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Vol. 20, No. 19 • May 7–May 14, 2009

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

Bold strokes Out past Drummond, in a building on an old cattle farm, you’ll find Bill Ohrmann’s museum and gallery— and a lifetime’s worth of commentary captured in his paintings.

by Erika Fredrickson

Up Front: EPA releases Libby’s long-sought “Rumple Report” Scope: International Wildlife Film Festival welcomes new blood Noise: Tom Catmull & the Clerics get gritty with Glamour Puss

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Vol. 20, No. 19 • May 7–May 14, 2009

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

Bold strokes Out past Drummond, in a building on an old cattle farm, you’ll find Bill Ohrmann’s museum and gallery— and a lifetime’s worth of commentary captured in his paintings.

by Erika Fredrickson

Up Front: EPA releases Libby’s long-sought “Rumple Report” Scope: International Wildlife Film Festival welcomes new blood Noise: Tom Catmull & the Clerics get gritty with Glamour Puss

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nside Cover Story Bill Ohrmann, 90, doesn’t really care what people think of his paintings and what they may mean. He understands the work may draw some attention—he’s had a solo exhibit with the Missoula Art Museum, and a new documentary about the artist debuts this Cover photo by Chad Harder weekend—but he’s not caught up in the business of art sales or media attention. He’s perfectly content simply letting his copious and controversial work speak boldly for itself in a remote gallery in the middle of nowhere. ....................................................................................................15

News Letters Two on Ochenski columns, one on bikes .......................................................4 The Week in Review Molloy dismisses charges against William McCraig ..................6 Briefs A run on ammo, an unsettling settlement and moms ......................................6 Etc. A fond farewell to the 61st Legislature...................................................................7 Up Front EPA releases Libby’s long-sought “Rumple Report”.....................................8 Up Front Budget, zoning debates shape upcoming city elections..............................9 Ochenski Baucus takes on recreation access taxes...................................................10 Writers on the Range A city harnesses the power of darkness................................11 Agenda Drinking up the World Fair Trade Coffee Break...........................................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan The plots thicken ...........................................................................20 8 Days a Week We’ll be drawing stick figures...........................................................21 Mountain High The Zoo Town Surfers Youth Kayak Club........................................33 Scope Previewing the 32nd International Wildlife Film Festival .................................34 Noise Tom Catmull & the Clerics, Streetlight People, The Lucas Cates Band and Mury ............................................................................35 Film Gomorra shells out compelling realism............................................................36 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films....................................................37

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Inside Letters Briefs Up Front Ochenski Range Agenda News Quirks

Asked Tuesday morning at the University Center, on the University of Montana campus.

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by Ashley Sears

This week the Indy previews the 32nd International Wildlife Film Festival. What’s something you’ve witnessed in the wild that makes you wish you had a camera to record it?

Follow-up: What’s your favorite film featuring animals?

Candace Trautwein: I don’t have one of my own, but my stepdad used to be a cowboy, and he was riding his horse out in the country, and needed to stretch so he got off his horse. Before he knew it something ran by right between him and his horse, and he looked up and it was a mountain lion. It was chasing after something else, but it stopped and looked back at them and then ran off. Wingin’ it: I’m a big fan of Winged Migration. It’s a documentary about how our conquest of the world is interfering with the natural existence of all birds.

Brian Monohan: When I was 8, my dad and I broke down on the side of the road in West Yellowstone, and I walked across the road because I had to poop. I came over the hill and was face to face with a cow and a calf moose, and it started to dig its feet into the ground and lower its head like it was going to charge. It was crazy, but I didn’t have to poop anymore. Chain gang: Anything on the Discovery Channel or Animal Planet, like “Animal Precinct.” The animal cops bust people with, like, 40 dogs chained under the porch. It’s amazing.

Chad Mullman: I worked at SUWS, a wilderness therapy program, and I found a rattlesnake underneath a student’s ground pad and had to kill it.

Our entire campsite was infested with rattlesnakes. I ended up killing two before we moved on. We skinned them and ate them. They were delicious.

More of a books guy: I don‘t know, “Planet Earth” probably.

Liz Finch: I was surrounded by six sharks while diving in Bali.

The smallest one was four feet long, and I wanted to freak out and pee but I couldn’t because they’re attracted to pee, and they would have eaten me. Not a Bolt fan: What’s that one with the two dogs and the cat that go on an adventure? Homeward Bound! That’s the one.

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No to NREPA Similar to many recent transplants to the Bitterroot Valley, access to wilderness and the surrounding forests was one of the key attractions that led me to settle here. Since that time most of my free time has been spent in the Bitterroot and Sapphire mountains. Protection of the watersheds and the health of the surrounding ecosystem is vital to the health of the valley. Despite my support for the goals of the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, or NREPA (see “Second chance,” April 30, 2009), I have found myself a reluctant opponent of the bill as currently proposed.

The reason for my opposition to the bill—the current policy of banning mountain bikes from all wilderness areas. With the proposed bill, I estimate that approximately 75 percent of the trails we actively ride will be closed to bicycle use. This includes every trail on the Bitterroot side that leaves the valley bottom to go into a canyon or up into the mountains. On the maps it even appears that half of Lake Como would be within wilderness. Most of the allday epic rides in Blue Joint, Sleeping Child and along the Sapphire Crest would also be lost. Many of the more adventurous trails currently have little hiking or horse traffic.

Having shared my concerns with the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, I have found no scientific reason for the policy. There are concerns that mountain bikes go too fast or are too great a technological advantage to be compatible with the wilderness philosophy.

This is not an evidence-based policy, but rather the personal preference of some wilderness advocates. Bikes are a low impact, human powered, quiet use of the forest. Their impact is similar if not less than other allowed uses such as horses.

I agree with many people that there may be wilderness places that mountain bikes are not appropriate, just as there places that horses shouldn’t go, or even hikers if the impact will be too great. A blanket policy does not adequately address the historic and locally appropriate use of the trails. A wilderness trail travel plan similar to the current travel plans being revised for the national forests could allow more local

input to address the concerns of appropriate trail use for all wilderness users.

Lance Pysher Hamilton

Stupid and dangerous It is such a refreshing relief to read Ochenski’s clear understanding of the Otter Creek coal tract deal or prospective deal (see “Otterly wrong,” April 16, 2009).

Most statewide reporting speaks of the $1.4 billion the project is

“Most western Montana folk howl like mashed cats whenever there is

coal has not been leased: a) it is not good coal, and b) although it has already been available for lease since the so-called exchange for the nonexistent gold mine with the non-existent jobs for non-existent workers, it has not been accessible.

With all of the above drawbacks for very little return you still have the nasty problem of what you do with the coal!

Unlike the coal association ads that talk about “clean” coal—ahhh!—the other ad talks about “harnessing the awesome power of the word ‘clean.’” In fact, there is no such thing as clean coal. The business of carbon sequestration is still in the research stages. The current scientific consensus is that climate change is accelerating much more rapidly than had been predicted.

It is really stupid to plan to dig and burn more coal than is already leased and is being mined—and not in some distant future, but now! All in all, the Otter Creek development is stupid and dangerous.

Carolyn Walker Missoula

discussion of coal bed methane or coal mining near Glacier Park or drilling for oil on the Rocky

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Mountain Front.

expected to bring in as though it is free money. Most western Montana folk howl like mashed cats whenever there is discussion of coal bed methane or coal mining near Glacier Park or drilling for oil on the Rocky Mountain Front. I am very sure that proposal is no worse than tearing up the length of Tongue River Valley with a railroad and then building a spur to Otter Creek and then building housing communities (probably temporary) and providing services to those communities. There are reasons that

Mulling Mullan’s bikes I am happy to see the increased use of bicycles on Mullan Road. That is as long as the drivers of both the cars and bikes follow the rules of the road.

I use this busy road at least two times each day, so I would like to make a couple of suggestions of safety for both the car and bike users, so that each can use the road without any accidents.

There is a movement underway to make the pedestrian-bike lane even more secure than it is now. I have noticed a few things that would improve the safe use by walkers and cyclists as well as the car drivers. From Flynn Lane to Reserve Street, the lane narrows to less than 3 feet wide in spots. This is especially true on the curve over the irrigation ditch and further toward Reserve Street. This should be widened to make it a safer area. I would again like to remind car operators and bike users to use the outer portion of their respective lanes to avoid interfering with other moving traffic. This might help to avoid a serious accident as the traffic becomes more congested.

Charles “Ray” Doty Retired, Missoula City Police Dept.

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WEEK IN REVIEW • Wednesday, April 29

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by Chad Harder

Judge Donald Molloy dismisses charges against William McCraig, a defendant in the ongoing W.R. Grace trial, at the request of the prosecution. The dismissal leaves just three remaining defendants facing charges of conspiracy: Jack Wolter, Henry Eschenbach and Robert Bettacchi.

• Thursday, April 30 U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Ralph B. Kirscher puts the kibosh on NewWest.net’s play-by-play Twittering of the Yellowstone Club trial. Meanwhile, upstairs in the same court house, the Missoulian and University of Montana continue Twittering the W.R. Grace case.

• Friday, May 1 The horse slaughter bill, one of the most controversial of Montana’s legislative session, becomes law after the House and Senate rejected Gov. Schweitzer’s proposed changes. The bill encourages slaughterhouses and the exportation of horsemeat by limiting legal challenges to their operating permits. The Humane Society of the United States questions the bill’s constitutionality.

• Saturday, May 2 Strong winds wreak havoc at the season’s first farmers’ markets, causing vendor canopies to tumble and goods to topple. One especially strong gust blows away the till from Loose Caboose, making the Clark Fork River Market look like a giant money drop. Honest market-goers appear to return most of the cash.

• Sunday, May 3 Total Feast, a fundraiser for Total Fest VIII, draws 140 people to Biga Pizza for an all-you-can-eat buffet.

The fundraiser nets about $700 for the independent summer music festival. Organizers also announce a partial lineup for this year’s event, including locals Vera, Rooster Sauce and Wartime Blues.

• Monday, May 4 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service removes Northern Rockies gray wolves from the endangered species list (again), but environmental groups will challenge the decision in court (again) beginning June 2, when their 60-day notice of intent to sue expires. “We fear that once again wolves will be wantonly slaughtered before a court can rule,” says Michael Robinson of the Center for Biological Diversity.

• Tuesday, May 5 In the Missoula County Public Schools Board of Trustees elections, incumbents Nancy Pickhardt and Joseph Knapp beat Chris Jones, while Marcia Holland ousts incumbent Rick Johns. Both levies pass with more than 60 percent of the vote.

Too many people doing too many different things prompted the Lolo National Forest to expand the main Blue Mountain trailhead.

“Parking and traffic can get kind of crazy on busy days,” says Andy Kulla with the Lolo National Forest. “This will relieve a lot of the parking congestion and reduce conflicts when things get busy.” The popular jumping-off spot is scheduled to reopen May 15.

Varmitt

Friends say goodbye Pastor Curtis Privette started the service with a question: “I have some notes written

by Don—may I use his name?”

“Call him Varmitt,” a woman answered.

They were referring to Donald Charles Watts Jr., or “Varmitt,” as friends called him.

He died in a downtown alley last month after succumbing to freezing temperatures. On May 1, a few dozen of Varmitt’s friends boarded a rented school bus and rode out to the Sunset Memorial Funeral Home to say goodbye.

“Varmitt wasn’t much for conforming,” one man said.

He mentioned Varmitt’s preference for sleeping on the cold pavement with his dogs, Bear and Socks, rather than leave them outside while he slept in the Poverello Center. Another friend laughed as he remembered a story he’d read about Varmitt shortly after his death that described him as a peaceful man.

“Varmitt loved a good scrap,” he remembered. “If he saw someone picking on someone weaker, he’d stand up.”

More than one person said Varmitt had saved their life. One woman said he once pulled her wheelchair out of a snowdrift. If he hadn’t, “I’d probably be in his position,” she said.

Pastor Privette finished the service with Psalm 23. Fitting, he said, for a man who loved the outdoors. And then, Privette asked for a moment of silence. The only sound was the occasional sniffle. As Varmitt’s friends passed the casket, one man tied a black handkerchief to the casket and another man rubbed it once, said, “See ya there, brother,” and turned away.

Jesse Froehling

Media

Lightening the load Elke Govertsen jokes that the market for her new magazine, Mamalode, is “crazy, wicked, powerful.” And her audience is

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everywhere. Soaking up the sun outside Bernice’s Bakery, she smiles and waves to one stroller-pushing mother after another.

She says there’s just one problem with being a mom in Missoula: The community lacks a one-stop guide to the resources that can make their lives easier.

“The moms need something that they’re not getting,” Govertsen says. “And the businesses in town need to reach the moms in a way that they’re not finding directly.”

Govertsen—herself a mother of two— turned to her own devices and created Mamalode, a free magazine mostly by moms for moms. Content ranges from health and fashion to mom-centric travel.

Govertsen even threw in a column from the dad’s perspective. The maiden issue debuts Saturday at the fifth annual Mother’s Day Eve Bash. A second issue is set to follow in November, and the magazine goes quarterly in 2010.

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put it all together,” says Erin Falagan, a Mamalode contributor.

Govertsen is just the young, energetic mom you’d imagine able to run a magazine while raising two small boys. She talks about taking a business course through the Montana Community Development Corporation, and says she found staffers for Mamalode by relying on the most potent gift in a mother’s arsenal: networking.

“I have lots of practice keeping lots of plates spinning,” Govertsen says.

Mamalode spring-boarded from the Mother’s Day Eve Bash, which Govertsen started as a night for moms to gab and get pampered free of husbands and children.

The idea is to embrace the fact that moms, however busy, are still individuals.

“When you have so much on your plate, what gets pushed off is you,” Govertsen says. “With Mamalode, we’re just trying to make a bigger plate.”

Alex Sakariassen

Up Front

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Range

even had to buy some from customers. That’s very much a first.”

Brady received an order of ammunition just last week, one he’d placed in December.

When he called to place another, he was told it couldn’t be filled until September.

With such increased demand, gun and ammunition profits have skyrocketed. Smith and Wesson recently reported a third-quarter profit increase of 29.9 percent over thirdquarter profits last year.

The running theory on the increase credits President Barack Obama’s election and concern among gun enthusiasts that the

Guns

Struggling to reload Dwindling supply and historic demand have left ammunition shelves bare at local sports retailers. With ammo profit margins through the roof, the story reads the same nationwide: Gun nuts are stockpiling.

“I think a lot of this started six or seven months ago when people saw the supply dwindling,” says Rich Marcella, hunting manager at Sportsman’s Warehouse. “Everybody kind of hit the panic button. Everybody just bought whatever they could.”

Marcella, a five-year gun counter veteran, says 9mm cartridges and other handgun ammunition are selling fastest. Customers who might normally buy one box now eye four. Marcella has seen a simultaneous increase in Glock, Kimber and Springfieldbrand handgun sales.

“I’ve never even seen it this close to being this bad,” Marcella says.

Nor has Sportsman’s Surplus owner Terry Brady. In 40 years selling ammunition in Missoula, he’s never seen a run this dramatic.

“Right now, we’re getting it from wherever we can get it,” Brady says. “In fact, we’ve

administration would increase gun control.

Marcella doesn’t know the exact cause, but says ammunition manufacturers are backordered for four to six months. He’s confident shelves will fill up again. It’s simply a question of when.

“It could be three months down the road,” he says, “it could be a year down the road.”

Alex Sakariassen

Bitterroot

An unsettling settlement Local environmental group Friends of the Bitterroot recently settled a long-standing legal dispute with Bitterroot Forest Supervisor Dave Bull, but the group says that if it weren’t for mounting legal bills,

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they think they could have continued the case and won.

The dispute originated after a Sept. 22, 2005, press conference at Bull’s office in Hamilton. The plaintiffs—Jim Miller, Larry Campbell and Steward Brandborg, all members of Friends of the Bitterroot—were denied entrance to the event despite the fact that other members of the public were allowed to attend. The group claimed they were denied entrance because of their political viewpoint.

The group wanted to attend the event to hear Bull’s announcement of the Middle East Fork Project, a plan to rehabilitate the forest after the 2000 summer wildfires. Miller says Friends of the Bitterroot had been involved in the project’s development from the beginning, although Bull ended up choosing a different alternative than the one proposed by the group.

“We had been working on the project for a couple of years and had attended every meeting up to that point,” Miller says. “This was the final decision meeting.

After being involved with this project through field trips, public meetings, writing comments, proposing our own alternative, we had a very strong vested interest in attending the meeting where the final decision would be announced.”

The three plaintiffs filed suit against Bull and the U.S. Forest Service, alleging violation of their First Amendment rights.

U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy dismissed the charges against the Forest Service but ruled that Bull was not immune from a lawsuit. Bull appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court. The court denied Bull’s appeal for immunity and kicked it back to Molloy. The group had to settle once the suit dragged on.

“Each step of the way, the cost for a small organization like Friends of the Bitterroot is too much,” says Miller. “We could not afford to continue.”

He adds that he believes the group could have won the case if it had more money.

Bull declined to comment on the settlement, saying only: “I’m glad it’s over and I look forward to moving on.”

Jesse Froehling

BY THE NUMBERS Car crash fatalities in Missoula County in 2008, according to a mid-April report by the Montana Highway Patrol. The county ranked third behind Flathead and Yellowstone counties, and improved from a total of 23 fatalities in 2007.

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Many Montanans breathed a sigh of relief April 28 when those unpredictable lawmakers in Helena adjourned the 61st Legislature. They largely avoided petty partisan bickering, and compromised on the state’s $3.2 billion general fund without adding a special session. But those accomplishments didn’t stop some insanity from creeping onto the governor’s desk for approval.

A prime example is the much ballyhooed horse slaughter bill proposed by Rep. Ed Butcher, R-Winifred. This dangerous bill, HB 418, pegs Montana as the new home for the horse slaughter industry. Proponents see that as a good thing, a move that addresses the national need to put down hundreds of thousands of unwanted horses annually. Critics believe the bill’s limited oversight—slaughterhouses will not be subject to state environmental laws—makes it unconstitutional. Gov. Brian Schweitzer tried to amend the bill, but lawmakers rejected his suggestions. We suppose we’ll start seeing those snazzy “Made in Montana” stickers on packaged horsemeat sometime soon.

Second Amendment laws also made headlines this session, and everyone knows we Montanans love our guns—especially when we’re the ones that make ‘em. House Bill 246 exempts Montana-made arms from federal regulation, provided they remain within state borders. Rep. Joel Boniek, R-Livingston, supported the bill as Montana handling Montana’s business.

Now proponents hope it triggers a court case over whether the federal government can regulate gun sales. Sounds like a risky step backward—not sovereignty—to us.

At least Rep. Krayton Kerns’ HB 228 didn’t pass as originally drafted. The Laurel Republican wanted to allow citizens to carry a firearm within city limits without a permit. That phrase was stripped from the bill’s final language, which now states people don’t have to try to run away before using a gun in self defense.

Speaking of running away, the governor chose not to veto a slew of dangerous environmental bills. Rep. Llew Jones, RConrad, successfully passed HB 483, which speeds up the permitting process for energy development projects in the state. In addition, the bill limits how the public can challenge permit decisions, a huge blow to environmental groups.

House Bill 338 also favors industry over citizens by establishing eminent domain rights for common-carrier pipelines transferring carbon dioxide to underground reservoirs. The law tables property owners’ rights in the interests of greater pipeline efficiency.

There were plenty of near-misses that thankfully died before reaching Schweitzer—HR 3’s ridiculous succession bid comes to mind—but still seeing these questionable bills pass into law makes us a bit uneasy. We’re just glad to see the session in our rear-view mirror. The Montanamade rifles on our gun rack frame it nicely.

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Too little, too late EPA releases Libby’s long-sought “Rumple Report”

by Matthew Frank

“It’s a three-year-old report now, but infrequent or for short durations, they The government last week released a damning memorandum detailing the nothing has really changed,” says Dr. will not likely significantly increase your Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Gerry Henningsen, former EPA senior tox- risk of health effects, especially if cominadequate cleanup of asbestos in Libby, icologist and technical advisor to the mon-sense precautions are taken.”

Rumple found a criminal investigathree years after the Independent first sub- agency’s Technical Advisory Group. mitted a Freedom of Information Act “That’s the important thing. They have the tion unwarranted, instead suggesting an settlement for money, but they have no assessment by the Office of Program (FOIA) request for the document.

The memo, written by Special Agent meaningful additional data on the science Evaluation. But OIG began a 21-month Cory Rumple in 2006 and known as the of the relative toxicity of this material and criminal investigation anyway, which “Rumple Report,” summarizes the find- an exposure assessment of this material.” ended with federal prosecutors deciding Rumple’s investigation was trig- not to take up the case. The probe inexings of an Office of Inspector General (OIG) investigation into the EPA’s gered by allegations that EPA contrac- plicably neglected the scientific studies Rumple suggested, says PEER cleanup. The memo made OIG— Executive Director Jeff Ruch. but no one else—aware of infight“Infighting, pettiness, turf ing within the EPA, a disconnect wars—none of that stuff is crimibetween scientific evidence and nal,” says Ruch, “even though it cleanup procedures, and “unconmay have monstrous consescionable” documents distributed quences in terms of people getting to Libby residents that assured sick and dying…That opportunity safe levels of asbestos exposure. was pissed away, and the criminal At least 200 deaths and thouinvestigation resulted in nothing.” sands of illnesses have been related Perhaps the most significant to exposure to asbestos unearthed implication of the memo being from the vermiculite mine that concealed, according to operated in Libby for decades. The Henningsen, is that the critical EPA came to Libby nearly 10 years Photo courtesy of Paul Peters information contained in it could ago to begin cleanup.

“The purpose in writing it was The government finally released a report writ- not influence last year’s $250 milten in 2006 by Special Agent Cory Rumple that so that another OIG authority, details the EPA’s inadequate cleanup in Libby. lion settlement with W.R. Grace, the company that operated the which I thought would be the Office of Program Evaluation, could tors improperly cleaned Libby homes mine between 1963 and 1990. (Three pick up where I left off and possibly by wetting down carpets, ensuring former Grace executives are currently report the situation to the Agency quick- monitors would find temporarily safe on trial in Missoula for allegations they ly,” Rumple wrote in an explanation of levels of asbestos. “This in turn would knowingly exposed Libby residents to his memo. “I believed time was of the allow the contractors to move on to asbestos.) Henningsen calls the 2008 essence, as the Agency appeared to be the next house, and allow them to be monetary settlement, which largely heading down the same road it did with paid for a house deemed ‘clean’ of reimbursed the government for past cleanup costs, “grossly inadequate.” the 9/11 fallout. I felt the memo would asbestos fibers,” he wrote.

“In a criminal court I think this Rumple found isolated wet carpet start a non-criminal review which might slow down what I perceived to be a incidents, but uncovered other prob- would be the same as one side withholding key evidence and not disclosrush to a Record of Decision and possi- lems in his report.

“When I went to Libby, MT, to speak ing all information before you go to ble future illnesses and deaths in Libby.”

OIG buried the Rumple Report, first with individuals about this situation,” he trial and make a decision,” Henningsen telling the Independent in August 2006 wrote, “they wanted to talk about the says. “That would be grounds for nullithat it did not exist, and later stating it documents that EPA had disseminated fying and voiding that settlement, or at was FOIA-exempt. Former Independent during the cleanup and the lack of a risk least opening up negotiations to revisit, reporter Paul Peters confirmed the assessment associated with the cleanup.” perhaps, a new amended settlement.”

How that can happen, though, is Two documents handed out by the report’s existence by interviewing EPA scientists also interviewed during EPA—“Living with Vermiculite” and unclear.

“I’m not sure how that would be another referred to by Libby residents Rumple’s investigation.

The document’s April 28 release as the “comfort letter”—were described reopened,” says Ruch. “Certainly W.R. came a week after Public Employees for by EPA scientists interviewed by Grace would contend that a deal is a deal.

Environmental Responsibility (PEER) Rumple as “exceptionally deceiving,” And it did not sound from the Rumple filed a lawsuit to obtain it. OIG chose “unconscionable,” “premature,” “total- Report like the company misled EPA. If not to contest the suit because of the ly disingenuous” and containing “dou- anything, EPA deluded itself, which is no new “presumption of openness” FOIA ble speak.” One toxicologist described grounds for rescinding the contract.

“I think the ball is in the court of the guidelines handed down by the Obama the “Living with Vermiculite” docuadministration and formalized by ment as “a misrepresentation of the Montana congressional delegation,” Ruch Attorney General Eric Holder in March. current scientific knowledge surround- adds. “Certainly the question of what is the status of the cleanup now after all this The Rumple Report paints a clear ing Libby-amphibole asbestos.”

The vermiculite document read, in time and money, and whether or not picture of the deficiencies of the Libby cleanup, specifically the lack of toxicity part: “Even though contacting or work- more money is needed, is going to be a studies needed to establish safe and ing near vermiculite or other asbestos- question for Congress.” acceptable levels of exposure—which, containing materials can release asbestos mfrank@missoulanews.com to this day, still haven’t been completed. fibers into the air, if such exposures are

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Wedged in Budget, zoning debates shape upcoming city election

by Jesse Froehling

The filing period just opened May forth as an early sign of election-year 14 new buses. Out here where I live [in the South Hills] we pay taxes for 4, but most candidates for Missoula politics.

“The zoning thing will probably get bus service and we don’t even have City Council agree that zoning and budget issues—two of the most con- some traction because it’ll drag out bus service. And they’re going to run troversial topics from the past into the late summer, or the middle of the lines down to Lolo. That’s a year—are sure to shape this fall’s the summer at the earliest,” says Ward concern.”

But Ward 1 Councilmember Jason election. And with six open seats and 3 Councilmember Bob Jaffe.

OPG is hoping to have a draft of Wiener, who is not running for reeleca fledgling conservative minority looking to gain ground, those wedge the zoning rewrite in front of the coun- tion, says the current economic climate issues may not be the only ones in cil in late June, during the height of may make the budget less of an issue.

With less money to go around, there’s campaign season. play. less to debate.

In 2007, urban chickens “This year is a very came out of nowhere to rough budget year and influence the election. And we’re going to be looking although the once hot-butto find savings wherever ton topic has long since we can,” Wiener says. “It’s passed from the headlines, going to result in a very Ward 1 Councilmember lean budget so there’s not Dave Strohmaier recognizes going to be a heck of a lot that seemingly mundane to fight about. That doesn’t issues can blow up during mean we won’t have diselection season. cussions about whether “The whole chicken one piece of the mayor’s debate played into some of budget that is headed to the rhetoric of the election one department should go season,” says Strohmaier, to another.” who is seeking reelection Engen, who is also runthis fall. “At the present ning for reelection, has seen time, I don’t see anything unconstr uctive politics quite like that, but there muck up city government could be emerging wedge during an election year. issues that I haven’t anticiWhether it’s the budget, pated already.” zoning or a wildcard issue, Strohmaier suggests the he hopes this year’s candiongoing debates over dog dates rise above petty leashes and marijuana laws debates. could become this year’s “I’ve been through controversial topics.

Photo by Chad Harder enough elections now to “Suffice it to say that any of the ideological differ- Mayor John Engen, who is seeking reelection, hopes recognize there are all sorts ences that put council mem- constructive debate rises above traditional wedge of issues that can come into issues during this election year. “I’ve been through bers at odds right now are enough elections now to recognize there are all sorts of play,” he says. “Issues involving money, environment the source of things we issues that can come into play,” he says. and land use are very intercould see throughout the On the budget front, conserva- esting to the folks we serve and election,” he says.

In the absence of a wildcard issue, tives have already demonstrated a become important in elections. And I the zoning debate appears to be the desire to paint the council’s progres- think that’s fair. How we approach biggest item heading into the elec- sives as over-spenders. During a those is where I hope we’re mature tion. The Office of Planning and debate over Mayor John Engen’s pro- and thoughtful and engaged in a meanGrants (OPG) is currently working posed budget last August, Ward 2 ingful debate and understand that with a consultant to revamp the Councilmember John Hendrickson we’re interested in the community’s city ’s zoning ordinance. Ward 5 unveiled a list of proposed budget best interest rather than getting someCouncilmember Dick Haines, who is cuts that he said would cut spending, body unelected or reelected.”

As of press time, only two chalrunning for reelection, acknowledged not services. While saying he wanted recently that he and a few other con- to “consolidate” and “re-program” the lengers had filed with the county servatives are behind an anonymous b u d g e t t o i m p r o v e e f f i c i e n c y , elections office. In Ward 2, Mark petition protesting the rewrite. The Hendrickson never proposed how Fitzgerald will face Hendrickson. In idea, as Haines explained it, is to that would be accomplished. The Ward 5, Mike O’Herron will run ensure that the minority members of council ended up approving Engen’s against Haines. The other four incumcouncil can participate in the rewrite budget along party lines, but it does- bents seeking reelection are Jaffe, Wilkins, Strohmaier and Ward 6’s process, something he doesn’t feel is n’t appear the issue will disappear.

“I think the budget, how Missoula Marilyn Marler. Potential candidates happening. OPG Director Roger Millar countered with a statement challeng- spends it’s money, [is sure to play have until July 2 to join the race. ing several of the zoning petition’s into the election],” says Haines. jfroehling@missoulanews.com premises. Many saw the back-and- “They’re going to get $4 million for

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Outdoor recreation is part and parcel of living in Montana. For many of us, it’s what living here is all about. Hunting, fishing, camping and hiking are and have been core activities for tens of thousands of Montana families for generations. The bad news is that, some years back, a slimy little clause was attached to an appropriations bill in Congress giving federal land management agencies wide discretion in charging new and higher fees for accessing federal lands. The good news is that Montana senior U.S. Sen. Max Baucus has now introduced legislation to repeal that fee authority and, once again, guarantee access to federal lands without being hit by outrageous fees for everything from parking to hiking.

For those new to Montana or unfamiliar with the issue, it was back in the late ’90s when a certain California Republican, Rep. Richard Pombo, slipped a rider on an appropriations bill allowing federal land management agencies to begin what was then called the Fee Demo program. Under the authority of the rider, federal agencies could assess various uses of federal forests, waters and lands to determine where certain recreational activities took place, what federal amenities were provided and what fees could be charged for using those areas.

Ostensibly the goal of the new program was to provide new revenue to the federal agencies in the form of user fees.

But as they say, “the road to hell is paved with good intentions,” and sure enough, the federal agencies were out-of-control, turning publicly owned resources into their own private revenue producers.

Even worse, since some part of the fees collected were earmarked to the areas that produced them, the focus turned to squeezing funds out of citizens at every possible opportunity.

In short order, the abuses by federal agencies began to stack up. Court battles raged over tickets issued to those who parked along highways to access federal lands without first paying their fees. Citizens who had, for years, enjoyed open access to forests, beaches, deserts and lakes found a new forest of “FEE AREA” signs everywhere they went. Montanans, by and large, were the last to experience this onslaught of federal recreational access fees, while more populated states such as Colorado were hammered and became the epicenter for the fee resistance movement. Groups such as the Western Slope No-Fee Coalition, which has since led the fight for “fee free” access to public lands, sprang into exis-

tence across the West (http://westernslopenofee.org).

Despite the unpopularity of the socalled “demo” program with public lands users, it was formally passed into law by the Republican-dominated Congress during the Bush administration in 2004 as the misnamed Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act (FLREA).

More popularly, the fee program was known as the RAT, the recreation access tax, and “Kill the RAT” became the rallying cry of fee opponents.

The 2005 Montana Legislature overwhelmingly passed a resolution urging the repeal of the RAT with 49 out of 50

“Citizens who had enjoyed open access to forests, beaches, deserts and lakes found a new forest of ‘FEE AREA’ signs everywhere

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senators and 88 out of 100 representatives voting for it. The language of the measure, HJ 13, was unequivocal in its opposition to the federal fee program.

The resolution said, “Montana’s culture, quality of life, and traditions demand free access to public lands,” and cited the faulty process by which the program came into being, saying it “was never approved by the U.S. House of Representatives and was never introduced, never had hearings, and was never approved by the U.S. Senate but was instead attached to an omnibus spending bill as an appropriations rider.”

It also pointed out that such measures discriminate against those who may be unable to pay to access their own federal recreational lands and waters.

Although the measure had many cosponsors from both political parties, it was carried in the Senate by then-Senate President Jon Tester, who was and remains a champion for fee-free recreational

access. Tester went on to serve Montanans in the U.S. Senate and, to this day, continues to oppose recreational access fees.

Such strong opposition from a broad majority of Montanans doesn’t go unnoticed, and Baucus became a leading and vocal opponent to the fee program. In the last Congress, Baucus introduced a fee-repeal bill but never took it to a hearing. Just last week, however, Baucus re-introduced the measure as S.868, the Fee Repeal and Expanded Access Act of 2009, which is co-sponsored by Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho.

In his press release announcing the measure, Baucus didn’t beat around the bush. “As a steadfast advocate of Montana’s outdoor heritage, Senator Max Baucus has introduced legislation that would block the U.S. Forest Service and other federal agencies from charging Montanans higher fees to access their public lands.”

Specifically, Baucus’ bill would “revoke authority given to the Forest Service in 2004 to institute new fees and increase existing fees at campgrounds, trailheads, and other public areas” by repealing the onerous Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Act and “reinstates legislation dating back to 1965 that limits the use of fees on public lands.”

“Every tax day we pay to use our public lands,” said Baucus, “we shouldn’t be taxed twice to go fishing, hiking, or camping on OUR public lands. Paying twice just doesn’t make any sense.”

Tester, who is vice-chairman of the Congressional Sportsman’s Caucus, has co-sponsored the legislation saying, “Raising fees on hardworking families who want to enjoy their public land isn’t a card we should be playing.

Americans already pay their share for our national forests every April 15. This bill is just common sense.”

In addition to repealing FLREA, Baucus’ bill would also reinstate the National Parks Pass system and cap the amount that can be charged for entrance to national parks.

No hearing date has yet been set, but Montanans should take this opportunity to thank Baucus and Tester for their tremendous effort to ensure that all Montanans have open access to our federal lands and waters.

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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Bright idea A city harnesses the forces of darkness

by Lance Diskan

A half-century ago, people in Flagstaff began to see the light. It was back in the 1950s, a bustling time when searchlights stabbed the sky to ballyhoo the opening of a new store.

But while additional businesses were welcome in Flagstaff, local astronomers noticed a problem: Their chances to see the heavens were getting dimmer.

The Flagstaff astronomers were people well connected to the stars, who understood their intrinsic meaning for humanity. They were also concerned enough to devote a lot of energy to being part of what they called the forces of darkness, rallying locals, explaining what was at stake and lobbying elected officials.

In response, on April 15, 1958, the Flagstaff City Council passed what is believed to be the first light-pollution legislation in America, and maybe even the world. Ordinance #440 prohibited “the use of certain commercial searchlights within the city limits” with a misdemeanor fine of $300 or “imprisonment in the City Jail not to exceed 90 days.”

Fast-forward 50 years, and Flagstaff ’s residents are concluding a year-long celebration honoring a halfcentury of protecting dark skies and the resulting opportunity to enjoy the beauty of this natural, scientific and poetic resource. On the southern lip of the Colorado Plateau, close to a ponderosa pine forest, Flagstaff now has three local observatories. Another one is under construction nearby. Lighting and sign codes that are models for other jurisdictions now protect these observatories from light pollution.

The lighting code, adopted in 1989, establishes dark zones around local institutional telescopes and sets less-stringent limits farther away. It had to be updated in 1992 and 1999, in response to population growth and attempts by a few to evade the spirit of the law. Some people were adding lights not to enhance public safety, but to advertise a product and catch the

eye of consumers. Commercial sign design is now managed by a sign code adopted in 1997 and updated in 2008, that mandates light lettering on dark backgrounds instead of the typical dark lettering on bright panels found elsewhere. Over time, the city’s zoning code administrator has gained the voluntary compliance of owners because they’ve come to appreciate the beauty and benefit of Flagstaff ’s dark skies.

What’s more, Coconino County officials eliminated billboards—including their nighttime illumination—many years ago.

“The American West contains some of the best remaining areas of darkness in the continental United States.

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The power of night has attracted other supporters, too, including Northern Arizona University and the Flagstaff Unified School District.

Relationships have been formed with agencies such as the Arizona Department of Transportation and the governor’s office, and starry nights are also regarded as a cultural phenomenon, celebrated by events such as the night art exhibition at the Coconino Center for the Arts. The Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff Symphony and The Arboretum at Flagstaff have also gotten into the act with events that celebrate crystal-clear nights.

It’s odd, if you think about it, for a small city (population 58,000) to win renown for celebrating something as simple and as natural as the night sky.

But if you’ve ever seen the now-famous image of the planet Earth at night, you see immediately that the American West contains some of the best remaining areas of darkness in the continental United States. Elsewhere, unfortunately, the norm has become brightly lighted areas that blot out the night sky.

Dark-sky activists have begun turning up throughout the country, and they have formed networks for individual citizens as well as municipalities to learn from one another about how to preserve the night-sky visibility where they live. New Mexico, for example, has designated its night sky as one of the state’s most-endangered ecosystems.

The rapidly growing acceptance of dark-sky preservation as a civic responsibility reflects two factors. One is a widespread realization in the West that economic and environmental benefits flow from “mere” stargazing at our dark night skies. There’s also a growing realization that public education is key to building the knowledge base necessary to implement positive darksky policies. Increasingly, towns, cities, states, parks and even the national government are recognizing their responsibility in the larger problem of the erosion of darkness, as well as their obligation to save unspoiled night sky as a public amenity.

The change from the 1950s has been amazing. From one small mountain town, a tiny group has grown into an expanding regional, national and international movement. Now there’s an established and respected tradition to save the wonders of the heavens as an inheritance for future generations.

Lance Diskan is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is a founder of the Dark Skies Coalition in Flagstaff, Arizona.

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Back when we decided to spite the British by turning our backs on tea—for the most part, that is—Americans made a deep commitment to the coffee bean. And while the bean’s boost has indeed led us to our current perilous heights, the same can’t be said for the farmers who raise this national pastime crop of ours.

That’s why a global coalition hosts the two-day caffeine-a-palooza Get Your Buzz On as part of this year’s World Fair Trade Coffee Break. It begins, like lots of things, at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center from 1–4 PM on Fri., May 8, where you can sip free fair trade java while constructing a peace crane or two. Then, at the evening’s 9 PM Full Moon Drumming session on Jacob’s Island, fair trade is the theme of the backbeat.

The real event, however, takes place on Sat., May 9, from 10 AM–noon at coffee shops around the downtown area. For

Thu. 7 May The UM Peace and Justice Film Series concludes at 5:30 and 7:30 PM in the UM University Center Theater, where screenings of King Corn, in which two friends try farming in Iowa in hopes of highlighting the modern world’s corn problem, are followed by group discussions. Free, donations appreciated. Visit peaceandjusticefilms.org.

Help keep your surroundings familiar and significant during the three-day conference, Preserving Our Heritage in a Changing Landscape, which begins with a keynote address at 6:30 PM at Fort Missoula’s Heritage Hall, continues with seminars through Fri., May 8, and moves to the County Courthouse lawn for a Preservation Fair on Sat., May 9. Free. Call 258-4706 or 544-8606.

Add yourself to a community discussion with Her Excellency Ambassador Hawa Ndilowe of Malawi, who presides over the event Southern Africa: Portraits of Progress with the U.S. State Department’s Joan Wadelton and the Corporate Council on Africa’s Tim McCoy, at 7 PM in UM’s University Center Ballroom, where the photo exhibit Visions of Africa makes a one-night appearance as well. Free. Call 728-3328.

Sat. 9 May You’ve one week to sign your dog up for some outpatient surgery as a host of local veterinarians offer a low-cost Spay/Neuter Clinic beginning at 8 AM on Sat., May 16. Appointments and rabies shots ($5) are required, and puppies accompanied by their mom will be “fixed” for free. $40 first dog/$25 add’l beasts. RSVP 240-4693.

Mon. 11 May Expect hairy eyeballs cast upon umbrellahoisting rabble-rousers when Gov. Brian

those glorious two hours, you can brown your whistle with a complimentary cup of fair trade coffee as Missoula joins the global effort to beat last year’s coffee-chugging record.

So far, the United States buys about $1 billion in fair trade coffer per year. It’s a good start, and here’s the simplest way you can help: Drink more of it.

—Jonas Ehudin The World Fair Trade Coffee Break—with the local subtitle “Get Your Buzz On”—begins at 1 PM on Fri., May 8, and continues from 10 AM–noon on Sat., May 9, when free coffee’s available at Le Petit Outre, Bernice’s Bakery, The Green Light, The Good Food Store, Zootown Brew, Butterfly Herbs, the Missoula Community Co-op and the Eastgate Albertsons. Visit ftrn.org.

Schweitzer presents his analysis of the 2009 Montana Legislative Session during the City Club Missoula meeting, which begins with lunch at 11:30 AM at the Holiday InnDowntown at the Park. $16/$11 members/$5 forum-only option. RSVP 541-CITY.

Tue. 12 May Historically speaking, Afghans have proven to be impossible to control, but you’ll have plenty of guidance when you join the group Knitting for Peace, which meets every Tue. from 11 AM–1 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-3955.

The YWCA of Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts weekly support groups for women every Tue. at 6:30 PM, where groups for Native women and children meet as well.

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

Call 543-6691.

Witness democracy in action—just kidding folks—as the Missoula County Democrats host their County Convention—at which new officers will be elected and all are welcome—at 7 PM in the Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Free.

Wed. 13 May Please, please, just get your cat(s) fixed, all right? The Humane Society of Western Montana hosts the all-day low-income event Spay Your Mama!, where you can end an entire feline line for just $10. RSVP 549-3934.

Green Drinks, the monthly meet-up for the eco-boozy set, begins at 7 PM at Sean Kelly’s, where you might find a job, make a friend, develop a plan for world domination or simply find joy at the bottom of a pint glass. Free.

AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801.

You can also e-mail entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.

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

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN – Police in Arnold, Mo., reported that a woman heading for the exit of a grocery store with a shopping cart containing more than $1,200 in stolen “groceries and other items” was thwarted by trying to leave through the wrong automatic door. Store security called police, St. Louis’s KSDK News reported, because the woman attracted so much attention when the door wouldn’t open.

David Maksimik, 59, successfully robbed a bank in Darien, Conn., but while making his getaway, he rear-ended a car. He abandoned his car and caught a bus, then a taxi and finally a ride from his sister to get home to Stamford, where he found his 53-year-old roommate dead. He called police, who decided the death was a suicide. The Connecticut Post reported that during their investigation, officers became suspicious of Maksimik and discovered a bag on his bed containing the bank’s $3,745. Maksimik confessed to the robbery.

CHUTZPAH – Following the April 3 massacre of 14 people in Binghamton, N.Y., James Kauchis, an accounting clerk at the Broome County Department of Social Services, filed a grievance to be paid for the lunch hour he missed because the DSS building where he works was locked down for four hours during the incident. Kauchis declined to comment on his complaint, telling the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, “That’s a matter between me, the administration and the union.”

OOPS! – Paul Duran Jr., 23, an inmate at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, was beaten to death within 15 minutes after prison guards inadvertently put him in a cell with Jessie James Dalton, a convicted killer whom Duran had testified against.

ECONOMIC STIMULUS – Andrew Krogh, 47, the owner of a glass company in Sacramento, Calif., was arrested after a stakeout at a martial arts store plagued repeatedly by broken windows identified him as the culprit. “I never thought it would be a window guy drumming up business,” the building’s landlord, Brian Seeley, told the Sacramento News, indicating he paid Krogh, who contacted him after the first incident, at least $12,000 to repair more than a dozen broken windows. Another business owner said she also paid Krogh to replace glass after he showed up at her store the day after one of her front doors was shattered and then hired him twice more after her storefront windows were shot out.

HEAVEN CAN WAIT – Some 200 mosques in Mecca point the wrong way, according to the Arab newspaper al-Hayat. Muslims are supposed to pray facing the Kaaba, Islam’s most sacred site, located in Mecca’s Grand Mosque, and rely on niches in mosques to indicate the correct direction.

The paper said people looking down from newly built high-rises in Mecca noticed the niches in many older mosques weren’t pointing directly toward the Kaaba. Tawfik al-Sudairy, Islamic affairs ministry deputy secretary in Saudi Arabia, said modern techniques had corrected the problem and assured the newspaper that all previous prayers were valid.

SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION – Frederick W. Bertrang, 31, told police in Oak Creek, Wis., that he slashed his mother with a knife and shot her three times with an AK-47 because she refused to give him $2 so he could pay the cover charge at a bar.

Derek C. Hightower, 24, set a fire that destroyed his former home in Bristol, Wis., as well as a garage and three vehicles, according to court documents, because he was upset that someone else was living in the house.

DO SOCIETY A FAVOR – Smoking adds to the cost of health care, but nonsmokers cost society more by living longer, according to Vanderbilt University economist Kip Viscusi. His study of the net costs of smoking-related spending and savings found that for every pack of cigarettes smoked, the country reaps a net cost savings of 32 cents. The Associated Press reported the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that smokers die some 10 years earlier than nonsmokers, resulting in savings to Medicare, Social Security, private pensions and other programs.

Viscusi’s findings echo a Dutch study, published last year in the journal Public Library of Science Medicine. It said smokers total about $326,000 in health care costs from age 20 on, compared with about $417,000 for longer-living thin and healthy people.

Fat people are each responsible for about one ton more carbon-dioxide emissions a year than thin people, according to a study by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

“When it comes to food consumption, moving about in a heavy body is like driving around in a gas guzzler,” researchers Phil Edwards and Ian Roberts wrote, noting that food production is a major source of greenhouse gases.

WHERE’S THE GRATITUDE? – Two years ago, after Kathleen Slattery, 84, fell and lay on the floor of her Chicago apartment for 15 hours, a 9-year-old girl with a heart defect crawled through a window to rescue the woman, who was her landlady. The Chicago Sun-Times reported that in March, the girl, her sister and her mother, Deb Gordils, were evicted.

Less than five minutes after Mayor Alvin Parks Jr. called police Officer Kristopher Weston, 28, before the East St. Louis, Ill., City Council to recognize him for his work in arresting a suspect in a supermarket killing, the council voted to lay him off, citing budget cuts.

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Bold strokes

Photo by Chad Harder

Out past Drummond, in a building on an old cattle farm, you’ll find Bill Ohrmann’s museum and gallery—and a lifetime’s worth of commentary captured in his paintings.

by Erika Fredrickson hen Bill Ohrmann was 78 years old, he opened up a book about Vincent Van Gogh and decided to become a painter.

It’s not that he’d never painted before. Ohrmann’s son, John, remembers his dad painting here and there while working as a rancher, but he didn’t do it very often. When his dad did dabble with paints, the work was always serene wildlife scenes.

“They’d always been these nice, peaceful elkon-the-mountainside paintings,” says John, 53.

“The sort of thing that Robert Bateman or Carl Brenders would do.”

But after opening the Van Gogh book, Ohrmann started to change his approach to painting—both in his dedication to the art, and his style. He didn’t just emulate Van Gogh’s bright, swirling color, but he delved into darker material, too.

“It did surprise me,” John says of his father’s style. “Now when he puts his brush to canvas the paintings are in your face. And they bring tears to your eyes.”

Bill Ohrmann is now 90 years old. The Ohrmann Museum & Gallery that he built seven years ago sits on the family cattle ranch he’s lived

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“The Last Circus” shows Bill Ohrmann’s darker side. “I was kind of thinking,” he says, “you know, the way we treat animals, maybe we ought to have a turn in the same way some day.”

on since 1933, in Flint Creek Valley, two miles south of Drummond just off Highway 1. It’s situated in the middle of nowhere.

A menagerie of wild animals guards the gallery’s front door. At the same time he started painting, Ohrmann began welding these metal

animals. Some stand as tall as 12 feet high, their towering frames majestic against the backdrop of the Flint range. On one side of the yard there’s a rhino in mid-run. In another spot a dodo bird guards an egg with a baby dodo peeking out. Across the way from the dodo, a gigantic wooly mammoth aims its trunk forward, framed by humongous curled tusks.

Inside the gallery at least 100 of Ohrmann’s colorful and controversial paintings cover the walls from floor to ceiling, and just as many or more are stashed behind closed doors. It’s a shrine to his work over the last 12 years, a visual history of not only his own evolution as a latein-life painter, but also filled with Ohrmann’s distinct take on decades of human misdeeds.

Many pieces graphically depict environmental disasters, animal cruelty and general destruction. Some are more wistful, images of the world Ohrmann longs for, a world filled with fruitful gardens, wild animals and dramatic Van Goghesque skies. All of them, regardless of content, utilize Ohrmann’s playful use of colors and cartoon humor.

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A sign near the gallery’s front door says, “Usually Open.” Another welcomes visitors to take photos, sit on the turtle sculpture, let their dog out and “think your own thoughts…crackpot tho [sic] they might well be.” Ohrmann doesn’t really care what people think of his work and what it means. He understands it may draw some attention—he’s had a solo exhibit with the Missoula Art Museum, and a new documentary about the artist debuts this weekend—but he’s not caught up in the business or the hubbub. He’s perfectly content simply letting his copious work speak boldly for itself in a remote gallery in the middle of nowhere.

Standing at the entrance to the museum, leaning on a carved wooden cane, he nods his head slightly when asked about what he does.

“Yes,” he says with a quiet, slow drawl, an actual twinkle in his eye. “Some people are quite offended by my work. When they walk in and then just walk out, I know they’re offended. Well, I’ve got something to offend everyone.”

During World War II, the U.S. Army drafted Ohrmann. He rented out his cattle farm to a neighbor and left everything behind, not knowing if he would ever return to his Montana home.

After training for six months to become a mechanic—“I must have learned something there, I don’t know,” he says—the Army stationed him in the South Pacific as crew chief on a C47 cargo plane.

“It certainly was interesting, all right,” he says. “But we really didn’t get to enjoy it much because at that time we couldn’t see any end to the war. We thought we were almost going to have to spend our life over there.”

Ohrmann says in many ways his crew had it easy. They flew over the top of the fighting, simply dropping in supplies. With time on his hands, Ohrmann carried watercolors with him everywhere, making cartoon sketches of camp life. The sketches were never of the war, just of day-to-day diversions away from the battlefield. Ohrmann saw it as a way to pass the time, a way to escape what was happening around him.

“Nowadays I notice people send e-mails back and forth,” he says, “but then it was all letters. My friends would ask me to make a sketch of this or make a sketch of that. And I’d do it for them and some of them ended up with a lot of sketches.”

When he returned to Montana after the war, Ohrmann found himself in dire financial straits.

There were few cattle and his machinery was in poor shape.

“There wasn’t much to come back to,” he says.

“It was really a tough go for awhile to get started again.”

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A still from Sean O’Brien’s documentary, Be Thou Always as a Guest, shows Ohrmann painting in his home studio. Ohrmann built his museum and gallery seven years ago, but he’s lived on the cattle ranch near Drummond since 1933.

He and his wife, Phyllis, slowly worked the ranch back into shape. During that time, Ohrmann began carving animals out of wood. It was something, he says, that fit his ranching schedule because he could set a project down and pick it back up at his leisure. Plus, it was a way for him to show his affinity for the wildlife that he encountered on the ranch.

“I think I’ve always had these ideals,” Ohrmann says. “On our ranch we always welcomed all wild animals no matter what they were, and we always tried to run it so they could live there. We didn’t shoot every coyote or bear that crossed it. We just have sympathy for animals I guess.”

John Ohrmann recalls how his father always had environmental magazines in the house long

before the rest of the world seemed interested in such things.

“We got Field & Stream magazine and there was a conservation editor for that,” John remembers. “As soon as that magazine got there dad was reading the column.”

John also recalls how different his family seemed in comparison to other ranching families in the area.

“All the other ranchers would shoot any coyote they saw, any predator they saw. If they didn’t grow it, then it had to die,” John says. “It’s just totally senseless, but they had that pioneer ethic where they had to conquer anything that nature did that was in their way. They had to wipe it out.

And we just didn’t have that.”

“Be Thou Always as a Guest” reflects a more idyllic side of Ohrmann’s work. “I think I’ve always had these ideals,” he says. “On our ranch we always welcomed all wild animals no matter what they were, and we always tried to run it so they could live there.”

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It was only when Ohrmann stopped cattle ranching in 1997 and passed the vocation off to his children that he looked at that Van Gogh book and decided to paint full-time. In some ways, Ohrmann considered it a practical decision.

Before, he says, he’d have to leave a painting halffinished to do work on the ranch. The paint would dry, he’d have to re-mix the colors on his palette, often ending up with a hue that didn’t match. Now he could paint throughout the day without interruption.

The change influenced more than just the quality of Ohrmann’s work. Now, rather than painting as an escape from his work, he could use the medium as an outlet for his strong views of wildlife and the land. He painted scenes of bloodied wolves caught in traps, something he’d witnessed around him all his life. “Trust Us” shows bulldozers destroying a mountainside to construct a dam; a government official to the side reassures a little boy with a fishing pole to trust what they’re doing.

Ohrmann also started to attach famous quotes to his work to underline his commentary.

One painting shows a man with his dog above an Abraham Lincoln quote: “I don’t think much of a man’s religion if it makes no difference to how he treats his dog.” Other works are accompanied by passages from Emerson, Tennyson and full poems from Missoula poet John Haines (who mostly lives in Alaska now).

Ohrmann’s work continued to evolve with darker, Dante-like visions. “Last Circus” shows a circus ring, but instead of animals, it features people crouched half-naked on chairs and in cages, and little children ushered through fiery hoops by demons. The animals—rats, cows and monkeys—comprise the spectators.

“I was kind of thinking,” Ohrmann explains, “you know, the way we treat animals, maybe we ought to have a turn in the same way some day.”

While less graphic in nature, Ohrmann’s metal sculptures resonate with the same criticisms of human failure. When he tried to create

the dodo, he searched for a photo of a skeleton to make his work as accurate as possible.

“A sea captain, I think, made a drawing and there were a couple of other drawings,” he says.

“It’s hard to tell if those were accurate or not because they were just amateur. After killing thousands they never saved one single skeleton. There wasn’t one person who had the foresight to at least save a skeleton.”

In some ways, recreating a dodo bird or a wooly mammoth is Ohrmann’s way of resurrecting the extinct creatures, righting a wrong. But one aspect to this part of his work isn’t as apparent. He inserts a metal heart inside the breast of each metal animal. There are ways to see them.

The wooly mammoth, for instance, includes a tiny door you can look through where a light illuminates the heart.

When Ohrmann was 7 or 8 years old, he heard a story that would haunt him for years to come. His father knew a solider who fought in the 1877 Big Hole Battle in which the U.S. Army attacked and killed a group of sleeping Nez Perce Indians, many of them women and children. His father’s friend passed along his account of the battle directly to Ohrmann.

“It was needless what they did to the Indians,” Ohrmann says, “to realize that they did that—attacked the camp before the Indians woke up. I remember him saying that when they attacked, some of the Indians tried to melt lead for their guns over the fires even while the battle was going on.”

That image stayed with Ohrmann and in 2000 he painted a picture of the Big Hole Battle cynically titled “How Colonels Become Generals.”

The piece shows teepees on fire and a leader of the U.S. Army standing nearby, giving a thumbsup, flanked by a devil.

Ohrmann says his style has changed subtly over the last 12 years. He points to one painting in the corner of the museum showing people on an island, chopping down trees while a goat in a chair directs them. He explains that in this work the goat is the devil, encouraging the people to continue what they’re doing.

While his imagery has grown more abstract, his colors are more complex. Using the same island painting as an example, he points to earlier work where the colors are more elementary and less blended.

“I’ve just learned how to get certain colors, and that’s something you can’t learn from books,” he says. “They don’t want to tell you that, I guess.

The most important part is graying the colors. See this sky here isn’t grayed very much [in] my earlier paintings.”

He turns and points to more recent pieces.

“But then this one is grayed and that one is grayed even more,” he says. “And to get that gray you take the blue and mix it with its opposite color on the color wheel, which is orange. And isn’t that a nice, more soothing sky?”

Ohrmann’s attention to detail extends to his sculptures. Kate Davis of Raptor of the Rockies apprenticed for two years with Ohrmann making metal replicas of her birds. She found that he makes small wire models of each one so he can

Photo courtesy Kate Davis

Ohrmann’s wooly mammoth statue stands more than 11 feet tall. The welded metal behemoth includes a heart behind a small door in the animal’s chest. In this photo, raptor expert Kate Davis’ bird, Sibley, sits on the mammoth’s tusks. Davis apprenticed with Ohrmann for two years.

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copy it in larger form, and that he takes great pains to make each one as physically accurate as possible. She sees his work as much more than just commentary.

“There’s nothing like his stuff out there,” she says. “He’s been a rancher all his life and he has great knowledge of anatomy. And you can’t just glance at them. They require careful attention because of the detail and story.”

For all his meticulous and prolific work, Ohrmann isn’t interested in racking up sales. He has sold some bronze and wood sculptures and an occasional large metal animal, and his website does offers a few prints and note cards. But he likes to keep most of it up on the museum walls or in his yard. It helps him keep his message out there.

Steve Glueckert, curator of the Missoula Art Museum, has known Ohrmann for more than 10 years. They first met him when the museum exhibited Ohrmann’s solo show, and the two recently went out to celebrate Ohrmann’s 90th birthday.

“He’s a real treasure,” says Glueckert. “I think a lot of times we can plan to travel somewhere else and have an art experience, but sometimes those art experiences are right under our noses.”

Despite his dark images and his fierce convictions, Ohrmann is constantly smiling. Sitting at the kitchen table with Phyllis, he tries to explain how they met during the war. After sitting there for a moment, he finally says, “I was just trying to

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Ohrmann says this painting, titled “Starting Over,” addresses how humankind must regroup once modern civilization fails. Ohrmann’s outlook on life inspires many around him. “If you want to learn how to paint,” says MAM curator Steve Glueckert, “he’s a real inspiration—not just how to do art, not just how to farm or ranch, but how to live a complete life.”

think of some fantastic story to tell. You know, you can tell a stranger anything.”

That’s not a problem in Ohrmann’s creative world. One self-portrait titled “All the Friends I’ve Known Had Souls” shows Ohrmann walking with his wooden stick, surrounded by a horse, deer, skunk, dog, bear, coyote and birds. In another selfportrait, a three-legged deer follows him around.

“That used to be a pet on the ranch,” explains

Glueckert. “What it reminds me of is St. Francis of Assisi. He has that same kind of gentle caring and his practice draws attention to how we treat all beings on earth. But you know, it might be a little overboard to compare Bill Ohrmann to St. Francis.”

The juxtaposition between Ohrmann’s strong views and his kind nature only adds to his appeal.

Missoula filmmaker Sean O’Brien decided to

make her documentary about Ohrmann, titled Be Thou Always As A Guest after one of his paintings, in part because of how the artist acts away from the canvas.

“He just strikes me as an incredible blend of courage and sensitivity,” says O’Brien, a film studies professor at the University of Montana.

“Often times highly sensitive people can’t face the harsher realities of life. He has the courage not only to think about some of the cruelties that take place, but he has the courage to illustrate it.”

Ohrmann’s unassuming demeanor also speaks to his contentment operating outside of traditional artistic circles. In fact, he appears to thrive having others come to him, on his remote ranch, on his terms.

He recalls a man once pulling up his driveway and taking a long look around the gallery. The man was amazed at the paintings, but puzzled by the location.

“He was a man from New York writing a book,” Ohrmann says. “He stopped here and said, ‘Why in the world is a place like this out in the sticks?’”

Ohrmann laughs loudly, his eyes watering.

“Well,” he says, “he didn’t know that I thought we were right in the center of the universe.” efredrickson@missoulanews.com Be Thou Always As a Guest, a new documentary about Bill Ohrmann, screens at the Crystal Theatre Saturday, May 9, at 7 PM. A reception and exhibition featuring 25 Ohrmann paintings follows. $7.

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Posh Chocolat 119 South Higgins 543-2566 Next to the Historic Wilma Building in downtown Missoula.

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

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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! $-$$

Wok-ee Mountain Asian Restaurant 11300 US Hwy 93, Lolo 273-9819 Brand new Thai & Chinese cuisine featuring original recipes. Specializing in curry. Extensive menu, vegetarian options and many soup options as well including Vietnamese style pho, Tom Yum, wonton and more. Wok-ee Mountain Asian Restaurant is perfect for take out or dine in and birthdays.

Birthday discounts available. $-$$

eMpanadas 728-2030 www.empanadalady.com eMpanadas are back! Find your favorites at the Clark Fork River Market this Saturday, 8am to 1pm and at Downtown Tonight, Caras Park, Thursdays 5:30-8:30pm. Hand-crafted with fresh, local ingredients, baked to perfection, 10 exquisite varieties of Argentine-style empanadas await you: Carne de búfalo, lamb, pollo, humita, and more. $

Sean Kelly’s 130 West Pine • 542–1471 Open for Lunch and Dinner! Check out our new menu: Sesame House Salad, Soba Vegetable Pasta, Warm Brie Salad, the Dubliner, Eggplant Parmesan Sandwich, and Great Italian Pastas. Irish favorites, too: Pasties, Fish and Chips & Shepherd’s Pie. “where the Gaelic and the Garlic mix!!” $-$$

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Le Petit Outre 129 South 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $

Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day. Daily Lunch Specials.

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

Monday - Sunday 8a.m. - 3p.m. $-$$ Vietnam Noodle 2100 Stephens 542-8299 A true Vietnamese dining experience! Enjoy our authentic beef noodle soup, spring rolls, pad thai, Vietnamese style hot & sour soup, noodle soup bowls & daily lunch/soup combo specials. We suggest that you also try our new stuffed hot peppers. For your cooking pleasure at home, we have an Asian grocery next to our restaurant! Get a free meal on your birthday when you bring 5 or more friends. $-$$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 Where Myrtle Avenue ends at Bernice's, a tiny bakery sits as a veritable landmark to those who enjoy homestyle baked goods, strong coffee, community, and a variety of delicious treats. Join us for lunch if you'd like. Crazy delicious. Crazy cheap. 30 years and still baking. Open Every Day 6AM to 8PM. $ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 36 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Bucks Club 1805 Regent • 543-7436 Missoula’s best Food & Drink Values. 2-for-1 food specials daily. Eat the legend.

Burgers for a buck. Over 1,000,000 sold. Great Breakfast served daily. If you go away hungry, don’t blame us. Mon.–Sat. Open 7 AM and Sunday 8 AM. $

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Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve by TJ Maxx & Ross 549-5595 Cold Stone Creamery, the ultimate ice cream experience! Our smooth and creamy ice cream is made fresh daily using our secret recipe. Come in for our weekday specials. Get $5 off ice cream cakes with your business card. Get Gift Cards any time. Treat yourself to a 10minute vacation at Cold Stone Creamery. $-$$

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Bitterroot Valley Main Street Cafe 363-4567 upstairs 217 Main St. Hamilton Danielle Dupuy presents...A little taste of France in the Bitterroot. Serving Gourmet French American Cuisine. Lunch Board: Tuesday through Friday 11:30 to 2pm. Dinner A La Carte: Tuesday through Saturday 5 to 9pm. Reservations Accepted. For special events (business meetings, birthdays, baby showers, etc.) please call Chef Jason Tenesch.

Whitefish Café Kandahar 406-862-6247 A George’s Distributing fine wine tasting, a Café Kandahar 7 course wine dinner, Kandahar Lodge luxurious accommodations and an Andy Blanton champagne brunch come together May 14-15 for a “Not To Be Missed” event. Meet & greet with the winemakers. Full package $299 for two. Call 406-862-6247 for limited tickets.

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When Michelle Obama broke ground for her 1,100-square-foot garden on the White House lawn, the shockwaves were felt around the world.

On her recent trip overseas, most of the press focused on the First Lady’s fashion statements.

World leaders, she said upon her return, wanted to discuss the statement her garden was making.

“Every single person from Prince Charles on down, they were excited we were planting this garden,” Obama told the fifth-grade students who helped her seed it.

Reactions at home have run the gamut, from elation in foodie circles to Big Ag’s revulsion at the garden’s organic status. Meanwhile, the First Garden has spurred a race among the gardening faithful to plant flags on other high-profile plots and lay claim to various other gardening firsts, like so many first ascents up mountain tops.

“I’m beyond satisfied,” says Roger Doiron, founding director of Kitchen Gardeners International.

In early 2008, Doiron organized an initiative, dubbed “Eat the View,” to gather signatures encouraging the next first family to replace a section of the White House lawn with a vegetable garden.

Worldwide, more than 100,000 people signed on.

While not certified organic, the First Garden is billed as organic in practice—and that’s a dangerous precedent to be amplifying, according to the Mid America CropLife Association (MACA), which represents agribusinesses like Monsanto, Dow AgroSciences and DuPont Crop Protection. Following the announcement of Michelle Obama’s garden, MACA sent the First Lady a letter expressing concern that no chemicals will be used to help the crops grow, and fretting that consumers might get the wrong impression about “conventional agriculture.”

After sending the letter to Obama, MACA forwarded it to organization supporters, one of whom forwarded it to Jill Richardson of the La Vida Locavore blog (www.lavidalocavore.org/diary/1309).

The leaked letter came prefaced with the following introductory note: “Did you hear the news? The White House is planning to have an ‘organic’ garden on the grounds to provide fresh fruits and vegetables for the Obama’s [sic] and their guests. While a garden

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What DG is referring to is a method of potato cultivation by which spuds are planted in the earth, and as they grow, a tower of tires is built around them. Each time a tire is added, it is filled with dirt or straw, effectively burying nearly the entire plant except for the top few inches. This keeps raising the ground level from the perspective of the plant. The buried portion turns into roots and starts growing potatoes. By the end of the

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plans for an organic garden in Sacramento’s Capitol Park come May. A group of Vermont gardeners calling themselves the Association for the Planting of edible Public Landscapes for Everyone (APPLE) has designs on the State House lawn in Montpelier.

APPLE members aren’t hiding the fact that they’re fast-tracking the initial planting of their 280-square-foot garden in an attempt to make their patch the nation’s first statehouse vegetable garden. “[We] tried to beat the Obamas to the punch, but second place is nothing to sneeze at!” wrote APPLE member Scott Sawyer on the Transition Vermont blog (http://transitionvermont.ning.com).

While this farms race is run, it’s worth noting that several state leaders have had vegetable gardens at their official residences for years. Maine Gov. John Baldacci has been tending a home garden at the governor’s mansion for years. Former Ohio First Lady Hope Taft put in a garden at the governor’s residence in 2001. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal inherited predecessor Kathleen Blanco’s garden. Also pre-

dating the Obamas’ garden is the Victory Garden planted at San Francisco City Hall last summer.

While the vegetable garden in front of Baltimore’s City Hall has yet to be planted, Mayor Sheila Dixon is quick to point out that the plot was being planned before the White House garden was announced. “We are not copying!” she emphasized, pointing out that her garden, at 2,000 square feet, will be almost twice as large as the Obamas’.

Doiron, the widely acknowledged force behind the clamor for the White House garden, is now shifting gears. He doesn’t plan to organize any more calls for gardens. Now, he sees a growing need to support the many similar efforts now underway worldwide. He’s excited to cheer them on, offer whatever advice he can, and help publicize their efforts.

“There’s a petition drive to get the government of Georgia to start a garden; there’s a large garden going into the middle of Flint, Michigan’s municipal complex, could be as large as three acres; day before yesterday a garden went in in front of the town hall in Kingston, New York,” he says. “We’ve been contacted by groups in Texas, the United Kingdom, Australia…”

Once these gardens are put in, he says, they’ll begin generating a different kind of buzz as the gardens are maintained and harvested.

Michelle Obama promised that her entire family will help with the weeding “whether they like it or not.” If true, this promises to create more than photo ops the likes of which we’ve never seen.

Soon we may begin hearing about revelations reached and decisions made while crouching in the garden rows, because President Obama is soon to discover something that farmers and gardeners have known forever: There’s something about gardening that stimulates the intellect, and does more for a conversation than the strongest cup of coffee.

It may not be long until members of the president’s staff are summoned to the garden to help pull weeds, like it or not. Not because the weeds are getting out of control, but because gardens are where some of humankind’s greatest brainstorming sessions take root. And when we start hearing about the results of these garden sessions, the First Garden’s ripples will start to grow into waves.

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is a great idea, the thought of it being organic made Janet Braun, CropLife Ambassador Coordinator and I [Bonnie McCarvel] shudder.”

There were probably more shudders in the bigchem corner when Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack celebrated Earth Day by announcing plans for a 1,300 square-foot organic garden—USDA-certified, of course—to be installed in the National Mall.

As the First Garden’s ripples continue to spread, plans for me-too governmental gardens are popping up like weeds. Maryland First Lady Katie O’Malley is planning a garden at the governor’s mansion in Annapolis. Maria Shriver, first lady of California, has

season, you will have a normal-sized potato plant sitting on top of your stack of tires, and 4–6 feet of spud-bearing roots within the stack.

This technique is known to produce phenomenal results, and some gardeners have boasted in excess of 100 pounds from a single stack of tires. I’m not a fan of doing this, however, because there are all kinds of toxins that can be leached out by the acidic ph of soil and by the sun’s ultraviolet radiation, including heavy metals, zinc, arsenic, creosote and, as tire technology continues to evolve, who knows what else? There are zillions of different types of tires out there designed for all kinds of conditions and vehicles.

And while there are many criteria considered in tire design, being food safe isn’t one of them.

Instead, I’d recommend taking some four-foot horse fence, and bending it into a tube. Plant potatoes in the ground, put the fence tube over them and add straw as they grow. This way you get the upward mobility you’re seeking, plus, as an added bonus, the plant can send branches out the sides of the tube through the rectangle mesh.

This means more leaves for the plant, which means more photosynthesis, and more potatoes.

Send your food and garden queries to flash@flashinthepan.net

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The laughing gas room on The Gourds’ tour bus is not to be missed. Catch one of Missoula’s favorite long-term crushes as they play with Shinyribs Russell at 8 PM on Fri., May 8, at the Wilma Theatre. $20.

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

Put your wee beastie’s flailing to good use when you sign them up for the ongoing Y Music Dance Therapy Group for kids aged 6–9, which teaches ways to use your body to manage big feelings, soothe tattered nerves and develop social skills, and meets every Thu. at 5 PM at the YMCA, 3000 S. Russell St. $16 per session/four session minimum. Call 721YMCA or visit ymcamissoula.org.

nightlife The UM Peace and Justice Film Series continues at 5:30 and 7:30 PM in the UM University Center Theater, where screenings of King Corn, in which two friends try farming in Iowa in hopes of highlighting the modern world’s corn problem, are followed by group discussions. Free, donations appreciated. Visit peaceandjusticefilms.org.

Whitefish’s Stumptown Art Studio, 145 Central Ave., presents an opening reception for First Work in Montana, an exhibit by FVCC ceramics and design professor David Smith, at 6 PM. Free. Call 862-5029.

Her love for jazz is second only to her love for oxygen: Donna Smith plays Hamilton’s Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St., at 6 PM. Free.

Call 363-7468.

Like tearing into a fresh bag of pork rinds, that fresh flavor wafts all over downtown Whitefish from 6–8 PM, as this year’s inaugural First

Thursday Gallery Night invites you to taste, sample, peep and poke all that’s available.

Free. Call 270-3491 or visit whitefishgallerynights.org.

Help keep your surroundings familiar and significant during the three-day conference, Preserving Our Heritage in a Changing Landscape, which begins with a keynote address at 6:30 PM at Fort Missoula’s Heritage Hall, continues with seminars through Fri., May 8, and moves to the County Courthouse lawn for a Preservation Fair in Sat., May 9. Free. Call 258-4706 or 544-8606.

Add yourself to a community discussion with Her Excellency Ambassador Hawa Ndilowe of Malawi, who presides over the event end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., May 8, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Comrade Calendar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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t Vann’s, we believe you can incorporate the beauty of the scenery around us into your home. Builders like LR Signature Homes and Freedom Construction can help you pull natural elements into your building projects projects, and Vann’s can put the finishing touches inside it. With product lines like GE Monogram and GE Profile, your appliances are as gorgeous as your home. Built with thoughtful design details like carefully sculptured edges and customizable panels, GE Monogram is top of the line in both style and functionality. Touted as the marriage of style and innovation, GE Profile offers a more contemporary take on appliances with sleek lines and minimized details. Whether your goal is a rustic mountain retreat or a modern home with all the amenities, Vann’s can provide the GE Monogram and GE Profile products to match your ideal.

Save up to $500 on select GE kitchen packages Purchase 2 or more eligible GE Profile and/or GE Café Kitchen appliances and receive a Visa prepaid card valued up to $500. Offer valid through 07/15/09. See Vann’s for more details.

Take part in the Mineral County Home Tour May 15th: 4 p.m. – 7 p.m.

May 16th: 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

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Southern Africa: Portraits of Progress with the U.S. State Department’s Joan Wadelton and the Corporate Council on Africa’s Tim McCoy, at 7 PM in UM’s University Center Ballroom, where the photo exhibit Visions of Africa makes a one-night appearance as well. Free. Call 728-3328.

Lake Missoula Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, hosts a Local Artist Showcase featuring Kezia Ford, Susie Pettinger and Myra and Brothers in Arms at 7 PM. Free, drop-ins welcome. Call 541-8463.

Cast your piercing gaze upon the poor UM student on stage during the Lyric Encounters Poetry Reading at 7 PM at Liquid Planet in the Book Exchange, which is all in Tremper’s Shopping Center, which is in Missoula, which is in the Milky Way. Free.

Denver’s Kingdom of Magic celebrates the release of their new split 12” Burn Heavy with a 9 PM show at the Palace Lounge, where local support comes in the form of Red Obelisk, Green Sickness and _pollen. Cover TBA. Bring your axe—or banjer for you backwoods types—and reminisce about music’s good ‘ol days at the weekly Old Timey Music Sessions at Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., at 7:30 PM. Free. Call 726-3765 or 880-6834.

The UM Department of Drama/Dance takes us back to ancient Greece to witness emotional turmoil and “unspeakable acts” at 7:30 PM with the staging of Euripides’ Medea. $14/$12 students and seniors/$8 under 13.

Call 243-4051.

The UM Department of Drama/Dance marks the end of another academic year with the packed ‘n’ stacked Spring Dance Concert, which offers nine original pieces by students and faculty at 7:30 PM in the UM PARTV Center’s Montana Theatre. $18/$14 students and seniors/$8 under 12. Call 243-4581.

An innocent orphan falls in with the wrong crowd when the MCT Community Theatre presents the musical Oliver! at 8 PM. $18/$15 under 19. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org.

It says what it does, and it does what is says: Enjoy Live Karaoke with Mark at 9 PM at The Other Side. Free.

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

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

Landslide hosts open mic night at the Bandit Saloon in Columbia Falls every Thu. and Tue. night, starting at 9 PM. Free.

Join the ranks of the Missoula Metal Militia, which brings metal DJs and bands to the Palace Lounge at 9 PM every Thu. Free.

This ain’t no Tijuana donkey show, it’s the Stan and Chris Show, and it’s only at Sean Kelly’s at 9:30 PM. Cover TBA. Call 542-1471.

The field narrows to a finite point during the fourth and final round of a Singer/Songwriter Showcase at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865.

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The three-day conference Preserving Our Heritage in a Changing Landscape continues at 8 AM at Fort Missoula’s Heritage Hall, where a host of seminars leads to tours and more. Free. Call 258-4706 or 544-8606.

The Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., has five upcoming options for your kids, so register for a session or two of their Passport to the World Summer Camps, which begin June 15. $75/$65 members per weekly session. RSVP 541-PLAY. The chasm between students and normal people is finally bridged at 10 AM on the UM Oval, where the family-friendly Spring Thaw offers live music, games and activities, raffle prizes, scantily clad vixens and more until 2 PM. Free, but bring a canned item for the Food Bank. Call 243-5695.

Craft a few Peace Cranes at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave.,

from 1–4 PM during “Get Your Buzz On,” which features free fair trade coffee and tea, as well as education on tomorrow’s World Fair Trade Coffee Break. Free. Call 5433955 or visit ftrn.org. (See Agenda in this issue.)

Every weekday, kids aged 6–13 flock to the ZACC, 235 N. First St., where the Young Artists Afterschool Program provides experiences with ceramics, painting, construction, wire, robots and more. $12 per day. Call 549-7555 or visit zootownarts.com What’s the hottest punk venue in Missoula?

Right, it’s Southgate Mall. And what’s the hottest punk venue in the mall? Right, it’s Hot Topic, where Mury and Paper Mache blow the carefully scuffed accessories off the shelves at 4 PM. Free. (See Noise in this issue.)

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

Remember Mom with clay, dirt and something living when you stop by the Clay Studio, 1106-A Hawthorne St., where the Plant and Pots Sale runs 5–8 PM. Cost really depends, now doesn’t it? Call 543-0509.

nightlife The ZACC, 235 N. First St. W., hosts a Second Friday Opening Reception for the exhibit Missoula is the Cairo of the Northwest, a collection of work by Courtney Blazon and Ladypajama, from 5:30–8:30 PM. Free. Call 549-7555.

The view’s phanstasmagorical, the food’s calafragilistic and the tunes from David Boone, which begin at 6:30 PM at The Keep, are simply to die for. Free.

Bring your favorite wild game dish or dessert to Stevensville High School’s Multipurpose Room at 6:30 PM, where the Bitterroot Beast Feast promises plenty o’ fellowship, prizes and giveaways, as well as a speech by world champion game caller Jon Paul Moody.

Free. Call 214-9535.

It’s dinner theater Bigfork-style when their Community Players present the comedy Luau for King Lear at 6:30 PM in the Swan River Community Hall. $20. Call 837-2061.

It’s your turn to shine during Open Mic Night at the Hangin Art Gallery and Coffee House in Arlee at 7 PM. Call 726-5005.

The Crystal Theatre roars back into full swing during a 7 PM dinner theatre presentation of Susan O’Connell’s one-woman play Memoirs of a Madam, in which Madam Mattie Silks tells tales of the women who tamed the men who spread their manifest destiny all over the west, as the newly opened Silk Road restaurant offers fine food to the hungry crowd. $10/$5 students.

Author Linda Faulkner reads from and signs her book Second Time Around at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

Local musician Tia Troy celebrates the unveiling of her new CD with a party and show at 7 PM at Lake Missoula Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier. $5. Call 541-8463.

Global themes land here in your backyard when the Missoula Public Library’s World Wide Cinema presents the Mexican film Lake Tahoe, in which teen Juan searches for someone to fix the family car he just crashed, at 7 PM. Free, flu masks not required. Call 721-2665.

New music’s on tap when singer-songwriter Isaac M. returns to Zootown Brew, 121 W. Broadway, at 7 PM. $2.

The UM Creative Writing Program presents an MFA Thesis Reading by non-fiction writer Brian Kevin at 7 PM at Happy Mama Yoga Studio, 736-A S. First St. W. Free. Call 243-5267.

The UM Department of Drama/Dance takes us back to ancient Greece to witness emotional turmoil and “unspeakable acts” at 7:30 PM with the staging of Euripides’ Medea.

$14/$12 students and seniors/$8 under 13.

Call 243-4051.

The UM Department of Drama/Dance marks the end of another academic year with the packed ‘n’ stacked Spring Dance Concert, which offers nine original pieces by students and faculty at 7:30 PM in the UM PARTV Center’s Montana Theatre. $18/$14 students and seniors/$8 under 12.

Call 243-4581.

The inexplicably named musical Annie Jr. features as cast of over 40 kids when the curtain raises at 7:30 PM at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center. $14/$10 students and seniors. Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

Verbiage-free soul and funk greets the ear when Soulive and the Shady Horns play UM’s University Theatre at 8 PM once Nigel Hall gets the masses sufficiently riled. $20/$18 advance. Visit ticketweb.com.

Bring along an extra Conibear trachea-crushing trap as The Wild Coyotes play the Missoula Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Call 207-0498.

An innocent orphan falls in with the wrong crowd when the MCT Community Theatre presents the musical Oliver! at 8 PM. $20.

Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org.

The only Texans who survived the Battle of the Alamo—they were hiding in the basement— play the Wilma Theatre at 8 PM under the stage name The Gourds, whose backup infantry consists of Shinyribs Russell. $20.

Gather for this lunar cycle’s Full Moon Drumming sesh at 9 PM at Jacob’s Island, and you’ll be treated to a brief talk about fair trade amid the beats. Free. Visit ftrn.org.

Wish the Wartime Blues a fond farewell as they embark on a Northwest and West Coast tour when they play the Badlander at 9 PM with the Broken Valley Roadshow and Volumen. $5/$7 under 21.

While he’s still slower than a bicycle, Bob Wire leads the Magnificent Bastards to slow-roasted glory when they play the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Downshift from the work week and enjoy the long, windy road when Highway 200 plays Florence’s High Spirits at 9 PM. Free.

It says what it does, and it does what is says: Enjoy Live Karaoke with Mark at 9 PM at The Other Side. Free.

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

Call 543-5678.

Belt out a few bars of somethin’ sexy at East Missoula’s Reno Casino and Cafe’s karaoke night, brought to you by Karaoke by Figmo, every Fri. and Sat. night at 9 PM. Free.

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

Paint your eardrums with a palette of hip hop, funk, house, techno and more when Friday Night Delights delights the Palace Lounge at 9 PM. Free.

Get your freak on at AmVets Club, where DJ DC rocks dance music at 9 PM. Free.

Release your inner Kool Moe Dee when Larry’s Six Mile Casino and Cafe in Huson presents an evening with Grayhound Karaoke at 9 PM. Free. Call 546-8978.

Digits blurring into a seemingly solid arc of dexterity, Erik Fingers Ray plays Sean Kelly’s at 9:30 PM. Cover TBA. Call 542-1471.

The funky meter of SWYL greases the corner pockets of the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865.

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

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

Your heart, the planet and your farmer-neighbors give thanks every Sat. from 8 AM-noon 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. And if it’s nonedibles 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.

Enjoy a weekly dose of playful, happy and fantastic cardiovascular exercise when you bring yourself to the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., for Saturday Morning Nia every Sat. at 9 AM. $10. Call 360-8763 or 541-7240.

If you’re south of Missoula, your weekly shot of freshness awaits at the Hamilton Farmers Market, which opens at 9 AM every Sat. through Oct. 3 on Bedford Street near the Ravalli County Museum. Free. Call 961-0004.

The seventh annual Trout Unlimited Women’s Flyfishing Clinic begins at 10 AM at the Teller Wildlife Refuge’s Slack Barn and offers lessons in casting, selecting equipment and flies, tying knots and local river knowledge. $50 includes Trout Unlimited membership and lunch. Sign up at Fishaus Tackle in Hamilton, or call 360-2644 or 363-6158.

Help break last year’s record and increase oxygen flow to your brain when you take part in the World Fair Trade Coffee Break, which runs from 10 AM–noon and offers education and free cup o’ fair trade joe at Le Petit Outre, Bernice’s Bakery, The Green Light, The Good Food Store, Zootown Brew, Butterfly Herbs, the Missoula Community Co-op and the Eastgate Albertsons. Visit ftrn.org. (See Agenda in this issue.)

Revel in the old and classy during Preservation Fair, which takes over the County Courthouse lawn from 10 AM–4 PM with exhibits, demonstrations, product endorsements and a tour of local bungalows and downtown sights. Free. Call 258-4706 or 544-8606.

Tired of playing “My Heart Will Go On?” Then pick up something new when the Missoula Public Library throws a Sheet Music Sale from 10 AM–4 PM, with the good stuff going early. Prices begin at 50 cents. Call 721-2665.

The Clay Studio, 1106-A Hawthorne St., is your last-minute Mother’s Day savior with their Plant and Pots Sale, which runs from 10 AM–5 PM today and tomorrow. Cost really depends, now doesn’t it? Call 543-0509.

White’s the color of the day as the Yellow Bay Clubhouse—mile marker 19 on Highway 35

by Flathead Lake—hosts the Flathead Cherry Blossom Festival from 10 AM–4 PM, where an arts and crafts fair, door prizes, music by the Old Time Fiddlers and lunch by the Yellow Bay Ladies’ Auxiliary are among the riches that await. Free. Call 982-3233.

Tour the M.A. Papanek-Miller exhibition A Snowman Cares for Our Memory of Water at the Missoula Art Museum, then create layered pieces using tissue paper, vellum crayons, pastels and colored pencils during the Saturday Family Art Workshop: Toys, Color and Collage at 11 AM. $5 per artist.

Call 728-0447.

It’s “kids gone wild” when the Wildwalk Parade begins at noon on West Main Street between Orange and Woody streets—note the

new location, critters—and winds down Higgins Avenue into Caras Park, where WildFest runs through 3 PM and signals the beginning of the 32nd annual International Wildlife Film Festival. Free. Visit wildlifefilms.org. (See Scope in this issue.)

Every second Sat. of the month, whip up your finest veggie entree for the UnitarianUniversalist Potluck at noon at 102 McLeod Ave, on the corner of Higgins Avenue.

Also, bring a small donation to rent the space.

E-mail newdawnmt@gmail.com or call 529-2018.

Add your mark to a huge group art piece when a “Hands On” Sewing Circle, which runs from 12:30–2:30 PM at the Missoula Art Museum, invited you to stitch a bit of handshaped wool onto Marie Watt’s exhibition Heirloom. Free. Call 721-0447.

Playing a fiddle’s similar to riding a bike, so join Beth Youngblood as she leads the Y Music Workshop: Dust off Your Fiddle at 1 PM at the YMCA Missoula, 3000 S. Russell St. $25/$20 members. Call 721-YMCA or visit ymcamissoula.org.

Appropriately named biolog ist David Schmetterling teaches you how to attract butterflies and other native fauna as the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St., presents a Native Plant Garden Design Class at 1 PM. Bring garden plans, drawings, satellite photos and the like. $35/$30 members.

Call 327-0405.

If you don’t know your abdomen from your thorax, the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St., offers you the Saturday Kids’ Activity: Incredible Insects at 2 PM. $2/members free. Call 327-0405.

An innocent orphan falls in with the wrong crowd when the MCT Community Theatre presents the musical Oliver! at 2 PM. $15.

Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org.

The inexplicably named musical Annie Jr. features as cast of over 40 kids when the curtain rises at 2 P M at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center. $12/$8 students and seniors. Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

If your mom’s a bit on the eclectic side, she’ll love you for bringing her to Metalfest IV, which begins at 3 PM at The Other Side, features 12 bands on two stages and benefits the American Hearing Loss Association. Not really on that last one. $14/$11 advance.

Tired of the same old music recitals? Well, try Tshering’s Bhutanese lute and voice recital on for size at 3 PM in the UM Music Recital Hall. Free. Call 243-6880.

Missoula Phoenix football continues as they take on the Eastern Idaho Lionz at UM’s Washington Grizzly Stadium at 4 PM. And yes, tailgating is allowed, but only in Lot W. $8. Call 207-1702.

nightlife Perhaps you’ll feel like drinking heavily once you hear Ciara, Peanut Butta and the Didjerido Jam play Hamilton’s Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St., at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

Blades of glory flash before your eyes as the 12th annual Showcase on Ice, “Skating Through the Airwaves,” presents the finest the Missoula Figure Skating Club has to offer at 6:30 PM at the Glacier Ice Rink. $8/$4 under 13/$20 family of four. Visit missoulafsc.org.

It’s dessert theater Bigfork-style when their Community Players present the comedy Luau for King Lear at 6:30 PM in the Swan River Community Hall. $10. Call 837-2061.

You and your female posse are invited to down two glasses of free wine, eat splendid hors d’oeuvres and create the dishware of your dreams as the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W., hosts another Ladies’ Pottery Night at 7 PM. $20. RSVP 549-7555.

Help raise money for the extension of Missoula’s Milwaukee bike trail to Reserve

Street when you attend a 7 PM concert by local musicians Bill and Mary Muse, who are joined by Doug Wintch and Bill Ward, in the UM Music Recital Hall. $15/$20 preferred seating. $10 balcony/$15 general/$20 preferred seating. Tickets are available at A Carousel for Missoula.

If you liked this week’s Feature story, you’ll love a documentary on Drummond artist Bill Ohrmann, Be Thou Always As a Guest, which screens at 7 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave., where after the film you can absorb roughly 25 of the man’s “beautiful, but sometimes graphic and disturbing” paintings, as well as complimentary food and beverage from The Silk Road. $7. (See Feature in this issue.)

It’s the musical equivalent of a sweet dismount: The Missoula Symphony Orchestra’s Season Finale concert features world-renowned pianist Andrew Armstrong at 7:30 PM in UM’s University Theatre. Ticket prices vary. Call 721-3194.

The UM Department of Drama/Dance takes us back to ancient Greece to witness emotional turmoil and “unspeakable acts” at 7:30 PM with the staging of Euripides’ Medea. $14/ $12 students and seniors/$8 under 13. Call 243-4051.

The UM Department of Drama/Dance marks the end of another academic year with the packed ‘n’ stacked Spring Dance Concert, which offers nine original pieces by students and faculty at 7:30 PM in the UM PARTV Center’s Montana Theatre. $18/$14 students and seniors/$8 under 12. Call 243-4581.

The inexplicably named musical Annie Jr. features as cast of over 40 kids when the curtain raises at 7:30 PM at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center. $14/$10 students and seniors. Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

They say Year One’s the toughest for a business, hence the El Diablo Birthday Party, where Ello and Delta Function provide the soundtrack at 8 PM at the Palace Lounge. Free.

The lessons begin at 8 PM at the Western Montana Fairgrounds, to be followed by a many-splendored big band Swing Dance Party until the week hours. $6. Call 546-6519.

Expect eclectic Americana from Charla Bauman, who plays the Doubletree Hotel’s Finn & Porter from 8–10 PM. Free. Call 777-3353.

Fine a capella renditions of yesterday’s R&B classics and tomorrow’s best oldies, hit the Hamilton Performing Arts Center, 327 Fairgrounds Road, where The Nylons offer the venue’s final show of the season. $22.50–27.50. Call 363-7946 or visit hamiltonpas.org.

The UM Creative Writing Program presents a set of MFA Thesis Readings by fiction writers Jen Gann and Kristen Gleason at 8 PM at 1141 Cleveland St. Free. Call 243-5267.

Bring along an extra Conibear trachea-crushing trap as The Wild Coyotes play the Missoula Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Call 207-0498.

An innocent orphan falls in with the wrong crowd when the MCT Community Theatre presents the musical Oliver! at 8 PM. $20. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org.

Solid Sound Karaoke proves that music can also be a liquid or a gas, but never plasma, at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. If the electro-balalaika doesn’t incapacitate you, then the costumery just might do the trick: Siberian rockabilly fills the Badlander as the Red Elvises indoctrinate the crowd at 9 PM. $10

Downshift from the work week and enjoy the long, windy road when Highway 200 plays Florence’s High Spirits 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.

Feel free to perform during karaoke night at 9 PM at the VFW. Free.

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

You’re a diva on the dance floor: AmVets Club offers up DJ DC and his dance music at 9 PM. Free.

Give your Mom that which she’s always desired: An evening alone with MudSlide Charlie at 9:30 PM at the Union Club. Free.

You’ve got something of an indigo-hued date with bluesman Leroy Bell at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865.

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

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You and Mom are to awake early and meet at the UM Adams Center parking lot at 8 AM, so as to join the Audubon Society on a half-day waterfowl watching trip to Stone Container, where you’re free to meet the group at the mill’s main gate at 8:30. Free. Call 549-5632.

It’s tea theater Bigfork-style when their Community Players present the comedy Luau for King Lear at 2 PM in the Swan River Community Hall. $10. Call 837-2061.

An innocent orphan falls in with the wrong crowd when the MCT Community Theatre presents the musical Oliver! at 2 PM. $15. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org.

It’s the musical equivalent of a sweet dismount: The Missoula Symphony Orchestra’s Season Finale concert features world-renowned pianist Andrew Armstrong at 3 PM in UM’s University Theatre. Ticket prices vary. Call 721-3194.

The inexplicably-named musical Annie Jr. features as cast of over 40 kids when the curtain rises at 4 PM at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center. $14/$10 students and seniors. Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

nightlife An innocent orphan falls in with the wrong crowd when the MCT Community Theatre presents the musical Oliver! at 6:30 PM. $18/$15 under 19. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org.

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

Free.

Seattle shoe-gazing gets all up in your face when tour-mates Halophile, Palace of Buddies and Dirtyard touch down in the Palace Lounge, where Streetlight People helps the crowd work out its issues at 9 PM. $5.

Sean Kelly’s just-for-fun Euchre Tournament starts at 8 PM. Free.

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SPOTLIGHT trim ‘n’ fit In these trying times, we look to public figures for examples of how to best weather the current storm. The Obamas’ organic garden. Ed Begley Jr.’s electric cars. And now we’ve got Soulive to imitate.

WHO: Soulive with The Shady Horns and Nigel Hall

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You see, much like the dinosaurs of old, who were simply too big to survive—unlike a few banks I know—this group’s got its evolutionary head together. Soulive’s original triad, which consists of guitarist Eric Krasno and brothers Alan and Neal Evans on drums and keyed instruments, respectively, has weathered 10 years of touring in such far-flung locales as Ghana, Russia, Japan and the like. In that time, they’ve dabbled with growth, picking up a vocalist here, a horn

player or two there. You know, just keeping it fresh.

But as diminutive mammals thrived once it became apparent that more was less, the New York-based funk, jazz and hip hop triad has again pared itself down to its lean ‘n’ mean roots.

This week, whether you choose to noodle your way across the University Theatre floor or simply engage in a few hours of poppin’ and lockin’, more than a few lessons await from these sages of the stages.

—Jonas Ehudin

8 AM to 1 PM under the Higgins Avenue bridge Drive-Ups at 2420 W. Broadway, 3075 N. Reserve, 6149 Mullan, 2810 Brooks

Raptors of the Rockies Saturday, May 9th, 1-3 pm Raptors of the Rockies will be at spectrUM for a public hours special event. Explore raptors and flight, and meet four live raptors. A huge THANK YOU to Northstar Jet of Missoula for making this event possible.

It says what it does, and it does what is says: Enjoy Live Karaoke with Mark at 9 PM at The Other Side. Free.

Hate smoky pool halls? No sweat— and no smoke: Head underground when The Palace, 147 W. Broadway, features a rotating cast of Random Rock DJs at 9 PM every Sun. Free.

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Expect hairy eyeballs cast upon umbrella-hoisting rabble-rousers

when Gov. Brian Schweitzer presents his analysis of the 2009 Montana Legislative Session at the City Club Missoula meeting, which begins with lunch at 11:30 AM at the Holiday Inn-Downtown at the Park. $16/$11 members/$5 forum-only option. RSVP 541-CITY.

nightlife Mr. Pibb, hit the road! Mountain Dew, here’s your pink slip! Refine your Soda Firing technique every Mon. at 6 PM through July 2 at the Clay Studio, 1106-A Hawthorne St. $200/eight-week session. Call 543-0509.

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Hidden in Plain Sight A Conversation about Underage Drinking in our Town Presented by Missoula Substance Abuse Prevention Team A Work Group of Missoula Forum for Children and Youth

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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.

Renowned art conservator Carmen Bria presents a gallery talk in conjunction with the exhibit The Fra Dana Collection: Preservation and Conservation at 7 PM in the UM PARTV Center’s Masquer Theatre.

Free. Call 243-2019.

See how well smooth acoustic originals pair with a nice French Bordeaux—not to mention the yard sale he’s sure to have real soon— when Ryan Bundy plays the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave., at 7 PM. Free. Call 549-2906.

Cathy Clark directs your feet through the mouthful that is Beginning Cha Cha Smooth Latin Style every Mon. in May at 7 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

You’ve but one week until the first 406 Writer’s Workshop—think year-round “salon-style” writing classes—begins a six-week focus on fiction every Mon. at 7:15 PM, led by teacher and author Brian Buckbee. $150. Individual consultation’s on the menu as well. Call 493-0746 or visit 406writersworkshop.com.

Raptors of the Rockies’ Kate Davis brings along four feathered killers— eagle, hawk, owl and falcon—for a bang-up discussion on peregrine falcons in Montana at the Audubon Society’s 7:30 PM meeting in Room L114 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free.

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

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SPOTLIGHT epsom bath If you’ve ever dumped the wrong white crystals into your coffee—and luckily they weren’t rat poison or something harder—you’ve experienced how difficult it can be to live in an environment with excess salt.

It’s kind of like being a young indie rock band.

Not that Seattle’s Halophile is a young indie rock band. The two to seven members of the group have run that gauntlet already, and they now find themselves in the trough between a couple of albums.

WHO: Halophile, Palace of Buddies, Dirtyard and Streetlight People WHEN: Sun., May 10, 9 PM WHERE: The Palace Lounge HOW MUCH: $5

This Month’s Featured•• Artist:

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Mike "Schaf" Schaefer Voted Missoula’s Best Tattoo Parlor 13 Years Running

Their 2007 debut, Panic Bird, is a collection of moody and slow ballads that embody an angst and an energy to draw you in. Far from gloom, however, songs such as “Desert Breath” and “Ancient Dogs in Transit” offer a steady pacing and the notion that we’re getting somewhere in all this, we’re just taking our time.

As the group tours with mates Palace of Buddies and Dirtyard, they’re in the process of mixing down their next release, Northern Hunger. It begins with the haunting confessions of “I’ll Try Anything,” a liberal game plan that can lead to disaster, triumph, or a little of both. The upcoming album’s sound maintains the downtempo rhythms and bottomless guitar riffs of their first record, and also expands their vocal vibe of hopeful melancholy.

Like the advice imparted in the track “I’m About to Be Beheaded Soon”—it’s unwise to place too much trust in words from the condemned—I’ll recommend you take my words with more than a grain of salt, and investigate these saline songsters for yourself.

—Jonas Ehudin

1701 S 5th St. W. :: 728-1191 :: www.painlesssteeltattoo.com For once in your life, leave the bar with a slightly thicker wallet with DJ Hickey’s Rawk and Roll Bingo Night every Mon. from 8:30 PM until midnight at the Badlander. $1 per card, and the opening round’s always free.

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

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Fisherman Safety Course, which takes place at Round-up Rapid on the Blackfoot River. $75 includes certification card. Call 207-2027.

If they’re under 24 months old, bring the kiddos to the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., where Families First’s Family Motion offers corporeal strength for you and yours at 11 AM. $4.25/Free for members. RSVP 541-PLAY. Find strength and the will to fight at the Breast Cancer Support Group, which meets at noon each Tue. at St. Francis Xavier Church, 420 W. Pine St. Free.

The dictionary defines “BOGO” as an acronym for “Buy One, Get One,” which means BOGO Pottery Tuesdays ease your entry into ceramics ownership from noon–6 PM every Tue. at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. Call 549-7555 or visit zootownarts.com.

Be ye generous donor, soon-to-be supporter or downright remora, there’s a party waiting for you at the Missoula Art Museum, where the 5 PM Annual Fund Hurrah features hors d’oeuvres, sizzlin’ piano tunes and a scavenger hunt for fun and prizes. Free. Call 728-0447.

As part of the International Wildlife Film Festival, award-winning underwater filmmakers Howard and Michelle Hall present “Filming Wildlife in Giant Format,” a multimedia affair describing their work, at 5:30 PM in UM’s University Center Theatre. Free. Call 728-9380.

nightlife It’s Tuesday, and you ate your last jar of Western Family peanut butter for breakfast, so why not Dine With the Elks from 5:30–7 PM? This week, country-style pork ribs with

homemade barbecue sauce, creamy scalloped potatoes, fresh green beans and a chocolate brownie sundae accompany the flashy pianizing of Adrienne Dussault. $9 per plate. RSVP 549-0542.

Instructor Holly Jeremiassen teaches young people aged 10 and up the finer points of glass fusing every Tue. at 5:30 PM during Youth Glass Class. $15 per session. Call 5497555 or visit zootownarts.com.

Don’t it make your green grass blue?

The pickin’ circle begins at 6 PM, and house pickers Pinegrass play at 9:30 PM at the Top Hat. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865.

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

The YWCA of Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts weekly support groups for women every Tue. at 6:30 PM, where groups for Native women and children meet as well.

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

A single bracelet does not jingle: Unity Dance and Drum’s all-levels West African Dance Class meets every Tue. evening at 6:30 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $10/class or $35/four classes. Call 549-7933.

Experience cross-cultural experiences with native speakers during a session of Spanish lessons, which meet at 6:30 PM every Tue. and Thu. through July 2 at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. $200 per session. RSVP espanolmt@gmail.com.

Witness democracy in action as the Missoula County Democrats host their County Convention—at which new officers will be elected and all are welcome—at 7 PM in the Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Free.

Author Karin Winegar reads from and signs her book Saved at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

While the oboe appears to have been designed by aliens, there’s still plenty of confusion awaiting as Gibson Hartwell hosts the Y Music Workshop: Steel Guitar—What IS That Thing? at 7 PM at the YMCA Missoula, 3000 S. Russell St. $25/$20 members. Call 721-YMCA or visit ymcamissoula.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? When did the Ford Motor Company unveil their first assembly line? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

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

Come party with Lady Stuff ‘N Such, Pallas, Mama, DJ Siren and more during a benefit for the non-profit magazine that offers a feminist perspective on pop culture, Bitch, at 9 PM at the Badlander. $5 suggested donation.

Forego the weekly shower and join Unwashed Promotions for live music

and moist DJs Harvey and Heyska when Punk Rock Tuesday fumigates the Palace Lounge every Tue. at 9 PM. Free.

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

Call 531-7800.

Everyone enjoys the health benefits of a little indie rock when the Lucas Cates Band plays the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865.

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Montana River Guides offers boaters a shot at maintaining river safety with a one-day Kayaker Safety Course. $95 includes certification card. Call 207-2027.

Join the Flathead Audubon Society’s Neal Brown for the two-hour jaunt Birds of the Wild Mile every Wed. through June at 9 AM at the trailhead of Bigfork’s Wild Mile Nature Trail.

Free. Call 837-5018.

Once your kids attend Ready? Set...

Read!, an early literacy program for children aged 3–7, at 11 AM at the Children’s Museum, 225 W. Front St., every other Wed., your tactic of spelling out naughty words may no longer be effective. $4.25 admission/members free. Call 541-7529.

Get down with Gramps and the baby when Heather Adams leads Family Dance at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., at 3 PM every Wed. in May. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

nightlife Certified BodyTalk practitioner and instructor Ange Trenga-Anderson presents a BodyTalk public presentation at 6 PM at the Holiday Inn Express. Free. Call 880-8749.

Combine a relaxed and supportive atmosphere with live models in their birthday suits—18 and over only, please—and you’ve got the Missoula Art Museum’s Hump Day Figure Drawing group every Wed. from 6–8 PM. $7/$5 members. Call 728-0447.

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

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

If you can toddle, you can play: The Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., presents Toddler Playgroup at 6:30. $4.25/members free. Call 541-PLAY. Green Drinks, the monthly meetup for the eco-boozy set, begins at 7 PM at Sean Kelly’s, where you might find a job, make a friend, develop a plan for world domination or simply find joy at the bottom of a pint glass.

Free.

The UM Music Department presents a student recital featuring soprano Amanda Morales at 7:30 PM

in the Music Recital Hall. Free. Call 243-6880.

With $100 up for grabs, your eightperson-maximum team’s gonna need some extra ginko as the Badlander hosts Death By Quiz, eight rounds of pop culture trivia with a focus on music, at 9 PM. Free.

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 not-exactly-a-celebrated-moment-for-workers trivia question: Henry Ford instituted the first modern application of the wellworn assembly line concept at the Dearborn, Michigan plant in 1913.

Hate smoky pool halls? No sweat— and no smoke—but plenty of girl power: Head underground at 9 PM every Wed. when The Palace, 147 W. Broadway, presents Ladies’ DJ Night. Free.

Quit living in a dream long enough to get down with Jackie Greene at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865.

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at 8:30 PM at the Orchard Homes Country Life Club, 2537 S. Third St. W. $7. Call 396-3104, 369-2806 or 531-0930.

Join the ranks of the Missoula Metal Militia, led

by Calif.’s 26z with unholy support provided by Kalispell’s Throne of Malediction and Missoula’s own Walking Corpse Syndrome, at the Palace Lounge at 9 PM. $3.

Vocals soaring in a seemingly solid arc of maximum honky tonk sensibility, Bob Wire plays Sean Kelly’s at 9:30 PM. Cover TBA. Call 542-1471.

If you’re a weekly reader of this here end part, the Comrade’s wistful sign-off, this week’s not going to give my satisfaction. With a massive May calendar and space running at a premium, I’m compelled to send you all my love and remind you of this, my First Commandment: Send your event info by 5 PM on Fri., May 8, to calendar@missoulanews.com.

Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Comrade Calendar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. And for Peet’s sake, don’t submit events through our website. Just don’t do it.

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salute to women Burn ‘em while, you can, Jackie—the Top Hat’s officially smoke-free. Hot young roots rocker Jackie Greene alights at the Top Hat at 10 PM on Wed., May 13. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865.

dren aged 3–5 years at 11 AM every second and fourth Thu. of the month, and get the games, activities and snacks at no extra charge.

Free. Call 543-3550, ext. 255.

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

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

Give your youngsters something to strive for— or to avoid—when the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., serves up a Playdate with an Artist at 3 PM. $4.25/members free. Call 541-PLAY. Kids aged 5–13 can teach the man a thing or two during Movin’ with the Mayor, a health promotion event at 3:30 PM at Franklin Park.

Free. Call 721-PARK.

nightlife Whether the glass is half empty, or just greasy and thumb-printed, we can all agree that Bittersweet plays Hamilton’s Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St., at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

Learn how to support your child’s transition into kindergarten with WORD’s five-week series “The ABC’s of Kindergar ten Readiness,” which begins at 6:30 PM every Thu. through June 11. Free., and childcare is available. RSVP 543-3550, ext. 255.

Lake Missoula Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, hosts a Local Artist Showcase at 7 PM, where drop-

ins are always welcome. Free. Call 541-8463.

Famed tromping troubadour Walkin’ Jim Stoltz bring his multimedia presentation Forever Wild to the Swan River Community Hall at 7 PM. Admission is by donation. Call 755-1379.

A smattering of humor, pathos, adventure and slapstick could await when the UM University Center Theater presents a Graduate Film Showcase, featuring the films of third-year MFA candidates, at 7 PM. Free. Call 243-4540.

The New Lakes Reading Series presents a reading by Kevin Goodan from his second full-length book of poems, Winter Tenor, at 7 PM at Shakespeare & Co., 103 S. Third St. W. Free. Call 549-9010.

Transport yourself to the Emerald Isle as the words of author-brothers Frank and Malachy McCourt are paired with dancing, leaping and twirling when Echoes of Ireland step-dances into UM’s University Theatre at 7:30 PM. $43.50/$38.50 students and groups. Visit griztix.com.

Help support When In Rome Productions Inc.’s efforts to bring us a little culture when you attend their We Art Missoula Benefit, an 8 PM silent auction with entertainment, dancing, dessert and more at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $5.

Driven by the Jan. World Social Forum in Brazil to deliver the global south’s message to their northern homeland, the Open Field Artists present ¡VIVA!, a multi-media evening of dance-theatre, visual art, live music and vocals,

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control

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

541-7387 MONTE

We really appreciate older dogs, and Monte is one of our very favorites. He's certainly not a couch potato, but he prefers quiet walks to vigorous runs. He knows a lot of things— most importantly, how to be a loving and loyal companion.

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SARAH

Sarah is another great older dog. She's still quite lively, and she loves to run around in the fenced yard at the shelter (preferably with at least one other dog for company). She's very social and is hoping for a happy, friendly family.

Although you can't necessarily tell by looking at her, Anna is a true cattle dog cross. She is smart, and she loves to please people. But if that doesn't convince you, then her adorable, extra wiggly butt shaking should be proof enough. Anna deserves someone who appreciates what a great catch she is!

ELLIE

Not only is Ellie a beautiful young Shepherd cross, but she really is quite sweet as well. She loves people, especially children, even lying patiently still while they fuss and climb all over her. Outside though she loves to play and go for walks. Ellie is just the dog your kids have been bugging you for.

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Baxter is a special sort of fellow. He wasn't exposed to much as a young pup, so new things tend to intimidate him. Staff and volunteers have been working over-time to help him overcome some of those fears though. He is making leaps and bounds with his progress, walking excellent on leash and learning that car rides are fun!

BUFFET

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It's a story we hear all too often, an owner moves, liquidates, gets rid of the cat along with all of their other unwanted things, and a sweet kitty like Meeka ends up at AniMeals. She is a quiet kitty who enjoys laps and loving caresses while purring her little heart out and giving gentle kitty kisses.

MIA

She has lived in fear most of her life. She was low kitty on the totem pole and the other cats never let her forget it. She would hide for hours knowing that if she came out she would get beat up. Her owner knew this was no life for a sweet loving kitty like Mia, so she brought her to AniMeals.

She doesn't dwell on the past because she knows there are blue skies ahead.

TOM

The old man died peacefully in his sleep. His family was not able to keep his two faithful companions. It was the only home Thomas and Madonna had ever known and the loss was traumatic. These two old friends cling to each other trying to make sense of this new turn of events in unfamiliar surroundings.

SIMBA

She was born in a woodpile just as the temperatures started dropping. A compassionate elderly lady brought her inside ignoring the protests of her grumpy husband. When the kindly woman died her husband didn't waste a minute tossing the whole family back out into the cold to fend for themselves.

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This week I’ve something of a cautionary tale for my readers.

It has to do with the Indy’s editor, Skylar Browning (remember him from the nudist story?), who describes his outlook on an upcoming kayak date with Brennan’s Wave—it’s for a story, he says—as “nervous.”

Folks, it doesn’t have to be this way. We needn’t reach maturity without being comfortable in a thin plastic tub amid life-threatening waters. Really, we needn’t. Yeah, I hear you loud and clear: “I can’t teach my child to kayak!” To you I respond with seven words: The Zoo Town Surfers Youth Kayak Club.

Ever since 2003, this hydrophilic posse’s been instructing the next generation of river runners, and this summer’s already off to a rushing start. The youth club places kids in groups with like-skilled peers, focuses on the fundamentals, and transports youngsters from Missoula to their lair near Alberton Gorge every week, all summer long. Should the idea of tossing your wee beast into the Clark Fork this summer prove appealing, get in touch with them at 546-0370, or visit zootownsurfers.com.

And with that out of the way, we head into the weekend. On Sat., May 9, Missoulians on Bicycles (MOB) meets at 9 AM at the corner of Mount and Reserve streets for the 65-mile Amble to Alberton ride. Ride the Big Flat route to Frenchtown and beyond, but first call Wayne at 721-6330.

An entirely different option comes as Trout Unlimited (TU) hosts the Seventh Annual Women’s Flyfishing Clinic at the Teller Wildlife Refuge, where the fun begins at 10 AM. Get schooled on technique, equipment, river knowledge and more, and enjoy a catered lunch and a TU membership to boot. $50.

Call 360-2644 or 363-6158.

Here’s a doubleshot from our repository of Gaia’s gifts, the Montana Natural History Center (MNHC), 120 Hickory St.: On Sat., May 9, biologist David Schmetterling—come on, that’s got to be a pseudonym, right?—offers a Native Plant Garden Design Class at 1 PM, where you’re encouraged to bring your

garden plans, blueprints, aerial photos and such.

That runs $35, or $30 for MHNC members. RSVP 327-0405.

At almost the same time—okay, so an hour later—the MNHC gives kids a chance to get their chitin on with the Saturday Kids’ Activity “Incredible Insects” at 2 PM. $2/members free. Call 327-0405.

With that dose of education safely out of the way, it’s time to relax and be entertained. The Missoula Figure Skating Club’s got

Photo by Chad Harder

your best value up their sheer sleeves: At 6:30 PM on Sat., May 9, their 12th annual Showcase on Ice, “Skating Through the Airwaves,” kicks off at the Glacier Ice Rink. Group and solo performances span the radio dial, and the price is right, at $8/$4 under 13/$20 per family of four. Visit missoulafsc.org.

Rather than allowing Mom to sleep in and enjoy a breakfastin-bed of waffles and bacon, get this Mother’s Day started right when the two of you arrive at 8 AM in the UM Adams Center parking lot, where the Audubon Society meets on Sun.,

May 10 for a waterfowl-watching trip to Stone Container.

You’ll have plenty of time to have brunch later, as it’s just a halfday adventure. Call 549-5632.

You could do that, or you could toss Mom on a bike and join that unruly MOB, which meets at 8 AM on Sun., May 10, at the corner of Brooks and Reserve streets for the 90-mile 17th annual Lolo Lulu ride. Call Wayne at 721-3095.

Moving into Mon., May 11, two sets of bird-lovers meet, but in very disparate regions: At 5 PM, the Flathead Audubon Society hosts their annual potluck, silent auction and general membership meeting in Kalispell’s Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 603 S. Main St. The plan is to discuss Audubon’s new Important Bird Area Project with Montana director Steve Hoffman. Be there, or I guess you’re just a bird-hata.

That, or you’re down in Missoula, where on Mon., May 11, the Five Valleys Audubon Society hosts a special presentation with Raptors of the Rockies’ Kate Davis and several of her feathered friends, at 7:30 PM in Room L114 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Call 327-1525.

As area water continues to warm, so does our desire to get up in some of it. Or at least to snatch fish from the depths. With that in mind, you’ll be glad to know that Montana River Guides offer two moist safety courses this week: On Tue., May 12, a Fisherman Safety Course goes down, while playboaters get their day on Wed., May 13, when a Kayaker Safety Course occurs. They cost $75 and $95, respectively, and you’re to sign up by calling 207-2027 or visiting whitewaterrescue.com.

The final day in this week’s roundup features two events with very different foci: First, at 3:30 PM on Thu., May 14, young people from across the five valleys converge on the Franklin Park Picnic Shelter, where Mayor John Engen hosts Movin’ with the Mayor, an exercise and health promotion program of Missoula Parks & Rec. If you can’t make it, other episodes are coming down the pike, and I’ll keep you in the know.

Call 721-PARK. Lastly, the community of Bigfork plays host to highly mobile songster and wilderness activist Walkin’ Jim Stoltz, whose multimedia presentation Forever Wild comes to the Swan River Community Hall at 7 PM on Thu., May 14. Admission is by donation. Call 755-1379.

Ladies and gentlemen, start your paddlin’. calendar@missoulanews.com

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New blood IWFF’s best shine without the event’s biggest star

by Skylar Browning

It took me a few minutes after watching the last film to realize something was wrong. I double-checked my notes, re-read the International Wildlife Film Festival (IWFF) program, then jumped online to triple-check. I couldn’t figure it out: What happened to David Attenborough?

You know Attenborough. If you’ve ever attended IWFF, the ubiquitous British naturalist has been involved in approximately every awardwinning film ever shown at the festival, ever. At least it appears that way. Attenborough is to IWFF like Dick Clark is to New Year’s Eve, or like Missoula’s dancing couple is to any outdoor event at Caras Park. He’s inextricably linked.

But I watched six of this year’s honorees and Attenborough wasn’t associated with a single one.

While it turns out Attenborough did sneak into the outer ring of this year’s winners’ circle—he narrates Best Educational Value honoree Charles Darwin and The Tree of Life, which I didn’t receive for review—he was left out of the big ticket awards.

And you know what? I didn’t miss him. Not a bit. In fact, this year’s collection of lesser-name winners injects some fresh perspective into the wildlife genre. Here’s a look at five of the best newcomers.

Lilien uses 16 years of footage—16 years!—to tell Pale Male’s entire story. By the end, it appears the project was worth the wait.

Showing: Sat., May 9, 2:30 PM; Sun, May 10, 7:30 PM; Sat., May 16, 7:30 PM Green (48 minutes) You know where this is going: The opening scene shows Green, an orangutan, stuffed in a duffle bag, her head hanging outside the bag and bobbing limply as a pickup truck takes her away. Green’s not dead, but her blank stare shows no hope.

This moving documentary doesn’t do hope. It’s about the harsh realities of deforestation in Indonesia and, more broadly, the effects of rampant global consumption. Green serves as just one symbol of abuse, and the film—without narration or interviews—jumps back and forth between the orangutan’s recovery room and the actions that led her there. IWFF award-

tle one will learn a lot about the ocean, including a neat lesson on currents and tides. My 3-year-old loved it. I’m embarrassed to show off my knowledge within the demographic and call it a cross between Disney’s “Zoboomafoo” and Discovery Kids’ “Mystery Hunters.” Let’s move on.

Showing: Mon, May 11, 9:30 AM; Wed., May 13, 9:30 AM; Thu., May 14, 12:30 PM; and Fri., May 15, 9:30 AM. “Yellowstone: Episode 1, Winter” (60 minutes) This quintessential wildlife documentary from the BBC gorgeously captures Yellowstone National Park in the dead of winter. Touted as the first highdef footage of the park, it features breathtaking aerial shots, vivid animal encounters and exquisite snow-covered landscapes. The program deserves its award for the festival’s Best Cinematography.

The Legend of Pale Male (88 minutes) It’s hard not to fall for this year’s Best of Festival winner, and I say that as someone who, at the start, couldn’t have cared less about the fortunes of a famous red-tailed hawk living in New York City. But like all good documentaries, this effort by rookie filmmaker Frederic Lilien includes enough unexpected turns and “Yellowstone: Episode 1, Winter” features breathtaking hi-def footage, including aerial shots of the twisted characters to win over park’s geothermal pools. even the most apathetic viewer.

Wolves rule Yellowstone in winter, and their The story of Pale Male made national head- ed Green the festival’s Sapphire Award for second story dominates here. In one scene, a male loner lines in 2004, years after Lilien first discovered place, as well as honors for Best Editing.

Showing: Fri., May 15, 7:30 PM; Sat., May 16, 5 PM tries to secretly mate with a female from a pack. the hawk’s nest on an up-scale Fifth Avenue coWhen wolves mate, they’re literally locked op. The film starts with Lilien, a 30-something together for at least 30 minutes. That makes Belgium native and former hair salon manager, Amba The Russian Tiger (50 minutes) Amba offers an interesting Zen approach to things mighty interesting when the pack’s alpha deciding to take up wildlife photography on a whim. Pale Male becomes his muse, and Lilien wildlife films. Noted British wildlife cameraman male catches the loner in the act—and attacks.

Wolves are just part of the appeal. Perhaps my joins a dedicated group of bird watchers fixated Gordon Buchanan sets off to eastern Russia and on the hawk’s every move. Interesting, maybe, to the remote forests of Ussuriland to find the famed favorite shots showed foxes hunting for mice and Audubon fanatics, but ultimately an unremark- Russian tiger. He fails—sort of a bummer for fish buried under feet of snow and icy waters. The those primed for a wildlife film festival—but bison images are iconic, as expected, and able story that relies too heavily on Lilien.

That is, until the bourgeois co-op decides to becomes immersed in the locals’ near-mythic Yellowstone’s geothermal pools appear otherboot the hawk. Then things get interesting—and accounts of the animal. At least Buchanan ends worldly. “Winter” is why I return to IWFF every I’m not just talking about the heroic appearance of with a convincing journey-not-the-destination year, with or without Sir Attenborough.

Showing: Sat., May 9, 7:30 PM; Tue., May 12, former sitcom sweetheart Mary Tyler Moore. The message. This film wins Best Sound Design, Best hawk-hate whips Pale Male’s most adoring fans into Use of Music and, from me, best scenes involving 12:30 PM; Sat., May 16, 5 PM a picketing frenzy, and hundreds decide to join the naked dudes getting beat up by olive branches.

The 32nd International Wildlife Film Festival Showing: Sat., May 9, 7:30 PM; Fri., May 15, fight. Moore, who lives in the co-op, helps lead the charge. Next thing you know, Conan is doing skits 5:30 PM runs May 9–16 at the Wilma Theatre. $7/$5 stuwith a fake Pale Male, Regis is joking about adoptdent/$3 under 12/$40 all-screenings pass. For a ing the hawk, and the co-op, which happens to be The Riddle in a Bottle (30 minutes) complete schedule, visit www.wildlifefilms.org.

This Special Jury winner is purely for fans of headed by CNN anchor Paula Zahn’s husband, sbrowning@missoulanews.com the Noggin Network or PBS Kids Sprout. Your litbackpedals to try to make things right.

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Tom Catmull & the Clerics Glamour Puss Cheap Strings

Just when the rest of us Missoula musicians think Tom Catmull might be loosening his grip on the top of the food chain, he goes and releases his most ambitious album yet.

Glamour Puss delivers on the promise of the band’s 2006 eponymous effort, which blew up on the strength of “All the Good in the World,” an impossibly catchy tune that received a ton of local airplay. The rest of that album, while up to Catmull’s usual high standards, was more Jack Johnson than Jack White.

Streetlight People Streetlight People self-released

On their self-titled debut, Missoula’s Streetlight People mix indie pop, shades of punk and even traces of country music into a sound that should please the ears of any indie rock loving aficionado.

Comprised of a handful of members who play in local bands such as Rooster Sauce, March of the Black Queen and the now-defunct Danny’s Dilemma, Streetlight People combine tight musicianship with a knack for sometimes obscure and/or psychedelic lyrics.

On tracks like “I’m English,” chief songwriter, guitarist and vocalist Fletcher Reveley muses with the lyrics “She wants to lift a thousand pounds/ but I’m spending that much on an evening gown/they’re taxing my face/they’re taxing my frown/tonight,” while

The Lucas Cates Band All the Pieces self-released

Lucas Cates brings a light touch to All the Pieces, an album dominated by easy-flowing meditations on the cycles of seasons, emotions and formative experiences. Narrated events play out and blend back into the fabric of ordinary lives. A lot of crying goes on— and for various reasons—in Cates’ little stories, but he rarely departs from his mellow, somewhat distant tone. On many tracks he lingers over the sensation of jazzy vibration in his throat, just coolly, genuinely pleased by the sound of his own voice.

Mury

This Is Where We Were Mason Street Productions

Mury are practitioners of the I Think, I Feel, I Believe and I Just Realized genre of rock, and This Is Where We Were, predictably, feels like a support group session narrated by Rob Thomas. From “Celery Stick” (“We don’t know how to act; we’ve always got it bad”) to “Sweet Sleep” (“I wouldn’t ask for a third chance, not like this”) and on to “3/13” (“We’ve come a long way…”) listeners are treated to earnest usages of the valedictory “We” and the interpersonal “You” as Mury’s declamatory “I” realizes, believes, boasts and explains where his “head’s at.”

Thanks to bands like Matchbox 20 and 3 Doors Down we’ve become accustomed to a pop genre that

Enter Glamour Puss, where the first song out of the chute signals an album with balls. “Change Your Mind” is a gritty, bluesy shuffle propelled by Travis Yost’s crisp drumming and John Sporman’s popping doghouse bass. Catmull’s AM-radio vocal is supple and understated, adding just a hint of menace to the song.

The real star of Glamour Puss, though, is Gibson Hartwell’s stellar electric guitar work.

Muscular in some places, twangy in others, pretty when it needs to be, his playing is always articulate and sure-handed. Happily, he gets to cut loose more than ever on this album. It rocks.

Looks like the king of the local music hill might just reign a while longer. (Bob Wire) Tom Catmull & the Clerics play a CD release show at the Elk’s Club Friday, May 8, at 8 PM, with Drunken Prayer. $12/$10 advance. guitarist Dave Martens, bassist Thomas Pendarvis and drummer Will Wetzel churn out sounds reminiscent of bands like The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, the Apples in Stereo and Pavement.

Thankfully, though, this release doesn’t sound like a copy of those aforementioned bands.

In fact, these boys work their own flavor into the mix by use of instruments such as the lap steel guitar on cuts like “Old Station.”

And though it’s not a groundbreaking release, this eponymous debut is a promising and worthwhile effort from some seriously seasoned musicians. (Ira Sather-Olson) Streetlight People play a CD release party at the Palace Sunday, May 10, at 8 PM, with Palace of Buddies, Dirt Yard and Halophile.

Occasionally, Cates seems to wake up and listen to the story he is telling. “Through” surprises with its verbal venom: “Our answers lie in the grave/believe me when I say/I think you’re through anyway.” Slightly fuzzed up guitar and a hint of strain in the voice put the song in a different emotional register from the mellow tunes that surround it.

If you listen with an ear for the lyrics, these songs can be engaging, but the Lucas Cates Band is easy not to hear. That’s not because the sound is unpleasant, but because, aside from “Through” and the up-tempo “Lives With Demons” (probably the best track on the album), every sound is so smoothly modulated that the band is too easy to tune out. (Ali Gadbow) The Lucas Cates Band plays the Top Hat Tuesday, May 12, at 8 PM. Cover TBA. filters emotion through the standardized jargon of the analyst’s couch and the selfhelp book. Personally I blame California (Mury hails from San Francisco), and I don’t buy it: I just don’t quite believe the store-bought “emotions” on display. But I must admit that this particular collection of ditties about broken relationships, fraught hookups and thwarted communication is clean, honed and radioready. Mury is no James—the underappreciated but actually kind of good band that nailed this genre back in the day—but they could compete with the James Blunts of the world. (Ali Gadbow) Mury plays Hot Topic at the Southgate Mall Friday, May 8, at 4 PM with Paper Mache. Free.

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In Larry Smith’s Not Quite What I Was Planning: necessity than virtue by pioneers like Roberto Six-Word Memoirs from Writers Famous and Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica. It ain’t Cinema Obscure, screenwriter Nora Ephron offers the follow- Paradiso, that’s for sure.

With the occasional outing to Venice, Gomorra ing pearl of wisdom: “Secret to life: marry an Italian.”

Coming from the writer of Sleepless in Seattle (but takes place primarily in shabby housing projects also, to be fair, Silkwood and When Harry Met Sally), around Naples. Most of the dialogue, in fact, is not in Italian per se but the Neapolitan dialect, so thick it may or may not be reliable advice.

Anyway, there aren’t enough to go around. But if that elsewhere in Italy the movie is shown to Italian you were looking to spend the rest of your life with audiences with subtitles. Some viewers might be only one national cinema, something with enough reminded of City of God, although Gomorra’s kinks and hidden facets to keep things interesting Naples has none of the vibrant energy of City’s Rio, throughout the long dark night of the monogamous with its adjacent surfing beaches and bucket-shaking cinematic relationship, you could do worse than to pick Italy. Get ready for some close talking. Expect a lot of spirited shouting over the littlest things. Then again, you could also expect a certain degree of conflict avoidance over the knottier issues, for example World War II: Italy has yet to produce a movie about the conflict that neither gloops it in treacle (Life Is Beautiful) nor veils it with perverse eroticism (The Night Porter, plus a whole Nazi sex-crime exploitation genre that flourished in the ’70s).

Other pet peeves might start to We’d have preferred boxers. fester—for example, a sentimental national preference for annoyingly cute child actors ghetto dance parties, to say nothing of the sweeping pushed to the fore (Life Is Beautiful, Cinema New World gangster romanticism of Goodfellas or Paradiso), and Roberto Benigni generally. Of course, The Godfather. It’s closer to the Mexico City of you’d have Fellini, Antonioni, De Sica, Visconti and Bunuel’s Los Olvidados or the Medellin of Our Lady of the Assassins and Rodrigo D: No Futuro: Rossellini. Think of the barbecues.

Lest you peg your spouse as a thoroughly grim places without much going on apart from petty hopeless romantic, though, you would also have to crime and spontaneous brutality. Nearer to home, take notice of movies like Gomorra, Matteo Gomorra’s Naples resembles in some ways the Garrone’s grim and gritty view of gangster life in Rome of Rossellini’s Rome, Open City, a defining Naples, home not only to tricolor ice cream but work of Neorealism and, like Gomorra, a movie also the Camorra crime syndicate. To the tourist about Italians on the edge, starring non-actors lookear, the word camorra might sound like just ing credibly acquainted with the edge themselves.

One of Gomorra’s characters is a kid who delivanother rustic sausage or scenic seaside village, but to Italians it bespeaks extortion and murder and ers groceries to a mobbed-up Camorra wife and it’s a fact of life for altogether too many. The syn- dreams about joining the System (Camorra associdicate, as we learn in the obligatory set of inform- ates reportedly never use the word camorra). Then ative titles at the end of Gomorra, is responsible there’s a pair of older teenage thugs operating on for more killings and more illegal dumping of haz- their own; their activities could get them either ardous substances than any other criminal organi- killed or recruited by one of the dominant rival faczation in Europe. So clearly this marriage isn’t tions. Pasquale, a tailor who pirates designer dresses and manufactures them in Camorra-controlled going to be all wine tours and excellent cooking.

Based on Romanza Criminale (Crime Novel), sweatshops, is also on the verge of a risky decision, author Roberto Saviano’s nonfiction foray into the weighing the life-changing consequences of selling world of the Camorra, Garrone’s movie actually out to the Chinese competition. All characters are comprises five stories, five narrative strands, each caught in a war between the rival factions. There’s unrelated to the others. It might help to know this no straightforward story, no predictable trajectory, going into the movie—no need to divert any atten- nothing to root for or any reason to believe things tion looking for any Altmanesque linkage. At the will work out well in the end for anybody.

And it’s deeply engrossing. Not horrifically same time, all the characters clearly belong to the same narrative, and beyond that to the same grit- violent, neither gentle nor appealing in any way, ty, smoky world that Gomorra makes all too real, but seedy and sordid and something you just too palpable. In a sense, Gomorra upholds the have to see. national cinema’s peripatetic tradition of realism, Gomorra plays at the Wilma Theatre. at one time called Italian neorealism, a rough-andarts@missoulanews.com ready postwar school established more out of

Scope Noise Film Movie Shorts Advice Astrology OPENING THIS WEEK Star Trek Now that you’re back from that nine-month meditation retreat, let me tell you about a sleeper film that’s coming to a few theaters here in town: Young dynamic duo James Kirk and Mr. Spock take the U.S.S. Enterprise and her crew out for their maiden voyage, as director J.J. Abrams (“Lost”) boldly goes where no one’s gone before in remaking the 1979 film based on the ‘60s TV series. Rated PG-13.

Showing at the Carmike 10 at 4:10, 4:40, 7, 7:30, 9:50 and 10:20 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:20 and 1:50 and at the Village 6 at 4:10, 7 and 9:50, with Sat.–Sun. matiness at 1:20.

Also playing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 6:50 and 9:10 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun.

dicate, which exercises its violent agenda as ruthlessly as ever in this exposé told from the perspective of various characters trying to escape the mafia’s long reach. Not rated.

Showing nightly at the Wilma Theatre at 9 with a Sun. matinee at 3.

Hannah Montana: The Movie The bifurcated personalities of Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus keep vying for control of the body they share until poppa Billy Ray decides it’s time for a road trip to Tennessee.

Rated G. Showing at the Village 6 at 4:15 and 9:40.

hours with Russell Crowe, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams and Robin Wright Penn. Rated PG13. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 7 and 9:35, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1 and 4. Also playing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 6:50 and 9:10 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Sunshine Cleaning Amy Adams and Emily Blunt star as sisters in this tale of a start-up crime scene cleaning business, with support from Alan Arkin and Steve Zahn. Rated R. Showing nightly at the Wilma Theatre at 7, with a Sun. matinee at 1.

Hannah Montana: The Movie Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:25 and 4.

Monsters Vs. Aliens 3D Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at noon, 2:10 and 4:25 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:35 and 3:55.

Obsessed Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:20, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:50.

NOW PLAYING 17 Again Imagine you had the chance to be, um, 17 again and re-do your life, this time avoiding such pitfalls as marrying your pregnant high school girlfriend and tossing away a basketball scholarship. Now watch the film. Rated PG-13.

Showing at the Carmike 10 at 4:30, 7:30 and 10, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30. Also playing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 6:50 and 9:10 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Adventureland Director Greg Mottola (Superbad) brings us the story of James Brennan, a recent college grad forced to take the only job he can get— working at Adventureland theme park, in the summer of ’87. Plenty of vulgar humor, awkward sex and pot smoking ensue. Rated R. Showing at the Village 6 at 7:15 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1:15.

Earth Polar bears, elephants, humpback whales and James Earl Jones follow the path of the sun across our planet with some totally sick shots.

Rated G. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 7 and 9:30, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1 and 4.

Fast and Furious The fourth film in this series picks right back up where it all started, with Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster staging a reunion for yet another two hours of sex, drugs and really fast cars. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Village 6 at 7 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1.

Fighting Channing Tatum is a poor kid who moves to New York City with no prospects. Once he and manager Terrence Howard discover he can scrap like nobody’s business, the two start a life of wiping with Benjamins. Rated PG-13.

Showing at the Village 6 at 6:30 and 9:10, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1 and 3:40.

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past In an extreme nod to A Christmas Carol, super ladies’ man Matthew McConaughey is haunted by the ghosts of his exes in an attempt by his dead uncle to help him mend his playin’ ways and shack up with the love of his life, Jennifer Garner. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 4:20, 7:15 and 10:10, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:25. Also playing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Gomorrah Modern Italians in Naples and Caserta are unwitting victims of the powerful Camorra syn-

Kirk never ordered the bridge to take emergency ear reduction measures again. Star Trek opens Friday at the Carmike 10 and the Village 6.

I Love You, Man Paul Rudd scrambles to find an acceptable best man to serve in his upcoming nuptials in this overblown statement on male intimacy in our culture. Rated R. Showing at the Village 6 at 9:45 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 4.

Monsters Vs. Aliens 3D In DreamWorks’ latest animated 3D film, young Susan is transformed into a giant monster after being struck by a meteor. She’s whisked away to a secret military location, where she meets other monstrous folk the government has been collecting over the years. When aliens attack the planet, there’s no better group to save it. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 4:20, 7:15 and 9:35 with Fri.–Sat. matinees at 1:15.

Obsessed Idris Elba is a man who’s got everything, including Beyoncé Knowles for a wife, but gets in trouble when a pretty temp proves pretty tempting. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 4:05, 6:50 and 9:25, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:20. Also playing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. The Soloist Jamie Foxx tells a tale based upon an L.A. musical prodigy’s slip into homelessness and his subsequent rediscovery by writer Robert Downey, Jr., who helps get him back behind a cello. Rated R. Showing at the Village 6 at 7:05 and 10:10 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 12:15 and 4.

State of Play Super-edgy-thriller time, people: An all-star cast spins a tale of conspiracy and political maneuvering, which of course always sloshes over into murder, now, doesn’t it? Spend a coupla

X-Men Origins: Wolverine He’s a quick healer with adamantium claws and a tendency to go berserk: Witness the tragic past and violent birth of Wolverine, and see several fabled mutants on screen for the first time. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 4:15, 5, 7, 7:30, 9:30 and 10, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at noon, 1:30 and 2:30. Also playing at the Village 6 at 5, 7:30 and 10 with a Fri. show at half past midnight—that’s technically Sat.—and Sat.–Sun. matinees at noon and 2:30. Also playing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun.

FLATHEAD SHOWTIMES 17 Again Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:15, 3:50, 7 and 9:20.

Earth Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:20, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10 and 9:25 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:20, 3:40, 7:10 and 9:25.

Fast and Furious Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 6:50 and 9:15.

Fighting Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:25, 4:20, 7:25 and 9:55.

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:05, 2:25, 4:45, 7:20 and 9:50 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:50, 4:30, 7:20 and 9:50.

Also playing at the Mountain in Whitefish at 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:45 and at the Showboat in Polson at 4, 7:15 and 9:10.

The Soloist Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:45, 3:45, 6:45 and 9:25 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:15, 3:55, 6:45 and 9:25.

Star Trek Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:30, 3, 4:30, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 with Fri.–Sun. shows at noon. Also playing at the Mountain in Whitefish at 4, 7 and 9:15 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30 and at the Showboat in Polson at 4:15, 7 and 9:30.

State of Play Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:10, 4:05, 6:55 and 9:40.

Sunshine Cleaning Showing at the Mountain in Whitefish at 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:45.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:05, 2:05, 3:05, 4:05, 5:05, 6:05, 7:05, 8:05, 9:05 and 9:55 with Fri.–Sun. shows at 12:05. Also playing at the Mountain in Whitefish at 4, 7 and 9:15 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30 and at the Entertainer in Ronan at 4, 7 and 9:15.

Capsule reviews by Jonas Ehudin and Anne Pastore.

Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., May 8. 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; Roxy Twin in Hamilton— 363-5141. Stadium 14 in Kalispell-—752-7804.

Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish—862-3130.

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I got involved with a guy I met on vacation. We live on opposite coasts but have taken trips together, and I developed feelings for him. He invited me to stay with him for a week, so I booked a flight and took time off.

Two months before my visit, he started acting distant. He eventually emailed that I’d have to reschedule because a family member booked a flight to visit that same week, and hey, they’re family. I was disappointed, but understood. He added that he needed me to know he’d recently begun dating someone. I was crushed, but being realistic, understood. I expressed concern that his new girlfriend might be bothered by me staying with him, but he said he wouldn’t tell her the extent of our history, and dismissed concerns over the awkwardness of hanging out with her with “Why would there be awkwardness?” He thinks I should just come and have a blast in a great city I’ve never visited. Should I? Should I expect him to pay the $150 rebooking fee? (He hasn’t offered.)

Or, does this all sound totally lame?

—Holding Pattern Does this all sound totally lame?

Well, yes, but not as lame as it would if you “understood” his telling you he had to reschedule because a giant lizard picked up his apartment building and ate it.

The way he puts it, if his girlfriend pops by, she might have a question or two; oh, perhaps something along the lines of “So...who’s this woman in bed with you?” But, no biggie. He’ll reassure her with “I’m a little shaky on our history, but I believe we once had some really hot sex on a train.”

Regarding his conveniently inconvenient family visitor, it’s possible a relative booked a flight without consulting their host, but combined with all the rest, I’d put money on this being an escape tactic reminiscent of one I used on a creepus on the street in New York. Creepus: “Which way are you going?” Me: “Which way are you going?” Creepus: “That way.” Me: “I’m going the other way.”

Girlfriends happen. When they do, the girlfriend’s boyfriend—who invited you to fly on over, your dime, when his girlfriend cupboard was bare—has an obligation to set things straight, verbally, and by picking up that $150 rebooking fee. The obligation on your end is to look reality in the face and call it for what it is—which should have you writing this off as “We’ll always have whale watching” or “...that garden tour of Topeka.”

Instead, you act like you learned Pompeii has been covered by molten lava and 23 feet of ash, but never mind that, could they please reserve you two adjoining lounge chairs on the southeast corner of the pool? Reality is inflexible, and denying it doesn’t change that; in time, it just turns the clue stick you’re being hit with into the clue old-growth tree trunk. Your denial is probably a symptom of the real problem—probably desperation to have a relationship—leading you to show the guy there’s no amount of backwards that’s too far for you to bend over to accommodate him. To make that $150 money well wasted, stay home and “develop feelings” for yourself; namely, dignity and self-respect, which set the tone for how other people treat you. You might not score love right away, but at least you won’t end up flying 3,000 miles to experience humiliation with spectacular new views.

SAUVIGNON BLANK My girlfriend’s drinking problem has progressed to where she’s blacking out during sex. She complains our sex life isn’t as frequent (it is; she just doesn’t remember). I’d like to continue our relationship, but I feel her becoming sober will create awkwardness, and her continuing to drink won’t be sexually satisfying.

Can I still find love in an empty glass?

—Forgotten There comes a time when an alcoholic’s loved one must perform an intervention: “If only you’d suck down just half the Jim Beam bottle, sex would be much more fun for me.” No, never mind the likelihood that someone drinking to this extent will die— and take others with her in a fiery car crash. But, ask her “Was it good for you?” and hear “Was what?” and something’s gotta give. You might pretend there’s actually love in that glass, not just your self-interest doing a remarkably strong backstroke. Try “Motivational Interviewing,” a technique often more successful than confrontation: Get her to talk about what she wants from life, later ask how that works with her drinking, and let her draw the obvious conclusions. Enlist the support of her friends and family— ideally, by avoiding mention of what’s really troubling you, and focusing on how hair of the dog has become hair of the entire dog pound.

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19 "Paper Planes" singer 20 Test versions 21 The Tower Bridge spans it 23 Magician's stock-in-trade 26 Belief in ancient Phoenicia 27 Sniffles may be part of it 29 Frozen soy dessert brand 31 Tankard filler 32 Fear that you'll smear your makeup?

36 Robert Browning's "___ Passes" 39 JFK neighbor 40 Pod veggies 41 The woman that seduces hardboiled film detectives?

44 "La-la" lead-in 45 Basketball stat 46 Coffeehouse choice 47 Adult life, for some 50 Less healthy 52 Illinois birth city of Cindy Crawford 53 "All kidding ___..."

56 A.F.L.'s partner 57 Extreme skateboarder who shreds on the halfpipe?

62 Emergency shelter bed 63 F equivalent 64 Columbus ship 65 Little leopard 66 Joint 67 Makes a scene?

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In recent decades, many British people with unfortunate surnames have changed them. There are now 40 percent fewer Shufflebottoms, while the numbers of Cockshotts and Smellies have also declined precipitously. Meanwhile, back in the U.S., the government has re-branded its notorious Global War on Terror, shifting to the more palatable “Overseas Contingency Operation.” I hold these examples up for your inspiration, Taurus. It’s a good time to alter any name or title you’ve outgrown, as well as any label that no longer fits or any category you’d like to leave behind.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’m going to quote a few pieces of advice from a piece I found on the Internet, “15 Fun Things To Do During a Big, Important Test.” I trust that this will stimulate your imagination in all the right ways as you get ready for your metaphorical version of a final exam. 1. Bring your own private cheerleaders in uniform. Have them cheer loudly whenever you answer a question. 2. Haul in a large, flamboyant idol. Set it next to you and pray to it often. 3. Bring a friend to give you a massage the entire time. Insist this person is needed because your thoughts flow properly only when your circulation is enhanced.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Buster Posey is an up-and-coming baseball player for the San Francisco Giants. The poetic incongruity of his name is so apt a symbol for your imminent future, I’m making him your patron saint. According to my reading of the omens, you’ll be called on to be like a “Buster”—a macho, pushy, no-nonsense dude who gets things done—but you will also find power in being as delicate and lovely and innocent as the small flower bouquet known as a posey. Sometimes it’ll make sense to be one or the other. On other occasions, you’ll benefit from being in both modes simultaneously.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “The Amazing Race” is a reality TV show in which two-member teams compete for money and prizes by doing odd feats in exotic locales. One especially stupid and awesome task they performed was carrying 50-pound wheels of cheese down a slippery hill in Switzerland. Everyone started out hauling the wheels on cumbersome wooden backpacks, but hardly anyone was able to make it to the bottom without falling, breaking the backpacks, and having to manually herd the runaway cheese the rest of the way. I foresee a similar fate for you, Leo. You’ll be asked to do things that are both fun and frustrating, all in a cause that in the long run will be worthwhile.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One of the most successful managers in baseball history was Casey Stengel. His New York Yankee teams won the world championship seven times.

Before the 1953 season, when the Yankees had already won four consecutive World Series, he made the observation that “If we’re going to win the pennant, we’ve got to start thinking we’re not as smart as we think we are.” I hope some version of those words will come out of your mouth soon, Virgo. As savvy and crafty as you are, you’ll have to become even more so in order to pull off the victory that’s almost within your grasp.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): This notice appeared on a bulletin board at a local nightclub that features hip hop DJs: “Missing: my great-grandmother’s necklace, which dropped off my neck while I was krump dancing last Saturday. It might have happened when I was doing a head spin. The necklace has three strands of pearls and a pendant engraved with ‘To Florence, 1927.’ Contact Monique.” I call this to your attention, Libra, because I think it’s possible that you’ll have an experience somewhat akin to Monique’s. Playing exuberantly in a very modern style could result in you losing something from the old days. Unlike Monique, though, I bet your loss will be liberating.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): BBC reported on the growing number of “spiritual tourists” who shop around in their search for inner peace. “We are entering a world,” said one expert, “where people aren’t interested in whether something is true or not, or whether they believe it or not, but whether it works.” That would be a good prescription for you in the coming months, Scorpio. I recommend that you reject any idea or theory or practice unless it has the practical value of making you feel more at home in the world and more accepting of yourself.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): When they pray, Muslims face the Kaaba, a cube-shaped building in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Every mosque around the world typically has a niche that shows the precise direction of that holy place. Recently, however, worshipers have discovered that many of the older mosques in Mecca itself have niches that aren’t pointing the right way. They’re concerned that the prayers they’ve dispatched in the past weren’t aimed correctly. Is it possible that there’s a comparable scenario in your life, Aries? Might you be filled with righteous intentions, but not quite delivering them to the correct location? If so, this is an excellent time to make adjustments.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I encourage you to attempt a difficult feat: For a few days, dissolve every burst of anger that rises up in you. Squash it. Wrestle it into submission. Attack it with love bombs. If you can eradicate the fury at its source, never even letting it ripen, that would be best. But the most important thing is to use all your ingenuity to keep your hostility, irritation, and snark from reaching the surface and spilling out. And why should you try this seemingly impossible experiment? Because according to my analysis of the omens, it would bring unexpected improvements in your physical and mental health.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Did you hear about the older Korean woman who has failed her driving test 800 times? Or the American man who has filled out job applications at 25 Pizza Huts in 20 cities without being hired? Or the British artist who has completed over 5,000 paintings even though no gallery has ever shown his work? There is something about you that resembles those persistently frustrated people—or at least has resembled them up until now. Soon, I predict, the dogged efforts you’ve made will finally pay off in at least a modest success, and perhaps even more if you’ll make an effort to free your mind of its backlog of sad images.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to polls, more than half the population believes they are fantastic kissers. How did they get that way? Some people say they have rehearsed extensively by smooching the backs of their own hands or rubbing their lips up against posters of celebrities. Whether you’ve tried these techniques or have developed other strategies, Aquarius, I advise you to bone up on your skills. Not this week, but soon, you will be entering a prime romantic phase of your astrological cycle—a time when you will have the potential to accomplish wonders and marvels with your mouth.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): How do you deal with those three periods every year when Mercury is retrograde, as it is between May 7 and 30? I’d like you to consider the meditations of artist and activist Gabrielle Senza: “I think of Mercury retrograde as a big obnoxious Rottweiler on a chain that bares its teeth, lunging and barking as I walk by. I can choose to experience it in one of three ways: 1) as a frightening moment that catches me off guard; 2) as a humorous interlude that allows me to make fun of what I’m afraid of because I know it can’t hurt me; 3) as an opportunity to change my route, usually leading to some wonderful surprise that rewards my instinct to willingly depart from my plans and projections.”

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Must be detail oriented with great organizational skills and strong written & oral communication skills.

Work is 35 to 40 hours per week, Monday-Friday, days. Pay is depending on experience. Include a certified copy of a Job Service typing test with application materials. OPEN UNTIL FILLED. #2975436 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 LOCAL CENSUS OFFICE MANAGER, FT, Msla. Census Bureau is seeking a local census office manager for the Missoula area. The manager has the overall responsibility for the quality and progress of all field and office operations. The manager directs census operations in the local area, including budget and scheduling, and monitors progress of operations to ensure that they are on schedule, within budget and meet quality data standards. Must be US Citizen, have driver’s license at time of hire, have access to a vehicle with insurance, and clear the FBI background check. Hiring would occur in September with the work beginning in October, 2009 for approximately a one year period. Rate of pay is $23/hr. A packet on how to apply is available at Job Service front desk. There are no walk-ins for testing, only those that have been contacted by the local census office to attend. #2975421 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

NETWORK & SYSTEMS ADMINISTR Missoula web hosting company seeks experienced admin to help manage our 24/7 infrastructure. Must have Juniper, Cisco, and Linux expertise. w w w. m o d w e s t . c o m / j o b s jobs@modwest.com NEW ACCOUNTS REP/CALL CENTER REP, P/T, Msla. Seeking a part-time NEW ACCOUNTS REP/CALL CENTER REP to work for a Missoula area bank. DUTIES INCLUDE: (New Account Rep) Professional customer service; assist customers to open and maintain demand/savings/time deposit/IRA account; order or process customer account requests; other duties as assigned. (Call Center) Provide extraordinary customer service over the phone; answer multiline phones; transfer calls to appropriate department or person; input customer check order requests; update customer info; process customer Debit Card requests; and other duties as assigned. Requires a minimum of 2 years previous customer service experience. Must have working knowledge of computer application including: Word, Excel and keyboarding. Maintain strict confidentiality, communicate well and work effectively with customers.

Work is 24 hours per week; scheduled hours of work are as followsMon-Tue from 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and Thu-Fri from 10 a.m.4:00 p.m. Position will require flexibility in hours. Successful candidate must have ability to work flexible hours between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m., Mon-Fri. Pay starts $10.36/hour, DOE, benefits included. Full job description available. #2975435 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 STATE OF MONTANA POSITIONS, FT & PT, Various locations throughout Montana: Want to serve Montana citizens? Positions are available for locations throughout the state. Access the state job listings at: http://mt.gov/statejobs/statejobs.asp UNIVERSITY CLASSIFIED STAFF, F/T, Msla. UNIVERSITY CLASSIFIED STAFF LIST OF VACANCIES Competitive benefits that begin immediately! EXECUTIVE SOUS CHEF, University Dining Services, FT,

Research - Field Interviewer INTERVIEW PEOPLE FOR THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT SPONSORED STUDY Headway Corporate Resources is seeking Field Interviewers to interview randomly selected household residents in the M i s s o u l a a n d R a v a l l i C o u n t y, M o n t a n a a r e a s .

Field Interviewers will be assigned to support a project being conducted by our client, Research Triangle Institute, a research firm in North Carolina. The study will start in June and continue through the end of December 2011.

• Evening and Weekend hours • Average 20 to 25 hours per week with a possibility of up to 40 hours per week • Paid training (7-8 days) • Pay range, based on experience, starting at $12.00* • Dependable transportation required , mileage reimbursed at 55.0 cents per mile • No solicitation involved, although skills gained from previous sales work is helpful • Household Interviewing and/or computer experience preferred but not necessary To express an interest, go to http://nsduhweb.rti.org/newsad and enter the following 6 digit code: 231937.

Headway Corporate Resources is an EEO/AA/M/F/V/D Employer.

PROFESSIONAL MANAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES for college grads. Elite career.

Global travel. Paid graduate education. Great salary & benefits. Call Mon-Fri 800-887-0952 MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN, FT, Msla. An innovative and rapidly expanding Missoula based Mental Health Center with a strong focus on the enhancement of families and the preservation of children in their homes, is seeking a Full-time, MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN. MUST have a Master’s Degree in Social Work, (MSW), or Counseling, (MSC), and obtain a LCPC or LCSW. The MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN will provide individual and family therapy for youth and their families in the Missoula area.

Almost all clinical services will be provided in client homes or in the community. Ability to see clients in the afternoons and occasionally on weekends is required. This is a fulltime position with competitive salary and benefits. A current license and experience assessing and treating troubled youth within the family context is preferred, but not required.

This position will remain open until filled. #2975432 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 OFFICE CLERK, P/T, Msla. Part-time Office Clerk with exceptional people skills needed for drug & alcohol testing center in Missoula. Job responsibilities will be conducting drug & alcohol tests, collecting urine samples, becoming DOT certified in drug & alcohol testing, performing federal drug & alcohol tests, and filling out extensive paper work required for documentation.

Requires ability to perform all duties with strong attention to detail and professionalism. Must have vehicle, valid driver’s license and proof of auto insurance; will travel to employer sites for testing as needed.

Will be reimbursed and receive incentive pay for travel. May have other office duties assigned as needed. Requires excellent public relations skills, strong written and verbal skills, computer knowledge, and ability to type at least 35 words per minute. Customer service and people skills are critical; employer will train the right person for all specific job responsibilities. Will work variable hours up to 20 hours per week, including some weekends. Will be on call; schedule to be discussed at interview. Training wage starts at $9.50/hour, with raises upon proven performance. Interviewing May 29th & 30th. #2975437 M i s s o u l a Wo r k f o r c e C e n t e r 728-7060 Outreach Coordinator Montana Public Radio seeks a VISTA member to serve as Outreach Coordinator. This job requires a number of important skills. You should be highly organized, outgoing, an innovative thinker, computer literate (Word, Excel, Powerpoint especially), a public speaker, have an interest in public radio and learning production skills, be a licensed, insurable driver, and enjoy developing and implementing an outreach and training program.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop skills in public radio both on and off the air, meet lots of committed interesting people, enjoy Western Montana with it’s great outdoor recreational opportunities and really help make a difference in strengthening organizations and communities across the region.

VISTA Stipend, Insurance, Education Award and possible child care. Info - 406-243-4214 OUTREACH MANAGER. Wild Rockies Field Institute. 3/4 time position with benefits responsible for selling field courses to students, Potential for FTE. Full announcement at www.wrfi.net.

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Production Labor Furniture Manufacturer needs Production Laborers (Temp/Full-Time) Apply: NORCO Products, 4985 Blue Mountain Road, Missoula, Montana 59804 We DRUG Test.

TRAINING/ INSTRUCTION NOW HIRING No exp needed.

Good pay and benefits paid training, promotions, and regular raises.

HS grads ages 17-34. Call Mon-Fri 800-437-6044 PAID APPRENTICE HS grads ages 17-34. Electronics, engineering, communications, etc. Great benefits.

Relocation avail. Call Mon-Fri 800887-0952

Employment

ANIYSA Middle Eastern Dance Classes and Supplies. Call 273-0368. www.aniysa.com

Place a line ad in the for only $5.95 a week.

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Body/Mind/ Spirit

Hypnosis & Imager y

Wildland Fire Training, Basic and Refresher. 406-543-0013

* Smoking * Weight * Negative self-talk * Stress * Depression * Empower yourself

HEALTH CAREERS

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MANAGEMENT/SUPERVISORY/PR OFESSIONAL, F/T, Msla. Saint Patrick Hospital, a faith based healthcare ministry, is excited to offer the opportunity to apply for MANAGEMENT / SUPERVISORY / PROFESSIONAL / PHARMACY and/or PHYSICIAN/PROVIDER positions.

Refer to specific job descriptions on Saint Patrick Hospital’s website at www.saintpatrick.org. Qualifications and shifts vary. Wage is depending on experience. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer EOE/M/F/D/V #2975426 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

MSW, CHT, GIS

SALES

$600 WEEKLY POTENTIAL$$$ Helping the Government PT. No Experience, No Selling. Call: 1888-213-5225 Ad Code L-5.

Need More Income? Learn How: Presentation; Wingate Inn, Msla. April 24, 7:30 PM. Reserve your Seat Now! Call: 273-4223.

(Interviews after the 24th) NOW HIRING: companies desperately need employees to assemble products at home. No selling, any hours. $500 weekly potential. Info.

1-985-646-1700 Dept. MT-4186 PT/FT Positions as Movie Extras Register for a 90-day Guarantee Make up to $300/day - Call our agents 24/7 at 1-800-605-5901

T'ai Chi

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U.S. NAVY Launch a career today.

Advanced paid training, medical/dental, vacation, $ for school. HS grads ages 17-34. Call Mon-Fri 800-437-6044

OPPORTUNTIES

TOM CATMULL currently accepting beginning students for introductory guitar instruction. For questions call 543-9824 or email tom@tomcatmull.com

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THE NAVY IS HIRING Top-notch training, medical/dental, 30 days vacation/yr, $ for school. HS grads ages 17-34. Call Mon-Fri 877475-6289

SALES FLOOR MANAGER, PT, Msla. Employer is seeking an experienced SALES FLOOR MANAGER. Prior experience in women’s clothing industry preferred, but not required.

Employer does require applicants to have at least 3 years of experience in the retail sales trade. Managerial experience is considered a plus.

Duties would include: Sales and customer service to all customers; Performing all functions of management which include store operations, personnel, merchandising and visual; Lifting up to 50 lbs and using equipment such as hammers, ladders, merchandising hardware, etc.

MUST able to work flexible schedule including evenings and Saturday & Sunday! Sunday night floor sets, before and after hours meetings.

Operate POS register system with proficiency. Hours and days to be discussed at interview. Starting pay is DOE. #2975431 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

Instruction

B o d y C a re

By Michelle Waxing • Facials

Massage $35/hr Professional Services Only

Instruction

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Lolo 406-270-3230

Turn off your TV and turn on your life.

Bennett’s Music Studio Guitar, banjo,mandolin and bass lessons.

Rentals available.

721-0190

www.bennettsmusicstudio.com

Missoula Community School

Enrolling Summer & '09-'10 School Year 542-2833 Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing.

Reiki Integrative Medicine, LLC 2620 Radio Way, Missoula REIKI SESSION $60.00 BY APPOINTMENT Learn Reiki Yourself!

Reiki One Class June 6th 9am-6pm Cost: $130 CALL FOR MORE INFO • 360-9153

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CLASSIFIEDS Body/Mind/ Spirit

Body/Mind/ Spirit

$15

HAIRCUT

SPECIAL

KRISTA • 542-2978 at Cutting Crew 220 Ryman St.

Black Bear Naturopathic

IV Micronutrient Therapy

The Goods

Sporting Goods

Steel Buildings, Recession Discounts Available, 30x40105x105, Call for Deal, Available Ltd, www.scg-grp.com, Source#01S, Phone: 406-5454580

A Touch of Class

HIKING, BIKING, CAMPING AND BOATING

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Consignments

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721-6056

Acupuncture Easing withdrawal from tobacco/alcohol/drugs, pain, stress management.

Counseling. Sliding fee scale.

Licensed acupuncturist.

543-2220 BodyTalk, therapeutic Swedish massage and Arvigo Technique of Maya Abdominal Massage. 18 years experience. Moondance Massage/Rosie Smith, NCMT, CBP 240-9103 Carla Green Massage, NCTMB 13 years, 211 N.Higgins #403, 4 0 6 - 3 6 0 - 8 7 4 6 www.CarlaGreenMassage.com Healthy Hummingbird M a s s a g e & Art Center!

Warehouse Mall: 725 W. Alder, Suite 27. Regular Rates: $55/hr, $75/1.5hr, Students: $35/hr, $55/1.5hr. Erica: 396-6868, Souta: 207-6269, Mary: 5965842. Come see our local store and Art Gallery! Open M-F 10-7, weekends by appointment, and First Fridays 5-10pm.

LOVE ASTROLOGY? FREE Monthly Conference Calls, all levels welcome! (406) 552-4477 www.astrologymontana.org Loving what is; the work of Byron Katie (Visit www.thework.org) inquir y facilitated by Susie 406-543-2220 MASCULINE, EXPERIENCED FULL BODY MASSAGE FOR MEN IN MISSOULA. Mark(406)728-2629 Professional Massage $50. Swedish & Deep Tissue. Gift Certificates Available. Janit Bishop, CMT. 207-7358 127 N. Higgins Suffering with anxiety or depression? Think no one understands?

Lucinda Bassett does. Get her free tape that will stop the suffering without drugs or alcohol. Call 800-652-9619.

Wholistic Choices Massage Therapy. Neuromuscular Massage $45/hour. Anna 493-0025

The Multi Item Store • 1358 1/2 W Broadway (corner of Burns & Broadway) 10-6pm Tues-Sat 406-382-0272

111 S. 3rd W.

Adoption PREGNANT? CONSIDERING ADOPTION? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions 866-413-6293

Congregations

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521 S. 2nd St. W. Missoula, MT

Furniture

Buy/Sell/Trade

Antiques & Treasures

Clothing

“I found a brighter world, I found Unity”

215 e main • missoula, mt • 541-6110 8:30am - 5:30pm weekdays 11am - 2pm Saturday

Bathing Beauties Beads

Thrift Stores 1136 West Broadway 549.1610 920 Kensington 541.3210 1221 Helen Ave 728.9252

Music

Open Every Day

The Goods Hot Tub Brand New Never used, six seats, warranty, loaded, retails $7,800, SELL $3450, 207-9029 Pool Table, new still boxed, solid hardwood, 1 inch slate, retails $4500, sell $1495, 207-9029

Crystal Limit HUGE selection of

Gemstones, Jewelry & Beads

1920 Brooks • 549-1729

Electronics

PROTECT YOUR FAMILY. Get a free GE alarm system with no installation fee and no equipment cost.

Most homeowners will receive an insurance discount as well. Mention this ad and get 2 free keychain remotes!

Promotional code: A02087 - Call 888-951-5158

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TOM CATMULL currently accepting beginning students for introductory guitar instruction. For questions call 543-9824 or email tom@tomcatmull.com

724 Burlington Ave. Open Mon. 12pm-6pm Tues.-Fri. 10am-6pm Sat. 11am-6pm

DIRECTV Satellite TV Special Offer: Save $21/month for one year, Free HD-DVR, Plus 3 Free months of HBO/Starz/Showtime! Call Expert Satellite. 1-888-246-1956 (credit card required)

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Outlaw Music

Queen or King Pillowtop Mattress Set, Brand new, still packaged, Queen $269, King $389, 207-9029

Specializing in Stringed Instruments

Dr. Christine White, ND

542-2147

Furniture

Music

541-7533

Naturopathic Family Practice Medicine

Construction

Pets & Animals

Carlo's One Night Stand

crystallimit.com

Costume Rental

Sporting Goods

ories s s e c c A Wigs

Wanted to Buy CASH PAID for old wrist watches, pocket watches and parts. Keith’s Watch Shop. 406-821-3038 OR 406-370-8794

Automotive ‘ 9 8 B u i c k C e n t u r y, a u t o , air.....$3,995 Jim’s Cars 1801 W. Broadway 543-8269

DOMESTIC 2001 FORD WAGON 83K. Good condition! $4,700 OBO. Call 605-484-1860.

‘07 Dodge Caliber SXT (9086LA), 22k miles, orange, $13,998 w w w. f l a n a g a n m o t o r s . c o m 406-721-1381

LDR Kennel ‘08 Ford Focus Sedan (stk8550LA), 8k miles, white, $12,999 w w w. f l a n a g a n m o t o r s . c o m 406-721-1381

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Call Word of Hope at

Fly Rods

543-0176

EVEN MACS ARE COMPUTERS! Need help with yours?

Clarke Consulting

“The past is not the past if it still affects your present.”

Where am I?

We make it personal

GET A NEW COMPUTER Brand Name laptops & desktops. Bad or NO Credit - No Problem. Smallest weekly payments available. It’s yours NOW - Call 800-803-8819 GET A NEW COMPUTER! Brand Name laptops & desktops Bad or NO Credit - No Problem. Smallest weekly payments available. CALL NOW 1-800-816-2232 RECOMPUTE COMPUTERS Starting Prices: PCs $40. Monitors $20.

Laptops $195. 1337 West Broadway. 543-8287.

Local Medical Cannabis Certifications

(intersection of Kensington & Bow)

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Furniture

549-6214

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Computers

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May 30 & 31

12-6 • M-Sat • On the Hip Strip

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ACCESS MUSIC. Mail Order Prices. Guitar Strings: Buy One Set, Get One Set Free. Two Free Guitar Lessons With Purchase Of Guitar, Mandolin Or Banjo. 728-5014.

Corner Of Orange & Third. accessguitar.com Voice Lessons! Great summer activity for kids! I am a trained vocalist who offers early childhood voice lessons. I create a supportive and fun learning environment! I also offer beginner to intermediate lessons for ages 13 and up! Please call Brittney Stocker for more information 406-531-7370.

IMPORTS

I Buy Hondas/Acuras/ Toyotas/Lexus & All Other Japanese Cars & Trucks.

Nice Or Ugly, Running Or Not. Also buying VWs too!

327-0300 MISSOULA’S NEW GO TO PLACE FOR Great Mother’s Day Gifts.

2935 Stockyard Rd. Unit K2 406.542.1202

Automotive

1995 Honda Civic DX Well-maintained ‘95 Honda Civic.

2 door, FWD, 5-speed manual transmission. 183K miles, mostly highway. AM/FM/CD player.

Comes with snow tires on wheels. $2300 obo.

Car of the Week!

'08 Smart Car 41 MPG (Hwy) AC, CD, Leather, Auto Stitch, Convertible $17,988 Includes Factory Warranty

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Automotive

Automotive

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‘07 INFINITI G35 Coupe (stk9073la), Gorgeous & Fast, $24,888 www.flanaganmotors.com 406-721-1381

‘06 Toyota Matrix HB (stk8445C), 15k miles, tan, $15,788 w w w. f l a n a g a n m o t o r s . c o m 406-721-1381

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'00 Buick LeSabre Must See! (#9163LB)

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$4,995

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PICKUP TRUCKS ‘01 Ford Ranger Supercab Stepside, 4x4.....$7,995 Jim’s Cars 1801 W. Broadway 543-8269

4X4 ‘00 Dodge Dakota Club Cab, 4x4.....$6,995 Jim’s Cars 1801 W. Broadway 543-8269

‘08 Suzuki Forenza Sedan (stk9119LA), only 15 miles, silver, $11,925 www.flanaganmotors.com 406-721-1381

‘06 Toyota Corolla Sedan (stk8114B), 53k miles, maroon, $11,999 www.flanaganmotors.com 406-721-1381

SPORT UTILITY ‘06 Hyundai Santa Fe Limited FWD (stk8270C), 74k miles, black, $13,784 www.flanaganmotors.com 406-721-1381

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‘03 Mazda MPV Minivan.....$7,995 Jim’s Cars 1801 W. Broadway 543-8269

'01 Chevy Impala (#8473LB)

$5,999

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

NOTHING OVER

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08 Harley Davidson XL 1200L Sportster Only 1,800 miles, windshield, pipes $9,495 w w w. f l a n a g a n m o t o r s . c o m 406-721-1381

$7,978 '03 Cadillac CTS Loaded, Leather! (#8107B)

$8,995 '08 Harley Davidson Sportster XL 1200 (#9141LA)

$9,495 '98 Jeep Wrangler 4x4 Hard top (#9121B)

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Family owned & operated since 1974

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PUBLIC NOTICE The Board of County Commissioners will conduct a public hearing at their regularly scheduled public meeting on Wednesday, May 13th, 2009 at 1:30 p.m., in Room 201 of the County Courthouse at 200 West Broadway in Missoula upon a proposed: RESOLUTION TO EXTEND THE INTERIM ZONING RESOLUTION ESTABLISHING ZONING DISTRICTS IN THE NORTH LOLO AREA

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Public Notices MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT INVITATION TO BID Separate sealed bids for construction of SOUTH AVENUE SANITARY SEWER MAIN EXTENSION will be received by MORRISON-MAIERLE, INC. located at 3011 PALMER STREET, Missoula, MT 59808 until 5:00 P.M. local time on MAY 13, 2009, and then privately opened. The project generally consists of, but is not necessarily limited to, the following major items Installation of approximately 125 linear feet of 15-inch and 879 linear feet of 8-inch sanitary sewer main; Installation of approximately 5 gravity sanitary sewer services Installation of 3 precast sanitary sewer manholes Connection to existing lift station Restoration of trench surface including paving. The Contract Documents consisting of half size Drawings and Project Manual may be examined or obtained at the office of Morrison-Maierle, Inc. 3011 Palmer Street, Missoula, Montana 59808 (406) 542-8880. Required deposit is $75 per set, which is not refundable, by regular mail or United Parcel Service (UPS).

Payment of an additional $25 is required for express mail. Full size drawings may be purchased for an additional $30, non-refundable. In addition, the Drawings and Project Manual may also be examined at the following locations:Missoula Plans Exchange 201 North Russell Street Missoula, Montana 59801 There will not be a Pre-Bid Conference. Direct inquiries shall be made to Molly Skorpik, PE, Morrison-Maierle, Inc., 3011 Palmer Street, Missoula, MT 59808, (406) 542-4825. It is the contractor’s responsibility to be familiar with the project site and any constraints material to his bid.

CONTRACTOR(s) and any of the CONTRACTOR’s subcontractors bidding on this project will be required to obtain registration with the Montana Department of Labor and Industry (DLI). Forms for registration are available from the Department of Labor and Industry, P.O. Box 8011, 1805 Prospect, Helena, Montana 59604-8011.

Information on registration can be obtained by calling 1-406-444-7734.

CONTRACTOR’s are required to have registered with the DLI prior to bidding on this project. Each bid or proposal must be accompanied by a Certified Check,

The original Resolution (2008066) to Adopt an Interim Zoning Resolution Establishing Zoning Districts in the North Lolo Area was adopted on May 30, 2008 and subsequently amended by Resolution 2008-089.

The area is located north of Lolo on the west side of US Highway 93. The boundaries of the districts are shown on the map.

(Details regarding property descriptions are included in Resolution 2008-066.)

The specific emergency or exigent circumstance compelling the establishment of the proposed interim zoning district or regulation detailed in Resolution 2008-066 concerns the permitting of gravel operations. The protections of public health and safety that Missoula County was relying on may not be provided due to changes in legal decisions in the State of Montana.

Unzoned property would not be subject to land use controls that would allow for the County to condition gravel mining and processing operations. In order to address these issues, the County has initiated a planning process that includes the area covered by the interim zoning regulations for the purposes of considering amendment of the growth policy and implementation of zoning regulations.

The general character of the established interim zoning regulations is as follows: The regulations were established in compliance with the 2002 Lolo Regional Plan by applying the zoning designations of Open and Resource, Residential, Residential based on the Ponderosa Heights Subdivision covenants, and General Commercial to the parcels shown on Attachment A of Resolution 2008-089.

This proposal would extend the interim zoning for a period of one more year to May 30, 2010.

Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged.

The Resolution to Extend the Interim Zoning Resolution Establishing Zoning Districts in the North Lolo Area is on file and available for public inspection at Missoula County Rural Initiatives located at 317 Woody Avenue (telephone 258-3432), the Missoula County Commissioners Office and the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder’s Office, both of which are located on the second floor of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex located at 200 West Broadway. A copy can also be found on the web at http://www.co.missoula.mt.us/ru ral/.

If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 2584877. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

Public Notices Cashier’s Check, or Bid Bond payable to Mountain Home Montana, in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the bid. Successful BIDDERS shall furnish an approved Construction Performance Bond and a Construction (Labor and Materials) Payment Bond, each in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount. Insurance as required shall be provided by the successful BIDDER(s) and a certificate(s) of that insurance shall be provided. No bid may be withdrawn after the scheduled time for the opening of the Bids specified above. The right is reserved to reject any or all Proposals received, to waive informalities, to postpone the award of the contract for a period of not to exceed thirty (30) days, and to accept the lowest responsive and responsible bid which is in the best interest of Mountain Home Montana. The CONTRACTOR(s) is required to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Publication Dates:April 30, 2009 May 7, 2009 Missoula Independent MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPLICATION The Office of Planning & Grants has received a floodplain application from Mr. Kirk Scrafford to work within the Bitterroot River floodplain. The project is located in Section 26 Township 11N Range 20W and includes the excavation of a new pond. The pond is proposed to be excavated on a separate parcel adjacent (West) of a parcel previously authorized under permit #07-10. The primary purpose of Floodplain Development Permits is to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare, to minimize flood losses in areas subject to flood hazards, and to promote wise use of the floodplain. Copies of the full applications are available for review in the Office of Planning and Grants in City Hall.. Written comments from anyone interested in County floodplain permit application # 09-13 may be submitted prior to 5:00 p.m., May 29, 2009. Address comments to the Floodplain Administrator, Office of Planning & Grants, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802 or call 258-4841 for more information.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT Missoula County RFQ for Audit Services Missoula County is requesting proposals from qualified certified public accounting firms for annual audits of its financial statements for the three fiscal years ending June 30, 2009, June 30, 2010 and June 30, 2011 with the option of auditing its financial statements for the two subsequent years.

Statements of qualifications will be accepted until 5:00 PM, Monday, May 11, 2009.

Interested firms may obtain a complete description of proposal requirements on Missoula County’s website at http://www.co.missoula.mt.us/bidsandproposals or by contacting Andrew Czorny, Chief Financial Officer, 406-258-4919, or aczorny@co.missoula.mt.us.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No: 2 Cause No: DV-08-1122 SUMMONS MARK MUIR, CHIEF OF POLICE, CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, STATE OF MONTANA, Petitioner, vs. Jason R. Dominguez, Respondent(s). THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT(S).

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Petition for Forfeiture in this action, which is filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer with the Office of the Clerk of Court, located at the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, and to serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff Attorney within twenty days after the service on this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Petition for Forfeiture of $3,103.00 (three thousand one hundred three dollars).

Witness my hand and the seal of said Court, this 31st day of March, 2009. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: Karen Johnson, Deputy Clerk.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No: 3 Cause No: DV-08-788 SUMMONS MIKE MCMEEKIN, SHERIFF MISSOULA COUNTY, STATE OF MONTANA, Petitioner, vs. Dallas Peres, Respondent(s). THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT(S).

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Petition for Forfeiture in this action, which is filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer with the Office of the Clerk of Court, located at the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, and to serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff Attorney within twenty days after the service on this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Petition for Forfeiture of $1,905.00 (one thousand nine hundred five dollars) cash.

Witness my hand and the seal of said Court, this 31st day of March, 2009. (SEAL /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: Karen Johnson, Deputy Clerk MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the Office of the Missoula County Public Works Department at 6089 Training Drive, in the City of Missoula, Montana until 10:00 A.M., Wednesday May 13, 2009, at which time bids will be opened and read in the conference room, for the purpose of providing 6000 tons of 3/4” Asphaltic Plant Mix. All work is to be performed in accordance with the specifications on file in the Public Works Department, and shall be performed under the supervision of

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the County Engineer or his designated representative. Specifications and bid procedures can be obtained at the Public Works Department at 6089 Training Drive, Missoula Montana, 59808. Proposals must be accompanied by security in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract and in the form specified in MCA 18-1-203, for example: cash, cashier’s check, certified check, bank money order, or bank draft, any of which must be drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the state of Montana or a banking association incorporated under the Laws of Montana; or a bid bond or bond executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the state of Montana. THE CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED TO THE LOWEST RESPONSIBLE QUALIFIED BIDDER WHOSE BID PROPOSAL COMPLIES WITH ALL THE REQUIREMENTS. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Bid for 3/4” Asphaltic Plant Mix”, SOLICITATION NO. 0509001” and addressed to: Missoula County Public Works Department 6089 Training Drive Missoula, Montana, 59808

benefited by the Improvements, in an amount not less than $180,000. All properties in the District will be assessed for their proportionate share of the costs of the Improvements. The total estimated cost of the Improvements to be financed from the proceeds of the Bonds is $180,000, and shall be assessed against each lot, tract or parcel of land in the District equally, such that each of the 42 lots, tracts or parcels in the District shall be assessed $4,285.71. The County has previously created Maintenance District No. 8918 (the “Maintenance District”) for the maintenance of the Water System. It is the intent of this Board to maintain the Maintenance District for the purpose of assessing the costs of maintaining, preserving or repairing the Water System and Improvements in accordance with the provisions of Sections 7-12-2161 through 7-122163, M.C.A. Maintenance includes but is not limited to: services provided for operations (water testing, reading meters) and maintenance of the water and wastewater facilities and equipment (repair of water main, meters, well house, etc.). The County currently assesses $19,999.98 for maintenance costs on an equal lot basis on all lots, tracts, and parcels in the District and the current assessment is $476.19 per lot per year.

The County does not anticipate an increase in the maintenance costs as a result of the creation of the District. Each year the County will determine the annual costs for the maintenance of the Improvements and may adjust the annual maintenance assessment in accordance with Section 7-12-2162, M.C.A., after public hearing On Wednesday, June 10, 2009, at 1:30 p.m., in the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 2nd Floor, Room 201, Missoula, Montana, the Board of County Commissioners will conduct a public hearing and pass upon all written protests against the creation or extension of the District, or the making of Improvements that may be filed in the period hereinafter described. Written protests against the creation or extension of the District and the making of the Improvements may be filed by an agent, person, firm or corporation owning real property within the proposed District whose property is liable to be assessed for the Improvements. Such protest must be in writing, identify the property in the District owned by the protestor and be signed by all owners of the property.

Such protests must be delivered to the County Clerk and Recorder, Missoula County Courthouse Annex, Missoula, Montana not later than 5:00 p.m., M.T., on Monday, June 8, 2009. Further information regarding the proposed District or the Bonds or other matters in respect thereof may be obtained from John Manion, HDR Engineering, Inc., 1715 South Reserve Street, Suite C, Missoula, Montana 59801, Phone (406) 532-2212 or Amy Rose, Missoula County RSID Office, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana or by telephone at (406) 258-3723. Dated: April 30, 2009 BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA /s/ Vickie Zeier, Clerk & Recorder/Treasurer

Plaintiff, 38 Second Avenue East, Dickinson, ND 58601. Tel: (701)227-1841 MT BAR ID #2429. /s/ Charles J. Peterson, Attorney for the Plaintiff

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DA-09-20 CITATION IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF: BRITTANY JEAN MADERA, Minor Child. GREETINGS FROM THE STATE OF MONTANA TO: Frankie Miquel Madera. A Petition having been filed in the above-entitled matter by Cory James Baldwin, for the adoption of your natural child, B.J.M., pursuant to Mont. Code Ann. Sec. 42-2-605 (1)(g)(2), and the termination of your parental rights, and the consent of the natural mother, Norma of the natural mother, Norma Jean Baldwin, being on file with the above-entitled Court, this Citation issues to advise you that on the 2nd day of June, 2009, at 1:30 o’clock p.m. or as soon thereafter as Counsel may be heard, the Petition for Adoption will be brought for consideration by this Court as to granting the adoption as requested and that you are to appear before the above-entitled Court on that date and time above noted, if you so desire to present testimony and evidence, if any your have, why the adoption should not be granted. Your failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a waiver of the individual’s interests in custody of the child and will result in the Court’s termination of the individual’s rights to the child. DATED this 23rd day of April, 2009. /s/ Douglas G. Harkin, District Court Judge

showing of the project will be held on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 10:00 am.

This is not a mandatory meeting, but all prospective bidders are strongly encouraged to attend. The County Engineer will meet prospective bidders at the intersection of Frenchtown Frontage Road and Roman Creek Road. THE CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED TO THE LOWEST RESPONSIBLE QUALIFIED BIDDER WHOSE BID PROPOSAL COMPLIES WITH ALL THE REQUIREMENTS. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Proposals for work on Roman Creek Road Walkway, Control Number 6407 SOLICITATION NO. 090501” and addressed to: Missoula County Bids Department Missoula County Public Works 6089 Training Drive Missoula, MT 59808

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

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

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7777.26893) 1002.100319-FEI

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF HEARING SEELEY LAKE MISSOULA COUNTY SEWER DISTRICT - ANNUAL ASSESSMENT The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a Public Hearing on Thursday, May 14, 2009, at 6:30 p.m. at the Seeley Lake Community Hall (north side of Seeley Lake, east side of Highway 83) for the purpose of obtaining public comments on continuing the $72 per lot assessment for lots within the Seeley Lake Missoula County Sewer District for the operations and maintenance costs of said District for Fiscal Year 2010. This hearing constitutes compliance with 7-13-2307 M.C.A., Hearing on Protest to Levy Tax. Any property owner situated within the District may appear and protest the levy of the tax or any matter pertaining thereto. The Commissioners will conduct the Public Hearing on Thursday, May 14, 2009, at 6:30 p.m., at the Seeley Lake Community Hall (on the north side of Seeley Lake, on the east side of Highway 83). Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to the Commissioners and/or speak at the hearing. Comments may also be submitted anytime prior to the hearing by mail or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802; by fax at (406) 721-4043; or by e-mail at bcc@co.missoula.mt.us Additional information may be obtained by contacting Glen Morin, Seeley Lake Sewer District at (406) 677-2141; or Dale Bickell, Chief Administrative Office, at (406) 258-4229 or by e-mail at dbickell@co.missoula.mt.us.

DATED THIS 24th DAY OF APRIL, 2009 /s/ Bill Carey Chair, Missoula Board of County Commissioner MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF RESOLUTION RELATING TO RURAL SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO.8496; DECLARING IT TO BE THE INTENTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO CREATE THE DISTRICT FOR THE PURPOSE OF UNDERTAKING CERTAIN LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS AND FINANCING THE COSTS THEREOF AND INCIDENTAL THERETO THROUGH THE ISSUANCE OF RURAL SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT BONDS SECURED BY THE COUNTY’S RURAL SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT REVOLVING FUND AND TO CREATE DISTRICT NO. 8918 FOR THE PURPOSE OF MAINTAINING THE IMPROVEMENTS MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on April 30, 2009, the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County, Montana (the “County”), adopted a Resolution of Intention to Create Rural Special Improvement District No. 8496 (the “District”) for the purpose paying a portion of the costs of improvements to a community water system in the Lewis and Clark Subdivision, in Missoula County, Montana (the “Improvements”), including costs associated with the sale and the security of rural special improvement district bonds of the County drawn on the District in the amount of $180,000 (the “Bonds”), the creation and administration of the District and the funding of a deposit to the County’s Rural Special Improvement District Revolving Fund (the “Revolving Fund”). It is also the intention of this Board to create and establish in the County under Montana Code Annotated, Title 7, Chapter 12, Part 21 (the “Act”), a rural special improvement maintenance district (the “Maintenance District”) for the purpose of maintaining the Improvements. The Improvements shall be constructed and installed pursuant to plans and specifications prepared and approved by HDR Engineering, Inc., of Missoula, Montana, the engineer for the District. A complete copy of the Resolution of Intention (the “Resolution”) is on file with the County Clerk and Recorder which more specifically describes the nature of the Improvements, the boundaries and the area included in the District, the location of the Improvements and other matters pertaining thereto and further particulars. The Improvements consist of the design, engineering and construction of improvements to a community water system in the Lewis and Clark Subdivision to include replacing water lines, water mains, installing water meters, retrofitting the pump station discharge piping, and related improvements. The County proposes to issue Bonds in the principal amount of $180,000 to the State of Montana Revolving Fund Loan Drinking Water Program (the “SRF Program”) to pay a portion of the costs of the Improvements. The costs of the Improvements in excess of the Bonds will be paid from: a DNRC Renewable Resource Grant, general obligation notes of the County, available funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and available funds of the County. The Bonds are to be payable from special assessments to be levied against property in the District, which property will be specially

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT Notice of Public Meeting FEMA, DNRC, Missoula County and the City of Missoula will be holding a Public Information Meeting regarding the Revised Preliminary Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRM) that were released by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) on April 6, 2009. The effort to update the floodplain maps for these communities is just one aspect of a larger federally-funded project to generate digital flood hazard information maps for communities across Montana. This Public Information Meeting will be held on Thursday, May 14, 2008, from 5:30 to 7:00 PM at the Missoula City Council Chambers, located at 140 W Pine St. Staff from FEMA, the State of Montana DNRC Floodplain Program, DNRC’s study contractor (PBS&J), Missoula County, and the City of Missoula will be on hand to answer questions, discuss the floodplain data and studies used to develop the preliminary DFIRM, and provide an overview of the countywide digital flood hazard mapping project and timeline. The Revised Preliminary DFIRM’s for Missoula and Missoula County are available for public viewing at the Office of Planning and Grants located at 435 Ryman, the DNRC Regional Office located at 1610 S. 3rd St (adjacent to the Good Food Store) or online at www.montanadfirm.com. For further information regarding the Public Information Meeting or any other topics addressed in this notice please contact Todd Klietz, Missoula Floodplain Administrator at 258-4841, Scott Roscoe the Mitigation Outreach Specialist for FEMA Region VIII Mitigation Division at 303-235-4988, or Celinda Adair, DNRC Map Modernization Coordinator at 406-444-6656.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DV-09-329 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., As Trustee For The Certification Of Soundview Home Loan Trust 2007-opt5, Asset-backed Certificates, Series 2007-opt5, Plaintiff, v. Crystal Alcorn and Jeremy Alcorn, Defendents. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT, CRYSTAL ALCORN: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in the action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your Answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or Answer, Judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action relates to an action rescinding a Trustee’s Sale and Trustee’s Deed, and reinstating a Note and Deed of Trust covering property situated in Missoula County, Montana, and described as follows: Lot 11 of Bitterroot Meadows Phase II, a Platte Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. WITNESS my hand and sale of said Court, this 27th day of April, 2009.

(SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: Gayle Johnston, Deputy Clerk. Dated this 21st day of April, 2009. MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM, Attorneys for

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-09-52 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF BERYL G. RIGHTER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Ronald Righter has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Ronald Righter, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER & FROINES, PC. 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 6th day of April, 2009. GEISZLER & FROINES, PC. /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DV-09-308 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Jimy Dee Murphy, Petitioner.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Jimy Dee Murphy, has petitioned the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District for a change of name from Jimy Dee Murphy to Kyani Dee Murphy, and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 20th day of May, 2009 at 1:30 p.m. in the Missoula County Courthouse, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana in courtroom number 1.

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 15th day of April, 2009.

(SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: Gayle Johnon, Deputy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DV-09-506 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Shaun Fleming Gunderson, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Shaun Fleming Gunderson, has petitioned the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District for a change of name from Shaun Fleming Gunderson to Shaun Fleming Hamilton, and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 3rd day of June, 2009 at 1:30 p.m. in the Missoula County Courthouse, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana in courtroom number 1. 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 16th day of April, 2009.

(SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: Karen Johnson, Deputy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DV-09-507 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Steven Hamilton Gunderson, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Steven Hamilton Gunderson, has petitioned the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District for a change of name from Steven Hamilton Gunderson to William Steven Hamilton, and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 19th day of May, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. in the Missoula County Courthouse, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 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 16th day of April, 2009.

(SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: Richard Goodwin, Deputy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-09-64 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF OPAL L. OHNSTAD, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Andra Jean Walker, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 10th day of April, 2009. /s/ Andra Jean Walker, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DA-09-19 CITATION IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF: ANTHONY MICHAEL MADERA, Minor Child. GREETINGS FROM THE STATE OF MONTANA TO: Frankie Miquel Madera. A Petition having been filed in the above-entitled matter by Cory James Baldwin, for the adoption of your natural child, A.M.M., pursuant to Mont. Code Ann. Sec. 42-2-605 (1)(g)(2), and the termination of your parental rights, and the consent of the natural mother, Norma of the natural mother, Norma Jean Baldwin, being on file with the above-entitled Court, this Citation issues to advise you that on the 2nd day of June, 2009, at 1:30 o’clock p.m. or as soon thereafter as Counsel may be heard, the Petition for Adoption will be brought for consideration by this Court as to granting the adoption as requested and that you are to appear before the above-entitled Court on that date and time above noted, if you so desire to present testimony and evidence, if any your have, why the adoption should not be granted. Your failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a waiver of the individual’s interests in custody of the child and will result in the Court’s termination of the individual’s rights to the child. DATED this 23rd day of April, 2009. /s/ Douglas G. Harkin, District Court Judge

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DA-09-21 CITATION IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF: FRANKI MIQUEL MADERA, Minor Child. GREETINGS FROM THE STATE OF MONTANA TO: Frankie Miquel Madera. A Petition having been filed in the above-entitled matter by Cory James Baldwin, for the adoption of your natural child, F.M.M., pursuant to Mont. Code Ann. Sec. 42-2-605 (1)(g)(2), and the termination of your parental rights, and the consent of the natural mother, Norma of the natural mother, Norma Jean Baldwin, being on file with the above-entitled Court, this Citation issues to advise you that on the 2nd day of June, 2009, at 1:30 o’clock p.m. or as soon thereafter as Counsel may be heard, the Petition for Adoption will be brought for consideration by this Court as to granting the adoption as requested and that you are to appear before the above-entitled Court on that date and time above noted, if you so desire to present testimony and evidence, if any your have, why the adoption should not be granted. Your failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a waiver of the individual’s interests in custody of the child and will result in the Court’s termination of the individual’s rights to the child. DATED this 23rd day of April, 2009. /s/ Douglas G. Harkin, District Court Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-09-69 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MONTY G. BOWMAN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Robert Raymond Bowman has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Robert Raymond Bowman, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of CUNNINGHAM LAW OFFICE, 818 West Central Avenue, Suite 1, Missoula, MT 59801 or filed the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 20th day of April, 2009.

CUNNINGHAM LAW OFFICE /s/ Kyle D. Cunningham, Attorney for Personal Representative, Robert Raymond Bowman MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DV-09-185 NOTICE OF NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Petition for Change of Name of the minor child of: Rachel Romanelli, Petitioner. TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED HEREIN: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a verified Petition for Name Change of Kate L. O’Connell to obtain an order of the Court granted leave to assume the name of Kate L. Romanelli, will be presented to the aboveentitled Court, at the Missoula County Courthouse at, Missoula, Montana, on Tuesday the 2nd day of June at 1:30 p.m., or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, and that at such time, application will be made for the relief sought in the said Petition. DATED this 20th day of April, 2009. WELLS & MCKITTRICK, P.C. /s/ Jamie J. McKittrick Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the Office of the Missoula County Public Works Department at 6089 Training Drive, Missoula MT 59808, until 10:00 am, Tuesday, May 19, 2009, at which time bids will be opened and read in the Public Works Conference Room for the purpose of constructing a walkway and bicycle path, approximately 1.0 miles in length, adjacent to the Roman Creek Road near Frenchtown, MT, from the intersection with the Frenchtown Frontage Road. The project will involve earthwork excavation and embankment, crushed sub-base and base rock, asphalt surfacing, topsoil, and seeding. All work is to be performed in accordance with the plans and specifications on file in the Office of the Bids Department, Missoula County Public Works Office, Missoula, Montana and shall be performed under the supervision of the County Engineer or his designated representative.

Specifications and bid procedures can be obtained at the Office of Public Works at 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808.

Proposals must be accompanied by security in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract and in the form specified in MCA 18-1-203, for example: cash, cashier’s check, certified check, bank money order, or bank draft, any of which must be drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the state of Montana or a banking association incorporated under the Laws of Montana; or a bid bond or bond executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the state of Montana. A Pre-bid

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/08/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200613760, Book 776, Page 568, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Lindsey Doe, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Title Services was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 44A of Cook’s Addition, Block 1, Lots 40 through 45, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 12/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 4, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $139,525.93. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $136,231.84, 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 14, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

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

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.01566) 1002.114050-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/07/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200715217,Bk-799,Pg-750, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Harold Monteau and Elizabeth M. Topsky was Grantor, Wells Fargo Financial Montana, Inc. was Beneficiary and First American Title Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in the SE 1/4 of Section 18, Township 14 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract 2 of Certificate of Survey No. 4327. 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 01/12/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 6, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $751,743.23. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $747,842.83, 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 14, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/06/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200500471, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which David A. Fuschino and Mindy L. Fuschino was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Financial Inc. DBA Mann Mortgage was Beneficiary and Insured Titles, LLC. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles, LLC. as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 177 of Pleasant View Homes No. 2, Phase IV, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200803864, Book 813, Page 959, 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 4, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $150,293.61. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $147,697.78, 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 14, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

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

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.01535) 1002.114202-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/06/98, recorded as Instrument No. 9821336, Book 551, Page 1682, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Laurie R. Hill, a married woman was Grantor, First Union Mortgage Corporation was Beneficiary and Chicago Title Insurance Co was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Chicago Title Insurance Co as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot B of Hill Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Includes a 1988 Fleetwood, 28 x 66, title W118317, VIN IDFLH13A10510CW manufactured home.

By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 199913216, Book 582, Page 1244, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Mellon Mortgage Company. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 07/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments

Public Notices due thereafter. As of March 4, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $77,087.87. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $72,862.12, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on July 13, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

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

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7037.16852) 1002.114210-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/19/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200701738, Bk-790, Pg1276, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Harold E. Nelson & Katheryn A. Nelson, as joint tenants was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage LLC was Beneficiary and Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc. was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 14 in Block 2 of New Meadows, 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 11/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 11, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $220,561.02. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $213,466.52, 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, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

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

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.01949) 1002.114754-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/17/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200628950, Book 786, Page 1143, modified

by Instrument 200827802, Book 830, page 1390, recorded 12-23-08, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Thomas W. McAnally, married and Larinda R. McAnally, married was Grantor, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and American Title & Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded American Title & Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more

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particularly described as follows: Lot 2 in Block 3 of Seeley Lake Estates according to the Official Plat thereof, recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula, Montana. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Chase Home Finance LLC. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 16, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $378,548.14. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $360,190.21, 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 24, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

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

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7037.17458) 1002.115144-FEI

QUARTER OF` SECTION 29 AND THE NORTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 32, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M. MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Parcel Il: TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENTFOR THE INGRESS AND EGRESS ACROSS THE NORTHEASTERLY, 60 FEET OF TRACTS 34, 35, 36, 37 AND 38 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1605 Lance E. Roeske, as Grantor(s), conveyed ‘said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 14, 2006 and Recorded July 21, 2006 in Book 779, Page 451, as Document No, 20031 7960. The beneficial interest is currently held by American Home Mortgage Servicing, Inc.. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,189.59, beginning October 1, 2008, and each month subsequent,,...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, 2009 is $318,001.81 principal, interest at the rate of 7.125% now totaling $11,328.84, late charges in the amount of $328.44, and other fees and expenses advanced of $134.20, plus accruing $62.08 per diem, late interest at the rate of charges, and other costs and fees that, maybe 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, express or implied...as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where is basis. 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 1 5 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 25, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On February 25, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the going instrument _ and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. JESSICA M HOPKINS Notary Public State of North Dakota My Commission Exp. Dec. 24, 2014 ASAP# 3084024 05/07/2009, 05/14/2009, 05/21/2009

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, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. 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 25, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On February 25, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 03/28/2011 ASAP# 3084034 05/07/2009, 05/14/2009, 05/21/2009

Micro Records at Page 259 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 $1,063.49, beginning November 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of February 20, 2009 is $133,800.72 principal, interest at the rate of 6.25% now totaling $3222.83, late charges in the amount of $167.44, escrow advances of $279.78, and other fees and expenses advanced of $984.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $22.91 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, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. 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 25, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On 2/25/09, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. JOAN MEIER Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 2/23/2013 ASAP#

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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 $1,403.01, beginning November 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of February 27, 2009 is $190,433.20 principal, interest at the rate of 7.875% now totaling $7,710.44, late charges in the amount of $335.61, escrow advances of $1,661.24, and other fees and expenses advanced of $290.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $41.09 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

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 6, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Parcel l: TRACT 33A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 3448 LOCATED IN THE SOUTHEAST ONE-

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 6, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 7 of Emma Dickinson Homesites, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, According to the Official Recorded A.P.N.: 1122403 Joseph U. Kirschten and Kimberly D. Kirschten, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 24, 2007 and Recorded September 6, 2007 in Book No. 805 Page 304, under Document No. 20073298. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc.. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,099.65, beginning July 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 23, 2009 is $215,605.06 principal, interest at the rate of 9.4750% now totaling $16552.73, late charges in the amount of $908.60, escrow advances of $920.05, and other fees and expenses advanced of $341.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $55.97 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

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 6, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 22G of AMENDED PLAT OF COBBAN & DINSMORE’S ORCHARD HOMES NO. 3, LOT 22, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Parcel ID #5837498 Mary Kristin Richard, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by May 29, 2007 at 3:49 o’clock P.M. under Document No. 200713173 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. * Book 798 of

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 6, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 23 of Addition to Thayer’s Country Estates, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Bryan Volkmann and Bridgett Volkman, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Pinnacle Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 16, 2006 and recorded on March 22, 2006 at 2:43 o’clock P.M., in Book 770, Page 1337, under Document No 200606343. The beneficial interest is currently held by LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee for Ownit Mortgage Loan Trust, Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2006-4.

Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee

Public Notice Missoula County and the City of Missoula will hold a PUBLIC MEETING on Thursday, May 14, from 2-4 p.m. in the Jack Reidy Room at 140 W. Pine concerning potential applications for the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP). NSP funds are available on a statewide competitive basis for any nonprofit or for-profit organization or individual to acquire, demolish, and/or rehabilitate foreclosed, vacant, or blighted property, and/or to construct affordable housing. All projects must benefit households that earn no more than 120% of the area median income (AMI), with a preference for projects assisting households making no more than 50% AMI. The application is available from the Montana Department of Commerce at http://comdev.mt.gov/CDD_CDBG_NSPapp.asp For more information, contact Nancy Harte at the Missoula Office of Planning & Grants at nharte@co.missoula.mt.us or (406) 258-4934. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling OPG at (406) 258-4657. Missoula County/City will provide auxiliary aids and services.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT • Annual Drinking Water Quality Report • Lewis and Clark Subdivision • RSID 8918 • PWSID#MT0000370 We’re very pleased to provide you with this year's Annual Quality Water Report. We want to keep you informed about the excellent water and services we have delivered to you over the past year. Our goal is and always has been, to provide to you a safe and dependable supply of drinking water. Our water source is ground water from two wells. We have completed a source water protection plan that will provide more information such as potential sources of contamination. We’re pleased to report that our drinking water is safe and meets federal and state requirements.If you have any questions about this report or concerning your water, please contact Tami Quinn. She is a certified operator with years of experience and can be reached at 370-1838. At the present time the Lewis and Clark Water System is owned by a Rural Special Improvement District and is managed by Missoula County. No regular meetings are held. Lewis and Clark Subdivision monitors for constituents in your drinking water according to Federal and State laws. The following table shows the results of any detects in our monitoring for the period of January 1st to December 31st, 2008. For constituents that are not monitored yearly, we have reviewed our records back the last 5 years. Lewis and Clark has been issued a waiver for certain inorganic contaminants. This waiver allows our water system to sample only once every 9 years for these regulated contaminants: barium, cadmium, chromium, mercury, selenium. Past sampling for these contaminants has shown that they are not present in our water supply, or occur in such small amounts that they are not considered a health hazard. This waiver is in effect from 2002 through 2011. We have monitored for lead and copper, and all of our samples are in compliance with the Lead and Copper Rule. We have a waiver for lead and copper. If present, elevated levels of lead can cause serious health problems, especially for pregnant women and young children. Lead in drinking water is primarily from materials and components associated with service lines and home plumbing. Missoula County is responsible for providing high quality drinking water, but cannot control the variety of materials used in plumbing components. When your water has been sitting for several hours, you can minimize the potential for lead exposure by flushing your tap for 30 seconds to 2 minutes before using water for drinking or cooking. If you are concerned about lead in your water, you may wish to have your water tested. Information on lead in drinking water, testing methods, and steps you can take to minimize exposure is available from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline or at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/lead.

Parameter

Date

90th % Value

Units

Action level

Source of Contamination

Lead

9/20/04

<1

Ppb

15

Household Plumbing

Copper

9/20/04

0.06

Ppm

1.3

Household Plumbing

In the tables above and below you will find many terms and abbreviations you might not be familiar with. To help you better understand these terms we've provided the following definitions: Parts per billion (ppb) or Micrograms per liter (ug/l) - one part per billion corresponds to one minute in 2000 years or a single penny in $10,000,000. Parts per million (ppm) or Milligrams per liter (mg/l) - one part per million corresponds to one minute in two years or a single penny in $10,000. Action Level - the concentration of a contaminant which, if exceeded, triggers treatment or other requirements which a water system must follow. Treatment Technique (TT) - (mandatory language) A treatment technique is a required process intended to reduce the level of a contaminant in drinking water. Maximum Contaminant Level - (mandatory language) The “Maximum Allowed” (MCL) is the highest level of a contaminant that is allowed in drinking water. MCLs are set as close to the MCLGs as feasible using the best available treatment technology. Maximum Contaminant Level Goal - (mandatory language) The “Goal”(MCLG) is the level of a contaminant in drinking water below which there is no known or expected risk to health. MCLGs allow for a margin of safety. Picocuries per liter (pCi/L)-picocuries per liter is a measure of the radioactivity in water.

Test Results Contaminant

Violation Y/N

Sample Date

Highest Level Detected

Unit Measurement

MCLG

MCLG

Likely Source of Contamination

Nitrate+nitrite as N

N

1/07/08

0.48

Ppm

10

10

Runoff from fertilizer use; leaching from septic tanks, sewage; erosion of natural deposits.

Fluoride

N

5/14/03

0.33

Ppm

4

4

Erosion of natural deposits

Barium

N

5/14/03

0.1

Ppm

2

2

Erosion of natural deposits

Our system had no violations. We’re proud that your drinking water meets or exceeds all Federal and State requirements. We have learned through our monitoring and testing that some constituents have been detected. The EPA has determined that your water IS SAFE at these levels. All sources of drinking water are subject to potential contamination by constituents that are naturally occurring or are man made. Those constituents can be microbes, organic or inorganic chemicals, or radioactive materials. All drinking water, including bottled water, may reasonably be expected to contain at least small amounts of some contaminants.

The presence of contaminants does not necessarily indicate that the water poses a health risk. More information about contaminants and potential health effects can be obtained by calling the Environmental Protection Agency’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791. MCL’s are set at very stringent levels. To understand the possible health effects described for many regulated constituents, a person would have to drink 2 liters of water every day at the MCL level for a lifetime to have a one-in-a-million chance of having the described health effect. Some people may be more vulnerable to contaminants in drinking water than the general population. Immuno-compromised persons such as persons with cancer undergoing chemotherapy, persons who have undergone organ transplants, people with HIV/AIDS or other immune system disorders, some elderly, and infants can be particularly at risk from infections. These people should seek advice about drinking water from their health care providers. EPA/CDC guidelines on appropriate means to lessen the risk of infection by cryptosporidium and other microbiological contaminants are available from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline (800-426-4791). We ask that all our customers help us protect our water sources, which are the heart of our community, our way of life and our children’s future.

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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, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. 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 25, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On February 25, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 03/28/2011 ASAP# 3084858 05/07/2009, 05/14/2009, 05/21/2009

OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Leo C. Thrush and Tiffany Thrush, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Co, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Heritage Bank, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 7, 2006 and recorded August 8, 2006 at 11:41 o’clock A.M. in Book 780, Page 742, as Document No. 200619850. The beneficial interest is currently held by US Bank National Association successor by merger United States National Bank of Oregon successor by merger U.S. Bank of Washington National Association successor by merger Southwest Washington Successor by merger Heritage Bank. 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 pay the Mature Loan in the amount of $27,050.32. The total amount due on this obligation as of January 23, 2009 is $25,791.10 principal, interest at the rate of 8.25% now totaling $986.72, and other fees and expenses advanced of $272.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $5.82949 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, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. 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 9, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On February 9, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3064246 04/23/2009, 04/30/2009, 05/07/2009

in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE N1/2NE1/4 OF SECTION 8, TOWNSHIP 20 NORTH, RANGE 16 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS LOT 7 OF CERTIFICATE SURVEY NO. 5320 Robert M. Barthelmess and Cinde L. Barthelmess, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 26, 2005 and recorded June 6, 2005 in Book 753, Page 1486 as Document No. 200513542. The beneficial interest is currently held by The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association fka The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. as successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. as Trustee for RAMP 2006SP1. 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 $4,879.10, beginning November 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on

said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 19, 2009 is $719,500.00 principal, interest at the rate of 7.75% now totaling $20,878.64, late charges in the amount of $696.99, and other fees and expenses advanced of $117.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $152.77 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, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. 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 6, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On February 6, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3066477 04/23/2009, 04/30/2009, 05/07/2009

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 19, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 6 IN BLOCK 14 OF GREENWOOD ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 22, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lots Twenty-Two (22) and Twenty-Three (23) in Block Seventyeight (78), in Daly’s Addition No. 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Larry E Stolle and Sandra J Stolle, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Century Title Company, a Montana Corporation, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to The Lomas & Nettleton Company, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 22, 1977 and recorded July 25, 1977 at 8:05 o’clock A.M., in Book 100, Page 1386, under Document No. 404652 and re-recorded on September 27, 1977 at 12:45 o’clock P.M., in Book 104, Page 1245, under Document No. 408933.

The beneficial interest is currently held by LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee for the Certificateholders of the Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates 1997HUD1. 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 $472.25, beginning October 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 27, 2009 is $28,118.42 principal, interest at the rate of 8.50% now totaling $3,831.18, suspense balance of ($296.09) and other fees and expenses advanced of $201.28, plus accruing interest at the rate of $6.64 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash at the time of sale.

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MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT • Annual Drinking Water Quality Report • El Mar Estates/New Meadows Water System • RSID We’re very pleased to provide you with this year's Annual Quality Water Report. We want to keep you informed about the excellent water and services we have delivered to you over the past year. Our goal is and always has been, to provide to you a safe and dependable supply of drinking water. Our water source is ground water from seven wells. We have completed a source water protection plan that will provide more information such as potential sources of contamination. We’re pleased to report that our drinking water is safe and meets federal and state requirements. If you have any questions about this report or concerning your water, please contact Tami Quinn. She is a certified operator with years of experience and can be reached at 370-1838. At the present time the El Mar/New Meadows Water System is owned by a Rural Special Improvement District and is managed by Missoula County. No regular meetings are held. El Mar/New Meadows Water System monitors for constituents in your drinking water according to Federal and State laws. The following table shows the results of any detects in our monitoring for the period of January 1st to December 31st, 2008. For constituents that are not monitored yearly, we have reviewed our records back the last 5 years. El Mar/New Meadows has been issued a waiver for certain inorganic contaminants. This waiver allows our water system to sample only once every 9 years for these regulated contaminants: barium, cadmium, chromium, mercury, selenium. Past sampling for these contaminants has shown that they are not present in our water supply, or occur in such small amounts that they are not considered a health hazard. This waiver is in effect from 2002 through 2011. We also have applied for and received an Organic Chemical Use Waiver from the Department of Environmental Quality. The organic chemicals listed on the last page of this report are excluded from monitoring requirements. We have monitored for lead and copper, and all of our samples are in compliance with the Lead and Copper Rule. We now have a waiver for lead and copper. If present, elevated levels of lead can cause serious health problems, especially for pregnant women and young children. Lead in drinking water is primarily from materials and components associated with service lines and home plumbing.

Missoula County is responsible for providing high quality drinking water, but cannot control the variety of materials used in plumbing components. When your water has been sitting for several hours, you can minimize the potential for lead exposure by flushing your tap for 30 seconds to 2 minutes before using water for drinking or cooking. If you are concerned about lead in your water, you may wish to have your water tested.

Information on lead in drinking water, testing methods, and steps you can take to minimize exposure is available from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline or at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/lead.

Parameter 90th % Value Units Action level Source of Contamination Date Lead 9/20/04 <1 Ppb 15 Household Plumbing Copper 9/20/04 0.06 Ppm 1.3 Household Plumbing In the tables above and below you will find many terms and abbreviations you might not be familiar with. To help you better understand these terms we've provided the following definitions: Parts per billion (ppb) or Micrograms per liter (ug/l) - one part per billion corresponds to one minute in 2000 years or a single penny in $10,000,000. Parts per million (ppm) or Milligrams per liter (mg/l) - one part per million corresponds to one minute in two years or a single penny in $10,000. Action Level - the concentration of a contaminant which, if exceeded, triggers treatment or other requirements which a water system must follow. Treatment Technique (TT) - (mandatory language) A treatment technique is a required process intended to reduce the level of a contaminant in drinking water. Maximum Contaminant Level - (mandatory language) The “Maximum Allowed” (MCL) is the highest level of a contaminant that is allowed in drinking water. MCLs are set as close to the MCLGs as feasible using the best available treatment technology. Maximum Contaminant Level Goal - (mandatory language) The “Goal”(MCLG) is the level of a contaminant in drinking water below which there is no known or expected risk to health. MCLGs allow for a margin of safety. Picocuries per liter (pCi/L)-picocuries per liter is a measure of the radioactivity in water.

Test Results Contaminant Violation Y/N Sample Date Highest Level Range Unit MCLG MCLG Likely Source of Contamination Nitrate+nitrite as N N 1/14/08 1.36 <.05-1.36 Ppm 10 10 Runoff from fertilizer use; leaching from septic tanks, sewage; erosion of natural deposits.

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Our system had no violations. We’re proud that your drinking water meets or exceeds all Federal and State requirements. We have learned through our monitoring and testing that some constituents have been detected. The EPA has determined that your water IS SAFE at these levels. All sources of drinking water are subject to potential contamination by constituents that are naturally occurring or are man made. Those constituents can be microbes, organic or inorganic chemicals, or radioactive materials. All drinking water, including bottled water, may reasonably be expected to contain at least small amounts of some contaminants. The presence of contaminants does not necessarily indicate that the water poses a health risk. More information about contaminants and potential health effects can be obtained by calling the Environmental Protection Agency’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791. MCL’s are set at very stringent levels. To understand the possible health effects described for many regulated constituents, a person would have to drink 2 liters of water every day at the MCL level for a lifetime to have a one-in-a-million chance of having the described health effect. Some people may be more vulnerable to contaminants in drinking water than the general population.

Immuno-compromised persons such as persons with cancer undergoing chemotherapy, persons who have undergone organ transplants, people with HIV/AIDS or other immune system disorders, some elderly, and infants can be particularly at risk from infections. These people should seek advice about drinking water from their health care providers. EPA/CDC guidelines on appropriate means to lessen the risk of infection by cryptosporidium and other microbiological contaminants are available from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline (800-426-4791). We ask that all our customers help us protect our water sources, which are the heart of our community, our way of life and our children’s future. Organic Chemicals excluded from Public Water Supply monitoring requirements by an Organic Chemical Use Waiver CARBAMATE PESTICIDES - METHOD 531.1 Carbofuran, Oxamyl PESTICIDES - METHOD 525.2 Alachlor, Heptachlor Epoxide, Hexachlorobenzene, Atrazine, Hexachlorocyclopentadiene, Benzo(a)pyrene, Lindane, Methoxychlor, Chlordane, Di(2-ethylhexyl)adipate, Di(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate, Simazine, Endrin, Toxaphene, Heptachlor

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT • Annual Drinking Water Quality Report • Sunset West Water System • RSID 8925 PWSID#MT0001857 We’re very pleased to provide you with this year's Annual Quality Water Report. We want to keep you informed about the excellent water and services we have delivered to you over the past year. Our goal is and always has been, to provide to you a safe and dependable supply of drinking water. Our water source is ground water from one well. We have completed a source water protection plan that will provide more information such as potential sources of contamination. We’re pleased to report that our drinking water is safe and meets federal and state requirements. If you have any questions about this report or concerning your water, please contact Tami Quinn. She is a certified operator with years of experience and can be reached at 370-1838. At the present time the Sunset West Water System is owned by a Rural Special Improvement District and is managed by Missoula County. No regular meetings are held. Sunset West Water System monitors for constituents in your drinking water according to Federal and State laws. The following table shows the results of any detects in our monitoring for the period of January 1st to December 31st, 2008. For constituents that are not monitored yearly, we have reviewed our records back the last 5 years. We have monitored for lead and copper, and all of our samples are in compliance with the Lead and Copper Rule. If present, elevated levels of lead can cause serious health problems, especially for pregnant women and young children. Lead in drinking water is primarily from materials and components associated with service lines and home plumbing. Missoula County is responsible for providing high quality drinking water, but cannot control the variety of materials used in plumbing components. When your water has been sitting for several hours, you can minimize the potential for lead exposure by flushing your tap for 30 seconds to 2 minutes before using water for drinking or cooking. If you are concerned about lead in your water, you may wish to have your water tested. Information on lead in drinking water, testing methods, and steps you can take to minimize exposure is available from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline or at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/lead.

Parameter 90th % Value Units Action level Source of Contamination Date Lead 9/20/04 <1 Ppb 15 Household Plumbing Copper 9/20/04 0.06 Ppm 1.3 Household Plumbing In the tables above and below you will find many terms and abbreviations you might not be familiar with. To help you better understand these terms we've provided the following definitions: Parts per billion (ppb) or Micrograms per liter (ug/l) - one part per billion corresponds to one minute in 2000 years or a single penny in $10,000,000. Parts per million (ppm) or Milligrams per liter (mg/l) - one part per million corresponds to one minute in two years or a single penny in $10,000. Action Level - the concentration of a contaminant which, if exceeded, triggers treatment or other requirements which a water system must follow. Treatment Technique (TT) - (mandatory language) A treatment technique is a required process intended to reduce the level of a contaminant in drinking water. Maximum Contaminant Level - (mandatory language) The “Maximum Allowed” (MCL) is the highest level of a contaminant that is allowed in drinking water. MCLs are set as close to the MCLGs as feasible using the best available treatment technology. Maximum Contaminant Level Goal - (mandatory language) The “Goal”(MCLG) is the level of a contaminant in drinking water below which there is no known or expected risk to health. MCLGs allow for a margin of safety. Picocuries per liter (pCi/L)-picocuries per liter is a measure of the radioactivity in water.

Test Results Contaminant Violation Y/N Sample Date Highest Level Unit MCLG MCLG Likely Source of Contamination Detected Measurement Nitrate+nitrite as N N 1/14/08 1.36 Ppm 10 10 Runoff from fertilizer use; leaching from septic tanks, sewage; erosion of natural deposits.

Fluoride N 5/14/03 0.12 Ppm 4 4 Erosion of natural deposits Barium N 5/14/03 0.5 Ppm 2 2 Erosion of natural deposits Toluene N 1/18/07 37 Ppb 10000 10000 Discharge from petroleum factory Radioactive Contaminents Alpha Emitters

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Total Coliform - Coliforms are bacteria that are naturally present in the environment and are used as an indicator that other, potentially-harmful, bacteria may be present. Coliforms were found in more samples than allowed and this was a warning of potential problems. Our system had two violations. Coliform were detected in our water and in some of the follow-up samples. We’re proud that your drinking water meets or exceeds all Federal and State requirements. We have learned through our monitoring and testing that some constituents have been detected. The EPA has determined that your water IS SAFE at these levels. All sources of drinking water are subject to potential contamination by constituents that are naturally occurring or are man made. Those constituents can be microbes, organic or inorganic chemicals, or radioactive materials. All drinking water, including bottled water, may reasonably be expected to contain at least small amounts of some contaminants. The presence of contaminants does not necessarily indicate that the water poses a health risk. More information about contaminants and potential health effects can be obtained by calling the Environmental Protection Agency’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791. MCL’s are set at very stringent levels. To understand the possible health effects described for many regulated constituents, a person would have to drink 2 liters of water every day at the MCL level for a lifetime to have a one-in-a-million chance of having the described health effect. Some people may be more vulnerable to contaminants in drinking water than the general population. Immuno-compromised persons such as persons with cancer undergoing chemotherapy, persons who have undergone organ transplants, people with HIV/AIDS or other immune system disorders, some elderly, and infants can be particularly at risk from infections. These people should seek advice about drinking water from their health care providers. EPA/CDC guidelines on appropriate means to lessen the risk of infection by cryptosporidium and other microbiological contaminants are available from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline (800-426-4791). We ask that all our customers help us protect our water sources, which are the heart of our community, our way of life and our children’s future.

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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 12, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On February 12, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 03/28/2011 ASAP# 3066952 04/23/2009, 04/30/2009, 05/07/2009

Certificateholders of Popular ABS, Inc. Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2005-D. 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 $1,087.37, beginning October 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 27, 2009 is $107,426.48 principal, interest at the rate of 9.88% now totaling $5,095.94, late charges in the amount of $1,143.71, escrow advances of $578.84, suspense balance of $0.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $442.25, plus accruing interest at the rate of $29.08 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, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. 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 16, 2009 Charles Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On February 16, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Jessica Hopkins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 ASAP# 3070238 04/23/2009, 04/30/2009, 05/07/2009

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, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. 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, 2009 ASAP# 3072779 04/30/2009, 05/07/2009, 05/14/2009

and together with its exhibits as recorded on May 17, 2006 in Book 774 of Micro Records at Page 709 and By-laws of said Condominium recorded in Book 774 of Micro Records at Page 711. Together with an undivided 5.88% interest in the common areas and facilities appertaining to said units, as defined in the Declaration and as defined in the plan’s specifications attached thereto Further together with such Unit’s interest in the restricted common areas appertaining to such unit as set forth and defined in the Declaration and the plan/exhibit attached thereto Zachary E. Smith, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated May 16, 2007 and recorded May 18, 2007 in Book 797 of Micro Records at Page 859, Document No. 200712263. The beneficial interest is currently held by Aurora Loan Services, LLC. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,022.11, beginning September 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of February 8, 2009 is $112,602.19 principal, interest at the rate of 9.075% now totaling $5,305.27, late charges in the amount of $212.83, escrow advances of $338.54, and other fees and expenses advanced of $36.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $28.39 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, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. 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 18, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On February 18, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3074372 04/30/2009, 05/07/2009, 05/14/2009

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, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. 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 19, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On February 19, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same.JOAN MEIER Notary Public Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota My Commission Expires February 23, 2013 ASAP# 3076532 04/30/2009, 05/07/2009, 05/14/2009

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MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

PAULINE

THE MISSOULA COUNTY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT will be conducting a public hearing at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 20, 2009, in Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine, Missoula, MT, on the following item: 1. A request by Thomas Martin to vary from the required 25 foot front yard setback as required by Resolution 76-113, Section 2.10 (B) Space and Bulk Requirements. The subject property is located at 2314 Pauline Drive, legally described as Lot 2 Block 2 Pomajevich Addition, and is zoned C-RR2. See map P. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling the Office of Planning and Grants at 258-4657.

Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

For a complete legal description or additional information regarding the variance request, you may contact Jamie Erbacher at the same number or by e-mail at jerbacher@co.missoula.mt.us.

P

MCCAULEY

SOUTH

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 26, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PREMISES, IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, TO-WIT: LOT 8 IN BLOCK 5 OF SEELEY LAKE HOMESITES ADDITION NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF. BEING THE SAME PROPERTY CONVEYED TO TRAVIS SIMON AND MACHELLE L. SIMON, AS JOINT TENANTS BY DEED FROM TRAVIS SIMON RECORDED 11/03/2000 IN DEED DOC. # 200342157, IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. NOTE: FOR STREET NUMBERING PURPOSES KNOWN AS 715 SPRUCE DRIVE, SEELEY LAKE, MONTANA Travis Simon & Machelle L Simon, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Old Republic, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated September 21, 2005 and Recorded October 3, 2005 in Book 761, Page 771, as Document No. 200526001. The beneficial interest is currently held by The Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a The Bank of New York as successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as trustee for the benefit of the

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 29, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Misssoula County, Montana: Parcel 17 of Certificate of Survey No. 351, a parcel of land located in the Southeast one-quarter of the Northwest one-quarter and the Northeast one-quarter of the Southwest one-quarter of Section 13, Township 15 North, Range 22 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana Mark Esping & Ann Margaret Esping, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 9, 2007 and Recorded May 14, 2007 in Book 797, Page 356, as Document No. 20071 1760. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage Inc. successor by merger to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc.. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Misssoula 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 $2,336.50, beginning October 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 13, 2009 is $305,293.82 principal, interest at the rate of 6.1250% now totaling $8406.12, late charges in the amount of $376.68, escrow advances of $52.64, and other fees and expenses advanced of $52.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $51.23 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

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 29, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 5 of Allen Acres, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Gary S Wiser, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank Missoula, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 16, 2006 and recorded June 21, 2006 in Book 777, Page 377, under Document No. 200615004. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc., successor by merger to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc.. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $3,642.16, beginning June 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 27, 2009 is $408,443.08 principal, interest at the rate of 6.8750% now totaling $23,060.61, late charges in the amount of $1232.64, escrow advances of $4997.74, suspense balance of $ and other fees and expenses advanced of $2484.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $76.93 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. 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, 2009 Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On 2/17/09, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. JESSICA M. HOPKINS Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 ASAP# 3071659 04/30/2009, 05/07/2009, 05/14/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 29, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Unit B-1 of ISLAND PARK OVERLOOK CONDOMINIUMS, a condominium complex as shown and defined in the Condominium Declaration of the Montana Unit Ownership Act, and survey map and set of plans recorded as Condo #113 in records of Missoula Montana and according to the Condominium Declaration

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 30, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE SOUTH 80 FEET OF LOTS 17 AND 18 IN BLOCK 38 OF DALY’S ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF IN BOOK 1 OF PLATS AT PAGE 79. Troy Patten, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated October 14, 2003 and recorded October 20, 2003 at 4:21 o’clock P.M., in Book 720, Page 627, as Document No. 200340163. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage LLC fka GMAC Mortgage Corporation. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $889.47, beginning November 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 20, 2009 is $111,711.30 principal, interest at the rate of 5.5% now totaling $2,367.87, late charges in the amount of $308.52, escrow advances of $254.66, suspense balance of $174.24 and other fees and expenses advanced of $56.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $16.84

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This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate that is in violation of the law.

Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To report discrimination in housing call HUD at toll-free at 1-800-877-7353 or Montana Fair Housing toll-free at 1800-929-2611

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Homes for Sale

Homes for Sale Condo in Awesome Location 3811 Stephens Ave. #4, Missoula

KD Dickinson • Broker/Owner • 240-5227 1400 Burns condos: $99,500 to $159,500

910 Elm MLS#902342 • $249,900

832 Cherry Street MLS#900054 • $229,900

1216 S. 5th W MLS#903140 • $229,900

921 S 4th W MLS#900678 • $249,500

111 Mary MLS#903036 • $279,900

1333 Toole #C-13 MLS#901187 • $129,900

700 Rollins MLS#902235 • $239,500

115 W. Addison 1902 Pine Tree Hollow • TFalls MLS#902650 • $189,900 MLS#900219 • $148,500 Liz Dye • Broker • 531-4508 2348 River Rd MLS#803924 • $769,000 1723 Ethel Lane MLS#900844 • $175,000 2527 Valley View MLS#805739 • $224,900 105 Parker Ct MLS#903003 • $229,000 115 North Ave East MLS#900646 • $339,000 Greg Zugay • Realtor • 396-6146 Georgetown Lake lot MLS#901309 • $120,000

601 N 4th St MLS#903122 • $165,000

4011 Houk Way MLS#809209 • $199,000

112 Wildwood MLS#902429 • $297,500

2195 Big Flat Rd MLS#902003 • $399,900

505 Plymouth MLS#902537 • $399,900

15890 Queen Annes Ln, Florence MLS#902586 • $239,900 Marlies Borchers • Realtor • 370-5758 2309 Grant 2101 S 4th St MLS#808330 • $195,000 MLS#903122 • $198,000 Justin Armintrout • Realtor 546-0768 Erin Doherty • Realtor • 239-8240 Doug Pinto • Realtor • 360-7835

PorticoRealEstate.com 445 w. Alder • Missoula • 406/327-8787

RICE TEAM Janet Rice 532-7903 Robin Rice 240-6503 riceteam@windermere.com www.missoulahomesonline.com

Missoula • 549-3353 | Hamilton • 363-4450

U P D AT E D P O T O M A C A R E A HOME ON 16.5 ACRES.3 Bdr/2 Bath, Open floor plan, deck and covered porch, very private and quiet, $273,900.

Prudential Montana. Call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696 or view photos and virtual tours at...

Well-maintained 3BD house, 45 minutes from Missoula, hardwood floors, storage shed, updated appliances. $125,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185. www.AccessRealty.net

10250 Valley Grove Dr $299,000 • MLS#902264 Price just reduced on log home w/acreage between Lolo and Missoula.

6960 Linda Vista $327,000 • MLS#900989 Come see the true Vista from this 4 bed/3 bath charmer.

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Joy Earls

Jodie L Hooker REALTOR®, QSC®, GRI®, ABR® 239-7588 • Jodie@GreaterMontanaRE.com MissoulaMultiFamily.com Specializing in: Multi-Famliy Properties

Shelly Evans REALTOR®, PSC®, QSC® 544-8570 • Shelly@GreaterMontanaRE.com MissoulaValleyHomes.com Specializing in: 1st Time Homebuyers

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Condos / Townhomes Affordable Home Ownership STOP RENTING! At $107,500 the price of home ownership is possible and you may qualify for down payment assistance. Low income guidelines apply. Call for info. 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths! Nice!

1421 Eaton St. #28, Missoula $107,500. Call Sharon Scarborough at Prudential Montana Real Estate 329-2034 SAFE SECURE SENIOR LIVING. 2 bedroom, 2 bath. 2456 McIntosh Loop. Maintenance package, club house, single garage. Great location just off Reserve Street. $145,000. Call Alan at Marwest Properties 360-2121

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2815 O'Shaughnesy MLS# 900070 $258,500 Fabulous Home, Fabulous Price, Fabulous Location and Immaculate!!

4 Bedrooms and 3 1/2 baths.

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Joy Earls • 531-9811

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MLS# 902182 $139,900

20 Lot Bitterroot Subdivision, 42 acres, views of Bitterroots & Sapphires. Appraised $127,500 each. $864,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.AccessRealty.net

Rochelle Glasgow

544-7507 glasgow@montana.com www.rochelleglasgow.com

20,000 SQ FOOT LOT IN GREAT ALBERTON LOCATION. 0.46 acres with all utilities present, zoned residential with potential for commercial re-zoning, $79,000. Prudential Montana. Call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696 or view photos and virtual tours at...

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Missoula Properties

Land for Sale 10 ACRES FRENCHTOWN. New 38’x74’ truck shop, mobile home, well & sewer. Great access to MIssoula. $325,000. Call Alan at Marwest Properties 360-2121

For Lease • 1001 SW Higgins, Suite 104

5 ACRES OF UNZONED LAND ON LOLO CREEK. 320’ of creek frontage, 2 40x60 buildings with 17 storage units and office space, caboose, large shop/commercial building, 2 mobiles, easy Hwy 93 access, $575,000. Prudential Montana. Call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696 or view photos and virtual tours at...

www.mindypalmer.com

America’s Best Buy! Where in the U.S. can you own 20 acres, 30 minutes from major city? Only $15,900. $0 Down, $159/mo. 1800-843-7537 www.sunsetranches.com Beautiful parcel with meadows.

Perfect property to escape to rural Montana but still only 20 minutes to downtown Missoula. $179,000.

MLS# 900454. Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 riceteam@wind e r m e r e . c o m . Te x t : 4 4 1 3 3 Message:12888 for pics

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Carrie A Greer REALTOR®, PSC®, QSC®, ABR® 880-6592 • Carrie@GreaterMontanaRE.com CarrieAGreer.com Specializing in: New Construction

Bridget Bowers REALTOR®, PSC®, QSC® 207-5387 • Bridget@GreaterMontanaRE.com BitterrootMontanaProperties.com Specializing in: Homes with Acreage

2 Bed/1.5 Bath/Single Garage Located extremely close to a park, running trail, Water Park, duck pond and bus stops.

Beautiful park-like setting, private trout ponds, nature trail, stunning views. Lots start at $39,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185. www.RiverRidgeMT.com

Professional office space in the Panorama Park Building. 1,335+ sq. ft., 2 offices, large reception area, bathroom and kitchen.

Could easily be converted into more office spaces. $1,650 a month. Most Utilities Paid • Broker Owned

Two 5 acre parcels 15 minutes from Missoula with nice building sites and access to the Blackfoot River. $159,000 for either 5 acre parcel or buy both for $299,000.

Mary Mar ry REALTOR®, Broker Office 406-728-9295 • Cell 406-544-2125 mmarry@bigsky.net

Commercial Busy Downtown Deli/ Espresso Busy location. Open Mon.-Fri. No nights, weekends or holidays. 95,000.00 549-3909

Out of Town 800 square foot cabin near hunting, fishing, and skiing in beautiful Haugan, MT. $83,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185. www.AccessRealty.net SPECTACULAR LOG HOME ON 1.52 ACRES. 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 40x140 insulated shop, RV shed.

Moiese Valley. $759,000. Call Alan at Marwest Properties 360-2121

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$8.29 38 oz.

Family Pack Center Cut Pork Loin Chops

$2.29 lb.

16 oz. bag Organic Kiwi Fruit

$1.79 each

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$5.00

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89¢ lb

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$1.89 quart

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$5.99 6 pack

Meridian California Wines

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$1.99 quart

Robert's Pirate's Cannon Balls

$1.49 5.5 oz.

$4.99 .75 liter

Blue Bunny Root Beer Float Bars

$1.29 6 count

Earthtone Fair Trade Organic Coffee

Canadian Lake Wild Rice

$3.89 6 oz.

$7.99 12 oz.

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