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Cover Story Missoula City Council voted 10–2 early Tuesday morning to approve the state’s first LGBT anti-discrimination ordinance. The decision followed nearly seven hours of emotional public comments and council debate, not to mention weeks of heated rhetoric in the lead-up to the meeting. The Indy Photo By Cathrine L. Walters covered the action both inside City Council Chambers and throughout downtown to document the historic evening ..............14

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Letters Climate change, trapping and census............................................................4 The Week in Review Pot bust, Grizzly Triathlon and oil .........................................6 Briefs Partisan politics, poaching and goat meat.......................................................6 Etc. Does the Strength Team belong in public schools? ............................................7 Up Front Missoula’s DirecTV facility busted for union busting.................................8 Ochenski Otjen may push Rehberg in promising primary .....................................10 Writers on the Range Taking aim at wildlife fauxtography ....................................11 Agenda Marijuana Education Day ............................................................................12

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STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday morning inside Worden’s Market.

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Early Tuesday morning the Missoula City Council voted 10-2 in favor of the state’s first LGBT antidiscrimination ordinance. How do you feel about the decision?

Follow-up: Have you ever felt like you were discriminated against?

John Wing: Awesome! It’s the right thing to do. Hair apparent: Because I’m short and bald, maybe, but not that I’m aware of.

Jake Radtke: Great! God bless Missoula. What might be more fitting is women’s equality—chicks need to be realized as equals first.

I’m not prioritizing, but let’s do it in order. White bread: Yes, as a straight man in a gay bar, hanging out with my minority friends and while being a cracker in Atlanta.

Barry Darrow: I think some people should have kept their mouths shut. If Missoula wants to stay as liberal as it’s been, then it needs a non-discrimination ordinance. Bias hurts: For being tall. See that sign? I can’t walk under it. I’m not too tall, everything’s too short. I have the divots on top of my head to prove it!

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Clamping down Ethical hunters say that the prolonged torture animals suffer in traps is worse than their worst hunting nightmare. My hunting years were lucky: We practiced, we shot only when the target was clear in our sights, went for clean, quick, efficient kills and got them. We never threw away a dead animal. But trappers aren’t there when an animal gets snapped in a trap. They don’t know what kind of animal they will find in their traps, up to weeks later. They toss two animals away for every one they keep. Anyone who claims traps aren’t indiscriminate, unfair, cruel and wasteful is a liar.

The claim that I-160, the Montana Trap-Free Public Lands Initiative, will unleash marauding nuisance animals is false. The overwhelming number of incidents involving nuisance animals is on private land. I-160 allows trapping on private lands and on public lands for health, safety and science. It allows the removal of a beaver, for instance, building a dam that might flood a road.

I-160 will not end trapping. Twothirds of Montana will remain open for trapping. I-160 opens public lands to the public. Trappers will continue to get licenses and hire out to FWP and homeowners to rid yards and pastures from so-called nuisance animals.

Trapping is regulated solely as recreation. Trappers’ anecdotes are not scientific data—they are stories. The regulations are loose because trappers wrote them. Checking a trap within 48 hours is a suggestion, not a rule. The secretive nature of trapping protected it until so many pets got injured and killed in traps.

Traps kill endangered species and raptors—a felony for anyone but a trapper.

Except for lynx, trapped non-target animals–even if reported—aren’t recorded by the FWP. Only 34 percent of trappers bother to return surveys.

There’s no honest defense for trapping on public lands.

Connie Poten Missoula

Four big hitters

Chad Abbott: I agree not to discriminate and that all should be equal. Darn kids: I was in the past because of my age, when I was in the Army. I took a leadership course but they thought I was too young. They made it really hard on me and singled me out until I could prove myself.

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NASA data shows our last decade was the warmest since records began in the late 19th century. I believe this is a sign of times to come, and immediate action is required to save humanity and our planet.

In Montana, 50 years of evidence indicates rising temperatures foster up to a 40 percent decline in our springtime snowpack. Our springtime peak riverflows now come an average of two weeks earlier. Warming annual temperatures play a principal role in the death of forests from bark beetle infestations.

Scientists report links between climate change and the frequency and severity of wildfires in the northern Rockies.

Failure to take action on climate change will have drastic impacts on American families who depend on farming, with a repeat of the Dust Bowl and famine years of the 1930s. A world wracked by drought and famine would be disastrous.

I urge Sens. Baucus and Tester to support passage of comprehensive climate and renewable energy legislation this year.

Catherine Haug Big fork

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The world looks to the United States for leadership. Here are a few big hitters we can address: 1. Limiting access to fertilizers and other farm chemicals would significantly reduce power consumption by reducing their manufacture capacity, and by causing a major shift toward localized, healthful, organic food and livestock production.

2. Modernizing and expanding our train system will go a long way toward reducing our energy consumption.

Trains consume far less energy to transport an equivalent load by trucks, planes and cars.

3. Investing in renewable energy would generate more than three times more jobs than equivalent investment in the fossil fuel industry.

4. Comprehensive climate and energy policies could save businesses nearly $130 billion a year by 2030.

With two or three reminders about filling out your census forms coming to a mailbox near you, people seem to forget that this is nothing more than a headcount, and not an information gathering drive collecting data on all Americans.

The U.S. Constitution provides for this headcount every 10 years. Libertarian National Chairman Bill Redpath points out, “There is no need for Congress to collect additional information such as names, races, ages, sexes, or home ownership status.

Unfortunately, the federal government wants to use the additional information to fine tune its control over the lives and money of the American people”. The only question of the 10 questions on the form that matters is the first one: How many people live at this residence?

By law all information collected by the Census Bureau is supposed to be kept private, but our government never follows its laws anyway. David Kopel of the libertarian Cato Institute pointed out that during World War I the Census Bureau handed over lists of names and addresses so the federal government could search for draft resisters. And, s h o c k i n g l y , d u r i n g Wo r l d Wa r I I , the Census Bureau told the Justice Department which neighborhoods had high concentrations of JapaneseAmericans. The federal government then used that information to find JapaneseAmericans and imprison them in concentration camps. I’m sure there are other examples as well.

A simple headcount doesn’t need 10 questions or cost us $14 billion. Isn’t it time for a change?

Mike Fellows Montana Libertarian Party Missoula

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by Cathrine L. Walters

Owen Lee Smith, 28, appears in Missoula Justice Court after police found 124 marijuana plants at his Northside home the day before. According to charging documents, officers also found a loaded gun, several glass pipes and psychedelic mushrooms.

Police say Smith is not a registered medical marijuana caregiver.

• Thursday, April 8 The Bureau of Land Management delays the sale of about 91,000 acres of oil and gas leases in three western states, including Montana, while it studies how they’d contribute to climate change. The move comes three weeks after U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy approved an unprecedented settlement requiring similar reviews of separate BLM leases.

• Friday, April 9 Eric Ellis, a 13-year-old home-schooled student from Lockwood, beats out 92 other contestants to win the Montana State Geography Bee in Billings. Ellis correctly identifies three countries in the Balkan Peninsula and wins a trip to the national championship in Washington, D.C.

• Saturday, April 10 Missoulian Linsey Corbin strokes, spins and strides her way to a women’s course record in the 22nd annual Grizzly Triathlon, Montana’s largest multisport event. Former University of Montana student Ben Hoffman wins the men’s title for his fifth consecutive year, but misses the record by seven seconds.

• Sunday, April 11 A police officer investigates a scuffle in front of the Missoula Club just before closing time and gets socked in the face by a belligerent 21-year-old suspect. The officer responds by Tasering the individual, making him the second person in less than five hours subdued by Missoula police using one of the devices.

• Monday, April 12 The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service awards Montana a $6 million grant for the acquisition of about 3,600 acres in the Clearwater River drainage near Seeley Lake.

Known as the Clearwater Lands Project, the deal protects riparian habitat for bull trout, westslope cutthroat trout and mountain whitefish.

• Tuesday, April 13 The Big Sky Conference names University of Montana sophomore Katrina Drennan its women’s track Athlete of the Week. The distance runner scored a 27second victory in the 5,000 meters, posting a careerbest time of 16:46.37, at the UCLA Rafer Johnson/Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invitational in Los Angeles.

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Bitterroot The left answers With the exception of critical letters to local media outlets, the rise of conservative grassroots organizations in western Montana over the past year has gone largely unanswered by the citizen left. But it now seems concern over the spread of far-right ideology has reached a tipping point.

Bitterroot Human Rights Alliance Coordinator Bill LaCroix announced last week the formation of the Bitterroot Democracy Project (BDP), a roughly 20-member organization emphasizing “fairness…equality and respectful speech.” The group aims to better educate locals on contentious political issues—ironically the same mantra claimed by the right’s own Celebrating Conservatism in Hamilton.

“Credit where it’s due, they’ve got an energized base and they’re getting people to show up at these huge meetings once a month,” LaCroix says. “At their best they’re doing a successful public education campaign. We just feel like a lot of it’s misinfor-

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mation and it’s not being challenged.”

However, LaCroix emphasizes that the BDP was not formed in direct opposition to existing groups on the right. The organization is far more concerned with the disruptive role models that have emerged from the valley’s conservative core. It’s “opposed to the message,” LaCroix says, not the body of individuals seeking relief for their political frustrations.

“We feel that we need to get the conversation back toward the middle from where it is on the far right, with conspiracy theories and bringing guns to rallies,” LaCroix says. “That’s just not helpful to encourage people to participate in the democratic process.”

Celebrating Conservatism founder Mona Docteur welcomes the BDP to Ravalli County. The new group’s presence balances the scales for grassroots activism in the valley, she says, offering residents the opportunity to learn about issues from both sides of the aisle.

“I think that people should attend it, from our group,” Docteur says. “It’s a free country still, I

think, so absolutely they should attend those venues and see if there’s education that they haven’t gotten through us.”

“In fact,” she adds, “I’ll probably attend.”

As long as she and her cohorts promise to behave, LaCroix says he has no problem with that.

Alex Sakariassen

Legislature Addressing the redraw If you account for representation by proxy, thousands of Montanans packed into a small meeting room at the University of Montana’s Gallagher Business Building Monday night for the latest public hearing on remapping the state’s legislative districts.

Body count was a different story. Roughly half of the 50-some people gathered before the fivemember Montana Districting and Apportionment Commission were state legislators—many incumbents—concerned for the interests of their constituencies. And the partisanship that flared tempers

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after the last redistricting process in 2001 continued to dominate the debate.

“We need to take the politics out of drawing these boundaries,” said Rep. Bob Lake, R-Hamilton.

Rep. Scott Reichner, R-Bigfork, echoed the statement via video feed from Kalispell, stating Republicans are “just looking for a fair shot.”

Montana’s GOP has griped for 10 years over what they say is an imbalanced legislative map.

Republicans have accused the previous Democratdominated districting commission of creating a “tilted” playing field in state politics and leaving voters across Montana disenfranchised. They’ve made it clear they won’t let history repeat itself.

“The last redistricting process resulted in legislative districts that were just unacceptably biased,” GOP Executive Director Bowen Greenwood told the Independent last week. “Our goal for this process is seats that are fair, period…We just want seats where either side has the representation they should have.”

The pleas for a nonpartisan process were unanimous Monday, but the partisan divide in the room was unquestionable. Democrats applauded the previous commission’s success in drawing effective and competitive districts, citing the near 5050 split in the 2009 House of Representatives as evidence of equal representation. Their comments won occasional ribbing from the right.

The clearest voice of reason came early in the nearly three-hour hearing from former Democratic U.S. Rep. Pat Williams. As Republicans pointed fingers at the last commission and Democrats put in pitches for demographically diverse constituencies, Williams took what seemed to be the nonpartisan high road both parties advocated in the first place.

“Everybody in this room knows you’re not going to please everyone,” Williams said. “So don’t try.”

Alex Sakariassen

Meat Get your goat Come May, Yvonne Zweede-Tucker will have more than 400 wobbly-legged newborn kids clomping around her 200-acre ranch in Choteau, about doubling the size of her goat herd, among the largest in the state. But it’s still not enough.

“Right now,” she says, “we already have orders beyond our production for this year…They’re banging down our door.”

U.S. demand for goat meat—thought to be the world’s most widely consumed meat—far exceeds supply, driven largely by ethnic populations in

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urban centers. Goat meat is a staple in Mexican, Indian, Pakistani, Caribbean and southern Italian cuisines, among others, and it’s become an increasingly trendy culinary treat. Zweede-Tucker sells many of her goats to new and expanding breeders.

“Here in Montana, we produce them very efficiently,” says Zweede-Tucker, who along with her husband has been raising goats since 1991, “but they are consumed elsewhere, like in Chicago, California and Seattle—basically everywhere other than here.”

Goat meat demand prompted Zweede-Tucker to organize the first “Profitable Meat Goats Conference,” held at the end of March in Indianapolis, Ind.

“One of our customers said, ‘Gosh, I wish there was a place to go to learn everything you guys have learned in 18 years,’” Zweede-Tucker says. “Well, we don’t know all the answers, but we managed to gather 11 Ph.D.s and share incredibly good information with the objective of making a go of the meat goat business.”

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service estimates that Montana producers count a total of 9,000 goats, ranking near the bottom. On the top sits Texas with about 980,000, nearly a quarter of the country’s 2.5 million goats.

Bill Laning, president of the Sonora, Texasbased American Meat Goat Association’s board of directors, says goat kids typically sell for between $1.50 and $2 per pound on the hoof, significantly more that the $1 to $1.40 per pound calves bring in.

And beyond the premium paid for goat meat,

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their food, at least during part of the year, can be dirt cheap.

“They select forages not typically selected by cattle—knapweed, leafy spurge, buckbrush,” ZweedeTucker says. “You name it, they adore it. That’s an opportunity. We can turn a detriment into a benefit.”

Matthew Frank

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Poaching Humane Society steps in The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) announced this week it’s offering $2,500 rewards for solid leads in two separate poaching cases now under investigation by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) in western Montana.

According to HSUS Montana State Director Wendy Hergenraeder, the rewards are part of the organization’s two-year-old Animal Abuses campaign aimed at curbing the “worst abuses of hunting” across the country. Hergenraeder says HSUS has offered over $180,000 for information to date, and has paid rewards in Florida and Oregon. This is the third time the organization has become involved with poaching cases in the Missoula area.

“Poaching is an enormous problem in the U.S., and anything we can do to combat this criminal activity is a priority for HSUS,” Hergenraeder says.

“Poachers kill wildlife anytime, anywhere, and sometimes do so in a particularly cruel way.”

FWP has already publicized its need for leads in the two cases HSUS chose to support. The first involves a male mountain lion FWP found skinned in the West Fork area of the Bitterroot Valley. They estimate the animal was killed sometime in December or January. The second case came to light when game wardens were led to a beheaded mule deer buck near Corvallis. Both cases lack any significant leads.

Darby-based FWP Warden Lou Royce says he welcomes the added incentive for informants presented

by HSUS’s campaign. The agency offers its own reward of up to $1,000 through the TIP-MONT program, but the more money, Royce says, the better the odds of someone coming forward. He adds that poaching cases usually prove extremely difficult to investigate.

“It’s tough a lot of times,” Royce says, “because we have to go by the physical evidence we have on the scene, and oftentimes there aren’t any witnesses besides the perpetrators.”

Alex Sakariassen

Locations at which utility lines would have to be permanently raised or buried along a 300-mile route between Lolo Pass and Sweetgrass to accommodate 200 54-yardlong “modules” Imperial Oil wants to lug through Montana to its oil sands project in Alberta. The company released its environmental assessment this week.

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What do you get when you mix 16 world-class strongmen, a few dozen concrete blocks, and the “uncompromised message of salvation through Jesus Christ”?

Yeah, we thought it sounded like the makings of an extreme wrestling federation with host Pat Robertson, too.

Instead, this unusual cocktail of muscle and might (we’re talking about the God kind here) represents the foundation of the Strength Team, a Missoula-based ministry of steel-bending, brick-busting supermen who seem to be all the rage at public schools across the country.

You heard us. For more than five years, the Strength Team has traveled around the United States holding motivational assemblies for America’s youth—750 in 2005 alone.

They break stuff, then talk about positive attitudes. They may strip the religious overtones from their message during school presentations, but we’re still struck by the fact that a group founded on an “evangelistic crusade,” as the Strength Team’s website states, has been so prominently featured by state-funded institutions.

One of the Strength Team’s latest local appearances came last Wednesday at Paxson Elementary. Interim Principal Kelly Chumrau confirms she spoke with one parent after the assembly who voiced concern about the event. Chumrau maintains she found the Strength Team appropriate.

“I wouldn’t have invited them if I thought they’d be sharing a faith message,” Chumrau says.

But this isn’t the first time a parent has questioned the appropriateness of the Strength Team’s presence in public schools. A November 2009 article in the Vail Daily addressed the group’s visit to Brush Creek Elementary in Eagle County, Colo. During the Brush Creek assembly, members of the Strength Team reportedly promoted a separate event at a local high school that evening—one where a presenter discussed creationism and asked the audience to pray.

That promotion prompted the Eagle County Schools to draft a letter to the Strength Team, requesting they refrain from making such statements during future presentations.

Chumrau says the group made no such promotions during the assembly at Paxson Elementary.

The Strength Team has won rave reviews from school administrators in Missoula, Great Falls, Butte and Dillon—to name a few. And they’re certainly deserving of a glowing reputation. Before his career breaking bats for converts, Strength Team Founder Mike Hagen played fullback for the University of Montana, the Seattle Seahawks and two United States Football League teams.

We don’t doubt the positive message of “goals and dreams” these priestly powerhouses offer. We’re just naturally skeptical of any group’s attempts to water down their core beliefs. How does the saying go? You can take the boy out of the church, but you can’t take the church out of the boy.

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argued, apparently, that Smith was ineligible for unemployment benefits because he was fired, and so UID initially refused to grant them, per state law. But Smith challenged UID’s determination, and the subsequent UID investigation could not establish “an intentional disregard” of Smith’s obligation to DirecTV. Three months after his termination, Smith finally received unemployment benefits from UID. In its decision, UID wrote that while Smith did solicit workers to strike, he did so during a company picnic held off DirecTV premises, and he was not being compensated at the time.

“Based on the evidence available at this time,” the Notice of Determination, dated Sept. 28, 2009, read, “an intentional disregard of your obligation to your employer has not been established.

Therefore, your discharge was not for misconduct under [state law].”

Smith, a University of Montana graduate who returned to Salt Lake City to live with family after he lost his job, says UID’s determination essentially proved that DirecTV broke the law.

“That piece of paper pretty much sums everything up,” he says. “In all reality the real reason I was terminated was because I was talking about organizing a union and talking about organizPhoto by Cathrine L. Walters ing a strike.”

Ahearn says he’s unaware of any The National Labor Relations Board accused Missoula’s DirecTV call center other NLRB allegations against DirecTV. of illegally firing employee Mark Smith for organizing a strike in opposition to reductions in compensation. On Monday, two days before a scheduled Mercer declined to detail DirecTV’s trial, the two sides settled the case. unionization policies.

The El Segundo, Calif.-based comHuman resource personnel at the pany—the nation’s top satellite TV According to Smith, the company reduced bonus amounts paid to employ- Missoula call center declined to comment, provider with more than 18 million subees, and the performance levels needed to deferring to DirecTV Public Relations scribers—was lured to Missoula in 2005 earn those bonuses were changed “to a Director Robert Mercer. with an incentive package of county, state “Though we have no doubt we were and federal funds totaling nearly $18 milpoint where they were unattainable.”

“Everyone was ticked at the call cen- fully within our legal rights to terminate Mr. lion. It predicted the call center would Smith given his threats to disrupt business have a $40 million annual economic ter,” Smith says.

Smith took action on June 27, 2009, by operations at our call center,” Mercer says, impact. The 70,000-square-foot facility talking to coworkers at a company picnic “we believe that settling the case without near the Missoula airport now employs about calling in sick or refusing to report to any admission of wrongdoing was in the about 900 people, most of whom are cuswork on the second Sunday of the NFL sea- best interest of all parties.” tomer service representatives with startNLRB leveraged at least two pieces of ing base wages between $10 and $12.50 son, the height of the call center’s call volume. (Thousands of DirecTV’s NFL Sunday likely incriminating evidence against per hour.

Ticket subscribers typically call to upgrade DirecTV to secure the settlement before Sen. Max Baucus, Gov. Brian to high-definition service after it’s offered the April 14 trial. The first and most Schweitzer and local officials lauded the for free on the first Sunday of the season.) important evidence was the company’s partnership that brought DirecTV to Three days later, on June 30, DirecTV fired own separation form. It stated that “Smith Missoula. But critics derided it as corpoSmith because his actions, according to the solicited call center employees in an effort rate welfare. company’s employee separation form, to get up to 200 of them” to strike, which “I think it’s kind of disturbing,” Smith would “cause a disruption of business says, “that taxpayers are fronting the bill “constituted unacceptable behavior.”

“Once DirecTV heard what Mark was operations and to highlight his concerns for this call center to produce jobs…and doing—in other words, talking to employ- about the company’s bonus program.” the call center, or the people who are run“In our view,” Ahearn says, “their own ning it, are directly violating the law to ees about the possibility of a potential walkout—they called him into a meeting and stated reasons are unlawful.” keep their costs down. If I still worked The second piece of evidence was there, I would be upset about that.” fired him,” says Richard Ahearn, NLRB’s regional director. “And so he was fired, in a Montana Unemployment Insurance our view, because he engaged in ‘protected Division (UID) investigation. DirecTV mfrank@missoulanews.com The federal agency that investigates unfair labor practices recently called out Missoula’s DirecTV call center.

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) accused DirecTV of illegally terminating an employee at its Missoula call center for organizing a strike and attempting to form a union. On Monday, two days before a scheduled trial, the two sides settled the case.

Last summer DirecTV fired employee Mark Wade Smith, 26, for engaging in “concerted activities with other employees for the purposes of mutual aid and protection, by soliciting support for union organizing and concerted opposition to [DirecTV’s] changes in incentive pay,” the NLRB alleged in its Jan. 29 complaint.

concerted activity,’ which is protected under the law, and therefore his discharge was a violation of the National Labor Relations Act.” The settlement, negotiated between NLRB and DirecTV and signed on April 12, compensates Smith with more than nine months of back pay totaling $21,056. It absolves DirecTV of violating the National Labor Relations Act, and requires the company to post notices in its Missoula facility stating that federal law gives employees the right to unionize.

“I wasn’t in this for blood,” Smith says of the settlement. “All of this started because DirecTV wasn’t paying me what was fair. So it’s good to get what’s fair—at least under the law.”

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It’s been a long time since Montana’s lone congressman, Republican Denny Rehberg, had an interesting contender for his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. This year, however, is different. There are four Democrats vying in the primary to oppose Rehberg in the general election, and we’ll take a look at those in a future column. But one of the most intriguing aspects of this year’s election is Rehberg’s primary opponent, Dr. A.J. Otjen, of Laurel. A talented and attractive woman, she just might give Rehberg a run in the highest-profile race of this year’s mid-term elections.

Otjen is currently a tenured professor of Integrated Marketing Communications at Montana State University-Billings and, if the awards won by her students are any indication, she’s a very capable mentor. Besides holding a doctorate in economics, Otjen brings real world experience to her task, having retired in her 40s from her position as vice president of the telecommunications giant, Sprint Corporation. As she told Lee’s Capitol Bureau Chief, Chuck Johnson, this week: “The difference between me and Denny is I have actually experienced balancing billiondollar budgets, and he’s been part of the Congress that has failed to do it the past 10 years.”

Of course having Republicans tout their fiscal conservatism is nothing new—they all do. The record, however, is quite different than the campaign pledges. From Ronald Reagan right up through George W. Bush, Republican presidents and Republican-dominated congresses have consistently spent the nation deep into debt. The two main issues driving Republican-caused debt have been onerous and expensive wars and the party’s foundational belief in tax cuts for the wealthy, of which George W. Bush excelled at both.

On the tax issue Otjen’s pretty straight up—and not what you’d expect.

As she said this week: “When you’re talking about balancing the budget, you can’t cut income taxes. Right now, income taxes are 10 percent to 35 percent, practically the lowest in the history of the income tax. You can’t cut taxes now.”

Coming from a Republican, that’s quite a statement. Unfortunately, it’s also one with which many of the party faithful are likely to disagree vehemently.

According to basic Republican economic tenets, the primary way to stimulate the economy and spur investment is through cutting taxes. The main recipients of this largesse, whether they actually invest anything in the economy or not, have tra-

ditionally been the largest corporations and the wealthiest individuals in the nation. Then of course there’s the Tea Party, which could affect the Republican primary, and the “Tea” stands for “taxed enough already.”

On war spending Otjen hasn’t offered much in the way of specifics so far—nor have most other candidates or

Otjen calls “herself ‘a Teddy Roosevelt Republican’ and puts environmental protection as a high priority in her

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platform.

sitting politicos. Her website, however, puts forth what might be seen as conflicting views. While saying she believes we “must attack today’s terrorists and the next generation’s terrorists,” she also says, “Our current strategy is not sustainable” and “we should use war as the last option, always and only for defense.”

Given her understanding of economics and the role our current military spending plays in driving the national debt to record heights, we might have expected more. As an example, this year’s military budget alone could cover almost the entire 10-year projected cost of the contentious health bill without putting us further and further into debt.

Then again, since virtually none of the politicians or candidates from either the Democrat or Republican parties are offering specifics about cutting military spending, perhaps Otjen will sadly just blend in with the chorus of silence on this most important issue.

There are, however, some very significant issues on which she is less obtuse. Take the environment, for instance. Otjen calls herself “a Teddy Roosevelt Republican” and puts environ-

mental protection as a high priority in her platform. She has already been endorsed by the national Republicans for Environmental Protection and Republicans United. The contrast with Rehberg, at least in this regard, could not be more stark.

Like all too many Republicans, Rehberg talks about “what’s good for Montana.” But his horrible record on the environment, one of the worst in Congress, belies his statements. When it comes to a choice between the economy and the environment, Rehberg doesn’t hesitate to toss the environment overboard at the first chance. Otjen, however, believes that “environmental protection is not at odds with economic development. I believe that you do both together.”

As her website notes: “Thirty years from now, we want a Montana where we all gather around the Thanksgiving family dinner table and enjoy fresh vegetables and meats from the farm or ranch right down the road. Our water is clean and crystal clear. Our view of the mountains is through the bluest sky.” Little of that will be possible if Montana and the nation continue on their destructive path of coal mining and burning, but one thing is certain—she’s not mouthing the standard Republican talking points.

Or how about abortion rights? Again, Otjen veers widely from the well-trod Republican path with her stance on a woman’s right to choose, but does it under the rubric of individual privacy. “I have a right to my own bedroom and my body,” she writes on her website.

“Republicans must be consistent on this issue and make individual rights the guiding force on all public policy issues.”

Although Otjen calls herself “a real Republican,” it’s hard to say how that will fly in a Montana Republican primary. If, as the National Republican Party seems to want, they coalesce in defiance to all things Democratic, as the “Party of No,” then Otjen will likely fail in her primary bid. If, on the other hand, people are fed up with the partisan stranglehold in Washington, she might just do okay, especially if you consider the unknown potential for crossover voters and the Tea Party effect.

Win or lose, however, it seems likely we’ll be seeing more of the interesting Dr. Otjen in our political future.

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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Unnatural nature Shooters aim to kill wildlife fauxtography

by Ted Williams

Ever wonder how photographers get those stunning action shots of wildlife?

Cougars, lynxes, lions, tigers, leopards, bears, wolves, foxes, wolverines, leaping and snarling, fur coifed, every whisker in focus? If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

Nature fakery in photography is older than flash powder, but no one goosed it along more than Walt Disney. In The Living Desert, footage of scorpions is run forward and backward to make it appear that they’re square dancing to appropriate music. In White Wilderness, the polar bear cub tumbling down a rock-strewn mountain was thrown over the side. And believing the wives’ tale that lemmings commit mass suicide, Disney paid kids to catch hundreds in Churchill, Manitoba, then transported them to Calgary, Alberta, (where lemmings don’t naturally exist) and mechanically launched them off a high cliff into the Bow River, identified as “the sea.”

Marlin Perkins, host of “Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom,” and Marty Stouffer, host of the Public Broadcasting Service’s “Wild America,” were as bad or worse. Perkins would throw tame animals into rivers, even over waterfalls, so sidekicks could “rescue” them; and Stouffer would stage ridiculous daylight battles between nocturnal species unlikely to interact at any hour.

Apologists for these early producers might have more credibility if the films weren’t still being hawked in DVD and aired on TV. Modern nature fakery is more subtle.

Game farms across the nation, but mostly in the West, truck animals to distant, scenic locations where they perform for “wildlife photographers.” Regulations are lax, and humane treatment lacking. Minnesota Wildlife Connection sold its black bear, Cubby, for $4,650 to country music crooner Troy Gentry, who then illegally “hunted” and killed him in his pen. State records show that a company calling itself Animals of Montana euthanized eight wolves in 2007 because they were “dangerous”—i.e., wolflike.

Until losing its license last year, Animals of Montana was patronized by many of the

nation’s most prominent wildlife photographers and such notable filmmakers as the BBC, National Geographic, Dave & Di Douglas Imax producers, Turner Original Productions and Animal Planet. According to court documents, owner Troy Hyde was convicted of illegal wildlife trafficking.

“Our grizzlies love to perform [and] will amaze you by running towards the cam-

records “State show that a company calling itself Animals of Montana euthanized eight wolves in 2007 because they were ‘dangerous’—i.e.,

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wolflike.

era, standing on command, snarling viciously or posing cute,” proclaims Animals of Montana’s still-active website.

On calendars, posters and magazine pages, wildlife fauxtography proliferates like vacationers’ junk mail. Many of the depicted species are endangered, but why would the public be concerned about that since it keeps encountering these animals at the bookstore, library, newsstand, subways, backs of buses and on television? A snow leopard residing at the Triple D game farm in Kalispell was a photographic cliché long before 2008, when an image of it won first place in the “nature” category of the National Geographic’s International Photography Contest.

Magazines like Outdoor Photographer should be leading the way. Instead, it

sells advertising space to game farms and, in its November 2009 issue, ran a photo of what it captioned a “rural Montana” wolf that “suddenly strayed from the pack” to sniff the photographer’s camera and tripod—something no wild Montana wolf would dream of doing. When I checked with the photographer, I learned there was no “pack” and that he’d rented the wolf in greater Bozeman—at Animals of Montana.

Few calendar publishers or generalinterest magazines seem to care how or where wildlife photos are made. Hook-andbullet publications snap up images of captive fish leaping (to escape battery acid), or captive deer top-heavy with freakishly large antlers produced by drugs, diet supplements and selective breeding.

Still, there is minor progress. Three of the most respected nature magazines— Audubon, National Geographic and National Wildlife—no longer knowingly accept game-farm shots. But accurate identification is hard because some photographers and most photo-stock houses don’t label game-farm images, aware that disclosure might discourage purchase.

A new voice for honesty in wildlife photojournalism is the League of Conservation Photographers, whose director, Cristina Mittermeier, finds game farms “sickening.”

Equally offended are genuine wildlife photographers such as Tom Carlisle, who “cringes” when he sees “endangered species portrayed as cute, cuddly and approachable in non-habitat,” and Tom Mangelsen, who says he is repulsed by the “unimaginable stress” to game-farm animals from heat, boredom, noise and odors when their cages are stacked on top of each other.

Chastened by these and other dissenters, the North American Nature Photography Association voted on Feb. 16, 2010, to cease its longtime practice of running ads for game farms, selling game farms its membership list and distributing their promo. It’s a good move.

Ted Williams is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He writes the “Incite” column for Audubon magazine.

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Unless your head has been stuck in a cloudy haze, you have likely noticed the recent uptick in medical marijuana businesses and patients here in the Garden City. And no matter where you stand on the issue of medical ganja, I bet you’re curious to find out more about this recent growth industry, and what the forecast looks like as it continues to bud.

That’s where this week’s Marijuana Education Day comes into play. It’s a series of exhibits and discussions devoted to hashing out current marijuana policy in Montana by clearing the smoke, so to speak, on topics ranging from ethical caregiver practices to perspectives from law enforcement.

Some high points include a “green business” panel facilitated by Talyn Lang of Zoo Mountain

Natural Care at 10 a.m., followed by a discussion with members of UM’s Students for NORML, as well as Missoula City Councilmen Jason Wiener, Roy Houseman and Bob Jaffe. At 1 p.m., Missoula County Attorney Fred Van Valkenburg and local defense attorneys Craig Shannon and Neil Leitch share their views on the matter. If you’ve got more time to burn, stick around for other talks that cover legalization, potential changes to state legislation and standpoints from the medical community.

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THURSDAY APRIL 15

Northwestern Energy’s John Hines, the Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s Bruce Measure, along with Public Service Commissioner Ken Toole. Visit forwardmontana.org.

Climate change skeptics need not apply: Confront the root causes of climate change with creative conflict mediation by heading to a weekly meeting of Northern Rockies Rising Tide, an environmental/social justice organization which meets this and every Thu. at 6 PM at Break Espresso, 432 N. Higgins Ave. Free to attend. Visit northernrockiesrisingtide.wordpress.com.

SATURDAY APRIL 17 If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM on the second floor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. Visit www.oa.org.

SUNDAY APRIL 18 Missoula is a bona fide bike town. If you don’t have one already, you’ll be able to build your own recycled recumbent or four-wheel bike after you volunteer for two hours at Missoula Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., on Sundays at a TBA time. Call 800-809-0112 to RSVP. This is DIY to the core: The Missoula Urban Demonstration Project presents its 2010 Earth Day Celebration “Do-It-Yourself, With Others,” which runs from noon–7 PM at Caras Park and features speakers, live music, displays and info booths on sustainable living and environmental conservation. Free. Includes music

by Akshinn Slaxx, Luau Cinder, The Workers, Eric Bostrom, Dan Dubuque and others. Visit mudproject.org and call Adam at 721-7513.

MONDAY APRIL 19 Veterans can find support with trained facilitator Chris Poloynis every Mon. at 2 PM, when PTSD group Spartans Honour meets at the Missoula Veterans Affairs Clinic, 2687 Palmer St. Free. Call 829-5400.

Those looking to control their eating habits can get support from others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Mon. at 5:30 PM on the second floor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. Visit www.oa.org.

Let’s hope renewable is part of the answer: Forward Montana presents its Progressive Happy Hour from 5:30–7 PM at the Badlander with the topic “The Future of Montana Energy.” Free. Includes comments from

Marijuana Education Day is Mon., April 19, 10 AM–10 PM at the University Center Ballroom on the UM campus. Free. Call John at 542-8696 and visit montananorml.org.

If you’re 18 or under and your life has been affected by someone else’s drinking, get support with others by joining the Alateen 12-Step Support Group, which meets this and every Monday at 7 PM at First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free, u s e a l l e y e n t r a n c e . C a l l 72 8 - 5 818 o r v i s i t www.al-anon.alateen.org.

TUESDAY APRIL 20 Veterans who need help understanding the benefits and services they’ve earned can get assistance from the Disabled American Veterans Mobile Service Office, which will be on hand to provide counseling and claim filing assistance from 10 AM–5 PM at the Missoula Veterans Affairs Clinic, 2687 Palmer St. Free for veterans and members of their families. Call Kevin at 495-2089.

You can fight for peace in many different ways, but how about knitting for it? Find out when the group Knitting for Peace meets every Tue. from 1–3 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-3955.

Missoula’s YWCA, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts weekly support groups for women every Tue. at 6:30 PM, where groups for Native women and children meet as well. New group members with children are asked to arrive at 6:15, without kids at 6:25. Free. Call 543-6691.

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

THURSDAY APRIL 22 Climate change skeptics need not apply: Confront the root causes of climate change with creative conflict mediation by heading to a weekly meeting of Northern Rockies Rising Tide, an environmental/social justice organization which meets this and every Thu. at 6 PM at Break Espresso, 432 N. Higgins Ave. Free to attend. Visit northernrockiesrisingtide.wordpress.com.

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

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Elbert Lewis Thompson II, 20, was caught after fleeing a traffic stop in Vandergrift, Pa., then sent to a Pittsburgh hospital complaining of feeling sick and losing consciousness. He escaped from the hospital but was promptly arrested when police received a call from a bar that a man had walked in wearing a hospital gown with an intravenous needle still in his arm.

Scot Davis, 52, spent the evening at a bar in Des Moines, Iowa, then left but returned minutes later, pointed a .22-caliber rifle at the two bartenders and demanded cash. He fled, followed by bartender Gladys York, who found his parked car, retrieved the rifle and the car’s registration, and handed them to police back at the bar. Other witnesses turned over business cards that Davis had passed out at the bar to promote his contracting business. “This is not the hardest case our detectives have ever had to investigate,” police Sgt. Lori Lavorato said.

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THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS - Louise Chavez was playing penny slots at the Fortune Valley Casino in Central City, Colo., when the machine flashed a message that she’d won a $42.9 million jackpot. The casino informed her the message was an error and offered her a free breakfast.

WWJE? - Artistic depictions of the Last Supper have increased the sizes of plates and portions in the past thousand years, reflecting people’s tendency to overeat and gain weight, according to a study by brothers Brian Wansink, a Cornell University professor, and Craig Wansink, who teaches religious studies at Virginia Wesleyan College. After analyzing 52 paintings of the Last Supper, the researchers found that the size of the main meal has progressively grown 69 percent, plate size has increased 66 percent and bread size has increased 23 percent. “The last thousand years have witnessed dramatic increases in the production, availability, safety, abundance and affordability of food,” said Brian Wansink, director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab. “We think that as art imitates life, these changes have been reflected in paintings of history’s most famous dinner.”

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BIG BROTHER - After Pennsylvania’s Lower Merion School District gave 1,800 high-school students laptop computers to “ensure that all students have 24/7 access to school-based resources,” the parents of Harriton High student Blake J. Robbins filed a federal class-action lawsuit accusing school authorities of secretly monitoring webcams embedded in the laptops to spy on teens and their families at home. The family said they learned of the webcams when Assistant Principal Lindy Matsko reprimanded their son for “improper behavior in his home.” Robbins, 15, said Matsko accused him of taking drugs after mistaking a piece of candy in a webcam photo for a pill.

Because the webcam can capture anything happening in the room where the laptop is turned on, district personnel could illicitly observe more than a student’s online activity, according to the suit, which charges, “Many of the images captured and intercepted may consist of images of minors and their parents or friends in compromising or embarrassing positions, including, but not limited to, in various stages of dress or undress.”

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THE NAME GAME - The music industry is running out of catchy band names, challenging musicians to invent identities. Rovi Corp., which licenses editorial content to Apple’s iTunes and other music services, said its database lists 1.4 million artist names and last year added an average of 6,521 new names a month. It noted the repeats are piling up, led by 18 past and present acts named Bliss.

In the past, identically named acts often worked in separate regions, causing no conflict. Now, thanks to the digital revolution, musicians can create identities, upload music and reach listeners around the world. The result is a jump in trademark disputes. “If 37 people in California logged on to your MySpace page last month, you can argue that you provide goods and services in California,” even if you’re a Connecticut band who hasn’t released an album or toured out of state, said Atlanta lawyer Joel R. Feldman.

DISORDER IN THE COURT - When defense attorney Ronald Dolak advised his client, Quentin C. Moore, 28, to stop “mouthing off” during proceedings in Kane County, Ill., Moore attacked Dolak and “had to be taken down by at least four officers,” Judge T. Jordan Gallagher said. Dolak added that Moore attacked him again 45 minutes later when the attorney tried to talk to him in a holding cell.

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Diversity

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Looking back at City Council’s historic anti-discrimination vote

by Jessica Mayrer and Skylar Browning • photos by Cathrine L. Walters At 1:50 a.m. Tuesday, Alex Jeffco, 22, and Sarah Olafson, 19, finally let out a collective scream of joy. For nearly seven hours the two huddled outside the Missoula City Council Chambers holding signs in support of a contentious—and historic— anti-discrimination ordinance that aimed to provide legal recourse to individuals denied services, employment or housing based on gender identity or sexual orientation.

When the public hearing started at 7 p.m., Jeffco and Olafson were surrounded by hundreds of demonstrators on either side of Pine Street chanting for or preaching against the ordinance.

But by the early morning hours, after five hours of public comment and another two hours of council debate, they were the last two people standing—or, in Jeffco’s case, sitting—outside in a steady rain, waiting for the final result. When a reporter exited the building and announced the ordinance passed by a decisive 10–2 vote, making Missoula the first city in Montana to pass an LGBT anti-discrimination ordinance, both did a double take, and then simply cried out.

“It was worth it,” said Jeffco of steadfastly staking out her spot all night. “I’d do it for a week, a month if I had to, because it’s that important to me. It’s important for the whole city.”

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Katherine Beckley spoke in favor of the anti-discrimination ordinance during City Council’s public hearing. “I am not confused,” she said. “But sometimes other people are confused or even angered by my appearance.”

Jeffco and Olafson’s passion for the issue was shared on both sides of the debate in the week’s leading up to the Monday night hearing—and, as it turned out, Tuesday morning discussion. Opponents of the ordinance bom-

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barded city government with, according to one official, approximately 750 handwritten letters, e-mails and voice mails stating their strong objection to a law they claimed put women and children at risk, unnecessarily hurt business

owners, or flew in the face of their religious beliefs.

“Man, I’ve never gone through this big of a mailing before,” said Nikki Rodgers, deputy city clerk.

Orchestrated by a recent startup group called Not My Bathroom, much of the correspondence focused on the issue of restroom access. Despite repeated explanations from council members and City Attorney Jim Nugent that no current law addresses men entering women’s restrooms, or vice versa—including this ordinance—the argument stuck with critics of the proposal.

“I am just appalled that you would even consider letting ‘Cross Dressers’ into the women’s bathrooms,” wrote April Armstrong in an e-mail sent to council on March 25. “Horrified is the word…I don’t really care what anyone does in their own homes, but I sure expect that families can keep their rights to privacy. It says ‘women’ on the door for a reason.”

In a voice mail left for Mayor John Engen and council members on April 9, a Bitterroot resident took it one step further. He said he “authorized his wife to shoot any man who enters into a women’s bathroom,” according to city records.

A similar fear fueled the religious argument, as pastors and many Christians said they could

not support an ordinance that condones a lifestyle deemed sinful by the church.

“I am not opposed to those in the homosexual community, I am opposed to the immoral practice of homosexuality,” wrote Rev. James Overbaugh in an e-mail to City Council on March 24. “I believe there is freedom for any and all persons trapped in this destructive lifestyle. You may think me cruel, un-loving, un-educated, un-kind, etc. The truth is that, because of a real love for people and a real desire to see people truly free and happy and healthy in their lives, we endeavor to promote and provide a better way for the homosexual. A way of freedom from the destruction it brings through the redeeming, saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.”

While opponents to the ordinance filled the council’s inbox, proponents of the proposal took to the streets. Local middle school students coordinated Missoula’s inaugural Diversity Day with an evening rally at Caras Park, and then marched to the doorstep of Council Chambers before the meeting. Supporters flanked both sides of Pine Street, substantially outnumbering opponents of the ordinance, and chanted “Flush the fear! Flush the fear!” One sign read, “That do unto others thing, I meant that. —God.” When a cowboy-hat wearing Bible booster started preaching from the adjacent corner, rainbow-clad supporters drowned him out with a call and response of “What do we want? Equality! When do we want it?

Now!” Considering the charged emotions entering the evening, police reported no incidents among the crowd. In fact, throughout the city on Monday night and Tuesday morning, a largely respectful and, eventually, celebratory tone overtook any lingering fear, hate or animosity. It was evident inside Council Chambers, but also in local bars and on street corners away from the official hearing.

Big Sky Christian Center pastor and Alliance Defense Fund attorney Harris Himes, above, said the new legislation will open the door to a flurry of frivolous lawsuits. “Do you really want to attack that gorilla?” he asked. Opponents of the bill, below, staked out the sidewalk directly in front of City Council Chambers, but were outnumbered by supporters of the ordinance.

A public house, indeed For the first time in anyone’s memory, Sean Kelly’s switched every one of its televisions to MCAT and hosted a standing-room-only crowd intent on watching a City Council meeting.

“I’ve never seen anything like it—never,” said server Kendra Burton. “We didn’t plan on this, but we didn’t really have a choice.”

Council Chambers started filling up with prospective speakers and interested observers well before the 7 p.m. meeting. Members of the Montana Human Rights Network staked out territory in the afternoon, only to find the Not My Bathroom contingent had already arrived. By the time the Diversity Day rally reached Pine Street, Council Chambers was full, as was an overflow room next door showing a live cable feed of the meeting. A line of speakers extended all the way down the building’s main hallway, and those waiting persistently assured a steady stream of late arrivals there was no room ahead.

With few alternatives, the crowd flooded into Sean Kelly’s, the next door “public house,” and asked if the front flat-screen television could be switched to MCAT. Soon, the television in the back room of the Irish bar also flipped to the meeting, as did the small television on the other end of the main bar. By 7:30 p.m., staff finally switched the large flat-screen behind the stage, and nearly every table, bar stool and spot near a

television speaker included sign-carrying or sticker-wearing proponents of the ordinance.

Hearing testimony proved difficult, but as key figures of the debate stepped to the microphone, the crowd cheered.

“Bring it, Jamee!” shouted one patron stationed under the back room television so he could hear Jamee Greer of the Montana Human Rights Network speak.

The only confrontation inside Sean Kelly’s came when the bar announced that its regularly scheduled open mic night would proceed as planned at 9 p.m. Undeterred, parties arranged to reconvene at the Union Club. Another group confirmed Al’s & Vic’s had the meeting on—and you could hear it. Then a rumor circulated that, at any minute, the daughter of Not My Bathroom co-founder Tei Nash would speak in front of council and officially come out of the closet in front of her father. Just as quickly, that rumor was debunked—she was supposedly in Spokane.

When open mic started, the remaining viewers took to the bar’s back room and continued watching the meeting.

Burton said the bar usually turns off its televisions during live music, but this night proved an exception.

“We’d at least turn the volume down, but we’re too afraid to shut it off,” she said.

Then Burton added one other tidbit: Even with the overflow crowd and two-hour-plus rush, not one person reported a problem with the bar’s bathroom.

“Not a peep,” she said. “Not a thing.”

“He had no idea” Taryn Nash spent Monday afternoon driving from Spokane, where she’s studying to be a physician’s assistant, to her native Missoula. She says she was nervous the entire trip, and for good reason: She planned to speak in favor of the antidiscrimination ordinance and officially come out as a member of the LGBT community to her father, Tei Nash.

Taryn had told a few friends in the local LGBT community of her plans—hence the rumors—but kept her arrival a secret to her father.

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“He had no idea,” she said. “That was the idea. When I was about the third person in line I saw that he got up and left.”

Taryn spoke for the allotted three minutes, directing the first half of her testimony to her father.

“Dad, I strongly disagree with the way you have been portraying the LGBT community, who are my friends,” she said. “You have gone too far.

I will not sit back any longer and be quiet. I love you because you are my dad, but I have lost respect for you. Your blanket judgments and irrational conclusions are ignorant and hurtful. You need to realize that this crusade that you are on is wrong and it affects me personally. It makes me sad to say this, but Dad, right now I am ashamed to call you my father. I am asking you to stop your ridiculous agenda of battling the LGBT rights or you will lose me forever.”

The second part of her testimony focused squarely on the ordinance.

“I plan to practice medicine with an emphasis on geriatric care in the Missoula community, and I hope to live in a community where I won’t be discriminated against based upon my orientation,” she said. “I also encourage you to pass this ordinance because these wonderful people of the LGBT community deserve protection against discrimination in all areas. They are hard working, trustworthy, loving and respectable people, and I am proud to call them my family.”

After speaking, Taryn, 25, was greeted by a small crowd of friends in the hallway outside Council Chambers. She planned on leaving immediately to drive back to Spokane. She had class at 8 a.m.

“It wasn’t hard for me to speak out because I’m absolutely passionate about this,” Taryn told the Indy. “It was hard for me tonight, though, because my father is who he is. He’s a strong voice in the community, and for that reason I’ve been intimidated. But I’m not scared anymore.”

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Fear factor One of the prevailing sentiments throughout the public comment period was fear. Many members of the LGBT community said they were telling their story for the first time—of getting fired for being a lesbian, of getting denied housing for being gay, of getting attacked for being transgender. Discrimination in Missoula is real, was their message, and this ordinance offered the chance, finally, to acknowledge that members of the LGBT community are equal under the same protections of the law as their neighbors.

Chris Lockridge, for instance, felt he had to lie when his partner’s mother died so he could get off work.

“I was afraid,” he told the council.

Opponents of the ordinance used that exact same argument—fear—to express their concern with the ordinance. Simply by holding certain beliefs, they were already in violation of the proposal.

“As a Christian I cannot ignore the Bible which condemns homosexuality, and there cannot be special protections,” wrote Rachel Hayes in a letter to City Council received April 9. “I believe the passage would abridge civil liberties of Christians.”

During the public hearing, Iris Schmitt cried as she explained the measures she takes to protect her children.

“Children are demonstrating gay actions,” she said. “I will describe to my children that it’s not appropriate, because it’s not appropriate.

And, if they are born that way, there is counseling, there is help. If my child was gay, I would love them, just as I love all of you in this room.”

Some pastors tried to strike a conciliatory tone with council, urging the members to table the ordinance. Given more time, religious organizations may be able to address their concerns.

One pastor thanked the council for at least helping to unite the Christian community on one issue.

“If we’ve never agreed on anything else,” said Midtown Church pastor Russ Smith, “we agree on this.”

At the end of the hearing, after City Council announced the 10-2 vote in favor of the ordinance, Schmitt stood in the doorway to Council

Iris Schmitt wept during her testimony against the anti-discrimination ordinance. “I work at a school, a middle school,” she said. “I see children acting upon the same sex, and it is not okay.”

Chambers, leaning on her husband.

“Is that it?” he asked. “Did they do it?”

“It’s done,” Schmitt told him quietly. “It’s over.”

“Hope, hope, hope” While civility and measured voices largely ruled the public hearing, a different tone was struck just a block away at the Badlander. Haitian lesbian poet Lenelle Moise, a member of the radical performance group Sister Spit, brought a queer crowd to its feet.

“I’m sick of this shit, this be polite shit…I reserve my right to anger…I reserve my right to say fuck you,” Moise said between cheers and whistles that emanated from the mostly lesbian and transgender audience.

Moise read from her self-penned piece, “The Fuck You Now Manifesto.” The work, she explained, stemmed from an encounter with a stranger who felt compelled to, apropos of noth-

ing, shout at the poet and her partner, “Hey, I eat pussy, too.”

That kind of stuff happens to her all the time, Moise said, while many in the audience nodded their heads in a shared frustration. Moise resolved to no longer let anger that stems from incidents of that kind sit quietly inside.

“I’ll remember, I did not cower away like an intimidated mouse,” she said. “I’ll remember.

And I’ll laugh my fucking ass off.”

Moise’s piece and the Sister Spit performance as a whole provided a release for local LGBT people who weathered weeks of being equated with pedophiles, perverts and sinners as part of the anti-discrimination ordinance debate.

The Monday night show was strangely serendipitous, said Eileen Myles, the current University of Montana Hugo Visiting Writer and organizer of the event. When planning the show, she had no idea the City Council meeting would take place the same night. She kept tabs on the

anti-discrimination ordinance debate throughout the evening, periodically glancing up at MCAT’s broadcast on the television above the Badlander bar. For Myles, the law’s passage conveys social acceptance.

“I like the idea of the law claiming us,” said Myles, who lives in New York. “We didn’t come from someplace else. We grew here.”

When asked about ordinance backlash, specifically the Not My Bathroom group, Myles scoffed. Really, she said, it’s not women and children who face danger in public restrooms. If anyone should be scared, it’s androgynous people or a woman with masculine attributes.

“A bathroom is a dangerous place for us, not for kids,” she said.

The event featured Myles and Moise, as well as alternative culture luminaries like writer and founding Sister Spit member Michelle Tea, film director and screenwriter Silas Howard, and translady Annie Danger.

Danger, like Moise, tapped the crowd’s activist vein. Prior to taking the stage, she ran through the crowd, landing high-fives on outstretched hands. Assuming the persona of a latenight infomercial host, the dapper Danger— close-cropped hair, white slacks, a baby blue shirt and yellow tie—made her way to the stage.

“Those of you who came for action, raise your hands and say, ‘Hell yes,’” she said. The raucous crowd happily complied. Danger pushed forward, explaining that outrage for the socially minded is integral to happiness.

“Every single person that I encounter is furious about how this world is being run,” she said.

“How many of you have tried to do something about it?”

The crowd jumped to its feet. A woman in the front row waved a large sign left from the Diversity Day march earlier in the evening, prompting Danger to share more morsels of paradigm-shifting insight.

“I’m a revolutionary. And what that means is, I believe I can make change in the world,” Danger said.

That’s what it takes, she said. One must get up everyday and find hope. As she prepared to leave the stage, Danger called on the crowd to join her in a growing chorus of “Hope, hope, hope.”

City Council listened to five hours of public comment during the hearing. According to the mayor’s office, 134 people spoke, with 85 in favor of the anti-discrimination ordinance and 49 opposed.

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Ward 1’s Jason Wiener shared a similar story of being raised in a fundamentalist household and being driven to pass the ordinance as much because of why some opposed it, as for why he supported it.

He quoted Isaiah 61:1, which had been tacked to his door as a child. It reads: “The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed Hundreds of demonstrators lined both sides of Pine Street me to preach good news to the before the public hearing. Despite the large crowds, police poor. He has sent me to bind reported no incidents during the event. up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives, and release from darkness for the prisoners.”

History in the making Wiener said he would live up to that passage By 12:30 a.m., after five hours of public comwith his vote in favor of the ordinance. ment and a short recess to allow everyone in the Ward 5’s Dick Haines spoke of racial still-full chambers to stretch, Mayor John Engen discrimination he witnessed in the U.S. Army opened City Council’s debate of the ordinance.

The late hour and emotional testimony and retold a story of crossing the country with a prompted many council members to apologize black soldier. Ward 5’s Renee Mitchell for being a little tired, tripping over words or recalled her own experience of discrimination as stumbling through parliamentary procedures. It a young basketball player wanting to compete also appeared to encourage them to tell person- with men. Haines voted for the ordinance. al stories of why, exactly, they wanted to vote in Mitchell, along with Ward 4’s Lyn Hellegaard, did favor of the state’s first-ever LGBT anti-discrimi- not.

Ward 3’s Stacy Rye, the other co-author of the nation ordinance.

“Over the past several weeks, I’ve received measure, said she’d never experienced a public what you might say is a fair number of less than hearing like this one. The stories of hate and charitable phone calls and e-mail messages, some injustice relayed to council showed that not expressing dismay that I have small children and at everyone is free in our society.

“Most of us can’t remember civil rights the same time would support this ordinance,” said in action,” she said. “This is it for us. This is our Dave Strohmaier, Ward 1 council member and colifetimes.” author of the measure. “To those individuals, I say That sentiment stuck with Olafson outside it is precisely because I have children that I am unwavering in my commitment to passing this the Council Chambers after the final vote was ordinance this evening, or this morning as the case announced. The University of Montana student may be. I want to bestow to my kids a Missoula didn’t know what to expect from the charged that will value them regardless of who they are or evening when she first joined the Diversity Day what they look like, regardless of whether they’re march—Confrontation? Chaos? Who knew? But she came away with a sense of pride in both the gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender.”

Ward 4’s Jon Wilkins spoke openly about outcome, and the level of debate between two being adopted by “holy rollers” who tried to cast disparate parts of the community.

“There’s been a lot of passion on both sides, the demons out of him when he was young.

“Well, they did,” he said, “but I went with and I respect that,” she said. “It’s been educational. It’s been very encouraging. To see how all of them.”

Wilkins said he actually switched local this has gone on, seeing how many people care churches over the ordinance, declining to remain so much about this issue, it’s inspired me even a part of a congregation that couldn’t accept more. I understand that today’s just the first part members of the LGBT community and their of a longer conversation.” lifestyle.

“I grew up in that philosophy,” he said. “I jmayrer@missoulanews.com knew it was wrong when I was 12 years old, and sbrowning@missoulanews.com I believe it’s wrong today.”

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It’s personal FLASHINTHEPAN Local food. Organic food. Natural food. Fairtrade food. To me, these loosely competing paradigms are useful guideposts when I’m shopping for groceries, but they don’t describe my preferred diet.

If I had to describe my food in a single word, I would say “personal.”

Some people say love is the most important ingredient in cooking. With personal food, the love goes without saying. Personal food is a love story that begins long before the meal is prepared, and the consummation, while hopefully climactic, is the final chapter.

What distinguishes food as personal is the role I play in the creation or acquisition of its ingredients. It’s food with which I have a measure of involvement, beyond just having bought it. A meal won’t be disqualified for containing storebought ingredients, but it’s the hard-won ingredients that determine how personal it really is. If a home-cooked meal doesn’t have at least one ingredient that I grew, swapped for, preserved, hunted, gathered, bought directly from a farmer, brought home from a faraway land or otherwise made some special effort to acquire, then it isn’t personal.

The biggest sex organ in your body, according to sex therapist Dr. Ruth, is the mind. And for similar reasons I believe the mind is one of the body’s biggest taste buds as well. The more a meal’s story is known, the more meaning it has, and being able to mentally picture where something came from adds to the experience of eating it.

Many a dinner guest has suggested to me, “You should open a restaurant.” While I appreciate the compliment, it’s rather like a satisfied lover suggesting, “You should be a hooker.” My food is good because I obsess about my ingredients. Good broccoli, lightly blanched and quickly frozen at the peak of freshness last summer, will be more alive and flavorful than fresh broccoli shipped in from somewhere and purchased at the store. I treasure such ingredients for their quality and the work I put into them, and I make sure they are prepared to look and taste their best.

This isn’t to say that purchased food can’t be personal, but it must have a story that you are privy to, that you can play a role in. There’s nothing compelling about purchasing grass-fed organic beef at the store. But if you buy the same thing at the farm-

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ers’ market, directly from the producer, that’s beginning to get personal. You have a relationship, however fleeting, with the rancher who had a relationship with the animal. If you and the farmer become friendly, things can become much more personal.

Maybe you buy a quarter of beef for the freezer.

Having a stash of food put up, like some cut and wrapped chunks of personal beef in the freezer, changes things. Your meal planning begins to shift

local, but there are exceptions. Returning from a recent trip to France, I brought home some Turkish figs and dates, five pounds of Breton sea salt, some French filet bean seeds (seized at the border, dammit), a few pounds of amazing cheese, a salami (also confiscated), some chocolate, chestnut paste, a few cartons of crème anglaise (kind of like eggnog) and two baguettes, which were crushed in my luggage. If I shave some of my stinky French cheese onto a fried egg from my backyard hens, that’s deeply personal, even though the cheese came from far away. My bags of sea salt, meanwhile, will allow me to sprinkle that personal touch onto hundreds of meals.

Eating my brutalized baguettes became a race against the clock as they quickly hardened. I ate them with cheese, with breakfast, with salad, wishing I still had that salami. And then I had an inspiration that will change my personal meal plan forever.

It started with a flashback of the North African grocers in Paris who sold a rainbow of olives, stuffed peppers, feta cheese, pickles and many other goodies, including marinated sun-dried tomatoes.

Last summer we preserved our tomatoes as ketchup, salsa, ratatouille and pasta sauce—the usual suspects. We also experimented with sundried tomatoes, which turned out to be the easiest and most efficient way to process them. But we hadn’t really mastered the art of eating sundried tomatoes. They made great snacks, but hadn’t evolved into ingredients.

Photo by Ari LeVaux I put a handful of sun-dried tomatoes in a bowl and poured balsamic and wine vinegar from “what do we need to pick up at the store” to on them. I added a sprinkle of Breton sea salt, “what do we need to thaw out.” If your steak is let them soak in the vinegar for a few minutes, cooked with homegrown garlic, that further person- poured olive oil into the bowl, mixed it up, and alizes the meal. If that package of ground beef is voilà: a very nice condiment to eat with my used for burgers you serve with homemade ketchup baguette. made from homegrown tomatoes and mustard Since then I’ve tried adding slivers of homeground from the mustard seeds at the bottom of a jar grown garlic to this marinade, as well as chunks of of pickled peppers you made, the story gets even local feta and dried homegrown basil. better. If you want a cheeseburger, but don’t have When the baguette became dangerously hard, I your own cheese-making operation, buy some froze the remains. Maybe it will end up in stuffing. cheese from the lady at the farmers’ market, and Maybe bread pudding. Maybe as seasoned crumbs don’t forget to ask how her goats are doing. on a piece of fried fish. Whatever ends up becoming Because long-distance relationships with ingre- of that half-stale baguette I bought on the way to the dients are usually tricky, personal foods tend to be airport, it will be personal.

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LISTINGS $…Under $5 $–$$…$5–$15 $$–$$$…$15 and over 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. $ Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzones, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a "biga" (pronounced beega) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making.

Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as

artisan meats and cheeses. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch and dinner, Mon-Sat. Beer & Wine available. $-$$ Blue Canyon Kitchen 3720 N. Reserve (adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn) 541-BLUE www.bluecanyonrestaurant.com We offer creatively-prepared American cooking served in the comfortable elegance of their lodge restaurant featuring unique dining rooms. Kick back in the Tavern; relish the cowboy chic and culinary creations in the great room; visit with the chefs and dine in the kitchen or enjoy the fresh air on the Outdoor Patio. Parties and special events can be enjoyed in the Bison Room. Hours: Tavern hours Monday-Saturday 3pm11pm, Sunday 3pm-10pm . Dining Room hours MondaySaturday 5pm-10pm, Sunday 4pm-9pm. $$-$$$ The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins Ave. 542-0002 Dine-In, Drive-Thru, Delivery... Truly a Missoula find.

Popular with the locals. Voted Missoula's best pizza. Everything from hand-tossed, thin-crust, stone deck pizza to wild salmon burri-

tos, 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. $-$$ Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 37 years of great coffees and teas.

Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ 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. Try our Wednesday all you can eat Spaghetti!

Dinner only and take out service available. Ciaomambo.com or 543-0377. $$-$$$

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by TJ Maxx & Ross 549-5595 In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of ... ice cream! ColdStone is home-made, super-premium and more delicious than it should be, it seems! Cast your eyes on all our mix-ins and choose your favorites, be it for a cone, icecream cake or ice-cream sandwich! Many a fine folk will find ... It's a Great Day for Ice-Cream! $-$$ Doc's Gourmet Sandwiches 214 N. Higgins Ave. • 542-7414 Doc's is an extremely popular gathering spot for diners who appreciate the great ambiance, personal service and generous sandwiches made with the freshest ingredients. Whether you're heading out for a power lunch, meeting friends or family or just grabbing a quick takeout, Doc's is always an excellent choice. Delivery service within a 3 mile radius.

Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave • 721-6033 Missoula's Original Coffeehouse/Cafe located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch seven days a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, with baked goods and an espresso bar till close. Open Mon-Thurs 7am-8pm, Fri & Sat 8am4pm, Sun 8am-8pm. $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 South 3rd West • 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted free-range chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm. $–$$ Harry Davids 2700 Paxson Street, Suite H • 830-3277 Kicking off in February is LIVE BAND KARAOKE and LADIES NIGHT at Harry David’s every Thursday night at 9:30pm. Drink specials for the Ladies! Part Karaoke / Part Dance night with the band Party Trained, this is your opportunity to sing like a rockstar with a live band backing you up – and it will be every Thursday! If Karaoke is not your thing – no problem the band will be playing in between karaoke songs to keep you on the dance floor!

Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot.

All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. We also offer catering. www.justinshobnobcafe.com MC/V $-$$ HuHot Mongolian Grill 3521 Brooks • 829-8888 At HuHot you’ll find dozens of meats, seafood, noodles, vegetables and homemade sauces for the timid to the adventurous. Choose your favorites from the fresh food bars. You pick ‘em…we grill ‘em. We are as carnivore, vegetarian, diabetic, lo-salt and low-carb friendly as you want to be!

Start with appetizers and end with desserts. You can even toast your own s’mores right at you table. A large selection of beer, wine and sake’ drinks available. Stop by for a great meal in a fun atmosphere. Kid and family friendly. Open daily at 11 AM. $-$$ Indulge Bakery 700 SW Higgins Ave. 544-4293 indulgebakery.wordpress.com Now open! Enjoy international flavors from baci di dama to pizzelles, gourmet cupcakes, scones and decadent cinnamon rolls. Specialty breads hot and fresh between 3 and 5pm daily.

Open M-F 7am-6:30pm; Sat. 9am-4pm See us on Facebook!

Call to find out more (406)523-3951. $ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Not matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $-$$ Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins Ave. • 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All our menu items are made from scratch and we use no MSG products. Featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive hot and ice tea menu including bubble tea. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Open Mon-Sat, lunch 11:30-2PM and dinner 5PM-close. LIVE JAZZ Saturdays FREE $-$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere.

Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. Special senior menu & a great kids’ menu. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$

Osprey Nest “Loaded Pizza Burger.”

Atmosphere: The Nest’s interior is dominated by sports memorabilia and video poker machines, as well as a sprawling fake tree left over from the building’s days as Perugia, the Risho family’s old Mediterranean style restaurant.

Who you’re drinking with: “Pretty much everybody in this building right now is a regular,” says bar tender Angie Nelson on her Friday night shift. Nelson says it’s mostly a neighborhood spot. “It’s safe,” says Chris Woerz, a regular who lives four blocks from the Osprey Nest. “You don’t have to cross the river and get into trouble or go downtown.”

What you’re drinking: The bar serves up the usual smattering of domestic beers, but shots and cocktails also cross the bar. “Fireball and Jaeger go hand and hand I think,” says bartender Drew Henley.

Happy Hour specials: $6 domestic and $8 import pitchers from 5 to 7 p.m., nightly.

How you’ll afford more Fireballs: Play the bar’s Shake-A-Day; 50 cents gets you five dice to roll, and a Yahtzee will score you the pot. “The higher it gets, the more people play,” says bartender Mandy McHatton, adding that the rolling heats up at around $300 dollars and has previously reached almost a grand.

How to land in the Nest: Located at 1106 West Broadway, near the Red Lion Inn and directly across the Clark Fork from where the Missoula Osprey play.

–Kyle Lehman Happiest Hour is a new column that celebrates western Montana watering holes. To recommend a bar, bartender or beverage for Happiest Hour, e-mail editor@missoulanews.com.

What you’re eating: The Big Sky Drive-In is next door and just started posting menus in the bar. Call before 7 p.m. and they’ll bring over anything from regular corn dogs to the $5

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Open 8 am to 10 pm daily. $-$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 Don't feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that?

Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day!

Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $6.95. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $6.95. Eat in or take-out.

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Pearl Café & Bakery 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 Country French Specialties, Bison, Elk, Fresh Fish Daily, delicious salads and appetizers. Breads and desserts baked in house. Reservations recommended for the warm & inviting dining areas, or drop in for a quick bite in the wine bar. Now, you may go to our website Pearlcafe.US to make reservations or buy gift certificates, while there check out our gorgeous wedding and specialty cakes. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Red Robin 2901 Brooks Street • 830-3170 www.redrobin.com Half the price, twice the fun! Halfy Hour at the Southgate Mall Red Robin®! Half price bar drinks Monday – Friday, 4-6 p.m. and Monday – Saturday, 9-10 p.m. Enjoy a drink with one of our insanely delicious Gourmet Burgers, Bottomless Steak Fries. Or, snack on one of our shareable starters with friends! $-$$ 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 tan-

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talizing 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! $-$$ Scotty’s Table 131 S. Higgins Ave. 549-2790 Share a meal on our park side patio or within the warm elegance of our location at the historic Wilma Building. Enjoy our seasonal menu of classic Mediterranean and European fare with a contemporary American twist, featuring the freshest local ingredients. Serving lunch Tues-Sat 11:00-2:30, and dinner Tues.-Sat. 5:00-Close. Beer and Wine available. $$-$$$

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The Stone of Accord 4951 N. Reserve St. 830-3210 Serving Award Winning Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinners 7 days a week! All of your favorite Irish classics, plus a daily selection of Chef's specialties. A fully stocked bar, wine and liquor store and the Emerald Casino make The Stone of Accord the perfect place for an enjoyable meal. 6:30am-2:00am $-$$ NOT JUST SUSHI Sushi Hana Downtown offering a new idea for your dining experience. Meat, poultry, vegetables and grain are a large part of Japanese cuisine. We also love our fried comfort food too. Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner. Corner of Pine & Higgins.

549-7979. $$–$$$ 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. $-$$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$

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For the dogs Shame on you, Ari! The first rule of beef cheeks is: never talk about beef cheeks.

Talk about beef cheeks (see “The dog food diet,” March 18, 2010) and next thing you know it’ll be the chic cut, and will soon be priced accordingly.

We lost flank steak. We lost chuck roast. We lost chicken wings. Hell, even the Good Food Store charges $1 a pound (!) now for chicken necks. If people keep learning about the rest of the cow, pig, and chicken I’ll have to resort to eating boneless skinless chicken breasts. I shudder at the thought.

Mention hog jowls or chicken combs and I’ll never read your column again.

As for raw food diet for dogs, my 11-year-old beloved German shepherd eats better than many people do that way. Please caution anyone you know that careful consideration must be made as to what to feed your dog, and any beef, lamb or larger bones should be fed under close supervision. A larger dog can easily crunch a $1.50 lamb bone small enough to enter the gut, but not

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I only feed meat off the bone, raw chicken bones (necks, backs, frames) hacked up to smaller pieces with a heavy knife, cleaver style chop, or big beef bones that they can chew meat off of but that are too large for the dog to get enough leverage to crack. This diet costs quite a bit, especially with a larger dog—I spend about $25–30 a week.

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Thursdays, which features the Missoula Art Museum’s permanent collection on display for your perusal starting at 5 PM at the gallery, 246 N. Higgins Ave. Cost TBA. Reflect and then rawk: The Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St., presents Artini: Portraits (No Two Alike), which runs from 5:30–9 PM and features a 6 PM talk by artists Josh Shaffner and Paul Lerner on their approaches to portraiture, plus music all evening from Rooster Sauce. Free. Local artists will also be on hand to sketch your likeness on a portrait wall. Call 721-0447 and visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

Climate change skeptics need not apply: Confront the root causes of climate change with creative conflict mediation by heading to a weekly meeting of Northern Rockies Rising Tide, an environmental/social justice organization which meets this and every Thu. at 6 PM at Break Espresso, 432 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Visit northernrockiesrisingtide.wordpress.com.

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Bard of the shadows. Leon Redbone serves you up slices of jazz, blues and ragtime Fri., April 16, at 8 PM at the Top Hat. $27.50, with advance tickets at Ear Candy and Rockin Rudy’s or online at tickets300.com.

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So much to learn: UM presents the 2010 National Conference on Undergraduate Research, which features presentations by undergraduates from across the country and starts at 8:40 AM at various locations on U M ’ s C a m p u s . Fr e e t o a t t e n d . Vi s i t umt.edu/ncur2010 to access a complete

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The Missoula Public Library continues its celebration of National Library Week with “Support Teen Lit Day,” which features recordings of teens reading passages from their favorite books starting at 10 AM and running all day in the Young Adult room of the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

nightlife Get a dose of artistic pleasure this and every third Thu. during the Dana Gallery’s Third

Bruce Threlkeld opts out of your towel snapping contest when he plays Americana and bluegrass at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. Adventure hits your local library when Montana author and UM prof Rick Graetz exhibits photos of the Rocky Mountain Front, and discusses its rich history of conservation, from 6:30–8 PM at the large meeting room of the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call Holly at 466-2600 and visit savethefront.org.

Leisure suit plus beer goggles not required: Trivial Beersuit, Missoula’s newest trivia night, begins with sign ups at 6:45 PM and trivia at 7 PM at the Brooks and Browns Lounge, end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., April 16, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Overlord c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. Free. Includes drink specials by Bayern Brewery, prizes and trivia categories that change weekly. E-mail Katie at kate skins@gmail.com.

Getting buzzed is always allowed: The Lucky Strike Bar, 1515 Dearborn Ave., presents Buzz Time Trivia, which starts at 7 PM this and every Thu. and features trivia plus specials on Jello shots and homemade pizzas. Free to attend. Call 549-4152.

Celebrate the fact that you got money back from the government—or had to pay them dearly—during the Peace and Justice Film Series “Tax Day Shorts,” which features a screening of Weather the Storm, followed

by Death & Taxes, starting at 7 PM in UM’s Urey Lecture Hall. Free. Visit peaceand justicefilms.org.

A teen in the Civil War era tries to track down his MIA bro by heading south when Howard Mosher leads a presentation and signs copies of Walking to Gatlinburg, starting at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

Adventure, mountaineering and environmentalism hit the screen during The Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation sponsored screening of the Telluride Mountainfilm Festival, which starts at 7 PM at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. $15/$12 advance at the White Room Mountain Shop in Whitefish. Visit bmwf.org for more info mountainfilm.org for the lineup of films.

He won’t split your tab, but he will sing you a sweet tune. Trent Atkins, of local band The Workers, presents a solo show of original material blending bluegrass, blues and folk from 7–9 PM at The Mandolin, the restaurant inside the Union Club. Free.

Blue collar workers find frustration in the face of wealth, while closing a car deal brings with it loneliness and isolation during Montana Rep Missoula’s Four One-Act Comedies, with a performance of Roger Hedden’s If I Had, followed by James McClure’s Used Cars, starting at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10/$5 student rush at 7 PM. $2 off if you buy tickets to all four shows. Call 2434581 for advance tickets.

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

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

Feel free to flail around like a rock star whilst busting out your best version of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” during karaoke at Deano’s Casino near Airway Blvd., 5318 W. Harrier, this and every Thu. at 9 PM. Free.

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

Satan gets a free pass to this one: Chicago metal/garage rockers Bible of the Devil bring you to the dark side when they rock the Palace at 9 PM. $5. Opening support from Rooster Sauce and Thug Nasties. (See Noise in this issue.)

They pay Uncle Sam with smokin’ grass: Duluth, Minn.’s Trampled By Turtles gives a thumbs up to fast pickin’ when they play a “Tax Day Grass Bash” with special guests Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside, starting at 9

PM at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. $16/$13 advance plus fees at the Green Miszoo. Advance tickets also include a 10-percent discount off items at Green Miszoo.

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.

Women celebrate their womanhood with cheap libations and a bit o’ karaoke with help from the band Party Trained during Ladies’ Night and Live Band Karaoke at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, this and every Thu. at 9:30 PM. Free to attend. Call 830-3277.

Dance with a cougar or two, or not, every Thu. at 10 PM when the James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., hosts The Social Club, featuring DJ Fleege spinning an expansive array of tech house and progressive electro dance tunes. Free.

Cross your karaoke sword with others during Combat DJ and Karaoke nights, this and every Thu. at the Press Box, 835 E. Broadway St., at 10 PM. Free.

The Flip Wilsons whip up a stew of angular rock riffs when they play the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Nate Hegyi, lead singer/songwriter of Wartime Blues, keeps the folk and Americana flowing free when he plays with a rotating cast of friends this and every other Thu. at the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., at 10 PM. Free.

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Less cowbell, more snare drum: UM’s Music Department presents its “Day of Percussion,” a series of public clinics on percussion including vibraphones and African drumming, which starts with registration at 9 AM in the lobby of UM’s Music Building. $10.

Clinics follow at 9:30 AM and run throughout the day in the Music Building. Cost includes admission to the Percussion Ensemble concert later that night. Call 243-4819.

The Missoula Public Library hosts a preschool storytime geared toward children 3–6 years old every Fri. at 10:30 AM. This week, Drugs: America’s Holy War by Arthur Benavie. Just kidding. (Did I need to tell you that?) Free. Call 721-BOOK. The Poverello Center, 535 Ryman St., hosts an education/outreach committee meeting starting at noon in the Pov’s emergency shelter and soup kitchen. Items up for discussion include the Double Haul Fundraiser, Earth Day education and outreach, as well as grants, board development and the facility contract.

Free. Call 728-1809.

nightlife They shoot from the gut and the bucket. Local gut-bucket blues band MudSlide Charley plays a happy hour set at 5:30 PM at the Brooks and Browns Lounge at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. Free.

Give it up for Missoula’s newest batch of young filmmakers during a “Red Carpet Premiere Screening,” which features films made by middle school and high school students involved in the Flagship Program and runs from 6–8 PM at the Roxy Theatre, 718 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Visit wildlifefilms.org and call 728-9380.

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You will get out alive: The Missoula Indian Center Tobacco Use Prevention Community Coalition and Red Hawk Designs presents its Murder Mystery Dinner Theater, which features American Indian food, appetizers and dessert and runs from 6–9 PM each night until April 18 at Fort Missoula’s Heritage Hall, Building T-2 on Fort Missoula Road. $50 couple/$30 per person. All proceeds go to the Tobacco Use Prevention Program. Call Dana Kingfisher at 829-9515 Ext. 111.

Keep a DIY institution growing and flowing during the Zootown Arts Community Center’s Art in Bloom Fundraiser, which features live printmaking with artist Molly Murphy and plenty more aesthetic delights from 6:30–8:30 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. $30 advance.

Call 549-7555 and visit zootownarts.com

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You’re a cheap date, not a cheapskate: The Missoula Public Library hosts another installment of its cheap date movie night, which screens a TBA movie at 7 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Enter from the parking lot side of the building. Call 721-BOOK and visit missoulapubliclibrary.org for updates on movie titles.

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Enjoy a weekend of American Indian culture and witness skilled dancers and drummers during the “Annual Kyi-Yo Pow Wow,” which starts with the first grand entry at 7 PM at UM’s Adams Center. $5. The pow wow resumes on Sat., April 17 at noon. Weekend passes are available for $12. Call 243-2039 and visit umt.edu/kyiyo.

You can stare, but not wear: Selvedge Studio, 509 S. Higgins Ave., continues its Project Selvedge fashion show at 7 PM at the studio. Free to attend. Call 541-7171.

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Dig deep during the lecture “Archaeology of the German Gulch Chinese,” a talk with UM graduate student William T. Norman at 7 PM in Room 222 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free.

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A bottle of cheap vodka and the relationship between work, land and ourselves gets explored during Montana Rep Missoula’s Four One-Act Comedies, with a performance of Roger Hedden’s Deep in the Hole, followed

by Ron Fitzgerald’s Boomtown, starting at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $15/$5 student rush at 7 PM. $2 off if you buy tickets to all four shows. Call 243-4581 for advance tickets.

Arias engage your senses during UM’s Opera Theater, which starts at 7:30 PM at the University Congregational Church, 401 University Ave. $10/$5 students and seniors.

Call 243-6880.

They are the three kings of polyrhythms: The UM Music Department presents its Percussion Ensemble and Islanders Steel Band Spring Concert, which features guest artists Ed Saindon, Jeff Prosperie and Robert Levin, starting at 7:30 PM at the University Theatre. $10/$5 students and seniors. Call 243-4819.

Johnsmith gets bardic when he brings folk, Americana and even some Celtic music to Polson when he plays the Polson High School Auditorium, 111 Fourth Ave. E., at 7:30 PM. $14/$12 advance at True Value Hardware in Ronan or Fiddlesticks Music in Polson. Visit accessmontana.com/bigproductions.

He just might let you touch his fedora: Leon Redbone keeps his sunglasses on at all times when he plays jazz, blues and ragtime at the Top Hat at 8 PM. $27.50, with advance tickets at Ear Candy and Rockin Rudy’s or online at tickets300.com.

The Stringlers tinker with your heartstrings when they play swing, bluegrass and Irish

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music at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. No cover, but pass-the-hat donations welcome. Call 741-2361.

Don’t be such a hater: The Hamilton Players present a performance of I Hate Hamlet, which starts at 8 PM at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road. $14/$8 children.

Call 375-9050 and visit hamiltonplayers.com.

The Wild Coyotes recommend moaning and groaning with them but not at them when they play rock and country at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Call 543-6346.

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

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

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.

Feel free to flail around like a rock star whilst busting out your best version of Hall and Oates’ “Kiss on My List” during karaoke at the Deano’s Casino near Airway Blvd., 5318 W. Harrier, this and every Fri. at 9 PM. Free.

Reverend Slanky just wants to sap your precious bodily fluids when they play funk and soul at the Badlander at 9 PM. $5.

He hails the overlord of bass: San Francisco’s Commodore 69 (aka DJ Nitsuj) makes the dancefloor sizzle with a set of bass line, UK funky, drum ‘n bass and dubstep when he plays Robotrash vs. Hot n’ Heavy at 9 PM at the Palace. $5. Locals Kris Moon, Tak 45 and Coda open.

Shane Clouse and Stomping Ground never hesitate to drink the milk pouring out of your pores when they play country the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

You chug the hot sauce, they’ll chug the whiskey. Sho Down safely throws down a set of country when they play Florence’s High Spirits Club and Casino, 5341 Hwy. 93 N., at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 273-9992.

Son of a Gun decides to experiment on you with meat skewers when they play country at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2. Call 830-3277.

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.

The Lil’ Smokies opt out of your sensual oil massage sesh when they play Americana at the Top Hat at 10:30 PM. Cover TBA.

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If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM on the second floor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free.

Visit www.oa.org.

Get rid of some of your old sleeping bags, backpacks and other outdoors gear in order to help out the Mountain Shepherds—a community run, eco-tourism organization located in

the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve in India— during the Nature-Link Institute’s Gear for the Garhwal drive, which runs through April 30 with drop off locations at Pipestone Mountaineering, The Trail Head, Aerie Wilderness Medicine and UM’s Outdoor Program. Call 370-2294 and visit visit nature-link.org.

This is the good kind of mold: The Ravalli County Museum, 205 Bedford St. in Hamilton, presents “Ceramic Press Molds” a ceramics class with artist Randi O’Brien, which starts at 10 AM at the museum. Free. RSVP by calling 3633338 and visit brvhs.org.

Hook Mother Nature up by picking up trash along the Clark Fork River during the Clark Fork Coalition River Clean Up, which starts with a meet up at Caras Park at 10 AM. Free, with a barbecue to follow the clean up. Visit clarkfork.org and call 542-0539.

Those suffering from illness or loss can find solace during one of Living Art Montana’s Creativity for Life workshops at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St., at 10:30 AM. This week features the program “Twisted Wire Necklace” with Michel Colville. Free, but donations are appreciated but not expected. Register by calling 549-5329 or visit livingartofmontana.org.

She’s got cool moves: Kristi Hager hosts “Making Waves: 10th Anniversary of the Cool Water Hula,” a discussion on the dance performance—which brings awareness to the toxic water accumulating in Butte’s Berkeley Pit—starting at 11 AM at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free, all ages. A hula lesson follows the talk. Call Kristi at 327-6681 and visit coolwaterhula.blogspot.com.

Your child expresses innovative abstraction through dance, claps, singing and more during Kids’ Vibrations with Matthew Nord and Lynn Talarico of Tangled Tones, where the imagination rolls at 11 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Free. Call 396-3352.

Learn to take snapshots like a pro during The Rocky Mountain School of Photography’s Photography Open House, which features an info session on its career training program, a tour of the school, plus a critique of your own images, starting at 1:15 PM at the school, 216 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Interested participants are encouraged to bring two images for a critique. Call 543-0171 and visit rmsp.com.

starts at 4 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

nightlife When they say jump, you say “Of course!” The Burning River Trio heats you up when they play Stevensville’s Blacksmith Brewing Co., 114 Main St., at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 777-0680.

Honor those who have worked for the good of animals in Missoula during the Humane

They’d rather not roll around in the mud with you. Gut-bucket blues band MudSlide Charley keeps the indigo flowing when they play the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. Jazz makes the pad thai go down smooth when IZA Asian Restaurant, 529 S. Higgins Ave., presents free live jazz from a rotating cast of local musicians at 6:30 PM this and every Sat. at the restaurant. Call 830-3237.

This is a trifecta of yum: The Missoula Community School hosts its annual fundraiser/silent auction during the Taste Trifecta: Wine, Chocolate and Coffee Tasting, which features the tasting plus live music from 6:30–10 PM at the Stensrud Building, 314 N. First St. W. $25, with tickets available at the Missoula Community School, Posh Chocolat and at the door. Includes jazz by Carla Green and Jim Chilcote, as well as blues from Kevin Van Dort. Call 542-2833.

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all that jazz

This year’s Jazzoula brings with it a slight dilemma for music junkies: There’s just so much to hear.

Not that I’m complaining or anything. But, seriously, over the course of four nights, you’ll be able to swing your hips and bop your toes to 19 groups busting out an array of jazz originals and standards.

So, where to start? Well, you should definitely check out the free offerings on Monday night, which include sets by UM Griz Jazz, along with the simmering sounds of Margi and the Smoking Jackets and the Front Street Jazz Group, who you might recognize from its ongoing gigs at the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night. If it’s cover tunes you’re after, I wouldn’t miss local pianist David Morgenroth, pictured here, who plans to bring down the house when he plays a number of classics by Duke Ellington on Tuesday night.

Actually, he’ll probably tear the roof off, so to speak, with his dexterous digits. If you’re not intimate with Morgenroth, here’s the scoop: He’s an established pianist who collaborates with vocalist Eden Atwood, and he’s performed with luminaries like Lionel Hampton. Most recently, Morgenroth released Alone

WHAT: Jazzoula WHEN: Mon., April 19–Thu., April 22, at 6:30 PM nightly WHERE: St. Anthony Parish, 217 Tremont St.

HOW MUCH: $20 for a week pass/$10 per Pack your ears with grass during night/$8 per night students and The Montana Rockies Bluegrass seniors/free on Mon. night Association’s (MRBA) 11th Annual Oldtime Bluegrass Festival, which MORE INFO: Call Rockin Rudy’s at 542-0077 features over 15 local and regional bluegrass bands including Will Williams and Gravel Road, along with Wise River Merctantile, from noon–11:30 PM in Multi Purpose The Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., finRoom of Stevensville High School, 300 ishes off its celebration of National Library Park St. $5/$4 MRBA members/free Week with “Screen It,” a celebration of librarchildren under 12 with a paying adult. Visit ians with a showing of a TBA movie at 2 PM. mtbluegrass.com.

Free. The winner of the National Library Week The “Annual Kyi-Yo Pow Wow” continues raffle will also be announced. Call 721-BOOK. with a host of drummers and dancers with the Tango dancing and Argentinian culture are first grand entry at 12 PM at UM’s Adams yours to explore during Tango Food and Center. A second grand entry follows at 6 PM. Culture Night, which starts with a beginning $8 day pass/$5 Sat. night only. Call 243-2039 tango class at 3 PM, followed by an intermediand visit umt.edu/kyiyo. ate tango class at 4, and culminating in dinner, Get those veggies sprouting during the performances and dancing at 7 PM, all at the Missoula Urban Demonstration (MUD) Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Project’s “Get Your Garden Started $7 per dance class. $15 dinner event at the Workshop,” which features instruction from door/$12 advance/$10 if you bring a dish or Garden City Harvest’s Sarah Bortis and starts at bottle of wine to share. Call 541-7240.

1 PM at the headquarters of MUD, 629 Phillips Kids grades 4–6 let similes and spondees take St. $20/$10 members. Call 721-7513 register control during “Stuck on Poems,” this and visit mudproject.org. month’s installment of the Missoula Public Library’s “find something to do” series, which

Call ‘em country punks with a vinyl fetish: Local country punk band Bird’s Mile Home celebrates the release of their newest LP record with a show at 7 PM at the ZACC Gallery, 235 N. First St. W. $5. Features opening sets from James Cain, Cash for Junkers, Tonight We Ride, Good News From France and Slow Death. (See Scope in this issue.)

with Duke, a collection of Ellington’s tunes.

In an ode to the ladies, you can finish off the event on Thursday with “Three Generations of Women in Jazz,” a gig featuring the sultry vocals of Atwood, piano tickling talents of Jodi Marshall and catchy tunes from the young-and-talented singer/guitarist Kira Means. Means is definitely one to watch considering she won the First Night Idol competition this past New Year’s Eve. Obviously, there’s plenty more to pick from, so you’ll just have to choose your own jazz adventure, as it were. And if by chance you can’t make it to all these gigs, don’t fret. Jazzoula serves as a prelude to the 2010 installment of the Buddy DeFranco Jazz Festival, so you’ll have another chance to jazz it to the max next week.

Blue collar workers find frustration in the face of wealth, while closing a car deal brings with it loneliness and isolation during Montana Rep Missoula’s Four One-Act Comedies, with a performance of Roger Hedden’s If I Had, followed by James McClure’s Used Cars, starting at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $15/$5 student rush at 7 PM. $2 off if you buy tickets to all four shows. Call 243-4581 for advance tickets.

Shoes but not shorts required: CEO Montana presents Selected Shorts, a benefit for Montana Public Radio that features host Isaiah Sheffer, along with actors James Naughton and Susanna Thompson performing stories by Richard Ford, Aryn Kyle and Maile Meloy, starting at 7:30 PM at the Wilma Theatre. $25, with tickets available at all GrizTix outlets and griztix.com. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

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Society of Western Montana’s 13th annual Ken Shughart Humanitarian Award and Auction, which starts at 5:30 PM at the Holiday Inn-Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. $40, with tickets available at the Humane Society, 5930 Hwy. 93 S., or online at myhswm.org. Call 549-HSWM. From clay, to paper: The Clay Studio of Missoula presents Potsketch 2010, an auction gala featuring sketched drawings that explore an artist’s influences and/or relationship to ceramics, with the event running from 6–10 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $80 couple/$45 per person. Members: $75 per couple/$40 per person. The auction also includes a handful of donated ceramic works, music by The Discount Quartet, and appetizers from Riversong Organic Catering. Call 543-0509.

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He’ll tame your strings: Bryan Bowers shreds softly on his autoharp and tells you a story or two when he plays Unity Church of Missoula, 546 South Ave. W., at 7:30 PM. $10 suggested donation. Call Nan at 543-0788.

Even anticommunist contras find reason to shake a tail during another Missoula Folklore Society contra dance, which starts with a beginners workshop at 7:30 PM and glides into dance mode with music by Strawberry Ridge and calling by Mitchel Frey at 8 PM at the Union Hall, 209 E. Main St. $8/$6 Missoula Folklore Society members. Visit montanafolk.org.

Don’t be such a hater: The Hamilton Players present a performance of I Hate Hamlet, which starts at 8 PM at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road. $14/$8 children.

Call 375-9050 and visit hamiltonplayers.com.

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The Clay Studio of Missoula presents Potsketch 2010, an auction featuring sketched drawings that explore artist relationships with ceramics on Sat., April 17, from 6–10 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $80 couple/$75 per couple members/$45 per person/$40 per person members. Call 543-0509.

play rock and country at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Call 543-6346.

hop for the soul” at the Palace at 9 PM. $12/$10 advance at Ear Candy. Locals ir8prim8 and sAuce open.

Douse your feet with Pace Picante Sauce during another installment of Hot Salsa Nights, a salsa dance party which starts at 8 PM at the Elks Club, 112 N. Pattee St. $7, with free dances lessons at 8:30 PM.

Son of a Gun decides to experiment on you with meat skewers when they play country at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2. Call 830-3277.

Alan Lane and Frank Chiaverini debate the merits of your existence when they play rock, folk and blues at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. No cover, but pass-the-hat donations welcome. Call 741-2361.

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

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

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.

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

He makes a mean, mind-manifesting mimosa: Los Angeles-based electronic music producer MiMOSA enjoys it stirred and heavily shaken when he plays his self-styled “crunk-step dub-

Russ Nasset and the Revelators just say no to cuddling when they play rockabilly and country at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Zeppo seals that dirty deal you made in the back alley when they play blues and R&B at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Get a taste of local food at a lower price and learn more about a participatory business model when you check out the Missoula Community Food Co-op’s Sunday Public Shop, a chance to shop at the co-op before you join from 10 AM–5 PM at the co-op, 1500 Burns St. Free to attend. Non-members are welcome to shop three times before becoming a member. Call 728-2369 and visit missoulacommunitymarket.org.

Kick off your Sunday with a cup of joe and informal spiritual discussions on past lives, dreams, soul travel, visions and other topics starting at 10 AM at the River Street Dance Theatre, 421 N. Second St. in Hamilton. Free.

Call 369-0969 or e-mail randomityplus@ gmail.com.

This is DIY to the core: The Missoula Urban Demonstration Project presents its 2010 Earth Day Celebration “Do-It-Yourself, With Others,” which runs from noon–7 PM at Caras Park and features speakers, live music, as well as displays and info booths on sustainable living and environmental conservation. Free. Includes music by Akshinn Slaxx, Luau Cinder, The Workers, Eric Bostrom, Dan Dubuque and others. Visit mudproject.org and call Adam at 721-7513.

A middle aged woman’s decision to seclude herself at a family home in the wilderness reveals a host of family secrets and subsequent emotions when author Janet Kay reads from her novel Waters of the Dancing Sky at 2 PM at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

Don’t be such a hater: The Hamilton Players present a performance of I Hate Hamlet, which starts at 2 PM at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road. $14/$8 children.

Call 375-9050 and visit hamiltonplayers.com.

UM student Marie Pettit lets her cello moan with joy when she plays a student recital at 3 PM at the Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building. Free. Call 243-6880.

nightlife They make transitive verbs and adjectives leap off the page: UM’s Second Wind Reading Series continues with readings by UM English Department chair Casey Charles and UM MFA student John Myers at 6:30 PM at the Palace.

Free.

They know a good fungus when they see it: The Symes Hotel, 209 Wall St. in Hot Springs, hosts a screening of Know Your Mushrooms at 7 PM. Donations accepted. Larry Evans, who stars in the film, will be on hand to answer your fungal questions. Also includes mushroom appetizers.

He’s the dude that made your horn-rimmed glasses hip: UM Productions presents Rave On! The Buddy Holly Experience, a tribute concert which starts at 7:30 PM in the University Theatre. $30/$23 students plus fees. Call 243-4051 or visit griztix.com for tickets.

Who’s got the best vocals of them all? I don’t know either, so check out UM’s Singer of the Year Finals Concert, which starts at 7:30 PM at the Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building.

Free. Call 243-6880.

Euchre is one of those games that goes great with beer because you can tell what the cards look like even if your vision is a little blurry. See what I mean, or try to anyway, tonight at Sean Kelly’s just-for-fun Euchre Tournament at 8 PM. Free.

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 8 PM. Free. This week: jazz from Donna Smith, The Front Street Jazz Group and DJs Gary Stein and Ryan Wendel.

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This is gonna be so heady, bro: UM Students for NORML, Montana NORML and others host Marijuana Education Day, which runs from 10 AM–10 PM in the University Center Ballroom. Free. Features discussions on marijuana caregiver business practices and law enforcement concerns, as well as talks on the issue as it relates to the community, along with the impacts of taxing/regulating marijuana. Visit montananorml.org. (See Agenda in this issue.)

Totally artistic and not trashy: UM presents the “Trash Bash Recycled Fashion Show,” featuring students modeling outfits made from recycled or reused material, starting at noon at

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the University Center Atrium. Free.

Call Erica at 243-4856.

meets this and every Mon. at James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., at 7 PM. Free

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.

Tom Catmull gives your wine glass a good frisking when he plays what’s likely to be Americana at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 100, from 7–10 PM. Free. Call 549-2906.

UM presents the lecture “N.J. Lennes, Montana, and Mathematics in the U.S. 1892-1922,” a talk with David Zitarelli of Temple University which starts at 3:10 PM, in Room 103 of UM’s Math Building.

Free.

They eat, drink and sleep to the count of a beat. UM presents the faculty and guest artist series “Drums Along the Pacific,” featuring The Pacific Rims Percussion Quartet and the Seattle Chamber Players, at 7:30 PM in the UM Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building. $10/$5 students and seniors. Call 243-6880.

I’m not so sure either: UM presents “Why Does Privacy Break Down?” a talk with Sandra Petronio at 3:10 PM in Room L14 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free.

nightlife Let’s hope renewable is part of the answer: Forward Montana presents its Progressive Happy Hour from 5:30–7 PM at the Badlander with the topic “The Future of Montana Energy.” Free. Includes comments from Northwestern Energy’s John Hines, the Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s Bruce Measure, along with Public Service Commissioner Ken Toole. Visit forwardmontana.org.

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

Keep those cards close to your chest during the Lucky Strike Bar’s Poker Tournament, which starts at 6 PM at Lucky Strike, 1515 Dearborn Ave. $65 buy-in/$30 re-buy/$30 add-on.

Players get a free dinner at the tournament. Call 549-4152.

Your intellect just might explode during “A History of International Terrorism & Religious Extremism,” a talk with leading counterterrorism expert Amos Guiora, from 6:30–9:30 PM in the Castles Center of UM’s School of Law. Free. Call David Aronofsky at 243-4668.

Keep it jazzy during the first night of Jazzoula, which starts at 6:30 PM at St. Anthony Parish, 217 Tremont St. Free. Includes sets by UM Griz Jazz, Missoula’s Youngest Divas, UM Starlighters, Front Street Jazz G r o u p a n d M a r g i a n d Th e Smoking Jackets. Call 542-0077.

(See Spotlight in this issue.)

You’ve got another chance to connect the dots this evening when the VFW hosts bingo 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 Alateen 12-Step Support Group, which meets this and every Monday at 7 PM at First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free, use alley entrance. Call 728-5818 or visit www.al-anon. alateen.org.

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

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Expression of gender meets expression of self during The Tranny Roadshow, a showcase of transgender comedians, musicians, actors and storytellers with a show at 7:30 PM at the University Center Theater.

Free. Visit trannyroadshow.com.

An artistic bout of sorts ought to tickle your musical fun glands during another installment of Top of the Mic, an open mic competition running this and every Mon. through April, starting at 8:30 PM at Sean Kelly’s. 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, some free pool and an array of electronic DJs and styles for das booty during Milkcrate Mondays with the Milkcrate Mechanic at 9 PM every week, at the Palace. Free. This week: DJ Mikee Sev, Special K and the Milkcrate Mechanic.

Men drink on the cheap and can enjoy a game of pigskin, as well as karaoke, during Men’s Night at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, this and every Mon. at 9:30 PM. Free to attend. Call 830-3277.

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Veterans who need help understanding the benefits and services they’ve earned can get assistance from the Disabled American Veterans Mobile Service Office, which will be on hand to provide counseling and claim filing assistance from 10 AM–5 PM at the Missoula Veterans Affairs Clinic, 2687 Palmer St. Free for veterans and members of their families. Call Kevin at 495-2089.

This is going to be yummy: UM presents the “Farm-to-College Local Food Cooking Demonstration,” which starts at noon in the University Center Commons. Free. Call Erica at 243-4856.

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

SPOTLIGHT

stage sages

When the Borg Queen from “Star Trek: Voyager“ shares the stage with the cunning grandfather in the soap opera series “Gossip Girl,” things are bound to get just a little, shall we say, colorful. But don’t expect Susanna Thompson to be donning a lime green alien suit, or for James Naughton to be in a particularly shrewd mood when both actors take the stage in Missoula this week during a tour stop for “Selected Shorts”—Public Radio International’s nationally syndicated show of dramatic readings hosted by Isaiah Sheffer. Naughton and Thompson pay homage to Treasure State literature when they read stories by acclaimed authors Richard Ford, Aryn Kyle and Maile Meloy—all scribes who have lived in and/or written about Montana.

Once they hit the stage, my guess is that Naughton’s acting skills and his booming voice— which you might recognize from episodes of the PBS series Nature—ought to complement Thompson’s dramatic chops, which includes stints in TV dramas like “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” and most recently “Cold Case.”

WHAT: Selected Shorts, a benefit for Montana Public Radio WHEN: Sat., April 17, at 7:30 PM WHERE: Wilma Theatre

Selected Shorts features actor James Naughton.

Besides a night of engaging narrative delivered by adept thespians, your greenbacks go toward something you likely cherish: Montana Public Radio.

That means you’ll be able to hear future “Selected Shorts” from the comfort of your digs long after Thompson and Naughton have left the stage.

HOW MUCH: $25, with tickets at all GrizTix outlets and griztix.co

Tue. from 1–3 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-3955.

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

Call 370-3200.

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

See if your buzzed mind can correctly guess what family of animalia the epihippus came from during Buzz Time Showdown Trivia, which features free trivia—along with drink specials—and runs from 6–9 PM this and every Tue. at the Lucky Strike Bar, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Free to attend. Call 549-4152.

Leave the Aquafina at home: UM celebrates Earth Week with a screening of Tapped—which exposes bottled water as an environmentally destructive and socially unjust industry—with a screening at 6 PM at UM’s Urey North Underground Lecture Hall.

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Avoid wearing blood orange during the Green Prom, a 1980s themed prom in celebration of 4/20, which runs from 6–8 PM at the Top Hat. Includes prom photos, a potluck and dancing. $2.

His intellect will zonk you. UM continues its International Terrorism Law Seminar Series with “Terrorism and Middle East Geopolitics,” a talk with counterterrorism expert Amos Guiora from 6:30–9:30 PM, in the Castles Center of UM’s School of Law. Free. Call David Aronofsky at 243-4668.

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Missoula’s Jazzoula continues at 6:30 PM at St. Anthony Parish, 217 Tremont St. $20 for a week pass/$10 per person/$8 seniors and students. Includes sets by the UM Jazz Choir, the David Horgan Ensemble featuring Chuck Florence, David Morgenroth and the UM Bebopsters. Call 542-0077.(See Spotlight in this issue.)

Follow your dreams of becoming the next Willie Nelson during an open mic/jam night hosted by Louie Bond and Teri Llovet every Tue. at the Brooks and Browns Lounge at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St., from 7–10 PM, with sign-up at 6 PM. Free. Email terillovet@hotmail.com.

You’re so full of dirt: Poet Roger Dunsmore reads copies of his book You’re Just Dirt at 7 PM at Shakespeare and Co., 103 S. Third St. W. Free. Call 549-9010.

Let a bearded bard sweep you into the old school with some heady verbiage during the Missoula Public Library’s Everyone’s Shakespeare Reading Group, which meets at 7 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. This month’s discussion is on King Lear. Call 721-BOOK. Expose your dry eyes to beauty during The Rocky Mountain School of Photography’s lecture “Creating Beautiful Landscape Images: Composition, Light and Exposure” with speaker Neil Chaput de Saintonge at 7 PM, in the quarry of the school, 210 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-0171 and visit rmsp.com.

He’s got a calm bark: UM music student Sean Barker shares some potent info on music when he leads a student lecture at 7:30 PM, in the UM Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building.

Free. Call 243-6880.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with. Ready? This one’s all about buds, brah. When did voters in California legalize medical marijuana? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

You have practiced in front of the mirror long enough—head to the High Spirits in Florence, where open mic night features a drum set, amps, mics and recording equipment and awaits you and your axe at 8 PM. Free. Call 273-9992 to reserve your spot.

Don’t space out on this: The Wilma Theatre hosts a screening of How Weed Won the West, a documentary that details California’s medical marijuana industry, with a screening at 8 PM. $4.20 donation, with proceeds going to benefit the Missoula Ethical Caregivers Association.

Enjoy Tunes on Tuesdays with Christian Johnson from 8:30–11 PM, an acoustic open mic jam every Tue. night at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463.

The Broadway’s Tuesday Night Comedy takes place every Tue. at 9 PM and is followed

by dancing with tunes from the Tallest DJ in America. $5/$3 students. Call 543-5678.

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

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

out” fundraiser at Higgins Alley, 424 N. Higgins, starting at 5:30 PM. Higgins Alley will donate a portion of their proceeds to the Zane’s World Fund. Visit zanesworld.org.

If you know the difference between His Knobs and His Knees, bring that skill to the Joker’s Wild Casino, 4829 N. Reserve St., where the Missoula Grass Roots Cribbage Club invites players both new and old to see how many ways they can get to that magical number 15 at 6:30 PM. Free. Call Rex at 360-3333.

They’ll get you toasted with variety: The Badlander hosts a mish-mash of musical styles including reggae from Freetown Turn Around, punk from Train Song, metal from Mageddon and hip-hop from the Black Mask Collective, starting at 9 PM. Free.

UM continues its International Terrorism Law Seminar Series with “U.S. Counterterrorism Approaches: The USA Patriot Act, H o m e l a n d S e c u r i t y, G u a n t a n a m o Detention and Military Tribunals, Rule of Law,” a talk with counterterrorism expert Amos Guiora from 6:30–9:30 PM, in the Castles Center of UM’s School of Law. Free. Call David Aronofsky at 243-4668.

Get your musical senses baked but not fried during a 4/20 concert featuring Voodoo Horseshoes, MudSlide Charley, Dodgy Mountain Men, DJ ir8prim8 and DJ Oz, starting at 9 PM the Top Hat. $4.20 donation, with proceeds going to benefit the Missoula Ethical Caregivers Association. Also includes poetry, art and other artistic endeavors.

Missoula’s Jazzoula continues at 6:30 PM at St. Anthony Parish, 217 Tremont St. $20 for a week pass/$10 per person/$8 seniors and students. Includes sets by the UM Jazzsters, Lori Conner and Dick Sulton, the Chuck F l o r e n c e Q u a r te t f e a t u r i n g D a v i d Morgenroth, and the Donna Smith Quartet.

Call 542-0077.(See Spotlight in this issue.)

A night of dubstep, old school funk and hiphop makes your red eyes not so dry when ETeam, Kung Fu Kongress and Firefly play the Palace at 9 PM. Free.

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.

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UM presents its “Earth Week Celebration,” which runs from 11 AM–2 PM at the Oval and features info tables, a visit by The Permibus, demonstrations, and raffle prizes, plus a speech by UM President George Dennison on the University’s Climate Action Plan at 12:30 PM. Free. Call Erica at 243-4856. Visit umt.edu/earthday for a complete list of Earth Day events.

Teens ages 13–18 stir their creative juices during Teen Media Club every Wed. 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.

The subject is TBA, but it’s bound to be an ecologically exciting time when Phil Grime speaks during another UM Ecology Seminar Series discussion, which starts at 4:10 PM in Room 110 of UM’s Interdisciplinary Sciences Building.

Free. Call 243-5292.

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.

Life in Wyoming gets explored and adored when authors Mark Spragg and Laura Bell read and sign copies of Bone Fire and Claiming Ground, from 5–8 PM at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

He plays doctor, you play patient: John Floridis brings it mellow and never surgical when he performs at Stevensville’s Blacksmith Brewing Co., 114 Main St., at 5:30 PM. Free.

Call 777-0680.

You can do your part to help 4-year-old Zane —who suffers from epilepsy, autism Goicovich— and other ailments—get to the Denver Children’s Hospital by participating in a “dine

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A police orchestra from Egypt navigates a night in a small Israeli town during the UM Multicultural Film Series screening of The Band’s Visit, which starts at 7 PM in the University Center Theater. Free. Visit umt.edu/uc.

They’ve got so much love to give: The Montana Actors’ Theatre presents its rendition of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $12. Visit mtactors.com for advance tickets.

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.

They kick loneliness to the curb: San Angelo, Texas’ Los Lonely Boys ask for some company when they play rock and blues at the Wilma Theatre at 8 PM. $27/$25 advance at Rockin Rudy’s and ticketfly.com.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but neither will help you emit that high lonesome sound every Wed., when the Old Post Pub hosts a Pickin’ Circle at 9 PM. Free. The answer to this week’s trivia question: Voters in California legalized the medicinal use of weed in 1996 by passing Proposition 215, which won 55.6 percent of the vote. It was also the first state to have passed such a measure.

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

Get a wicked case of “bowling finger” during Five Valley’s Bowl’s Wicked Wednesday, which features $2 bowling after 9 PM plus $2 cans of Bud Light this and every Wed. at the

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bowling center, 1515 Dearborn Ave. Free to attend. Call 549-4158.

Be sure you’ve downed enough pitchers of PBR in order to have the courage to sing “And It Stoned Me”

by Van Morrison (believe me, the beer helps), during Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

DJ Brand One and his brother probe the fine grooves of wax while you liberate yourself with libations when they play what’s likely to be hip-hop on four turntables at the Palace at 9 PM. Free.

Impress your friends, significant other, or anyone who will listen when you rock the karaoke mic at Harry David’s, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, which is back in action with free karaoke at 9:30 PM, Sun.–Thu. each week. Call 830-3277.

M-Group doesn’t really care that much about your reefer-induced hangover, they just wanna rock your fun parts when they play the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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The Sentinel High School Art Club announces a call to artists interested in selling, showing or donating art for the club’s “Color Missoula” second annual art auction, which opens May 7 at the Downtown Dance Collective. The minimum cost to you is 25 percent of the total sale.

Submissions are due by May 3. If interested, e-mail a photo of your art, description, minimum bid, donation amount and contact info to Sally at sfriou@mcps.k12.mt. Call 728-2400 Ext. 7624.

Gnaw on something tasty and tour a student-run project designed to encourage efficient and affordable homes during the Farm-to-College Barbecue, which starts at 4 PM at the UM FLAT, 633 S. Fifth St. E. Free to attend. Call Erica at 243-4856.

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Keep your eyes on an ursine during Swan Valley Bear Resources’ third annual “Spring Bear Wake Up Social,” which features discussions from experts on current research and info related to bears in the Swan Valley, from 5–8 PM at the Swan Valley Community Hall, near mile marker 42 off Hwy. 83. Free. RSVP requested by contacting the Swan Ecosystem Center at 754-3137.

Witness the academic and creative accomplishments of middle school students during C.S. Porter Middle School’s “Spring Showcase of Student Achievement,” which features a host of art exhibits and performances and runs from 6–8 PM at the school, 2510 W. Central Ave. Cost TBA. Includes a live auction hosted by Mayor John Engen. Call Allie McFarland at 728-2400 Ext. 4624.

His guitar is beholden to no one: Brandon Eden keeps the independent spirit alive when he plays acoustic music at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. UM continues its International Terrorism Law Seminar Series with “Comparative Counterterrorism Approaches,” a talk with counterterrorism expert Amos Guiora from 6:30–9:30 PM, in the Castles Center of UM’s School of Law. Free. Call David Aronofsky at 243-4668.

Missoula’s Jazzoula continues at 6:30 PM at St. Anthony Parish, 217 Tremont St. $20 for a week pass/$10 per person/$8 seniors and students.

Includes sets by the Hellgate Band, UM Jazz Alive, Melody and Clipper Anderson, Salsa Loca, along with a performance featuring Eden Atwood, Jodi Marshall and Kira Means. Call 542-0077. Also includes a Hall of Fame awards ceremony at 9:30 PM. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Leisure suit plus beer goggles not r e q u i r e d : Tr i v i a l B e e r s u i t , Missoula’s newest trivia night, begins with sign ups at 6:45 PM and trivia at 7 PM at the Brooks and Browns Lounge, at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. Free. Includes drink specials by Bayern Brewery, prizes and trivia categories that change weekly.

E-mail Katie at kateskins@gmail.com.

It’s all about domination: The Peace and Justice Film Series continues with a screening of The World According to Monsanto, which starts at 7 PM at UM’s Urey Lecture Hall. Free. Visit peaceand justicefilms.org.

UM continues its celebration of Montana Archaeology Month with “Yogo: Jewel of the Prairie,” a talk with UM archaeology student Jono Mogstad about the Yogo Mining District which starts at 7 PM in Room 331 of UM’s University Center.

Free.

Exploration cap not required: Author Jack Nisbet hosts a presentation and signs his book The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest, starting at 7 PM at Fact and Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

Don’t expect to be speaking in tax code jargon when Brian Jameson offers a devotional singing program with live music and gentle direction at 7:15 PM at Hamilton’s Common Ground Center, 258 Roosevelt Lane. $3 donation requested. Call 363-4026.

They’ve got so much love to give: The Montana Actors’ Theatre presents its rendition of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $12. Visit mtactors.com for advance tickets.

Mercedes McCann melts gold with her luxurious vocal cords when she plays a student recital at 7:30 PM, in the University Congregational

Church, 401 University Ave. Free. Call 243-6880.

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

Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptopfueled hip-hop, crunk, electronic, pop and mashed-up tunes hit the Badlander every week where Dead Hipster DJ Night gets the booties bumpin’ and the feet stompin’ at 9 PM. $3.

This is a beat-based summit of s o r t s : Th e Pa l a c e h o s t s t h e Communikey/Dis-Patch Festival Collaborative Tour 2010, which features live performances by Santa Fe, N.M. indytronic band D Numbers, dubstep, techno and ambient from Belgrade’s Piece of Shh... and WoO, along with live visuals from Incredible Bob, starting at 9 PM. $7.

Women celebrate their womanhood with cheap libations and a bit o’ karaoke with help from the band Party Trained during Ladies’ Night and Live Band Karaoke at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, this and every Thu. at 9:30 PM. Free to attend. Call 830-3277.

Dance with a cougar or two, or not, every Thu. at 10 PM when the James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., hosts The Social Club, featuring DJ Fleege spinning an expansive array of tech house and progressive electro dance tunes. Free.

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.

Hailey, Idaho’s The Damphools urge you to pour a mixture of salt and Rooster Sauce into your wounds when they play country and Americana at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. In a nod to diversity, and in celebration of our city’s recent passing of the non-discrimination ordinance, I think you ought to hit up The Tranny Roadshow. It’s an all-transgender, artsy smorgasbord of sorts featuring comedian Red Durkin and storyteller/zine writer Jamez Terry, and it stops in Missoula Mon., April 19, at 7:30 PM at the University Center Theater. It promises to be a raucous night of artistic and gender expression, and it’s free. So why not check it out? Meantime, keep all shows, concerts and plays flowing in my direction by sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., April 16, to calendar@missoulanews.com.

Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Overlord c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”

It’s been a great number of years—maybe 10 or 15—since I’ve packed my bags and taken a weekend jaunt to either Glacier or Yellowstone National Parks. I know, it’s kind of pathetic, right?

Sometimes it’s so easy to get caught up in the day-to-day craziness and forget the majestic spots sitting almost right in our backyard.

Well this week, that’s likely to change, especially after realizing that I can visit all 392 national parks for free, all thanks to National Park Week, the Department of Interior’s celebration of our national parks which runs Sat., April 17–Sun., April 25. This means that you, reader, can witness Glacier’s majestic mountains and lakes, or check out Yellowstone’s Caldera, all for free. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal, eh? Sure does to me. So get packin’ and visit nps.gov/npweek for more details.

Before you hit up a park, though, why not get wet and learn to rescue others during the Montana River Guides’ (MRG) Swiftwater Rescue Technician Course, which meets Fri., April16–Sun., April18 from 9 AM–5 PM at a TBA location and is geared toward novice and experienced recreational paddlers and river guides. $295. I’d recommend that you RSVP on Thu., April 15, by contacting Mike Johnston at 777-4837 or e-mailing rivers@montana.com.

On Sat., April 17, warm your insides with gluten and maple syrup so you can bust a gut during the UM Physical Therapy Student Association’s All-You-Can-Eat Pancake Breakfast and 5k BustA-Gut Fun Run, which starts with race registration at 7:30 AM at UM’s Oval. Breakfast is served from 8 AM–noon at Christ the King Church, 1400 Gerald Ave., and the race kicks off at 9 AM at the Oval. $10 for the race and breakfast/$5 breakfast only/free children under age 6. Call Lisa at 439-1851.

If that sounds like a gut bomb waiting to burst, spend Sat., April 17, watching grizzly men and women mountain bike, trail run, paddle and navigate themselves through the elements during the third annual GrizzlyMan Adventure Race and Black Bear Challenge, which starts at 8 AM at the Lubrecht Experimental Forest and Resort at Paws Up. It’s too late to sign up to compete, so you’ll just have to spectate.

Visit grizzlymanrace.com.

Instead of watching your fellow humans get jiggy with nature, consider Sat., April 17, as a prime time to ogle avians when the Five Valleys Audubon Society sponsors a full-day field trip to the Lee Metcalf National Wildlife Refuge near Stevensville. Free.

Meet at UM’s Adams Center parking lot at 8 AM to carpool, or at the refuge parking lot at 9 AM. Also bring a lunch and your binocs. Call Larry Weeks at 549-5632.

Get loopy on your bike Sat., April 17, when you hit the road with Missoulians on Bicycles during the Perma Loop ride, a 50-mile jaunt which starts at 8:30 AM with a carpool out of Missoula at a TBA location. Or you could meet at the Perma Bridge at 10 AM, but I’d call Patty at 7454549 for specifics. Free. MOBI has another ride at 9 AM Sun., April 18, that leaves from Perkin’s, so visit missoulabike.org for details.

Or give that running itch a hearty scratch during Run Wild Missoula’s Superfun(D) 5k and 10k run, which starts with day-of registration at 8:30 AM at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Bonner, 8985 Hwy. 200 E. $25/ $22.50 Run Wild Missoula members. The run follows at 9:30 AM, and a pancake gorge fest occurs after the races. Register at runwildmissoula.org.

Gaia always needs some lovin’ too. So hook her up with your love on Sat., April 17, by pulling weeds and planting native species during the Rattlesnake Creek Watershed Group’s Bugbee Nature Preserve Workday, which runs from 9 AM–4 PM at the preserve, off of Missoula Avenue. Free. Bring gloves, lunch and water. E-mail greg@rattlesnakecreek.watershedgroup.com.

Bleeding hearts are always allowed for this one: On Sat., April 17, the Clark Fork Chapter of the Montana Native Plant Society hosts Revisiting Dicentra uniflora, an eight-mile roundtrip hike with ecologist Mike Young in search of this intriguing wildflower (aka the longhorn bleeding-heart), which starts at 10 AM at the Rattlesnake

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Be the Michael Phelps of the outdoors on Sat., April 17, during the Montana Wilderness Association and Missoula REI’s Wilderness Olympics, which features a plethora of activities including a scavenger hunt and obstacle course, and runs from 10 AM–2 PM at Kiwanis Park. Free. Visit wildmontana.org.

And just when you thought Sat., April 17, was more packed than your medical sage pipe, the Montana Natural History Center (MNHC) comes along with Family Fun Day. The registration kick off for its upcoming Summer Science Discovery Camps runs from noon–4 PM at the center, 120 Hickory St. Free. Here’s the lowdown: From noon–2 PM, your rugrats will feast their eyes on live animals, and at 2 PM, local author Donna Love will read them a story, or three. Call 327-0405.

Once Mon., April 19, rears its unsightly head, gather your old sleeping bags, boots and other gear in order to donate them to some sustainable mountaineers during the Nature-Link Institute’s Gear for the Garhwal drive, which continues through Fri., April 30. Gear drop-off locations are at UM’s Outdoor Program, Pipestone Mountaineering, The Trail Head and Aerie Wilderness Medicine. Visit nature-link.org and call Eric at 370-2294.

Finally, give ursines all your undivided Photo by Cathrine L. Walters attention on Thu., April 22, during the Swan Valley Bear Resources’ third annual “Spring Bear Wake Up Social,” which features discussion on current research related to bears in the Swan Valley, from 5–8 PM at the Swan Valley Community Hall, near mile marker 42 off Hwy. 83. Free. RSVP by calling 754-3137.

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Soaring high Bird’s Mile Home hatches new Americana punk album

by Erika Fredrickson

Bird’s Mile Home is comprised of, from left, Tim Arrowtop, Genevieve Smith, Keith Moore and Jesse Naab.

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Tim Arrowtop has played high energy, aggressive punk rock shows for seven years with his band Reptile Dysfunction. But in 2007, he started listening to Leadbelly and other old-time, roots musicians he found in the record collection of his friend, guitarist Keith Moore.

Moore, likewise, scavenged through Arrowtop’s punk rock albums. And when the two musicians—inspired by the crossroads of those music genres—began jamming together, Bird’s Mile Home was born.

“When my mom heard Bird’s Mile Home for the first time,” says Arrowtop, “she said, ‘I can hear you sing! This is wonderful!’ And she gave me a big hug.”

The local band—which now includes drummer Jesse Naab and cellist Genevieve Smith—captures that fusion between Americana roots and punk. Some songs evoke the cowpunk of Drive-By Truckers or Elmer, while others recall the old-school punk ballads of bands like Social Distortion or Screeching Weasel. You can even hear bits of the Beatles’ melodies, especially once you know the members of Bird’s Mile Home harbor a shared adoration for Revolver. But the band also excavates dark acoustic riffs reminiscent of Irish drinking laments and sad country tunes, especially with Smith’s low rumbling cello and parttime mandolin player Adam Sherba’s high-lonesome pluckings.

The fact that Bird’s Mile Home appeals to different genres has led the band to some surprising gigs.

“We definitely play shows with a vast array of bands,” says Moore. “We play punk shows, we play rock shows, we play folk shows, we play shows we probably shouldn’t play. We’ve played with metal bands before and bar shows, which is not our cup of tea.”

Unlike Reptile Dysfunction, which is loud and inyour-face enough to be able to override the distractions of a hectic bar room, Bird’s Mile Home plays music with a more nuanced storytelling aspect that is best heard with

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an intimate crowd. For Arrowtop—and even the other band members who came from a punk rock background—the acoustic shows were, for a while, an alien experience.

“I’m not used to playing acoustic shows or being put out of my comfort zone—my comfort zone being loud, violent, aggressive music,” Arrowtop says. “Now we’re getting a lot better at it and acoustic shows are becoming very cool for us.”

Despite its eclectic sounds and roots tinges, you would never mistake Bird’s Mile Home for bluegrass. So when an old friend of Moore’s asked the band to play the Boats and Bluegrass Festival in Winona, Minn., in September 2008, the band was a little shocked.

“He asked us and we were like, ‘Well…I guess. We’re not bluegrass at all,’” recalls Moore. “But he was all about it. He said that the festival needed to get some variety in the music.”

The band drove 20 hours to the small town of Winona, which overlooks the Mississippi River. Standing by the stage area next to banjo players and dreadlocked guitarists, Arrowtop remembers feeling out of place, not certain that they really should be there. But when he started talking with some of the bluegrass players he found out that many of them used to play in punk bands or listen to punk music.

“All these hippie dudes were telling me how they’d been in a punk band in Minneapolis for years,” says Arrowtop. “One guy had an Operation Ivy shirt and a backpack but was totally dreaded out. They were happy we played because we brought some of that punk flavor.”

The band plans to attend the bluegrass festival again this year, and seek out other odd festivals where they might not typically have thought to play before.

Bird’s Mile Home is set to release its eponymous debut album on vinyl this week. Its sometimes upbeat,

often dark composition offers a cohesive feel that was, according to the band, completely unintentional.

“It seems like a conceptual album but it isn’t,” says Arrowtop. “We didn’t mean for it to happen that way. We were going back through the lyrics and it reads like really weird chapters in a book. At first it was like, ‘Wow. Are we unknowingly pretentious?’”

But it’s the mark of good storytellers that the narrative threads through the album so subconsciously. In the first track, “Singin,’” a man finds every which way to drink his life away. And then as each song on the album progresses, you can hear some new perspective, as if the character is changing over time. It’s not a heavy-handed thread, but it’s there. Moore says that in the first track the guy is falling into a pattern of drinking and then, on the second, he’s leaving his family. In “Let’s Die in War,” the man is looking at horrible death. In “Winona,” he’s on the road but remembering something good. And then the last song he’s going home.

“It’s fiction in my mind, if anything at all,” says Moore.

“It depends on how close you’re looking at it, really.”

In a way, that kind of inadvertent storytelling mixed with its brew of genres is what gives Bird’s Mile Home an edge. Arrowtop says he loves playing with Reptile Dysfunction—that’s still a part of who he is. But Bird’s Mile Home offers him a chance to wander into other soundscapes and storylines with the same punk spirit.

“And maybe that’s the key,” he says. “Still having the punk energy but playing something that has a little more— I don’t want to say accessibility—but has a more sharing quality.”

Bird’s Mile Home plays an album release show at the Zootown Arts Community Center Saturday, April 17, at 7 PM. $5. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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One would think Satan himself created the delectable Flying V-powered leads of Chicago’s Bible of the Devil, but alas, guitarists Mark Hoffman and Nate Perry— backed by bassist Darren Amaya and drummer Greg Spalding—orchestrate the stoner metal group’s latest effort, Freedom Metal. This is butt rock without any of the butt, containing elements of early thrash, driving 1980s-punk bass lines, vocal harmonies reminiscent of Paul Stanley’s best and spectacular Iron Maiden-esque guitar harmonies. (Swoon.)

The opener, “Hijack the Night,” is equal parts throat punch and karate kick, vocal hook and guitars a go-go.

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Stellarondo Stellarondo self-released

Caroline Keys, aka Stellarondo, made this eponymous debut in response to the 2010 RPM Challenge, where musicians write and record an album in 28 days—just for the hell of it.

It’s one of the more eccentric creations I’ve heard in the past year, a completely lovable collection of strange tales (a vegetarian discovers a volcano in her backyard) and imaginative instruments (rice, coffeetable, a phone’s busy signal).

The upbeat jazziness of “Asian Grocery,” a track

New Heathens Hello Disaster self-release

Our little Nate (sniff ) is growing up. Not that he hasn’t written songs with mature themes before (“When She’s Wasted”), but Nate Schweber and his NYC band, New Heathens, have brought authority and focus to their music with their satisfying second release, Hello Disaster.

Missoula’s swivel-hipped favorite son continues to plow the Americana field, writing with a journalist’s eye for detail and love of wordplay. The loping anti-suicide ballad “Only Gets Better” rhymes “schadenfreude” with “corduroys,” and implores the listener to hang in there by remembering things like masturbation and Playstation 3.

Eric “Roscoe” Ambel ( Yayhoos, Bottle Rockets) pro-

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The debut from this synthesizer-plus-drums local duo showcases heavily melodic electronic rock that flirts with indietronic. It’s a minorkey drenched, instrumental affair that at its finest tugs at your heartstrings without coming across as corny.

Opener “Argyle Sunset” kicks things off with a series of morose melodies, a mellow breakbeat and a sample of a girl talking about beauty and inspiration. It then

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D rocks it double on “The Turning Stone”: A heavy, galloping riff reintroduces the band as metal, a dual lead that sticks with you for days follows, only to be oneupped by a chorus that will stick with you for years. But every rocker has a soft side, right? Nope. Even when the boys slow their roll it’s in a spot-on homage to Thin Lizzy on “Ol’ Girl.” We got enough Thin Lizzy songs, you say. Stop reading, then.

You may think you’ve heard these songs before; you haven’t. The songs on Freedom Metal are better. (Jason McMackin) Bible of the Devil plays the Palace Thursday, April 15, at 9 PM with Rooster Sauce and Thug Nasties. $5. about eating unagi and drinking hot saki, makes you feel like you should be dancing the Charleston. “Hotel Roberts” stews in dark Appalachian banjo and the opening track, “What I Know,” showcases a stunning country lament fortified by the exquisite yearning of local musician Gibson Hartwell’s pedal steel.

Keys, a former Indy writer who is best known as the guitarist for local bluegrass/ roots bands Broken Valley Roadshow and Wise River Mercantile, takes risks that makes this album utterly endearing. On “RPMS” she puts on a low, sensual David Bowie rock ’n’ roll voice and sings about chickens. On another song, she whispers mantras that include words like “Saturday Night Live” and “cartwheels.” These quirky, fearless elements make Stellarondo feel spontaneous and crazy, while still exemplifying some sophisticated songwriting. (Erika Fredrickson)

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duced, and the sound is punchier and more consistent than on Heathens Like Me. The twin guitars put the hammer down on rockers like “Feelin’ Lucky Again” and “Crybaby.”

Guitarist Domenick Tiziano’s “Responsible,” though, lacks the dynamics of most other songs on the album, just lying there like a doomed armadillo on a Texas two-lane. The ho-hum arrangement and Schweber’s lackadaisical vocal make it feel mundane.

Much more rewarding is “Thankless War,” a sober look at the human cost of pointless overseas conflicts.

Schweber’s elegiac “Bastard Like Me” closes the album on an artistic high point, but I think the New Heathens’ best work still lies ahead of them. (Bob Wire) shifts into indietronic mode with some nice acoustic guitar strumming. “Civil Now” sounds like the kind of track you’d listen to after a breakup as you ponder the good and bad times. One of the strongest cuts, “Circuitous Root,” features a nice dramatic piano line, along with gorgeous washes of synth tones that sound as if they’re whining and crying at you.

Despite the quality parts, there are some minor bumps. For one thing, a few of the synth sounds sprinkled throughout come across as flat and uninspired. And a handful of potentially strong tracks, notably “Cats” and “Seventeenth England,” end as quickly as they start, leaving you slightly unsatisfied. Still, Full Length is a sufficient initial effort that’s definitely worth a listen. With some time and creative tweaking, I expect even tighter compositions from this highly emotive two-piece. (Ira Sather-Olson)

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No spark Spragg’s Bone Fire fails to ignite

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In one scene in Mark Spragg’s novel, Bone Fire, 80-year-old Einar Gilkyson digs a hole beneath a cottonwood at his Ishawooa, Wyo., ranch and fills it with mementos from the past: “all the letters he’d written [his wife] from Korea, most of the family photographs, wedding rings, birth and death certificates, marriage licenses, everything he could put his hands on that authenticated his eighty years of using up a body.” After filling the hole, Einar lights a match and watches flames collect around the pile, “listening to the crackle of it burning.”

Like Einar’s remembrances of things past, Spragg’s latest can be seen as a novel crafted for the sole purpose of coming to terms with characters from novels past. Instead of a lifetime’s worth of keepsakes, Spragg has thrown every memorable character from his first two novels into this Bone Fire third.

Mark Spragg We first met Einar in hardcover, Knopf 2004’s An Unfinished Life, 256 pages, $25.95 along with other characters who reappear here. There’s Jean, Einar’s former daughter-in-law, who, 10 years after Unfinished, appears here as a belligerent, unsatisfied alcoholic.

Jean is now married to Crane Carlson, the sheriff of Ishawooa (whom she met in Unfinished). Early on, Crane finds the body of a murdered 20-year-old in a meth lab. He pursues the mystery, even after he’s diagnosed with ALS, the same disease that killed his grandfather. Compelled both by his unfortunate prognosis and his broken marriage to Jean, Crane seeks out his first wife, who divorced him more than a decade ago.

Then there’s Griff, Jean’s daughter, Einar’s granddaughter and the namesake of Einar’s son, Griffin, who died in an accident 20 years ago (a death from which Jean has never quite recovered). In Unfinished, Griff was a wide-eyed, precocious 10-year-old, one who took to her grandfather’s ranch immediately. In Bone Fire, the now 20-year-old Griff is still wide-eyed and precocious, but cautious now, too, and melancholy. Despite her mother’s and Einar’s own wishes, Griff has dropped out of Rhode Island School of Design to care for Einar at the ranch. Though the novel never specifies what exactly Einar ails from, his imminent death is never in question.

Further complicating Griff ’s life is the fact that her boyfriend Paul might be moving to Uganda for volunteer work. In Spragg’s first novel, The Fruit of Stone, Paul was a 9-year-old American Indian who drifted from place to place with his older sister, Rita (who appears here, albeit briefly, as a self-centered pseudo-mystic).

As if the novel didn’t already have enough plot lines running through it, Spragg also continues the story of Barnum McEban, the rancher who first picked up Paul and Rita in Fruit of Stone and began what would ultimately become—literally—an anticlimactic romance with Rita. (She claims their souls are entwined; therefore if “we allowed ourselves the luxury of intimacy on this physical plane...it would shatter our sacred union.”)

Despite his relationship with Rita (or lack thereof ), McEban raises her 10-yearold son, Kenneth, and the relationship between him and the young boy give the novel its most eloquent moments—until Kenneth is carted away to his biological father’s home for three weeks.

The biggest problem with Bone Fire is not that Spragg has tossed so many disparate narratives into the ditch, nor even that, in a mere 244 pages of story, he seems intent upon revisiting almost every character he’s ever created—in medias res. The problem is that, unlike Einar’s ditch full of discarded memories, nothing here ever catches enough fire to give the novel some much-needed momentum. Pregnant as it is with conflict and tension, we’re never allowed to pause long enough in any one place for those tensions to bear fruit. The mystery of the body found in the meth lab, a promising arc and one that could have taken center stage, is solved, but the result feels forced and uninspired.

Similarly, just as the reader begins to wonder how Griff will manage to care for her ailing grandfather while emotionally wrestling with the reality of her alcoholic mother, her own feelings regarding her aborted studies, as well as the imminent departure of Paul (despite the lackluster quality of this particular will-he-or-won’t-heleave storyline), we learn that Einar has already called his long lost sister, Marin, an intellectual lesbian who left Wyoming long ago. Griff ’s storyline gets stalled in order to introduce Marin’s, which centers around her grief for Alice, Marin’s recently departed partner whose death has no real bearing on anyone else in the novel (except for maybe Einar, but not really).

Ultimately the biggest problem is that Spragg piles so much weight onto his storylines that he forces their arcs to plateau, instead of allowing them to climax.

And, as readers, we’re left frustrated and, worse, bored. In the end, Bone Fire is a novel full of narrative, but it is one that has no fire.

Mark Spragg reads from Bone Fire at Fact & Fiction Wednesday, April 21, at 6:30 PM. Free. arts@missoulanews.com

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Funny people Star talent comes out for Date Night

by Scott Renshaw

If you hang around for the outtakes over the closing credits of Date Night, you won’t see all that much that’s particularly hilarious. But you might get a little insight into how much the success of a typical Hollywood comedy depends on the stars.

At first glance, that might not seem like the most obvious conclusion to reach from a movie like Date Night. After all, Steve Carell and Tina Fey aren’t supersized comedy personalities like Jim Carrey, or Adam Sandler, or Will Ferrell, who have turned their comic

If anything is going to add flavor to that bowl, it’s going to be Fey and Carell. There’s no way of knowing whether specific lines came from a script or from improvisation, but for a few key, successful scenes you can get a pretty decent hint from those outtakes. In one, Phil and Claire play a favorite game in which they try to guess the “story” of another couple sitting near them in a restaurant, each one delivering their imagined half of a conversation. Later, they return to the restaurant in the role of trendy a-holes to get some

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films into brand names. They’re likeable and smart, without giving you the impression that they’re wrenching their material into the shape that best suits their onscreen personae. Pay close attention to most of the payoff scenes in Date Night, though, and think about whether any of it is funny without what they bring to the table.

The entire premise is built on the stars’ perceived ordinariness. Phil Foster (Carell) and his wife Claire (Fey) are a New Jersey couple who have fallen into that familiar routine of suburban spouses everywhere: every ounce of time spent maintaining their kids and their jobs, leaving little for each other except the occasional night out. After learning that some married friends are separating, Phil suggests a break in the routine for dinner at a posh Manhattan restaurant. Getting a table will, unfortunately, require stealing the spot of a couple who don’t claim their reservation. And that couple, unfortunately, appears to have caught the attention of some mobsters and crooked cops.

The late-night odysseys of workday folks have generated off-beat comedies like After Hours and Into the Night over the years, but the script by Josh Klausner points itself in much more conventional directions.

Once the Fosters have been mistaken for the “Tripplehorns,” there will be wild getaways, shootouts, car chases and a few occasions for our milquetoast heroes to pretend to be more badass than they actually are. While director Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) wrangles it all into something resembling a movie, nothing here yanks you in a direction you’d never have predicted. It’s a bowl of cinematic ice cream, and it’s vanilla.

needed information. And when they finally encounter the real Tripplehorns, there’s an exchange of tough-guy patter between Phil and the tattooed thief (James Franco). I’m sure that the original script included some kind of dialogue at those points; I’m equally sure that once the cameras rolled, the direction for several takes amounted to “say and do funny things here.”

Fey and Carell clearly are capable of saying and doing plenty of funny things. They both excel at making self-deprecation seem casual and genuine, like Claire picking a specific stripper disguise because “it was the only one long enough to hide my C-section scar.” They’re also both at their best in situations where they’re smarter than people around them, tossing off withering lines with pinpoint accuracy. And it helps that they’re both deft enough actors to make the subtext about re-invigorating a relationship feel like something that isn’t thoroughly tacked on.

You can see the strain, though, in a late scene in which Phil and Claire have to do an impromptu poledance at a sex club. The intentional physical awkwardness doesn’t play to the actors’ strengths, and only makes it that much clearer that when Fey and Carell aren’t nailing a scene in Date Night, there’s really not much reason to be watching. But they do nail a whole lot of their scenes, enough to make the silly plot shenanigans and occasional manic set pieces easy to ignore.

Making a successful Hollywood comedy sometimes can be just as simple as pointing talented performers in the right direction, and getting the hell out of the way.

Date Night continues at the Carmike 10 and Village 6. arts@missoulanews.com

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Scope OPENING THIS WEEK DEATH AT A FUNERAL Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence and an assortment of family and friends gather to mourn the death of their father. Of course, things go awry, especially when someone gets dosed with psychedelics, and Rock and Lawrence learn their dad was getting down on the down-low. Carmike 10: 5:30, 7:45 and 10 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1 and 3:15. Stadium 14 in Kailispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:15, 2:45, 4:55, 7:20 and 9:35 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 2:45, 4:55, 7:20 and 9:35.

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al pertinent themes including problem solving, self-motivation and kindness. Village 6: 1 only on Sat.–Sun. CHLOE Julianne Moore suspects her hubby, music prof Liam Neeson, is engaging in hanky-panky. After Moore hires escort Amanda Seyfried to test Neeson’s fidelity, things get interesting. Village 6: 7 and 9:25 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1 and 4.

CLASH OF THE TITANS Sam Worthington (Perseus), the Greek warrior and son of Liam Neeson (Zeus), decides to wage battle against demons and freakish beasts in his quest to defeat the hellraising ways of Ralph Fiennes (Hades). Carmike 10: 4:15, 7 and 9:45 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30. Village

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Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at noon, 1, 2:15, 3:30, 4:30, 6, 7, 8 and 9:30 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at 10:15 and midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 2:15, 3:30, 4:30, 6, 7, 8 and 9:30. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1:45.

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID Zachary Gordon tries his best to navigate his way through pre-teen life in an institution filled with “morons.” Village 6: 7:15 and 9:30 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:25 and 4:10. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:25 and 9:25 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

tional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1:10 and 1:30. Village 6 in 2-D: 7:15 and 9:40 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at noon, 2:25 and 4:50.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton in 2-D: 7 and 9 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell in 3-D: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 2:30, 5, 7:30 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at 10 and midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 3:30, 6:30 and 9. Stadium 14 in Kalispell in 2-D: Fri.–Sun. at 12:30, 3, 5:30 and 8 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at 10:15 and Mon.–Thu. at 2, 4:30, 6:50 and 9:20. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4, 7 and 9.

THE LAST SONG Estranged dad and former concert pianist Greg Kinnear uses the almighty power of music to patch up any rough spots with his daughter Miley Cyrus in this adaptation of Nicholas Sparks’ book.

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LETTERS TO GOD Tanner Maguire is a youngster suffering from cancer who writes prayers every day and then mails them to God. Or so he thinks. Meanwhile, postman Jeffrey S. Johnson is the guy receiving Maguire’s letters, and isn’t so sure what to do about the situation. Carmike 10: 4:05, 7 and 9:40 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:15. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 4:05 and 6:55.

NORTH FACE Mountaineers and climbing junkies ought to get weak in the knees when witnessing this flick— based on a true story—about two German rock climbers in 1936 who aim to be the first to scale the Goliath known as the Eiger North Face in the Swiss Alps. Wilma Theatre: Nightly at 7, with no shows Sat. or Wed. and a Sun. matinee at 1.

“I told you to take one Cialis pill per day, not per hour!” Death at a Funeral opens Friday at the Carmike 10.

cert flick that showcases his tour from last summer. Carmike 10: 7:30 only Wed.–Thu. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 7:30 only Wed.–Thu. KICK-ASS Aaron Johnson is a nerdy teen who’s obsessed with comics and lacking on luck with the ladies. At some point, he brings his fixation to life by becoming a superhero—and soon enough, people like Nicolas Cage start emulating his pulverizing moves. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at noon, 1, 3, 4, 6:15, 7 and 9 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at 10 and midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 3, 4, 6:15, 7 and 9.

NOW PLAYING ALICE IN WONDERLAND Tim Burton makes his 3-D mark in this phantasmagorical classic, which features Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska and Anne Hathaway. Carmike 10: 7:20 and 10. Stadium 14 in Kalispell in 2-D: Fri.–Sun. at 12:45, 3:30, 6:40 and 9:15 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 3:30, 6:40 and 9:15.

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CREATION Paul Bettany is evolutionary hero Charles Darwin as he struggles to finish On The Origin of Species—and deals with his loss of faith, lots of hate, and a strained marriage with the ever so faithful Jennifer Connelly (Emma Darwin). Wilma Theatre: Nightly at 7 and 9, with 7 only shows Sat. and Wed. and Sun. matinees at 1 and 3.

DATE NIGHT Steve Carrell and Tina Fey are suburbanite parents with a marriage that’s going stale. In an attempt to inject a little spice into their lives Carrell decides to take Fey to an upscale restaurant, only to find out they’ve become the targets of some seriously corrupt cops. Carmike 10: 4:20, 5:45, 7, 8 and 9:30 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1:15, 1:45 and

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THE GHOST WRITER Ewan McGregor’s a ghostwriter assigned to help Pierce Brosnan, a former British prime minister. At some point, McGregor realizes Brosnan has some serious political skeletons in his closet, and as he digs deeper, he soon finds himself in dire straits.

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HOT TUB TIME MACHINE John Cusack, Rob Corddry, Craig Robinson and Clark Duke are all down-on-their-luck dudes who decide that getting hammered in a ski resort hot tub is a good idea. When their night of debauchery ends, they wake up realizing they’ve been transported back to 1986. Carmike 10: 4:20, 7:30 and 10 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:45.

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HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON This 3-D animated flick follows Hiccup, a scrawny Viking teen who was brought up to mercilessly slay dragons. But things change when he befriends a “different” dragon that makes him realize they aren’t so evil after all.

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SHUTTER ISLAND Martin Scorcese directs Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo in a story about federal agents on the hunt for a batty murderer who disappeared from a remote institution for the criminally insane. After a few days in the nuthouse, though, DiCaprio starts acting a little loco too.

Village 6: 7:10 and 10:15 with an additional Sat.–Sun. show at 4:05.

THE BOUNTY HUNTER Gerard Butler has trouble finding work as a bounty hunter, until he snags the lucky gig of going after his bail-jumping ex—Jennifer Aniston.

Along the way, Aniston evades Butler’s cuffs, and in the process they both find themselves in some sticky situations. Carmike 10: 4:05, 7 and 9:40 with an additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:20, 4:20, 7:05 and 9:45 with an additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4:15, 7:10 and 9:15.

Capsule reviews by Ira Sather-Olson.

Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., April 16. 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; Stadium 14 in Kalispell–752-7804. Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.

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ADVICE GODDESS

By Amy Alkon

THE DAWG WHISPERER In the wake of revelations about Sandra Bullock’s cheating husband, I’m wondering about your take on why she’s with him. She doesn’t seem like the usual low self-esteem type who goes for bad boys.

—In Bad Boy Recovery Myself It seems women have a crafting gene.

Martha Stewart taps into hers, and like a one-woman swarm of rickracking, spongepainting locusts, transforms everything in her path. Other women start by perking up flowerpots and end tables and move on to unsuitable men. There’s no rush like walking into a room with a changed man on one’s arm (even better than the feeling of having much better shoes than all the other women at the party).

There’s evidence this transformation is doable—at least in movies starring Jennifer Aniston. The ideal subject is the man no other woman has been able to domesticate. The woman tells herself he just hasn’t met the right woman (her, of course!). With her unique brand of beauty and heart, she will do the impossible: paper-train the wolf and get him to roll over on command. It’s love as brainwashing, “Beauty and the Beast” with a pole-dancing twist: “I’ll make you forget those strippers!”

Unfortunately, like the leopard and his spots, the wolf and his big-boobed, tattedup she-wolves are not soon parted.

There’s a reason Bullock’s husband previously married a porn star, and it probably isn’t because he thinks porn stars make the best mothers. Maybe he wanted to turn over a new leaf with Bullock, and maybe he did for a while, becoming the sort of guy who rides the lawn mower into the sunset instead of the chopper into the strip club parking lot.

But, change is hard, maybe even impossible, save for the most determined and self-disciplined. Even they may have to hit bottom a few times (and, no, not the naked, tattooed kind). So, if you’d like to stay “in bad boy recovery,” the most you should ever expect is to influence a man— maybe to cut back on foods labeled “screamin’ hot nacho cheese-flavored” and to avoid dressing like he was naked and ran into a Salvation Army and put on whatever was closest to the door.

Look for a guy who already seems together, and take a good look at his past because it’s a pretty good key to what (or who) he’ll do in the future. Should you find yourself jonesing for a project, see what you can do with a hot glue gun, a spray can of gold paint, and 26 packages of macaroni.

Whatever you come up with, it’ll at least be distracting, and definitely less misery-inducing than that fun game you project daters like to play, “Spot the tall, dark, handsome captain of industry in the chronically unemployed drug user with the personality disorder.”

Trail Head Annual Boat Swap & Sale The Trail Head in Missoula will hold their annual Boat Swap & Sale on Saturday, April 17th. This is a consignment sale. Receive an 80/20 cash split, or 110% of the selling price in Trail Head store credit. Drop off your canoes, kayaks, rafts and related accessories between 9am-Noon. The sale will take place between Noon-3pm, and pickups will be between 3 & 4pm. For questions or more information, please call the Trail Head at 543-6966 or vist trailheadmontana.com

LOST & FOUND

FUZZ KILL I just started hanging out with a woman I was good friends with in high school. To my shock and dismay, she now has a mustache! She has dark hair but wears glasses—maybe she can’t see it herself. I don’t feel close enough to her to say something, but she’s recently divorced and about to start dating, so maybe I should anyway…but how?

—Hair-ified Maybe slip it into conversation. You know, “Why did the caterpillar cross your upper lip? Wait…he isn’t crossing…it seems he’s injured or dead!” Okay, that would be mean—but nowhere near as mean as all those friends of hers refusing to endure the few moments of conversational discomfort it would take to clue her in. Sorry, make that supposed friends, because if you’re actually this woman’s friend…HOW DO YOU LET HER GO AROUND WITH VISIBLE FACIAL HAIR?!

We’ll assume she isn’t mustachioed because waxing would kill her chances with the circus. And unless she lifted her arm and you spotted cornrows, she’s probably one of those women with the unfortunate combination of fine, dark hairs and vision issues—causing her to be in the dark about her desperate need to mow. In addition to wrecking her chances with any guy whose feminine ideal isn’t Tom Selleck, every single person who ever talks to her is thinking only one thing: “She’s got a mustache, she’s got a mustache, omigod, she’s got a mustache.”

It’s a mission of mercy, letting a furlipped woman know. You could take her for a girls-getting-their-nails-done session, then suggest she join you in the two-for-one lip wax (a nonexistent special prearranged by you). There’s also the gentle mention—“Did you know you have the faintest line of hair just above your lip?” (Even if it’s “faint” like the African bush.) If neither of those work, there’s always tricking her into it: “Let’s play a game—it’s called ‘let’s put adhesive tape on our upper lips and pull!’”

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Come on a journey with us and experience an intimate connection with healing herbs that are native to the Northern Rocky Mountains. • Call us at:: (406) 728-0543• Email us at: classes@herbsmt.com Loving what is; the work of Byron Katie (Visit www.thework.org) inquiry facilitated by Susie 406-543-2220 MASCULINE, EXPERIENCED FULL BODY MASSAGE

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Asian restaurant is seeking a multitask person to cook, do prep work, cleaning, washing dishes and do some delivery work. Starting pay will be $8 an hour plus shared tips. #2977248 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 Doormen/Barbacks needed through summer. Al’s & Vic’s 119 West Alder EXPERIENCED CHEF, F/T, Clinton.

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HOUSEKEEPING MANAGER, F/T, Msla. Employer is seeking full-time Housekeeping Manager for hotel in Missoula. Rate of pay is from $12$14/hr, depending on experience.

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for hotel NIGHT AUDITOR / DESK CLERK position. Wage is $7.25 per hour with increased wage for graveyard shift. #2977285 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 RESTAURANT HELPER, F/T, Clinton. Restaurant helper needed for restaurant in Clinton. 6 months of food and restaurant experience required. #2977273 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 STATE OF MONTANA POSITIONS, FT & PT, Various locations throughout Montana: Want to serve Montana citizens? Positions are available for locations throughout the state. Access the state job listings at: http://mt.gov/statejobs /statejobs.asp SUPPORT SPECIALIST, P/T, Msla.

SUPPORT SPECIALIST needed for the Missoula, Frenchtown and Bitterroot Valley. Hourly rate of pay is between $10.00 -$12.00 per hour DOE. Employer is a licensed mental health center and placement agency providing many opportunities to grow professionally while promoting positive change in our community. #2977271 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

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Local Hotel, Restaurant and Conference center needs a full-time BANQUET CAPTAIN. Wage is $8.70 per hour plus tips. Daytime hours. This employer is an EOE/AA. #2977257 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

Administrator Company is seeking a FLEXIBLE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE. #2977267 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

Basin Electric, a consumer-owned regional cooperative in Bismarck, North Dakota, has openings for two Lab Technicians and a Lead Lab Technician position located at the Dry Fork Station in Gillette, WY.

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LEAD LAB TECHNICIAN REQUIREMENTS: •knowledge of math and chemistry and a working knowledge of laboratory techniques and lab instruments •four-year degree with emphasis in chemistry, plus four years of related lab technician experience, or eight years of related lab experience

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Applications for employment will be accepted through April 22, 2010.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): Photons work hard to get from the heart of the sun to the surface. They can take up to 160,000 years to complete the 400,000+-mile journey. And yet once Earth-bound photons get topside, they travel the 93-million-mile distance to our planet in just over eight minutes. I foresee a metaphorically similar situation unfolding in your life in the coming weeks. A development that has been a long time in the making will accelerate tremendously in its last phase of ripening.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus genius Irving Berlin (1888-1989) has been called the greatest songwriter who ever lived. Among his 1,500 compositions were iconic tunes like “God Bless America” and “White Christmas,” as well as scores for 18 Hollywood movies and 19 Broadway shows. And yet he never learned to read or write music. Was he embarrassed about his handicap? Not at all. He even bragged about it. He felt that having such a minimal grasp of the conventions of songwriting was an advantage, giving him the freedom to be extraordinarily original. Is there any way in which you’re like Irving Berlin, Taurus? Do you have a seeming limitation that is actually an aid to your creativity and uniqueness? Celebrate it this week.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Every changed circumstance contains opportunities, which accrue to the first people to recognize them,” wrote poet Charles Potts. “Since circumstances are in constant flux, there is a steady stream of opportunities. Learn to spot them and make them your own.” I offer you this advice, Gemini, because you’ll soon be in a prime position to derive great benefit from it. If you tweak your attitude just right—aligning your novelty receptors to be on high alert—the clattering commotion of metamorphosis that’s headed your way will bring with it a bustling welter of unforeseen openings.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): First the negatives: Don’t be a martyr to what you’ve won. Don’t let your success oppress you. Don’t become a slave to the useful role you’ve earned. Don’t neglect your own needs as you serve the needs of those who admire you for what you give. Now let’s try a more positive way to frame the challenges ahead of you: Keep questioning whether the fruits of your victories are still enjoyable and fulfilling to you. Make sure the triumphs of the past don’t get in the way of the potential triumphs of the future. Find out how your success may need to evolve. Push beyond what’s good and head in the direction of what’s great.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): My rage against the machine began early. I joined my first protest march at age 15, led a boycott at 17, and was tear-gassed by cops at a demonstration when I was 18. In the intervening years, my anger at injustice has broadened and deepened. I’ve lent my rebel yells to hundreds of righteous causes. But in 2006, I decided to shift my approach. Instead of fighting every single abuse that incited my ire, I chose three to concentrate on: the obscene militarism of the American government, the extreme financial disparities between the rich and poor, and the environmental degradations caused by corporations and corporate culture. Since then, my crusading energy has been more focused and effective, and my general mood has brightened. I recommend you consider a similar change, Leo. It’s an excellent time for you to give more of your passion to fewer causes.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do you remember the monster that sometimes lived under your bed when you were a kid? Recently it found its way back to you, and has been spending time in your closet. It’s not as frightening as it used to be, and I’m not alarmed by its return. In fact, I think it has an important message for you that would be valuable to discover. I encourage you to invite it out for a conversation. As you might suspect, as soon as it delivers its crazy wisdom, it will leave you in peace.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Present the following dare to a person or persons with whom you would like to go deeper: “You think you know me, but you really know just a tantalizing fraction.

Would you like to experience the rest of the story?” And if anyone expresses interest, take him or her on a magical tour they won’t forget. Reveal the sides of you that are too mysteriously interesting to show the general public, or too intimate to reveal to anyone you don’t trust, or so potent they might intimidate those who don’t have a lot of self-possession.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In North America, California Condors are the biggest flying birds that live on land. Their wingspans are up to ten feet. Once sacred to certain Native Americans, these members of the vulture family can live for 60 years and soar as high as 15,000 feet. But they came close to extinction in the 20th century, mostly because of human activity. In 1987, conservationists intervened. In the hope of replenishing the population in captivity, they captured every last one of the 22 remaining wild condors. Painstaking efforts gradually yielded results, and today there are 348 birds, including 187 in the wild. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I believe now is an excellent time to begin a project to save your own metaphorical version of an “endangered species.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): According to Us Weekly, baseball star Alex Rodriguez owns two paintings of himself in which he’s portrayed as half-man, half-horse. This is an excellent time for you to be inspired by his example. Gazing at a picture of a mythical centaur who looks like you would speak to your subconscious mind in just the right way. Bypassing your rational ego, that stirring icon would animate and cultivate the wise animal in you. It would stimulate the sweet spot where your physical vitality overlaps your visionary intelligence. Do you know anyone who could Photoshop this powerful image for you?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here’s my startling prediction: More Capricorn spiritual seekers will become enlightened in the next five weeks than in any comparable period of history.

Hell, there’ll be so much infinity mixed with eternity available for your tribe that even a lot of you non-seekers could get a lightning bolt of illumination or two. That’s not to say that you have to accept the uplifting revelations, or even tune in to them, for that matter. If you’d prefer to ignore the sacred hubbub and go about your practical business without having to hassle with the consequences of a divine download, that’s fine.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Can you imagine what it would be like to venture into the opposite of the Bermuda Triangle? You know, a zone where wonderfully odd things occur rather than bad strange things? I think that such a place exists, and I think you’ll soon find it. The luck that unfolds for you will be a blend of dumb and brilliant. The discoveries you make may be useless on the outside but valuable on the inside. Lost keys may reappear and missing links will materialize out of nowhere. Here’s the piece de resistance: An apparent memory of the future could provide a secret passageway to a previously hidden enclave that contains “magic garbage.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In honor of the new identity you’re evolving into, I hereby give you the nickname of “Miracle Player,” or else—if you like one of these better—“Sleek Cat” or “Giant Step” or “Fate Whisperer.” You may hereafter also use any of the following titles to refer to yourself: “CEO of My Own Life” or “Self-Teacher of Jubilance and Serenity” or “Fertile Blur of Supple Strength.”

Feel free, as well, to anoint your head with pure organic virgin olive oil, fashion a crown for yourself out of roses and shredded masks, and come up with a wordless sound that is a secret sign you’ll give to yourself whenever you need to remember the marvelous creature you are on your way to becoming.

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.

EMPLOYMENT PROFESSIONAL PROGRAM COORDINATOR I, American Indian Research Opportunities, MSU-Bozeman.

Details at www.montana.edu/jobs Bozeman Job Service, or call 406994-5584. Screening Date: 4/15/10. MSU-Bozeman is an ADA/EEO/AA/Vet Pref Employer TECHNICAL WRITER, F/T, Msla.

Technical Writer: Office is seeking a technical writer who has strong writing skills, editing/proofreading experience, and strong multitasking capabilities. #2977252 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

SKILLED LABOR COUNTERTOP MANUFACTURER/INSTALLER/FINISH CARPENTER, F/T, Msla. COUNTERTOP MANUFACTURER / INSTALLER/ FINISH CARPENTER needed for a small locally owned, established business for over 25+ years. #2977266 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 MECHANIC/ELECTRICIAN Boise Paper Holdings, Inc, in Wallula, WA, is looking for a master mechanic/electrician to service various machinery; such as corrugator, flexo, die cutters, etc. Apply w/Work Source Job WA2050423 or fax resume 509.544.2775 Equal Opportunity Employer Salary $21.62-$26.19 DOQ SPRAYER, F/T, Seasonal, Msla. A local tree service needs a full time experienced TREE SPRAYER to mix and apply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, or insecticides through sprays, dusts, vapors, soil incorporation or chemical application on trees, shrubs, lawns, or botanical crops. #2977262 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 SUBSTATION OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR, F/T, Msla. Missoula employer is seeking a full-time SUBSTATION OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR. #2977278 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 TREE TRIMMER, F/T, Seasonal, Msla. Local employer needs a TREE TRIMMER WITH GEAR—ASAP! Wage starts at $10 to $12 an hour depending on experience. #2977259 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING. Complete programs and refresher courses, rent equipment for CDL. Job Placement Assistance. Financial assistance for qualified students.

SAGE Technical Services, Billings/Missoula, 1-800-5454546

TRAINING/ INSTRUCTION EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, F/T, Msla.

Employer is seeking a full-time EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT AND DISABILITIES MANAGER to assume overall responsibility for early childhood education and disabilities programs for early childhood facility. Salary range is $28,000 - $32,000 per year with

excellent benefit program. #2977286 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 Wildland Fire Training, Basic and Refresher. 406-543-0013

HEALTH CAREERS CNA - CERTIFIED NURSING ASSIST - On-Call, P/T, Msla.

Employer is seeking On-Call CNAs for assisted living facility. Starting pay is $8.75 or higher depending on experience. IMMEDIATE NEED. #2977274 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 CRITICAL ACCESS HOSPITAL with ER, rural health clinic, NH seeks Physician Assistant. Attractive work schedule. Generous salary/benefits. Relocation assistance. Choteau, MT. EOE. Susan Murphy: (406)466-5763. smurph@tetonmedicalcenter.net

ADVERTISING & ADMIN COORDINATOR The Missoula Independent is seeking someone with strong administrative, communication and organization skills to support our busy advertising and administrative departments. 25-30 hours per week.

Send resume to Lynne Foland, PO Box 8275, Missoula 59807 or email lfoland@missoulanews.com

No calls, please. EOE

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HABILITATION SPECIALIST 40hr position providing coordination/support to adults w/disabilities in a apartment setting.

Supervisory exp. and working w/adults w/disabilities preferred. BA in human services or 2yrs related exp. preferred. Four weekdays: 12pm-8pm and one 8/hr weekend day. $12.65/hr Closes Tues. 4/20/10, 5pm.

JANITORAL COORD ASST 40hr position responsible for the overall coordination of janitorial services.

Exp. with contracting, janitorial, supervisory, and working w/adults w/disabilities preferred.

Must be bondable/insurable. M-F 2p-10p $12.35/hr Closes Tues. 4/20/10, 5pm.

Valid MT Driver’s License. No History of Abuse, Neglect/Exploitation.

Exc. Benefits including: generous amount of paid time off, retirement, medical & dental insurance, etc, plus the privilege of working with professional and caring fellow staff.

Applications available at OPPORTUNITY RESOURCES, INC., 2821 S. Russell, Missoula, MT 59801.

NO RESUMES. EOE. Extensive background checks will be completed.

MARKETPLACE MISC. GOODS FREE BOOK End Time Events Book of Revelation NonDenominational 1-800-4750876 NEW NORWOOD SAWMILLS LumberMate-Pro handles logs 34” diameter, mills board 28” wide. Automated quick-cyclesawing increases efficiency up to 40%! www.Norwood Sawmills.com/300N 1-800661-7746, Ext.300N

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SPORTING GOODS

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Capt’n Trips: Last year’s Blue NRS rental tubes for sale!

Great prices! Call 531-3975.

Delinquent Storage shed auction April 26, 2010 from 1-4. Units #30 Cheryl Smoker, #43 Frank Veto and #23 Kim Stevens.

Units are located at 1640 Montana Street, Msla, 59801

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APPLIANCES Brand New White all gas range. $299. Call Dean at Brand Source 728-8090.

Brand New Top-loading washer. $329. Call Dean at Brand Source 728-8090.

FURNITURE Echo Echo Home Furnishings Worth Repeating. Call 2141327 or visit us online at www.echoechomt.com.

MUSIC ACCESS MUSIC. MUSICIANS BAILOUT SALE! GUITARS, AMPS, MANDOLINS ALL ON SALE! ACCESSORIES UP TO 50% OFF! STRINGS 50% OFF! 728-5014. CORNER OF 3RD & ORANGE. 406-728-5014. accessguitar.com All strings are 1/2 off EVERY WEDNESDAY at Electronic Sound & Percussion. Located on the Hip Strip at 819 S Higgins.

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Drumheads are 35% off EVERY DAY at Electronic Sound & Percussion. Located on the Hip Strip at 819 S Higgins. ESPMUSIC.COM MORGENROTH MUSIC APRIL IS INTERNATIONAL GUITAR MONTH April 16-17, get your 6-string acoustic or electric guitar restrung absolutely free!

Register to win a new guitar given away on April, 30th! April 23-24 is Test Drive Weekend!

Try out a new guitar, bring your trade if you have one, do a short evaluation of the guitar you like and get a free Guitar maintenance kit! Register to win a new guitar! MORGENROTH MUSIC 1105 W Sussex, Missoula.

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MISSOULA’S go-to place for CONSIGNMENT FURNITURE. North Reserve Business Complex (Behind Johnny Carino's) unit k3 406.542.1202

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FOR SALE: NEW Highline Billiards Table Honey Hickory Table with 1" Diamond Slate, Inlaid Ivory, Simonis 860 Felt, Leather Pouches. Includes Four 2-Piece Cues, Belgian Aramith Balls ($300 value), Rack, Brush, and Cue Extension.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MISSOULA COUNTY GOVENMENT NOTICE INVITING PROPOSALS Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the office of Missoula County Auditor room 212 in the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, in the City of Missoula, Montana until 3:00 o’clock PM., May 6, 2010 at which time bids will be opened, for the purpose of: Construction of a Secure Warehouse at the Missoula County Detention Center.

Bids will be received for one single contract, the General Contract, which shall include all work for the construction of the project. A pre-bid walkthrough at the site (Missoula County Detention Center) will be held on Monday April 26, 2010 at 10 AM local time. A review of the site will be conducted. Bidders are encouraged to attend, however it is not a mandatory meeting. All work is to be performed in accordance with the resolution and plans on file with the Missoula County Facilities Management department in the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, Missoula County, Montana.

All work shall be performed under the supervision of Architects Design Group PC and Missoula County Facilities Management. Prospective bidders may secure copies of the plans and specifications from Architects Design Group PC, 1 Sunset Plaza, Kalispell, Montana, (406) 257-7125 or Missoula County Facilities Management, 200 W. Broadway Missoula, Montana, (406)-258-4756 upon submitting a plan deposit of $200.00. The plan deposit is 100% refundable upon return of complete sets of the bidding documents, in good condition, within 10 days after bid opening. Plans will also be available at the following Exchanges: Missoula

Plans Exchange Center, 201 North Russell, Missoula, MT 59801 Ph: (406) 549-5002. Builders Exchange of Billings, 2050 Broadwater Avenue, Suite A, Billings, MT 59102 Ph: (406) 652-1311. Spokane Regional Plans Center, 102 East Boone, Suite 102, Spokane, WA 99202 Ph: (509) 3289600. Great Falls Builders Exchange, 202 Second Ave. S., Great Falls, MT 59405 Ph: (406) 453-2513. Northwest Montana Plans Exchange, 2303 MT Hwy 2 East, Kalispell, MT 59901 Ph: (406) 755-5888. Bidders wishing to obtain more than one set of plans may do so by request to ADG or Missoula County Facilities. Charges for such documents will be made to cover reproduction and handling costs and is not refundable. Proposals must be accompanied by a certified check, cashier’s check or bid bond in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bids as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract. Missoula County reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Proposals for Construction of a Secure Warehouse and addressed to the Missoula County Auditor, Missoula Montana” The successful Bidder, if awarded the contract, shall within a period of 10 days from the date of award enter into a formal contract and furnish an approved Performance Bond and Labor and Materials Payment Bond each in the amount of 100% of the Contract as provided in the “Instructions to Bidders.” Each bidder shall be registered with the Montana Department of Labor, in accordance with Montana Statue, and provide Missoula County a current copy of his Montana Contractor Registration Certificate. No Contractor may withdraw his Bid for a

period of 30 consecutive days from the date of opening of Bids, except as provided in the “Instructions to Bidders” By order of the Board of County Commissioners this 13th day of April, 2010. /s/ Barbara Berens, County Auditor /s/ Larry Farnes, Facilities Manager MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing on a proposed ordinance to establish a maximum speed limit of 35 m.p.h. for Big Flat Road. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing on April 28, 2010 and May 12, 2010 at 1:30 p.m. in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may speak at the hearing and/or submit written or other materials to the Commissioners at the hearing or by mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, FAX (406) 721-4043. Additional information on the hearing may be obtained from Gregory Robertson, P.E., AICP, Director of Public Works at Missoula county Public Works Department, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808 or by calling (406) 258-4818.

DATED THIS 7th DAY OF April, 2010. (s) Gregory H. Robertson, P.E., AICP, Director of Public Works MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT HISTORIC PRESERVATION GRANT FUNDING MISSOULA The Missoula Board of County

Commissioners will conduct a hearing on Historic Preservation Grant Funding for renovations to the historic County Courthouse and the Historical Museum’s T-1 Building at Fort Missoula and accept public comment on the environmental assessment checklists for both projects. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing at their regularly scheduled Public Meeting on April 28th, at 1:30 p.m., in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to the Commissioners and/or speak at the hearing. Comments may also be submitted anytime prior to the hearing by mail or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802; by fax at (406) 721-4043; or by e-mail at bcc@co.missoula.mt.us Additional information on the hearing may be obtained from Anne Hughes by calling 258-3160 and will be posted on the County’s website as it becomes available. DATED THIS 15th DAY OF APRIL, 2010 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT SHERIFF’S SALE HAYLOFT AUTO BODY AND SALES, INC., Claimant Against KEITH M. THOMAS, ROXIE K. THOMAS, JEFFERY S. WILLIAMS, ERNEST WILLIAM RICHARDSON, Owners THOR CREDIT CORP, JOSHUA SEARS, Lien Holders. To Be Sold at Sheriff’s Sale: TERMS: CASH, or its equivalent; NO personal checks. On the 27th day of April A.D., 2010, at Ten o’clock A.M., at 11835 Lewis & Clark Drive, Lolo, County of Missoula, State of Montana, that certain personal prop-

erty situate in said Missoula County, and particularly described as follows, to-wit: 2000 MONTANA TRAVEL TRAILER, VIN 4YDF32827Y4051550.

1997 DODGE STRATUS 4D, VIN 1B3EJ46X5VN603665. Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining.

No warranty is made as to the condition or title of the vehicle(s). Dated this 15th day of April A.D., 2010. /s/ MICHAEL R. McMEEKIN Sheriff of Missoula County, Montana By /s/ Patrick A. Turner, Deputy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-10-317 Dept. No. 1 Ed McLean SUMMONS JOAN E. MULLIGAN, Plaintiff, vs. All 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 thereof or any cloud upon Plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE-NAMED DEFENDANT: All 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 thereof or any cloud upon Plaintiff’s title thereto, whether such claim or possible claim be present or contingent. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service. In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action is brought for the purpose of quieting title in the name of the Plaintiff to land situated in Missoula County, Montana, and described as follows: The Northerly 26 feet of Lots 1 and 2,

the Northerly 85 feet 5 inches of Lot 3, and the Northerly 85 feet 5 inches of the Easterly 15 feet of Lot 4, all in Block 20 of C.P. Higgins Addition to the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat of record in Book 1, Copy of Plats at page 21.

Recording reference: Book 147, Page 180.

WITNESS my hand and seal of said Court this 17th day of March, 2010. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of the District Court By: /s/s Bobbi Hainline, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Probate No. DP-10-42 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF LEONARD J. HUBBLE, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appoint-

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 132. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting April 26, 2010 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to A p r i l 2 9 , 2010, 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale.

All Sales final.

ed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Samuel H. Ballam,

EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 39, 48, 226, 289, 410, and 552. Units contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc household goods.

These units may be viewed starting Monday, April 26, 2010 by appt only by calling 251-8600. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59803 prior to Wednesday, April 28, 2010, 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale.

All sales are final.

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PUBLIC NOTICES III, P.R., 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 7th day of April, 2010. /s/ Ronald A. Bender, WORDEN THANE, P.C., Attorneys for Applicant MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-10-29 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JERRY GRANT GREENOUGH, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the abovenamed estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Lana Greenough, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested in care of Paul E. Fickes, Esq., Christian, Samon & Jones, PLLC, 310 West Spruce, Missoula, Montana 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 9th day of April, 2010. /s/ Lana Greenough, PO Box 321, 51 St. Regis Street, St. Regis, MT 59866

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14 "The Life ___ with Steve Zissou" 15 One of many in Las Vegas 16 Former Campbell's Soup slogan 18 Atlanta suburb 19 Enthusiastic assent, in Spanish 20 Bikini part 22 Back muscles 23 With 31-across, quadruple platinum R&B album of 1992 26 Beauty's counterpart 30 River that passes through Essen, Germany 31 See 23-across 34 Presidential monogram of the 1950s 37 Actress Lathan of "The Cleveland Show" 38 "___ was saying..."

39 Financial advisor and TV host Suze 41 ___ Maria (liqueur) 42 1953 Looney Tunes short where a student daydreams 45 Make a sad face 46 Part of a lunar cycle 47 Some all-female band members 52 Moby Dick chaser 53 Hydrocarbon suffix 54 "I'm rippin' up ___ doll..."

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29 Sailor's visibility hazard 31 East, in Germany 32 "The other," in Spanish 33 Newspaper published since 1908, for short 34 Prohibited areas in combat: abbr.

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51 Lusty looks 54 Banned apple spray 55 Hyphenated septic system treatment brand 56 "I never knew ___ that was not odious" (John Sherman) 57 Demographic for characters in "Reality Bites" 59 Modern version of a K-ration 60 Aust. city 62 "The Raven" monogram 63 Transatlantic MTV honor, for short ©2010 Jonesin' Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com) For answers to this puzzle, call: 1-900-226-2800, 99 cents per minute. Must be 18+.

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Case No. DV-10-438 Robert L. Deschamps III NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Seng Favtxhim Thao, Petitioner. PLEASE TAKEN NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Seng Favtxhim Thao, has petitioned the District Court for the Fourth Judicial District for a change of name from Seng Favtxhim Thao to Shane Seng Favtxhim Thao and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 18th day of May, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802 in courtroom number 2S. At any time before the hearing, objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 7th day of April, 2010. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: Maria Cassidy, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-10-37 IN THE

MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BRUCE D. SERVISS, 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. Claim must either be mailed to Carol E. Serviss, 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 aboveentitled Court. DATED this 22nd day of March, 2010. /s/ Carol E. Serviss, Personal Representative. /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-10-39 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF HOMER W. ROCK, JR., Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed CoPersonal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Glenda Marie Rock and Lee LaRoche, Co-Personal Representatives, 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 26th day of March, 2010. /s/ Glenda Marie Rock, Co-Personal Representative /s/ Lee LaRoche, Co-Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, /s/ Nancy Gibson MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DR-10-115 Summons for Publication In re the Marriage of David L. Johnson, Petitioner, and Genine M. Packert, Respondent. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVENAMED RESPONDENT: You, the Respondent, are hereby summoned to answer the Petition in this action, which is filed with the Clerk of Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Petitioner with-

in twenty days after service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you for the relief demanded in the Petition. This action is brought to obtain a dissolution of marriage. Title to and interest in the following real property will be involved in this action: DATED this 7th day of April, 2010. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: Amy M. Day, Deputy Clerk NOTICE OF RIGHT OF WAY ENCROACHMENT The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing on a proposed sewer main utility encroachment in the Old Bitterroot Road right of way west of Lower Miller Creek Road. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing on April 28, 2010 at 1:30PM in Room 201 of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may speak at the hearing and/or submit written or other materials to the Commissioners at the hearing or by mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, FAX (406) 721-4043. Additional information on the hearing may be obtained from Gilbert Larson at Professional Consultants, Inc. 3115 S. Russell Street, Missoula MT 59801 or by calling (406) 728-1880.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE February 9, 2010 To be sold for cash at Trustee’s Sale on the 8th day of July, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M., at the Missoula County Courthouse, Missoula County, Montana, is the following property: LOT 3 OF CHARLIE’S ADDITION NO 2 BLK 1 7-13-19 Also known as 3210 TINA AVE MISSOULA, MT 598081355 Recording References: Deed 1: Book 0726, Page 01264, 02/20/2004 according to the official map or plat thereof on file and of record in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of said County; together with all buildings, fixtures and improvements thereon and all water rights, rights-of-way, easements, rents, issues, profits, income, tenements, hereditaments, privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging, used or enjoyed with aid property, or any part thereof. Ron Toney, as Grantor, of 3210 TINA AVE MISSOULA, MT 598081355, Montana, conveyed the above-described

property to Title Services, Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Caras Family Partnership, as Beneficiary, by Montana Trust Indenture dated May 12, 2009, and filed of record on May 14, 2009 at 01:56 pm in Book 839 at page 561, of Micro Records of Missoula County, Montana. The default in the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default this foreclosure is made, is the failure by the Grantor, or other person owing an obligation, or by their successors-in-interest, to pay the monthly installments of $390.19 each due on the 15th day of each month, including interest at 10% per annum applied to an underlying indebtedness until paid in full and accruing late charges, advances, and expenses of foreclosure, including Trustee’s and attorney’s fees and costs. There is presently owed on the obligation secured by the Trust Indenture the principal sum of $23,045.07 plus interest thereon at the above described rates which shall be applied to his underlying indebtedness, until said indebtedness is paid. Other expenses to be charged against the sale proceeds include accruing late charges, escrow shortages, if any, Trustee’s and attorney’s fees and costs, and expense of foreclosure and sale. The Beneficiary has elected to sell the abovedescribed property to satisfy the aforementioned obligation and has instructed the undersigned Trustee to do so. DATED this 9th day of February, 2010. P. MARS SCOTT LAW OFFICES By: /s/ Thomas C. Orr, Trustee STATE OF MONTANA ) :ss County of Missoula) On this 9th day of February, 2010, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Thomas C. Orr, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same in his capacity as Trustee.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Notarial Seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Sarah Testerman, Notary Public for the State of Montana My commission expires 8/10/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/07/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200901831, B: 832, P: 862, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Michael V. Mitchell, a married man was

SHERIFF'S SALE • ABANDONED VEHICLES TERMS: CASH ONLY; NO CHECKS; $85.00 MINIMUM BID

TO BE SOLD AT SHERIFF'S SALE: On 4/26/2010, at 9:00 a.m. at Red's Towing , 321 N. Russell, Missoula, in the County of Missoula, State of Montana, that certain personal property situate in the said County of Missoula, and particularly described as follows, to wit: Vehicle #: Vehicle VIN #: 184 187 189 190 191 192 193 195 197 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 213 214 215 216 217 218

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Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining.

No warranty is made as to the condition or title of these vehicles.

Date:

4/15/2010

Missoula Independent Classifieds Page C6 April 15 – April 22, 2010

MICHAEL R. McMEEKIN, SHERIFF PATRICK A. TURNER, Deputy

Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Real Estate Mortgage Network, Inc was Beneficiary and Netco Title Montana was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Netco Title Montana as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: The SW1/4 SE1/4, Section 27, Township 15 North, Range 20 West, of the Principal Meridian, Missoula County, Montana, lying North and West of the Railroad Right of Way and Northland West of Highway, except: A tract of land located in the SW1/4 SE1/4 of Section 27, Township 15 North, Range 20 West, and in the N1/2 of Section 34, Township 15 North, Range 20 West, M.P.M., more particularly described as: Beginning at the South quarter corner of Section 27; thence Northerly along the midsection line of Section 27, 1034 feet; thence Easterly and parallel to South boundary line of Section 27, 367 feet; thence Southerly and parallel to said midsection line to an intersection with the Northwesterly boundary of U.S. Highway No. 93; thence Southwesterly along the Northwesterly boundary of U.S. Highway No. 93, 150 feet, more or less to its intersection with the South boundary of said Section 27; thence Westerly along said section line to its intersection with the Northwesterly boundary of U.S. Highway No. 93; thence Southwesterly along said boundary of U.S. Highway No 93, 318.9 feet; thence Northwesterly and right angles to an intersection with the South boundary of Section 27; thence Easterly along the section line to Point of Beginning, Missoula County, Montana.

And all that part of SW1/4 SE1/4, of said Section 27, Township 15 North, Range 20 West, P.M. lying South and East of the Northern Pacific Railway Right of Way, Missoula County, Montana. Recording reference: Book 96 of Micro Records, Page 1538.

Less and excepting that portion deed to the State of Montana in Book 201 of Micro Records at Page 1606 and Book 201 of Micro Records at Page 1610. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. , beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed

Missoula County Government

PUBLIC NOTICE North Lolo Growth Policy Update and Rural Special Zoning District The Missoula County Board of County Commissioners adopted a Resolution of Intent to create the North Lolo Rural Special Zoning District and adopt regulations for this District. The North Lolo area is approximately 900 acres in size.

The triangular area is located immediately south of Bird Lane. It is bounded by Ridgeway Drive to the south and Highway 93 to the east. See Map O for the boundaries of the North Lolo area. The North Lolo Rural Special Zoning District includes six (6) zoning classifications including Resource Transition, Residential, Ponderosa Heights Subdivision, Town Residential, Community Commercial, and Town Mixed Use. It also includes a specific set of definitions, general requirements, nonconforming use provisions, and admin-

istrative and enforcement provisions that outline specifics for conditional use permits. The North Lolo Rural Special Zoning District map and regulations are on file for public inspection at the office of the county clerk and recorder and at the Missoula County Rural Initiatives website http://www.co.missoula.mt.us/rural/Lolo AreaRegionalPlan/NLoloProject.htm. A protest period will be held for thirty (30) days after the first publication of the notice of the Resolution of Intent on April 15, 2010. The Board of County Commissioners will receive written protests to the creation of the zoning district or to the zoning regulations from persons owning real property within the district whose names appear on the last-completed assessment roll of the county. Written protests may be submitted to Missoula County Board of County Commissioners, 200 W Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802.

PUBLIC NOTICES of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 17, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $225,658.54. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $215,694.76, 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 June 28, 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, whereis 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# 7023.71252) 1002.147906-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/25/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200716720, Bk 800, Pg 925, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Lyle Dewitt Kleckner and Jo Ann Kleckner husband and wife and joint tenants was Grantor, Wells Fargo Financial Montana, Inc. was Beneficiary and First American Title Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 9 and the East one-half of Lot 10 in Block 3 of Bellevue Addition No. 3, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official plat thereof. And Lot 9 and the East one-half of Lot 10 in Block 3 of Bellevue Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof.

Recording Reference: Book 220 of Micro Records at Page 1504. 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 06/29/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 17, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $248,392.25. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $230,621.68, 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 June 29, 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, whereis basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of

these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com.

(TS# 7777.11989) 1002.148103-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/15/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200432695, Book 743, Page 1224, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Casey R. Peterson was Grantor, Argent Mortgage Company, LLC was Beneficiary and First American Title Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in and being a portion of Lots 1, 2 and 3 in Block 15 of Low’s Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract B of Certificate of Survey No. 1238A. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200920064 Bk. 845, Pg. 908, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank, National Association as Trustee, Successor-in-Interest to Wachovia Bank, N.A. Pooling and Servicing Agreement dated as of November 1, 2004, Asset-Backed PassThrough Certificates Series 2004-WWF1.

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 19, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $161,151.73. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $151,978.07, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on July 1, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com.

(TS# 7777.10007) 1002.146717-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust

SERVICES indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/28/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200705387, Bk. 793, Pg. 202, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Douglas J. Nyberg and Tammy Bowshier Nyberg, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Stewart Title was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Stewart Title as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 246 of Pleasant View Homes 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 07/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of February 25, 2010, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $223,358.95. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $212,268.09, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on July 7, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.71562) 1002.148793-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 1, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 1 in Block 7 of Country Club Addition No. 1, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Permanent Parcel Number : 1058909 Kristine King Larson and Robert E Larson Robert E Larson and Kristine King Larson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to US Bank Trust Company, National Association, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to U.S. Bank, National Association N.D., as Beneficiary, by Deed of trust dated October 23, 2003 and Recorded December 18, 2003 under Document Number 200347263 Book 723 Wicro Records Page 1884 The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank, National Association N.D.. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to

a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $298.09, beginning June 20, 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 January 22, 2010 is $32,916.70 principal, interest at the rate of 6.99% now totaling $1,556.42, late charges in the amount of $174.00, and other fees and expenses advanced of $347.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $6.30 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: January 21, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On January 21, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson , Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3507951 04/01/2010, 04/08/2010, 04/15/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 1, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 8 of Hidden Hills, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

Richard Sales and Rene Sales, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services of Missoula, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 24, 2004 and Recorded on March 29, 2004 under Document # 200408179 in Bk728, Pg-1369. The beneficial interest is currently held by The Bank of New York Mellon

f/k/a The Bank of New York as successor to JPMorgan Chase Bank, as trustee for the benefit of the Certificate holders of Equity One ABS, Inc. Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates Series 2004-3. 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 $1,715.80, 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 January 20, 2010 is $152,982.22 principal, interest at the rate of 9.625% now totaling $12,299.04, late charges in the amount of $735.95, escrow advances of $5,907.56, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,469.57, plus accruing interest at the rate of $40.34 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: January 19, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On January 19, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson , Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 09/22/2012 ASAP# 3504063 04/01/2010, 04/08/2010, 04/15/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 1, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOTS 19 AND 20 IN BLOCK 32 OF DALY’S ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL

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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: January 22, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On 1/22/10, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. JOAN MEIER Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 2/23/13 ASAP# 3510789 04/08/2010, 04/15/2010, 04/22/2010

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 14, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A tract of land located in the N 1/2 of Section 22, township 12 North, Range 17 West, P.M.M. Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as tract C2 of Certificate of Survey no. 3534.

Less and excepting that portion of Tract C2 of Certificate of Survey no. 3534 more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the Southeast corner of Tract C2, Certificate of Survey No. 3534, thence northwesterly, along the Frontage Road right-of-way, along a non-tangent curve, whose center bears C29&#186;00’21” W., 4074.20 feet, an arc length of 160.00 feet; thence N27&#186;33’07” E., 574.09 feet; thence S.62&#186;26’40” E., 160.00 feet; thence along the East boundary of said Tract C2.

S.27&#186;33’12” W., 575.00 feet to the point of beginning. Debra Ann Finley, 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 August 7, 2001 and Recorded on August 13, 2001 in Book 666, Page 567, as Document No. 200119620 and Re-Recorded on September 5, 2001 in Book 667, Page 860, as Document No. 200121908. The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH Mortgage Corporation.

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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 January 23, 2010 is $143,642.86 principal, interest at the rate of 7.125% now totaling $5,776.20, late charges in the amount of $135.84, and other fees and expenses advanced of $136.33, plus accruing interest at the rate of $28.04 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents {valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the ben-

eficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: February 4, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On February 4, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 09/22/2012 ASAP# 3525426 04/15/2010, 04/22/2010, 04/29/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on June 8, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 4 of MOUNT JUMBO VIEWS, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Steven D. Wall, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obliga-

tion owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated September 30, 2005 and Recorded September 30, 2005 at 03:43 o’clock P.M. in Book 761, Page 593, under 200525823. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,799.11, 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 February 20, 2010 is $459,599.50 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $26,156.88, late charges in the amount of $1,575.00, escrow advances of $4,218.43, and other fees and expenses advanced of $3,757.74, plus accruing interest at the rate of $73.98 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid

money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis, without limitation, the sale is being made subject to all existing conditions, if any, of lead paint, mold or other environmental or health hazards. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: January 29, 2010 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On January 29, 2010, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson , Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3519874 04/15/2010, 04/22/2010, 04/29/2010

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RECORD PLAT THEREOF. Kendra E. Root, 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 September 5, 2003 and recorded September 10, 2003 as document number 200333774, in Book 717, Page 589.

The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc., Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $953.59, beginning October 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of January 22, 2010 is $109,914.19 principal, interest at the rate of 6.75% now totaling $2,899.94, late charges in the amount of $192.95, escrow advances of $151.30, and other fees and expenses advanced of $466.31, plus accruing interest at the rate of $20.33 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

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REAL ESTATE HOMES FOR SALE 1 Mile S. of Florence, views all around —on the pavement. 3 Bd/ 2 Bth home w/ open floor plan, vaulted ceilings, views of Bitterroots.. Porch swing. Hot tub, and storage shed are all included.

333 Martin Lane. $249,900 MLS# 10000160 JoyEarls@windermere.com 531-9811 150 ft Flathead Lk Ftg 3B/2B Manufactured Hm. Boat Dock, level grass-to-lake 1.46 acs in Elmo. $495,000 / Real Living Greater Montana 406-2397588 3 Bed, 2.5 Bath, double garage w/ Fireplace. 1/2 + acre lot, view of Lolo Peak. $283,900.

MLS#10001969. 4716 Aspen, Upper Rattlesnake.

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

interior, hardwood floors, incredible yard, great mountain and valley views. $207,500. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy10 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com CUTE ROSE PARK/SLANT STREETS NEIGHBORHOOD BUNGALOW. 2 Bdr/2 Bath, 2+ bonus rooms, hardwood floors, arched doorways, built-ins, single garage, fenced yard, mostly finished basement, and much more. $249,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Darling 1940’s home in great neighborhood! Elegant coved tray ceilings. Darling kitchen, hardwood floors, 2bd, 1ba, organic raised garden and fabulous patio area. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

Really cute craftsman style, 3Bdr, 1Ba home priced to sell. This home has all the charm of the 20s and original floors. 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

Development potential, almost 2 acres, vintage farmhouse & duplex, additional undeveloped ground. Preliminary Plat City Council Approval in place, contact agent for details, 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

4 Bedroom, cedar home on 11 acres, double garage. Private location with lots of surrounding trees. $349,900 MLS#901764 Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 riceteam@windermere.com.

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EXECUTIVE HOME ON 1.03 ACRES IN THE LOLO CREEK VALLEY. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, Main floor master suite, great room, family room & rec room, formal and casual dining rooms, great mountain and valley views. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy20 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com

5 acres & a 4 bedroom home on a branch of the Clark Fork on Third Street minutes from downtown! . House sits towards water.

Your own private retreat beckons across the water. Enjoy quiet while you watch the wildlife and fish for trout. Private showings only. 3720 S. 3rd W. $679,999, MLS#906926. JoyEarls@windermere.com 531-9811

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

7097 Mormon Creek $177,000 A MUST SEE HOME!!! COZY, WELL MAINTAINED 2 BEDROOM HOME, A PARK LIKE SETTING ON APPROX 1/2 ACRE FENCED IN LOT, BEAUTIFUL MATURE TREES . FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS HOME PLEASE CALL HEATHER AT BERGUM REAL ESTATE 406241-4018.

Affordable, nice, like-new single family home in central Missoula with 3brm, all aplliances, awesome open floorplan and only $169,900, 1947 12St 327-8787 porticorealestate.com Beautiful 14 acre parcel just west of Huson. Meadow with trees & pasture. Modulars or double wides on foundation ok. $179,900. MLS#906774. Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 riceteam@winder mere.com.

Text:44133 Message:12881 for pics BEAUTIFULLY UPDATED CENTRAL MISSOULA HOME. 4 Bdr/2 Bath, 10,000 Sq Ft Lot, open floor plan, double attached garage, lots of storage, living room & family room, close to Good Food Store, and more. $223,900.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com BEAUTIFULLY UPDATED SOUTH HILLS HOME ON A 13,000 SQ FT LOT. 4 Bdr/2 Bath, gorgeous

Fantastic, like-new, 4Bdrm, 2Bth, open floorplan, affordable at $229K, Next to Fantastic Community Garden and close to Good Food Store and bike trail.

327-8787 porticorealestate.com FISH THE BLACKFOOT RIVER FROM YOUR BACK YARD. Beautifully landscaped 4 Bdr/2 Bath home on 1.2 acres on the Blackfoot River just 10-15 minutes from Missoula. Open floor plan, great deck with hot tub overlooking the river and much more. $475,000. Prudential Montana.

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JoyEarls@windermere.com 5319811 Nice, 2bdrm, 2 bonus rooms, fireplace, familyroom, walkoutdaylight basement, spacious home in South Hills close to Chief Charlo, updated kitchen, backyard oasis, 327-8787 porticorealestate.com PRICE REDUCED East Missoula—321 Speedway— don’t miss this immaculate property with large heated shop garage and attached garage, beautiful 3 bed, 2 1/2 baths with deck, stamped concrete and privacy fencing. perfect for family, students at U, or work at home in shop. $219,900 MLS 10001025.

JoyEarls@windermere.com 5319811 Single floor living 3 bd, 2 bth.

Wood & tile flooring, private yard w/ garden area. Double car garage & shop space. $199,900.

MLS#10001697. 4505 Rio Vista, Missoula. Pat McCormick, 240SOLD (7653). pat@properties2000.com

.80 Acs on a Creek: Very nice level land near Turah, Power, Well, Shop set up for a manufactured home, or build! $124,900 Real Living Greater Montana 406-239-7588

LAND FOR SALE 20 Acre Ranches Near Growing El Paso, Texas. Only $12,900 $0 Down, $99/month. Owner Financing, No Credit Checks.

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SPECTACULAR BITTERROOT VIEWS. Gorgeous 3 Bdr/2 Bath Stevensville area home on 10 acres. High ceilings, beautiful hardwood floors, fireplace, spacious master bedroom, deck with hot tub, and much more. $489,000. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy19 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Unique Lower Rattlesnake home near Bugbee Nature Area, 3Brm, 4Ba, Tree-top views, Lots of upgrades like granite countertops and lots of gorgeous wood throughout, 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

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@windermere.com.

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University area home, 3bd, 2ba, nice studio apartment above garage. A really nice kitchen and family area make this home very livable. 616 E Sussex 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

Nice 1 acre lot, beautiful country setting west of Missoula. City Sewer available. Great view. $99,999. MLS#908159. Janet 532-7903 or Robin 2406503riceteam@windermere.com.

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N. Kalispell- Call Loubelle for info: 240-0753, 543-4412 or Fidelity Real Estate 721-1840.

DARBY COMMERCIAL BUILDING IN GREAT DOWNTOWN LOCATION ON MAIN ST. Two main floor retail/professional spaces featuring 10 ft ceilings, storage/back room spaces, and lots of windows plus two second floor residential rentals. Great income potential and priced to

sell! $220,000.

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1255 sq ft, 3 bd/2 ba one level townhomes.

6112 Rains Place/Mullan Rd West

SOUTH HILLS CONDO WITH A SINGLE GARAGE . 2 Bdr/2 Bath, 2 balconies. great views, master with walk-in closet & master bath, laundry, and much more. $199,900. Prudential Montana.

For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy18 to 74362, or visit... www.mindypalmer.com Spacious, light-filled Upper Rattlesnake Home with 2 Fireplaces, 2 Bedrooms & 2 Bonus Rooms, 2 Baths, a really nice big backyard with patio.

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Great get away or build your dream home. No power to area. $170 per year road maintenance fee. $149,900 MLS# 905366 Janet 532-7903 or Robin 2406503 riceteam@windermere.com Text:44133 Message:12589 for pics

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SINGLE LEVEL LIVING JUST A SHORT WALK TO DOWNTOWN STEVI. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, great room, open floor plan, double garage, unobstructed views of the Bitterroot Mountains, great yard. $219,900. Prudential Montana.

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Great 3bdr house with hardwood floors, fireplace, nice sized kitchen and big backyard with garden space, fruit trees and garage with shop area. 933 Woodford 327-8787 porticorealestate.com

New land/home package in Riverwalk Estates —all on one level with nearly 2000sf on a large corner lot . 30+ acres of easements to enjoy Grant Creek and Clark Fork tributaries. No steps, concrete entrances with covered porch & patio. 3 bed/2 bath/double garage. 6605 Kiki Court W., Missoula. Starting at $299,970.

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• 3 acres fenced & ready for horses • 3 Bed / 2 Bath / 24x18 outbuilding • Unpaved road • 499 Grandview, Stevensville • $229,900 • MLS# 10000024 Text:44133 Message: 12887 for pics

• Home & guest house on 2 leased lots • Main Home - 2 bed / 1.5 bath • Guest - 1050 sqft. 2 bed / 1 bath • 0 Morrell Creek Road, Seeley Lake • $167,000 • MLS# 10002415 Snowmobile, cross country ski, hunt or hike

• 3Bed/2 Bath/2 Car Garage • Lg kitchen, hickory cabinets • In floor radiant heat, fireplace • Fenced and landscaped yard • $219,900 • MLS#906641 Text:44133 Message: 12591 for pics

• 2 bdrm 2 bath manufactured home • Addition for possible den or office • Shop & extra space in dbl garage • Zoned for multifamily or commercial • $129,900 • MLS#906610 Text:44133 Message: 12594 for pics

Joy Earls 333 Martin Lane • MLS# 10000160 • $249,900 Open floor plan, vaulted ceilings, views of Bitterroots, immaculate inside & out. Paved Road to property! 1 Mile south of Florence with views all around. Porch swing. Hot tub, and storage shed are all included.

Price Reduced 321 Speedway Avenue • MLS# 10001025 • $219,900 Large open living room & kitchen with separate dining area that leads onto deck. Master suite with private bath, walk in closet and extra closet! Yard is private & low maintenance. Garage/shop heated w/ alley access.

View or list properties for sale By Owner at www.byownermissoula.com OR call 550-3077 Well cared for 4 bed, 2.5 bath home w/ hot tub, A/C, & UG sprinklers. Near parks and trails. $319,900. 5501 Bonanza. Pat McCormick, 240-SOLD (7653). pat@properties2000.com

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6605 Kiki Court W. Starting at $299,970 • MLS#903596 New land/home package in Riverwalk Estates. No steps, concrete entrances with covered porch & patio. 3 bed/2 bath/double garage. Close to town, river, and golfing.

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Downtown Sweetheart

514 W. Spruce St. • $269,000

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

1839 W. Central • $189,900 Fifties style home located on Missoula's South side. No through traffic on this street and just a short distance to the mall, stores and Park.

Home has been used as an owner occupied rental for years and features 2 bedrooms 1 bath on the main level with an additional 2 bedrooms 1 bath and full kitchen downstairs. The enormous 2 car garage has room for all your toys. MLS # 100000047

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• Lot D: $165,000; 13,965 sq ft, level lot End of cul-de-sac; MLS 10000174 • Tract 1A: $165,000; 25,263 sq ft sloped building lot. MLS 10000172

Both lots are in the heart of the Rattlesnake Valley

Pat McCormick 240-SOLD (7653)

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12958 Kimwood Dr., Lolo $189,900 MLS#10002632 Well cared-for 4 bed, 2 bath home located on culde-sac. Many updates include: painted exterior, tile bath surround & tiled shower in master bath, new counters in kitchen, windows have been replaced, pergo in kitchen, new fixtures in baths.

Large garden area w/fruit trees. Yard is fully fenced in back.

Grant Creek Log home on 26+ private acres $489,900 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! mls#10001348 www.11815benchroad.com

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