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Vol. 21, No. 25 • June 24–July 1, 2010

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

MONTANA’S BLACKFEET NATION RECENTLY SIGNED THE LARGEST OIL EXPLORATION DEAL IN THE TRIBE’S HISTORY. IS IT A VITAL STEP TO SAVING THE RESERVATION, OR AN AGREEMENT DESTINED FOR DISASTER? Story and photos by Alex Sakariassen

Up Front: Missoula’s new kayak park finally paddles forward Up Front: Why Forward Montana decided to back Republicans Scope: Miss Lana Rebel finds all she needs on the road

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Vol. 21, No. 25 • June 24–July 1, 2010

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

Up Front: Missoula’s new kayak park finally paddles forward Up Front: Why Forward Montana decided to back Republicans Scope: Miss Lana Rebel finds all she needs on the road

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Officials with the Blackfeet Nation met last December with representatives of the Newfield Exploration Company to sign over oil leases on 224,000 acres of tribal land in the eastern portion of the reservation. The tribe has not made public the final dollar value of the deal, but says the Blackfeet stand to gain more than $12 million from Newfield. In short, it’s the largest oil agreement the tribe has ever signed . . . . . . . . . .14

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Letters Idaho mining, ballots and physician-assisted death ......................................4 The Week in Review Tester’s new draft, tornados and Globetrotters......................6 Briefs Drunk bus, election judges and poly people ..................................................6 Etc. Celebrating—and criticizing—Kalispell’s new Wal-Mart .....................................7 Up Front Forward Montana starts to back moderate Republicans ...........................8 Up Front Missoula’s new kayak park finally paddles forward...................................9 Ochenski McChrystal’s meltdown warrants immediate dismissal ..........................10 Writers on the Range An upshot of the Gulf oil spill.............................................11 Agenda AmericaSpeaks: Our Budget, Our Economy..............................................12

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STREET TALK

Inside Letters Briefs Up Front Ochenski Range Agenda News Quirks by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked outside Break Espresso on Tuesday morning

This week the Indy reports on Capt’N Trips’ efforts to offer cab service in downtown Missoula on Friday and Saturday nights. How do you usually get home after a night on the town? Follow-up: Tell us about your most memorable cab ride.

Brooke Beighle: I ride my bike. It’s only a mile. Crooked cabby: When I was living in L.A. I asked the driver to take me home and he didn’t think I knew my way around so he took a roundabout way there. We got in a fight about it but he still made me pay the full price.

Courtney Blazon: I used to live in a city and would take the subway home. Now I don’t go out but would walk home if I did. Smoke and tears: I was in New Jersey and running late on my way to the airport when the cabbie’s car started to smoke. I didn’t think I was going to make it and started to cry. Then I didn’t even have enough money to pay him so I ran.

Laura Stanley: I usually bike. I live pretty close. Drunken donuts: When I was 16 I was an exchange student in Costa Rica and my sister made friends with a cab driver. We got in and he drove in super fast circles in the parking lot. I don’t think we went anywhere, but it was fun.

David Stickney: Missoula’s super small so I just walk. Honest Abe: I got a ride with a cabbie who told me when we got to the airport he only takes cash, but I only had a credit card. I had 10 minutes to get on my flight and had to run to the ATM, but it was out of service. So he called the cab company and slid my credit card through one of those old machines. I gave him a $5 tip for the trouble, but he wanted more!

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Proud of track record Farmers in the western United States and the Idaho phosphate industry live in a symbiotic relationship (see “Building trust,” June 3, 2010). Agrium, Monsanto and Simplot all obtain raw materials from phosphate deposits running along the IdahoWyoming state line. From this they manufacture critical farm nutrients and weed management tools to keep small town farmers’ markets and Pacific-bound barges full of nutritious and affordable food. These companies are solid long-term employers, contributors to local and regional economies, actively underpinning the civic and social welfare of the communities where they operate. Thousands of aspiring track and field stars thrill to their first sense of achievement at the Simplot Games. Monsanto is a frequent and long-time underwriter of programming on Idaho Public Television. At this year’s Tigert Middle School in Soda Springs, Idaho, only one company was honored to be present at the handing out of diplomas: Agrium, in recognition for “their many contributions to public education.” In the last decade each of these companies has won praise through the Idaho Mined Lands Reclamation Awards for some aspect of their mining reclamation. All three companies have made significant investment in implementing new and advanced technologies for protecting ecosystems while mining, and restoring mined land to health afterward. These companies exemplify care and concern for their workers. All three operate “Star” plants in southeast Idaho, facilities recognized by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration for having the highest degree of voluntary worker protection. The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration’s “Sentinels of Safety” award has been awarded more than once in this mining region. Which is why a suggestion, metaphorical no doubt, that the phosphate fields of southeast Idaho are comparable to the oil pervading the Gulf of Mexico is irresponsible in the extreme. Besides our work in communities and with employees, we take our environmental responsibilities very seriously. Recent stories of high selenium levels are driven by improved methods of monitoring, diagnosis and detection, not by a growing ecological challenge. In fact, in 2003, these reports prompted the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to investigate. Its report, posted on www.IdahoSelenium.com, finds the phosphate-mining region poses “no apparent health hazard.” The management of selenium brought to the surface by mining is a challenge all over the world. Science suggests that very small amounts can affect unique species in

different ways. Some warm-water fish are highly sensitive to selenium, showing effects at parts per billion. The Idaho phosphate industry has spent millions of dollars working with state and federal agencies to study selenium in the environment, develop new mining methods and implement measures to address the effects of past mining practices. Few in the oil industry rise in defense of the persistent oil slick growing in the Gulf. But the Idaho Mining Association will readi-

I can’t even “imagine that the two parties would even make this kind of thing a law.

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ly defend the commitment and track record of our phosphate producers. They are examples of responsible stewardship: aggressively addressing the environmental concerns from the past while continuing to provide our nation’s agriculture with the means to feed a hungry world. Jack Lyman Executive Vice President Idaho Mining Association Boise, Idaho

Two-ballot brouhaha I find it hard to believe that I cannot vote for whom I wish. I got the primary ballot, two of them, Democrats and Republicans. I feel very discriminated against—I don’t see well looking completely to the left or right. I would think Montanans would want a choice to vote for whomever they feel represents them the best. It seems many here are not thrilled with the politicians who are supposed to reflect their constituents. Many I don’t believe do, so I would like a choice, be it Democrat, Republican, Independent, Constitutional or whomever. I can’t even imagine that the two parties would even make this kind of thing a law. Give us one ballot and let us choose. Maybe they are worried—they should be. Jack Wilborn Arlee

Washington’s mistake I am an attorney in Washington state where assisted suicide is legal. I disagree that our assisted suicide law protects the elderly (see “etc.,” June 10, 2010). Our law is, more accurately, a recipe for elder abuse.

Key provisions in our law include that an heir, who will benefit from the death, is allowed to help the patient sign up for the lethal dose. There are also no disinterested witnesses required at the death. An heir, or other person could administer the lethal dose to the patient against his will. Even if he struggled, who would know? The prior lethal dose request, voluntary or not, would provide the alibi. Suicide proponents make it sound like “everyone is for it.” In 2010, bills to legalize assisted suicide were, however, solidly defeated in New Hampshire and Canada. Just this month, a court in Connecticut dismissed a lawsuit that would have legalized “aid in dying” in that state. The court’s decision noted: “[I]n almost every State–indeed, in almost every western democracy—it is a crime to assist a suicide.” Don’t make Washington’s mistake. Margaret Dore Seattle, Wash.

Who will you be? I am a doctor in Oregon, where physician-assisted suicide is legal. Compassion & Choices can’t deny that its so-called “aid in dying” laws are a recipe for abuse, especially regarding the elderly. So what does it do? It changes the subject by posing a counterquestion about pain. I thought this was an interesting development given the experience of Randy Stroup. He was an Oregon resident who desired drug therapy to ease his pain and extend his life. The Oregon Health Plan turned him down, offering him assisted suicide instead. Barbara Wagner had a similar experience. The Oregon Health Plan refused to pay for a cancer drug to possibly prolong her life and offered assisted suicide instead. Compassion & Choices promotes assistedsuicide as a “choice” for patients. Ms. Wagner, who did not ask for this “choice,” did not see it that way. She said: “I’m not ready, I’m not ready to die.” In both cases, the Oregon Health Plan’s position was only possible because assisted suicide is legal in Oregon. With assisted-suicide now at issue in Montana, will you and your families be the next Randy Stroup? Will you be the next Barbara Wagner? Kenneth Stevens Sherwood, Ore. Corrections: In our recent Explorer insert, we need mulligans for two items in our story on Spiritwood Disc Golf Course. First, players don’t need to call ahead before playing. Second, if you do want to call for more info, best use 406-961-4970 or, better yet, visit www.spiritwooddiscgolf.com. The Indy regrets the errors.

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WEEK IN REVIEW • Wednesday, June 16

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News Quirks by Cathrine L. Walters

District Judge Ed McLean sentences Cyril Kenneth “Kenny” Richard II, 25, to 20 years in the Montana State Prison for fatally stabbing his friend, Michael J. Meadows, 31, during a drunken argument and then dumping Meadows’ body off a bridge and into the Clark Fork River 30 miles west of Missoula.

• Thursday, June 17 Sen. Jon Tester unveils a new draft of his forest bill and reinserts the logging mandate, a key part of the bill as originally proposed. The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee removed the mandate in its recent “discussion draft.” Without the mandate, Tester says, he’ll kill the bill.

• Friday, June 18 A Malmstrom Air Force Base helicopter drops a winch down onto the snow near the top of Lolo Peak to retrieve the body of Chris Spurgin, 38, an avid backcountry skier from Missoula who had been missing since Tuesday. Officials believe a small avalanche swept Spurgin into rocks, killing him instantly.

• Saturday, June 19 Democrat Dennis McDonald and Libertarian Mike Fellows take on five-term Republican incumbent Rep. Denny Rehberg in the first debate for Montana’s lone congressional seat. Rehberg tells the Bozeman crowd McDonald would be House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “‘yes’ man,” prompting McDonald to reply that he had never met Pelosi and “wouldn’t know her from a bale of hay.”

• Sunday, June 20 A tornado rips a destructive path through Billings, tearing the roof off the Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark. Several businesses suffer heavy damage. Despite the structural devastation, the only reported injury is a homeowner hit in the head by a hailstone.

• Monday, June 21 The Helena Brewers defeat the Missoula Osprey, 7–6, in both teams’ first game of the Pioneer League season. The loss spoils a three-hit effort by outfielder Roberto Rodriguez and marks the ninth consecutive year the Osprey have dropped their opening game.

• Tuesday, June 22 The Harlem Globetrotters announce the team has drafted University of Montana star Anthony Johnson, as well as his wife, Lady Griz point guard Shaunte Nance-Johnson. The Globetrotters say this is the first husband-wife duo to be drafted by a professional sports team.

In preparation for their July 10 performance at the Berkeley Pit in Butte, Kristi Hager leads a rehearsal of the Cool Water Hula inside the Missoula Children’s Theater Monday night. This year marks the group’s 10th anniversary of calling attention to the toxic water accumulating in one of the nation’s largest Superfund sites.

Election

Judges left in limbo When Missoula County officials closed eight polling places in January and blamed the cutbacks on a shortage of Election Day staffers, Blake Bentley offered to help. “They needed judges,” Bentley says. “That’s why I stepped up.” After successfully completing training, he took time off from his job as a backpack guide in Glacier National Park earlier this month and drove to Missoula two days before the June 8 primaries to ensure he’d be ready to man ballot boxes. On the Monday before the election, having heard no word from the Missoula County Elections Office, Bentley called for his assignment. County employees then told him they had sufficient staff and likely wouldn’t need him. “I was up there working and I would have stayed up there working,” a frustrated Bentley says. “If they would have given me a call a week before or even three days before, I would have been fine with it.”

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Missoula County Election Administrator Vickie Zeier says that’s just the way it works, and her office has never given advance notice to election judges. The protocol gives the Elections Office wiggle room if any judges cancel. “Honestly, we don’t know for sure even until election morning if we’re going to need someone,” Zeier says. That may be so. But Bentley wasn’t the only judge to air a grievance after not being assigned on June 8. “We actually got several complaints,” says Zeier, who put the exact number at four. Zeier did explain that part of the issue comes from the difference in staffing a primary election as opposed to a general election. Of the 620 judges the county recruited this year, 300 were called upon to work the primary. Come November, Zeier says she’ll likely need roughly 515. “I don’t foresee there will be very many that won’t be placed this November,” she says. After hearing concerns from judges like Bentley, Zeier says her office will evaluate the feasibility of providing advance notice. In the mean-

time, she’ll continue reconciling the staff she has with the staff she needs. “It’s sort of like feast or famine,” she says. Jessica Mayrer

Sex

The more the merrier When people who are interested in polamory get together for a dinner, of course it’s potluck—why choose just one dish? Around 20 people came to last week’s “Poly Potluck Party” at Missoula’s Birds & Bees sexual health collaborative, which was preceded by a workshop with founder Lindsey Doe. The 28-yearold University of Montana graduate (and current adjunct professor) hopes to recreate a slice of the community she found in San Francisco, where she earned her doctorate in human sexuality. “There were a lot of ‘poly’ people around me,” Doe says. “Here, people were Craigslisting.” “Poly” is short for “polyamory,” which translates literally to “multiple love,” and is something of a catch-all term for any open, non-monogamous relationship, though Doe

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prefers not to interchange it with group sex or swinging. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those are systems of their own,â&#x20AC;? she says. While Doe begins the workshop clutching a copy of Vicki Vantochâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Threesome Handbook to her chest as if it were a favorite Bronte novel, she favors therapeutic speak as much as dirty talk. The goal of the workshop, she says, is to take attendees from â&#x20AC;&#x153;a fear-based place to an educated place and then an experiential place,â&#x20AC;? with no less than a dozen â&#x20AC;&#x153;huge fear categoriesâ&#x20AC;? to addressâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;including jealousy, being outperformed or the wrong person finding out. The latter is of particular concern; several attendees are from smaller towns within an hourâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drive. One 40-something couple says theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re attending out of curiosity. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had threesomes, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s it. Another duo, Pam and Dan, are more experienced: two hippies in their mid-40s and mid-50s, respectively, who are â&#x20AC;&#x153;poly seeking poly fiâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;fidelis or fidelity, meaning they want to be in a traditional domestic and romantic partnership with a third person. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a [gender] preference, but he does,â&#x20AC;? Pam says. During the potluck, a 30-something couple with two kids talk about their asparagus crop and raising goats, which officially makes the gathering like any other Missoula dinner party. But, unlike any other Missoula dinner party, the workshop includes Doe â&#x20AC;&#x153;directingâ&#x20AC;? simulated group action. Doe encourages those who arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t comfortable with even faux clothed contact to be voyeurs, or perhaps consider miming golden showersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so long as it remains completely make-believe. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just had the carpets cleaned,â&#x20AC;? she cracks. Jason Cohen

DUI Drunk bus proposed As city officials grapple with Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s drinking and driving problem, a Missoula business owner says one simple piece of the equation is being overlooked: There arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough cabs at last call. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It takes an hour to an hour and a half to two hours to get a cab in Missoula,â&#x20AC;? says Tobias Bonfiglio of Captâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;N Trips shuttle service. That delay is why Bonfiglio wants to deploy a bio-bus to collect blotto residents on Friday and Saturday nights. Captâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;N Trips proposes charging $10 for each roundtrip to and from a bar or event, or $5 for a one-way ride. Bonfiglio says thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a clear need, but getting the Montana Public Service Commission

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(PSC) on board wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be easy. The business must obtain a PSC permit, and during that process existing transportation companies potentially impacted by the service can protest. Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Green Taxi, Yellow Cab and Valet Limousine have officially filed objections to Bonfiglioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proposal, according to PSCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wayne Budt. By law, those objections trigger a hearing

before the regulatory agency, which must evaluate whether the community needs the shuttle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking at is basically the effect on existing carriers,â&#x20AC;? Budt says. Green Taxi owner Mick Murray says heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s protesting because Bonfiglioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s application leaves too many questions unanswered. For instance, would Bonfiglioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s permit allow him to run a shuttle to the bar at the airport? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Largely, it was just wording of the application,â&#x20AC;? Murray says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t clearly defined what he was applying for.â&#x20AC;? While Murray has concerns about how a Captâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;N Trips shuttle might affect Green Taxiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s business, he acknowledges the bar rush is, at times, tough to handle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can be out there sitting around and then everybody calls at 10 [minutes] â&#x20AC;&#x2122;til 2,â&#x20AC;? he says. The PSC will discuss Bonfiglioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s application during an as-yet-unscheduled hearing later this summer. Jessica Mayrer

ConocoPhillips

Road tripping Energy mogul ConocoPhillips is fast approaching its desired deadline for finalizing a high and wide transportation project through Montana. But a number of formal measures have

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yet to be completed before the four enormous coke drums can hit the road from Lewiston, Idaho, to the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s refinery in Billings. Jim Lynch, director of the Montana Department of Transportation (MDT), says the ball is very much in ConocoPhillipsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; court. MDT canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t green-light the shipments until it has verified that the Idaho Transportation Department has approved the project. ConocoPhillips is also still negotiating with the Missoula Electric Cooperative about shutting off power along Highway 12 while power lines are temporarily relocated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just received their information on their detoursâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one in Harlowton and one in Helenaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; where they want to access local roads,â&#x20AC;? Lynch says of the latest progress. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Their goal is still to have all this done by the end of the month.â&#x20AC;? If the project seems rushed, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because it is. ConocoPhillips only announced its intentions to ship the coke drums through western Montana in late spring and hopes to have the first two drums on the road in early July. Each load will take about three weeks to travel the full 700 miles. Despite the size of the shipments, the project has generated few organized protests in Montana compared to the overwhelmingly unpopular Kearl Module Transportation Project proposed by Exxon-Mobil. Even Northern Rockies Rising Tide (NRRT), the grassroots climate justice group that has hosted a number of rallies opposing ExxonMobilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actions, has hardly touched the ConocoPhillips issue despite claiming it indicates a precedent for accommodating oil companies and their oversized equipment. Leaders with NRRT declined comment as theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re currently at a protest in Detroit and â&#x20AC;&#x153;out of the loop.â&#x20AC;? Lynch suspects the muted opposition to ConocoPhillips is largely due to the nature of the project. The role ExxonMobilâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shipments will play in the controversial tar sands operation in Alberta make it an easy target for rankling, he says. ConocoPhillips may get lumped into the complaints because the loads are similarly high and wide, but thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s less reasonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;political and ideologicalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to publicly protest them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fielded in the same way, but the ConocoPhillips [project] isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t about developing oil in Canada,â&#x20AC;? Lynch says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about a need at the refinery.â&#x20AC;? Alex Sakariassen

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Elk spotted by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks during an aerial survey of the West Fork of the Bitterroot. The number indicates a decline of about 60 percent in the population since 2005.

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The Kalispell VFW presented colors, high school cheerleaders shook pom-poms and the crowd of about 100, braving the rain, listened to a rendition of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Star-Spangled Banner.â&#x20AC;? No, it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a rehearsal of Kalispellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fourth of July Parade. Rather, the celebration marked the grand opening of the massive Wal-Mart Superstore on Highway 93 north of Kalispell. Apparently Wal-Mart has become as American as apple pie. Or maybe as American as a Hershey chocolate bar, which was, reportedly, the first item purchased last Wednesday morning after the Supercenterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ribbon-cutting. Kalispellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Jason Hunt, along with his two brothers and two cousins, camped overnight in the parking lot for the right to be the first through the checkout line. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be more honored,â&#x20AC;? Hunt told the Daily Inter Lake after the purchase. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is by far the best Wal-Mart in the world.â&#x20AC;? Probably not, considering Wal-Mart, the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest retailer, operates more than 4,300 stores in the United States, and some 4,000 more around the world. But Kalispellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 188,028-square-foot Supercenter does stand out. It has a recycled concrete floor and domed skylights to bring in natural sunlight, among other â&#x20AC;&#x153;eco-friendlyâ&#x20AC;? features. It also houses a walk-in clinic run by the Kalispell Regional Medical Center, offering check-ups, immunizations, X-rays and screenings, as well as treatment of minor injuries. Kalispellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new Wal-Mart may be the ultimate in one-stopshopping, and it may have just employed about 150 people in a corner of Montana with some of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s highest unemployment rates, but we suspect the feel-good PR and the thrill of saving a couple bucks on laundry detergent will wear off before long. We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t say it any better than former Independent contributor John Dicker, who, in his 2005 book The United States of Wal-Mart, concludes: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all Wal-Martâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bitches.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wal-Mart has mastered the art of stocking shelves as cheaply as possible,â&#x20AC;? writes Dicker, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but with a growing body count and a rap sheet that does not bode well for either American capitalism or Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (and the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s) workers.â&#x20AC;? There are enough pages written on Wal-Martâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s evil nature to fill the 130,000-square-foot building the company has left empty after closing in nearby Evergreen. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll only add this: It seems the best way to lift our region out of this interminable recession is to spend our dollars with local businesses, not add them to Wal-Martâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more than $400 billion in annual sales. But low prices are hard to resist. Sort of like that allAmerican Hershey bar, which, it turns out, may have actually been made in Monterrey, Mexico.

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Strange bedfellows Why Forward Montana decided to back Republicans by Matthew Frank

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Debra Bonogofsky, a Billings Republican, had never heard of Forward Montana. She certainly wasn’t aware that the Missoula-based progressive political group supported her campaign for a House seat in District 57 ahead of the primary election earlier this month. But you can forgive Bonogofsky for being in the dark because Forward Montana wasn’t so much working for her as it was against her opponent, Dan Kennedy, a Tea Party Republican from Laurel who campaigned on being “100 percent for protecting the rights of the unborn, pro-gun rights, and pro-freedom.”

Republicans. The strategic shift reflects the group’s desire to back moderate candidates on the right as ultra-conservatives veer further away from progressive ideals. “We saw some reasonable Republicans running against people who are basically pushing to take the Republican Party in the state even further off the deep end,” explains Forward Montana CEO Matt Singer, “and so we decided to see if we could help with a little course correction.” The initiative mainly meant working the phones. Singer says Forward Montana spent as much as $1,000 on calling residents in Bonogofsky, Moran and

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Moderates Jesse Barnhart, left, and Debra Bonogofsky were two of the three Republicans the Missoula-based progressive political group Forward Montana backed during the June 8 primary elections. All three lost to more conservative candidates Forward Montana was hoping to keep away from Helena.

Forward Montana also supported Shawn Moran, though he didn’t know it either. Moran is a moderate Gallatin County Republican who ran against Art Wittich in Senate District 35. Wittich, an attorney, succinctly listed on his campaign website the four issues he cares about: less taxes and spending, property rights, gun rights and abortion. And Forward Montana backed Republican Jesse Barnhart, of Broadus, who challenged incumbent Lee Randall in House District 39. Randall, also of Broadus, has served one term in Helena. He calls global climate change a hoax and laments on his website that “our environmental agency are [sic] telling us when you exhale CO2 you are a polluter and cow manure is killing sea creatures in the Gulf of Mexico. Its [sic] seems government would prefer control to freedom.” The 2010 primary elections marked the first time Forward Montana, known for its creative approaches to fostering political engagement since its inception in 2004, supported candidates during a primary election, and the first time it worked on behalf of

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Barnhart’s districts about the candidates’ merits. But it wasn’t enough. “We went a big 0-3,” Singer says. Kennedy beat Bonogofsky by about nine percentage points. Wittich took 50 percent of the vote to easily beat Moran and two other candidates. Randall walloped Barnhart by about 26 percentage points. Doubts about Forward Montana’s strategy to support Republicans during primaries cropped up before the disappointing results came in two weeks ago. “We had some of our own supporters who were very critical of the fact that we were working with any Republicans at all,” Singer says. “But for the leadership of our organization—and we had a lot of conversations about this—what it ultimately came down to is a belief that, if we’re going to have a state with a Legislature that is working for all of us, we need to have two political parties that are willing to work together to find solutions on the big stuff, like the $400 million hole in the budget and some of the other big challenges we’re facing. “It’s not really a matter of liberal or conservative,” Singer continues. “It’s really a

matter of, can they go in there and get the job done in 90 days, get a budget passed, and not have to go into a special session?” Forward Montana wasn’t the only progressive group to back moderate Republicans during the primary. Montana Conservation Voters (MCV) also endorsed Bonogofsky, and it backed Mark Noennig’s election bid in Senate District 23. They were the only Republicans among the 11 candidates MCV supported—and the only ones to lose. Noennig, a former four-term member of the House, lost to Alan Olson, a current four-term member of the House, by about 16 percentage points. Olson boasts of his voting records with the Montana Chamber of Commerce, Montana Family Foundation and Montana Right to Life. MCV Director Theresa Keaveny says her group routinely supports Republicans in primaries, and the candidate it supports has little to do with who the alternative might be. “We endorsed [Bonogofsky],” Keaveny says, “because she…stood up for developing our small business economy in an environmentally sound manner, and we thought she would be a champion in defending the public’s right to public access for hunting and fishing.” Just how much money Forward Montana, MCV and other progressive groups spent on Republican primaries will be revealed after they file post-primary campaign finance reports in the coming weeks. Whatever Forward Montana’s investment, Montana Republican Party Chairman Will Deschamps dismisses the group’s effort as nothing more than a political stunt to help candidates closest to the left and to justify continuing to call itself nonpartisan. He doesn’t think Forward Montana’s efforts have anything to do with the widening gap between moderate and conservative Republicans. “It doesn’t say anything about the party other than we’re a broad-based party, that we encompass a wide spectrum of individuals who have diverse thoughts [about] what’s best for the state of Montana,” says Deschamps. Singer maintains Forward Montana’s first foray into the Republican fold, however ineffective, won’t be its last. “Our board certainly had a lively discussion over whether this was the right use of organizational resources and the right priority,” he says. “But by the end, we had pretty strong agreement that this was the sort of thing we need to try to do.” mfrank@missoulanews.com

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Wave of emotion Missoula’s new kayak park finally paddles forward by Alex Sakariassen

Those with the Max Wave say their Jason Shreder hasn’t yet found the “We’d like to see the wave done by strength to visit the stretch of the Gauley efforts are about more than just honoring 2015,” Brown says. “We’re trying to do a River in West Virginia where Max Lentz, a lost friend. Leah McBreairty, president of really good job with [the U.S. Team Trials] his former kayaking student, died in the Max Wave, joined the initiative last fall and potentially the opportunity we have is October 2007 at the age of 17. Shreder and never knew Lentz personally. For her, to host the World Championships here in had coached Lentz for years through the the project offers a chance to stimulate the 2015 on the Max Wave.” Zoo Town Surfers—a local youth kayak local economy and broaden Missoula’s That goal is still a long ways off. The club—and watched him grow into a recreational opportunities—and her claims Max Wave needs approval from a score have precedent. courageous and competent athlete. of offices and agencies, including the Shreder says Lentz brought a certain “If Brennan’s Wave weren’t already city, the county and Montana Fish, energy and humor to the club that hasn’t there, it would be a monumental task,” Wildlife and Parks. The group is currentbeen there since. But it’s Lentz’s perly in the “build the brand” stage of sonal quirks that Shreder really missthe project, says Sue Larew, vice es, especially his habit of being conpresident of First Interstate Bank and sistently late for club activities. head of fundraising for the Max Wave. She estimates it will be anoth“It’s funny, a lot of the things er year before she enters “major that kind of drive you nuts about fundraising mode,” hitting up founpeople you care about, you realize dations and applying for conservawhen they’re gone that you actually tion-based grants. miss a lot of those things,” Shreder “Probably 80 percent of the says. “Everybody in the group we money that comes from this will be have now, they’re all on time. You donors, people writing checks to kind of miss that. You’re like, ‘I miss us,” Larew says. Max showing up late with a big smile on his face and his kayak gear Despite the logistics, no one with hanging out all over the back of the Max Wave anticipates any real frichis truck.’” tion over the proposal. Larew says a successful Max Wave campaign could make Looking back on those years, Missoula a model for other river comShreder chokes up. It’s still hard to munities when it comes to enhancehit the water without the memory of ment projects, and Brown believes nine Lentz bringing him close to tears, he out of 10 people in Missoula “are going says. But lately those emotions have Photo by Cathrine L. Walters to say it’s a no-brainer.” also come up during monthly meet“Tourism is what’s going to make ings with the Max Wave initiative, a Missoula kayak instructor Jason Shreder is committee under the umbrella of the among those working to design and con- Missoula the spot, and the Max plays struct a second kayak park on the Clark into that,” Brown says. “It’s the future. Brennan’s Wave board. Fork River. The Max Wave would serve as a Rumors of a new kayak park memorial to Max Lentz, a former student of Especially if we can bring big events like have persisted in Missoula for more Shreder’s who died in a kayak accident in the World Championships for kayaking, that puts Missoula on a world map. All than two years, but the grassroots West Virginia in 2007. of a sudden you’re bringing 400 athletes initiative has made little headway until now. The Max Wave officially McBreairty says. “But because Brennan’s from 56 countries to town…It makes formed in January to design, raise Wave is already there, people already Missoula a whitewater destination.” funds for and construct a second wave know what it is. They know people are Still, it’s hard to ignore how bitteron the Clark Fork River as a memorial getting use out of it. They know that sweet the initiative’s work is for some. to Lentz. Those with the group have when people come to visit Missoula, they Lentz’s parents, John and Sally, are both been fundraising for months—selling T- take a picture of it and take it home to active on the committee. Others knew shirts, handing out stickers and hosting wherever they live. That is such a gem for Lentz as a fellow kayaker, a club member kayak video premieres. They’ve focused downtown Missoula and for the commu- or a close friend. The wave may, as their intentions on the Flynn-Lowney nity at large.” Brown says, play a critical role in Diversion weir near the Osprey stadiFor further proof of the potential Missoula’s economic future. But for um. And on June 29, the day before the economic stimulus, K.B. Brown, a Max Shreder, there’s an even greater reason U.S. Freestyle Kayak Team Trials begin Wave committee member and owner of to one day ride the Max Wave. on Brennan’s Wave, the Max Wave will the Strongwater kayak shop, points to “This project’s not about me or benformally announce its efforts during an the U.S. Team Trials that start June 30. efiting my business,” he says. “To me it’s event at First Interstate Bank, the Max Nearly 200 athletes from across the coun- about seeing it through to the end. If I Wave’s primary sponsor. try will descend on Missoula, spending got zero credit for this project I’d be fine “When it’s all said and done,” Shreder money at local businesses when they with that, as long as I know in my heart says, “hopefully it will be a place where we aren’t competing. It’s one of the biggest that I did everything I could to make it can go and feel that energy of Brennan and national events in kayaking, Brown says, happen, especially for Max’s family. That Max and kind of carry on—a place for us to and the trials could set the stage for would mean the most to me.” remember the people we care about and international competitions in the future, provided the Max Wave is successful. asakariassen@missoulanews.com what they brought to this world.”

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Those words, written more than 400 years ago, could not better describe this week’s showdown between the Pentagon’s Gen. Stanley McChrystal and the nation’s Commander-in-Chief, President Barack Obama, a showdown precipitated by a damning article in Rolling Stone titled “The Runaway General.” Like so many heads of state in so many nations for uncountable numbers of years, America now finds itself at the hour of decision in which we determine whether we are a nation of laws whose policies are set by elected representatives of the people, or if we have slipped into a state where the military decides it can go its own way in defiance of civilian rule. McChrystal is the general currently in charge of the Afghanistan War. Scion of a military family and son of a general, McChrystal is himself a hardened dog of war who, this week, was summoned back, “hot from hell,” to explain the comments he and his top aides made to Michael Hastings, the author of the Rolling Stone article. The hard copy won’t hit newsstands until Friday, but you can already read it online and see for yourself how the men conducting the day-to-day fighting, killing and dying in the dust of Afghanistan view those who are, under our form of government, supposedly their bosses. For instance, McChrystal is quoted as saying he got to his position by “never taking my eyes off the real enemy, the wimps in the White House.” His disdain for top administration officials comes through in virtually every quote throughout the article and reveals much about what America’s super-heated militarism has wrought. In recounting the first face-toface meeting between Obama and McChrystal, one of his top advisers says: “Obama clearly didn’t know anything about him, who he was. Here’s the guy who’s going to run his fucking war, but he didn’t seem very engaged. The Boss was pretty disappointed.” Or how about his take on Vice President Joe Biden, who is next in line to lead the nation should something hap-

pen to President Obama? Biden is ridiculed by both McChrystal, who asks, “Who’s that?” and his staff, who insultingly call him “Bite Me.” Why? Because Vice President Biden challenged McChrystal’s demand for 40,000 more troops last year for his so-called “surge” in Afghanistan.

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his attitude.

Biden, sensibly enough, didn’t think McChrystal’s counter-insurgency strategy would work and was making his opinion known, as is not only his right, but his duty to the nation. Then there’s McChrystal’s respectful treatment of the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry, the U.S. Special Representative to Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, and National Security Advisor Jim Jones. As the article puts it: “McChrystal likes to talk shit about many of Obama’s top people on the diplomatic side.” And indeed, he and his staff seem to regard their civilian counterparts with little but disdain. Jones, a retired 4-star general, is described by one staffer as “a clown” who is “stuck in 1985.” Holbrooke, meanwhile, gets dubbed “a wounded animal” and deemed “dangerous” because of it. When McChrystal gets an e-mail on his Blackberry from Holbrooke, he bemoans it, saying: “I don’t even want to open it.” An aide then quips, “Make sure you don’t get any of that on your leg.” Even if McChrystal was winning the Afghan War, which he is not, such actions would be grounds for immediate dismissal. Sure, he’s a tough old Ranger guy who, as head of the Joint Operations Special Command, oversaw secret Black Ops programs using Navy Seals, Rangers

and Delta Force to reportedly kill “thousands.” Of his time in Afghanistan, McChrystal readily admits: “We’ve shot an amazing amount of people.” Yet, despite having his operations dubbed “a killing machine,” McChrystal has camouflaged himself as someone who is trying to reduce civilian casualties. Then again, since he was one of the highest-ranking officers in the cover-up of the friendly-fire death of former football player turned Army Ranger, Pat Tillman, we may want to take this particular general’s statements with more than a little skepticism. In another well-documented episode, McChrystal was in charge when prisoners at Camp Nama in Iraq were “subjected to a now-familiar litany of abuse: stress positions, being dragged naked through the mud.” But in the end, it is not the killing, the deception or the fraud that should require McChrystal’s resignation. It is his attitude—and the attitudes of those he leads—toward the very structure upon which our nation is founded. Plainly put, the people are in charge of the military and not the other way around. If our elected representatives say “enough is enough” or decide to pull out troops by a set date, such as President Obama has pledged to do in Afghanistan next year, it is not up to a general to dispute that command—not for any reason, not for any rhyme. His duty, first and foremost, is to obey his superiors and, in this case, that would include the president. We are teetering on the brink of chaos. As the Rolling Stone article bluntly concludes, McChrystal’s “counterinsurgency has succeeded only in creating a never-ending demand for the primary product supplied by the military: perpetual war.” But Americans show no sign of desiring a state of perpetual war. President Obama is beset on all sides with seemingly unsolvable problems. The last thing he needs is, as the article correctly dubs it, a “runaway general.” If we believe the fate of other nations cannot happen here, where the military literally takes over the country and displaces civilian rule, we are ignoring the lessons of history at our peril. It’s time to leash the vicious dogs of war. 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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Still drunk on oil Gulf disaster sends important message to Westerners by Ray Ring

When the Exxon Valdez oil tanker struck an Alaskan reef in 1989, leaking 11 million gallons of crude into a marine ecosystem, Greenpeace ran ads showing the ship’s captain, Joseph Hazelwood, with the message: “It wasn’t his driving that caused the Alaskan oil spill. It was yours.” The ads scolded: “The spill was caused by a nation drunk on oil. And a government asleep at the wheel.” All the publicity about that disaster pressured Congress and President George H.W. Bush to pass a 1990 law establishing “the first coordinated, national system for responding to oil spills and compensating their victims,” according to the Anchorage Daily News. That law and follow-up regulations raised the limits on oil company liability and spurred a shift to double hulls and other oil tanker safety measures. The 1989 spill was good for the environmental movement; groups enjoyed record-breaking surges in new members and fund raising. Yet how much of our behavior changed? The same message applies today to the even bigger oil leakage from a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico. The nation is still drunk on oil, consuming roughly 18.5 million barrels per day, a million more than in 1989. The federal government is still asleep at the wheel, overseeing the industry with a mix of rah-rah encouragement and often lax regulation. And Westerners play a prominent role in driving both of those facts. Our love for gas hogs and oil-powered recreation, for instance, inspires us to drive around in more than 25 million trucks, including pickups and SUVs, about 2 million motorboats and hordes of off-road vehicles. Westerners burned some 37 billion gallons of petroleum products for transportation in 2007, the most recent federal statistics available. California, not surprisingly, with the biggest population, was tops among all states. But for high per capita use of petroleum for transportation, Alaska came out ahead, Wyoming was second, Montana was seventh and New Mexico 12th. On average, each Wyomingite

motored 49 miles per day in 2007, highest in per capita miles driven, while New Mexico, Montana, Idaho and Utah were above average in that ranking. The region’s entire tourism industry, including ski resorts, national parks and even guided backpacking trips, relies on petroleum to transport customers. The second-home industry, important in all the

Westerners “burned some 37 billion gallons of petroleum products for transportation in 2007, the most recent federal statistics

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Bozemans and Santa Fes, also gobbles petroleum. All the chi-chi amenity towns such as Aspen would collapse without fuelswilling private and commercial jets. In New West suburbia, seemingly every household has a riding mower, a snowblower and a weedwacker. California’s Central Valley mega-farms and the region’s other farms and ranches are hooked on petroleum-based ag chemicals along with fuels for farm equipment. Meanwhile, Westerners who gained power in George W. Bush’s administration pushed fossil fuel development while making sure regulations were weak. They included Coloradan Gale Norton, who ran the key department, Interior, which oversees federally managed minerals; Idahoan Dirk

Kempthorne, who ran Interior after Norton quit amid piles of evidence that she had been negligent; and Vice President Dick Cheney and his fellow Wyomingites, Rejane “Johnnie” Burton and Randall Luthi, both of whom ran the Minerals Management Service, now notorious for getting cozy with the companies it regulates. Some of them came from industry jobs and some took industry jobs after they left the administration. Some were conscientious, but collectively they created a regime that “granted exceptions to rules, allowed risks to accumulate and made a disaster more likely” in the Gulf, observes the New York Times. Presidents tend to appoint Westerners to run Interior because it oversees the region’s large amounts of federal land along with nationwide minerals. The oneand-a-half-year-old Obama administration has former Colorado Sen. Ken Salazar atop Interior and more Westerners in federal positions that bear on oil. They tightened some regulations but continued to leave some gaping loopholes for offshore and inland drillers. Even though Obama’s initial director of minerals management, S. Elizabeth Birnbaum, has quit under fire, much more could be done to make drilling safer. Hydraulic “fracking”—pumping chemicals underground to release natural gas—is still mostly unregulated, for instance, thanks to a Safe Drinking Water Act exemption engineered by Cheney. President Obama has vowed to use public outrage over the blackened Gulf to boost renewable energy and nuclear power, and to get Congress to limit carbon emissions. Just as previous oil disasters spurred reforms and questions about oil addiction, the ongoing Gulf disaster could be another galvanizing moment. Despite all the misery, there’s a big potential upside if we finally make the tough decisions to shake our fossil-fuel addictions. Ray Ring is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is the magazine’s senior editor in Bozeman.

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experts, which will then be combined and distilled with the views of your fellow neighbors. These suggestions—along with those of other participants across the United States—will then get sent to Congress and President Obama. Considering this is a pressing economic issue that’s bound to affect future generations, I wouldn’t pass up this opportunity to let your voice be heard. —Ira Sather-Olson

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As fun as it is to bitch about our economy and our nation’s rising debt, you have to admit that actions speak much louder than words. This week, you have the chance to put your ideas into action during “AmericaSpeaks: Our Budget, Our Economy,” a national, interactive town meeting of sorts that occurs this weekend in Missoula, as well as in 18 other cities across the United States. E s s e n t i a l l y, t h i s non-partisan event will bring together Missoulians from all political backgrounds in order to identify ways to deal with our government’s mounting debt—which, by some estimates, could reach a whopping $20 trillion by 2020. You’ll do your part by weighing in on a host of policy options presented by bipartisan

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FRIDAY JUNE 25 I pledge allegiance to no myth: Hamilton’s River Street Dance Theatre, 421 N. Second St., presents “The U.S. Constition: Myth Vs. Reality,” a talk with the ACLU of Montana’s Niki Zupanic that begins at 7 PM at the theater. Free. Call 552-2306.

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“AmericaSpeaks: Our Budget, Our Economy” occurs Saturday, June 26, at 9:30 AM inside UM’s University Center. Free, but registration is required. Register by visiting usabudgetdiscussion.org.

TUESDAY JUNE 29 You can fight for peace in many different ways, but how about knitting for it? Find out when the group Knitting for Peace meets every Tue. from 1–3 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-3955. Missoula’s YWCA, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts weekly support groups for women every Tue. at 6:30 PM, where groups for Native women and children meet as well. New group members with children are asked to arrive at 6:15, without kids at 6:25. Free. Call 543-6691. Slip into a world of snapshots during Iran in Color: A Story in Pictures by Will Boland, a presentation featuring an array of Boland’s pics of the country during recent travels starting at 7 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Those who have problems with anorexia or bulimia can find a shoulder to lean on during a meeting of Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous, which meets this and every Tue. at 7:30 PM in the Memorial Room of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. E-mail abamissoula@gmail.com.

THURSDAY JULY 1 Help support the completion of Ewam’s Peace Garden of 1000 Buddhas when Shanti Yoga Studio, 235 Central Ave. Ste. A in Whitefish, presents two donation-based yoga fundraiser classes featuring cellist Lee Zimmerman with the first class running from 11:30 AM–1:30 PM at the studio. The second class runs from 2–4 PM. Call Jodi at 250-1363. Do your part to help support the completion of Ewam’s Peace Garden of 1000 Buddhas during a fundraiser at Whitefish’s The Green Tea House, 415 Second St. E., which begins with a silent auction including traditional Himalayan art at 6 PM. A presentation occurs at 6:30 PM, and is followed with music at 7 from Betsi Morrison and Luke Walrath, as well as tunes by Joan Zen at 8 PM. $10 suggested donation. Call Deanne at 862-5050.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN Police identified Anthony Brandon Gonzalez, 20, as their suspect in a home invasion after the victim, an Elvis impersonator in Pueblo County, Colo., said that one of the invaders had “East Side” tattooed on his upper lip. Gonzalez also has a “13” tattooed on his chin. According to an affidavit, the tattoos were visible even though Gonzalez was wearing a mask. “It’s hard to miss him,” Sgt. Eric Bravo said. Three Australian men who attacked a 27-year-old German exchange student in a Sydney alley found out they were next to the Ninja Senshi Ryu warrior school when four students and their teacher came to the victim’s rescue. “We just ran outside and started running at them, yelling and everything,” said ninja master Kaylan Soto, who instructed his students to take action. “These guys have turned around and seen five ninjas in black ninja uniforms running towards them. They just bolted.” Police arrested two of the attackers and were looking for the third. SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES A 41-year-old man shot himself in the testicles while shopping at a Lowe’s Home Improvement store in Lynnwood, Wash. Paramedic Jim Fischer said the victim, who was wearing black sweatpants, told him the gun “was in my waistband, and I felt it starting to slip, reached for it, and I must have positioned my finger so the trigger went off.” NOT-SO-SWEET REVENGE After her car was repossessed, Haleigh Boland, 26, tracked down the repo woman and tried to set the woman’s car on fire. According to Etowah County, Ala., Sheriff Todd Entrekin, Boland poured gasoline on the vehicle but had trouble starting the fire. When it finally did ignite, the flash set her clothes on fire. The repo woman’s surveillance video shows Boland tearing off her clothes and running to a waiting get-away car driven by her father. She suffered first and second degree burns to her upper body. SPY GAMES Indian police reported they were holding a pigeon under armed guard after it was caught on a “special mission of spying” for archenemy Pakistan. The pigeon had a ring around its foot and a Pakistani phone number and address stamped on its body in red ink. Police officer Ramdas Jagjit Singh Chahal said the bird was being held in an air-conditioned room under police guard, and senior officers asked for updates on the situation three times a day. Chahal added that Pakistani pigeons are easy to spot because they look different from Indian ones. CARNIVORE’S DIGEST A man was hospitalized after being sucked into a sausage-making machine in Danver, Mass. Police Lt. Carole Germano said the worker at DiLuigi Sausage Co. was cleaning inside “a vacuum-type cylinder” that draws marinade into the meat when it somehow was activated, and his head and shoulders got stuck in the machine. The man was helped out of the machine with no obvious injuries but taken to the hospital as a precaution.

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Scientists in mostly Muslim Kazakhstan have come up with a simple test to detect pork in food. “It’s no secret that some chefs cheat and put pork to beef to make the dish cheaper,” the newspaper Megapolis observed in announcing the test, which uses a plastic stick to detect pork molecules. “When you get your beef patty, cut off a couple of small pieces and drop them in a glass of water. Stir, shake, put the test stick in. In a minute or two you will see the result.”

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The Spanish butcher shop Izarzugaza has installed a meat vending machine outside its Mundaka location so customers can buy meat, sausages and sandwiches 24 hours a day. “We had to provide a service when the shop closes,” fourth-generation butcher Izarzugaza Mikel, 31, explained. WANT FREEDOM FRIES WITH THAT? Minor league baseball’s Brevard County Manatees announced they are protesting British Petroleum’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill by changing the name of batting practice, commonly referred to as “B.P.,” to “hitting rehearsal.” The Manatees, an affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers, play home games near Florida’s Atlantic coast.

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POTATO HEAD BLUES Hasbro and PPW Toys announced they’ve signed a deal with the Elvis Presley estate to release an Elvis version of Mr. Potato Head. The first model, wearing a jumpsuit, will be introduced for Elvis Tribute Week in August. A second model, dressed in black leather, will be out in time for Christmas. BAD SAMARITAN OF THE WEEK A man whose car overheated in Naples, Fla., called his friend, Robert Matthew Garland, 20, to give him a ride. Instead, according to a Collier County Sheriff’s Office report, Garland robbed him at gunpoint of his wallet and shoes and then kicked him out of the car. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE After Chicago police charged Lapolean Colbert, 19, with beating a high school student to death, prosecutors told the judge that the assault was captured on videotape and that Colbert identified himself in the video and admitted to beating the victim. Despite the evidence against him, Colbert’s lawyer, Michael Clancy, declared he would fight the charges tooth and nail, explaining his client has no criminal background, is a good student and was planning to go to college. BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO While arguing at a tavern in Winneconne, Wis., a 30-year-old man asked his 24-year-old fiancée to return her engagement ring. When she refused, he tried to pull it off her finger, according to the police report, which said she punched him in the faced four times, bloodying his nose. SCAMARAMA After fleecing an American woman of $60,000 in a 419 scam, the scammers notified her that she had won $1.06 million and had to come to South Africa and bring $2,000 with her to claim her prize in person. “She duly came, and on arrival on April 15 they took her hostage from the airport and kept her in a house in Albertsdal, Alberton, for well over a month,” said Musa Zondi of South Africa’s Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation. “She was fed once a day while in captivity.” She managed to escape on May 22 by breaking a window and notified police, who arrested three Nigerians and a South African woman.

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fficials with the Blackfeet Nation last met December with representatives of the Newfield Exploration Company out of Houston, Texas, to sign over oil leases on 224,000 acres of tribal land in the eastern portion of the reservation. The deal called for the drilling of eight exploratory wells by the end of 2010 and full-scale development of a portion of the Southern Alberta Basin through 2014—including at least one deep well per year. The tribe has not made public the final dollar value of the deal, but says the Blackfeet stand to gain more than $12 million from Newfield. In short, it’s the largest oil agreement the tribe has ever signed. Grinnell Day Chief, oil and gas manager for the Blackfeet Department of Commerce, rattles off all the public details of the agreement from his desk in Browning. A camo cap with the orange Newfield logo emblazoned above the bill sits on a shelf behind him, a bonus gift from what is unquestionably a lucrative opportunity for the tribe. If Newfield teams hit the rich oil reserves they believe lie deep under the Cut Bank area, the Blackfeet will be raking in a 20 percent royalty check from every barrel sold. “This is the first time we’ve had this deep exploration since the early ’80s,” Day Chief says. “This is the boom. We’re in it right now. You can go ask anybody anywhere where everybody’s doing busi-

ness in Montana, and most of it is here on our reservation. …If they find what they’re looking for, next year we’ll have 100 brand new wells that will be drilled. A year after that it will double to 200. We’ll have up to 10 to 15 rigs working on the reservation if the play they’re looking for is here. It’s here, it’s just how do you get it out of the ground?” Newfield is hardly the first oil company to come calling in Browning. In the past five years, the tribe has entered into agreements with three different companies—Anschutz Exploration Corp. out of Denver, Colo., the Rocky Mountain office of Texas-based Rosetta Resources Inc., and now Newfield. The leases mostly cover tribal and allotted lands, Day Chief explains, with some private lands owned by tribal and non-tribal residents thrown in. Much of the drilling done by the three companies has focused on the Cut Bank area, but Anschutz has drilled two wells between Browning and East Glacier and has plans to drill two more. In Day Chief ’s words, these are boom times for the tribe on the oil front, and the offers just keep coming; Day Chief says the latest are “just a little bit too late.” The tribe’s already leased out a majority of its available acreage. What’s left is being saved for a day when the value of development grows even greater. “We were just offered another $150 an acre for some acreage we have available on the south end of our reserva-

tion,” Day Chief says. “But that’s just an offer. I’m sure someone else is going to come up with a better offer…I’ve been here for six years. Five years ago, we probably got interest from one company a year. We always couldn’t come to terms or we’d enter into some smaller agreements. But as of lately, I get calls almost every other day from companies looking for land to lease from us.” Oil exploration goes back a long way on the Blackfeet Reservation. Since the 1930s, an endless parade of companies has punched more than 1,400 wells in search of oil and natural gas. Some found nothing worth investing in and capped what they’d drilled. Other ventures proved more successful, and by the Blackfeet Department of Commerce’s count the reservation currently hosts 240 producing wells operated by nearly a dozen different companies extracting a total of 550 barrels of oil a day. Day Chief and his office have learned fast how to play the resource leasing game. Federal regulations regarding oil deals required a minimum royalty payment of 12.5 percent until the late ’90s, when that figure jumped to 16.5 percent. But in recent years, Day Chief says, the number of offers has put the Blackfeet in a much greater negotiating position. They accept nothing below a 20 percent royalty return now, he says, and that means major revenue for a reservation suffering a 72

percent unemployment rate (according to the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ 2005 Indian Labor Force Report) and a poverty level two and a half times the national average. The Newfield deal alone has already had a $5.5 million impact on the reservation. The tribe’s roughly 16,000 enrolled members each received a Christmas gift of $200 last year, with another $200 on the way this summer. There’s talk of constructing a new grocery store in Browning to create jobs and compete with the existing IGA store. And the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council is even considering using some of the money to buy back fractionated trust lands on the reservation. With promise like that, how can the oil bid lose? “We were $20 million in debt a couple years ago as a tribe,” Day Chief says. “We’re out of debt now, and that’s just from the oil deals we’re doing. It’s good to be out of debt.”

he situation playing out on the Blackfeet Reservation in many ways reflects the flurry of oil and natural gas activity near Sidney just a few years ago. Between 2000 and 2006, Montana’s oil production leapt from 16 million barrels a year to 33 million. Multi-national corporations like ConocoPhillips and Halliburton flocked to northeastern Montana to drill

While much of the oil and gas development on the Blackfeet Reservation is focused on the Cut Bank area, companies like the Anschutz Corporation have already drilled wells near Highway 2 between Browning and East Glacier. Those skeptical of large-scale development fear that activity could harm native wildlife.

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wells alongside local energy companies, offering jobs and millions of dollars in royalties primarily to Richland County. The word “boom” has since been tossed around frequently in relation to development near Montana’s border with North Dakota, where the Bakken Shale Formation promises an estimated 3 to 4.3 billion barrels of recoverable oil, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Output from that portion of the state has subsided during the recession, dropping to 25 million barrels in 2009, but still accounts for more than 90 percent of the state’s oil production. And interest persists, says Tom Richmond, division administrator for the Montana Board of Oil and Gas. The number of producing wells in northeastern Montana has increased in the past four years, from 1,877 in 2006 to 2,052 in 2009, and activity is creeping toward the Fort Peck Reservation. Should the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes there enter into large-scale negotiations with oil and gas companies, it could open a whole new front for development. “In the case of the Blackfeet, it started on the reservation and maybe it will go into areas that are off the reservation. In eastern Montana, a lot of it started off the reservation and may be headed toward on-reservation areas,” Richmond says. “It’s just a matter of where the thing starts to develop and what direction it goes.” But oil development comes with grave ecological and societal risks no matter where development occurs. For two months now, the nation’s attention has been fixed on the Gulf of Mexico and the growing oil slick that’s already devastated fisheries, wildlife and local businesses in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. The blowout of British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon well on April 20 is now considered the greatest environmental disaster in U.S. history, spewing more oil into the Gulf in a day than most Montana counties produce in a year. You don’t have to visit the Gulf Coast to witness the hazards inherent to the oil industry. On June 10, the U.S. District Court in Great Falls sentenced Provident Energy Associates of Montana to 18 months probation and demanded a $5,000 fine for violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. The Cut Bank-based firm is responsible for a storage tank leak in Pondera County in September 2008 that created a 10-by-20 foot pond of oil and caused the deaths of 18 migratory birds, including several vesper sparrows and an owl. The birds died as a result of ingesting or becoming coated with oil. Richmond downplays the severity of the risks in Montana. Yes, the state has had problems with leaks or blowouts in the past, he says, but nothing spectacular. Those accidents have been more an economic problem than an environmental one. “Most of our issues are just really where the wells are located and the infrastructure required and the surface occupation, not so much the safety and health aspect of it,” Richmond says. “We have had oil tanks hit by lightning, which makes kind of a mess.”

Grinnell Day Chief, oil and gas manager for the Blackfeet Department of Commerce, knows there are ecological risks involved in fossil fuel development. He also knows the tribe stands to gain millions from just one oil agreement. With the reservation facing a 72 percent unemployment rate, the payoffs seem more than worth the gamble, Day Chief says.

Day Chief insists the Blackfeet have taken precautions in each of their oil agreements to protect the tribe should any disasters occur. Despite the proximity of the 2008 Provident spill to Glacier County, he has few concerns about potential risks in this latest rush for oil. “We have a liability clause in every one of our agreements,” Day Chief says. “So if there’s a spill or anything that happened recently with the well being

except they have neighbors, they have their own people and their own land that they have to consider.” If a leak does happen on the Blackfeet Reservation, Burk’s convinced the tribe will be left holding the bag. “I guarantee you they will get their oil and gas money,” he says, “and it would not surprise me if they get cheated in the process somewhere. And they will be left with the environmental cleanup—or the

what do we do at the very start to make sure we have the safety mechanisms to respond?’ That’s never a primary issue.” Mitigation measures can be taken to reduce the impacts on local wildlife, Day Chief points out, and the Blackfeet are working with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to monitor the effects of continued development. It isn’t that the tribe wants to see any harm come to the land, he says. But the financial benefits in the

“We were $20 million in debt a couple years ago as a tribe. We’re out of debt now, and that’s just from the oil deals we’re doing.” —Grinnell Day Chief, oil and gas manager for the Blackfeet Department of Commerce

drilled and then there was a big leak, it’s the company’s responsibility. We’re not responsible at all.” Those familiar with oil companies’ tactics don’t buy it. Stoney Burk, a Choteau attorney and outspoken advocate for environmental conservation in Montana, has little faith in liability clauses. He’s fought for years to keep oil companies from leasing tracts of land along the mountains just south of the Blackfeet Reservation for the very reason that oil companies have a bad history of keeping their promises to clean up when a leak, spill or blowout occurs. “I’m not at all opposed to drilling, to oil and gas exploration in non-pristine areas. But number one, you’ve got to do the safeguards,” Burk says. “You’ve got to make sure the enforcement mechanism for keeping these companies honest is in place and that it is enforced. I don’t have any bad feelings about the Blackfeet developing the oil and gas resources,

United States government will—when it’s all over. Because that’s the history of oil development in the United States.” The concerns go well beyond exposing wildlife and landscapes to oil. Development means infrastructure— heavy equipment, trucks and especially roads—that can prove more damaging to the environment than an isolated spill. With roads comes increased traffic, Burk says, and increased poaching and fractionalized migratory routes for native species. The proximity of Anschutz’s operation to the mountains around East Glacier puts the company right next to a grizzly bear recovery zone. “The dollar is society and we know it,” Burk says. “And the tendency for development never puts environmental issues as a primary consideration. That’s almost an afterthought, ‘Oh, by the way, if we have a blowout like they did in the Gulf, or if we have a pipeline break or if we have toxic fumes escaping into the air,

Blackfeet’s case would seem to outweigh the ecological risks. “We do have 16,000 members to provide for,” Day Chief says. “You can’t just stop because there’s a bear there.”

ot all communities in Montana have welcomed the oil industry as warmly as the Blackfeet. Seventy-two miles southeast of Browning, residents in Choteau spent the better part of three decades opposing oil and gas development on the Rocky Mountain Front. Yes, there were promises of jobs, money and growth like those on the Blackfeet Reservation. But the unlikely band of ranchers, outfitters and businessmen known as the Friends of the Rocky Mountain Front (FRMF) recognized the cost in ecological, historical and emotional sacrifices that such benefits required. “I’m just saying, if you have a house, you have a living room, you have a dining room, you have a bathroom, you have a

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Choteau attorney Stoney Burk has dedicated most of his life to preserving Montana’s pristine landscapes and wildlife populations. Oil is a dirty addiction, he says, and the growing boom on the Blackfeet Reservation is proof of yet another Montana community getting hooked.

bedroom. You don’t go to the bathroom in your dining room,” says Burk, a core member of the FRMF and continued advocate for conservation. “You have certain areas that are too pristine, of too much national significance or too much aesthetic, emotional significance that those values far outweigh the returns that you might get even if there was gold under it. I ask people this: Would you take Glacier Park and doze it flat because there’s gold under it?” Choteau’s battle with development began in 1977, when the U.S. Forest Service announced plans to lease all land on the Front within the Lewis and Clark National

Forest to oil and gas companies. Geologists all but guaranteed that the pristine corridor offered a rich source of fossil fuels, and many locals were sold on the plan, convinced it would mean future growth and sustainability for the community. Others, however, found the Forest Service’s announcement distasteful. Choteau resident Gene Sentz, a retired teacher and former Forest Service employee, remembers calling together the first meeting of FRMF, a group of 15 or 20 locals who gathered over beers in late 1977 to discuss how to oppose the leasing plan. The movement steadily gained momentum and by the following

spring they were openly protesting the Forest Service’s actions and demanding the agency stop. “We weren’t against a little bit of oil and gas development, but by gosh what they were doing was committing the whole east front of the national forest outside the Bob Marshall to oil companies…for a 10-year lease,” Sentz says. “We had a meeting in the spring, March of ’78, down in the pavilion and about 250 showed up just by word of mouth. We had the Forest Service there and after that they backed up and agreed to do an EIS [environmental impact statement]. So we kinda won the first round there.”

The FRMF managed to delay the Forest Service’s plans through much of the ’80s, but by 1990 the issue had come up once more. Oil and gas companies were pressing the Forest Service hard to complete an EIS. The fight may have dragged on indefinitely—or with disastrous results—had Gloria Flora not been named forest supervisor on the Lewis and Clark National Forest in 1995. By then most people across the nation knew of the FRMF’s bitter 20-year battle, and Flora entered the position with an immediate sense of skepticism based on the public outcry. “Hearing what people felt about this landscape, it became abundantly clear to me that this was an incredible treasure,” Flora says. “I started to explore: What could I do, what was I responsible for doing, and what were the people who owned this land asking me to do? I was responsible for being responsive to industry, I had a mandate to ensure the people of the United States had energy as well as water, so it was not just, ‘Well hey, this is special, go away.’ And industry was extremely interested in getting in there, so it was a very interesting dilemma I found myself in.” The call was Flora’s to make, and her final decision proved an unpopular one with the oil industry: In 1997, she announced a moratorium on all oil and natural gas leasing on the Rocky Mountain Front. She’d spent a year mapping wildlife areas and sensitive habitats, layering those maps to get a sense of the stipulations the Forest Service would have to place on surface occupancy and other aspects of drilling. “It goes without saying the ecological values along the Rocky Mountain Front are almost unparalleled, and it’s been called

The tall, distinctive peaks of the Rocky Mountain Front, including Ear Mountain, on the left, prompted locals to fight for 30 years against nearby oil and gas development.

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the Serengeti of the West or of the United States,” says Flora, who now runs a Helenabased nonprofit specializing in sustainability of public lands. “It has tremendous wildlife populations and wildlife values as habitat, not only for every large charismatic mega-fauna but also a host of threatened and endangered species—grizzly bears, wolves, wolverines, lynx—you name it, they’re all there. It provides nesting habitat for one-third of the birds in the state of Montana…The migration corridor for golden eagles is right along the spine of the Rocky Mountain Front, and there’s thousands and thousands of them literally.” Her moratorium remained in effect— a protective though temporary measure—until 2006, when Sen. Max Baucus carried a permanent ban on development along the Front through Congress. Those with the FRMF still consider Flora the pivotal voice in preserving the area. “To me, it was like the start of the civil rights movement in terms of this environmental battle,” Burk says. “It was the Parks on the bus, it was the massacre of Martin Luther King, it was the march across Pettus Bridge in southern Alabama. It was the final rallying cry that gave all of us who believed in this Rocky Mountain Front the impetus to say somebody, somebody else cares about the significance of this place.” But Flora insists her decision was partly prompted by the incredibly convincing arguments made by local residents. Very few wanted to see development, she says, even if it meant fleeting jobs and fast cash. The Choteau community recognized an addiction to oil and, in refusing to make irreversible sacrifices, became one of the country’s greatest success stories in fighting the push for more development. It’s a story, Burk says, many would like to see repeated in Montana.

says. “Look at America. The tar sands are the problem, right there. That’s like hanging out with a big dealer, sitting there watching the planet get seriously scarred. You’re so addicted and you’re so blinded by your addiction, that’s what’s so shameful. We’re the spirits of this world. A horse will remember stuff, but a horse isn’t thinking or planning for a year from now. We have this gift where we can think ahead. We’ve got this gift of reason. Too bad we don’t use it.” The Blackfeet Reservation and the mountains of East Glacier offer a powerful backdrop for LaDuke’s sentiments. The area has enormous wind and solar

could solve economic problems in Indian Country just as easily as fossil fuel development. But without ready access to local power grids—one of the biggest issues facing developed wind energy in rural communities—how can the tribes not turn to the fast-though-dirty dollar of oil? “You have tribes that have growing populations, immense poverty—which isn’t their fault, it’s a result of their history and everything being taken from them—and you have the potential to move into renewables. But they’re stuck,” LaDuke says. “The old paradigm of oil exploration is courting this whole region. You know Fort Berthold [in North

nternationally renowned activist and two-time Green Party vice presidential candidate Winona LaDuke makes no efforts to sugar coat her low opinion of oil and gas development. She’s a former member of Greenpeace and has spent the past two and a half decades stressing the importance of preserving native landscapes and plugging renewable sources of energy like wind farms and solar panels. On her home reservation in northern Minnesota, LaDuke practices what she preaches by powering her home with those same renewables. LaDuke visited western Montana in early June to raise awareness of clean energy on the Flathead and Blackfeet reservations. She appeared alongside the Grammy Award-winning musical act the Indigo Girls and moderated panel discussions on the importance of turning the n a t i o n’ s a t t e n t i o n t o r e n e w a b l e resources. The thought that the Blackfeet Reservation, and large swaths of land across the state, might house present and future booms in fossil fuel extraction disgusts her to no end. “When you’re an addict to oil, you do a lot of bad shit and hang out with junkies, hang out with dealers,” LaDuke

“The Gulf disaster has focused attention on how catastrophic development can be to both people and resources,” Burk says. “What we have to do is the same thing we did with drugs, the same thing we did with smoking, and recognize that this is hazardous to the individual health of the nation and to the personal health of the individual. We have to simply change the attitude to focus on cleaner methods of satisfying our needs, which to me are the wind, the solar, the battery, the alternative energy. …Our job as a nation is to recognize that we have an addiction and that there’s a way out.”

In 1997, the U.S. Forest Service issued a temporary moratorium on new oil and gas leasing along the Rocky Mountain Front. Sen. Max Baucus carried a permanent ban through Congress in 2006.

potential, she says, a much more appealing alternative to rampant oil and gas drilling. Just as subterranean basins are rich with fossil fuels, the plains butting up against the mountain range offer strong and constant winds. Despite the appeal of her renewable energy pitch, LaDuke recognizes that harnessing that power raises a host of challenges. LaDuke has struggled on the White Earth Reservation to get power companies to recognize the need for renewable energy infrastructure. She spent nearly a year haggling with power companies in order to install her own residential wind turbine. Renewable energy

Dakota] signed? These guys are looking at it and a lot of these reservations are going to see this whole new wave [of oil development] simply because of the economics. …The reality is it’s moving us away from a post-petroleum world. That’s not what Montana should be doing.” Proponents of renewable resources over oil development agree it’s going to take a massive shift in the mentality of the nation, if not the world, to affect change. LaDuke continues to tour the country hoping to spark that shift. But she and others admit it will take something more, something bigger to shed light on the grave and inevitable dangers of our addiction to oil.

ay Chief has heard the arguments. He’s fielded the complaints and addressed the concerns—spiritual, cultural and environmental. That’s part of the job, he says. Someone’s always going to have a problem with what you’re doing. “You’re going to have friction with anything you do in life, not just oil and gas development,” Day Chief says. “Anything you do, you’re going to have environmental groups that are going to say, ‘You’re harming this,’ or, ‘You’re doing what you shouldn’t be doing.’ We live in a beautiful area…We make sure environmentally that we protect it. But I mean, yeah, there’s been calls to us saying maybe we shouldn’t be developing this close to the mountains.” However, Day Chief reiterates that the tribe can’t simply pass on such a reliable source of revenue. The current price of crude oil is $75.67 a barrel, about $10 below the going rate in April but indicative of another rise into late summer. Oil and gas development account for the majority of the tribe’s income now, Day Chief says. The last few years of activity on the Blackfeet Reservation have made Glacier County the sixth largest county in the state for production, with 432,906 barrels recorded in 2009. Perhaps the biggest question facing the tribe is how long this development will last. The oil industry is notorious for a boom-and-bust cycle in Montana. And even if interest holds out, the reserves below the reservation will someday run dry—as will the royalty checks when that day comes. Development is a dangerous gamble, not just for wildlife and landscape but also for the sustainability of the entire community. It’s a gamble Day Chief says the Blackfeet are willing, at present, to take. “Eventually all the oil and all the gas will be gone. I mean, once you take it out of the ground, that’s it, it’s gone,” he says. “But if it’s something that’s there, and with the price of oil now, you want to get what you can out of the ground. What if 20 years from now a barrel of oil is worth $20? Well, we’d lose out on a lot of money if we waited…It’s a gamble. What if 20 years from now it’s $200 a barrel? Hopefully we’re still producing oil. You just have to go with the market.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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FLASHINTHEPAN New Mexico is the sixth state in which I’ve gardened. Gardening is about setting roots, and to garden in so many places seems contradictory. But it isn’t. Each new garden teaches me about a new place. I get to learn different soils, new hardware stores, new patterns of sun, rain and frost. I meet the insects, sometimes rudely, and the animals, some of which will eat my chickens, and the plants, some of which I’ll decide are weeds. A garden is a conversation with a place, and helps you become native to it. Such conversations also happen between landscape and hunters, foragers and fishers. When your diet is predicated on your interactions with the earth, you quickly learn the language of that place. In New Mexico, we carved two garden spots amid the scrub and cactus; one spot looked like it was a garden years before. We built fence, buried chicken wire to foil the rabbits and fertilized the sandy soil with manure from wild horses. Wild horses often poop in large mounds, called “stud piles,” which greatly streamline the gathering process. Stud piles can exceed 200 pounds, and we carried several back from the surrounding canyons in 40-pound increments. The old garden spot was plagued with bindweed, a tenacious plant with a 30-foot taproot. Bindweed strangles crops and returns aggressively when you pull it, forming green mats that hide rattlesnakes. After a tough struggle with bindweed last summer, we decided to turn the tables this spring by covering the old garden spot with a layer of black plastic. Deprived of light and water and scorched by sunheated black plastic, we knew that if we waited long enough the bindweed was toast. Before we laid the plastic, we dug up a patch of small lettuce plants. These had sprouted by a red romaine lettuce last fall, after it went to seed. As winter approached I covered the baby lettuce patch with a blanket. They were still alive in spring, and I didn’t want to cover them with plastic, so we dug them. With the old garden under wraps, we turned to the other garden for spring planting. But this was complicated by the fact that the new garden was fully planted in garlic. Garlic grows straight up, like corn, and is harvested in early summer. We decided to plant our spring crops among garlic, thinking that when the garlic was harvested the new plants would have the patch to themselves.

In New Mexico, many farmers irrigate by flooding between the rows of crops. At first glance this appears to use a lot of water, but if done correctly it can be efficient, bringing water only to where it’s needed. “When in New Mexico, do like they do,” I figured, and began digging a system of branching canals between the garlic plants to direct the flow through the entire patch. It was a meditative, satisfying process that brought me back to my research as a young lad, when like most young boys I was an amateur hydrologist. Once the canals were dug, we began planting our garden in the garlic patch.

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We planted those overwintered lettuce plants from the old garden spot. Seeds were sown, some directly into the canals, so the water could spread them. We calculated the cilantro, spinach and lettuce would be shaded enough by the garlic to forestall their going to seed, and the Brussels sprouts, broccoli and cabbage would grow patiently in the shadows until garlic harvest, and then spring into center stage. The peas would shoot up quickly, climbing the garlic plants. Carrots have thick foliage that would shade between the garlic plants, and the roots wouldn’t crowd the garlic bulbs. Occasionally I’d peek under the black plastic in the old garden spot. The soil was completely barren except for the disturbing sight of bindweed shoots, yellow from lack of sunlight, pressing against the plastic from below.

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After a harvest of spinach and lettuce from the garlic patch garden, those plants started bolting. Plants bolt (read: go to seed) when conditions become too hot, too dry or otherwise too stressful, causing the plant to switch from growth to seed production, like a kid hitting puberty. Spinach and lettuce leaves become bitter. There are clues when a plant is about to bolt. Lettuce starts to get tall, and spinach leaves turn arrowhead-shaped. When I saw these signs I harvested the plants ASAP. Most gardeners would have pulled their entire crop at that point, but I left the plants that hadn’t started bolting. I wanted to save seed from the plants that lasted the longest before bolting, so next year’s lettuce and spinach will be slower to bolt. When we pulled the plastic off the old garden, the ground was soft, thanks to the worms, pill bugs and other decomposers. We pulled the ghoulish yellow bindweed and planted alongside newly dug canals, following the same high-density polyculture approach as in the garlic patch. Planting a diverse assortment of plants in close quarters shades the ground, prevents evaporation and crowds out the weeds. The bindweed still pops up regularly, but it pulls easily from the newly softened earth. Since it doesn’t re-root, we lay the pulled bindweed plants as mulch between the crops, which keeps the soil shaded and cool as it breaks down and fertilizes the soil. The bindweed pulls so easily out of the flooded rows, and is so useful, that now I look at each appearance of bindweed as a gift of nutrients from 30 feet down. In our attempts to fit a garden into our surrounding environment, we’ve created our own little ecosystem, complete with light-lovers shading the shade-lovers, as climbing plants like peas and cucumbers climb the corn and sunflowers, taking our garden ecosystem firmly into the third dimension. Mint is spreading along some of the canals. Butterflies and hummingbirds come visit. A garden is a reflection of the gardener, and of the world the gardener wants to see. I like a little chaos in the garden, and I love watching all of the interactions in our diverse polyculture. How much food I get barely matters. It’s the active conversation with the earth that keeps me interested, keeps me relevant as a resident, and helps me become a native transplant.

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

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Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve by TJ Maxx & Ross • 549-5595 Bright was my face when quickening steps followed my desire for a ColdStone creation; and enjoyed, a dipped waffle bowl, upon whose top shone glorious chocolate and sprinkles, as from a rampart's edge, I overlooked the shakes, the smoothies, the cookies and, above all, the ice cream cakes, decorated exactly how I wanted them–a vast milky river, stretching in the sun. It was then I realized: It's a Great Day for Ice Cream! $-$$ Doc's Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc's is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you're heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc's is always an excellent choice. Delivery service within a 3 mile radius. eMpanadas • 728-2030 It’s eMpanada season again at the Clark Fork River Market under the Higgins St. bridge! Bikepowered, baked to perfection, and born of fresh, local ingredients, 10 exquisite varieties of handmade, Argentine-style empanadas await you: Carne de bufalo, lamb, pollo, humita, and more. Saturdays: 8am to 1pm. $-$$ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave • 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffeehouse/Cafe located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch seven days a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and an espresso bar till close. Open Mon-Thurs 7am-3pm, Fri & Sat 8am-3pm, Sun 8am-3pm. $-$$ Front Street Pasta & Wraps 247 W. Front Street • 728-6655 Can't decide? Front Street Pasta and Wraps has something to satisfy every craving. We have everything from giant wraps to wok tossed dishes. Spicy peanut sauce goes great with just about everything. Vegetarian friendly menu is great for the non-meat eater. And now you can enjoy a cold beer or a glass of wine with your meal. So step off the beaten path of Higgins and ride into Front Street Pasta and Wraps. Just next to the Carousel on West Front Street. Open M-F, 10am-8pm. $ Good Food Store 1600 South 3rd West • 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted free-range chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert.

Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm. $–$$ Harry Davids 2700 Paxson Street, Suite H • 830-3277 Kicking off in February is LIVE BAND KARAOKE and LADIES NIGHT at Harry David’s every Thursday night at 9:30pm. Drink specials for the Ladies! Part Karaoke / Part Dance night with the band Party Trained, this is your opportunity to sing like a rockstar with a live band backing you up – and it will be every Thursday! If Karaoke is not your thing – no problem the band will be playing in between karaoke songs to keep you on the dance floor! Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. We also offer catering. www.justinshobnobcafe.com MC/V $-$$ HuHot Mongolian Grill 3521 Brooks 829-8888 At HuHot you’ll find dozens of meats, seafood, noodles, vegetables and homemade sauces for the timid to the adventurous. Choose your favorites from the fresh food bars. You pick ‘em…we grill ‘em. We are as carnivore, vegetarian, diabetic, lo-salt and low-carb friendly as you want to be! Start with appetizers and end with desserts. You can even toast your own s’mores right at you table. A large selection of beer, wine and sake’ drinks available. Stop by for a great meal in a fun atmosphere. Kid and family friendly. Open daily at 11 AM. $-$$

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Indulge Bakery 700 SW Higgins Ave. 544-4293 indulgebakery.wordpress.com Now open! Enjoy international flavors from baci di dama to pizzelles, gourmet cupcakes, scones and decadent cinnamon rolls. Specialty breads hot and fresh between 3 and 5pm daily. Open M-F 7am-6:30pm; Sat. 9am-4pm See us on Facebook! Call to find out more (406)523-3951. $

Who’s pouring: Depot veteran Erik Johnson knows his way around a bar better than Emeril Lagasse does a studio kitchen. He’ll have a drink in front of you before you even realize you’re thirsty. And if a raging hunger sets in, he’s ready with a long list of suggestions, from the restaurant’s popular wonton appetizer to the $9.95 half-rack of ribs. “People say we’ve got the best service in town,” Johnson says, serving up a couple of burgers to some recent patrons. The line of drinkers at the bar—including Johnson’s buddy Craig—nod in agreement.

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Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins Ave. 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch and we use no MSG products. Featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive hot and ice tea menu including bubble tea. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Open Mon-Sat, lunch 11:302PM and dinner 5PM-close. LIVE JAZZ Thursdays FREE $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. Special senior menu & a great kids’ menu. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve • 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins Ave. • 541-4541 From Latté to Lassî, Water to Wine, Tea Cup to Tea Pot, Liquid Planet has the best beverage offering this side of Neptune -- with a special focus on all-natural, organic, and sustainability. Their distinctive and healthy smoothie menu is worth the visit too! Quick and delicious breakfast and lunch is always ready to go; pastries, croissants, bagels, breakfast burritos, wraps, salads, and soups. Open 8 am to 10 pm daily. $-$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 Don't feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks • 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $8.50. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $7.75. Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$. Pearl Café & Bakery 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 Country French Specialties, Bison, Elk, Fresh Fish Daily, delicious salads and appetizers. Breads and desserts baked in house. Reservations recommended for the warm & inviting dining areas, or drop in for a quick bite in the wine bar. Now, you may go to our website Pearlcafe.US to make reservations or buy gift certificates, while there check out our gorgeous wedding and specialty cakes. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$

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ASKARI Seedy business Dear Ari, After too many weeks of putting it off, I finally got my garden planted. Well, my spinach and lettuce and broccoli hardly started growing before they bolted. What should I do with all these tall, spindly plants? Can I reverse the bolting process? What are my options? —Gone to Seed

Your plants want to make as many seeds as they can. Under ideal conditions the plants will grow as much as possible before going into seed-production mode. But if the plant gets a sketchy vibe from its environment—too hot, too cold, too wet, too dry, too long in a tiny pot before transplanting—then it hits a panic button of sorts, sounding a systemic alarm that says, “Now or never boys, let’s go!”

Unfortunately for you, once its mind is made up, that plant’s determination to spill its seed rivals the average teenager’s, and there’s nothing you can do to change its mind. Alas, that is one of the dangers of planting too late—your plants develop seed heads before they can build up a head of steam. But don’t stress out, Gone to Seed. You have options. While you were late on the draw at spring planting, you’re actually ahead of the game in terms of a getting a late summer or fall garden in the ground. Broccoli and lettuce can be planted again—the lettuce for a late summer’s harvest, while the broccoli will be ready in fall. You can plant more spinach in August for a fall harvest. And if you mulch that spinach during the winter it will come back and give you a big harvest the following spring. Send your food and garden queries to flash@flashinthepan.net.

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The valley’s haven for year-round thrashers, Fiftytwo Skatepark, on El Way past the Missoula Airport, hosts Girls’ Skate Club Night every Thu. at 6 PM, which means girls skate for free. Guys are welcome, but should plan on parting with a few bucks. Call 542-6383. Climate change skeptics need not apply: Confront the root causes of climate change with creative conflict (and no mediation) by heading to a weekly meeting of Northern Rockies Rising Tide, an environmental/social justice organization which meets this and every Thu. at 6 PM at Break Espresso, 432 N. Higgins Ave. Free to attend. Visit northernrockiesrisingtide.org. The Joan Zen Duo lets you hold the hot potato when they play a mix of music featuring saxophone, guitar and vocals at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT.

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Park, which begins at 2 PM Sat., June 26, at the park, half-a-mile east of Lolo on Hwy. 12. The event features camping, fly casting, fish ID, and plenty more. The campout continues through 11 AM, Sun. June 26. Free, but you must RSVP by 5 PM today. Call Ian at 3969562 to register. It’s time for dinner and a summer show with hundreds of your fellow friends during Downtown ToNight, which features food, kids’ activities and music from Great American Taxi starting at 5:30 PM at Caras Park. Free. Call 543-4238 and visit missoula downtown.com. After the revolution we’ll need a new Betsy Ross, which is why you should pick up some tips every Thu. at Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins Ave., where their Sewing Lounge begins at 6 PM. $9–10 hour. Call 541-7171.

Kick dirt to the curb during Ponds, Swales and Keyline Systems: Water For Your Dried Up Farm, a talk with permaculture expert Paul Wheaton that covers how any dried patch of dirt can be converted into lush crops, starting at 6:30 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Visit permies.com. Feeling too straight and separate? Remedy that situation pronto at Gay Men Together, a safe and affirming place for gay and bisexual men, at 7 PM at the Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center, 127 N. Higgins Ave., Ste. 202. Free. Call 543-2224. Getting buzzed is always allowed: The Lucky Strike Bar, 1515 Dearborn Ave., presents Buzz Time Trivia, which starts at 7 PM this and every Thu. and features trivia plus specials on Jello shots and homemade pizzas. Free to attend. Call 549-4152. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., June 25, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Overlord c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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Bunny ears for peace. Will Boland, who recently traveled to Iran with the Whitefish group, Neighbors East and West, presents “Iran in Color: A Story in Pictures” at the Missoula Public Library Tue., June 29, at 7 PM. Free.

Create something out of nothing during the Open Field Artists’ Theatre Lab, a theater workshop that occurs this and every Thu., Sun. and Mon. at 7 PM at the Quaker Meeting House, 1861 S. 12th St. W. Free. E-mail openfieldartists@gmail.com. An aesthetic appreciation injection is in store during “Julius Seyler: An Impressionist Painter in Glacier National Park,” a talk with UM history prof William Farr on the artist at 7 PM at the Montana Theatre, in UM’s PARTV Center. Free. This lecture is in conjunction with the Montana Museum of Art and Culture’s Glacier National Park Centennial Exhibition. Call 243-2019. Let Immanuel Kant be your guide to questioning everything under the sun during another installment of Socrates Cafe, a philosophy discussion group which meets at 7 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

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The Top Hat presents Serpentina–A Show of Grande Measure, a performance featuring dances from Spain, West Africa and the Middle East, as well as tapas items and wine beginning with doors opening at 6:30 PM, and the dancing starting at 7:30 PM. $15. Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit, Missoula’s newest trivia night for the layperson, begins with sign ups at 7:45 PM and trivia at 8 PM at the Brooks and Browns Lounge, at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. Free. Includes $7 pitchers of Bayern beer, prizes like a $50 bar tab, and trivia categories that change weekly. Email Katie at kateskins@gmail.com. An old-school actor gets celebrated on the stage during the Alpine Theatre Project’s rendition of Barrymore, which follows late actor John Barrymore as he reminisces about his glory, with a performance at 8 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. $37/$30/$25 depending on seats/$18 for students. Call 862-SHOW for tickets or visit alpinetheatreproject.org. The Bigfork Summer Playhouse, 526 Electric Ave. in Bigfork, presents Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, with a performance at 8 PM at the playhouse. $20–$15 depending on seats. Visit bigforksummerplayhouse.com for tickets and a complete schedule of shows. Tennesee’s John Anderson gives you a country-and-western itch to scratch when he plays the Wilma Theatre at 8 PM. $27 plus fees,

with tickets available at all GrizTix outlets and griztix.com. (See Noise in this issue.) You’ll probably want to go organic for life after a screening of The Future of Food, a documentary that examines genetically engineered crops, screening at 8 PM at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. Free, with free non-GMO food and a discussion to follow. Call Kelly at 862-3661. Now’s your time to juggle a beat with your feet in a cavernous setting when DJ DC rocks the AmVets Club with hits starting at 9 PM. Free. See a plethora of patterns and colors—after a few pitchers—and muster up the courage to belt out some prize-winning classics during Kaleidoscope Karaoke every Sun.–Sat. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9 PM. Free. Call 721-1798. Feel free to flail around like a rock star whilst busting out your best version of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” during Combat Karaoke at Deano’s Casino near Airway Blvd., 5318 W. Harrier, this and every Thu. at 9 PM. Free. Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptop-fueled hip-hop, crunk, electronic, pop and mashed-up tunes hit the Badlander every week where Dead Hipster DJ Night gets the booties bumpin’ and the feet stompin’ at 9 PM. $3. It be gettin’ hot in here: The Montana Actors’ Theatre presents another round of song, dance and hilarity with a dark twist—and likely a scantily clad cast—during this month’s “hot summer” installment of its popular cabaret, which starts at 9 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $9. Visit mtactors.com. Hail the gods of summer during a post-solstice party celebrating summer with techno and house sets by DJs Ever No and The Mermaid, as well as an improv set of blast rock by Altargrowthe, at 9 PM at the Palace. Free. Nate Hegyi, lead singer/songwriter of Wartime Blues, keeps the folk and Americana flowing free when he plays with a rotating cast of friends this and every other Thu. at the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., at 10 PM. Free. The Martin Sexton Band puts some grease on your wheels when they play rock, neo-soul and reggae at 10 PM at the Top Hat. Cover TBA. Kid Traxiom opens.

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Scratch that stitch itch during the Missoula Quilters Guild 2010 Quilt Show, which features work by Allyson Baldwin and Cynthia Spethman along with over 400 quilts made by guild members, from 10 AM–7 PM at Big Sky High School, 3100 South Ave. W. $4. The show begins again Sat., June 26 and runs from 10 AM–4 PM. Call Vicky at 721-1717. Snag some sweet used goods while also helping the town of Charlo raise money for its upcoming Fourth of July fireworks show during a fundraiser garage sale that runs from 10 AM–6 PM at the Charlo Park, 110 Hwy. 212. Free to attend. The garage sale occurs again Sat., June 26, from 10 AM–5 PM. Call Tracy at 644-9493. End your afternoon with a fine glass of fermented grape juice when the Missoula Winery (formerly known as The Cellars) hosts its tasting room from 4–7 PM at the winery, 5646 W. Harrier. Free to attend, but the wine costs you. Call 830-3296.

nightlife Sip on some well fermented spirits when Ten Spoon Vineyard and Winery hosts its wine tasting room, which runs from 5–9 PM, with last call at 8:30 PM, at the winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. Free to attend, but the wine costs you. Call 549-8703. A Nez Perce man keeps searching for the truth when Linwood Laughy hosts a presentation and signs copies of The Fifth Generation: A Nez Perce Tale, at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881. Russ Nasset is happy to play you his rockabilly for free if you can dodge the maitre d’ at The Keep restaurant, 102 Ben Hogan Drive, at 7 PM. Free. Call 728-5132. I pledge allegiance to no myth: Hamilton’s River Street Dance Theatre, 421 N. Second St., presents “The U.S. Constition: Myth Vs. Reality,” a talk with the ACLU of Montana’s Niki Zupanic that begins at 7 PM at the theater. Free. Call 552-2306. An old-school actor gets celebrated on the stage during the Alpine Theatre Project’s rendition of Barrymore, which follows late actor John Barrymore as he reminisces about his glory, with a performance at 8 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. $37/$30/$25 depending on seats/$18 for students. Call 862-SHOW for tickets or visit alpinetheatreproject.org. The Wild Coyotes give gate-crashers something else to run into when they play country and classic rock at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Hear how the free press wasn’t always so free in Montana back in the day when UM journalism prof Dennis Swibold leads a discussion on “Montana’s Copper Press” at 8 PM at Beavertail Hill State Park, 26 miles east of Missoula on I-90 off the Beavertail Hill exit. Free. Call 240-0155. Tom and Sue totally realize that spicy is as spicy does when they play folk, rock and Cajun music at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. No cover, but pass-the-hat donations welcome. Call 741-2361.

Billings’ Flowers From Her keep tornadoes at bay with the sheer power of shredding when they play indie folk rock at the Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 N. First St. W., at 8 PM. $5, all ages. Locals Strangle Valentino and High Voltage (playing an acoustic set) open. Seattle’s Agents of Chaos give their fingers an ultimatum to bring the mayhem when they play rock and metal at 8 PM at The Office Bar in Hamilton, 109 W. Main St. Free. Universal Choke Sign opens. Enjoy a rollicking Western musical when the Hamilton Players present Annie Get Your Gun, with a performance at 8 PM at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road in Hamilton. $14/$8 children 12 and under. Call 375-9050 for tickets or visit hamilton players.com

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Learn to sing “Dancing Queen” in tongues when Bassackwards Karaoke invades the Alcan Bar & Grill in Frenchtown, 16780 Beckwith St., every Fri. at 9 PM. Free. Call 531-8327. Bust a smooth move to sizzling hip-hop and Top 40 tracks when The Tallest DJ in America spins tunes at 9 PM at The Underground, a new downtown dance venue in the basement of the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. Free. Enter from the southwest basement entrance. It be gettin’ hot in here: The Montana Actors’ Theatre presents another round of song, dance and hilarity with a dark twist—and likely a scantily clad cast—during this month’s “hot summer” installment of its popular cabaret, which starts at 9 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $9. Visit mtactors.com. Portland, Ore.’s Miss Lana Rebel and the Love Lasers let you roll around in some of their patented love dust when they play country and Americana at the Badlander at 9 PM. $5. Locals Bird’s Mile Home open. (See Scope in this issue.) Raashan Ahmad, frontman for San Francisco’s Crown City Rockers, kicks tone deaf MCs to the curb when he plays a solo set of hip-hop at the Top Hat at 9 PM. $7. Locals Slopstar and Shaymlusly Elliterate open. They’re over 30, and they like their beats dirty. The Palace presents Old Man House Night with DJs Tobin, Bobo, Tak45, Hendawg and others playing house music starting at 9 PM. Free. Blue Collar denies any connection to Larry the Cable Guy when they play rock and country at the Sunrise Saloon, 1100 Strand Ave., at 9 PM. Free. Call 728-1559. Cash for Junkers give your cold shoulders a nice rub when they play Americana with a swing at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free. Playing in Traffic just wants you to moonwalk in front of that bus when they play classic rock covers at 9:30 PM at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2. Call 830-3277.

SATURDAY June

The Montana Neuroscience Institute at St. Patrick’s Hospital, 500 W. Broadway St., presents Parkinson’s Disease Educational Day featuring a host of topics including pharmaco-

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logical and non-pharmacological treatment of the disease, from 9 AM–noon at the hospital. Free. RSVP with Molly by calling 329-5733 or e-mailing sabel@saintpatrick.org. Help a local man named Quinton get to Africa with the World Class Kayak Academy when you head to a benefit garage sale, silent auction and barbecue that runs from 9 AM–6 PM at 1134 Van Buren St. Free to attend/$1 or so for breakfast items and hot dogs. UM’s University Center hosts America Speaks: Our Budget, Our Economy, one of 19 town meetings across the United States where citizens get to voice their opinions and find common ground on the federal budget, starting at 9:30 AM at a TBA location in the UC. Free, but RSVP required as space is limited. Visit usabudgetdiscussion.org to register. (See Agenda in this issue.) Celebrate the place where Lewis and Clark crashed during “Return to Travelers’ Rest,” a commemoration of the duo’s 1806 stay at the location of Traveler’s Rest State Park featuring dramatic portrayals of what the campsite may have looked like, along with demos on blacksmithing, brain tanning and other activities from 10 AM–4 PM today and tomorrow at the park, one half-mile west of Lolo on Hwy. 12. Free. Call 273-4253. Give yourself a personal history lesson during “Giving Birth to a New Consciousness: Exploring Your Personal History and Family Tree,” a workshop with Dr. Alexandre Velik and Roseline Joube that runs today and tomorrow from 10 AM–5 PM, at 2089 Alder Springs Lane in Victor. Free. Call Amy at 546-6922. The Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St., presents A Road Runs Through It, a series of

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six limited wood engravings by Missoula artist Claire Emery that’s on display today starting at 10 AM in the Travel Montana Lobby in the Andrew Precht Addition of the museum. Free to peruse. Gallery hours are: Wed.–Fri. from 10 AM–5 PM and Sat.–Sun. from 10 AM–3 PM. Call 728-0447.

covers a range of topics including coil built/wheel thrown shapes, as well as the Japanese/Korean brushwork style known as hakeme, from 1–4 PM at the Clay Studio of Missoula, 1106 Hawthorne St. Unit A. $45/$35 members. Call 543-0509 to RSVP. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

A Nez Perce man keeps searching for the truth when Linwood Laughy signs copies of The Fifth Generation: A Nez Perce Tale, at 10:30 AM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

Keep your eyes on the man with the magical pipe during the Missoula Children’s Theatre performance of The Pied Piper, with a performance at 3 PM, and again at 5 PM, at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $9 adults/$7 seniors and students/$5 children for the evening show. Call 728-PLAY for tickets and visit mctinc.org.

Celebrate the legacy of “Montana’s most intact ghost town” during Garnet Days, which features live music from the Black Mountain Boys, a pie auction, and plenty of kids activities like gold panning from 11 AM–5 PM at Garnet Ghost Town, off Hwy. 200. Free. To get there: Turn south on Garnet Range Road, on Hwy. 200 between mile markers 22 and 23, and drive up the road approximately 12 miles. Don’t eat this ham: The Hellgate Amateur —an organization of Radio Club of Missoula— radio “hams”—presents a field day emergency-preparedness exercise near the chapel on Fort Missoula’s grounds running from noon today until noon Sun. Free to spectate. Call Elmer at 240-4301 and visit w7px.org. Perfect your raised-bed techniques and learn a fun German word at Hugelkulture: Permaculture Raised Bed Workshop, a class taught by permaculture guru Paul Wheaton at 1 PM near the Missoula Urban Demonstration Project, 629 Philips St. $20/$10 members. Call 721-7513 to register. Witness a wide range of live demos from a clay master when visiting Japanese ceramicist Fuminori Deguchi presents a workshop that

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The Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave., presents a Memorial Celebration for the life of Evelyn King that starts at 4 PM and features music by Lockwood’s Versatilles, Heart to Heart and City Slickers. Free. Call 543-7154.

nightlife Break out your coconut bikini and your slickest Jimmy Buffet Hawaiian shirt, ‘cause Birds and Bees LLC wants you to get down during a Luau that features music, dancing, dinner and drinks, from 5–8 PM at Birds and Bees, 1515 E. Broadway St. Ste. B. $7 for dinner/$3 for drinks. Call 544-1019 and visit aboutsexuality.org. Hellgate Rodeo rubs some pig over the pigskin when they play blues, rock, country and jazz at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. The Clay Studio of Missoula, 1106 Hawthorne St. Unit A., continues its celebration of the work of ceramicist Fuminori Deguchi with a slide

presentation and 10-minute film focusing on his work starting at 6 PM at the studio. Free. Call 543-0509. (See Spotlight in this issue.) Enjoy Glacier National Park’s splendor in picture form when author Chris Peterson hosts a presentation of his 100 Days in Glacier National Park Photo Project, which begins at 7 PM at the Montana House, in Apgar Village at Glacier National Park. Free. Space is limited, so call 888-5393 to RSVP. The Discount Quartet with David Horgan on guitar puts class on the front burner when they play jazz at Finn and Porter, 100 Madison St., from 7–9 PM. Free. Enjoy a rollicking Western musical when the Hamilton Players present Annie Get Your Gun, with a performance at 8 PM at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road in Hamilton. $14/$8 children 12 and under. Call 375-9050 for tickets. Howl at a tiki torch and not at the moon during the Raven Restaurant and Bar’s Full Moon Party, which features live music, tiki torches and cold drinks starting at 8 PM at the Raven, 4.5 miles south of Bigfork on 39 Orchard Lane in Woods Bay. Free. Call 837-2836. Matt Fletcher and Betty Lou let you get blitzed on blintzes when they play folk blues at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. No cover, but pass-the-hat donations welcome. Call 741-2361. 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. Las Vegas’ Hemlock knows you just want a headlock and a noogie when they play metal at

the Palace at 8:30 PM. $8. Billings’ Past Mars opens with locals Blessiddoom and Walking Corpse Syndrome. Feel free to perform “Bella Ciao” by Mirah & The Black Cat Orchestra during karaoke night at 9 PM at the VFW but don’t be surprised if someone tells you we’re in Missoula, and so it’s time to start talking American. Free. Here’s your chance to get freaky on the dance floor. AmVets Club offers up DJDC and his dance music to the hungry horde at 9 PM. Free. DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo are guaranteed to keep you dancing to an assortment of hip-hop, electronic and other bass-heavy, booty-busting beats ‘til the bar closes, or at least until the vodka runs out, during Absolutely at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free. DJ Bionic keeps the remixes and mash-ups flowing while you shake it when he plays at 9 PM at The Underground, a new downtown dance venue in the basement of the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. Free. Enter from the southwest basement entrance. It be gettin’ hot in here: The Montana Actors’ Theatre presents another round of song, dance and hilarity with a dark twist—and likely a scantily clad cast—during this month’s “hot summer” installment of its popular cabaret, which starts at 9 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $9. Visit mtactors.com. Blue Collar denies any connection to Larry the Cable Guy when they play rock and country at the Sunrise Saloon, 1100 Strand Ave., at 9 PM. Free. Call 728-1559.

Rob Quist keeps the smokin’ riffs at a maximum when he plays country with Guthrie Quist and The Wild Stallions at 2 PM at the pavilion in St. Regis Community Park in St. Regis. Free, but donations will be accepted. Call 822-4800. Keep your eyes on the man with the magical pipe during the Missoula Children’s Theatre performance of The Pied Piper, with a performance at 3 PM, and again at 5 PM, at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $9 adults/$7 seniors and students/$5 children for the evening show. Call 728-PLAY for tickets and visit mctinc.org. David Boone helps you wade through the gobbledygook when he plays a solo set at the Raven Restaurant and Bar in Woods Bay, 4.5 miles south of Bigfork on 39 Orchard Lane, at 5 PM. Free. Call 837-2836. Two sisters, the laundromat they inherited, and a whole lot of singing is bound to go down when Beth Schreiber and Cara Ayres present their musical theater Suds’n Suds, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10/$8 students and seniors. Get advance tickets by calling 239-1218. Visit taketwopro.com. Men always get to belt out a slick tune or two during Man Night featuring Karaoke, which occurs this and every Sun. starting at 9 PM at the Silver Slipper Sports Bar and Grill, 4063 Hwy. 93 S. Free. Call 251-5402.

Bowling commingles with a laser light show and some DJ tunage from Kaleidoscope Entertainment every Fri. and Sat. at 9:30 PM at Five Valleys Bowling Center, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Free. Call 549-4158. Playing in Traffic just wants you to moonwalk in front of that bus when they play classic rock covers at 9:30 PM at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2. Call 830-3277.

Glowsticking is not a crime: DJs DRE and Chachi get you to dance in a trance when they spin house and progressive trance music during Youphoric Nights at 10 PM at the Palace. Free.

Baba Ganoush insists that you guzzle that tub of humus when they play bluegrass/folk at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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nightlife Help kids by eating ice cream at Baskin Robbins’ Watson Children’s Shelter Night, which occurs from 5–10 PM at BaskinRobbins, 1880 Brooks St. Prices for ice cream vary. All profits gained go to the local shelter. You’ve got another chance to connect the dots this evening when the VFW hosts bingo at 7 PM. Free. The Missoula City Band plucks, toots and emanates an assortment of sounds for your pleasure when they practice this and every Mon. until Aug. 9 from 7–9 PM in the band room at Sentinel High School, 901 South Ave. Free. Call Gary at 728-2400 Ext. 7041.

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I wouldn’t expect a bear hug when Jeff Gailus hosts a presentation and signs copies of The Grizzly Manifesto: In Defense of the Great Bear, at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881. Tom Catmull sheds the Clerics for an evening of solo song at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 100, at 7 PM. Free. Get intimate with shamanism from an expert when local author Marge Hulburt reads and signs copies of Finding Eagle: A Journey into Modern-Day Shamanism at 7 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 241-7260. Two sisters, the laundromat they inherited, and a whole lot of singing is bound to go down when Beth Schreiber and Cara Ayres present their musical theater Suds’n Suds, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10/$8 students and seniors. Get advance tickets by calling 2391218. Visit taketwopro.com. Los Angeles’ Signals (featuring exmembers of Mae Shi) spreads some mutton over your mutton chops when they play indie rock with keyboards at the Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 N. First St. W. at 8 PM. $5, all ages. Locals Turner Capehart and a TBA band opens. Alcohol and bowling go hand over foot during Monday Madness at

Five Valley’s Bowl, 1515 Dearborn Ave., which features $1 bowling after 9 PM as well as $1.25 Coors Light cans this and every Mon. at the bowling center. Free to attend. Call 549-4158. The Dirty Shame knows you want it shaken, stirred and a little on the frozen side when they play country during Margarita Monday at the Raven Restaurant and Bar in Woods Bay, 4.5 miles south of Bigfork on 39 Orchard Lane, at 9 PM. Free, with $2 margaritas. Call 837-2836. See if you can become a star under the spotlight at Sean Kelly’s open mic night, hosted by Mike Avery every Mon. at 9 PM. Free.

TUESDAY June

Bill Ni can only weep with envy at the hovercrafts and explosions awaiting grade school kids at the Missoula Public Library’s Cool Science program, which starts at 2 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721BOOK.

nightlife See if your buzzed mind can correctly guess what family of animalia the epihippus came from during Buzz Time Showdown Trivia, which features free trivia—along with drink spe-

cials—and runs from 6–9 PM this and every Tue. at the Lucky Strike Bar, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Free to attend. Call 549-4152. Take part in collective thoughts and actions for healing and enlightenment at the Healers’ Gathering Meeting, which takes place the last Tue. of each month at 6:30 PM at the Eagles Lodge meeting room, 2420 South Ave. W. Free. Call 273-2871. Follow your dreams of becoming the next Willie Nelson during an open mic/jam night hosted by Louie Bond and Teri Llovet every Tue. at the Brooks and Browns Lounge at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St., from 7–10 PM, with sign-up at 6 PM. Free. E-mail terillovet@hotmail.com. Slip into a world of snapshots during Iran in Color: A Story in Pictures by Will Boland, a presentation featuring an array of Boland’s pics of the country during recent travels starting at 7 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Two sisters, the laundromat they inherited, and a whole lot of singing is bound to go down when Beth Schreiber and Cara Ayres present their musical theater Suds’n Suds, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10/$8 students and seniors. Get advance tickets by calling 2391218. Visit taketwopro.com. 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? What do you call a mustache that is around an inch wide and covers the philtrum? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

Ain’t no party like a lawn party: The Daly Mansion, 251 Eastside Highway near Hamilton, presents the Daly Mansion Birthday Celebration–Children’s Lawn Party, which features lawn games, a ballet performance, a clown, ice cream, crafts and plenty more fun from 2–4:30 PM on the mansion grounds. $3. Call 363-6004 Ext. 3.

Chance mixes with money and prizes during bingo night at the Silver Slipper Sports Bar and Grill, 4063 Hwy. 93 S., which occurs this and every Tue. starting at 8 PM at the bar. Free. Call 251-5402.

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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. He bounces beats like he’ll bounce you outta the bar if you get too rowdy. The Palace presents a DJ set of reggae, dancehall and hip-hop by Jamaican native Supa J, aka the Badlander/Palace’s bouncer Jimmy, starting at 9 PM. Free. Athens, Ohio’s Southeast Engine keeps your hubs lubed and the oil slick sleek when they play indie folk rock at 9 PM at the Badlander. $5. Locals Velcro Kicks! and Deny the Dinosaur? open. (See Noise in this issue.)

WEDNESDAY June

Your weekly lunch date with almost everyone comes at 11 AM at Caras Park during Out to Lunch, which features food vendors, kids’ activities and music this week by the Rattle Trap. Free. Call 543-4238 and visit missoula downtown.com.

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El 3-Oh! savors that crisp ice milk flavor when they play gypsy jazz at 5:30 PM at Stevensville’s Blacksmith Brewing Co., 114 Main St. Free. Call 777-0680. Blues legend Rory Block keeps indigo impostors in check when she plays country blues at Eureka’s Lincoln County High School, 312 Ninth St., at 7 PM. $15. Call 297-0197. Two sisters, the laundromat they inherited, and a whole lot of singing is bound to go down when Beth Schreiber and Cara Ayres present their musical theater Suds’n Suds, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10/$8 students and seniors. Get advance tickets by calling 2391218. Visit taketwopro.com. Hump day isn’t just for binge drinking anymore. It’s also a day for playing games of chance with other likeminded booze lovers when Sean Kelly’s presents Hump Day Bingo, this and every Wed. at 8 PM. Free. Call 542-1471. He’s so easy on your eyes, it hurts. The North Bay Grille in Kalispell, 139 First Ave. W., presents a set of folk and classics from Tusten starting at 8 PM. Free. Call 755-4441. Olympia, Wash.’s Angelo Spencer bows your bowlegged legs when the one-man band plays with Canadian pop outfit Bash Brothers at 8 PM at the Zootown Arts Community Center,

235 N. First St. W. $5, all ages. Locals Tyson Ballew, Sneeze and Pony Cannon open. (See Noise in this issue.) The Missoula City Band toots it up with special guest Sweet Adeline’s Award Winning Barbershop when they perform at Bonner Park, on the corner of Hastings and Ronald Avenues, at 8 PM. Free. Call 7282400 Ext. 7041 and visit missoula cityband.org. Leap into something hilarious when the Port Polson Players Summer Theatre presents a performance of Lovers Leap at 8 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93. $18/$17 students and seniors. Call 883-9212 for reservations and visit portpolson players.com. You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but neither will help you emit that high lonesome sound every Wed., when the Old Post Pub hosts a Pickin’ Circle at 9 PM. Free. The answer to this week’s trivia question: You call that kind of ‘stache a toothbrush mustache, and you’ll recognize it on people like Charlie Chaplin and Adolf Hitler. The tenets of women’s lib broadens to include cheap drinks and DJs spinning dance tracks when Feruqi’s hosts Ladies’ Night every Wed. at 9 PM. Free. Be sure you’ve downed enough pitchers of PBR in order to have the courage to sing “One” by Metallica (believe me, the beer helps), during Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free. No intensive training required: The Silver Slipper Sports Bar and Grill, 4063 Hwy. 93 S., presents beer pong this and every Wed. starting at 9 PM at the bar. Free, with prizes. Call 251-5402. Portland, Ore.’s Nice Nice puts a little awesome awesome into your fun receptacles when they play a mix of experimental post-rock, noise, drone and Krautrock at 10 PM at the Top Hat. $5. Locals Modality and DJ Kris Moon open. (See Noise in this issue.)

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Help support the completion of Ewam’s Peace Garden of 1000 Buddhas when Shanti Yoga Studio, 235 Central Ave. Ste. A in Whitefish, presents two donation-based yoga fundraiser classes featuring cellist Lee Zimmerman with the first class running from 11:30 AM–1:30 PM at the studio. The second class runs from 2–4 PM. Call Jodi at 250-1363. Celebrate an institution that helps care for local children during the Watson Children’s Shelter’s grand opening at its new location, which runs from 12:15–1 PM at the shelter’s new digs, 4978 Buckhouse Lane. Free to attend. The organization is also currently looking for community members to purchase household items for the shelter. If interested, visit Shopko, Target or Wal-Mart to peruse the gift registries under the name “Watson Shelter.” Call 549-0058.

nightlife It’s time for dinner and a summer show with hundreds of your fellow friends during Downtown ToNight, which features food, kids’ activities and music from Reverend Slanky starting at 5:30 PM at Caras Park. Free. Call 543-4238 and visit missouladowntown.com. Even staunch hermits find reason to break free from solitude when artist Marie Hausauer presents The Random Musings of a Hermit, a series of mixed media and acrylics pieces on display during Whitefish Gallery Nights from 6–9 PM at The Walking Man Frame Shop & Gallery, 305 Baker Ave. in Whitefish. Free. Call 863-2787. (See Arts in this issue.) Whitefish’s Stumptown Art Studio, 145 Central Ave., celebrates its 15th birthday during Whitefish Gallery Nights with a series of art pieces up for auction on display from 6–9 PM at the studio, with the silent auction beginning at 9:30 PM. Free to attend.

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SPOTLIGHT clay fusion Like most people, I’m no expert in Yayoi ceramics. But even your standard issue unwashed philistine could spot a connection to the past in artist Fuminori Deguchi’s work. The ceramicist still recalls the ancient earthenware he excavated in an archeological dig during a 1995 apprenticeship. The Yayoiera Japanese relics, some over 2,000 years old, connected him through his artistic medium to otherwise alien lives. Fifteen years later, Deguchi recognizes the experience on his website as a key influence in his ceramics career.

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Deguchi’s bowls and sculptures, with their earthy colors and precise symmetry, are easy to imagine as utilitarian and aesthetic objects for ancient Japanese peasants and nobles alike. With those antiquated images in mind, modern inclusions that fuse electronics into the earthenware sideswipe your artistic orientation. His stereo speakers housed in ceramic casing, for example, blend functionality, technology and a retro aesthetic into a tasty postmodern frappe. You have the opportunity to absorb Deguchi’s WHO: Fuminori Deguchi

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Two sisters, the laundromat they inherited, and a whole lot of singing is bound to go down when Beth Schreiber and Cara Ayres present their musical theater Suds’n Suds, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10/$8 students and seniors. Get advance tickets by calling 2391218. Visit taketwopro.com.

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At 6 PM, the studio will host a free slideshow presentation and a 10-minute film showcasing his work. Deguchi, who is enjoying a one-month residency at the Clay Studio of Missoula, will share his 15 years of experience as an awardwinning ceramicist. For the artistic community and ceramics fanatics alike, his show is a brainpicking opportunity not to be missed. —Cameron Rasmusson

Do your part of help support the completion of Ewam’s Peace Garden of 1000 Buddhas during a fundraiser at Whitefish’s The Green Tea House, 415 Second St. E., which begins with a silent auction including traditional Himalayan art at 6 PM. A presentation occurs at 6:30 PM, and is followed with music at 7 from Betsi Morrison and Luke Walrath, as well as tunes by Joan Zen at 8 PM. $10 suggested donation. Call Deanne at 862-5050.

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work this week when the artist hosts a workshop and presentation at the Clay Studio of Missoula. Deguchi plans to demonstrate many of his signature techniques, like his combination of coil-built and wheel-thrown shapes and his use of hakeme, a Japanese and Korean brushwork style, throughout the afternoon. Aspiring ceramicists should come prepared to find new styles for inspiration.

190 S. Third St. W., keeps the bread flowing and puts blues on tap during Blues and Bread V, a first Thursday event from 8–10 PM featuring blues music by MudSlide Charley, as well as filled sourdough hard rolls for $1. Free to attend. The Missoula Food Bank receives 25 cents from every hard roll sold. Call Marco at 728-1358. Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptopfueled hip-hop, crunk, electronic, pop and mashed-up tunes hit the Badlander every week where Dead Hipster DJ Night gets the booties bumpin’ and the feet stompin’ at 9 PM. $3. Cure your folk withdrawals with a steady serving of folk, indie and pop folk when DM Stith, Inlets and Silje Nes play the Palace at 9 PM. $5. Locals Nate Hegyi and Travis Sehorn open.

Andrew Belle doesn’t really want to choke your artichokes when he plays pop singer/songwriter tunes at the Top Hat at 8 PM. Cover TBA.

He’ll cure your tremors with a sweet shot of country: Russ Nasset hits up the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free.

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Brooklyn’s Big Tree keeps the psychedelia vacuum-packed when

they play indie folk/psych at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Sometimes, all you need is a little distortion to jumpstart the weekend. If you like metal, and the hairs on your neck stand up every time you hear a rippin’ hard rock riff, get yourself to The Office Bar in Hamilton at 8 PM on Fri., June 25, so you can let Seattle’s Agents of Chaos give you a metallic buzz when they perform a free outdoors show with locals Universal Choke Sign. If these guys don’t register on your metal radar, know this: They mine many influences, from old school Black Sabbath to 1980s rock. So expect variety, and a rockin’ good time. Meanwhile, keep my inbox and not my trash bin filled with your death metal shows, vegan potlucks and gardening soirees by sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., June 25 to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Overlord c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

No matter what your age, you’re never too old to get intimate with wet exits, strokes and hip snaps. Think I’m talking about a bunch of arcane sex positions? Well buddy, get your mind out of the gutter and your body into some water, ‘cause I’m talking about the glorious aquabased sport of kayaking. I bring this up because this week, you can rock some slick peel-outs when the Zoo Town Surfers offers its Kayaking Clinic with Missoula’s Best Kayakers, which meets from 9 AM–5 PM on both Sat., June 26, and Sun., June 27, starting Sat. at Frenchtown Pond. Here’s what you’ll get: A complete rundown of kayaking that includes flat-water basics, as well as instruction on strokes/braces and T-rescues, along with a practice session covering boat control, ferrying, and eddy turns. You’ll also soak up info on river-running concepts and rolling your kayak, and the clinic culminates in an afternoon jaunt down a stretch of the Blackfoot and Clark Fork rivers. The class costs $200, but the feeling of river water rushing all up in your grill ought to be well worth the price of admission. Call Jason at 5460370 to register and for more info. And now, we move back a few days. On Thu., June 24, get your moppet ready to spend a night under the stars by signing them up for the National Wildlife Federation/ iMssoula Children and Nature Network’s “Family Campout at Traveler’s Rest State Park,” which begins Sat., June 26, at 2 PM at the park, half-a-mile east of Lolo on Hwy. 12. It runs through 11 AM Sun., June 27, and features camping, food, and a wealth of outdoors merriment including fly casting, fish ID and wildlife track casting. The campout is free, but you must RSVP on Thu., June 24 by 5 PM. So call Ian quick at 396-9562 to reserve your spot. You could also satiate your urge to hang out with dead wood on Sat., June 26, when the Montana Chapter of the Sierra Club presents the service outing “Aspen Restoration in Sawmill Gulch,” which begins at 8 AM on the main Rattlesnake Trailhead with a hearty breakfast of muffins and coffee. After refreshments, prepare to pull dead trees into a dying aspen stand,

in order to make sure the Forest Service has plenty of kindling to fuel the stand’s restoration burn, which ought to occur sometime in the fall or spring. Free, but liability signatures are required. Also, be sure to wear pants, a long sleeve T-shirt, good shoes, glasses and gloves. Call Bert at 542-7645 with your burning questions. Let those freshly groomed biking legs—or un-groomed if you’re a beast like me—feel the cool breeze on Sat., June 26, during Whitefish Mountain Resort’s Early Bird Cross-Country Mountain Bike Race, a 4 to 5-mile race that begins with registration at 8 AM at the events office in the upper village of the resort. Wheels promptly hit the dirt at 9:30 AM with expert bikers getting muddy first, followed by sport

Rise with the birds and perhaps a bowl of curds on Sun., June 27, so you can join the Montana Chapter of the Sierra Club during its Spring Wildflower Hike to Packer Meadow/Lolo Pass, which begins at a TBA meeting time and place. This eight-mile hike ought to intoxicate you with wildflower appreciation as you witness what could be purple Camas blooms under the guidance of horticulturalist Adrienne Hopkins. Free, but you must sign a liability release and bring your own lunch/water. RSVP with Adrienne by calling 543-3755 or by e-mailing John at yodelingdog@hotmail.com. All XX chromosome holders are hereby invited to bust a gnarly move with their bikes when the Montana Dirt Girls meet Tue., June 29, at 6 PM at the Lincoln Hills trailhead for one of its last native plant flower rides up Mount Jumbo. Free, but ladies only, please. Visit mtdirtgirls.tripod.com for upcoming rides. On Wed., June 30, amateur botanists get leafy when the Clark Fork Chapter of the Montana Native Plant Society hosts a fieldtrip to the Blackfoot Native Plant Nursery in Potomac, which begins with a carpool meet up at 6 PM at the northwest corner of UM’s Adams Center’s parking lot. Once you’re in Potomac, expect a delightful scene of some 150 species of native plants, along with a walk through a display garden. Free. Call Kathy at 244-5800. Finally, I’ll finish off with a heads up on something coming up next week for all you restoration freaks and geeks: UM’s Wilderness Institute kicks off its series of weed monitoring trips up in the Ten Lakes Wilderness Study Area on Fri., July 2, with a trip to Bluebird Basin that runs until Mon., July 5. As soon as you reach the pristine Photo by Cathrine L. Walters scene, you’ll map/monitor weeds, take inventory of campsites, roads and trails, as well as document the wild creatures riders and beginners. $45 per person. Visit skiwhitefish.com/ you see. You’ll also get some schooling on invasive species and calendar_of_events.php for a registration form and call 862-2900. native plants, as well as the lowdown on the history and wildlife of Later on Sat., June 26, take a survey of the ‘root with a guided hike the area. Being wise in the ways of the backcountry is also helpful, followed by a history lesson injection during the Bitterroot National but certainly not required. Visit cfc.umt.edu/wi to sign up and for Forest’s Surveyor Moon presentation at Charles Waters more info, or call 243-5361. Until then, go chug an Eddy Out Pale Ale and show me your best Campground, which begins with the hike at 6:30 PM at the campground, 4.5 miles southwest of Florence. The outing is followed by a eddy hop. Maybe not in that order. 7:30 PM presentation on the history of surveying in the Bitterroot Valley. calendar@missoulanews.com Free. Call 363-7100.

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Miss Lana Rebel finds all she needs on the road by Erika Fredrickson

After that first Total Fest, Last of the Juanitas played ended up on NPR’s “All Songs Considered.” But then Lana Rebel has a way with good, old-fashioned several shows over the next few years in Missoula. In things came to a halt. country heartbreak. On her most recent album, All I Need, the 2005, around the time the band broke up, it released “By the time all the touring was over nobody wantPortland, Ore., artist sings about broke-down cars and its final album, In the Dirt, on Vanek’s Wäntage label. ed to hang out with each other anymore,” laughs restless hearts, but in the sort of intimate way that Rebel, who had been playing bass for the group, began Rebel. “We’re all still friends but they were like, ‘Lana, Loretta Lynn and Neko Case do: matter-of-fact, quiet- to teach herself guitar by playing along to old country I don’t think I want to do this with you any more.’” ly pained and often wry, letting the little details of records. Caught up in the style, she started writing her Since that time, Rebel has recorded the solo album everyday life become the backdrop for whiskey- own songs and formed the country outfit Juanita All I Need on Wäntage and formed a couple of differsoaked laments. In “Yes Is Better Than No,” for Family and Friends, which was often a rotating cast of ent bands, including The Broken Promises and a rowinstance, she sings, “Did you see that ticket on my car? rock musicians who also happened to know essential dier, more honky-tonk group called Miss Lana Rebel The damn thing wasn’t runnin’ anyway.” On “When country instruments like pedal steel. and the Love Lasers, which plays in town this week. I’m Gone,” she says, “Nights grow colder and longer by and by. Just hold on darlin’ it’ll be all right.” But part of Rebel’s appeal is that she’s proven her diversity: She made the leap in 2004 from sludgy math rock band Last of the Juanitas to countryfried singer-songwriter Miss Lana Rebel, as she’s now often dubbed. She has garnered fans at festivals like South by Southwest and praise from music producers at the BBC and NPR. But between 2000, when she first came to Missoula and played heavy, grinding rock at now-defunct punk venue Jay’s Upstairs, to her most recent solo country appearance at local indie music festival Total Fest in 2008, she’s developed one of her stronger relationships with Missoula’s music scene. “We have a small scene of country musicians in Portland, a pretty awesome one, and we’re tight,” Rebel says. “And we all go to each other’s Photo courtesy of Lana Rebel shows and know each other’s songs. But I do feel like I have a bigger fanbase in Missoula Whether Lana Rebel plays sludgy rock with her full band or a set of solo country, the musician has developed a strong relationship over the last decade with Missoula’s local music scene. than I do there.” In fact, Rebel is part of “We loved playing together, and we also thought Total Fest’s genesis. Now in its ninth year, the festiBut restless hearts make for restless lives. Rebel val—first spearheaded by promoter and Wäntage that it would be our money maker—but that never real- loves the road. She’s currently in the process of sellrecord label owner Josh Vanek—is an increasingly ly happened,” says Rebel. “You know, on the road you ing her share in a produce store she owns in popular music extravaganza. Music fans from can get the gigs where you play covers, and you get Portland, and hitting the highway for as many music Portland, Seattle and other Northwest locations paid more generally at those places, but it never got to gigs as she can manage. make the journey each year to join locals in watch- that point with that band.” “I plan on getting a school bus and roaming the ing 40 or more independent bands from all over the Juanita Family and Friends put out a record and country,” she says. “That’s what I want to do, you know? country over the course of three nights. But the very began touring, ending up at South by Southwest in I don’t think I’ll be able to travel around with a band so first Total Fest in 2002 started with five bands who Austin, Texas, busking in front of venues where scheduled much but my current boyfriend, we know each other’s just happened to be on tour, and Last of the Juanitas musicians were playing. It was a rough time—she and her songs and we’ll just probably cruise around non-stop as was one of them. bandmates were unemployed and broke—but while on long as we can handle it. I love being on the road.” “It wasn’t a planned-out thing,” says Vanek. “They the streets they met BBC radio’s Huw Stephens. The DJ, And that just might mean Missoula fans will get a were on tour with Drunk Horse and The Champs—this one of those who took over at the BBC when indie cham- chance to hear her lo-fi country voice more often. amazing three band bill. I decided to see if I could get pion John Peel died, liked the Juanita Family’s sound. He Miss Lana Rebel and the Love Lasers play the Federation X to come out to Missoula and Japanther, invited the band to London’s legendary Maida Vale Badlander Friday, June 25, at 9 PM with Bird’s Mile who was on tour at the time. We were able to line it up Studios to record a session for broadcast. After a brief Home. $5. and it sort of fortuitously fell into place. Those bands tour and being flown to England, the band’s album enjoyed play on other BBC programs and eventually were the Total Fest originals.” efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Angelo Spencer Et Les Haut Sommets K Records

One-man instrumental band Angelo Spencer makes music that could be the soundtrack for a Coen Brothers’ movie, something like No Country for Old Men or Blood Simple. You can almost see the long stretches of highway baking in the heat, with the anticipation that something is about to go haywire with murderous results. Other times the band’s style is more contemplative, like a Hal Hartley art film where damaged people find love in a small town. Spencer grew up in the French Alps and was inspired by the soundtrack to The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, which makes perfect sense when you listen to

John Anderson Bigger Hands Country Crossing

Country legend John Anderson always reminded me of my charismatic uncle who shows up to Thanksgiving dinner with a different woman every year: sly, charming and grandma’s favorite, even if he gave the kids fireworks on the DL. Bigger Hands delivers some of the charm and wit of past efforts but forgets the fireworks. It isn’t all Anderson’s fault. His unmistakable baritone drawl is strong as ever; it’s the material that’s weak. The album begins fine enough with “How Can I Be So Thirsty.” Anderson’s voice booms the instant-

Southeast Engine From the Forest to the Sea Misra

Southeast Engine recorded From the Forest to the Sea in a creaky 19th century, bat-filled middle school in Stewart, Ohio. The album feels appropriately rustic, though mostly due to the lo-fi organ and the slight echoes emanating from an old timey piano. Still, there’s nothing antiquated about this band’s ideas. Like Johnny Cash and the Violent Femmes (“Country Death Song,” specifically) Southeast Engine sings about the darker side of humanity. In “LawAbiding Citizen” an offshore oil cartographer climbs the corporate ladder. In “Two of Every Kind” a family man meets “lady midnight” in a dim diner. The lesser songs linger in slowly rendered hopefulness, which is

Nice Nice Extra Wow Warp Records

Extra Wow reminds me of a lazy summer afternoon where you bask in the glow of the sun and drift off into a narcotic sleep filled with out-of-thisworld dreams. This Portland, Ore.-based two-piece of guitar and drums, plus synths and loops, churns out a mix of post-rock, noise, drone and Krautrock that’s heavily indebted to face-melting psychedelia. And it ends up being one hell of a mind-altering trip. “Set and Setting” and “One Hit” kick the journey off, sounding something like a hazier version of

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the album. Guitar twang mixes with more exotic instruments like the shenhai, bass clarinet, bells and shakers, creating a sort of disco snake-charm sound. Tracks like “Did You Hear That Sound” and “La Pinaille” evoke slowed down Ventures songs coupled with dusty Old West soundscapes, and for some reason those ones seem perfect for a David Lynch film. Et Les Haut Sommets isn’t really an album I would just sit down and listen to without getting a little fidgety, but it could serve well as a soundtrack to trippy, latenight art-making sessions. (Erika Fredrickson) Angelo Spencer plays the Zootown Arts Community Center Wednesday, June 30, at 8 PM with Bash Brothers, Tyson Ballew, Sneeze and Pony Cannon. $5. barroom-classic chorus, “How can I be so thirsty this mornin’ after all I drank last night?” No doubt, John. But this being modern country he’s apparently forced to lean on themes, not substance: the straight, the narrow, holes in hearts, cold coffee, hot beer, people gone and not coming back. Some tracks feature the pleasures of honky-tonkin’, while others, like “What Used to Turn Me On,” extol sobriety. “Shuttin’ Detroit Down” won’t let us forget the workin’ man. They’re all tired stories. It’s a shame because in the past Anderson has brought us vivid, emotionally expressive classics like “Straight Tequlia Night” and “Seminole Wind.” That said, there’s always room at the table for this legend. ( Jason McMackin) John Anderson plays the Wilma Thursday, June 24, at 8 PM. $27 plus fees.

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less compelling. But the best tracks, like the Rolling Stones-styled “Black Gold” and gritty garage tune “Malcontent” keep it rockin’ while bursting with anxiety. This is definitely a religious album: Titles include references to Noah’s ark and the flood. But the band doesn’t seem out to save anyone. No proselytizing here, and no cut-and-dried resolutions. Instead, frontman Adam Remnant spins tales of people who take the long way to salvation—and sometimes never make it. And because he sings in first person, there’s no sense that he’s accusing anyone but himself, which makes the record all the more embraceable. (Erika Fredrickson) Southeast Engine plays the Badlander Tuesday, June 29, at 9 PM with Velcro Kicks and Deny the Dinosaur. $5. Lightning Bolt, but with washes of reverb and slightly less aggressive intensity. On “Big Bounce,” the group gets funky with simple beats, layers of squiggling synth and indiscernible psych pop vocals bathed in effects. Many of these tunes also veer into psych-freakout crescendos, but a keen ear for melody throughout keeps things grounded and interesting. The best example is “See Waves,” an experimental homage to Afrobeat that’s endearingly authentic but not derivative. What really hooks me, though, is the kaleidoscopic variety in structure. The shifting timbres and loose forms on Extra Wow is what keeps me coming back for another sip from this wildly inventive punch bowl of sound. (Ira Sather-Olson) Nice Nice plays the Top Hat Wednesday, June 30, at 10 PM with Modality and DJ Kris Moon. $5.

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In one of Marie Hausauer’s paintings, a cherub though she was the only one there. reaches gracefully through the puffy clouds of a heaven“You start talking about this kind of stuff and you ly sky for the hand of another cherub. At first glance, the start sounding like a crock,” Hausauer laughs. “But it’s a image doesn’t seem like an edgy statement on anything creepy feeling when you’re somewhere and you realize in particular. Sure, one cherub is white-skinned with that maybe you’re not the only one there. There was no pink, punk-rock hair, and the other cherub is dark- blood dripping out of the walls or anything. It wasn’t an skinned, but their angelic faces and the pastel wash of evil feeling, just a noticeable presence.” colors give the scene a serene and impenetrable glow. The painting itself isn’t really a reflection or litUpon closer inspection, however, you’ll notice the paint- eral portrayal of being haunted. Hausauer says she ing’s title, “Post Googling painted it in order to Prussian Blue & April Gaede.” process the creepy feeling It’s a reference to white she was experiencing. supremacist Gaede, who “It’s not a really compligained notoriety when she cated painting, intellectualmoved to the Flathead area in ly,” says Hausauer. “I was 2006 with her family, includtrying to figure out if I ing twin daughters who were, should be freaked out about at the time, in a neo-Nazi band ghosts in the barn, kind of called Prussian Blue. hoping that painting would maybe appease it and it In that light, it becomes would leave me alone a litclear Hausauer’s art has a tle bit. It’s such a pretenstory to tell. tious, loaded word, but it’s Hausauer, 21, lives in kind of a meditation.” Whitefish where she was Hausauer recently moborn and raised in an envived into another residence ronment she considers privin town—this one isn’t ileged and lucky. But a haunted—and she’s hoping recent Holocaust revisionist film presented by white “Post Googling Prussian Blue & April to clear out a space in her supremacists at the nearby Gaede” is one of several pieces artist garage for another studio. Kalispell Public Library Marie Hausauer will show for her exhibit, For now she’s not interested reminded her that idyllic The Random Musings of a Hermit, which in art school (“I think it opens July 1 at the Walking Man Frame might give me too many small towns can also be hot Shop & Gallery in Whitefish. rules,” she says), and, pockets for fanatics. instead, she’s hoping to col“It’s so sheltered up here,” Hausauer says. “I can walk down the street at laborate with other artists and work on pieces for night and not be scared. So when something that exhibits, like her upcoming The Random Musings of dramatic is going on—people totally comfortable a Hermit, which opens this week at Walking Man with showing a movie saying that the Holocaust did- Frame Shop & Gallery in Whitefish. And, so far, she continues to find plenty of n’t happen—it all seems so bizarre and foreign.” Hausauer and her father and sister went to muses to choose from in her hometown. Her volunKalispell to protest the film’s screening. That night teer work at the local food bank inspired her recentpolice arrested Gaede after she clashed with the ly to do a completely different piece—this one on protesters. Afterward, the event stuck in Hausauer’s glass—that’s a tribute to some of the senior citizens mind and she decided to tackle it in an unusual way. she’s gotten to know there. It’s a colorful acrylic “Usually I would paint something super angry called “Creamed Corn (you guys rock),” a portrait of about it and dark, but I kind of didn’t want to give three older folks from the food bank. It’s part of [the white supremacists] that much credit ’cause Hausauer’s revelation she had about the way in they’re warped in the head,” says Hausauer. “It which that particular demographic is treated. “A lot of times we don’t think of them as compemakes them more of a threat if I spend that kind of time and energy looking at [Gaede] like she’s some tent members of society,” she says. “We talk to them foul enemy. So making the painting all kind of a little slower like they’re not going to understand, and if you disagree with what someone elderly says cutesy undermines her in my mind.” Up until recently, Hausauer lived and painted in you let it go, because they’re old. I think it’s sad to a renovated barn behind her parents’ house. During stop expecting things out of people. Working there that time she created “Haunted,” which, like “Post kind of contradicted my idea of how you treat older Googling,” is an engaging painting with a curious people. I think they rock.” Marie Hausauer shows her work at an exhibbackstory. The image shows a somber woman with flowing hair and a cameo necklace, and the back- it titled, The Random Musings of a Hermit, ground is coated in bodice ripper novels from old beginning Thursday, July 1, at the Walking Man Reader’s Digests, giving it a mysterious and vintage Frame Shop & Gallery in Whitefish. 6 PM. Free. flavor. Hausauer began painting it when she started efredrickson@missoulanews.com hearing footsteps and whispers in the barn even

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Early on in Please Give, a dinner guest tells cringe-worthy. Keener makes you want to pity and 15-year-old Abby that—despite the assurances of slap her at the same time, playing the role of angsther parents—the zit on her nose is indeed ridden yuppie with ease. hideous. “Thank you,” says Abby. “No one ever An unexpected bonus is Ann Guilbert’s portrayal tells the truth anymore.” of Andra the grandmother. Playing a cranky, stubborn The guest, Mary (Amanda Peet), is a fake- nonagenarian, Guilbert steals every scene in which she tanned 30-something beautician who drinks too appears with a combination of humor, sadness and much, stalks the girlfriend of her ex and resents inevitably. She’s the most honest person in this film, every second she spends taking care of her cranky and almost everyone hates her for it. 91-year-old grandmother, Andra. Lucky for Mary, it’s her younger sister Rebecca who lovingly provides 90 percent of the care-taking, not to mention just about all of the movie’s moral high ground. That leaves plenty of room for moral low ground, and even more room for the always-interesting middle ground. There isn’t a single felony committed in Please Give, but there is great enjoyment to be had from witnessing well-to-doers commit moral misdemeanors. For the most part, it’s fun to watch and even “They’re on backwards.” more fun to judge, especially when the perpetrators don’t seem to give a crap It’s not always easy to spot the plot. It’s a film about their actions. But this isn’t exactly the farce it about two family units whose lives have momentarmay sound like—most of the characters here do give ily intertwined on the Upper West Side, and the a crap about something, some to the point of being uncomfortable truths that affluence wrought with saddled with weight-loss-inducing guilt. And even guilt can elicit. ( Whether to buy a pair of $200 jeans when it’s uncomfortable to watch, there tends to be is a recurring theme.) In the hands of lesser actors— a character waiting in the wings to slap some sense or even a big-name Hollywood star—Please Give into the situation. would implode almost immediately into a messy The movie is at its best in that early dinner goo of navel-gazing. But give Nicole Holofcener’s scene (the only one in which all six main characters script to seasoned character actors like Platt and appear together), when the two sisters and grandma Keener and we’re left with a mostly entertaining are in the New York City apartment of Kate and Alex examination of fairly normal people with varying (Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt). The middle- degrees of complication. aged couple and daughter Abby live next door to In addition to writing the script, Holofcener Andra, and have long ago reached an agreement to directed the film. There are some annoying flaws, buy the elderly woman’s condo when she dies. It including a one-dimensional boyfriend and a physmakes for some wonderfully awkward conversation ical attraction between two characters that even as the callous older sister sees nothing wrong with Judd Apatow would nix as unbelievable. But it’s asking Kate and Alex about their remodeling plans hard to complain too much about the way in front of a still-breathing grandma. Holofcener integrates so many stories into such a Kate and Alex are used to dealing with death; compact narrative. they run a high-end used furniture store where most Please Give is an hour and a half of reflection of the inventory is purchased on the cheap from the on how this band of characters value things—coffee children of the recently deceased. They are very tables, jeans, family members. As you might expect, good at what they do, and not always entirely hon- the resolutions are vague. People compensate for est about how they do it. Kate eases the guilt of sell- their faults by trying to make others happy, whether ing over-priced coffee tables by offering money or it’s through money, sex or washing grandma’s dirty designer lipstick to every homeless person she pass- laundry. And if that sounds too heavy, it’s just as es. She is the eternal worrier—always paranoid that easy to focus on the entertainment factor of watchthe children she bought from will return in anger, ing rich people feel bad about themselves. and in near-constant guilt about everyone else. Please Give continues at the Wilma Theatre. Harnessing those emotions can be a mess—her attempts to land numerous volunteer jobs are arts@missoulanews.com

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Scope OPENING THIS WEEK GROWN UPS Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade and other old chums from grade school reunite for a weekend after their basketball coach dies. Soon enough, they realize that being a boy is much more fun than being an adult with responsibilities. Carmike 10: Fri.–Mon. at 1:35, 1:55, 4:05, 4:50, 7, 7:30, 9 and 9:55 and Tue. at 12:35, 12:55, 3:05, 3:50, 6, 6:30, 8:30 and 8:55. Village 6: Fri.–Mon. at 1:35, 4:05, 7 and 9:30 and Tue. at 12:35, 3:05, 6 and 8:30. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: Fri.–Tue. at 7 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. shows at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Mon. at 12:10, 1:10, 2:40, 3:40, 5:10, 6:10, 7:40, 8:40 and 10 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at midnight and Tue. at 12:10, 1:10, 2:40, 3:40, 5:10 and 7:40. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: Fri.–Thu. at 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:45. Entertainer in Ronan: Fri.–Thu. at 4, 7 and 9.

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4:15, 7 and 9:45 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Showboat Cinema in Polson: Fri.–Thu. at 4, 7 and 9:15. DINOSAUR TRAIN Kids can satiate their interest in dinosaurs with this toon that follows a tyrannosaurus rex named Buddy and his train-bound adventures through jungles, oceans, and other ancient ecosystems. Village 6: 1 only on Sat.–Sun. GET HIM TO THE GREEK No baklava was harmed in this latest offering from Judd Apatow that follows the antics of sexed up English rocker Russel Brand, who gets courted by record label intern Jonah Hill to play a gig in the City of Angels. As is par for the course, Hill has a hard time keeping Brand away from sex, absinthe, and candy coated drugs. Village 6: Fri.–Mon. at 4:35, 7:20 and 10 with additional Fri. and Mon. shows at

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tional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Tue. at 12:05, 2:35 and 4:50. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: Fri.–Thu. at 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:45. THE KARATE KID Yet another remake surfaces in this face-lifted plot that features an uncommonly calm and composed Jackie Chan teaching some neck snappin’ kung fu moves to Jaden Smith, a Detroit native and newbie to Beijing, China who aims to bruise up some bullies. Carmike 10: Fri.–Mon. at 1, 4, 7:05 and 10:05 and Tue. at noon, 3, 6:05 and 9:05. Village 6: Fri.–Mon. at 1, 4, 7:05 and 10:05 and Tue. at noon, 3, 6:05 and 9:05. Pharoahplex in Hamilton: Fri.–Tue. at 6:50 and 9:10 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Tue. at 12:20, 3:20, 6:20 and 9:20 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

at 3:35 and 9:20 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. SHREK: THE FINAL CHAPTER Mike Myers, Cameron Diaz and Eddie Murphy get CGI and 3-D treatment as voiceovers in the final installment of this series that finds Shrek navigating a puzzling world after making a bum deal with Rumpelstiltskin. Carmike 10: Fri.–Mon. at 1:45, 4:45, 7:30 and 9:55 and Tue. at 12:45, 3:45, 6:30 and 8:55. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Mon. at 12:20, 2:40, 5:05, 7:25 and 9:35 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Tue. at 12:20, 2:40 and 5:05. TOY STORY 3 The voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen and the rest of this 3-D animated pack are at a loss when they find out their buddy Andy is going to college to do “adult stuff.” Thankfully though,

ICE AGE A sloth, a woolly mammoth and a few other animated creatures decide to forge their way through the deep freeze of the ice age in order to return a child to its parents. Carmike 10: 10 AM only on Tue. KNIGHT AND DAY Tom Cruise might be summoning the almighty power of Scientology as a bad boy on the run who picks up Cameron Diaz along the way for an adventure filled with blazing machine guns and high-speed car chases. Carmike 10: Fri.–Mon. at 1:30, 4:15, 7:05 and 9:45 and Tue. at 12:30, 3:15, 6:05 and 8:45. Village 6: Fri.–Mon. at 1:30, 4:15, 7:05 and 9:45 and Tue. at 12:30, 3:15, 6:05 and 8:45. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: Fri.-Tue. at 6:50 and 9:10 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Tue. at 12:05, 1:45, 2:45, 4:25, 5:25, 7:05, 8 and 9:45 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at 10:30. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: Fri.–Thu. at 4, 7 and 9:15 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30. MOTHER AND CHILD Parenthood and the bonds that bind and break it get explored as Annette Bening yearns to rekindle a relationship with biological daughter Naomi Watts, while Watts herself gets tangled up in a big ol’ surprise after a few steamy nights with Samuel L. Jackson. Wilma Theatre: nightly at 7 and 9:20 with Sun. matinees at 1 and 3:20. THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE Who knows if good things come in threes, all I know is that this third installment of the popular series features more pale-faced vamps hungry for blood, some killings in the Emerald City, and an epic—epic—struggle for a lady between a werewolf and a vampire. Carmike 10: Midnight only on Tue. Village 6: Midnight only on Tue. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Midnight only on Tue., with a screening of Twilight and The Twilight Saga: New Moon starting at 6:15. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: Midnight only on Tue. Showboat Cinema in Polson: Midnight only on Tue.

NOW PLAYING THE A-TEAM Old-school television gets a cinematic makeover when four Special Forces soldiers—including Liam Neeson and Bradley Cooper—get wrongly set up, then locked up, and then break free. From that point, lots of things explode as they try to track down the dude who screwed them...but you didn’t see that coming, did you? Carmike 10: Fri.–Mon. at 1:15, 4:10, 7 and 9:45 and Tue. at 12:15, 3:10, 6 and 8:45. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: Fri.–Tue. at 6:50 and 9:10 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Tue. at 1:15,

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1:45 and Tue. at 12:45, 3:35, 6:20 and 9. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Tue. at 4:20 and 9:35 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO This adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s book of the same name follows a middle-aged journalist and a tatted up hacker who forge an unlikely alliance as snoops trying to shed light on the 40-year-old disappearance of a teen. Wilma Theatre: nightly at 9 with a Sun. matinee at 3. IRON MAN 2 Robert Downey Jr. returns as Iron Man, the well liked industrialist with a few metallic tricks up his sleeve. This time around, however, Downey Jr.’s got the government pleading for his technological secrets, and dudes like Mickey Rourke after his head. Carmike 10: Fri.–Mon. at 1:15, 4:10, 7 and 9:50 and Tue. at 12:15, 3:10, 6 and 8:50. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Tue. at 1:30 and 6:50. JONAH HEX Josh Brolin’s a dude with a badass attitude, and a cringe inducing scar, who’s got serious beef with crazier-than-thou terrorist John Malkovich in this western adventure based on DC Comics characters from the 1970s. Village 6: Fri.–Mon. at 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 and 10 and Tue. at noon, 2:15, 4:30, 6:45 and 9. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: Fri.–Tue. at 7 and 9 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 3 and no Sun. show at 9. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Mon. at 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, 7:05 and 9:30 with an addi-

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KILLERS Katherine Heigl gets punked by Ashton Kutcher— well, in a way—when the duo ties the knot and Heigl realizes that Kutcher’s line of work means bullets will blaze, and rude dudes will come crashing through their living room windows. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Tue. at 1:20, 3:45, 7:20 and 9:40 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. PLEASE GIVE Catherine Keener and Oliver Platt are looking for some extra leg room in their cramped NYC digs, but their older neighbor isn’t going to budge until she kicks the can in this flick that touches on themes of materialism, doubt and class. Wilma Theatre: nightly at 7 with a Sun. matinee at 1. PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME Jake Gyllenhaal’s the rugged, sword-wielding sidekick to dazzling princess Gemma Arterton as they set their sights on swiping up a dagger—that has the power to turn back time—from Gyllenhaal’s not-sonoble uncle Sir Ben Kingsley. Carmike 10: Fri.–Mon. at 1:30, 4:20, 7:15 and 9:55 and Tue. at 12:30, 3:20, 6:15 and 8:55. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Tue. at 12:55 and 6:45 ROBIN HOOD Arrows soar and a despotic sheriff gets his just deserts in this adaptation of the classic tale that features Russell Crowe as Robin Hood, and Matthew MacFadyen as the oh-so-corrupt sheriff of Nottingham. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Tue.

this team of toys finds another set of adorers at a daycare. Carmike 10: Fri.–Mon. at 1:15, 2:25, 3:45, 4:50, 6:15, 7:15, 8:45 and 9:40 and Tue. at 12:15, 1:25, 2:45, 3:50, 5:15, 6:15, 7:45 and 8:40. Village 6 in 2-D: Fri.–Mon. at 1:30, 4:10, 7 and 9:20 and Tue. at 12:30, 3:10, 6 and 8:20. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: Fri.–Tue. at 7 and 9 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Mon. at noon, 12:30, 1, 2:30, 3, 3:30, 5, 5:30, 6, 7:30, 8, 8:30 and 10 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and no 8:30 show on Tues. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: Fri.–Thu. at 4, 7 and 9:15 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30. Showboat Cinema in Polson: Fri.–Thu. at 4:15, 7 and 9. Capsule reviews by Ira Sather-Olson. Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., June 25. 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 i n H a m i l t o n – 9 61- F I L M ; R ox y Tw i n i n H a m i l t o n – 36 3 - 5141 . S t a d i u m 14 i n Kalispell–752-7804. Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.

Oregon Death With Dignity Expert, Bioethicist, Patient Advocate to Address End-of-Life Care & Issues What Montanans Can Expect After New Supreme Court Aid-in-Dying Ruling The Montana Supreme Court’s recent Baxter decision allows dying patients additional choice, comfort and control at the end of life. Barbara Glidewell, a nurse, patient advocate, ombudsman, and faculty member at Oregon Health Sciences University will talk about her experience working with patients, families and medical providers for the last 12 years under Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act. Barbara will speak about how this additional patient choice ﬁts into end-of-life care.

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My Life. My Death. My Choice. Don’t Let Anyone Take Away Your End-of-Life Choice Helena brain cancer patient Steve Johnson has a choice today. He may not have one come January. “I think I should have something to say about my ending, it’s my decision to make, and it’s a great comfort to know I can ask my doctor to honor my choice to die with dignity.” Our Montana Supreme Court recently decided that end-of-life medical choices are private, between you and your doctor, and that terminally-ill adults can request medication to bring about a peaceful death. But some people don’t agree. They believe politicians and government should decide how Steve Johnson can be allowed to die. Opponents of this most personal and private right have vowed to get the legislature to take it away next January.

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guy swinging a set of car keys is standing at your front door.) Recognizing that, as a woman, you have a hardwired tendency to be a pleaser is the best way to avoid succumbing to it. You have to decide before you’re in a dicey situation that your comfort level and safety take priority over possibly coming across as rude or unsympathetic. Keep in mind, as Gavin de Becker writes in “The Gift of Fear,” that “‘No’ is a complete sentence,” and if you let somebody talk you out of it, “you might as well wear a sign that reads, ‘You are in charge.’” Get his book, start a reading group with your “conflicted” girlfriends, and in the future, see to it that your door policy is determined by you, not Jim Beam and Captain Morgan.

ROGAINED ANOTHER FAN! I was OUTRAGED that you criticized a college guy for online dating, saying it’s “for the Rogaine generation.” I’m 23 and met my wonderful fiance on the Internet. A man isn’t less of a man because he finds a girlfriend online! –Couldn’t Be Happier Sure, some college students find dates online, but you’re OUTRAGED that I advised against it? And, of all the things in the paper you could find to be OUTRAGED about? What happened, seen one oil-soaked dead baby duck, seen ‘em all? Eventually, the pesky human aspect will probably be removed from dating, and a guy’ll stay home repiping the sink while his avatar’s out trying to unhook some other avatar’s bra. For now, the human-to-human element remains, and a guy in college will never again be in a place so swarming with hot, single, dateable women. It’s especially wise for this particular guy to take a more analog approach to hitting on girls if I’m right in my suspicion that he online dates because he’s too big a wuss to deal with face-to-face rejection. Opportunity (aka the hot girl down the hall) is knocking on his dorm room door, and he should be answering it, not calling out, “Not now! I’m IMing with Im300LbsFatterThanMyPicture999!”

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): A few years ago, a group of artists built a giant bunny out of pink wool on an Italian mountainside. The 200-foot-long effigy will remain there until 2025. There’s a disturbing aspect to this seemingly goofy artifact, however: It has a wound in its side where its guts are spilling out. That’s why I don’t recommend that you travel there and commune with it. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you would definitely benefit from crawling into a fetal position and sucking your thumb while lying in the comfy embrace of a humongous mommy substitute. But you shouldn’t tolerate any tricks or jokes that might limit your ability to sink into total peace and relaxation. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 1998, I spent three weeks reading The Psychoanalysis of Fire and The Poetics of Reverie, two books by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. His teachings were so evocative that I filled up two 120-page journals with my notes. To this day, I still refer to them, continuing to draw fresh inspiration from ideas I wasn’t ripe enough to fully understand when I first encountered them. You’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when a similar event could happen for you, Taurus: a supercharged educational opportunity that will fuel you for a long time. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Congrats, Gemini! You have not only weathered your recent phase of relentless novelty; you’ve thrived on the adjustments it demanded of you. I am hereby awarding you with the rare and prestigious title of Change-Lover, which I only bestow upon one of the signs of the zodiac every four years or so. So what’s next on the schedule? The shock of the new will soon subside, giving you a chance to more fully integrate the fresh approaches you’ve been adopting. I suggest you relax your hyper-vigilance and slip into a slower, smoother, more reflective groove.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here are the low-paying jobs I’ve done that I wasn’t very good at: tapping sap from maple trees in Vermont; driving a taxi in North Carolina; toiling as an amusement park ride operator in New Jersey; being a guinea pig for medical experiments in California; digging ditches in South Carolina; and picking olives from trees in the south of France. Do I feel like a failure for being such a mediocre worker and making so little money? No, because although it took me a while, I finally found jobs I was good at, and have been thriving ever since. Why would I judge myself harshly for having trouble doing things that weren’t in sync with my soul’s code? Please apply this line of thinking to yourself.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Each year, Playboy magazine publishes a list of the best colleges to go to if you prefer partying to studying. In its recent rankings, a top spot went to the University of Wisconsin, which was dubbed “the best beer-drinking school in the country.” As a counterpoint to this helpful information, HuffingtonPost.com offered a compendium of the best antiparty schools. Brigham Young got favorable mention since it has a policy forbidding students from drinking, smoking, and having sex. The University of Chicago was also highly regarded, being “the place where fun goes to die.” For the next three weeks, Leo, I recommend that you opt for environments that resemble the latter more than the former. It’s time for you to get way down to business, cull the activities that distract you from your main purpose, and cultivate a hell of a lot of gravitas.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’re entering a phase of your long-term cycle when cultivating abundance is an especially smart thing to do. To take maximum advantage, I suggest that you be both extra generous and extra receptive to generosity. Bestow more blessings than usual and put yourself in prime positions to gather in more blessings than usual. I realize that the second half of this assignment might be a challenge. You Virgos often feel more comfortable giving than receiving. But in this case, I must insist that you attend to both equally. The giving part won’t work quite right unless the receiving part is in full bloom.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): What have you lost in recent months, Libra? This week begins a phase when will you have the potential to not exactly recover it, but rather to re-create it on a higher level. Maybe a dream that seemed to unravel was simply undergoing a reconfiguration, and now you’re primed to give it a new and better form of expression. Maybe a relationship that went astray was merely dying so it could get resurrected, with more honesty and flexibility this time around.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I’m guessing that you’ve been ushered into a frontier that affords you no recognizable power spot. It probably feels uncomfortable, like you’ve lost the inside track. And now along comes some wise guy – me– who advises you in his little horoscope column that you are exactly where you need to be. He says that this wandering outside the magic circle is pregnant with possibilities that could help you make better use of the magic circle when you get back inside at a later date. I hope you will heed this wise guy and, at least for the moment, resist the temptation to force yourself back into the heart of the action.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There used to be a tradition in Sweden that young women could dream of the person they would ultimately wed if they put seven kinds of flowers beneath their pillows on Midsummer’s Eve. That’s crazy nonsense, of course. Right? Probably. Although I must note that two nights ago I placed a gladiolus, hydrangea, lilac, orchid, snapdragon, tulip and rose under my pillow, and subsequently dreamed of being visited by the lily-crowned Goddess of Intimacy, who asked me to convey a message to you Sagittarians. She said that if you even just imagine slipping seven flowers under your pillow, you will have a dream about what you should do in order to help your love life evolve to the next stage of its highest potential.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Have you ripened into such a knowledgeable, sophisticated person that you’re hard to surprise? Do you draw conclusions about each new experience by comparing it to what has happened to you in the past? I hope not. I hope you’re ready to be a wide-eyed, open-armed, wild-hearted explorer. I hope you will invite life to blow your mind. In the days to come, your strongest stance will be that of an innocent virgin who anticipates an interesting future. Blessings you can’t imagine will visit you if you’ll excuse yourself from outdated expectations and irrelevant complications. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The notorious Wicked Bible was published in 1631. That wasn’t its original name. It was supposed to be as holy as every Bible. But it contained an error that slipped by the proofreaders’ notice: In the book of Exodus, where the Ten Commandments were listed, the word “not” was excluded from one commandment. What remained, an insult to pious eyes, was “Thou shall commit adultery.” Most of these books were later burned, and the publisher was punished. Be on the lookout for a comparable flap, Aquarius: a small omission that could change the meaning of everything. Ideally, you’ll spot the error and fix it before it spawns a brouhaha. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The plant known as the squirting cucumber has an unusual talent: When the fruit is ripe, it opens up and spits out a rapid-fire stream of seeds that travels a great distance. In the coming weeks, Pisces, you’ll have resemblances to this aggressive fructifier. It’ll be prime time to be proactive about spreading your influence and offering your special gifts. The world is begging you to share your creative spirit, preferably with rapid-fire spurts that travel a great distance.

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PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 23, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 13, Block 4, of El Mar Estates Phase II, a platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. IVAN LENCHUK AND SVETLANA LENCHUK, 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 March 28, 2006 and Recorded April 5, 2006 in Book 771, Page 849 under Document No. 200607600. The beneficial interest is currently held by FIRST HORIZON HOME LOANS, a division of FIRST TENNESSEE BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. 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 $1,546.45, beginning September 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 20, 2010 is $184,270.48 principal, interest at the rate of 6.5000% now totaling $8,608.53, late charges in the amount of $424.76, escrow advances of $1,180.96 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,138.40, plus accruing interest at the rate of $32.82 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale

is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event

PUBLIC NOTICES 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: April 13, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA )) ss. County of Stark On April 13, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 First Horizon v Lenchuk 41305.192

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE 2009 DELINQUENT REAL ESTATE TAX SALE All 2009 delinquent taxes, including penalties, interest and costs, are now a lien upon the real property upon which those taxes were assessed. Unless the delinquent taxes, penalties, interest and costs are paid prior to the time of the Treasurer’s tax sale, the county’s lien will be offered for sale. The Treasurer’s tax sale is scheduled for 10:00 a.m., Friday, July 16, 2010 in the County Treasurer’s office, first floor, Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 W Broadway St, Missoula, Montana. A list of all properties on which 2009 taxes are delinquent will be on file at the time of the sale and open for public inspection during business hours 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Penalties, interest and costs will be added to the delinquent taxes upon payment by the owner or purchaser. Before a tax lien can be purchased for assignment, “Proof of Notice” according to MCA 15-17-323 (5) must be presented at the time of purchase. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier Clerk & Recorder/Treasurer Missoula County, Montana 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, Missoula MT 59808, until 10:00 am., Friday July 16, 2010, 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 0.7 miles in length, adjacent to Riverview Road near Seeley Lake Montana, from Hwy 83 to tie into the first bridge. 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 Americans with Disabilities Act and 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 CTEP Liason 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. 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 Riverview Road Path – Seeley Lake, Control Number 5906 SOLICITATION NO. 1006-01” and addressed to: Missoula County Bids Department. Missoula County Public Works MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF HEARING Application for Property Tax Reduction for Commercial or Industrial Real Property Improvements and Personal Property. MISSOULA—The Missoula Board of County Commissioners, Missoula County Public Schools and the Potomac School District will conduct a joint hearing on an application for property tax reduction for commercial or industrial real property improvements and personal property, in accordance with Montana law (1524-2102, MCA) on two (2) 1995 Timberjack 1270 B Harvesters and one (1) 1996 Timberjack 1210 B Forwarder on behalf of Woodland Restoration, Inc. The joint hearing will be conducted at the County Commissioners regularly scheduled Public Meeting oon Wednesday July 7, 2010, at 1:30 p.m. in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to the Commissioners and/or speak at the hearing. Comments may also be submitted anytime prior to the hearing by mail or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802; by fax at (406) 721-4043 or by e-mail at bcc@co.missoula.mt.us Additional information on the hearing may be obtained from Dale Bickell, Missoula County Chief Administrative Officer at 258-4229. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. DATED THIS 21ST DAY OF JUNE, 2010 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD Title III Fuel Mitigation Requests Notice is hereby given that a proposal for allocation of Missoula County funds for the purpose of fuels mitigation projects was put before the Board of County Commissioners on June 9, 2010. The funds originate from the federal government as part of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, and are being spent under Title III of that Act. The following allocations are proposed: To fund revision of Missoula County’s Community Wildfire Protection Plan: $20,000. To mitigate the effects of wildfire by supporting Firewise Communities Programs, including cost sharing on fuels mitigation projects: $74,000 to Missoula Rural Fire District; $74,000 to Frenchtown Rural Fire District; $65,000 to Seeley Lake Rural Fire Department; $20,000 to Swan Ecosystem; $10,000 to other rural fire agencies in Missoula County proposing a project authorized for Firewise Communities programs and approved by the Board of County Commissioners. Agencies receiving these allocations must have the funds spent by June 30, 2011, or those funds will revert to Missoula County for reallocation by the Board of County Commissioners. The Board of County Commissioners will act on these proposals at their regularly scheduled Weekly Public Meeting on Wednesday, July 21, at 1:30 p.m. in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to the Commissioners and/or speak at the hearing. Comments may also be submitted anytime prior to the hearing on July 21st by phone, mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners at

their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, Fax (406) 721-4043. Additional information on the proposals may be obtained from Bob Reid, Director of Emergency Services, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802; or by calling (406) 258-4758. DATED THIS 9th, DAY OF June, 2010. MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT Section 3 Public Notice Missoula County on behalf of Mountain Home Montana, Inc. has received notice of the award of Community Development Block Grant funds from the Montana Department of Commerce. Mountain Home Montana, Inc. will soon commence the implementation of the Transitional Living Apartments project for Mountain Home residents and staff operations. The project will consist of construction of a new two-story, five-unit apartment with common spaces, to be built to the north of the current property at 2606 South Avenue West, in Missoula, Montana. CDBG regulations governing the grant require that to the greatest extent feasible, opportunities for training and employment arising in connection with this CDBG-assisted project will be extended to local lowerincome residents. Further, to the greatest extent feasible, business concerns located in or substantially owned by residents of the project area and minority or women owned businesses are encouraged to be utilized. For more information, please contact Jean Harte, Office of Planning and Grants, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana, 59802 or call (406) 258-3712. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT COUNTY OF MISSOULA PROBATE NO.: DP10-84 DEPT NO.: 2 Robert L. Deschamps III NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY DENISE PETERSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the estate of Mary Denise Peterson, also known as Mary D. Peterson. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to Elizabeth Ann Gupton, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in c/o Denise Peterson, Attorney at Law, 301 7th Ave. W., Polson, MT 59860, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 11th day of June, 2010. /S/ Elizabeth Ann Gupton— Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-10-77 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ELIZABETH V. BUCKHOUSE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to WIlliam Moore, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 27th day of May, 2010. /s/ William Moore, Personal Reprsentative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-10-69 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF JOSHUA CLAIRMONT, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Karen Prazak has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Tamara White, the Personal

Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Del Post, Datsopoulos, MacDonald & Lind, P.C., 201 West Main Street, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 8th day of June, 2010. /s/ Del Post Attorney for Tamara, Personal Representative of the Estate of Joshua Clairmont MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-10-72 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DAVID LAURANCE STROUP, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN tht the undersigned has been appointed Special Administrator of the above-named Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Andrea Burt, the Special Administrator, return receipt requested,in care of Thiel Law Office, PLLC, 315 West Pine, PO Box 8125, Missoula, Montana 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 11th day of June, 2010. THIEL LAW OFFICE, PLLC Attorney for Special Administrator /s/ Saul H. Seyler MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DV-10-709 Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Carol Lee Ridenour-Brown, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Carol Lee Ridenour-Brown to Kelli Carolee Ridenour-Brown. The hearing will be on July 13, 2010 at 1:30pm. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: May 27, 2010 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court (SEAL) By: Cori Oller, Deputy Clerk of Court NOTICE OF HEARING The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing on the proposed expenditure of Open Space Bond proceeds on the following project: 1. Sunset Hill 2 Conservation Easement A hearing on a proposal to use an additional $150,000 in Open Space bond funding towards the purchase of a conservation easement on 3,440 acres of land in the Sunset Hill area of Greenough. The project was previously approved for $200,000 in bond funds in 2007. The applicant is The Nature Conservancy. The total proposed match is approximately $5.80 for every dollar of open space funding expended. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, June 30, 2010, in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W Broadway, Missoula, Montana. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may speak at the hearing and/or submit written or other materials to the Commissioners at the hearing or by mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, FAX (406) 721-4043. Copies of the proposed project are available for public inspection at the Missoula County Office of Rural Initiatives, 317 Woody, Missoula, Montana. Telephone 258-3432; or you may contact Pat O’Herren in Rural Initiatives at 258-4981. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-3422. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Trustee will on AUGUST 12, 2010, at the hour of 11:00 o’clock A.M., at the front doors of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, the following described property: Two tracts of land located in Government Lot 6 of Section 6, Township 13 North, Range 16 West, P.M.M., Missoula, Montana, being more particularly described as Certificate of Survey Numbers 247 and 248. The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad rights of way and adjunct properties for the abandoned line of the railroad in, over and across the NW1/4SW1/4 of Section 6, Township 13 North, Range 16 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, conveyed by Quitclaim Deed recorded December 13, 1996 in Book 493 of Micro Records at Page 660. ALSO KNOWN AS Tracts 1-A and 1-B, Certificate of Survey No. 05813, located in Government Lot 6 within Section 6, Township 13 North, Range 16 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Said property is subject to a Montana Trust Indenture recorded May 6, 2005, Document No. 200510567, Book 751, Page 1498, records of Missoula County, Montana, where JEAN M. HAND AND GARY L. HAND, as joint tenants with right of survivorship, are GRANTORS,

STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA COUNTY is TRUSTEE, and ED ENGEL, an undivided 11% interest, GUENZLER FAMILY TRUST, an undivided 9.75% interest, TIM L. GUENZLER, an undivided 12.5% interest, KARL L. ROESCH, an undivided 25.5% interest, CAROLE S. ROMEY, an undivided 8.25% interest, MAX M. JOHNSON AND MARIANNE M. JOHNSON, an undivided 3% interest, STEWART D. FRASER, an undivided 10% interest, JACK C. DOWNES AND GAIL L. DOWNES, an undivided 5% interest, RANDALL S. OGLE, TRUSTEE OF THE OGLE AND WORM, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, PROFIT SHARING PLAN, an undivided 5% interest, SHIRLEY UNRUH, an undivided 5% interest, and RONAN TELEPHONE COMPANY EMPLOYEE PROFIT SHARING PLAN, an undivided 5% interest are BENEFICIARY. Beneficiary’s interest was assigned by the Estate of Stewart D. Fraser to Corey and Kathy Richwine, Kathleen Richwine, Susan J. Piedalue, Linda L. Roberts and Stewart Gregory Fraser, by Assignment of Promissory Note recorded March 26, 2010, Document No. 201005855, Book 857, Page 540, Missoula County, Montana, and assigned by all fractional interest holders to BLACKFOOT RIVERBEND, LLP, by Assignment recorded March 16, 2010, under Document No. 201005133, Book 856 Page 1217, Missoula County, Montana. Christy L. Brandon is the Successor Trustee pursuant to an Appointment of Successor Trustee recorded March 26, 2010, Document No. 201005856, Book 857, Page 541, records of Missoula County, Montana. Grantor’s default consists of failure to make payments when due beginning with the monthly payments from and after November 6, 2007 in the amount of $9,658.54 each. The total sum owing on this obligation is $895,000.00 principal balance plus accruing interest at the rate of 12.95% per year ($321.951388 per day) totaling $284,283.07 as of March 19, 2010, $27,550.00 late fees, $1,201.00 escrow fees, and $1,851.00 other fees and costs. Beneficiary may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, they will be added to the obligation secured by the Montana Trust Indenture. 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. Beneficiary elects to declare all amounts under said Note and Trust Indenture to be immediately due and payable in consequence of the Grantor’s default. Beneficiary directs that Trustee sell the real property above described for the satisfaction of the obligation. This 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. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed and will be made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances. The sale purchaser is entitled to possession of the property on the tenth day following the sale. The sale is subject to bankruptcy filing, payoff, reinstatement or any other circumstance that would affect the validity of the sale. If any such circumstance exists, the sale shall be void, the successful bidder’s funds returned and the trustee and current beneficiary shall not be liable to the successful bidder for any damage. The Grantor or any person having a subordinate lien upon the subject property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the Beneficiary the entire amount then due under the trust indenture and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses 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 and thereby cure the default. This 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 up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. DATED this 26th day of March, 2010. /s/ Christy L. Brandon, Successor Trustee, P.O. Box 1544, Bigfork, MT 59911, (406) 837-5445. THIS NOTICE IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Recorded o 06/14/2010 Trustee Sale No.: MT16000003-10 Loan No.: MT-SLS090167 Title Order No.: 100029249 Reference is made to that certain Trust Deed made by HEIDI BRUGH, A MARRIED PERSON, as Grantor, to WESTERN TITLE AND ESCROW, as Trustee, in favor of MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary, dated 06/30/2006, and Recorded on 07/03/2006 as DOCUMENT NO. 200616298 Book 778, Page 358. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee on behalf of the holders of the Terwin

Mortgage Trust 2006-9HGA, AssetBacked Certificates, TMTS Series 20069HGA, without recourse. Said Trust Deed encumbers the following described real property situated in said county and state, to-wit: LOT 14 IN BLOCK 18 OF HIGH PARK NO. 1 IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT OF RECORD IN BOOK 7 OF PLATS AT PAGE 52 The street address or other common designation, if any, of the real property described above is purported to be: 712 PARKVIEW WAY, MISSOULA, MT 59803 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the above street address or other common designation. Both the beneficiary and the trustee have elected to sell the said real property to satisfy the obligations secured by said Trust Deed; the default for which the foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay when due, the following sums: ALSO, if you have failed to pay taxes on the property, provide insurance on the property or pay other senior liens or encumbrances as required in the note and Deed of Trust, the beneficiary may insist that you do so in order to reinstate your account in good standing. The beneficiary may require as a condition to reinstatement that you provide reliable written evidence that you have paid all senior liens or encumbrances, property taxes, and hazard insurance premiums. These requirements for reinstatement should be confirmed by contacting the undersigned Trustee. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable, said sums being the following to wit: The unpaid principal balance of $187,699.95 with interest thereon at the rate of 7.75 from 09/01/2009; plus late charges of $64.92 each month beginning 09/01/2009 and prior accrued late charges until paid; together with title expenses, costs, trustee’s fees and attorney fees incurred herein by reason of said default; and any further sums advanced by the beneficiary for the protection of the above described real property and its interest therein. WHEREFORE, notice hereby is given that the undersigned trustee will, on 10/20/2010, at the hour of 11:00AM; On the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broad way, Missoula, MT. County of MISSOULA State of Montana, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the said described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the foregoing obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee. Notice is further given that any person named has the right, at any time prior to five days before the date last set for the sale, to have this foreclosure proceeding dismissed and the Trust Deed reinstated by payment to the beneficiary of the entire amount then due (other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred) and by curing any other default complained of herein that is capable of being cured by tendering the performance required under the obligation or to cure the default, by paying all costs and expenses actually incurred in enforcing the obligation and Trust Deed, together with trustee’s and attorney’s fees. In construing this notice, the masculine gender includes the feminine and the neuter, the singular includes plural, the word “Grantor” includes any successor in interest to the Grantor as will as any other person owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, and the words “trustee” and “beneficiary” include their respective successors in interest, if any. Dated: June 10, 2010 LENDER’S SERVICE TITLE AGENCY INC., AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE By: Gerri Sheppard, Authorized Signor ASAP# 3614234 06/24/2010, 07/01/2010, 07/08/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/19/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200730329, Book 809, Page 230, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Pamela Stanford, a married person and Joseph Stanford, as Joint Tenants was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 1 in Sun Mountain Estates, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200828038; B:831, P:227, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, National Association, as Trustee for WFMBS 2008-AR1. 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 April 26, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $738,033.37. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $644,528.75, 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 September 7, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.19348) 1002.106432-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/15/98, recorded as Instrument No. 199834018, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which David E. Chamberlain, a single person was Grantor, Norwest Mortgage, Inc. was Beneficiary and First Montana Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First Montana Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Parcel E of Certificate of Survey No. 3983, located in the Northwest quarter (NW1/4) of Section 17, Township 12 North, Range 17 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Less and excepting therefrom any right, title or interest in any minerals, mineral rights or related matters, including but not limited to oil, gas, coal, and other hydrocarbons. 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 02/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 4, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $74,746.49. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $72,311.23, 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 September 13, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an

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PUBLIC NOTICES as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.73996) 1002.156751-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/24/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200709948, Bk 795, Pg 1643, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Michele Nault-Richter and Von Richter as joint tenants 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: Lot 14 of River Pine Addition Phase 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/28/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 3, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $85,661.50. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $79,808.71, 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 September 13, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7777.12679) 1002.156716-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 10, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 5 of D&E Homesites, a platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Tax Map or Parcel ID No. 3392802 ALAN W FUSSELL AND TONYA M FUSSELL, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to American Pioneer Title Insurance, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Beneficial Montana Inc d/b/a Beneficial Mortgage Co, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 27, 2007 and Recorded November

14, 2007 in Book 808, Page 1500 under Document No. 200729863. The beneficial interest is currently held by Beneficial Montana Inc d/b/a Beneficial Mortgage Co. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,378.26, beginning November 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 31, 2010 is $130,148.76 principal, interest at the rate of 12.240% now totaling $17,305.88, late charges in the amount of $344.55, escrow advances of $2,784.50, and other fees and expenses advanced of $237.26, plus accruing interest at the rate of $43.64 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 immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 2, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 586021097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On April 2, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Hsbc V Fussell 41472.441 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 10, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Tract B2 of Certificate of Survey No. 2395, located in North onehalf of Section 14, Township 13 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. Brian L Hagestad and Tammy D Schreiber, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Montana Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated January 31, 2008 and Recorded on February 5, 2008 under Document No. 200802582 Bk-812 Pg1241. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,499.62, beginning May 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly

installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 25, 2010 is $289,176.91 principal, interest at the rate of 7.25% now totaling $22,343.86, late charges in the amount of $1,695.92, escrow advances of $6,253.25, and other fees and expenses advanced of $662.03, plus accruing interest at the rate of $57.44 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 2, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On April 2, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 09/22/2012 Gmac V. Hagstad 41965.224 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 16, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PREMISES SITUATED IN MISSOULA COUNTY, STATE OF MONTANA TO WIT: LOTS ELEVEN (11) AND TWELVE (12) IN BLOCK SEVEN (7) OF BECK’S HOME ADDITION A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF NOW ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. TAX MAP OR PARCEL ID NO.: 2018307 Tina K. Thompson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to American Pioneer Title Ins., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Beneficial Montana Inc. D/B/A Beneficial Mortgage Co., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 04, 2008 and Recorded on April 23, 2008 under Document # 200809064, in Bk-817, Pg-0842. The beneficial interest is currently held by HSBC Mortgage Services. 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 $1,200.71, beginning October 9, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges

against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 20, 2010 is $114,213.31 principal, interest at the rate of 8.54% now totaling $5,987.77, late charges in the amount of $222.75, escrow advances of $623.40, suspense balance of $-961.77 and other fees and expenses advanced of $66.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $27.09 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 against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 6, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On April 6, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 HSBC v Thompson 41472.419 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 16, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 1 IN BLOCK 2 OF ALTA ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Phyllis J. Bardwell, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Chase Bank USA, N.A, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated November 6, 2007 and recorded on November 13, 2007, Book 808, Page 1311 as Document No. 200729674. The beneficial interest is currently held by CHASE HOME FINANCE, 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 $1,614.22, beginning November 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 30, 2010 is $180,908.85 principal, interest at the rate of 8.125% now totaling $8,574.30, late charges in the amount of $409.30, and other fees and expenses advanced of $361.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $40.27 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the prop-

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erty and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 6, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097, Dickinson, ND 586021097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On April 6, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Stephanie L. Crimmins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Chase V. Bardwell NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 16, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 25 of Valley Vista, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Randy R. Schwaderer and Lori D. Schwaderer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 3, 2005 and recorded June 8, 2005 in Book 754, Page 12, as Document No. 200513707. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage LLC. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $655.67, beginning November 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 25, 2010 is $168,928.92 principal, interest at the rate of 3.50% now totaling $3,345.03, late charges in the amount of $196.68, escrow advances of $1,467.95, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,838.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $16.20 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the

Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 6, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On April 6, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Gmac V Schwaderer NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 2, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: N1/2 SW1/4 NW1/4 OF SECTION 24, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF INGRESS AND EGRESS AS DISCLOSED IN BOOK 107 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 69 ALSO TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF INGRESS AND EGRESS AS DISCLOSED IN BOOK 661 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1388 Lyle L Brown and Anita Brown, 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 September 24, 2007 and recorded on September 28, 2007 at 4:11 o’clock P.M., in Book 806, Page 847, under Document No 200725694. The beneficial interest is currently held by The Bank of New York Mellon f/k/a The Bank of New York, as Trustee for the holders of the Certificates, First Horizon Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series FHASI 2007-6, by First Horizon Home Loans, a division of First Tennessee Bank National Association, Master Servicer, in its capacity as agent for the Trustee under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement. 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 $5,002.52, beginning April 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 5, 2010 is $647,733.78 principal, interest at the rate of 7.8750% now totaling $102,437.12, late charges in the amount of $2,120.85, escrow advances of $17,240.63 and other fees and expenses advanced of $6,215.92, plus accruing interest at the rate of $139.75 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the

obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 23, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On March 23, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Firsthorizon/brown 41305.710 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 23, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: The South 60 feet of Lots 9 and 10 ion Block 22 of LOW’S ADDITION, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Travis R. Jakeway, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 31, 2005 and recorded September 9, 2005 at 4:12 o’clock P.M. in Book 759, Page 1334, as Document No. 200523727. 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 $644.58, beginning September 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 27, 2010 is $119,000.00 principal, interest at the rate of 6.50% now totaling $5,063.05, late charges in the amount of $322.30, escrow advances of $656.52, suspense balance of $-368.16 and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,407.66, plus accruing interest at the rate of $21.19 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being

PUBLIC NOTICES made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 14, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On April 14, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Aurora v Jakeway 40990.244 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 23, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 9 in Block 1 of Webber Addition, A Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, According to the official recorded plat thereof. Eugene Karl Schafer A/K/A Gene Schafer and Janet Lindquist Schafer A/K/A Janet L Schafer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to U.S. Bank National Association ND, as Beneficiary, by Deed of trust dated January 25, 2000 and Recorded February 25, 2000 in Book 864, Page 609 under Document Number 200003673.. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association ND. 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 $Revolving, beginning January 25, 2010, 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 April 14, 2010 is $27,117.67 principal, interest at the rate of 5.25% now totaling $606.06, and other fees and expenses advanced of $432.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $3.90 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s

fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 14, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On April 14, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Us Bank Home Mortgage V Schafer 41345.112 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 3, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 2 of East Rattlesnake Addition No. 3, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof, recorded in Book 11 of Plats, page 2, Records of Missoula County, Montana. A.P.N.: 1290405 Jacquelyn S. Rundle, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Montana, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mann Mortgage, LLC, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated April 17, 2007 and Recorded April 23, 2007 in Book 795, Page 1224, under Document No. 200709529. The beneficial interest is currently held by National City 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 make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,203.15, beginning July 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 16, 2010 is $279,814.59 principal, interest at the rate of 7.00% now totaling $15,495.20, late charges in the amount of $489.66, escrow advances of $2,598.96, and other fees and expenses advanced of $108.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $53.66 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 26, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On March 26, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 09/22/2012 Pnc V. Rundle 41716.990 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 6, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 6 AND 7 IN BLOCK 47 OF SUNRISE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF DANA R NICHOLS AND TABITHA NICHOLS, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Pinnacle Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Long Beach Mortgage Company, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 22, 2006 and recorded on June 28, 2006 at 4:27 o’clock P.M., in Book 777, Page 1193, under Document No. 200615820. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Long Beach Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-7, by Washington Mutual Bank as successor in interst to Long Beach Mortgage Company. 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 $1,444.59, beginning January 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 12, 2010 is $171,198.03 principal, interest at the rate of 9.350% now totaling $20,535.06, late charges in the amount of $86.68, escrow advances of $2,420.68, suspense balance of $-397.61 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,158.71, plus accruing interest at the rate of $43.85 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced.The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 29, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On March 29, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee,

known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Wamu V Nichols 41816.853 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 6, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 1 in Block 7 of the corrected plat of Hillview Heights No 3. and 4 in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the corrected plat thereof recorded in Book 11 of Plats at Page 57, Records of Missoula County, Montana. Victoria Clark, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated Septemeber 27, 2005 and Recorded on September 30, 2005 in Book 761, Page 802, as Document No. 200525832. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee of the Residential Asset Securitization Trust 2005-A15, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005-O under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated December 1, 2005. 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 $1,093.13, 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 16, 2010 is $160,600.30 principal, interest at the rate of 6.875% now totaling $15,175.51, late charges in the amount of $1,221.16, escrow advances of $3,341.98, and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,280.03, plus accruing interest at the rate of $30.25 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 26, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On March 26, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 09/22/2012 Indymac/clark 41482.985

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 9, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in Lots 5 and 6 of Cobban and Dinsmore’s Orchard Homes, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, and more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the Southwest corner of said Lot 5; thence East 221.5 feet along the center line of South Third Street to a point; thence North 30.0 feet to a point on the Northerly right of way South Third Street, said point being the true point of beginning; thence North 190.0 feet to a point; thence East 143.0 feet to a point; thence South 190.0 feet to a point on the Northerly right of way line of South Third Street; thence West 143.0 feet along said right of way line to the true point of beginning, all according to the official plat thereof. RECORDING REFERENCE: Book 315 of Micro at Page 320. Robert D Aaland and Heather C Gamble, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Pinacle Title & Escrow, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 26, 2008 and Recorded June 27, 2008 in Book 821, Page 1355 as Document No. 200815176. The beneficial interest is currently held by Flagstar Bank, FSB. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,049.94, beginning May 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 22, 2010 is $131,872.00 principal, interest at the rate of 6.625% now totaling $8,511.18, late charges in the amount of $42.58, escrow advances of $3,234.13, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,473.46, plus accruing interest at the rate of $23.94 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 31, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On March 31, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Flagstar V. Aaland

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PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE THAT A TAX DEED MAY BE ISSUED TO: Anthony Brown, 9025 Paragon Way, Bonner, MT. 59823. Anthony Brown, 9025 Paragon Way, Boynton Beach, FL. 33437-5134. Current Occupant, Address Unknown. Pursuant to section 15-18-212, Montana Code Annotated, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency, a property tax lien exists on the following described real property in which you may have an interest: A part of the SE1/4SW1/4SW1/4 of Section 8, Township 13 North, Range 17 West, Montana Principal Meridian, in Missoula County, Montana, which lies North of the right of the way of line of State Highway No. 20, and South of the Southerly bank of the Big Blackfoot River, as said highway and river are located over and across said Southeast one-quarter of the Southwest one-quarter of the Southwest one-quarter to-wit: Beginning at the point where the Southerly bank of the Big Blackfoot River intersects North and South Boundary line of the said State Highway in the Southwest one-quarter of the Southeast one-quarter of the Southwest one-quarter of the Southwest one-quarter of said Section 8, aforesaid, which is Corner No.1 of the tract; thence Southerly along said boundary line a distance of approximately 100 feet to the Northerly Boundary line of said Highway No. 20; thence Easterly along said Northerly boundary line of State Highway No. 20, to the middle of Lappi Creek, which is Corner No. 3; thence Northerly along the middle of Lappi Creek to the Southerly low water line of the Big Blackfoot River which is Corner No. 4; thence westerly along the low water line of the Big Blackfoot River, to Corner No.1, Missoula County, Montana. Recording Reference: Book 778 of Micro Records at Page 5222. The property taxes became delinquent on May 31, 2007, at five o’clock P.M. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax lien sale held on July 18, 2007. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax lien sale on July 18, 2007, by Missoula County 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT. 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Pacific Land Holdings, L.L.C. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due is: TAXES: $823.25PENALTY: $16.48INTEREST:$266.19COST: $280.54TOTAL: $1,386.467. For the property tax lien to be liquidated, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 must be paid by August 16, 2010, which is the date that the redemption period expires or expired. 8. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the county treasurer on or prior to August 16, 2010, which is the date the redemption period expires, or on or prior to the date on which the county treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed, a tax deed may be issued to the purchaser on the day following the date that the redemption period expires or on the date the county treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 9. The business address and telephone number of the county treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Vickie M. Zeier Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway Missoula, MT. 59802, (406)258-4847. FURTHER NOTICE FOR THOSE PERSONS LIST-

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ED ABOVE WHOSE ADDRESSES ARE UNKNOWN: Current Occupant1. The address of the interested party is unknown. 2. The published notice meets the legal requirements for notice of a pending tax deed issuance. 3. The interested party’s rights in the property may be in jeopardy. DATED at 9:00 A.M. this 17th day of June 2010. /s/ Micheal P Wolfe, Member Pacific Land Holdings, LLC NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/10/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200500675, Bk 746, Pg 388, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Doreen Ginn, a married woman was Grantor, Argent Mortgage Company, LLC was Beneficiary and Ticor Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Ticor Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Parcel B. of the Amended Subdivision Plat of Lots 1, 2 & 3, Block 13, Butte Addition, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. , beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to US Bank National Association, as Trustee for the Structured Asset Investment Loan Trust, 2005-7. 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 01/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 26, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $149,684.00. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $145,422.83, plus accrued interest,

SERVICES 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 September 3, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7777.12661) 1002.155687-FEI

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE $160,000.00 2 Bd, 1 Bth home Corner lot fenced back yard, 20X30 shop and shed. Charming home built in the 30’s has been completely remodeled in 2010. Original fir and larch flooring, Brand new beautiful kitchen, new appliances, dry stacked bar, tiled laundry, and bath and shower. This home is well worth the time to check out. Call 544-8777 3 bed, 2 bath Potomac area home. Covered deck, fenced acreage and great views. The 28 x32 garage has double doors, attached storage in the back and small car port. RV hookups behind garage. 40x49 Quoncet shop with 200 amp service, air compressor, snap on car lift, crane, water. $259,900. MLS#10002960. Janet 2403932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties. 333 Knowles street-Missoula. 5B/3BA New: Roof, Furnance, AC, 2 gas FP, 230k. Realtor 239-7588 5 acres & a 4 bedroom home on a branch of the Clark Fork on Third Street minutes from downtown! . House sits towards water. Your own private retreat beckons across the water. Enjoy quiet while you watch the wildlife and fish for trout. Private showings

only. 3720 S. 3rd W. $679,999, MLS#906926. JoyEarls@windermere.com 531-9811 Beautiful 3B/2.5b home, upgraded/remodeled, level corner lot with sm shop & garden shed. Take a drive…2319 Garland $125K / Realtor 239-7588

floor master suite, great room, family room & rec room, formal and casual dining rooms, great mountain and valley views. $575,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy20 to 74362, or visit...

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Beautiful 3br/3ba home in a beautiful setting in desirable Lincoln Woods neighborhood close to walking trails, parks, wilderness area, Rattlesnake creek. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

Fantastic Opportunity for income qualified first time homeowners, great 2bdr. condo along the river, attached single car garage, bonus room, pets allowed, 1401 Cedar St #12, 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

Beautiful custom built 3 bed, 2 bath home with hardwood floors, radiant heat, tongue & groove wood ceilings, tile countertops. Very private setting with great views and only 30 minutes from Missoula. $314,900. MLS#10003067. Janet 2403932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.

FISH THE BLACKFOOT RIVER FROM YOUR BACK YARD. Beautifully landscaped 4 Bdr/2 Bath home on 1.2 acres on the Blackfoot River just 10-15 minutes from Missoula. Open floor plan, great deck with hot tub overlooking the river and much more. $475,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy11 to 74362, or visit..

CUTE ROSE PARK/SLANT STREETS NEIGHBORHOOD BUNGALOW. 2 Bdr/2 Bath, 2+ bonus rooms, hardwood floors, arched doorways, built-ins, single garage, fenced yard, mostly finished basement, and much more. $239,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy17 to 74362, or visit...

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EXECUTIVE HOME ON 1.03 ACRES IN THE LOLO CREEK VALLEY. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, Main

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GORGEOUS HANDCRAFTED HOME IN 3.3 ACRES ON PETTY CREEK. 3 Bdr/2.5 Baths, Main floor master suite, great room, gorgeous kitchen, hardwood floors, heated double garage, with guest quarters, and great views. $595,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, Text Mindy8 to 74362, or visit...

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GORGEOUS TARGET RANGE HONE ON 0.94 ACRES. 5 Bdr/3 Bath, 2+ bonus rooms, hardwood floors, arched doorways, built-ins, single garage, fenced yard, mostly finished basement, and much more. Close to schools, shopping, and the Bitterroot River. $469,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy12 to 74362, or visit....

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Great 3bdr house with hardwood floors, fireplace, nice sized kitchen and big backyard with garden space, fruit trees and garage with shop area. 933 Woodford 327-8787 porticorealestate.com Home and guest house on 2 leased lots. Guest house is 1050 sq. ft., 2 bed, 1 bath. Borders state land. Snow mobile, cross crounty ski, hunt or hike right from your door. 1.5 miles from Seeley Lake for boating and fishing. 6 miles from Cottonwood Lakes. Hot tub included and carport. 0 Morrell Ck Rd. $167,000. MLS#10002415. JoyEarls@windermere.com 531-9811 Immaculate home in great neighborhood. 2 bdrms, 2 bth, family room, sauna, nice yard, Vintage touches, hardwood floors, everything’s in fantastic condition! 135 Kensington 3278787 porticorealestate.com JUST LISTED! 2 bed 2 bed home on large landscaped lot,

garden area in rural setting $229,900. Call Ken Allen Real Estate 239-6906 Log cabin with no close neighbors. Beautiful views of flint Creek, Mission, Rattlesnake & Sapphire Ranges. $99,900 MLS# 10003618. Janet 2403932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties. LOG HOMES. Hand peeled, hand crafted, Saddle notch, full scribe, full length logs. Top quality craftsmanship at very affordable prices. missioncreekloghomes.com or (406)745-2110 New land/home package in Riverwalk Estates —all on one level with nearly 2000sf on a large corner lot . 30+ acres of easements to enjoy Grant Creek and Clark Fork tributaries. No steps, concrete entrances with covered porch & patio. 3 bed/2 bath/double garage. 6605 Kiki Court W., Missoula. Starting at $299,970. MLS#903596. JoyEarls@windermere.com 531-9811 Nice, 2bdrm, 2 bonus rooms, fireplace, family room, walkoutdaylight basement, spacious home in South Hills close to Chief Charlo, updated kitchen, backyard oasis, 327-8787 porticorealestate.com NORTHSIDE BUNGALOW WITH A GARAGE/SHOP. 2 Bdr/1 Bath, great location close to Downtown, large fenced back yard, and much more.

$180,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy3 to 74362, or visit....

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Older Home with Vintage charm in wildly sought after Missoula neighborhood. 3 bdrm, 2 bth, beautiful floors. This charmer has incredible possibilities. 321 Tremont 327-8787 porticorealestate.com One of a Kind Listing, Nine Mile Schoolhouse with all the charm, romance and history one would expect. Unlimited possiblities an outstanding property. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com PRICE REDUCED! 3 bed 2 bath townhouse West Missoula. ONLY $159,900. Call Ken Allen Real Estate 239-6906 PRICE REDUCED! 3 acres fenced & ready for horses. 3 Bed, 2 Bath, modular home on a permanent foundation. 24x18 outbuilding, beautiful views. 499 Grandview, Stevensville. $179,000. MLS# 10002488. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 2406503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties. Really cute craftsman style, 3Bdr, 1Ba home priced to sell. This home has all the charm of the 20s and original floors. 3278787 porticorealestate.com SINGLE LEVEL LIVING JUST A SHORT WALK TO DOWNTOWN STEVI. 4 Bdr/3 Bath,

great room, open floor plan, double garage, unobstructed views of the Bitterroot Mountains, great yard. $219,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy16 to 74362, or visit...

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Spacious, light-filled Upper Rattlesnake Home with 2 Fireplaces, 2 Bedrooms & 2 Bonus Rooms, 2 Baths, a really nice big backyard with patio. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com SPECTACULAR BITTERROOT VIEWS. Gorgeous 3 Bdr/2 Bath Stevensville area home on 10 acres. High ceilings, beautiful hardwood floors, fireplace, spacious master bedroom, deck with hot tub, and much more. $489,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy19 to 74362, or visit...

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Stately 4 bedroom, 3.75 bath home on 5+ acres in an area of beautiful homes on Snowdrift Lane. Radiant floor heat with 8 zones including garage & hot water. Build a barn & bring your horses. Enjoy the patio, barbecue and gaze at mountains or 360’ views! 9132 Snowflake Court. $599,900. MLS# 10004165. JoyEarls@windermere.com 531-9811 UNDER CONSTRUCTION 3 bed 2 bath close to Southgate Mall. Priced under appraisal at $165,900. Call Ken Allen Real Estate 239-6906

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REAL ESTATE Lara Dorman Realtor GRI Our Mission at Portico is to honor diversity, build community and create a lifestyle that promotes the health and well-being of our planet.

406.531.5582 laradorman@aol.com >>Garnet Mountain Property 16x40 Cabin, 10.7 acres, spring water, turn key 3 contiguous Tracts<<

Unique Lower Rattlesnake home near Bugbee Nature Area, 3Brm, 4Ba, Tree-top views, Lots of upgrades like granite countertops and lots of gorgeous wood throughout, 327-8787 porticorealestate.com Upper Rattlesnake 3 Bed, 2.5 Bath, double garage w/ Fireplace. 1/2 + acre lot, view of Lolo Peak. $259,000. MLS#10001969. 4716 Aspen.

Pat McCormick, 240-SOLD (7653). pat@properties2000.com View or list properties for sale By Owner at www.byownermissoula.com OR call 550-3077 Wonderful single level home in quiet neighborhood near Rattlesnake Creek. 2 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage. 3624 Creekwood, Missoula. $279,900. MLS#10003714. Pat

OPEN HOUSE SUNDAY • JUNE 27 • 12-4 975 2nd Street, West Riverside. $160,000 Why rent when you can own this beautiful home for the same price.

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34.81 acres, creek frontage, flowing spring, off the grid, deer, elk & bear. $82,500

>>10 acre tract, $27,500

Flathead Lake Views $169,000 Nice 2+acre property between Elmo and Dayton with views of Flathead Lake and Chief Cliff. Property has shared well and septic approval.

Owner financing available

Beautifully remodeld home from top to bottom, wood floors, wood trim and doors, dry stack bar, new cabinets, new appliance, tiled bathroom, and shower & large tiled laundry room. Corner lot, with fenced back yard, 20X30 shop & shed. This is well worth the time to look at. 406-529-5603

2 NEW LISTINGS 9132 SnowFlake Court $599,900

140 Arrowhead Dr. • $220,000 Great opportunity for sweat equity. Large home on a large lot in the Wapikiya area. 3/2 baths, living room AND family room on main floor.

1527 S. 4th St. W. • $225,000 Quintessential Missoula! Recycled maple floors, antique bath fixtures, kitchen made for company. Dining room opens onto extensive decking and a gardener's fantasy yard with outbuildings, perrenials, privacy. Lots of unique touches; Art Deco Vibe.

Downtown Sweetheart

514 W. Spruce St. • $269,000 1920’s era house has been revamped while retaining all of its original charm. Updated electrical, plumbing, handicapped accessible bath, security alarm, offstreet parking, underground sprinklers, and air conditioning in harmony with original bullseye woodwork, mahogany flooring, high ceilings, and all right downtown on West Spruce. Zoned B2-2 for a variety of commercial or residential uses. MLS#10001940

912 Defoe • $179,000 3 bedroom two full bath home with GIGANTIC shop/garage. Brand new carpet just installed. Come take a look!

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STATELY HOME ON RARE 5 ACRES Just west of the Ranch Club. 4 Bed, Office and 3 3/4 bath, UG sprinklers and more....Relax on the stamped concrete patio and look 360 degrees at beauty all around. Come for a private showing today. MLS# 10004165

SELF SUFFICIENCY IN SEELEY Wonderful cord log 3 bed cabin and two bed guest cabin w/ outbuildings, hot tub and more. Self contained including: 2 generators, three wells, seasonal spring and trails right from this home on 2 State Leases. MLS # 10002415

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Robin Rice Janet Rice 240-3932 missoularealestate4sale.com 240-6503 NEW LISTING • 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage • 32435 Bible Lane, Alberton • Deck in private backyard • Close to river & outdoor recreation • $184,900 • MLS#10004303

NEW LISTING • 5 bed, 5 bath, 3 car garage • Beautiful home in excellent condition • Private with patio, deck & fire pit • Abundant wildlife nearby • $369,900 • MLS#10004463

NEW LISTING • 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage • 15 acres with pond • Great horse property • Garage has apartment / rent $525 • $319,900 • MLS#10004041

Price Reduced • Bonner area 5 Bed / 2 Bath on 2 acres • Large kitchen w/ island • Chain link fence in front yard • Private deck in back, mature trees • $209,900 • MLS#906641

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McCormick, 240-SOLD (7653). pat@properties2000.com

CONDOS/ TOWNHOMES Open House 5110 Village View Way #6 Sunday 1-3. Desirable Elk Hills condo. New listing priced to sell $169,500. Call Loubelle for info: 240-0753, 543-4412 or Fidelity Real Estate 721-1840.

MANUFACTURED HOMES .80 Acres close to Turah, level parcel with a Creek. Shop, Power, Septic, Well. Set up for a manufactured home, or build! $125K / Realtor 239-7588 FSBO MODULAR HOME. Permanent foundation on 1/4 acre. 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 8x20 shop, backyard. 2055 Chicadee Drive, Missoula. $155,000. 721-2233 MOBILE HOME. 14x70. 3 bedroom, 2 bath. All appliances included: stove, dishwasher, refrigerator, W/D. Master bedroom up front with walk-in closet & master bath. Winter metal roof. Covered patio/deck. 10x13 metal storage shed. On corner lot. Home can stay on lot. Lot rent: $290. W/S/G paid. Indoor pets only. 2205 South Fifth West. $8000/OBO. 406-549-0154

4 bed, 2 bath, garage and basement. Sweet Northside bungalow on private, fenced lot. Newly painted exterior, remodeled kitchen w/gas convection range/oven. Fabulous private side yard w/deck: great for entertaining! Just steps away from N.Side bike trail. Walk to downtown. High efficiency furnace, low power bills! Fabulous neighborhood. MLS# 10004524 Seller’s will look at all offers!

1004 Holmes, Missoula

$199,900 www.1004holmes.com

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Grant Creek Log home 26+ private acres $469,900 Located just 15 minutes from downtown Missoula! The main house is a 3 bd, 2 bath, 3 story log home, with completely renovated bathrooms, newer 3 car open garage with tons of storage built above it and a small guest cabin! mls#10001348 www.11815benchroad.com

1401 Cedar St. #17 Msla $127,100 2 Bed, 1.5 Bath, garage. Attractive townhome on Clark Fork River, close to trails. Newly painted interior, new flooring, end unit! MLS# 10001861

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LAND FOR SALE 19,602 SQ FT lot in Mullan Road area with great views. Sewer stubbed to the lot. Close to river access, golf and shopping. $89,999. MLS# 10003279. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 240-6503. Montana Preferred Properties. 3.5 ACRES BARE LAND ON PETTY CREEK. Gorgeous bare land parcel straddling Petty Creek. Septic, well, and utilities in place. Gorgeous building spot with mountain, creek, and valley views. Custom builder available. $149,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @239-6696, Text Mindy0 to 74362, or visit...

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

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