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Vol. 20, No. 44 • Oct. 29–Nov. 5, 2009

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

by Alex Sakariassen

Soundcheck: Rock star Lita Ford settles into life as a mom Up Front: Schools see shocking rise in homeless students Up Front: The Bitterroot Resort’s collapse could be lose-lose

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Vol. 20, No. 44 • Oct. 29–Nov. 5, 2009

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

by Alex Sakariassen

Soundcheck: Rock star Lita Ford settles into life as a mom Up Front: Schools see shocking rise in homeless students Up Front: The Bitterroot Resort’s collapse could be lose-lose

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nside Cover Story Celebrating Conservatism, a Bitterroot group that draws upwards of 500 people to monthly meetings, says it merely provides a forum for political discussion. The Montana Human Rights Network disagrees, saying the group’s speakers help fuel radical political movements across the state. Alex Sakariassen Cover illustration by Kou Moua met with Celebrating Conservatism organizers to see just what, exactly, these hard-line right-wingers are doing. . . . . . .14

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Letters Stumping for Strohmaier, and trapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The Week in Review Festival of the Book, PEAS Farm and wind . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Briefs Democracy foiled, old homes and e-cigs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Etc. Tester’s canned open house . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Up Front Why the Bitterroot Resort’s collapse could be lose-lose . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Up Front Schools see shocking increase in homeless students . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Ochenski Diplomat, combat vet says we should leave Afghanistan . . . . . . . . . 10 Writers on the Range Arizona town offers safari-like polygamist tours . . . . . 11 Agenda Going really green . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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STREET TALK

by Alex Sakariassen

Asked in the University Center on Tuesday afternoon

Q:

This week’s cover story examines a newly formed conservative group in the Bitterroot called Celebrating Conservatism. How do you define conservatism?

Follow-up: Who do you consider the voice of conservative values in the country?

Mike Connor: That depends on what element of society you’re talking about. I think there’s a difference between economic conservatism and social or political conservatism, and some people lump those together. How far right?: I would say in terms of mainstream conservatism, John McCain has been a strong voice for the past 40 years now. Of the far-right conservatives, probably Rush Limbaugh or Shirley Phelps-Roper.

Bree Sutherland: First thing that comes to mind when I think of conservatism is closed-minded people who aren’t willing to accept certain minorities, or people who don’t accept people for who they are. One can’t speak for all: There are lots of people out there who are public figures of conservative values. I wouldn’t say they’re all a proper representation of conservative society.

Nicole Miller: Conservatism once meant the preservation of resources, but now that’s become more of a liberal priority. Usually I associate conservatism with religious values and capitalism. End of an era: It was Bush. Now I’m not really sure. There are obviously a lot of prominent conservative voices.

Ringing-er endorsement For the most part, last week’s Independent enthusiastically endorsed the candidates for Missoula’s City Council who have the strong community values and foresight to make sure Missoula remains a wonderful place to live, work, play and eat (see “Off to the races,” Oct. 22, 2009). Thanks for covering many important issues.

I was disappointed, however, to read the Indy’s lukewarm support for Dave Strohmaier, the incumbent in Ward 1. The article did not mention Dave’s 100 percent Montana Conservation Voter rating. Instead, it praised his opponent, Ryan Morton, for “ideas to clarify subdivision regulations for builders and local agricultural producers,” which presumably would help conserve farmland.

Over the past two years, I have listened to Morton deliver his own “clarification” to Missoula’s City Council and County Commissioners: local government has no legal authority to prevent a developer from permanently converting entire working farms and ranches into residential subdivisions—even as we, tax-payers, subsidize this sprawl.

(Morton’s legal interpretation, of course, is dead wrong. Montana’s State Law clearly directs local governments to 1. consider a subdivision’s impacts to agriculture, and 2. require the developer to avoid or mitigate those impacts, or deny the development altogether.)

Morton has even gone one step further, arguing that farmland is unnecessary, because Missoula could grow its food hydroponically.

His opponent aside, Strohmaier deserves more than a tepid endorsement. Dave has proven himself as a champion for pragmatic conservation, local food and agriculture, sustainable transportation, and a safe and vibrant downtown. Missoula is a better place, thanks to Dave’s leadership and service.

More than anything, he deserves Ward 1’s vote. Please cast those ballots for Dave Strohmaier and other candidates who will defend the community fabric of Missoula.

Paul Hubbard Missoula

Two cents on trapping

Dave Morris: Conservatism, ideally, would take a long-term view of social questions and be conservative with our resources and choices. Filling the void: No one. [Rush] Limbaugh and [Glenn] Beck are ridiculous idiots who are filling the vacuum of actual thoughtful discussions of conservative values.

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In response to the ongoing debate over trapping, I feel compelled to add my two cents. Like many Montanans, I was not aware of the danger to pets and wild animals posed by traps in this state until I saw a flyer relating the story of Cupcake, slowly strangled in a Conibear trap while his owner tried frantically to

free him, near a popular Rock Creek trailhead.

My first response, aside from incredible sadness for Cupcake and his owner, was to worry about my own dog, and to keep him away from the river or any other area where he might find his way into a trap. While researching places we might go, I discovered that traps can be placed within 30 feet of hiking trails, and within 1,000 feet of trailheads and campgrounds. A dog can cover 30 feet in about two seconds, and the thought that mine could actually encounter a trap in that amount of time astonished

am quiet “orIf Iignore the sustained agony that animals in traps must endure by rationalizing that violence and suffering is inherent in nature, then I have abandoned what makes me

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me. I wondered, as many others probably have, why any setback at all? But that is not really what I want to talk about here.

While I do very much resent the ubiquitous threat posed by these inhumane contraptions, my dog and I have settled into a safe, if mundane, hiking routine. There are, however, many other animals in the woods, and tens of thousands are seriously injured or killed, in this state alone, by traps every year. That’s a lot of animals, and they are not, as some folks would like you to believe, dying quickly or peacefully, or being humanely dispatched when they are found alive.

The comparison of traps to landmines is an apt one. Traps are indiscriminate, and they cause intense fear, pain

and suffering. If you are a person who believes that animals do not feel fear, or do not suffer, or if you believe that their fear and suffering is a legitimate price to pay for an anachronistic and brutal practice or hobby, then this letter is not written for you. If, on the other hand, you believe that animals have a right to not be tortured, terrorized or killed indiscriminately, then perhaps you can see the wisdom of creating trap-free public lands, or at least doing a little more research. The more I do, the more reason I find to speak out.

If you believe living thoughtfully on the land is a good idea, please consider the truth about trapping. You can find more information at bancrueltraps.com, where you can also download a free PDF copy of Born Free USA’s Cull of the Wild, A Contemporary Analysis of Wildlife Trapping in the United States. Obviously, you do not have to agree with their (or my) conclusions, but if you are interested in some actual facts on the matter, this would be a very good place to begin.

Marian Palaia Missoula

What it is Bob Peterson has my heartfelt sympathy for the loss of his beloved, old yellow dog to coyotes (see Letters, Oct. 8, 2009). But I find his conclusion that because nature “is red in tooth and claw” we should sit back and “enjoy the ride” confusing.

I understand that predator-prey relationship is at the heart of the evolutionary process and that suffering is intrinsic to that process, but I’m not convinced that because “it just is” justifies indifference. By explaining away the fact of animal suffering by simple acknowledgement, we directly or indirectly deepen it. And we harden our hearts.

I suspect that Peterson struggles like many of us with an unconditional surrender to what “is” in nature. His selfadmission of an “animosity toward coyotes” belies his peace with nature. For myself, I find that to live a meaningful life I must try to recognize and follow the timeless archetypes of mercy and justice. If I am quiet or ignore the sustained agony that animals in traps must endure by rationalizing that violence and suffering is inherent in nature, then I have abandoned what makes me human. As authentic human beings, is our responsibility to mercy or to what “is”?

Bob Muth Sr. Kalispell

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WEEK IN REVIEW • Wednesday, October 21

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VIEWFINDER

by Anne Medley

Gov. Brian Schweitzer and Spain-based wind farm developer NaturEner USA mark the completion of the $500 million, 140-turbine, 210-megawatt Glacier Wind Farm south of Ethridge, now the largest wind energy facility in the state.

• Thursday, October 22 A Missoula County Public Schools’ Property Ad Hoc Committee announces its intent to renew a lease with the city ensuring that the PEAS Farm stays at its current location for another five years.

Officials have discussed selling the valuable upper Rattlesnake Valley plot.

• Friday, October 23 Hundreds of Missoula parents wait with their antsy kids for an hour or more at the old Western Montana Clinic for free doses of the H1N1 vaccine. The clinic is one in a string of events set up by the Missoula City-County Health Department to vaccinate the more vulnerable segments of the population.

• Saturday, October 24 “The Wire” creator David Simon and writer/producer George Pelecanos discuss the popular HBO series to a standing-room-only crowd at the Holiday Inn Parkside as part of the Festival of the Book. Simon proudly calls the intricate crime drama “the funniest show ever made about the end of civilized society.”

• Sunday, October 25 An estimated 100,000 hunters set out across the state chasing deer, elk and wolves as Montana’s five-week general hunting season officially kicks off.

Locally, cold weather lures elk to lower elevations, triggering an above-average harvest.

• Monday, October 26 Montana state Sen. Gregory Barkus appears in Flathead District Court and pleads not guilty to three felony charges filed in the wake of an Aug. 27 boat crash that injured all five passengers, including U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg.

• Tuesday, October 27 People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) announces the University of Montana places among 32 finalists in its annual Most Vegetarian-Friendly College Competition. Other nominees include Wesleyan University, Vassar College and Western Washington University. Winners will be announced Nov. 23.

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Election Day

Fairgrounds foil democracy?

With Election Day fast approaching, some get-out-the-vote advocates are criticizing Missoula County’s decision to move voter registration from the downtown courthouse to a new location at the fairgrounds.

“I think there’s a huge accessibility issue,” says John Bacino of Forward Montana, a nonprofit aimed at increasing voter participation.

“The location at the fairgrounds is absolutely horrid.”

The county opened its Elections Center in the Fine Arts Building at the fairgrounds last month. Residents looking to register before Nov. 3 must do so at the new location, and Bacino claims the public received relatively little notice.

“It seems like it was does done rather rashly and opaquely,” Bacino says. “You’re required to do more noticing if you put a deck on your house.”

Bacino adds that the courthouse location made registration simple for voters because it’s easily accessible for pedestrians and bikers, as well as for those riding the bus; the Mountain

Line Transfer Center sits directly across the street. In contrast, the fairgrounds is located at one of Missoula’s busiest intersections, making it tough for pedestrians and bikers.

But Missoula County Elections Administrator Vickie Zeier says those living on the south side may actually prefer the new digs, which feature tons of parking and extra space for election officials to serve the public. Last year, Zeier’s office registered 1,100 people on Election Day, and the courthouse’s constraints were clear.

“They waited on the stairwells,” she says.

“They waited outside.”

Faced with a space crunch, the county asked voters to approve a bond in 2008 that would have financed a new Elections Center. The bond failed, though, and administrators scrambled to find a new spot.

Though state law doesn’t require advance notice before changing a voter registration location, Zeier says the county gave the heads up as soon as it settled on the fairgrounds. She adds that election workers will continue spreading the word in advance of next year’s federal election— likely a busier time than this year’s local races.

Zeier also says she hopes to offer bus service

from downtown directly to the fairgrounds in 2010.

“I understand totally that we need to make this convenient and accessible to everyone,” she says, “and we’re trying to do that.”

Jessica Mayrer

Target Range

Sights set on growth Residents just outside the southwest boundary of Missoula launched a neighborhood initiative last fall to guide future growth in their neck of the woods. Now the Target Range Neighborhood Planning Committee has taken another step in introducing its own growth plan.

The committee submitted its plan to the Missoula Consolidated Planning Board Tuesday for review and recommendation, following nearly a year of drafts and public comment.

Committee organizer and Target Range resident Peggie Morrison says the committee feels confident their plan will be well received by Missoula County officials.

“I don’t see anything in the plan that’s going to be confrontational,” Morrison says.

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The plan aims to guide growth in the neighborhood on issues ranging from open space to sewer amenities. Morrison says the committee paid particular attention to zoning recommendations, including a proposal that portions of Target Range be downsized to one dwelling unit per acre. “For a neighborhood plan to be effective, the group has to come up with some recommendations that will put some teeth in the plan,�

Morrison says. “This isn’t law. This is strictly suggestion.�

Large-scale development has long been a concern at Target Range. A survey conducted by residents in April 2008 showed 88 percent of the neighborhood wanted to preserve the area’s rural character. That survey prompted development of the plan.

However, the committee isn’t wholly opposed to growth. Lewis YellowRobe with the Office of Planning and Grants, who oversaw the neighborhood plan, says those on the committee have voiced willingness to accommodate limited development. “They definitely have brought elements of growth into the plan,� YellowRobe says. “They’re not saying that growth’s not going to happen out there. They know it is. They’ve planned for that.�

Morrison says that the neighborhood doesn’t want to drive away future development, just limit it. “We’ve definitely tried to keep this realistic,�

Morrison says. “We’re not saying we’re a gated community and we’ve locked the gate.�

The neighborhood plan must pass the county planning board before going before the Missoula Board of County Commissioners for approval.

Alex Sakariassen

Smoking

Get your e-fix Some local cigarette smokers snuffed out by Montana’s Clean Indoor Air Act (CIAA) are finding a smoke-free alternative in electronic cigarettes, or e-cigarettes. But whether or not the product is permissible under the new law, which went into effect Oct. 1, remains hazy, and it could be a while before the state can clear the air.

E-cigarettes are battery-powered devices that often resemble regular cigarettes and produce nicotine vapor by heating a nicotine-chemical solution. Manufacturers dub the product a safe alternative to cigarettes—and a legal alternative

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in the more than 30 states that have passed some sort of smoking ban. “We have heard they are being used in a couple of bars,� says Linda Lee, director of the Montana Tobacco Use Prevention Program, “but we have not done any surveying, etc.�

But even limited use, Lee says, has caused controversy. “The main debate has been about whether or not e-cigarettes are illegal based upon the language in the CIAA,� she wrote in an Oct. 7 memo to the state’s tobacco prevention specialists. “This debate may continue until studies of the

nicotine-containing vapor emitted from the ecigarettes have been thoroughly tested. There is also the question about whether or not the sale of these products is legal.�

Lee explains that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) jurisdiction over e-cigarettes is being challenged in federal court, but based on current federal law, e-cigarettes would be considered illegal, and warns that Montana retailers shouldn’t assume otherwise.

Despite manufacturers’ claims, the product’s safety has been called into question as well.

In July, the FDA announced that a laboratory analysis of e-cigarette samples found that they contain carcinogens and toxic chemicals such as diethylene glycol, an ingredient used in antifreeze.

If that’s not enough to deter the persistent smoker, the price might. One manufacturer, White Cloud, sells its e-cigarette unit—which includes two batteries, five cartridges (in the flavors of your choice, including chocolate, banana and whiskey) and one USB charger—for $189.99.

Matthew Frank

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Development

Saving this old house As city planners propose a new ordinance that would regulate changes within Missoula’s historic districts, some wonder if the rules may unduly limit the look and feel of homes that aren’t actually that old.

As it stands, the ordinance would apply to any Missoula property listed on the National Register of Historic Places and all parcels—including new construction—within a historic district. If implemented, the regulation would require a design review in addition to the standard building permit process.

Affected neighborhoods include the downtown area, East Pine Street District, Northside, Lower Rattlesnake, University Area, Historic Southside, McCormick Neighborhood and Fort Missoula— totaling about 8 percent of property citywide.

The regulation would not limit aesthetic choices like paint color, but it would require an architectural review to ensure the design fits a neighborhood’s character.

Many residents voiced support for the protections during Monday’s council meeting, but others said sweeping entire neighborhoods into the ordinance—including structures erected within the past 50 years—is overkill. “Seven percent of all of the properties in Missoula seems like a pretty broad brush,� said Ruth Link from the Missoula Organization of Realtors.

Link added that the projected wait time to receive a permit—up to 60 days—and additional fees could be cumbersome, too.

But proponents of the ordinance said Missoula’s oldest buildings have virtually no protection to keep them intact. And planners believe the zoning process is the most effective way to preserve the area’s cultural heritage.

For example, the Missoula Art Museum addition and the newly constructed “Corner� building at Brooks and Higgins are both considered historically compliant, said Philip Maechling, Missoula’s historic preservation officer. “Ordinances like this are intended for new construction to happen,� Maechling said. “This is not about stopping development. This is about encouraging development that makes sense.�

City Council sent the issue back to committee and Mayor John Engen said it will iron out details before moving forward. “This won’t be your only opportunity to comment,� he said.

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On the list of things we never thought we’d see in Montana, right alongside the Rolling Stones taking over Washington-Grizzly Stadium and Barack Obama flipping burgers in Butte, was a wilderness advocate stumping for more logging. But sure enough, at Sen. Jon Tester’s Oct. 26 open house in Missoula, where he presented his Forest Jobs and Recreation Act, there was a Montana Wilderness Association staffer holding a sign that read, “I support jobs in the woods!�

But like the Stones show a couple years ago, something about Monday’s surprisingly subdued event seemed staged.

There was the white sheet held at the entrance to the Doubletree Hotel, spray-painted with the words, “Thank You Senator Tester�—just like the one that hung from a logging truck as Tester announced the bill in Townsend in July. And there were many more “homemade� signs planted inside the packed conference room calling for universally agreeable things like clean water and recreation.

We’ll give Tester’s team credit for their finely tuned rhetorical strategy. They know full well that if you’re trying to sell a wilderness bill to Montanans you better not mention wilderness. Instead, they know to talk only about what the bill would do to cut trees, create jobs, manage wildfires and provide access to land to hunt, fish and ride snowmobiles in.

Selling wilderness on its merits alone doesn’t fly in most corners of Montana. Just ask Pat Williams.

Tester barely mentioned wilderness during his 30-minute slideshow presentation, even though we suspect most Missoulians want much more of it. He then stepped down and let the audience mingle with him and staffers who were manning booths with maps detailing how the bill would cut or protect thousands of acres of Montana forests. Perhaps it was this arrangement—keeping Tester from publicly answering to his critics—that gave the open house such a canned atmosphere.

That’s probably what Tester wanted, and it’s perhaps why the open house was announced with only four days’ notice.

In any case, it makes us wonder, if Tester’s bill isn’t challenged in Missoula, where will it be? And if not at the open house, then when?

We’re not saying we oppose the bill. Reconciling the interests of conservationists and the timber industry is critically important. But as we’ve reported, the bill would set precedents, in both positive and negative ways, meaning it demands intense scrutiny, not a superficial flyby.

Which reminds us of another thing we never thought we’d see in Montana: helicopters landing in wilderness areas, which is exactly what Tester’s bill would allow if it moves forward, unquestioned.

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Sprawling out Why the Bitterroot Resort’s collapse could be lose-lose

by Matthew Frank

When the Bitterroot Resort’s creditor filed foreclosure papers in Montana District Court in early October, critics of the plan began to celebrate developer Tom Maclay’s imminent failure. The man who brazenly cut ski runs on the flank of Lolo Peak and crowed about building the largest resort in North America using public land was on the verge of a fantastic face plant.

“We’re not heartbroken that this has happened,” says Steve Seninger of Friends of Lolo Peak. “We are concerned primary about the public lands around Lolo Peak and Carlton Ridge. So really the

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zoning. So it’s pretty wide open and it will largely develop in a random and haphazard way—much of it fairly low-quality development.”

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (MLIC) Asset Holdings LLC filed a complaint Oct. 2 for foreclosure against Maclay and his business entities after defaulting on payment obligations. MLIC demanded control of Maclay’s land below Lolo Peak, claiming it is owed nearly $19 million, the total of two loans given in 2000 and 2005, plus interest.

Maclay was given 20 days to respond to the complaint. As of press time he had

you want to call it—sprawl,” says Dick King of Missoula Area Economic Development Corp. “You’re not taking advantage of density to do really highquality development, you’re taking advantage of the availability of a lot of land. And then when development is dispersed, versus concentrated, we all know that the cost of that is higher in many different perspectives.”

But Roger Millar, director of the Missoula City-County Office of Planning and Grants, says if the land is transferred to new owners who follow through with the resort, the market will dictate what’s built, and right now there’s no market for sprawling ranchettes.

“Everything we’re seeing in the market and the reality of what’s going on in Montana and the world is that the market’s changed,” he says. “With the economy, nobody’s doing anything.

But when you ask resort developers what they’re going to do when the economy comes back, they’re taking about smaller, in-town— creating a community that’s walkable. They’re not talking about what we saw in the ’80s and ’90s and even the earlier parts of this decade. Now, we could all be wrong.

Photo by Anne Medley “The concern I have as a planTom Maclay’s creditor is trying to foreclose on his 3,000-acre ranch, perhaps ner in Missoula County,” Millar killing the planned Bitterroot Resort and opening the possibility of hodgepodge adds, “is that the land is not development on one of the last intact ranches in the area. zoned. And so it really will be more market-driven and resourcefinancial problems he’s going through, not, according to the Missoula County driven than anything else.” they certainly spell good news as far as Clerk of Court’s office. Maclay did not Pat O’Herren of Missoula County cutting short any development on those return repeated calls for comment.

Rural Initiatives says the county has kept public lands as he was envisioning.”

Maclay’s struggles became evident in an eye on the Bitterroot Resort’s forecloBut public land aside, Maclay’s finan- April when reports surfaced of unpaid sure process. Should it progress further, cial troubles mean one of the last large services and liens placed on his land. He he says, the county may recommend that swaths of intact ranchland between Lolo told the Independent he was forced to the area south of Lolo be considered for and Florence, including prime elk winter demote Chief Operations Officer Jim Gill a land-use planning process, similar to range, could be lost, giving way to 3,000 to consultant, and had begun to sell off the Lolo Regional Plan Update in the acres of sprawled ranchettes and parcels of land to pay his mounting debt. works right now.

McMansions instead of dense developIt appeared Maclay’s questionable As it stands, the land’s unsettled fate ment surrounded by open space, as business practices were at least partly cul- will most likely be decided, as with so Maclay proposed. It’s a potential lose- pable for his financial troubles. A 2007 many other debates over growth and lose scenario smart growth advocates say Child Support Enforcement Division development in western Montana, by should be jeered, not cheered. order showed that he used the MLIC zoning regulations—or the glaring lack “All you need to do is get a copy of loans to build a $2.225 million home and thereof. the plat map for the slopes and foothills spent $18,000 annually on dozens of “The Bitterroot Valley can plan for its west of the highway, almost all the way trips around the world. He paid then- future development and protect property down the valley,” says economist Larry COO Gill $11,000 monthly and Maclay’s values and protect wildlife and environSwanson of the Center for the Rocky fiancée, for whom Maclay created a job, mental values and provide for developMountain West. “Look at it and you’ll see $3,000 per month. ments that both protect and enhance aeseverything but the Maclay ranch and only Now, with this month’s foreclosure thetic qualities of the valley,” says a few others have already largely been filing and the prospect of Maclay’s land Swanson, “or they can let it happen as it sliced and diced into small parcels, ready changing hands, the question of how it will, which is a prescription for driving for sale whenever they choose and with will be developed looms large. out of the valley future high-quality devellittle or no planning. Virtually everything “If—if—the development of that land opment. It’s a choice.” else is off the table for planning because goes more typical of what the area has mfrank@missoulanews.com of a lack of a comprehensive plan and seen, well, that’s—use whatever word

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Home economics Schools see shocking increase in homeless students

by Alex Sakariassen

When Kristi Gough heard the number of homeless students attending Franklin Elementary School this year, she was downright shocked. The coordinator for Missoula’s McKinney-Vento Homeless Education Program says the school’s jump from 60 homeless students last spring—already a significant increase from the previous year—to 88 this fall reveals a troubling problem district-wide.

“We saw a big increase last year,” says Gough, “and we’re certainly on par with those numbers or ahead of that this year.”

tasks, as well as long division problems and spelling, sympathetic to the unsettled home lives of her “kiddos.”

“When families are in these precarious situations–maybe they’re living with another family and there’s a household that’s just too packed full–none of these environments are really conducive to work, to an ability to focus their energy on things that aren’t their immediate situation,” Zanoni says.

Zanoni, like Gough, says she expects to see many more new homeless students at Franklin before the year is out.

It’s already an overwhelming job, she says, for her and the other 58 volunteer McKinney-Vento tutors in Missoula to keep up with demand.

“It’s intense. It’s different,” Zanoni says. “I think part of it is it’s exhausting, it’s a lot of having to be super ‘on’ all day.

It can be draining…There are definitely days that it weighs heavy on my heart.”

But Gough’s latest concerns aren’t just with rising numbers. She’s also noticed a subtle alteration in demographics on a national level that appears to be trickling down to Missoula.

“We’ve seen a big change from it being just the families working two or Photo by Anne Medley three part-time jobs and trying to make Amy Zanoni, a volunteer tutor, has witnessed a dramatic increase in ends meet to actually seeing some midhomeless students at Franklin Elementary School, from 60 last year to 88 dle-income folks who have lost jobs, lost this year. Officials say numbers are rising across the district. houses they’ve owned rather than just rentals,” Gough says.

According to Gough, schools in room with siblings and their parents, perMarianne Moon, MCPS liaison to the haps in a hotel somewhere…They may or Missoula County served by the McKinney-Vento program, agrees the disMcKinney-Vento program included 430 may not have a place to study, so they’re trict is finding more students from homeless students at the end of the last not doing homework.” middle-class families qualifying for The McKinney-Vento program has McKinney-Vento services. academic year, a 25 percent increase from 2007. This year, the number of worked with MCPS since the early 1990s “It’s really starting to cross class and homeless students currently stands at to supply homeless students with school socio-economic lines,” says Moon, who 358, and Gough expects it to rise before supplies, transportation and tutoring, joined MCPS 30 years ago and has operating under the directives of the worked with the McKinney-Vento prospring.

“That’s only 75 shy of where we federal McKinney-Vento Homeless gram since its inception. ended last year,” she says. “That’s a little Assistance Act of 1987.

If there’s a bright spot to the probMissoula’s McKinney-Vento program lem, WORD and MCPS both claim signifidisturbing.”

The McKinney-Vento program receives an annual $88,000 grant from cant improvements in student performdefines homeless students as any child the state. Gough typically applies for sev- ance among those aided by the who lacks “a fixed, regular and adequate eral smaller grants as well, but she says McKinney-Vento program. Zanoni says nighttime residence.” According to a she needs about $172,000 this year to the extra attention helps homeless stureport from the National Center on meet the increased demand. The pro- dents “come out of their shells” academiFamily Homelessness that uses 2005 and gram is still $22,000 shy, she says. cally and socially. And meeting the needs The majority of MCPS’s homeless of an increasing homeless population fits 2006 data, Montana ranks 33rd in the nation for percentage of homeless chil- students–209, according to Gough– well with MCPS’s rededication to student dren. The report says 38,000 children in are enrolled in elementary schools. performance and retention.

“We’re very concerned about stuMontana live in poverty. More than And it’s at Franklin Elementary where dent achievement,” says Moon. “Our 4,200—or 9 percent—of those kids are that increase is most noticeable.

Amy Zanoni, 23, sees 12 of Franklin’s priorities right now are increasing stuhomeless.

Local officials attribute Missoula’s ris- homeless students a day during half-hour dent achievement and reducing the ing homeless student population to the tutoring sessions as an AmeriCorps vol- dropout rate…So certainly we’ve current recession and are fighting to sta- unteer with McKinney-Vento. She started thought through that we need to build bilize at least one aspect of these chil- at Franklin in September 2008, and took capacity to serve these kids that are dren’s lives—their education. Gough on the additional task of after-school most vulnerable.” serves homeless students in Missoula tutoring at C.S. Porter Middle School this asakariassen@missoulanews.com County Public Schools (MCPS) through a fall. She helps students with everyday grant with Women’s Opportunity and Resource Development (WORD). She says children in families forced out of homes and into temporary housing suffer academically as well as emotionally, falling behind their peers by as much as nine months.

“They tend to be less rested, less nourished, so they don’t function at the level they need to function at in school to be attentive students and able to give 100 percent,” says Gough, a member of WORD since 1996. “They’re sleeping all in one

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Heed Hoh Diplomat says U.S. should leave Afghanistan This week marks the greatest number of American casualties in the shortest amount of time since we first invaded Afghanistan eight long and increasingly bloody years ago. Notably, it also marks the resignation of Matthew Hoh, a Marine, Iraq combat veteran and the first high-level Foreign Service diplomat to quit his job over American policy in Afghanistan.

As a member of the generation that grew up during the Vietnam War, the endless dispute back then was over who was a patriot and what actions were, or were not, patriotic. Protesting the Vietnam War was, by and large, not considered a patriotic act, and those who linked arms, carried the signs and got tear-gassed and clubbed by the cops or National Guard were not considered patriots. But in the end, a patriot must be compelled to do what he or she believes is best for the future of their country, whether or not it comports with what the generals, the politicians or the vested interests of the day believe.

Without those patriots who took to the streets, it’s unknown how much longer that sad war would have continued, how many more deaths would have been added to the more than 58,000 American soldiers who died there. The future of the nation, beyond debate, was better off because the patriotic protesters eventually forced the politicians and generals to admit the folly of continued involvement in what was essentially a civil war in which America had no legitimate part.

Now, nearly a half-century later, Hoh has taken a brave and similarly patriotic stand, to tell the generals and politicians the same message—America has no legitimate role in what he believes, from extensive first-hand knowledge, to be Afghanistan’s civil war. He didn’t, however, do it in the same way.

“I’m not some peacenik, pot-smoking hippie who wants everyone to be in love,” Hoh told reporters for the Washington Post recently. And indeed, a review of his life reflects the truth of his words. Referring to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, Hoh added: “There are plenty of dudes who need to be killed. I was never more happy than when our Iraq team whacked a bunch of guys.”

As a Marine captain, Hoh didn’t just debate the war in Iraq, he fought it. And, from all reports, he did a good job there. But like so many warriors, in so many wars, Hoh also suffered the loss of good friends who will never go

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back to their wives, children, families or friends. In fact, he carries the scars of those losses and lives with post-traumatic stress disorder, better known as PTSD, because of it.

Cited for “uncommon bravery,” Hoh was in a helicopter with fellow Marines when it crashed into an Iraqi river in 2006. While he was able to swim to shore, he jumped back into the river to attempt to save his brothers-in-arms who were calling for help,

Hoh put his “bright Foreign Service career on the line by telling his superiors that America’s involvement in Afghanistan ‘wasn’t worth the

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fight.’

but was unable to pull them to safety.

Like so many other soldiers who have survived while their friends have perished, the incident drove Hoh into a fit of depression and, in his own words, “the only thing I did was drink myself blind.”

Unlike so many others, however, Hoh pulled out of his depression, rejected alcoholism and went on to a promising career in the Foreign Service, where he became the top official in Zabul Province in Afghanistan.

And it was there that Hoh’s views of what was possible, what was impossible, and what was worth dying for took root.

As he told the Washington Post, the reality of Afghanistan is what he termed “valleyism,” where the tribal people in one valley, even a neighboring valley, fight against any and all intruders on their traditional territories. It doesn’t

matter if it’s foreigners or other Afghanis, this battle for control by countless tribal entities is at the heart of the resistance to the American and NATO presence there and ultimately dooms American involvement in Afghanistan.

In his resignation letter, which immediately came to the attention of the highest level of diplomats and politicians, including the White House, Hoh wrote plainly: “I have lost understanding of and confidence in the strategic purposes of the United States. I have doubts and reservations about our current strategy and planned future strategy, but my resignation is based not upon how we are pursuing this war, but why and to what end.”

Simply put, Hoh, a brave and exemplary soldier and outstanding diplomat, decided, at age 36, to put his bright Foreign Service career on the line by telling his superiors that America’s involvement in Afghanistan “wasn’t worth the fight.” Despite the best efforts of his bosses to lure him back to higher positions—and perhaps to keep him from going public with his undeniably credible assessment—Hoh made the personal decision to stick with his resignation.

For the last eight years Americans have been subjected once again to the Vietnam War-era definition of patriotism, where “my country right or wrong” and “love it or leave it” were hurled at those who challenged the legitimacy of the Iraq War or questioned the chances for any measure of success—besides endless killing of fellow human beings— in Afghanistan. Those whose concept of patriotism meant sometimes standing up to the generals, the politicians and the occasional frenzy of the masses were chided as Taliban lovers, supporters of terrorism or in the most base of insults, cowards.

On the eve of a momentous and historic decision on American involvement in Afghanistan by President Obama, a true patriot now arises to say it isn’t worth the fight. While some may hurl insults at Hoh, we should all be grateful for his brave and principled stand. And while considering his decision, President Obama would do well to take his words to heart.

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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Sites to see Arizona town offers safari-like polygamist tours

by Beth Kampschror

Just spitting distance across the Utah border in Arizona, the very rural and remote Colorado City is home to rigid fundamentalists who think the Mormon Church sold out when it abandoned polygamy 119 years ago. The high walls surrounding houses with multiple front doors and “No Trespassing” signs clearly signal “outsiders not welcome.” The dress code is prairie Victorian: women wear long dresses, men sport long sleeves and trousers.

This is a place where a woman is urged to “keep sweet,” and a man is told he needs three wives to attain heavenly glory. All are exhorted to submit to the town’s patriarchs, who’ve been known to hand down bizarre edicts—such as banning the color red. There’s also the lurid and appalling criminal reality, including charges of statutory rape and child abuse that have drawn police and television crews to this and other polygamist towns around the West. Warren Jeffs, Colorado City’s erstwhile leader, now awaits trial in Kingman, Ariz., on four counts of sexual conduct with a minor. He’s already been convicted of felony rape as an accomplice in Utah.

It’s hard to choose which bone to pick with polygamists. But they’re as much a part of the fabric in my dusty part of Utah and Arizona as the trucks without mufflers and the weekly shopper that advertises “neuderded” cats. I’ve gotten to know Colorado City a little because there’s a stunning hike nearby that I enjoy. I like taking friends from elsewhere on that hike, and not just for the same reason that people tend to stare at train wrecks. No, it’s more like a strange sort of local pride: I can’t help realizing that my backyard probably trumps anything considered weird, even in California or New York City.

When I heard that two brothers—former “polygs” themselves—were giving guided tours for $69 of some of the region’s polygamist-dominated towns, I wanted to go. Sure, when I checked it out

online, a few commentators said they felt “uncomfortable” about turning a town into a human zoo or safari. But my experience wasn’t like that. No tour guide said in hushed tones a la “Wild Kingdom,” “The braided female carries provisions from the mini-van to her dozen young.”

We didn’t show up in Colorado City with a bullhorn, or trespass or harass people on the street.

“arePolygamists as much a part of the fabric in my dusty part of Utah and Arizona as the trucks without mufflers and the weekly shopper that advertises ‘neuderded’

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cats.

The brothers say they began the bus tours because they felt it was time to tell the truth about their pasts.

“Those women and most people out there are wonderful people, but they’ve been taught to say that these were their choices,” said Richard Holm, who like his brother, Heber, could pass for a Swedish farmer. Both have pale gold hair, workthickened hands and a deadpan way of speaking. The brothers say that Jeffs never gave anyone a choice—even on major, personal decisions about who to

marry, what job to do or even what car to buy. Everything was up to him.

Six years ago, Richard Holm says, Jeffs kicked him out of the group and “reassigned” his two wives and 17 children to Richard’s younger brother, who still lives in Colorado City. Richard reckons his was one of 300 families that Jeffs wrecked in the same way. It was different when Richard and Heber were boys, the brothers recall. Their opinionated father wasn’t expelled for urging his children to think for themselves, and he wasn’t expelled when he allowed Heber to take off on his own at 17.

The Holms say that Jeffs’ lieutenants continue to run the place from the pulpit, the police station and the city council, and that some 8,000 people in the region are still loyal to him. The brothers find that hard to understand, and it’s another reason they started these public tours. Polygamist leaders and parents tell children that outsiders are evil and will roast in hell, Richard said. “I want my kids to feel like a stranger’s not an enemy.”

Since the leaders refuse to give their flock any choices, perhaps it’s sweet justice that tours such as this one might nibble away at their control over who ventures into town. The states may be prosecuting cases of child abuse, domestic violence and fraud, but the brothers’ tours could be like water in the desert: There’s not much of it, but what there is eventually carves canyons. Richard Holm expects it’ll take 20 years before Colorado City becomes as open as it was even eight years ago. In the meantime, I’ll continue hiking nearby and showing it off to my out-of-town visitors. It still trumps the weird you might find just about anywhere else.

Beth Kampschror is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). She lives in Kanab, Utah.

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Sure, you may consider yourself hip to sustainability, with your insistence on biking or carpooling, your steadfast recycling and your eagerness to save energy.

But do you even know the sheer amount of sustainable resources at your fingertips, right here in Missoula?

Well, if you don’t, seven University of Montana students will guide you toward the green light, so to speak, during “A Sustainable Future for the Community of Missoula,” an informal conference that features lectures and informational tables from local movers and shakers of all eco-friendly shades.

Highlights include a lecture by the Sustainable Business Council, an organization that promotes and supports green businesses.

Also be sure to check out a bike repair demonstration with Bob Giordano from the Missoula Institute for Sustainable Transportation.

Giordano’s also got something in store if you bring your own two-wheeler to the conference:

THURSDAY OCTOBER 29 If free speech and social media issues get you riled up, in a good way, then consider becoming a board member of Missoula Community Access Television, which is currently looking to fill four volunteer, unpaid board positions. Call 542-6228 to request an application.

If you’ve got an interest in preserving Missoula’s historic hotspots, and live in the Eastside District (which includes the area of East Pine between Pattee Street and Rattlesnake Creek), apply to be a volunteer on the Historic Preservation Commission. Pick up an app at City Hall, 435 Ryman St. or online at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/vacancy. Apps are due by 5 PM Nov. 25. Call 552-6078.

Immerse yourself in topics like race, gender, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation and more during UM’s annual Day of Dialogue, which features opening remarks at 9:10 AM in the University Center Atrium, followed by more than 20 free educational sessions on various concepts of diversity starting at 9:40 AM and running until 2:40 PM on the third floor of the UC. Free.

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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.

MONDAY NOVEMBER 2 Veterans can find support with trained facilitator Chris Poloynis every Mon. at 2 PM, when PTSD group Spartans Honour meets at the Missoula Veterans Affairs Clinic, 2687 Palmer St. Free. Call 829-5400.

If you’re 18 and under and your life has been affected by someone else’s drinking, get support from others by joining the Al-Ateen 12-Step Support Group, which meets this and every Monday at 7 PM at First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free, use alley entrance. Call 728-5818 or visit www.al-anon.alateen.org.

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3 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

He’ll repair it onsite and show you how to fix it the next time it busts.

You’ll also have a chance to glean info from a variety of other businesses, including The Green Light, Home Resource, and ClearSky Climate Solutions, a carbonoffset credit provider.

If that’s not enough to entice you, a handful of businesses–the aforementioned, Rockin Rudy’s and Kettlehouse Brewery–have chipped in to offer information or donate items for an afternoon drawing.

Even if you think you know it all when it comes to being green, this conference might still teach you something new.

–Ira Sather-Olson “A Sustainable Future for the Community of Missoula” takes place Wed., Nov. 4, from 4–7 PM at UM’s University Ballroom. Free.

Call 249-4523 or e-mail thisevent@live.com.

at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-3955.

Missoula’s YWCA, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts weekly support groups for women every Tue. at 6:30 PM, where groups for Native women and children meet as well. New group members with children are asked to arrive at 6:15, without kids at 6:25. Free.

Call 543-6691.

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 4 Celebrate the work the Poverello Center has done for Missoula’s homeless and working poor during the Pov’s 35th Birthday Celebration which runs from 11:30 AM–1 PM and features free BBQ and music by Tom Catmull, as well as tours of the shelter and info about their strategic plan, all at the center, 535 Ryman St. Free. Call 728-1809.

If you prefer sustainability over rampant consumption of our resources, don’t miss A Sustainable Future for the Community of Missoula, a conference featuring presentations, info and networking opportunities on sustainable practices from 4–7 PM at the University Center Ballroom. Free. Call 249-4523 or email thisevent@live.com. (See Agenda in this issue.)

Fill your stomach with tasty brews in order to help local waterways when the Watershed Education Network (WEN) holds a Community Unite pint night at the Kettlehouse Northside Taproom, 313 N. First St. W., from 5–8 PM. A portion of proceeds from each pint sold goes to WEN, a local nonprofit. Free to attend. Call 728-1660 or e-mail jr@kettlehouse.com.

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 5 If you’ve got an interest in preserving Missoula’s historic hotspots, and live in the Eastside District (which includes the area of East Pine between Pattee Street and Rattlesnake Creek), apply to be a volunteer on the Historic Preservation Commission. Pick up an app at City Hall, 435 Ryman St. or online at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/vacancy. Apps are due by 5 PM Nov. 25. Call 552-6078.

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Missoula’s PostNet, 3275 N. Reserve St., wants to help you on your search for a better livelihood by offering 10 free copies of your resumé, free faxing (two per day, on local numbers), as well as 50 free networking cards at their store. Offer runs until Dec. 31. Call 543-4445

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - When police went to a home in Regina, Saskatchewan, looking for David William McKay, 28, a man matching McKay’s description answered the door but said his name was “Matthew,” which, when asked, he misspelled. The Regina Leader-Post reported police also noticed he had the name “David McKay” tattooed on his back.

A police officer spotted a man at a convenience store in Lebanon, Pa., holding his cap and eyeing the sweatband with a puzzled look. The Lebanon Daily News said that as the man got closer, the officer noticed a small plastic bag stuck to the man’s forehead, pulled it off and asked the man, “Is this what you’re looking for?” Police who booked Cesar Lopez, 29, for possession said sweatbands are common hiding places for drugs.

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NOT QUITE RIGHT - Lynda K. Russell, the district attorney of Shelby County, Texas, plans to defend herself against accusations that she stole money from motorists by using the money she’s accused of stealing to pay for her legal defense. The ACLU of Texas is suing Russell on behalf of the 150 motorists whose property was illegally seized and turned over to a county forfeiture fund. Reason Magazine said Russell used the fund for a Christmas party and tickets to a motorcycle rally, but the ACLU asked the state attorney general to prevent her using the fund for her defense.

After a surveillance camera in St. Catharines, Ontario, caught James Cedar, 19, masturbating in his neighbors’ backyard while looking through the windows, the perp confessed. Later, Cedar’s lawyer sent the victim a letter threatening legal action for invading her client’s privacy because, Margaret Hoy wrote, “you have installed surveillance cameras which photograph and videotape into my client’s yard and windows.” Victim Patricia Marshall told the Toronto Sun her reaction was “total disbelief.” She explained she installed the infrared camera because she suspected someone was spying on her and her two teenage daughters.

In addition to the threat by Cedar’s lawyer, prosecutor Wally Essert withdrew the original criminal harassment charge against Cedar, informing Marshall that branding Cedar a sexual offender would lessen his chances of developing “normal relationships.”

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SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES - Timothy Allen Davis, 22, told sheriff’s investigators in Lee County, Fla., that he was digging through a drawer looking for a shirt, but when he pulled it out, his .380 semi-automatic handgun flipped in the air, landed and discharged a round. The Fort Myers News-Press reported the bullet hit Davis in the rear end.

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WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED - Police in Broken Arrow, Okla., charged Decai Liu, 52, with beating his roommate on the head with a harmonica. The roommate explained he was in the bathroom getting ready for work when Liu burst in and started beating him with the musical instrument. “I don’t know what his problem was,” the roommate said.

THE DATING GAME - A 27-year-old woman told police she was on a first date with Terrance McCoy, 24, at a restaurant in Ferndale, Mich., but when the check came, he said he forgot his wallet in her car and asked for the keys. According to the Associated Press dispatch, McCoy then drove off in her car.

UNIFORM DISASTER - Women draftees in Sweden complained that the brassieres issued by the military are unacceptable because they keep catching on fire. And because the garments aren’t flame resistant, once lit, they can melt onto conscripts’ skin. “Our opinion is that the Swedish Armed Forces should have ordered good, flame-proof underwear,” Paulina Rehbinder of the Swedish Conscription Council said. The Göteborgs-Posten newspaper reported the women also complained that the standard-issue sports bras’ fasteners have a tendency to come undone during vigorous exercise, forcing them to remove all their gear to refasten the brassieres.

MIXED MESSAGES - At least 22 states that ban texting while driving offer some type of service that allows motorists to send and receive information about traffic jams, road conditions or emergencies via Twitter. “If you’re sitting there and trying to update the world on the congestion you’re in, you could be part of a collision,” said Fairley Mahlum of the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety.

OFF-SEASON’S GREETINGS - Joshua Johnson, 26, injured himself while riding a snowmobile in Waterloo, N.Y., when it flipped and threw him off, then struck him in the head and chest. Deputies noted Johnson was test-riding the vehicle but wasn’t wearing a helmet, plus there was no snow on the ground.

FWIW - The Wisconsin Tourism Federation, a 30-year-old tourism lobbying coalition, changed its name to the Tourism Federation of Wisconsin after officials realized its initials—WTF—formed a crude acronym popular in text messages. The group made the switch after websites and blogs poked fun at it. “We didn’t want it to detract from our mission,” TFW official Julia Hertel told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION - A Washington, D.C., jury needed less than 10 minutes to convict Lankward Harrington, 25, of shooting a landscaper who was using a lawn trimmer and got some grass on Harrington’s clothes and hair. Harrington stopped, reached into his backpack for a .357 magnum and shot Jose Villatoro four times in the face and body before walking away. “I made sure he saw me and looked me in the eye,” Harrington testified. “I take pride in my appearance. I did not appreciate that.”

“He did nothing to you, did he?” Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Snyder asked. “He got grass on me,” Harrington said. “That was something.”

RACE TO THE FINISH - Jerry Johncock, 81, was at mile 21 of a marathon race through Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minn., when he stopped at an aid station and said he badly needed to urinate but couldn’t force anything out. He explained a catheter would fix the problem, but the aid station didn’t have one. According to the Pioneer Press, a spectator who overheard the conversation said he had a spare catheter in his car. Johncock was able to insert it himself and finish the race, 1:23:05 off the record pace he set last year but still good enough to win his age group. “What a relief that was,” he said. “I must have had a pint of urine inside me.”

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he cavernous exhibition hall at the Ravalli County Fairgrounds displays more red, white and blue than a Fourth of July rodeo in central Montana. A crowd of roughly 300 lingers near a spread of empty crockpots and cake pans, meeting new acquaintances or catching up with friends and neighbors. Most of the men sport shortly cropped hair, heavy boots and fabrics ranging from fleece to camouflage khaki. At least 20 carry wellpolished handguns on their hips like a fashion statement.

Rev. Hollis Poe opens the latest meeting of the Hamilton-based group Celebrating Conservatism with a prayer, asking God to give them the strength of their forefathers so they might “preserve, save and in some cases take back those very special things you gave way back when.” Poe then poses a question to those gathered: Should a pastor carry a weapon?

In his view, yes–the double-edged weapon of the Holy Bible. The comment triggers scattered applause.

The stage is ringed with pots of geraniums and backed by flags from nearly every state west of the Mississippi; the Israeli flag is positioned close to the center. A large banner of a cross set over an American flag boasts “In God We Trust, In Jesus Christ We Are Saved.” Racks of conservative bumper stickers—“I hate fake Republicans,” “America First,” “Your politician sold you out,” etc.—hem the arena along with a Tshirt booth and a 6-by-10 poster of the Ten Commandments. Opposite the stage, a giant red, white and blue banner shouts “Freedom” in bold font.

Poe yields the floor to group organizer Mona Docteur, an enthusiastic southern California transplant with an obvious passion for debating American politics. The lights dim, and Docteur screens a film—The American Form of Government—reminiscent of the educational ones favored by high school history teachers. American history, government and political science converge in a 10-minute civics lesson that finishes with an ultimatum: The country can continue down its present path toward

oligarchy, or return to “the Republic our Founding Fathers intended.”

Docteur follows the film by leading the group in a boisterous Pledge of Allegiance and then offers a special treat. Before introducing the evening’s speaker, she has some answers for the group on the ongoing troubles with the American Police Force in Hardin.

“You hear a lot of things,” Docteur starts, “you see a lot of things on the Internet, you see it in the newspaper, you hear it on the radio, you hear the rumors and you get the rumors running through the e-mails, and what do you believe? Who do you trust? What information can you truly trust?”

Docteur and fellow organizers Mike Rodda and Dan Cox share their experience of traveling to central Montana in early October to question Hardin officials. They drove on their own dime and their own time, a citizen’s initiative that drives home the gist of Docteur’s lesson: go to the source.

“If we don’t get on board,” Docteur says, “if we don’t start getting the facts,

if we don’t start using the facts against the enemy, we’ll get nowhere.

“It’s time for us to get out of our diapers,” she continues, paraphrasing conservative talk radio host Alex Jones and drawing emphatic cheers. “I’m going to be serious with you here— we’ve got to grow up and get the real news. I’m sorry, but Fox News doesn’t give you all the real news. It’s good, but it’s not the best. They give you the surface stuff. They don’t give you what’s really, truly happening out there.”

Over the next two hours, guest speaker John McManus, president of the John Birch Society, lectures the crowd on restoring state sovereignty.

He points out the flaws in the Federal Reserve System, rails against the United Nations, calls for an end to foreign aid and bashes mainstream Republicans for being too moderate.

Like the video, which McManus narrated, McManus paints a bleak picture of the United States sinking into rule by an elite few.

A NEW GROUP OF POLITICAL ACTIVISTS IS GATHERING STEAM IN THE BITTERROOT, RAISING QUESTIONS AS TO WHAT, EXACTLY, THESE HARD-LINE REPUBLICANS ARE ALL ABOUT

by Alex Sakariassen, photos by Anne Medley

Bumper stickers available at monthly Celebrating Conservatism meetings boast the kind of right-wing rhetoric that makes groups like the Montana Human Rights Network more than a little uneasy about the group’s goals.

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State Democrats and Republicans worry that by promoting ideas like less federal gun control, Celebrating Conservatism could open the door for radical activity in the Bitterroot.

Heads nod, voices shout from the crowd. They seem accustomed to the rhetoric, almost eager to feed off it.

Those at the core of Celebrating Conservation believe a general frustration over our country’s political system is the reason hundreds flock to their monthly informational meetings.

The organizers felt their friends and neighbors needed a better outlet to air grievances and learn from outside speakers how to pull the country further to the right. Indeed, Docteur was driven to local activism out of uncertainty about her own knowledge of government.

“Just a couple years ago, I felt really ignorant about politics,” Docteur tells the Independent a few days later in Missoula. “I was voting as a Republican but didn’t know why. So I got involved with the Republican Women’s Club in Ravalli County, became president of it this year, and then decided that we needed to have a new venue because more people need to be educated on the issues and knowing why they were Republicans—actually, conservatives.

“A lot of people felt disenfranchised,” she adds. “They didn’t feel like they were being listened to by the politicians that are Republicans.”

Docteur says Celebrating Conservatism’s intent is merely to educate the public on what it means to be conservative, and to hold accountable the politicians that represent them.

She says the group’s inspired likeminded citizens in small pockets across the state, including Missoula, to branch out and form groups of their own. She says a growing number of people simply yearn for better answers when it comes to how our country works, and addressing those concerns is her focus.

But not everyone sees Celebrating Conservatism as an innocent gathering of like-minded, curious neighbors.

Critics—including both Democrats and Republicans—openly wonder whether this new group is up to something

more dangerous, or possibly laying the groundwork for Montana’s next militia movement.

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octeur insists Celebrating Conservatism welcomes members from across the political spectrum. She says the group has no radical agenda, works to educate locals on state’s rights and their constitutional liberties, and strives for a bipartisan atmosphere at its monthly meetings. During the Oct. 6 gathering in Hamilton, a woman approached an Independent reporter to announce her progressive leanings with a subtle, “You’re not alone here.”

“We’re trying to erase the party line,” Docteur says. “We have all parties come to our group—it’s not just Republicans. We also really talk about

erasing those religious lines because we want to be a group of Americans that are concerned and want to do something about moving our country forward and preserving the Constitution.”

Docteur considers the U.S. Constitution to be Celebrating Conservatism’s guiding document. It’s what our nation was founded on, she says, and what she hopes the nation can turn back to through mass educational initiatives like the one in the Bitterroot.

“I guess I was just fed up with the government, the way they try and push the people around, over-taxing them,” says core group member Rodda.

“When I heard that Mona was having a celebration of conservatism meeting, she was getting started with that, it sounded like something I wanted to do. There was nothing else out there

that was really doing anything other than going along with the regular program, the elected officials.”

The group’s goal to breakdown party lines seems to contradict the partisan viewpoint implied by the name “Celebrating Conservatism.” It’s a discrepancy none of the members seem quite able to explain.

“I think there’s a lot of people who consider themselves to be a conservative,” says Dan Cox, a well-known Bitterroot activist and core member of Celebrating Conservatism. “To tell you the truth, I’m not the type of person that really cares for labels. I think one of the reasons we used the word ‘conservative’ is because it’s opposite of the word ‘liberal,’ and we’re just trying to get some sort of base of people we can start educating ourselves with. A lot of people obviously don’t even understand what the word conservative means. George Bush called himself a conservative.”

Cox, who moved to Hamilton from Utah in 2002, is a household name in Ravalli County when it comes to challenging local government. He spearheaded an initiative to repeal the county’s new growth policy last year. The initiative succeeded, much to the distress of local officials from both sides of the aisle who hoped to use enforced planning and zoning in the increasingly crowded valley.

More recently, Cox made news when he resigned as chair of the Republican Central Committee in Ravalli County over an internal dispute. He had requested that precinct committeewoman Cathy Kulonis step down after she appeared in a Hamilton parade with what he believed to be a racially charged sign against President Barack Obama that read “No Mo Bro.” Kulonis refused and Docteur and Jim Thayer, state committee chairs at the time, resigned alongside Cox.

“Freedom” is one of Celebrating Conservatism’s guiding principles. The group hopes to educate Bitterroot residents—including children—on why the political system in the United States is broken, and how to fix it.

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Celebrating Conservatism founder and organizer Mona Docteur speaks to roughly 300 local right-wingers during a meeting on Oct. 6. Docteur started the group last December as a small education-based forum for conservatives disenchanted with the current Republican Party.

“As officers of the Republican Party we are embarrassed to have been associated with this in any way,” the trio said in a statement released prior to their resignations. “We are also upset and concerned for the blemish this has created for the Republican Party as a whole.”

They later stated their resignations were also due to concerns that the central committee was infested with “fake” Republicans and did not support the values they promote.

Leaving the controversy behind, Cox, Docteur and Thayer found a ready outlet

Ronan followed Hoffman’s speech last spring, and Docteur considers his appearance an example of how the group welcomes speakers from all political backgrounds.

“He’s local,” Docteur says of Jore, who’s best known for advocating the addition of a “personhood amendment” in the Montana Constitution.

“Someone in the group knew him personally, and he’s with the Constitution Party. I thought, ‘This is a good thing.

Let’s bring somebody in from another party to really screw up the minds of

or so listened calmly to Carter Beck, a local neurosurgeon who offered a PowerPoint lecture on the ins and outs of the health care debate.

Gloria Roark, the Missoula group’s head organizer, says she attended Docteur’s meetings in Hamilton starting in January and felt inspired.

“There is a real need across the country,” Roark says. “People are afraid of losing their freedom. We want to preserve the Constitution. I think something that’s bothered me for a long time is the division. It’s always an issue of

“You hear a lot of things, you see a lot of things on the Internet, you see it in the newspaper, you hear it on the radio, you hear the rumors and you get the rumors running through the e-mails, and what do you believe?

Who do you trust? What information can you truly trust?”

—Mona Docteur, Celebrating Conservatism founder

for their staunch political beliefs in Celebrating Conservatism. Docteur started the group last December as an informal gathering place for anyone interested in furthering their understanding of conservative politics. She explains the idea grew from her involvement with the Republican Women’s Club, where she noted a need for a wider forum.

Attendance at Celebrating Conservatism events skyrocketed from 85 at the start to 185 in late spring, Docteur says, when Ravalli County Sheriff Chris Hoffman agreed to speak.

She formed 10 separate committees on topics ranging from property rights to Constitution studies, which members can attend in addition to the monthly meetings. Former state Rep. Rick Jore of

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the Republicans,’ which it did. It created a lot of stir, because there’s a lot of party loyalists that can’t quite get off of that no matter what.”

The crowds at Celebrating Conservatism gradually grew to nearly 500 by the end of the summer. Docteur says the increased attendance means increased donations to help compensate speakers and pay rent at the fairgrounds, as well as expand the group throughout the state. Docteur most recently helped launch a group in Kalispell.

Missoula’s version of the group, Conservative Patriots, cropped up in late spring. The latest meeting on Oct. 13 seemed more subdued than Celebrating Conservatism’s more rahrah gatherings. A modest crowd of 40

race, of religion, of political parties fighting with one another. What’s suffering in the end is our freedom. We’ve got some very, very big issues to deal with— national security, health care. And I think we’re losing our freedoms, slowly, and the government is getting too large.

“It’s all on the backs of ordinary working people like you and I,” she continues. “I’ve had to come out of retirement to get a little part-time job. My husband is sick; our income is down. So it’s a lot of people like you and me getting out there, rolling up our sleeves and saying, ‘Enough is enough.’”

Roark grew up in Pennsylvania, where she says she and her family long considered themselves to be loyal Democrats. But over the last 40 years,

both parties have evolved into something they no longer supported, she says. Now she believes the only hope is protecting constitutional freedoms and reaching across party lines. And that starts with education.

“I think when they know what we’re about then they won’t be threatened,” Roark says of concerns about the group.

“We’re not out to hurt anybody. This isn’t a covert operation. We want the best for our children and grandchildren, for our country. We want to get along and work together. I hope we’re not a threat, because I don’t intend to be in any way.”

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elebrating Conservatism remains the largest and most developed of Montana’s new conservative groups.

When Docteur managed to land Chuck Baldwin, the Constitution Party’s 2008 presidential candidate, for a speech in June and ex-Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack for July, other state organizations started to take notice—and raise serious concerns.

Mack made a name for himself in the 1990s promoting a hard-line view of the county sheriff as the highest authority in the nation. He served in Graham County, Ariz., for nearly a decade and proudly boasts he “never issued a seatbelt citation.” Federal laws that infringe on an individual’s personal liberties have no place in America, Mack believes, and he hardly draws the line at seatbelts. He’s a strong proponent of the Second Amendment and successfully challenged the constitutionality of the Brady Handgun Control Act in 1995. He also rails against taxes and the Republican Party, and supports the constitutional right to form militias.

Mack’s views connect with the ideology of extremist groups linked to the militia movement, such as the activity of radicals like the former Montana Freemen.

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Human rights organizations across the country also tie Mack to the whitesupremacist Christian Identity movement.

Mack’s Hamilton appearance confirmed the suspicions of the Montana Human Rights Network (MHRN) that Celebrating Conservatism was more than just an informal group of frustrated Republicans.

“They’re not what you’d think of when you think of your mainstream Republican, pro-business, chamber-ofcommerce conservative,” says Travis McAdam, a 10-year veteran and executive director of MHRN. “I think they know the more exposure that’s out there of the people they’re bringing in, the harder it is for them to play this game of, ‘Oh, we’re just conservatives.’ I’ve actually started calling them, instead of Celebrating Conservatism, ‘Celebrating Right-Wing Extremism’ because that’s the kind of speakers they’re bringing in.”

McAdam says his concerns over Celebrating Conservatism stem directly from the type of conservative the group has turned to for enlightenment.

He heard whispers of a new organization in the Bitterroot earlier this year, but didn’t focus his attention until Mack’s name came up.

“One of our members down there who went to Richard Mack’s thing said that right at the beginning of his speech he made some comment about there being a lot of issues out there that people are concerned about,” McAdam says. “He rattled off a list that included black helicopters, which is kind of a catchphrase of New World Order conspiracy theories.

And he said, ‘But tonight what I’m here to talk about is the county sheriff.’ So he’s definitely well versed in [conspiracy theories], and depending on the audience he’ll talk a little more openly about it.”

Docteur and Rodda are quick to leap to Mack’s defense, saying he’s been unfairly linked to extremist groups. They whole-heartedly support his views on state sovereignty. As for McAdam’s concerns? Bogus attacks on Mack’s reputation, says Docteur.

“He has nothing to do with the militia, and if someone reads the Constitution, the militia is in the Constitution,” she says. “It’s been demonized as something negative.

Now I’m not saying that there aren’t groups that have used it negatively, but it is something that is real and it is part of the Constitution…If people understood and weren’t ignorant about words and what they mean, they wouldn’t respond emotionally to that.”

As Celebrating Conservatism continued its line of speakers, McAdam felt increasingly justified in his criticism.

One name in particular—Jack McLamb, another former sheriff— caught McAdam’s attention and prompted MHRN to issue a second, more critical media alert about the group in July.

McLamb’s most notable contribution to the annals of right-wing extremism was a book published in 1992, Operation Vampire Killer 2000. In it, McLamb calls on peace officers to take a stand against an immense global conspiracy he refers to as the “New World Order.” He predicted a hostile takeover of the United States would occur in 2000.

When that year passed without incident, he began toning down his rhetoric.

Last year, McLamb spoke to crowds gathered at a Ron Paul rally in Minneapolis, Minn., about taking the nation back “for God and the Constitution.” He called on average Americans to rise up and protect their civil liberties.

The speech—available on YouTube— quickly spiraled into wild conspiracy theories. McLamb called the 9/11 terrorist attacks an “inside job” and began talking about “red and blue lists” compiled by New World Order officials.

“If you have a red dot on your mailbox, they take you out immediately and shoot you right in the head,” McLamb said in Minneapolis. “But if you have a blue dot, they take you to the FEMA camps being built by Halliburton right now to house 50 million Americans.”

“Some of the little details change,” McAdam says of McLamb’s political philosophy. “But the overall story really has remained the same as it was back in the early 1990s.”

McLamb arrived in Hamilton as scheduled in July, but Docteur says she and other facilitators had no idea “how deep the rabbit hole went” until they spoke with him in person.

“When he came, we had a two-hour conversation over breakfast,” she says.

“In the second hour of the conversation, things were coming out and I thought, ‘Whoa, this is going to be a little too heavy for this group.’ I didn’t even know at that point.”

Docteur says McLamb politely opted out of that night’s speech, agreeing that perhaps portions of his political philosophy didn’t line up with the group’s beliefs. Docteur was relieved to avoid a controversial situation.

But the cancellation alleviated none of McAdam’s concerns. He admits he hasn’t personally attended a Celebrating Conservatism meeting, but questions anyone so willing to associate with the radical right and so quick to defend men like Mack.

“Really, it’s an interesting dance that they do,” McAdam says, “because

on one hand I think they recognize that in order to be seen as legitimate and kind of mainstream conservative, they need to somehow be identified in public with a political party. On the other hand, most of these folks believe that there’s no difference between Democrats and Republicans, that they’re one and the same…You see them try to balance this public image of, ‘We need to engage in the political process,’ while at the same time condemning that process as being inherently corrupt, not worthy, structures that need to be destroyed because they can’t be saved. So you really find what I would call their public persona, versus what they say when they’re not at a community meeting with 500 people.”

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ince Celebrating Conservatism’s meetings attracted statewide attention this summer, members of both political parties have expressed strong reservations about the group. Montana Republican Party Chair Will Deschamps says assemblies like those in Hamilton are symptomatic of the divide that’s emerged within his party, both locally and nationally, over the last few years.

The group’s stubbornness to negotiate its positions leads to the formation of third parties, and can split votes enough to put leftist candidates in office.

“I think their fervor is good and I’d like to harness their passion, but you have a group of people that apparently I represent as the Republican Party,” Deschamps says. “These people don’t believe we’re the Republican Party, they are. They want us to move from our position to their position, and yet we’d like them to moderate and support us. So we’re at loggerheads, is the way I see it.”

Disillusioned conservatives in Ravalli County are now turning to men like John McManus, president of the right-wing John Birch Society, for political guidance. These guest speakers view the federal government as too big, too intrusive and too liberal.

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Members of Celebrating Conservatism strongly uphold Republican values, including gun rights. A number even choose to attend monthly meetings wearing side arms.

The handicap groups like Celebrating Conservatism place on Republican candidates is a very real threat, Deschamps says. Take former presidential candidate and current Rep. Ron Paul, RTexas, a man revered by members of Celebrating Conservatism for promoting smaller government and lower taxes. Ron Stoker, R-Darby, says he sees Paul as a contributing factor to party division and the rise in far-right thinking across the country.

“I don’t necessarily categorize them as ‘regular Republicans,’” Stoker says of the speakers at Celebrating Conservatism. “Because until Ron Paul ran in the last cycle of politics, they really didn’t have a spokesperson or a leader, someone that was championing the causes that they embrace.”

Several of Celebrating Conservatism’s speakers have openly criticized the Republican Party as being too moderate. Docteur, Cox and Rodda argue their state legislators refuse to follow the Montana Constitution or the state’s Republican Party platform. They believe the party is crumbling.

“I would say it’s not conservative at all,” Cox says. “To me, some of the things I’ve seen about the Republican Party right now, if I were to frame it up it kind of looks to me like the Democratic Party has turned into the Communist Party and the Republican Party has turned into the Socialist Party. And there isn’t a lot of difference between those two forms of government.”

The desire for candidates and elected officials to follow platforms and constitutional documents to the letter troubles Deschamps. Politicians have to serve the broad scope of their constituencies, he says, not just those disillusioned few.

“I think they’re looking for someone that’s just absolutely this perfect white knight that will ride to their rescue and never deviate,” Deschamps says. “That would be fine, but that isn’t the way the world is right now, nor has it been. I think there are times when you have to make allowances without giving up your core issues.”

Stoker agrees that those with Celebrating Conservatism hold politicians to a stringent standard, one based entirely on their own interpretations of state and federal governing

documents. They’re unwavering in their expectations, he says, and for some reason view the Republican Party as their only hope, provided they can pull it “quite a bit more to the right.”

“I don’t see these folks going into a militia-style activity of any kind,” Stoker

brushes with radicalism and doesn’t want to see history repeat itself.

“It’s been around for quite a while,” LaCroix says. “It’s evolved for sure into a more virulent form, because it never gets called for what it is. We’re not having a real discussion about what’s going on.”

LaCroix attended Mack’s speech with Celebrating Conservatism and visited the group again when McLamb was scheduled to speak. He says each time he’s experienced a troubling level of intimidation, and he now favors attending with fellow BHRA member Pam Erickson. Safety in numbers is his thinking, especially when a large number of attendees are packing heat.

“Carrying guns downtown is a hostile act,” LaCroix says. “I don’t see how they can say they’re trying to bring in all kinds of people when they’re carrying guns to show what they would do to people that disagree with them…If you want to have a public discussion, maybe we should discuss what planet

into these situations back in 1990-91 where people would say, ‘Will someone from the Human Rights Network come and debate John Trochmann of the Militia Montana?’ In order to have a debate, there has to be some sort of agreement on what the facts are.

When the world views are so different—in this case they’re very conspiracy oriented and definitely have this view of the world of this imminent invasion and all our freedoms being taken away—there’s just not common ground for us to sit down and say what can we agree on.”

From what LaCroix has witnessed at meetings of Celebrating Conservatism, he isn’t optimistic about reasonable discourse either. And that factors into his very definition of the word “conservative.”

“If I can’t talk and reason with someone who disagrees with me, they’re not a conservative,” LaCroix says. “They are, in this context, the extremists that we’re worried about.

“I’ve actually started calling them, instead of Celebrating Conservatism, ‘Celebrating Right-Wing Extremism’ because that’s the kind of speakers they’re bringing in.”

—Travis McAdam, Montana Human Rights Network

says. “They want to hold politicians like myself and others to a constitutional interpretation that they have. The words of both the U.S Constitution and the Montana Constitution sometimes are open to a little interpretation, and if the ultra-right folks don’t see that in a politician’s answer, then they immediately attack.”

Despite their complaints, Stoker and Deschamps see the group as a benefit to Montana politics in many ways.

“I don’t have a negative concern, per se, because they are attracting people who have written off the political systems in the country and now they’re taking an active interest,” Stoker says.

“That’s good. More people that participate in the whole process, the better off the whole country and we all are.”

we should have it on first. That’s kind of where it’s at. They’re not speaking what they mean.”

Docteur says she would happily arrange a debate between McAdam and Mack if both parties were willing. But those on the left find it difficult to debate or even approach members of Celebrating Conservatism. McAdam has yet to hear Docteur’s offer, but believes it isn’t as easy as just having a chat.

“We went through this back in the ’90s,” McAdam says. “Initially we’d get

They’re fearful, they’re uninformed, they’re opinionated, they’re aggressive, looking for a fight. It would be like talking to a drunk in a bar. Why do that? A conservative is somebody who’s sober when you’re talking to them, in a political sense.

“What’s disconcerting to me is not what these people do,” LaCroix continues. “It’s that they get away with it…Where’s the consciousness that that’s not okay? They’re talking insurrection.”

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rogressive groups paint a far darker picture of Celebrating Conservatism than just third parties and split votes.

Fear and intimidation are mainstays of far-right strategy in the Bitterroot, and some believe this group is just the latest example.

To Bill LaCroix, coordinator for the Bitterroot Human Rights Alliance (BHRA) and McAdam’s liaison in Ravalli County, Celebrating Conservatism represents a resurrection of former radical militia thinking in the area. LaCroix has lived in the Bitterroot for 30 years and considers himself pretty middle-of-theroad in matters of politics. But he’s witnessed firsthand the Bitterroot’s past

The latest speakers to appear before conservative meetings in Hamilton often criticize President Barack Obama for steering the country closer and closer to socialism. They promote a serious shift to the right, favoring states’ rights over federal intrusion.

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Those with a skeptical or critical view of Celebrating Conservatism don’t intend to tromp individual rights. They simply question any activity that seems on the surface to oppose civilized discourse.

“Everybody’s entitled to their own opinion, I suppose, but we as a country…despite disagreements, differing opinions and differing philosophies, we’ve ultimately grown by people talking about their differences, arriving at a solu-

tion or direction, and willing to do what I would call public discourse with some amount of respect,” says John Meakin, chair of the Ravalli County Democratic Central Committee. “My problem with the group, as an example [of right-wing thinking], is that they aren’t willing to engage in any discourse. They’re against change, they’re against regulations, they’re against government. That fringe attitude, as far as I’m concerned, is not

Members of Celebrating Conservatism linger at a booth operated by the John Birch Society, a historically anticommunist group that uses conservative-based community gatherings across the country to recruit new members.

the

something that’s going to help this country or this county go anywhere.”

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ack in Hamilton, around 10 p.m. on Oct. 6, the meeting breaks with a short artistic film on the origins of the “Star Spangled Banner.” The lights come up, revealing more than a few tear-streaked faces. The crockpots and cake pans slowly disappear as people head to their vehicles.

The evening’s featured speaker, John McManus, greets attendees next to a table near the door, striking up the occasional conversation. Celebrating Conservatism is just one of many such groups he’s seeing spring up across the country, and he applauds Docteur’s efforts “The enthusiasm and the passion is matched wherever I go,” McManus says.

“There were a few more [people] here.

But I spoke to 10,000 people in Minnesota last year at the Ron Paul rally.”

There’s been little discussion of specific issues in national politics at tonight’s meeting, other than some of McManus’ critiques. Docteur says instead of getting weighed down in discussions that could drive a wedge between members of the group, they’re sticking to common ground. That means supporting the Second Amendment, upholding the Constitution and empowering unknowledgeable locals. In other words, a whole lot of rhetoric from men like Mack and McManus.

“We’re trying to dispel the ignorance, because the fear comes from ignorance,” Docteur says. “If someone knows their rights and they’re actually in the Constitution, why not exercise it?”

Celebrating Conservatism may be drawing negative attention, but Docteur subtly suggests that the questions surrounding the group’s activities aren’t all bad. First, she says the group doesn’t want to stir up trouble in promoting a shift to the right, then she implies it does.

“All we’re trying to do is not to be rebellious, although in order to make a stand you have to be rebellious or be perceived as being rebellious because people won’t notice, they just won’t,” Docteur says. “So we’re not going to be quiet about that anymore.”

The local members of Celebrating Conservatism don’t seem to care what progressive groups or Republican politicians think about their meetings.

Instead, the attendees appear focused on the issues at hand. The federal government? Tone it down. State sovereignty? Build it up. The rhetoric is thick, but their worries over the direction America is headed are genuine.

“Liberty,” says Cathy Hackett, when asked what issue she considers the most important in national debate.

“When we have our liberty back, we can concentrate on the little stuff.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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$$–$$$...$15 and over Blue Canyon Kitchen 3720 N. Reserve (adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn) 541-BLUE www.bluecanyonrestaurant.com We offers creatively-prepared American cooking served in the comfortable elegance of their lodge restaurant featuring unique dining rooms. Kick back in the Tavern; relish the cowboy chic and culinary creations in the Great Room; visit with the chefs and dine in the Kitchen or enjoy the fresh air on the Outdoor Patio. Parties and special events can be enjoyed in the Bison Room. Hours: M-Th 11am10pm; Fr-Sa 11am-11pm; Sun 10am-10pm; Sun brunch 10am-2pm; Tavern til Midnight Su-Th, 2am Fr-Sa. $$-$$$ Ciao Mambo 541 S. Higgins Ave. 543-0377 Ciao Mambo, at the end of the Hip Strip on 4th and Higgins, serves up fresh, classic, immigrant style Italian food seven days a week. Terrific service and an extensive domestic and Italian wine list makes Ciao Mambo a hit for any occasion. Dinner only and take out service available. Ciaomambo.com or 543-0377. $$-$$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. Special senior menu & a great kids’ menu. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve • 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Pearl Café & Bakery 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 Country French Specialties, Bison, Elk, Fresh Fish Daily, delicious salads and appetizers. Breads and desserts baked in house.

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areas, or drop in for a quick bite in the wine bar. Now, you may go to our website Pearlcafe.US to make reservations or buy gift certificates, while there check out our gorgeous wedding and specialty cakes. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Red Bird Restaurant & Wine Bar 111 N. Higgins Ave. • 549-2906 A hidden culinary treasure in the Historic Florence Hotel. Treat yourself to a sensuous dining experience, service, cuisine and ambiance delivered with creative and elegant detail.

Seasonal menus featuring the freshest ingredients. New wine bar open Monday - Saturday, 5:00 - 10:30. Enter through the Florence Building lobby. $$-$$$ Scotty’s Table 131 S. Higgins Ave. • 549-2790 Share a meal on our park side patio or within the warm elegance of our location at the historic Wilma Building. Enjoy our seasonal menu of classic Mediterranean and European fare with a contemporary American twist, featuring the freshest local ingredients.

Serving lunch Tues-Sat 11:00-2:30, and dinner Tues.-Sat. 5:00-Close. Beer and Wine available. $$-$$$ Sushi Bar & Japanese Cuisine 549-7979 Corner of Pine & Higgins Located in beautiful Downtown Missoula, serving traditional Japanese cuisine and exquisite sushi. Sushi Hana offers a variety of traditional and local favorites, including nigirisushi, maki-sushi rolls and sashimi. In addition, we offer Tempura, Teriyaki and appetizers with a delicious assortment of sauces. Expanded selection of sakes, beer and wine. Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner. $$–$$$

$–$$...$5–$15 Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzone, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a "biga" (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch & dinner. Beer & Wine. Mon-Sat. $-$$

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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, losalt 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. $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Not matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $-$$ 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. $-$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins Ave. 541-4541 From Latté to Lassî, Water to Wine, Tea Cup to Tea Pot, Liquid Planet has the best beverage offering this side of Neptune -- with a special focus on all-natural, organic, and sustainability. Their distinctive and healthy smoothie menu is worth the visit too! Quick and delicious breakfast and lunch is always ready to go; pastries, croissants, bagels, breakfast burritos, wraps, salads, and soups. Open 8 am to 10 pm daily. $-$$

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the 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. $-$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 Don't feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ 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 7am4pm. $–$$.

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, 9-10 p.m.

Enjoy a drink with one of our insanely delicious Gourmet Burgers, Bottomless Steak Fries. Or, snack on one of our shareable starters with friends! $-$$ SA WAD DEE 221 W. Broadway • 543-9966 Sa-Wa-Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors-no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisines. Now serving Beer and Wine! $-$$ 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!" $-$$ Staggering Ox 1220 SW Higgins • 542-2206 123 E Main • 327-9400 Home of the famous Clubfoot Sandwich unique, portable, delicious! We serve fantastic sandwiches on fresh-baked bread. Now featuring a special summer menu. Call in your order and pick it up on your way to play $-$$ 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. $-$$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$ What’s For Dinner Meal Delivery Service 406-207-2203 Delicious, affordable meals delivered to your door. Fresh dinner menu changes weekly, frozen dinner and dessert menus change monthly. Order by noon on Monday, deliveries are made Tuesday. Meals start at only $7.50 per portion. Menus and ordering available at www.WhatsForDinnerMissoula.com. $-$$ 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.

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$...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 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. $

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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. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 82, Monday-Friday 7-6. $

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The pomegranate is the crazy aunt of fruits. It’s talented and passionate, but misunderstood. But it has not always been this way. The scabby orb’s blood-red image decorates the temple of Solomon and the robes of priests, its juice is imbued with medicinal properties, and its flavor is integral to many old-world cuisines. But in the new world, the pomegranate’s reviews have been mixed. Its flesh, tart enough to make you wince, is buried among bitter membranes and crunchy seeds. Its juice is quick to splatter and stain. Getting to know the pomegranate’s virtues is messy, painstaking work.

But it’s worth the trouble.

The pomegranate runs in many of the same circles as the grape. The two fruits costar in several biblical verses, including more than one suggesting the presence of pomegranates and grapes as an indicator of good land. Great chefs sprinkle pomegranate seeds atop their finished dishes, knowing that a single seed is like a sip of wine in the mouth, creating fireworks when chewed into rich food, from stuffed pork loin to mushroom linguini.

Brought to the Americas by Spanish settlers, pomegranates grow in the Southwest and Mexico, and ripen from September to January. The fruit’s shelf life can be extended for months by wrapping them in paper towels and storing them in a paper bag at the bottom of the fridge. You want to leave the wrapped pomegranates undisturbed, with as few vibrations as possible. Like bottles of wine, the less they’re disturbed, the better they’re preserved.

When selecting pomegranates, look for firm fruits with rounded, rather than sunken, skins.

Avoid super-sized fruits, which typically don’t have as much flavor. Like wine-grapes, pomegranates cultivated for size produce a more watery fruit, with less evident terroir. So choose from batches of baseball-sized fruits. Pomegranates don’t have a fragrance when ripe. The best way to determine the quality or ripeness of a particular batch is to open one. If the seeds are brilliant

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ruby red, juicy and sweet, then get some more from the same batch for long-term storage.

Many recipes pair pomegranate with walnuts.

Historically, they’re grown in the same regions, and culinarily, the flavors complement each other beautifully. Walnuts are astringent and oily, while pomegranates have a penetrating acidic sweetness.

Perhaps the most famous pairing of pomegranate and walnuts is fesenjan, a meat stew with ground walnuts and pomegranate juice. Fesenjan can be found throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, from Georgia to Iran, Armenia to Azerbaijan. Fesenjan is typically made with chick-

ground cardamom), a teaspoon each of cinnamon and salt, and half a teaspoon of black pepper. Add a cup of chicken stock, and enough water to submerge the meat. As it simmers, add water as necessary to cover the meat. After an hour, add the juice of one lemon. Many recipes suggest adding a little sugar. I don’t think that’s necessary, but add a tablespoon if you want.

After another hour, when the meat is fallingapart tender and fully impregnated with the pomegranate-walnut sauce, cease adding water and allow the sauce to reduce, stirring often to prevent burning. When the sauce is as thick as melted ice cream, remove from heat and serve fesenjan with rice.

Given the current health craze attached to pomegranate juice (some of its constituents are thought to help prevent cancer, diabetes, heart disease, prostate problems and viral infections) you should have no trouble finding it at your local store.

Concentrated juice, aka syrup, is widely available in Middle Eastern, Persian and Central Asian markets. The syrup can be diluted with water into juice.

In addition to its role in dishes like fesenjan, pomegranate juice makes a good Photo by Ari LeVaux base for a marinade, and can be used in en or lamb. I’ve tested batches with turkey and salad dressings or as a mixer. wild duck without complaints.

The word “pomegranate,” a combination of the To make fesenjan, start by browning your Latin words for “apple” and “seed,” literally means meat in a pan with oil. Large pieces should be cut “seeded apple.” Although apples and pomegranates into inch-cubes. Remove skin from poultry. have little in common, their external resemblance For each pound of meat, lightly toast 2 cups may help explain why modern depictions of the forof walnuts in a hot pan, stirring often. When cool, bidden fruit that tempted Eve often look like an use a food processor or otherwise grind the nuts apple, while many biblical scholars believe it was a into a dry paste. For each pound of meat, slice 1 pomegranate. It’s yet another example of the pomelarge onion (or 2 medium onions) in half length- granate’s perennially misunderstood status. wise, and then slice each half thinly end to end.

And while the pomegranate may have gotten After the meat has given up its water and Adam and Eve banished from the garden, in another browned, add the onions and fry until they myth, eating pomegranate seeds forced the goddessbecome translucent. Add the ground walnuts and borne Persephone to spend half of her life in hell.

4 cups of pomegranate juice. Reduce heat to simEither the pomegranate is really bad news, or mer and add 7 cardamom pods (or a teaspoon of the gods are really jealous of it. You decide.

Something’s rotten

Dear Flash, How long do “fresh” farm eggs stay good in the fridge?

—Yolk Hero

If kept refrigerated, eggs can stay safe for months after their expiration date. I know some farmers who stockpile eggs in the summer, when the chickens are laying overtime, and keep them in their produce cooler to eat all winter.

Nonetheless, the longer eggs are kept, even under ideal conditions, the higher the chances that they’ll go bad. So if in doubt, use the “float test” by placing the eggs in water. If they float, they’re bad. If they sink, they’re useable.

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Of course, to legally cover my bases I should say, “The minute the expiration date passes, turn into a robot and throw it away.” But as the next question points out, abandoning your senses and blindly worshipping at the alter of expiration dates can get you in trouble too.

Dear Flash, I’ve been buying some local pasteurized heavy cream for my coffee (Half and half? Why go halfway?). The last three containers I’ve purchased have started smelling off and curdling in my coffee up to a week before the “sell-by” date. What gives? What should I do?

—Creamed

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Well, first off, you should reach behind the cream at the front of the display fridge and grab some from the back—it’ll often have a later “sell-by” date. And when you get it home, be extra vigilant. The first smell of spoiled milk or cream often comes from the thin film that coats the container from pouring, and isn’t in the liquid itself. So at the first whiff of something wrong, pour the cream into sterile half-pint mason jars and boil in a water bath for an hour. This re-pasteurization will buy your cream some time, and to me, will taste even better than before.

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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 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.

If free speech and social media issues get you riled up, in a good way, then consider becoming a board member of Missoula Community Access Television, which is currently looking to fill four volunteer, unpaid board positions.

Call 542-6228 to request an application.

If you’ve got an interest in preserving Missoula’s historic hotspots, and live in the Eastside District (which includes the area of East Pine between Pattee Street and Rattlesnake Creek), apply to be a volunteer on the Historic Preservation Commission. Pick up an app at City Hall, 435 Ryman St. or online at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/ vacancy. Apps are due by 5 PM Nov. 25. Call 552-6078.

Don’t let unemployment woes get you totally down. Missoula’s PostNet, 3275 N. Reserve St., wants to help you on your search for a better livelihood by offering 10 free copies of your resume, free faxing (two per day, on local numbers), as well as 50 free networking cards at their store. Offer runs until Dec. 31. Call 543-4445.

Immerse yourself in topics like race, gender, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation and more during UM’s annual Day of Dialogue, which features opening remarks at 9:10 AM in the University Center Atrium, followed by more than 20 free educational sessions on various concepts of diversity starting at 9:40 AM and running until 2:40 PM on the third floor of the UC. Free. Call 243-5082 or visit umt.edu/dayofdialogue.

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

This makes Mr. Bubble seem so tame. Catch Cirque Dreams Illumination at the Adams Center Wed., Nov. 4, at 7:30 PM. $52/$44.50/$37 with tickets available at www.griztix.com or by calling 243-4051.

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. Shake it ‘til you break it when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., offers Booty Ballet every Thu. at noon. $12/$10 members. Call 541-7240.

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.

Stick a brown bag over your head in order to remember the plot of Things I’ve Been Silent About: Memories by Azar Nafisi and then gather those thoughts for the Bitterroot Public Library’s book discussion group, which meets from noon–1 PM at the library, 306 State St. in Hamilton. Free. 363-1670.

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.

Kids seize hygiene tips and more when they go to Afterschool Adventures: Healthy U featuring the Golgi Clinic at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., at 3 PM. $4.25/free under age 1. Call 541-PLAY. Even if your toddler makes some smooth dance moves, your 3- 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 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. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., October 30, 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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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 Beg inning toIntermediate Modern Dance class at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., every Thu. at 5 PM. Cost TBA. Call 541-7240.

Expect soaring songs without a backbeat when the Montana A Cappella Society bellows it out during a CD release party/performance for their new album Love Is Here to Stay at 5 PM at 205 Main St. in Hamilton. Free.

Visit www.montanaacappella.org.

All genres are encouraged—excepting, perhaps, sadcore—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.

A swanky night of “earthy” jazz vocals mixes with the aromatic pungency of hops when Donna Smith plays a show at the Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

Dream up your next grandiose artistic endeavor while gaining insight from a pro when installation and video artist Michael Oatman leads a visiting artist lecture at 6:30 PM in Room 110 of UM’s Interdisciplinary Sciences Building. Free. Call 243-4181.

Lost sight of your ambition? Then refocus your aims with life coach Michelle Pickell when she leads a group life coaching session from 6:30–7:30 PM, followed by an emotional freedom technique coaching session by Philippa Crawford from 7:30–8:30 PM, all at the Jeanette Rankin Peace Resource Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 726-3564.

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

SPOTLIGHT hallow’s scream Ten years ago, local sci-fi new wave favorites Volumen covered David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust in the caverns of now-defunct Jay’s Upstairs. I hardly remember hearing the actual songs, but I do remember the dreamy, epic rock atmosphere of it all.

This year, Volumen reprise Ziggy Stardust at the Palace, showcasing everything from the angsty “Five Years” to the space glam of “Moonage Dream” to the catchy rock ‘n’ roll twist of “Suffragette City.” As icing on the cake they’ll finish off their set with punk rock songs pre-1985, with rumors of Fear, Dead Milkmen and Black Flag covers.

If that’s not enough, Secret Powers, pictured above, gets its Halloween cover on with the entire Beatles’ Abbey Road. While songs like “Here Comes the Sun” and “Octopus’ Garden” won’t scare the hell

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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 double-spaced 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.

What would Socrates think about the coarse state of relations between the U.S. and Iran? I’m not sure either, but maybe you’ll find some insight into those matters and more during Socrates Cafe at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., at 7 PM. Free.

Hear what it’s like to travel around the world on a skateboard, but without legs, when Helena’s Kevin Connolly discusses and signs his book Double Take: A Memoir at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave., at 7 PM. Free. Call 721-2881.

Shed some of that excess crap you’ve been hoarding in your apart-

out of you, Secret Powers’ ability to sound exactly like the Beatles will probably make your hair stand on end. Reptile Dysfunction opens for both bands.

Meanwhile, at the Badlander, more Halloween tomfoolery ensues when DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo get down with the old-school hip-hop sets of Tonsofun, Linkletter and Brand One. In the funky little middle bar off the Badlander’s wing you can find DJs Mermaid and Milkcrate Mechanic manipulating the turntables to entice you into a titillating costume twister contest. What I’m saying is, you won’t be lacking for things to listen to or things to do. And just to tip you off in the undead department, Zombie Tools–the guys who make accessories for the zombie apocalypse—lead a zombie parade from the Zombie Tools studio on the Northside to the Badlander with an ETA of 11 PM. Be ready.

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ment and gain some insight from folks who aren’t obsessed with consumerism during a screening of Be the Change at 7 PM at UM’s Urey Underground Lecture Hall. Free. Visit www.peaceandjusticefilms.org.

Two women with deep religious convictions navigate the turbulent waters of arranged dating when the Bitterroot Public Library presents a 7 PM screening of Arranged in the West Meeting Room of the library, 306 State St. in Hamilton. Free. Call 363-1670.

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 HipHop 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.

Perhaps you’ll realize why you blank out certain parts of your life as you witness Eurydice and her struggle to recall her former lover during UM’s production of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Masquer Theatre in UM’s PARTV Building. $14/$12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 for tickets.

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.

Take in themes of love and racial prejudice during WWII at the Missoula C h i l d r e n ’ s Th e a t r e C o m m u n i t y Theatre production of South Pacific at 8 PM at the theatre, 200 N. Adams St. $20 person. Call 728-PLAY or visit www.mctinc.org.

Get bit by humor while enjoying an “unparalleled romp” when the Hamilton Players present a run of Rick Abbot’s Dracula: The Musical at 8 PM each night through Oct. 31 at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road in Hamilton. $14 adults/$8 child r e n . C a l l 3 75 - 9 0 5 0 o r v i s i t www.hamiltonplayers.com.

Bowling and karaoke go together like candy apples and razorblades 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 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.

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.

Join the ranks of the Missoula Metal Militia, which this week brings metallic styles from Las Vegas’ Hemlock, along with local openers

Undun and Universal Choke Sign at the Palace at 9 PM. $7.

Now’s your time to juggle a beat with your feet with others in a cavernous-like setting when DJ DC rocks the AmVets Club with hits starting at 9 PM. Free.

See a plethora of patterns and colors after a few pitchers, and muster up the courage to belt out some 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.

Time to get wobbly under the influence of dubstep during Bass Face, a new dubstep-themed DJ dance party at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. 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.

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Get a hit of cardiovascular exercise during Nia with Jody Mosher, every Friday at 8 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $10. Call 541-7240.

Preschoolers ages 5 and under get to play in a bounce house and on a slide while moms and dads get their caffeine fix during City Life Cafe’s Preschool Playtime, from 9:30–11:30 AM at the cafe, 1515 Fairview Ave. $5 for parent and first child, $1 each additional child.

Call 532-1550.

The Missoula Public Library hosts a preschool storytime geared toward children 3–6 years old every Fri. at 10:30 AM. This week, SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance by Steven D. Levitt. 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. 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.

Karen Perry leads you through the oneness of it all, while offering modifications, adjustments and encouragement as needed during Hatha Yoga for All, which meets this and every Fri. from noon–1 PM until Dec. 18 at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $12/$10 members. Call 541-7240.

See if something that rhymes with immunity can actually translate into lower medical bills during the forum “Exploring Community Connections to Reduce Health Care Costs through Prevention

and Wellness Initiatives” from 12:30–4:30 PM in Room 117 in UM’s Skaggs Building. Free. Call 243-2417.

nightlife Games, mazes, activities, candy and more for kids ages 2–12 serves as an alternative to the norm during Christian Life Center’s Harvest Festival which runs from 6–8:30 PM at the center, 3801 S. Russell St. $5 per family/$2 per child. Call 542-0353.

Even nursing homes get in on Halloween action during the 13th Annual Halloween Trick or Treat Trail and Boo Bash at Kalispell’s Immanuel Lutheran Home, 185 Crestline Ave. in Kalispell, which runs from 6:30–7:30 PM at the home.

Free. Call 752-9622.

Prance, shimmy and twist to celebrate everyone’s favorite fall holiday during a Halloween Dance and Costume Party at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., where facilitators from Turning the Wheel lead community dance games for all ages from 6:30–8 PM. $10 family/$5 individual. Call 853-0361.

You’ve another excuse to get your buzz on this Friday during the annual Western Montana Wine Festival, which features a bountiful number of wines to taste from over 30 wineries, as well as beer and food samples, from 7–10 PM at Missoula’s Hilton Garden Inn, 3720 N. Reserve St. $50 per person with proceeds benefiting the Grizzly Scholarship Association. Call 243-6481.

Quit pickin’ your calloused hand and watch others pick guitars with grace and style when Americana jamsters the Emmitt-Nershi Band play an early show at 7 PM at the Top Hat. Cover TBA. Little Smokies open.

Perhaps you’ll realize why you blank out certain parts of your life as you witness Eurydice and her struggle to recall her former lover during UM’s production of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Masquer Theatre in UM’s PARTV Building. $14/$12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 for tickets.

Strings ought to be plucked with elegant ferociousness when the UM Student Recital series features a Bhutanese lute performance by Tshering at 7:30 PM in the Music Recital Hall in UM’s Music Building.

Free. Call 243-6880.

Expect the old and the new to harmonize into something arresting when the UM Symphony Orchestra plays the University Theatre at 7:30 PM. $10/$5 students and seniors. Call 243-6880.

Mellow out after a stressful week with a glass of fermented grape juice and the music of folk rocker James Green, who plays a set at The Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, at 7:30 PM. $5.

Carla Green opens. Call 541-8463.

Humor, music and stories of China come in the form of Chinese rod puppetry when master puppeteers Yuqin Wang and Zhengli Xu from Dragon Art Studio perform a show at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish, 1 Central Ave., at 7:30 PM. $12/$10 seniors/$6 children and students. Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

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Take in themes of love and racial prejudice during WWII at the Missoula Children’s Theatre Community Theatre production of South Pacific at 8 PM at the theatre, 200 N. Adams St. $20 person. Call 728-PLAY or visit www.mctinc.org.

Get bit by humor while enjoying an “unparalleled romp” when the Hamilton Players present a run of Rick Abbot’s Dracula: The Musical at 8 PM each night through Oct. 31 at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road in Hamilton. $14 adults/$8 children. Call 3759050 or visit www.hamiltonplayers.com.

Simmer yourself in costume a day before All Hallows Eve when a Pre-Halloween Salsa Nights salsa dance overtakes the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St., at 8 PM. $7. Call 549-0542.

Be the lifeblood of the party when The Lifers keep you alive with a show at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free.

See what John Patrick Williams really means when he talks of loving “pixie-like creatures” during an acoustic set at the Symes Hot Springs Hotel, 209 Wall St. in Hot Springs, at 8 PM. Donations appreciated. Call 741-2361.

You can do the “Time Warp” and get a little freaky with others during the Montana Actors’ Theatre rendition of The Rocky Horror Show, which features musical accompaniment by Reverend Slanky during two performances tonight, the first at 8 PM and the second at midnight, both at the Wilma Theatre. $35/$25/$15 depending on seats. Purchase tickets at the door or visit www.mtactors.com. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

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.

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

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

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.

Costume contests, prizes and more await you during the UM Japanese Student Association’s fourth annual international Halloween Party at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St., at 9 PM. $5 without costume/$4 with costume.

Your history lesson on Canis latrans starts with copious amounts of beer and ends with untamed rawk when the Wild Coyotes play the Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St. in Frenchtown, at 9 PM. Free. Call 626-5720.

Hip-hop, techno and other beats to make you dance reign supreme under the firm guidance of several local DJs during tonight’s installment of Friday Night Delights at the Palace Lounge at 9 PM. Free.

Bowling commingles with a laser light show and some DJ tunage from Kaleidoscope Entertainment every Fri. at 9:30 PM at Five Valleys Bowling Center, 515 Dearborn Ave. Free. Call 549-4158.

The grim reaper joyously waves its scythe on the dance floor when Party Train barrels through with classic rock, country and blues at Florence’s High Spirits Club & Casino, 5341 Hwy. 93 N., at 9:30 PM. Free.

Zeppo Marx always seems to shed a tear when Zeppo MT spruces it up with some blues at the Union Club 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.

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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 541-7240.

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.

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Learn to sing “Dancing Queen” in tongues when Bassackwards Karaoke invades the Alcan Bar & Grill in Frenchtown, 16780 Beckwith St., every Fri. at 9 PM. Free. Call 531-8327.

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 exhibition from Scott Fife titled Big Trouble–The Idaho Project at noon at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free.

Call 728-0447.

Get demonic a day before the dead rise when locals Rooster Sauce play cover tunes by The Who while Victory Smokes tackle 1990s alt rock songs and the Sparrows spook it up with rock at the Badlander starting at 9 PM. $5.

Snow cones, cotton candy and popcorn merge with games and more at Stevensville’s Lifeway Church Fall Festival, which runs from 1–5 PM at the church, 3909 Hwy. 93. Free. Call 777-3570.

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Those phantom obsessed folks with Hawk Paranormal Investigations are coming to Hamilton to present audio recordings of disembodied voices and photos of unexplainable phenomena captured at the Ravalli County Museum on previous investigations.

Presentations occur at 1, 3, 5 and 7 PM and a ghost tour in the dark with the investigations team occurs at 9 PM, all at the Ravalli County Museum, 205 Bedford St. in Hamilton. $28 presentation and ghost tour/$20 ghost tour/$10 presentation. Adults only recommended for the ghost tour.

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.

Monster games, face painting and a dissection of monster movies old and new make for a ghastly enjoyable time for teens grades 7–12 during Monster Movie Mashup at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., which runs from 2–5 PM in the young adult room of the library. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Take in themes of love and racial prejudice during WWII at the Missoula C h i l d r e n ’ s Th e a t r e C o m m u n i t y Theatre production of South Pacific with a matinee at 2 PM and evening show at 8 PM, both at the theater, 200 N. Adams St. $20 evening performance/$16 matinee. Call 728PLAY or visit www.mctinc.org.

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.

If you’re a medical marijuana cardholder or caregiver in the Mission Valley, don’t space this: meet with others to discuss setting up a medical marijuana co-op in the Mission Valley at 3 PM at 111 Blaine St. Unit B in St. Ignatius. Free. Call 745-2009.

Those peeps out in Rock Creek want you to launch pumpkins with a trebuchet and enjoy other family-friendly activities, as well as drink specials and more, during Rock Creek Lodge’s Fourth Annual Halloween Party which starts at 4 PM at the lodge, 7

Rock Creek Road off I-90 exit 126. Free to attend and watch. Bring $2 and your own pumpkin to launch or $5 to buy a pumpkin to launch. Call 825-4868.

nightlife Be one with benevolent ghouls and ogres when Joan Zen swipes your face with some funk, soul, reggae and jazz for Halloween at the Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, from 6–8:30 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

help you with your zombie getup, as will music by Horse Nozzle and “booze to deaden your senses.” Free. 21 and over. Visit www.zombietools.net.

String yourself up in an unhallowed fashion during the Halloween Grass Bash, which features bluegrass/ Americana pickers the EmmittNershi Band, as well as the SugarCane String Band, at the Top Hat at 7 PM. Cover TBA.

Someone’s always in the mood for fake blood when the Hamilton Players present their run of Rick Abbot’s Dracula: The Musical Thu., Oct. 29, through Sat., Oct. 31, at 8 PM each night, and again at 2 PM on Sun., Nov. 1, at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road in Hamilton. $14 adults/$8 children. Call 375-9050.

The halls of shopping malls get a little scarier than usual during Southgate Mall’s Halloween Boo Bash, a family-friendly event featuring costume contests, tick or treating at each store and more from 6–9 PM at the mall, 2901 Brooks St. Free. Call 721-5140.

Bring out your inner zombie during the Zombie Tools/Badlander Zombie Walk, which starts at 6 PM with revelry at the Zombie Tools Studio, 129 1/2 N. Second St. W., and ends with a procession to the Badlander starting at 10 PM. Professionals will be on hand to

Perhaps you’ll realize why you blank out certain parts of your life as you witness Eurydice and her struggle to recall her former lover during UM’s production of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Masquer Theatre in UM’s PARTV Building. $14/$12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 for tickets.

The New York Metropolitan Opera won’t be here in person, but you can witness Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida in high definition video on Halloween 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.

Get demonic on the dance floor in the company of others during a Montana Folklore Society sponsored Halloween contra dance featuring Wild Ginger with caller Morna Leonard, starting with a beginner dancer workshop at 7:30 PM and moving into dancing/music at 8, upstairs at the Union Hall, 208 E. Main St. $8/$6 folklore society members. Visit www.montanafolk.org.

Get bit by humor while enjoying an “unparalleled romp” when the Hamilton Players present a run of Rick Abbot’s Dracula: The Musical at 8 PM each night through Oct. 31 at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road in Hamilton. $14 adults/$8 children. Call 375-9050 or visit www.hamiltonplayers.com.

You can do the “Time Warp” and get a little freaky with others during the Montana Actors’ Theatre rendition of The Rocky Horror Show, which features musical accompaniment by Reverend Slanky during two performances tonight, the first at 8 PM and the second at midnight, both at the Wilma Theatre. $35/$25/$15 depending on seats. Purchase tickets at the door or visit www.mtactors.com. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Contemplate the meaning of it all, in costume, when The Lifers play the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free.

Sacrifice yourself to the merriment of bluegrass and rock when Voodoo Horseshoes plays a Halloween show at 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.

The undead get down in style during the Badlander/Palace’s Halloween Party, which starts at 9 PM and features DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo playing the Badlander as well as Tonsofun, Linkletter and Brand One, while DJs Mermaid, the Milkcrate Mechanic and others shuffle beats in the middle bar. In the Palace, locals Volumen belt out Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, Secret Powers play Abbey Road in its entirety, and the Reptile Dysfunction opens with some punk goodness. $10. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Native rock fights off the dark spirits on Halloween when CrossTribe plays the Pablo Bar, 409 Third Ave. E. in Pablo, at 9 PM. Free.

There’s no need to bring animosity to the club on All Hallows Eve when Bad Blood slings some classic rock covers at ya when they play Ravalli’s 4 Star Bar, 26756 Hwy. 93 N., at 9 PM. Free.

Terrorize yourself, in a good way, during Club Q and Aural Fixation’s Club DarQ: Halloween Bash at Club Q which features a set by metal/industrialists Walking Corpse Syndrome, as well as electro, industrial, ebm and other dark dance styles from DJs ir8prim8, HAuLi and Nero, along with a special bondage performance, from 9 PM–3 AM at Club Q, downstairs at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. $8.

Freddie Kruger and Glenn Danzig meet ‘n greet in costume whilst imbibing to the hippie-tonk of Whitefish’s Canyon Creek Ramblers when they play a Halloween show at the Stonefly Lounge in Coram, 10154 Old Hwy. 2, at 9 PM. Free.

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You’ll have the chance to indulge both the devil and saint inside you during the Heaven and Hell Halloween Party, which features six DJs including DJs Chunkiye and Kasey the Janitor, magic shows by Evan Disney, drink specials, costume prizes and more starting at 9 PM at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. $12. Visit myspace.com/halloweenmissoula.

The power of preference is all yours during the Abduction III Halloween Night Bash at The Broadway Sports Bar, 1609 W. Broadway, which starts at 9 PM and features three different parties including a room with hip-hop DJs Bionic and The Tallest DJ in America, another room with karaoke and live metal from Universal Choke Sign and Blessiddoom, as well as a drive-through haunted tunnel. $5 if you arrive before 11 PM. Your next stop is three sheets to the wind when Party Train hits you with classic rock, country and blues at Florence’s High Spirits Club & Casino, 5341 Hwy. 93 N., at 9:30 PM. Your intuitive powers of penny pinching come in handy with a recessionfriendly special of country and rockabilly when Russ Nasset and The Revelators play a Halloween bash at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

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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.

Do your part to honor someone who has passed during an altar making activity at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave., from 10–11 AM. Free. Materials provided, but bring your own items of remembrance to incorporate into the altar.

Quench your urge to watch football with others on several different televisions every Sun. at Lucky Strike Casino, 515 Dearborn Ave., and, if you’ve got the the gusto, belt out some bars during their karaoke contest which starts a 9:30 PM. Free. Call 549-4152.

Kids honor those who have passed during a family celebration for Day of the Dead at the Missoula International School, 1100 Harrison St., from 1–4 PM and includes workshops, an altar honoring those who have passed, a potluck and more.

Free. Call 542-9924.

If your chakras have been a little backed up lately, clear ‘em out during Table Time with Alternative Healers, an intuitive healing and energy balancing workshop from 1–3 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Free. Call Janit at 207-7358.

An 80-year-old man deals with the pain of being a former internment prisoner and living homeless by creating art. Watch him come to grips with his

painful past after meeting a filmmaker during a screening of the documentary The Cats of Mirikitani 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, “Zombies have the best fashion sense!” Free. Call 543-7154.

Take in themes of love and racial prejudice during WWII at the Missoula Children’s Theatre Community Theatre production of South Pacific with a matinee at 2 PM and evening show at 8 PM, both at the theater, 200 N. Adams St. $20 evening performance/$16 matinee. Call 728-PLAY or visit www.mctinc.org.

Get bit by humor while enjoying an “unparalleled romp” when the Hamilton Players present a run of Rick Abbot’s Dracula: The Musical? at 2 PM at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road in Hamilton. $14 adults/$8 children. Call 375-9050 or visit www.hamiltonplayers.com.

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. Email goinmissoula@yahoo.com.

nightlife You might do the fox trot, or the waltz, when Sandy Lawler leads a six-week Beginning Ballroom class this and every Sun. at 6 PM until Nov. 29 at the Dance Studio, 2105 Bow St. $45 person for sixweek class. Call 239-6044.

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Give voice to your creativity and spirituality with a devotional, improvisational song circle that meets the first, third and fifth Sun. of every month from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at Unity Church, 546 South Ave. W. A $2 donation is requested, but don’t let lack of funds (or shyness) be an obstacle. Call 542-1066.

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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. Email missoulacontactimprov@gmail.com.

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 justfor-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.

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Take part in a public art installation during the Missoula Mandala Project, which runs from 10 AM–6 PM at Caras Park where you can “paint” the park lawn with dyed sawdust in order to complete a design created by local artist Janaina Marques. Free to participate and spectate. Visit missoulamandala.wordpress.com.

Pulsating Latin rhythms make you gyrate with spicy dance steps during a Zumba Dance class, this and every Mon. from noon–1 PM until Dec. 21 at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $12/$10 members. Bring tennis shoes or sneakers. Call 541-7240 or visit www.ddcmontana.com.

Learn about U.S. history from the perspective of American Indians when the Missoula Public Library presents a screening of the PBS series We Shall Remain with the episode “After the Mayflower” at 1 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK. 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.

Afterschool activities for your kid aged 8–12 get a little wild and primal during the Roxy Theatre’s Afterschool 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 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.

You work long hours, but your kid doesn’t, so keep them busy after their studies during an afterschool program for kindergartners through sixth graders 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 buns 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 396-3352 or visit tangledtones.com.

nightlife 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. W. 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.

Celebrate those who have passed with dance when the Downtown Dance Collective holds Day of the Dead celebrations with dance performances preceding the Festival of the Dead parade in downtown Missoula at 5:30 PM, followed at 8 PM by a series of themed pieces by the Hypsy Gypsies, Jyotir and others at the collective, 121 W. Main St. Free to spectate both events. Call 541-7240.

Watch the Hypsy Gypsies swing their hips, hear Unity Dance and Drum bust out polyrhythms and see the UM Dance Department Jazz Class perform “Thriller” during Day of the Dead preparade performances which start at 5:30 PM at the XXXX’s on North Higgins Ave. Free to spectate.

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.

Help celebrate the lives of the deceased during the Festival of the Dead Parade, which starts at 6 PM at the XXXX’s on North Higgins Ave. and ends at Caras Park and features a procession of UM students displaying steamroller prints, the Missoula Public Library’s Book Cart Drill Team and others. Free to spectate.

Oscillate to a swanky rhythm when Cathy Clark leads a Couples Beginning West Coast Swing dance class this and every Mon. from 6:10–7:15 PM for eight weeks at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $56 person for eight-week session. Call 541-7240.

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.

Inhale, exhale and become one with yourself in the company of others during a Vinyasa Flow yoga class at 6:30 PM at Birds & Bees LLC, 1515 E. Broadway St. $8 suggested donation. Call 544-1019 or visit aboutsexuality.org.

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.

Extend your celebration of the Day of the Dead with post-Festival of the Dead Parade performances at Caras Park at 6:45 PM featuring UM’s African Dance Class, Unity Dance and Drum, a zombie procession around the Missoula Mandala exhibit and more. Free to spectate.

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 “Pourquoi suis-je en vie?” 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 or 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.al-anon.alateen.org.

See why stringent communism wasn’t so great for creative types in East Germany during a screening of the German film The Lives of Others at 7 PM in Room 11 of UM’s Liberal Arts Building. Free. Call 243-5418 Help build your child’s self-esteem by nurturing success, finding methods for dealing with strong emotions, and creating skills for building relationships when psychotherapist Treasa Glinnwater leads a discussion on the subject from 7–9 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 270-9225.

You can always shut up your loquacious friends when Russ Nasset commands the attention of all with a solo set at 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.

Strings resonate in your heart and mind when a soiree of sorts goes down during the UM Orchestra Festival Concert at 7:30 PM at the University Theatre. $10/$5 students and seniors. Call 243-6880.

Bingo is no longer in the domain of the geriatric when Colin Hickey leads Rawk ‘N Roll 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. Free.

See if you can become a star under the spotlight at Sean Kelly’s open mic night, hosted

by Mike Avery at 9:30 PM. Free.

After you’ve gotten your Monday bingo fix at the Badlander, stick around for a Festival of

the Dead Parade Fundraiser at 10:30 PM which features sets by locals Celestial Chaos and Green Sickness. Free.

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Polyrhythms replace your ritual cup of morning Joe during a men’s drumming circle which meets this and every Tue. from 7:30–8:30 AM through the end of Nov. at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W. Free. Call Matthew at 396-3352.

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.

The pliancy of your child gets explored during Family Motion: Mismo a gymnastics class for you and your kid at 11 AM at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St. $4.25/free under age 1. Call 541-7529 or visit www.learnplayimagine.org.

Moms get a minute away from their kids and can vent their joys, and frustrations, of being a parent during Mom Me Time, 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 the cost of pottery. Call 549-7555 or visit www.zootownarts.com.

Breath and movement flirt while you create heat from deep within during Power Yoga, a Vinyasa Flow class lead by Veronica DeSoyza that meets this and every Tue. from noon–1 PM until Dec. 22 at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $12/$10 members.

Call 541-7240.

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.

Learn about U.S. history from the perspective of American Indians when the Missoula Public Library presents a screening of the PBS series We Shall Remain with the episode “Techumseh’s Vision” at 1 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK. 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 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.

nightlife 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.

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Ladies, celebrate your feminist tendencies with cheap drinks when the Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St. in Frenchtown, hosts Ladiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Night every Tue. from 5 PM to close. Free.

Call 370-3200.

Hey, we all overindulge sometimes, but when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

Kids learn to get tribal with it when Julia LaTray leads a Tribal Dance Kids class this and every Tue. for eight weeks from 5â&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $75 person for eight-week session. Call 541-7240.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 dropin after. Call Blair at 531-3000.

Find your flow, and the will to practice Pranayama, during an Ashtanga Yoga class from 5:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;7 PM at Birds & Beeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s LLC, 1515 E. Broadway St. $8 suggested donation. Call 544-1019.

Nurturing your kid doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 6â&#x20AC;&#x201C;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 womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

A single bracelet does not jingle: Unity Dance and Drumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

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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 â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beyond Limitsâ&#x20AC;? this and every Tue. from 6:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 PM until Nov. 24 at Kalispellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Shining Mountains Center for Positive Living, 475 Eighth Ave. East N. Cost TBA. Call 257-6539.

You never know what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll findâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;except for probably a bunch of womynâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;at Womynâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 Collectiveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Nelson Barahona 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-oneget-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 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;10 PM, with sign-up at 6 PM. E-mail moorebeej@yahoo.com.

You can stop dancing, singing and laughing by yourself and do it in the company of others when Turning the Wheel presents an adult movement and improvisational dance/voice class lead by facilitator Lizzi Juda with musical accompaniment by Nathan Zavalney this and every Tue. from 7â&#x20AC;&#x201C;8:30 PM until Dec. 8 at 1042 Monroe St. $48 six-class/$40 preregistered. Call 853-0361 or e-mail ann.stevenson@gmail.com.

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. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. E-mail abamissoula@gmail.com.

Perhaps youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll realize why you blank out certain parts of your life as you witness Eurydice and her struggle to recall her former lover during UMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Masquer Theatre in UMâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s PARTV Building. $14/$12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 for tickets.

If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a dude and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a little unfocused about sexuality, fix it during More for Men, a focus group â&#x20AC;&#x153;to help men

sort through sexualityâ&#x20AC;? that meets every other Tuesday from 7:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;9 PM at Birds and Bees LLC, 1515 E. Broadway St. $8 suggested donation. Call 544-1019.

Sean Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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, hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with.

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Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve practiced in front of the mirror long enoughâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;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 2739992 to reserve your spot.

Enjoy Tunes on Tuesdays with Christian Johnson from 8:30â&#x20AC;&#x201C;11 PM, an acoustic open mic jam every Tue. night at Redâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still bigger than disco: The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., keeps on keepinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; it real for those in the know every Tue. at 8:30 PM, when Intermediate Hip-Hop Class puts the â&#x20AC;&#x153;backâ&#x20AC;? back in â&#x20AC;&#x153;back in the day.â&#x20AC;? Call 541-7240 for pricing.

The Broadwayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

Get dirty in the face of aural rebellion when Unwashed Promotions presents DJs Harvey and Heyska, playing an array of punk and ska tunes at the Palace at 9 PM. Free.

Celebrate election day with some spaced out psychedelic rock when The Electric Dandelion takes the stage of the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

Rehash the music of others, or have the guts to play a few of your own, when the Canyon Creek Ramblers host an open mic night this and every Tue. at 9 PM at the Great Northern Bar & Grill, 27 Central Ave. in Whitefish. Free, with free beers for performers.

See a plethora of patterns and colors after a few pitchers, and muster up the courage to belt out some classics too, and perhaps win a prize, during Kaleidoscope Karaoke every Tue.â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sun. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 721-1798.

Jamtronica takes you to higher states of cognitive dissonance when J.Wail brings his laptop and guitar to play a show at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

Winter Equipment SALE & SKI SWAP 41st Annual November 7th & 8th

S.O.S FAIR

Big Sky High School

NOTE: All unsold equipment must be picked up between 5pm & 6pm on Sunday, November 8th.

To Consign Equipment Drop off equipment to be sold between 9AM-5PM, Saturday November 7th.

To Buy Equipment 10AM - 3PM Sunday, November 8th To Volunteer or for more Info call 541-2064

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

Give your kid a snack or two and shuffle them off to Preschool Story Time at the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St., when storyteller Allison Jessop presents “Fly Me to the Moon” from 10:30–11:30 AM. Free. Call 363-1670.

Art projects, educational games and storytime activities aim to stimulate your 3–7- year-old’s mind into genius capabilities during Ready, Set, Read at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front.

St., at 11 AM. $4.25/free under age 1. Call 541-PLAY. Celebrate the work that the Poverello Center has done for Missoula’s homeless and working poor during the Pov’s 35th Birthday Celebration which runs from 11:30 AM–1 PM and features free BBQ and music by Tom Catmull, as well as tours of the shelter and info

about their strategic plan, all at the center, 535 Ryman St. Free. Call 728-1809.

Kick your lunchtime up an intellectual notch during the lecture “Family Planning, Community Health Interventions and Child Mortality in Indonesia” at noon in Room 303 of UM’s Old Journalism Building. Free.

Call 243-2288.

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.

Learn about U.S. history from the perspective of American Indians when the Missoula Public Library presents a screening of the PBS series We Shall Remain with the episode “Trail of Tears” at 1 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Kids grades 6–12 propel their minds during the Bitterroot Public Library’s build a paper rocket activity, which runs from 3:45–5 PM at the library, 306 State St. in Hamilton. Free.

Register at the library or call 363-1670.

If you prefer sustainability over rampant consumption of our resources, don’t

miss A Sustainable Future for the Community of Missoula, a conference featuring presentations, info and networking opportunities on sustainable practices from 4–7 PM at the University Center Ballroom. Free. Call 249-4523 or e-mail thisevent@live.com. (See Agenda in this issue.)

Kids ages 6–11 mold their minds with fine grains during a Clay Class for Kids which runs for six weeks this and every Wed. from 4–5:30 PM, with no class on Nov. 25, all at the Clay Studio of Missoula, 1106 Hawthorne St. Unit A. $65 six-week session. Call 543-0509.

nightlife 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.

Fill your stomach with tasty brews in order help local waterways when the Watershed Education Network (WEN) holds a Community Unite pint night at the Kettlehouse Northside Taproom, 313 N. First St. W., from 5–8 PM. A portion of proceeds from each pint sold goes to WEN, a local nonprofit. Free to attend. Call 7281660 or e-mail jr@kettlehouse.com.

SPOTLIGHT time warped There’s no arguing that actor Tim Curry’s sultry and hypersexual silver screen portrayal of Dr. Frank N. Furter is the face of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the film adaptation of Richard O’Brien’s 1973 cult musical. But don’t expect a Curry look-alike, or really any resemblance to the film, when the Montana Actors’ Theatre (MAT) presents its run of The Rocky Horror Show on Friday and Saturday nights.

For one thing, the “sweet transvestite from Transsexual, Transylvania” is local actor Reid Reimers, who, when fully suited in makeup, platforms and corset, towers over the stage at over 7 feet tall. And once the curtain lifts, Missoula’s funk/soul swingers Reverend Slanky provide the soundtrack to the steamy affair. And there’s yet another local twist: MAT’s rendition prominently features the phantoms of Transylvania, who usually play a lesser role.

“In a way, this show is more rock concert than musical theater, and the phantoms end up being backup dancers,” says director Grant Olson. “At some point, it’s like watching a Madonna or Michael Jackson music video…It’s impressive, everybody moving together as one collective organism.”

For novices, Rocky Horror begins when newly engaged Brad (Brandon Johnson) and Janet (Samantha Pollington) get stuck in the rain and are

WHAT: The Rocky Horror Show WHO: The Montana Actors’ Theatre and Reverend Slanky WHEN: Fri., Oct. 30, and Sat., Oct. 31, at 8 PM and midnight both nights WHERE: Wilma Theatre HOW MUCH: $35–$15, depending on seats MORE INFO: www.mtactors.com for ticket

forced to seek refuge in Frank N. Furter’s castle.

Once inside, the straight-laced couple must navigate the unpredictable waters of a night spent with Frank and his crew of sexed-up aliens.

Like previous performances across the globe, audience participation–such as dressing in costume and using props like squirt guns–is encouraged, but at appropriate times. Also bear in mind that if you’re a “virgin” to the Rocky Horror Show, it oozes adult themes, in case you hadn’t already figured that out.

In fact, members of MAT plan to go topless during midnight performances of the “floor show” portion of the musical, so be prepared to see some skin while enjoying this camp classic.

–Ira Sather-Olson

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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.

ing UM’s production of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Masquer Theatre in UM’s PARTV Building. $14/$12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 for tickets.

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.

You can teach your kids to appreciate their own efforts, instead just giving them praise and rewards, during the class Age 0–5 Survival Guide: The Art of Encouragement which runs from 6–7:30 PM at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St. $12 couple/$10 children’s museum members. RSVP by calling 721-7690.

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.

See the story of Montana’s revered Mission Mountain Wood Band on the big screen during a screening of the Montana PBS documentary Never Long Gone: The Mission Mountain Wood Band Story at the University Center Theater at 7 PM. $5 at the door.

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.

Wire balancing, urban acrobatics, juggling and other bionic feats slap you out of your hump day slump during a performance of Cirque Dreams Illumination at 7:30 PM at UM’s Adams Center. $52/$44.50/$37 with tickets available at www.griztix.com or by calling 243-4051.

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.

Seattle’s Queensrÿche proves ’80s metal with towering vocals and prog tendencies never dies when they play the Wilma Theatre with Lita Ford at 8 PM. $32 plus fees at Rockin Rudy’s and www.ticketfly.com. (See Soundcheck in this issue.)

Your finesse in and outside the sack might need a few tweaks, so learn to love like a pro during a “Sexual Finesse Workshop on Love” from 7–8:30 PM at Birds & Bees LLC, 1515 E. Broadway St. $8 suggested donation.

Call 544-1019 or visit aboutsexuality.org.

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.

Knock ‘dem leather boots with others when Sandy Lawler leads a six-week Country Western and Two Step class this and every Wed. at 7:30 PM until Dec. 2 at the Dance Studio, 2105 Bow St. $45 person for six-week class. Call 239-6044.

Perhaps you’ll realize why you blank out certain parts of your life as you witness Eurydice and her struggle to recall her former lover dur-

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Wartime Blues takes the stage of 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.

If free speech and social media issues get you riled up, in a good way, then consider becoming a board member of Missoula Community Access Television, which is currently looking to fill four volunteer, unpaid board positions.

Call 542-6228 to request an application.

If you’ve got an interest in preserving Missoula’s historic hotspots, and live in the Eastside District (which

Beneath their seemingly tough exterior, the boys of the SugarCane String Band show a strong preference for aspartame when they play a set of Americana/bluegrass at the Top Hat Sat., Oct. 31, at 7 PM and again on Sun., Nov. 1, at 6 PM. Cover TBA for both shows.

Cough up the dark phlegm residing in your mind and have a laugh or two at a blend of comedy, dance and more when the Montana Actors’ Theatre presents an adult themed German expressionist cabaret at 8 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $7. Buy tickets at www.mtactors.com.

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: Marx Wartofsky was a noted New York City-based philosophy professor with a keen interest in historical epistemology. He died in 1997 at the age of 68.

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 “Meditation Is the Practice of Death” by Om, or a similar tune, during Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

includes the area of East Pine between Pattee Street and Rattlesnake Creek), apply to be a volunteer on the Historic Preservation Commission. Pick up an app at City Hall, 435 Ryman St. or online at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/vacancy. Apps are due by 5 PM Nov. 25. Call 552-6078.

Don’t let unemployment woes get you totally down. Missoula’s PostNet, 3275 N. Reserve St., wants to help you on your search for a better livelihood by offering 10 free copies of your resume, free faxing (two per day, on local numbers), as well as 50 free networking cards at their store. Offer runs until Dec. 31. Call 543-4445.

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. Shake it ‘til you break it when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., offers Booty Ballet every Thu. at noon. $12/$10 members. Call 541-7240.

Step outside your rock comfort zone with some experimental indie rock with hardcore-ish vocals when Los Angeles’ District of Evolution plays the Palace at 9 PM. Free. Locals The Lion. The Tamer and The Thug Nasties open.

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.

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.

Learn about U.S. history from the perspective of American Indians when the Missoula Public Library presents a screening of the PBS series We Shall Remain with the episode “Geronimo” at 1 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

Swing one for the home team and batter up to some homegrown folk and Americana when

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presents a Student Chamber Recital at 2:10 PM and again at 7:30 PM in the Music Recital Hall of UM’s Music Building. Free for both performances. Call 243-6880.

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.

Watercolor painting might border on the primitive during the program Wild Watercolors at Afterschool Adventures: Playdate with an Artist at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., at 3 PM. $4.25/free under age 1. Call 541-PLAY. If art loses hands-down to video games, then the Missoula Public Library’s your gig, where Game On! invites teen gamers to glue their eyes on Guitar Hero, Rock Band and more on the big screen and mow snacks at 3:30 PM the first Thu. of every Month. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Even if your toddler makes some smooth dance moves, your 3- 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.

If you’ve got the artistic gusto to create a rad ornament, and wanna help support YMCA child care programs, you can join others during a holiday ornament decorating activity starting at 4:30 PM at the YMCA of Missoula’s blue gym, 3000 S. Russell St., or at the same time at the Missoula County Fairgrounds’ Floriculture Building. Free. The ornaments will be sold during a fundraiser at the Mannheim Steamroller concert on Nov. 12. Call 721-YMCA.

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.

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 541-7240.

Digital photo montages of skeletons mix with abstract slices of something or other to represent one artist’s interest in exploring the horrors of nuclear war when UM MFA student Pamela Caughey presents an opening reception for her exhibit Half-Life from 5–7 PM at the University Center Art Gallery. Free. Call 243-4991.

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.

Contemplate your week over a cold one while Missoula’s Issac M brings acoustic heat with a folk set at the Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

Extrude, carve, pinch, coil and explore texture and design with wonderful slabs of mud during The Clay Studio of Missoula’s Handbuilding Class, which runs for six weeks this and every Thu. from 6–9 PM until Dec. 17, with no class on Nov. 26, at the studio, 1106 Hawthorne St. Unit A. $126/$120 members. Call 543-0509.

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 jitterbuglindy 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.

Find out what sort of impact wolf reintroduction has had on elk in Yellowstone Park when MSU prof Scott Creel leads the Montana Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology lecture “Wolf Predation and Elk Dynamics in the Yellowstone Ecosystem” at 7 PM in the University Center Theater. $3 at the door. Call 370-8709.

Squeeze yourself into the shoes of a former financial news reporter turned website hawker and dope smoker trying to save his house and marriage when author Jess Walter reads and signs copies of his book The Financial Lives of Poets at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave., at 7 PM. Free. Call 721-2881.

You’ll probably develop a serious case of traveler’s envy when Mandela van Eeden presents the talk “Walking About Australia: The Vast Island” in Room 210 of UM’s McGill Hall at 7 PM. Free. Call 243-5172.

See where you stand when posed with the question “Should We Engineer the Climate?” when David Keith of the ISEEE Environmental Systems Group leads a discussion on the matter in Room 123 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building at 7 PM. Free. Call 243-6605.

Perhaps you’ll realize why you blank out certain parts of your life as you witness Eurydice and her struggle to recall her former lover during UM’s production of Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Masquer Theatre in UM’s PARTV Building. $14/$12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 for tickets.

Old dudes juggle and liven up the place with some comedic antics while classic jazz from the 1920s and 1930s commands you to shake a tail when the Mud Bay Jugglers perform with the Tune Stranglers at 7:30 PM at the Ronan Performing Arts Center in Ronan Middle School, 35885 Round Butte Road. $14/$12 advance at True Value Hardware in Ronan. Call 800-823-4386 or visit www.accessmontana.com/bigproductions.

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.

Cough up the dark phlegm residing in your mind and have a laugh or two at a blend of comedy, dance and more when the Montana Actors’ Theatre presents an adult themed German expressionist cabaret at 8 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $7. Buy tickets at www.mtactors.com.

Bowling and karaoke go together like candy apples and razorblades 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 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.

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.

Now’s your time to juggle a beat with your feet with others in a cavernous-like setting when DJ DC rocks the AmVets Club with hits starting at 9 PM. Free.

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

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.

Score yourself some intense grooves when 20 Grand funks up the Great Northern Bar & Grill, 27 Central Ave. in Whitefish, 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.

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.

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

Mellow is likely to be the vibe when you jibe down to the sounds of Boston’s Chris Trapper, who plays a solo set of alt-acoustic pop at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. If you’d like to help out a gaggle of young artists, here’s your chance: The nonprofit Zootown Arts Community Center (ZACC) is currently looking for a few donated items to help with a project for its Young Artists Afterschool Program. Specifically, the kids are in the early stages of working on two ceramic mosaics to be created on the top of two tables, one of which will go to the ZACC, the other will go to the Missoula Urban Demonstration Project. Here’s their list of needs: two picnic tables, tile grout, sealant, tiles/pottery chips or other fodder for the mosaic, glazes and low fire clay. If you’ve got any of those on hand, and don’t mind parting with them for an artistic cause, call the ZACC at 549-7555 or e-mail info@zootownarts.com. With that, send me your wants, which in this case are event listings, to me by 5 PM on Fri., Oct. 30, 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. 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.”

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I know this is an outdoors events column, but I need to get something off my chest. Missoula lost a compassionate soul last week.

Cameron R. Martinez, a longtime Missoulian, died at the young age of 25 on Sun., Oct. 18. I’ve known Cameron since we were in middle school, and we hung out intermittently from then up to the present. Those who knew the poet and former UM student were no doubt drawn, like I was, to Cameron’s kind demeanor, sharp wit, iconoclastic viewpoint, and, in my case, an impressively diverse taste in music—a common interest that fueled many of our conversations. His thoughtful way of seeing the world and the kindness he exhibited toward others will be missed.

This might seem like an odd avenue to eulogize someone, but I think it brings to light how important it is for us to appreciate what we have. As you begin your week, whether you decide to go out and give back, play in the woods, or stay indoors for a lecture or film, take a moment to reflect on how lucky you are to be able to experience these things. Also, take a second to appreciate all the family and friends who love you, and realize that your existence has a profound impact on others.

On that thought, I’m going to kick off the week by reminding you to head over to the University Theatre at 7 PM Thu., Oct. 29 to check out the premiere screening of Teton Gravity Research’s Re:Session, a high definition ski/snowboard film that aims to take you “into a revolutionary realm of action sports entertainment.” Powder hounds should be ready to pay $12 at the door and call 243-5172 with questions.

After hitting your gaze with some shredding and carving, do something good for the earth before you hammer your body with Halloween-induced revelry by participating in a native plant restoration activity on Sat., Oct. 31, from 10 AM–2 PM at Bancroft Pond, off Bancroft and 34th streets. Ready yourself to plant native camas and iris bulbs in the lower pond in order to foster native plant growth, as well as provide habitat for ducks and birds. RSVP

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bench in UM’s Campus Rec Department building. The one-hour class costs $5 and features demonstrations on waxing boards and sharpening board edges. Call 243-5172 to signup.

Once you’ve waxed your board, shuttle over to the Kettlehouse’s Northside Tap Room, 313 N. First St. W., in order to get a benevolent buzz on during Community Unite, a pint night fundraiser for the Watershed Education Network. The event runs from 5–8 PM and a portion of every pint sold goes towards those peeps that aim to keep our waterways healthy. Call 541-9287.

If you can’t stomach beer, then forgo a pint of Cold Smoke or Eddy Out and speed over to the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St., so you can catch the evening lecture “Spirit of the Yellowstone” at 7 PM. Once you take a seat, Michael Leach, a former Bear Ranger for the park, will guide you in what should be an awe inspiring presentation on the wonders of our geyser dotted neighbor to the southeast. $4 suggested donation, call 327-0405.

As Thu., Nov. 5 rolls around, get a glimpse into what it’s like to wander around in the sweeping open spaces of Australia as you vicariously travel among the sand dunes with Mandela van Eeden as she discusses “Walking About Australia: The Vast Island” at 7 PM in Room 210 of UM’s McGill Hall.

Free, call 243-5172.

But if you think you might get jealous listening to someone else’s wayfaring adventures, weigh your opinion on climate change when David Keith, director of the ISEEE Environmental Systems Group, leads the timely discussion “Should We Engineer the Climate?” at 7 PM in Room 123 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free. Call 243-6605.

If you’ve already made up your mind about rising Photo by Anne Medley temps and melting icecaps, skip that lecture and brush up on your animals of prey when MSU prof Scott Thu. Nov. 5 in Room 129 of UM’s Skaggs Building. Depending on how Creel presents the lecture “Wolf Predation and Elk Dynamics in knotty your muscles are, you’ll have to pay $18 for a 40-minute mas- the Yellowstone Ecosystem” at 7 PM at the University Center sage or $10 for a 20-minute massage, with all profits going towards Theater. $3 at the door. Call 370-8709.

Now that you’ve started a checklist of what’s on your outdoorsthe student organization. You’re also required to make an appointrelated agenda this week, make sure you take a minute to help out ment for a session, so call 243-4753.

If you’re an amateur snowboarder who dreams of rocking some and care for others when needed, and to fully take advantage of all slick double grabs, make sure your board is in top shape by signing up the time you have.

Monday for the UM Outdoor Program’s Snowboard Maintenance Class, which occurs at 6 PM on Wed., Nov. 4, at the outdoor program calendar@missoulanews.com for this free outing by e-mailing Graham Roy at royboy1@bresnan.net.

Afterwards, take the afternoon off before you jump into costume and head up to Pattee Canyon’s Folf Course for a quick sesh with the disc, since the course closes for the season on Nov. 1 in order to protect soil and vegetation during wet conditions.

After demonically living it up Saturday night, you might be a little hung-over. If you still feel mentally and physically sore on Monday, I think it’d be the perfect time for a massage when the UM Physical Therapy Student Association holds a four-day massage clinic from 6:30–9 PM Mon., Nov. 2, through

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Self-taught artist takes the long road to new exhibit

by Erika Fredrickson

Artist Ian Caroppoli doesn’t strike me as the and found some Disney books to draw from, the images of urban street life as inspiration for the Disney type. With his black plug earrings and sleeve kind of cheap sequels derived from classic fairytales exhibit. But most of all, he says, he had become tattoos, perched on a stool at the Painless Steel shop like Beauty and the Beast. inspired by hip-hop and urban music, particularly where he’s a tattoo apprentice, The Little Mermaid “They’re not the actual fairytale,” he says, laugh- the lyrics that reminded him of his initial attraction isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. But ing. “They’re more like Belle is going to town for with words.

Caroppoli will be the first to tell you that his dark, groceries.”

In one of his favorite tracks, “Techno Love Song,” urban paintings stem from practice with drawing carWhen Caroppoli came to Missoula to get his French duo CocoRosie sing, “I fell in love with a bad toons from Disney books. And, actually, if you look master’s in education, he was still dabbling in writ- bad man/Ever since I met him/I’ve been sad sad at his current exhibit at the Missoula Artists’ Shop in ing, but mostly learning to draw. He got a First Friday sad/I’m a jailbird to your music/A criminal in your downtown Missoula, you can see remnants of that show in 2007 at the now-defunct Rainbows End prayer/I watch you when you sleep/even when style—little eyelashed birds flying whimsically shop where he showed drawings of women with tat- you’re not there.” through the air. toos and piercings.

Caroppoli used those lyrics to create a pastel and But that’s where the comparison stops.

“That’s when art began to run my life,” he says. oil painting of a woman, her shirt open, revealing a Caroppoli’s images are mostly dark. Against a blackened background, a gray-toned man with apple green eyes purses his lips to a rusty old horn while lights from a brick building’s windows provide a glow to the street where he’s standing. A sort of sinister looking red bird is coming out of the horn. In this way, Caroppoli’s much more Nightmare Before Christmas than Sleeping Beauty.

“Tim Burton’s one of my favorites and that’s where the idea of doing the black canvas came from,” Caroppoli says.

“I use black gesso and then I can make color come out of that. I like working with light sources. I like having that glow.”

Caroppoli’s first love was writing and he only started drawing and painting a few years ago while attending school in Portland, Ore. He loved words, he says, and had already gotten a degree in literature before he started taking creative writing classes Ian Caroppoli’s new paintings are currently on display at the Artists’ Shop in downtown Missoula. “Music is for a second degree. During an inspiration for my work,” he says. “A lot of the images had to do with lyrics of songs. I would hear someschool he worked at a physi- one sing something or rap something and it would give me an image in my head.” cal therapy business as an assistant to make extra money. But when the busi- “It became very much a huge outlet for me and I key and a bird. Another has a woman holding a bird ness moved to a different location without much decided it was what I wanted to focus on. I kept in a cage. The aforementioned painting of a man advertisement, he says, work slowed down. drawing and drawing and drawing.” playing a horn with a bird emerging was inspired by “We’d see only, like, one person in a 10-hour Since he loved tattoos, he’d bring his drawings hip-hop artist Aesop Rock, who sings about a homeday,” he says. “We didn’t have any work so we’d play into Painless Steel where owner Lee Burns would less man so musically talented that he can play a rusty video games on the computer—whatever we could render them into tattoos. One day, Caroppoli says, trumpet and still make it sound angelic. to keep ourselves busy. And I started using the time he marveled aloud about Burns’ job.

The last time Caroppoli wrote anything was four to think about how to illustrate some of the charac“I said, ‘Wow, that would be a really cool profes- years ago, but these days, as he tattoos images on ters that I had been writing about.” sion. I bet you love your job,’” says Caroppoli. “And people’s skin and paints with pastels and oils, he He says he remembers going out to the lobby of he said, ‘Yeah. It surprises me that you haven’t con- finds that being inspired by other people’s words is the office, rifling through magazines until he saw a sider going into tattooing since you love art so enough. black and white photo on the cover of a Field & much.’”

“I feel like lyrics provide an image,” he says. “The Stream magazine of a deer trying to eat the leaf off a A few months later, in February 2009, Caroppoli spoken word gives that picture in my head. The branch. started his three-year apprenticeship as a tattoo irony is that now I don’t write ever. Never. But with “You could see the underside of the deer’s artist. my art it seems like everything is falling into place throat,” he says. “I spent the whole day trying to Meanwhile, the Missoula Artists’ Shop, a co-op now—the apprenticeship here and the art show. It’s draw this thing and it came out and it looked, well, of several artists, had been tipped off about crazy how my art world keeps expanding.” okay. It wasn’t good by any means, you know, it was Caroppoli’s paintings and asked him to design an Ian Caroppoli’s art exhibit continues at the just a rough rendition. But that planted the seed of exhibit featuring birds for its October show. Missoula Artists’ Shop through Thursday, Nov. 5. art for me.”

Caroppoli had recently discovered the work of wellefredrickson@missoulanews.com That same weekend he pillaged Barnes & Noble known graffiti artist Justin Bua and used Bua’s

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Wickedly normal Lita Ford settles into life as mom on tour

by Chris La Tray

It’s been a long time since musician Lita Ford Indy: So you didn’t do the record for the money or prowled MTV in videos to songs like “Kiss Me anything. You’re pretty much set, right? I gather you Deadly” and her hit duet with Ozzy Osbourne, “If I aren’t living in reed huts out on the island or anyClose My Eyes Forever.” Both came from her 1988 thing, are you? self-titled record, Lita. Before that, in the mid-1970s, Ford: Oh, no. We’ve got a gorgeous 10,000 square Ford famously played lead guitar with Joan Jett for foot house built to catch rainwater. We have our own the all-girl band the Runaways, who put out hit fresh water, so when it rains the cistern fills up. I songs like “Cherry Bomb.” But she hasn’t been in mean, it’s really different. It’s very different. the public eye much in the Indy: What’s been your last decade. In fact, her new relationship to music in the album, Wicked Wonderland, last decade? is her first release since 1995.

Ford: I wasn’t in touch with The intervening years the music industry. I didn’t between record releases, know what was supposed to however, have not followed be cool, or hip, or anything. the path of the typical VH1 So it was awesome creatively “Where are They Now” segwhen we started writing ment. Ford and her husband, songs.

Jim Gillette, former lead I’m still really out of vocalist for the ’80s band touch with the newer Nitro, spent most of their bands, and…like, some guy time in the Caribbean islands came on the bus last night while she was pregnant with and said, “Hey, this girl their first child, James. With wanted me to give you her the birth of their second CD.” It was this all-girl band child, Rocco, they decided to named Kittie, and I thought settle permanently, so they put down roots on their own Lita Ford plays as a special guest “Wow, cool.” And, you Caribbean island, where with Queensryche in Missoula this know, she really wanted me they’ve lived for the last 10 week while promoting her latest to hear the CD. I’m sure the album, Wicked Wonderland. band has been around years. longer than I realize but The family has been offered roles in video games and comic books (both we’ve just stayed to ourselves. That’s what makes accepted) as well as reality TV shows (declined). Wicked Wonderland so cool, is that it’s not someGiven Lita’s previous well-earned reputation as a thing that’s been forced to fit into today’s society. hard living, hard partying rocker, it might come as a It’s really from the heart. It’s just us all the way, not surprise to her fans to learn about the life she lives trying to act or sound like anybody else, just us.

And, you know, if you don’t like it, don’t buy it. If today. you love it, then, God bless ya!

Indy: So you’re touring as a family group then?

Ford: I’ve got my dogs, my kids and my hubby with Indy: When you started your solo career, when it me, who sings with me onstage. We’re special guests came to hard rock and metal, it was pretty much you on Queensryche’s tour, so we come out and play and maybe Doro Pesch. with them during our part of the show— [interrupt- Ford: That’s right, that’s right. ed, she hollers offline] Don’t eat that crap! Don’t eat Indy: But now—Kittie’s a perfect example. They’ve it! Eat real food! [laughs] Sorry about that. been around for close to 10 years now.

Indy: Actually, that’s a perfect segue. How does one Ford: You’re kidding. go from being a high octane ’80s rocker chick to a mom who home schools her kids and grows all of her own food?

Ford: It’s not what people would expect out of me!

When you get married your life changes, and when you have kids your life changes even more. We wanted to be self-sufficient and raise our children to be self-sufficient, in case something crazy ever happened in the world. We also live in a place that’s difficult to buy food. Our island is very remote, and there’s really no grocery store, so we raise our own produce, we fish and we grab our own lobsters right out of the ocean. We live off the land, basically. You look at people and wonder how they’d survive if crap hits the fan and they couldn’t go to Albertson’s and buy their favorite cereal, ya know?

Indy: I’m actually talking to you from my car in an Albertson’s parking lot right now.

Ford: No way! That’s too funny!

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Indy: And you’re a big part of that. You’re responsible for opening a lot of doors for women and bands in hard rock and metal.

Ford: Yes I am.

Indy: Does that ever freak you out?

Ford: I run into people in airports and they’re running up to me, “Lita, if it wasn’t for you I wouldn’t be here right now, I wouldn’t be getting on this plane!”

And it comes from guys and girls. You forget all that when you’re on an island for so many years, that you touched people’s lives. I’ll die and I’ll feel good that I made my mark on this world. But I’m not going to die today or anything like that. [laughs] I’ve got too much rockin’ to do!

Lita Ford plays with Queensryche at the Wilma Theatre Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 8 PM. $32. arts@missoulanews.com

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Observation deck Legless skater captures the world’s gaze

by Azita Osanloo

When John Berger created the groundbreaking active as possible is why he rejected prosthetic legs BBC series ‘Ways of Seeing” in 1972 (which later led early on. Though the fake limbs allowed him a measto a book of the same title), he hoped, among other ure of aesthetic normalcy, they actually restricted his things, to raise questions about our cultural aesthet- activities, since he had to use crutches to haul the fake ics. According to Berger, how we “read” a visual legs “that collectively weighed more than me” around image, like an advertisement or a painting or a per- with him. With prosthetic legs, Connolly certainly son we come across as we walk down the street, very would have attracted fewer stares, but it would have much reveals our hidden biases and ideologies. been at the cost of being “virtually stationary.”

Now, more than 30 years after Berger presented Though a wheelchair was slightly more convenient his theories, 23-year-old Kevin Michael Connolly has than prosthetics, Connolly learned during his travels w r i t t e n D o u b l e Ta k e , a n abroad during college that a unflinching memoir about life skateboard was, surprisingly, far without legs (Connolly was born more practical. Not only was a a bilateral amputee). In an openskateboard cheaper and more ing epigraph, Connolly invokes readily replaceable than a wheelBerger: “Soon after we can see, chair, but it also allowed him to we are aware that we can also be travel lighter and faster.

Ironically, the device that seen. The eye of the other comhandicapped Connolly the least bines with our own eye to make was what drew the most curiit fully credible that we are part ous glances. of the visible world.”

“Being on a skateboard More than just a series of brought up too many quesprovocative reminiscences, tions,” Connolly writes, “Why is Connolly’s memoir is as much he riding that thing? Can’t he about perception—the way we afford a wheelchair? Is he see—as it is about Connolly’s life. homeless? Suddenly, I wasn’t And, Connolly should know. As a packaged neatly into the socialyoung man, as well as a champily acceptable script of being onship downhill skier, world Double Take: A Memoir wheelchair-bound; I was more traveler, photographer and Kevin Michael Connolly of a spectacle, a foreigner writer, who makes his way hardcover, HarperStudio breaking the mold of how a disthrough the world by way of a 240 pages, $19.99 abled guy should act.” skateboard that reads “THIS IS A Frustrated by how he attracted attention, LEGLESS GUY’S SKATEBOARD. PLEASE, PLEASE, DON’T STEAL,” Connolly has been the subject of Connolly began snapping photographs of the peomany a look and his profoundly memorable book ple who stared at him. At first, the pictures were a means to reclaim control of the situation, to give him engages in a discussion about the way we stare.

“Every question or assumption people made,” a measure of comfort. After returning from his Connolly writes, “pushed me a little further from semester abroad and subsequently winning $7,000 feeling human, and more like an act in the circus— in the 2006 Winter X Games in Aspen, Colo., Connolly used his winnings to fund a worldwide something to stare at and wonder about.”

Born in 1985 in Helena, Connolly was born tour that turned his handful of photographs into a without legs, a condition his doctors called bilaterial now-famous project titled The Rolling Exhibition. In amelia and for which there was no direct cause. total, Connolly covered more than 17 countries and Though Connolly’s parents struggled financially, snapped more than 30,000 photographs of people they were able to provide for their disabled son staring at him.

In the pictures, many of which line the flyleaves through perseverance, good humor and a little inspiof the book, the faces look downward, caught by a ration from the television show, “MacGyver.”

“Since Mom and Dad didn’t want to put me in a camera that sits at the waistline of a young man on a wheelchair, and books on how to help a legless kid skateboard who is only a few inches off the ground. get around didn’t exist, ‘MacGyver’ was the best The expressions show pity, shock, curiosity, befuddlement. The stares of children are perhaps the most thing going,” he writes.

Like the fictionalized former government agent understandable; the disoriented gaze of a Romanian who used common household objects to thwart his priest, perhaps the most extraordinary. But, collecenemies, Connolly’s father used the same kind of tively, they narrate a larger story, like a medieval tapingenuity to make life manageable for his son. He estry that tells one tale of how we see.

Double Take is full of joyful moments and it’s built rails along the staircases, and replaced doorknobs with levers that could be used to open doors a story of personal survival, one that’s written from a much lower height. Something called “the engagingly, but its legacy will be this larger story of toilet seat throne” gave Connolly the opportunity to Connolly’s penetrating gaze—through a camera go to the bathroom without falling into the toilet lens—into the disabled view of the collective itself (sparing Dad the task of rescuing his son in the unconsciousness.

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His parents’ enterprising spirit rubbed off on Take at Fact & Fiction Thursday, Oct. 29, at 7 PM. Connolly, who learned to ski at the championship arts@missoulanews.com level. Furthermore, Connolly’s proclivity to be as

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by Erika Fredrickson

One of the most annoying things about America’s scariest contemporary films is that they’re often just remakes of much better foreign originals. Many mainstream moviegoers have figured that out, renting Ringu instead of The Ring, or Ju-on instead of its remake, The Grudge. Not that the remakes aren’t scary. But you can credit Japanese filmmakers for some of the creepiest styles in horror cinema, including demon children who shuffle around with hair covering their faces and white-faced, black-eyed ghosts who crabwalk down the stairs.

Japanese horror has definitely caught America’s eye, but they’re not the only ones who know how to tell a terrifying tale. For this Halloween season, we offer four foreign films from the last decade that combine the art of storytelling with truly horrifying, hands-over-youreyes moments of terror.

The Eye (Gin Gwai) (2002) The idea that the dead can haunt their previous body parts isn’t new. But Chinese filmmakers Danny Pang and Oxide Pang Chun prove in their film about a blind classical violinist who gets an eye transplant that, once again, such scientific miracles don’t come without a price. Unlike B-movie or slasher films, The Eye doesn’t depend on blood, guts and Frankensteinlike ploys. It’s a ghost story, filmed in dim lights.

As the violinist, Mun, goes through the transplant process, the viewer shares her disoriented view of the world. Long hospital hallways flicker in poor lighting. The camera lens sometimes starts a scene out of focus, as Mun awakes and tries to make out shadows that plague her room. The inability to see and, also, the fear of what you will see is exactly what holds the film’s tension. The unraveling of a mystery—why is Mun seeing terrifying things?—propels the story forward in a compelling, realistic way to its absolutely fable-like ending.

The Descent (2005) I’m usually more frightened by ghosts than by monsters. But in the European film The Descent, the underground mole creatures terrify. Perhaps most scary about this film is that it gets almost halfway through before you meet the monsters. And the anticipation is almost unbearable.

This film includes an all-female cast and, might I add, not your stereotypical screaming females. These women joke with searing wit over bottles of Budweiser and use their free time to go caving. Their descent into some American southwest caves goes wrong for a number of reasons, not just creatures. One woman is dealing with the

grief of a loved one’s death, which, underground, fuels paranoia and anxiety. Another has secrets— always a way to stir up trouble.

Two things make this story believable, and all the more frightening. One: It’s not unbelievable that these women would descend into caves, unlike some of us who would do anything to stay above ground. Two: Unlike most horrors where the characters are inside a house with easy exits, a cave is much more limited, especially if you lose your spot of entry. Revenge plots and tributes to Alien make The Descent all the more enjoyable.

Shutter (2004) Do you ever wonder why ghosts have to be so scary when, it seems, they’re just trying to pass along information? Couldn’t they just wait for you to come home from work and let you know what’s up in a normal fashion? Not that it wouldn’t still be creepy to find a ghost on your couch. But all that creeping around in cupboards and under beds isn’t really suitable to conversation.

Still, some ghosts have good reason for trying to scare the hell out of people to make a point.

This Thai film by directors Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom tells the story of a photographer and his girlfriend haunted by a sad woman who shows up in the man’s photos. But this isn’t a soft ghost story. I will never watch it again after seeing the part when the photographer notices the woman at the foot of his bed, in the dark, her grisly eyes peering at him as she pulls his covers off.

The Orphanage (El Orfanato) (2007) If you go by the horror movie book of rules, orphan children are always demonic.

Just watch this year’s The Orphan, in which a Russian orphan with creepily perfect mannerisms begins to terrorize her adopted family. It’s good, mostly for it’s ending, but I suggest The Orphanage instead. In this Spanish film produced by Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, The Devil’s Backbone), a woman returns to the abandoned orphanage she grew up in to live there with her husband and child and to start up a seaside retreat for children with disabilities. But her son begins to communicate with an invisible friend, and from there it’s all downhill.

Creepiest parts: when a violent child in a burlap mask keeps appearing at the orphanage. And ghost orphans appear to play a sinister version of Red Light, Green Light with the main character. Like most del Toro projects the cinematography is enchanting and the story uses magical realism. It also ties up loose ends in a very apt manner, more horrifying than you might anticipate. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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SAW VI The dirty work of Jigsaw continues through the hands of a corrupt detective in yet another installment of this ceaseless series. Carmike 10: 5:30, 7:45, 10 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1 and 3:15. Village 6: 7 and 9:45 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1 and 4. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:20, 2:30, 4:50, 7:30 and 9:45; midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:40, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:35.

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 3:45 and

1:30, 3:30, 4, 6, 6:30, 8:30 and 9.

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

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: Sat.–Sun. only at 1:30 and 4:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 1:05 and 6:35 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:25 and 6:35.

ZOMBIELAND Woody Harrelson plays a gun-toting, redneck southerner who takes pleasure in seeing 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. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:15, 2:20, 4:45, 7:20 and 9:35; midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:45, 4:15, 7:20 and 9:35.

Really safe sex. Bright Star opens at the Wilma Theatre Friday.

Theatre: 7 and 9:15 with 7 only shows on Fri., Sat. and Wed. and Sun. matinees at 1 and 3:15.

MICHAEL JACKSON’S THIS IS IT Watch Jacko’s last stage performances, plus behind-the-scenes footage, in this documentary that chronicles the eccentric pop icon’s final tour. Carmike 10: 4:20, 7 and 9:40 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1:45. Village 6: 7 and 9:40 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:45 and 4:20. Pharoahplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 1, 3:50, 7, 9:35; 9:20 on Sun.; midnight Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 3:35, 6:35 and 9:20. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 7 and 9:15 with additional Sat.–Sun. show at 1:30. Entertainer in Ronan: 4, 7 and 9:15.

NOW PLAYING ASTRO BOY A robotic boy vicariously learns what it’s like to be human and aims to save his homeboys from danger in this 3-D animated movie.

Carmike 10: 4, 7 and 9:45 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1. Pharaoplex in Hamilton: 7 only with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 3.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 2:20, 4:35, 6:50 and 9:05 and midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:35, 4:20, 7:10 and 9:30. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30 with additional Sat.–Sun. show at 1:45.

9 only with no show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 1:20, 4, 6:55 and 9:30; midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:20, 4:05, 6:45 and 9:15. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:45.

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.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:10, 2:25, 4:40, 6:55 and 9:10; midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:30, 4:05, 6:55 and 9:10.

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. matinees 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; midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:05, 3:55, 6:45 and 9:20. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:15.

HALLOWEEN II Rob Zombie adds more blood, guts and sex to the story of mass murderer Michael Myers.

Village 6: 7:45 and 10 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:30 and 4:40. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 9:20; midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 9:15.

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Capsule reviews by Ira Sather-Olson.

Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., Oct. 30. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 10/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-FILM; Roxy Twin in Hamilton–363-5141. Stadium 14 in Kalispell–752-7804. Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.

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GIFT HEARSE Several years ago, this co-worker I was interested in was always stopping by my desk to talk, so I gave her some turtle earrings (they related to a story she once told me). I guess I was trying to tell her I was interested, but she was leaving for two months, so it didn’t make sense to ask how she felt about me. A year later, if only to find out what her intentions were, I finally asked her out. She said, “We’ll see.” A month later, I asked her out again. She said she’d consider it.

Thinking I’d upset her, I gave her two more pairs of earrings, also along the nature theme. I waited a week, and asked for her thoughts on going out with me, and she said, “It would be weird.” Now, she not only shuns me, I’m the target of other co-workers’ veiled criticism.

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There’s more cheap, wildlifethemed jewelry where this came from!”

There’s a reason you didn’t scamper off to the mall to score dolphin bookends for fat old Gladys in accounting—even if she did once remark on the joy she felt watching Flipper frolic among the sperm whales. Let’s be honest: Your offerings to your other coworker didn’t come from the goodness of your heart but the lack of brass ones in your pants. And what did you think would happen, she’d be so blown away by the gift of ear tortoises that she’d agree to have a drink with you, and never mind that tiresome preliminary step of asking her out?

Women are attracted to generous men, but you show generosity by, say, springing for doughnuts for your co-workers after the doughnut budget gets cut. You can give a lone female co-worker the occasional gift—as long as it’s in the realm of “Hey, I was at Starbucks.

Know you’ve had a hard week, so I thought I’d bring you a latte.”

Whatever you do, don’t give the gift that tells a woman “I’ve been logging your every word for the past two years and went to the mall and shopped based on the transcripts.” This is creep street, giftwrapped: a boyfriend present from some co-worker she speaks to in passing. Sure, this sends the message you’re thinking about her, but probably thoughts along the lines of “I touched this, and you’re going

to put it on your ear, and then I’ll be touching you.”

If a hunter approached eating the way you approach dating, he’d sit in his truck sipping hot chocolate, sighing, “I really wish a deer would shoot himself in the head, wrap himself in a tarp, and use his remaining energy to bind himself to my bumper.” No, rejection isn’t fun, but it costs less than doing everything you can to avoid it. A speedy rejection is the least costly of all. As soon as you know you’re interested in a woman, you ask her out. You’ll have to steel yourself for about 10 seconds of feeling like poo under her shoe, should she turn you down. But, even if she does, if you haven’t been festering over her for years, it should be easier to act like you’re cool with it. As a gutsy guy who tried but struck out, you might even garner admiration from your co-workers for your approach—saying it with manhood instead of baby forest animals with hypoallergenic posts.

WANTON NONE I call myself a eunuch because I embrace sexual celibacy. I actually have no desire for sex. I’ve always wanted to tell people this, but I don’t know how. I’d like to find an understanding woman for a romantic relationship without the sex.

—A Man Your sex drive is not only in park, it’s up on blocks in the front yard.

But, you seem to be okay with that, and that’s pretty cool. You should still see a doctor who specializes in sexual medicine to make sure your lack of desire isn’t a symptom of something, perhaps low testosterone, which is associated with a number of serious medical problems. People who have no desire for sex typically refer to themselves as asexual. You don’t connect with them by marching up to random women on the street and announcing that your favorite thing to do in bed is play dead. You go on specialinterest dating websites like asexualitic.com, where you’ll find loads of prospective partners; maybe even some who’ll be willing to get kinky with you in bed: “Whaddya say?

Shall we read for a few minutes before we turn off the lights?”

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Missoula Independent page 44 October 29–November 5, 2009

DAYTIME JANITOR, F/T, Msla.

Missoula employer is seeking a daytime janitor to work 32 to 36 hours per week. Will be dusting, mopping, picking up trash, empty trash cans, clean female restrooms, vacuum and push a cart. Will be working varied daytime hours. Starting pay will be $8.00 an hour. Must be able to lift up to 40 lbs. Must be able to pass a background check. Must also pass a drug test. Uniform is provided. #2976480 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 HABITATION AIDES, F/T, P/T, Msla.

Employer is seeking both full & part time HABILITATION AIDES to work with adults with developmental disabilities. Duties are primarily assist-

ing with daily activities, providing social interaction. Applicants must have experience with people with developmental disabilities. Must have high school diploma/GED and valid Montana driver’s license. Full and part-time positions available.

Certified results of a Basic Office Skills test are required, test can be taken at Job Service. Job description available at Missoula Job Service Front desk. Starting wage is $9.02/hour. #2976482 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 HOUSEKEEPER, F/T, Msla. Missoula Hotel is seeking a full time HOUSEKEEPER. Duties include: Cleans and stocks assigned rooms/suites to meet established cleanliness and quality standards. Makes beds, cleans rooms (bathroom, bedroom, sitting room, etc.), dusts, vacuums, washes windows/tracks, reports maintenance deficiencies and removes trash, dirty linens, towels and used amenities from rooms/suites.

Checks, stocks and transports supply cart. Conducts visual inspection of

room/suite prior to completion. Days and specific hours to be discussed at interview. Wage is $7.35 per hour.

Employer is willing to train. #2976484 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 JANITORIAL CREW WORKER, F/T, Msla. National cleaning service is seeking a part-time JANITOR to clean commercial buildings in Missoula. Will be cleaning local store, operating floor scrubber and vacuum, emptying trash, cleaning and sanitizing restrooms. Prefer previous janitorial experience, but employer is willing to train a motivated individual. Must be reliable, dependable and trustworthy.

Background check will be conducted; may be subject to drug testing.

Work is 15-20 hours per week 5-6 days per week, 5 am to 8 am. Must be able to work weekends.

Schedule to be discussed at interview. Excellent advancement opportunity. Pay is $9.00-$10.00/hr depending on experience. #2976483 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 Mystery Shoppers earn up to $150 Day. Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail and dining establishments. Experience not required.

Call 877-308-1186

The Resort @ Paws Up is seeking an experienced HOUSEKEEPING MANAGER We are looking for an individual who has a minimum of 2 years experience, great attention to detail and the ability to multi-task in an organized and timely fashion.

The Resort @ Paws Up is a luxury resort • Offering luxury benefits Insurance benefits • Company paid short & long term insurance 401(K) after 3 months • Free hot meals during spring/summer season Three weeks paid vacation • Seven paid holidays …and so much more Please send your resume to Sonia Mussiett Human Resources 40060 Paws Up Road Greenough, Montana 59823 You can also fill out an application through our website @ www.pawsup.com

No experience needed

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Therapist Position Available Are you dedicated to public child welfare and mental health, flexible and work well within a team? Do you have your LCPC or LCSW or your Master’s degree and are licensable? Then we are looking to add you to our team as a Therapist.

You will be asked to work with a small, intense caseload of 6 children (severely emotionally disturbed) in a single group home setting, provide therapy with the children in a group and with family (birth and foster/adoptive) and provide clinical leadership for team. Our program is designed to treat relationship issues and is based on forming relationships with the children and families we serve. This is a full time position, benefits included.

Our preferred application procedure is online at www.youthhomes.com.

Attach your resume and 3 professional references to app. You can submit via mail to PO Box 8134, Missoula, MT 59807 or via fax 406-721-0034 or email to info@youthhomes.com. Closes on November 4, 2009 at 5 pm.

Missoula Freestyle is looking for a "Freeeride" coach for the '09-'10 ski season. The qualified candidate must be a technically proficient jumper and skier with many years of freeride skiing experience.

Most importantly, the candidate must have a desire to coach kids.

Prior coaching experience is not a must, but a commitment to coaching kids, and building jumps is. This position is EVERY Saturday at Snowbowl from Christmas through Easter. YOU MUST BE AVAILABLE EVERY SATURDAY. NO EXCEPTIONS. If you're pumped to make a little money, get a free pass to Snowbowl and you really like to shovel & jump, call Donovan at 396-5481 or email donobon@gmail.com.

RV DELIVERY DRIVERS NEEDED. Deliver RVs, boats, and trucks for PAY! Deliver to all 48 states and Canada. For details log onto www.RVdeliveryjobs.com SECRETARY, F/T, Msla. Missoula Law Firm is seeking a permanent fulltime secretary. Duties include transcription and data entry, answering phones, greeting clients, typing and filing. Good spelling skills and a willingness to work in a small office environment are essential. Experience is preferred but employer is willing to train the right person. Certified results from two tests must be included with resume and cover letter. Tests include typing 3 minute-on screen, and advanced spelling. Pay is $10.30/hr. to start with possible raise after 60 days depending on performance. Monday - Friday, days. HIRING AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. #2976478 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 SHOP WORKER/DELIVERY DRIVER, F/T, Msla. Metal shop is seeking employee for shop position. Will be delivering materials from shop to work sites and other duties as assigned. Requires valid driver’s license with clean driving record and no DUIs. Must be able to lift and carry over 100 lbs at times. Cannot be afraid of heights, as will be climbing ladders and getting onto roofs.

Will be driving a standard transmission company vehicle. Requires knowledge of the greater Missoula area. Background check will be conducted. Will work Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pay is $8.00 per hour. Position that could work into a pre-apprentice position. Open until filled. ONLY SERIOUS JOB SEEKERS

HEAD START

is accepting applications for: 4 Food/Classroom Aide: 16hr/wk. 34wks/yr. Function as a Food Aide and Classroom Aide. Assist in the development of healthy eating.

Responsible for compliance with Head Start and CACFP regulations, HS dipl/GED req. Experience working with young children in a preschool setting.

Applications due by 5pm 11/4/09.

Application/job descriptions available at 1001 Worden, Msla, 59802 EOE

HEAD START

is accepting applications for: Full Day Teacher Assistants: 40hrs/wk. 43 wks/yr. Assist teacher with planning, organizing, and implementing program for preschool age children, HS dipl/GED req.

Experience working with young children in a preschool setting.

Applications due by 5pm 11/4/09.

Application/job descriptions available at 1001 Worden, Msla, 59802 EOE

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EMPLOYMENT NEED APPLY. Must pass drug test.

Strict cell phone policy. #2976474 Missoula Workforce Center 7287060 STATE OF MONTANA POSITIONS, FT & PT, Various locations throughout Montana: Want to serve Montana citizens? Positions are available for locations throughout the state. Access the state job listings at: http://mt.gov/statejobs/statejobs.as p SWAMPTER-JANITOR, P/T, Msla.

Local employer is seeking a SWAMPER-JANITOR to clean bar on Sunday mornings starting at 9 A.M. until finished. Will be vacuuming, mopping, carry out garbage cans, and cleaning bathrooms. May get a few more hours later on. Starting pay will be $8.00 an hour. #2976490 Missoula Workforce Center 7287060

PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANT PROFESSOR EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT, F/T, Msla. The University of Montana College of Health Professions and Biomedical Sciences is seeking a full-time Assistant Professor to work in the field of exposure assessment and education/outreach. Successful candidates will be expected to establish a vigorous externally funded research program that complements and expands existing efforts in the Center and the participating academic units, as well as contribute to graduate and undergraduate educational programs. Must have a doctoral degree and a history of a successful research program as evidenced by a strong publication record and current funding. A complete job description is available at the Missoula Job Service front desk. This is a full-time Tenure-Track faculty position. The starting pay will be addressed at interview. Screening began 10/01/09, applications are accepted until position is filled. #2976476 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 BEHAVIORAL CARE COORDINATOR, F/T, Msla. Seeking Behavior Care Coordinator who will be responsible for implementing individual support plans, assessing strengths and skills in daily living, and assisting autistic individuals with special needs in identifying, developing, and participating in a variety of meaningful activities to increase functional independence. Clean driving record preferred. Will work Saturday & Sunday from 9 am to 3 pm and Monday through Wednesday 3 pm to 11 pm for about 32 to 34 hours per week. Pay is $10.40 per hour, plus full benefits. CLOSES 11/2/09 @5pm. #2976481 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 MEDICATION PROMPTS/ADULT REHAB AIDE, P/T, Msla. Local mental health clinic is seeking a part-time MEDICATION PROMPTS/ADULT COMMUNITY REHAB AIDE. Duties include observing medication treatment and providing psychiatric and social rehabilitation through mental health education to adults with severe and persistent mental illness.

Requires Associate’s degree and preferably two years experience in working with mentally disabled adults. Must have valid Montana Driver’s License and own vehicle.

Will be working 20 hours per week with various shifts. Work week will vary and will include some weekends. Starting wage will be $11.39/hr with benefits including health insurance, sick leave, vacation leave and paid holidays. #2976475 Missoula Workforce Center 7287060 THERAPIST, F/T, Msla. Are you dedicated to public child welfare and

mental health, flexible and work well within a team? Do you have your LCPC or LCSW or your Master’s degree and are licensable? This employer would like to have you as part of their team! Work is with a small, intense caseload of 6 children (severely emotionally disturbed) in a single group home setting, provide therapy with the children in a group and with family (birth and foster/adoptive) and provide clinical leadership for team. Program is designed to treat relationship issues and is based on forming relationships with the children and families.

Will have training responsibilities.

Requires driver’s license and occasional out of town over night travel.

Will work days Monday - Friday, 40 hours per week, with some evening/weekend hours; flexibility of schedule is important. Pay is $34K to $39K, DOE, plus benefits: annual & bonus leave, full health insurance, flex plan, long-term disability, simplified pension, tax sheltered annuity plan, educational leave. Full job description on employer’s website.

CLOSES 11/04/2009 at 5 P.M. #2976491 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

SKILLED LABOR LINE HAUL DRIVER, P/T, Msla. Local company is looking for a part-time LINE HAUL/PICKUP & DELIVERY DRIVER for Regional pickup and delivery of freight. This position requires a Class A1 CDL with Hazmat and Doubles/triples endorsement. A minimum of six months freight delivery and a clean MVR is also required. Loading and unloading freight, using a forklift and pallet jack as needed. Occasionally covering for Line Haul Drivers on Salt Lake trips as needed. Starting wage will be $16.00/hr, DOE. #2976488 Missoula Workforce Center 7287060

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NURSE CASE MANAGER, F/T, Libby. Libby Employer needs a NURSE CASE MANAGER. Position is in Libby, MT. This role will work in partnership with the CARD medical and social work team to provide the services of case management. Case management includes yet is not limited to; monitoring high risk patients, education and intervention in illness prevention and wellness strategies, facilitation of referrals to primary, specialty acute and/or long term care. Coordination and facilitation of benefit eligibility and patient advocacy in the healthcare arena. Position Requirements: Must have graduated from an accredited School of Nursing with an RN or advanced nursing degree. Must hold a certification or license to practice in Montana. Past experience in a medical clinic preferred. Computer skills including data entry and word processing. Excellent customer relation skills and ability to work in a fast paced environment and in collaboration with other health care providers and community. Must be a team player and flexible to change.

Positive and outgoing personality. #2976473 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

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Don’t just be a number with a large company. Western states and coast to coast. Lance 266-4210 SERVICE ADVISOR, F/T, Msla. A SERVICE ADVISOR with excellent customer service skills is needed to work in an automotive repair shop.

At least one YEAR of experience in the auto repair industry is required.

Main duties will include creating service tickets and estimates, greeting customers and providing excellent customer service. Pay starts at $10.00 plus per hour or more depending on experience with benefit package available. Work schedule is usually between 7:30-4:30, Monday - Friday, with some flexibility and weekends off. Applicants must be groomed for public contact. #2976471 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 TOWER CONSTRUCTION CREW MEMEBER, F/T, Msla, Communication tower company seeking a full-time tower construction laborer. Will be doing construction and maintenance of communication towers including excavation, concrete and assembly work. Will assemble and build 300 foot communication towers and climb to install components. Class A CDL required and tower builder certification a plus. Driving record will be checked. Must have 6 months construction experience, willing to train for safe climbing skills. Will climb towers 300 feet for some basic installation. Starting pay will be $12 to $18 an hour range, DOE. Work week will be Monday through Friday and will include some weekends. #2976468 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING. Complete programs and refresher

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Do you love the Missoula Independent? Are you an enthusiastic, motivated, self-starter? Then we want to talk to you! The Missoula Independent is looking for an Account Executive for magazine, newspaper and online ad sales. Requires strong organization and communication skills.

Media sales experience preferred, BUT NOT REQUIRED. Great benefits and work environment.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): You may be as flooded with briny emotion as a Pisces on a meandering binge. You might be as embedded in a labyrinth of your own creation as the Geminis who verge on being too clever for their own good. You may be as cagey a listener as a Scorpio who’s searching for a hidden vulnerability in an ally. In other words, Aries, you’re not exactly yourself. But it’s one of those rare times when that’s a good thing.

Halloween costume suggestion: the opposite of what you think you are.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In my ideal version of Halloween, we wouldn’t scare ourselves with images of ghoulish skeletons, eyeballs floating in cauldrons, and hissing, three-headed snakes. Rather, we’d confront more realistic fears, like the possibility that the effects we have on the world are different from our intentions…or that we have not yet reached our potential…or that people we like might completely misread and misunderstand us.

Then Halloween would serve a more spiritually useful purpose. It would bring us face-to-face with actual dangers to our psychic integrity, whereupon we could summon our brilliant courage and exorcize the hell out of them. Costume suggestion: exorcist. (Begin by exorcising yourself.)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): During this phase of your cycle, you’ll generate good fortune if you brainstorm and meditate about your relationship with work. I urge you to empty your mind of everything you think you know about the subject. Adopt a fresh and innocent perspective. Here are some questions to prime your investigations. 1. What’s the quality of the experience you want to have as you earn a living? 2. What gifts do you want to give to life as you toil at challenging tasks that are interesting to you? 3. What capacities do you want to develop in yourself while doing your work? (P.S. For your Halloween costume, why not pretend you’re doing your dream job?)

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000) witnessed the full range of experiences that life on this planet has to offer, from war to love and everything in between. During an interview he gave in Jerusalem in 1994, he said, “I can stand on my balcony and tell my children, ‘Over there I was shelled for the first time, and over there, to the right, just beneath those trees, I was kissed for the first time.’” I suspect his words will soon be meaningful for you, Cancerian. It’s likely you’ll have a breakthrough or epiphany near a place where you once suffered disappointment. Halloween costume suggestion: the phoenix.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Author Gary Smalley says that the sexual nature of men is like a microwave oven, while women resemble a crockpot, the device that cooks food at low heat for a long time. Right about now, I’d advise you Leo men to be like crockpots not only in the bedroom but everywhere else, too. To spot the subtle opportunities that will be available, you’ll have to be gradual, deliberate, and thorough. Leisurely foreplay should be your all-purpose metaphor. As for you Leo women: I’m betting there are ways that you have fallen under the sway of the microwave meme. If I’m right, it’s time to fully re-embrace the spirit of the crockpot.

Halloween costume clues: the tortoise, not the hare; a 400-page novel, not Twitter; the Pyramid of Khufu, not a sandcastle.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “The more beautiful the bird, the poorer the singer,” wrote L. M. Boyd. “Peacocks scream, macaws screech. Birds of Paradise croak.” Among the most interesting singers, on the other hand, are birds that are far less spectacular in appearance: the Black-capped Chickadee, the Willow Thrush, and the White-throated Sparrow.

Keep that in mind as you navigate your way through the coming week’s dilemmas. My personal inclination is to favor inspiring singing over comely appearance, but you may have a different bias.

The important thing is to recognize the nature of the options before you. Halloween costume suggestion: Incorporate the themes of plain beauty, secret genius, disguised power, and open secrets.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): At a family planning conference in Beijing, a researcher from Ghana presented testimony about tribal issues that he had in part gleaned through interviews with dead ancestors. He said that spirit mediums had acted as his “translators.”

When he was met with skepticism from colleagues, he was defensive. “If I only heard from the living,” he explained, “I wouldn’t get a very good balance.” His perspective would be smart for you to adopt right now, Libra. To make the wisest decisions and take the most righteous action, draw inspiration from what has passed away as much as from what’s alive and in your face. Halloween costume suggestion: a spirit medium.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Behind every face, there are a thousand faces,” says film director Bryan Singer, who worked on two of the X-Men movies. He deals with professional actors, who specialize in revealing the myriad faces beneath the surface. But I think his assessment applies to lots of people, especially you Scorpios — although it must be said that you do have mad skills at hiding all the action going on beneath your surface. This Halloween, I urge you to make a break with tradition and show five or six of the real you’s lurking below your poker face. Costume suggestion: be inspired by Joseph Campbell’s “hero with a thousand faces.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown has a unique way of stimulating his imagination: He dons his gravity boots and meditates on complex storylines while he’s inverted. It’s also a good way to overcome writer’s block. “You think differently upside-down,” he says. Do you have an equivalent method for providing gentle shock therapy to your perspective, Sagittarius? This is a good time to use it. If you don’t already have a creative aid like that, hunt around for one. In the days ahead, it will come in handy.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When Sheelah Ryan won $55 million in the Florida lottery, she used the money to create an organization dedicated to helping the disadvantaged. “I guess I’ve disappointed a lot of people,” she told a reporter. “I could be traveling all over the world, or have a beautiful mansion on the ocean, or have a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. But that’s not my style.” She’s your role model for the coming weeks, Capricorn.

When good fortune comes to you—and I’m almost positive it will—I recommend that you look for ways to share it. The ironic fact of the matter is that if you’re generous as you tap in to your gift, there’ll be more of the gift.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When I did a performance in Santa Fe a few years ago, a woman in the audience came up to me after the show and made a sardonic proposal: Would I like to join her twelve-step program for writers who are overly fond of vivid adjectives and adverbs? With all the uppity mock politeness I could summon, I told her that I was preposterously happy with my scintillating addiction to brazen language, and didn’t regard it as a raggedy problem that needed invasive correcting. Now I’m advising you to be like me and follow your heart when it tells you to be bigger, bolder, and brasher than ever before. Right now, shiny intensity is your sacred duty! Halloween costume suggestion: the sun.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I hope you won’t merely wander around the frontier. I hope you’ll undertake a meticulous yet expansive exploration of that virgin territory. Here are some tips on how to proceed: 1. Formulate specific questions about what you’re looking for. 2. Develop a hypothesis for the experiments you want to carry out. 3. Ignore what doesn’t interest you and pounce only on what stirs your fascination. Halloween costume suggestion: an alien anthropologist visiting Earth from another planet; a time-traveler from the future who’s doing a documentary on this historical moment; a religious pilgrim who’s keeping a detailed journal.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT CALL FOR BIDS Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the office of the Missoula County Department of Public Works until 10:00 A.M., Thursday November 5, 2009 at which time bids will be opened and read for the purpose of purchasing one (1) skid steer with (1) milling head & (1) sweeping attachment.

Specifications and bid procedures can be obtained at the Department of Public Works, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808 Telephone Number (406) 258-4753. Proposals must be accompanied by security in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract and in the form specified in MCA 18-1-203, for example: Cash, cashier’s check, certified check, bank money order, or bank draft, any of which must be drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the state of Montana or a banking association incorporated under the Laws of Montana; or a bid bond or bond executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the state of Montana.

THE CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED TO THE LOWEST RESPONSIBLE QUALIFIED BIDDER WHOSE BID PROPOSAL COMPLIES WITH ALL THE REQUIREMENTS. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Proposals for Skid Steer Purchase” and addressed to: Missoula County Department of Public Works, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana, 59808 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT PERMIT APPLICATION The Office of Planning & Grants has received a floodplain application from Mr. Mark Reiling represented by PCI to work within the Bitterroot River floodplain. The proposed project is located in Section 11 Township 11N Range 20W and includes the construction of a 42’ X 60’ metal out-building in the floodfringe..

The primary purpose of Floodplain Development Permits is to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare, to minimize flood losses in areas subject to flood hazards, and to promote wise use of the floodplain. Copies of the full applications are available for review in the Office of Planning and Grants in City Hall. Written comments from anyone interested in County floodplain permit application # 10-04 may be submitted prior to 5:00 p.m., November 13, 2009. Address comments to the Floodplain Administrator, Office of Planning & Grants, 435 Ryman, Missoula, MT 59802 or call 2584841 for more information.

County Commissioners of Missoula County, Montana (the “County”), will meet on Wednesday, November 4th at 1:30 p.m. in the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, 2nd Floor, Room 201, Missoula, Montana, for the purpose of conducting a public hearing on the proposal that the County issue its limited tax general obligation bonds in the approximate amount of up to $1,150,000 for the purpose of reimbursing and financing the costs of replacing the original irrigation system (the “Project”) of Larchmont Golf Course (the “Golf Course”), and to pay certain costs associated with the sale and issuance of the bonds.

The Golf Course and the Project will be owned by the County and the Golf Course is operated by Summit Golf Management, a Montana limited liability company. All persons interested may appear and be heard at the time and place set forth above, or may file written comments with the County Clerk and Recorder prior to the date of the hearing set forth above.

Comments addressed or delivered to the Missoula County Commissioners at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802 (FAX (406) 7214043) and received prior to the hearing will be considered.

Copies of the Resolution are on file in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder/Treasurer.

For further information on the action to be taken, contact Andrew Czorny, Chief Financial Officer, Missoula County, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, 406-258-4919. Dated: October 15, 2009. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA /s/ Debbe Merseal for Vicki Zeier, County Clerk and Recorder/Treasurer MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP09-175 Honorable Ed McLean Presiding NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF NEVA M. LIPPERT, 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 Roger D. Lippert, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, PLLP, PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 16th day of October, 2009. /s/ Roger D. Lippert, Personal Representative

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE INVITING PROPOSALS Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the PUBLIC WORKS DIVISION, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808, until 10:00 o’clock a.m. November 6, 2009 at which time the bids will be opened and read in the conference room, Missoula County Public Works, for the purpose of purchasing of one-hundred fifty (150) tons of Hyrdro-Melt Liquid Deicer. Specifications and bid procedures for this purchase can be obtained at the Public Works Division, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808.. A performance bond will be required. Proposals must be accompanied by a certified check, cashier’s check, bank draft, or bid bond in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the contract. The Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County, Montana, reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Proposal for Liquid Deicer – 2009” and addressed to Public Works Division 6089 Training Drive Missoula, MT 59808

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DV09-1123 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 ABOVE-NAMED 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

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON ISSUING BONDS FOR LARCHMONT GOLF COURSE IRRIGATION IMPROVEMENTS MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP09-172 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH L. WANG, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having

claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Carl Ibsen, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 5th day of October, 2009. /s/ Carl Ibsen, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DR09-336 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 Co-Petitioner.

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. 2 Probate No. DP-09-176 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DORIS JEAN HIGHTOWER, 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 (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 Sheila Ann Colyer, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of THIEL LAW OFFICE, PLLC, 315 West Pine, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 16th day of October, 2009. /s/ Matthew B. Thiel, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DV09-1124 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-09-169 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 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 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 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 above-named 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 which time objections to said Account and Petition will be heard. DATED this 1st day of October, 2009. /s/ William Vetal, Co-Personal Representative, 17920 Tonka Lane, Frenchtown, MT 59834 /s/ Ronda Newsom, Co-Personal Representative,

3535 Holly Lane, Stevensville, MT 59870 MONTANA THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, GRANITE COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-09-10 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF SEAN K. RAGEN, 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 Annah M. Wilmonen, Personal Representative, PO Box 392, Drummond, Montana 59832, or filed with the Clerk of Court of the above-named court. DATED this 6th day of October, 2009. /s/ Annah M. Wilmonen, Personal Representative MONTANA TWENTY-FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, RAVALLI COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP09-65 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DENNIS D. ALBRIGHT, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Charlotte Kahler-Traylor 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 be mailed to Kyle D. Cunningham, attorney for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at CUNNINGHAM LAW OFFICE, 818 W. Central Ave., Ste. 1, Missoula, MT 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 15th day of October, 2009. /s/ Charlotte Kahler-Traylor, Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/09/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200613937, Bk 776 Pg 745, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Pamela S. Stanford, a married person and Joseph P. Stanford was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 14 of Canyon Village No. 3, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 05/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of September 2, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $219,764.14. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $212,990.18, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on January 11, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.06734) 1002.132550-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/05/03, recorded as Instrument No. 200320548, Bk 708, Pg 1169, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which John Cross, a married person and Lei Ann Cross was Grantor, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage,

Inc. was Beneficiary and First American Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in and being a portion of Lots 1 and 2 in Section 26, township 15 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the point where the original centerline of the highway intersects the Flathead Indian Reservation Boundary line, said point bears S. 53 degrees 13’ 51’’ E., 281.32 feet from the intersection of the Indian Boundary line and the North line of said Section 26; thence S. 43 degrees 47’ W., 298.35 feet; thence N. 47 degrees 57’ 25’’ W., 139.02 feet; thence N 43 degrees 47’ E., 285.5 feet to a point on the Flathead Indian Reservation Boundary line; thence S. 53 degrees 13’ 51’’ E., along said boundary line a distance of 140.00 feet to the Point of Beginning.

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 06/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of September 8, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $68,983.78. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $67,173.02, 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 January 19, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred

and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.06887) 1002.133046-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 200715CB, 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

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 21, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: PARCEL I: LOT 7 OF JASMINE PLACE, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. PARCEL lI: TOGETHER WITH PRIVATE ACCESS AND PUBLIC UTILITY EASEMENTS AS SHOWN ON THE PLAT OF SAID SUBDIVISION. ALSO TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS AND PUBLIC UTILITIES AS RECORD IN BOOK 682 MICRO RECORDS, PAGE 1827. Laurie McElroy, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Option One Mortgage Corporation, as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated June 07, 2005 and recorded on June 09, 2005 in Bk754 Pg-143 under document #200513838. The beneficial interest is currently held by Wells Fargo Bank,

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Missoula County Government

Notice of Public Sale

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the following described public property will be sold to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds: Item Quantity Year

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 10/15/2009, 10/22/2009, 10/29/2009

Description

Jeep Cherokee 4x4 Case W14H Front End Loader Dodge 1500 _ Ton Pick-Up Chevy 3500 1 Ton Dump Truck Dodge Durango 4x4 Chevy 350 1 Ton Crew Cab Pick-Up Chevy C-70 _ Ton Truck GMC 5000 1 _ Ton Truck Ecolotec VacAll Sweeper Caterpillar AWD 140G Motor Graders John Deere 350 Gas Dozer Dodge Intrepid Sedan Chevy AWD AstroVan Honda Walk-behind Pavement Saw Water Pumps Chicago Pneumatic Air Compressor Dodge Durango 4x4 Lot of Building Materials Lot of Desks & Office Equipment Lot of Diesel Fuel Tanks Pick-up Tool Box

Minimum Bid $ 2,000 $16,500 $ 3,750 $ 3,500 $ 3,700 $ 1,500 $ 1,000 $ 1,000 $10,000 $60,000/ea. $ 5,000 $ 3,100 $ 2,500 $ 800 $1,000/ea. $500 $3,400 $50/all $50/all $50/ea. $50ea.

THE MISSOULA PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AND THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS will conduct public hearings at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 18, 2009 in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, on the following: A request by Peak Fitness, represented by Territorial-Landworks, Inc., for a variance from Resolution 2002-063, Section 4 – General Provisions, Other Applicable Sections of County Zoning Resolution, which refers to the Missoula County Zoning Resolution, Section 3.06 (N) Hillside Design Standards 6(b), to vary from the 18 foot maximum wall element. The property, 4990 Buckhouse Ln, is located in the Citizen Initiated Zoning District #43 and is legally described as: Portion ‘A’ (4.64 acres) of the Packwest, Tracts A-1 and B-1, T12N, R20W, Section 2. See map Q.

Sealed bids will be accepted until 3:00 PM, Monday November 16th, 2009 at: Missoula County Public Works 6089 Training Drive, Missoula MT 59808 TERMS OF SALE: Bids must be submitted in a sealed envelope and legibly labeled “Bid-Sale of Surplus Equipment, Opening November 16th, 2009”, contents of the envelope must include the Item Number, Item Description, Bid Amount, Method of Payment, and Name/Address/Phone Number of the bidder.

Bids received after the time set for the bid opening will be rejected. Missoula County reserves the right to waive any and all informalities, to reject all bids, accept any bid deemed to be in the County’s best interest, and to negotiate terms with bidders on items. The sale is on an “as is, where is” basis. No warranty is expressed, implied or is being extended by Missoula County or any of its representatives to prospective buyers. Missoula County assumes no responsibility for the item(s) after the purchase or liability associated with the use or sale of equipment after purchase. Any costs associated with the removal of the equipment form Missoula County premises are the responsibility of the successful bidder(s).

Payment of any and all equipment shall be completed within five working days from the date of the sale and all equipment shall be removed from Missoula County premises no later than 12:00 PM, Friday, November 20th, 2009.

Any written comments can be mailed to Hilary Schoendorf, at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT 59802 or e-mailed to hschoendorf@co.missoula.mt.us.

If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling the Office of Planning & Grants at 406258-4657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

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PUBLIC NOTICES N.A. as Trustee for Option One Mortgage Loan Trust 2005-3 AssetBacked Certificates, Series 2005-3 by American Home Mortgage Servicing Inc. as Attorney in Fact. 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 $1,171.46, beginning February 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 15, 2009 is $116,042.49 principal, interest at the rate of 7.75% now totaling $4,829.98, late charges in the amount of $323.97, escrow advances of $1,149.36, other fees and expenses advanced of $139.60, plus accruing interest at the rate of $24.64 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the abovedescribed property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash at the time of sale. 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. 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 expensed 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: August 13, 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 August 13, 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. Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 09/22/2012 ASAP# 3307472 10/22/2009, 10/29/2009, 11/05/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 28, 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: A parcel of land in the SE1/4Ne1/4 of Section 10, Township 12 North, Range 20 West, Missoula County, Montana, and more particularly described by metes and bounds as follows: Beginning at a point which bears 332.0 feet East along the North line of said SE1/4NE1/4 from the Northwest corner of said SE1/4NE1/4; thence, S.30&#186;30’E., 192.05 feet to a point which is 80 feet distant Northwesterly when measured at right angles from Engineer’s Station 702 + 03.5 on the center line of Montana State Highway Project No. f215(10), which said Engineer’s Station 702 + 03.5 is South 1562.1 feet and West 811.5 feet, more or less, from the Northeast comer of said Section 10; thence, N.43&#186;32’E., 121.95 feet to a point which is 90 feet distant Northwesterly when measured at right angles from Engineer’s Station 703 + 25.0 on said center line; which said Engineer’s Station 703 + 25.0 is South 1481.5 feet and West 720.6 feet, more

or less, from said Northeast corner of Section 10; thence N.16&#186;13’w.,81.89 feet to a point on said North line of said SE1/4NE1/4; thence West along said North line 158.0 feet to the point of beginning. Recording Reference: Book 215 Micro Records at Page 2127. John D Reeves, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Chicago Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to IndyMac Bank, F.S.B., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 22, 2003 and Recorded October 22, 2003 in Book 720, Page 968 under Document No. 200340504.

The beneficial interest is currently held by OneWest Bank FSB, f/ka IndyMac Bank, F.S.B.. 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 $1578.60, beginning May 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of August 4, 2009 is $187,491.45 principal, interest at the rate of 6.75% now totaling $4,322.58, late charges in the amount of $400.08, escrow advances of $129.66, suspense balance of $ and other fees and expenses advanced of $36.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $34.67 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

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

NOTICE OF BALLOT DROP OFF LOCATIONS FOR THE MUNICIPAL GENERAL/SPECIAL DISTRICT MAIL BALLOT ELECTION The following are ballot drop off locations for the Municipal/Special District Mail Ballot Election to be held in Missoula County, Montana, on Tuesday, November 3, 2009. Drop off locations will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. at all locations. An AutoMark will be available at each drop off location on Election Day and from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Fairground’s Election Center and the Missoula County Courthouse beginning October 20th through November 3rd. Drop off locations which are accessible to disabled voters are designated below by the letters “Acc”; drop off locations which are technically inaccessible but usable by disabled voters are designated by the letters “Inacc”.

DROP OFF LOCATION.......................................................................................................................ACCESSIBILITY Cold Springs School ..............................................................................................................................................Acc Courthouse (Election Office) ................................................................................................................................Acc Fairground’s Election Center ................................................................................................................................Acc Hellgate Elementary School ..................................................................................................................................Acc Lowell School ........................................................................................................................................................Acc Paxson School........................................................................................................................................................Acc Rattlesnake School.................................................................................................................................................Acc Russell School........................................................................................................................................................Acc Seeley Lake School ................................................................................................................................................Acc An ES&S 650 Vote Scanning Machine is on display at the Elections Office, Missoula County Courthouse. Any voter who asks will be shown how the scanner operates.

A test, which is open to the public, of the ES&S scanner programming will be starting at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, October 29, 2009, at Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Room 374, Missoula, Montana.

Late registration/same day voting continues at the Missoula County Fairground’s Election Center, until 12:00 noon on Monday, November 2, 2009. It reopens at 7 a.m., November 3rd, and continues through 8 p.m. at the Fairground’s Election Center only.

Ballots for the Municipal General/Special District Mail Ballot Election will be opened and reconciled by a special Counting Board at the Missoula County Fairground’s Tabulating Center, beginning at approximately8:00 a.m. on Tuesday, November 3, 2009, and will be counted by a sequestered Counting Center Board of Judges beginning at approximately 8:00 a.m. the same date. No results will be released until after 8:15 p.m. No radio or telephone contact with persons outside the counting room will be allowed.

Dated this 14th day of October, 2009 Vickie Zeier Election Administrator Missoula County

by__________________________________ Debbe Merseal, Chief Deputy

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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: August 17, 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 August 17, 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. Miranda Marx Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 05/05/2015 ASAP# 3311439 10/22/2009, 10/29/2009, 11/05/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 28, 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 33 of Double Arrow Ranch, Phase 111, a platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof Michael Albans and Jani Albans, as Grantor(s),

conveyed said real property to Charles J Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 31, 2008 and recorded April 3, 2008 in Book 816, Page 506 under Document No. 200807330. The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH Mortgage Corporation. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,127.71, 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 4, 2009 is $360,197.45 principal, interest at the rate of .0575% now totaling $10,440.78, late charges in the amount of $531.80, escrow advances of $0.00, suspense balance of $ and other fees and expenses advanced of $304.39, plus accruing interest at the rate of $56.74 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to

PUBLIC NOTICES 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: August 17, 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 August 17, 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. Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 09/22/2012 ASAP# 3311425 10/22/2009, 10/29/2009, 11/05/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 28, 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 100 OF PONDEROSA HEIGHTS, PHASE 2, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Anthony M Cerasani, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated December 11, 2008 and Recorded on December 17, 2008 under Document #200827443 in B:

830 P: 1031. The beneficial interest is currently held by US Bank, NA. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $3,357.61, beginning February 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 September 10, 2009 is $417,000.00 principal, interest at the rate of 6.625% now totaling $19,098.72, late charges in the amount of $534.04, and other fees and expenses advanced of $139.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $75.69 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale

and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents {valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, 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: August 17, 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 August 17, 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. Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 09/22/2012 ASAP# 3311533 10/22/2009, 10/29/2009, 11/05/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 28, 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 26 of Bellevue Addition No. 4, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Missoula, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Roxanne L Bassette, 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 July 14, 2003 at 3:54 o’clock P.M. in Book 711, Page 798, under Document No. 200325219. 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 $766.89, beginning May 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which month-

ly 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 5, 2009 is $58,254.75 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $1,178.35, late charges in the amount of $38.44, escrow advances of $668.71, and other fees and expenses advanced of $619.42, plus accruing interest at the rate of $9.48 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: August 17, 2009 MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 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 August 17, 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.

Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 09/22/2012 ASAP# 3311467 10/22/2009, 10/29/2009, 11/05/2009

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

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INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS

SPECIAL DISTRICT CREATING SEELEY LAKE RESORT AREA DISTRICT

SPECIAL DISTRICT

FOR ALDERMAN WARD 3 VOTE FOR ONE

1. TO VOTE, BLACKEN THE OVAL COMPLETELY. An oval blackened completely to the left of the candidate or ballot issue choice indicates a vote for that candidate or a vote on the ballot issue.

If the proposed District is created, it will be governed by a five (5) member board to be elected at the May 2010 School/Special District Election. The elected Board would control the collection and expenditure of any resort area tax approved by the electors.

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE The Evaro/Finley-O'Keefe Community Council shall strive to promote the interests and concerns of its citizens in Missoula County, Montana. In order to accomplish this goal, the Evaro/Finley-O'Keefe Community Council shall act as a liaison between the Missoula County Commissioners and the citizens that reside in the area east and west of Highway 93 from the Missoula/Lake County line and south to the base of Evaro Hill, to provide all types of information deemed useful, beneficial and helpful to the Missoula County Commissioners in making decisions which affect that community; to inform the citizens of the area of issues being considered by the Missoula County Commissioners which may have an impact on them; to provide leadership and support to the community's efforts to ensure orderly growth and development in the area; and to serve as a channel of communications with local, county, and state and federal government officials and agencies regarding matters of concern to area citizens. The council is advisory only and has no tax or other governmental powers.

BOB JAFFE JOHN G. QUANDT

FOR ALDERMAN WARD 4 VOTE FOR ONE

2. To write-in a name, blacken the oval to the left of the line provided, and write in the name in the blank space(s) for the write-in candidate(s) for whom you wish to vote.

JON D. WILKINS

FOR ALDERMAN WARD 5

DO NOT CROSS OUT. If you make a mistake or change your mind, exchange your ballot for a new one.

VOTE FOR ONE

VOTE IN ALL COLUMNS

DICK HAINES MIKE O'HERRON

MUNICIPAL FOR MAYOR

FOR ALDERMAN WARD 6

VOTE FOR ONE

VOTE FOR ONE

JOHN ENGEN

FOR Creating the Seeley Lake Resort Area District

AGAINST Creating the Seeley Lake Resort Area District

ESTABLISHING A RESORT AREA TAX IN THE SEELEY LAKE RESORT AREA If approved by the electors, the Resort Tax will be 3% on the retail value of all goods and services sold (except goods and services sold for resale) by lodging facilities, eating establishments, taverns and resorts in the Seeley Lake Resort Area, and on luxuries, defined as alcohol and tobacco products. The Resort Area Tax will be used to fund community infrastructure improvements in Seeley Lake, limited to water and sewer improvements, unless changed by vote.

FOR establishing a community council for Precincts 39, 40, 41 and 42.

KATHY S. GREATHOUSE

FOR Establishing a Resort Area Tax

MARILYN MARLER

AGAINSTestablishing a community council for Precincts 39, 40, 41 and 42.

FOR MUNICIPAL JUDGE VOTE FOR ONE

SPECIAL DISTRICT DONALD J. LOUDEN

AGAINST Establishing a Resort Area Tax

FOR SEELEY LAKE COUNTY SEWER DISTRICT DIRECTOR VOTE FOR THREE

If a community council is established in the November 3, 2009 election, the initial council of 5 members will be appointed by the Board of County Commissioners, with the members chosen by election thereafter.

MICHAEL LINDEMER

FOR ALDERMAN WARD 1 VOTE FOR ONE

GLEN MORIN RYAN MORTON

ROBERT SKILES

DAVE STROHMAIER

CHERYL 'CHERI' THOMPSON DAVID D. WHITESITT

FOR ALDERMAN WARD 2 VOTE FOR ONE

JOHN B. HENDRICKSON ROY HOUSEMAN JR.

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PUBLIC NOTICES NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 28, 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 A140 OF CANYON EAST, PHASE 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Ryan L. Quagliana, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Commonwealth Land Title insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 27, 2007 and recorded August 28, 2007 as document number 200722425, in Book 804, Page 858.

The beneficial interest is currently held by OneWest Bank FSB. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,672.33, 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 10, 2009 is $198,578.34 principal, interest at the rate of 6.75% now totaling $6,062.41, late charges in the amount of $261.84, escrow advances of $327.03, and other fees and expenses advanced of $284.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $36.72 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 sched-

uled 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: August 20, 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 August 20, 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. Miranda Marx Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 05/05/2015 ASAP# 3318999 10/29/2009, 11/05/2009, 11/12/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 29, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: PARCEL I: TRACT A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4750, LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 11, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 22 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. PARCEL II: TOGETHER WITH A 30 FOOT WIDE PRIVATE ROAD AND PUBLIC UTILITY EASEMENT AND RIGHT OF WAY OVER AND ACROSS THE EASTERLY 30 FEET OF THE S&#189;S&#189;NW&#188;NW&#1 88; OF SECTION 11, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 22 WEST, P.M.M., FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS FROM SAID TRACT TO THE EXISTING PRIVATE ROAD. ALSO TOGETHER WITH A 30 FOOT PRIVATE ACCESS AND PUBLIC UTILITY EASEMENT AS SHOWN ON CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4750 Kirk R Helm & Jennifer L Helm, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Fidelity National Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Long Beach Mortgage Company, as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated May 10, 2006 and Recorded on May 11, 2009 under Document #200610842 in Bk-774, Pg196. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Long Beach Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-6.

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 $1,275.29, 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 083109 is $160,117.70 principal, interest at the rate of 9.25% now totaling $8,622.77, late charges in the amount of $229.56, escrow advances of $4,134.34 and other fees and expenses advanced of $166.70, plus accruing interest at the rate of $40.58 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,

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Commission expires: 2/23/2013 ASAP# 3319466 10/29/2009, 11/05/2009, 11/12/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, the 15th day of December, 2009, at the hour of 10:15 a.m., at the front door of the Missoula County Courthouse, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802, 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 Grantor PLATINUM BUILDERS, LLC in and to the following described real property, situated in Missoula, Montana to wit: Lot 49 of Lolo Creek Trails Phase 1, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Said sale will be made in accordance with the statutes of the State of Montana, and the terms and provisions of: that certain Construction Deed of Trust recorded October 13, 2006, in Book 785, page 244, as Document No. 200626630 in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, wherein PLATINUM BUILDERS, INC. is Grantor, FIRST INTERSTATE BANK is the named Beneficiary, and TITLE SERVICES, INC. is the named Trustee; that certain Appointment of Successor Trustee dated July 31, 2009, and recorded August 4, 2009, in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana, in Book 845 at page 165 as Document No. 200919321, wherein the Beneficiary substituted Trustee Title Services, Inc. with Martin S. King, attorney at law, as Successor Trustee. This foreclosure is made because the Grantor, PLATINUM BUILDERS, LLC, and the Guarantor, Anthony M. Cerasani, have defaulted in the terms of said Construction Deed of Trust and the corresponding Promissory Note in that they have failed to pay the payment due upon maturity of said Note and otherwise defaulted on said Construction Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the the terms of the Construction Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has exercised its option to declare the full amount secured by such Construction Deed of Trust immediately due and payable. That the principal sum now owing on the obligation secured by said Construction Deed of Trust is the sum of Two Hundred Five Thousand One Hundred Twenty-five and No/100 Dollars ($205,125.00), together with interest at the note rate, 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 Two Hundred Five Thousand One Hundred Twenty-five and No/100 Dollars ($205,125.00) in principal; Six Thousand Four Hundred Fifty-one and 60/100 Dollars ($6,451.60) in interest; and Two Hundred One and 15/100 Dollars ($201.15) in late fees, totaling the sum of Two Hundred Eleven Thousand Seven Hundred Seventy-seven and 75/100 Dollars ($211,777.75), together with costs and expenses of foreclosure and related trustee fees, costs and attorney fees allowable by law. DATED this 12th day of August, 2009. /s/ Martin S. King, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA) :ss. County of Missoula). On this 12th day of August, 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 set my hand affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Rhonda M. Kolar, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, MT My commission expires: January 24, 2012 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on Tuesday, the 15th day of December, 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 59802, Martin S. King, Attorney at Law, Successor Trustee, in order to satisfy the obligation 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 of the Grantor PLATINUM BUILDERS, LLC in and to the terms and provisions of: Lot 12 of Ponderosa Heights, Phase 1, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. 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 recorded July 12, 2007, in Book 801, page 721, as Document No. 200717872 in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, wherein PLATINUM BUILDERS, INC. is Grantor, FIRST INTERSTATE BANK is the named Beneficiary, and INSURED TITLES is the named Trustee; that certain Appointment of Successor Trustee dated July 31, 2009, and recorded August 4, 2009, in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana, in Book 845 at page 164 as Document No. 200919320, wherein the Beneficiary substituted Trustee Insured Titles with Martin S. King, attorney at law, as Successor Trustee. This foreclosure is made because the Grantor, PLATINUM BUILDERS, LLC, has defaulted in the terms of said Deed of Trust and the corresponding Promissory Note in that it has failed to pay the payment due upon maturity of said Note 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 Seventy-two Thousand No/100 Dollars ($72,000.00), together with interest at the note rate, until the date of sale.

That on the date of sale, presuming no other payments are made and the sale is not postponed, there will be due and owing the sum of Seventy-two Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($72,000.00) in principal; Three Thousand Five Hundred Forty-six and 73/100 Dollars ($3,546.73) in interest; and One Hundred Thirty-five and 49/100 Dollars ($135.49) in late fees, totaling the sum of Seventy-five Thousand Six Hundred Eightytwo and 22/100 Dollars ($75,682.22), together with costs and expenses of foreclosure and related trustee fees, costs and attorney fees allowable by law. DATED this 12th day of August, 2009. /s/ Martin S. King, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA) :ss. County of Missoula). On this 12th day of August, 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 the 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 set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written.

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PUBLIC NOTICES 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 followingdescribed 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: 5-72013 Rainbow Mini Storage will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage unit #14 owing delinquent storage rent. Unit contains various household items, furniture, mattresses, stereo, etc. This unit may be viewed on Sunday, November 1, 2009 or Saturday, November 7, 2009 by appt only by calling 880-8228. Written sealed bids must be mailed to P.O. Box 425, Milltown, MT 59851 to arrive no later than, November 12, 2009, 10:00 am. Buyers bids will be for entire contents of unit 14. Only cash will be

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3BD/2BA Mechanic’s Dream Home, 3 car garage, mechanic’s pit, hardwood floors, large deck, privacy fenced yard Superior $158,900 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.YourMT.com 3BD/2BD home, vaulted ceilings, two-car garage, large patio, nature trail 45 minutes from Missoula. $240,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.YourMT.com 3BD/3BA Luxury Home on 10 acres, 4 car garage, huge tiled walk-in shower, soaking tub, office/den, timber-framed cathedral ceilings $688,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.YourMT.com 4 BD/2BA home, ready-to-finish basement.

17-foot ceilings, office/den, master suite, 2-car garage. 44 Ranch, $297,000! Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185 www.AccessRealty.net 4BD home, 39.5 acres. Certainteed siding, radiant heat, fireplace, wildlife, gravel pit! $824,900 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185 www.AccessRealty.net AMAZING HOME OVERLOOKING ALBERTON GORGE. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, Double Garage, Vaulted Ceilings, Spectacular Views from inside and out, Outdoor Pool & Hot Tub, Decks & Patios, and much more. $395,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, Text Mindy9 to 74362, or visit...

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1 BD Apt 109 N. Johnson $465/mo.

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2 Bed/1 bath Brand new log cabin with new three stall horse barn and tack room, hardwood floors and beautiful stone fireplace. $425,000.

MLS#905429. Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 riceteam@windermere.com. Text:44133 Message: 12887 for pics

BEAUTIFULLY UPDATED TARGET RANGE HOME. WALK TO THE RIVER. 4 Bdr/2 Bath, 4 Carg Garage, Sun Room with Hot Tub, great family room with full wet bar and much more. $334,900.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy11 to 74362, or visit...

Newer Jr. 1 Bd apartments at an Affordable Price

543-1500

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. Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 Windermere RE. Text:44133 Message: 12594 for pics

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1 BD Apt New carpet 119 Johnson $485/mo.

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1150 Cramer 906248 goomzee 12590 Log cabin with no close neighbors. Beautiful views of flint Creek, Mission, Rattlesnake & Sapphire Ranges. $99,900 MLS# 906248 Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 riceteam@winderm e r e . c o m Te x t : 4 4 1 3 3 M e s sage:12590 for pics

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Next to Costco Amenities include: - Washer/Dryer - Air Conditioner - Energy Efficient Heat - Dishwasher

Rent: $495 - $585

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GORGEOUS FLORENCE AREA HOME ON 2 ACRES. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, great views inside and out, large deck, outdoor sauna, and more. $285,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, Text Mindy3 to 74362, or visit...

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GORGEOUS SLANT STREETS CRAFTSMAN. 3 Bdr/2 Bath, many original features including hardwood, built-ins, beautiful mouldings & windows, large kitchen, dining room, full basement & more. $379,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, Text Mindy20 to 74362, or visit...

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GORGEOUS STEVENSVILLE AREA HOME ON 10 ACRES. 4 Bdr/2 Bath, single-level living, double garage, hardwood and tile flooring, beautifully landscaped, great deck with outdoor living space, and much more. $474,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy

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GORGEOUS STEVENSVILLE AREA HOME ON 10 ACRES. 4 Bdr/2 Bath, single-level living, double garage, hardwood and tile flooring, beautifully landscaped, great deck with outdoor living space, and much more. $474,000.

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Great business opportunity! Live in your home and earn income. 2 bed, 2 bath modular home on one acre.

Sixty-two 10’ X 15’ storage rental units which rent for $50 per month. $489,900. MLS#905520. Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 riceteam@windermere.com.

Text:44133 Message:12597 for pics GREAT DOWNTOWN MISSOULA LOCATION. 3 Bdr/2 Bath, Double Garage, High Ceilings, Hardwood Floors, Built-Ins, Walk to Downtown. $329,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, Text Mindy8 to 74362, or visit...

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HANDCRAFTED CUSTOM HOME ON PETTY CREEK. 3 Bdr/2.5 Bath, 3.3 Acres, guest quarters, heated double garage, $695,000.

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New land/home package in Riverwalk Estates. No steps, concrete entrances with covered porch & patio. 3 bed/2 bath/double garage.

6605 Kiki Court W., Missoula.

Starting at $299,970.

MLS#903596. JoyEarls@windermere.com 531-9811 One block to the U!! Gardens, arbors, fruit trees and more. 4 bed/2 bath. 737 Evans, Missoula. $399,870.

MLS#902594.

JoyEarls@windermere.com 5319811 Past Bitterroot Parade of Homes winner NEW 4 BD/3BA with many upgrades Alder cabinets, Large Master Suite, Tile, & Views of the Bitterroots $344,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185 www.YourMT.com PRICE REDUCED! New home in Riverwalk Estates with no steps and easy maintenance, 3 bed/2 bath/double garage. 6549 Kiki Court, Missoula. $329,500.

MLS#808566. JoyEarls@windermere.com 531-9811 Quaint home on 2 lush lots with apples, grapes, currants, raspberries, cherries, and flowers. 2 bed/1 bath. 1852 8th West St., Missoula. $179,900.

MLS#904867.

JoyEarls@windermere.com 5319811 RUSTIC ELEGANCE CLOSE TO TOWN. 3 Bdr/2.5 Bath, Double Garage, High Ceilings, Hardwood Floors, log accents, next to open space, easy walk to river, gorgeous. $329,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, Text Mindy12 to 74362, or visit...

SINGLE LEVEL LIVING JUST A SHORT WALK TO DOWNTOWN STEVI. 4Bdr/3 Bath, Open floor plan, large living room, great mountain and valley views. $239,900.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy15 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 406-207-1185. www.AccessRealty.net

LAND FOR SALE

OUT OF TOWN 800 square foot cabin near hunting, fishing, and skiing in beautiful Haugan, MT. $83,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185. www.YourMT.com Gorgeous leveled 80 acres of farming land in St. Ignatious with 3 Bed/ 2 Bath manufactured home.

Amazing views of the Mission Mountains. 58503 Watson Road MLS # 706304 Price: $520,000 Call Priscilla @ 370-7689, Prudential Missoula.

5BD/3BA 3,000+ sq. ft. Lolo home on 15.6 Acres, updated kitchen, cozy fireplace, $415,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185 www.YourMT.com Beautiful 20 acres fenced pasture land. Seasonal stream and pond.

Great get away or build your dream home. No power to area. $170 per year road maintenance fee. $149,900 MLS# 905366 Janet 5327903 or Robin 240-6503 riceteam@windermere.com Text:44133 Message:12589 for pics Beautiful park-like setting, private trout ponds, nature trail, stunning views. Lots start at $39,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185. www.YourMT.com Four 10 ACRE TRACTS IN GARNET MOUNTAINS. $27,500-$45,000.

Call Dick at Montana International Realty 406-883-6700 MONTANA STATE LAND SALE Over 50 tracts: 20 -1000 Acres Pine ridges, grassy meadows, mtn. views, huge elk & deer area. Great bird hunting. Federal lands accessible. 20 Acres w/Utilities - $39,900. New Cabin on 20 Acres - $79,900. 1601000 Acres - $625/Acre. Great financing available. Call 888-3613006 www.WesternSkiesLand.com

COMMERCIAL 3 Quizno’s Franchise Sandwich Businesses For Sale! $650,000Missoula, MT. Call Loubelle for info: 240-0753.

RETAIL SHOP FOR SALE Profitable and unique retail shop located downtown. $175000 Email inquiries to missoulabiz@yahoo.com.

Tanning Salon $65,000- Top of the line equipment, excellent client base. 10 years same location. Call Loubelle at Fidelity RE 240-0753 or 543-4412. www.missoulahomes.com

REAL ESTATE LOANS Up to 65% LTV. We specialize in “Non-Bankable Deals” Hard money lending with a conscience. We also buy Private Notes & Mortgages. Creative Finance & Investments, LLC. 406721-1444; 800-999-4809.

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Joy Earls

3.5 ACRES ON PETTY CREEK. Great location less that 3 miles from I-90.

Awesome building spot overlooking creek and with valley/mountain views. Builder available. $185,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy14 to 74362, or visit...

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Executive Gated Community

$172,500 MLS # 907195

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2004 Diamond Lil Cluster, Missoula Beautiful lot, which elk frequent.

Tucked in a great spot, yet fabulous views. The ranch has over 900 acres of rolling grassland & light timber. It is minutes from airport & downtown. Strict CC&R's. This owner will entertain offers of trade. Be creative!

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joyearls.mywindermere.com RICE TEAM Janet Rice 532-7903 Robin Rice 240-6503 riceteam@windermere.com www.missoulahomesonline.com • 40x82 insulated free span building • 1 acre with security fence • Three 14' overhead doors • 9292 Futurity Drive • $324,900 MLS#901478 Text:44133 Message: 12595 for pics

• 4 Bed/3 bath cedar home on 11 acres • Private location with lots of trees • 28 x 28 garage / large parking lot • Near Potomac with easy access • $349,900 • MLS#906884 Text:44133 Message: 12886 for pics

• Cute 2 bdrm mobile on 4 acres • Large double detached garage • Irrigation well on property • Owner financing w/ 20% down OAC • $186,000 • MLS# 905771 Text:44133 Message: 12884 for pics

• 23645 Mullan / Huson • Beautiful 14 acre parcel • Meadow with trees & pasture • Modulars or double wides ok • $184,900• MLS#906774 Text:44133 Message: 12881 for pics

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

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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.

Two 5 acre parcels

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.

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

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REAL ESTATE Tall Timber Log Home E. Missoula MLS#906672 $229,900 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.

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

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