meeting remain. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought that in some ways it ghettoizes the Native American population by, for example, creating a graduate student organization only for those students instead of integrating them,â&#x20AC;? Frey says. She also says the plan has significant financial implications at a time of budgetary cutbacks, and that it calls on researchers to be sensitive to ethnic communities, a stipulation that may stand in the way of honest work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an issue of academic integrity,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I support the Native American studies proposal in general. But I found those three things bothersome.â&#x20AC;? Shanley says the plan in no way infringes on academic freedoms, and that increasing retention is a worthwhile investment. She notes that moving forward does not require the Faculty Senateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approval, though â&#x20AC;&#x153;it would be much nicer to move forward with them in it.â&#x20AC;? Jessica Mayrer

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Browning native Elouise Cobell won arguably the greatest legal victory ever for Indian Country last December, a $3.4 billion court settlement rectifying decades of mismanaged Individual Indian Money accounts by the federal government. Cobell told the Indy in January it was an uplifting conclusion to her 14-year battle against the Department of the Interior (DOI). She was looking forward to less travel, more time at home and eventual retirement. Not so fast. Last week, a freshman Republican senator out of Wyoming began stirring trouble for the historic Cobell settlement, which Congress must approve by May 28. John Barrasso, vice chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, openly railed against the $3.4 billion figure in a letter to tribal leaders nationwide. He questioned the fairness of the settlement, and called on tribes to do the same. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Since it was announced last December there have been many questions asked about some aspects of the proposed settlement,â&#x20AC;? Barrasso stated, before proposing millions of dollars worth of cuts to the deal. Questions? From whom? President Obama all but demanded an end to the DOIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in-court stalling. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., both applauded the settlement. According to Cobell, even Barrasso had no complaints when she met with him personally in Washington, D.C., in early February. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He only had some questions about the attorney, and he felt good about it when I left,â&#x20AC;? Cobell says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So I was blindsided by his letter.â&#x20AC;? Her only logical conclusion is Barrasso wants to â&#x20AC;&#x153;kill the deal..â&#x20AC;? And his call for tribal leaders to weigh in is Cobellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smoking gun. This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a tribal government issue, she insists, but an individual account holder issue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trying to do here is the oldest trick in the book,â&#x20AC;? Cobell says, explaining Barrasso is likely pitting tribal leaders against tribal members. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s called divide and conquer.â&#x20AC;? We can only assume Barrasso has the same revulsion to spending as a lot of his colleagues. We get it. The country needs to watch that gaping hole in its pocket, yada yada yada. But this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t our money to bicker over. This is payment of a long-standing debt. Slashing the deal doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t count as thriftiness. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s downright theft. Barrassoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s blatant attack on the settlement could have a ripple effect in Indian Country between tribal leaders and their members. And if he succeeds, he will deprive American Indians of money that is rightfully theirs. Our court system has spoken, our nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top leaders have chimed in. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for rabble-rousers like Barrasso to stop repeating the injustices of the past. Just let Cobell retire in peace already.

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CSI: Bears New hair study hints at grizzly growth trend by Matthew Frank

Forgive Jeffrey Stetz and his colleagues Mont.—to analyze hair samples. The project about 3 percent per year. Mace and his for preferring to not capture grizzly bears, aimed to estimate the grizzly bear popula- research team trapped and tracked dozens radio-collar them, and then fly around in tion in the 7.8 million-acre Northern of female grizzlies and watched their movesearch of offspring to estimate changes in Continental Divide Ecosystem, which ments in real-time using GPS technology. northwest Montana’s grizzly population. stretches from north of Missoula to the Stetz says that the two studies together, They’d much rather collect and analyze the Canadian border. On the presidential cam- while they differ in approach and scope, hair the bears leave behind when they rub paign trail in 2008 McCain called the ear- “are far stronger than either alone.” “I think this is a really unique opportuagainst trees, power poles and fence posts. mark to study grizzly DNA “unbelievable,” Turns out, this noninvasive method for and often joked, “I don’t know if it was a nity to have two complementary projects— same system, different methods, same measuring population trends might not paternity issue or a criminal issue.” Despite McCain’s political put-downs, question—and to see how these respective only be safer—for bears and researchers alike—but potentially more efficient and Kendall’s study, published in 2008, yielded methods work,” Stetz says. “That rarely happens, if ever.” more accurate. Stetz and Mace both credit the Stetz, a doctorate candidate grizzly bear population’s growth to a with the Montana Cooperative number of things, including habitat Wildlife Research Unit at the protections and public education. University of Montana, served as the “It’s hard to say what the most lead author of a study published last important thing is,” Stetz says, “but week in the Journal of Wildlife [wildlife managers] have really, I Management suggesting that bear think, made the social carrying rub surveys represent a complecapacity far greater than it ever used ment, and possible alternative, to to be, just by keeping us out of contraditional telemetry-based methflict, and then dealing with it when ods for monitoring population there is [conflict].” trends. As grizzly population estimates “Our study,” Stetz says, “is saybecome more exact and growth ing that when you monitor an aderates climb, some hope the trends quate number of these bear rubs”— portend the removal of Ursus arctos in their case some 4,900 last year— horribilis from the endangered “and then genotype even a small Photo courtesy Jeffrey Stetz & Amy Macleod species list, where it’s been desigsubset of the samples…that there is enough power to make very pre- A grizzly bear rubs against a tree in Glacier nated as “threatened” since 1975. National Park, leaving behind hair samples that ( Yellowstone National Park’s grizcise estimates of growth rates.” give researchers a new and noninvasive way to zlies were delisted in 2007, but U.S. How precise? estimate changes in northwest Montana’s grizzly District Judge Donald Molloy of “It’s pretty much unheard of, population. Missoula relisted them last year.) as far as the precision of those estiStetz’s study itself doesn’t bolmates,” he says. But so far those estimated growth rates the best estimate yet of how many grizzlies ster the case for delisting, but more exact are only based on simulations. The full roam the area—765, based on the 2004 science brings more certainty to whatever three-year study won’t be completed, and data, more than twice FWS’s previous esti- management decisions are made. “Our challenge is always to balance the growth rate known, until the end of mate. Biologists suspect that number is precision with cost,” says Servheen. “It 2011. (It’s expected to be between 2 and 3 even higher now. Today, Stetz’s work uses the same hair would be great to be able to estimate the percent.) Still, Stetz and his research partners—Katherine Kendall of the U.S. sample data to measure grizzlies’ growth population each year with very high preciGeological Survey’s Northern Rocky rate that Kendall used to measure abun- sion, but we don’t have the money for that. Mountain Science Center and Chris dance. And the data McCain criticized for its No one has the money for that. So what we Servheen, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service’s cost may ultimately (and ironically) end up have to do is come up with ways that allow us to manage the population with reason(FWS) long-time grizzly bear recovery coor- saving money. dinator—believe the results so far show “There’s the potential for our able certainty within the budgets available promise. method to be more affordable [than trap- to us.” As for the attention McCain brought to “I think it has the potential to inform ping and tracking],” Stetz says, “because management, to track the successes or fail- we can enlist park rangers or trail crews the genetic analysis of grizzlies, Stetz says it ures of the conservation strategies being or people working in the wilderness and only helped. “I can’t say enough about how this developed by FWS and other agencies,” volunteer groups. They can be trained Stetz says. easily to do this work and still maintain was a collaborative effort,” he says, “so The research piggybacks on previous the scientific rigor that’s needed for this when he pointed a finger to us as an example of wasteful spending, I think instead it work famously pilloried by Sen. John kind of application.” McCain, R-Ariz., as pork barrel spending. Stetz’s paper came the same week that backfired on him, while it brought a lot of Between 2003 and 2008 a Kendall-led Rick Mace, a biologist with Montana Fish, positive focus on a very well conducted research team received about $4.5 mil- Wildlife and Parks, presented his finding project.” lion—largely thanks to appropriations that the grizzly bear population in the secured by former Sen. Conrad Burns, R- Northern Rockies is growing at a rate of mfrank@missoulanews.com

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Dark passage Imperial Oil generates mixed feelings along Highway 200 by Alex Sakariassen

The usual parade of concerned Missoula citizens put Imperial Oil representative Ken Johnson on the hot seat during an April 29 hearing over the shipping of mining equipment through western Montana. Public outrage over the loads, which are two lanes wide and three-quarters of a football field in length, dominated the four-hour meeting, with officials from the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT) struggling to retake the floor. Of the more than 200 Missoula area res-

protest among Missoulians left the community reassured that Imperial Oil’s shipments would not radically change day-to-day life. “The company’s been very good in explaining what the loads are going to be, how they’re going to move them, how they’re going to meet the problems of traffic flow,” Paris says. “I don’t think there’s been any opposition to it in the community.” Imperial Oil has proven adept at selling its pitch outside Missoula. Lewis and Clark County Commission Chair Mike

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Canada-based Imperial Oil has proposed shipping roughly 200 enormous loads of mining equipment through Montana to Alberta. Unlike Missoula, rural communities along Highway 200 have mostly embraced the idea.

idents at the meeting, the majority seemed convinced that Imperial Oil’s Kearl Module Transportation Project (KMTP) will spell disaster for the region. But while Missoula residents complain, there’s a far different story playing out along the Highway 200 corridor to the east, where small communities aren’t so quick to demonize the ExxonMobil-held oil firm. Some residents and civic leaders even consider the enormous loads an economic boon for Montana and, more specifically, rural businesses. “My personal feeling is that, for Lincoln, it’s going to help,” says Jim Paris, chair of the Lincoln Community Council and owner of the Spring Creek RV Park. “From the way the plan is now, some of the convoys will be spending time in the Lincoln area, and that should help the motels and cafés and things like that. Considering the size of the convoys, I’d say there should be benefit.” Imperial Oil’s junket through Cut Bank and Lincoln last week revealed a strong base of support for the proposed KMTP. Forty-seven people attended an April 28 meeting in Lincoln, and the same presentation that generated so much

Murray says those in the Lincoln and Augusta areas are holding out hope that the KMTP will bring temporary jobs to county residents. Big-rig drivers camped outside rural towns will probably patronize local businesses like Lambkin’s Restaurant, he adds. Gov. Brian Schweitzer also announced his support of the plan this week based largely on economic stimulus. There’s a much simpler explanation for Lincoln’s embrace of Imperial Oil, however. Most simply don’t see any detriment in allowing the nighttime loads to pass through. Murray says broader issues like the ethics of aiding tar sands mining in Alberta—a rallying point for Missoula activists—hardly made a splash at the Lincoln meeting. “Some of the senior citizens in [Lincoln and Augusta], their concern was they’re going to have to stay up late to watch the loads pass through,” he says. “That was their issue.” With daytime shipments ruled out, Shane Erickson doesn’t see a problem either. Highway 200 is a key artery for his Lincoln-based God’s Country Outfitters.

But over the past 15 years, his duties running hunters and fishermen to and from the field haven’t had him on the road earlier than 5:30 a.m.—about the time KMTP drivers will pull over for the day. “If they stick to nighttime travel, I can’t see how that would really affect me or any outfitter I know too much,” Erickson says. “There could be an instance here or there, but certainly nothing I think anyone would get too upset about. It’s providing jobs for somebody out there, and we sure need that at this time…People coming through are going to be spending money, they’re going to be buying fuel…It could mean jobs kept even in this area.” But a degree of skepticism persists along Highway 200, represented at the Lincoln meeting by a small Ovando contingent full of questions. Kathy Schoendoerfer, co-owner of the Blackfoot Angler fly shop, says she finds it hard to trust a billion-dollar international company when they promise benefits like $68 million in economic activity. “We’re talking about a company that has more money than small countries,” Schoendoerfer says. “Can we trust them? If they’re going to make that much money, why do they have to use what we call a scenic corridor?” Schoendoerfer says that, while others may applaud the potential benefits of the KMTP, Ovando business owners are erring on the side of caution. It’s not that they’re opposed to the plan. Schoendoerfer says they’re simply sick of fighting battles, like the 2008 opposition to a cell tower and the 2009 stand against recreation permits on the Blackfoot River. “I can speak on behalf of the [Ovando] business owners that, if they keep to their promises, there shouldn’t be a problem,” she says. One aspect of Imperial Oil’s plan could garner universal condemnation in western Montana, though. Missoula and its rural neighbors alike fear that approving one such project could set a precedent for Highway 200 as a permanent corridor for abnormally high-and-wide loads. No one, except maybe the business interests in Lincoln, sounds eager to see that reality pan out. “I want to see it in writing that this isn’t going to continue down the line,” Schoendoerfer says. “We could probably all live with one year of this, but none of us believe that October 2011 is going to be the end of it.”

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How quickly we’ve gone from “drill, baby, drill” to “spill, baby, spill.” One of the greatest environmental disasters of the new century is ongoing as millions of gallons of crude oil pour from a hole in the earth some 5,000 feet beneath the sea. Already the fishing industry there is shut down, perhaps for a long time to come. And most of the oil hasn’t even made landfall yet, where the fragile coastal marshes and rich littoral zone will pay the price for America’s gluttonous petroleum consumption habit. Unfortunately, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer is still in his “drill, baby, drill” mode and our own environmental disaster may be on the near horizon. Anyone who hasn’t been living in a cave for the last two weeks has heard all about the explosion and sinking of British Petroleum’s (BP) Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico. What “couldn’t possibly happen”—an underwater well-head blowout—happened. Eleven workers simply disappeared in the explosion, and then the enormous fire burned for days, sending immense plumes of black, oily smoke into the air. Eventually, the whole platform tilted, collapsed and sank beneath the waves. In the meantime, a mile below the surface, the well BP punched through the Earth’s crust continues to gush tens of thousands of barrels of raw crude oil and associated petroleum compounds into the ocean at the unbelievable pressure of 100,000 pounds per square inch. What has been called “a hole into hell” taps one of the largest oil deposits on the planet and, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), could radically expand from an estimated 5,000 barrels a day to 50,000 barrels a day. If so, spewing 2,000,000 gallons of crude per day would surpass the Exxon Valdez catastrophe within a week and continue for an unknown period of time, perhaps years. Some of the crude is rising a mile through the sea and creating a thick, stringy carpet of gelatinous oil that, at last estimates, covered an astounding 5,000 square miles of ocean. More remains unseen below the waves, where the heavier compounds will be spread over the ocean floor. So far, few of the efforts to contain the disaster or slow the ruptured well have had any effect whatsoever. Absorbent booms have proved almost useless as 6–8 foot waves simply slosh the oil over their tops or tear them loose. BP says it’s building a massive concrete and steel cap to lower over the wellhead to contain the gusher…but no one has ever tried using such a device in mile-deep water and it’s totally unknown if

it will work. In the meantime, plans to drill into the original well to relieve the pressure are estimated to take months and, like the cap experiment, the result is unknown. Meanwhile, BP and our own government are spraying “dispersants” on the sur-

Schweitzer, “however, with dollar signs dancing in his eyes, simply blows off any consideration that maybe all the contingencies haven’t been considered in the state’s abbreviated environmental

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face slicks and injecting them into the plume a mile down. So far BP has purchased a third of the world’s supply of dispersants and dropped more than 100,000 gallons of it into the ocean in just one day last week. But this isn’t Ivory Soap they’re using, folks—it’s a mixture of toxic chemicals that marine scientists say may be as bad or worse than the oil itself. And guess what? No one knows for sure what’s being dumped into some of our nation’s most productive waters because the chemical makeup of the dispersants is a “trade secret.” As the horrific scene unfolds, important questions are belatedly being asked. One of those is whether or not such a disaster was anticipated and whether or not preparations were in place to deal with it. The answer, in a word, is “no.” BP simply contended that such a blowout couldn’t happen and, if it did, the company deemed the nearly 50 miles between the well and

the shore enough to disperse whatever leaks might occur. The federal government concurred and granted the operation a “categorical exclusion” from environmental review. Now, tens of thousands are suffering and the environment is destroyed because BP wasn’t right. Governors across the nation are withdrawing their support for off-shore oil drilling— Christ in Florida and Schwarzenegger in California, among others. Yet here in Montana, Schweitzer continues to bull ahead for full-scale energy development, particularly of fossil fuels such as oil, gas and coal. In one grotesque example, Schweitzer this week lauded the sufficiency of a mere environmental assessment instead of a full environmental impact statement for shipping 200 enormous loads of Korean-made equipment through Montana to service the Alberta tar sands—perhaps the most environmentally destructive petroleum produced on the planet. This equipment, which is over 35 feet high and 210 feet long, will theoretically be shipped up the Clearwater and Lochsa rivers on a narrow two-lane road and then over the incredibly steep and twisting Lolo Pass—in winter, no less. Anyone who has ever driven that pass will find it hard to believe. But even worse, the route then goes up the Blackfoot River and along the Rocky Mountain Front. Schweitzer, however, with dollar signs dancing in his eyes, simply blows off any consideration that maybe all the contingencies haven’t been considered in the state’s abbreviated environmental analysis. And then there’s his plan to inject millions of tons of carbon dioxide from Canadian coal-burning power plants beneath the Hi-Line. Again, this is one of those fossil fool projects with unknown impacts and unimaginable consequences. The BP disaster should be a wake-up call to the nation and its political leaders. It’s an opportunity to revisit our national energy priorities and, hopefully, finally leave the age of coal and oil behind. Closer to home, it’s time to tell our own Coal Cowboy to get down off his high horse, take a long, hard look at the potential consequences of his recent decisions, and just say “Whoa” to his headlong rush to turn Montana—and its still-pristine environment—into an energy colony. 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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Oil shale sham Why Black Sunday won’t ever happen again

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Twenty-eight years ago this month, on the first Sunday in May, Exxon, the largest corporation in the world, pulled the plug on its massive western Colorado oil shale project. Overnight, 2,600 people lost their jobs. Overnight, small towns learned painful lessons about the speed of the corporate guillotine. Overnight, county commissioners and town planners learned that talk is cheap when oil gets cheaper. The oil shale boom of the late 1970s and early 1980s was one of the biggest booms and fastest busts in the history of the American West. I know; I was there. A week after “Black Sunday,” there was not a U-Haul trailer for rent anywhere on the Western Slope. By summer’s end, perhaps 6,000 people had left the area. Businesses toppled like dominos, one after another. A bank president committed suicide. Bumper stickers proclaimed “Exxon Sucks Rocks.” Communities learned the hard way what happens when a large multinational corporation suddenly changes course. Fortune Magazine commented that Exxon’s abandonment of oil shale had all “the abruptness of a teenage driver making a screeching U-turn.” The bust hit hard because the buildup to the boom had been so tremendous. At the height of the Arab OPEC oil embargo in the mid-1970s, Americans waited in long lines for gasoline. Scrambling to find additional petroleum reserves, companies turned to oil shale, an energy source that had proved too difficult and expensive to process in the 1920s. But oil shale is a kerogen embedded in tons of rock. It doesn’t flow like liquid crude; it takes massive amounts of energy and water to extract a single barrel of oil. Yet Exxon’s engineers displayed flamboyant corporate hubris, claiming that by 2010, the oil shale industry would produce 8 million barrels of oil a day. Now, 28 years later,

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despite all the rosy predictions in Exxon’s infamous “White Paper” on oil shale, there is still no commercially viable oil shale industry. And there probably never will be. The oil shale boom had been pure industry bravado. Exxon’s White Paper bor-

Now, 28 years “later, there is still no commercially viable oil shale industry. And there

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dered on “voodoo economics” with its predictions of massive population growth on the Western Slope, large numbers of new power plants, giant shale pits in the earth that would dwarf the height of the Empire State Building, and water needs so excessive that engineers seriously suggested siphoning off the Missouri River and moving the water uphill over the Continental Divide. The West Slope’s pristine air quality would have deteriorated to that of Denver’s on a bad winter day. To add irony to the melodrama, Exxon christened its oil shale venture the Colony Oil Shale Project. One of its vice presidents was even named William T. Slick. As painful as the oil shale bust was—

and it resulted in hundreds of foreclosures, business failures, dissolved marriages and an increase in wild game poaching—the 10year business slump brought stability and a more sustainable economic and environmental mix to western Colorado. Retirees fleeing the Front Range came to enjoy life in Colorado’s small towns. Hunters and fishermen arrived in increasing numbers, as did a new crowd of mountain bikers and hikers. The same eco-blessings that locals had always taken for granted—the clean air, pristine fly-fishing waters and world-class elk hunting—drew a steady stream of new residents. Within the last decade, oil and gas has replaced oil shale as an economic mainstay. Now, nobody wants a massive oil shale project that would take water from agriculture, require new power plants or bring in thousands of workers. Fundamentally, the oil shale calculus never has made sense— not fiscally, not environmentally, not socially. The costs and impacts are too high. There’s a reason an oil shale industry did not work in the 1920s or in the 1980s, and it won’t work now. There’s nothing sustainable about it. In my campus office, I have a small slab of dark mahogany oil shale. It’s polished to a fine shine. I look at it often, but I’d never try to squeeze oil out of it. John C. Sawhill of The Nature Conservancy said, “In the end, our society will be defined not only by what we create, but by what we refuse to destroy.” Almost three decades after Black Sunday, it’s time to permanently toss in the towel on the oil shale industry.

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On the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, U.S. Army Col. Ann Wright decided that she would rather throw in the towel than participate in a war that’s been considered one of our nation’s biggest foreign policy blunders. In the years since she resigned, Wright’s turned into a leading peace activist, and she hasn’t been shy about her opposition to America’s continued presence in Iraq. In fact, at one point in 2005, Wright was escorted out of a Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting after she shouted “Stop the war! Stop the killing!” to Condoleezza Rice, who was then Secretary of State. Most recently, in 2008, she co-wrote Dissent: Voices of Conscience,

Government Insiders Speak Out Against the War in Iraq. Wright’s dissenting wisdom hits Missoula this week when she stops by to talk about foreign policy, her 29 years of active and reserve service in the military, and the moment that prompted her to jump ship for more peaceful waters. If you’ve ever wanted to hear about this issue from an insider’s perspective, Wright’s talk is something you won’t want to miss. –Ira Sather-Olson Retired Army Col. Ann Wright speaks Tuesday, May 11, at Hellgate High School’s auditorium, 900 S. Higgins Ave., at 7 PM. Free. Call 543-3955.

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Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call Mary Alice at 880-1210.

If you’d like to help the city of Missoula learn how much our trails, sidewalks and bike facilities are used, consider becoming a non-motorized traffic count volunteer during a training session from 5–6 PM in the Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Free to participate. The count occurs Sat., May 8, from noon–2 PM. Call 258-4989. Climate change skeptics need not apply: Confront the root causes of climate change with creative conflict by heading to a weekly meeting of Northern Rockies Rising Tide, an environmental/social justice organization which meets this and every Thu. at 6 PM at Break Espresso, 432 N. Higgins Ave. Free to attend. Visit northernrockiesrisingtide.wordpress.com.

FRIDAY MAY 7 Be a voice for your walking and bicycling neighbors by applying for a position with the City of Missoula’s B i c y c l e a n d Pe d e s t r i a n A d v i s o r y B o a r d . Applications are due today by 5 PM. Grab an application at the Mayor’s Office in City Hall, 435 Ryman St. or online at ci.missoula.mt.us/index.aspx?nid=426. Call 552-6001.

SATURDAY MAY 8 If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM on the second floor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. Visit www.oa.org. If you have some non-perishable canned food lying around your pad, donate it to a good cause during the Missoula Food Bank/U.S. Postal Service Food Drive, which runs throughout today. All you need to do to participate is to leave your donations by your mailbox. Call Nick Roberts at 549-0543 Ext. 105.

SUNDAY MAY 9 Missoula is a bona fide bike town. If you don’t have one already, you’ll be able to build your own recycled recumbent or four-wheel bike after you volunteer for two hours at Missoula Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., on Sundays at a TBA time. Call 800-809-0112 to RSVP.

MONDAY MAY 10 Those interested in issues pertaining to the homeless population are invited to a meeting of the Montana Homeless Network, which meets this and every Mon. at 10 AM in the small conference room of the Missoula

Veterans can find support with trained facilitator Chris Poloynis every Mon. at 2 PM, when PTSD group Spartans Honour meets at the Missoula Veterans Affairs Clinic, 2687 Palmer St. Free. Call 829-5400. If you’re 18 or under and your life has been affected by someone else’s drinking, get support with others by joining the Alateen 12-Step Support Group, which meets this and every Monday at 7 PM at First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free, use alley entrance. Call 728-5818 or visit www.al-anon.alateen.org.

TUESDAY MAY 11 You can fight for peace in many different ways, but how about knitting for it? Find out when the group Knitting for Peace meets every Tue. from 1–3 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-3955. Missoula’s YWCA, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts weekly support groups for women every Tue. at 6:30 PM, where groups for Native women and children meet as well. New group members with children are asked to arrive at 6:15, without kids at 6:25. Free. Call 543-6691. I’d say it’s a combo of both: UM presents “What’s Broken: The U.S. Government or Us?” a bipartisan community conversation featuring Pat Williams and Bob Brown at 7 PM in Room 204 of UM’s James E. Todd Building. Free. Call 243-2713. She makes dissidents proud: Hellgate High School, 900 S. Higgins Ave., hosts a talk by retired Col. Ann Wright, a U.S. Army vet who speaks out against the War in Iraq with the discussion starting at 7 PM in the school’s auditorium. Free. Call 543-3955 and visit jrpc.org. (See Agenda in this issue.) The Missoula County Democrats host a Democratic Candidates Forum for House District 94 featuring candidates Lou Ann Crowley and Ellie Hill, at 7:30 PM at Missoula’s City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Free. Call 542-3232 and visit missoulademocrats.org,

THURSDAY MAY 13 Climate change skeptics need not apply: Confront the root causes of climate change with creative conflict by heading to a weekly meeting of Northern Rockies Rising Tide, an environmental/social justice organization which meets this and every Thu. at 6 PM at Break Espresso, 432 N. Higgins Ave. Free to attend. Visit northernrockiesrisingtide.wordpress.com.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Federal authorities charged Gregory Giusti, 48, with making at least 48 threatening phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during a seven-week period. According to an affidavit supporting the charges, Giusti used an Internet phone service called Magic Jack to make the calls, declaring during one to Pelosi’s San Francisco district office that “the number I’m calling from is untraceable, so if you’re trying to trace it, have fun.” Authorities promptly traced the call to Giusti. Following his initial court appearance, during which he wept but made no statement, Giusti’s mother, Eleanor Giusti, 83, blamed Fox News for radicalizing her son, whose criminal record includes evading train fare. LITIGATION NATION JUNIOR - After Canadian slow-pitch softball player George Black, 53, lost sight of a line drive in the setting sun and wound up getting hit in the face while playing third base, he filed a lawsuit seeking $1.5 million. The defendant is the company that owns the playing field, ArcelorMittal Dofasco, which Black’s lawsuit argues should have provided a sun screen to protect him and other players and warned them “of the dangers of the sun at that particular time of day.” Denying Dofasco’s motion to have the case dismissed, despite expert testimony that most ball fields are designed so the sun doesn’t shine in the batter’s, not the fielders’ eyes, and that it would be impractical to provide sun shading for all infield positions at all times, Ontario Superior Court Judge James R.H. Turnbull ruled the case could proceed to trial. “I’m going after them,” Black said. CAUSE AND DEFECT - Earthquakes are caused by women who wear immodest clothing and behave promiscuously, according to a senior Islamic cleric in Iran. “Many women who do not dress modestly lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which increases earthquakes,” Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi, Tehran’s acting Friday prayer leader, told Iranian media. The only way “to avoid being buried under the rubble,” Sedighi noted, is “to take refuge in religion and to adopt our lives to Islam’s moral codes,” including women covering themselves from head to toe in loose-fitting clothing. A 24-year-old Muslim woman died while driving a go-kart at a recreational area in New South Wales, Australia, when part of her loose-fitting, head-to-toe burqa got caught in the vehicle’s wheels and strangled her. SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION - Authorities in Allegheny County, Pa., charged Robert Abrams, 40, with killing his wife during an argument by hitting her in the head with a hammer at least 10 times and stabbing her, then setting their house on fire to conceal evidence of the killing. Police Superintendent Charles Moffatt said the two quarreled because Robert Abrams had stayed up late the night before to watch a Pittsburgh Penguins hockey game, which went into three overtimes. Lorraine Bulloch, 43, accidentally stabbed her 1-year-old niece in the head during an argument over the price of gas used when she drove her brother to buy beer in Chatham County, Ga. The police report said the argument escalated when the brother began calling her names, and she responded by grabbing a knife from a drawer and throwing it at him. He ducked, and the blade struck the girl, who was hospitalized in serious condition.

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SPRING CLEANING - Twenty Nepali climbers embarked on a mission to remove decades-old garbage from Mount Everest’s “death zone,” the area above 26,246 feet known for its treacherous terrain, freezing temperatures and lack of oxygen. Targeting empty oxygen bottles, gas canisters, torn tents, ropes and utensils left by climbers, the Extreme Everest Expedition 2010 is the first to pick up litter from that elevation. “The garbage was buried under snow in the past,” expedition leader Namgyal Sherpa, 30, said. “But now it has come out on the surface because of the melting snow due to global warming.” OUTSOURCING UPGRADE - Professors at some U.S. universities have begun sending students’ papers to India, Singapore and Malaysia to be graded. The Virginia-based company EduMetry provides the service, called Virtual-TA, to a mix of for-profit and nonprofit institutions, many of them business schools. The company points out that its graders, all of whom have at least master’s degrees, return graded work faster than professors can and that professors freed from grading papers can devote more time to teaching and research. “People need to get past thinking that grading must be done by the people who are teaching,” said Chandru Rajam, a business professor at George Washington University who helped found EduMetry five years ago. “Sometimes people get so caught up in the mousetrap that they forget about the mouse.” THE NEXT STEP IS OBVIOUS - Among the hottest categories for public consumption on social networks is pictures of food posted before it is eaten. One of the largest and most active Flickr groups, called “I Ate This,” includes more than 300,000 photos contributed by more than 19,000 members, who are limited to posting 50 photos a month. The same trend appears on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Foodspotting, Shutterfly, Chowhound and FoodCandy. “I like to show off what I’m eating or something I’ve made that I’m proud of,” Pamela Hollinger, 36, a radio programmer and announcer in Stephensville, Texas, said. “I think getting an iPhone had a lot to do with it. It’s so easy to just take a quick picture of what I’m eating.” Aware of the trend, Nikon, Olympus, Sony and Fuji have released cameras with special “food” or “cuisine” modes, costing between $200 and $600. SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES - Two men who finished shooting at an abandoned farmhouse with a .45-caliber handgun and a .22-caliber rifle were returning home but “stopped their vehicle in order to shoot the guns again,” according to Will County Sheriff’s official Pat Barry. When they did, Barry said, one of them, Matthew B. Eastman, 20, “accidentally shot himself in the right hand.” WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED - A man robbed two convenience stores in Hilltown Township, Pa., by threatening the clerks with a hypodermic needle. Authorities said the robber, estimated to be in his 20s, didn’t get any money from the first store but fled with $600 from the second.

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was enthralled, but intimidated, the time I watched the Rose City Rollers hold their first public bout at the Portland Expo Center back in 2005. The crowd, mostly young, clad in hipster gear and clutching cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon, sat on bleachers overlooking the floor. The oval track was 88 feet from end to end and 44 feet wide. Loud rock blared from the speakers as the announcer whipped up the audience. Then, as the noise reached a muddied roar, the floor was flooded by a horde of lean, mean roller-skating women. They wore uniforms with short-shorts or flouncy skirts, showing off muscled legs decked out in striped socks over fishnet stockings. As the fanfare died down, two teams of five women took their places on the track, and with a whistle they were off. What happened next looked like controlled chaos. The women screamed around the oval, jostling for position, and occasionally a skater was sent flying off the track by a well-placed hit from an opponent. Apparently someone was scoring points, though I couldn’t quite see how. I didn’t care. I cheered like crazy. I wanted to be a roller girl. As a kid growing up in Missoula, I was active, but chafed at the regimentation of organized sports. I was a tomboy, but not a jock. After seeing the Rose City Rollers, I realized derby’s punk rock approach to

sports was something different. These girls were being rewarded for acting physical, aggressive and confrontational. Roller girls seemed so confident, so secure in the knowledge that they were special. Their booty shorts and fishnets were campy but by no means slutty. It was a kind of drag. They snarled, they intimidated, they wore thigh-high stockings and miniskirts, and they never let us forget that they were women. It looked fun. Despite the fact that I did occasionally scoot around the historic local Oaks Park roller rink to the tune of an old-timey organ—which is more roller skating than most ordinary people indulge in after puberty—joining an established big-city roller derby league, even in its early stages, was a daunting prospect. Derby girls were definitely cool kids, and being the kind of strong and intelligent woman who turns into a shy, blushing, babbling idiot in front of cool kids, I made no effort to get involved. I moved back to Missoula around Christmas 2006. My car was freshly equipped with snow tires and contained my mother, my books and clothes, a heavily drugged cat, and an ancient pair of thrift shop roller skates. Ever since I had sipped a Pabst on those Portland bleachers and felt undisguised envy for the Rose City Rollers, thoughts of derby had never entirely left me.

Then, in July 2009, Facebook informed me that I should become a member of a group called “Let’s Bring Roller Derby to Missoula!” As much as I hate it when Facebook tells me what to do, I was all for clicking that button.

t turns out I wasn’t the only person in Missoula with roller derby dreams. Anneke “Delicious Demon” Ayers, Brae “Bitty Bitch” Bullard, Marlana “M. Kneesya” Kosky, and other Missoula women had been throwing around the roller derby idea for a few years, but nothing ever came of it. “A lot of phone calls were made to warehouses and stuff,” says Ayers. “We had no place to skate. We had no place to buy skates. It was like running right into walls. I was literally laughed at and hung up on.” Around the same time Ayers was coming up empty, Missoula native Jessie “Viperella” Lundberg was finishing law school in San Francisco. It’s there she discovered roller derby. “I just thought I should get some roller skates, because that would be a good way to work out,” she says. “I went online to look at skates and found this whole roller derby thing. And it turned out that there was a bout that weekend. I went to the bout, and as soon as it started I was like, ‘Oh, my god!’” Like me, Lundberg didn’t try out for the big-city league. After all, she had just

bought her first pair of skates. Instead, she scoped out Bay Area parking garages where she could hone her skills. After graduation, she moved back to Missoula and launched a Facebook page called “Let’s Bring Roller Derby to Missoula!” In less than a month, “Let’s Bring Roller Derby to Missoula” amassed 173 members. Women started holding impromptu meetings in backyards around town. Lundberg and her sister even set up a recruitment booth at the Testicle Festival at Rock Creek Lodge, but the booth attracted more leering men than it did prospective players. In August 2009, the online group moved its virtual home base and formed the “Hellgate Rollergirls” Facebook page. I friended them. In September, the Hellgate Rollergirls, or HGRG, held its first recruitment meeting in a conference room at the Missoula Public Library. Of course, I was there. The room was packed. Skates and pads were displayed on tables for the recruits to examine. As “Delicious Demon” and “Viperella” welcomed us and began laying out the league’s game plan, I slipped on a pair of wrist guards for the first time, and felt momentarily like Wonder Woman.

hortly after that first recruitment meeting, HGRG went public with its mission. Committees were formed to plan fundraising events, increase mem-

ALI GADBOW JOINS THE ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE RANKS OF MISSOULA’S NEW ROLLER DERBY LEAGUE

photos by Cathrine L. Walters

Hellgate Rollergirls strap on their knee, elbow and wrist pads at a practice session at their practice facility—a dark warehouse near Missoula’s railroad tracks.

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bership, and spread the word around Missoula. Since we had no home and few of us even owned skates, the public relations effort looked like an uphill battle. For one thing, while most people know roller derby exists, few have a clue how it’s played. Even those of us who had seen actual bouts were a bit fuddled when it came to the actual rules. Until I started skating with the league, all I really knew was that someone scored points, that it involved skating very quickly and that people got knocked around. Actually, it’s a bit more involved. Roller derby teams consist of a maximum of 20 players, up to 14 of whom are

pack. Breaking through the pack is tough in any kind of race, but it’s extremely hard to do on roller skates when people are trying to knock you down. A blocker’s job is a lot like a lineman’s in football, except both quarterbacks have the ball and they are both making a run for the end zone. Also, players usually skate under pseudonyms, dress in funky outfits, and do quite a bit of posturing. One might think these last elements were dreamed up by today’s post-punk, post-feminist skaters, but the performance is as old as the game itself. Since its inception during the Great Depression, roller derby has always been

Giant cursed the sport with a demotion to “sports entertainment” in the public mind. Aside from a brief revival in 1989, the televised version of the game disappeared in the early 1970s when the theatrical “RollerGames” league was disbanded. Old-fashioned roller derby’s last gasp was punctuated by the 1972 release of Kansas City Bomber, in which Raquel Welch battles Helena Kallianiotes (literally, with hair-pulling) for the star position on the Portland roller derby team. Coincidentally, scenes were shot at the Portland Expo Center, where I got my first taste of derby the way we play it now.

held at the Elks Lodge and included a singles auction. I paid my first month’s dues, danced a little, toasted my new pals and egged on the bidders. Then I went home. At that point roller derby in Missoula still had little to do with actual roller skating. During the fall, girls with skates worked on their skills in a parking lot under the Orange Street bridge, but most members didn’t have skates. Personally, I was caught up in the usual Christmas mayhem. By January the downtown landscape was crusted in uninviting layers of dirty ice, and suddenly it was February. What was up with the

The Hellgate Rollergirls includes 25 dues-paying members. The pre-practice stretching ritual prepares the women for a contact-filled practice.

on the roster for a given game. A game, usually called a bout, consists of two 30minute periods, which are further broken down into an unlimited number of skating sessions called jams. During a jam, which lasts two minutes at most, five players from each team are on the track: a jammer, three blockers, and a pivot blocker. The pivot blocker wears a stripe on her helmet and sets the pace for her team. The jammer wears a star on her helmet; she’s the one who scores the points by starting behind the pack of skaters and making her way to the front. Each time the jammer laps the pack she earns points for every opposing player she passes. The first jammer to legally pass all of the blockers is known as the lead jammer. She can call off the jam by slapping her palms against her hips in a kind of rolling chicken dance. Blockers have two jobs: to prevent the opposing team’s jammer from scoring, and to assist their own jammer through the

populist entertainment. Like pro wrestling at about the same time, the sport started attracting crowds at local arenas, and the high-intensity, full-contact spectacle gained traction. Derby was coed, and the women played by the same rules and with the same intensity as the men. In fact, women were the real draw. Bouts were broadcast on the radio as early as 1939, and the sport was—again, like pro wrestling—one of the first to be regularly televised, starting in 1948. To keep fans watching, some of the action was choreographed. It has never been clear how many of the games were fixed, but some certainly were. Anyone born before 1970 probably remembers catching some version of roller derby on TV. My father watched it religiously in the 1950s with his octogenarian aunt Mabel, who also loved pro wrestling. For-profit derby’s parallel path with that of Gorgeous George and Andre the

Clearly, entertainment is still central to today’s derby. It would not be the same sport without the costumes, the posturing and the spunky pseudonyms, but make no mistake—the game is tough. Today’s derby requires hours of practice every week, follows a standard skater-created rulebook a yard thick, and the games are never fixed. It’s now played on a flat track, with the advantage that bouts can be set up just about anywhere with a minimal investment of time and money. The revived version, which was reborn in Texas and swept the nation in the early 2000s, is largely an all-women, all-amateur phenomenon with a strong DIY ethic. Derby’s definitely a sport, but nobody wants to take it to the Olympics. We’d rather take it to the streets.

n December 11, 2009, I officially became a Hellgate Rollergirl. It was the night of the league’s first big fundraiser, the Black and Blue Ball. The event was

Hellgate Rollergirls? I had no clue. I also had no skates, except for those old-school showboaters collecting dust in the attic. I wasn’t the only one wondering whether this thing was ever going to happen. In theory, it’s easier to get organized these days, what with social networks and the Internet. Facebook was certainly instrumental in getting HGRG off the ground, but cyberherding has its limitations, especially when an organization is committed to a certain level of egalitarianism. Or, to put it another way, I was on a contact list, just not the list that was used to announce that indoor practices had commenced in the multipurpose room at Target Range School. Hannah “Hannibal Wrecker” Heimbuch happened to work at the school, and she knew that local groups often used the multipurpose room. The HGRG Housing Committee searches tirelessly for appropriate indoor spaces, but landlords are wary of the possible liability issues

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Teammates execute a “pace line,” a close-quarters exercise that helps skaters gain the balance—and confidence—necessary for close-proximity, full-contact skating.

involved with allowing young women on skates to knock each other down in their building. Target Range, on the other hand, was blessedly open to Heimbuch’s request for practice time, and it was there that I really learned to skate. I heard about the indoor practices second or third hand, probably from a derby boyfriend, maybe from my boyfriend (he always knows what’s going on). At any rate, I got fired up. Roller derby was real and I was missing it. But first, I needed to order skates. A few days later I met my friend Katt at the Bike Doctor. Shop co-owner and founding HGRG member Marlana Kosky has trained her bike mechanics to size female feet for roller skates, and the shop offers a discount on skating gear to duespaying HGRG members. Katt and I stripped off our shoes and submitted our feet to careful measurements of length and width. We flipped through a skate catalogue and both decided on a mid-priced model. Or almost decided. Derby gear costs money: a beginner’s initial investment in skates and safety gear is generally at least $200, and we were looking at $120 skates, not to mention knee and elbow pads, wrist guards, mouth guards and helmets. After a week of waffling, I put in my order, but I soon had bad news. My skates were backordered indefinitely. I switched my order to the ubiquitous, more economical but less sexy R-3s, a standard for derby beginners (also known as “fresh meat”), and I waited. One week went by, then another. I couldn’t stand the delay, so I pulled my thrift store skates out of the attic and set about cleaning as much dirt and hair out of the bearings as I could reach with a toothpick. I was afraid to pull the wheels off, since this was my one and only pair of roller skates, and I didn’t know a whole lot about them. On a Friday in March, I finally took the plunge. Early that day, I loaded a duffel bag with my brand-new pads, helmet and wrist guards, and my ancient skates.

After work, I drove straight to Target Range School and wandered the halls, looking for the multipurpose room. I was early and the room—linoleumfloored and roughly half the size of a basketball court—was dark and empty. I sat down and pulled on my pads and skates. Soon a few women began trickling in. We introduced ourselves. A few of the girls remarked on my skates: I must really know how to roller skate if I was going to skate on those things. Yeah, right. My stomach filled with the proverbial butterflies, but I managed to right myself on the slick linoleum and started to warm up. The difference between my skates— technically “dance skates”—and the derby version soon became painfully clear. Dance skates have a high arch. Your feet sit in them as they would in a pair of ballroom dance pumps. My skates were high, delicate boots of thin leather, sitting on a tall base. Derby skates are cut low, like basketball sneakers, with a minimal arch and a wide wheelbase—built for speed. Compared to the other skaters, I was rolling on stilts. Worse, my wheels and toe stops had dried with age and turned rock-hard. I fought to build up speed—partly because I couldn’t get a purchase on the floor and partly because of the gunk in my bearings—and I tended to slide out around corners. When I tried to engage my toe stop, it slid along the floor like a buttered hockey puck. But I was skating, and I was excited. That first night I learned two new ways to stop that didn’t rely on my unreliable toe stops, and no one sneered at my slow, slippery skating style. I also got the workout of my life. If you want to play roller derby, you need very strong thighs. If you fall—and you will, often—you don’t want to put your hands on the floor. The likelihood of having your fingers smashed under another skater’s wheels is extremely high. If you fall, you need to get back on your feet using only your leg muscles, so derby training involves many, many lunges and squats. Lunges on skates are

not fun. Let me tell you this. The second time we practiced I was still so sore my leg muscles hardly functioned—when I went down, I didn’t get back up.

lat track derby’s governing body is actually an ultra-democratic collective: the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association, or WFTDA, which I pronounce “wufdah.” “Wufdah,” incidentally, is also the sound I make returning to my skates after a fall—in under two seconds, without using my hands—so the name is appropriate. Leagues are either WFTDA-affiliated or “rogue,” meaning they don’t have WFTDA support, but everybody more or less plays by WFTDA rules. By common agreement and for insurance purposes, in order for a league to participate in bouts or scrimmages with another league, all skaters must show a level of

skating proficiency dictated by WFTDA’s “Minimum Skills Requirements,” which include performing certain stops from a brisk pace, skating around obstacles, and giving or taking hip and shoulder checks. During HGRG practices, initially held twice weekly, I kept the minimum skills requirements in mind while I pushed myself to perform T-stops without teetering, to fall small, and to get up fast. I worked on my derby stance—knees bent deep, back straight and eyes forward—and I built up the endurance I would need to lap a regulation track 25 times in less than five minutes. Now that I was skating regularly, it was also time for me to take another vital step in becoming an authentic roller girl: choosing my derby name. Taking a derby name is as solemn a task as naming your dog or baby. Once you settle on a name, you’re stuck with it, so it had better be just right. Your derby name should fit your derby persona, and that’s basically an extension of you, only bigger, bolder, more playful, more aggressive and unabashedly competitive. The right derby name should suggest something about who you are in real life as well as something about your playing style. A good moniker might be a play on your name (Tiffany Klang is known as “Doppelklanger”), your physical appearance (petite Brae Bullard took her initials and transformed herself into “Bitty Bitch”), or what you do on the track (Marlana Kosky incites fear with the title “M. Kneesya”). I went over my options. I could play with my name…Gadbow…Bad Blow… Gadfly Gallows…Alley Gallows? Hmmm. Spooky, but it didn’t make much sense, and it didn’t say much about me. Ali Cat? Ali Gator? Too typical, and do I really identify with a lizard? Plus, Allie Gator and Alligator Allie are on the national derby name roster as members of Mad Rollin’ Dolls and Side Roller Derby, respectively. My full first name is Alison, but names like Alison Wonderland are also done to death. Baby name books translate Alison as

The Hellgate Rollergirls scrimmage during a recent practice.

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“son of the noble” or, more quaintly, “little truthful.” I’m attracted to the concept of truth as something you can’t deny, and something that might blow up in your face. My major lifelong interests have been art and science, disciplines that have differing but, in my opinion, equally valid claims on truth. Also, sometimes I write true stories for our local weekly newspaper. So I decided on my name: “Lil’ Truth.” I like the ambiguity. How much truth, exactly? You’ll never know. It’s not an especially scary or aggressive name, but let me tell you: sometimes the truth can hurt.

hese days, I think of myself as a roller girl. I have a derby name, derby gear and derby bruises to back me up. More than anything, I find it’s become a part of who I am. Flat track roller derby is not just a sport, it’s a lifestyle. League guidelines suggest a level of individual commitment that can be daunting: attendance at skate practices, conditioning, all-member meetings, committee meetings and league events is mandatory to remain in good standing. Add to that the financial commitment to equipment and monthly dues (ours are $25) and roller derby asks a lot. But somehow, even in a league that has never bouted, that just weeks ago gained access to a space large enough that skaters don’t risk nausea from turning in tiny, tight circles or gravel burns from skating in parking lots, the dividends are more than enough. The sheer joy of skating, the sense of common purpose, the sense of escape from ordinary life, of physical challenge, of performance and fun—all of these things keep me on skates at least three hours a week. And, surprisingly to me, the organizational part is rewarding, too. I’ve never been a joiner, but more of a Groucho Marx type: I’d never join a club that would have me as a member. As I get older, that outlook is changing. I credit the frustrations of the Bush II years for turning me into a great proponent of community involvement.

Style and attitude play as much a part of roller derby as anything that happens on the track.

Social clubs always seemed outdated to me, but I believe that in this decade people my age started to realize we’d got it wrong. Yes, those old institutions like the Elks and the Eagles didn’t seem to know what they stood for anymore. But as DIY and local-centric movements gained ground and pulled many of us out of our war-torn, regime-weary funk, the democratic, coalition-building force of the social club regained its appeal. This was about when youngsters started joining lodges again. They also formed roller derby leagues. My cousin and go-to man on underground sports, Zach Dundas, has likened the organizational mindset of derby to the Anarcho-Syndicalist movement, an early 20th century revolutionary movement that combined the organizational framework of rank-and-file unionism with the anarchist concept of direct democracy. He may not be far off. Modern derby is fiercely independent and egalitarian. The WFTDA requires its member leagues to be at least 51 percent skater-owned and organized around “democratic principles.” Historically, fraternal lodges were places where, often under the protection of a spooky secrecy

oath, men broke out of their social shells and started getting ideas. Now women want a piece of that action. Derby leagues don’t have an oath of secrecy, but they do foster a sense of sisterhood. The derby clubhouse is a place where young women can talk about their lives, in a space outside of the domestic and professional spheres, and forge strong friendships with other Missoula women that they would never meet anywhere else. Even in a city this small, people move in their own circles. Derby provides a chance for those circles to intersect in playful, exhilarating and unexpected ways. A casual poll of 23 out of our 34 official members, plus one aspiring ref, gives some idea of HGRG’s demographic. Our median age is 29, and most girls are between 27 and 30. Our youngest member is 20. The oldest admitted age was 37. At least seven of us are moms, and most of us have pets. At least five of us are University of Montana students, and most of us have more than one job, including 10 in the service industry, two in the beauty industry, three in health care, three in law, one teacher and one pet store owner. Asked to describe the

Author Ali Gadbow, white shirt, prepares to “whip” a teammate during a two-on-two practice drill.

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best thing about derby in five words or less, most people included words like badass, kickass, tough, strong; sports, athleticism; camaraderie, community, and new friends. A few girls also mentioned cool clothes. Over the months, HGRG outgrew the space at Target Range School and we still didn’t have a clubhouse—unless you counted the basement stockroom of Piece of Mind, where we held our monthly membership meetings while shoppers perused the glassware overhead. But on April 16, we held our first practice in our new home, a leased warehouse on Toole Street that could serve as both practice space and meeting room. Finding a large home base with a skate-able floor was a major leap forward, but our new home has a few flaws. We’re not handicap-accessible, which hampers our ability to stage public events, and we’re renters, so we can only hang on to our space as long as we have funds and good standing with the landlords. At last count, 25 members were current on their monthly dues, which is enough to pay half of the monthly rent. In order to keep our current practice space and clubhouse—not to mention finding and securing a bouting space—we’ll need to recruit more women and fundraise like crazy. But there’s promise. We’re a community now, and we’re committed. We’re dedicated to building the team, and looking forward to giving back to the larger community, including Target Range School and everyone else in Missoula who gave us a hand. I notice now that I say “us” when I talk about roller derby, and I talk about “our” mission here. It feels good to be involved, but it’s even better when you do it on skates and get to hit people. The week we signed the lease at Toole Street, my derby skates finally arrived. The first time I stood up on them, I immediately sat back down, hard, on the cement floor. No dirt in the bearings meant no resistance in the wheels, and that spelled speed. After a few wobbly starts, I embraced my newfound power and headed for the track. I can’t begin to describe the elation I felt flying around the hand-taped, regulation-sized derby track on my brand new skates, or the sense of belonging I felt afterward, drinking my off-skates beer on the loading dock with the other girls. My only thought was that I had arrived—we had arrived. Missoula roller derby was real. That night, around 25 skaters joined me on the track: enough to field two teams as soon as we passed our basic skills tests. We’re all at different skill levels, from the freshest “fresh meat” still getting her skate legs to the hockey players and natural athletes who nailed their crossovers on day one, but every practice, we all improve. Many of us could have that skills test under our belts by the end of May. editor@missoulanews.com

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Asparagus leek soup for mom FLASHINTHEPAN What is it about asparagus and Mother’s Day? You always seem to find the green shoots in omelets served in bed and on Mother’s Day brunch menus. Is there some symbolism at work here, or is the relationship merely a consequence of the fact that when Mother’s Day rolls around, asparagus is one of the only vegetables in season? Celebrating Mother’s Day in the height of spring does make symbolic sense because by celebrating mothers we’re celebrating fertility. Spring is such a brilliant display of fertility you’d think Goddess-worshipping pagans created Mother’s Day, and not a woman named Anna Jarvis, who started the holiday in honor of her mom, whose birthday was in May. There are some practical reasons why asparagus is good for mothers. If she’s pregnant, she’ll get a super dose of folic acid, a B vitamin important for preventing birth defects. Asparagus also contains the antioxidant glutathione, which is linked to cancer prevention, and is a good source of vitamin C, thiamin and vitamin B6. If mom ever gets a case of puffy ankles or swollen feet, bring out the asparagus. It’s a diuretic, flushing the excess fluid from those uncomfortably enlarged tissues. According to Miss Manners, asparagus is one of the few foods acceptable to eat with one’s hands. This “asparagus exception” originated in a time when people ate with real silverware, which is susceptible to staining by asparagus enzymes. Back when silverware was mom’s exclusive domain, you’d have done her a favor by using your fingers and not staining her silver. These days, finger foods give a deliciously informal feeling to a meal, encouraging mom to let her hair down and relax a little on Mother’s Day. My first glimpse at an asparagus patch in production was disappointing. After waiting all winter for something green to eat, a trip to an asparagus farm was rewarded with the sight of an empty brown field. But as my eyes scanned for something to focus on, I finally saw a shoot, then another, and then I

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Mother’s Day or not, asparagus is in season right now, and asparagus leek soup is a great way to enjoy it. I adapted the following recipe from one I found on epicurious.com. It’s simple, foolproof and lends itself to making extra to freeze for later. The ingredients for 1 pound of asparagus: 2 tablespoons of olive oil, 2 cups of chicken or veggie stock, and 1 cup chopped leeks (white and pale green parts only). In addition, I highly recommend serving the soup with a lemon peel gremolata, made with the following: 2 teaspoons parsley, chopped; 4 teaspoons lemon peel, grated; 1 tablespoon fresh tarragon, chopped; and 1 garlic clove, minced. The soup is best made the day before, and chilled. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and prepare the spears as the oven heats. Use one hand to grasp the base (the cut end), and gently bend the spear with the other hand a couple of inches higher up the stalk. The spear will snap at the point where it begins to toughen, usually about an inch or so from the cut end. Discard the cut ends, as they will be woody. Cut the asparagus into 2-inch pieces. Photo by Ari LeVaux Combine asparagus, leeks and can start picking. During harvest season, the aspara- oil in a large bowl and toss. Spread on a baking sheet gus tips come up quickly. On a warm day they can or skillet, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and roast grow 6 inches, but on cold spring days they’ll put on until asparagus pieces are soft and leeks are golden, mere fractions of an inch. After a five-week harvest stirring occasionally, about 45 minutes. Remove from oven and allow to cool. it’s best to allow the remaining stalks to grow up and Spoon the vegetables into a blender, add 2 cups feed the crowns. Mature asparagus plants resemble overgrown broth, and blend until smooth. Transfer to a pot. ferns, reaching heights of 4 feet or more, with bright Chill, covered, until serving time. Make the gremolata as follows, just before servred (and poisonous) berries dangling like Christmas tree ornaments, and providing shade to napping ing: Mix parsley, lemon peel, tarragon, and garlic in dogs all summer long. Because the plants are so large a small bowl. To serve, reheat the soup, thinning with more it’s best to plant them on the north and west sides of stock if you wish, and ladle into bowls. Sprinkle with the garden, so they don’t shade the other crops. Late summer, when the plants are big and visi- gremolata and serve. It can also be served chilled. Even though it contains asparagus, this isn’t ble, is when stalkers of wild asparagus ply the creek bottoms in search of the grown plants. They mark exactly finger food. Miss Manners would probably the spots where the plants are found, and return the slurp it from the bowl rather than stain a silver spoon. Mom should feel free to do the same. following spring for the shoots. was seeing them everywhere. They’re hard to spot because as soon as they grow tall enough to see, they’re harvested. If you want to grow asparagus in your garden, start by planting clumps of asparagus roots, called crowns, in well-drained soil. Plant them about 18 inches apart in trenches, and spread out the roots. When the first shoots appear, allow them to grow out into mature plants, which will feed the crowns and help them grow and spread. After two years of watching your asparagus grow up unharvested, you

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Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Blue Canyon Kitchen 3720 N. Reserve (adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn) 541-BLUE www.bluecanyonrestaurant.com We offer creatively-prepared American cooking served in the comfortable elegance of their lodge restaurant featuring unique dining rooms. Kick back in the Tavern; relish the cowboy chic and culinary creations in the great room; visit with the chefs and dine in the kitchen or enjoy the fresh air on the Outdoor Patio. Parties and special events can be enjoyed in the Bison Room. Hours: Tavern hours Monday-Saturday 3pm-11pm, Sunday 3pm-10pm . Dining Room hours Monday-Saturday 5pm-10pm, Sunday 4pm-9pm. $$-$$$ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins Ave. 542-0002 Dine-In, Drive-Thru, Delivery... Truly a Missoula find. Popular with the locals. Voted Missoula's best pizza. Everything

from hand-tossed, thin-crust, stone deck pizza to wild salmon burritos, free-range chicken, rice bowls, ribs, pasta, salads, soups, sandwiches & "Pizza by the Slice." And now offering gluten-free dough. Local brews on tap and wine by the glass. Open every day for lunch & dinner. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 37 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Ciao Mambo 541 S. Higgins Ave. 543-0377 Ciao Mambo, at the end of the Hip Strip on 4th and Higgins, serves up fresh, classic, immigrant style Italian food seven days a week. Terrific service and an extensive domestic and Italian wine list. Try our Wednesday all you can eat Spaghetti! Dinner only and take out service available. Ciaomambo.com or 543-0377. $$-$$$

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Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve by TJ Maxx & Ross 549-5595 The month of May is come, when every heart beginneth to long for....ColdStone! Bring forth the home-made, super premium ice cream! Bring forth the ice cream cakes, cupcakes and ice cream sandwiches, the shakes and smoothies! For it giveth unto all courage, It's a Great Day for Ice Cream! $-$$ Doc's Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. 542-7414 Doc's is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you're heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc's is always an excellent choice. Delivery service within a 3 mile radius. Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave • 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffeehouse/Cafe located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch seven days a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and an espresso bar till close. Open Mon-Thurs 7am-8pm, Fri & Sat 8am4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 South 3rd West • 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted free-range chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm. $–$$ Harry Davids 2700 Paxson Street, Suite H • 830-3277 Kicking off in February is LIVE BAND KARAOKE and LADIES NIGHT at Harry David’s every Thursday night at 9:30pm. Drink specials for the Ladies! Part Karaoke / Part Dance night with the band Party Trained, this is your opportunity to sing like a rockstar with a live band backing you up – and it will be every Thursday! If Karaoke is not your thing – no problem the band will be playing in between karaoke songs to keep you on the dance floor!

Indulge Bakery 700 SW Higgins Ave. 544-4293 indulgebakery.wordpress.com Now open! Enjoy international flavors from baci di dama to pizzelles, gourmet cupcakes, scones and decadent cinnamon rolls. Specialty breads hot and fresh between 3 and 5pm daily. Open M-F 7am-6:30pm; Sat. 9am-4pm See us on Facebook! Call to find out more (406)523-3951. $ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Not matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $-$$ Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins Ave. • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch and we use no MSG products. Featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive hot and ice tea menu including bubble tea. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Free Tea Tasting second Saturday every month 4:30-5:30pm Open Mon-Sat, lunch an dinner. $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. Special senior menu & a great kids’ menu. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$

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HAPPIESTHOUR Garden City BrewFest Missoula’s annual celebration of suds promised the usual bounty of beers, but it seemed like everyone was talking more about the crappy weather than the craft brews. Not here. Of the 61 beers on tap at the event, the Zoo City Zymurgists singled out nine winners. We’ve listed them, along with our own review.

Mighty Arrow, New Belgium Brewing: It’s named after a dog, yet still won Best Pale Ale.

Cowboy Coffee Porter, Big Sky Brewing: This porter packed quite a punch, winning distinction as both Best Dark Ale and Best of Show. We wholeheartedly agree. A delicious blend of beer and our favorite caffeinated fuel, Cowboy Coffee kept those of us working the event warm and awake during the afternoon storm. Thick, heavy, with a hint of chocolate flavor—we’d been looking forward to this one, and we weren’t disappointed.

Summer Ale, Alaskan Brewing: Won Best Light Hybrid Beer. We don’t drink light beer.

Belgian White, Blue Moon Brewing: A tap standard these days (Blue Moon is owned by Coors), it nonetheless walked away with the Best Belgian Beer award. Meh. Single Malt IPA, Blackfoot Brewing: According to many Montanans, this is arguably the best beer in the state—and winner of the Best IPA award last weekend.

Blackout Stout, Blacksmith Brewing: Sadly, all of us missed the Dark Ale/Strong winner. But if the brew experts at Zoo City Zymurgists singled it out, we’re pretty sure it’s worth the 30-mile drive to Stevensville.

Seeley Axe White, Kettlehouse: The local brewery’s latest experiment—an instant favorite among Missoula’s gluten intolerant— received Best Specialty Beer. Salmon Fly Honey Rye, Madison River Brewing: Winner of best rhyme, and Best Wheat/Rye. Rope Swing Pilsner, Redhook: Talk about a pleasant surprise. None of us thought to make a beeline for the Red Hook taps, but Rope Swing, winner of Best Lager, proved one of the tastes of the day for at least one Indy staffer. —Alex Sakariassen and Skylar Browning

Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve • 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins Ave. • 541-4541 From Latté to Lassî, Water to Wine, Tea Cup to Tea Pot, Liquid Planet has the best beverage offering this side of Neptune -- with a special focus on allnatural, organic, and sustainability. Their distinctive and healthy smoothie menu is worth the visit too! Quick and delicious breakfast and lunch is always ready to go; pastries, croissants, bagels, breakfast burritos, wraps, salads, and soups. Open 8 am to 10 pm daily. $-$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 Don't feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks • 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $6.95. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $6.95. Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$. Pearl Café & Bakery 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 Country French Specialties, Bison, Elk, Fresh Fish Daily, delicious salads and appetizers. Breads and desserts baked in house. Reservations recommended for the warm & inviting dining areas, or drop in for a quick bite in the wine bar. Now, you may go to our website Pearlcafe.US to make reservations or buy gift certificates, while there check out our gorgeous wedding and specialty cakes. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Red Robin 2901 Brooks Street • 830-3170 www.redrobin.com Half the price, twice the fun! Halfy Hour at the Southgate Mall Red Robin®! Half price bar drinks Monday – Friday, 4-6 p.m. and Monday – Saturday, 9-10 p.m. Enjoy a drink with one of our insanely delicious Gourmet Burgers, Bottomless Steak Fries. Or, snack on one of our shareable starters with friends! $-$$ SA WAD DEE 221 W. Broadway • 543-9966 Sa-Wa-Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors-no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisines. Now serving Beer and Wine! $-$$

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Scotty’s Table 131 S. Higgins Ave. • 549-2790 Share a meal on our park side patio or within the warm elegance of our location at the historic Wilma Building. Enjoy our seasonal menu of classic Mediterranean and European fare with a contemporary American twist, featuring the freshest local ingredients. Serving lunch Tues-Sat 11:00-2:30, and dinner Tues.-Sat. 5:00-Close. Beer and Wine available. $$-$$$ Sean Kelly’s 130 West Pine • 542–1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for Lunch and Dinner, featuring a Sat.-Sun. Brunch 11-2pm. Great Fresh food With Huge Portions. Featuring locally produced specials as well as international cuisine and traditional Irish fare. FULL BAR, BEER, WINE, MARTINIS, 100% SMOKE FREE. "Where the Gaelic and the Garlic Mix!" $-$$

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The Stone of Accord 4951 N. Reserve St. 830-3210 Serving Award Winning Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinners 7 days a week! All of your favorite Irish classics, plus a daily selection of Chef's specialties. A fully stocked bar, wine and liquor store and the Emerald Casino make The Stone of Accord the perfect place for an enjoyable meal. 6:30am-2:00am $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI Sushi Hana Downtown offering a new idea for your dining experience. Meat, poultry, vegetables and grain are a large part of Japanese cuisine. We also love our fried comfort food too. Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner. Corner of Pine & Higgins. 549-7979. $$–$$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 • www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana. Certified Organic Wines, No Added Sulfites. Tasting Room Hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Before you visit, consider: "Come on, drink up, Lewis. We have thinking to do." Chief Inspector Morse, Cambridge, UK $$ Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day. Daily Lunch Specials. All Soups, including our famous Tomato Soup, are made from scratch. Voted best milkshakes in Missoula for 14 straight years. Great Food, Great Service, Great Fun!! Monday Sunday 8a.m. - 3p.m. $-$$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

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ASKARI Aghast over agave nectar Dear Flash, What is agave nectar? Is it better for you than sugar? My mom uses it in her coffee because she thinks it is, but it tastes like corn syrup to me. —I Can’t Believe It’s Not Corn Syrup

There are two kinds of agave nectar: the ancient sweetener that’s made by collecting agave sap and boiling it down into a sweet syrup, and the modern, commercially available sweetener that is what your mom is pouring into her coffee. The latter is made via a process that’s disturbingly similar to the way high-fructose corn syrup is made. While the labels on commercially available agave syrup often imply that said product is made the way Mexican desert Indians did it, it’s unlikely that these noble ancients had the technology to hydrolyze the pulp of agave plants—hydrolyzing being the process by which oil is turned into margarine. Another stumbling block for the ancient hunter gatherers would have been coming up with a way to convert hydrolyzed inulin, a type of starch found in agave, into a syrup that’s 70 per-

cent fructose. By comparison, the high-fructose corn syrup in soft drinks is 55 percent fructose. The process of converting hydrolyzed inulin to high-fructose agave syrup, aka agave nectar, involves treatment with caustic acids, clarifiers, filtration chemicals, and genetically modified enzymes. I was just as surprised to hear this as you and your mom probably are, but you can read the patent for the process yourself at www.patentstorm.us/ patents/5846333/fulltext.html. And for a full discussion on the startling similarities between high-fructose corn syrup and commercial grade agave nectar, check out this article commissioned by the Weston A. Price foundation: www.westonaprice.org/Agave-NectarWorse-Than-We-Thought.html. While agave nectar is yet another misleading food fad, good old sugar looks better and better, especially the minimally processed kind, which is little more than evaporated cane juice. I have no problem with that. Send your food and garden queries to flash@flashinthepan.net

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

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Go ahead and hogtie me: Birds & Bees LLC, 1515 E. Broadway St., presents the Thai-Tie Party, an intro into bondage which includes a practice session and a curry feast from 6–9 PM at Birds & Bees. $20, includes dinner. RSVP required by calling 544-1019. Visit aboutsexuality.org. The W.C. Worth Blues Players hit the wild notes when they play blues at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. Those in the Flathead get a shot of artistic pleasure a day early when the Jest Gallery, 305 Second St. E. in Whitefish, presents an opening reception for works by Laura Miller and Ryan Mitchell from 6–9 PM. Free. Visit whitefishgallerynights.org for a complete list of participating galleries.

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Green is the color of my envy. Local artist Kelli De Pue-Wemple presents a First Friday opening reception for her exhibit A Retrospective of Perspective 2005 to 2010 Fri., May 7, from 6–11 PM at the Ceretana Studios, 801 Sherwood St. Free.

We're proud to be part of THURSDAY May a team that is committed nightlife to earning your trust.

If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program at 10:30 AM every Thu., Fri. and Tue. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Keep it metallic when the Montana Museum of Art and Culture presents an opening for the Western Cast Iron Art Conference Exhibition—

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which opens in UM’s Paxson and Meloy Galleries and features cast iron and bronze works by artists like Elizabeth Kronfield and Matthew Wicker—with a reception from 5–7 PM in the lobby of UM’s PARTV Center. Free. A free keynote address by Kronfield and Wicker occurs at 7:30 PM in the University Center Theater. Call 243-2019. If you’d like to help the city of Missoula learn how much our trails, sidewalks and bike facilities are used, consider becoming a nonmotorized traffic count volunteer during a training session from 5–6 PM in the Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Free to participate. The count occurs Sat., May 8, from noon–2 PM. Call 258-4989.

The New Leaders Council of Missoula presents its Community Fundraiser, which features a keynote speech by Mayor John Engen, along with food, drinks and the dedication of a lifetime community leader award from 6–9 PM at The Loft of Missoula, 119 W. Main St. Free to attend. Visit newleaderscouncil.org. Hold back those tears: UM President George M. Dennison presents the 2010 last lecture, which starts at 6 PM at the University Center Theater. Free. Call 243-5527. Stumptown Art Studio, 145 Central Ave. i n Wh i t e f i s h , p r e s e n t s Constr uction Landscapes, an exhibit of 3-D works and watercolor pieces by David Spangler with a First Thursday Gallery Night reception from 6–9 PM at the studio. Free. Call 862-5929 and visit stumptownartstudio.org. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., May 7, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Overlord c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

Cruise on you crazy biker: Join others during the first Missoula cruiser ride of the season, which starts with a meet up at 6:15 PM at Caras Park, with the ride beginning at 6:30 PM. Free. Dressing up in Hawaiian attire is encouraged. Don’t fly the coop for this: Paul Wheaton, master gardener and permaculture designer, presents the talk “Raising Chickens 2.0: No More Coop and Run,” an exploration of different techniques for raising chickens which starts at 6:30 PM in the large meeting room of the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. E-mail info@ediblemissoula.com and visit permies.com. Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit, Missoula’s newest trivia night, begins with sign ups at 6:45 PM and trivia at 7 PM at the Brooks and Browns Lounge, at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. Free. Includes drink specials by Bayern Brewery, prizes and trivia categories that change weekly. E-mail Katie at kateskins@gmail.com. Getting buzzed is always allowed: The Lucky Strike Bar, 1515 Dearborn Ave., presents Buzz Time Trivia, which starts at 7 PM this and every Thu. and features trivia plus specials on Jello shots and homemade pizzas. Free to attend. Call 549-4152. Just say yes: UM’s Peace and Justice Film Series continues with a screening of The Yes

Men Fix the World—which details the shenanigans of two men who pose as corporate executives—with a screening at 7 PM in UM’s Urey Lecture Hall. Free. Visit peaceand justicefilms.org. Keep the info freely flowing during “Access Across America,” a talk with David Cuillier of the Society of Professional Journalists which starts at 7 PM in Room 316 of UM’s Don Anderson Hall (aka the Journalism Building). Free. E-mail Ian at asiamarquand@msn.com. You chug while they chug and belt out an aria. The Montana Lyric Opera presents an installment of Opera on Draft: Learn to Sing Italian in Five Beers or Less, which runs from 7–9 PM at the Craggy Range Bar and Grill, 10 Central Ave. in Whitefish. $5. Visit mtopera.org. Take a gander at their aesthetic guns: The University Center Art Gallery presents an opening for Two Man Militia, an exhibit by UM MFA candidates Will Hutchinson and Nathan Tonning with a reception from 7–9 PM in the gallery. Free. Call 243-4491. What’s that spell? The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents the musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Montana Theatre, in UM’s PARTV Center. $18/$14 students and seniors/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 for tickets or visit umtheatredance.org.

He’s all about his bass droogs: Alex B returns with his instrumental hip-hop and downtempo grooves when he plays this spring’s final installment of Bass Face at the Top Hat at 9 PM. $15/$12 advance at Rockin Rudy’s. Locals ETeam, sAuce and Ert and Bernie open.

A pirate, a flying boy and a land where life is never planned hits the stage during the MCT Community Theatre’s performance of Peter Pan, which starts at 8 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $20. Call 728-PLAY and visit mctinc.org for tickets.

Utah’s David Williams wards off firing squads with the power of his dusty axe when he plays folk at the Palace at 9 PM. $5. Locals Wartime Blues open.

Bowling and karaoke go together like oil spills and loving Mother Earth during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. Now’s your time to juggle a beat with your feet in a cavernous setting when DJ DC rocks the AmVets Club with hits starting at 9 PM. Free. Feel free to flail around like a rock star whilst busting out your best version of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” during karaoke at Deano’s Casino near Airway Blvd., 5318 W. Harrier, this and every Thu. at 9 PM. Free. Women give a thumbs up to spirits during Ladies’ Night at the Silver Slipper Sports Bar and Grill, 4063 Hwy. 93 S., which features half-off drinks for women and occurs this and every Thu. starting at 9 PM at the bar. Free. Call 251-5402.

Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptop-fueled hip-hop, crunk, electronic, pop and mashed-up tunes hit the Badlander every week where Dead Hipster DJ Night gets the booties bumpin’ and the feet stompin’ at 9 PM. $3. Women celebrate their womanhood with cheap libations and a bit o’ karaoke with help from the band Party Trained during Ladies’ Night and Live Band Karaoke at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, this and every Thu. at 9:30 PM. Free to attend. Call 830-3277. Dance with a cougar or two, or not, every Thu. at 10 PM when the James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., hosts The Social Club, featuring DJ Fleege spinning an expansive array of tech house and progressive electro dance tunes. Free. Cross your karaoke sword with others during Combat DJ and Karaoke nights, this and

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Stare, but don’t touch: UM’s Sculpture Division Studio, in the UM Art Annex, presents a “Production Iron Pour” as part of the Western Cast Iron Art Conference, starting at 10 AM. Free. Call Brad Allen at 243-5704. Thaw yourself during UM’s Spring Thaw, which features music by Greenstar, a dunk tank and plenty more from 10 AM–2 PM at UM’s Oval. Free. Call 243-5695. The Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St., presents its Art 4 All Project: MAM CAM, a project where you can check out a small video camera at the museum and record yourself or a friend talking about pieces you like the most at the MAM. The videos will then be collected and shown in the museum’s upcoming Art 4 All exhibit. Free. Gallery hours are: Wed.–Fri. from 10 AM–5 PM and Sat.–Sun. from 10 AM–3 PM. Call 728-0447. The Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St., hosts panel discussions as part of the Western Cast Iron Art Conference, the first of which is at 3 PM and focuses on “Pricing, Documenting and Exhibiting.” The second talk, at 4 PM, is on “Green Foundry Processes.” Free for both discussions. Call Brad at 243-5704 and visit wciaa.org for a full line up of events.

She’s a good sister: Local artist Barb Schwarz Karst presents Blades of the Mill, a collection of 18 mixed media paintings that depict portraits of her brother Bob as he was going through the process of chemotherapy, with a First Friday opening reception from 3–5 PM on the third floor hallway of St. Patrick Hospital’s Broadway Building, 500 W. Broadway St. Free. Visit schwarzkarststudio.com. The adult services wing of the Western Montana Mental Health Center, 1315 Wyoming St., presents A Celebration of Recovery, a series of works by local artists with a First Friday opening reception from 4–7 PM at the center. Free. Call 532-9700.

made by several American artists in the medium of cast iron, with a First Friday reception from 5–8 PM at the museum. Free. Includes music by Joan Zen, a gallery talk at 7 PM, as well as an outdoor beer garden. Call 728-0447. (See Spotlight in this issue.) These girls know what’s up: The YWCA’s Leading Our Ladies Program—an eighth-grade girls group—presents Redress Yo’Self, an exhibition featuring art pieces the women made from modified tobacco, alcohol and fashion advertisements with a reception from 5–7 PM in the lobby of the Florence Building,

111 N. Higgins Ave. Free. An artists talk occurs at 6 PM. Call Sienna at 250-7042. These are essential oils: Allegra Print & Imaging, 111 W. Broadway St., presents Motor Oils, a series of 16 oil paintings by Steve LaRance which examine Western culture and roadside scenes with a First Friday opening reception from 5–8 PM. Free. Call 721-7663. Mixed media pieces by Dionna Sunshine Calvo spark up your First Friday at the Top Hat during an opening reception for her work that runs from 5–8 PM. Free. Americana and

folk by California’s Gwyneth Moreland & Monko runs from 6–8 PM. Radical art meets the sleek surface of a skateboard during the Montana Skatepark Association’s Fifth annual On Deck Auction, which hosts a First Friday opening reception at 5 PM at the Badlander. Free, with music by Rooster Sauce, Volumen and The Krooks following at 9 PM. Visit montanaskatepark.org. Be a voice for your walking and bicycling neighbors by applying for a position with the City of Missoula’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board. Applications are due today by 5 PM.

nightlife It’s all about landscapes but probably not overcast skies when the Monte Dolack Gallery, 139 W. Front St., hosts Sense of Place, a collection of lithographs, prints and fine art posters by Dolack and Mary Beth Percival with a First Friday reception from 5–8 PM at the gallery. Free. Call 549-3248. He enjoys heavy metal, and etching on metal. Local artist Abe Coley presents Retrospective/Liquidation Sale, a series of paintings, etched metal plates and collages on the walls of Taco Del Sol, 422 N. Higgins Ave., with a First Friday reception at 5 PM at the taco shop. Free, with refreshments. This one wins out for the longest exhibit name ever. Local artist Abe Coley presents Prototransubstantiationarily, a series of mixed media pieces on display at Food For Thought, 540 Daly Ave., with a First Friday reception starting at 5 PM at the deli. Free, with refreshments. It’s about iron, not irony: The Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St., presents the National Iron exhibit, a series of around 50 works

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Grab an application at the Mayor’s Office in City Hall, 435 Ryman St. or online at ci.missoula.mt.us/index.aspx?nid=426. Call 552-6001. Your eyes will thank you, trust me. Local artist Marlo Crocifisso presents her large scale contemporary mixed media paintings with a First Friday opening reception at 5 PM at Butterfly Herbs, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Go ahead, ask about her Holga: Yellowstone Photo, 321 N. Higgins Ave., presents Trundles, a collection of Jaime Willoughby’s color/black and white photos inspired by everyday adventures that she took with a Holga camera, with a reception from 5–8 PM. Free. She gives a thumbs down to staleness. Local artist Becca Carson presents a fresh collection of watercolor/mixed media portraits— inspired by her last semester as a creative writing student—with a First Friday opening reception from 5-8 PM at Betty’s Divine, 521 S. Higgins Ave. Free, includes wine and cookies. Local artist Abe Coley’s triptych also remains on display during the reception. The Catalyst, 111 S. Higgins Ave., presents Recent Works by painter Scott Sutton during a First Friday opening reception from 5–7 PM. Free. (See Art in this issue.) Your waste is his aesthetic gold: The Brink Gallery, 111 W. Front St., presents big heaps/forgotten flats, an exhibit by artist Edgar Smith, which incorporates recycled, found and discarded materials with a First Friday opening reception from 5–8 PM at the gallery. Free. Call 531-7671. It’s like poetry in motion, but with nudes. Local photographer Amanda Holloway presents Consistency of Time/Nudes in Motion, an exhibit of her work with a First Friday opening reception from 5–8 PM at The Darkroom, 135 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 549-1070. The Dana Gallery, 246 N. Higgins Ave., presents the Missoula Art Museum Permanent Collection at the Dana, featuring works by Freeman Butts, Gennie DeWeese and others, with a First Friday open-

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ing reception from 5–8 PM at the gallery. Free. Call 721-3154. Go female power: YWCA Missoula’s GUTS! program presents a First Friday opening at Blackbird Kid Shop, 525 S. Higgins Ave., which features art, by girls ages 9–18, which represents their female heroes, with an opening reception from 5–8 PM. Free. Call 543-6691. They’re all about keepin’ it temporary. UM art students present First Friday Opening at Gallery 48, a collection of contemporary works in a temporary gallery named Gallery 48, 248 N. Higgins Ave. #A, with a First Friday opening reception from 5–9 PM. Free. The gallery was also open from 3–5 PM today, and is open from noon–7 PM on Sat., May 8. The Framing Studio, 411 E. Alder St., presents work by Shadow Mountain Art Studio artists Jessie Greathouse and Libba Lauchnor with a First Friday opening reception from 5–8 PM at the studio. Free. The studio is open by appointment Tue.–Fri. from 2–6 PM and Sat. from 9 AM–noon. Call 721-2288. Help prevent breast cancer and get your art ogling on during a First Friday fundraiser at Axis Physical Therapy, 420 N. Higgins Ave., which features art by Jerry McGahan and M. Scott Miller, music by Butter, a silent auction and plenty more from 5–9 PM. Free. Proceeds will support local climber Ragna Thorne-Thomsen’s particpation in “Climb Against the Odds” and will be donated to the Breast Cancer Fund. Call Ragna at 396-7874. Quilters ought not space this: Bernice’s Bakery, 190 S. Third St. W., presents a series of quilts embellished with text and photo transfers by artist Ann Bodle-Nash with a First Friday opening reception from 5–7 PM at Bernice’s. Free. She definitely gets her daily fill of fiber. Fiber artist Katy Kellogg Nygard presents a series of her mixed media textile images with a First Friday opening reception starting at 5 PM at Loopy: knit/crochet, 115 W. Front St. Free. Call 543-0560.

Gypsy jazz, swing and bebop goes hand and hand with fermented spirits when El 3-OH!, featuring members of Cash for Junkers, plays the Ten Spoon Winery Tasting Room, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive, at 6 PM. Free. Quilting and abstract art meet and greet at Stevensville’s River’s Mist Gallery of Fine Art, 317 Main St., when the gallery hosts work by fiber artist Heidi Zielinski during a First Friday opening reception from 5–9 PM at the gallery. Free. The opening also features work by the Bitterroot Artists’ Showcase. Call 777-0520. Fill your artistic prescription yet again at Zoo Mountain Natural Care, 345 W. Front St. Ste. D, which presents a First Friday opening reception for work by artists Jesca Cornman, Mono, Auchie and semi-precious stone artisans starting at 5 PM. Free. Bust a move with Missoula’s gang of improvisational movers during “Seeds in the Streets,” a First Friday performance with Turning the Wheel of Missoula which starts with interested participants meeting at 5 PM at the XXXXs on N. Higgins Ave. Free to participate. You’ll warm up for 20 minutes with facilitators, and then move through the streets until 7 PM. Wearing solid spring colors is encouraged. Call 830-3285.

live local bands and refreshments from 5–8 PM at Zootown Brew, 121 W. Broadway St. Free to attend. The auction will benefit a scholarship fund and will assist in purchasing a tool shed and other items. Visit milltowngarden patch.org. Missoula’s youngest crop of cutting edge taste makers share their artistic wares during a First Friday opening at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., featuring Spirit at Play with a reception from 5–8 PM. Free. Call 541-PLAY. She’s always got clay under her nails: The Clay Studio of Missoula, 1106 Hawthorne St. Unit A, presents Intent, new work by Renee Brown, an exhibit which celebrates the culmination of Brown’s two-year residence at the studio with a First Friday opening reception from 5:30–9 PM. Free. Call 543-0509. Your aesthetic senses get wild during the 33rd International Wildlife Film Festival’s open house, the First Friday kickoff to the festival which features an appearance by artist Sven Lindauer, and an opening of a wildlife photography exhibit by Jim Main, at 5:30 PM at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 728-9380.

She rocks it old school: The Artists’ Shop, 304 N. Higgins Ave., presents a series of photos by Jane Goffe—which consist of historical places printed with bi-chromate and cyanotype techniques—with a First Friday opening reception from 5-8 PM at the shop. Free. Call 543-6393.

She was on Hugo’s trail. Author Frances McCue reads and signs copies of The Car that —a series of Brought You Here Still Runs— essays in part about the places that inspired Richard Hugo’s poems—from 5:30–8 PM, with the reading at 7 PM, at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

Support a nonprofit that offers Milltown and Bonner citizens a place to grow organic produce during the Milltown Garden Patch Silent Auction Fundraiser, which includes

He’s all about the head trip: Local artist Keith Levi presents Universal Structures, a series of his complex surrealist paintings on display during a First Friday opening reception from

BETTY’S DIVINE 521 S. Higgins, 721-4777 Join Betty's Divine for our May First Friday celebration. Becca Carson is excited to unveil her new medium to the public on May 7 with a fresh collection of watercolor/mixed media portraits which were inspired by her final semester as a creative writing student. Wine. Cookies. Fun. 5-8pm BUTTERFLY HERBS 232 N. Higgins, 728-8780 Join us at Butterfly Herbs for our First Friday celebration where we'll feature large-scale contemporary mixed-media paintings by Marlo Crocifisso. 5–8 PM at Butterfly Herbs, 232 N. Higgins Ave.

5:30–7:30 PM at Computer Central, 136 E. Broadway St. Free. Just say arrr: La Parrilla, 130 W. Broadway St., presents a First Friday Pirate Booty Fashion Show featuring local handmade party attire, appetizers, refreshments and DJs from 5:30–9 PM. Free. The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., presents Color Missoula, a First Friday art auction that benefits Sentinel High School’s Art Club which features paintings, sculptures, wearable art and other works by Missoula artists with an opening reception from 6–8 PM at the collective. Free. Also includes a live string quartet performance and appetizers. Call 541-7240. The Western Cast Iron Art Conference continues with Pearlsnaps: Meet the WCIAA art opening, which runs from 6–10:30 PM at Gallery 615, 615 Oak St. Free. Call Brad at 243-5704. Abstraction meets process and emotions surrounding motherhood during A Retrospective of Perspective 2005 to 2010, an exhibit by Kelli De Pue-Wemple which features multimedia paintings and works on paper with a First Friday opening reception from 6-11 PM at the Ceretana Studios, 801 Sherwood St. Free.

dance party at Kalispell’s Eagles Ballroom, 37 First St. W., which starts with Latin dance instruction at 7 PM, and moves into music at 7:30 PM. $12 per couple/$10 with a can of non-perishable food, to be donated to the Flathead Food Bank. Call 752-8959. Tsunami, 101 S. Higgins Ave., hosts the WCIAC Student Exhibition, a First Friday opening in conjunction with the Western Cast Iron Art Conference with a reception from 7–9 PM. Free. Call Brad at 243-5704. You can stare, but for the last time: Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins Ave., finishes its Project Selvedge amateur fashion design competition with a grand finale runway show at 7 PM the studio. Free to attend. The winner of the contest will be announced after the show. Call 541-7171. Rock out for a good cause during a benefit for the Spina Bifida Association, which features music by local high school bands including A Memory of Elephants, Britta and Bekah and The World Through Sunglasses and starts at 7 PM at the Union Hall, 208 E. Main St. $5 suggested donation. All proceeds will be donated to The Spina Bifida Association. Call Ali at 240-4398.

The Missoula Historical Preservation Commission presents its 19th annual Missoula Historic Preservation Awards, which starts at 6:30 PM in the Governor’s Room of the Florence Building, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Free, but donations appreciated. Call 258-4706.

What’s that spell? The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents the musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Montana Theatre, in UM’s PARTV Center. $18/$14 students and seniors/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 for tickets or visit umtheatredance.org.

They’ll make you feel hot, hot, hot: The Cocinando Latin Jazz Orchestra keeps your feet tingling with delight when they play a

They kick sadness to the curb: UM’s Jubileers let jubilation rule the night when they perform at 7:30 PM at UM’s Music Recital Hall, in the

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Gnaw on something sweet during the Whitefish Theatre Co.’s rendition of Willy Wonka Jr., with a performance at 7:30 PM at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. $15/$12 seniors/$8 students. Call 862-5371 for tickets or visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

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

The Montana Actors’ Theatre presents another round of song, dance and hilarity with a dark twist—and likely a scantily clad cast—during “MAT Cabaret: Fiesta!!” which starts at 8 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $9. Visit mtactors.com. A pirate, a flying boy and a land where life is never planned hits the stage during the MCT Community Theatre’s performance of Peter Pan, which starts at 8 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $20. Call 728-PLAY and visit mctinc.org for tickets. Dab some Rooster Sauce on your feet during another installment of Hot Salsa Nights, a salsa dance party which starts at 8 PM at the Elks Club, 112 N. Pattee St. $7, with free dances lessons at 8. He’s not a wino, he just enjoys making vino. The Wilma Theatre presents a screening of Blood Into Wine, a documentary which follows Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan’s foray into the wine making business in Arizona, with a screening at 8 PM. $7.50. A Q&A session with the film’s producer follows the screening. Son of a Gun loads up your cartridge when they play country at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Neighbor John Kelly and Ray Allen hope you’ll be a good neighbor and return that chainsaw you borrowed when they play bluegrass and blues at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. No cover, but pass-the-hat donations welcome. Call 741-2361. It’s time for an all-request video dance party to celebrate the week’s end: Feelgood Friday featuring hiphop video remixes with The Tallest DJ in America at 9 PM at The

If you liked Tolkien’s mines of Khazad-dum, you’ll love tunneling through the AmVets Club, where DJDC rocks dance music to slay orcs to at 9 PM. Free. Shake it like a saltshaker when DJ Sanchez cranks out the jams at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, every Fri. at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969. Learn to sing “Dancing Queen” in tongues when Bassackwards Karaoke invades the Alcan Bar & Grill in Frenchtown, 16780 Beckwith St., every Fri. at 9 PM. Free. Call 531-8327. Feel free to flail around like a rock star whilst busting out your best version of Hall and Oates’ “Kiss on My List” during karaoke at the Deano’s Casino near Airway Blvd., 5318 W. Harrier, this and every Fri. at 9 PM. Free. It’s like a battle of the bands, but with laptops. UM’s BCEC presents Battle of the Beats, Missoula’s first ever laptop battle which features sets by seven local producers, as well as an opening set by DJ Coma and a closing set by Kris Moon, at 9 PM at the Palace. $7. Baba Ganoush asks if you’d like to roll around in a tub of hummus when they play bluegrass at 9 PM at the Lumberjack Saloon, off Hwy. 12 and one mile up Graves Creek Road near Lolo. Free. Bowling commingles with a laser light show and some DJ tunage from Kaleidoscope Entertainment every Fri. and Sat. at 9:30 PM at Five Valleys Bowling Center, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Free. Call 549-4158. Tom Catmull and The Clerics consider probing your navel for answers when they play roots and Americana at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free. Don’t ask about borrowing some eggs, just don’t. The Bad Neighbor rocks you as best they can

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when they play Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2. Call 830-3277. Go ahead, take a big plug off their moonshine. Whitefish’s Moonshine Mountain rocks a set of what they call “bulletproof outlaw” music when they play The Craggy Range Bar and Grill, 10 Central Ave. in Whitefish, at 9:30 PM. Free. It’s an open mic night of sorts, for actors and directors, where exposing your new work to an audience is celebrated and shame is shunned during the Montana Actors Theatre’s No Shame Theatre which starts with sign-ups at 9:30 PM and performances at 10 at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $5. Visit mtactors.com. Party Trained lets you give their rusty fish hook a test run when they play Florence’s High Spirits Club and Casino, 5341 Hwy. 93 N., at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 273-9992. If you don’t recognize a single tune they play, you might be a commie. Helena’s The Mighty Flick lights the crowd up with cover tunes from the 1960s up to the present when they play at 9:30 PM at the Elbow Room, 1025 Strand Ave. $1. 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. Vancouver, British Columbia’s The Clumsy Lovers just want to play a quick game of craps with your love dice when they play folk rock at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. His fingers emit fireballs: Erik “Fingers” Ray keeps his digits rockin’ when he plays Americana, blues and country at Sean Kelly’s at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

SATURDAY May

Your heart, the planet and your farmer-neighbors give thanks every Sat. from 8 AM–1 PM as you head down to the Clark Fork River Market (clarkforkrivermarket.com), which takes place beneath the Higgins Street bridge, and to the Missoula Farmers’ Market (missoulafarmersmarket.com), which opens at 8:30 at the north end of Higgins Avenue. If it’s non-edibles you’re after, check out East Pine Street’s Missoula Saturday Market (missoulasaturdaymarket. org), which runs 9 AM–1 PM. Free to spectate, and often to sample. Keep your stomach and your local farmer happy during the Hamilton Farmers’ Market, which offers local produce and crafts and runs from 9 AM–12:30 PM on the corner of Bedford and Third Streets in Hamilton. Free to peruse. Call 961-0004.

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UM student Shelley DeWees presents a lecture/presentation titled “Musical Life & Identity in the Faroe Islands,” which starts at 3 PM in the UM Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building. Free. Call 243-6880.

SPOTLIGHT pour it

nightlife They’ll find you guilty of enjoying good art. The Hot Springs Artist Society presents its juried exhibition, with a reception from 6–8 PM at the On the Wall Gallery at Hot Springs’ Wall Street Place, 101 Wall St. Free. Call 741-2382.

If you’ve ever stepped over a manhole, or cooked yourself a hearty breakfast of bacon and eggs with a skillet, you’ve come into contact with cast iron. A metallic substance that’s made in part by remelting one type of iron and combining it with others—and then pouring it into a mold—cast iron has been used for hundreds of years for numerous applications. In recent times, though, it’s won over the hearts of contemporary artists.

Cellar Door just wants a quick whiff of your oregano stash when they play soul, funk and bluesy rock at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT.

WHAT: National Iron exhibit WHEN: Fri., May 7, from 5—8 PM WHERE: Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. HOW MUCH: Free MORE INFO: missoulartmuseum.org

This week, you can bear witness to the aesthetic fruits of this alloy during the Missoula Art Museum’s (MAM) National Iron exhibit, a display of around 50 cast iron works by artists from across the United States—including Jack Gron, whose abstract sculpture “Rough Seas” is pictured here. But that’s just one part of this bubbling artistic cauldron. Friday’s opening also includes at least 100 cast iron pieces on display outside the museum. These were created throughout the week—some were even made Friday—by attendees of the Western Cast Iron Art Conference, which began

If you have some non-perishable canned food lying around your pad, donate it to a good cause during the Missoula Food Bank/U.S. Postal Service Food Drive, which runs throughout today. All you need to do to participate is to leave your donations by your mailbox. Call Nick Roberts at 549-0543 Ext. 105. Those suffering from illness or loss can find solace during one of Living Art Montana’s Creativity for Life workshops at the library at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St., at 10:30 AM. This week features the program “Nurturing Your Nature” with Hobie Hare. Free, but donations are appreciated but not expected. Register by calling 549-5329 or visit livingartofmontana.org. Scratch one out aesthetically during the Missoula Art Museum’s Saturday Family Art Workshop: Buggy Scratch Art with Loryn Zerr, where you create your own scratchboard using oil pastels, crayons and other materials—and then scratch away to create an insect—from 11 AM–12:30 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. $5, with scholarships available. Call 728-0447. You know momma wants some tea and crumpets. The Daly Mansion,

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Thursday at UM and coincides with this opening, as well as the Montana Museum of Art and Culture’s Western Cast Iron Art Conference Exhibition. In addition to the 100 cast iron pieces displayed outside MAM, conference attendees will be bringing a few of their still-molded, works-in-progress on Friday—and they plan to break them out on the museum’s lawn. Besides getting your metallurgical art on, you can also catch the good word during the gallery talk, soak up smooth grooves from Bitterroot-based musician Joan Zen and sip on a cast iron microbrew from Blacksmith Brewing Co. As a metallic bonus, a number of free events occur on Thursday and Friday as part of the conference and exhibition, including panel talks and the chance to check out a piping hot iron pour demonstration.

251 Eastside Highway near Hamilton, hosts its annual Mother’s Day Tea, which features tea and food and begins at 11:30 AM at the mansion. $25/$20 children. Also includes gift basket raffles and self-guided tours. RSVP by calling 363-6004 Ext. 3. Chew the plant and not the meat with others when the Western Montana Vegetarian Society hosts another monthly vegetarian potluck, which starts at noon at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Missoula, 102 McLeod Ave. Free to attend, but bring a dish to share or a donation. Visit newdawnmt.com and call 529-2018. Get your daily dose of cast iron during the Missoula Art Museum’s tour of the National Iron exhibition with featured artists, which starts at noon at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Call 728-0447. Get wild during the International Wildlife Film Festival’s (IWFF) Wild Fest, the kickoff event to the film fest which runs from noon–3 PM at Caras Park, and includes family friendly activities from Parson’s Pony Farm, The Wind River Bear Institute, The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation and others. Free. The event coincides

—Ira Sather-Olson

with the IWFF’s Wild Walk Parade, which is also free to attend and starts at 12:30 PM at the corner of W. Front and W. Main Streets. Call 728-9380. An aesthetic feast keeps your art appreciation glands pumping during the Bigfork Art Walk, which features a variety of art in 14 galleries in Bigfork on display from 1–6 PM. Free. Visit bigforkevents.com and call 837-4366. A pirate, a flying boy and a land where life is never planned hits the stage during the MCT Community Theatre’s Performance of Peter Pan, which starts at 2 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $16. Call 728-PLAY and visit mctinc.org for tickets. Nature gets nurtured on the big screen during the 33 rd International Wildlife Film Festival, which features nearly 50 films that touch on nature, the animal kingdom, and humanity’s brush with each, with the first screening starting at 2:30 PM at the Wilma Theatre. $7/$5 students/$3 youth per film, or $40 full pass. Films run each day through Sat., May 15, at the Wilma. Visit wildlifefilms.org for a full schedule. Call 728-9380. (See Scope in this issue.)

Rock out for those who have passed on during the 13th annual Musicians Gone But Not Forgotten Concert, which features Flathead area bands including Bad Blood, Two Dolla, The Distractions, Skeeterhawk, Red Moon and others and starts at 6 PM at Polson’s VFW, 423 Main St. Free. E-mail Charles at chasaw1@yahoo.com. A family that rocks together, stays together. Higgins Hall, 617 S. Higgins Ave., presents Three Generations of Rock, a show featuring the kid punk band 64 Tuna, as well as The Krooks and The Runs—which feature the dad and grandfather of one of the members of 64 Tuna, respectively—starting at 6 PM. $5/free kids under age 12. Jazz makes the pad thai go down smooth when IZA Asian Restaurant, 529 S. Higgins Ave., presents free live jazz from a rotating cast of local musicians at 6:30 PM this and every Sat. at the restaurant. Call 830-3237. Metaphors and reality collide when UM MFA creative writing students Inga Aesoph, Carrie Ojanen and Maren Vespa present their MFA thesis nonfiction and poetry readings starting at 7 PM at the Stensrud Building, 314 N. First St. W. Free. Call 243-5267. What’s that spell? The UM School of Theatre and Dance presents the musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Montana Theatre, in UM’s PARTV Center. $18/$14 students and seniors/$8 children 12 and under. Call 2434581 for tickets or visit umtheatredance.org. Gnaw on something sweet during the Whitefish Theatre Co.’s rendition of Willy Wonka Jr., with a performance at 7:30 PM at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. $15/$12 seniors/$8 students. Call 862-5371 for tickets or visit whitefishtheatreco.org. It’s all about appreciating the old school during the Missoula Symphony Orchestra’s final concert of the season, which features guest baritone Corey McKern, along with works by

Beethoven and Verdi, starting at 7:30 PM at the University Theatre. $20–$15 depending on seats. Call 721-3194 or visit missoulasymphony.org for tickets. Folk dance yourself into a fury during the last Flathead contra dance of the season at the Kalispell Salvation Army Church Gym, 110 Bountiful Drive in Kalispell, which starts with dancing at 7:30 PM. Features music by Grin ‘n Bear with calling by Roy Curet. $15 family/$7 adults and teens/free for non-dancers. Dancers are encouraged to bring homemade snacks to share with others. Call Joe at 752-7469. The Montana Actors’ Theatre presents another round of song, dance and hilarity with a dark twist— and likely a scantily clad cast—during “MAT Cabaret: Fiesta!!” which starts at 8 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $9. Visit mtactors.com. A pirate, a flying boy and a land where life is never planned hits the stage during the MCT Community Theatre’s performance of Peter Pan, which starts at 8 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $20. Call 728-PLAY and visit mctinc.org for tickets. Son of a Gun loads up your cartridge when they play country at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Neighbor John Kelly and Ray Allen hope you’ll be a good neighbor and return that chainsaw you borrowed when they play bluegrass and blues at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. No cover, but pass-the-hat donations welcome. Call 741-2361. This isn’t a lonely hearts club: The Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave., presents a Saturday night dance with Heart to Heart playing from 8–11 PM at the center. $5. Call 543-7154. Get your pour on during the Western Cast Iron Art Conference’s “sundown performance pour,” which starts at Rock Creek Lodge when the sun sets. $10 at the gate. Call Brad at 243-5704.

least until the vodka runs out, during Absolutely at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free. The Wild Coyotes only ask for an Epsom salt bath in return for your love when they play country and classic rock at the Lucky Strike Bar, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9 PM. Free. You’ll love his magic pipe: Berkeley, Calif.’s That 1 Guy gets down with his homemade instruments when he plays experimentally leaning music with Portland, Ore.’s Boy Eats Drum Machine at the Palace at 9 PM. $8. Locals Vera open. Party Trained lets you give their rusty fish hook a test run when they play Florence’s High Spirits Club and Casino, 5341 Hwy. 93 N., at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 273-9992. If you don’t recognize a single tune they play, you might be a commie. Helena’s The Mighty Flick lights the crowd up with cover tunes from the 1960s up to the present when they play at 9:30 PM at the Elbow Room, 1025 Strand Ave. $1. Full Grown Men asks if you could please stop committing regicide when they play blues and jazz at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free. County Line keeps secessionists and fashionistas in check when they play country at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2. Call 830-3277. They worship Sabbath, not crack: Missoula’s Crack Sabbath lets “Iron Man” run free when they play covers at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

SUNDAY May

Get a taste of local food at a lower price and learn more about a participatory business model when you

check out the Missoula Community Food Co-op’s Sunday Public Shop, a chance to shop at the co-op before you join from 10 AM–5 PM at the co-op, 1500 Burns St. Free to attend. Nonmembers are welcome to shop three times before becoming a member. Call 728-2369 and visit missoula communitymarket.org. Check out the digs of a copper king of yore when the Daly Mansion, 251 Eastside Highway near Hamilton, hosts summer tours starting at 10 AM today, with the last tour taking place at 3 PM. $8/$7 seniors/$5 children/free children under age 6. The tours run seven days a week through mid-October. Call Darlene at 363-6004 Ext. 4. Lee Zimmerman makes your mama swoon with the bowing of his cello when he plays the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., from 10 AM–noon. No cover, but donations welcome. Call 741-2361. Yet another opportunity to buy local fruits and veggies, as well as arts and crafts hits Missoula during the Carousel Sunday Market and Festival, which runs from 1–5 PM this and every Sun. at the New Park parking lot, between A Carousel of Missoula and the Caras Park pavillion. Free to attend. Call 549-8382. A pirate, a flying boy and a land where life is never planned hits the stage during the MCT Community Theatre’s Performance of Peter Pan, which starts at 2 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $16. Call 728-PLAY and visit mctinc.org for tickets. If your chakras have been a little backed up lately, clear ‘em out during Table Time with Alternative Healers, an intuitive healing and energy balancing workshop from 2–4 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Free. Call Janit at 207-7358.

If you get nervous in front of crowds, just imagine they’re all laughing at your shortcomings at East Missoula’s Reno Casino and Cafe’s karaoke night, brought to you by Karaoke by Figmo at 9 PM. Free. Here’s your chance to get freaky on the dance floor. AmVets Club offers up DJDC and his dance music to the hungry horde at 9 PM. Free. The Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St., lets the karaoke genie out of the bottle at 9 PM. Turn south after taking exit 89 from I-90. Free. Call 370-3200. DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo are guaranteed to keep you dancing to an assortment of hip-hop, electronic and other bass-heavy, bootybusting beats ‘til the bar closes, or at

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Complete that circle, at least for your mother, when Circle of Friends plays from 2:30–5:30 PM at Sean Kelly’s. Free. It’s all about appreciating the old school during the Missoula Symphony Orchestra’s final concert of the season, which features guest baritone Corey McKern, along with works by Beethoven and Verdi, starting at 3 PM at the University Theatre. $35–$15 depending on seats. Call 721-3194 or visit missoulasymphony.org for tickets.

nightlife A pirate, a flying boy and a land where life is never planned hits the stage during the MCT Community Theatre’s Performance of Peter Pan, which starts at 6:30 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $18/$15 children ages 18 and under. Call 728-PLAY and visit mctinc.org for tickets. They’ve got a wicked narrative hookup: UM MFA creative writing students Dylan Mohr and Sara Lynn Pevar present their MFA thesis fiction readings starting at 7:30 PM, at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Free. Call 243-5267. UM student Robert Braun lets his compositions take control of the cockpit when he performs a student recital at 7:30 PM, in the UM Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building. Free. Call 243-6880. 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. Men always get to belt out a slick tune or two during Man Night featuring Karaoke, which occurs this and every Sun. starting at 9 PM at the Silver Slipper Sports Bar and Grill,

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Kick off the latter hours of your day of rest when the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night welcomes saints and sinners alike with jazz DJs and jazz bands starting at 9:30 PM. Free. This week: jazz from the Freemole Quartet and DJs Gary Stein and Ryan Wendel.

MONDAY May

Those interested in issues pertaining to the homeless population are invited to a meeting of the Montana Homeless Network, which meets this and every Mon. at 10 AM in the small conference room of the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call Mary Alice at 880-1210. I’d say perhaps: City Club Missoula presents “DUI Treatment Court: Is It Possible in Missoula?” a talk with Judge Karen Orzech which runs from 11:30 AM–1 PM at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. $16/$11 members/$5 forum only. RSVP by Fri., May 7, requested by calling 243-7720. Visit cityclubmissoula.org. Veterans can find support with trained facilitator Chris Poloynis every Mon. at 2 PM, when PTSD group Spartans Honour meets at the Missoula Veterans Affairs Clinic, 2687 Palmer St. Free. Call 829-5400. UM presents the George M. Dennison Symposium on the Future of Higher Education, which features comments by Dennison and others and runs from 2–4 PM in the Montana Theatre, in UM’s PARTV Center. Free. Call 243-2311.

Montana Comprehensive Epilepsy Program Most people with epilepsy should be seizure free on a single drug. Are you still having seizures? Are you on more than one drug? Do you know what type of epilepsy you have? Are you a surgical or VNS candidate? Do you have side effects of your anti-seizure drugs? Are you paying too much for your anti-epilepsy drugs? Is your insurance demanding you take generics? Can the epilepsy diet help you? Are you one of millions of people who have depression and epilepsy? Are you a candidate for an experimental drug? We can answer these questions, make an accurate epilepsy diagnosis and help you choose the anti-epilepsy therapy that best suits your individual needs. Thomas Swanson, M.D. is our medical director and a nationally recognized expert in epilepsy, epilepsy research, and EEG. As a faculty member of the University of Montana and member of the University of Washington Regional Epilepsy Center, he brings valuable experience in epilepsy research and patient care to Western Montana. We treat adult, childhood, and neonatal epilepsy with clinic locations in Missoula, the Community Hospital Pediatric Specialty Clinics, and Great Falls.

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nightlife What reason have you got for lying around the house watching the tube when Florence’s High Spirits offers Free Pool at 6 PM? Free. Call 273-9992. John Sporman and a friend make it look so easy when they play the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 100, at 7 PM. Free. See if you can become a star under the spotlight at Sean Kelly’s open mic night, hosted by Mike Avery at 9 PM. Free. This is more like attack of the MCs: The Palace hosts “Attack of the Jargonauts,” a show featuring mostly hip-hop from MCs Tonsofun, Shaymlusly Elliterite, Tahj Bo, Traffic, Linkletter and beats from Lui, starting at 9 PM. Free.

TUESDAY May

You can fight for peace in many different ways, but how about knitting for it? Find out when the group Knitting for Peace meets every Tue. from 1–3 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-3955.

nightlife An appreciation of farm work and a delicious organic meal is all yours during Families First Montana’s Farm Night, which runs from 5:30–7 PM at the PEAS Farm, 3010 Duncan Drive. $5 per person/free for children. RSVP requested by calling 721-7690. Follow your dreams of becoming the next Willie Nelson during an open mic/jam night hosted by Louie Bond and Teri Llovet every Tue. at the Brooks and Browns Lounge at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St., from 7–10 PM, with sign-up at 6 PM. Free. E-mail terillovet@hotmail.com. Call them flautists of the highest order: Composer Gary Stroutsos, American Indian flute maker Paul Thompson and renowned flute player Fernando Cellicion present “Remembering the Songs,” an evening of songs and stories which starts at 7 PM in the Johnny Arlee/Victor Charlo Theatre on the campus of Salish Kootenai College, 58138 Hwy. 93. Free. Call 275-4794. I’d say it’s a combo of both: UM presents “What’s Broken: The U.S. Government or Us?” a bipartisan community conversation featuring Pat Williams and Bob Brown at 7 PM in Room 204 of UM’s James E. Todd Building. Free. Call 243-2713. Murder, madness and doomed love makes for good convo fodder when the Missoula Public Library book

These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control

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

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Sadie is a beautiful young black Lab who was left behind when her owners moved. The landlady kept her safe, had her spayed, and brought her to us so that we could find her a good home. We hope to do just that!

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SHEP

Shep was quite shy and very thin when he was brought to the shelter as a stray, but now he's warming up and filling out nicely. He thinks the shelter is okay, but of course he really wants a home and family again.

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M AYA

Maya is a pretty ball of fluff who is going to grow up to be quite an outstanding adult. She's only about 10 weeks old, but she's already been spayed, and this happy, friendly little lady is also well on the way to being housebroken.

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Charlie is also a sensitive fellow, who honestly just doesn't care for all this alone time he has to spend at the shelter. He loves people and will do anything to make them happy, as long as he gets a best friend in return.

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Garth is such a friendly guy that we're amazed he was brought to the shelter in a trap. Surely anyone could have just picked him up and carried him through the door! He certainly hopes someone carries him out to a home soon. Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at

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Harvey is older, and sometimes his arthritis makes him a bit cranky, but most of the time he's happy just relaxing and watching the world go by. However, this sweet guy would prefer a home with better views than our cat room!

All the staff loves this super fun lady! She is always so happy to see you, which certainly lifts our spirits! Also she is a perfect hiking friend on- or off-leash, and she loves fetch, especially in the river! Fellow Pittie lovers have to meet Sky!

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RICK

Rick was brought to the shelter because the other family cats were mean to him. He's so quiet and unassuming that we can't imagine what their problem was, but we do know he'd love to have a new family choose him and make him feel special.

ROSE

Thanks to so many people's kind donations we have now raised enough money for Rose's surgery. Now we just have the task of matching her with a loving, caring, patient family willing to see her through her recovery.

ASTRO

Can you believe this little jumping bean is still at the shelter? He is super sweet, and knows lots of fun tricks, including my favorite, “roll over!” He has lots of energy and gets along with other dogs.

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Falafel is a gorgeous young, tan and brown Mainecoon X who has come so far in her short life. She was born to a feral colony outside of town, but she and her brothers and sisters were rescued and brought inside for socialization.

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They threw her out of the car and sped off in a cloud of dust and gravel. Beverly was devastated that her family would do such a thing. She didn’t know what to do or where to go….and the kids in the neighborhood pelted her with rocks every time they saw her.

EMMA

They found her living in an alley. She had made a nest in an old abandoned couch where she hoped to have her babies. Three days after her arrival at AniMeals, Emma had four beautiful kittens. She was such a good mama that she even became a surrogate to two other abandoned kitties.

SASHA

My world was a scary place before I came to AniMeals. I hid a lot, trying hard not to incur the wrath of “the man.” He was angry all the time. I was an emotional wreck when I arrived, but when constant fear is replaced by quiet calm, an amazing thing happens.

THE COUNT

He is the most interesting cat in the world. He has dashing good looks, but is somewhat humble and soft-spoken. Everything you have heard about him is true. Other cats aspire to be him. His charm is so contagious, vaccines were created for it. Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at

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club meets to discuss Carlos Ruiz Zafon’s The Shadow of the Wind, at 7 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Copies of the book are available at the accounts desk. Call 721BOOK. She makes dissidents proud: Hellgate High School, 900 S. Higgins Ave., hosts a talk by retired Col. Ann Wright, a U.S. Army vet who speaks out against the War in Iraq with the discussion starting at 7 PM in the school’s auditorium. Free. Call 543-3955 and visit jrpc.org. (See Agenda in this issue.) Keep searching for the truth during a screening of 9/11: Blueprint For Truth, The Architecture of Destruction, which starts at 7 PM at the Kalispell Public Library, 247 First Ave. E. Free. Visit ae911truth.org. The Center for Inspired Wisdom hosts its weekly speaker series with the topic “The Whys and Hows of Forgiveness,” a talk with Lee Anne Byrne which starts at 7 PM at The Green Tea House, 415 Second St. E. in Whitefish. Donations accepted. Visit inspiredwisdom.org. The Missoula County Democrats host a Democratic Candidates Forum for House District 94 featuring candidates Lou Ann Crowley and Ellie Hill, at 7:30 PM at Missoula’s City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Free. Call 542-3232 and visit missoulademocrats.org, 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? Geophagy is the eating of what? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.) Chance mixes with money and prizes during bingo night at the Silver Slipper Sports Bar and Grill, 4063 Hwy. 93 S., which occurs this and every Tue. starting at 8 PM at the bar. Free. Call 251-5402.

the Sun at 9 PM at the Palace. $5. Locals Victory Smokes and Capricorn Vertical Slum open. Two Aarons will not be inviting the third Aaron to jump on stage when they play acoustic guitar and bongos at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

WEDNESDAY May

Hop aboard the landscape art appreciation train during the Missoula Art Museum’s opening of Joyce Folsom’s Gift of Intimate Landscapes, a collection of six landscape works by Montana painters which opens at 10 AM in the Goldberg Family Library of the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Gallery hours are: Wed.–Fri. from 10 AM–5 PM and Sat.–Sun. from 10 AM–3 PM. Call 728-0447. Shirk your responsibility for a few hours and enjoy a free matinee during the Missoula Public Library’s afternoon matinee, which this week is a TBA title which starts at 2 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

nightlife It’s once again time to render flesh, muscles and an assortment of body parts from a live model into a work of genius during the Missoula Art Museum’s non-instructed figure drawing classes, from 6–8 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. $7/$5 members. Participants must be 18 and over. Call 728-0447. In case of emergency, break finger puppet: Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like stories, fingerplays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 6:30 PM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

Historian Hugh Ambrose discusses and signs The Pacific—which details the perspectives of WWII vets who were stationed in the Pacific—starting at 7 PM at the Rocky Mountain Museum of Military History, in buildings T-310 and T-316 at Fort Missoula. Free. Call 721-2881. A portrait of a woman’s struggle to steady her life in a dying community hits the stage during the Montana Actors’ Theatre’s production of Bird in House, a play by local playwright Alicia Oravetz with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10. Visit mtactors.com for tickets. Hump day isn’t just for binge drinking anymore. It’s also a day for playing games of chance with other likeminded booze lovers when Sean Kelly’s presents Hump Day Bingo, this and every Wed. at 8 PM. Free. Call 542-1471. A pirate, a flying boy and a land where life is never planned hits the stage during the MCT Community Theatre’s Performance of Peter Pan, which starts at 6:30 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $18/$15 children ages 18 and under. Call 728-PLAY and visit mctinc.org for tickets. 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 trivia question: Geophagy is the eating earthy materials like clay and chalk (yum!). The tenets of women’s lib broadens to include cheap drinks and DJs spinning dance tracks when Feruqi’s hosts Ladies’ Night every Wed. at 9 PM. Free. Get a wicked case of “bowling finger” during Five Valley’s Bowl’s Wicked Wednesday, which features $2 bowling after 9 PM plus $2 cans of

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. See a plethora of patterns and colors—after a few pitchers—and muster up the courage to belt out some prize-winning classics during Kaleidoscope Karaoke every Sun.–Sat. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9 PM. Free. Call 721-1798. Go ahead, touch their calloused hands. The Badlander hosts a night of bluegrass, country, Americana and folk rock from The Workers, along with Jesse Driscoll and Josh Clinger, starting at 9 PM. Free. Enjoy those indie-induced bite marks when Minneapolis’ Vampire Hands plays psych/indie rock with fellow Twin City psych band Daughters of

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Bud Light this and every Wed. at the bowling center, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Free to attend. Call 549-4158. Be sure you’ve downed enough pitchers of PBR in order to have the courage to sing “Holiday in Cambodia” by the Dead Kennedys (believe me, the beer helps), during Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free. No intensive training required: The Silver Slipper Sports Bar and Grill, 4063 Hwy. 93 S., presents beer pong this and every Wed. starting at 9 PM at the bar. Free, with prizes. Call 251-5402. Keep those chemicals away from your fruits, veggies and musical tastes during a fundraiser for Garden City Harvest, which features bluegrass/folk from Baba Ganoush and Tractor Jack and the Muddy Spuds, at 9 PM at the Palace. $5. M-Group gives you permission to play in that tub of molasses when they play what’s likely to be rock at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

THURSDAY May

UM presents the “Coming Home” walk, a symbolic walk at 8:30 AM from UM’s Adams Center to the UM Oval which kicks off the dedication of The Payne Family Native American Center. Free to attend. A flag song and flag raising ceremony will also occur. Call Linda at 243-6093. If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program for babes up to 36 months at 10:30 AM every Thu., Fri. and Tue. Free. Call 721-BOOK. UM hosts the The Payne Family Native American Center Dedication Ceremony, which runs from 4:30–6:30 PM at the front entrance of the center, near UM’s Oval. Free. Includes an honor song, along with remarks from George Dennison, Elouise Cobell and Gov. Brian Schweitzer. Call Linda at 2436093.

nightlife Climate change skeptics need not apply: Confront the root causes of climate change with creative conflict (and no mediation) by heading to a weekly meeting of Northern Rockies Rising Tide, an environmental/social justice organization which meets this and every Thu. at 6 PM at Break Espresso, 432 N. Higgins Ave. Free to attend. Visit northern rockiesrisingtide.wordpress.com. John Floridis keeps the strings in motion when the singer/songwriter plays the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit, Missoula’s newest trivia night, begins with sign ups at 6:45 PM and trivia at 7 PM at the Brooks and Browns Lounge, at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. Free. Includes drink specials by Bayern Brewery, prizes and trivia categories t h a t c h a n g e w e e k l y. E - m a i l K a t i e a t kateskins@gmail.com.

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Getting buzzed is always allowed: The Lucky Strike Bar, 1515 Dearborn Ave., presents Buzz Time Trivia, which starts at 7 PM this and every Thu. and features trivia plus specials on Jello shots and homemade pizzas. Free to attend. Call 549-4152. The Glacier Centennial Program presents its Centennial Film Festival, which features a screening of Heaven’s Gate at 7 PM at the Whitefish Mountain Cinema, 6475 Hwy. 93 S. $10/$8 students and seniors. Call 888-7971 and visit glaciercenennial.org. A portrait of a woman’s struggle to steady her life in a dying community hits the stage during the Montana Actors’ Theatre’s production of Bird in House, a play by local playwright Alicia Oravetz with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10. Visit mtactors.com for tickets. Scott Kirby gives the ghost of Scott Joplin something to joyously moan about when he plays ragtime piano and other styles at the Polson High School Auditorium, 111 Fourth Ave. E., at 7:30 PM. $14/$12 advance at True Value Hardware in Ronan or Fiddlesticks Music in Polson. Visit accessmontana.com/ bigproductions. A pirate, a flying boy and a land where life is never planned hits the stage during the MCT Community Theatre’s performance of Peter Pan, which starts at 8 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $20. Call 728-PLAY and visit mctinc.org for tickets. Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptop-fueled hip-hop, crunk, electronic, pop and mashed-up tunes hit the Badlander every week where Dead Hipster DJ Night gets the booties bumpin’ and the feet stompin’ at 9 PM. $3. Idaho’s Finn Riggins saves you from a tongue lashing when they play experimental postpunkish tunes at the Palace at 9 PM. $3. Locals Vera and Airstream Safari open. Nate Hegyi, lead singer/songwriter of Wartime Blues, keeps the folk and Americana flowing free when he plays with a rotating cast of friends this and every other Thu. at the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., at 10 PM. Free. The Skurfs and Hail Man Well Met bring on the storm when they play metal-inspired surf rock and rock at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. You and I have lots to do this week, so I’ll keep it relatively brief. Here’s what I’d do: First, hit up the Montana Museum of Art and Culture’s Western Cast Iron Art Conference Exhibition on Thursday night. Then, peruse any and all First Friday openings that float your artistic boat. Finish off by going to the screening of Blood into Wine at the Wilma, and then take your hearing apparatuses on a date and go see some live music. At that point, you’re on your own. So start planning and please follow my simple mantra of sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., May 7, to calendar@missoula news.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Overlord c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”

If your outdoors engine gets a steady buzz from hitting up the vast amount of bike trails we have at our disposal, you realize that sooner or later one of your tires is going to pop and get flatter than a day-old can of PBR. But thanks to those friendly pedaling peoples at Freecycles, you’ll soon be able to fix that impending flat in record time. That’s because on Thu., May 6, reps from Freecycles will be on hand for a free bike maintenance basics course which runs from 4–7 PM at Missoula REI, 3275 N Reserve St. Ste. K-2. RSVP by visiting rei.com/stores/72 and call 829-0432. After you’ve filled your tires and lubed your chain, get up to the Flathead so you can join the Flathead Audubon Society Sat., May 8, during a field trip to celebrate spring birds of Glacier National Park. Free. Meet at 7 AM in front of the Alberta Visitor Center in West Glacier, and bring binocs or a scope. Call Steve at 892-7406. Then again, you could warm your rump on the seat of your trusty bicycle Sat., May 8, when you join Missoulians on Bicycles (MOBI) for its Amble to Alberton, a 70-mile joyride, which begins with departure at 9 AM from the corner of Mount Ave. and Reserve St. Free. There’s rumor of a picnic at Alberton Railroad Park, so pack a sammy or bring cash for lunch. Call Wayne at 721-6330 and visit missoulabike.org. Adventure also hits the silver screen Sat., May 8, during the International Wildlife Film Festival, which kicks off at noon with Wildfest at Caras Park, followed by the Wildwalk downtown at 12:30 PM, and screenings starting at 2:30 PM at the Wilma Theatre. Screenings run each day through Sat., March 15, and cost $7/$5 students/$3 youth per film, or $40 for a pass. See “Scope” in our Arts section for some festival highlights and visit wildlifefilms.org for a full schedule. These next purveyors of all things earthen, the Montana Natural History Center (MNHC), have two sweet happenings in store for you on Sat., May 8. The first is its Saturday Discovery Day Spring Plant Walk with Paul Alaback, which runs from 1–4 PM and begins at the center, 120 Hickory St. $15/$10 MNHC members. Alaback, a UM

forest ecology prof, will sweep you into the fecund during this stroll in which he’ll cover basic flower and plant ID. Call 327-0405 to register and visit montananaturalist.org. Also on Sat., May 8, bugs crawl over your child’s senses during the MNHC’s Saturday Kids’ Activity Big on Bugs!, which begins at the MNHC at 2 PM and features activities like bug ID and an insect collection/release walk. $2/free MNHC members. And no, Tonya Harding won’t be making a special cameo during the Missoula Figure Skating Club’s showcase on Sat., May 8, known as 2010: A Skate Odyssey, which begins at 6:30 PM at the Glacier Ice Rink, 1101 South Ave. W. Do expect, however, to see

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group and solo performances by ice carvers of all ages. $20 family/$8 per person/$4 children age 12 and under. Call 529-5496 and visit missoulafsc.org. Mother’s Day is Sun., May 9, and that means your mama gets to call the shots (hey, she earned it, buddy). So, if she wants to pedal with the bicycling mob known as MOBI, join her for the Painted Rocks Reservoir ride, an 87-mile journey which starts with a carpool from Kmart at 7 AM. Free. The ride then begins at 8 AM from Coffee

Cup Café in Hamilton, and a shorter ride leaves from Darby at a TBA time. Call Paul at 728-8722. If mom gets her kicks from ogling avians, get yourselves to the old Smurfit-Stone Container site at 8:30 AM Sun., May 9, to witness migrating waterfowl and shorebirds with the Five Valley’s Audubon Society. Free. Alternately, you and your mom can carpool when you meet at UM’s Adams Center parking lot at 8 AM. Call Larry Weeks at 549-5632 and visit fvamissoula.org. Perhaps your mother just needs to give her adrenal glands a good workout. If so, whisk her into some rushing water during Pangaea River Rafting’s Whitewater Mother’s Day Trip, which begins at 10:30 AM at 11111 Mullan Road E. in Superior. $69. Or, if your mama likes vino—and floating on the river in a raft—Pangaea also offers a Mother’s Day Wine Float, which begins at 3:30 PM at a TBA location on the Clark Fork River. $79. RSVP required for both trips, so visit leaveboringbehind.com and call 1-877-239-2392. As we slide into Mon., May 10, bird enthusiasts up north should make a landing at the Flathead Audubon Society’s annual meeting, which features a talk by naturalist Bill Schustrom on the meaning of Glacier National Park’s wilderness and begins with a potluck at 6 PM, followed by the discussion at 7, at the Whitefish Community Foundation Center, 121 Second St. Free. Call Paula at 837-0181. Runners also get some action Mon., May 10, during “How to Eat and Drink to Fuel Properly for an Endurance Event,” a talk with nutritionist Carla Cox which starts at 7 PM at the Good Food Store, 1600 S. Third St. W. Free. Visit runwildmissoula.org. The bird lovin’ just doesn’t stop on Mon., May 10, especially when the Five Valleys Audubon Society hosts a talk by Paul Loehnen on birds from Australia, at 7:30 PM in Room L14 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free. Lastly, avian aficionados in the Flathead get a chance to share their hobby with the fam during the two-part class “Introduction to Birdwatching for Families,” which begins Thu., May 13, from 6:30–8 PM in the meeting room of the Whitefish Public Library, 9 Spokane Ave. Free. A field trip follows at 8:30 AM Sat., May 15, at The Springs at Whitefish, 1001 River Lakes Parkway. Call Jill at 862-8070. Until next time, keep those tires pumped and ride those trails hard. calendar@missoulanews.com

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It’s a wild world Dolphins, hippos and hummingbirds fill the 33rd annual IWFF by Dave Loos

As the International Wildlife Film Festival (IWFF) hits the Wilma Theatre this week, it’s easy to note that not only does 2010 mark the 33rd anniversary of the world’s oldest wildlife film festival, but also the 33rd anniversary of the world’s most depressing set of documentaries. This is not entirely true, of course. Yes, many of the nearly 50 films screening this week will leave you in tears or clenching fists in anger as you slouch in your seat and wonder why the world isn’t a better place. It’s okay to get angry. But, it’s also okay to relax and smile, too, and IWFF provides ample opportunities for some feel-good moments, as well (a good rule is to look for titles that contain “hummingbird” or “prairie dog”). Here we give you a taste of a few films from both categories:

Anderson spends much of the film tracking grizzlies (without Brutus in tow) throughout Yellowstone National Park. There’s a lot of intense whispered narration as he describes how close the bears are getting to him. Kids will like this movie, and they’ll probably learn some things. Adults won’t be able to ignore a number of self-serving scenes, as well as the nagging feeling that keeping an 800pound grizzly as a pet is not going to end well. Expedition Grizzly screens Saturday, May 8, at 2:30 PM; Tuesday, May 11, at 9:30 AM; Friday, May 14, at 9:30 AM; and Saturday, May 15, at 5:30 PM.

The Cove

This is a documentary unlike any you’ve seen. It plays out like a caper movie, following a motley group of U.S. activists, divers, technicians and photographers who make it their mission to expose the annual slaughter of more than 23,000 dolphins in Taiji, Japan, and bring to light the exploitation of dolphins that are spared death in exchange for captivity at sea parks around the world. It’s an ultimately brutal film that earns its PG-13 rating. The filmmakers are not welcome by the Japanese; the group is filmed and followed by Taiji fisherman, government officials and even the chief of police. There is a lot at stake for the town, where every day between March and September, migrating dolphins are scared toward the shore and captured. Many are sold to parks like Sea World for more than $150,000 each. The rest are moved to a cove outside of public view and slaughtered for food. To make matters worse, most dolphin meat is full of mercury and highly toxic, a major public health threat that is either overlooked or covered up by the Japanese government, according to the film. These facts—as well as information about the intelligence and self-awareness of dolphins—are interspersed between clips of the covert mission to place video and audio devices in the cove. The payoff will leave you queasy for a while. The questions will linger even longer. The Cove screens Saturday, May 8, at 7:30 PM; Monday, May 10, at 12:30 PM; and Friday, May 14, at 7:30 PM. First Flight: A Mother Hummingbird’s Story

To douse the accrued frustration and anger of watching The Cove, First Flight provides a welcome antidote that children will love and adults will appreciate. In this light, 45-minute feature we follow the life of a hummingbird over the course of several years as she hatches and raises her young beneath a sheltered, backyard clothesline. In a convenient coincidence, the mother hummingbird happens to be nesting at the new home of a photog-

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rapher/filmmaker couple who have the equipment and patience necessary to film the tiny bird as she raises her chicks. The process is meticulous; the nest is half the size of a walnut shell and the eggs are the size of coffee beans. But through the use of mirrors, time-lapse video and a good zoom lens, we get a close-up view of all the action. Narrated by Noriko Carroll as if reading a bedtime story, First Flight manages to avoid drowning in its own cuteness thanks to a delicate touch and intelligent script. First Flight screens Sunday, May 9, at 2:30 PM; Thursday, May 13, at 9:30 AM and 7:30 PM.

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The Cove is one of 50 wildlife films screening at this week’s 33rd International Wildlife Film Festival.

Wolverine: Chasing the Phantom

Africa’s Lost Eden

Near the beginning of Wolverine: Chasing the Phantom, one of the volunteer scientists in charge of tracking wolverines in Glacier National Park recounts the tale of one wolverine who, in the middle of January, decided to cross a ridge via the summit of Mount Cleveland, the highest point in the park. He did so successfully, at one point covering an astonishing 4,900 vertical feet in 90 minutes. Such stories make this Montana-made documentary about the “ice age weasel” a pleasure to watch. But the film contains more than just anecdotal tales of these rare North American mammals. Stunning video of the wolverines in action showcases their hunting skills and helps to dispel common myths, including that of the wolverine as a total loner. The nighttime motion camera that catches two Alaskan wolverines in the same frame is downright eerie. Wolverine screens Saturday, May 8, at 2:30 PM; Thursday, May 13, at 12:30 PM; and Saturday, May 15, at 5:30 PM.

Not quite as depressing—or as well filmed—as The Cove, Africa’s Lost Eden is nonetheless a gripping look at efforts to restore Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park following the country’s horrific Civil War. The 15year conflict killed more than 1 million people and left a former wildlife paradise with almost no remaining animals. The film documents the often heartbreaking process of trying to relocate elephants and hippos from more than 1,000 miles away in order to re-establish herds large enough to survive. It also takes a look at the animals that fared better than most during the war—namely crocodiles, which are flourishing today. The “seeds of restoration” may be planted, but there’s still a long way to go. Africa’s Lost Eden screens Sunday, May 9, at 7:30 PM; Thursday, May 13, at 12:30 PM; and Saturday, May 15, at 7:30 PM.

Expedition Grizzly

It’s hard not to like Casey Anderson, the narrator who shares protagonist duties in this documentary with Brutus, the 800-pound grizzly he has raised since birth and treats like the family dog.

The International Wildlife Film Festival runs May 8–15. All screenings at the Wilma Theatre. $7/$5 student/$3 youth per film, or $40 full pass. Visit www.wildlifefilms.org for a full schedule. arts@missoulanews.com

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I have to admit that I drag my feet a bit when it rebellious Hermia with a keen ability to go from an comes to Shakespeare. Not when it comes to reading optimistic woman in love to enraged animal. Arcadea the plays—I could spend weeks upon weeks absorbing Jenkins nailed Helena as an equal mix between cringeworthy fool and bewildered pawn. Both are good the wordplay and tragedy and cheeky shenanigans on enough actresses to make you feel like they the page. I’m a nerd like that. But when it comes were encountering each incident in the to viewing a theater group’s rendition of play for the first time. Nothing about Shakespeare, it’s hit or miss. And often miss, their reactions to events seemed with painful results. canned or repeated or on auto-pilot— The Montana Actors’ Theatre version of A not always an easy thing to do when you Midsummer Night’s Dream was not a miss. I perform the same play night after night. won’t go so far as to say it was perfect, but And both showed a sharp talent for it had stunning charm and strong comedic timing. momentum, and the acting was as proBritish actor Jim Badcock (a fessional as I’ve ever seen in UM exchange student) was hilariMissoula. It was more fun than I’ve ous as Bottom. Laugh-out-loud had at a Shakespeare play in a hilarious. He played the absurd, long time. asinine character (who literally Only a few times a year becomes an ass) with just the right Missoula audiences are treated amount of ego plus insecurity to to a local play that really hits its make him endearing. At the same mark so dead-on that it deserves time that Badcock kept you some extra kudos, and MAT’s immersed in the story (you can’t Midsummer is one of those plays. imagine him as any other character While its run ended last week, and except Bottom), it was hard not to we usually don’t run reviews of admire his particular personal touchplays after they’ve closed, this es: the way he comfortably paused production deserves to be an before delivering a line just right or his exception. spastic gestures that must have left him MAT’s artistic director, Grant sweating by the end of every scene. Olson, directed the comedy, and he Sarina Hart was the mischievous Puck, made it a highly physical, acrobatic play. but with her own odd mannerisms (she made When characters fought, they fought hard— the strangest clicking noises with her mouth) wrestling each other to the ground and turnand goblin-ish air. She and the very tall and ing red with fury. When the characters were in magnetic Reid Reimers as her master, love, they were playful, giddy and starry-eyed Oberon, made for a riveting pair. They gleewith each other. And most of the interactions fully plotted tricks together—though were graceful at the same time that they seemed Reimers did it with the demeanor of a impromptu and honest. righteous god and Hart with the careIt’s a good Shakespeare production when, lessness of a devilish imp. as an audience member, you’re not trying to The Greek-styled costumes by decipher the dialog. The play’s poetically Kitty Deyo and Reimers went well penned lines like, “But earthlier happy is the beyond toga-styled sheets: The rose distilled, than that which withering on the forest characters were bedazzled virgin thorn grows, lives and dies in single with fern-covered clothing and blessedness,” can sound like a foreign lanblinking lights. The set by Karl Mitchell was equalguage if not given the kind of delivery that ly intriguing: Giant-sized mushrooms lurked in the suggests natural speech. And in MAT’s procorners. Tiny caves allowed characters—especially duction, the delivery was done well enough the forest dwellers—to come and that even if you missed the meanPhoto courtesy of Rebecca Sporman go like magic. Best of all, the audiing of a few lines, you still got it. Every gesture and change of tone Sarina Hart starred as Puck in ence had an interesting view: The the Montana Actors’ Theatre told the story just as well as the production of A Midsummer seats were elevated on risers above the action of the play, words themselves. Night’s Dream. which all took place in the center In fact, all the actors rose to the occasion in one way or another, even those with of the room in a gauntlet-like space. limited stage time or underdeveloped backgrounds. On the Sunday afternoon I saw the play there Michelle Edwards as Titiana, Queen of the Fairies, and were a little over 20 people there—a small audience, her fairy brood (played by six actresses in platinum for sure, but an amused and delighted one. They saw blonde wigs) added a feisty and sometimes sinister air one of the best shows of the year, and the kind of to roles that could more often than not, in other rendi- production that turns the uninitiated into a tions, be played with bland etherealness. Shakespeare lover. But there were a few performances that really stood out above the rest: Rebecca Sporman played the efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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feeds into how you’re going to use the paint because they’re so known to you.” A photograph is also an object that you can become familiar with even if you don’t know the context surrounding it. For years, Sutton recalls seeing a Polaroid in his grandmother’s photo album of a woman (a family friend) walking with her back to the camera through some trees. It evoked something he couldn’t explain, and instead of trying to transcribe it onto canvas exactly how it looked in the photo, he painted it with colors and dreamlike movement that emphasized the feeling he got from it. “Family photo albums are another way of collecting,” says Sutton, “They collect memories. I always remembered this photo. I had no idea who it was, and it was taken before I was born. But there’s something sublime about it and you can experience my relationship to it in the way I ended up painting it. It’s based on the photo but it’s been sifted through the lyrical sense.” Sutton moved to Missoula six years ago, right around the time he started really getting into painting. In the same way that he’s been collecting objects he’s also been essentially collecting people. “Not that you can compare people to pinecones,” he laughs. Sutton’s studio is full of portraits, but it’s almost all people he knows well. Scott Sutton’s upcoming exhibit at the Catalyst Café includes still lifes and paintings created from photo- For instance, he has a painting of almost graphs, like this one, titled “Into.” every member of local band Bird’s Mile Home (he also illustrated their last two models in his paintings. They’re not really mementos, album covers) as he’s become friends with the musihe says. He might have originally picked them for sen- cians over the years. And if you’ve met the members of timental reasons or for marking an occasion, but over Bird’s Mile Home you can see that the likeness isn’t just time the reasons he keeps the objects become more about pure translation of their facial features—it’s that their expressions on the canvas are just so typically obscure. “The fact that they’re just sort of there existing them. Because his understanding of certain people is and aging with me, defining a small space in my life, so embedded in the senses, he says, it’s easier for him warrants the greater part of their meaning for me,” to paint them—instead of a stranger—in a way that’s Sutton says. “For instance, the petrified orange peel. authentically true to their personality. Sutton plans on showing a portrait or two at the I continue to keep it maybe not for reasons I can even remember. I just don’t necessarily want to upcoming show in anticipation for a full-on portrait exhibit coming up this summer. It will be his last exhibtrash it.” Sutton’s paintings, in some way, all have to do with it before moving to Pittsburgh, Pa., with his wife, Clare, intimacy. For his upcoming First Friday show at the who’s pursing school there. It won’t be easy to leave Catalyst Café he displays still life paintings that put col- behind the things he’s come to know so well, but it will lected objects side-by-side with everyday household afford him a chance to begin a relationship with a new items. In one, he combines a saltshaker, a metal scraper place, and with new objects to collect. “Somebody might say, ‘Who cares about the relafor priming canvas and the pinecones—all objects he has spent enough time with to have made a visceral tionship to an object?’ But when you look at something connection with them, however subconscious. And it’s or someone for a very slow period of time, you are not so much that the objects represent some grand more apt to see nuance,” Sutton says. “It’s not a radicalmeaning or novelty to him; in fact, it might be the ly new idea, but it has its merits. And that’s where all opposite. When objects are a part of everyday life, they these pieces come together for me.” Scott Sutton’s exhibit of recent works opens tend to be as familiar as an arm or a leg—easily taken for granted but ultimately quite inextricable from a per- Friday, May 7, at the Catalyst Café, 111 N. Higgins Avenue, with a reception between 5 and 7 PM. Free. son’s life. “Having that relationship with those objects feeds into your experience when you paint them,” he says. “It efredrickson@missoulanews.com Scott Sutton isn’t a hoarder, but he does collect the oddest things. On the local artist’s shelf inside his studio at the downtown Brunswick building sits a six-yearold petrified orange peel that could almost be mistaken for leather. Next to the orange peel are old pinecones and random tools. Some of the objects are items he compulsively picks up from walks around Missoula, and most of them have sat in his house for years before he brought them into his studio to use as

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It’s hard with child actors. When we were kids ourselves, we envied them their fame and money and catchphrases—“Whatchoo talkin’ ’bout, Willis?”—and what seemed like a charmed life signally free of teachers and math tests. Perhaps we felt a bit of Schadenfreude or something closely related when these objects of our childhood admiration and resentment began to founder as adult actors, as child actors normally do, and then there’s always the odd bit of late-breaking news about a dead Corey or a troubled Boner gone missing in Vancouver to really put a rest to those former fancies. The annals of childhood acting are full of sordid final acts: Carl “Alfalfa” Switzer, killed in a fight over a hunting dog, Dana Plato of “Diff ’rent Strokes” dabbling in soft-core before finally overdosing in an RV parked at her in-laws’. Then there’s the redemption tale of Drew Barrymore and the astonishing transformation of Elizabeth Berkelee from “Saved by the Bell” wholesomeness to whatever the hell was going on in that Showgirls swimming pool. “I can eat 50 eggs.” We seem to love it, in the non-fatal cases, when the transformation from child actor (granted, Berkelee was not exactly a child in “Saved by the Bell”) to adult actor doesn’t take place with the complacent smoothness with which the Cosby household resolves its growing pains. The role of Runaways singer Cherie Currie seems a logical one for Dakota Fanning, perhaps the most famous and certainly one of the richest of the latest half-generation of child stars. It’s something most of us probably wanted at Fanning’s age (15 at the time of this production): getting to be someone else, and a rock star into the bargain, just when we felt all eyes were on us at a particularly vulnerable moment. This isn’t the first of her grown-up movies, and it’s not exactly a breakthrough movie in any sense, but it’s an intriguing preview of the new Dakota Fanning emerging from the old, or rather the other way around. Kind of wonderful, really. She hardly seems at pains to impress: Whatever it is, overdone her performance most certainly isn’t. She doesn’t give anything away, as an actress or character, especially in the second half of the movie when Currie is too zonked-out to communicate with much more than blinks. Fanning shows exhilarating restraint—just about as far from the “I-can-too-play-a-bad-girl” turn you’d expect. Slightly more gung-ho is Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett, but then one could argue hers was the easy part, the role less freighted with personal baggage. Born in Philly, and incubated in the L.A. scene as a teenager, Jett has always presented herself as an uncomplicated, strictly business rocker without a public personal life

and all its attendant juicy dramas. The Runaways makes some small and hardly surprising revelations about her sexuality (which, with Jett herself as executive producer, you can bet were thoroughly vetted beforehand) and a certain familiarity with inhalants, but really, who wants Joan Jett wholly demystified? The personal journey of the movie is mostly Fanning’s anyway. If Stewart can inhabit Jett’s leather outfit and fabulous shag haircut semi-convincingly and get that hunched-over mic stance and Jett’s bounding energy exactly right—and she does—that’s all the Joan Jett I need. Besides principals Jett, Currie and drummer Sandy West, the other Runaways— most conspicuously Lita Ford—are almost devoid of characterization. This might be the result of a complicated legal situation that arose during the production, stemming from the protests of unconsulted former members Ford and bassist Jackie Fox. If I understand correctly, the producers acquired only the lifestory rights of certain individuals, while others appear by name as characters but those characters are not intended to represent the actual persons. There is no character named Jackie Fox, and the movie’s bassist seems wholly fictitious. The real show-stealer, and I knew going in that it would have to be this way, is Michael Shannon as the band’s Svengali Kim Fowley, a brilliant producer and a miserable dog of a human being. If anyone should be overacting in this movie it’s Shannon, and his overthe-top Fowley gets most of the laughs and does a lot to maintain the movie’s momentum. In its attentiveness to period detail—where in the world can you still find those crazy ’70s living room decorations?—the production design sometimes crowds the action right out of the picture. The Runaways doesn’t suffer from a single weak performance, but given the crackling energy of its subject matter it doesn’t itself seem as electric as it should. Oh, those feuding Runaways, forever leaving each other out of their movies. In 2003’s Edgeplay: a film about the Runaways, directed by the group’s last bassist Vicky Blue (now Victory Tischler-Blue), it was Joan Jett who was conspicuously absent. In TischlerBlue’s movie, now-deceased drummer Sandy West emerged as the group’s tragic figure: the one Runaway who never got over the eventual breakup, still waiting for a reunion that never happened. It’s some small consolation that she appears happy here, or the actor playing her does, always and forever a queen of noise. The Runaways concludes its run at the Wilma Theatre Thursday, May 6.

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BLOOD INTO WINE Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan shows us just how much he likes making wine in this doc about him and business partner Eric Glomski and their foray into the winemaking business in Arizona. Includes cameos from Patton Oswalt, Milla Jovovich and others. Wilma Theatre: 8 only on Fri., May 7.

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET Who’s ready for a remake? Jackie Earle Haley replaces Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, disfigured face and all, as he revels in terrorizing a gaggle of Elm Street residents—including Kyle Gallner and Katie Cassidy—in their dreams, and eventually, in reality. Carmike 10: 4:10, 7 and 9:40 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30. Village 6: 4:10, 7 and 9:40 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at

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battle against demons and freakish beasts in his quest to defeat the hellraising ways of Ralph Fiennes (Hades). Carmike 10: 4:15 and 7 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell in 3-D: Fri.–Sun. at 12:30, 3:30, 6:50 and 9:20 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:45, 4:30, 7:15 and 9:45. DATE NIGHT Steve Carrell and Tina Fey are suburbanite parents with a marriage that’s going stale. In an attempt to

HOT TUB TIME MACHINE John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson and Clark Duke are all down-on-their-luck dudes who decide that getting hammered in a ski resort hot tub is a good idea. When their night of debauchery ends, they wake up realizing they’ve been transported back to 1986. Carmike 10: 4:20, 7:30 and 10 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:45. HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON This 3-D animated flick follows Hiccup, a scrawny Viking teen who was brought up to mercilessly slay dragons. But things change when he befriends a “different” dragon that makes him realize they aren’t so evil after all. Carmike 10: 4:15 and 7:05 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30. Village 6 in 2-D: 4:30 and 7:30 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30. Pharaohplex in Hamilton in 2-D: 7 and 9 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell in 3-D: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 2:30, 4:50, 7:20 and 9:35 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 3:30, 7 and 9:15. Stadium 14 in Kalispell in 2-D: Fri.–Thu. at 1:15, 3:45, 6:30 and 8:45. KICK-ASS Aaron Johnson is a nerdy teen who’s obsessed with comics and is lacking on luck with the ladies. At some point, he brings his fixation to life by becoming a superhero—and soon enough, people like Nicolas Cage start emulating his pulverizing moves. Wilma Theatre: 7 and 9:10 nightly with daily matinees Sat.–Thu. at 1 and 3:10. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 4:15 and 9:45. THE LOSERS Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Chris Evans, Idris Elba and others unleash the mother freakin’ fury—or at least try to—against CIA agent Jason Patric, who left the band of mercenaries for dead during a covert op in a Bolivian jungle. Village 6: 4, 7 and 9:35 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:25, 3:55, 6:40 and 9:15 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4:15, 7 and 9.

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IRON MAN 2 Robert Downey Jr. returns as Iron Man, the well liked industrialist with a few metallic tricks up his sleeve. This time around, however, Downey Jr.’s got the government pleading for his technological secrets, and dudes like Mickey Rourke after his head. Carmike 10: 4:10, 4:35, 6:10, 7, 7:30, 9 and 9:50 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at 10:30 and 11:50 and additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 12:30, 1:15, 1:45 and 3:20. Village 6: 4:10, 7 and 9:50 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1:15. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:45, 7:15 and 9:15 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9:15 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at noon, 12:30, 1, 3, 3:30, 4, 6, 6:30, 7, 9 and 9:30 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at 10 and midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 2, 3:30, 4, 5, 6:30, 7, 8 and 9:30. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 7 and 9:30 with an additional Fri.Sun. show at 1:30. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4, 6:50 and 9:15. OCEANS Narrator Pierce Brosnan helps you dive deep into this documentary that utilizes spellbinding cinematography to chronicle Earth’s oceans and its inhabitants. Village 6: 4:30, 7:30 and 9:40 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:40, 2:45, 5, 7:20 and 9:55 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:05, 3:50, 7:10 and 9:25.

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1:30. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:20, 1:20, 2:30, 3:45, 4:45, 6:15, 7:30, 8:45 and 9:45 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:20, 2, 3:45, 4:30, 6:15, 7:30, 8:45 and 9:45. THE BACK-UP PLAN Jennifer Lopez is eager to settle down and have kids but can’t seem to find the right dude to be her mate, so she opts to get preggers via artificial insemination. Oddly enough, the day the procedure occurs is also when she meets Alex O’Loughlin—a single guy who just might make the cut as a baby’s daddy. Carmike 10: 4, 7 and 9:35 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:10, 4:10, 7:10 and 9:40 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:15 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1:45. BARBIE IN A MERMAID TALE Barbie lives it up in this cartoon as a surfing champ in Malibu, until she finds out that she’s also a mermaid. Eventually though, her new appendage helps her do things like rescue her mother, as well as save an ocean kingdom. Village 6: 1 only on Sat.–Sun. CLASH OF THE TITANS Sam Worthington (Perseus), the Greek warrior and son of Liam Neeson (Zeus) decides to wage

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inject a little spice into their lives Carrell decides to take Fey to an upscale restaurant, only to find out they’ve become the targets of some seriously corrupt cops. Carmike 10: 4:20, 7 and 9:30 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:45. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:10, 2:20, 4:30, 7:20 and 9:30 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 4, 7:20 and 9:30. Entertainer in Ronan: 4, 7 and 9.

PHISH 3D Nope, you’re not tripping. It’s your favorite jam band, and they’ve been visually amplified in this concert film from their Festival 8 gig—the one where they played for three days, and covered the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St. Carmike 10: 9:45 only. SWEETGRASS Contemporary cowboys in Montana get a spot on the screen in this documentary which follows the last sheep ranchers to summer their herd in Montana’s Absaroka-Beartooth mountains. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 7 and 9:30 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30.

DEATH AT A FUNERAL Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence and an assortment of family and friends gather to mourn the death of their father. Of course, things go awry, especially when someone gets dosed with psychedelics, and Rock and Lawrence learn their dad was getting down on the down-low. Village 6: 7 nightly with an additional Fri. show at 1. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:15 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:45.

THE BOUNTY HUNTER Gerard Butler has trouble finding work as a bounty hunter, until he snags the lucky gig of going after his bail-jumping ex—Jennifer Aniston. Along the way, Aniston evades Butler’s cuffs, and in the process they both find themselves in some sticky situations. Village 6: 4 and 10. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:25 and 7:05.

FURRY VENGEANCE Brendan Fraser’s a naïve developer who is lured into believing that building over a nature preserve is a totally great idea. The animals he’s displacing, however, aren’t going to take it—and they do their best to screw with Fraser until he loses his cool for good. Carmike 10: 4, 7 and 9:25 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 7:15 and 9:25 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:15, 3:55, 6:55 and 9:25.

Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., May 7. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 10/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-FILM; Stadium 14 in Kalispell–752-7804. Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Hip-hop music definitely needs to include more tuba playing. I think that’s what’s missing from it. Likewise, the sport of skateboarding would benefit from having more dogs and monkeys that can master its complexities; the state of journalism could be improved by including more babies as reporters; and you Aries folks would significantly upgrade your life by learning how to play the game of cricket. (If you believe everything I just said, you’ll be equally gullible when a little voice in your head tries to convince you to seek out things you don’t really need or adopt behavior that doesn’t suit you.) TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Among the ancient Anglo-Saxons, the month of May was called “Thrimilce.” The word referred to the fact that cows were so productive at this time of year that they could be milked three times a day. I thought of that as I studied your current astrological data, Taurus. During this year’s Thrimilce, you are almost impossibly fertile and abundant and creative. My advice is to give generously, but not to the point of exhaustion: the equivalent of three times a day, but not four. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In accordance with the astrological omens, I encourage you to seek out a concentrated period of sweet oblivion. Not a numb, narcotized limbo. Not a mournful unconsciousness that’s motivated by a depressive urge to give up. No, Gemini: The mental blankness that you cultivate should be generated by a quest to rejuvenate yourself, and it must have qualities of deliciousness and delight. You not only have a need to rest and recharge in a lush nowhere — you also have the right to do so.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A while back, I gave my readers this homework: “Tell a story about the time a divine intervention reached down and altered your course in one tricky, manic swoop.” A woman named Kelly testified as follows: “At first I was disturbed to find I couldn’t identify the last time Spirit descended into my midst with a forceful intervention. But finally I realized why: I have been working to make my whole life be guided by the Spirit of my Higher Power, as a deep undercurrent. That way I don’t need bolts of lightening to fix my course.” This is a useful lesson, Cancerian. It’s an excellent time for you to follow Kelly’s lead. Ask yourself how you could cultivate a deep, abiding undercurrent of the good influence you want to have guide you, thereby making lightning bolts of divine intervention unnecessary.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The exact height of Mt. Everest has proved challenging to determine. Even using modern scientific methods, different teams of surveyors have come up with varying measurements. The problem is not simply with the calculations themselves. The world’s tallest peak is definitely evolving. Shifts in the earth’s tectonic plates work to raise it up and move it northeastward. But there’s also evidence that the melting of its glaciers due to climate change is causing it to shrink. A member of one mountain climbing expedition said, “If Everest is bobbing up and down, we must hope to catch it on a low day.” I bring this to your attention, Leo, in order to offer you a metaphor for the coming weeks. Your version of Mt. Everest is shriveling. Get ready to ascend.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Have you been lusting after spiritual traditions other than your own? Have you been fantasizing about cheating on the deity you’ve always been faithful to, and seeking a taboo liaison with a strange and exciting god from another part of reality? If so, Virgo, that’s a good sign. I suspect you could use a few adjustments to your familiar relationship with the Divine Wow. After all, you have gone through a lot of changes since the last time you hammered out your definitive theories about the meaning of life. What made good sense for you back then can’t be completely true for you any more. So feel free to let your mind wander in the direction of holy experiments.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When a girl is born, her ovaries already contain all the eggs she will ever have. What this means, of course, is that a part of you was in your grandmother’s womb as well as in your mother’s. Now would be an excellent time to celebrate that primal fact. Your connection with your mother’s mother is especially important these days. I suggest you meditate on what gifts and liabilities you received from her (genetic and otherwise), and how you might be able to make better use of the gifts even as you take steps to outwit the liabilities.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Who is the person most unlike you in the world? I suggest you study that person for tips on how to improve your life. What are the healthy experiences you are least attracted to? You might want to meditate on exactly why they’re so unappealing, and use that information to update your ideas about yourself. What are the places on the earth that you long ago decided you would never visit? I invite you to fantasize being in those places and enjoying yourself. Can you guess why I’m calling this Opposite Week, Scorpio?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Are you in a trance or a rut or a jam? If so, excuse yourself. It’s break time! You need spaciousness. You need slack. You need to wander off and do something different from what you have been doing. If there’s any behavior you indulge in with manic intensity, drop it for a while. If you’ve been caught up in a vortex of excruciating sincerity or torturous politeness, shake it off and be more authentic. Of all the good reasons you have for relaxing your death-grip, here’s one of the best: Life can’t bring you the sublime gift it has for you until you interrupt your pursuit of a mediocre gift.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The state of Texas is a Capricorn, having become part of the United States on December 29, 1845. At that time, it was granted the right to divide itself into five separate states at some future date. So far it hasn’t chosen to do so, and I would advise it to continue that policy. I extend the same counsel to all of my Capricorn readers. From an astrological perspective, this is not a favorable time for you to break yourself up into sub-sections. On the contrary: I suggest you sow unity and solidarity among your various parts.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’m all for recycling, composting, and carpooling. Anything you and I can do to reduce our carbon footprint is brilliant. But I also agree with author Chris Hedges, who says, “The reason the ecosystem is dying is not because we still have a dryer in our basement. It is because corporations look at everything, from human beings to the natural environment, as exploitable commodities. It is because consumption is the engine of corporate profits.” So beyond our efforts to save the earth by adjusting our own individual habits, we’ve got to revise the way corporations work. Now let’s apply this way of thinking to the specific personal dilemma you’re facing right now: It’s important for you to change yourself, yes—and I’m glad you’re taking responsibility for your role in the complications—but you will also have to transform the system you’re part of.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Every year Americans fork over six times as much money on buying lottery tickets as they do on going to the movies, according to the documentary film Lucky. Yet many people who actually buck the improbable odds regard their “luck” as a curse. “Winning the lottery is like throwing Miracle-Gro on all your character defects,” said one person. Let this serve as a cautionary tale for you in the coming months, Pisces. To get ready for the good things that are headed your way, you should work to purify any darkness that’s lurking in your unconscious.

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PUBLIC NOTICES DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE REGULATION BEFORE THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF MONTANA UTILITY DIVISION DOCKET NO. 2010441 IN THE MATTER OF the Application of Mountain Water Company for Authority to Increase Rates and Charges for Water Service to Its Missoula, Montana Customers. NOTICE OF APPLICATION AND INTERVENTION DEADLINE. On April 19, 2010, Mountain Water Company (Mountain Water) filed an application with the Montana Public Service Commission (Commission) requesting authority to increase rates and charges for water service to its Missoula, Montana, customers. Mountain Water requests a total revenue requirement increase of $1,990,744. Mountain Water also requests interim rate relief in the amount of $1 ,040 ,016. Mountain Water is a Montana corporation providing water utility service in and near Missoula, Montana, and is subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission.. Mountain Water presently provides water utility service to various classes of customers in accordance with rate schedules approved by the Commission, based on results of operation for test year 2007, as adjusted to reflect certain known and measurable changes in costs in 2008, and as adjusted to reflect changes in power costs pursuant to Mountain Water’s power cost tracker adjustment tariff. Mountain Water requests to increase its rates and charges to produce a return on rate base of $3, 581 ,208, which represents a rate of return of 9 .80% on a rate base of $36 ,557 ,865. Mountain Water proposes the rate increase to allow it to recover its operation and maintenance expenses, depreciation and amortization expenses, taxes other than income, and income taxes, and to earn a return of 9.80% on rate base.. If Mountain Water’s application were approved as filed, its rates would increase as follows: 1) flat rates, excluding, Fire Protection Service and Flat Rate Sprinkling Service, would increase by approximately 12 .05%, or $5 .34 per month; 2) metered rates would increase by approximately 11 .90%, or $4 .87 per month for a 5/8 x 3/4 inch meter with 15 Ccf usage; 3) Private Fire Protection Service rates would increase approximately 11 .85%, or $5 .36 per month for a six inch sprinkler line; 4) Flat Rate Sprinkler Water service rates would increase approximately 14. 12%, which would increase the annual bill for 5000 sq. ft. by $23 .89; 5) Public Fire Protection Service rates would increase approximately 5 .8 8% or $.11 per month for a customer with a 5/8 x 3/4 inch meter. Mountain Water also requests permanent approval of its Low Income Customer Discount.. In addition to Mountain Water’s April 19, 2010, application for a revenue requirement increase, since its last general rate case application in September of 2008, Mountain Water has made a filing pursuant to its power cost tracker adjustment tariff. On September 22, 2009, Mountain Water filed a power cost adjustment decrease of $32 3,69 8.22. The filing (Docket D2009.9.127) was approved on an interim basis, subject to review and final approval in the next general rate case. Therefore, this filing is consolidated with Mountain Water’s April 19, 2010, application for review and final action. Mountain Water also filed an application for approval of a tariffed tracking adjustment for purposes of securing infrastructure funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 which was finalized in January of 2010.. Mountain Water’s annual power cost tracker adjustment tariff will terminate on the effective date of the final order on Mountain Water’s April 19, 2010, general rate case application. Approval of the tracker tariff beyond that date requires a request and justification from Mountain Water. In its general rate case application, received April 19, 2010, Mountain Water requests that the power cost tracker tariff be approved on a permanent basis. The PSC’s jurisdiction over this matter is provided at Title 69, MCA. The substantive and procedural law applicable is Title 69, MCA, especially at Ch. 3 (public utilities), ARM Title 38, Ch. 5 (utilities), Title 2, Ch. 4, MCA (MAPA), ARM Title 38, Ch. 2 (PSC procedural rules), and any prior orders of the PSC which may bear on the issues presented. The application, power cost tracker filings, prefiled testimony, exhibits, and proposed tariffs and service rules are available for public inspection at the Public Service Commission,

1701 Prospect Avenue, Helena, Montana 59601, telephone 406- 444- 6199. Many, if not all, of these documents are also available at the Commission’s website, http://psc.mt.gov. If necessary, please call the Commission at the number indicated for assistance in accessing information on the website. The public may also inspect these documents at the Montana Consumer Counsel (MCC), 616 Helena Avenue, Room 300, Helena, Montana 596201703, telephone 406 -444 -2771; and Mountain Water’s office at 1345 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59806. Questions and concerns may be directed to Arvid Hiller, Mountain Water’s General Manager, at 406- 721 -5570.. Persons interested in and directly affected by Mountain Water’s application (Docket No. D2010.4.41) and desiring to participate should file a Petition to Intervene with the Commission no later than May 26, 2010. Any Petition for Intervention must be electronically submitted (e-filed) on the PSC’s website at http://psc.mt.gov/eDocs Login.asp. The filing party must also deliver or mail the original Petition for Intervention in paper format to the PSC so that it is received by the filing deadline. The PSC will upload e-filed documents to the PSC’s website after the paper original has been officially received at the PSC office. One copy must be served on Mountain Water and the MCC at their respective addresses. The MCC is available and may be contacted to assist and represent the interests of the consuming public in this matter. Any interested person who prefers not to formally participate in the matter as an intervenor may submit written comments on the matter to the PSC at the above address. Public comments may also be submitted to the PSC through the PSC’s web-based comment form at http://psc.mt.gov/Consumers/ comments/. If necessary, a procedural order governing the procedure and schedule in this matter will be issued following the deadline for intervention.. The PSC and persons having petitioned for intervention in this proceeding may direct discovery to Mountain Water at anytime up to and including the procedural schedule final date for discovery on the utility application. Mountain Water must respond within fourteen calendar days to all discovery requests directed to it more than fourteen calendar days prior to the deadline. Discovery issued less than fourteen days prior to the deadline must be answered according to direction in the procedural order. If there are no intervenors in this docket the Commission may schedule a hearing on its own motion, or may rule on the application based on the information contained in the Mountain Water filing. The PSC initially notices proceedings through use of general service lists. Interested persons not intervening, but wishing to remain on the service list to receive notices and orders must notify the PSC in writing by the date fixed for intervention. Failure to submit notification will result in removal from the service list in this Docket. BY THE MONTANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION GREG JERGESON, Chairman KEN TOOLE, Vice -Chairman GAIL GUTSCHE, Commissioner BRAD MOLNAR, Commissioner JOHN VINCENT, Commissioner MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT INVITATION TO BID AIRPORT IMPROVEMENTS MISSOULA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT MISSOULA, MONTANA Notice is hereby given that sealed bids will be received and publicly opened at 2:00 p.m. local time on Thursday, May 20, 2010 by the Missoula County Airport Authority at the Airport Terminal Conference Room for the construction of “Airport Improvements” to include the following: Water and Sewer Development For the Construction of a New Air Traffic Control Tower This work is to include all tools, equipment, materials and labor to complete this project. Bids must be sealed and delivered: Missoula County Airport Authority, 5225 Highway 10 West, Missoula, MT 59808 at or before 2:00 p.m., local time on Thursday, May 20, 2010, and marked “Bid for Airport Improvements at the Missoula International Airport.” The bidder’s name, address and state Contractor’s Registration Number shall appear in the lower left hand corner of the envelope. All bids must be accompanied by lawful monies of the United States or a Cashier’s Check, a Certified Check, Bid Bond,

Bank Money Order or Bank Draft, drawn and issued by a National Banking Association located in the State of Montana, or by any Banking Corporation incorporated under the Laws of the State of Montana, in an amount equal to not less than ten (10) percent of the total bid, payable to the order of the Missoula County Airport Authority as liquidated damages in the event said successful bidder shall fail or refuse to execute the contract in accordance with the terms of his bid. After a contract is awarded, the successful bidder will be required to furnish a separate Performance and Payment Bond, each in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract. Plans, specifications, bidding and contract forms may be inspected at the Airport Director’s Office – Missoula International Airport, or at offices of the consulting engineer, Morrison-Maierle, Inc., at 1 Engineering Place, Helena, Montana; 315 N. 25th Street, Suite 102, Billings, Montana; 2880 Technology Blvd West., Bozeman, Montana; 1321 8th Avenue North, Suite 104, Great Falls, Montana; or 3011 Palmer Street, Missoula, Montana. Copies of these documents may be obtained from the office of Morrison-Maierle, Inc., 3011 Palmer Street, Missoula, Montana 59803 – Phone: (406) 542-8880, on the payment of Seventyfive Dollars ($75.00) nonrefundable, for each complete set. The Owner reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive irregularities. The Contractor will be required to comply with the wage and labor requirements and to pay minimum wages in accordance with the schedule of wage rates established by the United States Department of Labor as referenced in the Contract. Contractors and any subcontractors doing work on this project will require registration with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry. Forms for registration are available from the Department of Labor and Industry, P.O. Box 8011, 1805 Prospect Avenue, Helena, Montana 59604-8011. Information on registration can be obtained by calling 1-800-556-6694. Contractors are required to have been registered with the Department of Labor and Industry prior to bidding on this project. The Bidder must supply all the information required by the bid documents and specifications. The Bidder is required to submit a Certification of Nonsegregated Facilities (included in the Proposal form). A Contractor having 50 or more employees and his subcontractors having 50 or more employees and who may be awarded a subcontract of $50,000 or more will be required to maintain an affirmative action program, the standards for which are contained in the specifications. To be eligible for award each bidder must comply with the affirmative action requirements which are contained in these specifications. The proposed contract is under subject to Executive Order 11246 of September 24, 1965, and to the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and Federal Labor Provisions. The Missoula County Airport Authority has established an overall DBE goal for the year. Under this contract, the Airport Authority is adopting a raceneutral means of facilitating DBE participation. The bidder shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, or sex in the performance of this contract. The bidder shall carry out all applicable requirements of 49 CFR Part 26 in the award and administration of DOT assisted contracts. As required by 49 CFR Part 26, the Airport Authority is required to create a bidders list, consisting of information about all DBE and non-DBE firms that bid or quote on DOT-assisted contracts. The purpose of this requirement is to allow use of the bidders list approach to calculating future overall DBE goals. As per the requirements of the Proposal section, all Prime Bidders submitting bids on this project must submit, with his or her bid, a list including the name, address, and DBE/non-DBE status of all subcontractors and suppliers that bid or quote for work under this contract. Failure to provide this information, as outlined in the Proposal section, will make the bidder non-responsive and not eligible for award of the contract. This contract will be funded in part by a grant from the Federal Aviation Administration. Therefore, award of the Contract by the Sponsor will be made subject to concurrence of FAA. Bidders may not withdraw Proposals for a period of ninety (90) days after the bid opening date. The pre-bid conference is hereby established at 2:00 p.m. (local time) Tuesday, May 11, 2010, at the

Airport Terminal Conference Room, Missoula International Airport. A tour of the work site at the Missoula International Airport will be conducted following the pre-bid conference. Signed: /s/ Cris Jensen Airport Director Missoula County Airport Authority MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT COMBINED NOTICE FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT and NOTICE TO PUBLIC OF REQUEST FOR RELEASE OF FUNDS (FONSI/NOI/RROF) April 8, 2010 John Adams,, Environmental Certifying Officer Office of Planning and Grants, Missoula County Mailing Address 435 Ryman Missoula, MT (406 )-258 -3688. TO ALL INTERESTED AGENCIES, GROUPS AND PERSONS: On or before May 14, 2010, the above-named Missoula County will request the Montana Department of Commerce (DOC) to release $450,000 of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds provided under Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended (PL 93383) for the following project: Mountain Home Montana Transitional Living. This project will use funds for construction of five independent residences at 2606 South Avenue, Missoula, MT 59804, as well as for business and classroom space to provide a home and services to homeless young mothers and their infants. The project will be built to the north of an existing building. This is a multi-year project.. Finding of No Significant Impact It has been determined that such request for release of funds will not constitute an action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment and accordingly the above named Missoula County has decided not to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (PL 91190). The reasons for the decision not to prepare such Statement are as follows: The project site is a previously developed residential property, in a developed area. Review of the proposed activity and consideration of the various applicable state and federal regulations relevant to the project, from effects on water to the Endangered Species Act, identified no significant impacts.. An Environmental Review Record documenting review of all project activities in respect to impacts on the environment has been made by the above-named Missoula County. This Environmental Review Record is on file at the above address and is available for public examination and copying upon request between the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. No further environmental review of such project is proposed to be conducted prior to the request for release of CDBG project funds.. Public Comments on Findings All interested agencies, groups and persons disagreeing with this decision are invited to submit written comments for consideration by the County of Missoula to John Adams, Office of Planning and Grants, on or before May 13, 2010. All such comments so received will be considered and the County will not request release of funds or take any administrative action on the project prior to the date specified in the preceding sentence. Release of Funds The County of Missoula will undertake the project described above with CDBG funds provided by DOC under Title I of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, as amended. Missoula County is certifying to DOC that John Adams, in his official capacity as Environmental Certifying Officer, consents to accept the jurisdiction of the Federal courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to environmental reviews, decisionmaking, and action; and that these responsibilities have been satisfied. The legal effect on the certification is that upon its approval, the County may use the CDBG funds and DOC will have satisfied its responsibilities under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Objections to State Release of Funds The Department of Commerce will accept an objection to its approval of the release of funds and acceptance of the certification only if it is on one of the following bases: (a) that the certification was not in fact executed by the chief executive officer or other officer approved by the Department of Commerce; (b) that the applicant’s environmental review record for the project indicates omission of a required decision, finding, or step applicable to the project in the environmental review process; (c) the grant

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PUBLIC NOTICES recipient has committed funds or incurred costs not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before approval of a release of funds by DOC; or (d) another Federal agency acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504 has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental design.. Objections must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the required procedures (24 CFR Part 58) and may be addressed to: Department of Commerce, Community Development Division, 301 S. Park Avenue, P.O. Box 200523, Helena, Montana 59620. Objections to the release of funds on bases other than those stated above will not be considered by DOC. No objection received after May 28, 2010, will be considered by DOC. John Adams Environmental Certifying Officer April 8, 2010 Office of Planning & Grants Missoula, MT 59802 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF FINDING OF NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND NOTICE OF INTENT TO REQUEST A RELEASE OF FUNDS Publication Dates: April 27, 2010; April 29, 2010. Responsibility Entity: Montana Department of Commerce – Housing Division Address: 301 S. Park Ave. Rm 240, PO Box 200545, Helena, Montana 59620-0545 Telephone: 406-841-2820 These notices shall satisfy two separate but related procedural requirements for activities to be undertaken by the Montana Department of Commerce and Mountain Home Montana, Inc. Request for Release of Funds On or after May 14, 2010, the Montana Department of Commerce (MDOC) will submit a request to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for the release of HOME Investment Partnership Program funds, under Title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act of 1990 to undertake a project known as Mountain Home Montana Transitional Living Apartments for the purpose of new construction of a 5-unit apartment building for low income single parent households. Finding of No Significant Impact The Montana Department of Commerce has determined that the project will have no significant impact on the human environment. Therefore, an Environmental Impact Statement under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) is not required. Additional project information is contained in the Environmental Review Record (ERR) on file at the Montana Department of Commerce, 301 S. Park Avenue, Room 240, Helena, MT and at Missoula County, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT. It may also be examined or copied weekdays at either office from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Public Comments Any individual, group, or agency disagreeing with this determination or wishing to comment on the project may submit written comments to the Montana Department of Commerce, Housing Division. The posted public comment period extends from April 27, 2010 through May 13, 2010 . All comments received by 5:00 pm on May 13, 2010, will be considered by the Montana Department of Commerce prior to authorizing submissions of a request for release of funds. Comments should specify which Notice they are addressing. The MDOC is certifying to HUD that Bruce Brensdal, MDOC - Housing Division Administrator consents to accept the jurisdiction of the Federal courts if an action is brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to environmental review, decision making, and action; and that these responsibilities have been satisfied. HUD’s approval of the certification satisfies its responsibilities under NEPA and related laws and authorities, and allows Rocky Mountain Development Council to use program funds. Objections to Release of Funds

HUD will accept objections to its release of funds and the Montana Department of Commerce’s certification for a period of fifteen days following the anticipated submission date or its actual receipt of the request (whichever is later) only if they are on one of the following basis: (a) the certification was not executed by the Certifying Officer of the Montana Department of Commerce; (b) the Montana Department of Commerce has omitted a step or failed to make a decision or finding required by HUD regulations at 24 CFR Part 58; (c) the grant recipient has committed funds or incurred costs not authorized by 24 CFR Part 58 before approval of a release of funds by HUD; or (d) another Federal agency acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504 has submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental qualify. Objections must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the required procedures (24 CFR Part 58) and shall be addressed to HUD at 1670 Broadway Street, 25th Floor 8ADE, Denver, CO 80202-4801. Potential objectors should contact HUD to verify the actual last day of the objection period. Bruce Brensdal, Administrator Housing Division, Montana Department of Commerce MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF HEARING MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Commissioners (the “Board”) of Missoula County, Montana (the “County”) will hold a public hearing on May 19, 2010, at 1:30 p.m., Mountain Time, in Room 201, Second Floor of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, for the purpose of conducting a public hearing on a proposal that the County issue revenue bonds (the “Bonds”) under Montana Code Annotated Title 90, Chapter 5, Part 1, as amended (the “Act”), and designate them as recovery zone facility bonds under the Internal Revenue Code. The Bonds would be issued on behalf of Richard A. Reep, Robert T. Bell, and Cory R. Laird (the “Applicants”) in order to finance a portion of the costs of designing and constructing an office building located at Lot 8 of North Reserve Business Center on Stockyard Road in Missoula County (the “Project”) and to pay certain costs of issuance of the Bonds. The Project is expected to cost approximately $820,000. When finished, it is anticipated that the Project will provide approximately 4,000 square feet of office space. The Project will be owned by the Applicants or a legal entity to be formed under Montana law comprised of the Applicants (the “Borrower”). The maximum aggregate principal amount of the proposed Bond issuance is $667,000. The Bonds will be secured by a pledge of the revenues to be derived by the County from a loan agreement with the Borrower and by such other security devices, if any, as may be deemed advantageous, including a mortgage or trust indenture on the Project. The Bonds will be a special, limited obligation of the County, and the Bonds and interest thereon will be payable solely from the revenues of the Borrower pledged to the payment thereof. The holder of the Bonds will never have the right to compel any exercise of the taxing power of the County to pay the Bonds or the interest thereon, nor to enforce payment thereof against any property of the County except money payable by the Borrower to the County and pledged to the payment of the Bonds. Any interested persons may appear and will be heard at the public hearing at the time and place stated above or may file written comments with the County Clerk and Recorder/Treasurer prior to the date of such hearing. Further information regarding the proposal is on file and available for public inspec-

tion in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder/Treasurer. For additional information on the proposed resolution or Bonds, contact Andrew Czorny, Chief Financial Officer, or Dale Bickell, Chief Administrative Officer, Missoula County, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 or by calling 406-721-5700. Dated: April 20, 2010. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA

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 Toni Morgan, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Morales Law Office, PO Box 9311, Missoula, MT 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 12th day of April, 2010. /s/ Toni Morgan, Personal Representative

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF HEARING MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of Commissioners (the “Board”) of Missoula County, Montana (the “County”) will hold a public hearing on May 19, 2010, at 1:30 p.m., Mountain Time, in Room 201, Second Floor of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, for the purpose of conducting a public hearing on a proposal that the County issue revenue bonds (the “Bonds”) under Montana Code Annotated Title 90, Chapter 5, Part 1, as amended (the “Act”), and designate them as recovery zone facility bonds under the Internal Revenue Code. The Bonds would be issued on behalf of Craig A. Langel (the “Applicant”) in order to finance a portion of the costs of purchasing 50% of the assets of Radio Way LLC, a Montana limited liability company, consisting of a 6,000 square feet office building located at 2700 Radio Way in the City of Missoula, Montana and remodeling, renovating, furnishing and equipping the building (the “Project”) and to pay certain costs of issuance of the Bonds. The Project is expected to cost approximately $1,225,000. The Project will be owned by the Applicant or a legal entity to be formed under Montana law comprised of the Applicant (the “Borrower”). The maximum aggregate principal amount of the proposed Bond issuance is $631,000. The Bonds will be secured by a pledge of the revenues to be derived by the County from a loan agreement with the Borrower and by such other security devices, if any, as may be deemed advantageous, including a mortgage or trust indenture on the Project. The Bonds will be a special, limited obligation of the County, and the Bonds and interest thereon will be payable solely from the revenues of the Borrower pledged to the payment thereof. The holder of the Bonds will never have the right to compel any exercise of the taxing power of the County to pay the Bonds or the interest thereon, nor to enforce payment thereof against any property of the County except money payable by the Borrower to the County and pledged to the payment of the Bonds. Any interested persons may appear and will be heard at the public hearing at the time and place stated above or may file written comments with the County Clerk and Recorder/Treasurer prior to the date of such hearing. Further information regarding the proposal is on file and available for public inspection in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder/Treasurer. For additional information on the proposed resolution or Bonds, contact Andrew Czorny, Chief Financial Officer, or Dale Bickell, Chief Administrative Officer, Missoula County, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 or by calling 406-721-5700. Dated: April 20, 2010. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA MONTANAFOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, COUNTY OF MISSOULA Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-10-43 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT N. MORGAN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-10-51 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ELVIRA GIULIANI, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will b forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to MARILYN GIULIANI, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Marsillo & Schuyler, PLLC, 103 South 5th Street East, Missoula, MT 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 22nd day of April, 2010. /s/ Marilyn Giuliani, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Case No. DV-10-438 Robert L. Deschamps III NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Seng Favtxhim Thao, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKEN NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Seng Favtxhim Thao, has petitioned the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District for a change of name from Seng Favtxhim Thao to Shane Seng Favtxhim Thao and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 18th day of May, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802 in courtroom number 2S. At any time before the hearing, objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 7th day of April, 2010. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: Maria Cassidy, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-10-44 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF BERNADINE L. MARMON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that William Clarence Marmon has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to William Clarence Marmon, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Anne Blanche Adams, PO Box 8234, Missoula, Montana 59807-8234 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 12th day of April, 2010. CEDERBERG LAW OFFICES, P.C., 269 West Front Street, PO Box 8234, Missoula, MT 598078234. /s/ Anne Blanche Adams, Attorneys for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DV-10-126 AMENDED SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. M. SHEILA MURPHY and C. MAX MURPHY Plaintiffs, vs. NUTEC COMMUNICATIONS, Inc. d/b/a ROCKY MOUNTAIN COMMUNICATIONS, Inc., ELMER ANDERSON and all other persons, unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate, or interest in or lien or encumbrance upon the real property described in the complaint herein, adverse to the Plaintiffs’ title thereto, whether such claim or possible claims be present or contingent, Defendants. THE STATE OF

MONTANA SEND GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE NAME DEFENDANTS: Nutec Communications, Inc. d/b/a Rocky Mountain Communications, Inc.; Elmer Anderson; and all other persons, unknown, claiming or who might claim any right, title, estate, or interest in or lien or encumbrance upon the real property described in the complaint herein, adverse to the Plaintiffs’ title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent. YOU ARE HEREBY Summoned to answer to the Complaint in this action as filed in the office of the Clerk of Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiffs’ attorneys within 20 days after service of this summons, exclusive of the date of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default, for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title to land situated in Missoula County, Montana and described as follows: A tract of land located in the SW 1/4 of Section 10, Township 12 North, Range 19 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as Tract 38 of Certificate of Survey No. 47. WITNESS my hand this 13th day of April, 2010. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of the District Court By: Gayle Johnson, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-10-47 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARGARET JANE JACOBSEN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned was appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or the claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Helen J. Lee, the personal representative, return receipt requested, at Dye & Moe, P.L.L.P., PO Box 9198, 216 West Main, Suite 200, Missoula, Montana 59807, or filed with the clerk of the above-entitled court. Dated: April 16th, 2010. /s/ Helen J. Lee, Personal Representative NOTICE OF CLOSE OF REGISTRATION Notice is hereby given that regular* registration for the Primary Election to be held on June 8, 2010, will close at 5:00 p.m., on May 10, 2010.. NOTE: If you miss this regular registration deadline, you may still register for the election by showing up at the county election office up to and including on Election Day. Between noon and the close of business on the day before Election Day, you can drop off a late voter registration card, but you will need to return to the local election office on Election Day to pick up and vote a ballot. All active and inactive** electors of Missoula County are entitled to vote at said election.. **Inactive electors may reactivate by appearing at the polling place in order to vote, by requesting an absentee ballot in any election, or by notifying the County Election Administrator in writing of the elector’s current residence in the county.. Persons who wish to register and who are not presently registered may do so by requesting a form for registration by mail or by appearing before the County Election Administrator. If you have moved, please have your registration transferred to your present address.. DATED this 25th day of March, 2010. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier Election Administrator Missoula County By Debbe Merseal, Chief Deputy NOTICE OF SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST Deed of Trust: Dated February 5, 2003 Grantor: Lei Ann Cross, 199 Cross Country Road, Polson,, Montana 59860 Lei Ann Cross, 17600 Highway 93 North Missoula, Montana 59808 Lei Ann Cross, 110 Main Street, Suite 7 Polson, Montana 59860 Lei Ann Cross, P.O. Box 549 Polson, Montana 59860 Borrowers: Lei Ann Cross and John L. Cross 199 Cross Country Road Polson, Montana 59860 Original Trustee: First American Title Company of Montana, Inc., P.O. Box 549, Missoula, Montana 59806 Beneficiary: First Security Bank of Missoula 2601 Garfield

Missoula, Montana 59801 Successor Trustee: Christopher B. Swartley Attorney at Law Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC P.O. Box 8957 Missoula, Montana 59807- -8957 Date and Place of Recordation: February 6, 2003 in Book 698, Page 1312, Micro Records of Missoula County, Montana. The undersigned hereby gives notice that on the 20th day of July, 2010, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. at the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, West Broadway side, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, Christopher B. Swartley, as Successor Trustee under the above-described instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of the above-named Trustee, Successor Trustee, and Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, without warranty or covenant, express or implied, as to title or possession, in the following described real property: A tract of land located in the E_ of Section 23 and the W_ of Section 24, Township 15 North, Range 20 West, M.P.M., Missoula County, Montana, and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the Northwest corner of said Section 24; thence S.00º01’E., along the West line of said Section 24, 3798.38 feet to the true point of beginning; thence S.68º07’10”E., 337.82 feet to the Northwesterly right-of-way line of the Northern Pacific Railway; thence S.43º33’20”W., along said railway rightof-way line, 165.15 feet; thence N.66º11’30”W., 411.11 feet to the Southeasterly right-of-way line of U.S. Highway No. 93 on a non-tangent curve (radial) line through said point bears S.75º43’30”E.’ thence Northeasterly along said Highway right-of-way line and said non-tangent curve, being concave to the Northwest and having a radius of 2945.0 feet, 94.3 feet to a point on a tangent line; thence N.12º26’20”E., along said Highway right-of-way line, 46.95 feet; thence S.68º07’10”E., 155.74 feet to the true point of beginning. LESS AND EXCEPTING that portion deeded to the State of Montana recorded in Book 666 of Micro Records at page 1060. TOGETHER WITH improvements including a 1972 Great Lakes mobile home, Title No. M487388, upon which Beneficiary holds a first lien security interest. RECORDING REFERENCE: Book 349 of Micro Records at page 1612. Subject to easements and encumbrances of record. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are the failure of the above-named Grantor, and all of her successors and assigns, to pay when due the monthly payments provided for in the Deed of Trust in the amount of Four Hundred Fifty-one and 30/100ths Dollars ($451.30) each for the months of November 2009 through February 2010, totaling One Thousand Eight Hundred Five and 20/100ths Dollars ($1,805.20); together with late charges in the amount of One Hundred Four and 83/100ths Dollars ($104.83); and the failure to pay real and personal property taxes and assessments for the years 2008 and the first one-half of 2009. The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is Forty-four Thousand Three Hundred Fifty-nine and 26/100ths Dollars ($44,359.26), plus interest thereon at the current rate of Eight Percent (8.%) per annum (variable), from and after the 18th day of October, 2009 to March 2, 2010, in the amount of One Thousand Three Hundred Two and 83/100ths Dollars ($1,302.83); plus per diem interest thereafter at the rate of Nine and 72/100ths Dollars ($9.72); plus all costs, expenses, attorney’s and trustee’s fees as provided by law.. DATED this 9th day of March, 2010. /s/ Christopher B. Swartley Christopher B. Swartley, Successor Trustee Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC P.O. Box 8957 Missoula, Montana 59807 -8957 STATE OF MONTANA :ss. County of Missoula. This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 9th day of March, 2010, by Christopher B. Swartley, Trustee. ((SEAL) /s/ Roxie Hausauer Notary Public for the State of Montana. Residing at: Lolo, Montana My commission expires: January 6, 2013 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/23/03, recorded as

Instrument No. 200337626, Bk 719, Pg 83, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which James Kaufman and Gretchen Kim Kaufman, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, 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, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in the E1/2 NE1/4 SW1/4 and all that part of the NE1/4 SE1/4 SW1/4 lying North of US 12 as now constructed, all in Section 26, Township 12 North, Range 22 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Recording Reference: Book No. 481 of Micro Records at Page 1534. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to US Bank National Association, as Trustee for WFASC 2003-16. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 12/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 3, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $224,955.70. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $218,662.08, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on July 13, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.71485) 1002.149552-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/30/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200728739, Bk. 808; Pg. 376, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Michael D. Brooks and Mirabai Henley was Grantor, Provident Financial, Inc. was Beneficiary and Title Services, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: LOT 10A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5801, LOCATED IN THE WEST ONE-HALF OF SECTION 35, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 23, WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA

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PUBLIC NOTICES COUNTY, MONTANA. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 12/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 9, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $330,647.14. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $310,100.47, 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. PLEASE NOTE: The Maturity Date is March 31, 2010, at which time full satisfaction is required. No reinstatement will be accepted after that date. 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 16, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 8034.20042) 1002.149615-FEI Mi NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/29/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200728835, Bk 808, Pg 472, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Colleen M. Combs & Steven R. Combs, as joint tenants was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage LLC was Beneficiary and Title Services, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 34 of Shelby Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 11, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $160,400.75. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $152,999.36, 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 July 21, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.72183) 1002.150336-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/08/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200432133, Book 743, Page 662, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Scott Parsneau, a married man, as his sole & separate property was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as

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nominee for Capital Family Mortgage Company of Montana was Beneficiary and Insured Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 5 of Mulberry Addition, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, 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 12/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 17, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $171,174.80. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $157,577.09, 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 July 28, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.01709) 1002.151103-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 2, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 7 and 8 in Block G of Car Line Addition No. 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat hereof. Robert Gee, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Source, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 10, 2006 and recorded April 18, 2006 in Book 772, Page 1922 under Document No. 200608673. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $832.49, beginning May 11, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 9, 2010 is $159,837.67 principal, interest at the rate of 6.2500% now totaling $3,548.92, late charges in the amount of $374.58, escrow advances of $1,680.84, suspense balance of $-610.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,359.75, plus accruing interest at the rate of $27.37 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attor-

ney’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. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 2, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE WEST 60 FEET OF THE EAST 187 _ FEET OF THE NORTH ONE-HALF OF BLOCK 10 IN HOMEVALE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF AS RECORDED IN BOOK 1 OF PLATS AT PAGE 35. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 228 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1805. Mona L Munson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to American Home Mortgage Acceptance, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 06, 2005 and Recorded on April 11, 2005 under Document # 200508158. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company as Indenture Trustee for American Home Mortgage Investment Trust 2005-2, MortgageBacked Notes, Series 2005-2. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,610.30, beginning October 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of January 27, 2010 is $251,650.00 principal, interest at the rate of 6.125% now totaling $6,278.02, late charges in the amount of $128.44 and other fees and expenses advanced of $150.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $42.23 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 21, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE SOUTH ONEHALF OF LOTS 19 AND 20 IN BLOCK M OF CAR LINE ADDITION NO. 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Doreen M Bermingham, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 30, 2006 and Recorded on March 31, 2006 under Document # 200607104. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas as Indenture Trustee for American Home Mortgage Investment Trust 2006-2, Mortgage-Backed Notes, Series 2006-2. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $852.14, beginning September 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 4, 2010 is $98,968.87 principal, interest at the rate of 7.25% now totaling $2,411.42, late charges in the amount of $105.15, escrow advances of $76.03, and other fees and expenses advanced of $150.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $19.66 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be

advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 10, 2010 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 February 10, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 03/28/2010 ASAP# 3534320 04/22/2010, 04/29/2010, 05/06/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 28, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Certificate of Survey No. 224A, a tract of land located in and being a portion of Lot 27 of DINSMORE’S ORCHARD HOMES NO. 4, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof STEPHANIE KIMMI KUCERA AND TROY SCOTT KUCERA, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 10, 2007 and Recorded January 16, 2007 in Book 790, Page 780, under Document No. 200701242. The beneficial interest is currently held by US BANK, NA. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,094.68, beginning August 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 28, 2010 is $279,761.56 principal, interest at the rate of 6.7500% now totaling $12,412.52, late charges in the amount of $562.32, escrow advances of $1,140.14 and other fees and expenses advanced of $239.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $51.74 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default

occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 17, 2010 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 2/17/10, 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. NICOLE SCHAFER Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 3/28/11 ASAP# 3544049 05/06/2010, 05/13/2010, 05/20/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 28, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TAX PARCEL NUMBER: 3186005 LAND SITUATED IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA LOT 4 IN BLOCK 7 OF MULLAN TRAIL-PHASE 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. John Fillner, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Source, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 29, 2005 and Recorded on October 06, 2005 under Document # 200526390, in Bk-761, Pg-1160. The beneficial interest is currently held by OneWest Bank, FSB. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,357.42, beginning October 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 1, 2010 is $176,635.75 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $5,188.68, late charges in the amount of $230.72, escrow advances of $244.79, and other fees and expenses advanced of $159.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $28.43 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 17, 2010 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 February 17, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 03/28/2011 ASAP# 3544112 05/06/2010, 05/13/2010, 05/20/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 29, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 12 OF RAVENWOOD HILLS NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Brandon M Dwyer and Pamela A Dwyer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an

PUBLIC NOTICES obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 26, 2006 and Recorded on July 31, 2006 under Document # 200619107, in Bk-779, Pg-1598. The beneficial interest is currently held by Citibank, N.A. as Trustee for American Home Mortgage Assets Trust 2006-4 Mortgage-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-4. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1473.61, beginning August 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 1, 2010 is $416,646.42 principal, interest at the rate of 4.21% now totaling $10,471.32, late charges in the amount of $529.28, escrow advances of $977.30 and other fees and expenses advanced of $130.40, plus accruing interest at the rate of $42.89 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents {valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby {including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed

by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: 2/19/10 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 2/19/10, 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. NICOLE SCHAFER Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 3/28/11 ASAP# 3544808 05/06/2010, 05/13/2010, 05/20/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on September 13, 2010, at 10:00 a.m., on the Front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in the SW1/4 of Section 26, Township 12 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract 3 of Certificate of Survey No. 2876. Less and excepting all that portion conveyed to the Montana Department of Transportation in Bargain and Sale Deed recorded May 8, 1997 in Book 504 of Micro at Page 906. Grizzly Development Company, as Grantor, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Earl Pruyn, the Estate of Bertha Pruyn, Judy M. Grunow and Janice N. McKinney, as Trustees under the Will of Norman E. Thyfault, as Beneficiaries, by Trust Indenture recorded May 17, 2007, in Book 797 of Micro at Page 827, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded September 4, 2009, in Book 846, Page 1390, Document No. 200921945, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiaries have exercised, and hereby exercise, their option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $1 ,450 ,000 .00, plus interest at the prime rate of interest, totaling $208, 256. 25, for a total amount due of $1 ,658 ,256 .25 as of April 27, 2010, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiaries have elected, and do hereby elect, to sell the abovedescribed property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiaries declare that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property

SERVICES described above in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED day of May, 2010. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee STATE OF MONTANA )ss .County of Missoula On this day of May, 2010, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. /s/ Christy Shipp Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana My Commission Expires: (SEAL) NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at Trustee’s Sale on September 13, 2010, at 10:15 a.m., on the Front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in the SW1/4 of Section 26, Township 12 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract 1A of Certificate of Survey No. 2002.. Grizzly Development Company, as Grantor, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Earl Pruyn, the Estate of Bertha Pruyn, Judy M. Grunow and Janice N. McKinney, as Trustees under the Will of Norman E. Thyfault, as Beneficiaries, by Trust Indenture recorded May 17, 2007, in Book 797 of Micro at Page 826, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded September 4, 2009, in Book 846, Page 1391, Document No. 200921946, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder.. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due.. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiaries have exercised, and hereby exercise, their option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $1 ,450 ,000 .00, plus interest at the prime rate of interest, totaling $208 ,256. 25, for a total amount due of $1 ,658, 256. 25 as of April 27, 2010, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiaries have elected, and do hereby elect, to sell the abovedescribed property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiaries declare that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Notice.. DATED day of May, 2010. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee STATE OF MONTANA )ss .County of Missoula On this day of May, 2010, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to

me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written.. /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: (SEAL)

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on September 13, 2010, at 10:30 a.m., on the Front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Tract A of Certificate of Survey No. 888, being a portion of the Southwest Quarter of Section 26, Township 12 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Grizzly Development Company, as Grantor, conveyed the real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Earl Pruyn, the Estate of Bertha Pruyn, Judy M. Grunow and Janice N. McKinney, as Trustees under the Will of Norman E. Thyfault, as Beneficiaries, by Trust Indenture recorded May 17, 2007, in Book 797 of Micro at Page 828, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded September 4, 2009, in Book 846, Page 1392, Document No. 200921947, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiaries have exercised, and hereby exercise, their option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $1 ,450 ,000 .00, plus interest at the prime rate of interest, totaling $208 ,256. 25, for a total amount due of $1 658, 256 .25 as of April 27, 2010, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiaries have elected, and do hereby elect, to sell the abovedescribed property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiaries declare that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED day of May, 2010. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee STATE OF MONTANA )ss .County of Missoula On this day of May, 2010, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. /s/ Christy Shipp Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana My Commission Expires: (SEAL)

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Join us on the Front Porch By Brint Wahlberg, 2010 MOR President Missoula is growing from a rural community into a small city. Growth and change are inevitable. There is an old saying that if you aren’t growing and changing, you are dying. That applies to communities as well as people. But understanding that about Missoula, and even embracing the change, doesn’t prevent the occasional uneasy feeling that something we treasure is slipping away. LiveMissoula! was conceived several years ago and incorporated into the programs of the Missoula Organization of REALTORS®. It focuses on embracing both the growth and the longing to preserve and protect what we treasure. By celebrating what we cherish, by honoring our surroundings, and by working together respectfully, Missoula can continue to be the place it always was while achieving the potential of what it can become. We can grow a Missoula to treasure, but to do so, it matters for each of us how we ‘live Missoula.” There isn’t just one experience of living in Missoula, however. The experience of living in each neighborhood is defined by the lifestyle that it supports. Some are closer to outdoor recreation. Some are closer to parks and sports facilities. Some are closer to art

museums, the library, or shopping. Some are more rural with space and gardens. Missoula recognized the importance of neighborhoods and the part they play in the fabric of the community several years ago by establishing the Neighborhood Councils. Councils working together with the City have accomplished amazing things for their neighborhoods and for the city as a whole. They celebrate that each year by recognizing an outstanding volunteer. In communities all across America, neighborhoods are increasingly important among all the generations. In November, the Missoula Organization of REALTORS® was selected to receive a grant from the National Association of REALTORS® to further develop the website that has been a part of its “LiveMissoula!” programming for several years. The website is a prototype that can be adapted by all REALTOR® members to promote and support neighborhoods in their own communities. As such, it was important to develop the project around a universal symbol that represented the return to those neighborhood

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 10250 Valley Grove Dr., Lolo MLS#902264 - $289,000 Beautiful 2 bd, 2 ba, artsy log home on 1.84 acres 5 minutes from Missoula - Anne Jablonski - Wind ermere Real Estate - 546-5816 150 ft Flathead Lake Ftg 3B/2B Home. Boat Dock, level grass-to-lake 1.46 acres: www.MTwater views. com $495K / Realtor 239-7588 2663 Stratford, Target Range MLS#907889 - $212,000 Well maintained 3 bd, 2 ba ranch w/ fenced yard. Anne Jablonski Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816 3 acres fenced & ready for horses. 3 Bed, 2 Bath, modular home on a permanent foundation. 24x18 outbuilding, beautiful views. 499 Grandview, Stevensville. $185,000. MLS# 10002488. Janet 532-7903 or Robin 2406503 riceteam@windermere.com. Text:44133 Msg:128888 for pics

3 bd, 2 ba Potomac area home. Covered deck, fenced acreage, great views. The 28 x32 garage w/ double doors, attached storage in back & small car port. RV hookups behind garage. 40x49 Quoncet shop w/ 200 amp service, air compressor, snap on car lift, crane, water. $259,900. MLS# 10002960. Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 riceteam@windermere.com. Text:44133 Msg:12589 for pics 3 Bed, 2.5 Bath, double garage w/ Fireplace. 1/2 + acre lot, view of Lolo Peak. $259,000. MLS#10001969. 4716 Aspen, Upper Rattlesnake. Pat McCormick, 240-SOLD (7653). pat@properties2000.com 3322 B Connery Way MLS#908163 - $191,000 Unique 3 level condo. 2 bd, plus loft & 3 ba. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816

5 Bed/2 Bath in Bonner. New wood laminate floor. Large kitchen w/ island. Fenced yard in front w/ private deck area in back. New roof. Mature trees. $219,900 MLS# 906641. Windermere RE Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 Text:44133 Msg:12591 for pics 7097 Mormon Creek $177,000 A MUST SEE HOME!!! COZY, WELL MAINTAINED 2 BEDROOM HOME, A PARK LIKE SETTING ON APPROX 1/2 ACRE FENCED IN LOT, BEAUTIFUL MATURE TREES . FOR MORE INFO. ON THIS HOME PLEASE CALL HEATHER AT BERGUM REAL ESTATE 406-241-4018. Affordable, nice, like-new single family home in central Missoula with 3brm, all aplliances, awesome open floorplan and only $169,900, 1947 12St 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

4322 Capy Ln. - MLS#904419 $435,000 Wonderful executive style 4 bed, 4 bath home on 1 acre lot. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816

Beautiful custom built 3 bed, 2 bath home with hardwood floors, radiant heat, tongue & groove wood ceilings, tile countertops. Very private setting with great views and only 30 minutes from Missoula. $314,900. MLS#10003067. Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 riceteam@winder mere.com. Text:44133 Msg:12596 for pics BEAUTIFULLY UPDATED CENTRAL MISSOULA HOME. 4 Bdr/2 Bath, 10,000 Sq Ft Lot, open floor plan, double attached garage, lots of storage, living room & family room, close to Good Food Store, and more. $223,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy6 to 74362, or visit.... www.mindypalmer.com BEAUTIFULLY UPDATED SOUTH HILLS HOME ON A 13,000 SQ FT LOT. 4 Bdr/2 Bath, gorgeous interior, hardwood floors, incredible

yard, great mountain and valley views. $199,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy10 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com BUYERS WANTED: Research is what I do. Email me your wish list, we’ll look high and low for your new place. Celia Grohmann, Broker, Banana Belt Realty, celia@montana.com. CUTE ROSE PARK/SLANT STREETS NEIGHBORHOOD BUNGALOW. 2 Bdr/2 Bath, 2+ bonus rooms, hardwood floors, arched doorways, built-ins, single garage, fenced yard, mostly finished basement, and much more. $239,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy17 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

Development potential, almost 2 acres, vintage farmhouse & duplex, additional undeveloped ground. Preliminary Plat City Council Approval in place, contact agent for details, 327-8787 porticorealestate.com EXECUTIVE HOME ON 1.03 ACRES IN THE LOLO CREEK VALLEY. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, Main floor master suite, great room, family room & rec room, formal and casual dining rooms, great mountain and valley views. $575,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy20 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Fantastic North Side Home Wonderful new 3 bed/1.5 bath home (total remodel in 2003) is close to downtown, Farmer’s Market, the Northside trail system, and much more. Ample space for a garage if you desire. Enjoy summer

BBQ’s on the new trexdeck and nice yard. Call Devin Khoury for your showing 207-8200. Fantastic Opportunity for income qualified first time homeowners, great 2bdr. condo along the river, attached single car garage, bonus room, pets allowed, 1401 Cedar St #12 porticorealestate.com Fantastic, like-new, 4Bdrm, 2Bth, open floorplan, affordable at $229K, Next to Fantastic Community Garden and close to Good Food Store and bike trail. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com FISH THE BLACKFOOT RIVER FROM YOUR BACK YARD. Beautifully landscaped 4 Bdr/2 Bath home on 1.2 acres on the Blackfoot River just 10-15 minutes from Missoula. Open floor plan, great deck with hot tub overlooking the river and much more. $475,000. Prudential Montana.

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Immaculate home in great neighborhood. 2 bdrms, 2 bth, familyroom, sauna, nice yard, Vintage touches, hardwood floors, everything’s in fantastic condition! 135 Kensington 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

Great 3bdr house with hardwood floors, fireplace, nice sized kitchen and big backyard with garden space, fruit trees and garage with shop area. 933 Woodford 3278787 porticorealestate.com Hillview Acres - MLS#809493 $2,500,000 - Acreage in Helena area. Zoned for cemetery. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816 Huge Price Reduction Lot 1 Georgetown Vista Manor MLS#905530 - $85,000 or two lots totaling 5.12 acres for $160,000 2.87 acres in Georgetown Lake with easy year round access. Anne Jablonski Windermere Real Estate - 5465816 Huge Price Reduction Lot 2 Georgetown Vista Manor MLS#905531 - $85,000 or two lots totaling 5.12 acres for $160,000 2.25 acres in

Lower Rattlesnake 1438 Harrison St. For Sale by owner (Really!) 2BD/1BA. Small home, large yard. “Handy Man Special “ Fixer Upper” Whatever you want to call it... It’s a steal at $165K OBO. Chris 728-9434 NHN Applegate & Prarie Rd., Helena - MLS#809493 $2,500,000 - Great investment to get in at the very beginning of a cemetery development. Anne Jablonski - Windermere Real Estate - 546-5816 NORTHSIDE BUNGALOW WITH A GARAGE/SHOP. 2 Bdr/1 Bath, great location close to Downtown, large fenced back yard, and much more. $180,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy3 to 74362, or visit.... www.mindypalmer.com

Older Home with Vintage charm in wildly sought after Missoula neighborhood. 3 bdrm, 2 bth, beautiful floors. This charmer has incredible possibilities. 321 Tremont 3278787 porticorealestate.com One of a Kind Listing, Nine Mile Schoolhouse with all the charm, romance and history one would expect. Unlimited possiblities an outstanding property. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com Really cute craftsman style, 3Bdr, 1Ba home priced to sell. This home has all the charm of the 20s and original floors. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com SINGLE LEVEL LIVING JUST A SHORT WALK TO DOWNTOWN STEVI. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, great room, open floor plan, double garage, unobstructed views of the Bitterroot Mountains, great yard. $219,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy16 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Spacious, light-filled Upper Rattlesnake Home with 2 Fireplaces, 2 Bedrooms & 2 Bonus Rooms, 2 Baths, a really nice big backyard with patio. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

Stevensville area home on 10 acres. High ceilings, beautiful hardwood floors, fireplace, spacious master bedroom, deck with hot tub, and much more. $489,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy19 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com View or list properties for sale By Owner at www.byowner missoula.com OR call 550-3077 Well cared for 4 bed, 2.5 bath home w/ hot tub, A/C, & UG sprinklers. Near parks and trails. $319,900. 5501 Bonanza. Pat McCormick, 240-SOLD (7653). pat@properties2000.com

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DARBY COMMERCIAL BUILDING IN GREAT DOWNTOWN LOCATION ON MAIN ST. Two main floor retail/professional spaces featuring 10 ft ceilings, storage/back room spaces, and lots of windows plus two second floor residential rentals. Great income potential and priced to sell! $159,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @239-6696, Text Mindy4 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

HAWAI’I REAL ESTATE ~ BUYER’S MARKET homes-condos-land. Average temperature in the 70’s. Susie Spielman, RS, Windermere C&H Properties. Cell: 808-6403100 or E-mail: susie.spielman@hawaiiantel.net 20 years experience. FREE INFO~NO PRESSURE~NO OBLIGATION

Bring your house plans!! 2 Lots available in the Rattlesnake. Views and Privacy. Lot D; 13956 sq ft. Tract 1A; 25,263 sq ft. $165,000/each. Pat McCormick, 240-SOLD (7653). pat@properties2000.com NEW MONTANA LAND BARGAIN. 160 Acres / $189,900, Near Billings. Beautifully treed property w/ access to county road & utilities. Excellent for riding, hunting w/ ideal homesites & gorgeous views. Easy drive to Billings, less than 3 miles to Musselshell River and route 12. Call 888-361-3006 or visit www.Western SkiesLand.com for pictures

SOUTH HILLS CONDO WITH A SINGLE GARAGE . 2 Bdr/2 Bath, 2 balconies. great views, master with walk-in closet & master bath, laundry, and much more. $184,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy18 to 74362, or visit.... www.mindypalmer.com

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Running or Walking? Are YOU planning to participate in the Missoula Marathon or Half Marathon on Sunday, July 11th? If so, YOUTH HOMES would love for you to join our 2010 Run 4 Kids Team! Why not help Missoula area children while you achieve personal success? Last year our team made a difference for local children in need - help us make it an even better year for them! More info: 721.2704 or www.youthhomesrun4kids.org

SPRING THAW Oval Festival UM Campus Friday, May 7, 10am - 2pm Live music by Greenstar, games, giveaways and fun for all!