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nside Cover Story Gadflies are, by definition, persistent and unapologetically aggressive. They are political outsiders, buzzing around the periphery, biting every so often to make sure we’re awake. Such actions have branded them as irrelevant, unreasonable and overzealous. Their repetiCover photo by Chad Harder tion and, at times, lack of decorum also make them unpopular. But Missoula’s gadflies insist they have answers. People just need to listen ..........................................................................................................................14
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News Letters Aid in dying, Wall Street and an apology.......................................................4 The Week in Review Threat at law school, Clark Fork floater and oil.....................6 Briefs High-risk health care, eco-fascists and logs .....................................................6 Etc. What’s 74 minutes, really? ...................................................................................7 Up Front Why Montanans want Utah’s concealed firearm permit............................8 Up Front Study raises questions over what’s killing Bitterroot elk...........................9 Ochenski Still no real direction in Montana or the nation ....................................10 Writers on the Range Reinvest in the Land and Water Conservation Fund...........11 Agenda “Vision to Win: An Evening with Nancy Keenan”. ......................................12
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Inside Letters Briefs Up Front Ochenski Range Agenda News Quirks Asked Tuesday afternoon on and near the Hip Strip.
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This week the Independent profiles the people who persistently speak up during Missoula City Council’s weekly public comment period. What would you discuss during your three minutes with council? Follow-up: What’s your preferred method of communicating with local politicians?
Anna Henry: I’d like to see city funds spent on things that need addressing, instead of all the construction that’s hindering local businesses, or back-in parking, or other things that feel like they operate by trial and error. Belly up: While at the bar.
Joshua Marquedtson: I guess the main thing would be for the police to be stricter about homeless people sleeping and leaving their trash everywhere. They should realize their actions affect other people and find a place to sleep off the beaten path. Govt. 101: You support politicians by choosing where to spend your money, because business owners fund politicians.
Casey Wilson: Missoula needs more affordable housing, places for those who are homeless or just making less than the median income. I work downtown, and the need is striking. Whatever works: Face-to-face, phone calls, emails—all of them. And I work with some of them, too.
Jacob Kahn: I don’t really have a lot of complaints, so I don’t think I’d go there to comment. I’d rather be spending my time on the river. Thanks, guys: It would probably be, if at all, in person. And I want to say I appreciate the fact that they have that forum.
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One letter on four The purpose of my writing today is to offer a response to the following letters to the editor from June 17 ( Jeanette Hall and Nancy Elliott) and June 24 (Margaret Dore and Kenneth Stevens). Although each of these letters by four different individuals are unique from one another in terms of content and delivery, the main message is the same: a warning to Montanans to oppose “death with dignity” or “physician-assisted suicide.” First of all, let me begin with Jeanette Hall’s letter. Before beginning my argument I would like to commend her for braving the battle against an insurmountable foe known as cancer. Congratulations to her on beating this disease. She states that she wanted to give up and exercise her right as defined by Oregon’s state law. Her doctor encouraged her to continue fighting and because of that encouragement she is alive to write the very letter I am responding to. My personal belief is many doctors and nurses will choose to refrain from the execution of any state law on assisted suicide due to a professional and/or moral objection. Any medical professional is certainly in their right to have this opinion and pursue that option. What I would like to highlight is the patient’s perspective. What if there is a patient out there who understands his or her medical options, hears a doctor or nurse’s objection and still does not want to continue the fight against their disease any longer? Is it somehow inconceivable for a patient to do so? Second, Nancy Elliott writes in her letter New Hampshire legislators overwhelmingly rejected a death with dignitystyle bill because of fears that when made legal abuse could become rampant. Now, when do the legal and congressional actions of New Hampshire elected officials dictate actions in Montana? Her argument is basically the informed politicians of New Hampshire made a decision and Montana should follow accordingly. There’s a reason states can be separated by culture, customs, traditions and laws— because each is different. Besides, what governmental social system after its inception has not been abused? Abuse has certainly occurred in Social Security and Medicare—abuse by insurance companies, by the American Heart Association, etc. Abuse will occur
more than likely but hopefully a law can be engineered to minimize the effects of abuse by a group of perpetrators. Third, Margaret Dore of Washington state warns Montanans not to “make Washington’s mistake.” Thank you very much for this warning. Montana will not make a “mistake” by examining the current laws in Oregon and Washington and either replicating or improving elements
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of each in Montana’s law to make abuse as minimal as possible and the law effective as possible. Fourth, Kenneth Stevens gives two examples to build his case against assisted suicide. He writes of two people who have had bad experiences with the Oregon law. Two. Mr. Stevens, where are the “success” stories? Where are the examples of people who wanted this option before Oregon had a law or where are the stories of at least a couple Oregonians who chose “death with dignity” out of free will and subject to no coercion? I’m sure you could find at least
a couple to balance the two you cited. I know I can find one in Montana: Robert Baxter. He’s the reason you wrote your letter and the reason I wrote mine. Mike McDonald Victor
Wrapping up Wall Street I want to applaud Sens. Baucus and Tester for their vote on the financial reform bill. For years, big corporate bankers and CEOs lived off of the backs of working families without giving anything back to their communities. By passing this bill, we’ve made it clear to Wall Street that Americans won’t tolerate the reckless behavior that plunged us into a recession and put millions of people out of work. I want to boo Rep. Rehberg for his vote to stand with Wall Street and with their ability to sink our economy to serve their greed. He should be ashamed. The reforms that Sens. Baucus and Tester supported will protect our jobs, ensure that banks and corporations are held accountable for their actions, and put our country back on track toward an economy that really works for everyone, not just greedy corporations. The reforms will protect homeowners from predatory lenders, prohibit bank bailouts for bank shareholders and executives, and ensure that banks avoid dangerous financial risks. You can bet that I won’t forget this day when I go to the polls in November— it was the day Rep. Rehberg showed us all he was not interested in changing this country for the better, but instead is falling back on policies that failed us in the past. Mark Anderlik President Missoula Area Central Labor Council Missoula
My bad My thanks go to Sterling Miller for pointing out my egregious error in my letter to the editor on June 17 in the Independent (see “Hydatid hysteria”). I hastily equated cases for deaths in my head while writing my letter about Hydatid disease. My sincerest apologies for my mistake. Jacob Chessin Wustner Missoula
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• Wednesday, July 14
News Quirks by Chad Harder
The Missoula Board of County Commissioners pens a letter to the Montana Transportation Commission urging it to require the state to prepare an environmental impact statement before allowing Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil of Canada to transport approximately 200 massive oil sands modules through Montana en route to Alberta.
• Thursday, July 15 David James DelSignore, 29, pleads guilty to killing two girls, Taylor Cearley, 15, and Ashlee Patenaude, 14, both of Bonner. DelSignore’s pickup struck and killed the Hellgate students on Highway 200 east of Missoula last December while he was under the influence of alcohol and prescription drugs.
• Friday, July 16 Third baseman Eric Groff sets a Missoula Osprey record by hitting three home runs in an 8-6 victory over the Orem Owlz at Ogren-Allegiance Park. Groff’s third dinger, in the bottom of the seventh inning, scores the game-winning runs.
• Saturday, July 17 Two men tubing down the Clark Fork River near the end of Tower Street discover the fully clothed body of Dennis E. Plant Sr., 62, of Arlee, in about six feet of water. Police call the death “suspicious” and await autopsy and toxicology results.
• Sunday, July 18
A partially successful herbicide application has left a private section of Mount Sentinel’s southwestern flank with alternating streaks of living (bright green) and dead (orange) leafy spurge.
Health care High-risk pool’s small splash
Stephen F. Diehm, 59, a transient who had been in Missoula for about a week, is found dead in Grant Creek behind Deano’s Truck Stop. Police say the man had multiple injuries and they are investigating the death as a homicide.
• Monday, July 19 A man takes law enforcement on an early morning vehicle chase across two counties before crashing in Bonner. Lt. Brad Giffin with the Missoula County Sheriff’s Department says the suspect, Raymond Edward Chaney, crashed into a patrol car before authorities apprehended him on Highway 200. Drug paraphernalia was found in the vehicle.
• Tuesday, July 20 Campus security and Missoula police evacuate the University of Montana Law School after e-mailed threats indicate an assailant was headed to the building’s roof with a gun. Police close off the surrounding area and find no suspects at the site.
State officials anticipated Montana’s new federally funded high-risk insurance pool would fill quickly. But as of July 15—two weeks after the program opened for enrollment—49 people from across the state had applied, and only 10 had been approved, according to State Auditor Monica Lindeen. The Montana Affordable Care Plan was implemented as part of the national health care reform legislation signed by President Obama in March. Montana is slated to receive $16 million—enough to serve roughly 400 people—from federal coffers to assist people otherwise deemed uninsurable. To qualify for the program, one must have a preexisting medical condition, be uninsured for six months and have been turned down by at least two insurance companies. Last month, Lindeen believed the 400 spots would be snatched up quickly. “Montanans who think they will be eligible for the new program should act fast,” she said. “Spots are limited and we want those most in need to get coverage.”
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Community health experts say the slow response might be attributed to the high-risk pool’s cost. Premiums run between $190 and $615 a month, depending on a person’s age. The policy carries a $2,500 annual deductible. “That could be out of reach for some people,” says Kim Mansch, director of Missoula’s Partnership Health Center, which serves low-income clients on a sliding scale. Laurie Francis, director of Community Health Partners, which operates clinics in Livingston, Bozeman and Belgrade, echoes Mansch. People with chronic illness—the pool’s target population— typically occupy lower rungs on the socio-economic ladder, she says. In turn, they might not be able to stomach upwards of $200 per month for insurance coverage. “This product is still going to be relatively unavailable for that group,” Francis says. Even so, she and Mansch both agree the pool is a step in the right direction. “I don’t want to slam it,” Francis says. “I think it’s exciting that we’re seeing change.” Jessica Mayrer
Eco-fascists Energy minister slams enviros Last week Bill Bennett, British Columbia’s energy minister, sent an e-mail to his constituents lashing out at environmentalists, particularly those in the United States, for their attempts to expand Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park into B.C. The e-mail, which Bennett denied sending personally but has taken responsibility for, refers to unrelenting “urban-based enviros” and “eco-fascists.” “These ‘protectors’ of the earth will use whatever legal, political, dishonest means they can muster with their American Foundation money to expand their park kingdom,” Bennett wrote. Bennett went on to single out Sen. Max Baucus of Montana for goading President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper into issuing a joint communiqué on the “sustained protection” of the transboundary Flathead River Valley during the G20 Summit in Toronto last month. Bennett apologized for the e-mail’s “clearly inappropriate” language, but reiterated his opposition to a national park extending from Alberta into
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the southeastern corner of B.C. bordering Glacier National Park. “I have strong feelings around the importance of protecting those recreational opportunities like fishing, hunting and camping in the Flathead,” he said in a statement. Dave Hadden, director of Headwaters Montana, calls Bennett’s comments “unfortunate and ignorant,” and says he’s wrong to believe Americans want the Flathead protected more than Canadians. He cites a 2008 poll, conducted by McAllister Opinion Research, which found that 73 percent of residents living in the East Kootenay, Nelson-Creston and Columbia River-Revelstoke areas of B.C. favor protecting the land. “We need to remember that WatertonGlacier International Peace Park was created out of the cooperation and good work of Canadian and U.S. Rotary Clubs in 1932,” Hadden says. “A strong majority understands that the park is not complete and that the missing piece is the southeast one-third of the B.C. Flathead Valley.” That expansion, according to Bennett’s e-mail, would be environmentalists adding “another chunk of their favourite colour to the map of the world.” “The line is drawn clearly,” Bennett wrote. “We either stand strong together against the loss of the Flathead Valley to the eco facists [sic], or we will lose the Flathead.” Matthew Frank
Flathead Submarine salvage A large-scale log salvage operation on Flathead Lake could have major implications for local fish populations and lakeside recreation, yet the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) has found floating the proposal in the community relatively easy. DNRC on Wednesday closed a month-long public comment period for the operation and, according to the department’s environmental assessment, the contractor on the job could pull as many as 5,600 submerged logs from the lakebed over the next 10 years. Considering the scope of the project, there’s been surprisingly little feedback from the Flathead community. DNRC Kalispell Unit Manager Greg Poncin says only 10 people showed up to an open house on the salvage operation on July 8, and he’s received as many comments in favor of the project as opposed.
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“By and large, it’s just been about the potential congestion at these boat launches, specifically Somers,” Poncin says of the few concerns voiced, “and the perception that a public recreational facility should not be authorized for commercial use on principle.” The project stems from an October 2008 settlement agreement between North Shore Development LLC and the DNRC establishing legal ownership over the submerged logs. North Shore
claimed it inherited all timber stamped with a circled “N” from the Somers Lumber Company, and the state decided to allow the salvage operation provided all unstamped logs be purchased from the state. “The state’s interest in this is the lakebed is presumed to be trust land, and we are required to manage for the beneficiaries—in this case…common schools,” Poncin says. “So we’re representing their interests in this, and we agreed that [North Shore] would essentially purchase a land-use license for $20,000 a year.” The issue isn’t so clear-cut for some. North Flathead Yacht Club board member Bill Corwin says North Shore approached the club years ago offering to pay for use of the club’s boat launch facilities. The club declined, and continues to have concerns about disturbed sediment and crowding at boat ramps. “We feel sorry for the people that depend on the use of that boat ramp,” Corwin says of the public ramp across from the club’s private facility on Somers Bay. “That boat ramp is overused as it is for recreational boating, let alone for a commercial logging operation.” Corwin doubts the public is aware the project
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Land acquisition Skepticism nags Dog deal Two weeks ago Gov. Brian Schweitzer described the state’s proposed $16.6 million Spotted Dog land deal as an “extraordinary opportunity.” He practically gushed over the idea of bringing more than 27,000 acres east of Deer Lodge into the public fold using Atlantic-Richfield restoration funds and gave no hint of skepticism about the reality of the purchase from the Rock Creek Cattle Company. But Schweitzer backpedaled on that earlier enthusiasm last Wednesday, publicly stating there’s a greater than 50 percent chance the acquisition will fall through. The sudden recognition of low odds seemed to represent a change in attitude by the governor. Sarah Elliott, Schweitzer’s communications director, claims that’s not the case at all. “The state still wants it,” she says of the Spotted Dog complex. The governor was simply acknowledging that the property could be purchased for development by someone in the private sector before Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) has a chance to finalize the funding source for its offer. “It usually takes the state a while to do these things,” Elliott says. Meanwhile, FWP Regional Supervisor Mack Long says public comments on the purchase keep rolling in as the August 9 deadline approaches. The feedback has ranged, he says, from extreme support to serious skepticism. “At the public meeting we had [on July 13], there were some questions about the [$9 million] option on the table versus the [$15.2 million] appraised value, the difference in price there.” The potential for the deal to fall through does exist, Long says. And for all he knows, Schweitzer’s sudden mood change could be due to personal knowledge regarding other interested buyers that FWP doesn’t yet have. But the agency’s interest in the property hasn’t waned. “Nothing’s changed,” Long says. “It’s just a reality we have to live with. We could go all the way through it and be ready to walk up and finalize things, and they could turn around and say, ‘Sorry, it just sold.’ It’s just like buying a house.” Alex Sakariassen
Percent pay raise approved by the Missoula County Public Schools Board of Trustees for Superintendent Alex Apostle, making his annual salary $155,000. The board voted to raise other MCPS employee salaries by just one half of one percent earlier this summer.
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Part of Missoula’s everlasting charm has always been its reluctance to swift change. Social trends tend to take about a decade to hit town. People still use checks to pay for groceries. Techno gadgets—hello, iPhone—are notoriously late to hit our shelves. Even emergency alert notifications, it turns out, arrive late. Students and faculty at the University of Montana learned this last fact Tuesday afternoon after threatening emails to the law school claimed a gunman would be—or already was—atop the building. The school’s dean sent out an e-mail at 11:13 a.m. calling for the building to be evacuated. The administration’s official emergency alert was sent via e-mail and text message at 12:27 p.m., or 74 minutes later. Some students and faculty contacted the Independent to say they signed up for the emergency list, but never received any notification at all. UM Vice President Jim Foley declined to explain the delay, only telling the Independent the alert system would be evaluated. In an interview with the Missoulian, he said the process worked “reasonably well.” No matter who was asking the questions, he offered no specifics of the threatening e-mails, no details of the investigation, and would not divulge how many people are on the emergency notification list. Other than that, he answered questions reasonably well. Reasonably, by the way, is an extremely convenient word. Also convenient—or , say, lucky—is that Tuesday’s scare amounts to a test-run of a system that may need a little tweaking. No gunman appeared on the rooftop and, other than the shock of a few dozen heavily armed officers storming across campus with little explanation, there was nothing to get worked up over. Attention will now turn to assessing and shortening the 74-minute delay—a reasonable delay, perhaps, considering all the chaos of the moment, and the hassle it must be to hit “send” on an e-mail. What’s 74 minutes, really? It’s the exact duration of Gangsta Blac’s 1999 southern rap album 74 Minutes of Bump. It’s the length of Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. It’s also slightly longer than the amount of time Missoula Marathon winner Kiefer Hahn would probably need to finish the half-marathon. More seriously, it’s roughly an hour less than Virginia Tech officials took to alert their campus of the 2007 shootings that ended up killing 33 and wounding 20—and prompted universities nationwide to create better emergency alert systems. Seventy-four minutes can be easily improved. The only question is whether we’ll set the improvement before or after iPhones finally hit local shelves.
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Secret weapon Why Montanans want Utah’s concealed firearm permit by Matthew Frank
“In previous years I’ve been able to satisfy the demand with two classes in the spring and two classes in the fall with 20 people per class.” Marbut says. “Last year I did 12 or 14 classes in order to keep up with the demand. And this year I think I’ve done six or seven so far. So there is clearly an increased demand, but I do see that increased demand tapering off somewhat.” Marbut and Dressel agree the demand can be attributed to Obama’s presidential victory in 2008, which sparked widespread fears of tighter gun control laws and, subsequently, a run on guns and ammunition. That said, nearly two years after Obama’s election, the trend appears to be more the product of paranoia than prudence. Even the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence called Obama’s first year in office an “abject failure” and scored the president an “F” for his administration’s “extraordinar y silence and passivity,” Photo by Chad Harder even repealing the rules keeping loaded guns Noah Dressel, an employee at Missoula’s Wholesale Sports, is among a growing numout of national parks. ber of gun lovers across Montana and the country who have obtained a concealed (Incidentally, and unsurfirearm permit from the state of Utah. prisingly, the National recognize or have formal reciprocity with obtain. There’s training required, though Rifle Association also gave Obama a failing Utah’s gun laws—including Washington, the Utah Legislature does not feel the need grade.) Marbut chalks up the trend to basic to have any kind of practical course [that Minnesota and Montana. nervousness. What’s more, Dressel didn’t have to requires firing a gun].” “Uncertainty, generally, and more Utah’s lax requirements explain why travel to Utah to get one. He took a class right at Wholesale Sports, taught by an nearly half of all permits, by Anderson’s specifically, what might happen politically instructor from Oregon. In the mid-1990s estimation, have been issued to non-resi- with gun control laws,” he says. “And then the Utah Legislature waived residency dents. So far this year he suspects about 70 what might happen to the economy. Is the requirements for the state’s permit, making percent of the permits issued have been bottom going to fall out and are we going to have to defend our homes from bands of it easy to get and highly desirable across the granted to out-of-staters. “The popularity of the permit outside scavenging predators?” country. The permit’s become especially In any case, Dressel, of Wholesale popular in the past two years as gun sales the boundaries of Utah has increased drahave surged following the election of matically over the last couple of years,” Sports, thinks there are more guns and gun owners than ever before, and so it can only Anderson says. President Barack Obama. Montana’s concealed-carry permit has be good that an increasing number of peoFor instance, Wholesale Sports in Missoula has hosted four Utah concealed become increasingly popular, too. The state ple are taking the gun training classes firearm permit classes since August, attract- Department of Justice counted 23,708 per- required for concealed-carry permits in ing roughly 200 people, Dressel says. Kevin mit holders at the end of June, up from Utah and elsewhere. “I think it promotes a safer community Faherty, a Portland, Ore.-based private 13,914 at the same point in 2006. The permit is recognized by or has reciprocity with of firearms owners,” Dressel says. “And the investigator, teaches the $80 course. “A lot of the people who I’ve talked to 27 other states, but is only available to more people become involved with shooting, the more the mystique of ‘a gun is an like the structured curriculum of [the Montana residents. “There definitely has been a surge in evil thing’ diminishes.” class],” Dressel says, “and the fact that there Wholesale Sports holds its next Utah are a couple key states close to Montana demand,” says Gary Marbut, president of concealed firearm permit class on Sunday, the Montana Shooting Sports Association. that people pick up.” For the last 15 years Marbut has taught July 25, at 1 p.m. The demand for Utah’s concealed firearm permit has risen sharply in recent a certification class and has graduated, he years. According to the Utah Bureau of says, a total of about 3,000 students. mfrank@missoulanews.com Noah Dressel, the gun counter manager at Missoula’s Wholesale Sports, has a permit issued by the state of Montana to carry a concealed firearm. But the permit isn’t valid in Washington, a state he often travels through, nor is it valid in Minnesota, where his parents live. So Dressel obtained what’s become the gun-lover’s golden ticket—a Utah concealed firearm permit. It gives Dressel the freedom to carry a concealed weapon in the 32 other states that
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Criminal Identification, which administers the permits, the state issued 76,324 concealed-carry permits in 2009, more than twice the number issued in 2008. Since the program’s inception in 1994, Utah has issued a total of 269,009—about one-tenth of the state’s population. “I think what makes our permit popular is it has wide-ranging reciprocity,” says Doug Anderson, the program’s manager. “It’s relatively inexpensive and it’s simple to
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Predator puzzle Study raises questions over what’s killing Bitterroot elk by Alex Sakariassen
Darby outfitter Scott Boulanger sent a written plea to Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) about two months back asking for an emergency closure of hunting district 250—the West Fork of the Bitterroot River—for 2010. As justification he cited a 21 percent decline in the resident elk population over the past four years, a statistic that has local big game hunting businesses fearing financial ruin. “They’re not mysteriously disappearing,” says Boulanger, who has operated Circle KBL Outfitters for 13 years and sits on the Bitterroot Elk working group.
wildfires that have burned thousands and thousands of acres, and we have weed infestations impacting thousands of acres.” The study, green-lighted by FWP this spring, calls for the darting and radio collaring of 40 cow elk in February 2011 and the tagging of 60 calves through 2011 and 2012. By monitoring the animals over a three-year period, Jourdonnais says the agency will finally establish a long-overdue baseline of data on the Bitterroot elk population. Without a comprehensive data stream on the general health of the herds and the condition of their habitat, it’s diffi-
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According to aerial surveys, elk populations have declined 21 percent in the Bitterroot Valley over the last four years. The dramatic change has generated a new study to find out why.
“They’re not all of a sudden migrating into some mysterious zone on the Salmon River, because the outfitters that are on the Salmon and Selway rivers aren’t suddenly surrounded by a plethora of elk. I’ve been screaming this for years.” His answer to the riddle is simple: over predation. Boulanger’s request failed, and frankly didn’t surprise biologists with FWP. The 21 percent decline statistic was theirs, gathered from annual aerial surveys of herds in the Bitterroot Valley. It’s exactly why they’ve pitched an ambitious new study on elk productivity and survivability in Ravalli County, and why they’re now casting a wide net for funding from the private sector. They don’t, however, agree with Boulanger’s take on the situation. “People have said, ‘Well, we know what’s going on. It’s the wolf,’” says FWP Wildlife Biologist Craig Jourdonnais. “There’s no question that the wolf is a big piece of this puzzle, but I’m not convinced. So many things have happened in the Bitterroot in the past 20 years that there’s a lot working on these wildlife populations. We’ve had some tremendous subdivision development on winter ranges throughout the valley, we’ve had extensive
cult to determine how the agency should incorporate the predator population— wolves, mountain lions and black bears— in its management decisions. “If it’s a habitat and body condition problem primarily, then changes in predator quotas aren’t really going to produce the result that we want, which is increased calf recruitment and increased elk counts,” says Kelly Proffitt, an FWP biologist in Bozeman and project leader for the new study. But Boulanger sees the project—more specifically, the $150,000 startup cost cited by Jourdonnais and the additional thousands needed to complete the work—as wasted money. Elk thrived in the West Fork for decades, he says, before FWP reduced annual lion and black bear harvests. Increases in the resident wolf population have only contributed to the problem. Now he refers to HD 250 as “a predator pit.” “A study’s not going to fix that,” he says. “Killing predators is going to fix it. We know the problem. There’s going to be no magic data coming out of this study.” Outfitters have already felt the pinch of lower elk numbers in the Bitterroot in the form of limited opportunities for big game hunting. FWP has drastically reduced antlerless elk permits in HD 250 over the past few
years, to the point that only 25 licenses are available for the 2010-hunting season. Outof-state clients would be lucky to get one, Boulanger says, and there’d be no guarantee of a productive hunt if they did. “Without any kind of legitimate success, you have no chance of repeat business,” he says. The argument isn’t lost on the agency. While Jourdonnais says it’s not his job to be an “economic driver,” he believes the potential for the study to benefit the Bitterroot economy is exactly what separates it from past elk research in Montana. Proffitt is now in the process of wrapping up a project in the Greater Yellowstone Area that FWP began years ago on predator-prey relationships and brucellosis transmission. Before that, elk research focused primarily on the North Fork of the Flathead River near Glacier National Park. “Now we’re working in an environment here where we’re not associated with any national park,” Jourdonnais says. “This is a real working landscape where people are trying to make a living and recreate, and my job is to make wildlife fit in a place where people are doing those things.” Mac Minard, executive director for the Montana Outfitters and Guides Association, doesn’t share in the condemnation of FWP’s new study. As far as the association is concerned, conservation of the resource is the only way for hunters to ensure the continued success of wildlife populations and longevity of the big game economy. It’s essentially a catch-22. “Certainly declining hunting opportunity results in declining non-resident and resident hunting opportunity, and in our case that means lost revenue,” Minard says. “But that concern is secondary to sound management. We’re all in this for the long haul, not for the short run, and one of our concerns here is that as populations decline as they are in the Bitterroot, we believe what we should be doing is invoking a sort of precautionary principle.” Boulanger’s anger isn’t fueled by an anti-conservation sentiment, though. It’s fueled by mounting frustration, by economic loss and by the fact that he can’t please even his non-hunting clients in the Bitterroot. “I just finished a six-day, 50-mile trip and saw one mule deer buck and one mule deer doe,” Boulanger says. “The customers from back east were like, ‘We thought we’d see some wildlife.’ We told them, ‘Yeah, we thought you would too.’”
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As the nation watches the continuing mega-disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, one seminal truth continues to pervade America’s energy policy—namely, we don’t have one. Millions of dollars have been spent to fund endless seminars, studies, reports and calculations, but when it comes down to it, our nation’s approach to energy remains much the same as it has been for the last century— finding the supply to meet the endlessly increasing demand. But now, at least for the moment in this hectic land of short attention spans, we are semi-focused on the true costs of the failed plan to simply keep drilling, pumping, mining and burning whatever we can domestically while continuing to import and use energy at a breakneck pace while hopelessly polluting our atmosphere. For those with long memories, our current dilemma seems like déjà vu from the ’70s, when Jimmy Carter was president and the nation was facing its first energy crisis due to the Arab oil embargo. Suddenly, our comfortable life of “fill ’er up” for as little as 19 cents a gallon fell to pieces as motorists waited hours in long lines for a precious tank of gas, hoping the pumps wouldn’t run dry before they got there. Carter, being a practical sort of guy, went on television to tell Americans to conserve energy instead of caving in to the pressure of the embargo. “Turn down your thermostats,” he urged, and “put on a sweater.” For his sage advice, he got summarily stabbed in the back by his fellow Democrats and lost his bid for re-election to Ronald Reagan, who told us to “stand tall in the saddle again” and continue to consume like crazy. It took a little while, but eventually, all the small engine vehicles that came of age to combat the effects of the embargo’s drastic effect on fuel prices began to bloat into bigger and bigger engines and vehicles. We’re still on that foolish path, clogging the roads with SUVs so large they barely get double-digit mileage. And while politicians of all stripes continue to parrot the worn-out call for “energy independence,” the reality is that 35 long years after the oil embargo, we’re not one step closer to that goal than we were back then. Even worse, we’re waging incredibly expensive wars that are busting the Treasury Department to ensure that our imported energy supply continues. As many have pointed out, given the cost in dollars, lives and materiel, it would probably make more sense to simply buy the foreign oil than try to secure the reserves of other nations through force of arms, espe-
cially since that course of action seems to be failing rather dramatically. In the meantime, Congress has stalled yet again on meaningful energy reform and is absolutely running away from efforts to address the significant environmental costs of the pollution that accom-
But unless “you’re directly affected, these so-called ‘energy externalities’ remain of little interest to the general populace as long as their air conditioners continue to
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panies our shameful consumption. Just this week, for instance, the newly appointed replacement for West Virginia’s Sen. Robert Byrd pledged he would not vote for any bill that seeks to place a cap or a price on carbon emissions. As part of the so-called “coal states,” this stance simply says we will go on, as we have in the past, mining and burning coal because it’s there, because it affects local economies, and because we, as a people, have not yet come to realize the real costs associated with using that dirty fossil fuel. Here in Montana and in mountain ranges across the globe, glaciers are continuing to disappear at an alarming pace. The world for our children will not be the world we knew, and more’s the pity. With the disappearance of glaciers go all that relied on them—including the ecosystems and the downstream water users. Less
water means less dilution, hastening the demise of our other short-sighted and failed policy that “the solution to pollution is dilution.” But unless you’re directly affected, these so-called “energy externalities” remain of little interest to the general populace as long as their air conditioners continue to run. We also found out this week that China has now surpassed the United States to become the world’s largest energy consumer. Although China has challenged the findings of the International Energy Agency (IEA), the direction they’re headed seems clear. Alarmingly, a decade ago the United States consumed twice as much energy as China. What it means, according to a spokesman for the IEA, is the world is headed for “a new age in the history of energy.” Indeed, with China’s rising economic power and the sheer force of its 1.35 billion people (exceeding the United States by a full billion people), unless something changes drastically, the breakneck pace of demand will do to the price of energy what it has already done to the price of cement and steel, while exacerbating the impacts on the environment. Speaking of the environment, this week also brought news that Earth’s upper atmosphere, called the thermosphere, has suffered what scientists are calling a “collapse” that “sets a new Space Age record.” Our best scientists are dumbfounded and can’t explain why the enormous atmospheric contraction occurred. One culprit may be carbon dioxide, which continues to increase in the atmosphere as a by-product of energy consumption. “But the numbers don’t quite add up,” said John Emmert of the Naval Research Lab. “Even when we take CO2 into account using our best understanding of how it operates as a coolant, we cannot fully explain the thermosphere’s collapse.” Oil and methane bubbling uncontrollably from the sea floor, the collapse of the upper atmosphere, and an increase in global energy consumption and pollution do not bode well for the future. If we can’t change our intransigent, self-serving politicians, a largely head-in-the-sand awareness of the consequences, and the continuing wrong-headed approach to simply meeting the demand, we are literally toast. 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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Goaded by the Gulf Reinvest in the Land and Water Conservation Fund by Jamie Williams
If there’s one thing we’ve learned from BP’s disastrous oil spill, it’s how missed opportunities can come back to haunt you. One glaring example has received little attention, however. Back in 1965, Congress began funding land conservation through royalties from offshore oil and gas production, believing that the environmental cost of developing the outer continental shelf needed to be balanced by protecting the country’s most important natural areas. Congress created the Land and Water Conservation Fund in order to achieve this, and promised to give it $900 million per year. That sounded like a fair bargain 45 years ago, but Congress has lived up to that promise only two years out of the program’s history. Over the last decade, Congress has appropriated an average of only $313 million per year for conservation, even as the average yearly revenues from offshore drilling royalties have exceeded $7 billion. We now have a chance to salvage this conservation tool and restore Congress’ original intent. A bill recently introduced by Sens. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Max Baucus, D-Mont., would provide full and dedicated funding of the Land and Water Conservation Fund at $900 million per year. A dozen other senators have cosponsored the bill (S. 2747), and a similar measure has been included in the House Energy bill. It is no accident that the leadership for restoring this fund is coming from the Rocky Mountain West. The fund has been pivotal to many collaborative groups and communities working to sustain large landscapes in the face of development pressures. Consider the Rocky Mountain Front in northern Montana, where the Northern Rockies dive into the Great Plains. This immense landscape defies all expectations: Windswept grasslands are braided with wetland-choked coulees, grizzlies still roam the open prairie, and an independent bunch of ranchers is quietly working to sustain this extraordinary place for future generations. I first met rancher Dusty Crary in his kitchen over a cup of coffee more than a decade ago. He clearly had no use for most of the suggestions conservationists had for “saving” his home. But his ideas for maintaining this wide-open, working landscape were as breathtaking and articulate as any I have ever met. He challenged us to work with him to keep stew-
ards like him on the land. He and a collaborative group of ranchers on the Front said they were interested in protecting their ranches with conservation easements if the resources could be found to purchase them.
by Crary “andLedother local landowners and backed by Montana’s congressional delegation, the resulting privatepublic partnership has now protected more than 138,000 acres of the Front with conservation
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What Crary and his neighbors wanted was an opportunity to sustain an entire landscape, not just a few isolated ranches. What they needed, in a word, was money—lots of it. The Land and Water Conservation Fund delivered. Led by Crary and other local landowners and backed by Montana’s congressional delegation, the resulting private-public partnership has now protected more than 138,000 acres of the Front with conservation easements. As Crary says, “Through
this amazing cooperation, we have been able to tie together private and public lands at a scale that is much greater than any one landowner could have imagined alone.” The Land and Water Conservation Fund has also helped the people of the San Luis Valley in Colorado prevent a trans-basin diversion by protecting the 97,000-acre Baca Ranch and its water. It was also key to preventing development of a 6,000-acre inholding within Oregon’s Hells Canyon National Recreation, and it is helping to protect working ranches around Idaho’s Henry’s Lake that serve as a crossroads for wildlife that migrate between Yellowstone National Park and surrounding lands. These stories reflect a rising tide of collaborative efforts in communities all over the West. But little can be accomplished without adequate funding to achieve landscape-level solutions. Otherwise, communities can’t hope to keep pace with development that disrupts rural economies and fragments wildlife corridors. If communities want more than just symbolic demonstration projects, they need to think big. It takes large ideas to save large swatches of land. Recognizing the promise of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the Obama administration has proposed a 29 percent increase in its budget for the fund this year. But to truly restore the fund to achieve its original intent, Congress must act. I hope BP’s disastrous oil spill spurs our elected officials to do the right thing at last. The public agrees: A recent poll found that 85 percent of voters asked said it is even more important today that funds “from offshore oil and gas drilling be used to protect our forests, rivers, lakes, wetlands, beaches and wildlife habitat.” If that can be achieved, then visionary landowners can help safeguard the West’s greatest places. As Crary puts it, “It doesn’t matter how long I’ll be here, because this ranch and many others on the Rocky Mountain Front will remain intact and productive forever.” Jamie Williams is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is the director of landscape conservation for the Nature Conservancy and lives in Boulder, Colorado.
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Women in America thankfully still have reproductive rights, but the battle to keep them intact is far from over. Pro-lifers remain eager to overturn Roe v. Wade, and most recently, the Obama administration decided to prohibit some types of abortion coverage from new, high-risk insurance pools. NARAL Pro-Choice America, the national women’s reproductive rights organization, realizes the challenges that lie ahead. And it wants you—specifically, those of you age 30 and under—to join in the fight to protect a woman’s right to choose. You can learn about how to strengthen grassroots support for pro-choice lawmakers and policies this week when NARAL President Nancy Keenan visits Missoula to speak on the issue. Keenan, a former
Montana state legislator who also served as the state superintendent of public instruction, ought to provide a wealth of knowledge on the subject. The Anaconda native has served as NARAL’s president since December 2004, and has overseen some notable gains in that time. This includes helping to elect pro-choice U.S. congressional candidates in 2006 and 2008, as well as securing an increase in funding for a federal family-planning program. –Ira Sather-Olson
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First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free. Visit oa.org.
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.
“Vision to Win: An Evening with Nancy Keenan” is Tuesday, July 27, at 6 PM at The Loft of Missoula, 119 W. Main St. $35 suggested donation. Visit prochoicemontana.org.
If you’re 18 or under and your life has been affected by someone else’s drinking, get support with others by joining the Alateen 12-Step Support Group, which meets this and every Monday at 7 PM at First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free, use alley entrance. Call 728-5818 or visit www.al-anon.alateen.org.
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If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM in Room 3 in the basement of First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free. Visit oa.org.
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.
Tamarack Grief Resource Center presents its youth camp and teen retreat, an overnight camp for teens grieving the death of a family member or loved one, which begins at 2 PM at a TBA location in Missoula, to be followed with a hike up to the Moon-Randolf Homestead. $80 per person, with scholarships available. The meet-up location will be disclosed once you sign up for the camp. Call 541-8472 to RSVP.
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.
SUNDAY JULY 25 Missoula is a bona fide bike town. If you don’t have one already, you’ll be able to build your own recycled recumbent or four-wheel bike after you volunteer for two hours at Missoula Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., on Sundays at a TBA time. Call 800-809-0112 to RSVP. Enjoy a burger and a soda with your Franklin to the Fort neighbors during the Franklin to the Fort Neighborhood Council annual summer social and meeting, which runs from 12:30–5:30 PM at Franklin Park, on the corner of Kemp St. and S. 10th St. W. Free. Bring a dish to share, and be ready to help select focus areas for the neighborhood for the upcoming year. Call Jon at 543-3409.
MONDAY JULY 26 Veterans can find support with trained facilitator Chris Poloynis every Mon. at 2 PM, when PTSD group Spartans Honour meets at the Missoula Veterans Affairs Clinic, 2687 Palmer St. Free. Call 829-5400. Those looking to control their eating habits can get support from others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Mon. at 5:30 PM in the basement classroom number 3 of
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.
WEDNESDAY JULY 28 Enjoy a local brew and support a local organization during the Kettlehouse Northside Tap Room’s Community U-NITE Pint Nights, which occur this and every Wed. from 5–8 PM at the tap room, 313 N. First St. W. Free to attend. A portion of proceeds from each pint sold goes to a different nonprofit organization each week. This week’s nonprofit is The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Visit kettlehouse.com. Celebrate everything local during WORD Inc./Ten Spoon Winery’s Second Annual Thank You Art and Wine Festival, which features art for sale by artists including Leslie Van Stavern Millar, Courtney Blazon and others, along with food vendors, wine and plenty more fun from 5–8 PM at Heritage Hall at Fort Missoula, Building T-2 on Fort Missoula Road. Free. Call Thea at 543-3550 Ext. 238. Gnaw on some tasty grub and learn about staff changes and opportunities to participate with the Missoula Indian Center during the Missoula Indian Center Community Barbecue, which runs from 6–8:30 PM at McCormick Park. Free. Call Cherith at 829-9515.
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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Police responding to a home-burglary call in Kennewick, Wash., found Nathan Watkins, 31, making a slow-speed getaway on a stolen riding mower in broad daylight, towing a trailer of other lawn-care equipment and a second riding mower. Police investigating the theft of petty cash from a church in York, Pa., identified Allen Larry Dawes, 28, as their suspect after they found his birth certificate at the crime scene. MENSA REJECTS OF THE WEEK - Chicago police reported that a 28-year-old man was hospitalized in critical condition after fireworks with the explosive strength of a quarter-stick of dynamite blew up in his face. News Affairs Officer Amina Greer said the man had put the fireworks in a tube in the ground. When they didn’t go off, he peered inside to find out why. Just then, they detonated. Sheriff’s deputies in King County, Wash., said a 52-year-old man built a homemade “aerial device” by tying together a bunch of sparklers. When he put it inside a concrete cinder block to brace it, it “exploded in place, sending pieces of the concrete block in all directions.” Fragments dented the door of a nearby car, broke a car window and critically injured a 52-year-old man who was standing 15 to 20 feet away. DUMBING UP - Law schools at New York University, Georgetown and eight other universities have made their grading systems more lenient in the past two years, so their graduates will appeal to prospective employers. And in June, Loyola Law School Los Angeles announced it’s inflating its grades by a third and making the change retroactive. “If somebody’s paying $150,000 for a lawschool degree, you don’t want to call them a loser at the end,” said former Duke University geophysics professor Stuart Rojstaczer, who now studies grade inflation, “so you artificially call every student a success.” Duke, the University of Texas at Austin and other law schools now offer their students stipends to take unpaid public-interest internships. And Southern Methodist University’s Dedman School of Law recently began paying for-profit law firms to hire its students. New York kept its promise not to dumb down statewide exams that determine whether students advance to the next grade; however, it awarded partial credit for wrong answers on the state math test. A miscalculation by a fourth-grader that 28 divided by 14 equals 4 instead of 2 is “partially correct,” for example, if the student uses the right method to verify the wrong answer. A student who answers that a 2-foot-long skateboard is 48 inches long gets half credit for adding 24 and 24 instead of the correct 12 plus 12. State Education Department official Tom Dunn defended the scoring, explaining that students are asked to show their work, and the scoring guidelines, called “holistic rubrics,” require that points be given for answers that indicate “a partial understanding of the mathematical concepts or procedures embodied in the question,” even if that understanding leads to fully wrong answers.
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HALF-BAKED IDEA - Researchers developed a potato-powered battery they say produce electrical energy five to 50 times cheaper than conventional batteries. Haim Rabinowitch and Alex Golberg of Israel’s Hebrew University and Boris Rubinsky of the University of California at Berkeley reported in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy that they discovered how to construct an efficient battery using zinc and copper electrodes and a slice of potato. Further research found that boiling the potato increased electric power tenfold over a raw potato.
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EMERGENCY DATING SERVICE - Authorities said Audrey Scott, 57, of Alliance, Ohio, called the 911 emergency line five times looking for a husband. “You need to get a husband?” the dispatcher asked. Scott replied, “Yes.” When told she could face arrest for misusing 911, Scott responded, “Let’s do it.” She was sentenced to three days in jail. SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES - Jack Jenkins, 70, a vendor at a gun show in Orlando, Fla., told police who responded to reports of a shooting that he was looking at a Colt .45 semi-automatic handgun and noticed the hammer was cocked back. He pointed the gun toward the concrete floor and pulled the trigger “without ensuring the firearm was clear and safe,” according to the police report. The loaded weapon fired, striking the floor and sending concrete fragments into the air, where they injured two of Jenkins’s fellow vendors. The Dallas Police Department suspended Officer Kelly Beemer after she fired her service weapon while off-duty in a squad car that had been called to a bar where she was drinking with two other off-duty officers. Investigators said Beemer, who commanders called to the scene after the incident, was too drunk to be interviewed, was belligerent when she got into the vehicle, pulled the weapon from her holster and fired it into the floorboard.
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HOW THE WEST WAS LOST - When Natcore Technology, a New Jersey company that holds the license to make solar panels that are cheaper, more efficient and less toxic to the environment than regular panels, tried to commercialize the technology in the United States, state and federal bureaucracies stalled its progress. Natcore president Chuck Provini said that attempts to work with elected officials, for instance, rarely got past staff members. Meanwhile, Chinese officials called Provini and offered to speed the project along. “We didn’t contact them. They contacted us,” said Provini, adding, “We wanted to do business in the United States, and we went to different agencies and we said, ‘Here’s what we have going on in China. Can you help us replicate this?’ And, frankly, we kind of rang on deaf ears.” Officials in charge of developing China’s clean and alternative energy helped Provini find a production partner to provide capital and manufacturing capabilities and create 250 to 400 jobs. “They’ve cut through the red tape to be responsive,” Provini explained. “It’s almost embarrassing that whatever you ask for, they deliver it.” WAY TO GO - Richard Butler, 30, was minutes away from proposing to Bethany Lott, 25, when she was killed by lightning while hiking up a mountain in Madison County, N.C. “I had a ring in my pocket, and I was going to ask her to marry me,” said Butler, who suffered second-degree burns from the strike.
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Mayor John Engen, right, offers gadflies considerable leeway during City Council’s weekly public comment period. “I think in my role as mayor I just have to be the mature person sitting at the head of the table conducting the meeting,” he says. “And
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that means I respectfully acknowledge the folks who come to speak to us, even if in some cases they aren’t necessarily respectful of me, or the council, or the other public in the room.”
by Jessica Mayrer photos by Cathrine L. Walters “Your system has failed and is corrupt.” That’s how Will Snodgrass essentially greets Missoula City Council during a recent debate over maintenance districts. The regular attendee of the council’s weekly public comment period takes the opportunity to indict the council members with a barrage of pointed words. Ignorance, Snodgrass says, runs rampant through the governing body. He says it’s a criminal syndicate engaged in public works fraud. The rant, more or less, updates a version of the same speech he’s been delivering for decades. As Snodgrass’ allotted three minutes of comment ticks away, Councilman Bob Jaffe sinks slowly into his seat. Councilwoman Stacy Rye’s mouth hangs open, her head cocked at an angle. About 15 citizens look around the room, flipping through their agendas, whispering to each other periodically, hardly paying Snodgrass much attention. Councilman Ed Childers assumes a curious, strangely gleeful smile. And Councilman Jon Wilkins’ eyes begin to close. “When they come up your eyes do glaze over,” Wilkins admits. “They” refers to a core group of vocal citizen watchdogs, or gad-
flies, who show up Monday nights to Council Chambers like ants to a picnic. Before Missoula’s 12 council members, mayor and city attorney attend to a weekly agenda, residents are allowed three minutes per person to sound off on whatever they want. It’s a vital forum to interact with local officials, or, more often, rattle institutional cages. “You can’t call up Max Baucus and get him on the phone. You can’t call up Tester,” Rye says. “You can come down to us every single Monday night, 52 weeks a year. That’s like 300 minutes a year.” Missoula’s regular cast of gadflies are cut from a similar cloth, woven from a nagging consciousness that drives them to relentlessly engage with the democratic process. Pushing against the status quo, they aim to forge a new and, they say, smarter direction for everyone. It’s an understandable, even admirable, urge. After all, vigilance and a strong voice are necessary tools of a healthy democracy. Yet the repetition brought forward by these frequent attendees, month after month, year after year, and, in Snodgrass’ case, decade after decade, visibly anesthetizes some council members. “I have been told that I have the worst poker face in the world,” admits Rye after Snodgrass’ recent testimony.
Kandi Matthew-Jenkins testifies almost every week before council. She says her primary concern is reining in overblown government and keeping it out of Montanans’ lives. “It’s not a personal gripe. It’s a real live happening thing,” she says.
Yet gadflies like Snodgrass still speak up. They are, by definition, persistent and unapologetically aggressive. They are political outsiders, buzzing around the periphery, biting every so often to make sure we’re awake. Such actions have branded the watchdogs profiled here as irrelevant, unreasonable and overzealous at one time or another. Their repetition and, at times, lack of decorum also make them unpopular. But they insist they have answers. People just need to listen.
Honey v. vinegar Kandi Matthew-Jenkins likes a light City Council agenda. That means she might be able to sneak in a few extra minutes of testimony at the beginning of the meeting. “That’s when I can edge the three-minute rule,” she says. What Matthew-Jenkins discusses during her usual appearance in front of council remains a mystery to some. During a recent meeting, she took to the podium wearing gold-rimmed eyeglasses and read from a stack of typewritten notes. She picked up basically where she’d left off the week before, discussing the details of a drawn-out struggle with Child Protective Service (CPS), a state agency with little relevance to council business. “(The caseworker) told me that I needed anger management, that I needed all these services,” Matthew-Jenkins told the council. As Matthew-Jenkins spoke, Councilwoman Pam Walzer fiddled with her computer, only periodically looking up. Mayor John Engen stared straight ahead. Childers, as he did with Snodgrass, smiled serenely. “I probably am trying to figure out how the pieces work together,” Childers says of Matthew-Jenkins’ testimony. “And it may or may not be the pieces that she’s talking about.” Childers acknowledges he sometimes has a hard time tracking Matthew-Jenkins, but he tries. “The story really has no relevance to what we do, but it’s certainly an interesting story,” he says. “You know, I couldn’t tell you the details. There’s some woman in some other state who was a member of the Legislature that had a problem. And Kandi’s apparently had a problem. A lot of what I’m wondering is why she chooses this venue.” Matthew-Jenkins says she speaks before the council because it’s the only way she can be sure someone hears her. The 60-year-old
Will Snodgrass is perhaps the most vocal City Council critic. He maintains the governing body is riddled with faults. “I am offended by incompetent public officials. And I think that the Missoula City Council is largely incompetent,” he says.
mother of six claims CPS, which is directed to protect children who have been or are at substantial risk of abuse, neglect or abandonment, steps way out of bounds. Specifically, she says the agency preyed on her family for profit. “I know after being within the court system, if I were to sit down to write my personal affidavit and file it, it would go nowhere,” she says. “No one would hear it. No one would know about any of this.” When not testifying in front of council, Matthews-Jenkins runs a furniture business with her husband, John Jenkins. The couple sells homemade wares at the Saturday morning People’s Market. Jenkins, a soft-spoken man, says his wife advocates for the disenfranchised. She looks out for the underdog and doesn’t like “sideways talk,” he says. Matthew-Jenkins’ passion for local issues has led to political aspirations. The pro-life, self-proclaimed “Christian Constitutionalist” ran unsuccessfully for the Montana Legislature in 2000, for Missoula mayor in 2001 and again campaigned in 2008 for state Senate. Most recently, she’s thrown her hat into the
ring for the upcoming general election as a candidate for House District 99. In addition to testifying before City Council on nearly a weekly basis, Matthew-Jenkins has become a familiar face at the Legislature in Helena. She still remembers the first time she spoke before the governing body. “Going to Helena I realized government was into everything— everything—our getting up and our laying down, everything that we did,” she says. Much of Matthew-Jenkins’ work aims to purge government from the lives of Montanans. “We have not taught people to be responsible for themselves so they have allowed themselves to be taken over by the government agendas, political parties, you name it—they’re not free,” she says. “Since my country is no longer free, I have to fight for that.” Her political awakening started in 1981 when she became the director of Birthright of Missoula, a faith-based pregnancy support center now called 1st Way.
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ny sensitivity to smell, along with “I discovered things I never an aversion to lotions, perfumes even thought of before,” she says. and detergents. Chemical com“I discovered that we were pounds in dryer sheets make him becoming a people who thought feel ill, as do pesticides and herbiit okay to premeditatively murder cides. The sensitivity makes him unborn children.” acutely aware of toxins in his surMatthew-Jenkins first testiroundings. He goes so far as to sit fied before the City Council in upwind from offending scents— 1988, when officials moved to or avoid them altogether. raise business-licensing fees. “I’ll be putting Weed-B-Gon Hers was the only public comon a dandelion and he’ll yell at ment that day, she says. me from a block away,” says “For years I testified as the Doug Grimm, who’s lived in only citizen in the room,” she Snodgrass’ neighborhood since says. 1946 and sits on the Upper Today, she directs much of R attlesnake Neighborhood her testimony toward CPS. Council. Through weeks of regular threePeople think Snodgrass is minute comments, her story crazy, Grimm says, but his neighcomes out more or less chronobor’s observations often prove logically. Council members learn correct. Grimm remembers that a CPS caseworker pulled attending a council meeting sevMatthew-Jenkins’ 8-year-old son eral years ago during which out of class 15 years ago. That led Snodgrass discussed the gasoline to an inquiry after the child told a additive Methyl tert-butyl ether counselor Matthew-Jenkins spanked (MTBE), which at the time was him. The incident spooked increasingly being used across Matthew-Jenkins so much, she the nation. Snodgrass told the tells council, that she removed her council people were getting sick three youngest children from the public school system, opting to Missoula City Councilwoman Stacy Rye says it can be tough to keep a straight face while taking heat from aggressive crit- and representatives should fight ics like Snodgrass during public meetings. “I have been told that I have the worst poker face in the world,” she says. to keep the additive out of local home school them instead. gas tanks. The subject matter was “For three years we lived in only peripherally relevant to fear,” she tells council. Snodgrass has been fighting the sewer project “Look at this horror. My God, this is like Aliens,” municipal purview. Even so, MTBE was later banned Matthew-Jenkins still hasn’t let go. She’s lobbied for years the only way he knows how: with reams of he says. in 17 states across the country. the federal government and stayed up nights Then consider the dust—just the dust—created data and a tenacious, unrelenting approach. The 64After Snodgrass’ MTBE presentation in front of researching allegations against the agency. She shutby the project, and what it does to local residents year-old videographer comes from a family of profescouncil, Grimm says there wasn’t much of a fuss. tles families to Helena to offer their own testimony who have to inhale such dirty air. Particulate pollu- sional wrestlers, boxers and scientists, and he has “They all yawned when he was done and said, indicting CPS. The issue, she says, isn’t a random tion spikes during peak construction periods, and inherited those ancestors’ traits. ‘What’s the next line of business?’” recalls Grimm. conspiracy theory put forward by a nut job with a Before landing in Missoula, the Minneapolis it’s a primary concern of his—those spikes, he says, “But he was right…He stands up there and shouts personal gripe. As she sees it, the agency’s intrusions can trigger cardiac arrhythmia, heart attack and native attended college, pre-med, at the University of and jumps and waves his arms, and peoillustrate a government run amok on the ple think he’s crazy. But sometimes he’s taxpayers’ dime. right.” “It reflects throughout our daily lives of Today when Snodgrass speaks in what kind of control the government has front of City Council, he mostly antagoover us,” Matthew-Jenkins says. “That one nizes its members. The slender whiteissue incorporates everything. It can go haired man will often point a pale finger down to your property rights, because and raise his voice, accusing city staffers you lose your home, you lose your job, you of ignorance and arrogance. lose your standing in the community, your “That’s my right. That’s my duty. reputation.” That’s my obligation as a citizen,” Although Matthew Jenkins is greeted at Snodgrass explains. “The Constitution of times by name-calling—she says she’s been Montana guarantees me the right to parcalled “Christian right-wing fanatic” and ticipate. It also says that I have an obliga“crazy lady”—and council members who tion. That obligation, I think, does not don’t necessary appreciate her rambling extend to pandering to inept public offimessage, she has no intention of keeping cials or putting up with their derisiveness, her mouth shut. their skinning and grinning, their looks of “I can’t even imagine how many times disdain and their abject silence in the face I’ve been told, ‘Kandi, you get more flies of very solidly put questions. I think with honey than you do vinegar,’” she says. they’re a bunch of careless fools.” “And I just tell them that I’m not after flies. Snodgrass, his partner Loreen This is after the hearts and souls of people.” Folsom and the Rattlesnake Coalition, with Snodgrass as president, have filed Ignorance and arrogance three lawsuits against the city since 2003, all of them On a recent afternoon, Will Snodgrass stands on stroke. It’s all part of what Snodgrass calls a massive Minnesota, but didn’t graduate. His activism began aiming to stop the Rattlesnake sewer project. Woodland Street and points to a massive cement environmental disaster underway in the Rattlesnake. three decades ago, when he began reading every- Snodgrass says a more extensive environmental “Look at all this shit. This is what I want Jason thing he could get his hands on about the dangers of manhole, part of the Upper Rattlesnake sewer instalimpact analysis should be undertaken. Yet, the Wiener and the other guy [Dave Strohmaier] to talk pesticides and herbicides in the environment. lation project currently underway. Manufacturing Montana Supreme Court disagrees and reaffirmed a Around the same time his environmental awareand shipping that manhole alone consumed more about,” Snodgrass says, referring to his Ward 1 counlower court ruling last spring that found a sufficient ness kicked in, Snodgrass began developing an uncancil representatives. resources than Snodgrass likes to think about. environmental review occurred. After six years of
“You can’t call up Max Baucus and get him on the phone. You can’t call up Tester.
You can come down to us every single
Monday night, 52 weeks a year. That’s like 300 minutes a year.”
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“These people who make these decisions on the Missoula, she fell in love with the place. Center reiterated what he told the study commission in legal wrangling, the Upper Rattlesnake sewer system basis of poor information or lack of research or, as I “We pick the neighborhood that we live in a recent phone interview with the Indy. He said his finally got the green light in May 2009. Nevertheless, Snodgrass won’t let the situation said, arrogance seeped in ignorance, they’re capable because we like the character,” says Rectenwald, study found locals brimming with civil awareness— go. He met with his lawyer again last month, and he of destroying a civilization,” he says. “They’re capa- who declines to talk too much about her personal more so than most communities. But the survey also says the current construction shows how the courts ble of destroying the spirit of the community. They life for fear of retribution from her political enemies. unearthed a widespread perception among residents Rectenwald moved into her historic house in that city government wasn’t listening. were wrong. There’s no way the project would have are capable of ruining Missoula and they are rapidly 1995. About three years after her arrival, she grew been approved had the agencies truly considered on their way to doing that.” “The tension was very palpable,” says de Berge. concerned about her neighborhood’s changing charwhat’s going on now in the Rattlesnake. Why, for Rectenwald maintains that perception lingers acter. Owner-occupied homes were being rented to today. instance, would the powers that be deem PVC pipe tenants and traffic down her quiet street grew heavsafe to carry sewage? The PVC manufacturing Poison pill “Who knows what the revolution is,” she says. An American flag flutters in the early summer ier. It prompted her to join Missoula’s conversation “But something’s not working here.” process produces the carcinogen dioxin, Snodgrass says. In fact, he witnessed the effects first hand breeze over Jane Rectenwald’s red porch. The tall about how best to plan for growth. From the beginTo remedy the problem, Rectenwald and Alan decades ago as he filmed a video about chemical woman with white hair and pink cheeks gazes out over ning, she saw glaring problems in local oversight. Ault, who co-authored the commission’s minority contamination in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. What he her tree-lined street. She sounds tired remembering Her increasing drive to shape municipal workings report, suggested changing Missoula’s municipal saw then sticks with him today. “I actually put my hand on the hard lumps that were generally found in various regions of the human body among workers,” Snodgrass says. “They were hard lumps. They were tumor-like precursors to tumors, and I’ve actually touched them.” Cancer scares Snodgrass. In addition to the workers in Louisiana, he’s watched friends battle with the illness. That’s largely why he pushes Missoula Public Just how much City Council listens— or meetings. “If the wall isn’t there, they have an City Council President Ed Childers still Works employees and elected officials to answers for calling a group of citizens a “posse” changes policy based upon the testimony of a opportunity to say what they need to say. They can wake up and steer clear from using prodyears ago. The verbal misstep, made in the spot- select few gadflies—can be difficult to measure. do that and then they can move on, or repeat it the ucts like PVC in the Rattlesnake. light of a public meeting, triggered outrage by According to University of Montana Political next week, or have a variation on the theme. But Missoula Director of Public Works some who said the comment highlighted City Science Department Chair James Lopach, they get their say.” Steve King declines to address Council’s tendency to discount and disparage Missoula’s open door policy provides a unique Engen’s predecessor, Mike Kadas, was more of Snodgrass’ personal tactics, but he does members of the minority. Such scrutiny, Childers forum for people to engage in the democratic a stickler for the time limit. Brevity, he believes, stand behind the sewer project. says, shows what council members face when process. But the issues raised by gadflies are usu- encourages clarity. That said, Kadas sees healthy “What we’re doing is collecting appearing week in and week out before an open ally intensely personal and narrow. antagonism brought forward by skeptics as a vital human waste and delivering it to a treat“They are arguing for something that means public forum. ingredient when cooking up solid policy. ment plant instead of depositing that “People come and talk to the City Council and an awful lot personally, but often the public rele“Having some tension really helps mold good human waste into the Rattlesnake often think that if the City Council doesn’t do what vance is not obvious to others,” Lopach says. “It’s decisions,” Kadas says. “Sometimes they actually Valley,” King says. “Just on its face, that the people talking to them say the City Council kind of a self-defining thing for them.” bring some really valuable insight into issues.” makes a lot of sense to me.” Missoula mayors past and present say while should do, then the City Council is not listening to Childers concurs, although he believes a true Snodgrass disagrees, no matter what them,” he says. “And, it’s like, define listening. If personal passions may inflame public discussions, King or the Supreme Court has to say. gadfly may never be satisfied. In that case, if gadlistening means do what I tell you to do, then, in welcoming public comment—even when the subHis stubbornness on the topic—as well as all probability, they’re correct, and the City ject matter isn’t immediately relevant—provides an flies feel their voices are being drowned out, he other fights through the years—somesuggests one clear solution. Council does not listen to them all the time. But if essential release. times gets him in trouble. In 2001, he “Every couple of years, we have an election,” “What I’ve found is that in my experience in listening means be attentive, try to find out what was accused of calling a Forest Service they’re trying to say and try to make that part of life, certainly as mayor, when I’ve put up a wall, he says. “And if enough people who bother to vote weed specialist an “idiot” and slapping their thinking on what’s going on, then I think the when I create something to push against, people think that the people who try to represent them him on the rear end. Snodgrass was later City Council does listen to people. And I think it push,” says Mayor John Engen, who doesn’t always fail to do so, then we have turnover. That’s kind of found innocent of the charges. Six years limit public comment to three minutes during the American way.” listens to all of them.” ago, before she joined City Council, Ward 6 Councilwoman Marilyn Marler had an attorney draft a letter of no contact—the precursor to a retraining order—to stop Snodgrass from repeatedly showing up to her office, the arguments that consumed much of her 10 years of led her to accept a 2004 voter appointment to government. Specifically, they advocated taking calling and cornering her at public meetings. Marler, local activism. She was called a “poison pill,” a “loose Missoula’s Local Government Study Commission, away some of the mayor’s power to hire and fire, a University of Montana Division of Biological canon,” and a “dumb growther.” Even the media, she which analyzed municipal workings. and giving that power to a non-partisan city managSciences staffer, says Snodgrass confronted her says, unfairly branded her a troublemaker. That’s when she became a regular at local plan- er. The minority maintained those changes would “Why don’t you use the term ‘watchdog?’” she ning meetings—and a vocal “watchdog” of the city’s eliminate the political cronyism that stifles responabout pesticides UM used to control weeds. Snodgrass acknowledges Marler’s allegations and asks. “Instead, you say, ‘critic.’” zoning laws. Over the years, Rectenwald says she sive policymaking. Rectenwald says then and now Before getting fed up testifying before City Council saw elected representatives neglecting a significant administrators are afraid to go against top-down confirms there have been others. He says the complaints, including Marler’s, simply constitute efforts to in 2008, Rectenwald says she pushed chunk of Missoula’s citizenry. She maintains her directives because they could lose their job. That quiet him. Specifically, the Forest Service suit was to simply make elected representatives accountable to study commission service validated that observation. leaves them out of touch with people on the ground. bunk, he says. He never hit anybody. Isn’t it interest- taxpayers. She advocated for everything from As part of its effort to identify areas of city gov“The Broadway Diet had over 10,000 signatures ing, he adds, that they claimed he slapped the public the preservation of her neighborhood’s clean ernment that could be improved upon, the commis- against it. That was ignored. Lincoln School, I think employee, when “SLAPP” in legal lingo is an acronym and quiet streets to responsibly funded aquatic facilities. sion hired a behavior analyst who polled locals and there were close to 400 signatures against it,” she She loves the University District, largely because reported back to the commission with his findings. says of the Rattlesnake subdivision. “Have you seen for strategic lawsuit against public participation? That’s the way it goes, he says. In the face of so it’s so different from the industrial thoroughfares in The behavior analyst echoed what Rectenwald had what Lincoln School looks like now?” much ignorance about issues that affect everything Pittsburg where she grew up. When she first came to argued: there was a disconnect between people on Disrespect for citizen input is evident in counfrom the physical landscape to the fundamental Montana—her employer, the Girl Scouts of the USA, the ground and those in City Hall. And that discon- cil’s body language and word choice, Rectenwald human right to a healthy environment, Snodgrass transferred her—she planned on settling in Butte. nect, the behavior analyst said, left Missoula’s politi- says. She points to Ed Childers, who referred to a says he has every right to get riled up and to keep But Butte felt too much like her dark and dusty cal landscape fodder for the “stuff of revolution.” group of citizens as a posse during a public meeting hometown, and she kept driving. Once she reached furthering his cause. Earl de Berge of Phoenix-based Behavior Research years ago. (See sidebar.)
Grading the gadflies
How much change do these watchdogs create in local government?
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a 2008 planning meeting billed as an open “When you see the council people rolling forum to air out concerns about Missoula’s their eyes like this, while people are speakzoning rewrite. ing,” she says, “it’s not only rude, it’s just that “There were boos, [people shouted,] unbelievable arrogance.” ‘Shut up,’ ‘That’s not true,’” she recalls. “It’s Her friends say they respect her for standreally hard to stand up and try and express ing up for what she believed in, even though your opinion when people are yelling.” Rectenwald’s audience was, at times, lessThe Missoula City County Office than-welcoming. of Planning and Grants facilitated the “I personally witnessed a disinterest in dialogue during the meeting. Planners alternative viewpoints from City Hall,” requested citizens discuss two things says Jane Van Fossen, also at one point active they liked about the rewrite and two items in city government discussions. “I think they did not. Rectenwald admits she didn’t she’s one of numerous citizens who have stick to the rules. The directive offended not been listened to with courtesy and her. respect. “You see, that’s a controlled outcome,” “I admire people who are actively she says. “It looks like public involvement involved in government,” Van Fossen continbut it says you have to find two things that ues. “They earn my admiration much more you like.” that people who are sleepwalkers.” Offering no “likes,” she spoke at But there’s a flip side to that tenacity. length—she says it was seven minutes, othTenacity is a close relative of obstinacy, and it’s ers said it was 20—solely about the negatives not easy to work with people who don’t comof the rewrite. The ensuing jeers left promise. University District resident Jane Rectenwald says she stopped speaking out at public meetings because Councilman Jason Wiener declined to city officials don’t pay adequate attention to public concerns. “Who knows what the revolution is,” she Rectenwald shaken. As she got up to leave, then-Planning Director Roger Millar comment for this story, but he summed up his says. “But something’s not working here.” approached her and, she alleges, spoke to position about Rectenwald’s participation in her in a threatening manner. the Local Government Study Commission in a Rectenwald is persistent, acknowledges ignoring responses to her points and continually tryShe filed a formal complaint and hasn’t testified 2006 post for the 4&20 blackbirds blog. ing to hijack the process by, for instance, hanging Councilwoman Pam Walzer, who served with in a public meeting since. “The minority’s leader is Jane Rectenwald, a sort posters declaring the foregone sensibility of her Rectenwald on the commission. “I’m not doing it again,” she says. “First of all, of passive-aggressive poison pill dead set on replac- opinion at every meeting, even when it was clear the “She’s a bulldog,” Walzer says. “She will dig and I’ve tried. And I thought, naively maybe, that it ing the mayor with a city manager,” Wiener wrote. majority of the LGSC [Local Government Study dig and dig.” “Her main method of argument is faux-humble ques- Commission] had zero interest in a city manager, As evidenced by the name-calling, that persist- would make a difference.” tioning meant to lead you right to her conclusion. having examined the question at some length with ence doesn’t always win friends. In fact, Rectenwald jmayrer@missoulanews.com She was a disagreeable presence at most meetings, outside experts.” says she was shouted at and told to sit down during
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what they promise, that they’re a transparent company, and they treat their producers with a lot of respect. It’s not their fault, it’s not Whole Foods’ fault, and it’s not our fault. It’s just unfortunate. It’s pure economics.” Ruedlinger says he has “all the respect in the world” for Stoner and what they’re doing on the ranch. And Mack Graves, chief executive officer of Panorama, told WyoFile.com, “I feel horrible about it. They were such good folks. We could have worked it out, and we didn’t.” So why can’t these sympathetic parties make a deal? Stoner is correct to blame economics. And the root of this economic problem is a marketplace where consumers want their meat fresh rather than frozen. This is due in part to the inconvenience of waiting for meat to thaw, and also due to the false assumption that freezing meat lowers its quality. If consumers warmed up to frozen meat, ranchers could slaughter their cattle during the growing season when the quality of forage—and consequently of the meat—is much higher. They wouldn’t have to overwinter as many animals, or contend with bad winter roads. And it would make range-fed operations more competitive with feedlot operations, which can finish their animals on high-quality feed in winter and Photo by Ari LeVaux guarantee fresh, marbled meat year round. Arapaho Ranch is currently exploring other mar“They might view Panorama as a middleman, but they’re more than that,” he says. “Panorama provides kets for its range-fed beef, but it’s running out of time. services I can’t do myself. They have a market for the “We could be making a lot more money selling calves bones, offal, livers, bench trim, etc. You don’t see us to feedlots,” Stoner says. “Do we believe in that selling tripe, tongue or oxtail at our store, but all that model? No. Are we going to be forced into it? Possibly, stuff is marketable and should be used if you’re try- yes. By fall we’re going to have to make a decision.” The willingness of consumers to step up to the ing to get the best carcass utilization possible. And carcass utilization is important not just for econom- plate could make Stoner’s decision a lot easier. “If we could get shoppers to buy beef at the peak ics, but to honor the animal.” For a large, publicly traded company like Whole of the season and freeze it themselves, or buy frozen Foods, it’s more efficient to deal with one supplier— product off-peak that was harvested at peak season, Panorama—that works with several different produc- all these problems would be solved,” Ruedlinger says. But that’s a big if. “We tried putting together ers, than to work directly with individual ranches. “In winter, sometimes inclement weather means the frozen value packs, which offered an assortment of roads in Wyoming are closed, and we can’t get the burgers, sausages and steaks for a discounted price,” product,” Ruedlinger explains, as an example of why he says. “The program met limited success.” This is a shame. Stoner and his cowboys would going around Panorama to deal directly with Arapaho like nothing better than to keep working their tails Ranch was a can of worms he didn’t want to open. off to keep America’s freezers full of good meat. But All parties claim no hard feelings. “We have no ideological differences,” says Stoner. “I as they say on the range, you can lead a horse to believe in Panorama’s integrity, that they try to provide water, but you can’t make him drink. The move to gain organic certification was a big investment for the ranch. Then the bank that helped finance the operation backed out. A sizable percentage of the meat’s retail price was going to Panorama Meats, which handles the slaughter, packaging and distribution of Whole Foods’ beef. The ranch was getting squeezed, Stoner says, and when the price of conventional beef shot up by 20 percent last spring, Arapaho asked Panorama for a commensurate increase in the wholesale price. Panorama declined. Arapaho Ranch then tried to strike a deal directly with Whole Foods. But that proposition wasn’t as simple as the tribe might have hoped, according to Whole Foods’ Ruedlinger.
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LISTINGS $…Under $5 $–$$…$5–$15 $$–$$$…$15 and over Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 Bernice’s: a Missoula’s staple; serving strong coffee and baked goods in the heart of the Hip Strip since 1978. Stop by and see us at the Clark Fork River Market. We’ll be there bright and early on Saturdays beginning May 8th from 8AM to 1PM. If you miss the market, we’re open every day 6AM to 8PM. Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a "biga" (pronounced beega) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$
Black Cat Bake Shop 2000 West Broadway (next to Noodles Express) • 542-9043 Come try Missoula's newest coffee house & bakery. Try our signature buttery morning buns, scones, cinnamon rolls, huckleberry coffee cake, & organic artisan breads. We also offer a variety of cakes, French pastries, & full coffee menu. (Banquet room available for morning meetings.) Tues Sat. $-$$ Blue Canyon Kitchen 3720 N. Reserve (adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn) 541-BLUE www.bluecanyonrestaurant.com We offer creatively-prepared American cooking served in the comfortable elegance of their lodge restaurant featuring unique dining rooms. Kick back in the Tavern; relish the cowboy chic and culinary creations in the great room; visit with the chefs and dine in the kitchen or enjoy the fresh air on the Outdoor Patio. Parties and special events can be enjoyed in the Bison Room. Hours: Tavern hours Monday-Saturday 3pm-11pm, Sunday 3pm-10pm . Dining Room hours Monday-Saturday 5pm-10pm, Sunday 4pm-9pm. $$-$$$
The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins Ave. 542-0002 A popular local eatery on Missoula's Hip Strip. Featuring handcrafted artisan brick oven pizza, pasta, sandwiches, soups, & salads made with fresh, seasonal ingredients. Missoula's place for pizza by the slice. A unique selection of regional microbrews and gourmet sodas. Dine-in, drive-thru, & delivery. Open everyday 11 to late. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 38 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Ciao Mambo 541 S. Higgins Ave. • 543-0377 Ciao Mambo, at the end of the Hip Strip on 4th and Higgins, serves up fresh, classic, immigrant style Italian food seven days a week. Terrific service and an exten-
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sive domestic and Italian wine list. Try our Wednesday all you can eat Spaghetti! Dinner only and take out service available. Ciaomambo.com or 543-0377. $$-$$$ 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. $-$$ Front Street Pasta & Wraps 247 W. Front Street • 728-6655 Can't decide? Front Street Pasta and Wraps has something to satisfy every craving. We have everything from giant wraps to wok tossed dishes. Spicy peanut sauce goes great with just about everything. Vegetarian friendly menu is great for the non-meat eater. And now you can enjoy a cold beer or a glass of wine with your meal. So step off the beaten path of Higgins and ride into Front Street Pasta and Wraps. Just next to the Carousel on West Front Street. Open M-F, 10am-8pm. $
Good Food Store 1600 South 3rd West • 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted free-range chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm. $–$$
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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 $-$$
Where to find it: Finn & Porter (100 Madison Street, inside the Doubletree), the reigning winner of the Indy’s annual readers’ poll for Best Martini.
Indulge Bakery 700 SW Higgins Ave. • 544-4293 indulgebakery.wordpress.com Now open! Enjoy international flavors from baci di dama to pizzelles, gourmet cupcakes, scones and decadent cinnamon rolls. Specialty breads hot and fresh between 3 and 5pm daily. Open M-F 7am-6:30pm; Sat. 9am-4pm See us on Facebook! Call to find out more (406)523-3951. $
Origin: Added to the menu by one of the restaurant’s revered mixologists—along with an extra “e,” apparently—for a little local flair.
Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Not matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $-$$ Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins Ave. • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch and we use no MSG products. Featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive hot and ice tea menu including bubble tea. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Open Mon-Sat, lunch 11:302PM and dinner 5PM-close. LIVE JAZZ Thursdays FREE $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. Special senior menu & a great kids’ menu. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$
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How to make it: Pour a 6 or 7 count of Woodford Reserve bourbon into a martini shaker. Then squeeze an orange slice, making sure to get just a little pulp into the shaker. Add a dash or splash of Grand Marnier—enough to make the drink sweet, but not overpowering. Bartender’s tip: Don’t bruise the liquor by shaking it too hard. Additional preparations: Priming the martini glass is almost as important as mixing the drink. First, chill the glass with ice while combining the liquor. Next, take an orange and delicately mist the glass with a natural spray. This is harder to do than it sounds—and why Finn & Porter bartenders deserve praise (and high tips).
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Finishing touch: Garnish with an orange twist. The taste: Orangey, as you would imagine, but with a distinct bourbon aftertaste. When to order it: Right about now, before you succumb to the temptation of an all-out fruity drink during the dog days of summer. —Skylar Browning Happiest Hour celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, e-mail editor@missoulanews.com.
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Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve • 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins Ave. • 541-4541 From Latté to Lassî, Water to Wine, Tea Cup to Tea Pot, Liquid Planet has the best beverage offering this side of Neptune -- with a special focus on all-natural, organic, and sustainability. Their distinctive and healthy smoothie menu is worth the visit too! Quick and delicious breakfast and lunch is always ready to go; pastries, croissants, bagels, breakfast burritos, wraps, salads, and soups. Open 8 am to 10 pm daily. $-$$ 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. $$-$$$ Red Robin 2901 Brooks Street • 830-3170 www.redrobin.com Half the price, twice the fun! Halfy Hour at the Southgate Mall Red Robin®! Half price bar drinks Monday – Friday, 4-6 p.m. and Monday – Saturday, 9-10 p.m. Enjoy a drink with one of our insanely delicious Gourmet Burgers, Bottomless Steak Fries. Or, snack on one of our shareable starters with friends! $-$$ Scotty’s Table 131 S. Higgins Ave. 549-2790 Enjoy the best patio dining in Missoula with our seasonal menu of classic Mediterranean and European fare featuring the freshest local ingredients. Come in for happy hour Tues-Friday 5:00- 6:30. Serving lunch Tues-Sat 11:00-2:30, and dinner seven nights a week 5:00-close. Beer and Wine available. $$-$$$
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Sean Kelly’s 130 West Pine • 542–1471 Located in the heart of downtown. Open for Lunch and Dinner, featuring a Sat.-Sun. Brunch 11-2pm. Great Fresh food With Huge Portions. Featuring locally produced specials as well as international cuisine and traditional Irish fare. FULL BAR, BEER, WINE, MARTINIS, 100% SMOKE FREE. "Where the Gaelic and the Garlic Mix!" $-$$ The Stone of Accord 4951 N. Reserve St. • 830-3210 Serving Award Winning Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinners 7 days a week! All of your favorite Irish classics, plus a daily selection of Chef's specialties. A fully stocked bar, wine and liquor store and the Emerald Casino make The Stone of Accord the perfect place for an enjoyable meal. 6:30am-2:00am $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI Sushi Hana Downtown offering a new idea for your dining experience. Meat, poultry, vegetables and grain are a large part of Japanese cuisine. We also love our fried comfort food too. Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner. Corner of Pine & Higgins. 549-7979. $$–$$$ Ten Spoon Vineyard + Winery 4175 Rattlesnake Drive 549-8703 • www.tenspoon.com Made in Montana, award-winning organic wines, no added sulfites. Tasting hours: Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 5 to 9 pm. Enjoy a Rocky Mountain summer high with Albert, vineyard dog, who says “bring a picnic ~ I’ll share.” $$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$
HAMILTON Spice of Life 163 S. 2nd St. Hamilton 363-4433 Spice of Life welcomes you to the Bitterroot’s best locavore dining experience. Serving up fresh and fun food in a conscientious manner. For lunch try one of our hand made burgers from Lolo Locker or one of our fabulous fresh salads. Dinner selections include natural beef which contains no growth hormones or antibiotics ever, sustainable seafood selections and pasta dishes made from Montana wheat from Pasta Montana. Quench your thirst with beer from right here in Hamilton or try one of our reasonably priced yet fantastic wine selections. Children’s menu available. No reservations. So come as you are to Spice of Life! 163 S 2nd St. Hamilton, MT. Lunch: Mon - Fri 11:00 to 2:00 Dinner: Tues - Sat 5:00 to 9:00. 363-4433.
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It’s worth noting that many cooks, even in tropical countries like Thailand where the coconuts drop from the trees, balk at making their own coconut milk because using canned coconut milk is so much easier, and almost as good. You can be fairly positive that your favorite Thai restaurant uses canned milk, and there’s no shame in following suit. Still, making it fresh is better. It starts with picking a good coconut, which can be a crapshoot. A good coconut will feel heavy for its size, won’t have cracks or mold on the outside, and will have audible water sloshing inside. I improve my odds by bringing a bowl to the store. As soon as I leave with my coconut, I smash it on the parking lot, drain the water into
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Marvel at absurd levels of equestrian riding skills from 8 AM–5 PM today, and at the same time each day through July 25, at the World Cup Equestrian Triathlon located at Rebecca Farm, 1385 Farm to Market Road in Kalispell. Free for spectators. Visit rebeccafarm.org for a complete schedule.
The Treasure State Chorale wants to find out if you can sing it up as a member of their adult select mixed chorus during auditions for the group, which occur at a TBA time and place. Free. Call 396-3933 to set up an audition time and for more info. Catch a wave and enjoy the jam when the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton, presents a “This Thursday” presentation titled “Catch a Wave” with Ciara Keaton and The Peanut Butter Didgeridoo Jam at 1:30 PM on the west lawn of the library. Free. Call 363-1670. Thursday afternoon means its time for a moving picture with the kids, so get yourself to the
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Missoula Public Library’s Family Movies Thursday’s, which screens a TBA movie this and every Thu. until July 29 at 2 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK. The Missoula Colony 15 continues its series of staged readings with a reading of Hornblower by Richard Warren at 3 PM, followed by an 8 PM reading of a new play by end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., July 23, 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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Deborah Laufer, all at the Montana Theatre, in UM’s PARTV Center. $5 afternoon reading/$10 evening reading/$40 for all the readings. Visit montanarep.org and call 243-6809. 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 and visit missoulawinery.com. Those in the Flathead can keep it fresh and keep it local during the Whitefish Farmers’ Market, which occurs this and every Thu. from 4–6 PM until Sept. 16 in the parking lot of the Pin and Cue, 6570 Hwy. 93 S. in Whitefish. Free. Fido gets time to socialize and sniff while you witness dog and landscape photography during Yappy Hour at Lauren Grabelle Photography, 7984 Hwy. 35 in Bigfork, which features dog art, as well as discussion on dog issues and more and runs from 4–7 PM this and every Thu. through August at Grabelle’s studio. Free. Call 837-3900. Get your fresh produce up near Glacier, if you choose, every Thu. from 4–8 PM, as the Columbia Falls Farmers’ Market overtakes Nucleus Ave. and offers live music from 5–7:30 PM.
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. Witness the aesthetic fruits of 20 artists who painted outdoors for five days during the Dana Gallery’s Third Thursday gallery reception for The 2010 Western Montana Paint Out, which runs from 5–8 PM at the gallery, 246 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-3154. Those in Kalispell get down in downtown during Thursday!Fest, which features food, a beer/wine garden, Farmers’ Market, arts/crafts, kids activities and music by Human Lab from 5–7:30 PM on Third St. East, between Main St. and First Ave. E. Free. Visit downtownkalispell.com. Get down and aesthetically dirty with some clay experts when The Clay Studio of Missoula presents its Resident Artist Lecture Series, with slideshow lectures from Meagan Chaney, Donna Flannery, Larry Phan and Lauren Sandler from 5:30–7 PM at the studio, 1106 Hawthorne St. Unit A. Free. Call 543-0509. 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 Bob Wire starting at 5:30 PM at Caras Park. Free. Call 5434238 and visit missouladowntown.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 per hour. Call 541-7171. 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. Tanner Cundy won’t be shredding with a fishing rod when he plays acoustic rock at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. Birthparents can nurture camaraderie in a creative environment during the Life After Relinquishment Summer Workshop Series, which meets this and every Thu. at 6:30 PM until Aug. 5 at the Living Art of Montana office, 725 Alder St. #17. Donations accepted, but not expected. The workshops are designed to nurture healing through creative focus, and feature photo journal making, collage and other activities. Call Beth at 880-3052. 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. 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. It’s all about music and humor with an Irish touch during the Pig and Whistle Vaudeville Show, with a performance at 7 PM at Philipsburg’s Opera House Theatre, 140 S. Sansome St. $17/$9 children 12 and under. Call 859-0013 for tickets and visit operahousetheatre.com. Keep those options open when Julia Horn reads and signs copies of All Rise: Break the Spell, which begins at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.
The Ugly Duckling meets musical theater in Honk (Jr.), with a performance by the Flathead Valley Community College (FVCC) Theatre at 7 PM in the college’s Blackbox Theatre, in the Arts and Technology building on FVCC’s campus, 777 Grandview Drive in Kalispell. $5. Call 7563814 or visit fvcc.edu for tickets.
Sorry ladies, but Thu. nights belong to the dudes at Men’s Night at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where the testosterone-fueled karaoke begins at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969.
Jam out with a fine glass of wine and your best chops when Kevin Van Dort hosts the Musician’s Jam at the Missoula Winery, which runs this and every Thu. starting with sign-ups at 7 PM at the winery, 5646 W. Harrier. Free to spectate, and to sign up. Call 830-3296.
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.
Like totally, man. A night of folk pop, indie and rock awaits your hearing receptacles when Portland, Ore.’s And I Was Like, What? plays Higgins Hall, 617 S. Higgins Ave., at 7:30 PM. $5, all ages. Locals Tyson Ballew, The Lion. The Tamer and Have A Nice Coma open. (See Noise in this issue.)
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.
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.
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.
Belt out a few bars of somethin’ ridiculous at East Missoula’s Reno Casino and Cafe’s karaoke night, brought to you by Karaoke by Figmo, every Thu., Fri. and Sat. night at 9 PM. Free. Women give a thumbs up to spirits during Ladies’ Night at the Silver Slipper Sports Bar and Grill, 4063 Hwy. 93 S., which features half-off drinks for women and occurs this and every Thu. starting at 9 PM at the bar. Free. Call 251-5402.
Rock out with the tribe when the Alpine Theatre Project presents a performance of the rock musical Hair, at 8 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. $37/$30/$25 depending on seats/$18 students. Call 862-SHOW for tickets or visit alpinetheatreproject.org.
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.
Enjoy the flow of it all with a musical in two movements when the Port Polson Players Summer Theatre presents a performance of That’s the Poop 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 portpolsonplayers.com.
The Wild Coyotes will not be jamming out on broomsticks when they play country and classic rock at the Sunrise Saloon, 1110 Strand Ave., at 9 PM. Free. Call 728-1559.
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. Bowling and karaoke go together like jumper cables and cyberpunks during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. Your childhood just might get destroyed, in the best way possible, when the Montana Actors’ Theatre presents another cabaret with the theme “Cabaret Destroys Your Childhood,” with a performance at 8:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $9. The cabaret girls also work the crowd for tips, just so you know. Visit mtactors.com.
Women celebrate their womanhood with cheap libations and a bit o’ karaoke with help from the band Party Trained during Ladies’ Night and Live Band Karaoke at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, this and every Thu. at 9:30 PM. Free to attend. Call 830-3277. Dance with a cougar or two, or not, every Thu. at 10 PM when the James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., hosts The Social Club, featuring DJ Fleege spinning an expansive array of tech house and progressive electro dance tunes. Free. Cross your karaoke sword with others during Combat DJ and Karaoke nights, this and every Thu. at the Press Box, 835 E. Broadway St., at 10 PM. Free. Nate Hegyi, lead singer/songwriter of Wartime Blues, keeps the folk and Americana flowing freely 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.
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Expect plenty of chortles and guffaws when Los Angeles-based comedienne Kate Roxburgh makes a special appearance during The Missoula Colony 15, with a stand-up comedy performance at 11 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10. Visit montanarep.org and call 243-6809. (See Spotlight in this issue.)
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Cure your hard luck with a few shots of bluegrass during the second Hardtimes Bluegrass Festival, a three-day fest that begins at 6 PM on the Heiland and Thomas Ranches south of Hamilton, off Hwy. 93 at mile marker 37 on 163 Forest Hill Road. $10 for the weekend/$5 for the weekend for children 12 and under/$10 to camp for the weekend. Features sets by Blue to the Bone and others. Visit hardtimesbluegrass.com for a complete schedule.
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Snag yourself a sweet novel when the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton, gives away free books all day, each day through July 25, at the gazebo on the west lawn of the library. The book giveaway is in honor of Daly Days. Call Jerri at 363-1670. The Missoula Public Library hosts a preschool storytime geared toward children 3–6 years old every Fri. at 10:30 AM. This week, Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South by E. Patrick Johnson. Just kidding. (Did I need to tell you that?) Free. Call 721-BOOK. Celebrate the life of a copper magnate with music, vendors, food, a car show and other activities during Hamilton’s Daly Days Festival, which runs all day today, and begins again the morning of Sat., July 24, all in downtown Hamilton on Main St. Free to attend. Call 3632400 and visit bitterrootvalleychamber.com. A nuclear family in 1953 meets menopause and Vienna sausages, among other things, during a performance of David Mills-Low’s Is It Hot?, starting at 2 PM at the Opera House Theatre in Philipsburg, 140 S. Sansome St. $17/$9 children 12 and under. Call 859-0013 for tickets and visit operahousetheatre.com. Celebrate the fifth anniversary of your favorite radio station during The Trail’s fifth annual birthday party, which begins with a shuttle at 2 PM from Caras Park to Sha-Ron for floating, and moves into music at Caras Park at 5:15 PM, with the last set starting at 9 PM. Free. Includes food and beverages for sale, and sets by The Burning Man Trio, the Kevin Van Dort Band, Jameson and The Sordid Seeds, Fiancée and Ben Fuller. They’re the ultimate straight shooters: The Montana Mounted Shooters present the 11th annual Townsend Ranch Competition Shoot, a cowboy mounted shooting competition that begins at 2 PM at the Townsend Ranch Arena in Darby, 3278 Standing Bear Road. Free to attend. The competition begins again at 10 AM, Sat. July 24, and runs until 4 PM and starts again on Sun. July 25, at 10 AM. Call Larry at 821-3749 and visit townsendranch.com. The Missoula Colony 15 continues its series of staged readings with readings of How I Learned To Tell Time by Jay Kettering and Mi Corazon by Lojo Simon starting at 3 PM, followed by an 8 PM reading of Now and Then a Hero; A Musical, all at the Montana Theatre, in UM’s PARTV Center. $5 afternoon reading/$10 evening reading/$40 for all the readings. Visit montanarep.org and call 243-6809. Yet another opportunity to support local farmers and artists arrives during the Jocko Valley Farmers’ Market, which features local produce, goods, live music as well as a barbecue dinner and runs from 4–8 PM this and every Fri. off Hwy. 93 in Arlee, between Rick’s Kustom Kut and The Hangin’ Art Gallery. Free to attend. E-mail Deb at star@blackfoot.net. 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 and visit missoulawinery.com.
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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.
Go ahead, ride this hog. Montana HarleyDavidson, 5106 E. Harrier, presents Hot Harley Nights, which features a bike show (free to enter), burnout contest, slow race, food and drinks, as well as music by The Ironfront Band and The Lil’ Smokies, from 6:30–10:30 PM at the bike shop. Free. Visit mtharley.com and call 721-2154. The Ugly Duckling meets musical theater in Honk (Jr.), with a performance by the Flathead Valley Community College (FVCC) Theatre at 7 PM in the college’s Blackbox Theatre, in the Arts and Technology building on FVCC’s campus, 777 Grandview Drive in Kalispell. $5. Call 756-3814 or visit fvcc.edu for tickets. A doctor finds himself in a delicate situation with his patient during Philipsburg’s Opera House Theatre production of The Girl in the Freudian Slip, with a performance at 7 PM at the theater, 140 S. Sansome St. $17/$9 children 12 and under. Call 859-0013 for tickets and visit operahousetheatre.com. Charlie Seitz, Pete Hand and special guest Rhanda Johnson get saucy with your duck sauce when they play The Keep, 102 Ben Hogan Drive, at 7 PM. Free. Their white hightops are better than yours: Missoula’s Judgment Hammer gets thrashy with thrash metal when they play Higgins Hall, 617 S. Higgins Ave., at 7:30 PM. $5, all ages. Rock out with the tribe when the Alpine Theatre Project presents a performance of the rock musical Hair, at 8 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. $37/$30/$25 depending on seats/$18 students. Call 862SHOW for tickets or visit alpinetheatreproject.org. Enjoy the flow of it all with a musical in two movements when the Port Polson Players Summer Theatre presents a performance of That’s the Poop 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 portpolsonplayers.com. Beavertail Hill State Park, 26 miles east of Missoula on I-90 off the Bevertail Hill exit, presents a program on the frontier life of Montana women homesteaders with poet and writer Philip Burgess, at 8 PM at the park’s amphitheater. Free. Call 273-4253. Help high schoolers get intensive training in musical theater while busting a gut when MCT’s Next Step Prep presents Seth Rudetsky’s Deconstructing Broadway, a one-man show by Seth Rudetsky, where he deconstructs the best and worst vocals in musicals and music, at 8 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $20. Call 728-PLAY for tickets or visit mctinc.org. This show serves as a fundraiser for MCT’s Next Step Prep program. The Roadhouse Band shines your jellybeans to a fine sheen when they play rock and country at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free.
Your childhood just might get destroyed, in the best way possible, when the Montana Actors’ Theatre presents another cabaret with the theme “Cabaret Destroys Your Childhood,” with a performance at 8:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $9. The cabaret girls also work the crowd for tips, just so you know. Visit mtactors.com.
makes a special appearance during The Missoula Colony 15, with a stand-up comedy performance at 11 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10. Visit montanarep.org and call 243-6809. (See Spotlight in this issue.)
Get tangled up in the best kinds of blue during the Symes Hotel’s first Blues/Bluegrass Festival, which features sets by Ray Allen and The Monarch Mountain Bluegrass Band, The Mike Bader Band and others, and begins at 8:30 PM at the hotel, 209 Wall St. in Hot Springs. Free, with donations taken at the main stage. Also includes raffles and a barbecue. Call 741-2361.
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Your heart, the planet and your farmer-neighbors give thanks every Sat. from 8 AM–1 PM as you head down to the Clark Fork River Market (clarkforkrivermarket.com), which takes place
Explore the “Spirituality of Love and Marriage,” whether you’re single, a couple, gay or straight, or in a marriage or long term commitment, during a workshop on the issue that runs from 10 AM–4 PM at the University Congregational Church, 405 University Ave. Free, with lunch available for a small fee. Call 543-6952 to RSVP. The Daly Mansion, 251 Eastside Highway near Hamilton, celebrates Daly Days in style during a celebration at the mansion that features demonstrations, pony rides, self-guided tours, music by the Bitterroot Ragtime Society and other entertainment from 10 AM–3 PM at the mansion. Admission to the grounds and grounds activities are free, but it costs $5 per
It’s time for an all-request video dance party to celebrate the week’s end: Feelgood Friday featuring hip-hop video remixes with The Tallest DJ in America at 9 PM at The Broadway Sports Bar and Grill, 1609 W. Broadway. Free. Call 543-5678. Be thankful the freedom to speak includes the freedom to sing when you sidle up to the mic at karaoke night at the VFW, kicking off at 9 PM. Free.
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.
Tamarack Grief Resource Center presents its youth camp and teen retreat, an overnight camp for teens grieving the death of a family member or loved one, which begins at 2 PM at a TBA location in Missoula, to be followed with a hike up to the Moon-Randolf Homestead. $80 per person, with scholarships available. The meet-up location will be disclosed once you sign up for the camp. Call 541-8472 to RSVP.
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. Shake it like a salt shaker when DJ Sanchez cranks out the jams at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, every Fri. at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969.
The Missoula Colony 15 finishes its last day of staged readings with readings from the Short Stuff playwright competition at 3 PM, followed by an 8 PM reading of Jane Doe, or That There Dead Girl by Larke Schuldberg, all at the Montana Theatre, in UM’s PARTV Center. $5 afternoon reading/$10 evening reading/$40 for all the readings. Visit montanarep.org and call 243-6809.
Get herky and jerky with a world class beatsmith when Portland, Ore.’s Let’s Go Outside plays a set of techno and house at 9 PM at the Badlander. $3. Jerry Abstract and Kris Moon open. Son of a Gun shoots you with some pun juice when they play country at the Sunrise Saloon, 1110 Strand Ave., at 9 PM. Free. Call 728-1559.
Party Trained lubes up your training wheels with some variety tunes when they play Harry David’s, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2. Call 830-3276. He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799. Keep the party going during The Trail B-Day After Party, which features indie rock from Portland, Ore.’s Tony Smiley, along with rock/jam rock from locals Miller Creek, at 10 PM at the Top Hat. Cost TBA. Expect plenty of chortles and guffaws when Los Angeles-based comedienne Kate Roxburgh
The second Hardtimes Bluegrass Festival continues at noon on the Heiland and Thomas Ranches south of Hamilton, off Hwy. 93 at mile marker 37 on 163 Forest Hill Road. $10 for the weekend/$5 for the weekend for children 12 and under/$10 to camp for the weekend. Features sets by JD Webb & The Downstate Ramblers, Pinegrass and others. Visit hardtimesbluegrass.com for a complete schedule.
It’s all about music and humor with an Irish touch during the Pig and Whistle Vaudeville Show, with a performance at 2 PM at Philipsburg’s Opera House Theatre, 140 S. Sansome St. $17/$9 children 12 and under. Call 859-0013 for tickets and visit operahousetheatre.com.
Feel free to flail around like a rock star whilst busting out your best version of Hall and Oates’ “Kiss on My List” during Combat Karaoke at the Deano’s Casino near Airway Boulevard., 5318 W. Harrier, this and every Fri. at 9 PM. Free.
Zeppo MT would rather you not take a swim in that cesspool when they play R&B at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.
Enjoy some slow cooked meat along with an array of smoky tunes during the Stumptown Barbecue Smoke Off, which features food, contests, raffles, a beer garden and music by Roustabout beginning at 11 AM at Whitefish’s Depot Park, on Central Ave. in Whitefish. Free. Moonshine Mountain and others continue with music sets throughout the day, with the last set starting at 8 PM. Visit stumptownbbqsmokeoff.com.
The Symes Hotel’s first Blues/Bluegrass festival continues with sets by Ray Allen and The Monarch Mountain Bluegrass Band, The Mike Bader Band and headliners John Kelley and His Magic Mojo Blues Band, from 1–10 PM at the hotel, 209 Wall St. in Hot Springs. Free, with donations taken at the main stage. Also includes raffles and a barbecue. Call 741-2361.
If you liked Tolkien’s mines of Khazad-dum, you’ll love tunneling through the AmVets Club, where DJDC rocks dance music to slay orcs to at 9 PM. Free.
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.
participants use materials like an embroidery hoop, ModPodge and ink to create a stenciled design that can be transferred to a variety of surfaces, from 11 AM–12:30 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. $5, with scholarships available. Call 728-0447 and visit missoulaartmuseum.org.
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All he needs is some jumper cables. David Boone plays folk at Seeley Lake’s Littlebird’s Schoolhouse Sun., July 25, at 7:30 PM. $12/$10 advance at Littlebird’s. beneath the Higgins Street bridge, and to the Missoula Farmers’ Market (missoulafarmersmarket.com), which opens at 8:30 at the north end of Higgins Avenue. If it’s non-edibles you’re after, check out East Pine Street’s Missoula Saturday Market (missoulasaturdaymarket.org), which runs 9 AM–1 PM. Free to spectate, and often to sample. If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM in Room 3 in the basement of First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free. Visit oa.org. Keep your stomach and your local farmer happy during the Hamilton Farmers’ Market, which offers local produce and crafts and runs from 9 AM–12:30 PM on the corner of Bedford and Third Streets in Hamilton. Free to peruse. Call 961-0004.
adult to enter the mansion. Children 12 and under are free. Call 363-6004 Ext. 3. Those suffering from illness or loss can find solace during one of Living Art of Montana’s Creativity for Life workshops on the lower level of the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., at 10:30 AM. This week features the program “Paper Quilts” with Beth Jaffe. Free. Donations are appreciated but not expected. Register by calling 549-5329 or visit livingartofmontana.org. A teen digs deep to find out the truth of her heritage when Jeanette Ingold signs copies of Paper Daughter, from 10:30 AM–noon at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881. Add a DIY touch to cards and T-shirts during the Missoula Art Museum’s Saturday Family Art Workshop: Simple DIY Silk Screening, where
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The best things in life converge during the Bitterroot Brew Fest 2010, which features the chance to sample a variety of beers, eat food, and hear an array of music, from 3–10 PM on Second and Bedford streets in Hamilton. $15, includes admission, commemorative glass, and three drink tickets. Visit bitterrootvalleychamber.com for advance tickets. Witness children playing dwarfish dudes, straw spinning gals and other fairy tale characters during the Missoula Children’s Theatre’s rendition of Rumpelstiltskin, with a performance at 3 PM, and another at 5 PM, all 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 or visit mctinc.org.
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.
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SPOTLIGHT sharp tongue Comedian Kate Roxburgh isn’t one to beat around the bush. Take her bit on what life is like for her in Los Angeles: “I’m mostly doing the acting thing…the actress, slash waitress, slash my wrists thing,” she says dryly in a YouTube clip from one of her stand-up gigs, which instantly elicits giggles from the audience. A native of London, England, Roxburgh’s barbs—which draw comparisons to fellow Brit funnyman Eddie Izzard—take aim at an array of subjects, ranging from annoying encounters with dim Americans to her childhood dream of becoming the captain of a starship. And if you hadn’t yet realized it, Roxburgh’s not afraid of self-deprecation. One of the best examples of this is in another clip online, when she tells an audience that her short haircut means she’s “just a woman that’s given up trying to get shagged.”
WHO: Comedian Kate Roxburgh WHERE: The Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. WHEN: Thu., July 22, and Fri., July 23, at 11 PM nightly HOW MUCH: $10
ly with UM’s School of Theatre and Dance, along with the Montana Rep, the Young Rep and Montana Rep Missoula.
MORE INFO: Call 243-6809 Roxburgh unleashes her act on Missoula this week when she stops by for two standup performances that coincide with the Montana Rep Missoula’s Colony 15, the series of staged readings that began last week at UM. In fact, if you’re a local theater junkie, you’ll probably recognize Roxburgh. She used to live in Missoula and worked extensive-
Pennsylvania’s Halestorm rocks you like a cheesecake hurricane when they play hard rock at 6:50 PM at the Wilma Theatre. $15, with tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and online at jadepresents.com. Adelita’s Way, Since October and New Medicine open. A nuclear family in 1953 meets menopause and Vienna sausages, among other things, during a performance of David Mills-Low’s Is It Hot?, starting at 7 PM at the Opera House Theatre in Philipsburg, 140 S. Sansome St. $17/$9 children 12 and under. Call 859-0013 for tickets and visit operahousetheatre.com. Beat the heat with cool jazz from some hep cats when the Miguel Zenon Quartet—featuring Miguel Zenon, Luis Perdomo, Hans Glawischnig and Henry Cole—performs at DalyJazz, 240 Daly Ave., at 7 PM. Show is sold out, but visit dalyjazz.com for updates on upcoming concerts. Dance peacefully with your inner spiritual self when Dances of Universal Peace meets for sacred
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After her gig at the Crystal, Roxburgh is off to Scotland’s renowned Edinburgh Festival Fringe— dubbed as the world’s largest arts fest. That’s pretty impressive, but what’s even cooler is the fact that she wanted to come back to her old stomping grounds to bust some guts.
movement, song and story at the First Christian Church in Hamilton, 328 Fairgrounds Road, at 7:30 PM. $3 donation requested. Call Star at 363-4026. Salmon Lake State Park, five miles south of Seeley Lake off of Hwy. 83, presents a program on lynx habitat and behavior with wildlife biologist Jay Kolbe, starting with s’mores at 7:30 PM, and the talk at 8 PM, at the park’s amphitheater. Free. Call 273-4253. Rock out with the tribe when the Alpine Theatre Project presents a performance of the rock musical Hair, at 8 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. $37/$30/$25 depending on seats/$18 students. Call 862-SHOW for tickets or visit alpinetheatreproject.org. Enjoy the flow of it all with a musical in two movements when the Port Polson Players Summer Theatre presents a performance of That’s the Poop at 8 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the
—Ira Sather-Olson Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93. $18/$17 students and seniors. Call 883-9212 for reservations and visit portpolsonplayers.com. The Roadhouse Band shines your jellybeans to a fine sheen when they play rock and country at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. The Bigfork Summer Playhouse, 526 Electric Ave. in Bigfork, presents Fiddler on the Roof, 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. Dudes named Earl are bound to bust a two-step move during the Missoula Senior Center’s Saturday Night Dance with the City Slickers, which runs from 8–11 PM at the center, 705 S. Higgins Ave. $5. Call 543-7154. 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.
Your childhood just might get destroyed, in the best way possible, when the Montana Actors’ Theatre presents another cabaret with the theme “Cabaret Destroys Your Childhood,” with a performance at 8:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $9. The cabaret girls also work the crowd for tips, just so you know. Visit mtactors.com.
when they play Harry David’s, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2. Call 830-3276.
If you get nervous in front of crowds, just imagine they’re all laughing at your shortcomings at East Missoula’s Reno Casino and Cafe’s karaoke night, brought to you by Karaoke by Figmo at 9 PM. Free.
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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.
Just when you thought there weren’t enough farmers’ markets, along c o m e s t h e Ta r g e t R a n g e Community Farmers’ Market, which features an array of local products and runs from 10 AM–1 PM this and every Sun. until Oct. 10 at the parking lot of Target Range School, 4095 South Ave. W. Free to attend/$5 vendor fee per space. Call Todd at 531-0877.
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.
Expect an epic time without long lines to the bathroom during The Zula Palooza Show, which features sets from locals Slowly But Shirly, Gran Poobahs, Joe Half Cocked and Jenny Llovett, at 9:30 PM at the Top Hat. Cost TBA.
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DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo are guaranteed to keep you dancing to an assortment of hip-hop, electronic and other bass-heavy, bootybusting beats ‘til the bar closes during Absolutely at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.
The second Hardtimes Bluegrass Festival finishes off its final day from 10 AM–2:35 PM on the Heiland and Thomas Ranches south of Hamilton, off Hwy. 93 at mile marker 37 on 163 Forest Hill Road. $10 for the weekend/$5 for the weekend for children 12 and under/$10 to camp for the weekend. Features sets by Long Steel Rail, Mike & Tari Conroy and others. Visit hardtimesbluegrass.com for a complete schedule.
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.
The Stumptown Barbecue Smoke Off continues at noon at Whitefish’s Depot Park, on Central Ave., with food, music by Reverend Slanky, as well as a Miss Piggy Contest at 3 PM, and more music throughout the day, with the last set beginning at 6 PM. Free. Visit stumptownbbqsmokeoff.com.
Son of a Gun shoots you with some pun juice when they play country at the Sunrise Saloon, 1110 Strand Ave., at 9 PM. Free. Call 728-1559.
Enjoy a burger and a soda with your Franklin to the Fort neighbors during the Franklin to the Fort Neighborhood Council annual summer social and meeting, which runs from 12:30–5:30 PM at Franklin Park, on the corner of Kemp St. and S. 10th St. W. Free. Bring a dish to share, and be ready to help select focus areas for the neighborhood for the upcoming year. Call Jon at 543-3409.
T h e F r e n c h t o w n C l u b , 15 15 5 Demers St., lets the karaoke genie out of the bottle at 9 PM. Turn south after taking exit 89 from I-90. Free. Call 370-3200.
The Whiskey Rebellion makes false teeth chatter with joy when they play outlaw country at 9 PM at the Lumberjack Saloon, off Hwy. 12 and one mile up Graves Creek Road near Lolo. Free. It’s all about a boy, his luckdragon, and a theme song you won’t forget when the Missoula Outdoor Cinema presents a screening of The NeverEnding Story, at 9:17 PM on the lawn of Head Start School, 1001 Worden Ave. $5 suggested donation. Call 829-0873 and visit missoulaoutdoorcinema.org. 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. See if you can become a star under the spotlight at Sean Kelly’s open mic night, hosted by Mike Avery every Sat. at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 5421471 on Sat. after 10 AM to register. Party Trained lubes up your training wheels with some variety tunes
Yet another opportunity to peruse local arts and crafts hits Missoula during the Carousel Sunday Market and Festival, which runs from 1–5 PM this and every Sun. at the New Park parking lot, between A Carousel of Missoula and the Caras Park pavillion. Free to attend. Playing bingo at 2 PM at the Missoula Senior Citizens Center is your chance to yell, “Please don’t pickle my liver!” Free. Call 543-7154. If your chakras have been a little backed up lately, clear ‘em out during Table Time with Alternative Healers, an intuitive healing and energy balancing workshop from 2–4 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Free. Call Janit at 207-7358.
Enjoy the flow of it all with a musical in two movements when the Port Polson Players Summer Theatre presents a performance of That’s the Poop at 2 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 portpolsonplayers.com. Witness children playing dwarfish dudes, straw spinning gals and other fairy tale characters during the Missoula Children’s Theatre’s rendition of Rumpelstiltskin, with a performance at 3 PM, and another at 5 PM, all 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 or visit mctinc.org. Rock out with the tribe when the Alpine Theatre Project presents a performance of the rock musical Hair, with a performance at 3 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. $37/$30/$25 depending on seats/$18 students. Call 862-SHOW for tickets or visit alpinetheatreproject.org. Don’t expect something archaic when The New Big Sky Singers perform at the St. Timothy’s Summer Music Festival at 4 PM at St. Timothy’s Memorial Chapel, high above Georgetown Lake. $15/$10 students. Visit sttimothysmusic.org for directions and call Betty at 846-1317.
nightlife Help support a local clay institution during The Clay Studio of Missoula’s Summertime Dinner Fundraiser: Missoula Valley Thyme & Plate, which features an organic dinner by chef Paige McBride served on handmade ceramic dinnerware, as well as music and local beer/wine, from 6–10 PM at the Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. $125 per person. Call 5430509 for tickets and visit theclaystudioofmissoula.org. Beat the heat with cool jazz from some hep cats when the Miguel Zenon Quartet—featuring Miguel Zenon, Luis Perdomo, Hans Glawischnig and Henry Cole—performs at DalyJazz, 240 Daly Ave., at 7 PM. Show is sold out, but visit dalyjazz.com for updates on upcoming concerts.
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Euchre is one of those games that goes great with beer because you can tell what the cards look like even if your vision is a little blurry. See what I mean, or try to anyway, tonight at Sean Kelly’s just-for-fun Euchre Tournament at 8 PM. Free.
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The weekend isn’t over ‘til you wrap it up with Jam Night at the Finish Line, 153 Meridian Road in Kalispell, with host Landslide at 8 PM. Free. Call 257-0248.
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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.
Kick off the latter hours of your day of rest when the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night welcomes saints and sinners alike with jazz DJs and jazz bands starting at 9:30 PM. Free. This week: jazz from the Front Street Jazz Group and DJ Mermaid.
The Portland Cello Project brings order to a kangaroo court when they play classical music with an indietouch at the Top Hat at 9 PM. $10. (See Spotlight in this issue.)
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.
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Have a drink and take a load off in the company of your fellow laborers during the Badlander’s Service Industry Night, which runs this and every Mon. and includes drink specials for service industry workers starting at 9 PM. Free. Also, if you’ve got an iPod, bring it in and they’ll play it.
Impress your friends, significant other, or anyone who will listen when you rock the karaoke mic at Harry David’s, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, which offers free karaoke at 9:30 PM, Sun.–Thu. each week. Call 830-3277.
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Get centered with a meditation group at Osel Shen Phen Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center, 441 Woodworth Ave., where sadhana practice, visualization and mantra recitation cleanse the doors of perception at 7 PM. Call 543-2207. 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. 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 and visit missoulacityband.org.
Men drink on the cheap and can enjoy a game of pigskin, as well as karaoke, during Men’s Night at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, this and every Mon. at 9:30 PM. Free to attend. Call 830-3277.
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Kids put on their party hats during the Missoula Public Library’s “Treasure Island Party,” which features refreshments, games, books and other fun starting at 2 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK.
nightlife Peruse veggies and fresh fruits while taking in the sounds of a rotating cast of live musicians during the Whitefish Downtown Farmers’ Market, at Depot Park at the north end of Central Avenue, from 5–7:30 PM. Free. Call 862-2043. He’s not big on taxation: We Are Change presents a screening of Aaron Russo’s film America: Freedom to Facism, which examines the Federal Reserve System and other topics, with a screening at 5:30 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. 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 specials—and runs from 6–9 PM this and every Tue. at the Lucky Strike Bar, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Free to attend. Call 549-4152.
Cash for Junkers just want to try on your Bermuda shorts when they play Americana with a swing at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ste. 100, at 7 PM. Free.
Help support reproductive rights while also building the next generation of pro-choice leaders during “Vision to Win: An Evening with Nancy Keenan,” a talk with the president of NARAL Pro-Choice America that begins at 6 PM at The Loft of Missoula, 119 W. Main St. $35 suggested donation. Visit prochoicemontana.org. (See Agenda in this issue.)
Who says America never invented a pub sport? Beer Pong proves them all wrong at the Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where alcohol and performance anxiety climax into a thing of beauty at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969.
Let your body communicate with others through gravity, momentum and inertia during contact dance improv, which runs this and every Tue. at 6:30 PM at The Barn Movement Studio, 2926 S. Third St. W. $5. Musicians, writers and artists
are welcome and encouraged. E-mail missoulacontactimprov@gmail.com. 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. This month: Guest speaker Dr. Steve Mazur. Call 273-2871. You never know what you’ll find— except for probably a bunch of womyn—at Womyn’s Night at 7 PM at the Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center, 127 N. Higgins Ave., Ste. 202. Free. Call 543-2224. 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. 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 curvy, singled-edge Japanese sword that’s traditionally used by samurai’s? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)
Chance mixes with money and prizes during bingo night at the Silver Slipper Sports Bar and Grill, 4063 Hwy. 93 S., which occurs this and every Tue. starting at 8 PM at the bar. Free. Call 251-5402. The Bigfork Summer Playhouse, 526 Electric Ave. in Bigfork, offers you something musical during a performance of Sugar Babies, which starts at 8 PM at the playhouse. $20–$15 depending on seats. Call 837-4886 and visit bigforksummerplayhouse.com for tickets. Yabba Griffiths and the Traxx Band take you to a higher ground of some sort when they play reggae at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. No cover, but passthe-hat donations welcome. Rock out with the tribe when the Alpine Theatre Project presents a performance of the rock musical Hair, at 8 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. $37/$30/$25 depending on seats/$18 students. Call 862SHOW for tickets or visit alpinetheatreproject.org. Enjoy Tunes on Tuesdays with Christian Johnson from 8:30–11 PM, an acoustic open mic jam every Tue. night at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463. 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.
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Rehash the music of others, or have the guts to play a few of your own, when the Canyon Creek Ramblers host an open mic night this and every Tue. at 9 PM at the Great Northern Bar & Grill, 27 Central Ave. in Whitefish. Free, with free beers for performers. See a plethora of patterns and colors—after a few pitchers—and muster up the courage to belt out some prize-winning classics during Ka l e i d o s c o p e Ka ra o k e e v e r y Sun.–Sat. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9 PM. Free. Call 721-1798. Ladies get their drink on and celebrate themselves with $1.50 well drinks during Ladies’ Night at the Lucky Strike Bar, 1515 Dearborn Ave., which runs this and every Tue. starting at 9 PM. Free to attend. Call 549-4152. Kid Traxiom and Friends shred hard—on their laptops, that is—when they play an array of electronic music at 9 PM at the Badlander. Free. Shake yer booty to some hip-hop and enjoy a drink special or two during Hip-Hop Tuesday with Wapikiya Records, which features DJ B Mune spinning beats starting at 9:30 PM at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H. Free. Call 830-3276. Give your booty an aural checkup with Asheville, N.C.’s Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band, who play funk with Oakland, Calif.’s Antioquia at 9:30 PM at the Top Hat. $7. Locals YETI open. (See Noise in this issue.)
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Any and all baseball sluggers between the ages of 16–22 who are less than two years removed from competitive play are hereby invited to participate in the Arizona Diamondbacks tryout camp, which begins at 9:30 AM with registration, followed by drills at 10 AM, at Ogren Park Allegiance Field, 700 Cregg Lane. Free to tryout. Call 543-3300. 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 Shodown. Free. Call 543-4238 and visit missouladowntown.com. Shirk your responsibility for a few hours and enjoy a free matinee during the Missoula Public Library’s afternoon matinee, which this week is a TBA title which starts at 2 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK and visit missoulapubliclibrary.org for updates on movie titles.
nightlife Enjoy a local brew and support a local organization during the Kettlehouse Northside Tap Room’s Community U-NITE Pint Nights, which occur this and every Wed. from 5–8 PM at the tap room, 313 N. First St. W. Free to attend. A portion of proceeds from each pint sold goes to a different nonprofit organization each week. Visit kettlehouse.com. Celebrate everything local during WORD Inc./Ten Spoon Winery’s Second Annual Thank You Art and Wine Festival, which features art for sale by artists including Leslie Van Stavern Millar, Courtney Blazon and others, along with food vendors, wine and plenty more fun from 5–8 PM at Heritage Hall at Fort Missoula, Building T-2 on Fort Missoula Road. Free. Call Thea at 543-3550 Ext. 238. Do your part to help award winning documentary filmmaker Jan Selby tell the story of the Missoula peace sign during a fundraising party for 9 Pieces of Peace—her documentary on the subject—that features a showing of the movie trailer, food, wine, a live auction and raffle, as well as music from the Ethan Thompson Band and Rhanda Johnson, from 5–8 PM at the Ten Spoon Winery, 4175 Rattlesnake Drive. $10/$5 for those living lightly. Visit 9piecesfilm.com. Gnaw on some tasty grub and learn about staff changes and opportunities to participate with the Missoula Indian Center during the Missoula Indian Center Community Barbecue, which runs from 6–8:30 PM at McCormick Park. Free. Call Cherith at 829-9515. If you know the difference between His Knobs and His Knees, bring that skill to the Joker’s Wild Casino, 4829 N. Reserve St., where the Missoula Grass Roots Cribbage Club invites players both new and old to see how many ways they can get to that magical number 15 at 6:30 PM. Free. Call Rex at 360-3333. The Met 2010 Summer HD Encore Series at The Roxy concludes its summer run with a screening of Carmen, a tale about sex, violence and freedom, with a screening at 6:30 PM at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $12.50 plus fees, with tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and online at morrisproductions.org. Having fully bitched out Barnes & Noble, the Missoula Stitch ‘N’ Bitch needlework circle
brings the circle of warm fuzzies to the Good Food Store, where you can knit purls of wisdom every Wed. at 7 PM. Free. BYO yarn and needles, and check out missoulaknits.blogspot.com. Hump day isn’t just for binge drinking anymore. It’s also a day for playing games of chance with other like-minded booze lovers when Sean Kelly’s presents Hump Day Bingo, this and every Wed. at 8 PM. Free. Call 542-1471. Rock out with the tribe when the Alpine Theatre Project presents a performance of the rock musical Hair, at 8 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. $37/$30/$25 depending on seats/$18 students. Call 862-SHOW for tickets or visit alpinetheatreproject.org. The Missoula City Band toots it up with help from the Flathead Community Band and vocalist Alyssa Baty when they perform at Bonner Park, on the corner of Hastings and Ronald Avenues, at 8 PM. Free. Call 728-2400 Ext. 7041 and visit missoulacityband.org. He’s easy on your eyes, and your heart. 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. Enjoy the flow of it all with a musical in two movements when the Port Polson Players Summer Theatre presents a performance of That’s the Poop at 8 PM at the John Dowdall Theatre, on the Polson Golf Course, off Hwy. 93. $18/$17 students and seniors. Call 8839212 for reservations and visit portpolsonplayers.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: That sword is called the katana, and you’ve probably seen it in many films, most notably Kill Bill: Vol. 1. The tenets of women’s lib broadens to include cheap drinks and DJs spinning dance tracks when Feruqi’s hosts Ladies’ Night every Wed. at 9 PM. Free. Get a wicked case of “bowling finger” during Five Valley’s Bowl’s Wicked Wednesday, which features $2 bowling after 9 PM plus $2 cans of Bud Light this and every Wed. at the bowling center, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Free to attend. Call 549-4158. Be sure you’ve downed enough pitchers of PBR in order to have the courage to sing “Devil’s Haircut” by Beck (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. Don’t ever worry about getting into a sing-off during Combat Karaoke, which runs this and every Wed. at Deano’s Casino on North Reserve, 5550 N. Reserve St., starting at 9 PM. Free. Just don’t speak in acronyms during WTF Wednesdays at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, where $7 all you can drink Miller Lite draft beer mixes with music by Chereal and karaoke between sets this and every Wed. starting at 9 PM at the bar. Free. Includes other drink specials as well. It’s like happy hour for your legs when DJs Kris Moon and Jerry Abstract get dirty when they spin techno, tech-house, electro and other electronic music styles at 10 PM at the Top Hat. Cover TBA.
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The Treasure State Chorale wants to find out if you can sing it up as a member of their adult select mixed chorus during auditions for the group, which occur at a TBA time and place. Free. Call 396-3933 to set up an audition time and for more info. Thursday afternoon means its time for a moving picture with the kids, so get yourself to the Missoula Public Library’s Family Movies Thursdays, which screens a TBA movie this and every Thu. until July 29 at 2 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK. 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 and visit missoulawinery.com. Those in the Flathead can keep it fresh and keep it local during the Whitefish Farmers’ Market, which occurs this and every Thu. from 4–6 PM until Sept. 16 in the parking lot of the Pin and Cue, 6570 Hwy. 93 S. in Whitefish. Free. Get your fresh produce up near Glacier, if you choose, every Thu. from 4–8 PM, as the Columbia Falls Farmers’ Market overtakes Nucleus Ave. and offers live music from 5–7:30 PM.
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. Those in Kalispell get down in downtown during Thursday!Fest, which features food, a beer/wine garden, farmers’ market, arts/crafts, kids’ activities and music by Cocinando from 5–7:30 PM on Third St. East, between Main St. and First Ave. E. Free. Visit downtownkalispell.com. 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 Beyond the Pale starting at 5:30 PM at Caras Park. Free. Call 543-4238 and visit missouladowntown.com. 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. Bruce Threlkeld gives color to the palest of palefaces when he plays Americana and bluegrass at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. Birthparents can nurture camaraderie in a creative environment during the Life After Relinquishment Summer Workshop Series, which meets this and every Thu. at 6:30 PM until Aug. 5 at the Living Art of Montana office, 725 Alder St. #17. Donations accepted, but not expected. The workshops are designed to nurture healing through cre-
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Getting buzzed is always allowed: The Lucky Strike Bar, 1515 Dearborn Ave., presents Buzz Time Trivia, which starts at 7 PM this and every Thu. and features trivia plus specials on Jello shots and homemade pizzas. Free to attend. Call 549-4152. Jam out with a fine glass of wine and your best chops when Kevin Van Dort hosts the Musician’s Jam at the Missoula Winery, which runs this and every Thu. starting with sign-ups at 7 PM at the winery, 5646 W. Harrier. Free to spectate, and to sign up. Call 830-3296. A doctor finds himself in a delicate situation with his patient during Philipsburg’s Opera House Theatre production of The Girl in the Freudian Slip, with a performance at 7 PM at the theater, 140 S. Sansome St. $17/$9 children 12 and under. Call 859-0013 for tickets and visit operahousetheatre.com. Just be sure to use your inside voice when the Flathead Valley Community College (FVCC) Theatre presents the musical Shout!, with a performance at 7 PM at the Black Box Theatre, in the Arts and Technology Building on FVCC’s campus, 777 Mainview Drive in Kalispell. $10, with advance tickets at the FVCC Bookstore and online at fvcc.edu. Call 756-3814. 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.
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Rock out with the tribe when the Alpine Theatre Project presents a performance of the rock musical Hair, at 8 PM at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St. $37/$30/$25 depending on seats/$18 students. Call 862-SHOW for tickets or visit alpinetheatreproject.org. Enjoy the flow of it all with a musical in two movements when the Port Polson Players Summer Theatre presents a performance of That’s the Poop 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 portpolsonplayers.com. The Bigfork Summer Playhouse, 526 Electric Ave. in Bigfork, presents Fiddler on the Roof, 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. He plays by his own game: Compton, Calif.’s Game kicks haters to the sewer grate when the rapper plays the Wilma Theatre at 8 PM. $25, with tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and online at ticketfly.com. The Lynx and Ambedext open. Bowling and karaoke go together like jumper cables and cyberpunks during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. Sorry ladies, but Thu. nights belong to the dudes at Men’s Night at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where the testosterone-fueled karaoke begins at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969.
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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 K a l e i d o s c o p e Ka ra o k e e v e r y 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.
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WHO: The Portland Cello Project WHERE: The Top Hat WHEN: Sun., July 25, at 9 PM HOW MUCH: $10
It’s gettin’ hot in here, and Cabin Fever just wants you to keep your clothes on when they play the Sunrise Saloon, 1110 Strand Ave., at 9 PM. Free. Call 728-1559. Women celebrate their womanhood with cheap libations and a bit o’ karaoke with help from the band Party Trained during Ladies’ Night and Live Band Karaoke at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, this and every Thu. at 9:30 PM. Free to attend. Call 830-3277.
how impeccable these classically trained musicians are with their instruments. That said, the group doesn’t just cater to your average crowd of classical music buffs. The Portland Cello Project also covers songs by artists like Pantera, Led Zeppelin, Salt N’ Pepa and Britney Spears. And past performances with Rose City favorites like Mirah and The Dandy Warhols shows the group has found a nice little niche in the indie rock community to go along with its classical roots. —Ira Sather-Olson
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Women give a thumbs up to spirits during Ladies’ Night at the Silver Slipper Sports Bar and Grill, 4063 Hwy. 93 S., which features half-off drinks for women and occurs this and every Thu. starting at 9 PM at the bar. Free. Call 251-5402. Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and 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.
The weeping notes that spring forth from the cellos in The Portland Cello Project seem fitting for a postbreakup playlist, but I wouldn’t call the group’s music a downer. This Portland, Ore.based collective fluctuates between eight and 16 cellists and plays stirring arrangements of original compositions plus renditions of classical gems. Cuts like “Denmark” by Gideon Freudmann—off of their new album, Thousand Words, which came out this week— include sweeping, angelic melodies with notes that sometimes come across like guitar riffs. Another track, “Into the Twilight,” a movement from Portland musician Rachel Blumberg’s composition “The Dream,” features harmonies that mesh beautifully with one another, and show just
Belt out a few bars of somethin’ ridiculous at East Missoula’s Reno Casino and Cafe’s karaoke night, brought to you by Karaoke by Figmo, every Thu., Fri. and Sat. night at 9 PM. Free.
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Lyrical gaskets will be blown when Los Angeles underground hip-hoppers Medusa and Myka 9 play the Top Hat at 9:30 PM. $7. Locals Tonsofun, Shaymlusly Elliterate and Slopstar open. Nurture your nature-loving side with some moving pictures during the International Wildlife Film Festival’s Outdoor Movies program, which features screenings of award winning films from the 2010 festival from 9:30 PM–midnight at the Dunrovin Ranch, 5375 Terry Lane in Lolo. $15/$5 children. Families can also come at 6 PM with a picnic, and enjoy horseback riding and
games for $20 adults/$10 children. Call 728-9380. Dance with a cougar or two, or not, every Thu. at 10 PM when the James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., hosts The Social Club, featuring DJ Fleege spinning an expansive array of tech house and progressive electro dance tunes. Free. Cross your karaoke sword with others during Combat DJ and Karaoke nights, this and every Thu. at the Press Box, 835 E. Broadway St., at 10 PM. Free. 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.
It’s always fun to bust a move on the dance floor. If you agree, and you dig kickin’ your heels up to some sweet beats for a release, consider putting on some comfortable dancing shoes and heading to the Badlander Fri., July 23, to check out Portland, Ore.’s Let’s Go Outside. He’s a techno and house producer, and from what I’ve heard on his MySpace page, he’s got a knack for creating smooth grooves. He’s also signed to Soma Records, one of the most prominent electronic music labels in Europe (they put out Daft Punk’s earliest material). If that sounds enticing, by all means join me to dance the night away. Before you hit the floor though, give me the heads up on your upcoming dance parties and the like by sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., July 23 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. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”
Road bike junkies, get ready for your big fix. If you’re looking for an excuse to skip town and head east towards Georgetown Lake, I’ve got an endorphin-pumping treat in store for you this week. The Pintlar Classic state championship bicycling road race begins in Philipsburg on Sun., July 25, where you’ll pedal it up with other spandex-clad cyclists on the Pintler Scenic Loop and Skalkaho Road. It begins with check-in/registration at 8:30 AM at Philipsburg’s Town Park, with the races beginning at 10 AM. The 93-mile ride for men kicks off first, followed by a variety of other races for men, women and children that span 78 miles to 39 miles, depending on your ability. $30 day-of-registration/$25 advance/free for junior racers. Also note that you’ll need a USA Cycling annual license, or a one-day license, which can be purchased at the registration booth. Pre-registration also closes at 6 PM Fri., July 23. Visit montanacycling.net to download the event flyer and to register online, and call John at 543-6608. Of course, we’ve got more ground to pedal, so let’s reverse our spokes. On Thu., July 22, you can snag tips on how to best navigate the backcountry with your furry friend when REI Missoula presents the workshop “Backcountry Hiking and Camping with Your Dog,” which begins at 7 PM at the store, 3275 N. Reserve St. Ste. K-2. Free. Instructors with Montana Outdoor Experience and Canis Major Dog Training lead the class, which covers things like how to properly fit Fido’s pack, and what to do if they get injured or sick on the trail. RSVP by visiting rei.com/stores/72 and call 541-1936. Or give nature a tip of your hat and a pat on its mountainous back during the UM Wilderness Institute’s fourth trip to the Ten Lakes Wilderness Study Area in the Kootenai National Forest. This week’s trip takes you to Stahl Peak, and runs Thu., July 22–Sun., July 25. Expect to be mapping and monitoring non-medicinal weeds, as
well as taking part in campsite, road, trail and critter inventory. Oh yeah, the views are awesome too. Visit www.cfc.umt.edu/wi to signup or call 243-5361. You could also be the Lance Armstrong of mountain biking, at least for a day, during the Bohart Bash 2010, a mountain bike race on Sat., July 24, that consists of a series of five-mile laps, mostly on a single track, which kicks off for beginners at 9 AM at the Bohart Ranch, 16 miles north of Bozeman on Hwy. 86. Races for more seasoned bikers follow at 10:10 AM and noon. $35/$25 advance registration online at gascyclingteam.com. You’ll also be glad to know this race has a charitable intent: All race proceeds go to Bicycles for Humanity, an organization that donates used bikes to people in Africa. Later on Sat., July 24, chew the fat in more ways than one with
Interpretative Series with the program “Skull Moon,” which begins with a guided hike at 6:30 PM at the Upper Lake Como Campground, near Darby. Free. Wildlife expert Fred Weisbecker ends the night on a boney note with his 7:30 PM presentation on wildlife skulls, which covers things like how to ID the buggers. Call 363-7100 for specific directions. Pull on something noxious and slightly unsightly in order to better a local park on Tue., July 27, when the Northern Rockies Chapter of Wildlands Restoration Volunteers gets its restoration fix on with the Ben Hughes Weed Pull, which begins at a TBA meet up time at Ben Hughes Park, off of Easy Street, just before East Missoula. Free, with snacks and refreshments following the pull. Visit wlrv.net/nrockies to sign-up and find out the meet-up location, and email Graham at graham@wlrv.org with questions. Take a moment to chill on Thu., July 29, with movies about nature, in nature, when the International Wildlife Film Festival (IWFF) presents the program “Outdoor Movies,” which begins with activities like volleyball and swimming in the Bitterroot River, at 6 PM at the Dunrovin Ranch, 5375 Terry Lane in Lolo. As for the moving pictures, they include selections from the 2010 IWFF and start promptly at 9:30 PM. For those who want an extra shot of adventure that night, horseback riding lessons are also available for a fee. $15/$5 child for the movies and $20/$15 for the horseback riding lessons. Visit wildlifefilms.org and call 728-9380. Finishing up, I’ll leave you with the good word Photo by Chad Harder on something coming down the pipes. On Aug. 8–14, you can get your stewardship kicks with the your conservationist friends during the Western Montana Chapter Montana Wilderness Association during a trails project in the of the Mule Deer Foundation’s annual roundup/banquet, Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness. Here’s the 411: The jaunt takes which starts with family games from 2–6 PM at The Hole in the Wall place at the Boulder Creek Canyon Trail, on the base of Trapper Peak, Ranch, located 16 miles up Fish Creek near Alberton. A silent and live where you’ll work with eight to 10 people to keep trails and campsites auction, along with a buffet, kicks things into high gear at 6 PM. looking spiffy. The trip is expected to cost no more than $75, and $35/$20 for children, with camping and lodging available. Proceeds there’s a $50 deposit to reserve a space. Call Liz Johnson at 734-755from the banquet go to conserve mule deer, blacktail deer and their 8734 to RSVP, or e-mail her at bisondust@yahoo.com. habitats. Reserve your ticket by calling Chelsea at 721-7171. All right, now who’s up for a spandex party before that race? Look into a skull for answers on Mon., July 26, when the calendar@missoulanews.com Bitterroot National Forest continues its 2010 Moonwalk
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Not alone Suicide Victim finds its underground community has no borders by Erika Fredrickson
Suicide Victim isn’t exactly what you want to see as the title for a solo project. But local musician Josh Jacka never meant the one-man band he started two years ago to be a cry for help. He just needed a way to make music during a hiatus between playing with other bands. “I was bored and wasn’t playing with anyone,” says Jacka, who has played in Missoula bands such as Joey Buttafuoco and the Fuctones, Jack Top Town and Heiress Pilton “I wanted to keep mentally and physically active, so I started this project. I played all the instruments, though I’m not that good of a drummer anymore.” With only a MySpace page and two instrumental songs posted for public consumption, Suicide Victim might have stayed in complete, local obscurity if it wasn’t for a couple of bands—some on the other side of the Atlantic—who took an interest in Jacka’s fusion of ska and hardcore. In spring 2009, Jacka got a message from a French ska band called Beng Beng Cocktail that wanted to record a
Ghetto Blaster out of Toronto joined forces to record vocals on “Song 2,” which became a song called “Your Victim.” “I don’t know how all this happened,” Jacka says. “It’s a little overwhelming. These are all bands that I really enjoy listening to, and they were messaging me and asking to sing on my songs. It started to feel like a trend—and I liked it.” In fall 2009, Jacka plucked himself from his solitary realm and began playing in a full-fledged band again. At first the group called itself This Band Kills Fascists, but eventually Suicide Victim resurfaced as a solid name. “A lot of promoters in town—I’m not going to say any names—said they wouldn’t put us on the bill because This Band Kills Fascists was over the top,” laughs drummer Bryan Gardner. “It kind of surprises me because Suicide Victim is out there too.” Besides Gardner on drums and Jacka on guitar, the band includes bassist Reggie Herbert and lead singer and
Local band Suicide Victim has gotten attention on their MySpace page from overseas skacore bands interested in recording with them. “These are all bands that I really enjoy listening to,” says guitarist Josh Jacka, “and they were messaging me and asking to sing on my songs. It started to feel like a trend—and I liked it.”
vocal track on one of his instrumental songs originally called “Song 1.” Jacka agreed and the band wrote lyrics for it, renaming the track “Waves of Death.” The lyrics riff on predictable punk themes like climate change, disease and religious strife, but the song ended up being a little different from what you might get from your average North American socio-political ska punk anthem. For one thing, Beng Beng Cocktail’s lyrics are delivered in French-accented gang vocals. For another, the song is overflowing with strange, lost-in-translationg lines like, “We are all on the same wave; the wave of death, covering our belongings by the blood of the raped-infancy silliness.” A few months after Jacka put “Waves of Death” on his MySpace page, two other ska bands from Canada contacted him about recording on his other MySpace track. Ska musicians Chris Hardcore from Charlotte Swallows in Newmarket, Ontario, and “Crowley” from the band
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lowing in Europe and Canada of what’s called “crack rock steady”—a combination of hardcore, rocksteady and ska— that Suicide Victim fits into well. “Hopefully next summer we can tour Europe,” says Gardner. “Honestly, we might do a lot better over there, have a bigger following. I’ve never been in another band that’s picked up so much publicity in other countries, so it’s crazy. We get random comments from a fan that says, ‘I can’t wait for your CD to come out.’” Still, Suicide Victim is looking for some domestic support. The band has a couple of local shows booked in the next few months. The most recent will be at the upcoming two-day festival Static Fest, put on by local musician David Johnson of Bridgebuilder. The event takes place at the 44 Bar in Ravalli and features 26 noise, metal and punk bands, most from western Montana. In the meantime, the band is about to release its debut album, tentatively titled All We Want Is for You to Die, which will feature a few of their overseas collabora-
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guitarist Ryan Bilunka, who also writes the band’s lyrics. The band has played only one show so far under the name Suicide Victim, but that hasn’t stopped them from continuing to gain a small following overseas and in Canada, despite never touring in either place. So far, they’ve been on two different skacore compilations: Fuck Yourself World Wide Vol. 1, from Unknown Records out of Ontario, and Silence Equals Crisis, from Riot Ska Records out of Bristol. It’s had more requests for collaboration, too, including from a band called The Infested out of Leeds, England, who wants to back them up on a newer song titled, “Til the Bleeding Stops Up.” Recently, a couple of ska fans, also from Leeds, posted themselves on the band’s MySpace page sporting unofficial band T-shirts with Suicide Victim silk-screened on them in bright red. Jacka says the cross-country attention they’re getting is partly due to the fact there’s a strong underground fol-
tors. The band is also set to release a 7-inch split record with Army of Ants from the U.K. and another record with a German band called No Choice Left. No Choice Left is one of the band’s personal favorites, says Jacka. While finding a Montana following is certainly a goal, he says working on a cross-cultural level will always be one of the band’s favorite things to do, even if it sometimes makes them feel a little isolated from the local scene. “We’re really excited to keep working with those bands,” says Jacka. “Even if it is all the way across the world.” Suicide Victim plays Static Fest at the 44 Bar in Ravalli Saturday, July 24, and Sunday, July 25. Check staticfest.blogspot.com for schedule details. efredrickson@missoulanews.com
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And I Was Like, What? We Have Nothing self-released
Portland, Ore.-based And I Was Like, What? has selected an appropriate name as a band preoccupied with 20-something confusion. We Have Nothing is a tribute to the trials of the young and the aimless, whether it be awakening from a whiskey coma missing your pants, learning that your girlfriend has run off with a traveling banjo player or realizing that you’ve spent the last four years of your life working at a Dairy Queen. What?’s indie pop sound serves as a solid thematic accompaniment. Breezy, bouncy guitar-driven songs are supported by welcomed jabs and yowls on violin. Instrumental tracks complement the seven-song collection and provide some of the most engaging material.
Tonight We Ride In Hell self-release
Dustin Campbell has the kind of crisp, emotive pipes that could front any heavy commercial pop band currently plaguing the Internet. Fortunately, the frontman for Helenabased Tonight We Ride doesn’t possess the kind of vapid vanity those bands usually do. Instead, Campbell puts his talent to good use: spinning seriously pretty vocals into rough-edged anthems and country-tinged punk ditties.
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My piano ate the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle self-released
Dance or jam bands that take a break from carefree anthems for a token socially conscious song can appear hilariously insincere. Antioquia is different. Its sound is certainly crafted to keep the crowd groovin’, but from track one to the end of My piano ate the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle, these Bayarea psychedelics are determined to shoulder the world’s woes. Good thing Antioquia’s music is global enough for the feat. Picture psychedelic funk guitar riffs and basslines masticating Afro-Colombian and island percussion, and you either have exactly the right idea or a wildly unnecessary mental image. Frontwoman Mana
Black Tusk Taste the Sin Relapse
How much hell can swamp-metal powerhouse Black Tusk bring to this earth? Enough to make you think an AC-130 gunship firing 4,000 rounds of depleted uranium per minute was knocking on your front door. As any Afghani will tell you, that is a mess of hell. On Taste the Sin the trio’s sound is a mash-up of sludge and post-hardcore thrashiness, resulting in heavy, precise and energetic tunes.
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Clocking in at 26 minutes, the collection of songs is beefier than your average EP but a quick study for a fulllength album. After some unremarkable openers, the album picks up speed with its first instrumental and ends strong with a seven-and-a-half minute opus that only feels slightly overweight. Ironically, the jewel of the album ultimately detracts from the overall experience; each element in the song “F#” fuses together into a something so catchy and effective that it leaves everything else in the dust. (Cameron Rasmusson) And I Was Like, What? plays Higgins Hall Thursday, July 22, at 7:30 PM with Tyson Ballew, Have A Nice Coma and The Lion The Tamer. $5. In Hell is amazingly tight. The title track begins with Western riffs perfect for intro credits to Quentin Tarantino pulp, before flying off into R&B-styled punk. “Other Side of the Wall (part 2)” is a fantastically sassy song and if I didn’t know better I’d think it was straight off a Shooter Jennings album. But it’s even more badass than that: Stray Cats’ screams and devilish surf solos fire it up a notch from Jennings’ restrained coolness. I want to dislike the sea of “whoa whoas” and endless drawn-out vocal affect (“al-o-o-one,” instead of just “alone,” for instance), but the Mexican cantina bass and playful confidence of the trio’s diverse tracks keep me on board no matter how melodramatic the ride gets. Unlike commercial bands that give you edginess then head home to their fancy mansions, this group’s sentiment seems as authentic as it gets. (Erika Fredrickson) Maddy Streicek capably shifts her vocal styling throughout the album but is at her best when she veers toward calypso. There’s a big Caribbean voice inside that tiny white Canadian. To its credit, the band manages to harmonize danceable rhythms with socially charged words. Although the lyrical laundry list of human injustices doesn’t grant many fresh insights, Antioquia apparently lives its message through the Post Peak Oil Rock Project, an ambitious undertaking to eliminate the band’s dependence on fossil fuel. That kind of initiative solidifies Antioquia’s sincerity beyond reproach. (Cameron Rasmusson) Antioquia plays the Top Hat Tuesday, July 27 at 9:30 PM with YETI and opening for Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band. $7. Guitarist Andrew Fidler’s shriek is reminiscent of Slayer’s Tom Araya while bassist Jonathan Athon’s vocals are throatier, but not Cookie Monster growls. The vocal trade-off makes for bruising sonic contrasts. Drummer James May joins in as well on “Red Eyes, Black Skies,” and the band never sounds better. Whipquick time changes, a plodding breakdown and fat guitar hooks mark this tune a 10 on the “Let’s Punch Something” scale of punching. Overall the album is a nine, meaning I really want to punch a giraffe in the face. “Unleash the Wrath” includes a positively rank bass breakdown, and in “Embrace the Madness,” Athon shouts that he wants to “rip your face off.” Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Like the AC-130, this album is slow and heavy, but packed to the rafters with firepower. All killer, no filler. (Jason McMackin)
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King of the hill D’Agata pushes nonfiction’s boundaries by Michael Peck
In his second book, John D’Agata has shown him- modern advertising, the fear and trembling inherent in self to be a razor-sharp deconstructionist of society’s all the great works of art, and the ultimate astrobiologfoibles, fables and complexities. Author of the much ical fate of the universe. At the conclusion of this 10lauded collection of essays, Halls of Fame, and aggres- page denial of our future, D’Agata gets at the nucleus of sive editor of two essay compilations, he turns in his his investigations: “I do not think that Yucca Mountain is a solution or latest to Yucca Mountain, an arid landscape 100 miles northwest of downtown Las Vegas, and its implica- a problem. I think that what I believe is that the mountions—both correlated and imagined—that it had on tain is where we are, it’s what we now have come to— the region and on the world. From the first page he a place that we have studied more thoroughly at this point than any other parcel of manages to dust off our land in the world—and yet still notions of the essay, the culit remains unknown, revealing tural history and the traveonly the fragility of our capacilogue. It’s all very disorienting, ty to know.” and somehow extraordinarily About a Mountain is dispertinent. tinctly ahistorical as nonficAbout a Mountain starts tion, while overly historical on a personal note and wends for a classic essay. Its humor is its way to cover the universe. buried in noncommittal narraWhile helping his mother relotion—as dry and inhuman as cate to a Las Vegas developthe region it explores. D’Agata ment, D’Agata begins investicreates a disruptive, unemogating the proposed nuclear tional mood, imbues it with waste depository at Yucca real or artificial meaning, then Mountain (approved by fades out and into another fasCongress in 2002, rescinded in cinating whim. It is one cir2009). Soon, he discovers that cuitous digression after anothcontradictions about the site er, as though the author is takare ubiquitous. D’Agata ing every passing thought recounts, in tragicomic dead- About a Mountain remotely connected to Yucca pan, that neither the National John D’Agata and attempting to statistically Economic Council nor the Hardcover, W.W. Norton & Co. prove why each is important Department of Energy can 236 pages, 23.95 while still remaining unconagree on anything from the cost of the project to hypothetical routes the ship- vinced. No answers are given, few questions beforements would take. From there, the absurdities multi- hand asked. One considerable disadvantage is his tenply and the author dutifully follows them all. dency to make the obvious into something impenetraStylistically wedged somewhere between the nerdy ble in order to instill much of his material with nontravel episodes of Sarah Vowell and the incisive com- existent significance. D’Agata is a master of juxtaposing curiously ironic pulsions of Chuck Palahniuk, D’Agata immerses himself in the looping knots of his story, from the vagaries statistics with the deeply miserable. About a Mountain of casino architecture and the dark politics of Vegas, is a virtuosic display that, like many postmodern to the Thematic Apperception Test and the Vegas sui- attempts, only occasionally relegates itself to inanity. cide rate (researchers claim that merely visiting the Starting early in his career D’Agata has injected prose city increases the chances of having suicidal inclina- poetry into lackluster topics, going far beyond simply tions). From a study of the nightmarish designs illuminating his subjects to a disassembling of the craft intended for Yucca, D’Agata focuses his considerable of writing itself. He is more technician than writer, and dexterity on “nuclear semiotics,” the highly subjective his book is high-end collage rather than lyrical essay. theory of figuring out which words, colors and images Sometimes the artistic drive hinders the facts, as in to use to deter the curious of the future from disturb- D’Agata’s statement that the 16-year-old boy’s suicide coincided with the final Senate vote on Yucca, only to ing nuclear waste sites. Not once in About a Mountain does the author add a disclaimer that he embellished the dates of the attempt anything as conventional as a narrative, or for two events for reasons of continuity. But at its best, About a Mountain is not really that matter, anything resembling a formulaic chronology: His story could have occurred over the course of a about a mountain. Mostly, it is about the form of the week or several years. Often archaic and misleading, it essay as though its subjects were set to random on an is never boring or incomprehensible. With chapters iTunes playlist; poetry charged with a slightly frightenjournalistically titled “Who,” “What,” “When,” “Where,” ing dud of dynamite. Everyone to whom I’ve summa“Why” and “How,” D’Agata gives an account of his time rized the book responds, “That sounds like a great volunteering with the Las Vegas Suicide Prevention novel,” and it says something essential about D’Agata’s Center (after which he becomes obsessed with the sui- method that when I tell them it is a nonfictional essay, cide of 16-year-old Levi Presley), the biological necessi- they still insist that it sounds like a great novel. ty and approaching extinction of screaming, the frightening diary entries of Edvard Munch, “The Scream” in arts@missoulanews.com
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Mega Mel-tdown Gibson’s big screen roles foretold the crazy by Skylar Browning
Mel Gibson’s career pretty much ended last week, right about the time two different recorded phone conversations surfaced and revealed the Aussie movie star to be a spectacularly foul-mouthed underwear skid mark of a man. On the recordings, Gibson’s heard huffing and puffing his way through expletive laced tirades that tear apart Oksana Grigorieva, the mother of his 8month-old daughter. He calls her lots of awful names, tells her to colorfully get lost, compares her to a dog in heat and at one point suggests she die. Let’s just say, overall, it’s not exactly on par with his role in What Women Want. To honor Gibson’s so-called “Mel-tdown”—and to avoid at all costs a review of Nicolas Cage in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice—we look back at this award-winning actor’s career paired with some of his recently recorded quotes. Mad Max (1979)
Reportedly shot in 12 weeks with a budget of $350,000, George Miller’s Aussie cult classic spawned two more big-budget thrillers set in a violent, barren, gang-filled future. The action focuses on the search for gasoline—roaming marauders drive tricked out big rigs and hot rods—and Gibson acts as one of the few honorable sheriffs among the hordes. Between Mad Max and 1981’s Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, more cars are wrecked and people killed than lines spoken. Yet Gibson’s work as a noble loner in such a brutal world may be his best. Corresponding “Mel-tdown” quote: “My soul is screaming because you don’t have one to join mine. You have no fucking soul.” Lethal Weapon (1987)
The beginning of the megafranchise that launched Gibson to superstardom featured him as Sgt. Riggs, a renegade cop with really big hair. Like, really big, Debbie Gibson hair. Audiences largely found the chiseled heartthrob to be endearingly quirky and rambunctiously brave despite a relentless twitchiness deserving of strong medication. Sage partner Danny “I’m too old for this shit” Glover played the straight man. The last scene of the original film never held water for me, even when I first saw it 23 years ago. After a prolonged chase throughout most of Southern California, Gibson engages in fisticuffs with bad guy Gary Busey on the front lawn of Glover’s house with the entire Los Angeles Police Department looking on. Forget the highspeed crashes and Gibson’s neat dislocating shoulder trick—this WWE-style battle seemed like unnecessary theatrics, especially with L.A.’s finest as spectators. Corresponding “Mel-tdown” quote: “I don’t involve the police in anything because I stand up for myself.” Conspiracy Theory (1997)
Gibson plays a slightly less endearing, much less loveable, ever more twitchy believer of multiple cover-
ups, from government plots to alien abductions. Through the magic of moviemaking, one of his theories comes up aces—and lands him in the lap of Justice Department employee Julia Roberts. Gibson actually works wonders here as an otherwise harmless gnat filled with outlandish beliefs and intense paranoia, but the overall movie conspires against him. Corresponding “Mel-tdown” quote: “I’m telling you, I’m just telling you the truth. I don’t like it. I don’t want that woman. I don’t want you. I don’t believe you anymore. I don’t trust you.” Braveheart (1995)
This Scottish epic holds a special place in my heart only because I first saw it in Scotland, on VHS, with a crowd of mostly drunk Scots. The crowd’s pure hatred for the English, combined with Gibson’s gung-ho, face-painted portrayal of William Wallace, created as visceral a movie-watching experience as I’ve ever experienced. Historical accuracy? Pshaw. Nobody’s channeled revenge like Gibson’s Wallace since, well, Gibson’s phone calls last week. Corresponding “Mel-tdown” quote: “You insult me with every look, every breath, every heartbeat.” What Women Want (2000)
A slimy ad executive and single father, Gibson, in a Freaky Friday-like twist, receives the power to read women’s minds. He uses this power to seduce the wonderful Helen Hunt, torment his teenage daughter and creepily freak out unsuspecting secretaries. Corresponding “Mel-tdown” quote: “So you’re not lying to me about fake tits?” Signs (2002)
Like most M. Night Shyamalan movies, Signs fizzles at the end. Like most serious Gibson roles, his turn as a scarred small-town reverend facing an alien invasion falls flat. That said, I’ve always thought one thing may have saved Signs: Leaving the physical aliens to the viewer’s imagination rather than rendering them as clichéd CGI monsters. Corresponding “Mel-tdown” quote: “And that green thing today was enough. That’s provocative, okay?” Edge of Darkness (2010)
Did you see this? Didn’t think so. Corresponding “Mel-tdown” quote: “The career is over!” sbrowning@missoulanews.com
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ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS Your favorite animated rodents make their silver screen debut as singers trying to eke out a living with the help of struggling songwriter Jason Lee. Along the way, the squirrels learn from record exec David Cross that deception comes easily with fame. Carmike 10: 10 AM only on Tue.
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DESPICABLE ME Funny guys Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Will Arnett and Ken Jeong (he’s the naked dude from the trunk in The Hangover) lend their voices to this animated 3-D comedy about an evildoer’s plan to steal the moon. Carmike 10: 1:10, 4:15, 7 and 9:30 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Village 6 in 2-D: 1, 4, 7:30 and 9:45 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.
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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 no shows Sat. and Thu., and a Sun. matinee at 1. PREDATORS First there was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Predator in 1987. Then there was Predator 2 (1990), Alien vs. Predator (2004) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007). Now, unlikely action heroes Topher Grace and Adrien Brody star in the franchise’s latest offering. Carmike 10: 7 and 9:30, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:20, 4:05, 6:50 and 9:40 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. SESAME WORKSHOP: SUMMER BEACH PARTY It’s time to party it up on the beach—with Sesame Street’s Workshop and PBS Kids—in this animated movie that features appearances by Elmo, Pinky Dinky Doo and a guitar strumming dude named SteveSongs. Village 6: 1 only Sat.-Sun. THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE Nicolas Cage lets his hair down, literally, as a contemporary wizard in the Big Apple who handpicks nasal-voiced college dude Jay Baruchel so he can teach him how to kick enemies to the curb with phantasmagorical weapons like plasma bolts. Carmike 10: 1:30, 4:15, 7 and 9:45, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at 12:10 AM. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10, with an additional Sat.–Sun. and Wed. show at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 12:35, 3:15, 4:20, 6:50, 9:15 and 9:45 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:20, with an additional Fri.-Sun. show at 1:30. TOY STORY 3 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, this team of toys finds another set of adorers at a daycare. Carmike 10: 2:25, 4:50, 7:15 and 9:40, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Village 6 in 2-D: 1:30, 4:10, 7 and 9:20, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:25, 4:10, 6:55 and 9:40 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.
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SALT Just a few weeks after the U.S. government captured a real-life crew of clandestine Cold War-style Russian spies, Angelina Jolie conveniently stars in this big budget thriller as a CIA operative accused of being a Cold War-style Russian spy. Carmike 10: 2:25, 4:50, 7:15 and 9:40 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at 12:05 AM. Village 6: noon, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15 and 9:40 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at 12:05 AM. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9, with an additional Sat.–Sun. and Wed. show at 3 and no Sun. show at 9. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: noon, 1:30, 2:30, 4, 5, 6:30, 7:30, 9 and 10, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 7 and 9, with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:15. Entertainer in Ronan: 4, 7 and 9.
GROWN UPS Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade and others are old chums from grade school who 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: 1:35, 4:05, 7 and 9:30 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with an additional Sat.–Sun. and Wed. show at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:10, 3:40, 6:40 and 9 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.
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HARRY BROWN Michael Caine proves that old coots shouldn’t be messed with after a group of British thugs kills one
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Fri.–Sun. shows at 1:15. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4, 6:50 and 9:30. 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, all in the name of avoiding federal party poopers like Peter Sarsgaard. Village 6: 1, 4, 7 and 9:45, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at 12:10 AM. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:40 and 7:10, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. THE LAST AIRBENDER Monkish-looking youngster Noah Ringer utilizes his power to kick ass, take names and turn water into ice—due to an insane ability to control all four elements—in order to be the peacemaker in a world where one country, known as Fire, plays the neighborhood bully to the nations of Air, Water and Earth. Oh yeah, this is all in 3-D, too. Carmike 10: 1:45 and 4:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:35, 4:15, 7:05 and 9:35, with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.
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: 1:30, 4:20, 7:10 and 10. Village 6: 4:20, 7:10 and 10 with an additional Fri. and Mon.–Thu. show at 1:30. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10 with an additional Sat.–Sun. and Wed. show at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1, 3:50, 6:45 and 9:30 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Capsule reviews by Skylar Browning and Ira Sather-Olson. Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., July 23. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 10/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-F I LM; S t a d i u m 14 i n K a l i s p e l l – 752 - 78 0 4 . Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.
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THE WOMAN WHO MISTOOK HER SINKHOLE FOR A BOYFRIEND
Even an emotionally together person can feel a little pang when their partner’s going away for a time–like, to Europe for a week, not to Rite-Aid for a box of tampons. Other women betray their partners by having illicit sex. You only have to have illicit lunch (eat a burger with somebody who isn’t him). Grab a little alone time, and it’s like you’re slutting around on him—with yourself. For him and his unresolved issues, every day is the first day of nursery school: “Mommeeee, don’t leave meee!” On the plus side, he’s probably pottytrained to the point where he wears boxers instead of Huggies Pull-Ups. You might end up giving birth to a clingy child, but you sure shouldn’t marry one. In a healthy relationship, two fully functioning adults come together; they aren’t bolted together. They stay together because they love each other—meaning they respect and admire each other, have more fun together, and are better together than alone. What you have isn’t love, but a guy dressing up pathological need in a love suit and manipulating you with cuddly-wuddly coerciveness: “Just stay and snuggle—or I’ll pout till the end of time.” You’ve got a choice: live with constant conflict or avoid seeing your family and friends—or doing anything that’ll trigger his abandonment issues, like going to the mailbox or the ladies’ room. Hang with crazy long enough, and it can start to seem normal—to the point
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Good thing you’re not on the parole board. You’d only need to hear a guy talk like a motivational poster—“Good is its own reward!” “Tomorrow is a brand new day!”—and you’d campaign for the release of some serial killer who kept all his dates in jars in his basement. Of course you want to believe your girlfriend’s “One day the world will be ours!” but she has yet to show herself to be ethical, and it’s wildly unlikely she’ll become ethical now. What alternatives do you have besides ending it? Well, you could stick around and be lied to, cheated on and placated with aphorisms: “Our love is here to stay!” (As long as you don’t call or come by after 10.) “Our love is like a rose!” Well, okay, we’ll give her that one–in that it has something in common with getting stuck with a thorn, coming down with necrotizing fasciitis, and losing an arm.
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I’m thinking of postponing my wedding. My fiance seems incapable of being apart from me. We dated long distance, so I didn’t realize the extent of his clinginess until we moved in together. If I want some “me time,” he gets offended. If I don’t stand or sit next to him or cuddle with him, he claims I don’t like him. If I eat lunch with a friend instead of him (as I do daily), he’s upset. Even when we spend time with my family, there are repercussions (moping and drama when we get home). I do try to take his upbringing into consideration. His parents divorced when he was 9, and neither wants much to do with him or his brother. Initially, I found his behavior sweet…as in, “How cute that my fiance wants to come with me to the grocery store or to buy shoes,” but now I’m thinking, “Hey, Crazy, calm down, I’ll see you tonight, and I can go to the store without you.” –Smothered
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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL ! BARTENDING ! $300-Day potential, no experience necessary, training provided. 1-800-965-6520 ext. 278 Customer Service Represen-tative Mountain Line is accepting applications from qualified individuals to fill a customer service representative position. Minimum qualifications for this position are experience in customer relations, computer skills, general office procedures and familiarity with Missoula. Salary DOE. Mountain Line is an Equal Opportunity Employer with excellent wages and benefits. Applications are available at the Mountain Office , 1221 Shakespeare, Monday – Friday from 7 am to 4 pm. Applications accepted until position filled. FORESTRY WORKERS to work at the state nursery. Duties include lifting and grading bare root seedlings, thinning containerized seedlings, packing seedling orders, weeding seedling beds, making cuttings for propagation, cone processing, moving irrigation pipe, inventory of nursery stock, collecting seed and fruit for seedling propagation, sowing containerized seedlings, performing shelter belt maintenance, and other duties as assigned. No direct experience required, but 3 months experience in nursery, horticulture, farm, ranch or other outdoor work preferred. This is a seasonal, short-term position. Rate of pay is $9.00/hour. #2978004 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 GREAT CAREER OPPORTUNITY in Montana’s service of first choice. Earn more with the skills you have. Learn more of the skills you need. In the Montana Army National Guard, you will build the skills you need for a civilian career, while developing the leadership skills you need to take your career to the next level. Benefits: $50,000 Loan Repayment Program. Montgomery GI Bill. Up to 100% tuition assistance for college. Medical & dental benefits. Starting at $13.00/hr. Paid job skill training. Call 1-800-GOGUARD. NATIONAL GUARD Part-time job...Full-time benefits PET FOOD SALES. Do you love pets? Are you outgoing and dependable? The Nutro Company is now hiring pet lovers to promote Nutro Pet Food at local pet retailers. Positions are part-time on the weekends. This position is ideal for students or full-time employees seeking supplemental income. You may apply on-line at www.nutroproducts. com/demo.html #9946791 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 QUALITY CONTROL SPECIALIST. Confidential company is looking for QUALITY CONTROL SPECIALIST to start working ASAP! Excellent hand-eye coordination, detail oriented, and able to sit for long periods of time. Must be a team player with manufacturing or production experience, the ability to meet deadlines, check finished manufactured products proper to shipping out, and advise super-
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Revenge fantasies would pollute your consciousness. I advise you to repress them. Wallowing in resentment would have an equally deleterious effect. Don’t you dare give that emotion a foothold. On the other hand, fantasies of experiencing pleasure and joy, even if they’re escapist illusions, will tonify and invigorate your awareness. I recommend that you indulge in them at great length, unleashing your imagination to explore a variety of blissful scenarios in tremendous detail and with ingenious flourishes. In fact, as your part-time soul doctor, I can’t think of anything else that would be more beneficial to your physical and mental health. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If there were such a thing as the Queen of Heaven—a living Goddess whose presence both calmed and excited you, a numinous female magician who lit up your longing to see life as it really is—and if this Queen of Heaven came to be with you right now, what would you say? Would you ask her to help you, and if so, how? Would you seek an answer to the most important question in your life? Would you spill every secret and tell every story you’ve ever wanted to share, and trust that she’d be able to see the totality of who you really are? I advise you to do this imaginative exercise sometime soon. The time has come for you to receive a blessing from the highest expression of feminine power. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): What’s up with your best friends? I mean, what’s really going on for them in the big scheme of things? According to my astrological intuition, at least one of your good buddies is at a turning point in his or her long-range cycle, and could really use the deep reflection and catalytic help that you might provide. Try this exercise: Put aside all your ideas about who your close allies are, and simply try to see the world as if looking out of their eyes. After you’ve done that, imagine how you could offer yourself to them as a brain-booster and heart-strengthener; brainstorm about how you might blend your life force with theirs so as to empower them to see further than they can by themselves.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): In my astrological opinion, you should pay special attention to whatever’s embryonic in your life. You should rouse the smartest part of your capacity for love and direct it with high-beam intensity toward burgeoning possibilities that have recently germinated. There may come a time later in the process when you’ll need to impose discipline and order on your growing things, but that’s not what’s called for now. Be extravagant in your nurturing. Don’t scrimp on generosity and beneficence. Have fun overflowing with profusions of life-giving care.
EMPLOYMENT TRANSIT GENERAL MANAGER MISSOULA, MT Missoula Urban Transportation District (Mountain Line) is extending its search for a highly motivated individual qualified to manage a public transit system (fixed route and paratransit) with a $4 million budget, 53 employees and 30 vehicles. Qualifications include excellent communication skills, strong customer service orientation, experience in grant and contract management, transit funding mechanism knowledge, ability to work effectively in the community and experience in human resource management. Bachelors degree, 5 years progressively responsible management experience. Salary range $65,000 to $85,000, DOE, plus benefits. Application materials must be received by 5 pm, August 9, 2010. For materials on position, contact Laurie Belcher, Mountain Line, 1221 Shakespeare, Missoula, MT 59802, 406-5438386. Pre-employment testing and background check is required. Mountain Line is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to Hawaiian mythology, the soul leaves the body during the night to seek the adventures known as dreams. The place of departure and re-entry is the “soul pit” (lua’uhane), which is located in the tear duct of the eye. During the next few nights, I’d love for you to send your soul flying out though your soul pit for some daring exploits that will revitalize your lust for life. Take your backlog of stored-up tears along with you, and pour them down like rain on the secret garden you’ve been neglecting. The garden will respond to the downpour with a big growth spurt.
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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A woman I know was invited to a party where she would get the chance to meet her favorite musician, psychedelic folk artist Devendra Banhart. On her last look in the mirror before heading out the door, she decided that the small pimple on her chin was unacceptable, and gave it a squeeze. Wrong move. After it popped, it looked worse. She panicked. More squeezing ensued, accompanied by moaning and howling. Soon the tiny blemish had evolved into a major conflagration. Fifteen minutes later, defeated and in tears, she was nibbling chocolate in bed, unable to bring herself to face her hero with her flagrant new wound showing. The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned: Leave your tiny blemish alone.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the upcoming science fiction movie The Adjustment Bureau, Matt Damon plays a politician with big ambitions. Everything’s going his way until he falls in love with a dancer. Then the representatives of a mysterious group intervene in his life, warning him that he’ll never achieve his dreams if he stays with her. “We are the people who make sure things happen according to plan,” they say. “We monitor the entire world.” I’m happy to inform you, Libra, that this scenario is utterly make-believe. There is no “Adjustment Bureau,” on earth or in heaven. It is true, however, that if you don’t have a master plan, then your destiny is more likely to be shaped by your conditioning and by other people’s master plans. So get working! This is an excellent time to either formulate a master plan or refine the one you have.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The United States is the planet’s major player in terms of political, economic and military clout. China is rising fast as a competitor in those three arenas, but lags far behind in a fourth: “soft power,” or cultural influence. The rest of the world finds America’s style, entertainment, art and ideas far more attractive than China’s. As you enter a phase that will be favorable for enhancing your own leverage and authority, Scorpio, I suggest you put the emphasis on wielding “soft power.” You’ll accomplish more by charming people with your intelligence than by trying to push them or manipulate them.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I think it would be healthy for you to wander out to a frontier and explore a boundary. You might even want to re-examine a taboo you haven’t questioned in a while and tinker with a formula you thought you’d never change. I suspect that you would also learn a lot from gently pushing against a limit you’ve come to believe is permanent. Having said all that, I’m cautious about advising you to go further. If you get urges to actually transgress the boundary and break the taboo and smash through the limit, please do lots of due diligence. Know exactly what you’re getting into and what the consequences might be.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When mobs stage political demonstrations in Pakistan’s biggest cities, they make sure that some of their signs are written in English. That way their protests are more likely to be filmed by news media like CNN and shown to American audiences. Take a cue from that trick as you plan your actions, Capricorn. It won’t be enough merely to say what you want to say and be who you want to be; you should tailor your messages to people who have the power to actually change what needs to be changed. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’m putting out a call to the rebel in your heart–not the cranky, vindictive rebel in your mind, but the joyful, yearning rebel in your heart. I am asking this tender renegade to rise up against narcissistic behavior wherever you find it. Don’t shout it down or try to shame it, though; rather, work around it through outrageous displays of empathy and radical acts of compassion and feisty outbreaks of wild kindness. Your job, according to my analysis of the astrological omens, is to be a one-person wrecking crew devoted to smashing the boring inertia of egotism with your zealous concern for the good of all.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): As the economic recovery lags, many frustrated job-seekers have decided to stop waiting around to be saved; they’re taking matters into their own hands. As a result, entrepreneurship is thriving. I suggest you catch that spirit. In fact, I advocate a mass entrepreneurial uprising among Pisceans in the coming months. Even if you’re already employed, it’ll be prime time for you to create your own perfect gig, carve out your own special niche, or dream up a role that is designed for your unique talents. Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.
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PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF MISSOULA CITY OF MISSOULA PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTMENT REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS FOR CALIFORNIA STREET BRIDGE REPAIR DESIGN/BUILD PROJECT, City of Missoula, Montana City Project No. PR 10–8 CSB NOTICE TO BRIDGE DESIGN AND REPAIR PROFESSIONALS: Notice is hereby given that the City of Missoula Parks and Recreation, an Equal Opportunity government, will receive written Qualifications for Design/Build Services for, inspection, design and repair construction of California Street Bridge in Missoula, Montana. SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Written proposal shall be submitted to the City Clerk’s Offices at 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana 59802 on or before 3:00 p.m., local time the day of July 29, 2010. Envelopes shall be clearly marked “Project 10-8 CSB RFQ; Response to RFQ for CALIFORNIA STREET BRIDGE REPAIR DESIGN/BUILD PROJECT; Attn: Marty Rehbein, CMC, City Clerk”. Questions regarding the project should be directed to Alan White by calling (406) 552-6261 or emailing awhite@ci.missoula.mt.us . Copies of the detailed Request for Qualifications (RFQ) can be obtained via the Parks & Recreation website at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/parksrec or by contacting Alan White, Parks and Recreation, 100 Hickory Street, Missoula, Montana 59801. CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of Missoula, Montana will meet Monday, August 2, 2010, at 7:00 o’clock p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine Street, Missoula, Montana, to hear public comment on a resolution levying annual assessments for Street Maintenance District #1 which is generally located in the downtown area. A copy of the resolution is on file and available for public inspection in the City Clerk office. For further information contact Marty Rehbein, City Clerk, at 552-6078. All persons interested may appear to be heard or may file written comments with the City Clerk prior to the date of hearing. Mail any comments to: Public Hearing Comment, City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. BY ORDER OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MONTANA. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on July 26, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider a resolution to approve the Missoula Conservation Lands Management Plan establishing the goals and guiding principles
for the management of the City of Missoula’s open space lands. For further information, contact Donna Gaukler, at 552-6265. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein, CMC, City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on August 2, 2010, at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider an ordinance to amend Title 20, Missoula City Zoning Ordinance to incorporate maintenance revisions. For further information, contact Tom Zavitz, Office of Planning & Grants at 2584983. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein CMC, City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula City Council will hold a public hearing on August 2, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula, Montana, to consider an ordinance amending Missoula Municipal Code Chapter 1.20.010 entitled “General Penalty” amending section 1.20.010 entitled “Designated” and section 1.20.020 entitled “Fine payment” to establish a minimum fine of $30.00 for violations of city ordinances unless specifically provided for elsewhere in Missoula Municipal Code. For further information, contact Brentt Ramharter, Finance Director at 552-6108. If you have comments, please mail them to: City Clerk, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802. /s/ Martha L. Rehbein CMC, City Clerk CITY OF MISSOULA REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) FOR ENGINEERING SERVICES ENGINEERING SERVICES FOR THE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE AIRPORT INTERCEPTOR SEWER City of Missoula, Montana City Project No. 10-011 NOTICE TO ENGINEERING CONSULTING FIRMS: Notice is hereby given by the City of Missoula, Montana, and Equal Opportunity government, that it will receive written statements of qualifications and professional proposals for the final design and construction management of the Airport Interceptor Sewer. The project will construct new gravity interceptor sewer to provide relief to the existing Airport Industrial Park interceptor sewer and would extend sewer service to the WYE area west of Butler Creek. It is planned that the engineering design portion of this project will begin by the Fall of 2010 and that the construction will be started in the Summer of 2011.. Request for proposal and submission requirements may be obtained from the City Engineer, City of
Missoula, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana 59802 -4297, or by calling (406) 552 -6345. Professional proposals shall be submitted to the City Engineer before 5:00 p.m., local time the 13th day of August, 2010. This solicitation is being offered in accordance with State statutes governing procurement of professional services. Accordingly, the City of Missoula reserves the right to negotiate an agreement based on fair and reasonable compensation for the scope of work and services proposed, as well as the right to reject any and all responses deemed unqualified, unsatisfactory or inappropriate. The City of Missoula is an EEO/AA, M/F, V/H Employer. Qualified women, veterans, minority and handicapped individuals are strongly encouraged to submit proposals. MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a petition has been filed with the County Commissioners requesting to abandon that certain county road specifically described as: Road Name is Unknown, located in Section 35, Township 13N, Range 20W, Subdivisions: Catherine, George, Schwenk From west end of Schwenk Ct To west boundary of Lot 5 of Catherine Addition And further described in the Road Book of the Missoula County Department of Public Works Surveying Division and shown on the attached Exhibit as: Future – conditional 27’ public access easement (For more information, please see petition on file in the Clerk & Recording office at 200 West Broadway, 2nd floor, Missoula, MT.) The abandonment of this county road is necessary and advantageous for the following reasons: 1. The road would devalue our property. The Ricci Family would lose 8,667 sq. ft. and the Boyds almost as much. Adjoining neighbors would also lose property, with this easement in place, we can not use this land as we want, but we still pay taxes on it. 2. We built our homes on cul-de-sacs for privacy & quiet, which would be shattered if this road is built. The road or graveled slope, would pass 3 feet from the Riccis Garage and well. They are worried about run-off contamination. 3. None of the adjoining land owners want this road and they agree that property should not be taken from landowners for a subdivision that benefits other land owners. A PUBLIC HEARING on the above requested abandonment will be held before the Board of County Commissioners at their regular meeting on July 28, 2010 at 1:30 p.m., Room 201, MISSOULA County Courthouse. Interested parties are requested to be present at that time to be heard for or against the granting of this petition. Written protest will be accepted by the Commissioners’ Office, Room 204, Missoula County Courthouse, prior
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PUBLIC NOTICES to the hearing date. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier Clerk & Recorder /Treasurer By Kim Cox Assistant Chief Deputy Clerk and Recorder 200 W. Broadway St. Missoula, MT 59802 (406) 258-3241 Date: June 22, 2010 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF HEARING County Compensation Committee MISSOULA - The Missoula County Compensation Committee will conduct a hearing to review the compensation levels for elected officials and recommend a salary schedule for Fiscal Year 2011. The hearing will be held as part of the County Commissioners regularly scheduled Public Meeting on Wednesday, August 4, 2010, at 1:30 p.m., in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex. Montana Code Annotated (MCA), §7-4-2503, establishes a compensation committee in each Montana County to review compensation levels. For Fiscal Year 2011, the Missoula County Compensation Committee is made up of the County Commissioners, County Attorney, County Superintendent of Schools, County Auditor, Clerk of District Court and two Missoula County citizens. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to the Commissioners and/or speak at the hearing. Comments may also be submitted anytime prior to the hearing by mail or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802; by fax at (406) 721-4043; or by e-mail at bcc@co.missoula.mt.us
Additional information on the hearing may be obtained from Steve Johnson, Director of Human Resources, by phone at (406) 2584874, or e-mail at sjohnson@ co.missoula.mt.us or Dale Bickell, Missoula County Chief Adminstrative Officer, by phone at (406) 258-4229, or by e-mail at dbickell@co.missoula.mt.us BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS DATED THIS 12TH DAY OF JULY, 2010 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a petition has been filed with the County Commissioners requesting to abandon that certain county road specifically described as: Old Hayes Creek Road, located in Section 5, 8, 9 Township 12N, Range 20W From west line NE 1/4 NE 1/4 Section 9. To its intersection with Forest Road 365, AKA Blue Mountain Road in the SE 1/4 NW 1/4 Section 5. And further described in the Road Book of the Missoula County Department of Public Works Surveying Division and shown on the attached Exhibit as: Shown as “Road to be abandoned” on drawing #747 (For more information, please see petition on file in the Clerk & Recording office at 200 West Broadway, 2nd floor, Missoula, MT.) The abandonment of this county road is necessary and advantageous for the following reasons: 1. Traffic through the residential area will increase significantly thereby creating greater safety and environmental hazards. Recall the many requests for a traffic light at
the bottom of Hayes Creek Road and Highway 93 and the difficulty in accessing that highway at nearly all hours of the day. Even now it is an accident waiting to happen. 2. ATV and other trail motorized traffic will increase with its associated noise and wildlife disruption. 3. The allure of a new “party” area will be irresistible with all of its attendant noise, traffic, trash and law enforcement ramifications. 4. The greater the traffic, the greater the danger of human caused fires, particularly in an area that has not had quite the same fuel reduction remediation that other recreation areas around Missoula have had. 5. With all of the other excellent trailhead accesses, particularly the much improved and very high dollar improvements made at the Blue Mt Rd site, it would seem pure folly to have to incur the additional expense and maintenance of yet another trailhead into the Blue Mountain Recreation complex. There may be more reasons but these are just a few that come to mind very quickly. A PUBLIC HEARING on the above requested abandonment will be held before the Board of County Commissioners at their regular meeting on July 28, 2010 at 1:30 p.m., Room 201, Missoula County Courthouse. Interested parties are requested to be present at that time to be heard for or against the granting of this petition. Written protest will be accepted by the Commissioners’ Office, Room 204, Missoula County Courthouse, prior to the hearing date. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier, Clerk & Recorder /Treasurer By Kim Cox Assistant Chief Deputy Clerk and Recorder 200 W.
Broadway St. Missoula, MT 59802 (406) 258-3241 Date: June 28, 2010 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT REQUEST FOR SEALED BIDS SILVERTIP HOUSING INC. is requesting Sealed Bids for the construction of a complex of buildings providing 115 units of affordable rental housing. The project is funded in part by the City of Missoula’s award of a federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) grant in the amount of $5 million dollars by the Montana Department of Commerce. The City of Missoula is partnered with Silvertip Housing Inc. for this project. Drawings are available Friday, July 23, 2010. Parties interested in receiving a Request for a Sealed Bids Solicitation Package for a total deposit of $300, with $270 being refundable, please contact GAVIN hanks encompass, Silvertip Project Manager Jennifer Clary, at jenn@encompassdesigninc.com or call 406-543-1477 or FAX 406-5431486 at their offices at 300 W. Broadway STE 4, Missoula, MT 59802. Sealed Bids are due no later than 2 p.m. on Tuesday, August 17, 2010 at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants (OPG), 435 Ryman Street, and will then be read aloud at said office at 2 p.m. on August 17, 2010. Late bids or bids postmarked, but received after, the deadline will not be accepted. A Pre-Bid Conference for General Contractors will be held on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at 2 p.m. in the Jack Reidy Room adjacent to City Council Chambers at 140 W. Pine. Attendance is strongly recom-
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mended but not mandatory. Anyone attending the Pre-Bid Conference or the Bid opening or any other meeting associated with this bid is requested to notify GAVIN hanks encompass at 406-543-1477 in advance. The contract is being funded with federal funds and is subject to all applicable federal laws including but not limited to DavisBacon Federal wage rates. If you would like to request special accommodations in order to participate fully in the meeting, please contact Nancy Harte at OPG, 406-258-4657 or nharte@co.missoula.mt.us. Persons using a TTY device may contact the Montana Relay Service by dialing 711. MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Case No. DV-10-885 Dept. No. 4 Douglas G. Harkin ORDER SETTING HEARING IN THE APPLICATION OF LEIGHA MICHELLE WRIGHT, Petitioner, FOR CHANGE OF HER NAME TO LEIGHA MICHELLE CLAIRMONT. Petitioner, Leigha Michelle Wright, by and through her counsel of record, Del Post of Datsopoulos, MacDonald and Lind P.C., has moved this Court to grant her Petition for Name Change. The Court orders: The hearing on the Petition for Name Change filed in this case is set at the following date and time subsequent to August 2, 2010: August 17, 2010 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. DATED this 30th day of June, 2010. /s/ Douglas G. Harkin, District Court Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-10-925 Dept. No. 1 Ed McLean Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Robert J.T. Wilson-Mayer . This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Robert James Tyler Wilson-Mayer to Robert James Tyler Wilson. The hearing will be on 8/25/2010 at 1:15 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Dated 7/13/2010. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By /s/ Diane Overholtzer, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 4 Cause No. DP-10-83 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF JON H. McBRIDE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim 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 Jon M. McBride at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, PO Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 28th day of June, 2010. /s/ Jon M. McBride, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Ed McLean Cause No. DV10-755 Notice of Hearing on Name Change of Minor Child In the Matter of the Name Change of Noah Austin Michael Hoy: Seth Abram McGhee, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court to change a child’s name from Noah Austin Michael Hoy to Noah Austin Michael McGhee. The hearing will be on August 4th, 2010 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: June 7, 2010. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: Amy M. Day, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-10-89 In re the Estate of John P. Barnett, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Michael Barnett, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Debra D. Parker, Parker Law Firm, PO Box 7873, Missoula, Montana 59807 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 21st day of June, 2010. /s/ Michael P. Barnett, c/o Debra D. Parker, Parker Law Firm, PO Box 7873, Missoula, Montana 59807 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-10-94 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GEORGE W. HOLDEN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the
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undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Candyce J. Weaks, return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 25th day of June, 2010. /s/ Candyce J. Weaks, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DV-10-740 Honorable John W. Larson, Presiding. ALIAS SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. CURTIS J. NETZLEY, Plaintiffs, vs. DOUGLAS D. MEYERS, Defendant. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO DOUGLAS D. MEYERS, Defendant above-named. You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is hereby served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney within 20 (twenty) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the date of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. That this cause of action is brought by the Plaintiff seeing recovery of damages from a motor vehicle accident in which you were involved in February of 2009. WITNESS my hand the seal of said Court this 16th day of July, 2010. /s/ SHIRLEY E. FAUST Clerk of Court (SEAL) By /s/ Amy M. Day, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate Case No. DP-10-99 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of MARGARET GOBEO, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative, Bruce Gobeo, return receipt requested, at PO Box 3915, Missoula, Montana 59806, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 22nd day of July, 2010. /s/ Bruce Gobeo, Personal Representative, PO Box 3915, Missoula, Montana 59806 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-10-100 Dept. No. 4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF ADOLPH PETER JENSEN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four (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 Carol Wekkin, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Datsopoulos, MacDonald & Lind, P.C., Attn: Del M. Post, 201 West Main Street, Suite 201, Missoula, MT 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above court. DATED this 8th day of July, 2010. /s/ Carol M. Wekkin, Personal Representative IN THE TRIBAL COURT OF THE CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI TRIBES, PABLO, MONTANA Cause No. 10-0272-NC IN RE THE CHANGE OF NAME OF Alishon Dre Kelly. NOTICE is hereby given that a Hearing will be held in the above Courjt on the 16th day of August, 2010, at 10:00 a.m. on the petition of Alyssa Nememay to change the name of the Minor Child, Alishon Dre Kelly to Ali Dre Nenemay. At any time before the hearing, written objections may be filed with the Court by any person. DATED this 7th day of July, 2010. /s/ Cara Croft, Clerk of Court By: Chelsi Camel, Deputy Clerk of Court NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 7, 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: Lots 19 and 20 in Block 71 of SUPPLEMENTARY ADDITION OF CARLINE ADDITION, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Aaron D. Musick, 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 July 7, 2008 and Recorded on July 8, 2008 in Book 822 Micro Records, Page 710, as Document
No. 200815930. 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 $1,942.85, beginning September 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of June 1, 2010 is $221,026.91 principal, interest at the rate of 6.875% now totaling $24,951.00, late charges in the amount of $1,560.54, escrow advances of $7,040.18, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2864.86, plus accruing interest at the rate of $42.28 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 30, 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 30, 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. Musick 41207.952 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN of the public sale of real property pursuant to the “Small Tract Financing Act of Montana” (Title 71, Chapter 1, Part 3, Montana Code Annotated).. Grantors: Robert G. Mullendore of Missoula, Montana. Original Trustee: Stewart Title of Missoula County, with its principal office in Missoula, Montana. Beneficiary: First Interstate Bank, with its principal office in Helena, Montana. Successor and Present Trustee: Timothy C. Fox, an attorney licensed to practice law in Montana.. THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY COVERED BY THE DEED OF TRUST: The real property and its appurtenances in Missoula, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 1 and 2 in Block “K” of Pattee Canyon Addition No. 2 to Far Views Homesites in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official map or plat thereof on file and of record in the office of the Clerk and Recorder for Missoula County, Montana. The real property or its address is commonly known as 125 Takima Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803. The Real property tax identification number is 2200- 343 -19 -01 -0000. RECORDING DATA: The Deed of Trust dated the 19th day of March, 2009, which was recorded on and recorded on the 27th day of March, 2009, in Book 836, Page 213, Document No.
PUBLIC NOTICES 200906778, in the official records of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.. THE DEFAULT FOR WHICH THE FORECLOSURE IS MADE IS: Failure by Grantor or any other person to pay the monthly installments due on the promissory note for which the Deed of Trust was given as security, and failure by Grantor or any person to pay the full amount due on the maturity date of the promissory note for which the Deed of Trust was given as security.. THE SUM OWING ON THE OBLIGATION SECURED BY THE DEED OF TRUST AS OF MAY 5, 2010: Remaining Principal Balance: $1 ,50 2,221 .35 Delinquent Interest: $89 ,481 .80 accrued against the principal balance at the rate of 8 .00 percent (8%) per annum, which interest continues to accrue at $329.2539 per day.. Late Charges: $600 .00 Other: All unpaid balances, including taxes and insurance, together with all necessary and reasonable expenses incurred in collection, including trustees’ and attorneys’ fees, and all costs and fees incurred for a foreclosure report, publication, posting, and recording. THE BENEFICIARY HAS ELECTED AND DIRECTED IN WRITING THAT THE SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE SELL THE REAL PROPERTY ABOVE DESCRIBED TO SATISFY THE AFORESAID OBLIGATIONS. THE DATE, TIME, PLACE AND TERMS OF SALE ARE: Date: September 14, 2010 Time: 3:00 p.m., Mountain Standard Time, or Mountain Daylight Savings Time, whichever is in effect. Place: Missoula County Courthouse (front steps), 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, 59802. Terms: The successor trustee or his attorney shall sell the real property at public auction to the highest bidder. This sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary (excepting only the Successor Trustee), may bid at the sale. The purchaser at the sale shall pay the price bid in cash.. Conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed. The purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following sale. The successor trustee or his attorney may postpone the sale as provided by law by public proclamation at the time and place fixed in the notice of sale. RIGHT TO CURE: The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the aforesaid property, at any time prior to the Trustee’s sale, may pay to the present 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 therefore existing. DATED this 7th day of May, 2010.. /s/ Timothy C. Fox Successor Trustee 33 South Last Chance Gulch P.O. Box 1715 Helena, MT 59624 -1715 STATE OF MONTANA : ss. County of Lewis and Clark On this 7th day of May, 2010, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public in and for the state of Montana, personally appeared Timothy C. Fox, of Helena, Montana, known to me to be the successor trustee in the above-entitled matter, and acknowledged to me that he executed the within and foregoing instrument. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my notarial seal on the day and year firstabove written. /s/ Kristi K. Meier, NOTARY PUBLIC FOR THE STATE OF MONTANA ((Notarial Seal)) Residing at: Helena, Montana My commission expires: 3/7/2011 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/28/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200726515, Book 806, Page 1668, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Daren M. Donnelly & Annette M. Donnelly, as joint tenants with right of survivorship was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage LLC was Beneficiary and Insured Titles, LLC was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles, LLC as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 61 of Invermere, Phase 1A, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200827710, Book 830, Page 1298, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 08/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 21, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $441,764.67. This amount
includes the outstanding principal balance of $376,200.00, 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 30, 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# 7023.19194) 1002.106232-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/18/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200821679, BK 826, Pg 863, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which David A. Garza, a separated person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 44A of Amended Plat of Car Line Addition, Block 53, Lots 44 through 48 a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Together with a private access and utility easement over Lots 45A, 46A and 47A as set forth on said plat. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 17, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $167,490.23. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $158,704.74, 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 27, 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 foreclo-
sure 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# 7023.74448) 1002.158523-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/25/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200921465, Bk 846, Pg 910, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Thomas W. Blixt was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage, LLC was Beneficiary and Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in the SW1/4 of Section 28, Township 15 North, Range 21 West, Principal Meridian Montana, Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract 9B of Certificate of Survey No. 4918. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Chase Home Finance LLC. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 02/01/10 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 20, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $298,728.65. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $290,651.45, 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 27, 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# 7037.06746) 1002.158525-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/30/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200631097, Bk. 788, Pg. 366, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Matthew M. Miller and Rebecca L. Miller was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 1 of Kalberg Estates, 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
04/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 21, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $454,417.95. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $365,584.06, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on October 4, 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# 7023.17612) 1002.99556-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/04/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200403351, Bk 726, Pg 53, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Robert Peschel was Grantor, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Inc. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 8 in Block 3 of Bitterroot Homes Addition No. 3, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded in Bk. 842 Micro Records, Pg. 680, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Bank of America National Association as Successor by Merger to LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee for Wells Fargo Home Equity Trust 2004-1. 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 03/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 27, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $203,467.57. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $172,449.65, 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 October 6, 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# 7023.05029) 1002.127274-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/12/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200512053, Bk 752, Pg 1354, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Carolyn E. Honn, and spouse if any was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: That portion of Lots 15 and 16 of Block 13, of Low’s Addition to Missoula, Montana, according to the official plat thereof on file and of record in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Commencing at a point on the South boundary line of Lot 16 which is 38 feet West from the Southeast corner of said Lot 16; continuing along the South boundary line of Lot 16 and Lot 15, a distance of 42 feet, more or less, to the Southwest corner of Lot 15; running thence North along the West boundary line of Lot 15, a distance of 130 feet, more or less, to the Northwest corner of said Lot; running thence Easterly along the North boundary line of Lot 15, a distance of 31 feet 6 inches to a point; thence South and parallel to the West boundary line of Lot 16, a distance of 25 feet; thence East at right angles a distance of 10 feet 6 inches; thence South and parallel to the West boundary line of Lot 16, a distance of 105 feet, more or less to the place of beginning. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. Book 810 page 398, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to US Bank National Association, as Trustee for Structured Asset Securities Corporation Trust 2005WF3. 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 03/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 26, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $156,587.09. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $138,668.91, 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 October 5, 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# 7023.05853) 1002.130232-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain
trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/09/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200613937, Bk 776 Pg 745, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Pamela S. Stanford, a married person and Joseph P. Stanford 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 14 of Canyon Village No. 3, 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 05/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 26, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $235,265.61. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $212,990.18, 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 October 6, 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# 7023.06734)
EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units:179, 301, 336, 405, 440, 476 and 632. Units contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc household goods. These units may be viewed starting Monday, July 26, 2010 by appt only by calling 251-8600. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59803 prior to Thursday, July 29, 2010, 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All sales are final.
1002.132550-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/24/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200822332, Bk 827, Pg 117, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Patricia L. Morgan and Dennis R. Morgan as joint tenants was Grantor, Acceptance Capital Mortgage Corporation was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 20 of Wallace Creek Estates, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200822333, Bk 827, Pg 118, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly
Missoula County Government
RESOLUTION NUMBER 2010-087 A RESOLUTION OF INTENT TO REZONE PROPERTY LEGALLY DESCRIBED AS LOTS A, B1, C, & D1 OF BLOCK 21 OF EAST MISSOULA ADDITION, LOCATED IN SECTION 24 OF TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M. (SEE MAP U), ALSO KNOWN AS 3580 HIGHWAY 200 E, FROM C-C2 (GENERAL COMMERCIAL) TO C-R3 (RESIDENTIAL). WHEREAS, 76-2201 M.C.A. authorizes the Board of County Commissioners to adopt zoning regulations; and, WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners did adopt zoning regulations for Missoula County through the passage of County Resolution 76-113, as amended; and, WHEREAS, 76-2-202 M.C.A. provides for the establishment and revision of zoning districts; and, WHEREAS, a request
to rezone the property legally described above was reviewed by the Missoula Consolidated Planning Board at a public hearing held June 15, 2010; and, WHEREAS, a notice of public hearing was advertised in the Independent on May 27 and June 3, 2010, and, WHEREAS, a hearing was held by the County Commissioners of Missoula County on June 30, 2010, in order to give the public an opportunity to be heard regarding the proposed amendments to the zoning district; and, NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County will receive written protest for a period of thirty (30) days after publication of this notice on July 15, 2010, from persons owning real property within the contiguous boundaries of the C-C2 (General Commercial) zoning district. FURTHER, copies of the C-C2 and CR3 zoning districts are available for inspection at the office of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder and the Office of Planning and Grants PASSED AND ADOPTED THIS 9th DAY OF JULY 2010 BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ATTEST: MISSOULA COUNTY Clerk and Recorder /s/ Michele Landquist, Chair. APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CONTENT: /s/ Bill Carey, Commissioner. Deputy County Attorney /s/ Jean Curtiss, Commissioner
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PUBLIC NOTICES installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 08/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 28, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $275,770.72. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $253,372.09, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on October 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# 7023.09403) 1002.141380-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/16/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200728073, Bk 807, Pg 1433, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Patrick C. Herron 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 6 in Block 2 of the Amended Plat of Country Club Addition No. 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 08/20/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 25, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $222,303.10. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $206,223.95, 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 October 4, 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# 7777.12418) 1002.159147-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/27/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200806674, B: 815, P: 1249, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Pamela Stanford, a married person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 63 of Lolo Creek Trails Phase 1, 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 06/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of May 25, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $319,582.61. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $292,636.71, 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 October 5, 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# 7023.74823) 1002.159244-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/26/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200424502, Bk 738, Pg 1157, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which James Andrew Mercer and Rebecca Lyn Mercer, as joint tenants was Grantor, Montana Mortgage Company was Beneficiary and Insured Titles, LLC was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles, LLC as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 4 of Homestead Acres, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200429941, Bk 741, Pg 1529, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of princi-
pal, 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 June 2, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $129,848.38. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $124,454.95, 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 October 13, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.74958) 1002.159876-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/11/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200701747, Book 790, Page 1285, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Randie M. Pringle was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in the SE 1/4 of Section 7, Township 15 North, Range 22 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract D of Certificate of Survey No. 1816. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 08/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 3, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $368,193.44. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $321,336.14, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on October 15, 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)
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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# 7023.00671) 1002.111968-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 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 56 OF LOLO CREEK TRAILS PHASE 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Kati J Kovick, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 25, 2007 and recorded January 26, 2007 as document number 200702125 in Book 791, Page 146. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee of the IndyMac IMSC Mortgage Loan Trust 2007-AR2, Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2007-AR2 under the Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated July 1, 2007. 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 $1803.12, beginning March 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 23, 2010 is $279,939.23 principal, interest at the rate of 4.375% now totaling $15,026.74, late charges in the amount of $653.31, escrow advances of $3,387.28, and expenses advanced of $2,990.92, plus accruing interest at the rate of $33.55 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: May 3, 2010 /s/ 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 May 3, 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. /s/ Stephanie L. Crimmins, Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Indymac V. Kovick 41969.406 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 13, 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-G, BLOCK 1, AMENDED PLAT OF LOT 1, CURTIS AND MAJOR’S ADDITION, A SUBDIVISION OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT ON FILE AND OR RECORD WITH THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF SAID COUNTY, IN AND FOR MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA Russell S Brambo and Mary J Brambo, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Montgomery Home Title, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated December 16, 2005 and Recorded on January 17, 2006 in Book 767, Page 956 under Document No. 200601136. The beneficial interest is currently held by Litton Loan Servicing LP. 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 $1,419.26, beginning October 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 30, 2010 is $219,756.55 principal, interest at the rate of 7.750% now totaling $12,773.35, late charges in the amount of $851.52, escrow advances of $1,149.58 and other fees and expenses advanced of $9,419.18, plus accruing interest at the rate of $46.66 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: May 4, 2010 /s/ 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 May 4, 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. /s/ Joan Meier, Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Litton v Brambo 41462.798 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 13, 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 1A of town company’s addition, block 103, lots 1A and 2A, a platted subdivision in Missoula county, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Paul Neal Cooley, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated July 17, 2007 and recorded on July 24, 2007 in Book 802, Page 191 as Document No. 200718789. The beneficial interest is currently held by US Bank, NA. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,361.80, 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 16, 2010 is $173,573.98 principal, interest at the rate of 6.875% now totaling $6,456.99, late charges in the amount of $471.36, escrow advances of $14.22, and other fees and expenses advanced of $259.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $32.69 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: May 4, 2010 /s/ Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM, P.O. Box 1097, Dickinson, ND 586021097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA)) ss. County of Stark) On May 4, 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. /s/ Joan Meier, Notary Public, Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Us Bank V. Cooley 41810.303 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 13, 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 24 IN BLOCK 1 OF WAPIKIYA NO. 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Ethan Siegel and Sonnie Atwood, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Service, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to National City Mortgage a division of National City Bank, as Beneficiary, by
Deed of Trust dated May 8, 2007 and recorded on May 11, 2007 in Book 797, Page 86 as Document No. 200711490. The beneficial interest is currently held by PNC MORTGAGE A DIVISION OF PNC BANK, NA SBM TO NATIONAL CITY MORTGAGE A DIVISION OF 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 $1,340.99, beginning January 1, 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 16, 2010 is $198,133.81 principal, interest at the rate of 6.50% now totaling $4,822.14, late charges in the amount of $160.98, and other fees and expenses advanced of $72.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $35.28 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: May 5, 2010 /s/ 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 May 5, 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. /s/ Stephanie L. Crimmins, Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014\ Pnc V. Siegel 41230.580. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 17, 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 3A OF DAWN ACRES NO. 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Dawn E. Lorash and Stephen W. Lorash, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community BankMissoula, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated on May 4, 2004 and recorded on May 10, 2004 in Book 731, Page 1396 as Document No. 200412535. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc.. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of
PUBLIC NOTICES $1,174.26, beginning October 1, 2000, 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 May 02, 2010 is $146,256.44 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $5,751.94, late charges in the amount of $1,043.52, escrow advances of $1,085.07, and other fees and expenses advanced of $291.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $23.54 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: May 10, 2010 /s/ 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 May 10, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. /s/ Stephanie L. Crimmins, Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Citimortgage V. Lorash 41926.901. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 20, 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 C OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4748, LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 2, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Charles Eubank and Gwen KnightEubank, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Sytems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 19, 2004 and recorded March 19, 2004 at 4:32 o’clock P.M. in Book 728, Page 548, as Document No. 200407358. The beneficial interest is currently held by The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, National Association fka The Bank of New York Trust Company, N.A. as sucessor to JP Morgan Chase Bank as Trustee. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $3,578.48, 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 May 29, 2010 is $374,417.71 principal,
interest at the rate of 10.625% now totaling $32,888.20, late charges in the amount of $6,297.23, escrow advances of $4,957.21, and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,136.10, plus accruing interest at the rate of $108.99 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: May 11, 2010. /s/ 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 May 11, 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. /s/ Joan Meier, Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Gmac / Eubank. NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 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 47 of Maloney Ranch Phase VI, a Platted Subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Recorded Plat thereof. CHAD M BAUER, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Community Bank Missoula, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 15, 2007 and Recorded October 15, 2007 in Book 807, Page 612 under Document No. 200727252. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,319.16, 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 19, 2010 is $262,197.43 principal, interest at the rate of 7.000% now totaling $10,082.06, late charges in the amount of $623.42, escrow advances of $249.49 and other fees and expenses advanced of $342.14, plus accruing interest at the rate of $50.28 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 23, 2010 /s/ 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 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. /s/ Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 CitiMortgage v Bauer 41926.883 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 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: UNIT 1621 IN BUILDING B, DESIGNATED AS 1621 CLEMENTS OF CLEMENTS PINES CONDOMINIUMS, A RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUM COMPLEX AS SHOWN AND DEFINED IN THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION OF THE MONTANA UNIT OWNERSHIP ACT, AND SURVEY MAP AND SET OF PLANS, AS RECORDED ON FEBRUARY 27, 2007 AS CONDO 000131 IN THE RECORDS OF MISSOULA, MONTANA AND ACCORDING TO THE CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION AND TOGETHER WITH ITS EXHIBITS AS RECORDED ON FEBRUARY 27, 2007 IN BOOK 792 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 925 AND BY-LAWS OF SAID CONDOMINIUM RECORDED IN BOOK 792 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 927. TOGETHER WITH AN UNDIVIDED 12.5% INTEREST IN THE GENERAL COMMON ELEMENTS, AREAS AND FACILITIES APPERTAINING TO SAID UNITS, AS DEFINED IN THE DECLARATION AND DEFINED IN THE PLAN’S SPECIFICATIONS ATTACHED THERETO. TOGETHER WITH SUCH UNIT’S INTEREST IN THE LIMITED COMMON ELEMENTS APPERTAINING TO SUCH UNIT AS SET FORTH AND DEFINED IN THE DECLARATION AND THE PLANS AND EXHIBIT ATTACHED THERETO. Ivy Glenne Kostick, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 14, 2008 and recorded March 14, 2008 in Book 815, Page 113, as Document No. 200805538 and re-recorded August 22, 2008 in Book 825, Page 318.. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc.. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $872.79, beginning December 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 $117,854.32 principal, interest at the rate of 6.7500% now totaling $2,891.46, late charges in the amount of $107.67, escrow advances of $325.05, and other fees and expenses advanced of $150.26, plus accruing interest at the rate of $21.79 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the 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 23, 2010 /s/ 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 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. /s/ Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Citimortgage V. Kostick 41926.414 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 7, 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, PIECE OR PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED IN THE SE1/4SW1/4 OF SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: BEGINNING AT A POINT AT THE INTERSECTION OF THE SOUTHWESTERLY BOUNDARY OF THE O’BRIEN CREEK ROAD AS NOW CONSTRUCTED AND THE EAST BOUNDARY OF THE SE1/4SW1/4 OF SAID SECTION 28, WHICH POINT IS APPROXIMATELY 350 FEET MORE OF LESS NORTH OF THE SOUTH 1/4 CORNER OF SAID SECTION 28; WHICH POINT IS APPROXIMATELY 350 FEET MORE OR LESS NORTH OF THE SOUTH 1/4 CORNER OF SAID SECTION 28; THENCE NORTH ALONG SAID EAST BOUNDARY TO SAID SE1/4 SW1/4, 686.3 FEET’ THENCE, WEST 381.7 FEET; THENCE S. 2 DEGREES 59’ 09°E, APPROXIMATELY 185 FEET TO THE SOUTHWESTERLY BOUNDARY OF O’BRIEN CREEK ROAD; THENCE SOUTHEASTERLY ALONG SAID SOUTHWESTERLY ROAD BOUNDARY TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, LESS AND EXCEPTING ANY ROAD RIGHTOF-WAY. Clarence P. Gross and Juanita M. Gross, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Beneficial Montana Inc. D/B/A Beneficial Mortgage Co., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated February 23, 1999 and recorded on March 3, 1999 in Book 574, Page 1385 as Document No. 199906051. 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 $1,013.72, beginning August 29, 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 May 9, 2010 is $119,502.01 principal, interest at the rate of 5.25% now totaling $38,775.65 and other fees and expenses advanced of $50.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $17.19 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 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 28, 2010 /s/ 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 28, 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. /s/ Stephanie L. Crimmins, Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 Hsbc V. Gross NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 7, 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 4 IN BLOCK 4 OF MULLAN TRAIL, PHASE III, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF ALLAN B TIMS AND LISA K TIMS, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company of Montana, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 17, 2004 and recorded May 20, 2004 at 11:09 o’clock A.M. in Book 732, Page 937 as Document No. 200413644. The beneficial interest is currently held by NationStar 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 $1,681.59, beginning December 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 $185,353.06 principal, interest at the rate of 6.375% now totaling $4,598.97, late charges in the amount of $367.88, escrow advances of $243.41, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,475.91, plus accruing interest at the rate of $32.40 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 27, 2010 /s/ 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 27, 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. /s/ Joan Meier, Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Nationstar V Tims 41706.288 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 7, 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 17-C-3-A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 2618, LOCATED IN THE SOUTHEAST ONEQUARTER OF SECTION 10, TOWNSHIP 14 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. Angelina L McDonald, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 31, 2005 and recorded on August 31, 2005 at 4:43 o’clock P.M., in book 759, Page 432, under Document No 200522825. The beneficial interest is currently held by US Bank National Association as Trustee. 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 $1,672.76, beginning May 1, 2007, 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 May 15, 2010 is $170,060.10 principal, interest at the rate of 7.375% now totaling $44,466.36, late charges in the amount of $2,372.59, escrow advances of $5,331.41 and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,301.13, plus accruing interest at the rate of $43.6798 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 30, 2010 /s/ 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 30, 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. /s/ Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 GMAC v McDonald 41342.666 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on September 7, 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: Lots 9 and 10 in Block 53 of School Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Phil Barnett, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to ABN Amro Mortgage Group, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated May 17, 2007 and Recorded May 22, 2007 at 12:40 o’clock P.M. in Book 797, Page 1194, under Document No. 200712598. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage Inc., successor by merger to ABN AMRO Mortgage Group, Inc.. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1042.72, beginning October 1, 2007, 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 $141,593.68 principal, interest at the rate of 6.25% now totaling $23,443.46, late charges in the amount of $1,355.01, escrow advances of $4,632.12, and other fees and expenses advanced of $4,741.90, plus accruing interest at the rate of $24.25 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,
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PUBLIC NOTICES 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 30, 2010 /s/ 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 30, 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. /s/ Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 Citimortgage Inc V Barnett 41926.440 Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issue To: Brett Wages, Missoula County Treasurer Discover Bank c/o Bruce M. Spencer Craig D. Charlton Smith Law Firm, P.C.
Attorneys At Law Pursuant to section 1518-212, Montana Code Annotated, notice is hereby given: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: Subdiv.-DYA DALY ADD Lot- 023 Block- 029 13N 19W 29 DALY ADD, DALY’S LOTS 23 & DALY ADD, DALY’S LOTS 23 & 24 IN BLK 29 OF DALYS ADDITION S29 T13 R19, SUID #197308. Parcel No. 197308. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: Lots 23 and 24 in Block 29 of DALY’S ADDITION, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official record-
ed plat thereof. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on May 31st, 2007. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax sale held on July 18th, 2007. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax sale on July 18th, 2007, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Montana Land Project, LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 1952, Great Falls, MT 59403, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax:$ 1,232.09. Penalty:$ 24.65. Interest: $ 358.82. Cost: $510.22. Total: $ 2,125.78. 7. The date
that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to 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 Montana Land Project, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer
will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. 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 this 15th day of July, 2010. Montana Land Project, LLC Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: Lazy C Enterprises, LLC, Missoula
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PUBLIC NOTICES County Treasurer Lazy C Enterprises, LLC c/o Matthew Long. 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 real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: Subdiv.-EM4 ELMS ADD NO 4 Lot- 004 Block- 006 13N 19W 33 ELMS ADD NO 4, LOT 4 BLK 6 ELMS ADD NO 4, LOT 4 BLK 6 OF ELMS ADDITION NO 4, SUID #917608. Parcel No. 917608. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: LOT 4 IN BLOCK 6 OF ELMS ADDITION NO. 4, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF, AS FILED IN THE CLERK AND RECORDER’S OFFICE, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. TOGETHER WITH THAT PORTION OF THE VACATED 20 FOOT MARGINAL ACCESS ROAD ADJOINING SAID LOT AND LYING IMMEDIATELY NORTHWESTERLY OF SAID LAND AND BEING BETWEEN THE LOT AND THE STATE OF MONTANA RIGHT OF WAY AS SHOWN ON THE PLAT OF ELM’S ADDITION NO. 4. RECORDING REFERENCE: BOOK 358 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1486. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on May 31st, 2007. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax sale held on July 8th, 2007. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax sale on July 18th, 2007, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Montana Land Project, LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 1952, Great Falls, MT 59403, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax: $7,363.26. Penalty: $147.27. Interest: $2,073.26. Costs: $514.98. Total: $10,098.77. 7. The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to 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 Montana Land Project, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. 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 this 15th day of July, 2010. Montana Land Project, LLC Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: Ronald P. Baptiste Missoula County Treasurer 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 real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: 16N 15W 14 COS 5840, PARCEL 19, SUID #1951904. Parcel No. 1951904. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: STATE LEASE 3061370, LOT 19, CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5840 LOCATED IN SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 16 NORTH, RANGE 15 WEST, M.P.M., IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on November 30th, 2006. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax sale held on July 18th, 2007. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax sale on July 18th, 2007, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Montana Land Project, LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 1952, Great Falls, MT 59403, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax: $603.98. Penalty $12.08. Interest: $237.55. Costs: $482.22. Total $1,335.83. 7. The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that
accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to 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 Montana Land Project, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847.Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. 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 this 15th day of July, 2010. Montana Land Project, LLC Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: Elizabeth J. Morgan and Glenna Jill Grosshans Missoula County Treasurer 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 real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: Subdiv.-MN1 MARILANN NO 1 Lot- 001 Block- 001 13N 19W 33 MARILANN NO 1, MARILANN MARILANN NO 1, MARILANN MARILANN #1LOTS 1 & 2 BLK 1, SUID #1525201. Parcel No. 1525201. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: Lots 1 and 2 in Block 1 of MARILANN, a platted subdivision in the city of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on May 31st, 2007. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax sale held on July 18th, 2007. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax sale on July 18th, 2007, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Montana Land Project, LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 1952, Great Falls, MT 59403, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax: $ 2,620.11. Penalty $ 52.40. Interest: $ 746.97. Costs: $485.32. Total: $3,904.80 7. The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to 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 Montana Land Project, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. 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 this 15th day of July, 2010. Montana Land Project, LLC Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: Farhad Khameneh Tandy Khameneh Tandy Khameneh c/o Wells McKittrick PC Evonne Smith Wells Missoula County Treasurer Missoula Federal Credit Union Missoula Federal Credit Union Commercial Department 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 real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: Subdiv.-MAN MANITOBAADD Lot- 011 Block- 015 13N 19W 17 MANITOBA ADD, MANITOBA LOTS MANITOBA ADD, MANITOBA LOTS 11 TO 20 BLK 15 OF MANIOBA ADDITION BLK 15 & VACATED TURNER ST TRACT A COS 456 17-, SUID #1913000. Parcel No. 1913000. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: Tract A of Certificate of Survey No. 456, located in the South one-half of Block 15 and a portion of
the adjacent vacated Turner Street of MANITOBA ADDITION, a recorded subdivision in Missoula County, Montana together with the South one-half of the adjacent vacated alley in Block 15 and also the Easterly half of vacated Hudson Street lying adjacent thereto. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on May 31st, 2007. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax sale held on July 18th, 2007. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax sale on July 18th, 2007, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Montana Land Project, LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 1952, Great Falls, MT 59403, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax $10 897. 96 Penalty $217. 96 Interest $3, 081 45 Costs $620. 62 Total $14, 817. 99 7. The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to 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 Montana Land Project, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258- 4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. 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 this 22nd day of July, 2010. Montana Land Project, LLC Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: The Estate of Urban T. Weldon, c/o Peggy Jo Engen Missoula County Treasurer 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 real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: 15N 14W 20 ACRES 0.69, IMPROVEMENTS ON STATE LAND LOT 22 COS 4921, ELBOW LAKE STATE LEASE #3062117, SUID #2387803. Parcel No. 2387803. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: A tract of land located in Section 20, Township 15 North, Range 14 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Lot 22 of Certificate of Survey No. 4921. Montana State lease No. 3062117. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on November 30th, 2006. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax sale held on July 18th, 2007. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax sale on July 18th, 2007, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Montana Land Project, LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 1952, Great Falls, MT 59403, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax Penalty Interest Costs Total $ 708.97 $ 14.18 $ 227.64 $ 294.74 $ BLANK 7. The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to 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 Montana Land Project, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258-4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. 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 this 22nd day of July, 2010. Montana Land Project, LLC. Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: Gary M. Sullivan, Eric J. Bashore Missoula County Treasurer Pursuant to section 1518-212, Montana Code Annotated, notice is hereby given: 1. As a result of a property tax delinquency a property tax lien exists on the real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: 12N 17W 08 PLAT D5, PARCEL XXX, N1/2 SW1/4 SE1/4 PLAT D5 IN 8 12 17, SUID #5889208. Parcel No. 5889208. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: N 1/2_SW 1/4_SE 1/4_ OF SECTION 8, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 17 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on November 30th, 2006. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax sale held on July 18th, 2007. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax sale on July 18th, 2007, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Montana Land Project, LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 1952, Great Falls, MT 59403, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax $98 ..07 Penalty $1. 96 Interest $44. 59 Costs $482. 58 Total $627. 20 7. The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to 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 Montana Land Project, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258 -4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. 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 this 22nd day of July, 2010. Montana Land Project, LLC Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: Steve Beck and Nellie Beck Jack I Nelson Missoula County Treasurer Collection Bureau Services, Inc. Montana Department of Revenue Department of Justice 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 real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: Subdiv.-BLW BULWER CONDOMINIUMS Lot- XXX Block- XXX 13N 19W 16 BULWER CONDOMINIUMS, BULWER BULWER CONDOMINIUMS, BULWER UNIT A – BULWER CONDOMINIUMS, SUID #3352004. Parcel No.3352004. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: Unit A of the BULWER CONDOMINIUMS according to the Declaration of Condominium Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions recorded January 16, 1996 in Book 461 at Page 1762 Micro Records and rerecorded August 5, 1996 in Book 481 at Page 453 Micro Records of Missoula County, Montana. TOGETHER WITH an undivided 15% ownership in the general common elements, and a one-hundred percent right of use of the limited common elements appurtenant to said Unit A as said general common elements and limited common elements are defined in said Declaration of Condominium for Bulwer Condominiums. Said Condominium being located in a tract of land located in West one-half of Section 16, Township 13 North, Range 19 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. The tract is further described: Beginning at the Southwest corner of Tract 29 of the Supplemental Plat of the School Addition of the City of Missoula, thence S.89º58’02”W., 80 feet, thence N.0º00’00”W., 156.97 feet, S.53º46’09”E., 330.01 feet, thence S. 89º58’02”W., 188.61 feet, thence N.0º00’00”W., 40 feet to the point of beginning. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on May 31st, 2007. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax sale held on July 18th,
2007. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax sale on July 18th, 2007 by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Montana Land Project, LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 1952, Great Falls, MT 59403, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax $1, 96.2.. 34 Penalty $39.. 24 Interest $567. 59 Costs $559. 68 Total $3, 128. 25 7. The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to 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 Montana Land Project, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258 -4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. 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 this 22nd day of July, 2010. Montana Land Project LLC Notice That A Tax Deed May Be Issued To: Valley Homes, L.L.C. Valley Homes LLC c/o Edmond G. Alexander Missoula County Treasurer 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 real property in which you may have an interest. The real property is described on the tax sale certificate as: 15N 21W 34 LOT 1 OF VALLEY HOMES MOBILE PARK #2, SUID #3845808. Parcel No. 3845808. The real property is also described in the records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder as: LOT 1 OF VALLEY HOMES MOBILE HOME PARK NO. 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. 2. The property taxes became delinquent on May 31st, 2007. 3. The property tax lien was attached as the result of a tax sale held on July 18th, 2007. 4. The property tax lien was purchased at a tax sale on July 18th, 2007, by Missoula County whose address is 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 5. The lien was subsequently assigned to Montana Land Project, LLC, whose address is P.O. Box 1952, Great Falls, MT 59403, and a tax deed will be issued to it unless the property tax lien is redeemed prior to the expiration date of the redemption period. 6. As of the date of this notice, the amount of tax due, including penalties, interest, and costs, is: Tax $6, 103. 05. Penalty $122. 06 Interest $1. 709. 83 Cost $485. 86 Total $8, 420. 40 7. The date that the redemption period expires is 60 days from the giving of this notice. 8. For the property tax lien to be redeemed, the total amount listed in paragraph 6 plus all interest and costs that accrue from the date of this notice until the date of redemption, which amount will be calculated by the County Treasurer upon request, must be paid on or before the date that the redemption period expires. 9. If all taxes, penalties, interest, and costs are not paid to the County Treasurer on or prior to 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 Montana Land Project, LLC, on the day following the date on which the redemption period expires or on the date on which the County Treasurer will otherwise issue a tax deed. 10. The business address and telephone number of the County Treasurer who is responsible for issuing the tax deed is: Missoula County Treasurer, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406) 258 -4847. Further notice for those persons listed above whose addresses are unknown: 1. 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 this 22nd day of July, 2010. Montana Land Project, LLC
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REAL ESTATE 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 North side Charmer! Open house Sunday 07/18/2010 12-2 pm. This wonderful new home(2003)has 3 bedrooms/1.5 baths & is close to downtown,Farmer’s Market,the North side trail system, & much more. NORTHSIDE BUNGALOW WITH A GARAGE/SHOP. 2 Bdr/1 Bath, great location close to Downtown, large fenced back yard, and much more. $180,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy3 to 74362, or visit.... www.mindypalmer.com One of a Kind Listing, Nine Mile Schoolhouse with all the charm, romance and history one would expect. Unlimited possiblities an outstanding property. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com Really cute craftsman style, 3Bdr, 1Ba home priced to sell. This home has all the charm of the 20s and original floors. 548 Colorado 327-8787 porticorealestate.com SINGLE LEVEL LIVING JUST A SHORT WALK TO DOWNTOWN STEVI. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, great room, open floor plan, double garage, unobstructed views of the Bitterroot Mountains, great yard. $219,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy16 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Spacious, light-filled Upper Rattlesnake Home with 2 Fireplaces, 2 Bedrooms & 2 Bonus Rooms, 2 Baths, a really nice big backyard with patio. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com 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... www.mindypalmer.com Stately 4 bedroom, 3.75 bath home on 5+ acres in an area of beautiful homes on Snowdrift Lane. Radiant floor heat with 8
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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
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retractable awning over back patio. $233,900. MLS#10003652. 3 Kasota, Missoula. Pat McCormick, 240SOLD (7653). pat@properties2000.com 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 McCormick, 240SOLD (7653). pat@properties2000.com
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Joy Earls SOLD 6/10 333 Martin Lane $249,900 • MLS# 10000160
SOLD 5/10 321 Speedway Avenue $219,900 • MLS# 10001025
SOLD 3/10 4666 Scott Allen Drive $399,900 • MLS# 907272
SOLD 1/10 2904 Tina Ave #203 $145,000 • MLS#980145
SOLD 12/09 6549 Kiki Court, Msla $299,900 • MLS#808566
SOLD 11/09 1852 S. 8th West $179,900 • MLS#904867
SOLD 10/09 737 Evans, 1 block to U $399,870 • MLS#902594
CALL ME TO HELP SELL YOUR HOME Joy Earls TODAY!!!
GREAT INCOME PROPERTY $379,900 • MLS# 10004704 234 Edith, Missoula owner financing available This charming 6-plex is across the street from the Orange Street Food Farm, parks, and within easy biking or walking to the University and downtown. You can't beat the location. Very nice neighborhood and well maintained units. Low vacancy rate.
RICE TEAM
• 3 bdrm/2 bath/10 Acres • Covered deck / fenced acreage • 28 x32 garage / 40x49 Quonset shop • RV hookups behind garage • $259,900 • MLS#10002960
• 3 acres fenced & ready for horses • 3 Bed / 2 Bath / 24x18 outbuilding • Great views and easy access • 499 Grandview, Stevensville • $179,000 • MLS# 10002488
On the corner of Broadway and Russell
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Shelly Evans 544-8570 Jodie Hooker 239-7588 Jerry Hogan 546-7270 Kevin Plumage 240-2009
Right across from lovely Rose Park. This home has had many upgrades including remodeled kitchen featuring Hickory Cabinets, Brazilian Hickory laminate flooring throughout, all new stainless steel appliances. New blinds in the living room and solid core doors in all the main level rooms. The new roof was put on in May. The yard features a nice array of perennials. There is parking in the rear under the carport and a shed for extra storage. Call Mary Marry for a showing today.
AFFORDABLE LIVING CLOSE TO U MLS#'s 10004276 / 10004273 / 10004274 Priced starting at $143,900 Assume Contract for Deed! Buy one condo or all three! You can't beat this price and live so close to downtown, WALKING distance to the university, Dairy Queen, Caras Park, Bonner Park! These sweet condo's are nestled in the perfect location for all Missoula has to offer. Very well maintained: new windows, new hot water heater, new roof, u/g sprinklers.
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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
1500 W Broadway, suite A Missoula
435 Mount • $203,900
531-9811
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
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... www.mindypalmer.com
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riceteam@bigsky.net Robin Rice Janet Rice 240-3932 missoularealestate4sale.com 240-6503
LAND FOR SALE
Immaculate & tastefully remodeled 3 Bed, 2 Bath home with garage, upgraded trim, lighting & fixtures. Fab tiled bath w/deep Jacuzzi tub, heated tiled flr. Newer carpet & windows, open floor plan in kit/lvng/dining areas. Mstr bed has huge walk in closet, blt in desk. Bk yd fully fenced, mature trees, garden area, shed. Home sits on a corner lot. Newer roof, steel siding.MLS# 10005051
Flathead Lake Views • $164,000 This land would be a good alternative energy (sun/wind) lot. An RV hookup is already in place and waiting for your temporary home while you build. Additional acreage available.
Owner financing available
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.
2325 Quail Dr., Missoula
1527 S. 4th St. W. • $225,000
$235,000
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.
www.2325quail.com
Open House this Sunday!
Downtown Sweetheart
514 W. Spruce St. • $269,000 Grant Creek Log home 26+ private acres $449,000
1845 B W. Central $165,000
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
Attractive 2-story town home, end of cul-desac, close to shopping. Great colors throughout. Open floor plan, detached garage, AC & no HOA dues! Move-in condition. UG sprinklers. MLS#10003755
For location and more info, view these and other properties at:
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Rochelle Glasgow
Missoula Properties Cell:(406) 544-7507 • glasgow@montana.com
Missoula Independent Classifieds Page C14 July 22 – July 29, 2010
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 • $174,900 3 bedroom two full bath home with GIGANTIC shop/garage. Brand new carpet just installed. Come take a look!
Mary Mar ry R E A LT O R ® , B r ok er 406-544-2125 • mmarry@bigsky.net
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REAL ESTATE
Beautiful 14 acre parcel just west of Huson. Meadow with trees & pasture. Modulars or double wides on foundation ok. $179,900. MLS#906774. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties. Beautiful 20 acres fenced pasture land. Seasonal stream and pond. Great get away or build your dream home. No power to area. $170 per year road maintenance fee. $149,900 MLS# 905366. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 240-6503. riceteam@bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties. MONTANA PONDEROSA RANCH. Trophy Elk & Deer
Horse Trails - BLM bordering. Bank Liquidation Sale - CALL NOW! 20 Acres w/Road & Utilities - $19,900. 20 Acres w/New cabin - WAS: $99,900 NOW: $69,900. Also available: 200-3000 acres w/trees, views, utilities, Loaded w/350 class bulls, deer & game birds. Large acreage starts at $800/acre. 888-361-3006. www.WesternSkiesLand.com PRICE REDUCED! 19,602 SQ FT lot in Mullan Road area w/great views. Sewer stubbed to the lot. Close to river access, golf &shopping. $84,900. MLS# 10003279. Janet 240-3932 or Robin 2406503. riceteam @bigsky.net. Montana Preferred Properties.
COMMERCIAL CLASS A COMMERCIAL CONDO SPACE IN HELENA. 825 Great Northern Blvd., Expedition Block, Suites 202203: 1,769 sf, 3,238 sf, 5007 sf total. Occupancy negotiable, call for pricing. Randall Green, broker, 594-1547 DARBY COMMERCIAL BUILDING IN GREAT DOWNTOWN LOCATION ON MAIN ST. Two main floor retail/professional spaces featuring 10 ft ceilings, storage/back room spaces, and lots of windows plus two second floor residential rentals. Great income potential and priced to sell! $159,000. Prudential
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4 Bed, 2.5 Bath, Garage Many new updates 2nd floor deck off master suite Private backyard with deck
Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @239-6696, Text Mindy4 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com
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408 North Ave East Missoula
$520,000 MLS#10003636
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