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Vol. 20, No. 42 • Oct. 15–Oct. 22, 2009

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Up Front: State’s first curling club comes roaring down the ice Ochenski: Glacier Park pitches for new wilderness protection Scope: Indie author Claude Alick mines memories of Grenada

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Vol. 20, No. 42 • Oct. 15–Oct. 22, 2009

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

Up Front: State’s first curling club comes roaring down the ice Ochenski: Glacier Park pitches for new wilderness protection Scope: Indie author Claude Alick mines memories of Grenada

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nside Cover Story With the second-most per capita veterans in the country, Montana has struggled to adequately support its returning soldiers.

According to data from the Department of Public Health and Human Services, 332 Montana veterans have committed suicide since 2003. Fifty killed themselves last year.

Cover photo by Anne Medley But with vet-to-vet group therapy meetings, and the state’s proactive Yellow Ribbon Program, these soldiers are finally beginning to receive the treatment they need. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

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Letters A vintage T-shirt and the last wild horse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The Week in Review Wolves, antelopes and the Griz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Briefs Tourism tax, clinic closure and slough success . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Etc. Greg Barkus finds himself in dubious company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Up Front State’s first curling club comes roaring down the ice . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Ochenski Cartwright pitches wilderness designation for Glacier. . . . . . . . . . . 10 Writers on the Range Obama disappoints when it comes to salmon . . . . . . . 11 Agenda Help move Home Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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STREET TALK

by Alex Sakariassen

Asked Tuesday afternoon in the University Center.

Q:

This week, the Indy writes about the newly established Whitefish Curling Club. Have you ever played, watched or even heard of this winter sport?

Follow-up: With the 2010 Winter Olympics coming up in a few months, what event are you most looking forward to watching?

Eric Wall: It’s pretty much just a giant version of shuffleboard on ice. Everything’s better on ice. Star Wars on ice, monster trucks on ice… Ready, aim, fire: The biathlon. Those guys are crazy. Anything that involves recreational equipment and firearms has to be great.

Finding a home Thank you so much for writing the article on the wild horses (see “Alone on the Range,” Oct. 8, 2009). It is so wonderful to finally see a quality story. It seems the media and the government have always ignored these horses.

I w a s a t t h e Pr y o r M o u n t a i n Roundup in September along with Ginger Katherns and Makendra Silverman. It was a hard and heartbreaking thing to witness. I also returned for the adoption to help Ginger transport three bands of horses—15 total—including Conquistador and his mare.

It was wonderful to be able to take them to their new 3,000-acre home at the base of the Pryors. I also adopted a beautiful little 1-year-old Gruella filly.

She is home with us here in Potomac.

Thanks again for such a wonderful article.

Sandy Elmore Potomac

the world, apparently because it isn’t Great Falls.

Bill Vaughn Missoula

Welfare for wolves I recently spent some time roaming around Beaverhead County south of Butte. Everywhere I went on public lands I saw cattle wandering loose without any human supervision. These cows are nothing more than four-

to grab, you will get a fine. We should be doing the same to ranchers who are promoting unnatural food addictions through their husbandry practices.

George Wuerthner Richmond, Vt.

A step forward Sen. Jon Tester’s new Forest Jobs and Recreation Act has lately been the topic of much discussion and some controversy among conservationists,

Last shot

Chelle DeLong: I’ve pretty much only heard that it’s the most ridiculous sport in the Olympics.

Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme: Bobsledding. I liked the movie Cool Runnings. It’s great.

Aiden Curran: I’ve heard of it and seen it on TV, but I’ve never played it. It’s pretty bizarre. The brooms? Any sport with a broom is bizarre. Gate crashing: I’ll probably watch the downhill slalom. I kind of like that. I’m not really a skier, but I try to get out when I can.

Our Missoula Boy Scout Troop has been enjoying a long day hike on Wild Horse Island every fall for many years now. Being a horse owner, one of which was an adopted wild horse from Nevada, and maybe just enjoying the idea of wild horses on Wild Horse, I have kept track of the small herd every year when on the island.

This September’s outing, I found the remains of the sorrel with the white feet and went on a search for the last gelding. I found him about a halfmile uphill from his buddy in the shade of a pine.

Your article answered my internal question of whether there were plans for replacing the horses, and I’m glad that this will be the case.

I’ve attached a picture of “Old Black” that I took on Sept. 12. He is alive and well although he too is showing his age (see photo at right).

Thanks for the good news about Wild Horse and the informative article about Montana’s herds.

Tracie Stahl Missoula

A clarification, sort of

Yukie Minami: I just watch it on TV. In the Winter Olympics, compared to the Summer Olympic sports, the movement is kind of slow. Television deprived: I like skiing and snowboarding, so maybe if I get a chance. But I don’t have a TV right now.

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Your review of Kegger credits the hippy capitalists at Rockin Rudy’s with the creation of the “A Place, Sort Of ” image adorning the T-shirts the store sells. In fact, I designed this image in 1982. In its original form the flying amphibian, drawn by Jan Faust, was accompanied by the Latin words, “Vos Hic Estes,” which I took to mean “You Are Here.” I entered the design in a contest to pick a seal for the County of Missoula. It came in second. My aim for the original image and its commercial successor was to mock the selfcongratulatory zeal of people who think Missoula is the greatest town in

Reader Tracie Stahl took this photo of “Old Black,” the last remaining wild horse on Wild Horse Island, on Sept. 12.

legged picnic baskets to predators like wolves.

While I appreciate the generosity of local ranchers in their efforts to maintain fat and healthy wolf packs, I cannot condone such practices. It leads, after all, to lazy wolves. Why would a wolf spend its energy trying to pull down a sleek, fast elk, when it can far more easily secure a nice slow, fat, cow?

I am against all welfare. Look what it has done to people. We all know that welfare just promotes a lifestyle that leads to moral decay of people. People on welfare just sit around watching television and eating lousy food, and making babies. We don’t need couchpotato wolf packs.

Plus, just like all the junk food snacks eaten by welfare moms and their kids, eating fatty, artery clogging, hormone-filled cattle is not really a healthy diet for wolves either. I am concerned that our wolves are not getting a balanced and healthy diet when they spend their time munching on cows.

It’s just irresponsible and reprehensible for ranchers to be leaving their cattle all over the land so they are easily caught by wild predators. Keep in mind that what made America great is its work ethic. Welfare for wolves is not the answer. It’s time to remove all these four-legged picnic baskets from the public lands and make wolves earn a real living. Just as in national parks if you leave a picnic basket out for a bear

recreationists and other stakeholder groups who all value Montana’s vast tracts of public wildlands. In the past, these different issue groups sat on different ends on the metaphorical table, and the granola-munching wilderness advocate wouldn’t be seen giving a Skoal-spitting logger the time of day. As a result, both causes suffered—big wilderness bills protecting the wild, undeveloped places which make Montana paradise failed time and time again, and the timber industry, for the most part a cadre of men and women simply out to make an honest living in the woods, has fallen to the point where many question if it will ever be a viable industry again.

Tester’s bill is a chance to step beyond the deadlock of the past and make real progress. Forest health, timber production, backcountry travel, motorized recreation and even biomass utilization—all of these are encouraged by Tester’s bill, and for the first time such a bill has the support of conservation groups and local timber producers. The bill may not be perfect, and will perhaps not please everyone; there will always be fringe groups on every side eager to yell “No compromise!” That said, the vision this bill presents—a vision of collaboration and integrated forest management—is one-of-a-kind, and I’m excited to see it succeed.

Leo Brett Missoula

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WEEK IN REVIEW • Wednesday, October 7

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by Anne Medley

Prosecutors file three felony charges against state Sen. Greg Barkus, R-Kalispell, after the boat he was driving on Aug. 27 crashed into the rocky shore of Flathead Lake, injuring himself and four others, including U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg. Barkus’ bloodalcohol level two hours after the crash registered 0.16, twice the legal limit.

• Thursday, October 8 Missoula County Justice Court charges Timothy J. Hoppe, 28, with attempted murder after his early morning arrest. Hoppe allegedly fired a rifle toward a police officer on Stephens Avenue the previous night. A neighbor walked outside with a baseball bat to find Hoppe running through her yard, and then hit him with the bat.

• Friday, October 9 Montana wildlife officials close wolf hunting in the wilderness north of Yellowstone National Park until the regular hunting season opens Oct. 25, hoping to push hunters to other parts of the district. Nine wolves have been killed in the area since Sept. 15, three shy of the quota. Two more have been harvested in the Bob Marshall Wilderness.

• Saturday, October 10 Record-cold temperatures don’t stop the Griz—or the team’s fans—during a furious fourth-quarter rally to defeat Cal Poly, 35-23, during Homecoming Weekend. The crowd of 25,694 ranks as the third largest in Washington-Grizzly Stadium history.

• Sunday, October 11 Indy arts editor Erika Fredrickson bags her first animal ever—an antelope, no less—in the three seasons she’s attempted hunting. Although her initial attempt to field dress turns out to be a gnarly experience, the prospect of sausage making and subsequent sausage eating holds delicious promise.

• Monday, October 12 Montana Rep Missoula performs The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later, an epilogue to the awardwinning original play about the murder of Matthew Shepard, who was killed because he was gay. The updated performance also opens in 49 other states, as well as in Canada, Spain, Australia and Hong Kong, China.

• Tuesday, October 13 Missoula County Commissioners vote unanimously to designate the county an economic recovery zone.

The move enables city, county and private entities to access more than $75 million in heavily subsidized loans as part of the federal stimulus package.

A pail of apples waits to be pressed into cider during the ninth annual Fall Gathering at the Moon-Randolph Homestead on Oct. 3.

Mitchell Slough

Tensions get ditched Ravalli County Commissioners approved three proposed portage routes on Mitchell Slough in a 3-1 vote Oct. 8, adding a calmer chapter to the years-long debate over the contentious waterway.

“It does represent, I think, some progress in terms of reducing conflict and balancing the rights of property owners…with the rights of the public to utilize a public resource,” says Commissioner Jim Rokosch.

The approval is welcome news to the Bitterroot River Protection Association (BRPA), which originally requested two of the three routes in 2003. BRPA Secretary Michael Howell says established routes at the three locations should soothe tensions by limiting the number of people portaging across private land.

“That’s a win-win deal for both sides,” Howell says. “That’s a win for the landowners and a win for the recreationists to establish a portage route in an area where there has been some dispute, some animosity, some confrontations.”

Landowners contested recreational use of Mitchell Slough for years, claiming the waterway was a human-made ditch. Powell County District Judge Ted Mizner sided with landowners in a 2006 ruling, cutting public access to the slough.

The Montana Supreme Court continued the tug-of-war when it unanimously overturned Mizner’s decision in November 2008. Mitchell Slough is now considered a natural flowing stream, and the BRPA filed a new portage request July 13 of this year.

Commissioner J.R. Iman was the sole voice of dissent in last Thursday’s vote, citing concerns over the portage at Tucker Headgate–a portage requested by both BRPA and recreationist Scott Blahnik. Iman says the proposal doesn’t consider that the irrigation canal accessed by the portage route runs dry in fall and winter.

“My objection is not to the portage routes,” Iman says, “except for the fact that at this particular location it should be seasonal.”

Landowners and others who disagree with the proposed routes can appeal the commission’s findings to a three-person arbitration panel. The appeal period lasts through early November.

Alex Sakariassen

Health

Kalispell’s clinic closes Planned Parenthood of Montana announced this week it will close its Kalispell clinic in late November, another victim of the Flathead Valley’s unsparing economic slowdown.

“It’s closing due to the challenging economic times that have been somewhat worse for the Flathead Valley than in other counties in Montana,” says Beth Cogswell, Planned Parenthood of Montana’s director of communications. “We’re just seeing more and more people there who unfortunately have lost their jobs and lost their health insurance, and just don’t have the ability to pay.

“Our patient numbers are also flat,” Cogswell continues, “and we think that because of the economic crisis—and this has been born out in some recent studies—that people are putting off getting their health care. They’re trying to put food on the table and gas in the car, and sometimes they put their health on the back burner.”

According to a recent survey conducted by the Guttmacher Institute, nearly one in four

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women have put off a gynecologic or birth control visit in the past year to save money, and the same proportion reported having a harder time paying for birth control than they did in the past.

The trend has led Planned Parenthood Federation of America to merge seven locations around the country with others. The number of outright closures was unavailable as of press time.

Cogswell says the Kalispell clinic, which opened four years ago during the Flathead Valley’s economic and population boom, saw about 1,500 patients last year, compared to the more than 5,000 patients the Missoula clinic sees annually. Three of the clinic’s four staffers will lose their jobs. The clinic manager will be employed at the Missoula location following the closing.

In the meantime, the Kalispell clinic’s goal, Cogswell says, will be to refer its patients to appropriate providers.

She expects many will find care at the Flathead Community Health Center, a federally funded facility similar to Missoula’s Partnership Health Center. Its success, in fact, and the success of other health clinics like it, have contributed to Planned Parenthood’s closures and consolidations nationwide, Cogswell says.

Matthew Frank

Economy

Tourism tax in trouble Local hoteliers are working to thwart an attempt by the Missoula Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) to tack a 75-cent-pernight room charge onto stays within city limits.

“I think it’s way too much,” says John Burns, owner of the Clark Fork Inn. “It will hurt everyone’s business.”

The 2007 Montana Legislature opened the door for cities to create tourism improvement districts. Since then, Billings, Bozeman, Great Falls and Helena have created their own, using money from the tax on new marketing campaigns to lure travelers.

According to Missoula CVB Executive Director Barbara Neilan, the estimated $500,000 raised annually in Missoula would pay for promotional materials and sales staff to push tourism amenities. So far, the Missoula Area Economic Development Council and some hotels, including the Best Western Grant Creek Inn, have voiced support for the tax in recent

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City Council meetings.

“The idea is to generate new moneys for Missoula, overall,” Neilan says.

But budget motel owners argue the fee would affect them disproportionately, jacking up their per-room charge as much as 3 percent on top of a statewide 7-percent bed tax. They

argue pricier competitors would barely see a blip.

“I think they should make it more equitable,” says Al Arneson, owner of the Quality Inn Econo Lodge in Missoula.

Critics argue increased paperwork would also force business owners to perform additional administrative tasks, potentially ratcheting costs up even further.

As it stands, Missoula City Clerk Marty Rehbein reports that more than half of local hoteliers protest the tourism district, enough to meet a statutory requirement to halt the process. But the tax can’t officially be derailed until the Missoula City Council revisits the issue during a yet-to-be scheduled meeting. That means hoteliers still have time to change their minds—and Neilan hasn’t given up the fight.

“Never say die,” she says.

Neilan says Missoula CVB is now examining ways to find consensus, including a possible sliding fee rather that a flat room charge.

“We are trying very hard to find an answer,” she says.

Jessica Mayrer

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Recreation

ATVs blocked in BTM A group of snowmobilers, motorcyclists and ATV riders filed suit against the U.S. Forest Service two weeks ago, claiming a travel plan that prohibits motorized use in the Badger-Two Medicine (BTM) area adjacent to Glacier National Park infringes on the Blackfeet tribe’s right to use the land—even though the tribe supports the plan.

The plaintiffs, including seven individuals and three motorized use organizations, argue that the plan violates Blackfeet tribal members’ rights by denying them access to land guaranteed to them under an 1895 treaty, and violates all of their rights by enacting a recreation ban “that can only be enforced against non-Blackfeet Tribal members on the basis of race.”

In March, the Lewis and Clark National Forest released its travel plan for the 129,520-acre area. Forest Supervisor Leslie “Spike” Thompson closed 182 of its 189 miles of trails to all motorized vehicles, citing the cultural and spiritual significance of the area to the Blackfeet tribe.

The tribe owned the land until 1896, when it sold 800,000 acres of its reservation to the U.S. government for $1.5 million— land that today makes up part of Glacier National Park and the BTM. But the treaty preserved the tribe’s rights to use the land for purposes such as timber extraction, hunting and fishing.

With that history in mind, the Forest Service worked with the tribal government to incorporate its interests into the travel plan. It wasn’t only the tribe, though, that sought non-motorized use. The proposed plan drew 35,500 public comments, and Thompson says the consensus was clear.

“The majority, by far, supported pretty much non-motorized use across the Rocky Mountain Ranger District,” he says.

Depending on how the U.S. District Court in Great Falls decides, Blackfeet Tribal Business Council Chairman Willie Sharp says it could set a precedent within the state.

“When we get [a ruling],” he says, “it’s going to affect every other Montana tribe and their cultural access.”

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Record low temperature set in Missoula Oct. 12, breaking the 2002 record of 22 degrees.

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Flathead County prosecutors ended a prolonged, courtimposed silence last week and finally filed charges of criminal endangerment and two counts of negligent vehicular assault against state Sen. Greg Barkus, R-Kalispell. For those adrift at sea the past six weeks, the charges come after Barkus crashed his boat Aug. 27 into the rocky shore of Wayfarers State Park, injuring all five aboard, including U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg.

A Rehberg staffer and University of Montana alumnus, Dustin Frost, sustained a severe brain injury that kept him in a coma for 10 days. According to the charges, Barkus’ boat was not equipped with proper lighting, was traveling approximately 40 mph, and Barkus’ blood alcohol content nearly two hours after the crash registered .16, or twice the legal limit.

Right about now, Barkus might be feeling a little anchorless, hunkered down in his Kalispell home awaiting his Oct. 26 arraignment. But Barkus is hardly alone. In fact, he’s only one of an alarming number of elected officials accused of boozing and driving each year in the United States.

Take Tennessee Rep. Rob Briley, who had his 2007 arrest posted on YouTube. The chairman of the state’s House Judiciary Committee took police on a 100-mile chase before stopping his rig and finishing his drink at gunpoint, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel.

Then there’s New Hampshire Sen. William Denley, who resigned this year after his third drunk driving arrest, according to news reports. Those following Barkus’ history may remember that Lake County officers charged him in 2004 with driving under the influence—a charge later reduced to reckless driving—after pulling over his white Corvette going nearly 20 mph over the speed limit. Regardless, Barkus told the Associated Press last week that he planned to finish out his term.

Another instructive example comes from closer to home.

Officers caught then-Montana Rep. Scott Boggio, R-Red Lodge, driving over a curb one Saturday night in 2007. Boggio blew a .14. Boggio’s passenger, Elsie Arntzen, a Republican legislator from Billings and a member of the Yellowstone County DUI Task Force, said she had no idea Boggio was toasted—just as Rehberg claimed he thought Barkus was sober the night of his accident. But more important with the Boggio example, the state legislator issued a public apology for his actions. Barkus has yet to express any remorse for what he did on Aug. 27.

Despite evidence to the contrary, Barkus maintains he wasn’t sloshed that night, and his attorney says the blood alcohol reading is flat-out wrong. Let the courts decide that, but we’d like to at least hear Barkus acknowledge some accountability for launching his boat onto the shore and putting his passengers in harm’s way.

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The mysterious white art State’s first curling club comes roaring down the ice

by Alex Sakariassen

Shouts echo across the Stumptown Ice Den in Whitefish, followed by the low groan of gliding granite. Few of the 18 people here have ever curled before.

Maybe they saw the sport televised in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.

Maybe they’re just bored on a Sunday afternoon.

Twenty teams with the Aspen Curling Club now play two nights a week in winter, with weekends reserved for practices and public curling events.

“I’d watched it on the Olympics and thought it looked like a blast,” Hoepfer says. But he can’t quite put a finger on what drew him to the sport. “I’ve heard

shop. More than 50 people attended, and the club now has four teams.

“We pulled this together in very little time,” Hoepfer says. “We couldn’t have done it without the city of Whitefish Parks and Rec. That’s where most arena clubs have trouble. Public rinks have lots of demand for hockey and public skating time…They wonder, ‘Is [curling] a moneymaker for us?’ That’s where we can help out, by showing them, ‘Yes.’” Hoepfer’s biggest concern is fundraising for curling stones.

One set of 16 stones costs around $7,000, and Whitefish will eventually need two. The North Dakota Curling Association loaned Hoepfer two sets this fall, but the favor expires in January.

“Our goal is to start fundraising right away so we can have one set of stones,” Hoepfer says. “Then we’ll start fundraising for the second set.

Photo by Alex Sakariassen We need the stones cause we Jim Thompson tosses a curling stone down the Whitefish ice arena during the have the interest.”

Hoepfer says local businesses Whitefish Curling Club’s learn-to-curl workshop Oct. 11. The club, founded in July by John Hoepfer, already fields four teams and roughly 20 members. and individuals have already donated funding to sponsor 10 Instructors run through game lingo people call it the ‘mysterious white art,’ stones. The club sees that as a public vote during the Whitefish Curling Club’s learn- and I totally agree.” of confidence in curling’s potential. to-curl workshop. Two “skips” —curling’s “Once rink operators in cities see Curling was pioneered on frozen take on the quarterback position—point ponds in Scotland in the 1500s and most how much fun the folks are having curlout shots to newbies positioned in the closely resembles shuffleboard. ing and, frankly, how much money they “hack,” a C-shaped plastic foothold. As 40- Enthusiasts refer to it as “chess on ice,” as can bring in with people having fun, I pound granite stones roar down the rink, the placement of stones in the house think other cities are going to follow,” beginners with fiberglass “brooms” guide requires intense strategy. It’s often the says Will Hagin, a Whitefish attorney who the speed and direction of tosses by fran- butt of jokes, and even fueled the 2002 joined the club in August. “Hopefully we tically sweeping the ice.

Canadian comedy Men with Brooms star- can be successful enough to help other Until this fall, Montana remained the ring Leslie Nielsen. folks start similar programs in other cities only state bordering Canada without an Aware of Hoepfer’s experience with in Montana.” established curling club. Several commu- the Aspen club, Whitefish Parks and The workshop wraps up five minutes nities have made the attempt, with Recreation Facility Manager Andy after the club’s four-hour timeslot Gallatin County struggling to form a club Hergesheimer approached Hoepfer in expires, and no one wants to leave. Some last winter, but Whitefish is well on its July about a similar grassroots effort for hunt for the club roster, dropping $20 on way to being the state’s first success story. Whitefish. The two recognized a long- a year membership. Others plan to attend That’s predominantly the work of standing demand for curling in the the first practice on Saturday, hoping to club president John Hoepfer, 60, a 25- community, and Hergesheimer immedi- try again before joining. year Colorado resident who moved to ately offered late-night ice time on “Once I figure out the schedule for Whitefish in June. During the clinic, he Saturdays. the next practice, you bet I’ll be back,” wanders around the arena with his red “It’s always been in the back of says first-timer Jim Thompson. cap turned backwards, offering pointers m y m i n d t o s t a r t c u r l i n g , ” s a y s Hoepfer pulls a bottle of Aleve from and inspecting makeshift “houses”—tar- Hergesheimer, who has managed the ice his vest pocket. Even a sport as addictive get-shaped goals—he painted earlier. rink for seven years. “We have a Canadian as curling comes with sacrifices, he jokes.

“Curling comes off the ice, and you influence up here, since we’re close to Despite the aches, he’s got grand plans can’t get people out of the rink,” the border, and there are people around for curling in Montana. Three years from Hoepfer says later. “They’re playing, here who have curled in the past.” now? Youth curling, statewide leagues, a they’re visiting, they’re socializing. I Whitefish Parks and Rec covered the more rigorous schedule for practices and love to see that.” $1,200 for brooms, hacks and other public exposure. Just like in Aspen.

Hoepfer first took to curling when he equipment using funds from the rink “’Cause it’s about time,” he says. “If headed a learn-to-curl workshop at the budget. Hoepfer arranged to bring in two we can head the charge, we’re happy Aspen Ice Garden in late 2006. The event instructors–Merwyn Nash from McCall, to.” drew 400 people in two days and led to Idaho, and Roger Smith from Bismarck, asakariassen@missoulanews.com the formation of an 80-player league. N.D.–for last weekend’s two-day work-

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Protect the park Cartwright pitches wilderness designation for Glacier One of Montana’s greatest assets is Glacier National Park, where the sheer beauty of the majestic landscape overwhelms visitors with stunning vistas of waterfalls, aquamarine lakes, hanging glaciers on towering peaks and abundant wildlife. Most of us take for granted that Glacier will always remain as we have come to know it. But that assumption is uncertain, at best, and Chas Cartwright, Glacier’s new superintendent, thinks the best way to preserve Glacier’s wild attributes is to give it formal protection as wilderness.

It was a packed crowd last week that filled the upper room of Helena’s Blackfoot River Brewery to listen to Cartwright’s presentation and show support for the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, better known as NREPA. Unlike the wilderness-logging bill currently proposed by Sen. Jon Tester, NREPA would provide full legal wilderness protection to both Glacier and Yellowstone National Parks.

Some might wonder why we would need an additional layer of protection for our national parks, while others may fear that wilderness designation would change the Glacier we know and love. Cartwright, in his presentation, laid it out straight, both enumerating the reasons why wilderness protection is necessary and allaying fears that existing conditions would be changed.

In his “Top Ten Reasons to Designate Glacier National Park as Wilderness,” Cartwright starts with “Complete Unfinished Business.” It will come as a surprise to most people that President Nixon sent Congress a recommendation to designate most of Glacier as wilderness some 35 years ago. In this day and age of bitter partisan politics, it seems unbelievable that a Republican president would have endorsed more wilderness.

Unfortunately, and perhaps because of the Watergate scandal that eventually drove him from office in disgrace, Congress did not take Nixon’s advice.

Some will recall President Reagan and then-Secretary of the Interior James Watt, who wanted to drill, mine and develop public lands throughout the West. In truth, the George W. Bush administration was little different and perhaps even worse, and went so far as to suggest we sell off huge swathes of public lands to the highest bidders simply to raise revenue.

But drilling and mining aren’t the only threats to national parks. As we’ve seen in the tragedy of Yosemite National Park, beautiful meadows and

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stunning natural landscapes have been plowed under, paved over and turned into parking lots for new, highend hotels, restaurants and lodges.

Could it happen to Glacier? You bet it could and, sad to say, some day it might. Depending on who is in the White House, whom they appoint as parks overseer and what political or financial motivations they may bring to bear, Glacier’s future could be hanging by a very thin thread indeed.

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an act of Congress, would put those concerns to rest unless Congress could somehow be convinced to remove such designation, which is not likely to happen.

Cartwright also says making most of Glacier formal wilderness would not drastically change the park. First, there’s little argument over the value of Glacier’s backcountry resources, where most of the designation would occur. The pre-existing major roads, such as the awe-inspiring Going to the Sun Highway, would remain in place.

The Granite Park and Sperry Chalets would likewise continue to operate and be preserved and maintained since, as Cartwright says, they’re “major historical features” in Glacier.

Nor would wilderness designation change the way most visitors enjoy the park. Trail upkeep, fire suppression and other activities would continue and wilderness designation for about 90 percent of the park would not, according to Cartwright, “unduly constrain the autonomy or discretion of future park Superintendents.”

Another surprise for many readers may be Cartwright’s revelation that “there are 60 designated wilderness areas within the National Park System and the National Park Service manages more wilderness acres than any other federal land management agency.” Plus, Waterton Lakes National Park—Canada’s half of the Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park—has recently received wilderness designation. Given the interest in coal mining and coal-bed methane extraction directly north of Glacier’s western boundary, Cartwright makes a good point that unless we take steps to provide similar wilderness protection for Glacier, “Canada at times has the perception that we are lecturing them regarding the inappropriateness of mining development in the upper Flathead drainage.”

Finally, Cartwright sums it up succinctly: “It’s the right thing to do.” And so it is. We’re fortunate to have a new superintendent who both recognizes this and is taking concrete steps to inform the general public about why we should take action now to preserve Glacier for future generations.

Which brings us to the often ugly business of modern politics and how to actually “git ’er done.”

It’s more than a little puzzling why such protection isn’t included in either the Tester bill or the newly announced Rocky Mountain Front proposal.

Perhaps, given the non-controversial nature of designating wilderness status for Glacier’s backcountry, there just weren’t any extractive industries with which to collaborate—and collaboration seems to be one of Tester’s main goals.

NREPA, on the other hand, doesn’t worry much about the appearance of collaboration, seeking only to protect vital ecosystems and wildlife corridors on a landscape scale—including the backcountry of both Glacier and Yellowstone.

The political problem, unfortunately, is that none of Montana’s congressional delegation has either the guts or commitment to endorse NREPA. Nonetheless, as Cartwright points out, permanent protection for Glacier is vitally necessary. The seminal question now is who will do it, and the silence is deafening.

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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by Michael Blumm

The Obama administration’s salmon plan for the Columbia and Snake rivers, submitted to U.S. District Judge James Redden in mid-September, was a great disappointment. It largely ratified the Bush administration’s plan and failed to come up with effective action to restore the runs of endangered salmon, fish that are central to the history, culture and economy of the Northwest. Instead, the plan promised more dam business as usual. As the rock group The Who once famously sang: “Meet the new boss; same as the old boss.�

However disappointing to salmon advocates, this commitment to the status quo was hardly surprising. In fact, endorsement of the Bush plan was foreshadowed when the leadership of the federal Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), which basically dictates dam operations to promote hydropower, was left intact by Obama.

Over the last 30 years, BPA has successfully resisted any substantial changes in dam operations, although—as the agency is quick to declare—it spends considerable sums each year on salmon. The total bill is now somewhere in excess of $8 billion, depending on who is counting.

All that money has been unable to reverse the decline of the wild salmon because hydropower operations remain the root cause of the problem. This continues despite the 1980 Northwest Power Act’s promise that fish and wildlife would be “co-equal� with hydropower—and despite a decade and a half of biological opinions under the Endangered Species Act aimed at recovering listed salmon runs.

And now the Obama administration promises more of the same. There will be lots of studies, habitat work in the estuary and promised improvements in hatcheries. All this amounts to is the same song, second verse.

True, some of the studies will monitor climate change, which the Bush administration pretended wasn’t happening. And there will be contingency planning if the fish runs “decline significant-

ly,� triggering a multi-year look at removing the four lower Snake River dams. (In fact, a decade ago studies indicated that dam removal was economically feasible and biologically preferred.) Under the Obama plan, it looks like three decades of ineffective action will turn into four.

Differences between the two plans are mere window dressing. No wonder the BPA administrator, along with the

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heads of several other federal agencies, including Gary Locke, Obama’s secretary of Commerce, quickly inundated Northwestern op-ed pages, urging the public to support the new plan. It will “prevent further declines� of the salmon runs, they claimed, and they called for an end to litigation—understandably, since those lawsuits regularly prove their failure to meet the requirements of the Endangered Species Act. This public relations campaign ignores the fact that the law requires more than preventing further declines of listed salmon. It requires recovery of the salmon runs. And nothing the federal

government has proposed promises to recover Columbia Basin salmon.

In truth, ending the litigation would be the worst thing for salmon. Judge Redden ordered one of the few operational changes in recent years that benefited salmon—spilling water to facilitate fish passage through the dams. He did so over the objections of all the federal agencies involved, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the supposed protector of salmon. Independent scientists at the Fish Passage Center have confirmed the benefits of the spills that the judge ordered.

For its part, the BPA has tried to make the litigation over salmon go away by wielding its economic clout— paying nearly $1 billion over the next decade for the support of all but one of the tribes with fishing rights on the river. And the Obama administration’s new plan includes $40 million for the support of the state of Washington, which might be accused of selling out on the cheap. But so far, the Nez Perce Tribe and the state of Oregon have refused to be bought off and remain in the litigation on the side of non-governmental fish advocates and the salmon.

These payoffs should not deceive the public, because they only raise the cost of pursuing an ineffective salmon plan. The $8 billion price tag could double by the time Obama leaves office.

The salmon’s only remaining hope is that the court will uphold the Endangered Species Act and require the federal government to take meaningful and effective steps now to save salmon.

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We’re celebrating our platinum status (and you’re invited).

If you’ve ever wandered around Home during the Spontaneous Construction Auction Resource, it’s hard not to develop a sense of awe and Awards Gala. During the event, Mayor John among the colossal array of used doors, toilets, Engen will auction off the best works from buckets of paint, breaker boxes and SponCon 2009, an annual endeavanything else fit for a do-it-yourself or where artists pillage Home home repair guru.

Resource’s wares in order to make The nonprofit has hawked refound art and furniture in just six usable building materials since hours. There’ll also be music from August 2003. Since then, its invenCash for Junkers and dessert from tory has ballooned every year.

Bernice’s Bakery.

That’s a lot of stuff that didn’t end Consider your presence at up in the landfill. this event the easiest home At this point, Home Resource is improvement project you’ve ever running at full capacity and needs a tackled. bigger location. It has a spot –Ira Sather-Olson secured—on the corner of Russell and Wyoming streets—which Home Resource’s SponPhoto by Chad Harder should house15,000 square feet of taneous Construction and goods indoors, as well as 24,000 square feet of Awards Gala is Fri., Oct. 16, at 7 PM at the materials outdoors. The nonprofit hopes to move Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. $15 door/$10

by March, but needs $100,000 to finish up with a d v a n c e a t H o m e R e s o u r c e , 8 2 5 yard improvements and remodeling.

W. Ke n t Av e . C a l l 541- 8 30 0 o r v i s i t On Friday, you’ll have a chance to help out www.homeresource.org.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 15 The ghost of Julia Child might take over your nimble fingers during a life skills cooking class on fall stews and soups at the YWCA of Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway St., at 6:15 PM. Free. RSVP by calling 543-6691 or e-mailing Jamie at jmcgarvey@ywcaofmissoula.org. Child care also available, but call 24 hours beforehand.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 16 If you or someone in your family is suffering from cancer, the Cancer Family Network of Montana is offering spots at its Fall Fest Family Retreat for free, which runs Nov. 7–8 at the Holiday Inn in Bozeman, but you must register by today. Call 587-8080.

It’s official! Our Russell Street branch achieved the highest possible LEED certification level and we’re throwing a party to celebrate.

Join us at 1775 S. Russell for food, music, paper shredding*, and a plaque presentation by Mayor John Engen, Thursday, October 15th, 4:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Grab your cigarette puffing teen and shove ‘em off to the MOBASH Skatepark at McCormick Park from 2–6 PM today or tomorrow where those antismoking peeps from the Truth campaign will be on hand to discuss tobacco issues in “a nonpreachy way.” Free. Call 864-616-7969.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 17 Those suffering from illness or loss can find solace during one of Living Art Montana’s Creativity for Life workshops at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St., at 10:30 AM. This week features the program “Simple Writing, Creative Phrases” with Lori Mitchell. Donations appreciated, as is registration.

Call 549-5329 or visit www.livingartofmontana.org.

SUNDAY OCTOBER 18 Health reform or the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act might be where the convo flows when Sen. Jon Tester and Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin meet at the Florence Building, 111 N. Higgins Ave., from 11:30 AM–1:30 PM. $35 suggested donation. Call Angela at 465-5753 or e-mail angelawong@bresnan.net.

MONDAY OCTOBER 19 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.

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Support Group Meeting, which meets at 6:30 PM in the Duran Learning Center at St. Patrick Hospital, 500 W. Broadway St. Free. Call Jim Mickelson at 544-6629.

Make your impassioned point in whatever rented costume most fits the bill when the Missoula City Council meets—as they do the first four Mondays of every month, holidays excluded—at 7 PM in the Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Free. Call 552-6080.

See if you can wade through the controversy and hoopla surrounding President Obama’s speech to students, as well as the movie The Story of Stuff, during a family-geared screening of each at 7 PM in the large meeting room of the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free, with free ice cream to follow. Call 543-5613.

TUESDAY OCTOBER 20 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.

I’m guessing that downing a few shots of espresso before the “big interview” isn’t a tip offered during an interviewing workshop from 3:30–5 PM in Room 154 of UM’s Lommasson Center. Free. Call 243-2022.

Women can exercise some playful moves during “Nia,” this week’s installment of the YWCA of Missoula’s Living in Peace women’s group which meets from 6:30–8 PM at the YWCA, 1130 W. Broadway St. Free. Call 543-6691.

Those that have problems with anorexia or bulimia can find a shoulder to lean on during a meeting of Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous, which meets this and every Tue. at 7:30 PM in the Memorial Room of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. E-mail abamissoula@gmail.com.

THURSDAY OCTOBER 22 Still haven’t joined the interwebs, or figured out how to save a document on a computer? Remedy that quickly during free classes on basic computer use at Stevensville’s North Valley Public Library, 208 Main St., at 9 AM every Thu. until Oct. 29.

Free. Call 777-5061.

AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also e-mail entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.

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Curious but true news items from around the world

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Mitchel L. Legg, 26, was at a police station in Richmond, Ind., filling out an application to carry a gun, when officers and staff members noticed a telltale smell.

“He reeked of marijuana,” Chief Kris Wolski told the Palladium-Item, “so they patted him down.” Besides marijuana, officers found a .22 semiautomatic handgun “in a little nylon holster under his shirt,” Wolski said.

While responding to a domestic disturbance call in Carter County, Tenn., sheriff’s Deputy Richard Barnett drove to the wrong address. Daniel Hubert Taylor Jr., 33, met Barnett at the door, invited him inside, placed his hands behind his back and said he was ready to go to jail.

The Johnson City Press reported that when Barnett asked why, Taylor said he assumed the deputy had come to arrest him for outstanding warrants. Barnett called headquarters, verified that Taylor was wanted and took him into custody.

FAITH-BASED FOLLIES - Atheists are offering to look after the cats and dogs of Christian believers after the Rapture. For $110, Eternal Earth-Bound Pets promises lifetime care for pets whose owners are transported to heaven within the next 10 years. “Each of our representatives has stated to us in writing that they are atheists, do not believe in God/Jesus, and that they have blasphemed in accordance with Mark 3:29, negating any chance of salvation,” says the group’s website, which advises subscribers who lose their faith or are not taken to heaven in the next 10 years that the fee is nonrefundable.

After being rescued from a stalled elevator in Vienna, Austria, Gunther Link, 45, went to church to give thanks, only to be crushed to death when the 860-pound stone altar fell on him. “He seems to have embraced a stone pillar on which the stone altar was perched, and it fell on him, killing him instantly,” police official Roman Hahslinger told Britain’s Daily Telegraph, adding, “He was a very religious man.”

HALL OF SHAME - A tell-all book by a former employee of Alcor, the Arizona company that froze the remains of baseball great Ted Williams, accuses the cryogenics lab of mistreating Williams’s severed head. In Frozen: My Journey into the World of Cryonics, author Larry Johnson discloses that an Alcor official swung a monkey wrench at the frozen head to remove a tuna can stuck to it. The first swing missed the can and struck the head. The second swing knocked the can loose. Johnson said Alcor used such cans, left over from feeding a cat that lived at the lab, as pedestals for its heads. Alcor Life Extension Foundation denied the book’s account and vowed on its website that litigation would be forthcoming “to the maximum extent of the law.”

NO NOBEL PRIZE—YET - After serving nine months in prison for throwing two shoes at thenpresident George W. Bush, journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi, 30, was showered with gifts upon his release. USA Today reported his employer, the Cairo-based television network al-Baghdadiya, continued paying his salary throughout his incarceration and bought him a fully furnished twostory villa in Baghdad. Sheik Ahmed Jowda, 75, a tribal leader in the West Bank, announced plans to send a young woman “loaded with jewels and gold” for al-Zeidi to consider for marriage. “There are many Palestinian girls who want to marry Muntadhar,” Jowda said, adding that all Arab people “hope to get the chance of doing what he did.”

COITUS INTERRUPTUS - A man and a woman, both 44, crawled into a dumpster in Wichita, Kan., and were having what police described as “an intimate moment,” when two men robbed them. The Wichita Eagle reported the robbers, one of whom was armed with a pocketknife, took the couple’s shoes, jewelry and the man’s wallet. Police found the suspects, ages 64 and 59, with the stolen property a short time later.

WALK, DON’T RUN - The mayor of Wellford, S.C., banned the town’s police officers from chasing suspects on foot. Sallie Peake told WSPA-TV she issued the order because the city had to pay for an officer who missed work after chasing a “guy who had a piece of crack on him.”

She said a drug-possession charge wasn’t worth the cost to taxpayers, although her written order said she did “not want anyone chasing any suspects whatsoever.”

KNOW YOUR RIGHTS - Japan’s largest organized crime outfit, the Yamaguchi-gumi, is requiring gang members to take a test in order to reduce costly lawsuits, according to police, who noted that the revised Anti-Organized Crime Law allows higher-ranking gang members to be sued for the actions of their subordinates. The Mainichi Daily News reported that police learned of the 12-question “gangster exam” while investigating a member of the gang’s affiliate in Shiga Prefecture. A sample question was, “What kind of activities are banned?” The answer: “dumping industrial waste, bootlegging fuel, theft of construction vehicles and other expensive items, phone fraud scams” and other crimes.

WHEN HARASSING PHONE CALLS AREN’T ENOUGH - After a security screener detected Marcellus Arellano, 68, trying to enter a federal building in Portland, Ore., with three knives, Arellano, who claims the Internal Revenue Service owes him $12,000, told Federal Protective Service agent Micah Coring that he brought the knives to scare IRS workers into releasing his money.

DENTAL-VISION HEALTH PLAN COMBO - Sharron “Kay” Thornton, 60, who lost her vision nine years ago, regained her sight after surgeons removed one of her teeth, drilled a hole in it, inserted a plastic lens into the hole and implanted the tooth-lens combination into her left eye. McClatchy Newspapers reported the operation, the first of its kind in the United States, left Thornton with 20/70 vision. The tooth used was a canine, sometimes called an eyetooth.

DEFLATED EGO - A judge in Charles County, Md., admitted letting the air out of the tire of an illegally parked car belonging to a woman who works as a part-time cleaning worker at the courthouse. Circuit Court Judge Robert C. Nalley, 65, resigned as chief administrator of the Circuit Court but will remain on the bench. The Washington Post reported that two county sheriff’s jail officers witnessed the incident, which Nalley said he didn’t think was a big deal.

He told the Maryland Independent newspaper he actually did the woman a favor by letting the air out of tire rather than having the car towed or ticketed.

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hase Weston, a veteran of the Iraq War, sits forward in a white plastic lawn chair.

With a diagram of a human brain on a piece of paper, he explains, with necessary detachment, what the hell’s been going on in his head.

“The feeling of helplessness comes here,” he says, pointing to the hippocampus, the brain’s center of emotion and memory. “There’s something triggered in the hippocampus, which says, ‘Okay, I remember this situation.

In this situation I did this. But where’s my weapon?’…That’s why you’re finding veterans with guns within arm’s reach. You have veterans who are displaying unsafe behavior. Those unsafe behaviors—having a gun, a stick, a rock, a knife in their back pocket, throwing stars on their belt—are because they’re trying to fill the void of that weapon.”

Weston, chain-smoking Marlboros in a friend’s backyard in Missoula, goes on, describing in more detail how his brain’s amygdala, prefrontal cortex, hippocampus and hypothalamus all conspire to inflict him with post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, an anx-

iety disorder sparked by experiencing or witnessing an event that causes intense fear, helplessness or horror.

“That’s how I understand it works,” he says, “and that for me is what has literally solved my problem.” He catches himself. “I can’t speak in the past tense.”

Weston, 26, comes across as forthright, polite and articulate, with piercing blue eyes that convey what he’s seen as much as his words do. He was born and raised in Missoula, graduating from Loyola Sacred Heart High School in 2002. He spent eight months in 2005 fighting in Iraq. He was a gunner on a Humvee with the third infantry division, shooting, he says, hundreds of rounds a day with his M249 machine gun. He tells of transporting detainees, interrogating them, and participating in search and seizure operations. He says he killed people, including a young Iraqi girl held by an armed insurgent. The memory of it, he says, makes it difficult for him to be around his 3-year-old daughter.

On September 4, 2005, Weston’s Humvee was hit by an IED, or improvised explosive device. The bomb

broke his back and caused a traumatic brain injury. He was evacuated to Germany. According to Weston’s file with the Department of the Army Public Affairs, he received a number of medals for his service. But Weston prefers not to discuss them in detail.

“Because in the infantry,” he says, “it’s not about the medals. It’s about the guy next to you.”

Two of the guys who once served next to him, Sgt. Monta Ruth and Spc. Dennis Ferderer, are memorialized by a tattoo on Weston’s right arm. In 2005, days before Weston himself was hit, Ruth was killed by a roadside bomb; Ferderer by a hand grenade two months later. Next to their names on his arm are the words: ALL GIVE SOME GIVE ALL Weston’s considerable physical wounds paled in comparison to his mental ones, though he was slow to recognize them.

In October 2005, while recovering at Fort Benning in Georgia, Weston

asked his girlfriend, 18 at the time, to live with him. He bought her a bus ticket from Missoula, and on Nov. 1, after a long night of drinking, she and Weston went to the courthouse to get married. As Weston tells it, “I was drunk, my best friend farted, and she cried.” Two months later she became pregnant. Five months later they decided to divorce.

Weston, without pause, explains why.

“I put her up against the wall, grabbed her by the throat and told her if she ever fucking touches me again I’ll kill her,” he says, explaining the incident occurred during sex.

Weston then pulls out his BlackBerry and reads the opening paragraph of a paper his ex-wife, now 22, wrote for a class at the University of Montana.

“His eyes are filled with rage. As he comes toward me, he picks up his pace,” she wrote. “With his fist tightening he starts to scare me. His grip tightens around my arms as he slams me up against the front door…”

Weston’s candor shocks, but only at first, because his stories make clear

MONTANA VETERANS LEAD THE FIGHT AGAINST POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER

by Matthew Frank, photos by Anne Medley

An improvised explosive device broke Chase Weston’s back while serving in Iraq in 2005. But it was Weston’s mental wounds, and the onset of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), that caused the most lasting and debilitating effects. After recently returning home to Missoula after a year of inpatient therapy, Weston, 26, knows a long road to recovery still lies ahead.

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that it wasn’t really him—the predeployment version of him, the high school football player, the kid his family now has to remind him of—who committed such despicable acts. It was another version, a version still in a canvas-top Humvee, his machine gun raised, sand in his mouth, numbed by a blast that nearly kills the men in the truck in front of him.

“Did I [threaten my wife] because I’m a violent person? Hell no,” he says.

“I was raised in a cattle-ranching family, where you’re taught not to lay a hand on a woman, and by God if you do, you start digging your own grave…But when that switch is flipped, you ain’t you.”

Even beyond the flashbacks, Weston wasn’t himself. When he returned to Missoula he says he developed a dependence on alcohol, cocaine and prescription drugs. “I went from a soldier to a pill head, like that,” he says with a snap. “Because I could not process what the fuck just happened to me.”

He couldn’t control his temper. He behaved erratically. Increasingly depressed and anxiety ridden, Weston isolated himself.

“I was living in a fucking pig sty,” he says. “Living in beer cans, stale cigarette smoke and dog hair, because I didn’t give a shit. I didn’t. And that’s the monster of PTSD.” Did he ever consider suicide?

“I’ve tried to kill myself four times,” he says. “So am I suicidal is the question, not if I’ve been. I’m always, 24hours-a-day, suicidal and homicidal.

It’s just how I manage myself and whether or not I act on it. I think that’s pretty universal [for PTSD sufferers].”

In fact, according to renowned PTSD psychotherapist Edward Tick, “every vital human characteristic that we attribute to the soul may be fundamentally reshaped” in PTSD victims.

Weston’s switch flipped again and again during those three years after returning home from Iraq, but one flashback in particular sent him down the road to recovery. He was home, he recalls, holed up in his bedroom, when his mother unexpectedly knocked on the door. She opened it to find Weston pointing a rifle at her head. He was soon in the car headed to Fort Harrison, telling his mother on the way to Helena “to watch for IEDs, to stay in the center of the road, to keep five meter spacing,” he says. “I was in Iraq.”

In Helena, doctors declared Weston a “5150,” a term used to describe an involuntary psychiatric admission. He was sent to a psych unit in Sheridan, Wyo. Over the next year he’d complete three more inpatient treatment programs, where he learned, among other things, how to break his illness “down to the nuts and bolts.”

Which is why he’s sitting in a friend’s backyard, with a binder full of papers, describing what his hippocampus has been up to.

Weston wants to explain why he’s still alive. He says he agreed to seek

treatment largely because of the support he received from a small group of Missoula veterans also suffering from PTSD. He’s especially thankful for one compassionate Vietnam vet, the only person who was able to persuade Weston, on the verge of self-destruction, to simply talk about it.

Back to being tight Chris Poloynis sits in a circle of otherwise empty chairs in a room inside the Missoula Veterans Affairs Clinic.

He’s been here at 2 p.m. just about every Monday for almost four years to facilitate vet-to-vet group therapy meetings, and he says at least a couple vets always show up. He checks his watch and leans back.

Poloynis, 60, is a calm-eyed, inquisitive and contemplative Vietnam veteran with long white hair whose medical file is surely thicker than this newspaper. He’s endured 17 surgeries in the last nine years, 10 on his back alone.

He had two chest surgeries to remove tumors around his heart, growths he

nature of the meetings. “You have to develop a trust. How do you develop a trust? By caring. Most people are just so self-absorbed that they won’t go out of their way to call or to come and help somebody else out. And so that’s what you have to do, penetrate them to know that you care.”

Poloynis tells of the time about a year ago, for example, when he slept at his friend Chase Weston’s house because he feared Weston would commit suicide if left alone.

“We do that because we’ve seen too many of our friends die after war,” Poloynis says.

According to data from the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services’ Office of Vital Statistics, 332 Montana veterans have committed suicide since 2003. Fifty killed themselves last year.

“I guess we do it because we’re still alive,” Poloynis continues. “We know that all of the work that’s been put into us has helped us to live and find rewards. Families are starting to talk to us again…”

grow hair. Poloynis, a VA-trained facilitator, steers the discussion, affirming to these men that none are alone in coping with their problems.

The conversation begins to focus on a young and brash Iraq vet, who moments after walking into the room declares to the group he’s through with sex. He can’t figure out if it’s the new medication his doctor put him on that’s taken the pleasure out of it, or if he truly doesn’t have feelings for the girl he’s sleeping with. He says his climaxes are void of emotion. There’s no connection. Most in the group offer an understanding nod.

The young man reveals that he recently felt an urge to hit his girlfriend. Stupid things, like her freezing cold hands on his back, provoke him.

He knows it’s wrong, but that’s what he feels. The group nods again.

If you give in to that urge just one time, Poloynis tells him, you’ll end up in Deer Lodge. He reminds him that if he’s convicted of a felony he’ll lose VA benefits. The whole group talks about it, helping the young man figure out

According to 2008 data from the Montana National Guard, 40 percent of its service members evaluated by behavioral health providers under its Yellow Ribbon Program were referred to a specialist. Of those, 49 percent reported anxiety, 46 percent reported problems with their marriage and family, and 40 percent displayed PTSD symptoms.

believes were caused by exposure to Agent Orange. Three years ago he was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis— also, he suspects, the result of the toxic herbicide—and was given two years to live. Despite it all, he still exudes the pluck of a soldier, and the selflessness of one, too.

While waiting, Poloynis explains that after some 15 years of working on his own PTSD, he and other veterans who worked with a psychiatrist in Helena branched out and started groups of their own. He named his group Spartans Honour after his proud Greek heritage, and registered as a nonprofit. He estimates he’s helped about a hundred local veterans, young and old, manage their PTSD symptoms.

“First of all, most people don’t trust,” he says when asked about the

He’s interrupted by the opening door, and in walk two men who sit down in the circle. “You better turn that thing off,” Poloynis says, pointing to an audio recorder. And in walk a couple more.

When the meeting starts, a Vietnam vet wonders aloud about his ongoing efforts to control his temper and identify what triggers it. An Iraq vet, a medic, says a get-together for veterans at a local church he and others in the group attended two days before was exactly the kind of small, informal gathering that sets off his social anxiety, enough for him to spend the next day in bed anesthetized by muscle-relaxers and antianxiety medication. A Vietnam vet laughs about how a blotch on his cheek from a recent procedure won’t

whether he should break off the relationship. If you can’t reciprocate the love she has for you, they suggest, then maybe it’s time to end it. If your medication isn’t dialed in, maybe you should end it. It’s easier to do it now than later.

The young man gets up, says the relationship’s over, and walks out to attend a doctor’s appointment.

The veterans don’t hold anything back. They can speak freely, Poloynis says, because some note-scribbling counselor, who’s not a veteran, who can’t understand, isn’t here evaluating them. And that’s the point.

Montana, which per capita has the second-most veterans in the country— more than 100,000—is among the few states that support vet-to-vet group therapy meetings like Spartans Honour.

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There are at least nine such groups around the state, some associated with the VA and some not, and most initiated

by Vietnam veterans like Poloynis who, through years of treatment, have gotten a handle on their PTSD. Together they created the first network of vet-to-vet support groups in the country.

Tom Huddleston was among the first to start the weekly meetings.

“The terrible irony of being in combat,” he continues, “is that for a male brought up in the American culture, it’s probably the first time that we ever experienced unconditional love, and it’s in an environment of killing, of dirt, of waste, of pain. But we know agape. We understand unconditional love because we will go down with each other, and we will

1968 in Chu Lai. He didn’t know he had PTSD until almost 20 years after returning home, when he went through a bad divorce and ended up in a psych ward.

“I didn’t recognize what was wrong with me,” he says.

The concept of vet-to-vet meetings—of honoring sacrifice, of purification, of sitting in a circle and revealing

“Did I [threaten my wife] because I’m a violent person? Hell no…But when that switch is flipped, you ain’t you.”

—Chase Weston, Iraq War veteran

Huddleston, 65, says he was once a bully and a drunk who after seven careers, three wives and countless debilitating flashbacks over 40 years finally decided to confront his mental illness. Now, he’s focused on helping veterans in Helena. In 2006, Gov. Brian Schweitzer appointed him to the Montana Board of Veterans’ Affairs.

“Vet-to-vet’s ultimate goal, I think, is just getting us back to being tight,” says Huddleston over the phone from Helena. “Every generation and every conflict, the one thing we all have in common is that feeling of being tight with your unit, when the rest of the world did not exist. Your mission was to just take care of each other. And that’s what vet-to-vet is.

give it up for each other. And what vetto-vet does is it reminds us of that fact.

The irony is that in a world of steaks and honey, of everything nice and all the wealth, we hate. We find parts of our neighbors to despise. But in war we learn to love. In vet-to-vet, it reminds us of that honor of unconditional sacrifice.”

The talking circle Roger Shourds founded and facilitates one of the newer vet-to-vet groups in the state, the PTSD Talking Circle on the Flathead Indian Reservation. Shourds is thick, but his imposing nature belies his big smile and soft, almost nervous tone. He says he served in Vietnam from 1966 to

one’s self—is rooted in American Indian culture. It’s appropriate considering that, per capita, more American Indians go to war than any other race.

“The Native Americans—almost all of the Western tribes—have a very similar tradition,” Huddleston explains, “that when warriors returned from battle, the first thing that happened was that they were called to sit before the elders, and the elders did a number of very strange but loving things. First of all they apologized to the warriors for having to do the things they had to do and see the things they saw. And then they gave them honor for putting the needs of the tribe above their own survival. And then they told them how happy they were that they returned

Vietnam veterans Chris Poloynis, Roger Shourds and Wilbert Michel, left to right, stand on the shore of Flathead Lake. The three PTSD sufferers facilitate vet-to-vet group therapy meetings in Missoula and on the Flathead Indian Reservation. Four years ago, Vietnam veterans in Montana began the first network of vet-to-vet groups in the country.

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safely. And then all the warriors would all get up and go in the sweat lodge for a purification sweat.”

During purification sweats participants sit in a circle around baked stones and one-by-one speak to what troubles them, cleansing themselves of evil thoughts and spirits.

“In vet-to-vet,” Huddleston says, “one of the reasons for doing rounds is what happens in a sweat lodge.”

Moreover, American Indians traditionally gave warriors too old to go to battle a new command, and that was to bring peace to younger warriors. When he first learned that, Huddleston says, it brought “a magic” to what facilitators like he and Poloynis are doing with their groups.

On a recent Tuesday evening, Shourds and Poloynis gather with veterans and non-veterans, American Indians and non-Indians, at Ronan’s Pache Homesite Community Center, a doublewide trailer shadowed by the Mission Mountains on the Flathead Indian Reservation. The group circles a table on which an eagle feather sits and a candle flickers. The talking stick is passed around. During the first round participants introduce themselves.

During the second they discuss what’s on their minds. During the third they offer feedback or insight or validation.

The stick will go around all night if it needs to, Shourds reminds. No one should leave if they’re not feeling all right.

The stick makes it to a middle-aged veteran who just two weeks before tried to kill himself by downing a bottle of pills. He says he chose pills over the loaded gun that hangs in the corner of his bedroom, where he’s spent days at a time lying in bed. When paramedics arrived, he says, they flew him in a helicopter to Missoula, where his stomach was pumped.

He’s doing okay now, though, he says. He’s going to “drive on,” he repeats again and again, resting his hopes on a recently submitted job application to be a custodian. He thinks he’s got a good chance. Still, despite his openness, he tells the group he won’t likely be coming back next Tuesday, which prompts Poloynis, when the talking stick reaches him, to urge the man to please come back. To not, he says, would not only spurn the group’s commitment to supporting him, but his commitment to supporting the group. The man says he’ll try to make it.

Then a woman painstakingly says that her son, who served in the Marine Corps, recently informed her that he’s going to again attempt suicide. And the talking stick goes around.

Suicide is an acute problem on American Indian reservations, and for veterans especially.

“Reservations haven’t always been a really healthy place for them to come back to,” explains Roxana ColmanHerak, the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes’ Suicide Prevention Program coordinator. She points to the

reservation’s lack of services and jobs, as well as the rampancy of drugs and alcohol abuse.

The Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes elected not to release suicide statistics to the Independent, but those who work with veterans believe the numbers are rising.

Ralph Foster, owner of Foster Funeral Home & Crematory in St. Ignatius, one of three funeral homes on the reservation, says of the roughly 100 bodies he receives each year, about 15 are veterans, and probably one or two of them committed suicide.

“But if we’re considering what I would call a ‘slow suicide’—those getting out of the military and whose primary purpose is to drink and do drugs and have that sort of lifestyle—I would say that almost half of the veterans that we serve fit in that category,” Foster says.

Shourds, a tribal elder, says he attends every tribal funeral, reciting prayers in the tribe’s native language.

He says he spoke at 81 funerals last year alone. Without being specific, he says too many of the funerals were for veterans too young to die.

The tribe has roughly 7,400 enrolled members, of which about two-thirds live on or near the reservation. There are 524 veterans, 216 of whom live on the reservation, according to tribal administrator Ruth Swaney.

“The talking circle,” says ColmanHerak, “is really important because it helps people to unload some of that baggage that they’ve been carrying around, for a lot of people, for the majority of their lives, before war and after.”

At the end of the three-and-a-halfhour meeting the talking stick returns to Shrouds, who speaks of the journey he and two other tribal members will take to Vietnam in November. He’ll return, he says, in hopes that the very battlefields that scarred him 40 years ago will help to heal him.

his son’s belongings, he reportedly found a letter from the National Guard indicating that Dana was being discharged under less-than-honorable conditions. He had skipped drills, a result of feeling isolated since returning from Iraq. The letter was in the trash, along with a Wal-Mart receipt for .22-caliber rifle shells.

“Before Chris’ death the military didn’t know how to effectively handle [PTSD],” explains Matt Kuntz, Chris’ step-brother, who has since become a national advocate for advancing the

treatment of PTSD and other mental illnesses with the Montana chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. “I think a big part of it was they were trying to deal with it in an entirely voluntary manner. But the problem, when it comes to receiving health treatment in the military, is that nothing else is really voluntary, even something as simple as blisters. When you’ve completed a major road march…they require that everyone take off their boots and have a medic look at their blisters, then you’re required to get them treated.

A national model The Montana National Guard takes pride in the fact that its Yellow Ribbon Program does more than any other state to screen for and treat PTSD. In fact, federal legislation modeled after the program, pushed by Sen. Max Baucus and Rep. Denny Rehberg, is likely to reach President Obama’s desk this month.

Combined with the boots-on-theground work being done around Montana in vet-to-vet groups, the state leads the country in the fight against PTSD. But Montana’s success began with tragedy. On March 4, 2007, Chris Dana of Helena, two years after returning home from Iraq, shot himself in the head with a .22-caliber rifle.

He was 23. As Dana’s father collected

Chris Poloynis, a Vietnam veteran, began the Spartans Honour vet-to-vet counseling group four years ago because, he says, “we’ve seen too many of our friends die after war.” According to data from the Montana Department of Public Health & Human Services’ Office of Vital Statistics, 332 Montana veterans have committed suicide since 2003. Fifty killed themselves last year.

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And the reason they do that is because they think people will be too proud or won’t recognize how bad it is until it’s potentially disabling. Why can’t we treat PTSD with the same level of care?

I think that’s where we’re moving, and my focus has really been on trying to get help to the active duty personnel, because if we wait until they get out of the service the illness can compound,

can we make the process better?’” says Col. Jeff Ireland, director of manpower and personnel for the Montana National Guard. “Because, obviously, we never want to have something like that happen again if we can help to avoid it.”

The Yellow Ribbon Program requires soldiers to undergo counseling with behavioral health specialists

“We’re trying to help you understand,” Ireland says, “that if you have problems sleeping, if you have problems with your temper, you’re driving too fast, it isn’t just you. It’s those things that are normal things. So, when they happen, here are the things you can do and here are the resources that are available.”

Between June and December 2008, according to data provided by

“The irony is that in a world of steaks and honey, of everything nice and all the wealth, we hate. We find parts of our neighbors to despise. But in war we learn to love.

In vet-to-vet [meetings], it reminds us of that honor of unconditional sacrifice.”

—Tom Huddleston, vet-to-vet facilitator

and it’s also a lot harder to treat them, especially if they’re in rural Montana or on the reservations.”

The Montana National Guard says Dana’s death brought about a reevaluation of how it reintegrates its service members into civilian life.

“When he took his life, and that was associated with PTSD, it really caused our state to step back and say, ‘What are we doing, what should we be doing that we aren’t doing, and how

and participate in workshops with each other and their families every 30, 60 and 90 days after returning home.

The sessions are aimed at identifying mental health problems like anger management, stress management, substance abuse and depression.

Thereafter, the Montana National Guard conducts medical assessments every six months out to the two-year mark. No other state requires such extensive monitoring.

Weston carries his various medications, prescribed to treat lingering back pain and shrapnel wounds, as well as PTSD symptoms, in a pillowcase. Last week, he says, a pharmacist refused to fill his painkiller prescription because Weston abused prescription drugs after returning home from Iraq four years ago.

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Ireland, 40 percent of the 539 Montana National Guard service members who were evaluated by behavioral health providers were referred to a specialist. Of those, 49 percent reported anxiety, 46 percent reported problems with their marriage and family, and 40 percent displayed PTSD symptoms. Ireland believes many of them would have fallen through the cracks if not for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

Nationally, a recent study by researchers at the San Francisco Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco, found that 37 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans who enrolled in the veterans health system after 2001 received a diagnosis of a mental health problem, most often PTSD or depression. The study also revealed that the number of veterans found to have mental health problems rose steadily the longer they were out of the service.

Which is why Kuntz has worked so hard since his step-brother’s death two years ago to ensure that as many soldiers as possible receive face-to-face counseling long after they return home. He appealed to then-Sen. Barack Obama, who later invited him on his post-inauguration train ride, which Kuntz says helped bring the issue national attention. Kuntz also worked with Baucus to draft the new legislation, and Sen. Jon Tester asked him to testify before the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee.

“It’s been a pretty amazing process, to be honest, to go from just one angry and sad family to hopefully really making a difference in a lot of lives on the national level,” Kuntz says.

Just last Wednesday, Baucus and Rehberg’s measure was included in the final version of the Department of Defense authorization bill. It passed the House on Friday on Oct. 9 and it’s expected to pass the Senate any day now.

But more screening and counseling can only go so far in preventing soldiers from sinking into mental illness.

Just look to Spokane, Wash., where it was revealed two months ago that, between July 2007 and July 2008, at least 22 veterans in the Spokane Veterans Affairs’ service area killed themselves. Fifteen of them were being treated or had been treated at the city’s VA medical center.

Never the same again Chris Poloynis sits in his small and dark living room in downtown Missoula when Chase Weston walks in.

He’s returning from facilitating the Spartans Honour vet-to-vet meeting for the first time.

“It was good. I was ready for it,” Weston says.

“No you weren’t,” Poloynis interrupts, laughing, telling how Weston called earlier in the day trying to get out of it.

But Poloynis says Weston will eventually be ready.

“He came to vet-to-vet before all of this treatment and I couldn’t hardly keep him in a meeting. But somehow him and I have connected like brothers, and just followed each other,” says Poloynis. “We probably saw the same stuff. Different time, same intensity.

Same wounds.

“The happiest day of my life the last few years,” he continues, “was when he knocked on my door a few nights ago and said, ‘I’m home, and I’m well.’

That blew me fucking away. It put tears in my eyes.”

Poloynis hopes Weston will continue to heal, and maybe even develop a sense of ownership over Spartans Honour and eventually become the primary facilitator. Today’s the first step in that process. Weston, despite a long road to recovery still ahead, returned home dedicated to helping heal PTSD sufferers like himself. It’s his new mission, but a familiar one, to make sure his fellow soldiers make it out alive.

“The honor is in living your values after you get out,” Weston says. “So it took me some time to find my values, but sure as hell I’m making that time up right now. I’m taking every penny I own and every minute I have and giving it away to other veterans who want to get better.”

But he and Poloynis both strongly believe that vet-to-vet groups and the state’s once-every-six-month psychiatric screenings for National Guard

service members, however innovative, going to be able to drive down the society and a democracy, so to speak, it has nothing to do with the service. aren’t nearly enough. Combat veterans road and not see a trash bag and not it takes this.”

I’m so bitter at watching my mom with PTSD need inpatient therapy, they think IED. Not see a dead squirrel or a Are they bitter? weep all the time. Because she sees me say, like the therapy Weston received dead fucking dog and think IED. Not “My spirituality is helping others,” walk up and down the stairs and have over the past year. The problem is that watch everybody’s fucking hands to Poloynis says. “And when I help Chase a hard time. She watches me have a there are far too few resources for the make sure they’re not in their pock- and scores of others, I sleep better. It’s seizure. She sees me frustrated, in countless soldiers in need. tears, having a hard time, choked “The program [in California] up like I am right now. And she I just left had 30 beds,” Weston just weeps.” explains. “It was for Iraq and Weston mentions Plato’s Afghanistan veterans only. When “Allegory of the Cave,” a fictional I got in I was on the waiting list dialogue between Plato’s teacher with 10 people. When I left, the Socrates and Plato’s brother waiting list was over 200…You Glaucon. Plato writes of a scenario have how many thousands of in which people are chained in a troops? Hundreds of thousands cave all of their lives facing a blank of troops are about to get out, wall, interpreting reality only from are about to start to deal with the shadows formed on the wall PTSD, and unless you want to by the fire behind them. If a man see crime rates go up, and jail is able to look at the fire, Socrates rates go up, domestic violence says, “wouldn’t he be struck blind go up…” and try to turn his gaze back And no matter the level of toward the shadows, as toward therapy combat veterans receive, what he can see clearly and hold Poloynis and Weston say soldiers to be real?” like them—trained to kill and “In war you’re bound by dehumanized for combat—can Vietnam vet Roger Shourds, a member of the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes, chains,” Weston says. “You see didn’t know he had PTSD until almost 20 years after returning home from war. “I never return to their pre-war didn’t recognize what was wrong with me,” he says. He began the PTSD Talking the fucking light, and you’re fucklives. They can never fully reinte- Circle in Ronan in January. ing blinded by it. And all you grate into a society that doesn’t want to do is be back in the fuckunderstand, and often doesn’t appreci- ets…I’m 26, and I’m fucked for the what I’m supposed to do. I could be ing cave. That’s where I want to be. ate, their sacrifice. rest of my life.” bitter. I could be angry. But I chose this Give me five rounds, drop me in Iraq, “It does not work. It will not work.

“This is the cost of our freedom route. And that’s why I try to tell these and let somebody fucking kill me. It’s It cannot work. And I know that and liberties,” Poloynis says, motion- guys, you got to give of yourself. You so much easier than dealing with this sounds so negative, but it won’t. It ing to Weston and back to himself. have to give. Give, give, give. And that’s shit. But I’m left to deal with it, and I just cannot work,” says Weston, stop- “So the question is, ‘Is it worth it?’ For how you get better.” know that now.” ping to bite his quivering lip. us to be able to have all these rights “I’m more bitter about one thing mfrank@missoulanews.com “Because there’s no way that I’m and to be able to live in a capitalist than anything else,” Weston says, “and

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$–$$...$5–$15 Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzone, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a "biga" (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch & dinner. Beer & Wine. Mon-Sat. $-$$ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins Ave. 542-0002 Dine-In, Drive-Thru, Delivery... Truly a Missoula find. Popular with the locals. Voted Missoula's best pizza. Everything from hand-tossed, thin-crust, stone deck pizza to wild salmon burritos, free-range chicken, rice bowls, ribs, pasta, salads, soups, sandwiches & "Pizza by the Slice."

And now offering gluten-free dough. Local brews on tap and wine by the glass. Open every day for lunch & dinner. $-$$ Catalyst Cafe and Espresso Bar 111 N Higgins • 542-1337 Open daily from 7 am to 3 pm. Breakfast and lunch served all day, everyday. Huevos Rancheros, Omelets, Tomato Lime

and Tortilla Soup, Bing Cherry Salads, Fried Egg Sandwiches. Locally owned and operated since 1991.

Daily specials from our local farmers and ranchers. $-$$ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave • 721-6033 Missoula “Original” Coffeehouse/Cafe located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch seven days a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, baked goods and an espresso bar til close. Mon thru Thurs 7am - 8pm Fri & Sat 7am - 4pm Sun 8am - 8pm. www.thinkfft.com $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 South 3rd West • 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted free-range chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm. $–$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. We also offer catering. www.justinshobnobcafe.com MC/V $-$$ HuHot Mongolian Grill 3521 Brooks • 829-8888 At HuHot you’ll find dozens of meats, seafood, noodles, vegetables and homemade sauces for the timid to the adventurous.

Choose your favorites from the fresh food bars. You pick ‘em…we grill ‘em. We are as carnivore, vegetarian, diabetic, lo-salt and low-carb friendly as you want to be! Start with appetizers and end with desserts. You can even toast your own s’mores right at you table. A large selection of beer, wine and sake’ drinks available. Stop by for a great meal in a fun atmosphere. Kid and family friendly. Open daily at 11 AM. $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly,

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attentive service. Not matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $-$$ Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins Ave. • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All of our menu items are made from scratch and we use no MSG products. Featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive hot and ice tea menu including bubble tea. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Open Mon-Sat, lunch and dinner. $-$$ 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. $-$$ The Mustard Seed Asian Café Located outside Southgate Mall Paxson St. Entrance • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our all new bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates.

Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Take out & delivery available. $$–$$$.

Noodle Express 2000 W. Broadway 541-7333 Featuring a mixture of non-traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Polynesian contemporary dishes. Phone ahead ordering is enhanced with a convenient Pick-Up window. $-$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 Don't feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that?

Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$

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Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks • 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $6.95. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $6.95. Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$.

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

The chocolate lovers paradise is now also a great place for lunch. With a total remodel, serving freshly made sweet and savory crepes, delicious quiches, soups, seasonal salads and artisanal European style pastries. And don't forget what's been keeping us busy since 2005; stop in and try our single origin, 100% Ecuadorian, hand crafted Truffles. www.poshchocolat.com. $-$$ Red Robin 2901 Brooks Street • 830-3170 www.redrobin.com Half the price, twice the fun! Halfy Hour at the Southgate Mall Red Robin®! Half price bar drinks Monday – Friday, 4-6 p.m. and Monday – Saturday, 910 p.m. Enjoy a drink with one of our insanely delicious Gourmet Burgers, Bottomless Steak Fries. Or, snack on one of our shareable starters with friends! $-$$ SA WAD DEE 221 W. Broadway • 543-9966 Sa-Wa-Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors-no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisines. Now serving Beer and Wine! $-$$ Sean Kelly’s 130 West Pine • 542–1471 Located in the HUB of the LOOP! Open for Lunch and Dinner, featuring a Sat.-Sun. Brunch 11-2pm. Great Fresh food With Huge Portions. Traditional Irish fare combined with tasty specials from around the globe! FULL BAR, BEER, WINE, MARTINIS, 100% SMOKE FREE. "Where the Gaelic and the Garlic Mix!" $-$$

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Staggering Ox 1220 SW Higgins • 542-2206 123 E Main • 327-9400 Home of the famous Clubfoot Sandwich - unique, portable, delicious! We serve fantastic sandwiches on fresh-baked bread. Now featuring a special summer menu. Call in your order and pick it up on your way to play $-$$ The Stone of Accord 4951 N. Reserve St. • 830-3210 Serving Award Winning Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinners 7 days a week! All of your favorite Irish classics, plus a daily selection of Chef's specialties. A fully stocked bar, wine and liquor store and the Emerald Casino make The Stone of Accord the perfect place for an enjoyable meal. 6:30am-2:00am $-$$ Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins • 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day.

Daily Lunch Specials. All Soups, including our famous Tomato Soup, are made from scratch. Voted best milkshakes in Missoula for 14 straight years. Great Food, Great Service, Great Fun!! Monday - Sunday 8a.m. - 3p.m. $-$$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming • 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$ Wok-ee Mountain Asian Restaurant 11300 US Hwy 93, Lolo 273-9819 Brand new Thai & Chinese cuisine featuring original recipes. Specializing in curry. Extensive menu, vegetarian options and many soup options as well including Vietnamese style pho, Tom Yum, wonton and more. Wok-ee Mountain Asian Restaurant is perfect for take out or dine in. $-$$

$...Under $5 Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Where Myrtle Avenue ends at Bernice's, a tiny bakery sits as a veritable landmark to those who

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enjoy homestyle baked goods, strong coffee, community, and a variety of delicious treats. Join us for lunch if you'd like. Crazy delicious. Crazy cheap. 30 years and still baking. Open Every Day 6AM to 8PM. $ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 37 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve by TJ Maxx & Ross 549-5595 ColdStone Creamery ice-cream cakes will make your party perfect. With super-premium, home-made ice cream and layers of moist cake, we can make you the belle of the ball. Call a day ahead and we will decorate it with anything you want - from princesses to giant robots to unique holiday scenes. Bring in your business card for a $5 discount. $-$$ 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. October special: Sugar skulls for Dia de los Muertos! Special orders encouraged. Open M-F 7am-6:30pm; Sat. 9am-4pm See us on Facebook! $ Le Petit Outre 129 South 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula.

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Light Up Your Taste Buds Any Time Of Year

by Ari LeVaux

Is jarring the new canning?

You can buy almost any food in a can, from pineapple slices to ravioli to Spam. While most canning that’s done at home is with glass jars, not metal cans, the verb that describes the process remains “can.” But language is dynamic, constantly evolving to keep pace with the changing meanings it conveys. And recently, I’ve noticed a new verb in circulation.

Overheard at a coffee shop: “Let’s jar tomorrow after the farmers’ market.”

Via e-mail: “What are you jarring these days?”

At the farmers’ market: “They jarred on their first date.”

This linguistic revolt reveals some of the energy and creativity being focused on home economics these days, but how the jarring’s done remains more important than what you call it. And given that harvest season is jarring season, it’s time for me to crack open my jar of knowledge on the act itself.

This conversation carries liability concerns, because it’s possible to get sick and even die from poorly jarred food—not the kind of jarring experience we want. So if I seem extra anal today, it’s because I don’t want anyone to get hurt, or sued.

The science of jarring recognizes two primary categories of contents: high-acid foods, like fruits or pickles, which are less susceptible to spoilage and low-acid foods, like veggies not pickled in vinegar solution, beans and meat, which carry a higher risk of spoilage.

High-acid foods can be jarred in a water bath, which is simply a pot of boiling water in which sealed jars of food are submerged. Any pot that holds enough water will suffice, but most people use a specialized five- or eight-gallon enameled kettle.

Low-acid foods have to be jarred in a specialized pressure cooker called a “pressure canner.”

Unlike the pressure cookers used for cooking, pressure canners have gauges that measure their interior pressure in pounds per square inch.

Different foods have to be pressure-jarred for different amounts of time, and both time and pressure requirements increase with your elevation.

Below 1,000 feet, 10 lbs. of pressure is standard

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rubberized ring that seals against the rim of the jar, and the ring, which is screwed onto the jar’s threaded neck, holding the lid in place. Jars and rings can be re-used, but lids should only be used once.

The jars have to be squeaky clean and free of cracks, with unblemished rims. It’s best to use jars intended for jarring, aka Mason jars, like the Ball or Kerr brands, though many people reuse mayonnaise or pasta sauce jars. While canning rings and lids will fit many such jars, the glass from which they’re made isn’t necessarily up to the

temperatures and pressures that jarring can produce. If these jars do survive jarring and the lids seal, then you got away with it, and the result will be the same as if you’d used Mason jars. But it’s likely that some reused grocery jars will break in the process, turning the water bath or pressure cooker into a soupy sea of unpreserved, unrecoverable, wasted produce. Mason jars, though stronger, also can crack. To avoid this, keep the jars and their contents as warm as possible prior to lowering the jars slowly into the boiling water.

A pair of “canning” tongs really helps in dealing with hot jars and boiling water.

Both lids and jars must be sterilized before use. The jars can be boiled, steamed or baked at 220 degrees. Sterilize lids in a pot of water, bringing the water to the pre-boiling point where little bubbles start to float up, then removing the heat before the water boils. Leave sterilized lids in the hot water, covered, until use.

Once your jars are sterilized and ready for filling, a common rookie mistake is to overpack them. The term “headspace” refers to the empty space between the top of the food and lid. If you don’t leave enough headspace, there won’t be enough air to contract as the jar cools, and the lid might not seal. Not all “canning” recipes specify headspace, so my rule of thumb is to not let anything stick above the point where the rounded glass of the jar joins the vertical, threaded neck, leaving a good inch of headspace.

After removing the finished jars from the pressure cooker or water bath, set them aside and allow to cool. If you did it right, you’ll be serenaded by a chorus of pings as your jars seal, one by one.

Store your sealed, labeled and dated jars in a cool place and inspect each jar before and after opening. Look for bulging lids, discolored contents, contents that bubble upon opening, escaping gas upon opening, and off odors. The jar’s contents should be tossed at any suspicious sign.

While you may end up tossing some innocents, playing it safe will keep you going for many jarring years to come.

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Snake bitten

I received lots of feedback about last week’s rattlesnake column. Two examples: Dear Ari, Your dish sounds great, but I’m hoping you’ll learn to catch the buggers, put them in a bucket and take them elsewhere. Rattlesnakes do a great job on rodents. I’d rather get a snake bite than Hanta. Geez!

The rattlesnake that my cats had cornered for an hour just fled as quickly as possible when I removed the cats. It never showed its face again.

Then there were two in my boathouse years later that politely rattled to let me know they were there one dark night. My husband removed them with a snake rope he made with plastic pipe and

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for most foods. Add a pound for each thousand feet above 1,000. Also, add 10 minutes to the processing time if you’re above 1,000 feet, and a minute more for each additional thousand feet.

After processing your jars as directed by your recipe, turn off the heat and allow the pressure to drop to zero before opening the unit.

There are two parts to the jarring package, in addition to the jar itself: the lid, which contains a

a rope noose or loop going through it. He put them in a bucket and hauled them off. Come on!

Get brave!

—Snake Charmer And another, also not really a question: Dear Flash, That picture of you in the short shorts was jarring. It touched nerves.

—Feeling Shorted Okay, so I made two major mistakes. But the question is which offense is worse, wearing those short shorts in public or killing a mousekilling snake? If anyone responds to this ques-

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Since my inbox was otherwise pretty empty this week, I’ll end with a plug for a super cool calendar put together by the Missoula Community Food and Agriculture Coalition (CFAC). It’s called “Capturing Missoula’s Foodshed,” and includes lots of cool photos of farms, food, chickens, etc., as well as some recipes, including one by me. Call 880-0543 or visit the UM Book Store or the Good Food Store to secure your 2010 calendar. It costs $15, and proceeds benefit CFAC. Send your food and garden queries to flash@flashinthepan.net

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Aspen Hospice of Montana is currently looking for volunteers to help offer comfort, pain relief and emotional support for those who are near the end of their lives. Call Lois at 642-3010.

Still havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t joined the interwebs, or figured out how to save a document on a computer?

Remedy that quickly during free classes on basic computer use at Stevensvilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s North Valley Public Library, 208 Main St., at 9 AM every Thu. until Oct. 29. Free. Call 777-5061.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re considering starting a nonprofit, siphon up some info on â&#x20AC;&#x153;Board Leadership and Executive Committeesâ&#x20AC;? during a workshop by the Missoula Nonprofit Network from 9 AMâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;12 PM in the MonTec Conference Room, 1211 E. Broadway St.$10/free for members of the Missoula Nonprofit Network.

E-mail sits@mountainhomemt.org.

Kids and parents experiment with rhythm and more during Rhythm Tykes, a class for kids 18 monthsâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;4-years-old this and every Thu. at 10 AM at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W. $40 five classes/$10 class. Call 396-3352.

Stimulus money is running out fast, so find out how UM will be affected by the lack of trickle down fundage in the future with the talk â&#x20AC;&#x153;When the Stimulus Money Goes Awayâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;Funding the Gap in FY 12/13â&#x20AC;? at 10 AM at the University Center Theater. Free. E-mail afinfo@mso.umt.edu.

If you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t read this, you may be a baby below the age of 36 months, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for your kids to brush up on culture outside the land oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the free, so give them something intellectual to chew on during Culture Trunk: Costa Rica at the Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front. St., at 11 AM and 3 PM. $4.25/free under age 1. Call 541-PLAY. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., October 16, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Playa c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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If you’ve lost a loved one and you’d like to honor them as part of upcoming Day of the Dead festivities, you can go to Ear Candy Music, 624 S. Higgins Ave., where Imur of Art Mad Studio has dropped off framed forms for you to fill out with the name of someone who passed. That name will be posted in Ear Candy’s window from Oct. 15 through the end of the month. A kickoff party for the event follows at the store on Oct. 16 from 6–8 PM. Free.

Shake it ‘til you break it when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., offers Booty Ballet every Thu. at noon. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Curious about how much money UM generates from research? Find out the skinny during the discussion “Economic Impact of University Research” in Room 304 of UM’s Clapp Building at noon. Free. Call 243-6670.

Your skill at creating something functionally wicked, like a beer stein or a vase, comes in handy during the ZACC’s Paint Your Own Pottery Studio, which runs from 12–8 PM Mon.–Fri. and every Sat. from Noon–5 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. Price ranges from $5–$20, depending on the cost of pottery. Call 549-7555 or visit www.zootownarts.com.

Whether abstract or functional, tweens and teens can get their fingers dirty with creativity during the ZACC’s Middle School Art Group, which meets this and every Thu. from 2:30–5 PM to work on art projects and advance skills in the arts at the Pottery Studio at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. $12 per person. Call 5497555 or visit www.zootownarts.com.

Kids in first through fifth grade stir their artistic passions after school during the ZACC’s Young Artist Afterschool Program where instructor Hanna Hannan leads art projects, field trips, tours and more from 3–5:30 PM every weekday until Dec. 23 at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. $12 per day, with busing available. Visit www.zootownarts.com or call 549-7555.

Even if your toddler makes some smooth dance moves, your 5- to 6- year-old might need some work, so bring them to another installment of Creative Movement Class every Thu. at 4 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Breakdance, slamdance or just inventively dance when your 7- to 8-year-old checks out Creative and Modern Movement, a dance class at 4:15 PM this and every Thu. in the ballet studio of UM’s PARTV building, until Dec. 3. $75/$65 UM faculty and staff. Call 243-2849.

nightlife Help your kid ages 13–14 become the next Alice Walker at Scribbles, a new writers group

that meets at 4 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Put a smile on your face and a tune in your head—join guitarist Craig Wickham every Thu. from 5–7 PM at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463.

It’s time to meld those abstract dance moves into specific form, especially if you’re between the ages of 9–12, at Dance and Choreography, this and every Thu. until Dec. 3 at 5 PM in the ballet studio of UM’s PARTV building. $75/$65 UM faculty and staff. Call 243-2849.

Wiggle those hips and strike poses of elegant expression when former UM dance prof Amy Ragsdale leads a Beginning to intermediate Modern Dance class at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., every Thu. at 5 PM. Cost TBA. Call 360-8763.

Extract some heady modern dance knowledge from an expert when renowned choreographer Bebe Miller discusses “The Indirect Path From Here to There—Dance Making While Thinking” at 5 PM in Room 005 of UM’s PARTV Center. Free. Call 243-2682.

Capitalism works in favor of the ladies during the Missoula Downtown Association’s Dish, Dine and Shop, where women can peruse a variety of downtown shops and eat and drink from local restaurants featuring specials just for you, from 5–8 PM. Free. Visit www.missouladowntown.com.

All genres are encouraged—excepting, perhaps, crunkstep—every Thu. at 5:30 PM at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 1/2 South Ave. W., where musicians bring their noise makers and synergy builds a joyful sound during the Tangled Tones Pickin’ Circle. Free. Call 396-3352.

Gypsies come out during Troupe Night class every Thu. at 5:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/month for every class you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Blair at 531-3000.

Soak in art that deals with the experience of Asian Americans at internment camps in the 1940s during Artini: Minidoka on My Mind, featuring works by Roger Shimomura and others, along with a moving piano performance by Lydia Brown, at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St., at 5:30 PM. Free.

Call 728-0447.

After the revolution we’ll need a new Betsy Ross, which is why you should pick up some tips every Thu. at Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins Ave., where their Sewing Lounge begins at 6 PM. $9–10 hour. Call 541-7171.

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.

Bob Wire’s guitar bleeds a stream of honky tonk while you bust some grooves on the dance floor when he plays the Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

Shear off those shingles and get ready to mingle during this month’s installment of the MUD Mingle, a community potluck from 6–9 PM at MUD’s Headquarters, 629 Phillips St. Free, BYO plates, cups, utensils and a dish to share. Also bring seeds to swap. Call 721-7513.

Try your hand at fused glass pendants and decorate a slumped wine bottle to take home during an adult glass glass for those 18 and up from 6–8 PM at the ZACC Gallery, 235 N. First St. W. $25. Call 549-7555 or e-mail holly@zootownarts.com.

Beer specials and your inebriation equals money in the coffers of the Glacier Ice Rink during Think Rink, an “all you care to drink beer special” from 6 PM–1 AM at Sean Kelly’s where a $10 donation gets you the brew and all proceeds head to the rink. Free. Features music by Landslide.

The ghost of Julia Child might take over your nimble fingers during a life skills cooking class on fall stews and soups at the YWCA of Missoula, 1130 W. Broadway St., at 6:15 PM. Free. RSVP by calling 543-6691 or e-mailing Jamie at jmcgarvey@ywcaofmissoula.org.

Child care also available, but call 24 hours beforehand.

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.

Swallow your pride, grab up to seven doublespaced pages of your best verbiage, and bring it to this week’s Authors of the Flathead meeting for constructive critique at 7 PM in Room 151 of the Science and Technology Building on the Flathead Valley Community College campus. Free. Call 881-4066.

You just might do the push, whip or the jitterbug-lindy when Cathy Clark slings beginning swing dance lessons every Thu. at 7 PM, and then moves to beyond basics swing lessons at 7:30 PM, at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., with open dancing from 8–10 PM. $5 person for dance lessons. E-mail cathyc@missoulaboneandjoint.com.

Assemble your head around the subprime lending crisis and how it helped the economy

head south during a Peace and Justice Film Series screening of American Casino at 7 PM in UM’s University Center Theater. Free.

Visit www.peaceandjusticefilms.org.

Take a chance to see the next wave of earth-conscious innovators and their ideas for restoring the earth during Bozeman’s Seventh Annual Northern Rockies Bioneers Conference, which starts with a screening of Division Street at 7 PM at the Crawford Theater in the Emerson Cultural Center, 111 S. Grand Ave. in Bozeman, followed by workshops that start at 5 PM Friday and run each day through Oct. 18 at the center. $5 for movie. Conference: $75 adult three day pass/$55 students, seniors, low income/$25 per day. Visit www.bornnetwork.org or call 586-3426.

Pop the champagne bottle and bring the kids: celebrate the creation of UM’s Climate Change Studies program with a lecture on “National Security and Climate Change” by former Sen. John Warner at UM’s Urey Lecture Hall at 7 PM. Free.

Figure out where you sit in the new energy economy up in the Flathead during a discussion by the Flathead Electric Cooperative titled “Challenging Choices! Planning to Meet Our Growing Electric Energy Needs” at 7 PM in the large community meeting room of the Arts & Technology Building on the campus of Flathead Valley Community College, 777 Grandview Drive in Kalispell. Free. Call 756-3967.

Shoot a little salvation into your life during a six-week intro course on Buddhism and the practice of meditation through the Rocky Mountain Buddhist Center, this and every Thu. from 7–9 PM until Nov. 19 at the center, 540 S. Second St. W. $60 suggested donation, but all are welcome regardless of ability to pay. Call Tejavani at 550-4679 or Satyaloka at 728-3656.

The real hip-hop is over here. The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., gives you something to pop and lock about every Thu. at 7:20 PM during beginning and intermediate Hip-Hop Class. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Rock some sweet fiddle solos and bust a move while others shred without use of an amp during Old Timey Music Sessions at Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., at 7:30 PM this and every Thu. through Oct. Free. Call 726-3765.

A teen’s dual desire for baseball and women contrasts with his parents-expectations during the UM School of Theatre and Dance’s production of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs which runs Oct. 13–17 at 7:30 PM in the Montana Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $18 general/$14 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 2434581 or visit www.umtheatredance.org. (See Theatre in this issue.)

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SPOTLIGHT revamped wolf Featured Artist:

Denial songs often go hand-in-hand with classic country. Connie Smith did it best when she sang “Once A Day” in which she only grieves for the man who left her “once a day, all day long, and once at night from dusk ’til dawn.”

Jer Voted Missoula’s Best Tattoo Parlor 13 Years Running 1701 S 5th St. W. :: 728-1191 :: www.painlesssteeltattoo.com

On his new EP, Baby You Know Me, Missoula’s Wolf Redboy also plays with the art of denial, but in his own way. In the title song he sings: “It’s funny, you’re in my thoughts—no, no back up.

You’re not in my thoughts at all, ’cause you’re a hiccup.” Redboy’s not exactly country-styled, though he appears to understand the tear-in-your-beer sentiment. The pianist turned guitarist emits more

WHAT: Wolf Redboy CD release party with LAKE, Karl Blau and Secret Powers WHEN: Fri., Oct. 16, 9 PM WHERE: The Badlander HOW MUCH: $5 of an electronica, shoegaze rock with the nasal twang of They Might Be Giants’ John Flansburgh wrapped in the creepy ethereal style of Frank Black.

In the disco beat track “Poison to the Artists” he goes even further into the realm of fantasy—serial killers, emperors, famous poets and painters abound.

a musician. Which is, of course, a good thing. He admits the truth: that it hasn’t been easy getting the EP recorded. He’s been playing Missoula shows for three years, spending some time in the studio with plans to put out a full-length album.

But when his band broke up, he had to put the album on hold. Recently, he reformed his band with vocalist Lee McAfee and bassist Max Russell and went back to the studio, enlisting Secret Powers frontman Ryan “Shmed” Maynes to record, mix and contribute to his first official release. His new disc features his current band members and one former bandmate, Amanda Cevallos, who now lives in Austin, Tex. Maynes joins Redboy onstage Friday for his CD release party with Secret Powers, indie rockers LAKE and Washington folkster Karl Blau opening the show.

Denials works well in lyrics, but it isn’t necessarily Redboy’s MO when it comes to everyday life as He’ll take a liking to you, so long as you’re not too gay and not too liberal: catch “Git-R-Done” catchphraser Larry the Cable Guy when he installs laughs as part of his “Tailgate Party Tour” at 7:30 PM at UM’s Adams Center. $43.75 plus fees at all GrizTix outlets or www.griztix.com.

Bear witness to the zany Sycamore family and their erratic ways, and see how the crotchety Kirby clan reacts, w h e n t h e Wh i t e f i s h Th e a t r e Company presents a sneak preview of You Can’t Take It With You at 7:30 PM at the O’Shaughnessy Cultural Arts Center in Whitefish, 1 Central Ave. $8 at the door. Call 862-5371.

Bring yer guitar, bass or other instrument of choice every Thu. night to The Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, when it holds an open-mic style artists’ showcase at 8 PM. Free. Interested musicians should Call 541-8463.

Bowling and karaoke go together like country and techno 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 testosteronefueled karaoke begins at 9 PM. Free.

Call 363-6969.

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

Get your fix with Sandy Bradford and Mark Souhrada when they host the jam at Los Caporales in Columbia Falls at 9 PM. Call 892-5025.

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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.

Positivity and beats for breakin’ is what’s in store for ye when Oakland hip-hoppers Zion I blast the Palace with a show at 9 PM with The Jacka and Kev Choice. $10. Locals Slopstar and Ambedext open.

See a plethora of patterns and colors after a few pitchers, and muster up the courage to belt out some classics too, and perhaps win a prize, during Kaleidoscope Karaoke every Tue.–Sun. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 721-1798.

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 under the influence of that music box you sing along to during Combat DJ and Karaoke nights, this and every Thu. at the Press Box, 835 E. Broadway St., at 10 PM. Free.

Spiffy MySpace music pages translate into fanciful acoustic pop ballads for your ears when Sioux Falls, S.D.’s Nick Rallis Band plays the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

—Erika Fredrickson

FRIDAY

16

October

Get a shot of cardiovascular exercise during Nia with Jody Mosher, every Friday at 8 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $10. Call 360-8763.

If you or someone in your family is suffering from cancer, the Cancer Family Network of Montana is offering spots at its Fall Fest Family Retreat for free, which runs Nov. 7–8 at the Holiday Inn in Bozeman, but you must register by today. Call 587-8080.

Impress the Michael Scotts of the world with your adept managerial skills during a Five Part Excellence in Management Series which features workshops on communication skills, goal setting and more this and every Fri. from 9–11:30 AM until Nov. 13 at the Missoula Chamber of Commerce, 825 E. Front St. $75. Call Clare at 493-1298.

The Missoula Public Library hosts a preschool storytime geared toward children 3–6 years old every Fri. at 10:30 AM. This week, Have a Little Faith: A True Story by Mitch Albom. Just kidding. (Did I need to tell you that?) Free. Call 721-BOOK. If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program for babes up to 36 months at 10:30 AM every Thu., Fri. and Tue. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

Toddlers always learn a thing or two from books like The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America by Timothy Egan at Toddler Story Time, which includes age appropriate stories (of course), from 10:30–11:15 AM in the downstairs meeting room of the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton. Free. Call 363-1670.

Invigorate that spine of yours during a Classical Pilates Mat Class taught by Alison Laundrie every Fri. at Main Street Pilates, 214 E. Main St., at 11 AM. $12. RSVP 541-2673.

It’s time for your kids to brush up on culture outside the land o’ the free, so give them something intellectual to chew on (and perhaps some tortilla chips to gnaw) during Cultural Trunk: Mexico at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front.

St., at 11 AM and 3 PM. $4.25/free under age 1. Call 541-PLAY. Grab your cigarette puffing teen and shove ‘em off to the MOBASH Skatepark at McCormick Park from 2–6 PM today or tomorrow where those anti-smoking peeps from the Truth campaign will be on hand to discuss tobacco issues in “a non-preachy way.”

Free. Call 864-616-7969.

nightlife Expect a high-class time when jazz and wine mingle during the Real Book Jazz Jam and Wine Tasting, which occurs the first and third Fri. of each month from 5:30–8:30 PM at the Loft, 119 W. Main St. Free, but wine tasting is $10. Call Carla at 360-8746.

Times are tough, even for literary mags, so help keep CutBank Literary Magazine from cutting back on one of its issues during an art auction featuring art by Adam Perry, Monte Dolack, Lucy McCoy, Chris Koelling, Marc Moss and more at the ZACC Gallery, 235 N. First St. W., from 6–9 PM. Free. E-mail cutbank@mail1.umt.edu.

Old timey music descends from Arab eggplant dishes when Baba

Ganoush plays the Brooks and Browns Lounge at the Holiday InnDowntown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St., from 6–10 PM. Free.

A teen narrator goes beyond the gloss of the Caribbean and into the realm of voodoo, prejudice, sex and even leprosy when Claude Alick reads and signs copies of his book Dancing with the Yumawalli at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave., at 7 PM. Free. Call 721-2881. (See Scope in this issue.)

Even if you’ve never spent hours wading through their doors, fixtures and the like, you’ve got a chance to help Home Resource move into a new locale during its Spontaneous Construction Auction and Awards Gala which features a live auction of art made at SponCon 2009, tunes by Cash for Junkers and more at 7 PM at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. $15/$10 advance at Home Resource, 825 W. Kent Ave. Call 541-8300. (See Agenda in this issue.)

A marriage of convenience spurs much after-date discussion when the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., presents its Cheap Date Night screening of The Proposal at 7 PM. Free. Enter from the parking lot side of the building. Call 721-BOOK. A teen’s dual desire for baseball and women contrasts with his parents’ expectations during the UM School of Theatre and Dance’s production of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs which runs Oct. 13–17 at 7:30 PM in the Montana Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $18 general/$14 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 or visit www.umtheatredance.org.

(See Theatre in this issue.)

Local pianists Christopher Hahn, Steven Hesla and Barbara Blegen join Margery Whatley and Dorothy Peterson for a keystroke-a-thon during Pianissimo!, a benefit concert for the UM Keyboard Society at 7:30 PM at UM’s Music Recital Hall, in the

Music Building. $20/$10 students and seniors. Call 243-6882.

Montana-native and travelin’ singer/songwriter Sara Horvath plucks it up with an acoustic show at The Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, at 7:30 PM. $5. Call 541-8463.

Bear witness to the zany Sycamore family and their erratic ways, and see how the crotchety Kirby clan reacts, when the Whitefish Theatre Company presents You Can’t Take It With You at 7:30 PM at the O’Shaughnessy Cultural Arts Center in Whitefish, 1 Central Ave. $15 adults/$12 seniors/$8 students. Call 862-5371.

Grab pappy and your flask, ‘cause it’s time for a good old fashioned bluegrass off with Missoula’s Wise River Mercantile during a Montana Folklore Society sponsored show at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., at 8 PM. $10 at the door or at Rockin Rudy’s. Visit www.montanafolk.org.

Spend your night getting gnarled and gnawed when The Wild Coyotes rock the stage of the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free.

Ski photos, ski movies and more await you for a night of ski-induced revelry when Poor Boyz Productions present the “Triple Threat Tour” at 8 PM at the Wilma Theatre. $15/$10 advance at poorboyzstore.com. Visit poorboyz.com.

Old school rock and country rocks ‘dem boots when Rob Quist plays the Symes Hot Springs Hotel, 209 Wall St. in Hot Springs, at 8 PM. Donations appreciated. Call 741-2361.

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

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

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

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10th Annual

Featuring over 75 authors in a variety of readings, discussions, exhibits, demonstrations, signings…

FREE, MOSTLY

If you liked Tolkien’s mines of Khazaddum, you’ll love tunneling through the AmVets Club, where DJDC rocks dance music to slay orcs to at 9 PM. Free.

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

Feel free to 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.

Learn to sing “Dancing Queen” backwards and forwards like the star that you aspire to be when Bassackwards Karaoke invades the Alcan Bar & Grill in Frenchtown, 16780 Beckwith St., every Fri. at 9 PM. Free. Call 531-8327.

Indie pop rizzock from Washington’s capitol hits your socks when Olympia, Wash.’s LAKE plays at Wolf Redboy’s CD release party at 9 PM at the Badlander. $5. Secret Powers and Karl Blau open. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Psychedelically leaning indie folk rock from “Philly’s Constant Hitmaker” makes your night when Kurt Vile plays the Palace at 9 PM. $5. (See Noise in this issue.)

Sip on a shot of what’s bound to be rock when Elixir shoots over to the Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St. in Frenchtown, for a show at 9 PM. Free. Call 626-5720.

A bangover (headbang-induced hangover) isn’t required to enjoy Ball N’ Jack, but a firm appreciation

October 22-24 Downtown Missoula Thursday - The Last Good Kiss: A Tribute to James Crumley with Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, Laura Lippman and James Grady - Gala Reading with Dennis Lehane, Andrew Sean Greer and Maile Meloy

Friday - Author Reception (Tickets available now!)

- Screening of The Far Side of Jericho a film written by James Crumley, with director and co-writer Tim Hunter and screenwriter Roger Hedden - 2nd Annual Poetry Slam - David Sedaris in Concert (Sold Out)

Saturday - An Interview with David Simon and George Pelecanos, creator and co-producer/writer of The Wire - Special Reading with George Pelecanos and Laura Lippman - Saturday Afternoon Poetry Salon - Gala Reading featuring James Lee Burke, Kevin Canty and Marianne Wiggins

For more information contact Kim Anderson, 406-243-6022 or visit the Festival website at www.humanitiesmontana.org Missoula Independent

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of their blues rock styling is, especially when they play the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Slip a little Amanita muscaria into your brew and see what happens when Strange Brew plays some classic rock and country at Florence’s High Spirits Club and Casino, 5341 US Hwy. 93 N., at 9:30 PM. Free.

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.

Screech the funk outta your throat and into someone else’s whilst swapping dance moves when Miller Creek jams it up at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

SATURDAY

17

October

Your heart, the planet and your farmerneighbors give thanks every Sat. from 8 AM–noon as you head down to the Clark Fork River Market (clarkforkrivermarket.com), which takes place beneath the Higgins Street bridge, and to the Missoula Farmers’ Market (missoulafarmersmarket.com), which opens at 8:30 at the north end of Higgins Avenue. And if it’s 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.

They probably won’t be playing Blackalicious’ first album on repeat, but you can still get down with some lively movement of the same name when Jody Mosher and Cathy Jenni

lead a Nia class every Sat. at 9 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $10. Call 360-8763 You likely won’t find anything too bizarre during the Stevensville United Methodist Church’s bazaar and luncheon, where holiday decor, crafts, food and more sizzle your pocketbook from 9 AM–2 PM at the church, 216 College St. in Stevensville. Free. Call 777-1084.

If you’re a childcare provider or a parent, train yourself in “Infant, Child and Adult CPR and First Aid” during a training session from 9 AM–4 PM at Child Care Resources, 127 E. Main St. Ste. 314. $58. Call 728-6446 or visit www.childcareresources.org.

Divorce sucks, but probably sucks even more for your kid, so grab a few tips on coping and what helps kids during the workshop What’s Best for the Kids from 9 AM–Noon at Families First, 815 E. Front St. Ste. 3. $45 couples/$35 per person. Sliding scale and payment plans available. Call 721-7690.

Dremel tools and chain saws go great with breakfast during the Experimental Aircraft Association Chapter 517’s Tool Auction and Breakfast, which starts with breakfast served from 9 AM–noon, along with a silent auction of used tools from 9 AM–1 PM, all at the chapter’s hangar at the Stevensville Airport, off Flying Lane northeast of Stevensville.

Event is free, breakfast is $5 adult/$3 child. Call Don at 251-6780.

Exercise your right to be nosy when the Arlee Community Development Corporation holds its October meeting at the Hangin’ Art Gallery & Coffee House, 92555 Hwy. 93 in Arlee, at 10 AM. Free. Call 726-5550.

You too can sport the axel jump or choctaw when you join others at the Missoula Figure Skating Club for an eight-week figure skating course this and every Saturday until Dec. 12 at the Glacier Ice Rink, 1101 South Ave. W., from 10–11:30 AM. $110/eight-week session. Visit www.missoulafsc.org or call 529-5496.

Those suffering from illness or loss can find solace during one of Living Art Montana’s Creativity for Life workshops at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St., at 10:30 AM. This week features the program “Simple Writing, Creative Phrases” with Lori Mitchell. Donations appreciated, as is registration. Call 549-5329 or visit www.livingartofmontana.org.

Your bedtime tales of college-age debauchery fall a little short of the mark. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like stories, fingerplays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Kick it to the core for Core-Kicking Pilates Class with Alison Laundrie every Sat. at 646 Sixth St. W., at 11 AM. $10, includes childcare. RSVP 214-7247.

Your child expresses innovative abstraction through dance, claps, singing and listening during Kids’ Vibrations, where the imagination rolls with guest artist Dan Dubuque at 11 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Free. Call 396-3352.

If your little dumpling aged 3–6 has been lacking in the storytelling department as of late, take them down to Seuss Saturday at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., at 11 AM where they’ll enjoy interac-

tive storytelling with such Seuss classics as The Cat in the Hat. $4.25/Free for members. RSVP at 541-PLAY. Children ages five and up sew an unsightly doll into a work of art using buttons and recycled materials when artist Ria De Neeve leads the Saturday Family Art Workshop: Sewing a Silly Monster from 11 AM–12:30 PM at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. $5 per participant. Call 728-0447 to preregister.

Get a 20 minute shot of artistic pleasure, with engaging gallery guides to lead you along, when you take a tour of the Missoula Art Museum’s latest exhibitions from Scott Fife, Teresa Tamura and Roger Shimomura at noon at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Call 728-0447.

Naturalistic paintings become the apple of your eye, and an artistic target, when Stephanie J. Frostad guides you through Intermediate Oil Painting this and every Sat. from 12:30–3 PM until Nov. 21 at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. $105/$94.50 members.

Call 728-0447.

Scoop up your inner sauce and mix ‘n match some spices during a Salsa dance workshop with Heather Adams, Nelson Barahona and Kimberly Carlson from 1–4 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $30/$25 with preregistration. Call 541-7240.

It’s cold in my apartment, and it probably is in yours, so get some expert advice on DIY Home Weatherization from Jonathan Ballew of Pure Energy Audits when he leads a MUD workshop on the subject at 1 PM at MUD’s headquar-

ters, 629 Phillips St. $20/$10 members. Call 721-7513 to register.

The woolen warriors of Missoula’s Stitch ‘N’ Bitch needlework circle bring the world to drink every Sat. at 2 PM in Liquid Planet’s conference room. Free. BYO yarn and needles, and check out missoulaknits.blogspot.com.

Missoula is a bona fide bike town. If you don’t have one already, you’ll be able to make your own recycled bike after you volunteer for two hours at Missoula Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., on Saturdays at 2:30 PM. Call 800-809-0112.

Kids grades fourth–sixth explore the interwebs and more during Amazing World of Wiki’s, this month’s installment of the Missoula Public Library’s “find something to do” series, which starts at 4 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

nightlife A dying professor impacts a former student in more ways than one during a benefit performance for Congregation Har Shalom of Tuesdays with Morrie at the Governor’s Room of the Florence Building, 111 N. Higgins Ave., starting with a five-course dinner by local chefs at 5:30 PM, followed by a performance at 8:30 PM. $1000 table of eight/$150 person. Call 549-9595 or e-mail info@har-shalom.org.

Fruity preserves mesh into a musical jam sesh with the Didj when Ciara and the Didjeridoo Jam ham it up with a show at the Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

Big Sky Brewing Company presents:

PARTY

3rd Annual

PRAY BURNING DOG FESTIVAL FOR

Location:

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6pm start 11 $ Cover

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October 18, 2009 CHILDREN 12-2 P.M. ADULTS 2-6 P.M.

NEED ACTORS, SINGERS & DANCERS Performance Dates: December 3-13, 2009

MCT Community Theatre 200 North Adams Street in Missoula (406) 728-1911 • www.mctinc.org SHOW SPONSORED BY Galusha, Higgins & Galusha • WGM Group, Inc. • Allegiance Benefit Plan Management, Inc.

A teen’s dual desire for baseball and women contrasts with his parents’ expectations during the UM School of Theatre and Dance’s production of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs which runs Oct. 13–17 at 7:30 PM in the Montana Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $18 general/$14 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 or visit www.umtheatredance.org.

(See Theatre in this issue.)

Bear witness to the zany Sycamore family and their erratic ways, and see how the crotchety Kirby clan reacts, when the Whitefish Theatre Company presents You Can’t Take It With You at 7:30 PM at the O’Shaughnessy Cultural Arts Center in Whitefish, 1 Central Ave. $15 adults/$12 seniors/$8 students. Call 862-5371.

It’s time find some smooth moves in the Becket Formation during a Montana Folklore Society sponsored contra dance featuring Skippin’ A Groove with caller Morna Leonard, starting with a beginner dancer workshop at 7:30 PM and moving into the music at 8, upstairs at the Union Hall, 208 E. Main St. $8/$6 folklore society members. Visit www.montanafolk.org.

The New York Metropolitan Opera won’t be here in person, but you can witness Puccini’s Tosca in high definition video in the comfort of a seat at the Roxy Theater during The Met:

Live At the Roxy at 7:30 PM at the theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $18 adults/$16 students and seniors at any GrizTix outlet or www.griztix.com.

Visit www.morrisproductions.org.

The spice always gets a little pungent during Hot Salsa Nights at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St., at 8 PM, with free dance lessons at 8:30. $7.

Call 549-0542.

Bite yourself silly with the teeth of rawk when The Wild Coyotes howl up a show at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free.

Grab a rope and get down wit’ yerself with the Irish, swing and bluegrass sounds of The Stringlers, who play the Symes Hot Springs Hotel, 209 Wall St. in Hot Springs, at 8 PM. Donations appreciated. Call 741-2361.

Solid Sound Karaoke proves that music can also be a liquid or a gas, but never plasma, at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. If you get nervous in front of crowds, just imagine they’re all naked at East Missoula’s Reno Casino and Cafe’s karaoke night, brought to you by Karaoke by Figmo at 9 PM. Free.

Feel free to perform “Bella Ciao” by Mirah & The Black Cat Orchestra during karaoke night at 9 PM at the VFW but don’t be surprised if someone tells you we’re in Missoula, and so it’s time to start talking American. Free.

Here’s your chance to get freaky on the dance floor. AmVets Club offers up DJDC and his dance music to the hungry horde at 9 PM. Free.

The Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St., lets the karaoke genie out of the bottle at 9 PM. Turn south after taking exit 89 from I-90. Free.

Call 370-3200.

Have one too many drinks and you just might start singing pop tunes backwards during Bassackwards Karaoke at Larry’s Six Mile Bar & Grill in Huson, 23384 Huson Road, every other Sat. at 9 PM. Free.

DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo are guaranteed to keep you dancing to an assortment of hip-hop, electronic and other bass-heavy, bootybusting beats ‘til the bar closes, or at least until the vodka runs out, during Absolutely at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

Slime into the grime or perhaps clock time when you watch hip-hoppers battle for lyrical supremacy during an MC Battle, featuring DJ Brand One and hosts Tonsofun and Linkletter at the Palace at 9 PM. Free to watch, $5 to enter. Call 241-2226 for entry info.

The Duke aims for all diversity friendly peeps to dance your pants off to elektronische musik during his dance your pants off party at 9

SPOTLIGHT moving pictures Three Egyptian teens born into the recycling trade in Cairo struggle with the impacts of globalization on their industry, while two Western Shoshone sisters in Nevada butt heads with the federal government over land they use to graze cattle.

Those two stories—detailed at length in the films Garbage Dreams and American Outrage—are a slice of more than 20 documentary flicks slated to screen during the Sixth Annual Montana CINE International Film Festival. The cinematic shindig created by the International Wildlife Media Center & Film Festival features narratives spanning regional and international locations, documenting critical and contemporary issues faced by the planet, our environment and a multitude of cultures.

WHAT: Montana CINE International Film Festival WHERE: Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. WHEN: Wed., Oct. 21 through Sat., Oct. 24 HOW MUCH: $40 pass for unlimited screenings/$5 per screening/ $3 for matinees for children 12 and under MORE INFO: Download a schedule at www.wildlifefilms.org or call 728-9380

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Films include Gene Bernofsky’s Hear the Buffalo, a peep into Montana’s human vs. buffalo struggle. Geology-centric films also hit the silver screen, like Volcanoes of the Deep Sea, a glimpse into those molten monsters that sit 12,000 feet below the ocean’s surface.

A dash of special events rounds out the fête including a Wednesday talk by Marcia Hogan and Libby Langston, directors of The World of K.D. Swan: Early 20th Century Photographer and Conservationist. Don’t miss that panel because it also features Helen Swan Bolle, conservationist and daughter of K.D. Swan, and Bud Moore, former U. S. Forest Service director of fire and author of The Lochsa Story: Land Ethics in the Bitterroot Mountains. Thursday serves up a Q & A roundtable on native land rights with folks like George Gages, co-director of American Outrage, via Skype, and UM prof Kathryn Shanley.

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PM at Club Q in the basement of the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. $5. Use Front St. side entrance.

Grit ‘n grime grind down to a shiny sheen when Tom Catmull and the Clerics lead you to Americana nirvana with a show at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Today’s hangover is yesterday’s missed opportunity, or something like that, so get a little eccentric when Strange Brew rocks it up with rock and country at Florence’s High Spirits Club and Casino, 5341 US Hwy. 93 N., at 9:30 PM. Free.

Those blisters on your toes fester just a little less when you pounce to the funk and soul of Reverend Slanky, who play the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Sunday brunch at 10 AM with jazz from Three of a Kind is classy so don’t just roll out of bed and head into the Blue Canyon Kitchen & Tavern, located in the Hilton Garden Inn at 3720 N. Reserve Street.

Catch new thoughts with the Science of Mind Community during a Sunday service via the Internet when Rev. Kathianne Lewis spreads a spiritual message for your viewing pleasure at the Carriage House in Hamilton, 310 N. Fourth St., at 10 AM. this and every Sun. Free. Call Barb at 375-9996.

Health reform or the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act might be where the convo flows when Sen. Jon Tester and Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin meet at the Florence Building, 111 N. Higgins Ave., from 11:30 AM–1:30 PM. $35 suggested donation. Call Angela at 465-5753 or email angelawong@bresnan.net.

Lose yourself with others at the MissoulaMaze, a full hay bale maze open from noon–10 PM at 1010 Clements Road. $7 Adults/ $5 kids ages 4–16/Free seniors and kids under 4. Visit www.missoulmaze.com.

Can you carol and act with the best of ‘em? Find out during Missoula Children’s Theatre Community Theater auditions for A Christmas Carol, The Musical starting for kids ages 8 and up from noon–2 PM, followed by adult auditions from 2–6 PM, all at MCT’s headquarters, 200 N. Adams St. Free. Auditions are for Dec. 3–13 performance dates. Call 728-1911 or visit www.mctinc.org.

Hook yourself into the minds of three artists: Yinka Shonibare Mbe, Cindy Sherman and Paul McCarthy as they discuss the transformative power of their work during a prescreening of the PBS show Art:21 at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St., at 1 PM. Free. Call 728-0447.

Playing bingo at 2 PM at the Missoula Senior Citizens Center is your chance to yell, “Dad never paid child support!” Free. Call 543-7154.

Seek connection, mutual life, or even death using the ancient

Japanese strategy game Go when a group of enthusiasts meets to play the game this and every Sun. from 4–8 PM at Break Espresso, 432 N. Higgins Ave. Free. E-mail goinmissoula@yahoo.com.

Bear witness to the zany Sycamore family and their erratic ways, and see how the crotchety Kirby clan reacts, when the Whitefish Theatre Company presents You Can’t Take It With You at 4 PM at the O’Shaughnessy Cultural Arts Center in Whitefish, 1 Central Ave. $15 adults/$12 seniors/$8 students. Call 862-5371.

Your day of rest gets a little snugger during Cuddling: Spooning without Forking, a snuggling event with others from 4–6 PM at Birds and Bees LLC, 1515 E. Broadway St. Free, dress comfortably and bring pillows. Call 544-1019.

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Improvisational movement with others takes on a jammy vibe during contact dance improv, this and every Sun. from 6:30–8:30 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $5. Musicians are welcome and encouraged. E-mail

missoulacontactimprov@gmail.com.

Indie synth pop lifts your dull Sunday away when Montreal’s Islands plays an early show with Brookylin’s Jemina Pearl and South Carolina’s Toro Y Moi at 7 PM at the Palace. $8. (See Noise in this issue.)

Kick off the latter hours of your day of rest when the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night welcomes saints and sinners alike with jazz DJs and jazz bands starting at 7:30 PM. Free. This week: Jazz from the Donna Smith Trio, the Front Street Jazz Group and DJ Mermaid.

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.

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.

Hear ye, hear ye: AmVets Club offers a new spin on karaoke called “Jheryoake.” Delve into the mystery at 9 PM, when happy hour gets the crowd loose until 10. Free.

Bring your ish kickers and prepare to stomp one out like a one-legged cowboy when the Idaho outlaws of the Jeremiah James Gang countrify the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Now that you’ve moved here, it’s time to start speakin’ ‘Merican and learning about our wonderful banking and health care systems (you can tell I’m joking, right?), as well as our educational system during Adult Basic Education courses at the Dickinson Lifelong Learning Center, every Mon. and Wed. at 8:30 AM at the center, 310 S. Curtis St. Free. Call 542-4015.

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.

After school activities for your kid aged 8–12 get a little wild and primal during the Roxy

Theatre’s After School Wildlife Film Safari which runs Mon.–Fri. from 3–5:30 PM, except for holiday’s, at the theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $6/hour. Call 728-9380 to register.

Kindergartners through eighth graders find a positive, stress-free environment after school at Two Creeks Bridges program which features play materials, art and more Mon.–Thu. from 3–5:30 PM at 258 Roosevelt Lane in Hamilton. $4 per hour. Call 363-4740 to register or e-mail sarchibald@dishmail.com.

Kids in first through fifth grade stir their artistic passions afterschool during the ZACC’s Young Artist Afterschool Program where instructor Hanna Hannan leads art projects, field trips, tours and more from 3–5:30 PM every weekday until Dec. 23 at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. $12 per day, with busing available. Visit www.zootownarts.com or call 549-7555.

Lose yourself with others at the MissoulaMaze, a full hay bale maze open from 3–9 PM on Oct.

19-20 at 1010 Clements Road. $7 Adults/$5 kids ages 4–16/Free seniors and kids under 4.

Visit www.missoulmaze.com.

It’s a topic on all our minds, so get some insight from an expert when Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, leads the seminar “Health Reform: Realistic and Unrealistic” in Rooms 2 and 3 of St. Patrick Hospital’s conference room, 500 W. Broadway St., at 3:10 PM. Free. Call 243-2981.

You work long hours, but your kid doesn’t, so keep them busy after their studies during an afterschool program for kindergartners through sixth grades Mon.–Fri. at Elrod School, 412 Third Ave. W. in Kalispell, from 3:15–5:45 PM. $10 early out days/$6 regular days. Call 758-7975.

Soon-to-be mommas with bambinos in the oven can feel empowered, relaxed and nurtured during a prenatal yoga class, this and every Mon. at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks Ave., at 4 PM. $11/$10 with card. Call 360-1521.

Two sessions of World Rhythm Youth Hand Drumming Class hits Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W. every Mon. At 4:30 PM, kids aged 5–7 can get their grooves on, and a class for those 8 and above begins at 5. $30/month, drum rental available. RSVP 3963352 or visit tangledtones.com.

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If you devote 5:30 to 8:30 PM on Monday or Wednesday nights to silent meditation, political drinking or other non-kid-friendly endeavors, the Parenting Place offers free child care and dinner at 1644 S. Eighth St. Call 728-KIDS to reserve a spot.

Learn to mix and match your bellydance styles during Beginner World Fusion Bellydance, which takes place every Mon. at 5:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/month for as many classes as you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after.

Call Blair at 531-3000.

Rejuvenate your mind and body from the Monday blues during a Vinyasa Yoga class this and every Mon. at 5:30 PM at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks Ave. $12/$10 with card. Call 360-1521.

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

You’ll probably want to take out those metallic studs when you head to Gothic Fusion Bellydance, which takes place every Mon. at 6:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/per month for each class you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Blair at 531-3000.

Get this: Every Mon., Lolo’s Square Dance Center, 9555 Hwy. 12, begins with beginners’ lessons at 6:30 PM and then moves into full square dance party mode at 8. First two beginners’ sessions free/$4 thereafter. Call 273-0141.

The power of dreadlocks mysteriously reveals itself as renowned choreographer Bebe Miller levitates to UM to discuss “The Indirect Path From Here to There—Dance Making While Thinking” Thu., Oct. 15, at 5 PM in Room 005 of UM’s PARTV Center. Free. Call 243-2682

Your fidgety fingers might be taken over by the ghost of Eddie Peabody when Matt Cornette leads a Banjo I class this and every Mon. at 6:30 PM for five weeks at the YMCA, 3000 S. Russell St. $45/$40 members. Call 721-YMCA. You can bring your story of hope, encouragement and more to others that have suffered a brain injury during October’s Missoula Brain Injury Support Group Meeting, which meets at 6:30 PM in the Duran Learning Center at St. Patrick Hospital, 500 W. Broadway St. Free. Call Jim Mickelson at 544-6629.

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

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.

Make your impassioned point in whatever rented costume most fits the bill when the Missoula City Council meets—as they do the first four Mondays of every month, holidays

excluded—at 7 PM in the Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Free. Call 552-6080.

Joining up with UM’s French Club Le Cercle Francophone means you can repeatedly ask people “Quel est mon objectif?” or just brush up on your French skills when the club meets this and every Mon. at James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., at 7 PM. Free If you’re 18 and under and your life has been affected by someone else’s drinking, get support with others by joining the Al-Ateen 12Step 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.alanon.alateen.org.

Icecaps might stop melting for a second when you head to the discussion “Climate Change Across the Curriculum” which features talks

by UM profs on the disciplinary nature of climate change and more at 7 PM at the University Center Theatre. Free. Call 243-4856.

See if you can wade through the controversy and hoopla surrounding President Obama’s speech to students, as well as the movie The Story of Stuff, during a family-geared screening of each at 7 PM in the large meeting room of the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free, with free ice cream to follow. Call 543-5613.

He’s your pilot on a trip to buzzland, so let Tom Catmull’s voice guide you through glasses of vino when he plays the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 100, at 7 PM. Free.

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

Rock some mean Scruggs-style banjo licks when Matt Cornette leads a Banjo II class this and every Mon. at 7:45 PM for five weeks at the YMCA, 3000 S. Russell St. $45/$40 members. Call 721-YMCA.

Hopefully she’s got the real answer: clasp onto the “The Truth about the Drug Companies” when Marcia Angell, former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, leads a discussion on the matter at the University Theatre at 8 PM. Free. Call 243-2981.

Bingo is no longer in the domain of the geriatric when Colin Hickey leads Colin Bingo at 8:30 PM at the Badlander with the first bingo card for free, subsequent cards for $1. Free.

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.

Kick off your week with a drink and an array of electronic DJs and styles for das booty during the Palace’s Milkcrate Mondays with the Milkcrate Mechanic at 9 PM every week.

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Bring a bicycle with a big hook in it to Sean Kelly’s open mic night, hosted by Mike Avery at 9:30 PM, and see if you can troll for cars from the bar while you watch the show. Free.

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Learn to appreciate your body during Love Your Body Day at Birds & Bees LLC, 1515 E. Broadway St., which features massages all day from 10 AM–8 PM. $20 for a 30 minute massage. Register by calling 544-1019.

While Missoula Aging Services is a sprightly 25 years of age, their Meals on Wheels program serves a more mature crowd, and you can too: Deliver hot meals to seniors as often as you’d like—and cash in on the sweet mileage reimbursement—from Mon.–Fri. between 10:30 AM and 12:30 PM. Call 728-7682.

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Kids learn the intricacies of popping and locking, with help from stories or objects, during Family in Motion: Dance Exploration, which starts at 11 AM at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St. $4.25/free under age 1. Call 541-7529.

Moms, it’s time for you to vent your frustrations with your little rugrat at Mom Me Time, a discussion group for mom’s new to the game of motherhood at 11:30 AM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free.

Call 721-7690.

Your skill at creating something functionally wicked, like a beer stein or a vase, comes in handy during the ZACC’s Paint Your Own Pottery Studio, which runs from 12–8 PM Mon.–Fri. and every Sat. from noon–5 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. Price ranges from $5–$20, depending on cost of pottery. Call 549-7555 or visit www.zootownarts.com.

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.

Shaving cream, clay dough, tempera, chalk and more stimulate the creative nectar in your 3.5–5-year-old when Alli DePuy leads Preschool Art Start, featuring hands on projects, field trips and more this and every Tue. from 1–2:30 PM until Nov. 24 at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. $55/$49.50 members. Call 728-0447.

Toss out your 3.5–4 year old’s antiquated dance moves and keep it fresh during Creative Movement at the ballet studio in UM’s PARTV building from 3:30–4 PM, this and every Tue. until Dec. 3. $75/$65 UM faculty and staff. Call 243-2849 I’m guessing that downing a few shots of espresso before the “big interview” isn’t a tip offered during an interviewing workshop from 3:30–5 PM in Room 154 of UM’s Lommasson Center. Free. Call 243-2022.

Teens ages 13–18 stir their creative juices during Teen Media Club every Tue. at 4 PM at the Missoula Public Library computer classroom, where video creation, music mixing and digital art formulation are all the rage. Free. Call 721-2665.

Your pre-teens’ after school happenings get more productive (and much cooler) during Afterschool Art Adventure: Sesson II with Bev Glueckert, where kids ages 7–12 work on 3-D cardboard sculptures and other art inspired by the Missoula Art Museum’s current exhibitions this and every Tue. from 4–5:30 PM until Nov. 24 at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. $55/$49.50 members. Call 728-0447.

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Find the outlet for that excess energy when Gillian Kessler takes you through the flow of it all during World Rhythm Yoga Class every Tue. at 5 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Ladies, celebrate your feminist tendencies with cheap drinks when the Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St. in Frenchtown, hosts Ladies’ Night every Tue. from 5 PM to close.

Free. Call 370-3200.

Hey, we all overindulge sometimes, but when you’ve had enough, head down to Take off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS), a meeting which starts with a weigh-in between 5 and 5:30 PM, followed by a meeting at 5:30, this and every Tue. at the Rocky Mountain Lodge in Whitefish, 6510 Hwy. 93 S. Free. Call 862-1233.

Witness a man and his tale as a survivor of the Bataan Death March when Ben Steele discusses his life as a WWII POW and signs copies of Tears of Darkness (he’s the protagonist in the book) at 5 PM at Fact & Fiction at the University Center. Free. Call 243-1234.

It’s always a glutenous good time when Wheat Montana, 2520 S. Third St. W., presents Black Mountain Bluegrass at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 327-0900.

Beginners can try, but those more experienced might catch on quicker during Intermediate World Fusion Bellydance, which takes place every Tue. at 5:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/month for every class you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Blair at 531-3000.

Kids ages 10 and up learn the ins, outs and basics of glass fusing, and perhaps create a pendent or necklace, during a Youth Glass Class from 5:30–6:30 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. $15 with $5 deposit. Pre-registration only. Call 549-7555 or e-mail holly@zootownarts.com.

Those advanced in the ways of clay should check an intermediate throwing class, which runs this and every Tue. from 6–9 PM until Nov. 3 at the Clay Studio of Missoula, 1106 Hawthorne St. Unit A. $168/eight-week course. Call 543-0509.

Nurturing your kid doesn’t mean giving them candy and plopping them in front of the television while you go off to the bar, so head over to a nurturing parenting class at the Parenting Place, 1644 S. Eighth St. W., from 6–7:30 PM every Tue. until Nov. 17. $60 couples/$40 individuals. Call 728-KIDS. Flush the early week stress from your system with a Tuesday Track Workout featuring speed training by UM women’s track coach Courtney Babcock every Tue. at 6 PM at Dornblaser Field, on the corner of Higgins and South avenues.

Free for Run Wild Missoula members/Cost TBA for others. Visit www.runwildmissoula.org.

Once the divorce papers clear, it’s time to be civil outside the courtroom, so grab some tips during the workshop Communicating with the Other Parent from 6–9 PM at Families First, 815 E. Front St. Ste. 3. $45 couples/$35 per person. Sliding scale and payment plans available. Call 721-7690.

If you’ve got some serious knowledge about hand drumming and a repertoire of riddims, check a Level Three West African Hand Drumming Class this and every Tue. until Oct. 27 from 6:10–7:30 PM where you’ll learn some intricate moves and more at the old Western Montana Family Clinic building, 500 W. Front St. $55, 5-week series/$12 single class. Call 726-4445 or e-mail matthew@drumbrothers.com.

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

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.

Go beyond your limits, in a positive way, during the class “Beyond Limits” this and every Tue. from 6:30–9 PM until Nov. 24 at Kalispell’s Shining Mountains Center for Positive Living, 475 Eighth Ave. East N. Cost TBA. Call 257-6539.

Women can exercise some playful moves during “Nia,” this week’s installment of the YWCA of Missoula’s Living in Peace women’s group which meets from 6:30–8 PM at the YWCA, 1130 W. Broadway St. Free.

Call 543-6691.

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.

Grab the rooster sauce and get spicy when the Downtown Dance Collective’s Heather Adams presents beginning salsa dance lessons at a new time of 7 PM followed by intermediate/advanced at 8, every Tue. at the Badlander. $7/per class per person.

Follow your dreams of becoming the next Willie Nelson, and get buy-one-get-one-free drink tickets, during an open mic night every Tue. at the Brooks and Browns Lounge at the Holiday Inn Parkside, 200 S. Pattee St., from 7–10 PM, with sign-up at 6 PM. E-mail moorebeej@yahoo.com.

One woman’s quest to green up the planet with arbors offers food for thought and more during a screening of the film Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai at 7 PM in the University Center Theater. Free. Call 243-4856 There’s always room to brush up on speakin’ American, er, I mean English, during Talk Time, an informal conversation group for nonnative speakers led by TEFL certified facilitator Adam Hart at 5 PM in the small meeting room of the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK. A variety of instruments ought to be plucked, bowed and blown with intensity when the Contemporary Chamber Players perform at 7:30 PM in UM’s Music Recital Hall, in the music building. $10/$5 students and seniors.

Call 243-6880.

Those that 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’s Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. E-mail abamissoula@gmail.com.

If you’re a dude and you’re a little unfocused about sexuality, fix it during More for Men, a focus group “to help men sort through sexuality” that meets every other Tuesday from 7:30–9 PM at Birds and Bees LLC, 1515 E. Broadway St. $8 suggested donation. Call 544-1019.

Slay it like a classical version of Slayer when Jen Slayden leads a Cello II class this and every Tue. at 7:45 PM for five weeks at the YMCA, 3000 S. Russell St. $45/$40 members. Call 721-YMCA. You just might be able to learn the Shetland fiddling technique when Beth Youngblood leads a Fiddle III class this and every Tue. at 7:45 PM for five weeks at the YMCA, 3000 S. Russell St. $45/$40 members. Call 721-YMCA. 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 is bit stuffing?

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Whitefish musicians trade their skills for free drinks as the Great Northern Bar hosts Open Mic Night, which begins at 8 PM with an acoustic jam circle, heads into an electric set at 9:30 and features fine hosting by members of the Canyon Creek Ramblers. Free. Call 862-2816.

You’ve practiced in front of the mirror long enough—head to the High Spirits in Florence,

where open mic night features a drum set, amps, mics and recording equipment and awaits you and your axe at 8 PM. Free. Call 273-9992 to reserve your spot.

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.

It’s still bigger than disco: The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., keeps on keepin’ it real for those in the know every Tue. at 8:30 PM, when Intermediate Hip-Hop Class puts the “back” back in “back in the day.”

Call 541-7240 for pricing.

ing Kaleidoscope Karaoke every Tue.–Sun. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 721-1798.

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It’s probably one of the best gigs in a recession, so nab some info on the health industry during the “Fifth Annual Health Professions” career fair at the University Center Ballroom from 9 AM–3 PM. Free. Call 243-6150.

Broadway St., which features massages all day from 10 AM–8 PM. $20 for a 30 minute massage. Register by calling 544-1019.

Verbs, adverbs and nouns get advice from pumkpins during preschool storytime with storyteller Susie Thomas from 10:30–11:30 AM in the children’s corner of the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton. Free.

Call 363-1670.

Brush up on your skills as an art guide when the Missoula Art Museum presents an Art Guide Training from 11 AM–1 PM, which includes an overview of the fifth grade art experience, MAM Art Guide policies and touring strategies, all at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Call Renee Taafee at 728-0447 for pricing.

Interactive story time with books by Friedrich Nietzsche should stir up some discussion of nihilism at Ready, Set, Read, an early literacy program for kids ages 3–7 that includes art projects and games (and kid friendly stories, of course) at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front. St., at 11 AM. $4.25/free under age one. Call 541-7529.

Runners, get working on your core during a core strength training class this and every Wed. for 11 weeks from 12:15–1 PM upstairs at the Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. $75/$68 Run Wild Missoula Members. RSVP with Alison Laundrie at alison@thepilatesplayground.com.

First-year UM students can sweep themselves into a tale of a man whose body grows younger as his mind grows older when Andrew Sean Greer leads the First-Year Reading Experience Seminar on his book The Confessions of Max Tivoli at the University Center Theater at 2:10 PM. Free, open to first year students. Call 243-4689.

Times New Viking refuse to leave your front porch after the band plays its raucous brand of lo-fi rock at the Palace Wed., Oct. 21, at 9 PM. $8.

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

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

Priapism displays some dirty funk rock tricks at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

Hip-hop that’s not afraid to veer out into left field is in store when Flagstaff, Ariz.’s Sole and the Skyrider Band swaps abstract rhymes with Seattle’s Astronautalis at 9 PM at the Palace. $8.

See a plethora of patterns and colors after a few pitchers, and muster up the courage to belt out some classics too, and perhaps win a prize, dur-

Seize the opportunity to watch documentary films about American Indian land rights, the trash trade in Egypt and more during the Montana CINE Film Festival, which starts with screenings at 9:30 AM, followed by a welcome reception at 6 PM on Wed. Oct. 21 and screenings of more films at various times through Oct. 24, all at the Roxy Theatre, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $40 pass for unlimited screenings/$5 per screening/$3 for matinees for youth under 12. Visit www.wildlifefilms.org for a downloadable schedule or call 728-9380.

(See Spotlight in this issue.)

Morning Melodies, a free, fun-filled, familyfriendly music event tailored to preschoolers, occurs every Wed. at Montana Coffee Traders in downtown Whitefish at 10 AM. Free.

Learn to appreciate your body during Love Your Body Day at Birds & Bees LLC, 1515 E.

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Forget treadmills, burn that excess fat, and look stylish too, during Dancercise Around the World with Elenita Brown, a low-impact class designed to stregthen and stretch, this and every Wed. at 2:30 PM until Nov. 4 at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Cake and ice cream warm your stomach as overdue fines get waived during Stevensville’s North Public Library 100th Anniversary Party at 3:30 PM at the library, 208 Main St. Free. Call 777-5061.

Rock those hips to classical and regional Spanish dance styles, as well as Flamenco, when Elenita Brown leads a Flamenco dance class this and every Wed. at 3:45 PM until Nov. 4 at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $75, eight-week course. Call 541-7240.

Enviro students can glean info on internships nationwide during an info session on Student Conservation Association Internships from 4–5 PM at UM’s Davidson Honors College, in the room lounge. Free. Call 603543-1700 ext. 499 or visit www.thesca.org.

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Dandelions and knapweed duel to the death during the discussion “From Roots to Communities: Causes and Consequences of Plant Competition” in Room 110 of UM’s Interdisciplinary Sciences Building, at 4:10 PM. Free. Call 243-5292.

Boys move to an entirely different groove at Boys Movin’, a dance class for boys ages 5–9 every Wed. at 4:15 PM for 12 weeks in the ballet studio at UM’s PARTV building. $75/$65 UM faculty and staff. Call 243-2849.

nightlife Your child’s fingers might meld into those of Tony Iommi’s when David Boone leads a Guitar II for Kids and Teens class this and every Wed. at 4 PM for five weeks at the YMCA, 3000 S. Russell St. $45/$40 members. Call 721-YMCA. Dudes and duderinos, it’s your time to imbibe all day with drink specials this and every Wed. when the Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St. in Frenchtown, hosts Men’s Day. Free. Call 370-3200.

Socializing about socialized health care, or the weather, goes great with food during a potluck supper at the Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave., at 5:30 PM. $5 person. Call 543-7154.

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

Blue Argon plays eclectic blues, R&B, and jazz featuring Colleen Cunningham, Steve Sellars and Jim Clayborn every Wed. at 6 PM at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463.

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

It’s once again time to render flesh, muscles and an assortment of body parts into a work of genius during the Missoula Art Museum’s noninstructed figure drawing classes, from 6–8 PM this and every Wed. at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. $7/$5 members. Participants must be 18 and over. Call 728-0447.

Should your pottery be functional, or aesthetically pleasing? I’m not sure either, but take your pick during an eight-week beginning pottery class which runs this and every Wed. from 6–9 PM until Nov. 4 at the Clay Studio of Missoula, 1106 Hawthorne St. Unit A. $168/eight-week course. Call 543-0509.

Men and women slug cheap lager beer and hit the high notes during tonight’s installment of Opera On Draft, which starts at 6 PM at the Badlander and features the theme “Opera: The Drinking Game.” $5.

Gillian Kessler asks only that you embrace your inner diva as she fuses slick Brazilian moves with modern techniques for her Afro-Brazilian Dance Class, which takes place every Wed. at 6:10 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

If you’re advanced in the tones and techniques of West African Drumming, learn how to make even better sweet breakbeats when the Drum Brothers’ Matthew Marsolek leads a Level Two West African Hand Drumming Class this and every Wed. until Oct. 28 from 6:10–7:30 PM at the old Western Montana Family Clinic building, 500 W. Front St. $55, 5week series/$12 single class. Call 726-4445 or e-mail matthew@drumbrothers.com.

Find out the difference between regular pilates and pilates from the Big Apple when Alison Laundrie leads a New York Style Pilates class every Wed. at Main Street Pilates, 214 E. Main St., at 6:30 PM. $12. RSVP 541-2673.

Bust some hot moves in 2/4 time when Sandy Lawler holds a beginning country western two step dance class this and every Wed. until Oct. 21 at The Dance Studio, 2105 Bow St., at 6:30 PM. $24 per person. Call 239-6044.

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Learn to jam with other bluegrass minded folks when Nate Biehl leads a Bluegrass Band class this and every Wed. at 6:30 PM for five weeks at the YMCA, 3000 S. Russell St. $45/$40 members. Call 721-YMCA. See what loss is like from the perspective of a kid, and get tools to help with coping, during the Families First program Parents Go To School: Childhood Grief and Loss, presented by Tina Barret from 6:30–8 PM at Target Range Elementary, 4095 South Ave. W. Free.

Call 721-7690 to register.

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.

Organizational and sci-fi enthusiasts can satisfy both cravings by attending bimonthly meetings of MisCon, Montana’s longest running science fiction convention, the first and third Wednesdays of the month at 7 PM at Ruby’s Inn, 4825 N. Reserve St. Free. Call 544-7083.

Being square will never be as much fun as it is at square dancing lessons every Wed. at the Kalispell Senior Center. 7 PM. $4, children 12 and under must bring an adult. Call 752-4964.

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 7 PM. Free. Call Rex at 360-3333.

In case of emergency, break finger puppet: Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like stories, fingerplays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 7 PM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK. The Montana Festival of the Book kicks off its 10th year by shining light on a dark moment in American history during the discussion “The (Mis)Education of Archilde Leon: The Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools” moderated by Jodi Rave and featuring Raymond Cross, Kathleen Little Leaf and Mary Jane Charlo at 7 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 243-6022.

Spice up your life in the sack during “Simple Keys to a Better Sex Life,” a workshop lead

by Dr. Lindsey Doe where individuals and partners learn to make simple changes for pleasurable rewards from 7–9 PM at Birds and Bees LLC, 1515 E. Broadway St. $8 suggested donation. Call 544-1019.

Grab that tutu and slap on some ballet shoes every Wed. at 7:20 PM when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., presents Beginning Ballet. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Release that mid and late week stress during Tai Chi Chuan classes every Wed. at 7:30 PM and every Sat. at 10 AM at the Teranga Arts School, 2926 S. Third St. W. $10/class. Call Chris at 728-0918.

Author Andrew Sean Greer dissects a man who physically grows younger as his mind ripens in age when he discusses his book The Confessions of Max Tivoli at the University Theatre at 7:30 PM. Free. Call 243-4689.

Expect some a capella, perhaps some beatboxing and certainly some tickling of the white and black keys when North Carolina’s Ben Folds freaks up the Wilma Theatre with Kate Miller-Heidke during a show at 7:30 PM. $29.50 plus fees at Rockin Rudy’s or www.ticketswest.com. (See Noise in this issue.)

Get ready for a “poignant journey of self discovery and sexuality” which also features monsters when Missoula native and playwright Laramie Dean performs his play Othernatural at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins, today through Oct. 24. $10. Visit www.mtactors.com.

Create some phat polyrhythms on that Djembe when Matthew Marsolek of the Drum Brothers leads a beginning series West

African Hand Drumming Class this and every Wed. until Oct. 28 from 7:45–9:15 PM at the old Western Montana Family Clinic building, 500 W. Front St. $55, 5-week series/$12 single class. Call 726-4445 or email matthew@drumbrothers.com.

The meastro from Tarkio aims for you to shred it when Gibson Hartwell leads a Guitar II for Adults class this and every Wed. at 7:45 PM for five weeks at the YMCA, 3000 S. Russell St. $45/$40 members. Call 721-YMCA. 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.

Extend yourself beyond regular ballet using emotion through movement to tell stories and interpret music when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., presents Lyrical Class every Wed. at 8:30 PM. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

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: Bit stuffing is a computing term meaning to insert bits that are called “noninformation bits” into data. Confusing, eh?

The tenets of women’s lib broadens to include cheap drinks and DJs spinning dance tracks when Feruqi’s hosts ladies’ night every Wed. at 9 PM. Free.

Be sure you’ve downed enough PBR in order to have the courage to sing “Sweet Leaf” by Black Sabbath, or a similar tune, during Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

Some people call it sh*tgaze, others call it lo-fi indie, so grab a dab of some rock on the edge when Columbus, Ohio’s Times New Viking plays a show at the Palace at 9 PM. $8. Openers TBA. Fight for the right to belt out a semi-coherent version of The Darkness’ “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” every Wed. during Combat Karaoke at Rowdy’s Cabin, 4880 N. Reserve St., at 10 PM. Free. Call 543-8001.

Don’t be a manther while trolling the bars tonight, rather, exercise your sensitive side with some mellowish rock/hip-hop from Seattle’s Eclectic Approach, who play the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Aspen Hospice of Montana is currently looking for volunteers to help offer comfort, pain relief and emotional support for those who are near the end of their lives. Call Lois at 642-3010.

Still haven’t joined the interwebs, or figured out how to save a document on a computer?

Remedy that quick during free classes on basic computer use at Stevensville’s North Valley Public Library, 208 Main St., at 9 AM every Thu. until Oct. 29. Free. Call 777-5061.

Seize the opportunity to watch documentary films about American Indian land rights, the trash trade in Egypt and more during the Montana CINE Film Festival, which starts with screenings at 9:30 AM, followed by a welcome reception at 6 PM on Wed. Oct. 21 and screenings of more films at various times through Oct. 24, all at the Roxy Theatre, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $40 pass for unlimited screenings/$5 per screening/$3 for matinees for youth under 12. Visit www.wildlifefilms.org for a downloadable schedule or call 728-9380. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Kids and parents experiment with rhythm and more during Rhythm Tykes, a class for kids 18 months–4 years old this and every Thu. at 10 AM at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W. $40 five classes/$10 class. Call 396-3352.

If you can’t read this, you may be a baby below the age of 36 months, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Don’t be surprised if your kid starts shredding like Jimmy Page when Jesse Brinkerhoff leads a Preschoolers Rock class for kids ages 4–5 this and every Thu. at 11 AM for five weeks at the YMCA, 3000 S. Russell St. $45/$40 members. Call 721-YMCA. Shake it ‘til you break it when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., offers Booty Ballet every Thu. at noon. Call 5417240 for pricing.

Your skill at creating something functionally wicked, like a beer stein or a vase, comes in handy during the ZACC’s Paint Your Own Pottery Studio, which runs from 12–8 PM Mon.–Fri. and every Sat. from Noon–5 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. Price ranges from $5–$20, depending on cost of pottery. Call 549-7555 or visit www.zootownarts.com.

I’m sure your lunch digests a little easier with discussions on “Phenotypic Plasticity of Giant Goldenrod in the U.S. and Hungary” at noon in Room 303 of UM’s old Journalism Building. Free. Call 243-2288.

Kids in first through fifth grade stir their artistic passions after school during the ZACC’s Young Artist Afterschool Program where instructor Hanna Hannan leads art projects, field trips, tours and more from 3–5:30 PM every weekday until Dec. 23 at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. $12 per day, with busing available. Visit www.zootownarts.com or call 549-7555.

The late James Crumley gets a few kind words during the Montana Festival of the Book discussion “The Last Good Kiss: An Appreciation of James Crumley” moderated by Michael Koepf with Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, Laura Lippman and James Grady at 3 PM at the Wilma Theatre. Free. Call 243-6022.

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The musical gods give your kids something to pluck and purr about during Afterschool Adventures: Playdate with an Artist featuring the Tangled Tones Music Studio at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., at 3 PM. $4.25/free under age 1. Call 5417529 or visit www.learnplayimagine.org.

Even if your toddler makes some smooth dance moves, your 5–6 year old might need some work, so bring them to another installment of Creative Movement Class every Thu. at 4 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Stories of the Asian American experience during WWII rise forth from the page when author Jamie Ford reads from his book Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet at 4 PM at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Call 243-6022.

Kids get to rock some mad breakbeats and drumfills when Travis Yost leads a Drums & Percussion class for kids aged 11–18 every Thu. at 4 PM for five weeks at the YMCA, 3000 S. Russell St. $45/$40 members. Call 721-YMCA. Breakdance, slamdance or just inventively dance when your 7- to 8-year-old checks out Creative and Modern Movement, a dance class at 4:15 PM this and every Thu. in the ballet studio of UM’s PARTV building, until Dec. 3. $75/$65 UM faculty and staff. Call 243-2849.

nightlife Put a smile on your face and a tune in your head—join guitarist Craig Wickham every Thu. from 5–7 PM at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463.

It’s time to meld those abstract dance moves into specific form, especially if you’re between the ages of 9–12, at Dance and Choreography, this and every Thu. until Dec. 3 at 5 PM in the ballet studio of UM’s PARTV building. $75/$65 UM faculty and staff. Call 243-2849.

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Wiggle those hips and strike poses of elegant expression when former UM dance prof Amy Ragsdale leads a beginning to intermediate Modern Dance class at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., every Thu. at 5 PM. Cost TBA. Call 360-8763.

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

Call 396-3352.

Gypsies come out during Troupe Night class every Thu. at 5:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/month for every class you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Blair at 531-3000.

After the revolution we’ll need a new Betsy Ross, which is why you should pick up some tips every Thu. at Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins Ave., where their Sewing Lounge begins at 6 PM. $9–10 hour. Call 541-7171.

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.

Crunk is not on tap when The Acousticals sweeten up the Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, but bluegrass is when they play a show at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

Connect your mind and soul to whatever diety you deem divine during a taize chanting circle with Rev. Jennifer Hackenbruch and Erin Barnes the second and fourth Thu. of the month at 6 PM at 2237 S. Third St. W. Free.

Call 370-9631.

Wrap up your vocal cords in pitch perfect fashion when Lila Cleminshaw leads a Singing Technique class this and every Thu. at 6:30 PM for five weeks at the YMCA, 3000 S. Russell St. $45/$40 members. Call 721-YMCA. 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.

Swallow your pride, grab up to seven doublespaced pages of your best verbiage, and bring it to this week’s Authors of the Flathead meeting for constructive critique at 7 PM in Room 151 of the Science and Technology Building on the Flathead Valley Community College campus. Free. Call 881-4066.

You just might do the push, whip or the jitterbug-lindy when Cathy Clark slings beginning swing dance lessons every Thu. at 7 PM, and then moves to beyond basics swing lessons at 7:30 PM, at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., with open dancing from 8–10 PM. $5 person for dance lessons. E-mail cathyc@missoulaboneandjoint.com.

The real hip-hop is over here. The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., gives you something to pop and lock about every Thu. at 7:20 PM during beginning and intermediate Hip-Hop Class. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Rock some sweet fiddle solos and bust a move while others shred without use of an amp during Old Timey Music Sessions at Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., at 7:30 PM this and every Thu. through Oct. Free. Call 7263765.

Get ready for a “poignant journey of self discovery and sexuality” which also features monsters when Missoula native and playwright Laramie Dean performs his play Othernatural at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins, today through Oct. 24. $10. Visit www.mtactors.com.

A party for the written word ensues when Dennis Lehane, Andrew Sean Greer and Maile Meloy read from their works during the Montana Festival of the Book’s Gala Reading

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at the Wilma Theatre at 7:30 PM. Free. Call 243-6022.

Organize those random sounds into something harmonic when Lila Cleminshaw leads a Singing Harmony II class this and every Thu. at 7:45 PM for five weeks at the YMCA, 3000 S. Russell St. $45/$40 members. Call 721-YMCA. Bring yer guitar, bass or other instrument of choice every Thu. night to The Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, when it holds an open-mic style artists showcase at 8 PM. Free. Interested musicians should Call 541-8463.

Bowling and karaoke go together like country and techno 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.

Bassackwards Karaoke turns your world underside-up every Thu. at 9 PM at Deano’s Casino on Airway Boulevard. Free. Call 5318327.

Get your fix with Sandy Bradford and Mark Souhrada when they host the jam at Los Caporales in Columbia Falls at 9 PM. Call 892-5025.

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.

They’ve yet to bust some caps, but you can help Missoula’s Hellgate Rollergirls get off the ground during the Dollaz for Derby Dames Fundraiser featuring music by Rooster Sauce, Vera, Punchy and the Knock Outs, El Zombie Gato and Reptile Dysfunction at the Palace at 9 PM. $5.

See a plethora of patterns and colors after a few pitchers, and muster up the courage to belt out some classics too, and perhaps win a prize, during Kaleidoscope Karaoke every Tue.–Sun. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 721-1798.

All amblers hippie-tonk it up when the Canyon Creek Ramblers rove over to the Great Northern Bar and Grill in Whitefish, 27 Central Ave., for a show at 9:30 PM. Free.

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.

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Cross your karaoke sword with others under the influence of that music box you sing along to during Combat DJ and Karaoke nights, this and every Thu. at the Press Box, 835 E. Broadway St., at 10 PM. Free.

Folks, UM’s CutBank literary mag might be in some dire straights. The 36-year UM institution has been hit hard by the sour economy and is in danger of cutting one of its two yearly issues. So, they’re asking for your help to keep the words flowing onto the page via an art auction featuring work by Adam Perry, Monte Dolack, Lucy McCoy, Marc Moss and others.

Bidding runs from 6–9 PM at the ZACC Gallery, 235 N. First St. W. And it’s free, besides the bidding part. In the meantime, let me know of any future events, art auctions or not, by sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Oct. 16, to calendar@missoulanews.com.

Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Playa c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 5434367. 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.”

Last week’s deep arctic freeze caught many by surprise, making it difficult to know if fall has fallen away already. I’m wondering if any of you powder hounds had something to do with it since you’ve been continually urging the snow goddess to bask our mountains in gorgeous white powder. Well, looks like you got some of it.

This week, your powers of frozen water solicitation are put to even better use at the Western Montana Avalanche Foundation’s annual Burning Dog “Pray for Snow Party,” which features vended food, beer from Big Sky Brewing, the Montana premiere of the Powder Whore film Flakes, as well as music from locals Places and a surprise appearance

by Portland hip-hop faves Lifesavas. The action runs from 6–10 PM at the Big Sky Brewery Amphitheater, 5417 Trumpeter Way, and costs $11 at the door. Once the revelry has reached its peak, a 40-foot tall Powder Hound Dog is burned (much like the “Man” at Burning Man). All proceeds from the party go to the foundation, a nonprofit that educates locals about avalanches.

After shaking off a beer and hip-hop induced hangover, spend both Saturday and Sunday helping the Missoula Nordic Ski Club clean off debris and logs from local ski trails in preparation for its upcoming season. The first cleanup is Saturday from 9 AM–12 PM at the Pattee Canyon Trail, so meet at the Pattee Canyon picnic area parking lot at 9 AM. Bring gloves, warm clothes and tools like rakes, shovels, a chain saw or bow saw. E-mail Craig at kruegerkenyon@gmail.com. The second cleanup is Sunday at the Rattlesnake Trailhead and also runs from 9 AM–12 PM, so plan to meet at the trailhead parking lot at 9 AM. Also bring rakes, shovels and everything listed above. E-mail charles.wellenstein@umontana.edu. You can participate in both events for free, but you should plan on parting with $35 for a yearly membership to the club if you plan to participate in any of their upcoming skiing trips. Nab more info at www.missoulanordic.org. Also, if you’re interested, head to a board meeting for the club on Mon., Oct.

After taking Sunday off and heading back to the drudgery of work on Mon., Oct. 19, ease those strained muscles with a massage as UM physical therapy students offer a by-appointment massage clinic from 6:30 PM–9 PM in Room 129 of the Skaggs Building on UM’s campus. A 20-minute sesh runs you $10, while a 40-minute kneading excursion costs $18. Call 243-4753 for an appointment.

Once you hit hump day on Wed., Oct. 21, leap on over to the Bitterroot National Forest (BNF) supervisor’s office, 1801 First St. in Hamilton, between 1PM–7 PM where you can pore over maps and documents related to the forest’s travel management planning project, which is currently in public review until Nov. 9. You can also ask forest service officials about the project and address your concerns. If you’re not in the know, the idea of the project is to give motorized and non-motorized users of the BNF a quality recreation experience, while at the same time protecting the forest’s natural resources. Call 363-7100 or visit www.fs.fed.us/r1/bitterroot.

After you’ve exercised your nature-loving rights, head back up to Missoula and over to the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St., at 7 PM, where the skies become a subject of curiosity during the lecture “New Discoveries in the World of Astronomy”, as UM prof Diane Friend sweeps you through distant planets, discusses the potential for extra-terrestrial life, and gives an update on the status of our demoted friend way out in the solar regions, the former planet Pluto. $4 suggested donation. And, if the weather isn’t crappy, you’ll end the evening with stargazing. Call 327-0405 or visit www.montananaturalist.org.

Astronomy might not arouse your senses as much as caves do, so if you’re a cave dweller, saunter over to Pipestone Mountaineering, 129 W. Front St., at 7 PM to meet with other subterranean enthusiasts when the Rocky Mountain Grotto of the National Speleological Society meets for a presentation by Liz Carriere titled Photo by Anne Medley “Record Rainfall Scapegoat 2009.” Expect the dope on ing weeds. If so, sprint over to the annual Pumpkin Run at Maclay Carriere’s adventures caving in the Scapegoat Wilderness during Flats off Blue Mountain Road so you can register your kid at 8:45 AM t h i s f r e e p r e s e n t a t i o n . E - m a i l c a v e 3 d @ m s n . c o m o r v i s i t for a 400-meter kids run (for those 12 and under) which starts at www.caves.org/grotto/nrmg/index.html.

With your hands now full with a variety of outdoors—or outdoor9:45 AM, or sign up to try your own luck during an adult 5K race at 10 AM. Each run leads you through trails in the Lolo National Forest, themed—undertakings, I implore you to try to have fun out there in near the flats. $9 5k race/$3 kids run. Also, be glad to know all pro- those frosty fields and hills. ceeds go to hungry bellies at the Missoula Food Bank. Call Ben Schmidt at 542-1257. calendar@missoulanews.com 19, from 6–8 PM at the banquet room of the Press Box, 835 E. Broadway St. If the stewardship bug has bit, but you’d rather steer toward the Rattlesnake Creek area, prepare for a full day of weed pulling and tree planting when you accompany the Rattlesnake Creek Watershed Group for some restoration bidnizz from 9 AM–5 PM at the Bugbee Nature Area, off Missoula Avenue. Besides heaving things up and plopping stuff into the ground, you’ll also spread your native grass and wildflower seeds to your heart’s content. Bring work gloves, a good attitude, and warm clothing.

Also, if you’ve got ‘em, haul over any wheelbarrows, shovels and the like. Free, and park on Herbert, Raymond or Charis streets. Call Andrew at 531-2527 or e-mail rattlesnakecreek.watershedgroup@gmail.com.

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Island living Indie author Claude Alick mines his memories of Grenada

by Erika Fredrickson

In bar world, people know Claude Alick as the Caribbean-born bartender at Missoula’s Golden Rose, where he’s worked for more than 15 years. But when he’s not serving cocktails and Pabst Blue Ribbons, Alick—aka C.C. Alick—writes and self-publishes fiction based on his family and childhood in Grenada. In fact, his work has gained some prestigious support within the world of Missoula’s literary circles, with writers like Neil McMahon, Bryan Di Salvatore and Bill Kittredge offering enthusiastic back cover blurbs for his two books.

Alick’s latest novel, Dancing with the Yumawalli, follows his 2005 collection of short sto-

acter learns about voodoo, sex, prejudice and the lives of shipbuilders. At one point, the boy meets a “Thalidomide man,” a reference to the substance that was once fed to pregnant women for morning sickness.

“It turned out to cause deformity,” says Alick, 60.

“Years later, they used the same drug and the drug arrested leprosy. Isn’t that something? There’s a leper in the story, too. That’s the second person he encounters on this journey.”

Alick says the beginning of the book comes from a true experience in which a friend of his drowned under the launching of a vessel. And the fascination

wants to write he should write, degree or not. So he quit school and took his creative writing process into his own hands. And for him, that included publishing.

Alick understands the stigma attached to the term “self-publish” and says he’s had to defend against the notion that if you don’t publish with a company, it reflects the quality of your writing. Of course, he doesn’t buy it. “‘Self-publish’ is kind of a funny word,” he says.

“I like the term ‘independent book.’ It’s like independent record or independent film—it’s just an indie book. I still have editors. But with independent books, there are no gatekeepers between the author

Photo by Anne Medley

Claude Alick tends bar at Missoula’s Golden Rose and, on the side, writes fiction based on his childhood in Grenada.

Alick says he’s sold 200 copies of his latest self-published novel from behind the bar.

ries, Wet Storage and Other Stories. Both books spin off from events Alick experienced growing up in the small island village of Jean Anglais, south of St. Georges, with 11 brothers and sisters.

“I have a large family. If you mine their experiences there’s lots of stuff—all kinds of stuff—to write about,” he says, laughing. “I do take some liberties.”

Dancing with the Yumawalli tells the story of a young boy in Grenada who goes from living a “happy-go-lucky” life to dealing with a darker reality.

The tale begins with a community party celebrating the launching of a vessel called Miss Irene. Alick starts the book with: “This thing created a carbuncle that inhabited a place deep below the surface of my skin. It manifested as a constant shifting irritation.

Not anything powerful enough to threaten my mortality or sanity, just an incessant kneading. It’s always there these days–in my waking hours, in my dreams, it afflicts me completely. This uneasiness crept into me on the same day they launched the vessel, and Karrol went missing.”

Karrol almost immediately shows up dead in the ocean and the rest of the novel takes the reader through a series of episodes in which the main char-

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with ship launchings and life on the ocean comes directly from Alick’s firsthand experience.

As a teenager, Alick says he worked as the only crewmember of the Mccoboy III, a yacht owned by David and Jean “Happy” Strater of York Village, Maine.

For two summers he served as the dishwasher, bartender and deckhand on the boat as the couple chartered it between the islands and back to New England.

“They kind of adopted me,” says Alick. “I came back to the states with them and they asked me if I’d like to go to school. I did.”

Alick got a student visa in 1969 and spent two years taking automotive classes. He then got a job as a mechanic and started a family while working toward degrees in both English and Economics at Lemoyne-Owen College in Memphis, Tenn. He dabbled in writing here and there, but after graduation he decided to take it more seriously and looked into writing programs. He moved to Missoula in 1977 to join the University of Montana’s creative writing program—and promptly ran out of money.

At first it seemed like a stroke of bad luck. But Alick says it was Kittredge who told him that if he

and his readers. It’s more of a raw product.”

The stigma doesn’t seem to affect his marketing in Missoula. Aside from getting his books on the shelves in local bookstores, Alick says he’s already sold 200 copies of Yumawalli just from behind the Golden Rose’s bar.

He’s not nearly done. Alick’s started on his next endeavor, a non-fiction book on the culture of hair.

And he says he’s considered revisiting his Yumawalli characters again in another novel. As far as remaining independent, he doesn’t seem concerned about whether or not he ever gets an offer from a traditional publisher.

“I do my own thing,” he says. “I do it at my own pace. I don’t toil under deadlines. I go out and play golf when I want to. Money would be nice, of course, but when I write, it’s not so much for monetary gain as it is for personal satisfaction and growth.”

Claude Alick reads from Dancing with the Yumawalli at Fact & Fiction Friday, Oct. 16, at 7 PM. Free. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Childish Prodigy Matador

The fact that Kurt Vile’s sound meshes well with the new lo-fi hipster boy-rock explains his recent acquisition by Matador. It does nothing to explain the phenomenon that is Vile.

I’m disappointed to discover that Kurt Vile is his real name, and that he seems oblivious to the expectations created by using a name like that— that he must have a mangy punk rock persona, more likely that he aspires to Dresden Dolls-style artiness. But apparently this is not the case, so it’s

Islands Vapours Anti

Islands’ sound sort of fits the description of a serial killer. It’s charming and disarming. It seems like a nice guy. But you do get an eerie chill from it, the sense that there’s something dark in its soul.

That said, Islands won’t kill you, though the band slays when it comes to making killer electronic pop music. And its style isn’t methodical, either, just well executed in design.

Vapours kicks off with the up-beat, orchestral melodies and tribal rhythms of “Switched On.” But the album gets far more interesting once it hits “Devout” and “Disarming the Car Bomb” and, especially, “Shining.” In those songs, shadowy melodies intertwine with stories of dangerous explosions, back-alley violence and heists, all of which could just

Jemina Pearl Break It Up Ecstatic Peace

Back in 2001 a movie came out called Josie and the Pussycats about a pop punk band trying to make it big in the music business. The music they played was hooky, upbeat and sugar sweet without a hint of rock ’n’ roll danger. I haven’t thought of that movie or the music in years . . . until I listened to the debut album from Jemina Pearl.

That may sound like a cheap shot, but it isn’t intended to be. This music is more pop than punk,

Kate Miller-Heidke Curiouser Sony BMG

Australian singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke is a kooky character. She’s not afraid to play around with her classically trained voice, whether she’s growling, hiccupping and burbling up into a flirty falsetto over an infectious lounge beat on “God’s Gift to Women,” or mashing up the sinuous moan of a Britney Spears with the triumphant soprano of an ABBA chorus on “The One Thing I Know.” MillerHeidke is best when she’s goofy, as on “Politics in Space,” a song so silly and stagy it would be at home on a Pink Floyd album (were it not for the great line, “The ’60s were 50 years ago, you know. Get over it!”)

But that nutty persona is hard to sustain for an

useless to compare this delightfully strange artist to Kurt Weill, the guy who wrote some of the world’s best strange tunes while running away from the Nazis. Oh well.

The good news is that nerdy art school types like me will dig Vile as much as The Doors dug Weill. Childish Prodigy is the product of a parallel musical universe where a heartthrob boogie-woogie singer from the ’50s performs songs written in another life by Bruce Springsteen and members of Big Star. The tunes, bearing names like “Hunchback” and “Dead Alive,” feel familiar but offkilter, and there’s something ghostly about the whole production, perhaps because the reverbheavy sound creates a sense of distance. It’s like music from the abyss. (Ali Gadbow) Kurt Vile plays the Palace Friday, Oct. 16, at 9 PM. $5.

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as easily be interpreted as chronicles of relationships gone bad. It doesn’t matter, because singer Nick Diamonds never discloses exactly how literal he’s being and that’s what makes the album so compelling.

Even when the band lifts itself from sinister levels into poppier, more angelic realms, it never loses its edge. Perhaps the only exception is “Heartbeat,” which utilizes pop vocal distortion and reggae backup with shallower results. The other tracks dive into deeper waters that indicate creative—though maybe not murderous—inclinations. (Erika Fredrickson) Islands plays the Palace Sunday, Oct. 18, at 7 PM with Jemina Pearl and Toro Y Moi. $8. with a touch of surf in a couple tracks. If the band that Jemina and her songwriting partner John Eatherly have put together can deliver, it’s probably a gas as a live set. The record boasts guest appearances from heavyweights like Iggy Pop and Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, so clearly they must know the right people.

Like Josie and the Pussycats, Break It Up could be a guilty pleasure. The melodies are catchy and will stick in your head, even if there isn’t much variation from song to song. There’s nothing new here, and it’s unlikely that a bonus collector’s edition will be reissued in 20 years, but not every record needs to be the White Album, for chrissakes. (Chris La Tray) Jemina Pearl plays the Palace Sunday, Oct. 18, at 7 PM with Islands and Toro Y Moi. $8. entire album, and the balance of Curiouser, the album that might bring her stateside fame, is done in a sweet and breathy style that is appealing but a little bland. “The Last Day On Earth” has already paved the way with a debut on the Aussie soap “Neighbors,” and I’ll admit it’s a solid ballad, but I prefer the ethereal “Our Song,” which Miller-Heidke somehow renders too pretty to collapse under the weight of sappy sentiments. (Ali Gadbow) Kate Miller-Heidke opens for Ben Folds at the Wilma Theatre Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 7:30 PM. $29.50 plus fees.

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Memory lane Brighton Beach set to impress

by Erika Fredrickson

I remember playing dress-up as a tween in my grandparents’ basement while the adults chatted upstairs. We were in the middle of recreating the movie Labyrinth, when I was swiftly called to the adults who’d overheard me describing the bulging effect of David Bowie’s tight sparkling pants to my cousins. I don’t know how they heard me, but I was in trouble. And it was embarrassing. Thinking back, though, it never occurred to me to care much about what they were talking about. It would have all been boring adult stuff to me at the time.

But now, as an adult, I wonder. It was 1987 back then. They could have been discussing any number of things. Ronald Regan had just addressed the country about the Iran-Contra scandal. Televangelist Jim Bakker had admitted to having an affair with church secretary Jessica Hahn. They could have been

depression now that her husband is dead. Kate, the mother, has the burden of keeping the home together physically and emotionally despite instances of heartache her children, husband and sister give her.

UM’s School of Theatre & Dance provides an elaborate set design for the production. The twostory, six-room set with brightly colored walls, warm lighting, detailed furniture and photographs all lends to the sense that this is a lived-in home with a real history. As impressive as the set is, it seems a bit puzzling that a struggling family appears so well to do for the times. But if distraction from that bit of inaccuracy was the goal, it almost works. I haven’t seen a UM set this amazing in a long time.

Director Jere Hodgin manages to get evenkeeled performances from the cast. Williamson toes the line as Eugene, sometimes acting truly boyish and other times looking like an adult playing a kid. His first few monologues seemed too hammed up, but he eventually contrasts serious teenage reflections with seriously hormone-charged obsessions. He’s strikingly genuine.

Barker comes across as a dead ringer for Ben Affleck—in both looks and acting style—as Stanley.

He plays the character with natural charm, unveiling Stanley’s fierce convictions and unsteady confiPhoto by Anne Medley dence with precise care. Gutierrez, Sam Williamson, right, stars as Eugene in UM’s production likewise, never overdoes the father character. I have no idea what of Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs.

Gutierrez is like in real life, but I discussing us, the children, and whether we were couldn’t see him as anything but a loving, stern meeting their expectations (obviously I wasn’t). father making tough decisions.

Local elections. The best recipe for cherry pie. It’s Meanwhile, Arcadea Jenkins and Alicia Bullockhard to say. When you’re in one room and not the Muth steal the show as Nora and the mother, respecother, when you’re being a child and not an adult, or tively. Nora’s an easy character to like—conspiratorvisa versa, it’s hard to see the big picture of how ial, tragic in her own youthful mind, energetic—but everyone in a family experiences a particular Jenkins’ strong comedic timing and natural reacmoment in time. tions to other characters make her jump to life. You That’s why Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach end up listening to her every word.

Memoirs is such a compelling comedy. The slice-ofBullock-Muth captures a passive-aggressive life play based on Simon’s youth tells the story of mother who’s doting, worried and often crazed one week in the life of a New York family circa 1937. (“Stop that yelling—I have a cake in the oven!”) withAs the family moves from room to room, conversing out falling into a stereotype. She plays the mother at the dinner table, conferencing in bedrooms, whis- with outrageous comical effect, but with enough pering out on the front stoop, the audience gets to earnestness that when she does have her inevitable experience adult conversations—economy, war, breakdown it can only be sympathetic.

The UM cast transitions gracefully between the marriage—juxtaposed with teenage conversations involving sexual awakenings and misty-eyed dreams hijinks (like Eugene’s masturbation scenes) and the more nuanced everyday tragedies of family life. By the of the future.

Eugene, based on Simon (and played by Sam end you could see how a week in a family’s life seems Williamson), imagines himself playing professional like a lifetime. True, in the grand scheme of things baseball. At dinner, he drops his napkin to look up what actually happens over the course of the play is his cousin Nora’s dress. He grumbles as he’s forced sort of miniscule, but it reminds you that when you’re to constantly run to the store to pick up last-minute right there, experiencing a moment of embarrassment groceries for his mother. He adores his older broth- or fury or joy, that’s the only thing that matters.

Brighton Beach Memoirs continues at the er Stanley (Aaron Barker), whom he badgers into telling him about sex and the anatomy of women. Montana Theatre in the PARTV Center Thursday, Meanwhile, it’s the prologue to World War II and Oct. 15–Saturday, Oct. 17 at 7:30 PM nightly.

Eugene’s father (Bobby Gutierrez) listens to the $18/$14 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and radio and discusses the plight of Jewish cousins under. overseas. Stanley is having problems at work. efredrickson@missoulanews.com Eugene’s Aunt Blanche seems destined for eternal

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Ordinarily a movie-going experience like this clapboard Belgium, and the unsavory men who peoone would leave me too annoyed to concentrate ple her adopted corner of it, instead of going back. on the movie. I was hassled over even coming to Worse than just noisy theaters, I bet.

Well, she’s no Mother Theresa: Lorna paid a see it: Couldn’t I see that there was a hip-hop show going on, that I was the only one coming to junkie to marry her in order to become a Belgian citsee a movie, and for that I was a bother? I had izen, and now she’s planning to dispose of him as noticed, as a matter of fact. Maybe Wilma manage- soon as the Belgian identity card and the divorce ment should think twice about actually offering papers come through the mail slot, in that order.

She’s getting twice as much to marry a Russian gangmovies on concert nights.

Then there was the delightful experience of ster in a deal brokered by an Italian cabbie with his actually watching this quiet little movie in the theater own ideas about how to speed up the divorce formerly called the “Jewel Box” with the bass process. Meanwhile, Lorna sees her Albanian cranked to 11 in the adjacent main theater. You folks boyfriend once a month or so as he’s passing at home, imagine watching a movie in your living through town en route to another crummy temp job.

That there is a huge spurt of plot information room with a stereo dealer’s company car, one of those window-rattling annoyances that noticeably compared to how long it takes Lorna’s Silence to loosens one’s bowels, parked right outside the window, and the driver and 50 of his friends in the front hallway shouting to be heard over it.

In the days when the Green Room/Red Light bar and lounge shared the Wilma downstairs with theaters 3 and 4, the bass sometimes started throbbing through the walls even before the 9 p.m. movie was half over.

As a reviewer, I sometimes attacked movies I saw there simply as a displaced reaction to the rotten conditions in which I Secret handshakes of the bold and beautiful. was forced to see them. Given all that, and that I so dislike theater noise that I always reveal the same amount. There is zero expository try to sit in the back row to keep as much of the dialogue. Albania itself is only mentioned once, ambient whispering and popcorn-chewing and near the end of the movie. Lorna’s origins are not bag-rustling and mindless nose-whistling to the particularly important—it matters only that she’s front as possible, and also given my brush with an immigrant—but unless you’re somewhat familpetty authority in the theater lobby, and not even iar with French and/or Albanian you might not counting roadies barging in every five minutes notice that certain characters switch back and looking for untapped electrical outlets, I’ve still forth. This will be readily apparent to Frenchspeaking audiences, of course, but the English subwalked out of movies for way less.

Yet on this night I did not budge. It’s not that I titles make no distinction.

Lorna’s Silence feels a bit like French New Wave was so engrossed in the movie I could tune out the din: The external noise actually seemed to belong in updated with 21st century concerns. Something this movie, which is all about plans gone wrong and, about the way Lorna/Arta Dobroshi carries herself particularly in its first act, almost bristles with annoy- in this low-rent demimonde of petty sums and ance as a means of conveying the petty cultural and immigration scams puts her alongside the most bureaucratic blows dealt to an Albanian woman liv- memorable Godard women: Jean Seberg in ing in Belgium—a very unglamorous Belgium, full of Breathless (1960) and Anna Karina in Vivre sa vie bureaucratic obstacles and annoying everyday occur- (1962)—decidedly new types of movie heroine to rences even for the fluent speaker of French as a sec- audiences of 50 years ago, just as Lorna and her ond language. The clatter of the dry cleaners where predicament seem timeless yet freshly minted for Lorna works, the noisiness of the cramped apart- us in this new century.

If you must wait to watch Lorna’s Silence on ment she shares with her Belgian husband, the polyglot hubbub of immigrant street life—it all seemed to DVD, you can recreate my experience by turning on flow through the walls and doors of the theater from every appliance in the house and cranking Tech 9ine the hubbub just outside and right into the movie I over the top of it with woofers tuned to “liquefy was watching. I won’t say the noise improved the innards.” If you don’t have any hip-hop, bring some movie, but it all proved far easier to deal with— neighbors over to hurl themselves at the walls in unison for that low thud thud kids today are so idiotirationalize, if you like—than I’d expected.

Through it all, the face of Arta Dobroshi, the cally wild about.

Lorna’s Silence concludes its run at the actress playing Lorna, radiates a stoical calm no doubt formed from years of dealing with totalitarian Wilma Theatre Thursday, Oct. 15. bureaucracy back home. One can only imagine how arts@missoulanews.com bad Albania was for Lorna to put up with this drab

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OPENING THIS WEEK I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL An egocentric dude obsessed with strip clubs must gain back his buddy’s trust after a sloshed blowout. Village 6: 7 and 9:45 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1 and 4.

IT MIGHT GET LOUD Jimmy Page, Jack White and The Edge meet up, swap stories and guitar licks, and shed light on their pasts. Wilma Theatre: 7 and 9, with Sun. matinees at 1 and 3 and no shows on Fri., Wed. and Thu. LAW ABIDING CITIZEN Jamie Foxx is a crooked attorney who runs into trouble when a vengeful Gerard Butler appears to settle some scores. Carmike 10: 4:35, 7:20 and 10 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:20.

Phraohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 1:15, 4:05, 7 and 9:30 and midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 2:05, 5:05 and 7:50.

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY A couple that moves into a new pad cramps the style of a spectral being and has to endure its hellish wrath. Carmike 10: 4, 7 and 9:45 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1.

THE STEPFATHER A kid returns home to find mom newly hitched and soon realizes the dad he never wanted is a slaughterer. Carmike 10: 4:25, 7:10 and 9:40 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1:45.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 1:35, 4:20, 7:25 and 9:45 and midnight on Fri.–Sun. and Mon.–Thu. at 2:10, 5:25 and 8:05. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30 with Sat.–Sun. show at 1:45.

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers team up for a stunning spectacle that follows Max on his quest to hang out with freakish ogres. Village 6: 7 and 9:35 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:30 and 4:10. Carmike 10: 4:10, 7 and 9:35 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30.

Pharaoplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show Sun. Stadium 14: Fri.–Sun. at noon, 1, 2:30, 3:30, 5, 6, 7:30, 8:30 and 9:45 and midnight Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:30, 2:30, 4:30, 5, 7:30 and 8. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4, 7 and 9. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 7 and 9:15 with Sat.–Sun. show at 1:30.

NOW PLAYING ALL ABOUT STEVE Sandra Bullock plays a socially awkward, obsessive wordsmith who follows television camera slinger Bradley Cooper around on his beat, trying to snare his heart in this cornball rom-com. Showboat in Polson: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:10.

CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY Your favorite controversial documentarian Michael Moore rips capitalism a new one with riffs against government bailouts and our credit crazy, debt-addled economy. Wilma Theatre: 7 and 9:15, with Sun. matinees at 1 and 3:15.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:30, 3:25, 6:30 and 9:20 and midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:25, 4:40 and 7:40.

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS Food falls from the sky and Bruce Campbell hacks away at a vocal cameo in this 3-D animated kids flick. Carmike 10: 5:30, 7:40 and 9:50 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1 and 3:15. Phraoplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. matinee at 3 and no 9 show Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:10, 2:25, 4:55, 7:05 and 9:15 and midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:35, 3:45, 6:05 and 8:15.

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COUPLES RETREAT Vince Vaughn and Jason Bateman travel to an island resort with their wives, only to learn that an excruciating couples therapy sesh is mandatory in order to live it up. Carmike 10: 4, 7:15 and 9:50 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10 PM with Sat.–Sun. matinee at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:55, 3:55, 6:45 and 9:20 and 7:45 on Sun. and midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at

THE INVENTION OF LYING Ricky Gervais stars as a supreme bs’r in a world where no one lies, but will his fibs work on an unsuspecting lady? Carmike 10: 4:10, 7:15 and 9:40 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:25. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 1:30, 4:10, 6:50 and 9:15 and midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:50, 4:50 and 7:50.

LOVE HAPPENS Jennifer Aniston slings flowers and is bitter about love, but a chance encounter with a

WHIP IT Juno’s Ellen Page is back as a small town Texan looking to bust some kneecaps as a roller derby girl in Austin. Village 6: 7 with additional Sat.–Sun. show at 1:15. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 1, 3:50, 6:55 and 9:35 and midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 2:20, 5 and 7:35.

ZOMBIELAND Woody Harrelson plays a gun-toting, redneck southerner who takes pleasure in see-

Kids today. When we were young we at least removed our shoes before yelling at mom from the top of the counter. Where the Wild Things Are opens at the Carmike 10 Friday.

1:50, 4:55 and 7:45. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 7 and 9:15 with Sat.–Sun. show at 1:30.

DISTRICT 9 Peter Jackson produces a film about refugee aliens controlled by a multi-national corporation that cares only about making profits.

Village 6: 9:45 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 4:20.

THE INFORMANT! Matt Damon plays a nerdish whistleblower who realizes his story doesn’t quite hold water when the FBI finds some skeletons in his closet. Village 6: 7:15 and 9:55 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:45 and 4:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 1:05, 3:45, 6:35 and 9:10 and midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:45, 4:45 and 7:55.

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Brad Pitt aims to kick some serious Nazi ass with his Jewish war buddies in this latest offering from Quentin Tarantino. Village 6: 7:20 and 10:30 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1 and 4:10. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1, 4:15 and 7:30 and midnight on Fri.–Sat.

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Carmike 10: 4:20, 7:05 and 9:40 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1:40. Pharaoplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. matinee at 3 and no 9 show Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 1:10 and 6:40 and Mon.–Thu. at 4:35. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30 with Sat.–Sun. show at 1:45. Entertainer in Ronan: 4, 7 and 9:15.

SURROGATES Bruce Willis rocks a fitting role as an FBI agent who abandons his robotic proxy in order to avenge a killer. Carmike 10: 5:35, 7:45 and 9:55 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1:15 and 3:25. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 3:55 and 9:40 and midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 2:05 and 7:30.

TOY STORY AND TOY STORY 2 IN 3-D Two toys vie for affection from their owner by duking it out in these revamped, double-header kids flicks, now in 3-D. Carmike 10: 4:40 and 8:20 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 4 and 8 and Mon.–Thu. at 2 and 6:30.

ing zombie guts splatter on walls. Village 6: 7:40 and 9:50 with additional Sat.–Sun shows at 1:10, 3:20 and 5:30. Pharaoplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9, with Sat.–Sun. matinee at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:15, 2:20, 4:45, 7:20 and 9:35 and midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:55, 4:05, 6:15 and 8:15.

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Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., Oct. 9. 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: C a r m i k e 10 / Vi l l a g e 6 – 541- 74 6 9 ; Wi l m a – 728 - 2521 ; P h a r a o h p l e x i n H a m i l t o n – 9 61- F I L M ; R ox y Tw i n i n H a m i l t o n – 3 6 3 - 5 141 . S t a d i u m 14 i n Kalispell–752-7804. Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.

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By Amy Alkon

BEACHED WAIL My boyfriend and I have a year-old son.

His two small boys (from a previous marriage) live with us on weekends. A while back, he cheated and gave me herpes. Had I not been pregnant with our son (unplanned), I would’ve left him.

But, I believe once you’re pregnant, it’s not about you, so I’m trying to make it work. But, I hold grudges and haven’t been able to forgive him. Also, his parents, who live next door, hate me, and have never stopped trying to break us up. They expect him and the two boys at their house for dinner on weekends and many weekdays without me.

They show nasty favoritism, spending $300 on a toy for the two boys, but gave my son dollar-store outfits they knew wouldn’t fit. Because my boyfriend’s mother watches the two other boys after school for very little money (and our son at times, too, charging me four times more), moving isn’t an option.

—Stuck If you discovered you were living over a radioactive waste dump, and Pol Pot, Adolf Hitler and a pedophile were moving in next door, I’m guessing your response wouldn’t be, “Gee, pity we can’t move.” But, just add discount babysitting to the mix, and it’s “So, Mr. Hitler, what brings you to the neighborhood?”

Beyond the childcare issue, you’ve got an incurable STD, a seemingly incurable grudge, the Wicked Witch of the 20 Feet To The West, and a plan—sitting around feeling sorry for yourself until Junior goes to college. It seems you’ve heard that good things come to those who wait.

True, but unless you’re making a souffle or catching the bus, better things come to those who do something.

You do talk a good game—how “once you’re pregnant, it’s not about you.” Noble words. If you actually believed them, your kid would have doting grandparents—the parents of the nice infertile couple you let adopt him after you gave birth. The real deal? You probably wanted a baby no matter what, and maybe thought it would be just the ticket to a little respect from the Evil Inlaw Empire.

Not surprisingly, they immediately put him into grandchild steerage, and it doesn’t sound that far-fetched to suspect they take the two boys to Disneyland, but when your kid comes over, they just take the childproof covers off the electrical outlets.

Your herpes may be a few billion research dollars from a cure, but a $19.95-a-day U-Haul will speed you, your kid and your mommy- and daddy-whipped boyfriend across

town to a living situation where you won’t spend your afternoons screaming into a paper bag. You might move into a duplex with another family with kids or set up childcare-sharing with four other families (one for each day of the week). Tragically, coming up with solutions like these will require you to stop merely bemoaning your fate and actually break a sweat (don’t worry, you won’t hurt it).

But, first things first: Break up with your grudge and get back together with your boyfriend. You say you can’t forgive him, but have you actually tried? You’ve got a kid; you can’t just wait for your resentment to ebb away; you need to replace it with positive thoughts. There’s increasing evidence of “neuroplasticity”—the ability to chemically remodel your brain by repeatedly focusing on changing, then repeating new thinking and behavior. Act loving—hug him, kiss him, tell him he’s a great dad…repeatedly—and it’s likely you’ll start to feel loving. You can then help him work on what he most needs to do—admit that there’s a right time to cut the umbilical cord, and well, better 46-and-a-half than never.

CHUMMY ACHE My boyfriend of three years want to have single female friends and says I can have single male ones. I don’t need single guy friends, but feel opposite sex friends are fine if we see them as a couple.

Isn’t that how it should work?

—Chafing Unless he’s a German shepherd or an unruly 3-year-old, you don’t get to keep him on a leash. If you’re insecure, work on getting more secure. If you don’t trust him, don’t be with him. But, any grown man who isn’t doing time should be allowed to meet, unsupervised, with any person of his choosing. You can’t fulfill your boyfriend’s every need, and he’s going to relate differently one on one than he does three on one. The couple that shares everything and everyone…bores each other unconscious.

You’ll know you’re in trouble when you feel dumb saying “Guess what, honey!” knowing there’s no guessing needed by a man who’s spent three years bolted to your side—not just trying to keep from finishing your sentences, but trying to keep from starting them, too.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): You say you not only want to be loved, but that you also want to love? Then learn the fantasies and symbols and beliefs that hold people’s lives together. Be interested in feeling the crushing weight and deep comfort of their web of memories. Every now and then, dive in and swim along in their stream of consciousness. And yes, be willing to accompany them when they’re writhing in their personal hells as well as when they’re exploring the suburbs of paradise. All these tasks will be exceptionally worthy of your time in the coming weeks, Aries.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Right now you’re like a sulking cherry tree that hasn’t bloomed for years but then inexplicably erupts with pink flowers in mid-autumn. You’re like a child prodigy who lost her mojo for a while and then suddenly recovers it when her old mentor comes back into her life after a long absence. You’re like a dormant volcano that without any warning spurts out a round of seemingly prophetic smoke signals on the eve of a great victory for the whole world.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Dear Rob: Thanks for being a continued source of careful thinking! With the help of you and the rather ruthless teachers who are my friends and loved ones, I’m learning the lessons that are most important for me to learn—like how rigorous I have to be in figuring out my intentions, how impeccable I have to be with formulating my desires, and how precise I have to be in expressing myself. Sometimes I wish I could just go back to being an aimless street punk in Berkeley. But in the end I prefer this tough path I’ve chosen. - Hard-Working Gemini.” Dear Hard-Working: This is an excellent phase in the Gemini life cycle to concentrate on what you named: rigorously figuring out your intentions, impeccably formulating your desires, and expressing yourself precisely.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The British playwright Colley Cibber, who was born 55 years after Shakespeare died, thought that the Bard’s historical drama Richard III needed improvement. He made extensive revisions, transposing scenes and inserting new material. For 150 years, Cibber’s version was widely performed, effectively replacing Shakespeare’s rendition. I suggest you borrow Cibber’s strategy for your own in the coming weeks. Take something you like and personalize it; make it into your own. Be sure to acknowledge the original, of course. But have fun blending your influence with the prototype as you create a useful and amusing hybrid.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The corny but sometimes useful adages of folk wisdom are still being created afresh in the 21st century. Their breeding ground is no longer the tavern or marketplace, as in centuries past, but rather the Internet. I’ve plucked one of these funky gems out of the ethers for you to contemplate: “Noah’s Ark was built by amateurs, while the Titanic was built by professionals.” How exactly does this apply to you? According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re in a phase when a good imagination will count for more than strict logic; when innocent enthusiasm will take you further than know-it-all expertise; and when all the work you do should have a playful spirit fueled by a beginner’s mind.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): To extract enough gold to make a wedding ring, a mining company must process a ton of ore. In a similar way, many writers generate a swamp of unusable sentences on their way to distilling the precise message they really want to deliver. Please keep these examples in mind as you evaluate your own recent progress, Virgo. It may seem like you’re moving at a crawl and producing little of worth. But according to my analysis of the omens, you’re on your way to producing the equivalent of a gold ring.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Were you ever a tiger in one of your past lives? If so, this would be an excellent time to tap into that power. If you have never lived the life of a tiger, would you be willing to imagine that you did? During the coming week’s challenges, you will really benefit from being able to call on the specific kind of intelligence a tiger possesses, as well as its speed, perceptivity, sense of smell, charisma, and beauty. Your homework is to spend 10 minutes envisioning yourself inhabiting the body of a tiger.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your circumstances aren’t as dire as you feared, Scorpio.

The freaky monster in the closet is bored with spooking you and will soon be departing the premises. Meanwhile, one of your other tormentors is about to experience some personal sadness that will soften his or her heart toward you. There’s more: The paralysis that has been infecting your funny bone will miraculously cure itself, and the scheduled revelation of the rest of your dirty secrets will be summarily canceled. I hope you’re not feeling so sorry for yourself that you fail to notice this sudden turn in your luck. It may take an act of will for you to wake up to the new dispensations that are available.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance,” said playwright Francoise Sagan. Keep that in mind during the coming week, Sagittarius.

Whether or not you actually play or listen to jazz, do whatever’s necessary to cultivate intensified feelings of nonchalance. It’s extremely urgent for you to be blithe and casual. You desperately need to practice non-attachment as you develop your ability to not care so much about things you can’t control. You’ve got to be ferociously disciplined as you transcend the worries and irritations that won’t really matter much in the big scheme of things.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “There are two rules for ultimate success in life,” wrote L. M. Boyd. “First, never tell everything you know.” While that may be the conventional wisdom about how to build up one’s personal power, I prefer to live by a different principle. Personally, I find that as I divulge everything I know, I keep knowing more and more that wasn’t available to me before. The act of sharing connects me to fresh sources. Open-hearted communication doesn’t weaken me, but just the reverse: It feeds my vitality. This is the approach I recommend to you in the coming days, Capricorn. Do indeed tell everything you know.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Writing in The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik named two characters from literature that well-educated people tend to identify with. “Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch,” he said, while “women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think that they are disinherited monarchs.” That’s a funny thought in light of your current omens, Aquarius, which suggest that you’re a reasonable creature who clearly sees how much you’re like a disinherited monarch. The omens go on to say that there’s a good chance you will have excellent intuition about what to do in order to at least partially restore yourself to power.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Dear Rob: Help! I have a sinking feeling that the man I love and want to be with for the rest of my life is almost but not quite courageous enough to be truly and deeply intimate with me. What should I do? -Downcast Piscean.” Dear Downcast: Ask yourself if there’s anything you can change about yourself that will help him feel braver. For instance, is there any way, however small, in which you’re manipulative, untrustworthy, dishonest, or unkind? If so, fixing that in yourself could allow your lover to feel a lot closer. By the way, it’s an excellent time, astrologically speaking, for all Pisceans to alter their inner states in order to alter the world around them.

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MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Notice is hereby given that separate sealed BIDS for the construction of The Partnership Health Center, Clinic and Pharmacy Remodel will be received by Partnership Health Center, c/o OZ Architects, p.c. at their office located at 125 Bank Street, Suite 200, Missoula, MT 59802 until 2:00 PM on November 4, 2009, at which time bids will be opened and read aloud. All work is to be performed in accordance with the plans and specifications prepared by OZ Architects, p.c.

Copies of the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be obtained at the office of OZ Architects located at 125 Bank Street, Suite 200, Missoula, MT 59802 upon payment of $75.00 for each set and a mailing fee of $35. The documents will be available @ OZ Architects, p.c. on Thursday, October 8, 2009 after 1:00 PM. Any BIDDER, upon returning the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS promptly and in good condition, will be refunded their payment, and any NON-BIDDER upon so returning the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS will be refunded $75.00. Each Bid or Proposal must be accompanied by a cashiers check, certified check, or Bid Bond payable to Partnership Health Center in the amount of not less than ten percent (10%) of the total amount of the bid and must be in the form specified in MCA 18-1-201 through 206. Successful bidders shall furnish an approved performance bond and a labor and materials payment bond, each in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount. Insurance as required shall be provided by the successful bidder(s) and a certificate(s) of that insurance shall be provided. Partnership Health Center reserves the right to waive informalities, to accept the lowest responsive and responsible bid, which is in the best interest of the owner, to reject any and all proposals received, and, if all bids are rejected, to be advertised under the same or new specification, or to make such an award, as in the judgment of its officials, best meets the owner’s requirements. The contractor is required to be an equal opportunity employer. The prevailing wage rates of MCA 18-2-401 through 432 apply to this project. No bid may be withdrawn after the scheduled time for the public opening of bids, which is 2:00 PM, local time, November 4, 2009. There will be a mandatory pre-bid conference, and existing facility walk-through scheduled for October 22, 2009 at 12:00 p.m. Each BIDDER will be required to be registered with the Montana Department of Labor.

THE CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED TO THE LOWEST RESPONSIBLE QUALIFIED BIDDER WHOSE BID PROPOSAL COMPLIES WITH ALL THE REQUIREMENTS. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Proposals for Partnership Health Center, Clinic and Pharmacy Remodel c/o OZ Architects, p.c.” and addressed to: OZ Architects, p.c. 125 Bank Street, Suite 200 Missoula, MT 59802 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF HEARING The Missoula Board of County Commissioners and Missoula City Council will conduct hearings on the proposed expenditure of Open Space Bond proceeds on

the following project: 1.

Spooner Creek Conservation Easement Hearings on a proposal to use $25,000 from the City’s portion of Open Space bond funding and $175,000 from the County’s portion of Open Space bond funding towards the purchase of a conservation easement on the 207 acre Spooner Creek Ranch located in the Upper Miller Creek Valley. The applicant is the Anderson family, represented by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. If funds from both the City and County were approved, the funding match would be approximately $9.60 for every dollar of open space funding expended.

The City Council and County Commissioners will conduct the hearings on Monday October 26 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, 140 West Pine, Missoula Montana. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may speak at the hearing and/or submit written or other materials to the Commissioners at the hearing or by mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, FAX (406) 721-4043.

Copies of the proposed project are available for public inspection at the Missoula County Office of Rural Initiatives, 317 Woody, Missoula, Montana.

Telephone 258-3432; or you may contact Pat O’Herren in Rural Initiatives at 258-4981. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-3422.

Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

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: South 1/2 of 6th Street and Alley in Block 11 of East Clinton, located in Section 27, Township 12N, Range 17W, East Clinton. From South 1/2 of 6th Street lying adjacent & contiguous with Lot 1 and that portion of Lot 14 lying east of the westerly right-of-way line of C.M.S.T.P. & P. Railroad, and the alley south of 6th Street and north of southerly line of Lots 2 & 13, Block 11, Plat of East Clinton. And further identified in the Road Book of the Missoula County Surveyor as: Sixth Street between Blocks 11 and 12; and alley within Block 11; of East Clinton.

(For more information, please see the petition on file in the Clerk & Recording Office at 200 West Broadway, 2nd floor.) The abandonment of this county road is necessary and advantageous for the following reasons: 1. No physical evidence of the road/alley and or their purpose 2.

To avoid conflict with existing residential property 3. Allows road and Title record a more accurate reflection of actual land use. Rectifies ownership conflict in Warranty Deed. A PUBLIC HEARING on the above requested abandonment will be held before the Board of County Commissioners at their regular meeting on October 21, 2009 at 1:30 P.M., Room 201, Missoula County Courthouse. Interested parties are requested to be present at that time to be heard for or against the granting of this petition. Written protest will be accepted by the Commissioners’ Office, Room 204, Missoula County Courthouse, prior to the hearing date. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier, Clerk & Recorder /Treasurer By Kim Cox, Assistant Chief Deputy Clerk & Recorder, 200 W. Broadway St., Missoula, MT 59802 (406) 258-3241 Date: September 29, 2009

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PUBLIC NOTICES MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for Architecture Services Missoula County on behalf of The Poverello Center, Inc. has been awarded a federal planning grant in the amount of $17,500 by the Montana Department of Commerce (MDOC); for the completion of a Preliminary Architectural Report (PAR) for the Poverello Center Inc.’s new regional public facility .

Contingent upon this award, Missoula County is requesting Letters of Interest and Statements of Qualifications for architectural/engineering services to assist The Poverello Center in designing and supervising the construction of this project in compliance with all applicable requirements under the Montana CDBG Programs.

Payment terms will be negotiated with the selected respondent. Copies of the detailed request for qualifications (RFQ), including a description of the services to be provided by respondents, the minimum content of responses, and the factors to be used to evaluate the responses, can be obtained by contacting Jean Harte, Grants Administrator, Office of Planning and Grants, office location: 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana 59802, telephone: (406) 258-3712. All responses to the detailed RFQ must be received no later than 3:00 p.m., Friday, November 6, 2009. Missoula County is an equal opportunity employer.

Women and minority businesses are encouraged to apply.

Missoula County makes reasonable accommodations for any known disability that may interfere with an applicant’s ability to compete in the recruitment and selection process or the respondent’s ability to perform the essential duties of the job. In order for Missoula County to make such accommodations, the applicant must make known any needed accommodation by contacting the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, (406) 2583712. Persons using a relay device may contact the Montana Relay Service, 711.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT Request for Qualifications (RFQ) for Architecture Services Mountain Home Montana has been awarded a federal Home Investment Partnership Program

(HOME) contingent grant in the amount of $500,000 by the Montana Department of Commerce (MDOC); and Missoula County, on behalf of Mountain Home Montana, has been awarded a federal Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) contingent grant in the amount of $450,000 by the Montana Department of Commerce (MDOC) for site and architectural design and new construction of a five-unit apartment building and common area for low and moderate income households. The facility will be located near Reserve and South Avenue in Missoula, Montana.

Construction is expected to commence in the spring of 2010.

Contingent upon these awards, Missoula County is requesting Letters of Interest and Statements of Qualifications for architectural/engineering services to assist Mountain Home Montana in designing and supervising the construction of this project in compliance with all applicable requirements under the Montana CDBG and HOME Programs. Payment terms will be negotiated with the selected respondent. Copies of the detailed request for qualifications (RFQ), including a description of the services to be provided by respondents, the minimum content of responses, and the factors to be used to evaluate the responses, can be obtained by contacting Jean Harte, Grants Administrator, Office of Planning and Grants, office location: 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, Montana 59802, telephone: (406) 258-3712. All responses to the detailed RFQ must be received no later than 3:00 p.m., Friday, November 6, 2009. Missoula County is an equal opportunity employer.

Women and minority businesses are encouraged to apply.

Missoula County makes reasonable accommodations for any known disability that may interfere with an applicant’s ability to compete in the recruitment and selection process or the respondent’s ability to perform the essential duties of the job. In order for Missoula County to make such accommodations, the applicant must make known any needed accommodation by contacting the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, (406) 2583712. Persons using a relay device may contact the Montana Relay Service, 711.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP09-161 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ELIZABETH GERTRUDE SANDERS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to SARA JANE WILSON, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Marsillo & Schuyler, PLLC, 103 South 5th East, Missoula, MT 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 24th day of September, 2009. /s/ Sara Jane Wilson, Personal Representative

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DV-09-1123 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. RONDA J. LUNSFORD, Plaintiff, v.

ROBERT EDWARD DUGGAN (DECEASED), HIS HEIRS AND DEVISEES, AND ALL UNKNOWN OWNERS, UNKNOWN HEIRS, OR ANY UNKNOWN DEVISEES OF ANY DECEASED PERSON, AND ALL OTHER PERSONS, UNKNOWN, CLAIMING OR WHO MIGHT CLAIM ANY RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE OR INTEREST IN OR LIEN OR ENCUMBRANCE UPON THE REAL PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFF’S OWNERSHIP OR ANY CLOUD UPON PLAINTIFF’S TITLE THERETO, WHETHER SUCH CLAIM OR POSSIBLE CLAIM BE PRESENT OR CONTINGENT, DefendANTS. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVENAMED DEFENDANTS, GREETINGS: You are hereby SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in the Action which is filed with the above-named Court, a copy of which is served upon you, and to file your written answer with the Court and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after service of this SUMMONS, or such other period as may be specified by law, exclusive of the day of service. Your failure to appear or answer will result in judgment against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. A filing fee must accompany the answer. This action is brought for

the purpose of quieting title to the followiing-described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: The East Half (E1/2) of the Southeast Quarter (SE1/4) of the Southwest Quarter (SW1/4) of Section 26, Township 13 North, Range 14 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, together with easement rights as granted April 10, 1975, in Book No. 67 of Micro Records at Page 559. Dated this 7th day of October, 2009. /s/ Shirley Faust, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DR-09-336 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR GUARDIANSHIP OF I.M.D. IN RE THE GUARDIANSHIP OF I.M.D. Minor Child. Robert C. Davis and Danelle E. Davis, Petitioners and Michelle Elizabeth Davis, Respondent and CoPetitioner. To: Robert C. Davis and Danelle E. Davis, Michelle Elizabeth Davis, Shannon Fletcher.

Notice is hereby given that a hearing on the joint petition of Robert C. Davis, Danelle E. Davis, and Michelle Elizabeth Davis to appoint Robert C. Davis and Danelle E. Davis as guardians will take place on the 3rd day of November, 2009, at 11:00 a.m. at the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana. DATED this 8th day of October, 2009. Attorneys for Petitioners: GARLINGTON, LOHN & ROBINSON, PLLP, 199 West Pine, PO Box 7909, Missoula, MT 59807-7909.

Telephone: 406-523-2500 Telefax: 406-523-2595. /s/ Anita Harper Poe MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DV-09-1124 NOTICE OF NAME CHANGE IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF: DESIREE PAIGE TWIGG, Petitioner. TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED HEREIN: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a verified Petition for Name Change of DESIREE PAIGE TWIGG to obtain an order of the court granting leave to assume the name DESIREE PAIGE STANLEY, will be presented to the above-entitled Court, at the Missoula County Courthouse at Missoula, Montana, on Thursday the 12th day of November at 9:00 o’clock a.m., or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard, and that at such time, application will be

made for the relief sought in the said Petition. DATED this 28th day of September, 2009. WELLS & McKITTRICK, P.C. /s/ Evonne Smith Wells MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-09-168 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JAMES E. COWAN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said estate 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 Joan Y. Cowan, 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 1st day of October, 2009. /s/ Joan Y. Cowan, PO Box 369, Seeley Lake, MT 59868 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-09-169 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DORWIN C. FIFIELD, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Joyce Poley, 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 5th day of October, 2009. /s/ Joyce Poley, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-09-135 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF MARCELLA T. GEISZLER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Timothy D. Geiszler and Kathryn Geiszler Baddour have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives 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 Timothy D. Geiszler and Kathryn Geiszler Baddour, CoPersonal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o GEISZLER & FROINES, PC, 619 SW Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 24th day of September, 2009.

GEISZLER & FROINES, PC. /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorneys for the Co-Personal Representatives MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-09-167 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF KEVIN J. QUINN, 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 Helen Quinn, 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 29th day of September, 2009. /s/ Helen Quinn, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-07-119 NOTICE OF HEARING OF FINAL ACCOUNT, PETITION FOR DETERMINATION OF HEIRS, FOR ADJUDICATION OF INTESTACY AND FOR SETTLEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF AN INTESTATE ESTATE BY CO-PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MICHAEL J. ANDERSON, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that William Vetaly and Ronda Newsom, Co-Personal Representatives of the abovenamed estate, have filed a Final Account, Petition for Determination of Heirs, for Adjudication of Intestacy and for Settlement and Distribution of an Intestate Estate in the above matter. Hearing upon said Account and Petition will be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2009, at 1:30 o’clock p.m. in the above-named Court, at

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DATED this 1st day of October, 2009. /s/ William Vetal, CoPersonal Representative, 17920 Tonka Lane, Frenchtown, MT 59834 /s/ Ronda Newsom, CoPersonal Representative, 3535 Holly Lane, Stevensville, MT 59870 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 10/12/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200527308, BK 762, PG 554, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Ward J. Veneklasen and Pamela L. Veneklasen, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 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 1 in Block 4 of Linda Vista Tenth Supplement Phase I, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 05/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of August 10, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $264,898.62. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $259,200.00, 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 December 18, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred.

Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.06348) 1002.131336-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/05/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200631476, BK 788, PG 745, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Floyd Vandehey, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 12 in

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PUBLIC NOTICES Block 2, El Mar Estates Phase 2, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 05/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of August 10, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $169,454.38. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $164,268.38, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on December 18, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred.

Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.06355) 1002.131397-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/15/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200706553, Bk. 793, Pg. 1368, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which David E. Jones 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: Lot 18 in Block 9 of West View, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to US Bank National Association, as Trustee for GSAA 2007-7. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 05/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of August 13, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $159,624.08. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $156,040.20, 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 December 21, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale

location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred.

Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.06440) 1002.131443-FEI

Notice of Trustee’s Sale T.S. NO. 090139207 Title Order No. 090656906MTGSI THE FOLLOWING LEGALLY DESCRIBED TRUST PROPERTY TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 02/10/2010, at the hour of 11:00 AM sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: On the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT.. RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which MARY ANNE DOWDALL A SINGLE IN HIS/HER OWN RIGHT as Grantors, conveyed said real property to STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA COUNTY, INC. TITLE CO. as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 03/30/2007 and recorded 03/30/2007, in document No. 200707447 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 794 at Page Number 744 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LOT 319 OF PLEASANT VIEW HOMES NO. 4, PHASE 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Address: 3912 MELROSE PLACE, MISSOULA, MT 59808 The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS, CWALT INC., ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2007-15CB, MORTGAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 06/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $117,421.20 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.625% per annum from 05/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. 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 charges against the proceeds to 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. Dated: 10/08/2009 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. Successor Trustee 2380 Performance Dr, TX2985-07-03 Richardson, TX 75082 ASAP# 3279079 10/08/2009, 10/15/2009, 10/22/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 1, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: UNIT NO. 19 OF THE CEDARS, A RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUM SITUATED ON TRACT D,

HILLVIEW HEIGHTS NUMBER ONE (1), CITY OF MISSOULA, COUNTY OF MISSOULA, STATE OF MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF, AND ACCORDING TO THE DECLARATION OF UNIT OWNERSHIP AND FLOOR PLANS ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE MISSOULA COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER, RECORDED JUNE 26, 1978 IN VOLUME 121 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 107, FILED AND RECORDED PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE MONTANA UNIT OWNERSHIP ACT, SECTION 67-2301, ET SEQ, R.C.M. 1947, AS AMENDED. TOGETHER WITH A 4.3358 PERCENT INTEREST IN THE COMMON ELEMENTS APPURTENANT TO SAID CONDOMINIUM, ALL AS IDENTIFIED, ESTABLISHED AND DEFINED IN THE AFORESAID DECLARATION AND AMENDMENTS THERETO. Aaron M Healy and Tara Jennifer Healy, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 26, 2007 and recorded on May 2, 2007 at 4:29 o’clock P.M., in Book 796, Page 677, under Document No 200710635. 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 $1,367.78, beginning April 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of July 13, 2009 is $140,918.88 principal, interest at the rate of 8.59% now totaling $16,537.81, late charges in the amount of $1102.40, escrow advances of $-118.00, other fees and expenses advanced of $44.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $33.36 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 wilt be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: July 24, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On July 24, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to e the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 03/28/2011 ASAP# 3278401 10/01/2009, 10/08/2009, 10/15/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 7, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: The West of 35 Feet of the east 70 feet of Lots 12, 13, and 14 in Block 77 of Knowles Addition #2, A Platted subdivision in the city of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

Stefanie L. Marshall and Luke Gerard Softich, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title Guaranty Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, INC., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated

October 15, 2004 and recorded October 20, 2004 BK-741 Pg 1395 under Document No. 200429807. The beneficial interest is currently held by OneWest Bank FSB. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $715.40, beginning April 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 August 21, 2009 is $89,588.74 principal, interest at the rate of 7.50% now totaling $3,167.82, late charges in the amount of $391.12, escrow advances of $35.17, suspense balance of $-274.42 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1082.40, plus accruing interest at the rate of $18.41 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors, if such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents {valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: July 30, 2009 Charles J Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On July 30, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3288047 10/08/2009, 10/15/2009, 10/22/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 7, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 11 in Block 4 of EL MAR ESTATES Phase IV, a Platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Larry Fonner, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Washington Mutual Bank, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated November 24, 2006 and recorded November 27, 2006 in Book 787, Page 1349, as Document No. 200630574.

The beneficial interest is currently held

by Deutsche Bank Nat’l Trust, as trustee for WaMu Series 2007-HE1 Trust. 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 $1509.86, beginning April 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 070809 is $183,087.11 principal, interest at the rate of 7.5% now totaling $5,001.88, late charges in the amount of $300.08, escrow advances of $202.50, suspense balance of $-1,000.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $42.85, plus accruing interest at the rate of $38.87 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may

become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: July 29, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On July 29, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3288134 10/08/2009, 10/15/2009, 10/22/2009 AMENDED NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE OF REAL PROPERTY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN

by BENJAMIN T. CORY, as successor Trustee, of the public sale of the real property hereinafter described pursuant to the “Small Tract Financing Act of Montana” (Section 71-1-301, et seq., MCA). The following information is provided: THE NAMES OF THE GRANTOR, ORIGINAL TRUSTEE, THE BENEFICIARY IN THE TRUST INDENTURE, ANY SUCCESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE BENEFICIARY OR GRANTOR, ANY SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE, AND THE PRESENT RECORD OWNER ARE: Grantor: DAVID ARTHUR DESCHAMPS and ZONDA KELLY BERRY, AS JOINT TENANTS (“Grantors”) Original Trustee: STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA COUNTY Successor Trustee: BENJAMIN T. CORY, an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of Montana (the “Trustee”) Beneficiary: TREASURE STATE BANK (the “Beneficiary”) Present Record Owner: DAVID ARTHUR DESCHAMPS and ZONDA KELLY BERRY THE DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPERTY COVERED BY THE DEED OF TRUST IS: The real property and its appurtenances in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: LOTS 16 AND 17 IN BLOCK 11 OF CAR LINE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. INCLUDING AND NOT TO BE SEVERED THEREFROM: 1979 GALL, Model TL, VIN # GA3474, Title # K221740 THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. The property is located in Missoula County

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 95 and 208.

Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting October 26th, 2009 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to October 29th, 2009, 4:00 P.M. Buyer's 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 final.

at 1914 Margaret, Missoula, Montana 59801. RECORDING DATA: The following instruments and documents have been recorded in the Clerk and Recorder’s Office in Missoula County, Montana: Trust Indenture dated June 10, 2009, and recorded July 8, 2009, in Book 843 of Micro Records at Page 429, under Document No. 200916787 (the “Trust Indenture”); and Substitution of Trustee dated September 8, 2009, and recorded September 11, 2009, in Book 847 of Micro Records at Page 302, under Document No. 200922256. THE DEFAULT FOR WHICH THE FORECLOSURE IS MADE IS: Nonpayment of the July 10, 2009 and August 10, 2009 initial payments in the amount of $3,750.00 due under the Promissory Note dated June 10, 2009, which is secured by the Trust Indenture. The borrower is due for the September 10, 2009 monthly payment in the amount of $726.78 and for each subsequent monthly payment in the same amount. THE SUMS OWING ON THE OBLIGATION SECURED

BY THE TRUST INDENTURES ARE: Principal: $93.777.93. Interest: Interest continues to accrue at a rate of 7 % per annum. As of September 8, 2009 the interest balance is $1,618.64 and interest accrues at the rate of $17.98 per day. Late fees: $375.00.

The Beneficiary anticipates and intends to disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the real property, and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts or taxes are paid by the Grantors or successor in interest to the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligation secured by the Trust Indenture. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of the sale include the Trustee’s and attorney’s fees, and costs and expenses of sale. THE TRUSTEE, AT THE DIRECTION OF THE BENEFICIARY, HEREBY ELECTS TO SELL THE PROPERTY TO SATISFY THE AFORESAID OBLIGATIONS. THE DATE, TIME, PLACE AND TERMS OF SALE ARE: Date: February 10, 2010 Time: 11:00 a.m., Mountain Standard Time or Mountain Daylight Time, whichever is in effect. Place: Front entrance to the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802 Terms: This sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, and excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. Dated: September 30, 2009. /s/ BENJAMIN T. CORY Trustee STATE OF MONTANA ) : ss.

County of Missoula) This instrument was acknowledged before me on September 30 2009, by BENJAMIN T. CORY, as Trustee. [NOTARY SEAL] Jennifer J. Balsley Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, Montana My commission expires: 12/19/2010

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EAGLE SELF STORAGE

will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owning delinquent storage rent for the following units: 2, 37, 145, 236, 241, 275, 291, 301, 333, 336, 416, 422, 428, and 440 Units contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc household goods including office furniture, desks, baby strollers, car storage carrier, office phone system, boxes & boxes of old rare book collections, file cabinets, TV & stereos.

These units may be viewed starting Monday, October 26, 2009 by appt only by calling 2518600. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59803 prior to Thursday, October 29, 2009, 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.

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22 Internet slang system sometimes written with 3's 25 Pilot's heading: abbr.

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40 Wolfed down 42 Actor Epps of "A Day in the Life" 43 Component of an edible pod 44 Gets rid of leg stubble 45 Blue "Sesame Street" muppet 46 Word before dog or helicopter 48 Number opposite IX 49 Surname of seven performing siblings 51 Indian state 54 CD-ROM predecessor 55 Bottom-of-env. header 56 ___ Field (Mets ballpark) 57 Thin sheet metal for ornamental decoration 61 "___ blu, dipinto di blu" ("Volare" alternate title)

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52 "Life ___ Highway" 53 Odds of dying because of it: 1 in anywhere from 200,000 to 500,000 58 Crack container 59 ___ Friday's (restaurant chain) 60 Heated seats, e.g.

62 Get your groove on?

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PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 7, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 2 IN BLOCK 1 OF CUSTER ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Eddie W Martinez and Kerry Martinez, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Ins Co, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Washington Mutual Bank, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 12, 2007 and recorded on January 16, 2007 in Book 790, Page 809, under Document NO 200701271.

The beneficial interest is currently held by Citibank NA as Trustee for WAMU series 2007-HE2 Trust.

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 $1,003.58, beginning April 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 July 8, 2009 is $175,868.55 principal, interest at the rate of 5.27% now totaling $3267.19, late charges in the amount of $0.00, escrow advances of $5182.75, suspense balance of $93.10 and other fees and expenses advanced of $7.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $25.39 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: July 28, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On July 28, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee known

to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 03/28/2011 ASAP# 3284053 10/08/2009, 10/15/2009, 10/22/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on November 30, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 9A OF DALY’S ADDITION, BLOCK 52, LOTS 8A &9A, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT OF RECORD IN BOOK 29 OF PLATS AT PAGE 100 Jason O. Hettick and Rainey R. Hettick, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated April 2, 2008 and recorded April 3, 2008 in Book 816, Page 0504, as Document No. 200807328. 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 $1026.15, 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 August 1, 2009 is $137,684.55 principal, interest at the rate of 5.5% now totaling $3786.30, late charges in the amount of $354.60, escrow advances of $679.17, suspense balance of $-39.46 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1420.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $20.75 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT

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TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: July 23, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On July 23, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3277197 10/01/2009, 10/08/2009, 10/15/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on November 30, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 48 OF AMENDED TRAIL CREEK ADDITION OF PHASE VI TO THE DOUBLE ARROW RANCH, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Mike R. Maksin, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as .Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated December 20, 2006 and recorded December 28, 2006 as document number 200633049, in Book 789, Page 930. The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1339.46, beginning April 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 July 11, 2009 is $180,343.99 principal, interest at the rate of 6.5% now totaling $4228.60, late charges in the amount of $935.52, escrow advances of $282.51, other fees and expenses advanced of $28.70, plus accruing interest at the rate of $32.12 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents {valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then

be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Date: July 23, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On July 23, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 2/23/2013 ASAP# 3275782 10/01/2009, 10/08/2009, 10/15/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on Monday, the 30th day of November, 2009, at the hour of 10:00 a.m., at the front door of the Missoula County Courthouse, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, Martin S. King, Attorney at Law, Successor Trustee, in order to satisfy the obligations set out below, has been directed to sell and has elected to sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, payable at the time of sale, and without warranty or covenant, express or implied as to title, possession, encumbrances, condition, or otherwise, the interest of the Successor Trustee, Martin S. King, and the Grantors JAMES P. McGUIRL and LAVELLA J. McGUIRL aka L. Janeane McGuirl, in and to the following described real property, situated in Missoula County, Montana, to wit: Parcel I: Lot 9 in Block 2 of Webber Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Parcel II: The Northeasterly 25 feet of the Southwesterly 63 feet of Lots 7, 8, 9 and 10 in Block C of CP Higgins Addition to the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof. RECORDING REFERENCE: Book 265 of Micro at page 1452. Said sale will be made in accordance with the statutes of the State of Montana, and the terms and provisions of: that certain Deed of Trust dated May 14, 2004, and recorded June 7, 2004, in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, in Book 733 at Page 1219 as Document No. 200415700, wherein JAMES P. McGUIRL and LAVELLA J. McGUIRL aka Janeane McGuirl are Grantors, FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MONTANA, INC. is named Beneficiary, and TITLE SERVICES, INC. is the named Trustee; that certain Appointment of Successor Trustee dated July 10, 2009, and recorded July 14, 2009, in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana, in Book 843 at page 1106 as Document No. 200917464, wherein the Beneficiary substituted Trustee Title Services, Inc. with Martin S. King, attorney at law, as Successor Trustee; This foreclosure is made because the Grantors, JAMES P. McGUIRL and LAVELLA J. McGUIRL aka L. Janeane McGuirl, and their successors in interest, have defaulted in the terms of said Deed of Trust and the corresponding Promissory Note in that they have failed to pay the monthly payments and otherwise defaulted on said Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the terms of the Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has exercised its option to declare the full amount secured by such Deed of Trust immediately due and payable. That the principal sum now owing on the obligation secured by said Deed of Trust is the sum of Three Hundred Eleven Thousand Five Hundred Seventy-eight and 39/100 Dollars ($311,578.39), together with interest at the default rate of 18% per annum, until the date of sale. That on the date of sale, presuming no other payments are made and that the sale is not postponed, there will be due and owing the sum of Three Hundred Eleven Thousand Five

Hundred Seventy-eight and 39/100 Dollars ($311,578.39) in principal; Thirty-five Thousand Twenty-eight and 80/100 Dollars ($35,028.80) in interest; and One Thousand One Hundred and No/100 Dollars ($1,100.00) in late fees, totaling the sum of Three Hundred Forty-seven Thousand Seven Hundred and Seven and 19/100 Dollars ($347,707.19), together with costs and expenses of foreclosure and related trustee fees, costs and attorney fees allowable by law. DATED this 20th day of July, 2009. /s/ Martin S. KIng, Successor Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA ):ss.

County of Missoula). On this 20th day of July, 2009, before me, the undersigned a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Martin S. King, Attorney at Law, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within Notice of Trustee’s Sale as Successor Trustee, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same as such Successor Trustee. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto seat my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first written above. (SEAL) /s/ Rhonda M. Kolar, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula My commission expires: January 24, 2012

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on February 12, 2010, at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 4 of Hillview Heights No. 7A, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Lynn A. Lassila and Rose St. Clair, as Grantors, conveyed the real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Missoula Federal Credit Union, as Beneficiary, by Trust Indenture dated February 14, 2005, and recorded in book 747, Page 1573, as Document No. 200503525, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded September 25, 2009, Book 848, Page 107, Document 200923460, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of the foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments when due.

Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $183,139.41, plus interest at a rate of 7.25% totaling $6,773.40, late fees and other fees of $732.04, for a total amount due of $190,644.85, as of September 22, 2009, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow and closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 7th day of October, 2009. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA )) ss. County of Missoula). On this 7th day of October, 2009, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana, Residing at: Missoula, Montana My Commission Expires: 5-7-2013

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330 N. Easy St. • $199,500

Wonderful location at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac. This home has been well cared for and has many updates such as paint, appliances, lighting, A/C and underground sprinklers. This home is over 1,000 sq. ft. and has a large insulated/sheet rocked garage plus a huge storage shed for over flow. There is a master bedroom, plus 2 additional bedrooms and a full bath. Large yard bordering open space and lovely views of the mountains. Property has access to river front park. Call today for your private showing. MLS# 907496

RICE TEAM Janet Rice 532-7903 Robin Rice 240-6503 riceteam@windermere.com www.missoulahomesonline.com • 3 bdrm cedar log home on 20 acres • 3 decks / 2 covered patio's • Large garage w/ shop area Borders Hayes Creek • $850,000 • MLS# 903288 Text:44133 Message: 12592 for pics

• BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY! • 2BD/2BA Modular home on 1 acre • 30x36 shop w/ 1BD/1BA living quarters • 62 - 10x15 storage rental units • $489,900 • MLS#905529 Text:44133 Message: 12597 for pics

• 2 bdrm 2 bath manufactured home • Addition for possible den or office • Shop & extra space in dbl garage • Zoned for multifamily or commercial • $135,000 • MLS#906610 Text:44133 Message: 12594 for pics

• Bonner area 5 Bed / 2 Bath on 2 acres • Large kitchen w/ island • Chain link fence in front yard • Private deck in back, mature trees • $219,900 • MLS#906641 Text:44133 Message: 12591 for pics

Two 5 acre parcels

15 minutes from Missoula with nice building sites and access to the Blackfoot River. $149,000 for either 5 acre parcel or buy both for $285,000. MLS# 902286

Mary Mar ry R E A LT O R ® , B r ok er

Cell 406-544-2125 • mmarry@bigsky.net

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UPDATED POTOMAC AREA HOME ON 16.5 ACRES. 3 Bdr/2 Bath, Open floor plan, deck and covered porch, very private and quiet, $239,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, Text Mindy5 to 74362, or visit...

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Well-maintained 3BD house, 45 minutes from Missoula, hardwood floors, storage shed, updated appliances. $125,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-2071185. www.AccessRealty.net

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Nominal Opening Bids Start at $25,000 5887 W FORK RD, DARBY, MT 3BR 2BA 1,680sf+\- mobile/mnftd home.

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3631 Brandon Way, Msla $277,900 • MLS# 906808 Great neighborhood 5 bedroom, 2 bath, double attached garage with updates in kitchen.

Finished basement with family room, 2 bedrooms, bath & bonus room.

Heat is water base board.

110 South Ave West, Msla $320,000 • MLS# 905618 Building & Land For Sale Commercial office building in a great location on South & Higgins. It offers lots of paved parking, handicap ramp with handicap restroom.

Anna Nooney BA, RLS, GRI

Cell: 406-544-8413 AnnaNoooney@Windermere.com Williams & Williams MT JUDSON GLEN VANNOY broker RE#15289.

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REAL ESTATE Tall Timber Log Home E. Missoula MLS#906672 $234,000 Custom built on almost 1/2 acre on dead end street that adjoins the old Mt. Jumbo school playground. Open kitchen, living room, vaulted ceilings, 3/4 wrap around deck. Fully finished basement, pine floors throughout, lots of windows, master suite is the entire upper level.

Newly stained exterior on both logs and decks. Ready to move in! Bring your RD buyers.

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Sold house with 4 years worth of equity!

Grant Creek Log home on 26+ private acres $525,000 Borders Lolo National Forest. Ski out your back door, drive 10 minutes to Snowbowl Ski area, or take a hike in 3 different directions in the summer!

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! www.11815benchrd.com

Just paid 4 years rent?

Cell:(406) 544-7507 • glasgow@montana.com

Specializing in College Housing

5 BD Home on 15 Acres, Lolo MT

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Rochelle Glasgow

Steve Corrick

Steve.Corrick@PruMT.com • 406-329-2033 • www.MagnificentMontana.com

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MLS# 905552 • $415,000 5BD/3BA on 15 acres with timbered hillside and level yard. Covered patio and large covered deck off master suite. Quiet, peaceful setting.

Only 10 minutes from Missoula!

Kevin & Monica Ray

207.1185 • 822.7653 1720 Brooks • Suite 5 • Missoula

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Lorin & Amy Peterson

a father daughter team The Realtor® Who Speaks Your Language

370.7689 Amy 532-9287 Lorin 532-9223 www.LorinAndAmy.com

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