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Vol. 20, No. 22 • May 28–June 4, 2009

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

Up Front: A contentious tax loophole may save Smurfit-Stone Briefs: Will the UN deem Waterton-Glacier endangered?

Scope: The Fidgets hone the art of the non-ironic cover song

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Vol. 20, No. 22 • May 28–June 4, 2009

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

Up Front: A contentious tax loophole may save Smurfit-Stone Briefs: Will the UN deem Waterton-Glacier endangered?

Scope: The Fidgets hone the art of the non-ironic cover song

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nside Cover Story At first blush, nothing about the six-tentacled Rosy Wolf snail (Euglandina rosea) appears imposing. There’s nothing to suggest the decades of devastation it has caused to the fragile ecosystem of the Hawaiian Islands, no hint of the fact that this slow and timid snail ranks among the world’s worst invasive species. To stem this havoc Cover photo by Chad Harder on the environment, Hawaiian officials have turned to an unusual source for help: Wicket, a Labrador retriever mix trained in Missoula by Working Dogs for Conservation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

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Letters The final frontier, health care and traps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 The Week in Review Spiderman drops in at the farmers’ market . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Briefs Waterton-Glacier danger status and Flathead fowl issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Etc. Drowning in floodplain facts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Up Front A contentious tax loophole may save Smurfit-Stone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Up Front A Flathead rancher blazes new trail in healthy meat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Ochenski Lack of direction may doom Republicans for good . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Writers on the Range Maintaining a tradition in the movie-magic West . . . . . . 11 Agenda Time for Respect Missoula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

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Flash in the Pan Christmas in New Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 8 Days a Week This week’s for the dogs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Mountain High Ride with the herd to a Buffalo Honoring Ceremony . . . . . . . 27 Scope The Fidgets hone the art of the non-ironic cover song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Noise Patty Larkin, Sunset, Johnny Rawls and We Hail From the Mountains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Books Issues, not people, drive Snow’s Ailanthus Park. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Film Terminator sticks to the right formula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

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Asked Monday afternoon at the Bark Park on Jacob’s Island.

by Chad Harder

The final frontier

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This week the Indy reports on Working Dogs for Conservation, a local nonprofit that trains dogs to help save fragile ecosystems. What’s your dog done lately?

Follow-up: What’s your dog’s best trick?

Stephanie Walchuk: Lily’s just a puppy, and she’s got a lot of energy and she’s always getting into everything. Her latest thing is chasing leaves when the wind blows them, chasing her tail and chewing on it. Gun shy: She does know how to sit, stay and not jump on people. And she’s learning how to chase birds. She won’t be trained to hunt but she’ll probably keep chasing them.

Mary Morton: Well, my dog’s recovering from Lyme Disease.

He’s had joint pain and been on meds for a while, but just this last weekend he got out for two hikes, his first in a while. Saddle up: Bowie’s a backpacking dog, and he’s hiked 400 miles of the Appalachian Trail. He’s got saddlebags, and he carries the food he’s going to eat, up to 10 pounds. So he is a working dog in some respects.

Pegg y Korona: My dog’s a working dog. He goes with me out on delivery when I’m working with Meals on Wheels, and most clients are just thrilled to see him. Game face: Best trick?

That’s a tough one. Ki-Ba’s not much of a play dog, although he does sit on his hind feet and beg for dog biscuits.

Jessi Crago: Hmmm. He’s been very active lately, playing with other dogs, hiking, biking and playing, and tromping around in the snow. Fun dog: Nanuk’s not really a trick kind of dog. He’s intelligent, though, and knows when to get off the bed.

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This is it, the final frontier. With the recent Grace verdict (see “No justice for Libby,” May 21, 2009), it is now official precedent that mass murder of innocents is okay as long as it is done to promote “shareholder value.” Of course, this has been going on for some time with the pharmaceutical, food and toy corporations, but never in such a clear-cut manner, and so, to my mind, this event is a watershed one. From here on in it must be clear to everyone that “equality and justice under the law” has just become an empty propaganda slogan.

This idea that any crime committed in the pursuit of “shareholder value” is not actually a crime under the “law” is a handy functional definition of fascism, which Mussolini famously described as an alliance between corporations and government, in which corporations scratch the back of a criminal cabal that has taken over government, and the cabal provides conditions of impunity for those corporations in return.

We do not have the government most people still think we have, but I am not resentful of those timid souls that choose to hide in denial.

Historically, where people usually go from here is armed resistance and vigilante justice, which provokes the charge of “domestic terrorist” (that would be what the British Crown called the American Revolutionaries), and a series of escalating acts of violence from each side culminating in a civil war of mass death and destruction. Is that what we want for our children to live through?

Well, unless we have the common sense to organize in every possible venue to protect our “inalienable rights” (and please, I don’t mean all the silly right-wing stuff about bearing arms and such), then we will have acceded to a future for ourselves, and who knows how many generations to come, as powerless serfs shorn of all semblance of rights and dignity.

Just remember, our elected representatives, especially if they take on a populist stance, are almost always not our friends. Try to see it from the viewpoint of our elected representatives, judges and law enforcement

agencies that are working in a system of legalized bribery where there are no actual “laws,” just prices for various levels of depravity. Want to keep your job? Ignore the law unless paid to do otherwise.

Herb Ruhl Missoula

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Out of control Right now health care costs are out of control. Costs have doubled in the past 10 years with insurers profiting while dropping coverage for new or existing conditions.

President Obama has put health care at the top of the national agenda and Sen. Max Baucus is a key player as chair of the Senate Finance Committee.

We need to let Washington, D.C., know we want our insurers held accountable without the fear of being dropped from coverage and also cut the high cost by reducing red tape and overhead.

This year, we have a historic chance to institute massive reform to the health care industry, so we need to come

together to make our voices heard and achieve the changes we need.

Patrick Tresslar Missoula

Caught up by traps The month of May is Be Kind to Animals month.

I recently attended “4 R Pets” day at the Senior Center in Hamilton, sponsored by the Montana Companion Animal Network (MTCAN).

At this event was a group named Footloose Montana. I learned that there is trapping allowed on public lands in Montana and that companion animals have been caught, injured or killed in some of these traps. At various times during the event, Footloose members did demonstrations by setting and tripping a trap called a conibear.

The person doing the demonstrations would carefully set the trap and then, using a wooden pole with a plastic milk jug taped on the end, would trip the trap. The sound was like a loud explosion. People in the room gasped as they watched. Personally, I was horrified, and at one point began to cry. I was imagining the poor animals caught in these traps. I learned later they are designed to break the animal’s spine.

I also learned there are two other types of traps commonly used: a snare, which strangles the animal, and a foothold trap, which clamps shut on an animal’s leg until death occurs by starvation, dehydration, predation or freezing—or until the trapper stomps on it, strangles it, or shoots it in the head.

There is escape for some animals—if they chew off their leg.

Trapping on public lands puts us all at risk. That includes our children, companion animals, as well as pack animals, like horses, mules, goats and llamas.

This is the 21st century. Trapping is antiquated and unnecessary.

If you hike with your children and companion animals, please be aware traps can be within several feet of the trail or road on any public land.

Join Footloose Montana and help support trap free public lands.

Louise Miller Hamilton

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The Bitterroot River swells due to spring snowmelt, and water crests above flood stage in Darby. The action hardly fazes Ravalli County Floodplain Administrator Laura Hendrix, who points out that river levels are not as high as last year. “Not much excitement in my opinion,” she says.

• Thursday, May 21 Sen. Max Baucus, de facto leader of Congress’s effort to reform health care, tells a crowd at the Kaiser Family Foundation Breakfast that a health care reform bill will pass. Its chances? “Very high.

Very, very high,” he says. “If you want me to put a percentage on that, I’d say it’s about 75, 80 percent. It’s very high.”

• Friday, May 22 Eric Daniel Healey fails to stop at a flashing red light at the intersection of Reserve and Third around 2 a.m., resulting in a two-car collision. Three people are injured, but not Healey. Police charge Healey with his fifth DUI, making the incident a felony offense.

• Saturday, May 23 Browsers of the Clark Fork River Market gaze skyward around 11 a.m. as Spiderman and his alter ego rappel from the top of the Millennium Building on Front Street. The two turn out to be window-washers with Spectrum Window Cleaning, devotedly fighting grime in Missoula.

• Sunday, May 24 After an overnight rain and under low-hanging clouds, an Independent reporter finds spring wildflowers on Mount Jumbo’s saddle in full bloom. Indian paintbrush, delphinium, lupine, mountain bluebell, fuzzytongue penstemon, shooting star, wild strawberry, lemonweed, blue violets and, of course, thousands of bright-yellow balsamroot are found along the trail.

• Monday, May 25 The Montana Highway Patrol wraps up a busy Memorial Day weekend in Missoula County. Capt.

Tom Hamilton tallies 11 DUI arrests and two motor vehicle fatalities by the end of the three-day holiday, including a fatal crash on I-90 involving a moose.

• Tuesday, May 26 Missoula attorney Bill Rossbach, kicked off the Board of Environmental Review by bitter Republicans earlier this year, is named state coordinator for the Public Justice Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that champions public interest litigation.

Armando Rivas takes a break from working at the Top Hat to slay a swollen Brennan’s Wave Tuesday afternoon. Rivas spent the past 10 years surfing in Hawaii, but this was his first time on a river. “I can’t complain,” he said. “It’s a good day when you can just cross the road and go surfing.”

Abortion

Petitioning for personhood If you ask Rick Jore, it’s scientific fact that human life begins the moment the male sperm crashes into the outer layer of the female egg. At that point, says Jore, you have a person.

“The point is,” says the former state representative from Ronan, “that once you’re dealing with a person, that person has due process protection. No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law.”

On May 15, Jore submitted a ballot initiative to Secretary of State Linda McCulloch to amend the Montana State Constitution to ensure that an unborn fetus has the same rights as the rest of us. The measure, dubbed “The Personhood Amendment,” requires the signatures of 10 percent of the state’s voters, including 10 percent of voters in each of the state’s 40 legislative districts—or 48,674 signatures total—to be placed on the ballot. Jore has until June 18, 2010, to collect all the John Hancocks.

This isn’t Jore’s first effort to introduce a pro-life constitutional amendment. He’s failed with similar ballot initiatives and legislative

efforts during the last few legislative sessions.

But if Jore succeeds, the initiative would provide a stepping-stone for anti-abortion legislation that, according to Montana ProLife Coalition President Annie Bukacek, “has some teeth to it.”

“It’s a threat to the kind of care that we feel is important for women to have access to beyond, of course, abortion,” says Anita Kuennen, executive director of the Blue Mountain Clinic. “It has implications for everything from contraceptive care, to pre-natal, to in vitro fertilization, to a pretty broad level of issues.”

For example, Kuennen notes, many birth control pills work in two ways: They prevent conception, but also scuff the uterine wall to prevent the fertilized egg from connecting to it.

“It could very well have implications for many methods of birth control,” Kuennen says. “It’s going to take a lot of resources to get out and challenge this, and unfortunately the resources should go to something more productive.”

Jesse Froehling

Waterton-Glacier

Declaring a danger zone In late June representatives from American and Canadian environmental organizations will travel to Seville, Spain to make their case for designating WatertonGlacier International Peace Park a World Heritage Site in Danger.

Will Hammerquist of the National Parks Conservation Association and Ryland Nelson of British Columbia-based Wildsight will testify before the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee to describe the threats posed to Waterton-Glacier by mining and oil and gas development.

“We’re really taking the case of people who love the park and people who care about the North Fork of the Flathead and Flathead Lake to the global community,” Hammerquist says.

Waterton-Glacier would be the first endangered World Heritage Site in North America, and only the third that spans an international border. Hammerquist calls it a dubious distinction, but one that would send a powerful message,

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despite the fact that UNESCO’s recommendations are nonbinding.

“We’re looking for the committee to really make some substantive recommendations that recognize as long as coal mining and industrial coalfield development is on the table for the headwaters of the Flathead River, the park is going to be endangered,” Hammerquist says.

The designation, adds Nelson, “can carry as much clout as the countries that are managing the site want it to. They can take them with a grain of salt or they can take them very seriously.”

In Canada, Nelson explains, the aim of the designation would be to change B.C.’s land use plan by removing oil and gas development and mining from the list of acceptable uses. Currently, the plan states that “mining and oil and gas development takes precedent over every single other value on the land, period,” Nelson says. “We want to see that changed in a way that will put wildlife and transboundary connectivity as the primary value on the land.”

UNESCO’s consideration of Water-Glacier as a Site in Danger comes after 11 organizations on both sides of the border petitioned it last year.

Matthew Frank

Chickens

Crowing fowl “Welcome to my ‘unabated’ chicken noise,” says Nancy Hager, fresh off her tractor. She approaches 40 young broilers huddled beneath a heat lamp in the barn, then slings feed to 20some clucking hens and roosters released from a fenced enclosure.

Here on bucolic Finley Point along Flathead Lake, full of cherry orchards and towering ponderosas, the chickens seem to fit right in. But neighbor Holly Wurl disagrees, and she’s taking Hager and her partner to court. A trial is set for June 5.

Wurl’s objection? “Daily loud, unabated noise from roosters,” she alleges in the complaint submitted to Lake County. The complaint specifies that the racket begins between 4:20 and 5:40 a.m. and continues “every 2 to 5 seconds” for “up to 1 to 2 hours” before carrying on intermittently throughout the day.

Wurl declined to comment further when

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contacted by the Independent. “The complaint speaks for itself,” she says.

Indeed. The court filing includes Wurl’s exhaustive, three-month rooster crow log.

Almost every day, from July through September 2008, she noted when and how many times Hager’s five roosters cock-a-doodle-dooed. For example, Wurl claims that on July 4 last year, the roosters crowed 38 times between 4:35 a.m.

and 4:41 a.m., and 33 times between 4:47 and 4:58 a.m. And then about 100 more times throughout the day.

Hager calls the suit ridiculous. Wurl’s home is at least a couple hundred feet away from Hager’s barn, barely visible through the trees.

“And there is no other neighbor around us that minds these chickens.”

Hager also points to Finley Point’s zoning regulations, which say that agricultural uses are an “integral part of the character of Finley Point,” and that such uses include poultry.

But Wurl argues in her complaint that crowing is “offensive to the senses,” constituting a “public nuisance” under Montana law, and “deprives me of my right to peaceful habitation of my residence.”

“I’m really terribly sorry, I really am,” says Hager. “I have empathy for her. But as much as it may cause her nuisance, it’s great peace to me.

“My hopes,” she continues, “are that the law will be read the right way and the chickens will stay…My motto is, ‘Keep on crowin’!’”

Matthew Frank

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Crystal changes hands After taking over management of the Crystal Theatre in September 2008, budget cuts have forced Montana Rep Missoula to step down from running the space. The 100-seat Hip Strip venue regularly hosts theater productions, live music and special events.

Greg Johnson, the Rep’s artistic director, says the decision has to do with economic impacts on the theater company’s national tour.

Montana Rep Missoula is the local arm of The Montana Repertory Theatre, a professional touring company founded in 1967.

Specifically, Johnson says the Rep had to cut back on staff, including the theater and booking managers at the Crystal.

“We’d said in May we were going to ascertain our situation, check it out and see where we were at,” Johnson says. “It became a drain on us, especially while we were finding that the bookings for our national tour—which is our big financial engine—were down this year because of the economy. We had to cut back and one of the places we had to cut back was [the Crystal].”

Johnson says Grant Olson, artistic director of the Montana Actors Theatre, has expressed an interest in running the space. Current bookings at the Crystal are being handled by owners Shirley Juhl and Dave McEwen. Juhl declined to comment on the theater’s future until a new management contract is signed. Olson also declined comment.

The change at the Crystal comes a week after Missoula’s arts community was hit with the closing of popular music venue The Other Side after the death of club owner Tom Reed. The Top Hat, another long-time music venue, is also up for sale after the passing of owner Steve Garr in February.

Whoever ends up managing the Crystal, Johnson says his company remains committed to the space and still plans to stage four productions there later this year.

“We’re very much still working hand in hand,” he says. “Last year excitement was generated about the space and it came true: We had, I think, over 25 productions there last year.

And we’re still committed to keeping that spirit dwelling in the room.”

Erika Fredrickson

Proposed cuts to the city’s health insurance plan for Fiscal Year 2010, according to a May 20 budget proposal by Mayor John Engen. The cuts feed into Engen’s overall push to craft a solvent city budget without calling for tax hikes.

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Losing money stinks—and we’re not talking about the measly $50 you lost to Wayne’s pocket aces in Friday’s poker game. We’re talking hundreds of dollars, maybe even thousands, unexpectedly snatched by some desk-surfing suit. The feeling’s familiar to any credit card holder who recently learned that interest rates are skyrocketing, regardless of your flawless personal credit record. Thanks for the bailout, folks.

That frustrated feeling also applies to many who live near rivers in Missoula County. Earlier this month, they learned that a drawn-out project by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to revamp the county’s 100-year floodplain maps might drown them in added expenses. The latest version of the maps affects an estimated 500 new parcels, and property owners face potential flood insurance payments anywhere between $300 and $1,900 a year.

One of those owners is Nick Kaufman, who took FEMA to task during a recent public information meeting. Kaufman, a former county floodplain administrator, told the modest gathering he laments waking up one spring morning to find his acreage near Butler Creek in need of costly coverage. State officials and contractors watched as Kaufman lobbed demands—more compassion, tighter inspection, etc.—at FEMA like water balloons.

This is the first time FEMA has updated local floodplain maps since 1988, and a lot’s changed. Namely, the agency revised standards on flood control structures in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Many local levee-like structures no longer qualify for certification. Apparently flooding on the Clark Fork poses as dire a threat as a category three storm. Who knew?

If FEMA reps thought they’d sail through an evening meeting on smooth waters, they’ve clearly never dealt with Missoula property owners. By the end of the presentation, FEMA Floodplain Management Specialist Marijo Brady matched Kaufman’s emotional protests with canned answers about agency standards. The repeated party lines were about as effective as a squirt gun at a paintball fight.

And why shouldn’t angered citizens turn the hose on FEMA? According to Missoula Floodplain Administrator Todd Kleitz, the maps in question were supposed to be completed in February 2006. When FEMA finally submitted its maps—this January—tthe agency mistakenly failed to certify Missoula levees on the Clark Fork River’s north bank. Now the 90-day public appeal period is on hold. The final maps and subsequent insurance requirements won’t go into effect for at least 10 months, but FEMA isn’t obligated to inform affected property owners when they do.

The FEMA situation stinks like raw sewage but, much like credit card interest rates, there’s little recourse for those affected. At this pace, there’s no telling who’ll be drowning in debt next.

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Roy Houseman, the 28-year-old president of United Steel Workers Local 885, just returned from Washington, D.C., where for three weeks he lobbied to keep open a tax loophole he thinks might save his job and a few hundred others in Missoula.

If his efforts prove fruitful, it could ensure that the bankrupt Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., which temporarily laid

U.S. Treasury Department has paid them hundreds of millions of dollars in credits and direct payments. It could cost taxpayers between $3 and $10 billion in 2009—much more than what lawmakers originally intended.

Smurfit-Stone is set to collect as much as $543 million through the credit, according to industry analyst Resource Information Systems, Inc. Houseman

“Obviously Max was pretty upset about this because it ballooned into a much larger number than he was expecting,” Houseman says. “But there are some arguments that the credit actually was a very good stimulus. It couldn’t be more timely and is worthwhile recognition to an industry that on average produces 70 percent of its own electricity.”

Environmental groups, though, argue that the only thing the loophole has stimulated is the consumption of fossil fuel. In an April letter to Baucus and Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking minority member of the Senate Finance Committee, a consortium of 25 environmental groups urged the closure of the loophole because they said it perversely increases fossil fuel consumption and puts environmentally responsible mills at a disadvantage.

The Missoula-based WildWest Institute was among the groups that signed the letter.

“How will we ever get to a more sustainable future if the industrial dinosaurs of the past continue to fleece billions of dollars from the American taxpayers?” asks Matthew Photo by Chad Harder Koehler, WildWest’s director. “The No plume rises from Smurfit-Stone’s Frenchtown plant, shut down for seven reality is that Smurfit-Stone weeks because of market conditions. But a fluke tax credit may help bring the Container Corp. has plants in Asia, mill into the black.

Mexico, Canada and the United States. They have 140 facilities him off last November, receives a much- estimates the Missoula mill’s black liquor around the world. In 10 years the stock of needed, multimillion-dollar shot in the burning would generate between $40 the company has gone down 99.9 perarm from taxpayers. and $50 million. cent in value. They are in bankruptcy.

If his efforts fail, well, paper compaSmurfit-Stone spokesman Mike Their business model is clearly flawed. nies were never intended to receive the Mullin did not return calls for comment Let’s face that reality head on and decide money anyway, and the Frenchtown mill, before press time. what we want to do to use that facility out set to start up again in the beginning of “I think, combined with other efforts, in Frenchtown for the future.”

June after a seven-week shutdown, may that this is the tipping point for SmurfitIn an effort to preserve his future at sooner suffer the fate of an unfriendly Stone in Missoula,” Houseman says. Smurfit-Stone—and its unexpected windmarket.

“This facility is constantly at a cost disad- fall—Houseman was one of two union Paper companies across the country vantage because of higher fiber prices, representatives in Washington lobbying are cashing in on the alternative fuels tax and so anything that can help this facility lawmakers. It was “Mr. Houseman goes credit contained in the 2005 highway bill. will keep it around that much longer.” to Washington,” he quips. “It’s been a The credit intended to encourage the But it’s an uphill climb for very eye-opening experience.” blending of biofuels with fossil fuels in Houseman on Capitol Hill. Speaking at a In addition, as soon as Houseman vehicles. But after Congress modified the Senate Finance Committee hearing in returned, Smurfit-Stone announced that definition of bio-based fuel a couple April, Chairman Max Baucus said, 250 workers (not including Houseman) years ago, paper companies discovered “Unless we plug this loophole, the feder- would return to work at the containerthey could take advantage of it, too, by al government is liable for billions in board plant when it fires up its No. 3 adding diesel to the decades-old practice credits for black liquor in 2009 alone, paper machine the first week of June. But of burning the pulping byproduct “black even though the credit was never intend- the question surrounding the on-again, liquor,” earning $0.50 for every gallon of ed for this fuel…We are working to undo off-again mill is, for how long? diesel burned. that unintended consequence.”

“If the credit were to be retroactively “It just turned out that, by chance, The Obama administration also repealed, or ended prematurely,” the way the law was written, the paper announced in May its desire to end the Houseman says, “I feel pretty strongly industry could qualify,” Houseman says. loophole. The 2010 budget proposal that it would really damage the paper And, pulped themselves by the reces- includes a rewritten alternative fuels industry and the wood products indussion, paper companies will take whatever credit, which would take effect October 1 try—not just in Montana, but pretty much they can get. if approved by Congress. To end pay- across the country.”

Since late last year, when paper com- ments sooner, lawmakers would need to mfrank@missoulanews.com panies began applying for the credits, the pass separate legislation.

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by Alex Sakariassen

I met Dolly when she was 10 minutes old, suckling in the dim blue light of a barn on Flathead Lake. Her legs were shaky and her dusty charcoal coat still wet from birth. As far as farm animals go, she was kind of cute.

The moment didn’t last long. I stepped around a gate and my boot came away heavy. Turns out, amniotic fluid is a bit like a giant loogie. The added mix of straw and cow crap made me squeamish.

Ed Jonas, founder of the Blacktail

down over the last 20 years. While the popularity of leaner beef isn’t late breaking, she says few producers focus their efforts on hybrid cattle like Jonas’.

“If you’re taking two breeds to try and create a whole new breed, that’s not entirely new,” Walborn says, “but it doesn’t happen very often.”

Jonas calls it HighMont beef, an allnatural breed born of his imagination.

The stuff has less saturated fat than turkey, and Joe Withey, owner of

produce something better than that.”

After months of research, Jonas embarked on an experiment in barnyard genetics: cross the tasty, low-fat Scottish Highland breed with its leaner, less savory Italian Piedmontese cousin. In 2003, he bought a Highland bull at a Denver stock show and five Pied cows from an outfit in Saskatchewan.

Now the Rutgers alum and ex-lawyer is cattle crazed. The license plate on his rig boasts “THEBEEF.” He greets his animals every morning, and they bellow back.

Connie, his wife of three years, was a vegetarian before she m e t E d . We s t e r n ranching purists have derided Jonas’ hybrids, but he’s quick to retort with wit born from years in Florida courtrooms.

“I had a guy tell me in Oregon the other day, ‘Real cowboys raise Black Angus,’” Jonas says. “I felt like saying, ‘Smart cowboys raise HighMont.’”

Since Jonas uses Photo by Chad Harder local oats and flax Ed Jonas, a Florida lawyer turned Flathead rancher, spent the last four years creating a meal to reduce cholesspecialized low-fat, low-cholesterol breed of cattle. His pricey HighMont beef is slow on terol, HighMont ends the hoof in Montana markets but picking up in New York and Los Angeles. up a costly alternative ($6 per pound for Mountain Ranch, thankfully failed to Withey’s Health Foods in Kalispell, has burger) to more traditional ranchers.

That hasn’t deterred John Borghetti, conotice my brief departure from the carried it for more than three years. momentous occasion.

“We try to explain to people, this is owner of the Farfalla restaurant chain in Dolly represents the ranch’s hun- safe meat,” Withey says. “Especially if California’s Westlake Village. He says a dredth head of cattle. Four years ago, crit- your doctor says, ‘You have to quit eating shift by his patrons toward healthier ics told Jonas he’d never make it when he all that saturated fat, all that cholesterol.’ menu items like organic wine and local first talked of crossbreeding a novel strain Less fat, less cholesterol—you can eat this produce has carried over to meat, prompting him to sign a deal with of heart-healthy beef. Today, his opera- meat three times a week safely.” tion has outgrown its modest acreage.

HighMont might not ring any bells in HighMont in May. “We’re going to take a chance,” And though he’s found local meat mar- Missoula. Few stores in the region carry it kets tough to chew, Jonas says his beef is partly due to the high number of in-state Borghetti says. “The stuff is expensive, selling for top-dollar in Los Angeles and beef cattle operations and a competitive quite expensive. But we are willing to take New York restaurants. market. Approximately 11,000 Montana a chance because we believe in the trend, “There’s a growing demand by fam- farms produced over 16 million pounds more conscious eaters out there [conilies to know where their beef comes of commercial red meat in 2008 alone, cerned] about their cholesterol and fat.” from,” Jonas says, “know how it’s raised, according to the USDA. Health is the impetus for the and to be kind of guaranteed about The Blacktail Mountain Ranch story Blacktail Mountain Ranch concept, nutrition.” begins with a single fat-marbled chuck though Jonas isn’t shy about making a Nutrition is the ongoing concern roast in late 2001. Jonas’ three boys flew tidy profit. Losing his mother to colon among meat producers and consumers. out from their respective eastern metro- cancer years back hit him particularly Beef tops the American Heart Association politan homes, and Jonas wanted to play hard and he’s determined to keep himand U.S. Department of Agriculture grill-savvy provider. self and those around him in top form.

(USDA) lists for dietary importance, and Dolly will be well cared for, too.

“I look in the freezer and I’ve got a growers like Jonas answer new research on chuck roast,” Jonas remembers. “I pull Jonas was close-by for her birth and plans heart disease and obesity by making cuts out the chuck roast and start to thaw it to watch over her and deliver her calves ever leaner. when I think, ‘It’s got so much fat in it, I’m until he drives her to White’s Wholesale Perri Walborn, a bureau chief with not eating this garbage.’ So I opened the Meats in Ronan for processing. the Montana Department of Agriculture, backdoor, whistled to the dogs and threw asakariassen@missoulanews.com says beef cattle have significantly slimmed it out for them to eat. I have to be able to

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What a difference a few years makes. Suddenly the Republican Party that dominated Congress and the White House for so long finds itself torn asunder from within as ultraconservative neocons like former Vice President Dick Cheney do battle with moderates such as Colin Powell for the future, if there is one, of their formerly Grand Old Party.

Here in Montana, the demise of the Republican Party has not been particularly evident. After all, the Republicans managed to capture a majority in the Senate and a 50-50 split in the House of Representatives last election cycle, while the rest of the country was going to Democrats big time. And while it’s true they lost every statewide race except Denny Rehberg’s congressional seat, they managed to keep the state from going to Barack Obama despite his tremendous campaign effort here and his multiple appearances throughout the state.

But even though they held on in the tough times, the same problems that afflict the national GOP have been evident here for some time. Take the disastrous 2007 Legislature, for instance. As most Montanans will recall, the session gridlocked after a tremendous battle between Democratic Gov. Brian Schweitzer and the thin Republican majority in the House. That standoff ended when, after the 90-day session had expired, Schweitzer sent political operatives out to wheedle a few moderate Republicans into voting for his budget. He then immediately called a special session and, with the handful of Republican votes he needed, got his budget approved.

What happened afterward, however, was telling. Those few Republicans who broke ranks to vote with Schweitzer were dubbed the “Log Cabin Republicans” because they held their secret meeting with the governor’s operatives in a log cabin on a ranch owned by former Rep. John Ward. Truth be told, Ward and his moderate pals were doomed from the moment the plot was revealed, and they each became targets for retribution from hard-core Republicans.

In last fall’s election, most of the Republican legislators that voted with Schweitzer faced primary opponents and, in the end, many of them, including Ward, didn’t come back to Helena in ’09. The Republican trend toward extremism continued without them, however, as we saw in the myriad partyline votes. Most notably, the extremely popular initiative to expand Children’s Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) coverage

to more children was held hostage— despite the overwhelming approval by 70 percent of Montanans at the polls.

Did the Republican leadership really think it was a smart idea to ignore the vote of the people on CHIP? Do they really think it’s a good idea to gut our environmental laws in favor of wideopen industrial energy development?

Did they really think citizens should take second place to industry when it comes to gravel pits, coal and hard rock mines, oil and gas wells, and the pollution such activities commonly produce?

Apparently they did, because that’s how they voted en masse.

While Powell’s “image and words are a breath of fresh air compared to the drivel being spewed by the Republican fringe-dwellers, his credibility isn’t what it used

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Now we turn to the national stage, where the ever-scowling Cheney decides it’s time to take on President Obama with the worn-out tactic of eternal fear that worked so well during the disastrous Bush administration.

Torture? Not a problem. Transparency?

No how, no way. Admit errors, lies and the enormous tactical blunders of two un-winnable and unconscionable wars?

Not even on the table.

The nation and world, however, appear to have moved on—even if hardcore radicals like Cheney and Rush Limbaugh have not. In a recently released survey by the Pew Research Center, the reality of the damage the party has done to itself through the leadership of extreme right-wingers is evident. Only 22 percent of Americans now call themselves Republicans. Just to put that in perspective, that’s about four points higher than the approval rat-

ing once garnered by former Republican Gov. Judy Martz toward the end of her single term in office and it’s three points higher than the approval rating George W. Bush had in February 2008.

What that means is that the same people who thought Bush was doing a wonderful job while he was trashing the environment, ruining the economy, spying on our own citizens without warrants and spending billions every week on foreign wars, are about what’s left of the Republican Party. Sad but true.

Powell, meanwhile, once seen as a national hero for his leadership during the first Iraq War under President George H.W. Bush, is now on the stump trying desperately to turn his party back toward the middle. While Powell’s image and words are a breath of fresh air compared to the drivel being spewed by the Republican fringedwellers, his credibility isn’t what it used to be. Remember, it was Powell, in his position as Secretary of State and in coordination with then-National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, who played a key role in pushing the country into the Iraq War by disseminating blatantly inaccurate information in nationally broadcast speeches. He eventually paid for that mistake by resigning from the Bush administration in 2004, but a far higher price has been paid by those who lost their lives or came home with grievous injuries from that senseless war, to say nothing of the continuing drain of billions of dollars a week.

From all appearances, Powell is going to lose this battle, too. If all that’s left of those who call themselves Republicans is the minority who think Limbaugh, Bush, Cheney and Rice were heroes, you’re basically down to nothing but the far, far right and their radical views on everything from marriage to global warming to religion. Fortunately, there simply aren’t enough of them to keep the party viable for much longer.

Unfortunately, the Republican march to extinction is unlikely to be good for this country. Too many times we have had stunning examples of terrible policy errors spawned by one party control of the state and nation. On the other hand, given the extremities to which the dwindling Republicans continue to cling, America may well be better off without the GOP. 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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Branded for life Maintaining a tradition in the movie-magic West

by Mary Flitner

This time of year, you’re bound to see photos of ranchers branding cattle.

And why not? A photographer can find a picture waiting everywhere, of neighbors helping neighbors, handsome cowboy types with spurs and coiled lariats, little kids wearing Wranglers and big hats.

There’s smoke and dust rising above corral fences and cattle, and gorgeous girls sporting tighter-than-tight jeans. It’s that movie-magic West.

Last Saturday, that’s the way it was at our place. One more time, our friends and family rallied to help with the one ranch job we can’t do by ourselves—gathering, sorting, roping and branding several hundred calves in a single day.

In Wyoming and the other Western states where ranching still hangs on, there’s a reason for livestock branding. A registered brand is a calf ’s passport, its legal proof of ownership, allowing cattle to be identified wherever they roam. “Put ’er on right,” I was taught. “She’ll wear it all her life.” A good “one-iron” livestock brand is highly sought after; it’s a simple mark that requires only one tool and a single quick touch of the hot iron to the hide.

A complicated brand like the Triple Triangle Single Heart Seven might look good on a gatepost, but it’s useless to a cattle rancher. Even if you could get it on straight, it would take up most of the animal’s side and be impossible to read.

On branding day, what a relief to see all the vehicles arrive, bringing our teamroper pals with horses and ropes, relatives and reliable neighbors to vaccinate or ear-tag or fill in anywhere. High school athletes with big smiles and big muscles are especially appreciated: These guys teach the smaller guys, and within a few years the little guys will become the big guys. Some families have helped at our brandings through several generations.

If you get invited to a branding, go!

You’ll be part of a pageant in a disappearing rural culture, you’ll have fun—

and your rancher neighbors can use the help. When it’s time to put together a crew, we have to compete with spring yard work, rodeos, track meets and proms. We’re glad to see anyone who’ll put time aside to help us. Never mind wearing the right garb or getting your picture taken: Just leave your sandals and dogs at home.

Glamour’s not the main thing; safety is. We’ll have several hundred milling

calves “isWrestling as much about balance and position as brawn, and even the ropers take a turn calf busting just to acknowledge the importance of that dirty, tiring

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cows and calves, horses and riders with stretched ropes pulling calves across the corral toward calf-wrestlers, people afoot using knives, hot irons, vaccine guns and needles. Our year-after-year helpers laugh a lot and pay attention, looking out for each other.

The rules are simple: First, do what you’re told, the way you’re told to do it. At most ranches, nobody ropes without being invited to do so, because along with skill, that high-

prestige job requires a sixth sense about safety. The roper needs experience with ropes, cattle and people, and must ride a seasoned horse—no rookies allowed.

Second rule: Let the experts handle the branding irons. They in turn appreciate calf-busters who can hold the calf still, so the brand can go on properly.

Wrestling calves is as much about balance and position as brawn, and even the ropers take a turn calf busting just to acknowledge the importance of that dirty, tiring job. Safety counts here, too; the guy holding the front legs should always turn loose first. Letting go of a calf at the wrong moment can cause a serious injury for somebody else, whether horseback or afoot.

It’s best to drive the cattle into the corral quietly, although last year that didn’t happen. The cattle spilled back and we had a roaring-wild event with horses, dogs and cattle galloping all directions. I was annoyed that we so-called professionals allowed such a comedy show, but later I heard the kids saying, “That was the most fun of the whole day! We all got to run our horses, some of them bucked, Jim fell off, and it was just wild. We had a blast!” Whatever. This year, we got the cattle corralled on the first try, and suddenly the day was under way.

When the last calf is branded, I give a private nod of thanks to the Man Upstairs. Now for the keg of beer, tired cowboys carrying plates heaped with food, and stories and laughter. Now for the photographs of hats worn just-so along with spurs and chaps, and little kids riding patient old horses. It’s all there, and it’s all true. Thanks for coming. See you next year?

Mary Flitner is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). She ranches near Greybull, Wyoming.

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The Community Tees-n-Pins Classic, a fundraiser for Community Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, begins with check-in at 8 AM at Larchmont Golf Course and moves to Westside Lanes once the ball-whacking’s done. RSVP 327-4141 or visit communitymed.org/CMCF_News.

The Bitterroot Farmers’ Market begins their ninth year of providing free produce coupons to those in financial need, so present your monthly income for consideration once you call Cheryl at 825-6955.

Also, your EBT card (what was once “food stamps”) is accepted at the market, so go ahead and charge some delicious and nutritious local grub to the government.

Sun. 31 May Now that she’s come out of her 34-day post-carwreck coma, lend her your support when the Sidney Watson Fundraising Benefit overtakes Caras Park from noon–7 PM, with music by the Bob-A-Dips, Sho-Down, Black Mountain Bluegrass and the Andrea Harsell Band, magic by Evan Disney, tomfoolery by Monte the Mascot, a live auction by “Elvis” as well as other luck-based giving opportunities. Free admission. Visit sidneywatsonbenefit.org.

And we throw open our coffers to support one of our own: Join MC Mayor John Engen, Tom Catmull, Jaymi and the Replacables and all your most altruistic neighbors at a Benefit for Mike Kress—a

native Missoulian, kick-ass skier and long-time public servant—from 4–9 PM at Sean Kelly’s, where a raffle includes prizes like a Las Vegas vacation, gasoline, jewelry, dinners and the like, while live and silent auctions offer an elk hunt, a float trip, a rustic cabin trip, concert tickets and more. $5 admission/$2 raffle tickets, or six for $10. Call 258-3795.

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Thu. 4 June Thus begins the Missoula Healthy Indian Families Consortium’s two-day “Breaking the Cycle of Violence, Restoring the Circle of Care” Training Conference: Walking Together—The Path Of Traditional Healing, with sessions beginning at 8:30 AM at the Holiday Inn-Downtown at the Park. $60/$35 per day, lunch provided. Visit mhifc.org, or call 251-4449.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Police arrested Remo Spencer for stealing laptop computers and iPods from the Wal-Mart store in Great Falls, where he worked after he aroused a store manager’s suspicions by posting an ad offering to sell the electronics items on the store’s employee bulletin board. The Billings Gazette said a review of surveillance videos confirmed the thefts.

Security guards nabbed Ricky Clay Fox, 43, after they saw him sneak behind the counter of a phone store in New South Wales, Australia, and snatch two cell phones. The phones were fakes used as display models.

A cashier at a Wal-Mart store in Port St. Lucie, Fla., became suspicious of two women at a selfcheckout because the bagged groceries in their carts seemed like much more than the $70 worth of items they scanned and paid for. The Stuart News reported that when the cashier asked to see their receipt, the women fled, leaving behind the carts, which contained two packets of recently developed pictures with the name and phone number of one of the suspects.

CUSTOM FIT - South Carolina officials exhumed the body of a 6-foot-7 man to investigate whether the legs had been cut off so it would fit in a smaller coffin when he was buried in 2004. Allendale County Coroner Hayzen Black, who was present during the exhumation, told the Aiken Standard he couldn’t comment on what he saw, only that criminal charges would likely be filed. “There were problems with the body,” he added.

WHAT REALLY MATTERS - Legalizing marijuana is America’s most important political issue, according to an opinion poll released by the White House, followed by ending the tax-exempt status of the Church of Scientology and legalizing online poker gambling. These findings, compiled in a Citizen’s Briefing Book, are the result of an online project by President Obama’s transition office to solicit policy ideas. More than 125,000 users submitted 1.4 million votes, 76 percent of which cited legal pot as the nation’s top priority.

Although the compilers acknowledged the open polling process was far from scientific, John Pappas, executive director of the Poker Players Alliance, hailed the results. “Poker players around the country are speaking with one voice to protect the game they love,” he declared in a press release, “and the White House is hearing that message.”

STIMULUS PACKAGE - Drug maker Pfizer Inc. announced it would provide free Viagra to people who’ve lost their jobs and health insurance. The company said jobless Americans already on the drug for three months or more qualify to continue receiving it free of charge for up to a year.

ARACHNOPHOBIA FOLLIES - British firefighters rescued a man in his 40s who set fire to the front of his house while trying to kill a spider. Watch manager Steve Pearce said the man was using a lighter to burn the spider as it crawled up the front of his house in Portsmouth, but sparks reached insulation behind the siding and caused a fire within the walls. “The man was trying to put out the fire with a garden hose when we arrived,” Pearce told the Daily Telegraph, noting firefighters in breathing apparatus with professional equipment needed two hours to extinguish the blaze.

NOT SO TOUGH AFTER ALL - Japanese health officials warned that the sport of judo is facing ruin because of an infectious skin fungus that causes itching, disfigurement and baldness.

Practitioners of Western-style wrestling and sumo are also being afflicted by Trichophyton tonsurans, which The Times newspaper reported has struck almost one-third of judo clubs and half of all high-school judo teams in Japan. It is spread during the grappling that is at the heart of the sport. Because the fungus usually affects the scalp, officials have expressed concern that infected sumo wrestlers may lose their traditional topknots.

HOMELAND INSECURITY - West Virginia authorities charged two FBI workers with using surveillance equipment to spy on teenage girls as they undressed and tried on prom gowns at a charity event. Marion County Prosecutor Pat Wilson told the Associated Press that Gary Sutton, 40, and Charles Hommema were working at an FBI satellite control room at a Fairmont shopping mall when they aimed a camera at a changing room and zoomed in for at least 90 minutes to watch the girls.

THE JOKE’S ON HIM - A 23-year-old man asked his friend to stop the car so he could urinate from a bridge over the Minnesota River, then climbed to the ledge on the bridge, looked at his friend and pretended to fall. “He then in fact fell,” a press release from the Bloomington Police Department stated. Fire department rescuers used a chair lift to retrieve the victim, who the Associated Press reported was hospitalized in stable condition.

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icket, a Labrador retriever mix, steals through clumps of dried knapweed along the banks of Greenough Park. It’s a gray April day, and alternating rain and light snow have made the dead leaves soggy. The dog’s quarry, a light brown snail the size of a thumb, is well camouflaged.

The search goes hot, then cold, then hot again. Aimee Hurt, Wicket’s handler and associate director of the Working Dogs for Conservation Foundation (WDCF), coaches the dog with an outstretched finger and a few encouraging words. Wicket, nose to ground, hardly pays attention. She’s focused, intent, energized, a veteran. When she finally catches

the faintest scent trail and pinpoints her target, she sits and locks eyes with Hurt.

Towering over the snail in her flashy orange vest, Wicket looks imposing.

That’s Hurt’s cue. She tosses a pink and blue ball from her belt pack and Wicket goes nuts. The dog darts around the brush until she finds a good spot to sit and gnaw. Wicket’s rookie coworker, Orbee, barks and whines from the back of Hurt’s pickup, antsy for his turn.

At first blush, nothing about the snail appears imposing. There’s nothing to suggest the decades of devastation its kind has caused to the fragile ecosystem of the Hawaiian Islands, no hint of the fact that this slow and timid snail ranks among the world’s worst invasive species. Looking at it, you’d never know

that snails like these help contribute to deadly bioinvasion, considered to be a leading cause of species extinction and endangerment worldwide along with habitat destruction and global warming.

Wicket has her work cut out for her. It’ll take somewhere between 500 and 600 of these practice sessions, Hurt ventures, before Wicket becomes Hawaii’s cutting-edge line of defense against the six-tentacled Rosy Wolf snail (Euglandina rosea).

Pressure is nothing new for this particular Lab. She and her coworkers have saved Rocky Mountain carnivores from urban encroachment. They’ve charted the return of moose to the Adirondacks. They’re the rising stars in a fledgling branch of wildlife conserva-

A wolf snail waits while conservation’s new best friend, a Lab mix named Wicket, scours the grass nearby.

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tion, and one of mounting environmental importance.

“It adds another tool to the wildlife biologist’s toolbox to study various species across the globe,” says Jon Beckmann, a WDCF client and ecologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society in Bozeman. “I think they have tremendous potential. If anything, the use of search dogs will probably just be limited by the imagination of research biologists out there. If you can think of novel research questions, I think this is a potential tool that can be used.”

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orking Dogs for Conservation followed on the heels of a series of experimental conservation ini-

“We’re pushing the questions, too,” she adds. “Every time we do one thing, we come up with other questions.”

The subsequent years saw WDCF grow in both efficiency and popularity.

Nonprofits, universities and state and federal agencies hired the group for a wide range of projects, all of which tested the limits of both the handlers and their dogs. They’ve been asked to hunt down a single crop of the dreaded spotted knapweed, sniff out live desert tortoises in Nevada and find wolf carcasses illegally shot by hunters in Montana.

Whitelaw’s work abroad has centered on endangered snow leopards in eastern Russia.

And the various projects WDCF undertakes often blend with their continuing education. Smith’s doctorate research at the University of Washington focused on the use of conservation dog detection in monitoring kit fox populations in California’s San Joaquin Valley.

When she isn’t tending WDCF’s Pepin, Parker is busy wrapping up her own doctorate degree at the University of Montana, studying scent marking behavior in African wild dogs in Botswana.

“I think they have tremendous potential.

If anything, the use of search dogs will probably just be limited by the imagination of research biologists out there.”

—Jon Beckmann, Wildlife Conservation Society

The Working Dogs for Conservation Foundation uses hair gel when training rookie working dogs like Orbee, who will eventually go on to conduct fieldwork throughout the world.

tiatives started in the mid-’90s. Cofounder Alice Whitelaw had worked in wildlife biology and veterinary care for years, but recognized an increasingly pressing need for less intrusive methods of collecting data on native species.

“My whole career had been involved in capturing and handling of various wildlife species, so very intrusive, invasive … traditional methods of monitoring,” Whitelaw says. “About that time, not only had genetics come a long way in terms of extracting DNA from fecal samples, but also non-invasive techniques had really moved to the forefront of most researchers’ minds. We needed to come up with other techniques in order to try and gain some of the same information without having to collar and dart and trap animals. I think that was sort of the push at the time. The climate was right for it.”

That’s when Megan Parker, WDCF’s executive director and Whitelaw’s friend of 17 years, mentioned her latest endeavor.

Parker started obedience training with dogs at age 10 and always had a fondness for biology. She developed an interest in the wider potential for dogs in non-invasive wildlife research around 1995 and, like others with WDCF, looked for a way to combine her longstanding love for dogs and her passion for conservation. The only question was how.

Throughout the mid-’90s, lab biologists honed the ability to extract viable DNA samples from tissue particles contained in animal scat. Parker’s thought, building on such breakthroughs, was to train dogs to sniff out the scat of specific species in the wild.

The practice would reduce the physical impact of field research on threatened and endangered animals. The only problem? No one had pioneered it yet.

With the help of a law enforcement friend in New York, Parker and Whitelaw found a narcotics dog trainer in Washington state willing to help them modify existing detection techniques. Initial field tests led them from work with wolves in Idaho to work with bears in Washington. By that time the group drew the interest and participation of Hurt and Deborah Smith.

The four consider the Washington bear scat project the first definite step toward founding WDCF in 2000.

“Looking back, the questions now seem really simple,” Parker says. “But at the time, as with everything, they seemed insurmountable. ‘How are we going to get dogs to sample across all these landscapes, all these different kinds of terrain?’—all these things that, as a scientist, you worry about making even. But we’re still trying to figure those things out. We know we can do it, we’re just trying to refine the way that the dogs work and the way that data are collected.

Work grew so demanding that in 2002, Hurt and Whitelaw dedicated themselves to WDCF full time. The group, scattered between Missoula and Bozeman, gained nonprofit status that year and took their efforts international. They’ve traveled to Guam, where Wicket tracked invasive brown tree snakes. They’ve traveled to Kenya, where Hurt and Parker trained shelter dogs from Nairobi to scent for cheetah and African wild dog scat. Much of

“We constantly are impressed by how well the dogs work and by how much more they can do while still refining our first questions,” Parker says. “It gets broader because we keep coming up with more things the dogs can probably do well.”

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o call Hurt and her compatriots “dog people” is an understatement.

Hurt cares for five dogs at home, includ-

Rosy Wolf snails are among the largest and fastest snail species in the world. They are also cannibals, feeding on smaller snail species by pulling their prey from its shell.

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ing Wicket and Orbee. Coworker Kathryn Socie owns two, though both are unemployed (“They’re kibble-burners,” she jokes). WDCF employs eight dogs total, mostly Labs, shepherds and border collies. All live with their respective handlers.

Since the first projects that culminated in the founding of WDCF, the group has looked to a particular type of dog: High energy, hyper-focused, frantic and rugged. They’re the kind of dogs that, if kept around the house, might turn those habits to destructive or aggressive tendencies. But in the conservation world, their owners provide them purpose and drive. In a sense, they’re Type A personalities desperate for careers, what Hurt calls “the right kind of crazy.” And that makes them perfect WDCF material.

Wicket used to live at the Pintler Pets animal shelter in Anaconda, under the name Cooper. Employees loved her, says owner Pat Phillip, but as the months dragged on her overly energetic personality kept her from adoption. The shelter doesn’t euthanize animals, so her future hung on a question mark. Four years ago, Hurt contacted the shelter and explained the behavioral traits she was looking for in a new dog. One interview in Anaconda was all it took. Wicket was hired.

“It is a big relief that they take them because those types of dogs are really hard,” Phillip says. “They just create havoc in the facility because they’re so high-strung and then they get the other dogs going. They’re hard to handle.”

Montana shelters like Pintler Pets have built strong relationships with WDCF over the years, and WDCF is quick to show its gratitude. Phillip says the organization sent her a photo of Wicket on assignment in Guam. It’s now hanging in the shelter lobby.

“The dogs that they’ve taken, I mean, they’re more or less strays,” Phillip says. “And then to think here they have a job and they’re really doing something for mankind, it’s awesome.”

Kathryn Socie, development and communications director for WDCF, carefully returns a wolf snail to its jar after a training session in Greenough Park.

WDCF continues to look for more workers. As the existing squad grows older, and projects more numerous, Hurt and her colleagues screen candidates. That’s how Orbee, a former resident of the Beaverhead County Humane Society, wound up in Greenough Park on a chill spring day, pacing frenetically in his small kennel.

He’s a replacement of sorts for Finny, the first WDCF dog to reach retirement and the first to pass away. Hurt’s now training Orbee the same as she trained Wicket and Finny before. He’ll gain the experience and know-how over time to

The Rosy Wolf snail (Euglandina rosea) has devastated indigenous Hawaiian snail populations for over half a century, driving roughly three fourths of native species to extinction.

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become as efficient and methodical as his coworkers, carrying the conservation initiative a generation further.

Not all of the employees at WDCF come from such uncertain beginnings.

Whitelaw handles three of the organization’s German shepherds, Tsavo, Camas and Tia. The last two came from breeders who specialize in work-force dogs, and Camas holds the record for scent recognition at WDCF—13 total.

But Tsavo transferred to conservation from a failed career in schutzhund, a competitive international sport involving police-type dog work.

“You have to be a little bit crazy,” Whitelaw says. “They’re really hard to live with. That said, we all sort of change our idea of what hard is and I think the dogs mold that a bit. You get used to what’s normal. They’re obnoxious. They can be really destructive.

The reason we get a lot of calls from rescue groups or from shelters is ’cause those dogs have been too much for the average pet owner to handle.

They don’t understand where the dog’s brain is going.”

So WDCF channels a dog’s energy into a specific task using a tool familiar to any dog owner: a chew toy.

Take Wicket’s Rattlesnake Creek outing. She jumps from the back of Hurt’s covered pickup knowing that her Orbee ball, a super-durable product from WDCF sponsor Planet Dog Foundation, is nestled in Hurt’s belt pack. Wicket lives for a few moments with that ball. So when she sets to work scenting for a wolf snail, she turns her full attention to the task. As

soon as she finds the target, she sits down to alert Hurt. She’s not allowed to interfere with the target in any way, living or otherwise. If all goes well, as it usually does, the toy comes out and Wicket gets a moment of playtime.

There’s a little more to it than reward. The dogs aren’t put to work if they aren’t willing. They don’t just enjoy the payoff; they enjoy the practice, as well. It’s what they’re bred to do.

“It’s a 24-7 endeavor,” Hurt says.

“Lifelong, from training to retirement.”

And those lives constitute an entire arena of WDCF funding on their own.

Keeping the dogs comfortable—both on and off the job—is costly.

Fortunately for WDCF, others recognize the value of their work.

“We’re really interested in all the different ways dogs are able to help people in need and help improve people’s lives,” says Kirsten Smith, executive director of the Planet Dog Foundation in Portland, Maine. “To see that they were also able to help preserve habitat for different kinds of wildlife was just a fascinating application of all the skills dogs have. We were drawn to the program immediately.”

The Planet Dog Foundation entered the picture in spring 2008, when they awarded WDCF a grant for $10,000. That money supported the dogs in their off hours, and was backed up by another $3,000 grant this year.

Smith says the company supports WDCF through product donations as well, namely the Orbee ball.

“I think that’s the right way to treat a dog when the dog’s worked for you for a while,” Smith says. “It’s nice to keep it in a familiar surrounding and let it kick back and live like a pet.”

Though the dogs don’t have free reign after they punch the clock—for training reasons—they do go home to all the creature comforts: plush beds, plentiful toys, top-shelf food and the best vet care money can buy.

Everything short of gilded water bowls.

“They’re sort of like employees with all the benefits,” Hurt says.

“Health insurance, paid vacation, all that kind of stuff.”

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orking Dogs for Conservation points to its own backyard for examples of its most successful work. In 2004, the Wildlife Conservation Society office in Bozeman contacted WDCF for an extremely challenging project: scenting for four Rocky Mountain carnivore scat samples simultaneously.

“We knew that in this case we weren’t going to handle animals nor did we want to,” says Beckmann of the Wildlife Conservation Society. “We didn’t want to have an invasive captureand-collar project, which most of my other projects as a biologist and conservationist have generally done.”

Beckmann headed the WDCF project, conducted in the Centennial Mountains along the Montana-Idaho border. His goal was to gather scat sam-

ples from black bears, grizzly bears, mountain lions and wolves to gauge the region’s importance as a wildlife corridor into and out of Yellowstone National Park.

That project quickly became a favorite for the members of WDCF, an example of their ability to further the conservation effort through non-traditional means. The 2004 pilot project fed directly into a five-year commitment that wrapped up last summer. And results turned around fast. With DNA culled from scat samples, Beckmann

This spring, WDCF faced perhaps its greatest challenge to date when the Oahu Army Natural Resource Program in Hawaii invited Hurt and Whitelaw to participate in a pilot conservation program. Kapua Kawelo, a biologist with the program, hoped WDCF’s detection dogs might prove to be a new and valuable weapon in the fight against the two-inch wolf snail.

The government imported wolf snails from Florida starting in the late 1930s to balance Hawaii’s infestation of another invasive species, the giant

A handful of those left are known only to exist in minute and extremely isolated populations. The destruction earned the wolf snail designation as one of the world’s 100 worst invaders.

“The cannibal snail here, we’ve struggled for many years with what to do about it,” Kawelo says. “Without any control techniques, if it hits our native snail population it can decimate them pretty rapidly.”

Existing control techniques include poison, snap traps and large, partially buried plywood fences that double as

forest refuse by hand. When a coworker of hers visiting New Zealand got wind of WDCF, Kawelo jumped at the opportunity.

“We had never heard of them,” she says. “Needless to say we were very excited when we found there were people that do this type of dog detection work specific for conservation.”

Hurt and Whitelaw received a shipment of wolf snails from Oahu by mail last winter and trained their dogs indoors. But fieldwork in Hawaii this spring was much more complex than

“The dogs that they’ve taken, I mean, they’re more or less strays.

And then to think here they have a job and they’re really doing something for mankind, it’s awesome.”

—Pat Phillip, Pintler Pets and other scientists were able to identify individuals within each species and establish a rough census map of areas with increasing carnivore activity.

“What we’re trying to do is be able to predict those areas that are going to be important for species like grizzly bears before they even get there,” Beckmann says. The Snowcrest range, for example, hasn’t seen grizzly bear activity in more than 70 years. Until now.

Hurt says data collect by WDCF in the Centennials has already influenced local decisions on land use, including the halting of a 1,200-home Idaho subdivision set for development in a carnivore travel corridor.

Not every project, however, goes smoothly. Whitelaw remembers a nasty six-mile outing from a few years back, when a Wall Street Journal reporter tagged along with her and Jon Beckmann. The trip took them down a narrow canyon, and they wound up skirting a cliff near a waterfall.

“At one point Jon was about four feet away from me,” Whitelaw says. “We had a leash on Camas just to have a good hold on her. I would hand him the leash, she would walk that three feet, I would scoot over right behind her, he would scoot over three feet, and we had to do that for about an hour to get out of there.”

By the time they slid down a slope and reached safe ground, Whitelaw had torn out the back of her pants. She had to ask the reporter to tape them closed.

“Every time I get the dogs out of the truck I learn something,” Whitelaw says. “And because we work on such a variety of projects, it’s never boring.

It’s always challenging. You’re working and communicating with another species—the dogs—and the fact that it works blows me away.”

African snail. The idea was one large predatory snail species would kill off another. The plan worked on Oahu, but by the 1950s wolf snails became a bigger problem than the giant African snail had ever been. Kawelo says in subsequent decades, wolf snails have driven three-quarters of the 40-some indigenous snail species to extinction.

rat control devices. These fences include shock wires and salt troughs, but prove a double-edged sword as they limit the mobility of native snails, wreaking potential genetic havoc on pocketed populations. Kawelo says they’ve even resorted to human detection, a labor-intensive last ditch effort that requires biologists to sift through

they’d anticipated. The rich olfactory salad of exotic foliage and rotting leaves masked the faint scent trail left by the wolf snails. Wicket and 3-yearold Tia had to be nearly on top of the snails to find them. Hurt likens it to sniffing out a single drop of blood in a busy crime scene rather than a pungent pile of poop in a forest.

The hunt is on for Wicket as she scents through spring forest refuse for wolf snails, the eco-terrorists of Hawaiian Island fauna.

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The duo spent three weeks on Oahu working with Kawelo. Hurt says the project will stretch into the foreseeable future, with plans for WDCF to return this July. Kawelo’s ultimate goal is to train a resident dog-and-handler team for ongoing work in conservation areas in Hawaii.

That or convince Hurt and Whitelaw— and their dogs—to move to the islands.

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rbee darts out of the back of Hurt’s truck looking like a border collie blur of black and white. He found his way to WDCF in January, and Hurt named him in honor of the Planet Dog Foundation’s continued support.

Wicket whimpers from the front seat, her practice done for the day. The rookie has bugs of his own to work out.

Hurt set up Orbee’s training course minutes before, squirting globs of hair gel in different patches of brush about 10 yards apart. Hair gel is the starter scent, she explains. It’s pungent enough for a dog to detect from a distance without being readily visible.

Orbee leaps at Hurt’s belt pack, mindful of the reward inside. But he’s off at her command, zig-zagging slowly across the open field. It takes a few minutes of this seemingly aimless wandering, but he eventually catches a scent and zeroes in on the first target.

This first attempt is sketchy. Orbee’s so keyed up he forgets to sit. He stares at Hurt, then the target, then Hurt. His mouth hangs open and his ears perk.

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She reminds him to sit, and he remembers the next time. Each scent exercise goes more smoothly than the last.

Socie, an old friend of Hurt’s, hangs back by the creek. She says she jumped onboard with WDCF last October as the organization’s first official employee who isn’t a dog or a handler, working as their development and communications director. With a background at nonprofits— she’s worked for the Humane Society and for a string of shelters and veterinary clinics—she’s taken charge of writing WDCF’s grant proposals. Her hire reflects the foundation’s continued growth.

How large WDCF grows is largely up to the creativity and confidence of its clients. Kawelo, for instance, sees great potential in the dogs’ work and their ability to reach out into new areas of conservation.

“It remains to be seen how vital they can be,” Kawelo says, “because their work hasn’t been applied in all the areas it can be. The more publicity they get, the more creative projects they’ll be able to try and apply dogs to.”

Orbee, for one, appears ready for more work. When his training in Greenough Park ends, he moves from person to person begging for his toy. Hurt whispers attaboys into the dog’s ear and offers the ball. Orbee has a long way to go from sniffing out hair-gel to hunting down invasive species, but there’s no telling how important his next scent will be. asakariassen@missoulanews.com

Aimee Hurt rewards working dog Wicket for a job well done. Hurt and her fellow co-founders at the Working Dogs for Conservation Foundation train their dogs to locate conservation targets, like animal scat or invasive wildlife species, in exchange for time with an Orbee ball.

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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. MF 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$.

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. Getting ready for outside seating? So are we. Not matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $-$$

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

The chocolate lovers paradise is now also a great place for lunch. With a total remodel, serving freshly made sweet and savory crepes, delicious quiches, soups, seasonal salads and artisanal European style pastries. And don't forget what's been keeping us busy since 2005; stop in and try our single origin, 100% Ecuadorian, hand crafted Truffles. www.poshchocolat.com. $-$$

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the SA WAD DEE 221 W. Broadway • 543-9966 Sa-Wa-Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors-no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisines. Now serving Beer and Wine! $-$$ Sean Kelly’s 130 West Pine • 542–1471 Located in the HUB of the LOOP! Open for Lunch and Dinner, featuring a Sat.-Sun. Brunch 11-2pm. Great Fresh food With Huge Portions. Traditional Irish fare combined with tasty specials from around the globe! FULL BAR, BEER, WINE, MARTINIS, 100% SMOKE FREE. "Where the Gaelic and the Garlic Mix!" $-$$ The Stone of Accord 4951 N. Reserve St. • 830-3210 Serving Award Winning Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinners 7 days a week! All of your favorite Irish classics, plus a daily selection of Chef's specialties. A fully stocked bar, wine and liquor store and the Emerald Casino make The Stone of Accord the perfect place for an enjoyable meal. 6:30am-2:00am $-$$ Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins • 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day.

Daily Lunch Specials. All Soups, including our famous Tomato Soup, are made from scratch. Voted best milkshakes in Missoula for 12 straight years. Great Food, Great Service, Great Fun!! Monday - Sunday 8a.m. - 3p.m. $-$$ Vietnam Noodle 2100 Stephens • 542-8299 A true Vietnamese dining experience! Enjoy our authentic beef noodle soup, spring rolls, pad thai, Vietnamese style hot & sour soup, noodle soup bowls & daily lunch/soup combo specials. We suggest that you also try our new stuffed hot peppers. For your cooking pleasure at home, we have an Asian grocery next to our restaurant! Get a free meal on your birthday when you bring 5 or more friends. $-$$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming • 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas,

and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$ Wok-ee Mountain Asian Restaurant 11300 US Hwy 93, Lolo 273-9819 Brand new Thai & Chinese cuisine featuring original recipes. Specializing in curry. Extensive menu, vegetarian options and many soup options as well including Vietnamese style pho, Tom Yum, wonton and more. Wok-ee Mountain Asian Restaurant is perfect for take out or dine in. $-$$

$...Under $5 Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West • 728-1358 Where Myrtle Avenue ends at Bernice's, a tiny bakery sits as a veritable landmark to those who 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. $ Bucks Club 1805 Regent • 543-7436 Missoula’s best Food & Drink Values. 2-for-1 food specials daily. Eat the legend.

Burgers for a buck. Over 1,000,000 sold. Great Breakfast served daily. If you go away hungry, don’t blame us. Mon.–Sat. Open 7 AM and Sunday 8 AM. $

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Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 37 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve by TJ Maxx & Ross 549-5595 Cold Stone Creamery, the ultimate ice cream experience! Our smooth and creamy ice cream is made fresh daily using our secret recipe. Come in for our weekday specials. Get $5 off ice cream cakes with your business

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card. Get Gift Cards any time. Treat yourself to a 10minute vacation at Cold Stone Creamery. $-$$ eMpanadas 728-2030 www.empanadalady.com eMpanadas are back! Indulge in your favorites at the Clark Fork River Market this Saturday, 8am to 1pm and at Downtown Tonight, Caras Park, Thursdays, June-August 5:30-8:30pm.

Baked to perfection with fresh, local ingredients,10 exquisite varieties of Argentine-style empanadas await you: Carne de búfalo, lamb, pollo, humita, and more.$ Le Petit Outre 129 South 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula.

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Bitterroot Valley Main Street Cafe 363-4567 upstairs 217 Main St. Hamilton Danielle Dupuy presents...A little taste of France in the Bitterroot. Serving Gourmet French American Cuisine. Lunch Board: Tuesday through Friday 11:30 to 2pm. Dinner A La Carte: Tuesday through Saturday 5 to 9pm. Reservations Accepted. For special events (business meetings, birthdays, baby showers, etc.) please call Chef Jason Tenesch.

Whitefish Café Kandahar 406-862-6247 A George’s Distributing fine wine tasting, a Café Kandahar 7 course wine dinner, Kandahar Lodge luxurious accommodations and an Andy Blanton champagne brunch come together May 14-15 for a “Not To Be Missed” event. Meet & greet with the winemakers. Full package $299 for two. Call 406-862-6247 for limited tickets.

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by Ari LeVaux

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Posole, a hominy and chile stew that’s ubiquitous in New Mexico, has deep roots south of the border, where it’s a celebratory dish often served at Christmas.

When most people think Christmas, they think December 25. But in New Mexico, Christmas has a different meaning, one that’s holier than shopping, vacation and sometimes even Jesus.

New Mexico’s version of Christmas is rooted in a question: “Red or green?” The query concerns the color of chile sauce you want on your food—be it eggs and toast, burgers and fries, or burritos and enchiladas. It’s a question that can trap even seasoned menu black belts like myself in an existential bind.

Sometimes the solution to this dilemma is to say “Christmas,” which means you want both red and green.

Red sauce is usually made with garlic, oregano and red chile, while green sauce is roux-based, with green chile. Red and green chiles come from the same plant; the color difference is based on when the chile is harvested, and how it’s processed.

Posole can be made with either red or green chile, though red is more common. I prefer cooking my posole with red chile and then adding chopped green—not the sauce, just the chile—to the bowl at serving time, for a variation on Christmas.

Hominy, the heart of posole, is a large-kernelled corn that’s been dried and then soaked in lye-water. This process, which first appeared in present-day Guatemala more than 3,000 years ago, spread to much of the Native American world—as far as the Cherokee Nation in the southeastern United States. The treatment removes the germ and hard outer hull from the kernels, adds calcium, makes the corn more palatable and easier to digest, converts niacin into a

Ask Ari:

form more easily absorbed by the body, and improves the availability of some amino acids.

These days, hominy is widely available canned or dried. Dried is preferable—it makes a better posole and it’s cheaper, especially if you order it online (try gourmetsleuth.com). Hominy was traditionally made with white corn, but today it’s available in yellow and blue as well. If you can get more than one color hominy, by all means mix them up in your posole.

Most feast dishes tend to be elaborate, laborintensive and expensive affairs. Posole is none of these. Nonetheless, I’m going to complicate things a bit by giving you some options for different variations. Whatever path you choose, in the end the process simmers down to little more than putting the ingredients in a pot and cooking them slowly.

To make four generous servings, use 2 cups of dried hominy, or 4 cups of canned. Dried hominy should be rinsed; canned should be drained.

I make posole with dried hominy, in a crock-pot on high for 8 hours. You can also soak dried kernels for 24 hours with a lime squeezed in, drain and rinse, then proceed on the stovetop. The stovetop protocol works for canned hominy, too. Two cups of dried hominy should be cooked in 5 quarts of water; 4 cups of canned need only 4 quarts of water.

Birds and horse wire

Ari,

A neighbor is all excited about growing potatoes in automobile tires, and like you (see “Flash,” May 7, 2009) I found it not very interesting and possibly harmful. My question is: What is horse wire? I’ve gone to two different hardware stores asking about your alternative, but the staff had never heard of it. I think the staff in both of these stores, like myself, grew up in Montana. I’d appreciate any information.

—Horse Sense

is typically 48 inches high, with a rectangular 2by-4-inch grid. Horse fence is flexible but rigid, not soft and floppy like chicken wire. I’ve heard they call it “sheep fence” east of the divide.

But regardless of what you call it, and what kind you use, the point is to take some flexible wire fencing and bend it into a tube, plant your potatoes in the tube, and mulch heavily with straw or dirt as they grow. It’s not too late to plant potatoes, in the ground or in a column, but soon it will be, folks, so get on it if that’s what you’re into.

Dear HS, What I actually wrote was “horse fence,” not “horse wire.” This fencing

Hey Ari, I read your Q&A on clipping chicken wings (see “Flash,” May 14, 2009)

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The red chile can be added in powdered or whole form, in quantities according to your tolerance for heat. I use a combination of 3 tablespoons powdered red and 5 whole reds. Break open the dried whole chiles and remove the seeds and stems. Hand-crush them into large fragments and add them to the pot. Add 2 tablespoons oregano, preferably Mexican rather than the Mediterranean varieties, and a whole mess of chopped garlic.

Posole is usually made with pork shoulder, but I prefer red meat like beef, lamb, goat or elk. Whichever you prefer, pan-brown a pound or two of trimmed meat cut into inch-cubes. Once browned, add a chopped onion. Make sure to savor the smell of raw onion cooking into the browned meat. Kill the heat when the onion starts to sweat.

Add the meat and onions to the pot, and season with salt or garlic salt— depending on how much fresh garlic you added, and how much you like garlic.

Since this is going to cook for hours, it’s good to start small with the oregano and the salt. Taste and re-season as you go. Some people like to add sage, cumin or even cinnamon. I’d recommend using just oregano in your first batch, and expanding your horizons from there. Cook on low/medium heat until the hominy is soft—about 8 hours with dried hominy, and 2 hours with canned or soaked.

Roast five or six fresh Anaheim chiles, or similar variety, under the broiler until the skins blister. Remove the skins, stems and seeds under running cold water and chop the chiles.

Add a tablespoon of chopped green chile to your red chile posole, serve with garnish plate of limes and fresh aromatic veggies like sliced radish, cabbage and cilantro, and let me be the first to wish you feliz Navidad from New Mexico, where every day can be Christmas. And while purists might shudder, I should mention that I also like a dab of mayo in my posole. White Christmas, anyone?

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and have a funny piece of advice. I’ve heard that if you clip one wing pretty short and leave the other one alone at full length, then the chicken cannot fly because they are so asymmetrical.

Essentially you doom them to fly in a tight circle. On the other hand, if you clip both, some determined chickens will just flap harder and can get out.

—Bird of a Feather

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Very clever, BOAF. Thanks. Kind of a funny image, too. I’m going to have to try that.

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Who knew the gates of Hell looked so pastoral, or that Cerberus was so damn fine? Anarcho-roots post-industrialists The Devil Makes Three eschew bailouts in favor of getting down as they play the Palace Lounge with Jessica Kilroy at 9 PM on Sat., May 30. $12/$10 plus fees in advance at Ear Candy.

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Hold your cards close to your chest when the Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave., hosts a high-stakes—no, not really—Pinochle Tournament at 1 PM. Cover TBA. Call 543-7154.

Pretend that’s Patrick Swayze breathing down your neck during Open Instructed Studio at the Clay Studio, 1106-A Hawthorne St., every Thu. at 1 PM through July 2. $168/eight-week session. Call 543-0509.

School’s out early, which means it’s time for the Teen Zine Club, which meets every Thu. at 2:30 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First Ave. W.,

for the continuing adventures of the self-publishing and somewhat famous. $10 per month.

Call 239-7718 or e-mail info@slumgullion.org.

The Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave., hosts a Bellydance Workshop beginning at 3 PM, with a related and totally sexy Hafla Performance at 8. $35 workshop/$7 performance. Call 370-3917.

If your toddler’s movement seems kind of, well, stale, bring them to Creative Movement Class every Thu. at 3:15 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 5417240 for pricing.

Even those without a bun in the oven will benefit when the Happy Mama Prenatal Center, 736 S. First St. W., presents a low-impact Community Yoga Class every Thu. at 4:15 PM. $5 suggested donation.

Literacy spreads ever westward as the Frenchtown Public Library, housed deep within Frenchtown Elementary School, reminds us of their summer hours: Thu., Tue. and Wed. from 4:30–8:30 PM, and Sat. from 10 AM–3 PM. Call 626-2635.

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

end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., May 29, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Comrade Calendar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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Hurry, you’ve only about two months before you can take advantage of a Montana Earthship Intern Opportunity, a three-week program designed to bring the revolutionary and incredibly inexpensive building style to the Big Sky, so visit earthship.org to apply.

Take some time away from the first-person shooter video games to enjoy harmonies and easy melodies from the world’s spiritual traditions at 7 PM, when a Devotional Singing Circle takes place at Hamilton’s Common Ground Center, 260 Roosevelt Lane. $3 donation. Call 381-0617.

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Come to The Cottage Inn in Kila for a 7 PM Irish jam session and stay for the weekly cribbage tournament at the world famous home of “Turbo Crib.” Free. Call 755-4572.

The Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., celebrates fatherhood as they host Dad’s Night at 5:30 PM, which features entertainment by Matt Nord and Caleb Van Gelder, a healthy and tasty meal and play time with the kids. Free. RSVP 541-PLAY.

If your normal swing spot’s become jampacked with losers, head to the Eagle’s Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., where swing lessons

Building on the Flathead Valley Community College campus. Free. Call 881-4066.

Bring your axe—or banjer for you backwoods types—and reminisce about music’s good ol’ days at the weekly Old Timey Music Sessions at Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., every Thu. at 7:30 PM. Free. Call 726-3765 or 880-6834.

The real hip hop is over here: The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., gives you something to pop and lock about every Tue. at 8 PM during Hip Hop Class. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Hear the boundaries of “folk” music ruthlessly pushed beyond their comfort zone when gui-

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

FRIDAY May

The Montana Community Autism and Aspergers Network invites you to their monthly meeting at 6:30 PM in the large meeting room at the Missoula Public Library.

Free.

Lead instructor Terry DeGroot presents a piano, voice and string recital by students ranging in age from six to full grown when a North Valley Music School Recital begins at 7 PM in Columbia Falls’ Glacier Discovery Square. Free. Call 862-8074 or visit northvalleymusicschool.org.

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The Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., has five upcoming options for your kids, so register for a session or two of their Passport to the World Summer Camps, which begin June 15. $75/$65 members per weekly session. RSVP 541-PLAY. Are we done calling these “Freedom Horns” yet? Whitefish gets the jump on the region’s arts scene as the Walking Man Frame Shop & Gallery hosts the opening of Judy Cockrell’s watercolor exhibit Animals, Vegetables, & ... Horns—featuring “True Love,” above—from 6–9 PM on Thu., June 4. Free. Call 863-ARTS or visit whitefishgallerynights.org.

begin every Thu. at 7 PM and the dance party gets going in earnest at 8. $5.

Feeling too straight and separate? Remedy that situation pronto at Gay Men Together, a safe and affirming place for gay and bisexual men, at 7 PM at the Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center, 127 N. Higgins Ave., Ste. 202. Free. Call 543-2224.

Swallow your pride, grab up to seven doublespaced pages of your best verbiage, and bring it to this week’s Authors of the Flathead meeting for constructive critique at 7 PM in Room 151 of the Science and Technology

tar hero Patty Larkin shakes up the Masquer Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center at 8 PM. $20/$18 advance. Call 243-4881.

Bring your instruments of entertainment, but leave the drum kits at home, as Polson’s East Shore Smoke House, half a mile north of the Finley Point turnoff on Highway 35, hosts a weekly “semi-unplugged” Blues Jam from 8–11 PM. Free. Call 887-2096.

Bowling and karaoke go together like the alpha and the omega during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free.

Call 541-SING.

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

Sean Kelly’s bank on the fact that everyone appreciates smokin’ rockabilly music when they present Denver’s Hillbilly Hellcats at 9:30 PM. Cover TBA. Call 542-1471.

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

Scream back at the void, but use your inside voice as the Missoula Public Library offers a 7 PM episode of that philosophical rock block known as Socrates Cafe. Free. Call 721-2665.

Join the ranks of the Missoula Metal Militia, led by the DJs Hot Pocket and Uranus, at the Palace Lounge at 9 PM. $3.

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

The valley’s haven for year-round thrashers, Fiftytwo Skatepark, on El Way past the Missoula Airport, hosts Girls’ Skate Club Night every Thu. at 6 PM, which means girls skate for free.

Guys are welcome, but should plan on parting with a few bucks. Call 542-6383.

Here’s proof that txting hasn’t destroyed language skills in the youth just yet: The prolific writers of Big Sky High School host an unveiling party for the collection Aerie Big Sky at 7 PM. $4 admission/$10 for a copy.

The heavens open, the price of well drinks plummets and a tsunami of pure unabashed booty dancing hails your arrival every Thu. at the Badlander, where Dead Hipster DJ Night rewards you with rock, indie, krunk, pop and more at 9 PM. $2.

Landslide hosts open mic night at the Bandit Saloon in Columbia Falls every Thu. and Tue. night, starting at 9 PM. Free.

Nobody move, nobody gets hurt: John Seiver plays Hamilton’s Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St., at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

Learn how to support your child’s transition into kindergarten with WORD’s five-week series “The ABC’s of Kindergarten Readiness,” which begins at 6:30 PM every Thu. through June 11. Free., and childcare is available. RSVP 543-3550, ext. 255.

Sorry ladies, but Thu. nights belong to the dudes at Men’s Night at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where the testosterone-fueled karaoke begins at 9 PM. Free.

Call 363-6969.

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The Missoula Public Library hosts a preschool storytime geared toward children 3 to 6 years old every Fri. at 10:30 AM. Free. Call 721-BOOK. If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program for babes up to 36 months at 10:30 AM every Thu., Fri. and Tue. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Every weekday, kids aged 6–13 flock to the ZACC, 235 N. First St., where the Young Artists Afterschool Program provides experiences with ceramics, painting, construction, wire, robots and more. $12 per day. Call 5497555 or visit zootownarts.com If high school English class isn’t exactly nurturing your inner poet, bring all that angsty ver-

biage to the Missoula Public Library every Fri. when the Teen Writing Group meets at 4:30 PM. Free. Call 721-BOOK. A three-day Directed Retreat based on the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola begins at 5 PM at St. Francis Xavier Church, 420 W. Pine St. Free. RSVP 542-0321, ext. 106.

nightlife Looking for a varied buzz? Try a weekly wine tasting at the Loft of Missoula, 119 W. Main St., where the sweet juice of divinity begins flowing at 5:15 PM every Fri. $10.

The Can’t Hardly Playboys pick ‘em old and new—as long as it’s acoustic folk and rock— every Fri. from 6 to 8 PM at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463.

The fine dining is boosted up a couple of notches when Tom Catmull plays at 6:30 PM at The Keep. Free.

Lee Zimmerman, aka the Celloman, offers an evening of cello bangin’ at the Hangin Art Gallery and Coffee House in Arlee at 7 PM. Free. Call 726-5005.

Get wild on the dance floor, or just bring your instrument and jam with the band, when an all-ages Friday Night Dance Party thumps into the Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave. $3. Call 543-7154.

Local musicians Ross Logan and John Smith warm the stage as Seattle trio Kris Orlowski makes their Missoula debut at 7:30 PM at Lake Missoula Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier. $5. Call 541-8463.

The Wilma Theatre’s your spot for a little somethin’ somethin’ as Baby Bash and Frankie J enjoy themselves all over a stage warmed by very special guest Paula Deanda at an event that simultaneously introduces Da Stooie Bros. at 7:30 PM. $28/$26 advance.

A collection of dance pieces choreographed by Hellgate High School drama students comprises Gotta Move, which begins at 7:30 PM in the Hellgate Theatre and benefits the Hellgate Cares program. Free. Cover TBA. It ain’t quite summer yet, but its gonna be a hot time when local rock, reggae, punk and funkrock artists God Fearing Women, Burning Cattle and Truck Stop Inferno tear everybody a new earhole at 8 PM at the Whitefish VFW. $3.

Until mudboggin’ becomes a sport of the nobility, you can enjoy the Country Kings at the Missoula Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Call 207-0498.

Live music of an unspecified nature shakes things up at 8 PM at The Raven in Bigfork, 39 Orchard Lane, which should add some spice to the Walleye Fish Fry as well. Visit sleepeatdrink.com.

The Palace Lounge beckons as Her Space Holiday and City Light play at 9 PM, with local support by Fiancée, Tyson Ballew and DJ Mermaid, so don’t say I didn’t warn you. $7.

Local indie rock and pop gets the added boost of a cameo by some local arts editor or another when Pluto’s a Planet, The Racquet and The Fidgets play the Badlander at 9 PM. $5.

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.

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

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

Get your freak on at AmVets Club, where DJ DC rocks dance music at 9 PM. Free.

If things start feeling a bit stuffy, that just means you’re not dancing hard enough when Cabin Fever plays Florence’s High Spirits at 9 PM. Free.

Release your inner Kool Moe Dee when Larry’s Six Mile Casino and Cafe in Huson presents an evening with Grayhound Karaoke at 9 PM. Free. Call 546-8978.

When the Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St., turns over the sound system to a live DJ every Fri. at 9 PM, all you’ve got to remember is to turn south after taking exit 89 from I-90.

Free. Call 370-3200.

Feel free to shake it like a Polaroid picture when DJ Sanchez cranks out the jams at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, every Fri. at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969.

It’s like the Emilio Estevez thriller Maximum Overdrive, but with guitars instead of lawnmowers: Bob Wire and the Magnificent Bastards play Sean Kelly’s at 9:30 PM. Cover TBA. Call 542-1471.

Now that you’ve watched the Clark Fork turn into the Big Muddy, top the whole bayou experience off as Zeppo plays the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

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The Community Tees-n-Pins Classic, a fundraiser for Community Medical Center’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, begins with check-in at 8 AM at Larchmont Golf Course and moves to Westside Lanes once the ballwhacking’s done. RSVP 327-4141 or visit c ommunitymed.org/CMCF_News.

Learn to identify birds along the Clark Fork River when you—and your kids, if you can peel them away from the screen—hit Jacob’s Island at 8:30 AM, where Lolo National Forest wildlife interpreter Sue Reel and UM ornithologist Dick Hutto present “Got Birds?” as part of the Missoula Children and Nature Network’s “Got Nature?” initiative. Free, and binoculars are provided. Call 329-3831.

Toss in a little sweat equity for the benefit of the Evaro Community Center when the 23rd annual Evaro Mountain Challenge 5K and 10K runs and walks begin with registration at 8:30 AM at the big tents at mile marker 7 on Highway 93 North. $10/$8 before race day.

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Your heart, the planet and your farmer-neighbors give thanks every Sat. from 8 AM-noon as you head down to the Clark Fork River Market (clarkforkrivermarket.com), which takes place beneath the Higgins Street bridge, and to the Missoula Farmers’ Market (missoulafarmersmarket.com), which opens at 8:30 at the north end of Higgins Avenue. And if it’s non-edibles you’re after, check out East Pine Street’s Missoula Saturday Market (missoulasaturdaymarket.org), which runs 9 AM–1 PM. Free to spectate, and often to sample.

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The Bitterroot Farmers’ Market begins their ninth year of providing free produce coupons to those in financial need, so present your monthly income for consideration once you call Cheryl at 825-6955.

Also, your EBT card (what was once “food stamps”) is accepted at the market, so go ahead and charge some delicious and nutritious local grub to the government.

You are invited to bring your family’s brain injury survivors and others to the Puzzle Club Support Group every Sat. at 9 AM at Jokers Wild, 4829 N. Reserve St. Free. Call 728-9117.

Enjoy a weekly dose of playful, happy and fantastic cardiovascular exercise when you bring yourself to the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., for Saturday Morning Nia every Sat. at 9 AM. $10. Call 360-8763 or 541-7240.

Don’t miss the Belly Tent Dance Studio’s Hipsy Gypsy Dance Troupe, which sways and sashays from 9 AM–1 PM—with a special noon performance—by the Missoula Saturday Market, aka the “People’s Market,” on East Pine Street. Free.

Call 531-3000.

If you’re south of Missoula, your weekly dose of freshness awaits at the Hamilton Farmers Market, which opens at 9 AM every Sat. through Oct. 3 on Bedford Street near the Ravalli County Museum.

Free. Call 961-0004.

The Missoula Alliance Church, 100 E. Foss Court, presents an all-day Worship Seminar featuring Tom Kraeuter, which begins at 9:30 AM. $45/Add a spouse for $20. Call 2513983 or visit worshipseminar.com.

Registration begins at 9:30 AM for a Mini-Retreat offered by the Unity

Church of Missoula, 546 South Ave. W., wherein the Reverends Richard and Maureen Levy offer you a spiritual stimulus package and a direct experience with the divine from 10 AM–4 PM. $25 suggested donation.

Call 541-6966 or 728-0187.

The Creativity For Life Workshop Series for people facing illness and loss continues with Amy Kalil and Lori Mitchell’s class Simple Writing at 10:30 AM. Free, donations appreciated. Call 549-5329 for directions.

Who wants to be a puppy-naire? The Flathead County Animal Shelter, 225 Cemetery Road—good thing animals can’t read, eh?—hosts an Open House from 11 AM–4 PM, with adoption specials, a vaccination clinic ($15 per animal), educational seminars, refreshments and inexpensive, yet unconditional, love for sale. Call 752-1310 or visit flathead.mt.gov/animal.

In honor of Missoula’s sisterly relationship with North Palmerston, New Zealand Day begins at 11 AM at the Fort Missoula Rugby Pitch, where a Touch Rugby Clinic culminates with the 3:30 PM Montana Youth Rugby Association’s All-State Select Side Match. Free, and at 6:30, this event shifts to the Union Hall. See Nightlife. Call 532-3240 or visit missoulacultural.org.

Your bedtime tales of college-age debauchery fall a little short of the mark: Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like stories, fingerplays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Alison Laundrie gets you in shape and provides a few moments away from your spawn every Sat. at 11 AM during a Pilates class at Sunflower Montessori School, 1703 S. Fifth St. W. $10 includes childcare. RSVP 214-7247.

The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., presents Day of Dance, a five-plus-hour program of free dance lessons—from family style to jazz, belly dance to boogie—beginning at noon. Call 541-7240.

SPOTLIGHT s i s te r l y l o v e

Practice your rapid eye movement when you check out all that’s new during a Twenty Minute Tour every Sat. at noon at the Missoula Art Museum. Free. Call 728-0447.

Add your mark to a huge group art piece when a “Hands On” Sewing Circle, which runs from 12:30–2:30 PM at the Missoula Art Museum, invited you to stitch a bit of handshaped wool onto Marie Watt’s exhibition Heirloom. Free. Call 721-0447.

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

Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan can join facilitator Chris Poloynis every Sat. at 3 PM, when Spartans Honour, an outdoor PTSD support group, meets at Greenough Park’s southernmost footbridge. Free. Call 327-7834.

Kaikohe Demolition proves Missoula’s not that far from Palmerston North, culturally speaking.

If you’re like most Missoulians, you don’t even know that we have sister cities. Which means you’re probably unaware of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, with which the imperially fixated Brits tried to pull one over on the Maori.

Man, did they get theirs…

Anyway, this week we celebrate our connection with New Zealand’s Palmerston North— municipal slogan: “Young Heart, Easy Living,” nickname: “Palmy”—as the Missoula Cultural Council and the Maggots Rugby Club host New Zealand Day.

WHAT: New Zealand Day WHEN: Sat., May 30, 11 AM–9:30 PM WHERE: Begins at Fort Missoula’s Rugby Pitch, continues at the Union Hall HOW MUCH: Free until 7:30 PM, $5 suggested donation for films

It begins at 11 AM with a new-agey version of a famous bloodletting sport as the Maggots coordinate a touch rugby clinic, open to those above the age of 6, at Fort Missoula’s rugby pitch. An informal noon tournament leads into a youth match at 3:30 PM. Once the ritualized warfare’s done, it’s time for the refinement, which comes as the Union Hall hosts a no-host Palmy reception at 6:30. The evening is rounded out with the screening of two films from Kiwiland. Kaikohe Demolition explores the connections forged as a community comes together to smash up some automobiles.

This should get you all primed for the Western Montana Fair. The second film, Mana Wahine, explores the strong roles women play in Maori culture, as warriors, spiritual leaders and political operators. If nothing tickles your fancy like a room full of tattoo-bearing, goggle-eyed ladies hissing, spitting and chanting in a most intimidating manner, these wahines are your ticket.

And with that, you’re off to the “Land of the Long White Cloud.”

—Jonas Ehudin

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Your cure for the end-of-May indigos: The Mike Bader Band plays Hamilton’s Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St., at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

In honor of Missoula’s sisterly relationship with Palmerston North, New Zealand Day continues at 6 PM at the Union Hall, where a Palmerston North no-host reception leads into the 7:30 screening of two films from down under, Kaikohe Demolition and Mana Wahine. $5 suggested donation for films. Call 532-3240 or visit missoulacultural.org. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

As a means of balancing out all the retreats taking place around town, writer-actor Roger Scott Jackson presents the sermon Patriarchs and Penises, wherein the atheist evangelist Sam Singleton offers nuggets of inspiration to the vastly outnumbered, at 7 PM in a private room at the Montana Club, 2561 N. Reserve St. A boozy reception with the faithless follows. $12/$10 at brownpapertickets.com.

Explore and define space as it relates to our modern sensibilities when the Wrecking Crew Dance Company presents Anya Cloud and Jes Mullette in Starting Empty at 8 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $7/$12 couples. Call 239-1102 or 370-2168.

(See Spotlight in this issue.)

Until mudboggin’ becomes a sport of the nobility, you can enjoy the Country Kings at the Missoula Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Call 207-0498.

Arrive early for the 8 PM sign-up— and to down a few jitter-killing drinks—as Frenchtown’s Alcan Bar and Cafe hosts the weekly Saturday Night Open Jam with Jimmy Falcon and Sam Massa at 9. Free.

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. Jessica Kilroy warms the Palace Lounge stage before anti-capitalist string plunking from The Devil Makes Three has the crowd ready to burn something or another at 9 PM. $12/$10 advance at Ear Candy.

Missoula Phoenix football continues as they take on the Pocatello Predators at UM’s Washington Grizzly Stadium at 4 PM. And yes, tailgating is allowed, but only in Lot W. $8. Call 207-1702.

Unless you really hate John Travolta and his legion of imitators, you’ve no sea-worthy reason to avoid DJ Kris Moon’s Love Unlimited Disco Party at 9 PM at the Badlander. Free, but let’s dress the part, shall we?

In honor of the National Coalition B u i l d i n g I n s t i t u te ’ s 10 - y e a r anniversary, the Wilma Theatre screens Debra Chasnoff’s documentary Straightlaced: How Gender’s Got Us All Tied Up, along with Inside Out, a film by local middleschoolers on gender stereotypes and pressure in Missoula, with doors opening at 4:30 PM. A reception follows in the Florence Hotel lobby. $8 suggested donation. Call 541-6891.

(See Agenda in this issue.)

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.

nightlife

You can expect just about anything— except smoke—when the Palace Lounge, 147 W. Broadway, presents CUE with DJ Hickey at 9 PM every Sat. Free.

Satisfy that thirst for something beyond ordinary wine at the Hidden Legend Winery, at Sheafman corner and Highway 93 S., where the honey wine flows and the local music rolls every Sat. at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 363-6323.

Feel free to perform during karaoke night at 9 PM at the VFW but don’t be too loud, there’s people trying to eat pizza next door. Free.

If you get nervous in front of crowds, just imagine they’re all naked at East Missoula’s Reno Casino and Cafe’s karaoke night, brought to you by Karaoke by Figmo at 9 PM. Free.

When DJ Sanchez commands the turntables every Sat. at 9 PM at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in

Hamilton, nobody’s exempt from the mandatory “dance down the bar” rule. Free. Call 363-6969.

You’re a diva on the dance floor: AmVets Club offers up DJ DC and his dance music at 9 PM. Free.

If you’re looking for a pick-me-up, or at least a few bars of empathy, don’t miss blues legend Johnny Rawls, who plays Sean Kelly’s at 9:30 PM. Cover TBA. Call 542-1471. (See Noise in this issue.)

If you prefer to keep the swing movement alive, consider partner dancing the night away as Tom Catmull and the Clerics play the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Dudes with nice legs are invited to get in on all the fun as the Broadway, 1609 W. Broadway, hosts a mantastic Little Black Dress Party at 9:30 PM, where “it’s not about showing up, it’s about showing off” as the Tallest DJ in America spins everything in the room. $5. Visit http://tr.im/igZm. DJ Dubwise supplies dance tracks all night long so you can take advantage of Sexy Saturday and rub up against the gender of your choice at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.

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You’re hereby invited to Hamilton’s Carriage House, 310 N. Fourth St., every Sun. at 9 AM, in order that you might bear witness to Rev. Kathianne Lewis’ message from the Center for Spiritual Living in Seattle. Free. Call 375-9996.

If economic strain’s got you worrying about your home—or lack thereof— contact the Human Resource Council, 1801 S. Higgins Ave., which offers home repair and homebuyer assistance programs. Call Brendan at 728-3710, but do it tomorrow, when they’re open.

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

You’re invited to wrestle with the claims of Jesus in an open and accepting environment every Sun. at 10 AM, when All Souls Missoula meets on the third floor of the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. Free.

Visit allsoulsmissoula.org.

Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th generation Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe, leads a Wild Buffalo Honoring Ceremony on Horse Butte, traditional bison migration land near West Yellowstone, from 11 AM–1 PM. A potluck and community meal follows in West Yellowstone’s Union Pacific Dining Hall at 3. Call 646-0070 for directions, or visit buffalofieldcampaign.org.

Now that she’s come out of her 34day post-car-wreck coma, lend her your support when the Sidney Watson Fundraising Benefit overtakes Caras Park from noon–7 PM, with music by the Bob-A-Dips, Sho-Down, Black Mountain

Bluegrass and the Andrea Harsell Band, magic by Evan Disney, tomfoolery by Monte the Mascot, a live auction by “Elvis” as well as other luck-based giving opportunities. Free admission. Visit sidneywatsonbenefit.org.

Playing bingo at 2 PM at the Missoula Senior Citizens Center is your chance to yell “Boo-yah-ingo!”

Free. Call 543-7154.

And we throw open our coffers to support one of our own: Join MC Mayor John Engen, Tom Catmull, Jaymi and the Replacables and all your most altruistic neighbors at a Benefit for Mike Kress—a native Missoulian, hardened skier and long-time public servant—from 4–9 PM at Sean Kelly’s, where a raffle includes prizes like a Las Vegas vacation, gasoline, jewelry, dinners and the like, while live and silent auctions offer an elk hunt, a float trip, a rustic cabin trip, concert tickets and more. $5 admission/$2 raffle tickets, or six for $10. Call 258-3795.

If jazz dancing is a little too city for you, then hit the Kalispell Country Clogger classes at the downtown Kalispell Eagles Hall at 5:30 PM. Call 250-6965 or 885-2262.

nightlife The Benefit for Mike Kress continues as Tom Catmull busts out a solo set or two at Sean Kelly’s at 7 PM. $5, and all sorts of raffle prizes and auction items await. Call 542-1471.

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 at 7 PM, live jazz by the Front Street Jazz Group and DJ Mermaid at 7:30 and a rotating cast of bands thereafter. Free.

The weekend isn’t over until you wrap it up with Jam Night at the Finish Line, 153 Meridian Road in Kalispell, where Landslide hosts at 8 PM. Free. Call 257-0248.

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-forfun Euchre Tournament at 8 PM. Free.

Hear ye, hear ye: AmVets Club offers a new spin on karaoke night, and it’s known as “Jheryoake.” Delve into the mystery at 9 PM, when Happy Hour gets the crowd loose until 10.

Free.

Hate smoky pool halls? No sweat— and no smoke: Head underground when The Palace Lounge, 147 W. Broadway, features a rotating cast of Random Rock DJs at 9 PM every Sun. Free.

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The mixed-media exhibit My Montana opens at Northwest Healthcare, 310 Sunnyview Lane in Kalispell, and remains up for your

viewing pleasure in the cafeteria and Brendan House hallways through Nov. 2. Free. Call 253-1778.

You’ve but a few short weeks before the registration deadline for Y Music Summer Camps, so unless you want to continue to raise that brood of tonally impeded offspring, get in touch with the good folks at the Y. Prices vary, so call 721-YMCA or visit ymcamissoula.org.

In exactly three weeks, session one o f M C AT ’ s o n e - w e e k M o v i e Making Camp begins at 1:15 PM and offers your youngster aged 9–13 the chance to become a bigtime Hollywood hot shot, or at least to polish up a slick video for the public screening at the end. $85. Call 542-6228 or visit mcat.org.

Two sessions of the popular World Rhythm Youth Hand Drumming Class take place at the Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W. every Mon.: At 4:30 PM, kids aged 5–7 can get their grooves on, and a class for those 8 and above begins at 5:15. $30 per month/drum rental: $15 per month. RSVP 396-3352 or visit tangledtones.com.

Beginning World Fusion Bellydance takes place every Mon. at 5:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. Beginners are more than welcome. $7. Call 531-3000.

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

nightlife Mr. Pibb, hit the road! Mountain Dew, here’s your pink slip! Refine your Soda Firing technique every Mon. at 6 PM through July 2 at the Clay Studio, 1106-A Hawthorne St. $200/eight-week session. Call 543-0509.

Increase your digital proficiency to at least second grade level every Mon. at 6 PM when the Missoula Public Library presents an ongoing series of Computer Classes in the classroom near Web Alley. Free. Call 721-2665.

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

The crowd’ll be so stunned you’ll be able to hear a cork pop when the Acousticals play the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave., at 7 PM. Free. Call 549-2906.

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

There’s a meditation group at Osel Shen Phen Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center, 441 Woodworth Ave., where sadhana practice, visualization and mantra recitation cleanse the doors of perception at 7 PM. Call 543-2207.

In case of emergency, break finger puppet: Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like stories, fingerplays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 7 PM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Experience momentum, balance, and timing tuned with a strong drummer-dancer connection every Mon. at 7:30 PM with West African Sabar dance class at the Teranga Arts School, 2926 S. T h i r d S t . W. , a c r o s s f r o m Hawthorne Elementary. $10. Call 721-3854 and drum up directions at terangaarts.googlepages.com.

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

Unite the clans with Geneva Bybee, w h o p r e s e n t s Tr i b a l F u s i o n Bellydance at 8 PM every Mon. and Wed. at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 5417240 for pricing.

For once in your life, leave the bar with a slightly thicker wallet with DJ Hickey’s Rawk and Roll Bingo Night every Mon. from 8:30 PM until midnight at the Badlander. $1 per

card, and the opening round’s always free.

Start down the path that ends in a Las Vegas dressing room every Mon. at 8:30 PM when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., presents Show Girl 101. Call 5417240 for pricing.

The Milkcrate Mechanic keeps the groove fine tuned when he presents random music for random people, featuring rotating DJs and acts, free pool and mad krunk every Mon. at 9 PM at the Palace Lounge. Free.

Bring your music appreciation glands to Sean Kelly’s open mic night, hosted by Mike Avery at 9:30 PM, and you’ll soon find yourself surrounded by the finest musical acts on the planet. Free.

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Bend, stretch and play every Tue. and Thu. at Happy Mama, 736A S. First St. W., where Yoga for Everybody eases the suffering at 9:30 AM. $12 drop-in/$10 advance. Call 880-6883.

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

Still cruising around in diapers and suckling on breasts? Well, then, the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Historically speaking, Afghans have proven to be impossible to control, but you’ll have plenty of guidance when you join the group Knitting for Peace, which meets every Tue. from 11 AM–1 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-3955.

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.

Train your fingers to feel the difference between a “Q” and an “E” when you attend the Missoula Scrabble League’s weekly Scrabble meet at 6 PM in the boardroom of the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-0387.

I n te r m e d i a te G o t h i c Fu s i o n Bellydance takes place every Mon. at 6:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. Beginners are more than welcome. $7. Call 531-3000.

Get this: Every Mon., Lolo’s Square Dance Center, 9555 Highway 12, begins with beginners’ lessons at 6:30 PM and then moves into full square dance party mode at 8.

First two beginners’ sessions free/$4 thereafter. Call 273-0141.

Just outside Southgate Mall, Paxson St. Entrance, Off Brooks • 542-SEED Missoula Independent

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New moms discuss the ups and downs of motherhood when Families First presents another New Moms Support Group at 11 AM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-7690.

Toes will tap and fingers will snap (in the painless way) when the Rocky Mountain Rhythm Kings ride into Snappy Sport Senter, 1400 Hwy. 2 E., every Tue. at noon. Free, donation suggested. Call 257-7525.

Find strength and the will to fight at the Breast Cancer Support Group, which meets at noon each Tue. at St. Francis Xavier Church, 420 W. Pine St. Free.

The Shootin’ The Bull Toastmasters Club meets at noon at the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, 5705 Grant Creek Road. The first few are free. Call 529-5488.

For the latest Latin cardio dance craze, try a dose of Zumba every Tue. at noon at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

The dictionary defines “BOGO” as an acronym for “Buy One, Get One,” which means BOGO Pottery Tuesdays ease your entry into ceramics ownership from noon–6 PM every Tue. at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. Call 549-7555 or visit zootownarts.com.

If you can’t read this and you’re not interested in Tiny Tales, allow me to suggest the 3:30 PM informal English conversation group Talk Time, which is led by TEFL instructor Adam Hart and meets the first and third Tue. of the month at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-2665.

Missoula’s

FREE Summer Concert Series!

Thursdays Q 5:30-8:30 pm Q Caras Park Live Music, Food & Beer Garden Free Chair Massages and Family Activities!

June 4

June 11

Salsa Loca latin salsa

Family Activity:

Bitterroot Gymnastics

Joan Zen

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Mismo Gymnastics

Wednesdays Q 11 am-2 pm Q Caras Park June 3

June 10

Andrea Harsell Band

Zeppo MT

americana

rhythm & blues

Kids Activity:

Bitterroot Gymnastics

Kids Activity:

Childbloom Guitar Program

For more information, call the Missoula Downtown Association at 543.4238 www.missouladowntown.com

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

nightlife Every Tue. at 5:30 PM, Intermediate Bellydance/World Fusion meets at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave., but be warned that prior dance experience is recommended. $7. Call 531-3000.

Instructor Holly Jeremiassen teaches young people aged 10 and up the finer points of glass fusing every Tue. at 5:30 PM during Youth Glass Class at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. $15 per session. Call 549-7555 or visit zootownarts.com.

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.

Veterans can find support with trained facilitator Chris Poloynis every Tue. at 6 PM, when PTSD group Spartans Honour meets in room 109 at the Providence Center, 902 N. Orange St. Free. Call 327-7834.

Don’t it make your green grass blue?

The pickin’ circle begins at 6 PM, and house pickers Pinegrass play at 9:30 PM at the Top Hat. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865.

Get gooey during Open Instructed Studio at the Clay Studio, 1106-A Hawthorne St., every Tue. at 6 PM through June 30. $168/eight-week session. Call 543-0509.

The Missoula Art Museum presents the four-week course Figure Drawing for Adults at 6 PM, in which Bob Phinney and a slew of live models merge to introduce you to the basics of the form. $75/$67.50 members. Call 728-0447.

It’s a spicy good time when the Downtown Dance Collective’s Heather Adams presents beginning salsa dance lessons at 6 PM, followed by intermediate/advanced at 7, every Tue. at the Badlander. $5.

The YWCA of Missoula, 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.

Youth from around the globe rejoice as Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave., hosts a party for the unveiling of Aerie International, Issue 2, a collection of literary work from young people from across the planet, at 6:30 PM. The opportunity also arises to snatch up a copy of Aerie Big Sky, the Big Sky High School version of the idea. $12 Aerie International; $10 Aerie Big Sky; $20 both. Call 721-2881.

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

Experience cross-cultural experiences with native speakers during a session of Spanish lessons, which meet at 6:30 PM every Tue. and Thu. through July 2 at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. $200 per session.

RSVP espanolmt@gmail.com.

Stop playing games with yourself— Game Night featuring “mostly Scrabble” takes place at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Missoula, 102 McLeod Ave. 6:45 PM. Free.

In exactly one week, the YMCA unleashes a torrential outpouring of Summer Dance Classes, so get yourself signed up and do a bit of stretching in the meantime. Visit ymcamissoula.org, or call 721-YMCA. You’re invited by Turning the Wheel to take part in some BodyCentered Creative Expression to live music every Tue. at 7 PM. $5–10 donation. Call 543-4414 for location and more details.

Hey wrong-side-of-the-street-rider: You can learn to bike responsibly at Free Cycle’s Bike Well classes at 7 PM at 732 S. First St. W., where class also convenes on Wed. and Thu. Call 541-7284 for times.

You never know what you’ll find— except for probably a bunch of womyn—at Womyn’s Night at 7 PM at the Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center, 127 N. Higgins Ave., Suite 202. Free. Call 543-2224.

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? On Sat., May 23, in West Virginia, 17 people were arrested during three actions connected with Operation Appalachian Spring’s campaign to end the unconscionably destructive practice of mountaintop removal. Former West Virginia Congressman Ken Hechler, who’s 94 years old, took part in one protest at Massey Energy’s Marfork Coal facility, but police refused to arrest him. What was his statement on the issue? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

It’s still bigger than disco: The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., keeps on keepin’ it real every Tue. at 8 PM, when Hip Hop Class puts the “back” back in “back in the day.” Call 541-7240 for pricing.

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.

This one’s new, but you’ve heard something similar: A gathering of yet-to-be-specified local bands play the Badlander for your aural pleasure at 9 PM. Free.

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.

DJs Karl K, Dillon, Cosmic Diva, Timmie Irie, Tobin and Kris Moon play music for the irie-hearted every Tue. at 9 PM when Reggae Night overstands all your troubles at the Badlander. Free.

The moon’s always full and the pack’s always howlin’ at the Wolf Den’s Open Mic Night in Polson.

Free. 9 PM. Call 883-2054.

Forego the weekly shower and join Unwashed Promotions for live music and moist DJs Harvey and Heyska when Punk Rock Tuesday fumigates the Palace Lounge every Tue. at 9 PM. Free.

L.I.V. Karaoke night gives your larynx a weekly workout with a 9:30 PM sesh at the Elbow Room. Free.

Call 531-7800.

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Take a load off in the company of friends every Wed. from 9–11:30 AM as Aspen Hospice, 107 Bell Crossing West, hosts the Caregiver Coffeebreak. Free. Call 642-3010.

Join the Flathead Audubon Society’s Neal Brown for the two-hour jaunt Birds of the Wild Mile every Wed. through June at 9 AM at the trailhead of Bigfork’s Wild Mile Nature Trail. Free. Call 837-5018.

I was at Bernice’s once and overheard a UM student telling her mother, “We’re more about bears here in Missoula than buffalo.”

I took it as quite the blanket statement, and as someone who’s done my little bit for both the ursine and the bovine— apologies for the connection to domestic cattle—I take exception to that sentiment, and I hope you’ll do the same.

Your big chance comes this weekend, as the Seventh Generation Fund’s Tatanka Oyate Project, Horse Butte Neighbors of Buffalo and the Buffalo Field Campaign present a traditional Buffalo Honoring Ceremony led by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, 19th generation Keeper of the White Buffalo Calf Pipe. The event begins at 11 AM on Sun., May 31, on the lovely Horse Butte peninsula in the West Yellowstone area. A community potluck meal takes place following the ceremony, at roughly 3 PM in West Yellowstone’s Union Pacific Dining Hall. For directions and more information call 646-0070, or visit buffalofieldcampaign.org.

Another opportunity comes our way here in the northern lands, and this one’s got sustainability slathered all over it. An Earthship is a sturdy passive solar structure usually built from dirt-filled tires and other reused materials that regulate indoor temperature using the helpful properties of thermal mass and good ventilation. Earthship Biotecture of Taos, N.M., brings the technology up to Montana this summer, with a three-week Earthship Intern Opportunity that begins on Mon., July 27. The idea is to build a demonstration project to illustrate the Earthship concept, so all hands will certainly be needed on deck. If you’ve a hankering to help build the house of the future, visit earthship.org and get the registration started.

Finally, another summer opportunity comes your way along a slightly different channel. The Great Old Broads for Wilderness, a conservation-minded nonprofit that embraces the young and non-female

Adams Center parking lot for the Bandy Ranch Birding and Plant Field Trip. You’ll carpool up to the Ovando Valley, with a great number of stops for peeping the native flora and winged fauna. Call Larry at 549-5632.

And a nearby community cries out for the assistance of your lean ‘n’ mean body as the Evaro Mountain Challenge takes place on Sat., May 30, with registration beginning in the big tents near Highway 93’s mile marker 7. The 5K and 10K runs and walks are a fundraiser for the Evaro Community Center, so stretch those tendons, flex those muscles and plop down a little dough in the name of civic cohesion. Register at active.com (search for “Evaro Mountain Challenge”) or call Bob at 726-3595.

Those intrepid Missoulians on Bicycles (MOBI) have been preparing for this next one all spring, and while the registration deadline’s long past (it was May 22), an e-mail I just opened reports that they’ll still take late-comers, so: The Tour of the Swan River Valley (TOSRV) is a two-day, 220-mile supported ride that takes place on Sat., May 30, and Sun., May 31, and returns this year to its origins with an overnight stop on the shore of Swan Lake. The ride’s proceeds funnel back into local communities, and the TOSRV’s relaxed atmosphere means you’ll enjoy the company of fellow cyclists, as opposed to defending your ego against a field of competitors. Go on, it’ll be fun. Visit missoulabike.org either way, as volunteers are also still needed.

The Rocky Mountaineers wouldn’t be content letting this weekend pass by without offering you a doubleshot of their love: On Sun., May 31, you can tag along on a trip up the Rattlesnake’s Gold Creek peak (Call Steve at 721-4686), or bump it up a Photo by Chad Harder notch as you scale Holland Peak in the Swan rapped, “I can’t do nuttin’ for you, man.” I can, however, do sumpin’ Range (Contact info’s sketchy, so try jsch@vierbicher.com).

And last, but most certainly not least, we plunge a little bit into for you on Sat., May 30, when the kids-n-nature event “Got Birds?” features Lolo National Forest wildlife interpreter Sue June, as Bill McClaren of the Flathead Chapter of the Montana Reel and UM ornithologist Dick Hutto, and begins at 8:30 AM Native Plant Society presents a tour of the FVCC native plant at Jacob’s Island near the UM footbridge. It’s free, loaner binocs are garden at 7 PM on Wed., June 3. From there, the tour moves to the new gardens at the Museum at Central School. Call 257-2540. provided and you can call Sue at 329-3831.

And with that, I bid you to keep your feet in the duff and keep Oddly enough, this next event actually begins half an hour before the one above. On behalf of the Clark Fork Chapter of the Montana reaching for the chem-trails.

Native Plant Society and the Five Valleys Audubon Society, allow me to invite you to meet at 8 AM on Sat., May 30, in the UM calendar@missoulanews.com as well, host a four-day fundraising rafting trip on the Salmon River through the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness from July 23–28.

The $1,429 price tag per person should keep the riff raff off the river, and you can deduct $250 from next year’s taxes. Contact Mason at (208) 290-3737 or mason@raftkbear.com.

And we zero back in on the present day and the present locale, Missoula. Please take whatever outdoor recreation precautions you deem necessary on Thu. and Fri., for as Flavor Flav once

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

The Montana Museum of Art & Culture, housed within UM’s PARTV Center, presents the opening of the exhibit Hooked on Walter Hook, which features a retrospective of 30 years of the artist’s varied work, at 11 AM. The exhibit remains until July 18.

Call 243-2019.

Get your youngsters started on the path that leads to being able to program an iPod when the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., presents the early childhood literacy class Ready, Set, Read at 11 AM. $4.25/members free. Call 541-PLAY. Your weekly lunch date with, well, everyone comes at 11 AM as Caras Park transforms with Out to Lunch, which features food vendors, kids’ activities by Bitterroot Gymnastics and music by the Andrea Harsell Band. Free. Call 543-4238.

Increase your digital proficiency to at least second grade level every Wed. at 12:30 PM when the Missoula Public Library presents an ongoing series of Computer Classes in the classroom near Web Alley. Free. Call 721-2665.

As our local air regulations are on the verge of changing, the Missoula City-County Health Department is holding an Open House—note: not a public hearing, as that takes place June 18—from 4–7 PM in Room 331 of UM’s University Center. Call 258-4755.

nightlife An overview on the revolutionary healthcare system is followed by hands-on sample sessions when a BodyTalk Public Presentation goes down at 6 PM in the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 370-8170.

Parents interested in an alternative to raising their children in the company of wolves can attend an Open House at Garden City Montessori, 3035 S. Russell St., from 6–8 PM. Free. Call 240-0290.

How do you spell relief? It doesn’t so much matter, as that’ll be entirely beside the point when the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W., offers an Intro to Relief Printing Class at 6 PM. $5.

RSVP 549-7555.

SPOTLIGHT fill ’er up

Combine a relaxed and supportive atmosphere with live models in their birthday suits—18 and over only, please—and you’ve got the Missoula Art Museum’s Hump Day Figure Drawing group every Wed. from 6–8 PM. $7/$5 members. Call 728-0447.

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

Free. Call 728-9117.

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

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

Free. Call 755-9463.

Photo courtesy of Lindsey Gardner

What is it that draws crowds to building demolitions? Can it be called beauty, or it is simply fascination with smashing destruction?

Before the building was there, an empty field stared up at the sky, and once the final block falls, the empty space prevails once more.

When Jes Mullette and Anya Cloud spent last January in Massachusetts with Nancy Stark Smith, one of the founders of Contact Improvisation, they studied empty space as a fundamental element of dance. As Mullette explains, “It’s about allowing yourself to be open to whatever possibilities will come.” Sound advice for both audience and cast this Saturday evening.

WHAT: Starting Empty WHO: Wrecking Ball Dance Company WHEN: Sat., May 30, 8 PM WHERE: Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. HOW MUCH: $7/$12 couples

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The Wrecking Ball Dance Company—named by an enthusiastic audience member in February—invites you to check preconception at the Crystal Theatre’s door. “Our work has a tendency to be a little bit of a blast on stage,” says Mullette. “There’s always a little bit of a pause before the audience starts to clap. You can kind of tell that people are getting their breath a little bit. It’s unexpected, and it’s sort of like a bulldozer.”

Th e h o u r - l o n g - i s h p r o d u c t i o n c e n t e r s around one theme, exploring the space, and includes surprises for everyone, as the lighting director, the musicians and the dancers themselves embrace spontaneity. “We’re wanting to surprise ourselves as much as we want to surprise the audience,” says Mullette, “though it’s more choreographed than what we generally do.”

As the duo gives the laws of physics a hearty swat on the tuchus, an open mind is free to revel in the possibilities that spring forth from emptiness’ wreckage.

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—Jonas Ehudin

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

A revolving cast of local singers and musicians makes up the band Katy and Friends, who do the rocking every Wed. at 6:30 PM at the Cottage Inn in Kila. Free. Call 755-8711.

Prepare yourself for the hard times ahead with the five-week Y Music Class: Songs of the Great Depression, led by Nate Biehl, which begins at 7 PM at the YMCA of Missoula. $40/$32 members. Call 721-YMCA, or visit ymcamissoula.org.

Humans aged 13–18 can polish their screaming voices for the next parental conflict with the five-week Y Music Class: Singing Technique for Teens, which is led by Angela Anderson and begins at 7 PM at the YMCA of Missoula. $40/$32 members. Call 721-YMCA, or visit ymcamissoula.org.

Learn to mystify and entrance by wiggling those hips every Wed. during a Hula/Tahitian Dance Class at the Belly Tent Dance Studio,

2016 Strand Ave., where you can learn beautiful and energetic rhythms at 7 PM. Call Kelli Neumeyer at 531-2482.

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.

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

If you know the difference between His Knobs and His Knees, bring that skill to the Joker’s Wild Casino, 4829 N. Reserve St., where the Missoula Grass Roots Cribbage Club invites players both new and old to see how many ways they can get to that magical number 15 at 7 PM. Free. Call Rex at 360-3333.

The green rain-swollen grass takes on an indigo hue when Austin, Texas send bluegrass with love by Sunset, who play the Badlander with local support from Cottonwood Draw and Greenhouse Effect at 9 PM. $5.

The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, maintains a healthy balance every Wed., when Ladies’ Night features Guitar Hero contests and kicks off at 9 PM. Free, unless you buy something. Call 363-6969.

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 here’s-a-role-model-forAmerica’s-seniors trivia question: 94-year old former West Virginia Congressman Ken Hechler was present during last week’s protests against mountaintop removal, and had this to say on the matter: “The governors of West Virginia always call me an environmental extremist. You’ve got to be an extremist in order to achieve things.

You’ve got to be ready to make enemies in order to accomplish something. And it’s absolutely necessary that the people here today continue to demonstrate against this highly destructive practice.”

Hate smoky pool halls? No sweat— and no smoke—but plenty of girl power: Head underground at 9 PM every Wed. when The Palace, 147 W. Broadway, presents Ladies’ DJ Night. Free.

Spit the gorf out of your taorht with Bassackwards Karaoke every Wed. at 9 PM at Deano’s Casino on North Reserve Street. Free. Call 531-8327.

This Missoula legend has nothing to do with ground beef: Wasted Wednesday at the Top Hat offers unlimited tap beer and M-Group at 10 PM and the wisdom you’ll gain is worth the $7 cover many times over.

Call 728-9865.

Longevity is the man’s secret weapon: DJ Dubwise spins mad flava all over the ladies’ drink specials starting at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free.

Call 728-8799.

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Thus begins the Missoula Healthy Indian Families Consortium’s twoday “Breaking the Cycle of Violence, Restoring the Circle of Care” Training Conference: Walking Together—The Path Of Traditional Healing, with sessions beginning at 8:30 AM at the Holiday Inn-Downtown at the Park. $60/$35 per day, lunch provided. Visit mhifc.org, or call 251-4449.

Explore movement as an avenue for deeper self-understanding every Thu. at 9 AM when Hillary Funk Welzenbach hosts an Authentic Movement Group at Teranga Arts School, 2926 S. Third St. W. $25/session. RSVP 541-2662.

If you can’t read this, you may be a baby below the age of 36 months, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Your youngling who’s not seen three years is invited for an hour of songs, rhymes, body games, storytelling and more during WORD’s Toddlers, Babies and Books at 11 AM every first and third Thu. of the month, where the snack’s always free. And so is the program. Call 543-3550, ext. 255.

Try a high energy, low impact workout on for size every Thu. at noon at the Downtown Dance Collective, where African Boogie gets you sweating with the basic body forms found in African dance. Call 5417240 for pricing.

Pretend that’s Patrick Swayze breathing down your neck during Open Instructed Studio at the Clay Studio, 1106-A Hawthorne St., every Thu. at 1 PM through July 2. $ 16 8 / e i g h t - w e e k s e s s i o n . C a l l 543-0509.

School’s out early, which means it’s time for the Teen Zine Club, which meets every Thu. at 2:30 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First Ave. W., for the continuing adventures of the selfpublishing and somewhat famous. $10 per month. Call 239-7718 or email info@slumgullion.org.

The Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., enlightens your pack of feral spawn as the Watershed Education Network makes a special visit during World of Wonders at 3 PM. $4.25/Free for members. Call 541-7529.

If your toddler’s movement seems kind of, well, stale, bring them to Creative Movement Class every Thu. at 3:15 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

If art loses hands-down to video games, then the Missoula Public Library’s your gig, where Game On! invites teen gamers to play on the big screen and mow snacks at 3:30 PM. Free. Call 721-BOOK. As our local air regulations are on the verge of changing, the Missoula City-County Health Department is holding an Open House—note: not a public hearing, as that takes place June 18—from 4–7 PM in the Lolo Community Center. Call 258-4755.

Even those without a bun in the oven will benefit when the Happy Mama Prenatal Center, 736 S. First St. W., presents a low-impact Community Yoga Class every Thu. at 4:15 PM. $5 suggested donation.

nightlife It’s time for dinner and a show with several hundred friends as Caras Park hosts this week’s Downtown ToNight at 5:30 PM, a celebration with food vendors, kids’ activities

by Bitterroot Gymnastics and music by Salsa Loca. Free. Call 543-4238.

All genres are encouraged—excepting, perhaps, death metal—every

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

Father and son team Daryl and Sam Forslund bust out some authentic Chicago-style bus stop blues as Sour D and the Pipecleaner play Hamilton’s Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St., at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

When you blend optical pleasure with frozen cow emissions, you’ve got the 14th annual Spring Show of Student Artwork and Ice Cream Social at Whitefish’s Stumptown Art Studio, 145 Central Ave., which begins at 6 PM and includes drawings, paintings, collage, printmaking, pottery and sculpture. Free. Call 862-5929 or visit stumptownartstudio.org.

They’ve set the precedent for preemptive art: First Thursday comes alive at Whitefish’s Walking Man Frame Shop & Gallery, where the exhibit Animals, Vegetables, & ... Horns features watercolor work by Judy Cockrell from 6–9 PM. Free. Call 863-ARTS or visit whitefishgallerynights.org.

Beginning Pottery at The Clay Studio, 1106-A Hawthorne St., is your shot to make something big and beautiful every Thu. at 6 PM through July 23. $168/eight-week class. Call 543-0509.

Free., and childcare is available. RSVP 543-3550, ext. 255.

with rock, indie, krunk, pop and more at 9 PM. $2.

YMusic presents a concert by the exuberant Missoula Coyote Choir, which welcomes another youth choir, the Meadowlark Singers, to join them on stage in their first public appearance at 7 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts. $10.

Call 721-YMCA.

Join the ranks of the Missoula Metal Militia, led by the DJs Hot Pocket and Uranus, at the Palace Lounge at 9 PM. $3.

Come to The Cottage Inn in Kila for a 7 PM Irish jam session and stay for the weekly cribbage tournament at the world famous home of “Turbo Crib.” Free. Call 755-4572.

If your normal swing spot’s become jam-packed with losers, head to the Eagle’s Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., where swing lessons begin every Thu. at 7 PM and the dance party gets going in earnest at 8. $5.

Bring your axe—or banjer for you backwoods types—and reminisce about music’s goodle days at the weekly Old Timey Music Sessions at Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., every Thu. at 7:30 PM. Free. Call 726-3765 or 880-6834.

The real hip hop is over here: The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., gives you something to pop and lock about every Tue. at 8 PM during Hip Hop Class. Call 5417240 for pricing.

Bring your instruments of entertainment, but leave the drum kits at home, as Polson’s East Shore Smoke House, half a mile north of the Finley Point turnoff on Highway 35, hosts a weekly “semi-unplugged” Blues Jam from 8–11 PM. Free. Call 887-2096.

The valley’s haven for year-round thrashers, Fiftytwo Skatepark, on El Way past the Missoula Airport, hosts Girls’ Skate Club Night every Thu. at 6 PM, which means girls skate for free. Guys are welcome, but should plan on parting with a few bucks. Call 542-6383.

If you believe the message hidden in my Greek coffee grounds, then you better believe Acshin Slaxx plays Lolo Hot Springs with Bozeman’s Archers Mob at 9 PM. Cover TBA. Call 570-5553.

Learn how to support your child’s transition into kindergarten w i t h WO R D ’ s f i v e - w e e k s e r i e s “ Th e A B C ’ s o f K i n d e r g a r te n Readiness,” which begins at 6:30 PM every Thu. through June 11.

The heavens open, the price of well drinks plummets and a tsunami of pure unabashed booty dancing hails your arrival every Thu. at t h e B a d l a n d e r, w h e r e D e a d Hipster DJ Night rewards you

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

Missoula’s most ballady balladeer, Russ Nasset, graciously picks up a gig at the Old Post Pub, playing every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free.

Landslide hosts open mic night at the Bandit Saloon in Columbia Falls every Thu. and Tue. night, starting at 9 PM. Free.

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

Before they melt into the scene at this weekend’s Love Yer Mother Earth Festival at Lolo Hot Springs, the funky Holden Young Trio warms up a bit at 10 PM at the Top Hat. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865.

You never fail to disappoint me, Missoula. No, wait, that came out wrong. What I meant to say was that with the mass emigration of roughly one-sixth of our population, I would have expected the week’s calendar to read like a short shopping list. Anyway, there’s so much more to do this week than I can even wrap my head around; it’s totally great. Do I sound like I’m cheerleading too much? I’m just very excited, that’s all. Until next week, you be as classy as you wanna be, and remember: Send your event info by 5 PM on Fri., May 29, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Comrade Calendar c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367. And for Peet’s sake, don’t submit events through our website. Just don’t do it.

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This is a tribute…

The Fidgets hone the art of the non-ironic cover song

by Erika Fredrickson

The first time I saw The Fidgets they were playing to a crowd of 15 at the Badlander and wearing Daisy Dukes. The local trio stood at the edge of the stage, Tyson Roth and Ricky Drake clutching acoustic guitars and Travis Yost with a snare drum strapped around his chest like a drummer boy. With striking confidence and clean execution they belted out one cover after the other: Motorhead’s “Ace of Spades,” Van Halen’s “Panama,” Lucinda Williams’ “Essence” and the Ghostbusters theme song. They mixed in a few other obscure covers as well as a few originals written

by Drake, including “Six String Baby” and “Hey.” But the covers resonated. Maybe it was because each member took turns scatting the guitar solo in “Ace of Spades,” turning it from a gritty biker anthem to a jollier, more hilarious rendition. Or maybe it was because they didn’t try to emulate Lucinda Williams, but played “Essence” with feeling and made it their own.

“It’s a weird art playing cover songs,” says Yost.

“We decided to do the non-ironic cover. We play each

musicians by playing together in two other bands, Catrabbit and the Trillionaires (with Larry Hirshberg).

And Yost is probably best known as the drummer for local Americana favorites Tom Catmull and the Clerics.

“All I ever did was sit around with the Clerics and say, ‘This [cover] band sucks, that band sucks.

Original music is the only way to go,’” says Yost. “And every time Tom Catmull will go, ‘What do you do in The Fidgets then?’”

To make themselves not just another cover band playing “Brown-Eyed Girl,” the group found ways to make playing covers creative and challenging. They set a goal of learning at least one new song an hour before their shows. They started playing classic favorites then added more B-sides.

“I like the idea of coming up with some obscure covers that if you weren’t a really huge music fan of all genres you might attribute to being an original,” says Roth.

The Fidgets have also learned the trick of drawing

Yost has a particular reputation for bantering with and loudly chiding the audience.

“On stage I feel so cynical and entitled to an audience,” he laughs. “I’m all like, ‘Look. Look at me!

Look at the show. We worked for an hour on this. You paid five dollars. Get over here!’”

Drake adds, “I like when you single someone out who looks like they’re sneaking out and you yell, ‘Unacceptable!’”

With a cover band, too, it’s harder to pedal merch without it coming off a bit cheesy. The Fidgets remedied that awkward situation by having a merch box full of things like Kleenex, candy bars, umbrellas, potato chips and socks (they’ve sold three pairs).

They picked up the idea inspired by another local band, Bacon & Egg, who once sold silverware and other “bling” spray painted gold.

The last lesson learned for being in a cover band is, obviously, not to take things too seriously. The Fidgets say there isn’t a song in the world they’d be too embarrassed to cover. And, at a show, if they miss

Photo by Chad Harder

Local cover band The Fidgets comprise, from left, Tyson Roth, Travis Yost and Ricky Drake. “We play ‘Ghostbusters’ as if this song kicks so much ass,” explains Yost, “like, ‘The first time I listened to that song I cried, I got my period, we have to play that song now!’”

song as if it’s the greatest song in history. We play ‘Ghostbusters’ as if this song kicks so much ass, like, ‘The first time I listened to that song I cried, I got my period, we have to play that song now!’ That kind of feeling.”

It’s really all Bon Jovi’s fault. When The Fidgets formed in June 2008 they didn’t consider themselves a cover band. But during their first few shows, they played “Wanted Dead or Alive” reggae-style, and the audience loved it.

“That song lived because during those first shows we played half originals, half covers,” says Yost. “But the audience only gave a shit about Bon Jovi. And that was it. We were like, ‘Oh no!’”

So The Fidgets did the only thing they could do: They embraced their cover band status.

How do you become a cover band and still keep your street cred? That was the trio’s dilemma. After all, they had already proven themselves to be legitimate

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in a crowd with classic covers and then blindsiding them with one of Drake’s originals. The ploy works, too. Drake’s “Six String Baby” and “Douchebags We Hate” are as catchy as any cover, but when those songs follow Cher’s “Believe” or a Beatles medley, the audience is already paying more attention than they might with a band playing all originals.

The Fidgets also say that a good cover band should have strong stage presence. Every show they wear a different costume. They have themes for their stage banter and entertain themselves by ribbing the audience.

When they cover Led Zeppelin songs, for instance, they introduce it as a band they found on MySpace. “We’ll be like, ‘You really need to check these guys out,’” says Yost. “And nine times out of 10 I get two people coming up to me after the show going, ‘What was that band again? Led Zeppelin?

Where are they from?’”

a note or three, or Yost forgets the lyrics (which he claims to do often), it’s no big deal.

This week marks The Fidgets’ last show for a while since Roth is moving to Bozeman to do a Knowles course. But the band says they’re not ready to give up on fine-tuning the cover band niche.

“You can’t make it famous this way…but I do think in a local sense I want to be the greatest cover band there ever is,” Yost says. “I love the fact that we’re going to learn to play Rod Stewart tonight—and I hate that song. I hate ‘Do Ya Think I’m Sexy.’ But when I listen to it and I think of the three of us up there covering it, it’s perfect.”

The Fidgets play the Badlander Friday, May 29, at 9 PM, with Pluto’s a Planet and The Racquet. $5. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Patty Larkin Watch the Sky Vanguard

Patty Larkin is often dubbed “a musicians’ musician,” and her creative prowess has earned her a place among top guitarists and songsters.

But, while esoteric musical savvy sometimes renders music unlistenable, that’s not the case with Larkin’s 11th release, Watch the Sky. It’s not an album that grabs you on the first go.

In fact, a cursory listen reveals a dozen rather incongruous songs, all unmistakably Larkin, but also bearing echoes of everyone from Paul Simon to Joni

Sunset

The Glowing City Autobus Records

The Glowing City is an album with minor real estate problems. The streets are lined with hot-ticket houses, but the attics are dusty. One broom to the cobwebs and it could be a fine ambassador for Texas alt rock.

Bill Baird clearly learned a thing or two opening for Arcade Fire with Sound Team in the early aughts.

Sadly, one of the lessons Sunset struggles with is rhythm. The Glowing City occasionally fumbles as far as tempo, little hiccups Sunset manages to overcome as the album progresses.

Like any up-and-coming neighborhood, there are a few solid investments here. “When Perfect Flames Expire” stands out as a fine example of the

Johnny Rawls Red Cadillac

Deep South Soul Records

Few blues records go down any way but smooth. Perhaps they simply cater to the persistently needy set in our emotional arsenal. But the danger blues musicians confront is becoming another face in the crowd, and it’s a danger Johnny Rawls sidesteps with practiced and soulful grace.

Red Cadillac will take you back to the timeless decades of Motown, when the less innocent lyrical stories were at least thinly and tastefully veiled by a catchy bass line and muted brass. There’s no mystery in “Can I Get It,” but the way Rawls’ apple-but-

Various Artists We Hail From the Mountains Sigil Records

We Hail From the Mountains—a compilation of mostly Missoula bands—brings back memories of mixed tape parties and warehouse rock shows. It has an adventurous, lo-fi edge best suited for stirring up trouble rather than sitting obediently at home. The tracks fluctuate in production values—often a feature of mixed tapes—but not enough to be distracting. Some tracks sound like live basement recordings, distant but clear enough to engage in.

Bridgebuilder’s “The Lure of Light” feels like it’s falling apart at the seams in a deliciously dangerous manner. Shotgun Moses’ “Sammy Skunk Says”

Mitchell, Macy Gray to Gillian Welch. Ultimately, it’s this variety that makes the album so charming.

Larkin adroitly wrote, recorded and produced the whole thing in relative solitude (including all instrumentals and vocals), and the resultant onewoman-show is a welcome departure from the hyper-produced pop folk that has become so common. Certainly a few songs, such as “Hallelujah,” are radio-ready and catchy, but others, like the Easterninfluenced “Phone Message” or Ani Difranco-esque “Beautiful,” are just a little too weird ever to be mainstream. That’s a good thing.

With luscious vocals winding sinuously through ethereal dance beats, bouzoukis and reverb-laden steel guitar, this album is full of surprises and risks, most of which work. (Melissa Mylchreest) Patty Larkin plays the Masquer Theatre Thursday, May 28, at 8 PM. $20/$18 advance. band getting better as its tone grows darker. And the bright “Dear Friend” sees Sunset rally like the Minnesota Twins in every other eighth inning. The latter features the album’s prime estate in the form of fleeting klezmer segments, a bold tip of the yarmulke to the likes of John Zorn.

The Glowing City could do with some downsizing, coming in at a whopping 79 minutes. But like any budding side project, it’s a fixer-upper worth throwing some money at. (Alex Sakariassen) Sunset plays the Badlander Wednesday, June 3, at 9 PM, with Cottonwood Draw and Greenhouse Effect. $5. ter voice croons “If you got the time/I got the money/come on baby/let me taste that honey” leaves more to the imagination than contemporaries in other genres.

Rawls, born in 1951, clearly grew up in this era of musical lingerie. His Southern roots place him in the middle of the action, and his styling is a bit of the old with a bit of the new. The blues might be timeless, but with hits like “Hard Times,” Rawls draws on the catalysts of today. “Gas gone up/don’t know what to do/my woman is bussing/and my kids are crying too.”

In a somewhat surprising twist, however, Rawls offers up threads of hope in Red Cadillac’s bluesy weave. “Live your life/one day at a time/you don’t know what’s/waiting down the line.” No doubt a lesson worth heeding. (Alex Sakariassen) Johnny Rawls plays Sean Kelly’s Saturday, May 30, at 9 PM. Cover TBA. sculpts sludgy punk rock goodness and Electric Dandelion plays “Black Feather” like a rock band that has been living in the mountains for a long, lonely time. Kick Thine Ass Joseph and the Bleeding Thumb Brigade gets the prize for best band name, but the one-man project also delivers a fascinating sound: weird like Dr. Demento but with a less innocuous, more devilish tone.

By the end, with 11:11’s ethereal “Aurora” and Spirit Ditch’s gravelly and twangy “Distance Traveled,” it’s easy to see that in all its cavernous chords, rays of melody and animalistic riffs that this album is, strangely enough, exactly what it sounds like to hail from the mountains. (Erika Fredrickson)

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Issues, not people, drive Ailanthus Park

by Azita Osanloo

The star of Missoula author Marina Snow’s new Redevelopment Agency, the city organization dedinovel, Ailanthus Park, is not so much the novel’s cated to “fixing up” the community by building a protagonist, as it is the historic neighborhood in park in the middle of the neighborhood. This measSacramento the protagonist has moved to in the ure is hotly debated between the city official, Elmer novel’s opening.

Frye, and the city’s Parks Superintendent, Hank Virtually from the moment Claire settles into the Forrester. We know whose side we’re supposed to renovated Victorian home she inherited from her be on simply by Snow’s character descriptions. aunt, she gets caught up in the tensions between “[Elmer] had a paunch that jiggled when he moved, rivaling factions in her neighborhood: those hoping and he carried a clipboard with a pen dangling by a to restore and develop the area, those seeking to chain.” Meanwhile, “[Hank] was ruggedly goodbuild low rent housing for the looking and seemed friendly lower-income bracket, and city and personable...” Hank, who developers who want to create will soon become Claire’s a park in the middle of the love interest, maintains that neighborhood. such a park will attract ne’erAt the core of Snow’s do-wells: “Use your head, novel is the subject of urban Frye. You know you’re too renewal—and all the bureauclose to the Mission and the cratic nightmares and competSalvation Army soup kitchens ing agendas that go with that to put in a park here. process. But from a storyGentrification and hobos telling viewpoint, Snow chaldon’t mix. You’re asking for lenges traditional expectations trouble big-time.” readers tend to have for a It’s in these discussions, work of fiction: Who’s the prowhere Snow highlights the tagonist? What are the desires complex issues of urban redeand fears that compel him or velopment, that the novel is at her toward something dreadits best. While Claire is cerful, euphoric, etc.? Those tainly on the side of “the genexpectations are, roughly, try,” and though Elmer Frye is what Milan Kundera once Ailanthus Park beset with that belly and selfcalled the “enigma of the self ” Marina Snow important clipboard, Snow and the “fundamental ques- hardcover, Lost Coast Press manages to convey most sides tions on which the novel, as 265 pages, $19.95 without ever really criminaliznovel, is based.” While urban ing any one point of view. But renewal is a compelling and certainly timely issue even at its best, the novel lacks a certain intensity. As (especially in ever-growing communities, like timely and important as these issues are, chapters Missoula), it tends to overshadow other elements, detailing neighborhood council meetings are, well, a particularly that of character, prompting the ques- little dull. tion of whether or not the novel is really the right You’d think the emotional core of the novel form to highlight urban planning issues. would be the process by which Claire moves on with This is not to say Snow’s novel is devoid of the her life after such tragic deaths and, indeed, this is a human element. It’s not. It’s the summer of 1983 large part of the novel. However, it’s a process that (Cher fans will enjoy the scene where characters talk happens so seamlessly as to be both a little unbeabout the controversial “nuke flick,” Silkwood) and lievable and a touch vapid. Claire makes new friends Claire not only moves into the house her late aunt easily, moves forward with the bookstore easily, left to her, but she also plans to take over Aunt meets and falls for Hank easily and Hank falls easily Lydia’s bookstore in downtown Sacramento. Aunt for her—at exactly the same moment, no less, and Lydia died in a car accident and, perhaps even more with an intensity that is exactly equal to hers for him. devastating, Claire’s husband was killed in the same All their friends are happy for Hank and Claire. crash. Having lost both her beloved husband and her Certainly, all this seamlessness was a deliberate favorite aunt, Claire moves to Sacramento to rebuild choice. The movement in this novel doesn’t come her life. from the nuances in the life of the main character, What she finds when she gets there is a neigh- but from the debates within her community. borhood populated with pimps and hookers, a By virtually exchanging the notion of the charachandful of old Victorian “rehabbed” homes, whose ter-driven novel (a notion that has dominated modowners, like Claire herself, are dedicated to restoring ern literature since, perhaps, Cervantes) with one the neighborhood and a neighborhood council con- that promotes community before self, Snow has trolled by a group of Mexican immigrants who arguably made a courageous decision. It’s a deciwouldn’t mind seeing the Victorian homes torn sion, though, that ultimately undermines. In down in favor of low-rent housing. Primarily, it’s this Ailanthus Park character gets second billing to group that accuse the “rehabbers” of gentrification, neighborhood politics, and the result is a diluted of effectively wanting to push out the needy. Amid novel. these vying factions is a local dairy whose noisy arts@missoulanews.com trucks disrupt everyone. There’s also the Urban

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Back to the future I’m always psyched to see a new Terminator even in this future it hasn’t been invented yet. Which movie. Just for starters, the theme of humanity bat- isn’t to say it’s not happening, again, somewhere in tling robots for its survival is a corrective to all the the future: As always, characters in T4 have to work environmental “messages” encoded in movies these through the present-day ramifications of monkeying days, and to which sci-fi movies—those funhouse with events that haven’t happened yet. In bleak 2018, reflections of contemporary anxiety—are particularly when a mysterious wayfarer finds his way to human suggestible. There are, of course, worrisome implica- resistance leader John Connor, Connor must decide tions to artificial intelligence, too, but with all the whether this unique stranger has been sent from the other doomsday scenarios crowding the headlines future or somehow rescued from the past. the idea of humanity laid low by computers and On the whole, the Terminator franchise has robots seems determinedly retro and, perhaps for aged gracefully, despite or perhaps because of a that reason, extra-escapist. changing guard of directors and stars (creator James Plus, the Terminator saga is one of the few ongo- Cameron is nowhere near the new projects; even ing movie sagas I actually care about, one of the very The Arnold appears in T4, but fleetingly, his likeness few that hasn’t been ruined for me in one way or wholly artificial). It has cleverly provided for endless another, generally for reasons having something to do sequels through an accumulative, house-that-Jackwith technology. I still can’t believe how bad the new Star Wars movies stink, and I dare you to debate me on this. The tragedy of the Alien franchise is that the producers failed to grasp that the scariest thing about the alien was how you never got a really good look at it, and they failed to foresee that indiscriminate use of computer-generated imagery would rob it of its scary power after the first two movies.

That said, Terminator Salvation fell a little short of my Britney Spears reinvents herself with a Vegas floor show in expectations for reasons not Terminator Salvation. entirely its fault. Part of it is just where we are in the story. It got to the point of put up built causality requiring humans or cyborgs to be or shut up: After repeatedly invoking a post-apocalyp- dispatched through time, or not, to kill or rescue the tic future but showing very little of it, the Terminator humans or cyborgs sent through in a previous tale now unfolds in that oft-threatened future, and in movie. At a time when most multiplex movies are doing so loses some of the tension arising, in the first basically one big CGI sequence—just as lifelike and three pictures, from opposing agents of this up-in-the- with just as little creative result as the Sprite comair future duking it out in a sleepy, oblivious present. mercial before the movie—it’s still worth noting that Among the handful of surviving humans, it’s common the Terminator franchise has always had charm and knowledge what terminator robots are capable of, so novelty. From the Stan Winston stop-motion of the no comic-violent episodes of bikers and teen delin- original movie to the supercharged metallurgy of quents picking fights with the naked guy who, unbe- parts two and three, the terminators themselves knownst to them, is actually a killer robot from the have always been lively—last time around, even kind future, recently arrived in a big ball of lightning in the of freakishly sexy. Human-type cyborgs in T4 are parking lot. In recent installments, comic encounters effectively unimproved-on from previous movies, between superhuman cyborgs and eye-rubbing but there is a bewildering variety of new machines, bystanders have bordered on self-parody, but then, including “hydrobots” and colossi colossal enough this franchise has always been cheekily self-referential to unlimber pairs of full-size robotic motorcycles and there have been plenty of dryly funny moments from their shins. along the way as well. I love the scene in T3 where the Terminator Salvation retains many reassuring truck driver goes to help a woman who has just trademarks: skulls crushed underfoot, catchphrases emerged from a horrific traffic accident, but scampers cleverly recycled, the father-figure thing between off when he sees her roast a tree while testing her cyborgs and young boys, the iconic theme music that arm-mounted flamethrower. sounds like it was composed for the heavy door of a The suspense of T3 was heightened considerably walk-in cooler. But unlike, say, James Bond, the by the awareness that doomsday was, at long last, Terminator franchise seems content with what it is hours away rather than years. In T4, doomsday has and in no great hurry to change, and there’s somebeen and gone, and with it the uneasy relation thing to be said for that, despite the now just slightly between the present and the future that has powered diminishing returns. the story through three previous movies. The new Terminator Salvation continues at the movie is basically all battles, though this time on actu- Carmike 10 and Village 6. al full-scale battlefields instead of in malls crowded with unsuspecting shoppers. There’s no time travel— arts@missoulanews.com

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Note: Due to the Memorial Day holiday, updated movie information was not available for the Carmike 10 or the Village 6 before press time. Call 541-7469 for show times.

OPENING THIS WEEK Drag Me to Hell Alison Lohman is a bank loan officer who denies a mysterious old woman an extension on her home loan, which leads to the home’s foreclosure. Which leads to the mysterious old woman placing a curse on poor Alison.

Which leads to her seeking the help of a psychic to break the curse. Hopefully, the directing talents of Sam Raimi can prop up what appears to be an albatross of a plot. Rated PG-13. Most likely playing at the Carmike 10, and probably at the Village 6, but call 5417469 for the actual times. Also playing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Up Aging balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen takes his house on a helium-powered expedition to South America, only to discover he’s got a stowaway Cub Scout equivalent on board. Rated PG. Most likely playing at the Carmike 10, possibly in 3-D, and probably at the Village 6, but call 541-7469 for the actual times. Also playing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun.

ing over the years. When aliens attack the planet, there’s no better group to save it. Rated PG. Call 541-7469 for show times.

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian The first film shot inside Washington, D.C.’s Smithsonian Institution, this flick reunites hapless security guard Ben Stiller with reanimated figures from history, as well as a few new faces. Rated PG-13. Call 541-7469 for show times. Also play-

playing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 6:50 and 9:10 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. X-Men Origins: Wolverine He’s a quick healer with adamantium claws and a tendency to go berserk: Witness the tragic past and violent birth of Wolverine, and see several fabled mutants on screen for the first time. Rated PG-13. Call 541-7469 for show times. Also playing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 and 9

Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30 and at the Entertainer in Ronan at 4, 7 and 9:15.

Star Trek Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:40, 3:40, 4:40, 6:40, 8:40 and 9:40 with Fri.–Sun. shows at 12:40.

Terminator Salvation Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:05, 2:05, 3:05, 4:05, 5:05, 6:05, 7:05, 8:05, 9:05 and 9:40, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 12:05.

NOW PLAYING 17 Again Imagine you had the chance to be, um, 17 again and re-do your life, this time avoiding such pitfalls as marrying your pregnant high school girlfriend and tossing away a basketball scholarship. Now watch the film. Rated PG-13. Call 541-7469 for show times.

Angels & Demons Tom Hanks is back as crack symbologist Robert Langdon—the one who broke The Da Vinci Code—and now he’s caught between the Catholic Church, the Illuminati, a sexy co-star (Ayelet Zurer) and Ewan McGregor, who can’t use the Force this time. Moments later, the unlikely couple tenderly shared Rated PG-13. Call 541-7469 for show times.

Also playing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3. ing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 and 9 Dance Flick In this latest Wayans Brothers’ spoof, two young with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on dancers from opposite sides of the tracks fall in Sun. lust and compete in a hugely important competi- Paris 36 tion. Rated PG-13. Call 541-7469 for show times. It’s the spring of 1936 in a blue-collar Paris neighborhood, where three desperate and unemGhosts of Girlfriends Past In an extreme nod to A Christmas Carol, super ployed people squat the local theatre and stage ladies’ man Matthew McConaughey is haunted by the production that will finally put them on top in the ghosts of his exes in an attempt by his dead this intricately woven comedy. Rated PG-13. uncle to help him mend his playin’ ways and Showing nightly at the Wilma Theatre at 7 and shack up with the love of his life, Jennifer Garner. 9:10 with Sun. matinees at 1 and 3:10 and no 7 Rated PG-13. Call 541-7469 for show times. Also show on Fri. playing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 and 9 Star Trek with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Young dynamic duo James Kirk and Mr. Spock take the U.S.S. Enterprise and her crew out for Sun. their maiden voyage, as director J.J. Abrams Is Anybody There?

Michael Caine is a retired magician who comes to (“Lost”) boldly goes where no one’s gone before live at a rest home run by the parents of reclusive in remaking the 1979 film based on the ‘60s TV Bill Milner (Son of Rambow), which leads to an series. Rated PG-13. Call 541-7469 for show unlikely friendship and growth on everybody’s times. Also playing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton part. Rated PG-13. Showing nightly at the Wilma at 6:50 and 9:10 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 Theatre at 7 and 9 with Sun. matinees at 1 and 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Terminator Salvation and no 9 show on Fri. It’s 2018, Skynet has unleashed its Terminator Monsters Vs. Aliens 3D In DreamWorks’ latest animated 3D film, young robots upon humanity and John Connor Susan is transformed into a giant monster after (Christian Bale) must decide whether to trust a being struck by a meteor. She’s whisked away to really sketchy guy in this fourth installment of the a secret military location, where she meets other franchise, which is easily the third best so far... monstrous folk the government has been collect- Rated PG-13. Call 541-7469 for show times. Also

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with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun.

FLATHEAD SHOWTIMES Angels & Demons Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:20, 3:30, 6:40 and 9:35 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:20, 4:30 and 8:30. Also playing at the Mountain in Whitefish at 4:15, 6:50 and 9:30 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:45 and at the Showboat in Polson at 4, 6:50 and 9:30.

Dance Flick Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:10, 2:20, 4:30, 7:25 and 9:40 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:40, 4:20, 7:25 and 9:35.

Drag Me to Hell Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:35 and 10 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:25, 4, 7 and 9:25.

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:15, 2:25, 4:40, 7:20 and 9:55 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:50, 4:30, 7:20 and 9:55.

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:15, 2:30, 3:45, 5, 6:45, 7:30, 9:15 and 9:55, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at noon. Also playing at the Mountain in Whitefish at 4, 7 and 9:15 with

Also playing at the Mountain in Whitefish at 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:45.

Up 3D Showing Fri.–Sun. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at noon, 12:30, 2:20, 2:50, 4:40, 5:10, 7, 7:30, 9:20 and 9:50 and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 1:30, 3:30, 4:15, 6, 7, 8:30 and 9:30. Also playing, yet in regular old 2D, at the Mountain in Whitefish at 4, 7 and 9:15 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30 and at the Showboat in Polson at 4:15, 7 and 9.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:10, 4:10, 7:10 and 9:40.

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Theater phone numbers: Carmike 10/Village 6—541-7469; Wilma—728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton—961-FILM; Roxy Twin in Hamilton— 363-5141. Stadium 14 in Kalispell-—752-7804.

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Only one tiny complication: just not enough to stop spending it with the other guy.

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You’re still stuck on her because you’re focusing on how great it was with her instead of how great it wasn’t. She’s a package deal, and the moment she said, “Whoops, look at the time, gotta go home to my fiance,” it should have been clear she was a bad package. You do say you two had “chemistry” you “didn’t know was possible.” Well, good news! Now you know—which means you can seek it with somebody else; ideally, along with the empathy and ethics you took for granted. It’s gotta beat clinging to your fantasy of walking off into the sunset together— while doing everything in your power to drown out the likely reality: on either side of her husband’s wheelchair.

Trouble On The Verizon My boyfriend of five years calls his ex-wife regularly. He denied it, but I called her, and she admitted it, saying they’re just friends. I told him to choose between us, and he said he’s still going to talk to her. He says I’m overreacting, but his cell phone log says he’s the one initiating most of the calls, waiting till I go get groceries or whatever. I admit I’m a very jealous person, but I need to know if I’m overreacting.

—Heartbroken So, let’s see, you search through his stuff, interrogate his ex-wife, and tell him who he can and cannot talk to—all perfectly normal activities for anyone in a supervisory position in a federal prison. It seems he likes his ex-wife and gets something out of talking to her. Either he’s trustworthy or he isn’t. If you aren’t getting enough time and attention, that’s one thing. If this is just jealousy, your problem isn’t how much he’s calling her but how little you think of you.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A Florida woman, upset that her local McDonald’s had run out of Chicken McNuggets, phoned the 911 emergency service line for help. In an unrelated incident, a Florida man took the same action when Burger King told him it had no lemonade to sell him. I recommend that you not indulge in similar overreactions in the coming week, Leo. The Drama Queen or Drama King archetype is threatening to possess you, and I suspect you’ll have to act forcefully to keep it away. If you’re successful, you’ll be visited by a far more congenial archetype—the Social Butterfly. And that would prove to be amusing and productive.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Most of you Virgos have built-in safeguards that ensure you won’t abuse power. That’s why I feel uninhibited about advising you to grab all the new authority and influence you can get in the next few weeks. It’s one of those phases in your astrological cycle when you’re more likely to be in line for promotions, new privileges, and increased clout. I hope you won’t be shy. You may have to be uncharacteristically aggressive as you claim your rightful potency and rewards.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the coming days, the surprise and delight quotient will be way up. I bet you’ll be more prone than usual to uttering exclamations. There may also be a confounding “aha!” and a mind-wobbling “What the frack?!” mixed in there, although I think the emphasis will be on developments that educate and entertain you. Since you will probably be ushered in the direction of the frontier, I think you should find new ways to express your amazement. Instead of cliches like “Jesus H. Christ!” or “Holy crap!”, why not try something fresh, like the following: “Great Odin’s raven!”…”Radical lymphocytes!”…”Cackling whacks of jibber-jabber!”…”Frosty heat waves!”…”Panoramic serpentine.” Any other ideas?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): As I was driving out in the country, I spied a curious statement written in large crooked letters on a homemade sign: “I have seen the truth and it doesn’t make sense.” I’m guessing you might feel that way yourself right now, Scorpio.

You have summoned the courage to see the deeper reality beneath the official story, but that has made you more confused than you were when you only possessed a smattering of iffy facts. So you’re smarter and better informed, but are nonetheless feeling less secure. My advice: Don’t flee back into the fake comfort of comfy delusions. If you can maintain your poise in the face of the raging ambiguity, you will ultimately be rewarded with a big dose of cathartic clarity.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,” said Indian philosopher Nisargadatta Maharaj. “Love is knowing I am everything. And between the two my life moves.” According to my calculations, Sagittarius, you’ll be more on the “knowing you are everything” side of the polarity for the next few weeks. That’s because a flood is imminent. I expect you’ll be on the receiving end of a massive outreach from the universe—an influx of invitations, inquiries, and offers to make connection. You should also be prepared for the dizzying pleasure that comes from seeing how profoundly interlinked and interdependent you are.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): This is my pledge to you, Capricorn: I promise to use all my otherworldly connections to get your karmic debt reduced in the next few weeks.

In return, I ask that you make these pledges to me: You promise not to be a self-pitying martyr or a cranky beast of burden or a willing victim of rank manipulation. You agree not to just follow sloppy orders or passively capitulate as some bad guy with a nice smile tries to lower your standards. And finally, you swear to feed a really healthy desire that will ultimately help give your other desires more integrity and nobility.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “We all have a blind spot in love,” says astrologer Jessica Shepherd at moonkissed.com. “Never simple to figure out and even harder to see head on, our blind spot is as unique and complexly layered as we are.” But it’s not a hopeless cause, I would add. In fact, you may ultimately be able to discern the contours of your special ignorance about romance; you may find a way to fix the unconscious glitch that has undermined your quest for meaningful intimacy. How should you proceed? Well, you will need skillful ingenuity, a willingness to gaze upon a flustering truth about yourself, and maybe a little miraculous grace. And now here’s the very good news, Aquarius: It so happens that all these things are available to you right now.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s a ripe time to revise and rework your past, Pisces. I’ll trust you to make the ultimate determination about how best to do that, but here are some possibilities. 1. Revisit a memory that has haunted you, and do a ritual that resolves it and brings you peace. 2. Return to the scene of an awkward anomaly that remains unsettled, and finally do a duty you neglected. 3. Make your way back to a dream you wandered away from prematurely, and either re-commit yourself to it, or put it to rest for good. 4. Dig up and contemplate a secret that has been festering, and come to a decision about what you can do to heal it.

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Biscotti This week the Humane Society took in 15 hamsters, and three rabbits, (giving us 7 total) in one day! The new owners of Pet Nebula, (centrally located in the Stephens center) have decided to say ‘no’ to selling puppies and kittens, and are helping homeless animals instead. Knowing that we would have difficulty housing all these pocket pets they offered to help us find these great little guys homes. Please come by either location and scope out all the furry ‘others’ like Biscotti, ( available at HSWM) who want to show you that they make excellent friends, and there is more than just dogs and cats looking for homes. Please call the Humane Society of Western Montana at 549-HSWM for more information

DELIVERY PERSON, F/T, Msla.

Local delivery company seeking a full-time Delivery Person to work Monday-Friday, with occasional Saturday morning shift. Pay will start at $7.50 per hour, depending on experience with performance based raise after 90-day probation period. Will be performing basic delivery of various parcels, mail, groceries, parts, etc. to commercial and residential establishments. Must have a current, valid drivers license and a clean DMV (no DUIs and no more than one infraction in the last 12 months). Must have excellent customer service skills. #2975586 Missoula Workforce Center 7287060

HABILITATION AIDES, F/T, P/T, Msla. Employer is seeking both full & part time HABILITATION AIDES to work with adults with developmental disabilities. Duties are primarily assisting with daily activities, providing social interaction. Applicants must have experience with people with developmental disabilities.

Must have high school diploma or GED and valid Montana driver’s license. Full and part-time positions available. Job description available at Missoula Job Service Front desk.

Starting wage is $9.02/hour. #2975595 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 INFANT/TODDLER CARE PROVIDER, F/T, Msla. We’re gearing up for the summer so we’re seeking a dependable, full time INFANT / TODDLER CHILD CARE PROVIDER for large Child Care Facility. DUTIES INCLUDE: Specific need for working with infants and toddlers; but will include interaction and guidance for children ages 0 - 8. Assist in activities, meals and general daily cleaning. Program is designed to provide age appropriate activities in a positive guidance setting. Experienced workers will receive priority hiring.

Work is Mon-Fri, varied shifts. Pay starts at $7-8/hour depending on experience. Benefits available. #2975591 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 JOB INTERVIEW GUARANTEED! Our resumes get you an interview... guaranteed! Call Rainmaker Resumes today for a free consultation. 546-8244 Kitchen Helper Needed Two Sisters Catering needs a part time kitchen helper; dishwashing and light prep; exp helpful but not required; hourly + tips; send your resume to Kitchen Help, PO Box

LANDSCAPE LABORERS, F/T, Msla. Employer is seeking general laborer and landscape laborers to work in Missoula, Missoula County, MT and other work sites including Ravalli, Mineral, Granite and Lake Counties. Will work from May,09 to 11/30/09, 40hr/wk. Work 9am5pm. Starting wage is $8.00 an hour plus, doe. Workers typically perform a variety of tasks which may include any combination of the following: sod laying, trimming, planting, watering, digs holes and trenches, hauls, rakes ,help install sprinkler irrigation systems, mowing, hydro seeding and levels topsoil. Some landscape laborers will be required to have bobcat, skidster or forklift experience. Will get paid more if has equipment operator experience.

No experience required. Drivers license preferred so can operate company pick up truck. Employer will provide transportation to various work locations from main office. Must be able to lift 50 lbs. frequently. #2975593 Missoula Workforce Center 7287060 Mystery Shoppers earn up to $150 Day. Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail and dining establishments. Experience not required. Call 877-308-1186 Mystery Shoppers Wanted National market research company seeks individuals to evaluate service at local establishments. Apply at www.bestmark.com Office Cleaner, F/T,P/T, Msla.

Employer is seeking 1 full-time and 1 part-time OFFICE CLEANERS to clean medical and professional office buildings located in the Missoula area. Must be able to pass a criminal background check and have own reliable transportation.

Duties will include removing trash, dusting, disinfecting, sanitizing, cleaning bathrooms, restocking toiletry supplies, sweeping, mopping, interior window washing and vacuuming floors. Pay is $7.50 to 9.00 per hour depending on experience.

Work shift will start at after 6 P.M. on weeknights. May require weekend work and weekly schedule can be flexible for your busy life. #2975570 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

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WAREHOUSE ASSOCIATE, F/T, Msla. Employer is seeking a warehouse associate for local business.

Duties include courteous and friendly communication with customers, difficult physical labor, proper operation of equipment, proper handling of products, & attention to detail.

Will also be loading and unloading stock trucks and vendor shipments.

Experience not required. Driver’s license a plus . High school degree or equivalent and basic computer skills required. Work week varies.

Rate of pay is $8.75 to start with benefits. #2975564 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

results with application. Work days are Monday through Friday 8:00 AM until 5:00 PM. Starting wage is $12.00 to $15.00 per hour DEPENDING ON EXPERIENCE. Benefits are available after 90 days of successful work. #2975559 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

THE NAVY IS HIRING Top-notch training, medical/dental, 30 days vacation/yr, $ for school. HS grads ages 17-34. Call Mon-Fri 877-4756289

tion or logistics management experience and excellent public speaking experience. Pay will be dependent on experience and qualifications. #2975587 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

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ASSESSMENT AND STABILIZATION UNIT MANAGER #51112, Boulder, Montana. $52,709$65,886 annually DOQ. Deadline 6/5/09. For details visit Job Service or www.dphhs.mt.gov/jobs CAD IMPLEMENTER, FT, Msla. Fulltime CAD IMPLEMENTER needed for Missoula employer. Duties would include: traveling to client locations to implement and train LogiSYS software. Must have good communication skills and the ability to learn new things quickly. Requires at least 2 years training, support, and/or customer service experience plus 2 years post secondary education OR a 4-year Bachelor’s Degree in Computer and Information Systems. Valid driver’s license required for travel. Will work Monday-Friday, hours to be addressed at time of interview.

Wage is $10.34 per hour, DOE. #2975585 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 MANAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES for college grads. Elite career.

Global travel. Paid graduate education. Great salary & benefits. Call Mon-Fri 800-887-0952

SKILLED LABOR OUTSIDE INSTALLER / DELIVERY, F/T, Msla. Local fast-growing company is seeking an experienced OUTSIDE INSTALLER / DELIVERY. INSTALLER DUTIES INCLUDE: Outof-shop glass repairs, vinyl & wood window installation, finish carpentry, shower door installation for both residential and commercial projects.

Must be well organized to maintain customer schedules, able to interact well with customers, and perform quality work. DELIVERY DUTIES INCLUDE: Deliver glass, windows and frames, and other products.

Assist with loading, unloading and installation. Must be able to work independently. Must have valid Montana drivers license and good driving record. Work is Tuesdays through Saturdays. Pay is Hourly base (DOE) with production bonuses. Health insurance after six month probationary period. Paid vacation and holidays after one year. Must have at least 2 years of carpentry experience. Employer is willing to train the right person in the glass repair venue if they have the carpentry qualifications. #2975567 Missoula Workforce Center 7287060

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, 1-800-545-4546

MATH TEACHER NEEDED FOR GRADES 7-12. Must have Montana certification. Contact Nashua Schools, P.O. Box 170, Nashua, MT 59248; 406-746-3411 Missoula Community School seeks FT Early Childhood and MWF PreK/K teachers. A BA in ECE or Education with classroom experience or equivalent training and experience is required. Send letter of application and resume to 239 South 5th St West, Missoula,MT 59801.

NOW HIRING No exp needed.

Good pay and benefits paid training, promotions, and regular raises.

HS grads ages 17-34. Call Mon-Fri 800-437-6044 PAID APPRENTICE HS grads ages 17-34. Electronics, engineering, communications, etc. Great benefits.

Relocation avail. Call Mon-Fri 800887-0952 PRIMROSE MONTESSORI SCHOOL. Assistant Position Available. Must have knowledge of Montessori teaching method. Send resume/letter of interest to: Nancy Deskins, Director, PO Box 3354, Missoula, MT 59806

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Advanced paid training, medical/dental, vacation, $ for school. HS grads ages 17-34. Call Mon-Fri 800-437-6044

HEALTH CAREERS LPN - LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE, F/T, P/T, Msla. Employer is seeking Full-time, Part-time and Oncall LPNs for assisted living facility.

Will provide outstanding care to residents. Variable hours and shifts per week. Pay is depending on experience. IMMEDIATE NEED. #2975571 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

SALES DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND SALES, F/T, Msla. Montana Rail Link is currently recruiting a DIRECTOR OF MARKETING AND SALES. This executive position manages and directs a staff of four Marketing Managers and is responsible for developing and executing marketing plans and programs for existing and potential customers. Principal duties are leading the marketing team’s efforts to translate company strategy and initiatives into measurable results. Requires a Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in Marketing, Business Administration or related field; broad functional experience in the areas of strategic planning and marketing, business development, market research and sales; a minimum of five years of progressively responsible marketing, transporta-

CLERICAL ASSISTANT FT position providing assistance with personnel management and development. Advanced skills & confidentiality required.

M – F: 8a – 5p. $9.50/hr. Closes Tuesday 6/2/09, 5pm.

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.

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

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

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

Production Labor Furniture Manufacturer needs Production Laborers (Temp/Full-Time) Apply: NORCO Products, 4985 Blue Mountain Road, Missoula, Montana 59804 We DRUG Test.

PRODUCTION MANAGER ASSISTANT, F/T, Msla. Missoula manufacturing company seeking a PRODUCTION MANAGER ASSISTANT. The Production Manager Assistant is responsible for the overall packeting of the production line, including the man hours, machinery, materials, and methods needed to get the work accomplished. This responsibility also includes the quality and accuracy of these 4 components. This person works closely with the Production Manager, Department Supervisors and Sales in incorporating their ideas into accuracy and improvements. This position reports directly to the Production Manager.

ALL candidates must complete Job Service’s AutoCAD 2000 and Shop Math tests and include certified

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MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the Office of the Missoula County Public Works Department at 6089 Training Drive, in the City of Missoula, Montana until 10:00 A.M., Monday June 1, 2009, at which time bids will be opened and read in the conference room, for the purpose of providing 6000 tons of _” Asphaltic Plant Mix. All work is to be performed in accordance with the specifications on file in the Public Works Department, and shall be performed under the supervision of the County Engineer or his designated representative. Specifications and bid procedures can be obtained at the Public Works Department at 6089 Training Drive, Missoula Montana, 59808. Proposals must be accompanied by security in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the required contract and in the form specified in MCA 181-203, for example: cash, cashier’s check, certified check, bank money order, or bank draft, any of which must be drawn and issued by a national banking association located in the state of Montana or a banking association incorporated under the Laws of Montana; or a bid bond or bond executed by a surety corporation authorized to do business in the state of Montana. THE CONTRACT WILL BE AWARDED TO THE LOWEST RESPONSIBLE QUALIFIED BIDDER WHOSE BID PROPOSAL COMPLIES WITH ALL THE REQUIREMENTS. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Bid for _” Asphaltic Plant Mix”, SOLICITATION NO. 0509-001” and addressed to: Missoula County Public Works Department, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana, 59808

Montana limited liability company; SHIELDS LAW FIRM, PC and JON SHIELDS, ESQ.; STATE OF MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; DOES 110, Defendants.To Be Sold at Sheriff’s Sale: TERMS: CASH, or its equivalent; NO personal checks. On the 11th day of June A.D., 2009, at 10 o’clock A.M., at the front door of the Court House, in the City of Missoula, County of Missoula, State of Montana, that certain real property situate in said Missoula County, and particularly described as follows, to-wit: The West one half of Lot 4 and that part of the NE1/4NW1/4, West of the Bitterroot River and Northwest of Highway 93; and the E1/2NW1/4NW1/4; part of the SE1/4NW1/4, Northwest of Highway 93, lying in Township 12 North, Range 20 West, P.M., also described as all that portion of the SE1/4NW1/4 lying North of Highway 93, State of Montana, and Lots 3 and 4 of the NW1/4 of Section 1, Township 12 North, Range 20 West, less the right of way for the Montana State Highway No. 93. Along with all appurtenant rights and claims, and together with all existing or subsequently erected or affixed buildings, improvements, and fixtures; all easements, rights of way and appurtenances; all water, water rights, watercourses and ditch rights (including stock in utilities with ditch or irrigation rights); and all other rights, royalties, and profits relating to the real property, including without limitation all minerals, oil, gas, geothermal and similar matters. Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. Dated this 21st day of May A.D., 2009. MICHAEL R. McMEEKIN Sheriff of Missoula County, Montana By: Patrick A. Turner, Deputy

Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be either mailed to Deanna Grimes, the personal representative, return receipt requested, c/o Attorney John W. Hart, Rossbach Hart, P.C., PO Box 8988, Missoula, MT 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 7th day of May, 2009. /s/ Deanna Grimes, Personal Representative

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF HEARING CREATION OF THE BUFFALO SPEEDWAY COUNTY WATER DISTRICT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a public hearing will be held on the 17th day of June, 2009 beginning at 1:30 p.m. in Room 201, Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, on a petition for creation of the Buffalo Speedway County Water District for the following area: “Five parcels shown on Certificate of Survey 2120 as Tracts 16-A, 16-B and 16-D and Certificate of Survey 4644 as Tracts 15B-1 and 15B-2 and located in the E_ Section 10 Township 14 North, Range 20 West in Missoula County, Montana.” (For complete legal descriptions, see map on file in the Clerk & Recorder’s Office, 200 West Broadway, 2nd Floor.) AND THAT all interested persons should appear at the above mentioned time and place to be heard for or against said petition. Written protest will be accepted by the Commissioner’s Office, Room 204, Missoula County Courthouse Annex, Missoula, Montana 59802, prior to the hearing day. BY ORDER of the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County, Montana. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier, Clerk & Recorder/Treasurer, 200 W. Broadway St., Missoula, MT 59802.

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 3 Cause Probate No. DP-0979 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF KATHRYN A. DAGUE, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.

All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to John R. Dague, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at GEORGE LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 210 North Higgins Avenue, Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED May 12, 2009. /s/ John R. Dague, Personal Representative

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING MOTOR VEHICLE WRECKING FACILITY 10052 GARRYMORE LANE Notice is hereby given that the Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a public hearing on the question of whether to support or oppose the application of C F Auto Parts (Fedor N. Chinikaylo) for a motor vehicle wrecking facility license at 10052 Garrymore Lane, Missoula, Montana (Legal Description: Section 28, Township 14 North, Range 20 West). The facility is approximately one (1) acre in size and located in the Racetrack Industrial Park Subdivision. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing on Tuesday, June 9, 2009, at 10:00 a.m., in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana. 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 phone, mail, fax, e-mail or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, Fax: (406) 721-4043, Phone: (406) 258-4877; E-Mail: bcc@co.missoula.mt.us Additional information on the hearing may be obtained from the Commissioners Office at any of the methods shown above. Dated this 26th day of May, 2009 /s/ Bill Carey, Chair, Missoula Board of County Commissioners MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT SHERIFF’S SALE SPENCER PROPERTIES, LLC, a Montana limited liability company, Plaintiff, Against STERLING PROPERTIES, LLC, a

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-09-77 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ROBERT ALBERT SHEA, a/k/a ALBERT ROBERT SHEA, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above named estate. All persons having claims against the said Deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Colleen Donnelly Shea, Personal Representative, 13445 Crystal Creek, Turah, Montana 59825, or filed with the Clerk of Court of the above-named court.

Dated this 28th day of April, 2009. /s/ Colleen Donnelly Shea, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DR-09-311 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION In re the Marriage of Marci Giblin, Petitioner, and Matthew Giblin, Respondent. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO ABOVE-NAMED RESPONDENT: You, the Respondent, are hereby summoned to answer the Petition in this action, which is filed with 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 Petitioner within twenty days after the 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 your 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: none. DATED this 13th day of May, 2009. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court. By: Susie Wall, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Probate No. DP-09-83 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DIANE KATHLEEN DELANEY, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their 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 Trisha Thorson, 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 8th day of May, 2009. /s/ Trisha Thorson, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-09-61 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RICHARD GRIMES,

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Probate No. DP-09-88 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF KENNETH JOHAN HANSEN, A/K/A KENNETH J. HANSEN, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.

All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four (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 NANCY C. HANSEN, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at PO Box 386, Stevensville, Montana 59870, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 14th day of May, 2009. /s/ Nancy C. Hansen, Personal Representative, PO Box 386, Stevensville, MT 59870 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-09-84 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARILYN W. GUSTAFSON, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Benjamin D. Gustafson, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court.

DATED this 12th day of May, 2009. /s/ Benjamin D. Gustafson, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate Case No. DP-09-4 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of Frances O’Connell, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.

All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to the Personal Representative, Daniel Hansen, return receipt requested, at 1333 Toole Avenue #B4, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 21st day of May, 2009. /s/ Daniel Hansen, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DA-09-05 NOTICE OF HEARING In Re the Adult Adoption of R.M.M., a Minor Child. NOTICE is hereby given that a hearing on the petition to terminate the parental rights of David Neil Marsh and the petition to adopt the minor child, R.M.M., will be held on the 16th day of June at 1:30 p.m. o’clock at the Missoula County Courthouse, before the Honorable Douglas Harkin. NOW, therefore, notice is hereby given that David Neil Marsh’s failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a waiver of David Neil Marsh’s interest in custody of the minor child and will result in the court’s termination of David Neil Marsh’s right to the minor child. DATED this 19th day of May, 2009. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. Attorney for Petitioner. /s/ Linda Osorio St. Peter

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Public Notice

The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board will conduct a public hearing on the following items on Tuesday, June 16th, 2009, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana.

1. Rezoning Request – 2330 Higgins Ave (Denny’s Copy Stop) A request from Dennis Louquet, represented by DJ&A, P.C., to rezone property located on the northeast corner of the Higgins Ave / South Ave intersection, from R-1 (Residential, 8 dwelling units per acre) to BN (Neighborhood Business), legally described as Lot 12A of Block 13 of Residence Addition, located in Section 27 of T13N, R19W, P.M.M. (See Map R.)

2.Seeley Lake Regional Plan Update The Missoula County Rural Initiatives Office has been working with the Seeley Lake Community Council on an updated land use plan for the Seeley Lake area including that portion of the Clearwater River watershed in Missoula County. The Plan would be adopted as an area-specific amendment to the County's Growth Policy. The intention is to zone in accordance with the Plan’s land use designations soon after Plan adoption. The Seeley Lake Regional Plan Public Hearing Draft is currently out for public and agency comment. It is available for review at www.co.missoula.mt.us/rural.

See Map A for the Seeley Lake Regional Plan Area (the area affected by this amendment).

Seeley Lake Regional Plan Boundary The City Council will conduct a public hearing on item #1 at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, July 6th, 2009, in the City Council Chambers at 140 West Pine Street in Missoula.

The Board of County Commissioners will hold a public hearing on item #2 at a date to be determined.

Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The item #1 request and exact legal description is available for public inspection at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, City Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana.

Telephone 258-4657. Hard copies of the draft plan for item #2 are on file in Seeley Lake at the Barn, High School, and Water District and in Missoula at the County Commissioners Office, Rural Initiatives Office, and the Office of Planning and Grants. CD copies are available through the Rural Initiatives Office, 258-3432. The public comment file for item #2 is also available for review at the Rural Initiatives Office. Comments for item #2 may be directed to the Missoula County Consolidated Planning Board, c/o Missoula County Rural Initiatives, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 or via email: ri@co.missoula.mt.us If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-4657. The City of Missoula or Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DA-09-06 NOTICE OF HEARING In Re the Adult Adoption of A.R.M., a Minor Child. NOTICE is hereby given that a hearing on the petition to terminate the parental rights of David Neil Marsh and the petition to adopt the minor child, A.R.M., will be held on the 16th day of June at 1:30 p.m. o’clock at the Missoula County Courthouse, before the Honorable Douglas Harkin. NOW, therefore, notice is hereby given that David Neil Marsh’s failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a waiver of David Neil Marsh’s interest in custody of the minor child and will result in the court’s termination of David Neil Marsh’s right to the minor child. DATED this 19th day of May, 2009. ST. PETER LAW OFFICES, P.C. Attorney for Petitioner. /s/ Linda Osorio St. Peter

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Grantor’s default consists of failure to make payments when due beginning with the monthly payments from and after November 28, 2008 in the amount of $1,750.00 each.

The total sum owing on this obligation is $150,000 principal balance plus accruing interest at the rate of 14% per year totaling $7,000 as of February 28, 2009, $525 late fees, $1,730 escrow fees, and $688.50 other fees and costs. The Beneficiary may disburse amounts as may be required to preserve the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, they will be added to the obligation secured by the Montana Trust Indenture. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale. Beneficiary elects to declare all amounts under said Note and Trust Indenture to be immediately due and payable in consequence of the Grantor’s default. Beneficiary directs that Trustee sell the real property above described for the satisfaction of the obligation. This sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed and will be made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances. The sale purchaser is entitled to possession of the property on the tenth day following the sale. The sale is subject to bankruptcy filing, payoff, reinstatement or any other circumstance that would affect the validity of the sale. If any such circumstance exists, the sale shall be void, the successful bidder’s funds returned and the trustee and current beneficiary shall not be liable to the successful bidder for any damage. The Grantor or any person having a subordinate lien upon the subject property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the Beneficiary the entire amount then due under the trust indenture and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. This sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. DATED this 5th day of March, 2009. /s/ Christy L. Brandon, Successor Trustee, P.O. Box 1544, Bigfork, MT 59911, (406) 837-5445.

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 August 4, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7037.18764) 1002.116157-FEI

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

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7777.29216) 1002.116969-FEI

sure 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# 7023.02758) 1002.118329-FEI

THE MISSOULA BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS will conduct a public hearing at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West B r o a d w a y, M i s s o u l a , Montana, on the following: A request by George Anderson, for a variance from Zoning District #12A, Resolution #219, to reduce the required rear yard setback of 25 feet to eight feet for a detached outbuilding for the property legally described as the East 100 Feet of Lot 2 Oak Addition, Section 30, Township 13 North, Range 19 West, otherwise known as 2835 Strand.

See Map W.

Written comments can be mailed to Jamie Erbacher, at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT 59802 or e-mailed to jerbacher@co.missoula.m t.us If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling the Office of Planning & Grants at 406-258-4657.

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THE MISSOULA PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AND THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS will conduct public hearings at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West B r o a d w a y, M i s s o u l a , Montana, on the following: A request by Peak Fitness, represented by Andy Short of Territorial Landworks, for a variance from Resolution 2002-063 Attachment A Section (I) (A), permitted uses, to allow a recreational facility on a portion of the property presently zoned for residential and legally described as Tract B of Packwest Addition of Lot 2A and Tracts B, C, and D, Section 02, Township 12 North, Range 20 West.

See map Q.

Any written comments can be mailed to Jamie Erbacher, at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, 435 Ryman Street, Missoula, MT 59802 or e-mailedto jerbacher@co.missoula.mt.us.If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling the Office of Planning & Grants at 406-258-4657.

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MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-09-72 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF RUTH C. FASSETT, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Lester N. Fassett has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Lester N. Fassett, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Timothy D. Geiszler, GEISZLER & FROINES, P.C., 619 Southwest Higgins, Suite K, Missoula, Montana 59803 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 1st day of May, 2009. GEISZLER & FROINES, P.C. /s/ Timothy D. Geiszler, Attorney for Personal Representatives MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-09-90 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF VENUS SHRIDER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the abovenamed Estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Patricia Ann Adams, a Co-Personal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Thiel Law Office, PLLC, 315 West Pine, Missoula, Montana 59802, or to Lily Paulette Koprivica, a CoPersonal Representative, return receipt requested, in care of Datsopoulos, MacDonald & Lind, P.C., 201 West Main, Suite 201, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court.

DATED this 15th day of April, 2009. THIEL LAW OFFICE, Attorney for Patricia Ann Adams /s/ Matthew B. Thiel. DATSOPOULOS, MACDONALD & LIND, P.C. Attorneys for Lily Paulette Koprivica /s/ David B. Cotner NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Trustee will on JULY 18, 2009, at the hour of 11:00 o’clock A.M., at the South door of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, the following described property: A Tract of land located in the SE1/4 of Section 33, Township 14 North, Range 19 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as Tract 1-12A of Certificate of Survey No. 3446, which is subject to a Montana Trust Indenture recorded February 2, 2007, Document No. 200702841, records of Missoula County, Montana, from GRANT CREEK HEIGHTS, INC., as Grantor, to FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY OF MONTANA, INC., as Trustee, to secure an obligation in favor of COLIN F. JOHNSON, as Beneficiary. Christy L. Brandon is the Successor Trustee pursuant to an Appointment of Successor Trustee dated February 6, 2009, and recorded in the land

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/21/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200731020, Book 809, Page 921, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Kory Knie was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for First Horizon Home Loans was Beneficiary and First American Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 5D of Crestview Heights Phase IIIA, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Chase Home Finance LLC. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 26, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $210,204.97. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $199,323.71, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/26/99, recorded as Instrument No. 199906145, Book 574, Page 1617, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which William John Riel, individual was Grantor, Security Mortgage, Inc., a Montana Corporation was Beneficiary and Title Services, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 14 and 15 of Spring Valley Acres, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, as Trustee in Trust for CitiGroup Mortgage Loan Trust, Inc., Asset Backed Pass-Through Certificates Series 2003-HE4. 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 11/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of March 30, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $94,841.67. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $88,076.68, 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 August 7, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/26/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200806824, Book 815, Page 1399, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Deana J. Payne, a married person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: All of Lot 5 and the East 8 feet of Lot 6 in Block 32 of East Missoula Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, recording reference: Book 188 of Micro Records at Page 1116. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 01/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 10, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $180,946.14. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $175,688.48, 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 August 19, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclo-

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE T.S. No. 08-0116664 Title Order No. 080162992MTGSI The following legally described trust property to be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 09/16/2009, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: On the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT. ReconTrust Company, N.A., is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which Mark Christensen, a married man as his sole & separate property as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Charles J Peterson as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 04/03/2007 and recorded 04/16/2007, in document No. 200709041 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 795 at Page Number 736 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: The north 84 feet of lot 3 and the south 16 feet of lot 2 in block 1 of Forest View Addition No. 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Recording reference is in book 211 at page 530 of deed records. Property Address: 2110 Woodlawn Ave, Missoula, MT 59804 The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 09-01-2008, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. Together with any default in the payment of recurring obligations as they become due. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $184,944.21 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.00% per annum from 08/01/2008 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. Dated: 05/13/09 ReconTrust Company, N.A. Successor Trustee 2380 Performance Dr, TX2-985-07-03 Richardson, TX 75082 ASAP# 3099777 05/14/2009, 05/21/2009, 05/28/2009

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S ALE on July 27, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Parcel 18 of Certificate of Survey No. 60-A located in the Northwest Quarter of the Northwest Quarter (NW1/4NW1/4) of Section 17, Township 15 North, Range 21 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. K. Maria Houston, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 12, 2005 and recorded August 17, 2005 at 4:20 o’clock P.M., under Document No. 200521332. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage LLC. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,370.03, beginning November 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of April 1, 2009 is $165,794.38 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $4,870.20, late charges in the amount of $262.23, escrow advances of $465.01, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,700.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $26.19 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of

bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 19, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On 3/19/09, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 2/23/2013 ASAP# 3120189 05/28/2009, 06/04/2009, 06/11/2009

secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems. Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated February 15, 2005 and Recorded February 26, 2005 at 3:15 o’clock P.M. in Book 748, Page 726, under Document No. 200504480. The beneficial interest is currently held by EverHome Mortgage Company. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,123.24, beginning September 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 15, 2009 is $166,200.17 principal, interest at the rate of 4.125% now totaling $4,262.13, late charges in the amount of $937.42, escrow advances of $799.24, and other fees and expenses advanced of $85.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $18.78 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’ s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’ s Deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust

and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.

The scheduled Trustee’ s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 2, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On March 2, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 03/28/2011 ASAP# 3091629 05/14/2009, 05/21/2009, 05/28/2009

sequent, 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 10, 2009 is $160,600.30 principal, interest at the rate of 6.875% now totaling $3,952.69, late charges in the amount of $656.24, escrow advances of $267.50, suspense balance of $0.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $58.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $30.25 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’ s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 11, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor

Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On 5/11/09, 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. JESSICA HOPKINS Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 ASAP# 3107058 05/21/2009, 05/28/2009, 06/04/2009

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 28, 2009 is $192,678.17 principal, interest at the rate of 6.25% now totaling $7,024.71, and other fees and expenses advanced of $99.90, plus accruing interest at the rate of $32.99 per diem, late charges,: and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price mist be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 101 day following the sale.

The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s. sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor In interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be -postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 10, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 ASAP# 3105333 05/21/2009, 05/28/2009, 06/04/2009

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 10, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: All that certain parcel of land situate in the County of Missoula, State of Montana, being known and designated as Lot 17 in Block 9 of West View Addition, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official Plat thereof. Tax ID 1792959 Jeremy M. Fabich and Brandi Lee Fabich, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First Montana Title, as Trustee, to

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 20, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 1 in Block 7 of the corrected plat of Hillview Heights No 3. and 4 in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the corrected plat thereof recorded in Book 11 of Plats at Page 57, Records of Missoula County, Montana. Victoria Clark, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated September 27, 2005 and Recorded on September 30, 2005 in Book 761, Page 802, as Document No. 200525832.

The beneficial interest is currently held by Indymac Federal Bank, FSB. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1354.24, beginning November 1, 2008, and each month sub-

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 20, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: PARCEL I: TRACT 15A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1877, LOCATED IN SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. PARCEL II: TOGETHER WITH A NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT FOR PRIVATE ROAD AND PUBLIC UTILITY PURPOSES AS SHOWN ON CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1608.

FURTHER TOGETHER WITH A NONEXCLUSIVE EASEMENT FOR PRIVATE ROAD AND PUBLIC UTILITY PURPOSES AS SHOWN ON CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 1877: AS IMPROVED BY: 1993 FLEETWOOD MANUFACTURED HOME, MODEL CHADWICK 56630, SERIAL #1 DFLP04A/6161 11-CW10, HUD TAG NUMBER IDA12651 1 AND IDA126510, 65’ X 26’ A.P.N.: 5806399 Douglas T Kiewatt and Ronda R Kiewatt, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 10, 2008 and recorded on January 1’5, 2008 at 3:24 o’clock P.M., in Book 811, Page 1240, under Document NO 200801007. The beneficial interest is currently held by Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp.. 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 $1,469.88, beginning September 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 20, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 28 OF HAWTHORN SPRINGS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Darrin L Knudsen and Crystal L Knudsen, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to National City Mortgage a division of National City Bank, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated March 23, 2007 and Recorded March 30, 2007 at 3:14 o’clock P.M. in Book 794, Page 803, under Document No. 200707506. The beneficial interest is currently held by National City Mortgage a division of National City Bank. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,207.42, beginning December 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 21, 2009 is $280,052.54 principal, interest at the rate of 7.375% now totaling $6,295.20, late charges in the amount of $294.63, escrow advances of $0.00, suspense balance of $0.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $54.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $56.59 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the

Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’ s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’ s Deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 10, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On March 10, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Jessica Hopkins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 ASAP# 3105714 05/21/2009, 05/28/2009, 06/04/2009

Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 10, 2005 and Recorded May 19, 2005 in Book 752, Page 1143, as Document No. 200511842. The beneficial interest is currently held by Wells Fargo Bank, National Association as Trustee for the Certificateholders of Structured Asset Mortgage Investments II Inc., GreenPoint MTA Trust 2005-AR3, Mortgage PassThrough Certificates, Series 2005 AR3.

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 $1267.31, beginning November 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 16, 2009 is $299,218.33 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $6,209.37, late charges in the amount of $190.11, escrow advances of $575.63, and other fees and expenses advanced of $18.25, plus accruing interest at the rate of $42.01 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the

trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 11, 2009 Charles Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA . County of Stark On March 11, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Jessica Hopkins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 ASAP# 3107026 05/21/2009, 05/28/2009, 06/04/2009

$1,125.35, beginning November 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan.

The total amount due on this obligation as of March 31, 2009 is $173,831.68 principal, interest at the rate of 6.625% now totaling $5,731.28, late charges in the amount of $225.08, escrow advances of $676.75, suspense balance of $ and other fees and expenses advanced of $30.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $31.40 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10`h day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

Dated: March 16, 2009 Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On March 16, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Jessica Hopkins Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota My Comm. Exp. 12/24/2014 ASAP# 3112912 05/21/2009, 05/28/2009, 06/04/2009

and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default.

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 16, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On 3/16/09, 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. JESSICA HOPKINS Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 12/24/2014 ASAP# 3114021 05/28/2009, 06/04/2009, 06/11/2009

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 20, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 9A of Carline Addition No. 60, a platted subdivision in the city of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the Official recorded plat thereof. Ted L Hess, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic

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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

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 24, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: South 20 feet of Lot 12, and the North 50 feet of Lot 13, Block B of Rainbow Ranch Homes Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Phoebe J. Patterson, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Long Beach Mortgage Company, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated may 30, 2003 and Recorded June 9, 2003 in Book 708, Page 713, as Document No. 200320092. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Long Beach Mortgage Loan Trust 2003-4. 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 $1,233.29, beginning November 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of February 24, 2009 is $113,794.85 principal, interest at the rate of 9.125% now totaling $4,115.60, late charges in the amount of $348.54, and other fees and expenses advanced of $56.75, plus accruing interest at the rate of $28.45 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

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NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 27, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 3 in Block 3 of El Mar Estates Phase II, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. APN: 5669142 Dawn Hofman and Jurian Hofman, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated November 20, 2006 and Recorded November 21, 2006 in Book 787, Page 1012, under Document No. 200630237.

The beneficial interest is currently held by HSBC Bank USA, N.A., as Trustee for the registered holders of Monura Home Equity Loan, Inc., Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-3. 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 $1,135.54, beginning December 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of March 05, 2009 is $146,869.60 principal, interest at the rate of 6.00% now totaling $3,053.92, late charges in the amount of $409.32, escrow advances of $49.64, suspense balance of $(175.34) and other fees and expenses advanced of $387.78, plus accruing interest at the rate of $24.36 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real

property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10”’ day following the sale.

The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: March 19, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota

County of Stark On 3/19/09, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson , Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 3/28/2011 ASAP# 3120042 05/28/2009, 06/04/2009, 06/11/2009

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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 Byron W. Boggs, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 502 West Spruce, Missoula, MT 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 18th day of May, 2009. /s/ Byron W. Boggs, Personal Representative

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Large garage, open floorplan, laundry/mudroom, peaceful setting. $210,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.AccessRealty.net 3 Bed / 2 Bath in Potomac area.

Covered deck, fenced acreage and great views. $275, 000. MLS# 902389. Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 Windermere RE. Text:44133 Message:12592 for pics 3 Bed/2.5 Bath house in Stevensville with 2 bdrm rental & 2 car garage. Separate 4 car garage with large shop. 1.3 landscaped acres. $299,900 MLS#900811.

Windermere RE Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 Text:44133 Message:12881 for pics

Professional Property Management Think fire safety. Have a fire exit plan.

Be sure to test your smoke alarm monthly.

professionalproperty.com 406-721-8990

4 BD/2BA home, ready-to-finish basement.

17-foot ceilings, office/den, master suite, 2-car garage. 44 Ranch, $297,000!

Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.AccessRealty.net 4800 SQ FT MULLAN RD AREA HOME ON 1 ACRE. 5 Bdr/3 Bath, great floor plan, family room with wet bar, vaulted ceilings, and more, $448,000. Prudential Montana.

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4BD home, 39.5 acres. Certainteed siding, radiant heat, fireplace, wildlife, gravel pit! $824,900 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.AccessRealty.net 832 Cherry St. $239,500 Lower Rattlesnake - 2bed/1bath, brand new kitchen & bath, garage KD Dickinson – Portico Real Estate – (406) 240-5227 838 Stoddard - 3bdrm +1 bonus, huge yard, west side, tons of room. $234,900. KD Dickinson - Portico Real Estate 240-5227 921 S 4th St W. $249,500 McCormick Park - 2bed/1bath & bonus room, classy upgrades, dble garage KD Dickinson – Portico Real Estate – (406) 240-5227 A Career in Real Estate with Access Realty, we offer training, great commission splite and support. 406544-3098 www.AccessRealty.net ALBERTON AREA HOME ON 3 ACRES. 3 Bdr/2.5 Bath, bonus room, great views, lots of space, just 30 minutes to Missoula. $295,000.

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GORGEOUS TARGET RANGE HOME FROM THE 2008 PARADE OF HOMES. 4 Bdr/2.5 Bath, beautiful design, old-world craftsmanship, $468,500.

Prudential Montana. Call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696 or view photos and virtual tours at...

"Let us tend your den" Since 1995, where tenants and landlords call home.

Lower Rattlesnake Home 1133 Harrison $295,000 2 bdr/1 bath, bonus room, beautiful views in amazing spot, 2+ lots, hardwood floors, gas fireplace, large vinyl window, unfinished basement, fenced, lots of updates.

721-5187 or 327-8757

Quality 3 bedroom, 1 1/2 bath townhome with beech cabinets.

Private fenced yard with covered deck. Finished garage. Hardi Plank siding. $174,000. MLS#903274.

Windermere RE Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 Text:44133 Message:12889 for pics

Lorin & Amy

New Listing!

Peterson

6420 Lower Miller Ck Rd 3BD/2BA in Maloney Ranch area. $288,500 MLS# 903173 Priscilla Brockmeyer

a father daughter team

Amy 532-9287 Lorin 532-9223

370.7689

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Joy Earls • 531-9811

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•Seller retiring •Turn key.

•Fully equipped bistro •Convert to other enterprises?

Leasing Office Located Onsite at 4200 Expressway Missoula, MT

Hwy 93 Polson Now $237,000

Wilma Mixon-Hall • 883-3346

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$245,000 • 546-2177

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2300 Regent, Suites 205-206-207 Three Wonderful 3 year old commercial Condos, one with reception area, conference room, production space, and 6 work cubicals. There are 2 more additional condo units with added work areas, and separate entrances. All 3 condo’s comes with 10 deeded parking spaces. Suites 205 and 206 can be sold separately for $240,000. Suite 207 sold separately is $510,000.

All 3 sold together, priced at $745,000. MLS: 901538 & 901542 & 901535. www.2300regentcondos.com

Downtown Restaurant For Sale Fabulous downtown locale 247 W. Front • Missoula includes 11 parking spaces!

Seats 36+, outside seating, basement with lots of storage.

Long time established Missoula restaurant with cabaret license included. $150,000 MLS# 901625

Proudly serving Missoula, Mineral & Ravalli Counties

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NEW 4BD/2.5 BA home in Missoula 44 Ranch Subdivision Spacious, master suite, full basement, gourmet kitchen. 2409 Snaffle Bit Way $297,000 • MLS 809362

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Kevin & Monica Ray

MONTANA CRESTVIEW 406-327-1212

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Charming 1925 U home. 2003 remodel on 2 lush lots w/gardens, fruit trees and arbor, 4 beds, 2 baths + country kitchen. Rare find in amazing spot.

1 block to the University.

Property Management

New Lease Special – Up to Two Months FREE Rent!

15 minutes from Missoula with nice building sites and access to the Blackfoot River. $159,000 for either 5 acre parcel or buy both for $299,000.

University Charmer 737 Evans, Missoula $399,870 MLS#902594

GardenCity www.gcpm-mt.com

Two 5 acre parcels

R E A LT O R ® , B r ok er

Joy Earls

Polson Restaurant Bistro “class act” Isabels

For available rentals:

This very charming 2 Storey Craftsman home is located in the University Historic District Area. It has been utilized as a duplex and features a spacious main floor unit with hardwood flooring.

This unit has a sun porch perfect for morning tea and reading the paper. The living room and dining room are quite large and open with loads of natural light. The kitchen has some glass front cabinetry and classic hardware. This unit is 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. The upstairs unit has two bedrooms and a full bath. It features a breakfast nook with skylight. The living room faces the front of the house and has lots of southern light.

www.LorinAndAmy.com

639 South Ave. W, Msla

422 Madison • 549-6106

316 Daly Avenue (Duplex)

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Price reduced: $185,900 - 2 story in a cul de sac, central neighborhood with large yards, raised beds and 2 car garage. Priscilla @ Pru Missoula 370.7689

1601 South Ave West • 542-2060 grizzlypm.com

4 Bed/2 Bath Remodeled • New roof New heating & AC Many upgrades Large corner lot

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Newly remodeled 2BD Clark Fork Riverfront retreat! Open floorplan, large deck, hardwood floors. $275,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.AccessRealty.net

BEAUTIFULLY REMODELED NORTH SIDE HOME. 4 Bdr/2 Bath, fenced yard, detached garage, covered porch, hardwood floors, and more, $199,900. Prudential Montana.

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UPDATED POTOMAC AREA HOME ON 16.5 ACRES.3 Bdr/2 Bath, Open floor plan, deck and covered porch, very private and quiet, $268,800.

Prudential Montana. Call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696 or view photos and virtual tours at...

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Grizzly Property Management, Inc.

UPDATED CENTRAL MISSOULA HOME. 2 Bdr/1 Bath, single level, single attached garage, new flooring, interior paint, updated kitchen, new furnace and more, $149,900.

Prudential Montana. Call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696 or view photos and virtual tours at...

Homes for Sale

207.1185 • 544.3098 www.AccessRealty.net

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Homes for Sale

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Manufactured homes

Well-maintained 3BD house, 45 minutes from Missoula, hardwood floors, storage shed, updated appliances. $125,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-2071185. www.AccessRealty.net

FROM $40,762. New Modular Homes. *No Money Down* FHA, VA & Tribal Loans. $8,000 tax credit. Champion Homes. 303573-0067. Free brochures and price sheet. www.coloradofactorymodulars.com

Missoula • 549-3353 | Hamilton • 363-4450

Carrie A Greer REALTOR®, PSC®, QSC®, ABR® 880-6592 • Carrie@GreaterMontanaRE.com CarrieAGreer.com Specializing in: New Construction

Bridget Bowers REALTOR®, PSC®, QSC® 207-5387 • Bridget@GreaterMontanaRE.com BitterrootMontanaProperties.com Specializing in: Homes with Acreage Jodie L Hooker REALTOR®, QSC®, GRI®, ABR® 239-7588 • Jodie@GreaterMontanaRE.com MissoulaMultiFamily.com Specializing in: Multi-Famliy Properties

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Land for Sale

Land for Sale

Out of Town

1/2 acre in Mullan Road area with great views. Sewer stubbed to the lot. Close to river access, golf and shopping $109,900 MLS# 801617 riceteam@windermere.com Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503.

Text:44133 Message:12887 for pics

REDUCED Beautiful 20 Acre parcel with meadow and view Financing available OAC with 10 % down.

Make offer. $159,900. MLS# 900454. Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 riceteam@winder m e r e . c o m . Te x t : 4 4 1 3 3 Message:12888 for pics

800 square foot cabin near hunting, fishing, and skiing in beautiful Haugan, MT. $83,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185. www.AccessRealty.net

20 Lot Bitterroot Subdivision, 42 acres, views of Bitterroots & Sapphires. Appraised $127,500 each. $864,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-2071185 www.AccessRealty.net

Out of Town

20,000 SQ FOOT LOT IN GREAT ALBERTON LOCATION. 0.46 acres with all utilities present, zoned residential with potential for commercial re-zoning, $79,000. Prudential Montana. Call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696 or view photos and virtual tours at...

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LOLO. 3 bedroom, 2 bath on 1 acre. Large great room off open kitchen. Wood-burning fireplace.

Living room, sun room, Jacuzzi, separate shower in main bath. Fenced garden area. Beautiful property. $257,500. 370-1368. View online www.outdoorsmontana.com Turn key cabin in the Garnet Mountains, 24 acres, off the grid, gated access, new appliances, near Helmville. $140,000.

MT International Realty 406-883-6700

5 ACRES OF UNZONED LAND ON LOLO CREEK. 320’ of creek frontage, 2 40x60 buildings with 17 storage units and office space, caboose, large shop/commercial building, 2 mobiles, easy Hwy 93 access, $575,000. Prudential Montana. Call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696 or view photos and virtual tours at...

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America’s Best Buy! Where in the U.S. can you own 20 acres, 30 minutes from major Texas city?

Only $15,900. $0 Down, $159/mo.

1-800-843-7537 www.sunsetranches.com Beautiful park-like setting, private trout ponds, nature trail, stunning views. Lots start at $39,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185. www.RiverRidgeMT.com

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Mortgage & Financial Mountain West Mortgage. Best Mortgage Loan Products. 35 Years experience. John Timmons 406543-8945 Lic #6,7 REAL ESTATE LOANS Up to 70% LTV. We specialize in “NonBankable Deals” Hard money lending with a conscience. We also buy Private Notes & Mortgages.

Creative Finance & Investments, LLC. 406-721-1444; 800-9994809. Info@creative-finance.com MT Lic.#000203. 619 SW Higgins, Ste O, Missoula, MT 59803

RICE TEAM Janet Rice 532-7903 Robin Rice 240-6503 riceteam@windermere.com www.missoulahomesonline.com • 4 Bed/3 bath cedar home on 11 acres • Private location with lots of trees • Vaulted ceilings and great views • 28 x 28 garage / large parking area • $329,900 • MLS#901764 Text:44133 For pics Message:12886

• 3 Bed / 2 Bath on 3 Acres • Bitterroot home with great views • Low maintenance vinyl siding • Large double car garage • $269,000 • MLS# 902482 Text:44133 For pics Message: 12890

• 40x82 insulated free span building • 1 acre with security fence • Three 14' overhead doors • 9292 Futurity Drive • $339,900 MLS#901478 Text:44133 For pics Message:12595

• 3 Bd/1.5 Bth Lolo Home • Single built in garage • Fenced Back yard w/ trees • Family room and office • $184,900 • MLS# 809632 Text:44133 For pics Message:12590

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2009 Missoula County

RELAY FOR LIFE Friday, June 19, 7pm to Saturday, June 20, 10am Big Sky High School Register your team today!

The American Cancer Society Relay for Life represents the hope that those lost to cancer will never be forgotten, that those who face cancer will be supported, and that one day cancer will be eliminated.

Give a gift to the American Cancer Society and keep the fire of Hope burning with a luminaria in memory of someone lost to cancer, in honor of someone fighting the disease, or in special recognition of someone who has beaten this disease. Luminaria bags are $10 each and can be purchased at missoularelay.org.

All survivors are invited to the Relay. Survivor Reception at 5:30pm, followed by the first honorary lap. If you are a survivor or know someone who is, please contact Marlene Wyatt at 406-777-5245.

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For more info about the American Cancer Society Relay for Life, visit missoularelay.org or call 406-728-1004.