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Vol. 20, No. 25 • June 18–June 25, 2009

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

Up Front: Missoula couple ponies up for Polebridge’s Merc Ochenski: Health care reform reveals corruption in Congress Scope: Mississippi Queen tackles love, religion and family

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Vol. 20, No. 25 • June 18–June 25, 2009

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

Up Front: Missoula couple ponies up for Polebridge’s Merc Ochenski: Health care reform reveals corruption in Congress Scope: Mississippi Queen tackles love, religion and family

Half the Price, Twice the Fun!

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Cover photo by Chad Harder

Huey Lewis wants to set the record straight: He’s not a jerk. He’s not, as the common criticism goes, a rich, out-of-state, out-of-touch landowner here to ruin the Bitterroot. Specifically, he’s not bent on hoarding one of Montana’s most infamous waterways for himself. He says all this from a hospital bed in San Francisco in early May. We asked him to elaborate. .....................................14

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News Letters Cap and trade, debunked................................................................................4 The Week in Review Mike & Rick, child pornography and contraception ...............6 Briefs Unbearable water, silly suits and a MAC makeover ..........................................6 Etc. How Schweitzer sees Montana .............................................................................7 Up Front Missoula couple purchases Polebridge Merc ..............................................8 Ochenski Health care reform reveals corruption in Congress...................................9 Writers on the Range The realities of renewable energy ........................................10 Agenda Blackfoot River Challenge ............................................................................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan Diet of a cage fighter .....................................................................20 8 Days a Week Feeling the power of love ................................................................21 Mountain High Remembering a friend.....................................................................27 Scope Missoula filmmaker preaches beyond the choir.............................................30 Noise Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, Cursive, Eddie Turner and Black Moth Super Rainbow....................................................................................31 Books Harrison finds the divine beauty of Small Gods............................................32 Film Malkovich plays Buck Howard bittersweet .......................................................33 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ...................................................34

Exclusives Street Talk....................................................................................................................4 In Other News...........................................................................................................13 Independent Personals ............................................................................................35 The Advice Goddess .................................................................................................35 Free Will Astrolog y...................................................................................................36 Classifieds..................................................................................................................37 Crossword Puzzle .....................................................................................................41 This Modern World...................................................................................................46

PUBLISHER Matt Gibson GENERAL MANAGER Lynne Foland EDITOR Skylar Browning ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Peter Kearns PRODUCTION DIRECTOR Joe Weston CIRCULATION & BUSINESS MANAGER Adrian Vatoussis ARTS EDITOR Erika Fredrickson PHOTO EDITOR Chad Harder CALENDAR EDITOR Jonas Ehudin STAFF REPORTERS Jesse Froehling, Matthew Frank, Alex Sakariassen COPY EDITORS Samantha Dwyer, David Merrill EDITORIAL INTERN Megan Gyermek ART DIRECTOR Kou Moua PRODUCTION ASSISTANTS Jenn Stewart, Jonathan Marquis ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES Carolyn Bartlett, Steven Kirst, Chris Melton, Hannah Smith, Scott Woodall CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING MANAGER Miriam Mick CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE Tami Johnson FRONT DESK Lorie Rustvold CONTRIBUTORS Ari LeVaux, George Ochenski, Nick Davis, Andy Smetanka, Jay Stevens, Jennifer Savage, Caitlin Copple, Chris LaTray, Ednor Therriault, Jessie McQuillan, Brad Tyer, Katie Kane

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by Chad Harder

This week the Indy sits down with Bitterroot resident and pop star Huey Lewis. Based on what you’ve seen or read about the guy, what’s your impression of the News’ frontman?

Follow-up: If you could put in a request for Huey to play a song, any song, what would it be?

Shannon Furniss: My impression is that he was a lot of fun, at least back in the day. I haven’t heard much about him lately.

Old school: “The Heart of Rock n’ Roll,” absolutely. That really reminds me of my aerobics classes, back in the ’80s.

David Moore: I love his music— and you look like him, by the way—but I feel like public access should have priority over property rights. Stirrin’ it up: How about “One Love” by Bob Marley?

I’d like him to play that because I believe that’s the answer to the adverse relationship between property rights and public access.

Sandy Lanch: Huey Lewis? I know that he’s from out of state and came to Montana— you know, the usual. Musically, he’s great. And I love that movie he did with Gwyneth Paltrow, Duets. Twice as nice: I really like Huey Lewis’ music, but I’d say that song he sang with Gwyneth Paltrow.

Mary Groom-Hall: That he’s a down-to-earth nice guy. That’s what I always hear. He’s one of those famous folks I wouldn’t be afraid to go up to and say, “Nice job” to. Hot licks: Probably something from the Stones, like “Satisfaction.” Can you imagine that?! It would be a real good riff.

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The “Cap and Trade FAQ” by Lissa Harris (see “Up in smoke,” June 4, 2009) was timely and covers an issue of great importance, but too little understood. Yes, the system proposed is a “vast, rickety Rube Goldberg contraption, complete with ramps and gears and pulleys and suspended buckets of water.”

To assume that this is accidental, however, would be a mistake. It will do exactly what it is designed to do: give the appearance of doing something when it isn’t. Or, more accurately, do things very differently from what the public would reasonably expect. If this weren’t the most serious crisis to ever face our species, it might be humorous.

Wall Street and the oil companies will love it. The oil companies, because it will give the appearance of something being done while not changing anything. Wall Street, because it will be a new source of money for them—a new bubble to get rich off of. The carbon offsets side of the system, which Harris properly criticizes, was covered in a June Scientific American article, which concludes that the system is hopelessly flawed.

Harris does miss the mark with this statement: “The grim fact is, nobody knows for sure how much carbon reduction we’ll need in order to avoid the most dire global warming scenario.” Actually, there are those who know quite well. Columbia’s Center for Climate Systems Research, for instance, concluded in a publication last year that a maximum carbon dioxide level to prevent runaway global warming is 350 parts per million (ppm). We are now at 385. If we begin immediately to reduce emissions and sequestration of carbon (mostly through reforestation and modified agricultural practices) we can lower the figure to below the 350 ppm figure.

How bad can it get? We don’t know and we shouldn’t try to find out. It all depends on how much methane will be released from the ocean floor and from receding glaciers and permafrost, and how fast. Certainly, most cities and most agricultural areas would be lost. It would be a grim planet, even for Wall Street brokers and oil company executives.

Harold Young St. Ignatius

Small businesses generate 79 percent of the net new jobs in America.

But when it comes to health care, they get the short end of the stick. Those businesses who can afford to offer coverage pay 18 percent more than larger businesses for the same coverage. Not only are prices constantly going up, they’re completely unpredictable. The cost of coverage skyrockets whenever an employee comes down with an expensive illness like

It will do “ exactly what it is designed to do: give the appearance of doing something when it isn’t…

If this weren’t the most serious crisis to ever face our species, it might

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cancer or has a serious car accident.

President Obama’s health care plan would offer small businesses a choice of plans through a national or regional purchasing pool, without today’s unpredictable prices. And he’d offer substantial tax credits to help small businesses to offer coverage who can’t afford it today. Our state’s small businesses can’t wait any longer for health reform. It’s time that Congress act.

Alexis Illyn Outreach Director, MontPIRG Missoula

Hungry for facts I am appalled at the fight against organic foods! For over 15 years we

have known that organic foods are healthier and more nutritious than genetically modified foods and food grown with pesticides. And yet the American Dietetic Association and a few state governments are denying the facts. According to the Journal of Applied Nutrition in 1993, “Organically grown apples, wheat, sweet corn, potatoes and pears were examined over a two year period and were 63% higher in calcium, 73% higher in iron, 118% higher in magnesium, 178% higher in molybdenum, 91% higher in phosphorus, 125% higher in potassium and 60% higher in zinc than conventionally grown produce.” In addition, organic meats were not only found to be leaner, but also have about five times the omega-3s.

The American Dietetic Association’s website claims, “Nutritionally there is no evidence that organic produce is better or safer than conventionally grown produce.” This is unacceptable coming from the largest organization of food and nutritional professionals who claim they are “improving the nation’s health and advancing the profession of dietetics through research, education and advocacy.”

At the same time, some state governments are banning the use of WIC food stamps to be used on organics, saying that they are too expensive and not proven to be more nutritious, even though scientists and doctors are continually warning women and children about the health hazards of pesticides, genetically modified foods and antibiotics in our diet. In a letter from the American Academy of Environmental Medicine they write, “GM foods pose a serious health risk in the areas of toxicology, allergy and immune function, reproductive health, and metabolic, physiologic and genetic health,” but they are still used and sold without labeling.

The only way to protect oneself from the harmful effects of modern food production is to buy organic.

According to the Pesticide Action Network North America, when on a conventional diet, we are exposed to over 70 pesticide-related pollutants on a daily basis. It’s no wonder cancer rates are so high!

Ashley Holtorf Missoula

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He fought for life as long as he could. Mr. Puddy kept vigil by his side and gave all the comfort he could to his very sick guardian. He was put in a hospital, never to return, and the kitty worried about where his friend had gone. Unable to find a home for his faithful companion, the family turned to AniMeals for help.

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She was dumped high up on a mountain in the dead of winter. Fancy made her way back to civilization through waist deep snow.

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• Wednesday, June 10

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by Chad Harder

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agrees to reconsider its past denial of Endangered Species Act protection for the wolverine as part of a settlement filed in U.S. District Court in Missoula. The settlement, which must be approved by Judge Donald Molloy, requires that the agency issue a determination of the wolverine’s status by December 2010.

• Thursday, June 11 A 44-year-old man dies in his car from a selfinflicted gunshot wound near Playfair Park. Lt. Brad Giffin believes the man took his life between 9:30 and 10 a.m. A witness found the man’s body in his car later that morning. Authorities did not release the victim’s name.

• Friday, June 12 U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy sentences former Missoula police officer Jason Huntsinger, 38, to one year in federal prison for purchasing child pornography on the Internet. Huntsinger used a computer belonging to the Missoula Police Protective Association, a personal credit card and an e-mail address—busyhands264@aol.com—to purchase the images, according to court documents.

• Saturday, June 13 Joslyn Tinkle scores 34 points—21 in the second half alone—in her last prep game to help Montana sweep Wyoming in a basketball all-star tournament. The 6-foot-3, Stanford-bound center became one of the country’s top recruits while starring at Big Sky High School.

• Sunday, June 14 Former Missoula bands Mike & Rick and PWT make impromptu appearances at the Badlander during the early morning hours. Mike & Rick, formerly a trio, features original members Dave Knadler and Tim Graham playing old favorites like “Pride of America” and “Southgate Cindy.” PWT brings down the house with fan favorite “BBQ Funk.”

• Monday, June 15 Roundabout construction officially begins at the intersection of Higgins, Beckwith and Hill—finally—and will last throughout the summer. The project has been in the works for years, but repeatedly delayed as the city discussed traffic alternatives, cost and construction schedules.

• Tuesday, June 16 Planned Parenthood of Montana files a complaint with the Montana Human Rights Commission against Montana’s Children’s Health Insurance Plan (CHIP) because it prohibits the coverage of prescription contraception. As a result, Planned Parenthood says, CHIP discriminates against young women based on their gender.

Wary of buckets above his head that could drench him with water at any moment, Blake Edwards spins around a water feature at the Bonner Park splash deck Tuesday afternoon. The 7-year-old is excited to frequent the park this summer, he says, “because they have lots and lots of water.”

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Show me the money When Jim Edwards sought to unseat Jean Curtiss during the 2006 county commissioner race, he violated campaign finance laws, according to a May 21 report released by Montana Commissioner of Political Practices Dennis Unsworth.

During the race, local blogger Bill Vaughn filed a complaint with Unsworth’s office alleging that Edwards, a local developer and businessman, failed to file campaign finance reports on time.

Vaughn, who is also Edwards’ neighbor, opposed Edwards’ candidacy in part because of Edwards’ plan to develop the 600-acre Trout Meadows Ranch. As part of his effort to re-elect Curtiss, Vaughn tried to find Edwards’ financial backing to post on his blog, but, according to Vaughn’s complaint, Edwards missed the deadline to file his campaign finance reports.

After an investigation, Unsworth found that Vaughn was right.

As is customary, Unsworth passed the case against Edwards to Missoula County Attorney Fred Van Valkenburg for prosecu-

tion. Van Valkenburg then kicked it back to Unsworth, which is also regular procedure.

In a June 15 letter to Unsworth, Van Valkenburg wrote: “While it appears…that it may be appropriate to seek the imposition of a civil penalty, I respectfully defer to you to pursue such relief.” Unsworth’s investigation, Van Valkenburg wrote, placed the commissioner in a better position to determine what, if any, action should be taken against Edwards.

“It’s very common to have the county attorney send those back to us,” Unsworth says. “They typically have their hands full, and it’s their prerogative. Our options are to drop it, seek a settlement, or file a court action.”

Unsworth says that his office had not decided whether to press charges against Edwards.

Edwards didn’t return a call seeking comment.

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property has stood empty. But now, thanks to the foreclosure and crummy economy, a local developer sees an opportunity to convert the three-acre site into affordable housing.

The Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP), a new plan under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), provides emergency assistance to state and local governments to redevelop foreclosed properties—like MAC—that may otherwise decay into urban blight. Congress enacted the legislation as part of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008, a piece of a larger federal legislative effort to kick start the economy.

Rick Wishcamper and Mike Bouchee of Missoula-based Rocky Mountain Development Group hope to tap into $5 million from the program to build a 115-unit, multi-family rental property for low- and moderate-income households on the MAC site. The remainder of the $10.5 million project would come from HUD loans.

Although the city of Missoula is not beholden financially to the project, the Office of Planning and Grants must administer the

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grant, which requires City Council approval.

The council members obliged unanimously at their June 15 meeting.

“It’s an important issue for us,” Bouchee says. “Missoula has a huge shortage of affordable housing. Certainly, the project we’re proposing wouldn’t solve the problem, but it would alleviate it a little bit. And anything we can do to help with the creation of more affordable housing in Missoula, we absolutely want to see it through.”

The project, however, hinges on whether the developers can secure NSP funds. The program awards money on a first come, first serve basis so it’s in the city’s—and the developer’s—best interest to apply early.

If the funding comes through, Bouchee says construction would begin next winter and continue throughout next year.

“This all sounds good,” he says, “but it’s contingent on us getting the funds.

If our application is not successful, we’re kinda back at square one in looking for ways to develop affordable housing.”

Jesse Froehling

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The suit will likely follow Riches’ other fanciful challenges and be dismissed by the court. Molloy declined to comment in general on vexatious litigation, legal jargon for frivolous lawsuits. Molloy is also set to preside over a second Riches case filed in Helena June 1.

This is the first time Riches’ name has graced the Missoula court, but Judge Richard Cebull has seen several of Riches’ complaints pass through other state court-

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TV Land litigation Pugsley Addams is in the hot seat in Missoula. So are Angela Lansbury, Erik Estrada and the entire Munster clan. They’re the targets of a federal lawsuit filed May 29 with the U.S. District Court in Missoula by Jonathan Lee Riches, dubbed the most litigious man in the world.

Riches has filed nearly 2,000 lawsuits from the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Ky., where he’s incarcerated for identity theft and wire fraud. His most outlandish suit to date, in spring 2006, listed 57 pages of defendants. The more noteworthy included Vanna White, Bono and the Magna Carta.

In the suit currently before Judge Donald Molloy—Riches v. The Twilight Zone, et al—Riches accuses a lineup of classic television personalities of brainwashing and mind control.

“These defendants created me, and as a kid growing up in front of my t.v. spending hr’s upon hr’s [sic] watching the defendants tricked my mind into believing I live a fantasy life,” reads Riches’ injunction.

rooms. He says none compare to the “Twilight-Zone” suit.

“Holy smokes,” Cebull says, reading Riches’ complaint. “This is terrific…This is not very common. In fact, I have to say I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it.”

Riches claims in a recent suit he developed arthritis as a result of “suing the world,” and he detests the string of nicknames he’s won, such as “the Patrick Ewing of Suing.”

This spring the Guinness Book of Records attempted to name Riches the “most litigious man” in the world. Appropriately, Riches filed an injunction to halt the honor.

Alex Sakariassen

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Unbearable water Some Seeley Lake residents swear a bear is to blame for drinking water contamination that exceeds safe levels set by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Two weeks ago, a diver inspecting the Seeley Lake Water District’s intake in Seeley

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Lake discovered a drowned brown bear.

Officials believe the bear became tangled in a line connecting the intake to a buoy floating about 50 feet above it.

The bear finding came around the same time Seeley Lake residents received in the mail the district’s 2009 Annual Drinking Water Quality Report, which showed the haloacetic acid level to be 76 micrograms per litter (ug/L), in violation of the agency’s 60 ug/L limit.

“We just barely failed the test for this year!” the letter reads.

Residents aren’t so enthusiastic, and some believe the dead bear led the district to add more chlorine to the town’s water.

Chlorine, when mixed with organic matter, is what produces haloacetic acids.

“The water up here, literally, when you run it you smell chlorine. It smells like bleach,” says Seeley Lake resident William Shoup, who holds firm to the bear theory. “Everybody in town is talking about it.”

The water district says the high levels of haloacetic acids pose no risk at this time.

“However,” the letter reads, “some people who drink water containing haloacetic acids in excess of the MCL [maximum contaminant level] over many years may have an increased risk of getting cancer.”

Vincent Chappell, general manager of the Seeley Lake Water District, says high haloacetic acid levels have to do with the district’s long distribution system, which gives chlorine more time to react with organic matter. He also points to the town’s many septic systems, and run-off from wildfires that makes it into the lake.

“There are just a lot of different impacts on the lake’s surface water,” Chappell says, “and we just happened to be one of the few in the state that has these issues.”

And that bear?

“That,” he says emphatically, “has absolutely nothing to do with it…That’s the problem with small-town communities and whatnot. They hear something happened and, of course, it’s rumor-ville. Nobody calls to check out what the actual truth is, and they make their own assumptions.”

On June 15 the district began a sevenmonth project to upgrade the water system and bring it into compliance.

Matthew Frank

BY THE NUMBERS $106,000

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As of late Tuesday, Arlee’s Jessica Picchietti sat atop the women’s all-around standings in the 2009 College National Finals Rodeo in Casper, Wyo. To take the lead, the Loyola Sacred Heart graduate finished first among more than 50 competitors in breakaway roping, and then placed 13th in goat tying. For you city folk, the second event entails Picchietti successfully mounting a horse, racing to a goat, flipping it, and then tying three of its legs together—in 6.7 seconds. We’ve never met Picchietti, but we’re pretty darn impressed, and proud to have her represent our neck of the woods.

Our governor is another story. In case you weren’t following the daily campaign leading up to Virginia’s June 9 gubernatorial primary—and, really, what’s your excuse?— Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer emerged with an illtimed endorsement of former Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, who was in the middle of a heated three-way race. “He’s got the energy to take this all the way to the end,” said Schweitzer, “and when there’s a bump in the road, he’s not going to cry like a girl and quit.”

The sexist remark went over about as well as Schweitzer’s election-tampering joke in Philly last year— probably worse. The press pounced. McAuliffe lost by more than 20 points. The Washington Post even bothered to list Schweitzer on the wrong side of a post-election “Winners and Losers” column, rightly wondering why on earth the Montana governor would fly cross-country to butt his nose into a Virginia primary.

That’s a good question, but let’s focus on something more immediate to our state: What message is Schweitzer conveying to the rest of the country about Montana? For years, it’s been a caricature of Western life that hinges on bolo ties, blue jeans, Border collies and cutesy colloquialisms. Now it’s all that—with some old-school sexism, to boot. So much for the New West, eh?

We’ve never been fans of Schweitzer’s shallow showmanship. It was mildly amusing at first, but now it’s grown beyond embarrassing to downright offensive. Most frustratingly, his schtick undermines some of the decent work he’s done since being elected in 2004.

Maybe he should learn a lesson from Picchietti. She didn’t quit or cry when her first two rounds of breakaway roping left her in the middle of the pack. Instead, she bucked up and posted her best score on her third and final go. No-nonsense, tough and determined—that’s the sort of example we can endorse.

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The Polebridge Mercantile’s gener- Americorps volunteer and Reiswig for “I didn’t think the bank was going ator kicks in at 6 a.m., and the day the Poverello Center. to loan us the rest, and obviously we begins. Minutes later, a van backs up to “I first came to Polebridge not long didn’t have the rest…but we figured the front porch to be loaded with pas- after I moved to Missoula, and instant- we’d give it a shot,” says Reiswig, who tries bound for the farmers’ market in ly fell in love with the place,” Reiswig notes the couple made less than Kalispell. says. “You come up here and you can $20,000 last year. “We were like, ‘We Inside, Dan Kaufman readies the just see, like, Jesus, the Dalai Lama can’t walk away from it. Let’s just make kitchen and awaits his newest appren- and Woody Guthrie sitting outside an offer, even if it’s way under what tice, Flannery Coats. She arrives having tea and shooting the breeze they’re asking, just so we can feel like sleepy-eyed but smiley, wrapped in an about the weather. It’s something else we gave it our all.’ So we made this apron and bandana, and warms a skil- up here.” offer…and they actually accepted it.” let. Two other bakers begin The final price, Reiswig to roll and cut dough says, was “significantly imbued with sugar, while lower” than $739,000.

Led Zeppelin blares from The deal involved more the speakers. than just money, though.

“It took me five tries to The Kaufmans had their own get down the double batch criteria for a buyer, though of chocolate chip cookies,” harder to quantify. says Coats, 25. “But I got the “My favorite author calls triple batch down. It was a it a ‘path of heart,’” says Dan glowing moment in my bakKaufman. “And there have ing career.” been offers that I didn’t realCoats is one month into ly think had heart behind her summer-long “internthem, and I thought that’s ship” under Kaufman, the what it would take to do baker whose pastries have Polebridge.” become the soul of the Kaufman plans to stick Mercantile, the sweet manna around for the summer to that attracts travelers escapensure the sticky-buns come Photo courtesy of Michael Schweizer ing into or out of the wilderout right long after he moves ness that surrounds it.

Flannery Coats and her fiancé, Stuart Reiswig, above, to Costa Rica, where he plans She takes the training finalized their purchase of the Polebridge Mercantile to start up another baking seriously because on June 16 June 16. The Missoula couple plans to make few operation. Meanwhile, Debbie Coats and her fiancé, Stuart changes to the popular coffee-and-pastry pit stop and Connor, the Kaufman’s along the western edge of Glacier National Park.

Reiswig, 26, became the new teenage son who was homeowners of the Merc, the schooled in Polebridge, are much-loved bakery and general store On that first visit in 2005 Reiswig heading to Idaho, where Connor will in this isolated corner of Montana. noticed the Merc had recently been put begin high school.

After 15 years, Kaufman and his wife up for sale. The Kaufmans were asking For now, little will change at the Debbie, both 59, are passing the $950,000 for 22.5 acres abutting the Merc. Self-described “back-to-the-landtorch—rolling pin, perhaps—to a North Fork of the Flathead River, the ers,” Reiswig and Coats plan to replace young, doughty couple following Merc and four rental cabins. the outhouses with environmentally through on an impulse many visitors “I walked away like most people friendly composting toilets, start a garhave considered but few pursued. did, and it was sort of the dream of get- den, raise chickens and a few goats, “It’s definitely a leap of faith ting a few friends together,” he says. add solar power systems, perhaps even doing this…” says Reiswig. “We don’t “I’m sure a lot of other people have start a brewery to put Reiswig’s bioknow shit about anything—about liv- had that dream.” chemistry degree to use. ing off the grid, baking and everyLast fall, he and Coats returned to “She said that it would be real hard thing. It was just sort of determina- Polebridge while scouting wedding to fill my shoes,” Kaufman says, “and I tion more than anything. I keep venues and the Merc was still for sale— told her, ‘Fill your own shoes. Just fill telling people, we don’t know what but the Kaufmans were then asking your shoes and everything will be fine.’” the hell we’re doing, but we’re doing $739,000. The Missoula couple’s pie-inOne change frequent Polebridge it with confidence.” the-sky notion started to smell some- visitors may notice immediately, Coats, originally from Weiser, what realistic. They contacted real though, is the absence of Sasha, the Idaho, and Reiswig, from Spearfish, estate agent Joe Basirico—the same Kaufmans’ three-legged Karelian bear S.D., met at the University of Portland. agent who sold the Merc to the dog. The Merc’s unofficial mascot Coats completed her degree there Kaufmans 15 years ago—and in stood guard on the front porch for while Reiswig transferred to the December drove the snow-packed road about 15 years.

University of Montana. After they both in Basirico’s truck after their Saturn got “They’re taking the dogs,” Reiswig graduated in 2006, they spent two stuck only a few miles from Columbia laments, “so we’re going to put up a years together in Ecuador teaching Falls. Coats and Reiswig returned again shrine to Sasha.”

English before settling in Missoula, in February with Reiswig’s parents, mfrank@missoulanews.com where Coats worked for WORD as an who offered to help chip in.

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Buying power Health care reform shows the corruption of Congress “I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.”

Those words, written by Thomas Jefferson at the birth of our nation, ring true more than two centuries later. The proof is in the on-going health care debate and the undue influence being exercised by insurance, medical and health management corporations—influence bought and paid for by hundreds of millions in campaign contributions to members of Congress. Now, more than ever, the corruption of Congress has been laid bare for the people to see, and a sorry sight it is.

In a tremendous piece of reporting last weekend, Lee Capitol Bureau reporter Mike Dennison exposed the ugly truth of money and influence in an article titled, “Senator Baucus backed heavily by health interests: Montana senator received nearly a quarter of all campaign funds from health, insurance groups.”

Dennison took the time to look through Baucus’ campaign contributions since 2003 and the results were nothing short of astounding. “In the past six years, nearly one-fourth of every dime raised by Sen. Baucus and his political action committee has come from groups and individuals associated with drug companies, insurers, hospitals, medical supply firms, health-service companies and other health professionals. These donations total about $3.4 million, or $1,500 dollars a day, every day, from January 2003 through 2008.”

To put that in perspective, the average per capita income in Montana for 2007 according the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis, was $32,458. That means every three weeks our senator took the same amount in political contributions from insurance and health care special interests that average Montanans—his constituents—spent a full year trying to earn.

Baucus’ good friend and Republican counterpart on the Senate Finance Committee, Sen. Charles Grassley, raised even more than Baucus, raking in 23.5 percent of his total campaign funds from health, insurance and pharmaceutical drug industry sources. Together, Baucus and Grassley control the committee that is currently seeking to “reform” America’s broken health care system.

When you consider these stunning numbers—and they are being discussed more widely in more venues than ever before—it’s easy to see why single-payer, or universal health care, is “off the table”

according to Baucus and Grassley. The whip, as they say, has been cracked over their heads by their corporate contributors and the last thing the insurance, drug and medical companies want is government-sponsored universal health care that virtually all developed nations make available to their citizens.

In a pitiful attempt to deflect Dennison’s findings, Baucus spokesman Ty Matsdorf is quoted in the article saying: “No matter the issue, Max always

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been offered is a growing mish-mash of incomprehensibly complex options, virtually all of which keep the insurance industry firmly between Americans

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and their doctors.

puts Montana first. Max will continue to do what’s right for our state, and groups like SEIU and AARP wouldn’t line up in support of his health care reform effort if this wasn’t true.” What Matsdorf neglected to add is that AARP, the Association of American Retired Persons, is also a health insurance company—and AARP, like most health insurance companies, would undoubtedly see their profits crumble or disappear entirely should America enact universal health care for its citizens.

It is no secret that Baucus has been getting hammered in his home state for the last month on his refusal to consider single-payer health care as a viable option to America’s health care crisis. When the anger of Montanans first began to bubble up, Baucus sent out his staffers to hold “listening sessions” statewide to supposedly hear what Montanans, whom Baucus called his “bosses,” had to say. What they said was simple—give us universal health care, not mandated insurance. A week later, Montanans for Single-payer staged rallies at Baucus’ offices statewide, draw-

ing hundreds of citizens to once again restate their preference for universal health care with no co-payments, no deductibles, no exclusions for pre-existing conditions and no huge profit margin for insurance companies. That message came across loud and clear, but it was not what our senator wanted to hear. Instead, Baucus continues to claim that singlepayer health care has no chance in Congress, so there’s no use in pursuing it.

Even worse, Baucus has started to push back against his own constituents, trying to convince us that we are wrong.

What we have been offered instead is a growing mish-mash of incomprehensibly complex options, virtually all of which keep the insurance industry firmly between Americans and their doctors.

The latest incarnation in this game of corporate-sponsored musical chairs is a phony health co-op scheme to set up government-sponsored co-ops that would merely add to the confusion, cost and inefficiencies of our current system instead of actually providing a real solution to our nation’s health care woes.

It is obvious that the corporations have targeted the Senate with good reason. Any individual senator—and there are only 100 in our nation of 300 million citizens—wields tremendous power compared to their counterparts in the House. Why try to influence 434 House members when having a senator or two in the corporate corner is all you need to stop almost any legislation from passing?

Over in the House, where HR 676, the single-payer health care reform bill, continues to make progress, things are a little different. Far from saying, “It can’t pass,” the measure now has some 82 co-sponsors and has had a hearing where singlepayer advocates made their case. While all the murky details of the Senate’s mumbojumbo continue to linger in the dark, the white light of single-payer, something people can understand, moves ahead.

That America’s senators find themselves under increased scrutiny is well deserved. But here’s something those same deep-pocket senators might want to consider: A short time ago the CBC held a contest to name the Greatest Canadian in history. Guess who won?

Tommy Douglas, the politician who brought universal health care to his nation. Are you listening, Max? 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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Back in the 1960s, when NBC was first developing the Star Trek series, a producer fretted that “Spock, the guy with the pointed ears,” would scare every kid in America. Spock, played by Leonard Nimoy, was a humanoid from the planet Vulcan, and Vulcans are what we humans would call hardhearted. They don’t believe in fairy tales and pixie dust, or that Dorothy can click her heels and go home again.

When it comes to energy, the scientist who best exemplifies Vulcan logic is Vaclav Smil. The world’s foremost energy historian, he began a recent essay with this blunt statement: “Our transition away from fossil fuels will take decades—if it happens at all.”

A distinguished professor at the University of Manitoba, Smil finds most American energy discussions maddening. He does not believe that our cars will soon be powered by fuel cells, that clean coal can solve the climate problem or that venture capital will discover an energy analogue to the cellular phone. He calls Al Gore’s proposal to re-power America with renewable energy in a decade “delusional.”

Energy systems are built out of copper and steel and megatons of concrete.

Their operating systems don’t change; 60 hertz never goes obsolete. Upgrading power plants is generally unnecessary, except where pollution controls are concerned, and replacing them is expensive, which is why there are hundreds of 40year-old coal plants. In short, you can throw your laptop out every few years and order a new one, but Hoover Dam will still be plugging the Colorado River centuries from now.

Given climate realities, we desperately need a rapid energy transformation, but wishing can’t make it so. As a Vulcan might say, what is desirable is not necessarily probable. James Watt’s steam engine revolutionized the mining and transportation of coal, but it still took a

century for coal to displace wood. Solar photovoltaic cells were invented 55 years ago, and yet today in the United States, they produce less electricity than Glen Canyon Dam. Eight years after its introduction, the ingenious Prius has yet to become 1 percent of the automotive fleet.

Like it or not, Smil believes we are captive to past investments, to the multitrillion-dollar energy networks we have already created, and, above all, to the scale

When the “ Anasazi ran short of protein, they began eating each other:

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‘man corn.’

of our energy appetites. Only the last of those factors seems amenable to rapid change, and thus his advice to President Obama: “Explain to the nation that Americans, who consume twice as much energy per capita as rich Europeans (and have nothing to show for it), should try to live within some sensible limits, which means using less fuel not more.”

In his books, Smil explains how prehistoric cultures harvested the energy from sunlight, plants and firewood. In the Southwest, energy shortages were generally caused by drought and expressed as famine. When the Anasazi ran short of protein, they began eating each other: “man corn.”

We have much larger appetites today. Melanie Moses, a biologist at the University of New Mexico, calculates

that a typical North American consumes energy at a rate sufficient to sustain a 66,000-pound primate.

That’s a very big ape, and Smil is not the only one asking whether it’s realistic to meet his gargantuan appetite with wind and solar, dilute flows of power that today provide less than 1 percent of U.S. energy. Unlike oil shale—the thermodynamically doomed effort to turn chicken manure into chicken salad— wind, solar and geothermal have highenergy returns and a bright future.

Nonetheless, it will take many doublings before they will meet a significant percentage of our needs.

Smil can envision running a lightly populated state like Montana or Wyoming on renewables once their fossil fuels run out. Urban areas present a more difficult problem. By abusing a calculator and common sense, one can sketch out a renewable blueprint for a city like Phoenix, but after a while the numbers begin to seem like so much Hohokam.

Phoenix long ago exceeded its carrying capacity and is likely to remain dependent on imported oil, gas and nuclear power, for as long as such things last.

In his personal life, Smil is an avid conservationist, proud of his super-efficient house and frugal Honda. In his recent work, there is a hint of frustration with what he sees as the cannibalization of our host planet. Contemplating our journey to the future, where no man has gone before, he writes, “I am always trying to imagine what would be the verdict of a sapient extraterrestrial informed about the behavior of affluent Earthlings.”

Unless saving energy quickly becomes the nation’s focus, we have the answer: “Beam me up, Scotty, there’s no intelligent life down here.”

Randy Udall is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He writes in Carbondale, Colorado.

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Friday Evening at 6pm - Slalom Clinic - At Roundup Rapid (Slalom course site) - $5 & Food Donation Saturday Morning 10:30am - Downriver Race - 10:30am racer meeting, 11:00am launch - 10 mile race from Johnsrud to Weigh Station & 5 mile race from Johnsrud to Angevine

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Fri. 19 June Hurry up and get yourself applied for one of the vacant positions on the Missoula Greenhouse Gas and Energy Conservation Team, the deadline for which is Fri., June 26, and the application for which is available at City Hall, online at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/vacancy or by calling 552-6078.

Get sponsors to raise money to throw at cancer when the Missoula County Relay For Life begins at 7 PM at the Big Sky High School track, and continues all night in a scene straight out of a Stephen King novel. Free, but sponsors are what it’s all about. Visit missoularelay.org.

Sat. 20 June Help the Make-A-Wish Foundation when you partake in or sponsor somebody for the Run for Wishes, with registration beginning at 8:30 AM at Rattlesnake Elementary School. $10–15 entry fee.

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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.

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The Blackfoot River Challenge features a three-day program of clinics and races with an emphasis on fun and philanthropy.

It begins on Fri., June 19, as a down river clinic and a slalom clinic begin at 6 PM from the meeting area at Johnsrud.

Whichever learning situation you choose, you’ll be ready for the next morning’s races, which begin with 10:30 AM meet-

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.

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.

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.

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Wed. 24 June 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 Coffee Break. Free. Call 642-3010.

Parents and families experiencing difficulties and/or chaos with their Guardian Ad Litems (GALs) are invited to a confidential bi-weekly meeting of the Missoula GAL Family Support Group at 4 PM in the Missoula Public Library’s small meeting room. Free. Email missoulagalfamilygroup@yahoo.com.

Thu. 25 June Bring a potluck item and kick it sustainably at another fun-filled MUD Mingle, which begins at 6 PM at the MUD headquarters, 629 Phillips St. Free.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN – After robbing a bank in Cornwall Bridge, Conn., Jason Durant, 32, tumbled down a steep embankment behind the bank, crashing into a snowplow blade at the bottom and breaking his leg in several places. The Waterbury Republican-American reported he also lost his gun and the stolen money, leaving him with only $2. He managed to reach his getaway car and drove to the hospital, where the medical staff, having been given a description of the robber and his likely injuries, called the police.

Despite a robber’s attempt to conceal his identity with sunglasses and a hooded jacket, a teller at a bank in Fort Worth, Texas, had no trouble recognizing Larry D. Cumby, 25. “He works at another business in that area, so he had been in there before, and they knew him by name,” police Sgt. David Yerigan told the Star-Telegram after Cumby’s arrest.

WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED – Police in Boulder, Colo., said a restaurant employee was washing the restaurant’s windows when a man walked upon behind him holding a knife and demanded money. The employee brandished a squeegee, and the would-be robber fled.

Amanda Watkins, 26, told police in Greeley, Colo., that when she told a 3-year-old boy to stop hurting a cat, the boy’s mother attacked and beat her with a child’s metal scooter, then fled.

FELONIOUS CONGRATULATIONS – El Paso, Texas, Schools Superintendent Lorenzo Garcia was celebrating the schools’ performance on state test scores by giving principals high-fives. When Barron Elementary School principal Mary Helen Lechuga didn’t raise her hand, Garcia tapped her on the head instead. The El Paso Times reported that Lechuga responded by filing a police complaint that Garcia assaulted her, saying she felt pain and feared what he might do next.

REAL LIFE NOT ALWAYS LIKE THE COMMERCIALS – While more than 100 people on foot and in the air searched for a missing 62-year-old man in Carroll County, Ohio, Sheriff Dale Williams said he tried to use the man’s cell phone signal to locate him. He told the Carrollton Times-Reporter that when he called Verizon to activate the signal, the operator refused because the missing man’s bill was overdue and said that the sheriff’s department would have to pay at least $20 of the unpaid bill. After some disagreement, Williams agreed to pay. As he was making arrangements, however, deputies discovered the man, unconscious and unresponsive, in an area where there is a Verizon cell phone tower.

BE ALL THAT YOU CAN BE – Iraqi veterans of the U.S. invasion of their country are taking advantage of their bomb-making skills to get back at anyone who blocks their path to true love. Spurned suitors have set off six small bombs in the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad in the past year, according to the New York Times, which reported that many former insurgents have experience making improvised explosive devices (IEDs) and a stash of TNT. “These guys, they face any problem with their girlfriends, family, anyone, and they’re making this kind of IED,” said Capt. Nabil Abdul Hussein of the Iraqi national police, adding that the so-called “love IEDs” so far have caused no reported deaths or injuries. “Usually they’re putting them in front of the doors of their houses, not to kill, but to scare them.”

In one case, police said a Shiite man, who wanted to marry the daughter of his family’s Sunni neighbor but was rejected, planted a bomb in front of his own house and accused the neighbors of being Sunni terrorists. No arrests were made, and the bomb turned out to be a dud. Then the man planted a second bomb, which exploded and damaged both houses. The Shiite family was forced to flee after receiving death threats, but as they left, they sprayed the Sunni family’s house with automatic-weapons fire.

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MAKING AN IMPRESSION – New York City dermatologists reported a surge in tattoo laser removals, which they attribute to people worried about making the right impression when they apply for a job. “People can’t afford to handicap themselves because of a tattoo in a tight job market,” Dr. Jeffrey Rand, founder of Manhattan’s Tattoo Removal Center, told the New York Post.

The newspaper reported that erasing a tattoo requires monthly laser treatments to break up the pigment dye under the skin. Each treatment takes about two minutes and costs at least $200. A small tattoo can take a year to remove. Dermatologists the Post surveyed said at least 25 percent of tattoo-removal clients are erasing the name of an ex.

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dear—one is private property rights uey Lewis wants to set the minute. He can’t drink alcohol or caf- hampered his ability to work on the I need a new drug record straight: He’s not a jerk. feine and is supposed to take it easy. Mitchell Slough without cutting The first time Lewis came to and the other is access to wildlife and He’s not, as the common criti- The medical issues frustrate him, but through layers of bureaucratic red Montana, he didn’t come on tour with fish,” explains Dan Pletscher, director cism goes, a rich, out-of-state, out-of- he tries to shrug it off. In less than a tape. Second, although Huey Lewis his band. He came to fly fish with his of the Wildlife Biology Program at the touch landowner here to ruin the week he’s heading back out on a and the News have been playing music father. As a kid, the musician in Lewis University of Montana.

The law breaks down like this: If a Bitterroot. Specifically, he’s not bent month-long tour with the band that for three decades and have a catalogue loved the metronome tick of his arm of chart-topping hits, they haven’t on hoarding one of Montana’s most made him famous. between 10 o’clock and 2 o’clock as he body of water is a natural, perennially “You want anything?” he asks. retired. The band still plays approxi- sought to finesse a lure into a stream. flowing stream, the public may use it infamous waterways for himself. mately 80 dates a year, limiting Lewis’ He was hooked. no matter who owns the land around He says all this from a hospital bed “Beer? Coffee? Water? Gatorade?”

Lewis’ musical career as the front time on the ranch. Lastly, Lewis knows in San Francisco in early May. A few When Huey Lewis and the News it. Further, the landowner may not alter days before, doctors diagnosed Lewis man of one of the most iconic ’80s that his status as an ’80s pop icon became international icons, and once the stream without a permit. On the with atreal fibrillation, an abnormal rock bands stretches 30 years. brands him with a public bull’s eye, an Lewis had, as he says, “two nickels to other hand, if regulators deem the heart rhythm. It’s an ailment that’ll Consequently, there’s not much more easy target for public access advocates rub together,” he returned to the waterway a man-made ditch, all the require surgery and ultimately delay for him to accomplish musically. As and Montana natives who don’t like Bitterroot to hunt and fish. He bought regulation and all the public access goes away. For years, the his homecoming to Montana for local conservation district a few days. regarded Mitchell Slough as The heart condition, howeva natural, perennially flower, doesn’t prevent Lewis from ing stream, but in 1999, it passionately defending his quietly changed course. A land—and what he’s done with Stevensville man asked it. He’s particularly peeved the conservation district about an article he’s just read in whether he needed a permit the Indy about the Mitchell to work on a portion of the Slough that, he feels, portrays Mitchell and the district him unfairly. He desperately supervisors told him no, wants someone to tell his side essentially deeming the of the story. slough a ditch.

“I’m just a name on a sign,” Lewis says he knew he says, referring to the infanothing about the debate mous warning that marks his when he bought the land. private property. “I represent He says the previous owners the rich, out-of-state landownassured him that the waterers, and I’m not even out-ofway was private, and he state.” spent his first few years fishHe continues on about how ing the slough regularly. As he’s a good neighbor and a conthe years passed, however, scientious steward of the land. I Lewis says the waterway defend my story, and especially deteriorated and he began his part in it. Eventually, he to tinker. He dropped logs starts to calm down. and boulders into the “Look man,” he says. “I can slough, and scooped out the tell that you weren’t out to silt buildup behind them. screw me, but you humanized He says the work created [the other people in the article].

Lewis bought his ranch, a pastoral plot north of Bell Crossing, in 1987. The purchase unwittingly thrust him to the forefront eddies where fish could You didn’t humanize me.” spend the winter below the Lewis has a point. For years, of one of Montana’s most bitter land use controversies. icepack. He then lined the unfairly or not, he’s been vilified as enemy number one in the Mitchell that chapter of his life draws to a close, outsiders messing with their land. a pastoral plot just north of Bell riverbanks with boulders to prevent Slough debate. He’s never stood up to conservation has replaced music as his Since the Mitchell Slough flap, Lewis Crossing in 1987 and settled in. But erosion and, before long, fish started tell his side of the story. I ask if he’s passion. In fact, if he had it his way, decided to keep a low profile. It’s not long after the purchase, he thrust to return. In some parts of the slough, willing to talk when he gets back to he’d hang out on his ranch all day, something he’s struggled to maintain. himself to the forefront of one of Lewis says he knew exactly how many “This,” he says, motioning toward Montana’s more bitter land use contro- fish lived in each portion. He knew primping it, sussing it and rehabilitatMontana. He agrees. them by sight and says he knew their A week later, Lewis waits on the ing it, to try to coax fish and wildlife the Mitchell Slough, “is my favorite thing versies. to do. Rehabilitate the land. I love it.” front porch of his large, tasteful house back to the area.

About the time Lewis bought his ages.

“What about music?”

I ask.

But certain obstacles prevent Lewis “It’s the most rewarding thing in near Victor. He’s feeling a little sluggish property, the Montana Legislature “I love music, too,” he says. “But began grappling with stream access the world,” he says. “Watching wildlife today. To recover from surgery, his from having his way on the land. First, doctor prescribed him medication that a 2006 Montana Supreme Court deci- I’ve been doing it for 30 years. I’ve only laws. The controversial issue “pits two responding to it. Seeing them come keeps his heartbeat below 80 beats per sion, which he fought tooth and nail, been doing this for 10 years.” of the values that Montanans hold very back.”

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On the heels of the conservation district’s rul- and, after scoring a perfect 800 on the math poring that the slough was a ditch, a group of resi- tion of his SAT, was accepted to Cornell dents, calling themselves the Bitterroot River University. Having skipped the second grade, Protective Association (BRPA), filed a lawsuit to Cregg graduated high school a year younger than have the decision reversed. Lewis was made out his classmates; he was only 16.

In 1984, he told a story to David Letterman as the enemy, grouped with his two neighbors, investment mogul Charles Schwab and billionaire that he swears is true. With some time to kill after businessman Ken Siebel. The case went all the graduation, Cregg saved up a bit of cash and way to the Montana Supreme Court, where hitchhiked from San Francisco to New York, learnthe justices ruled in favor of the BRPA. Public ing to play the harmonica—the harp, as he calls access advocates lauded the victory, but Lewis it—during the long wait between rides. Once in New York, he hoped to buy a ticket to Europe, but was devastated.

“It’s a novel, how the conservation values of getting across the country ate away his savings. the valley were hijacked by a handful of these So, he told Letterman, he snuck onto a plane.

“And uh, you guys,” Lewis says. hitchhiked to New “They painted us as York from uh…?” these rich out-ofLetterman asked. staters buying public “They painted us as “That’s right, I property with public hitchhiked to New water on it and fencthese rich out-ofYo r k f r o m S a n ing the public away Francisco and I from that water. It’s staters buying public actually stowed a complete lie. away on a plane,” Nobody—ever—in 60 property with public he explained. “In years has parked there those days, you take at Bell Crossing and water on it and fencing a boarding pass and gone down and fished write a seat numand hunted and the public away from ber, destination on had a nice day the outside, go into and left. It’s never, that water. It’s a comthe boarding area ever happened.” early and sneak on.

He’s still bitter plete lie. Nobody— And of course, take over the ruling. the middle seat “The Supreme ever—in 60 years has over the wing…I Court did a completeactually stowed ly political deal on parked there at Bell away for free on a this,” he says. “The plane.” conservation district Crossing and gone It took him studied this for three three days to score years. They’re eight down and fished and the free plane ride. people in the commuIn Madrid, Spain, nity who know their hunted and had a nice Cregg played his stuff. [The court] harmonica on negated years of day and left.” street corners until research on this deal —Huey Lewis he scraped up by both the conservaenough money for tion district and the a return ticket. He district court. The arrived at Cornell in irony is, there are no winners in the deal. The real losers are the small time for the fall semester and enrolled in the engineering program, but school didn’t take. In farmers, the irrigators.”

Lewis goes on. For someone who’s spent 30 1969, during his junior year at Cornell, Cregg years releasing music for public consumption and joined a band, dropped out of school and critique, he appears especially thin-skinned about returned to San Francisco.

Cregg soon formed another band, Clover, the Mitchell Slough decision. When I ask him about it he seems genuinely confused at the ques- which played the Bay Area and Los Angeles for four years until a promoter talked them into trytion.

“I don’t know why you wouldn’t care what ing out their sound across the pond. With the move, Cregg, who didn’t have a green card, decidpeople say about you,” he says.

The day after spending time with Lewis, I ed to adopt a name his first girlfriend had drove to a friend’s barbecue and met a handful of bestowed on him as a stage name. Huey Lewy, people lounging on the front yard. After someone she had called him. He eventually changed it to introduced me as a reporter, one person asked Huey Lewis. When Clover opened for Twiggy early in the band’s European career, Cregg made what I was writing about. his debut as Huey Lewis.

“Huey Lewis,” I replied.

Despite the name change, Clover’s two “Fuck Huey Lewis,” the guy said. “He doesn’t albums tanked as British punk rock replaced want people to fish in the Mitchell Slough.” poppy pub rock, and when the group returned to the United States in 1979, the band members Workin’ for a livin’ Hugh Cregg was born in 1950 in New York went their separate ways. That year, Lewis began City, but grew up in Marin County, Calif. His par- playing a club in Corte Madera, Calif., with a band ents divorced when he was 13 and sent him to a that would eventually be known as the News. prep school in New Jersey. He graduated in 1967 Four years later, they released Sports, which rose

to number one on the Billboard 200. Aided by hit videos on MTV, four singles off the album topped the charts, as well. Before long, Huey Lewis and the News were competing with Michael Jackson as the most recognized musical act in America, despite their decidedly un-hip shtick.

In fact, “Hip to be Square” was among the hits off their monster 1986 album, Fore! Nothing would be the same.

At that point, Lewis realized, “We’re gonna be able to do this for the rest of our lives.”

That was nearly 30 years ago. For Lewis, “the rest of our lives” is looking a lot longer from the back than it does from the front. His health is clearly taking a hit. He suffers dizzy spells, but then tells visitors—or reminds himself—“I’m not a sickly guy.”

Despite the health concerns, he continues to tour.

“I got a business to run,” he says. “I got 25 people depending on me to keep playing music. I’m just lucky that people will keep coming to see us as long as we continue to play.”

And, true to his commercial routes, Huey Lewis and the News are working on another album. Lewis says the band’s developed a new angle to set it apart from other releases, but he declines to offer specifics.

In fact, Lewis doesn’t talk much about music at all.

I know what I like If you ever meet Lewis, don’t expect him to talk about his movie roles, like the cameo in Back to the Future or the leading spot alongside Gwyneth Paltrow in Duets.

Don’t expect him to talk about Chicago either, although he played Billy Flynn in a Broadway production of the musical a few years ago.

Most notably, don’t expect him to talk about the News. He hardly mentions the band unless pressed. His home doesn’t even look like one that belongs to a musician. There’s a piano and a guitar tucked away in one corner, neither of which he plays well, he says. The kitchenette, ringed by hanging saucepans, takes up the center of the room. When Lewis talks to visitors, he likes to lean against the counter or sit at his kitchen table.

On the wall, the only mark of his musical career is a small photograph of Lewis and former News saxophonist Ron Stallings in the back of an airplane. Both look tired, but Stallings looks downright ill. He has a jacket draped over his chest and, although he’s smiling, his eyes look pained. Stallings was diagnosed with multiple myeloma three years ago and died April 13.

The home sits off the main road, down a long, private driveway. Lewis enjoys the peace and quiet, but acknowledges that the location may have caused the disintegration of his marriage. He’d be on tour, or in California working on a new album, while his now ex-wife sat home in the Montana winter with the couple’s two children.

The two remain friends, Lewis says, and she watched over him while he was in the hospital in San Francisco.

“We’re great as long as we don’t live together,” he says.

Lewis favors Carhart jeans, denim shirts and decaf coffee. When it’s chilly out, the coffee’s straight up. When the weather warms, he pours it over ice.

In his garage, a beat up Jeep Cherokee is parked next to an unassuming Chevy Tahoe. He stores his 4-wheeler in between the two and when he wants to show me his ranch, he tells me to “hop on like you’re my girlfriend.”

What Lewis does like to talk about is the outdoors.

Recently, workers at the Montana Department of Transportation were clearing trees on Highway 93 not far from Lewis’ ranch. He talked them into dropping the logs on his property, the idea being to submerge them in the river again, creating more fish habitat. But because of the Mitchell Slough decision, he’s decided to abandon the project.

Huey Lewis and the News continue to tour, playing approximately 80 dates a year. “I got a business to run,” says Lewis. “I got 25 people depending on me to keep playing music.”

What about jumping through the hoops? Why not get the necessary permits?

“It’s public land,” he says now. “Why would I do that?”

The power of love Lewis’ harsh feelings toward Mitchell Slough belie his other efforts in the community. Since he moved to the Bitterroot, Lewis has found ways to give back to the areas he most cherishes—music and the environment.

In 2007, as the economy started to tank, the University Jazz Festival Fine Arts Committee struggled with fundraising for its annual Buddy DeFranco Jazz Festival. Noting the glut of charity events in Missoula, the committee searched for a way to stand out.

“There’s a million [fundraisers] in Missoula, so what do you do?” says Bruce Micklus, owner of Rockin Rudy’s and a member of the committee. The group turned to local jazz pianist Jodi Marshall, who had taught Lewis’ kids piano lessons. She knew Lewis would lend a hand if he could.

“Huey was always very nice to me,” Marshall says, “and he’s quite the philanthropic fellow.”

At Marshall’s request, Lewis headlined an event at the Missoula Children’s Theater. In front of a sold-out crowd, Lewis performed with the University Jazz Band, running through some of his hits, as well as classics by the likes of Frank Sinatra. Marshall says the event raised more than $40,000 for the jazz department.

“The kids loved it,” Micklus remembers. “He loved it.

It was a terrific party. And for the jazz department, when things had been tough, it was really a shot in the arm. It gave us the ability to continue to do things for the next couple of years.”

Looking back, Micklus remembers being surprised that a celebrity of Lewis’ stature would volunteer his services for such an event.

“I guess you’re always a little taken aback when people who are quote-unquote ‘a star’ offer to donate their services like that,” he says. “Now that I’ve had that experience, I guess that he was really happy to be able to do something like that.”

The event went well enough that the committee is discussing a second concert with Lewis. Marshall doesn’t anticipate a problem setting it up.

“He was very honored to do it,” Marshall says. “I think he just needed somebody to ask him. I knew Huey and his wife Sydney, and they’re lovely people.”

Without being prompted, Marshall then adds, “He’s also very ecology minded.”

Dan Pletscher of the UM Wildlife Biology Program met Lewis for exactly that reason. According to Pletscher, the success of duck nests in the Bitterroot is extremely low. The best way to improve a nest’s prospects, he says, is to build it over a body of water, so Pletscher and his students started asking Bitterroot landowners to let them build humanmade duck nests on their property. Lewis heard about the program and asked to be included.

“The vegetation [on Lewis’ property] is relatively lightly grazed so it’s in pretty good shape,” Pletscher says.

“I’ve seen great horned owls on his place, a pair with a young. I saw a crane nest. Lots of geese, lots of ducks, lots of deer.”

Pletscher pauses.

“He’s certainly had a fair amount of controversy over the access thing,” he adds, “which is unfortunate.”

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Lewis has others who come to his defense on the Mitchell Slough debate. Donald Maus, former head of the Teller Wildlife Refuge, echoes Lewis’ complaint that the whole issue was political.

“None of the people who push this issue, they’re not sportsmen, they don’t give a shit about the resource, they give a shit about outof-state people and people with dough,” Maus says.

When he speaks about Lewis, Maus offers nothing but praise.

“He’s no dummy, man. He’s genius level.

He’s very thoughtful and he really cares about the resource,” he says. “This whole issue has been beating the shit out of him. It hasn’t been good for his health.”

Stuck with you

Lewis mostly maintains a low profile, especially after being vilified during the prolonged Mitchell Slough debate. “It’s not fun reading about yourself in the newspaper being this pig,” Lewis says.

“And I’ve read it for 20 years. It’s not pleasant.”

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Lewis describes himself as “a lefty.” He voted for Obama. And when he bought his property, he brushed off the libertarian concerns he heard from other Bitterrooters that the government was “gonna try to take your land!”

“I thought, ‘That’s bullshit,’” he says. “But that’s exactly what’s happened. The environment is going to be to the left what religion is to the right.”

Lewis drives his 4-wheeler along the slough just north of Bell Crossing when he spots a rig parked on the bridge over the waterway.

“See,” he says. “There’s a guy fishing right now. He probably just heard it was open, or maybe he read it in the newspaper.” He shoots me a look. “I just hope he’s a fly fisherman.”

Sometimes Lewis is an apt listener. Other times, talking with him feels like trying to interrupt a ripping guitar solo. It’s best just to hang on for the ride, let him get it all out. Flyfishing is one of the topics he gets excited about.

“I’m a dry fly snob,” he says. “Let’s go find that fisherman. I just want him to understand how fragile the resource is.”

Lewis searches for a while, lauding the elegance of fly-fishing over the barbarity of worms the entire time.

“People come down here and they use fuckin’ worms and treble hooks, man,” he says.

“It rips [the fish’s] guts out. Some of these brown trout here are 20 years old. I just assume that [the fishermen] who show up here aren’t assholes, they just don’t know. They just don’t understand what they’re doing to the land. They just don’t understand.”

Lewis says the same lack of understanding pegged him as an evil outsider during the Mitchell Slough debate. He’s tired of it, and eager to clear his name.

“It’s not fun when you read about yourself in the newspaper being this pig,” Lewis says. “And I’ve read it for 20 years. It’s not pleasant.”

He’s not sure he can ever repair his public image in western Montana, but trusts that those who know him appreciate how much he cares for the land.

“I think I’m a great neighbor,” he says.

“That’s all I’ve ever tried to be is a great neighbor.” jfroehling@missoulanews.com

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Good Food Store 1600 South 3rd West • 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted free-range chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm. $–$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins • 541-4622 Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. We also offer catering. www.justinshobnobcafe.com MC/V $-$$ HuHot Mongolian Grill 3521 Brooks • 829-8888 At HuHot you’ll find dozens of meats, seafood, noodles, vegetables and homemade sauces for the timid to the adventurous.

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

Noodle Express 2000 W. Broadway • 541-7333 Featuring a mixture of non-traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Polynesian contemporary dishes.

Phone ahead ordering is enhanced with a convenient PickUp window. $-$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 Don't feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks • 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $6.95. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $6.95. Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am-4pm. $–$$.

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

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

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Enjoy a drink with one of our insanely delicious Gourmet Burgers, Bottomless Steak Fries. Or, snack on one of our shareable starters with friends! $-$$ SA WAD DEE 221 W. Broadway • 543-9966 Sa-Wa-Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors-no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisines. Now serving Beer and Wine! $-$$ Sean Kelly’s 130 West Pine • 542–1471 Located in the HUB of the LOOP! Open for Lunch and Dinner, featuring a Sat.-Sun. Brunch 11-2pm. Great Fresh food With Huge Portions.

Traditional Irish fare combined with tasty specials from around the globe! FULL BAR, BEER, WINE, MARTINIS, 100% SMOKE FREE. "Where the Gaelic and the Garlic Mix!" $-$$ Staggering Ox 1220 SW Higgins • 542-2206 123 E Main • 327-9400 Home of the famous Clubfoot Sandwich - unique, portable, delicious! We serve fantastic sandwiches on fresh-baked bread. Now featuring a special summer menu. Call in your order and pick it up on your way to play $-$$ The Stone of Accord 4951 N. Reserve St. • 830-3210 Serving Award Winning Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinners 7 days a week! All of your favorite Irish classics, plus a daily selection of Chef's specialties. A fully stocked bar, wine and liquor store and the Emerald Casino make The Stone of Accord the perfect place for an enjoyable meal. 6:30am-2:00am $-$$ Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins • 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day.

Daily Lunch Specials. All Soups, including our famous Tomato Soup, are made from scratch. Voted best milkshakes in Missoula for 12 straight years. Great Food, Great Service, Great Fun!! Monday - Sunday 8a.m. - 3p.m. $-$$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming • 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$ Wok-ee Mountain Asian Restaurant 11300 US Hwy 93, Lolo 273-9819 Brand new Thai & Chinese cuisine featuring original recipes. Specializing in curry. Extensive menu, vegetarian options and many soup options as well including Vietnamese style pho, Tom Yum, wonton and more. Wok-ee Mountain Asian Restaurant is perfect for take out or dine in. $-$$

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

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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. $

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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 card. Get Gift Cards any time. Treat yourself to a 10minute vacation at Cold Stone Creamery. $-$$ Le Petit Outre 129 South 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula. Saturday 8-3, Sunday 8-2, Monday-Friday 7-6. $

French American Cuisine 363-4567 • Upstairs 217 Main St. Hamilton, MT 59840 Lunch Board • T - F 11:30 - 2pm Dinner a la carte • T - Sat 5 - 9pm

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

Diet of a cage fighter

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There are many motivations for paying attention to what you eat: ensuring proper nutrition, preventing disease, losing weight and boosting intelligence all make their claims, alongside a host of philosophical, ethical and religious concerns. These are all important considerations, but what about foods to help you beat people up? To find out if there’s a reallife counterpart to Popeye’s spinach, I recently sat down with some cage fighters to learn what’s really inside that proverbial can of whoop-ass.

Mixed martial arts (MMA), aka cage fighting, began in 1993 as a sort of experiment aimed at answering a long-debated question: Which martial art is the best?

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) was designed to settle the issue by pitting experts in various hand-to-hand combat disciplines against each other. Wrestlers, kickboxers, boxers and experts in karate, sumo and jiu-jitsu all competed in the experiment, now known as UFC 1. Fights were decided by knockout, decision, fight-stoppage by the referee (in the event one fighter was getting pummeled and not defending herself or himself ) or submission, in which a fighter surrenders.

Albuquerque is a hub for MMA training, thanks largely to Jackson’s Submission Fighting, an Albuquerque gym where some 60 professional fighters, including four past and present world champions, train. Hoping to learn about the relationship between nutrition and cage domination, I sat down at an Albuquerque Italian restaurant with two fighters, Keith “The Dean of Mean” Jardine, a highly ranked light-heavyweight title contender, and his girlfriend Jodie Esquibel, a professional boxer scheduled to fight her first MMA match on Aug. 25.

While many MMA competitors are notably muscle-bound, the advanced cardiovascular training necessary to beat each other silly for several rounds sets them apart from bodybuilders.

“Bodybuilders do almost zero cardio,” Jardine explains. “Maybe 20 minutes walking a treadmill at the most, because their body wants that muscle so bad.” In other words, when you’re below 4 percent body fat, like a bodybuilder, your body

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than in boxing, football and even cheerleading.

And it’s much safer than being fat.

Jardine’s rule of thumb for estimating a food’s GI is to check the proportion of total carbohydrates to fiber, usually measured in grams. In general, the higher the proportion of fiber, the lower the GI. “The most important meal,” Jardine says, “is right after a workout, when you have a short window for using food for muscle nourishment, and not storage.”

The window for eating after a workout is an hour at most. After that, a calorie deficit may cause the body to digest its muscle for energy. The postworkout meal, like all meals in the diet of a cage fighter, is protein-heavy, to nourish the muscles that have been worked. While protein shakes are the norm, Jardine says, they aren’t necessary, just convenient. “It’s easier than bringing a bunch of chicken to the gym.”

At Paisano’s, Jardine’s favorite Italian restaurant, both fighters ordered chicken.

Esquibel ordered marsala, while Jardine ordered his all-time favorite, chicken parmesan. Chicken, being lean and proteinrich, is a favored food in MMA circles. The lovebird fighters savored their glasses of the Photo by Ari LeVaux house red, a rare treat made possible by the because it’s full of slow-burning calories that will fact that neither has a fight in the next two sustain you through prolonged physical activity. months. When a fight approaches and training The protein shake is for muscle nourishment and camp begins, the booze dries up. regeneration, ahead of the morning workout.

“The worst thing about wine for me is the “If you eat foods with a high glycemic index,” mental effects,” Esquibel says, underscoring the Jardine cautions, “your workout will suck.” fact that while the sport may look thuggish, cage The glycemic index (GI) rates the amount of fighting requires mental sharpness. simple sugars in food, which affects the body’s In addition to its mind-numbing effects, wine blood glucose levels. High GI foods, like white makes it harder to stay hydrated, and contains too bread or sugar, can trigger a sugar high, followed much sugar—sugar being the number one no-no by a crash. Low GI foods, like oatmeal, keep the in the diet of a cage fighter. body’s insulin levels—and energy levels—more “When you take sugar out of your diet, you constant. They also keep you feeling full longer. can really feel it,” says Jardine. “And once you’ve In addition to allowing a good workout, GI foods cleaned up your eating, you can feel it when you are also good for long-term health, in terms of eat something wrong.” cholesterol and heart disease. If you watch a cage And your opponent, perhaps, will be the one fight you might not think long-term health is a feeling something’s wrong if you stick to your fiber concern to most combatants, but statistically and protein, and avoid sugar. It won’t guarantee sucspeaking, there are fewer serious injuries in MMA cess, but it will surely tilt the cage in your favor.

Round two

Dear Ari, Last spring we launched a farmers’ market in Thompson Falls. It was a huge success, so we’re bringing it back in 2009.

We began with a special event for the market on May 16 called “Seeds, Soils and Starts.” It was well attended and had some great vendors.

The official season begins June 27, and runs every Saturday through September 26, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Last year, our local farmers and gardeners were not prepared for selling at the market—they brought what they could and the community bought it all up. I got e-mails all winter long from area farmers and gardeners keeping me posted on the different vegetables, berries and

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will begin digesting its own muscle if too much energy is expended.

Punching with intent, as Jardine puts it, is tiring.

So is kicking, blocking, wrestling, body-slamming, and maneuvering your opponent into a “Peruvian Necktie,” “Rear Naked Choke,” “Anaconda,” or some other submission hold. That’s why MMA fighters eat plenty of carbohydrates to get them through the intense cardio workout sessions without signaling their bodies to start digesting muscle.

Jardine starts his day with a bowl of oatmeal, along with a protein shake. He likes oatmeal

herbs they are growing this year in preparation for the market. It’s amazing to see their excitement, their desire to try and grow something different and fun (other than the usual zucchini, radishes and carrots), and how they interact with their neighbors and friends on market days.

Beyond the great food options at the market, it’s wonderful to witness the growing sense of community. Markets are platforms that bring people together in celebration of food and the arts. This summer we’ll hopefully see our smalltown market’s ability to not just survive, but thrive.

If you happen to mention certain markets this summer in your column, I hope you’ll

include the Thompson Falls Market. Thank you again!

Katrina Wright Market Coordinator Thompson Falls Market (406) 827-3559 Dear Katrina, Thanks for sharing, and I’m glad to hear that your market was a success.

Anybody else have any markets in need of a shout-out?

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Arts & Entertainment listings June 18–June 25, 2009

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 including the Jump 4 Joy Bounce House and music by Bob Wire. Free. Call 543-4238.

Learn to check your body for healing blocks when you attend a class on Nutrition Response Testing at 5:30 PM at the Wholistic Chiropractic Office, 436 S. Third St. W. Free.

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 Amid Portland, Ore.’s dog-eat-dog world of indie-folk street gangs, an unprecedented makers and synergy builds a joyful sound durtruce between the Plaids and the Solids is brokered by a sexy floral print dress. “Next big ing the Tangled Tones Pickin’ Circle. Free. thing” Blind Pilot plays the Palace Lounge on Sat., June 20, at 9 PM with Butter, the Call 396-3352.

Beautiful Confusion and Colin Johnson. $8.

You’re invited to dance as though nobody’s watching—but, come on, we all know they’re impact Community Yoga Class every Thu. at watching—as the Teranga Arts School, 2926 S. 4:15 PM. $5 suggested donation.

Third St. W., hosts another sesh of Ecstatic Literacy spreads ever westward as the Dance at 6 PM. Cover TBA. E-mail ecstaticFrenchtown Public Library, housed deep dancers@gmail.com. within Frenchtown Elementary School, A rhythmically based solo act incorporating reminds us of their summer hours: Thu., Tue. the guitar, harmonica and banjo touches It’s time for the Teen Zine Club, which meets and Wed. from 4:30–8:30 PM, and Sat. from down in the territories of funk, country, folk every Thu. at 2:30 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. 10 AM–3 PM. Call 626-2635. a n d b l u e s a s J o h n Tr e a s u r e p l a y s First Ave. W., for the continuing adventures of Put a smile on your face and a tune in your Hamilton’s Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus the self-publishing and somewhat famous. head—join guitarist Craig Wickham every St., at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468. $10 per month. Call 239-7718 or e-mail Thu. from 5–7 PM at Red’s Wines & Blues in The valley’s haven for year-round thrashers, info@slumgullion.org.

Fiftytwo Skatepark, on El Way past the Kalispell. Free. Call 755-9463.

Kids aged 5–13 can teach the man a thing or Missoula Airport, hosts Girls’ Skate Club two during Movin’ with the Mayor, a health nightlife Night every Thu. at 6 PM, which means girls promotion event at 3:30 PM at Bonner Park. Another third Thursday means it’s time for skate for free. Guys are welcome, but Free. Call 721-PARK. Artini: 23,024 Rose Stones—5:30 PM should plan on parting with a few bucks. Call Get your fresh produce up near Glacier, if you at the Missoula Art Museum—in which 542-6383. choose, every Thu. from 4–8 PM as the exhibiting artist Kerri Rosenstein invites Columbia Falls Farmers’ Market overtakes you to take part of the exhibit home once end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., June Nucleus Ave. and offers live music from you’ve heard Ted Hughes’ 7 PM gallery 19, to calendar@missoulanews.com.

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Every Thu., Dianne Keast offers tips on taking care of yourself with the class Basic Self Help EFT Acupressure at 6:30 PM. Free. Call 225-8504. Also on Fri. Your lungs rejoice as you attend an Air Pollution Control Board Public Hearing at 7 PM in the UM University Center’s South Ballroom, where your formal comments on just how much fine particulate matter you’d prefer to inhale will be duly noted. Call 258-4755.

Experience the Missoula premier of local filmmaker Paige Williams’ award-winning documentary Mississippi Queen with a 7 PM screening at the Wilma Theatre, which features live music by John Floridis and Jenn Adams, lively appetizers and a talkback session after the film. $5. (See Scope in this issue.)

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 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.

When in Rome Productions, Inc., presents something greasy and social as they stage The Outsiders, adapted by Christopher Sergel, at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $8/$14 couples.

The Alpine Theatre Project presents an Irish tale of a small town with Hollywood stars in its eyes with their production of Stones in His Pockets at 8 PM. $12–37. Call 862-7469 or visit alpinetheatre project.org.

Modern, outrageous ‘n’ in-yer-face humor from the mind of twisted genius Mel Brooks graces the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road, with the 8 PM production of The Producers. $8–14. Call 3759050 or visit hamiltonplayers.com.

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SPOTLIGHT art party hearty As a member of their board of directors, I’ve got more than a little pride in the Missoula Community Food Co-op’s pending street festival.

Maybe I shouldn’t be writing this Spotlight, but now that you know my bias, let me explain why you need to get to this party: First of all, the Co-op’s easy to find. From the Mountain Water building on West Broadway, head north on Burns Street for seven blocks and you’re there.

WHAT: Mural Unveiling, Street Art Fair and Cookout WHO: The Wartime Blues, Butter and MudSlide Charlie WHEN: Tue., June 20, 4–8 PM WHERE: Missoula Community Food Coop, 1500 Burns St. HOW MUCH: Free/$10 dinner Second, this gathering celebrates the longawaited unveiling of the massive three-panel mural Changing Landscapes: A History of People and Food in Missoula Valley, which illustrates the way food was distributed in the past and how our community’s embraced these values again in the modern age. Artists Rachel Simons, Angelita Martinez and Summer Nelson crafted an incredible piece of public art that’s being hailed as a harbinger of things to come as the Co-op continues to develop.

Detail of the mural Changing Landscapes: A History of People and Food in Missoula Valley, by Rachel Simons, Angelita Martinez and Summer Nelson.

Third, the other elements of this festival are manifold. Live music begins at 5:30, with sets from venue-packers the Wartime Blues, Butter and MudSlide Charlie. A fresh, local and organic meal—nicely complemented with drinks by the Badlander—is yours for 10 bucks, and a live artmaking session invites you to take up a brush and leave your mark. And if that’s still not enough, the Zootown Arts Community Center urges you to bring a T-shirt for a commemorative screen print.

As the Co-op continues its mission to “make fresh, local food accessible to people at the lowest possible price,” this 500-plus-member bastion of locality commits to keeping its roots planted firmly in history. And should memory of the past ever fade, a glance up at their stirring new mural reveals the guiding writing on the wall.

—Jonas Ehudin

ment, 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.

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Bowling and karaoke go together like nobody’s business during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. Start down the path that ends in a Las Vegas dressing room Thu. at 8:30 PM when the Downtown Dance Collective,

121 W. Main St., presents Show Girl 101. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Join the ranks of the Missoula Metal Militia, led by Oakland, Calif.’s Pigs and locals Mageddon and Beef Curtain, at the Palace Lounge at 9 PM. $3.

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.

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.

They’re young, hairy and looking to rock: The Lonely H plays Sean Kelly’s at 9:30 PM. Cover TBA. Call 542-1471.

Clear that pile of cougars from your lap and hit the dance floor every Thu. at 10 PM, when the James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., hosts The Social Club, featuring DJs Fleege and Kris Moon spinning an all-over-tha-map mix of lounge, breakbeat, dub, tech house and progressive electro dance music. Free.

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The Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., presents World of Wonders at 11 AM. $4.25/Free for members. Call 541-PLAY. The second annual two-day sNaKe PiT Rally and Independent Music Festival begins at 2 PM at the Rock Creek Lodge, features about one trillion bands, a wet t-shirt contest, probably some fried testicles and all manner of debauchery. Free. Visit snakepitrally.com

Kids aged 7–11 can work with Bev Glueckert at the Missoula Art Museum to create their own communities during Shoe Box City— part of Habitat for Humanity’s Youth Week—at 1 PM. Free. RSVP 549-8210.

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 d a y. C a l l 5 4 9 - 75 5 5 o r v i s i t zootownarts.com The Missoula Public Library presents a Zine Workshop for teens with the Zootown Arts Community Center’s Debby Florence at 4 PM. Free. Call 721-2665.

If high school English class isn’t exactly nurturing your inner poet, bring all that angsty verbiage to the Missoula Public Library every Fri. when the Teen Writing Group meets at 4:30 PM. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Hurry up and get yourself applied for one of the vacant positions on the Missoula Greenhouse Gas and Energy Conservation Team, the deadline for which is Fri., June 26, and the application for which is available at City Hall, online at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/vacancy or by calling 552-6078.

Have a ball getting crabs in Ronan when the Ronan Crabfest kicks off at 5 PM in Ronan City Park to benefit the Ronan Volunteer Fire Department and Ronan City Parks. $25/$10 under 11. Visit ronanchamber.com.

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.

Catch an easy, eco-friendly-ish and sober ride to Kalispell for the Montana Pride celebrations on that biodiesel workhorse the Cap’n Trips Shuttle, which depar ts

Missoula at 6 PM today, and offers carriage throughout the weekend. $35 per person round trip. Call 2743171.

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.

Hot Harley Nights blasts its internally combusted self into Caras Park at 6:30 PM, where all kinds of motorcycle adoration, music by Ball ‘N’ Jack, Cold Hard Cash and the Celtic Dragon Pipe Band, a frozen Tshirt contest and more. Free.

Every Fri., Dianne Keast offers tips on taking care of yourself with the class Basic Self Help EFT Acupressure at 6:30 PM. Free. Call 225-8504.

Also on Thu. Get sponsors to raise money to throw at cancer when the Missoula County Relay For Life begins at 7 PM at the Big Sky High School track, and continues all night in a scene straight out of a Stephen King novel.

Free, but sponsors are what it’s all about. Visit missoularelay.org.

The indefatigable Paul Mollica and friends offer an evening of original acoustic rock and folk music at the Hangin Art Gallery and Coffee House in Arlee at 7 PM. Free. Call 726-5005.

Turned away from the Carmike for insufficient funds? The Missoula Public Library’s got your back with their 7 PM Cheap Date Night film presentation, in which Clint Eastwood plays a curmudgeonly and increasingly likable old racist guy.

Free. Call 721-2665.

When in Rome Productions, Inc., presents something greasy and social as they stage The Outsiders, adapted by Christopher Sergel, at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $8/$14 couples.

Portland, Ore.’s Derrell Sekou Soumah Walker presents an alluring dance and drum performance at 8 PM at the Downtown Dance

Collective, 121 W. Main St. $5. Call 541-7240.

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.

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

The Alpine Theatre Project presents an Irish tale of a small town with Hollywood stars in its eyes with their

production of Stones in His Pockets at 8 PM. $12–37. Call 862-7469 or visit alpinetheatreproject.org.

Modern, outrageous ‘n’ in-yer-face humor from the mind of twisted genius Mel Brooks graces the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road, with the 8 PM production of The Producers. $8–14. Call 3759050 or visit hamiltonplayers.com.

It’s Slanky, it’s Slanky. It’s fun for a girl or a boy: Reverend Slanky plays the Badlander at 9 PM, so quit making jokes about motel rooms and suitcases full of weed. $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.

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

Zeppo hoists an extra crate or two of funky rock and soulful blues into the Top Hat’s hayloft at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865.

Take a stand against government-controlled socialized entertainment when you partnerdance the night away as Tom Catmull and the Clerics play the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

The Eddie “Devil Boy” Turner Blues Band plays Sean Kelly’s at 9:30 PM. Cover TBA. Call 542-1471. (See Noise in this issue.)

Bask in the sounds of spinning discs as Mobile Beat’s DJs scratch it up tonight and tomorrow starting at 10 PM at Red’s Wines & Blues in Kalispell. Cover TBA. Call 755-9463.

Get to know the upstairs neighbors as the Blue Mountain Observatory hosts another Public Observing Night at their secret mountaintop fortress, featuring this week’s estimated observing start time, 10:30 PM. Call 243-5179 for weather and cancellation updates before you go. Visit physics.umt.edu/bluemountain for directions.

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Shuttle, which departs Missoula at 7:30 AM today, and offers carriage throughout the weekend. $35 per person round trip. Call 274-3171 or e-mail mamameehaw@hotmail.com.

Help the Make-A-Wish Foundation when you partake in or sponsor somebody for the Run for Wishes, with registration beginning at 8:30 AM at Rattlesnake Elementary School. $10–15 entry fee. Call 214-6896.

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 nonedibles 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.

It’s too late to register, but you can still catch all the action at the two-day YMCA Southgate Classic 3v3 Basketball Tournament, with games beginning at 9 AM each day. Free. Visit ymcamissoula.org.

Everybody’s always trying to filch a few bucks from those starving artists, aren’t they? Anyway, UM hosts a Marketing Workshop for Artists at 9 AM in Room 123 of the Gallagher Business Building. $50, includes lunch. RSVP 243-6982.

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.

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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.

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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.

Thus begins two days of classes with Portland, Ore.’s Derrell Sekou Soumah Walker, who presents a series of dance and drum workshops beginning at 10 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $15 per class/$50 for all dance classes/$40 for all drum classes. Call 541-7240.

The Missoula Quilter’s Guild presents the Garden City Quilt Walk, which is really more of a drive/bike if you think about it, which invites you to tour some of Missoula’s finest gardens, featuring local quilts and artisans, from 10 AM–4 PM. Get a map at your local quilt store, or at missoulaquiltersguild.pbwiki.com. Free.

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.

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.

MUD presents a Beer Brewing Workshop at 1 PM at their headquarters at 629 Phillips St. $20/$10 members. Call 721-7513.

The Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St., present the Saturday Kids’ Activity: Incredible Insects at 1 PM. $2/members free.

Call 327-0405.

The Whitefish Block Party begins at 2 PM in downtown Dub-fish (as no one calls it) and features the bluegrassy sounds of the Canyon Creek Ramblers until 4. Free.

Details couldn’t be patchier, but here’s what I know: The Ham Jam Barbecue Rib Cookoff Contest, featuring the Canyon Creek Ramblers from 6–9 PM, takes place some-

where in or around Whitefish at some time or another, probably at or after 2 PM, but don’t hold me to that. Cooking slots are still available. E-mail jeremymorrone@bresnan.net.

The Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St., hosts Meadowsweet Herbs’ Elaine Sheff, who leads a Herbal and Medicinal Plant Walk at 2 PM. $25/$20 members. RSVP 327-0405.

Local artists, musicians and fans of eating food rejoice as the mural Changing Landscapes: A History of People and Food in Missoula Valley, by Rachel Simons, Summer Nelson, and Angelita Martinez, is unveiled during a 4–8 PM Street Art Fair and Cookout with live music at 5:30 from Wartime Blues, Butter and MudSlide Charlie, a chance to witness live artfor-all in the making and a delicious, local and organic meal with beverages by the Badlander, at the Missoula Community Food Co-op, 1500 Burns St. on the Westside, five blocks north of Broadway, while the Zootown Arts Community Center keeps brushes wet all day long and reminds you to bring a T-shirt to screen-print.

Free admission/$10 dinner. Call 728-2369. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Before it slips into its next incarnation, enjoy a Summer Solstice Lawn Party from 4–7:30 PM at Hamilton’s Common Ground Center, 258 Roosevelt Lane. Free. Call 363-6391.

The Healer’s Gathering hosts a special Akashic Reading by Shaun Martinez at 4 PM at the Eagle’s Lodge. Free.

nightlife Joan Zen plays Hamilton’s Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St., at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

Nico Holthaus, of Gin Blossoms fame, happens to be in the area shooting a documentary, so don’t miss his 6 PM sets at Stevensville’s Blacksmith Brewing Company, 114 Main St. Free. Call 777-0680.

Enjoy a mountain party to celebrate the longest day of the year when Littlebird’s

Schoolhouse, 110 Larh Lane in Seeley Lake, hosts David Boone and James Wasem, and openers Black Mountain Bluegrass, during their Summer Solstice Party from 6–10 PM. $12. Call 677-3663.

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The Old Post Pub hosts their annual Pig Roast on their back patio at 7 PM, where tunes from the Wartime Blues, Reverend Slanky and Def Cartel keep your chi flowing in spite of all that hog fat. Free.

Main Street gets even sexier as Patrick Marsolek and Grace Hodges present an evening of tango classes, with beginners welcome at 7 PM, intermediates at 8 and Milonga going down at 9 at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $5 per class/$10 for all/$3 Milonga only. Call 541-7240.

When in Rome Productions, Inc., presents something greasy and social as they stage The Outsiders, adapted by Christopher Sergel, at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $8/$14 couples.

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.

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

The Alpine Theatre Project presents an Irish tale of a small town with Hollywood stars in its eyes with their production of Stones in His Pockets at 8 PM. $12–37. Call 862-7469 or visit alpinetheatreproject.org.

Modern, outrageous ‘n’ in-yer-face humor from the mind of twisted genius Mel Brooks graces the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road, with the 8 PM production of The Producers. $8–14. Call 375-9050 or visit hamiltonplayers.com.

The free lessons begin at 8:30 PM, and then things really get cooking when Hot Salsa Nights enjoys their second iteration in their new home, Zootown Brew, 121 W. Broadway. $5/$7 under 21.

Solid Sound Karaoke proves that music can also be a liquid or a gas, but never plasma, at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. If you can guess the brand of vodka in the twofer-one spotlight during the party known as Absolutely with DJs Kris Moon and Monte Carlo, I’ll give you a complimentary screwdriver. Meet me at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

Indie rock and soulful spirits invade the Palace Lounge at 9 PM, where Portland, Ore.’s Blind Pilot does their best to storm the wheelhouse with support from Butter, The Beautiful Confusion and Colin Johnson. $8.

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.

Feel free to perform during karaoke night at 9 PM at the VFW, but do your best not to bellow, as people are 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.

You might need a few pitchers to make sense of the whole mess when the inexplicably named Bondjoey plays Florence’s High Spirits at 9 PM. Free.

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

Outpost posts up and unleashes a volley of mad reggae upon the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865.

Technically, outlaw country music is still legal, but just you wait until “they” take all our guns: Whiskey Rebellion plays the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Finally, somebody leads the charge from Portland, Ore. back to Missoula. Master dancer and drummer Derrell Sekou Soumah Walker makes his new home— just temporarily, more’s the pity—at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., where an 8 PM performance on Fri., June 19, leads into two days of workshops. $5 performance/$15 per workshop, or $50 for all dance workshops/$40 for all drum workshops. Call 541-7240.

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Bring your father to the Missoula Art Museum anytime today for a special treat, though this doesn’t get you off the hook in terms of a gift.

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Modern, outrageous ‘n’ in-yer-face humor from the mind of twisted genius Mel Brooks graces the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road, with the 2 PM production of The Producers. $8–14. Call 375-9050.

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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.

Kick off the latter hours of your day of rest when the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night welcomes saints and sinners alike with live jazz by the Sam White Quartet and spun sounds by DJ Gary Stein from 8:30 PM–midnight. Free, and the martinis are super affordable.

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NOTICE TO MISSOULA COUNTY RESIDENTS DUE TO THE RECENT STATE MOTOR VEHICLE COMPUTER CONVERSION, THERE HAVE BEEN UNFORSEEN TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES WHICH ARE BEING WORKED ON AND HAVE CAUSED DELAYS. THE STATE ANTICIPATES TO MAIL OUT THE JUNE RENEWAL CARDS ON JUNE 19TH. IF YOU NEED TO RENEW YOUR VEHICLE IN THE MONTH OF JUNE, AND IN THE FUTURE, WE URGE YOU TO USE THE ON-LINE MOTOR VEHICLE WEB RENEWAL TO AVOID A LENGTHY WAIT AT THE TREASURER’S OFFICE. THIS SITE IS: https://app.mt.gov/vrr/renewal

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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, the first of which begins/began June 15. $75/$65 members per weekly session. RSVP 541-PLAY. The first session of YMusic Jam Camp, with your host Tom Catmull, begins at 1 PM at the YMCA. $85/$70 with family membership. Call 721-YMCA or visit ymcamissoula.org.

The three-day YMusic Songwriting for Teens Camp, with host Amy Martin, begins at 4 PM at the YMCA and actually accommodates people aged 10–18. $40/$32 with family membership. Call 721-YMCA or visit ymcamissoula.org.

Erin Roberts busts out four days of Fantastic Fabric Fun with Tie-Dye and Batik at the Missoula Art Museum at 1 PM through Thu., June 25. $50/$45 members. Call 728-0447.

The first session of the five-afternoon MCAT Movie Camp begins at 1:15 PM at the MCAT Studios, 500 N. Higgins Ave. $85, and another session begins July 20. Call 542-6228.

Upcoming Salon-Style Workshops Begin: 6/29 First Chapters w/ Michael Fitzgerald 7/15 Short Fiction w/ Elizabeth Urschel

7/14 Poetry w/ Chris Dombrowski 8/17 Non Fiction w/ Bryan Di Salvatore

Carrie Maynes presents students aged 16 and over five weeks of Figure Drawing for Young Adults every Mon. at 4 PM at the Missoula Art Museum through July 13. $75/$67.50 members. Call 728-0447.

nightlife 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.

Author Doug Scott reads from and signs his book, Our Wilderness, at 7 PM at Fact

& Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

Tom Catmull plays 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.

If you’ve got a horn, go ahead and blow it in the Sentinel High School Band Room at 7 PM when the Missoula City Band rehearses every Mon. through Aug. 3, in preparation for some grand performance of the future. Free.

Call 728-2403, ext. 7041.

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.

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. Third St. W., across from Hawthorne Elementary. $10. Call 721-3854.

The Alpine Theatre Project presents an Irish tale of a small town with Hollywood stars in its eyes with their production of Stones in His Pockets at 8 PM. $12–37. Call 862-7469 or visit alpinetheatreproject.org.

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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Honestly, I’m having a bit of trouble mustering much concern over what you’ll do in the woods this week.

Don’t get me wrong—I like you, in an abstract way, and I think it’s great that you’re into being outside. It’s just that this week my primary activity, both indoors and out, will be mourning.

Last week, the planet and everyone upon it suffered a great loss. Last Thursday the ocean stole away a noble soul. The frigid water brought an early end to a life spent helping people, finding less destructive ways to live and promoting fairness and peace. Last week, my friend Brian “Frog” Gharst was taken behind the veil, to a place from which we’re forbidden.

I miss you as I would my own fingers, Frog, and this week I’m going to need all the subtle power of the wild to begin to heal.

Thank you for all you taught me. Thank you for your bravery in the face of being outnumbered, for your dedication to doing a job the right way despite all the annoying steps, and for your commitment to creating a better world for everyone. I was fortunate to watch over the years as you sought to refine your craft and your existence, as a constant branching brought forth the teacher, the frame builder, the street activist, the rickshaw driver, the dear friend.

There are so many stories I’d share. Like the time you defended a kid you’d never met before from their physically abusive parent. And the way you stayed with them until the police arrived.

And the way you refused to leave when the cop tried to push you from the scene.

This is an outdoor column, so let’s talk about your relationship with the natural world. I met you after you’d wandered into the Buffalo Field Campaign, and I saw you engage the forces of destruction from the Bitterroot National Forest to the California

coast and beyond. Your long travels by bicycle inspired me to take up the habit, and the six-person Port Townsend-to-Missoula “Tour de Struction” ride awoke me to the joy of the long, quiet road.

Here in Missoula, you worked tirelessly with Free Cycles to make sure everyone had access to transportation. You built a cart that allowed a paraplegic man to enjoy sylvan trails, you nurtured abundant gardens to feed your friends and you bolstered our courage at every

Critical Mass. From welding bike license plates with school kids to shooting bagels at them from a giant trailer-mounted slingshot, your huge heart and your joy at our common condition drew us all toward you.

I don’t have the words to successfully say farewell. I’ll probably work on that for a long time. With this tribute, I simply want to remind the people you knew of their great ally, to introduce those who weren’t lucky enough to meet you and to put your antagonists on alert, as your spirit is still with us, and it’s stronger than ever.

As Mother Jones said, “Pray for the dead, and fight like hell for the living,” which is about the best transition I can come up with.

In memory of Frog, I’ll share some ways you can work this week to support wild lands and wild people: The Missoula Food Bank benefits when you take part in—or just watch once you’ve dropped off your donation/canned food— the Blackfoot River Challenge, a three-day blend of clinics and races that begins at 6 PM on Fri., June 19. Head to trailheadmontana.net and follow the links.

You can help expand wilderness protection when you join the Wilderness Institute on one of nine mapping and monitoring trips into the Sapphire and Blue Joint Wilderness Study Areas this summer. Grab more info, and sign up for trip fast, when you visit www.cfc.umt.edu/wi.

Another group that makes no bones about fighting like hell is the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation. They also lead trips into the woods for the purpose of protecting them, and their website sports a long list of trips you can jump in on to lend a hand: Visit bmwf.org.

It would appear we’ve no want for wilderness protection groups, but considering the enormity of their challenge, we could probably use double as many again. The Great Burn Study Group, which is dedicated to securing wilderness designation for that area, currently seeks two lovers o’ the wild for employment this summer. The gig involves an “integrated pest management strategy,” so if you’re not cool with herbicide spraying on public lands, this ain’t your bag. For the rest of you, your resume, references and cover letter will make Beverly overjoyed, so send them to thegreatburn@yahoo.com.

And finally, for all the anarchists out there, I encourage you to take the land into your own hands this week. Weed a community garden bed, take a kid with little going on for a hike in the hills, ride your bicycle armada through downtown on a gorgeously sunny Saturday or spend a few hours tossing a line out into the Bitterroot.

Chances are, Frog’ll be around there somewhere, grinning at you from behind that big red beard of his. calendar@missoulanews.com

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ACTIVITES AND EVENTS Bicycle parade, model trains, ham radios, fire trucks, children’s games, pony rides, food, crafts, and special displays. Tour the lookout tower, schoolhouse and locomotive. See demonstrations of the historic sawmill, antique engines, telegraph, historical surveying. Enjoy the Society for Creative Anachronism, Books by the Inch used book sale, with a special appearance by Jeannette Rankin at 1:00.

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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.

The YMusic Class Music Lingua, with host Melanie Dunn welcoming kids aged 3–6, meets every Tue. at 10:30 AM through Aug. 4, at the YMCA. $77/$62 with family membership. Call 721-YMCA. 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.

Learn a lesson for life when the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., presents Ready? Set...

Read!, an early literacy program that begins at 11 AM. $4.25/Free for members. Call 541-PLAY. Let’s keep it simple folks: The Bitterroot Community band plays Hamilton’s Legion Park during this week’s “Tuesday at 12,” which actually begins at noon. Free.

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.

Establish positive limits that allow for growth when Sara Polanchek presents the Families First class Love and Limits at 2 PM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. RSVP 721-7690.

Bam! And just like that, another Tuesday’s program of Creative Kids’ Activities goes down at 2 PM at the Missoula Public Library—this week author Sneed Collard III and illustrator Joanna Yardley discuss the process of creating art, books and stories. Free. Call 721-2665.

If you’re already out of Saturday’s veggies, try the Whitefish Downtown Farmers’ Market at 5 PM at Depot Park, where musical treats by Jay DiPaola will make your zucchini want to sing. Free. Call 862-2043.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. The Alpine Theatre Project presents an Irish tale of a small town with Hollywood stars in its eyes with their production of Stones in His Pockets at 8 PM. $12–37. Call 862-7469.

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.

At the corner of “tough love” and “hurts so good,” you’ll find local metalmongers Priapism, who promise to call a doctor if their sets extend beyond four hours when they play the Badlander 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.

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.

Jamaica doesn’t seem quite as far away when the Itals play the Top Hat with Luau Cinder at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Call 728-9865. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

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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.

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 the Missoula Public Library and music by Secret Powers. Free. Call 543-4238.

nightlife Missoulians champ at the bit for an opportunity to knock Rehberg off his perch as local tax attorney Tyler Gernant, the Democratic candidate for Montana’s lone congressional seat, meets, greets and speechifies at the Badlander from 5:30–8 PM. Free.

Dan Dubuque plays Stevensville’s Blacksmith Brewing Company, 114 Main St., at 6 PM. Free. Call 777-0680.

Combine a relaxed and supportive atmosphere with live models in their birthday suits—18 and over only—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.

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.

Whitefish’s Stumptown Art Studio, 145 Central Ave., hosts an adult Collage and Mixed Media Workshop at 5 PM. $60/$55 members. Call 862-5929 or visit stumptownartstudio.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.

When in Rome Productions, Inc., presents the dance show Zn3p2 at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $8/$14 couples.

The Missoula City Band blows away the Bonner Park crowd at 8 PM when they appear with the UM

SPOTLIGHT via con irie I’ll admit that at first I thought the Itals must be a group of Italian musicians. Why wouldn’t it be the case? It makes perfect sense. But after getting further acquainted with the band it became clear that the Jamaican trio with their Rastafarian roots harmonies didn’t have much to do with prosciutto, pasta or Paolo Conte.

Instead, Itals refers to ital, a Rasta term for pure and natural. It’s sort of a perfect name con-

WHO: The Itals WHEN: Tue., June 23, 10 PM WHERE: Top Hat, 134 W. Front St. HOW MUCH: $15 sidering the group has stuck to roots reggae since the late 1960s when each member had a solo career. Even as dancehall reggae became the cool thing to do, these guys kept it classic.

Keith Porter wrote the popular roots reggae song “Ina Dis Ya Time” and recorded it with Ronnie

Band Camp Faculty. Free. Call 728-2400, ext. 7041.

The Alpine Theatre Project presents an Irish tale of a small town with Hollywood stars in its eyes with their production of Stones in His Pockets at 8 PM. $12–37. Call 862-7469.

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.

It free to watch and listen, but bring $5 if you want to spit your lyrics: An MC Battle, hosted by Linkletter and Tonsofun and featuring spun background sound by DJs Brand One and the Milkcrate Mechanic, begins at 10 PM at the Badlander, with competitors needing to register by 9. Free admission/$5 to battle.

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.

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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.

Scales, fingering and special techniques are on the menu when the People’s Center in Pablo hosts a Native American Flute

Davis and David Isaacs in 1975, thus forming the Itals. That song was deemed the “perfect reggae track” by Keith Richards—quite an endorsement–and was on the 2003 Artist’s Choice: Rolling Stones CD. The Itals have been to Missoula before and return hot off the festival circuit to bring their music of everliving inity (that’s “unity” my friend) back to the Garden City.

–Erika Fredrickson

Workshop at 10 AM. $40/$30 advance. Call 675-0160.

The Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., invites you to create a fossil wall with visiting artist Cookie Hanson during Fossil Wall Fun, which runs from 10 AM–2 PM. $4.25/Free for members.

Call 541-PLAY. Enjoy WORD’s story hour for children aged 3–5 years at 11 AM every second and fourth Thu. of the month, and get the games, activities and snacks at no extra charge. Free.

Call 543-3550, ext. 255.

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.

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.

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The Seneca Celtic Rock Band plays Sean Kelly’s at 9:30 PM. Cover TBA. Call 542-1471.

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 including the Jump 4 Joy Bounce House and music by the Clumsy Lovers. Free. Call 543-4238.

Bring a potluck item and kick it sustainably at another fun-filled MUD Mingle, which begins at 6 PM at MUD headquarters, 629 Phillips St. Free.

Threlkeld plays Hamilton’s Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St., at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

Learn a bit about native plants and their battle against the invading hordes with conservation land manager Morgan Valliant when the Montana Natural History Center presents a Mount Jumbo Wildflower Walk at 7 PM at the Lincoln Hills Trailhead. Free.

When in Rome Productions, Inc., presents the dance show Zn3p2 at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $8/$14 couples.

Modern, outrageous ‘n’ in-yer-face humor from the mind of twisted genius Mel Brooks graces the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road, with the 8 PM production of The Producers. $8–14. Call 3759050 or visit hamiltonplayers.com.

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

Clear that pile of cougars from your lap and hit the dance floor every Thu. at 10 PM, when the James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., hosts The Social Club, featuring DJs Fleege and Kris Moon spinning an all-over-tha-map mix of lounge, breakbeat, dub, tech house and progressive electro dance music. Free.

Take a look around you, see the people you love and let them know it.

And send your event info by 5 PM on Fri., June 19, 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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Preaching beyond the choir Missoula filmmaker looks at love and religion in the Deep South

by Skylar Browning

In Paige Williams’ powerful documentary, Mississippi Queen, we only know her as Mama.

She looks stern and troubled throughout the film, choosing her words carefully. That’s why it hurts when Mama looks straight into the camera and, without hesitation, says, “It’s not who you are.”

For the Missoula filmmaker, that line still burns. Mama, Williams’ mother, refuses to accept her daughter’s lifestyle. In fact, Williams’ parents are so adamantly opposed to what they coldly refer to as “same-sex attraction” that they founded Mississippi’s only ex-gay ministry, a group dedicated to helping gay men and women get right with the Lord by suppressing their sexuality.

“That line killed me,” says Williams. “I couldn’t even look at the footage for probably six months. The thing is, I thought when I went

damnation and measured explanations receive equal time.

“I went into it with a very two-sided approach,” explains Williams, who received her master’s from the University of Montana’s Media Arts program in 2006. “I didn’t want to make anyone a mockery and I wanted to respect everyone. I thought from the very beginning that this film could start an important dialogue. I didn’t want to preach just to the choir, because then only the choir hears you.”

The result makes for emotional and candid discussion. In an early scene, Williams interviews Wendy Leger, an ex-gay minister from Louisiana who used to date women. Leger says homosexuality is not a choice—something not often said in the ex-gay community—but that she can choose how to act on her homosexual feelings.

overcoming differences. So far, it has. During an April screening in Jackson, Miss., her parents helped field questions during a talkback session that Williams describes as “half Baptist and half gay—something you don’t always see in Jackson without a fight.” The film also collected the audience award at South Carolina’s Indie Grits Film Festival and Best Documentary at the Delta International Film Festival in Mississippi. It premieres in Missoula at the Wilma Theatre June 18 before screening as part of the Montana Pride Celebration in Kalispell June 20.

“My parents loved it,” says Williams. “They thought it was honest and fair. They’re proud of me. They said that.”

Her parents’ pride still doesn’t overshadow the lingering agree-to-disagree sentiment.

Paige Williams’ mother rocks on the front porch of her Mississippi home in her daughter’s documentary, Mississippi Queen. “We have a relationship that’s extremely loving and extremely honest,” says Williams. “But when it comes to who I love, we agree to disagree.”

down there that our relationship was at a certain point, and then she said things that made me think back to when I was in high school and she was threatening me with a gun.”

Mississippi Queen cuts to the very definitions of love, religion, sexuality and family. Williams calls her relationship with her parents “extremely loving and extremely honest.” But when it comes to her long-term relationship with a woman, and how that relationship meshes with her parents’ devout Southern Baptist beliefs, Williams says they agree to disagree.

“Mama may not like it and she may not approve,” says Williams, “but it is who I am. As much as she’d like to think I may change, I can’t.”

To her credit, Williams uses her film to at least better understand her parents’ perspective. She traveled throughout the Deep South and spoke with other ex-gay ministers, her parents’ minister, members of the gay community and people Williams describes as “ex-ex-gay.” Each interview unfurls without judgment or argument—hell-fire

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In a different interview, another ex-gay minister, Sarah Cart, admits nothing in her is attracted to men, but that she’s comfortable with God’s path for her. “God is my outlet,” she says. “He is my intimacy today.”

Then there’s Greg Belser, the minister of Williams’ parents’ church, who clutches a Bible throughout his interview and points with conviction to Leviticus 18, which states, “You must not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.” In the only thing resembling a retort, Williams flashes text underneath the rest of the interview, mentioning other things Leviticus admonishes—like haircuts.

“I was surprised by almost everyone we spoke to,” says Williams. “There were times when everything in me wanted to fight and fight what they were saying. But the thing is, you’re never going to change their mind.”

While Williams realizes she won’t necessarily change anyone’s mind, she does hope the 63minute film promotes a larger conversation about

Williams says Mama demonstrated great growth in understanding over two years of filming Mississippi Queen, but understanding and acceptance are still miles apart. For instance, Mama reveals in the film that she was more hurt by her daughter dating women than she was by the death of her parents.

“That right there, that we will never get over,” says Williams. “I get that. All I can say is, I’m going to pray for her to get over that just like she’ll pray for me. But I don’t think either of us will ever get what we want.”

Mississippi Queen makes its Montana premiere at the Wilma Theatre Thursday, June 18. A reception with music and food begins at 7 PM, with a talkback following the screening. $5. The film will also screen at the Red Lion Fireside Room in Kalispell June 20, at noon. sbrowning@missoulanews.com

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Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band Outer South Merge Records

Outer South ranges from train-hopping folk ballads to galloping country ditties to greased-up garage rock. It preens itself on pop-perfect social commentary in “Roosevelt Room” and then dillydallies superficially on the outer banks of biblical myth in “To All the Lights in the Window.”

Such musical sprawl isn’t a bad thing, but it can spread an album thin. The problem mostly lies with Conor Oberst sharing the spotlight with

Cursive

Mama, I’m Swollen Saddle Creek

A classic concept album, Mama, I’m Swollen is the story of one man’s epic struggle against growing up, accepting social norms, working crappy jobs and staying home with the wife and baby. The songs work best when mundane complaints are replaced by fantasy images, as in the lounge-crawling “We’re Going to Hell” or the Pinocchio-inspired “Donkeys.” Tim Casher sings lead vocals with the melodious intensity of an American Robert Smith, which fits the material but can occasionally grate on the ears.

The dramatic conceit, borne out by an artsy lyric sheet, is that this album originates from a single rambling note written by a man cast adrift on the town

Eddie Turner Rise

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For his debut “solo” release, blues guitarist and longtime side man Eddie “Devil Boy” Turner falls into a trap common with records of this sort: He dedicates multiple tracks to showcasing all the different styles and vibes he can groove with.

For diehards that may not be an issue, but for the uninitiated it can be confusing.

The title track of this 2005 album starts the record off with a moody, almost psychedelic vibe,

Black Moth Super Rainbow Eating Us Graveface Records

The fourth album from Pennsylvania six-piece Black Moth Super Rainbow invokes visions of rainbow-soaked sun showers on a lazy, blissful summer day.

Opener “Born on A Day the Sun Didn’t Rise” kicks the psychedelic trip off with a downtempo beat paired with vintage synthesizers, a Rhodes piano and vocals sent through a vocoder that include lyrics like, “Born in a world without sunshine/you, you’re the apple of my eye/born on a day the sun didn’t rise.”

Things get better and spacier on “Dark Bubbles,” a psychedelic-pop electronic song that recently drew

three other musicians who write and sing well enough, but don’t yet possess his popular status and, as a result, fair or not, seem out of place.

The album isn’t a totally discombobulated effort. But certain songs, like Nik Freitas’ “Big Black Nothing”—a rolling, minor key tune that evokes a combination of Bright Eyes and Old 97s—outsmart most of the other tracks.

Oberst’s penchant for passing judgment on the world of man can often be annoying, especially with such lines as, “There’s nothing sadder than a lynching mob/Full of rational men who believe in God.” But when he pleas for “carrying away the misery” by appealing to the “birds in the chimney” and “whales on the beach,” his refreshing imagery single-handedly illuminates his message to the world a lot more sincerely. (Erika Fredrickson) Conor Oberst plays the Wilma Theatre Monday, June 22, at 8 PM. $25/$23 advance. after a lovers’ spat. The question is: Who thought overwrought late nightramblings could or should be set to music in their entirety? “I Couldn’t Love You” is maudlin, and “Caveman” is too wordy to be any fun. The pervasive religious imagery is intriguing but over-the-top.

I give Cursive props for producing a concept album in the age of the downloadable single, but listening to Mama, I’m Swollen is like watching a stage play adapted from a 19th-century German bildungsroman: interesting once, but I’m not going there every night. (Ali Gadbow) Cursive plays the Palace Lounge Sunday, June 21, at 9 PM, with Boxelder. $13. one which I suspect would meet its full potential live. I would echo that sentiment on just about every track, except for the instrumental “It’s Me,” which lurks smack dab in the middle of the record. This is a cut that boils with energy, and Turner’s guitar playing is on full display. The man can play, I only wish his licks were a little more up front throughout as I’m sure they are live.

“The Wind Cries Mary” may be intended as a nod to inspiration, but the song is a bit tired.

Fans of Robert Cray and late-period Stevie Ray Vaughn should find plenty to like here. Rise represents a fine introduction to an excellent player, but I don’t think Eddie Turner can be properly appreciated until you see him live. (Chris La Tray) Eddie Turner plays Sean Kelly’s Friday, June 19, and Saturday, June 20, at 9 PM. Cover TBA. praise from rapper Kanye West. (He even blogged about it.)

Throughout the rest of the album, Black Moth Super Rainbow channels the mellow moods and atmospheres of downtempo artists like Boards of Canada or Odd Nosdam, while also pushing a rock-oriented sound that at times brings to mind the defunct electronic rock group Add N to (X).

While definitely hypnotic, Eating Us shows just enough groove and bite—evidenced by the driving track, “Tooth Decay”—to make it an album that’s just as easy to listen to whether you’re starting your day with a cup of coffee or ending it with a good night’s sleep. (Ira Sather-Olson)

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In “The Golden Window,” a long, multi-stan“Fifty years ago I learned to jump off the calenza poem that closes the first section of Jim dar,” he writes, “but I kept getting drawn back on for Harrison’s newest poetry collection, In Search of reasons/of greed and my imperishable stupidity.”

Small Gods, Harrison writes:“I hope to define my Throughout, Harrison’s voice remains definilife, whatever is left,/by migrations, south and tively and untiringly his own. And, the reason why north with the birds/and far from the metallic this seems to work is not just in the clarity of lanfever of clocks,/the self staring at the clock say- guage and line breaks (though there is that), but ing, ‘I must do this.’” in the intrepidity of Harrison’s musings. The colAnd, at the close of the poem, Harrison lection opens with a proverb by Antonio Machado remarks that: “In memory the clocks have that seems to summon a spirit of the lifelong travdrowned themselves, leaving/time to the life eler: “Walker your footsteps/are the road and spans of trees. The world of our lives/comes nothing more.” unbidden as night.”

Indeed, Harrison, as the default speaker of When, recently, an interviewer for the Virginia these poems, appears like a paragon of the intrepQuarterly Review inquired id explorer. In them he as to the origins of the speaks of his age-old fears poem, Harrison candidly of losing his one good eye responded that he’d been (Harrison has been blind in immersed in a severe one eye since childhood), depression for a long time of his thoughts on his own and the poem was “a record future death and the death of deliverance which is of his mother who, in one never far away but often poem, may have been reinquite invisible.” carnated into a bird. He Though he made the also speaks of the deaths of comment specifically about his father and sister, both of “The Golden Window,” it’s whom were killed in a car one that can apply to the accident when Harrison entire collection, which, as was in his early 20s. a whole, seems to be its Touchingly, in one poem he own extended record of speaks of the joy of seeing a deliverance—one that is young girl’s bare bottom on never farther away than the the TV—since it’s an image godlike entities, the moon, he’ll never see in real life women and, in particular, again. small animals like dogs and In Search of Small Gods It’s no real wonder that birds, that always seem to Jim Harrison Harrison is one of Montana’s hover near Harrison’s work. hardcover, Copper Canyon Press greatest poets. Though D i v i d e d i n t o t h r e e 120 pages, $22 known primarily as a novelparts, with the middle porist (Legends of the Fall and, tion consisting of a stunning series of prose most recently, The English Major), Harrison has poems, all the sections in the collection consist always thought himself to be, first and foremost, a of observations, sometimes autobiographical, poet. In an interview with his editor at Copper always lyrical, that combine reflection with Canyon, Harrison remarked that a “metaphysical” memory. While memory and reflection can be experience, when he was 19, of suddenly seeing both elusive and abstract, especially in poetry, birds of various species criss-crossing across the the use of natural imagery that is a hallmark of moon led him to poetry as his first form of writing: Harrison’s entire body of work, provides a tangi- “I could see them clearly in silhouette…Anyway, ble grounding to the poems and even helps turn then I heard the call.” the narrative into the surreal: “My dream of From any other poet, the memory might seem becoming a Mexican singer/is drifting away./It affected, but from Harrison it’s all the more genreminds me of the etching on my journal/of a uine when we see birds of various species crissnaked girl/grasping the cusp of the moon crossing the lines of his poems some 50 years with/both hands.” after he first heard the call. These works resonate Though Harrison’s body of work seems to just as deeply as his novels, perhaps more so. In speak for itself, there’s a risk for poets with a dis- the last lines of “Night Ride,” he writes: “Here I tinct voice—particularly one so at home in was Jim the poet drifting the edges of night,/not Wordsworthian-like meditation—to appear, well, sure he wished to be kidnapped by the gods.” trite. Yet, somehow Harrison manages to write Though he might not be sure, the rest of us about nature and the need to throw away our cal- are hoping the gods remain at bay for a while endars and clocks without sounding like either a longer. latter-day Wordsworth or, worse, some old hippie arts@missoulanews.com who’s read too much Thoreau.

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Not fade away Malkovich plays Buck Howard bittersweet

by Andy Smetanka

Edith Wilma, sister of Edna, for whom the Wilma Howard, the thought of being hostage to his relentTheater was named, stayed in show business after less scenery-chewing for another hour and a half her sister settled into married life in Missoula. In was almost more than I could stand. If someone 1919, she married a ventriloquist named Fred Ketch could please refer me to the performance that whose signature act was to sing and harmonize in established this supposedly “intense” actor’s mystitwo and later three voices simultaneously. Can you fying reputation for “intensity,” I would be grateful. imagine such a thing? What is there this side of Tuvan The main reason I dislike John Malkovich is throatsingers, to say nothing of the desperate that he never lets you forget he’s John Malkovich. chumps on “American Idol,” to compare with such Ooh look, I’m John Malkovich talking with a (horan extraordinary skill? It would be marvelous if a rible) Russian accent. Ooh, look, there’s a movie recording of Ketch survived, but none probably does about being John Malkovich and I’m in it. As a and maybe that is as it should be. Unlike Edith touchy fading celebrity, he’s actually pretty funny, Wilma, who died several decades before him, Fred though typically he doesn’t immerse himself in the Ketch lived long enough to see vaudeville well and role so much as brand himself on it. Every part he truly dead. It’s fitting that such an enchanting—it takes on ultimately ends up being John Malkovich. could only have been enchanting—sound from a If there’s any distraction from Malkovich’s bygone era in entertainment exists now only in a few hamming, it’s the rogue’s gallery of real-life winking-out memories.

I relate this Wilma anecdote for melancholy’s sake but also as an introduction to the “mentalist” played by John Malkovich in The Great Buck Howard, a character loosely based on JohnnyCarson regular the Amazing Kreskin.

Unlike many of his entertainment contemporaries—those fabulous celebrity oddities, like Kreskin, whose entire careers seem to have revolved around late-night talk shows of the ’60s and ’70s—Malkovich’s Buck Howard refuses John Malkovich enjoys a hopeful game of Marco Polo in The Great Buck Howard. to go quietly. He has become a laughingstock, a sad relic pushing the same corny schtick to minor celebrities that keeps popping up in The half-full audiences of nostalgic seniors, an endearingly Great Buck Howard, luring you into a mildly touchy specimen of onetime semi-celebrity left to fer- diverting game of Spot The Washup. There’s Gary ment in 25 years of denial and delusion.

Coleman, surprise surprise. And Donny Most— He is out of touch with the times. “I’ve never even Ralph from “Happy Days,” now going by just heard of their paper,” he protests when informed that “Don.” Best of all, there’s Michael Winslow, an Internet reporter will be arriving to interview him. famous for 15 minutes spread out over several Also touchingly vain: Though his audience has dwin- Police Academy movies as the guy who makes all dled to nothing, the prima donna in him won’t cede the cool sound effects. Just as in Police Academy, an inch of its former territory, demanding star treat- here too he has no character to speak of beyond ment and fuming when promoters pick him up at the just the guy who makes cool sound effects. If only airport in—gasp—a mini-van. they could have brought Charo on for a cameo!

Clearly, this Buck Howard is comedic fruit ripe for So the writing is weak and the acting nonexistent the picking. Once the movie reassures you it won’t be in various ways, but The Great Buck Howard is still exploiting its main character for cruel laughs and the hard to dismiss entirely. It’s very generous with its warm half-comforts of pop-culture irony, it becomes characters, even the Kentucky hick played by Steve abundantly clear that The Great Buck Howard will Zahn (speaking of non-acting, I would sure like to stand or fall on Malkovich’s performance. There isn’t see Zahn stop settling for playing an affable dumbmuch to distract: certainly not the flimsy love story bell or burned-out stoner), and surprisingly sensitive between blander-than-bland Colin Hanks (real-life to the bittersweet. We never really feel sorry for Buck dad Tom plays his dad in the movie, too) and a gor- Howard (the character remains too brittle and the geous, available, etc. “press attaché” played by Emily actor incapable of inhabiting the role), but we at least Blunt. (The resultant fumbling is premature in any feel for his type: the has-been in denial, the corny sense of the word, and in any sense of fumbling.) We entertainment anachronism who just can’t walk never sense real interest; it is simply thrust upon us. away from the spotlight. And we stay interested in Watching Blunt try to seduce this trembling field what he’ll do next. Where Malkovich is concerned, mouse is barely more romantic than watching the kids that’s a first for me, anyway. in The Ice Storm tug at their Tuffskins. Blunt hasn’t got much to work with, here. No one does. No one The Great Buck Howard continues at the except, of course, John Malkovich.

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OPENING THIS WEEK Easy Virtue This adaptation of the Noel Coward play—set in 1929, so period-piece lovers rejoice—features Colin Firth and Jessica Biel telling the tale of a difficult home visit for the son of an uptight British family and his new, racecar-driving American wife.

Rated PG-13. Showing at the Wilma Theatre at 7 and 9, with Sun. matinees at 1 and 3.

The Proposal Sandra Bullock is Ryan Reynolds’ ball-busting boss, whose response to possible deportation— she’s Canadian, okay?—is to order the hapless chap to marry her. Then they have to play it off in front of his folks. Anybody see the train coming at us through the tunnel? Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 7 and 9:40, with Fri.–Sat. matinees at 1 and 4. Also playing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 and 9 with Wed., Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun.

nightly at the Wilma Theatre at 7 and 9 with Sun. matinees at 1 and 3, and no Fri. or Mon. shows.

The Hangover Four gentlemen on a Las Vegas bachelor party expedition scramble to answer the morningafter question, “What happened?” and get the groom back to L.A. in time for some nuptials.

Sick lyrical cameo by Mike Tyson. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 5:30, 7:50 and 10:15, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 12:40 and 3:05, and at the Village 6 at 5:30, 7:50 and 10:15, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 12:40 and 3:05. Also playing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 and 9 with Wed., Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Imagine That Eddie Murphy’s a busy financial executive who discovers there’s more to life than your damn Blackberry when his troubled career receives a boost from his 7-year-old daughter’s wild imag-

before in remaking the 1979 film based on the ‘60s TV series. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 4:10, 7 and 9:50, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:20, and at the Village 6 at 4:10, 7 and 9:50, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1:20.

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 It’s definitely remake season: John Travolta hijacks a New York City subway train, and lowly dispatcher Denzel Washington is sucked into the action in this summertime fare that’s oh-so-easy on the brain. Rated R. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 4:30, 7:15 and 9:40, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:45. Also playing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 6:50 and 9:10 with Wed., Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Terminator Salvation It’s 2018, Skynet has unleashed its Terminator robots upon humanity and John Connor (Christian Bale) must decide whether to trust a really sketchy guy in this fourth installment of

Land of the Lost Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:25, 3:35, 6:40 and 9:05.

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:10, 2:35, 5:05, 7:25 and 9:50.

The Proposal Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at noon, 1, 2:30, 3:30, 5, 6, 7:30, 8:30 and 10.

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

Star Trek Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:20, 3:50, 6:45 and 9:30.

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30 and 9:50. Also

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Autobots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Decepticons in this sequel to 2007’s fast-moving blurfest that thankfully also features Megan Fox. Oh, and Shia LaBeouf’s in it, as well. Rated PG-13. Opens Tue. at the Showboat in Polson at 11:59 PM, with daily screenings at 3:45, 6:45 and 9:30. Also playing at the Mountain in Whitefish, beginning on Wed., at 3:45, 6:45 and 9:45.

Year One Jack Black and Michael Cera are lazy huntergatherers whose exile from the village leads to humanity’s primordial road trip in this Harold Ramis joint. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Village 6 at 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1:15. Also playing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 and 9 with Wed., Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun.

NOW PLAYING 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. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 7 and 10, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1 and 4.

Call of the Wild 3D Jack London’s classic novel gets a remake—and its main character gets gender reassignment—in this rendering that features Christopher Lloyd and Ariel Gade, among others. Rated PG. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 5, 7:15 and 9:30, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 12:30 and 2:45.

Drag Me to Hell Alison Lohman is a bank loan officer who denies a mysterious old woman a home loan extension, which leads to 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.

One arts editor reports this is actually a good movie, in the vein of Evil Dead 2. Rated PG-13.

Showing at the Village 6 at 4:30, 7:40 and 9:50, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1:20.

The Great Buck Howard John Malkovich is a washed up hypnotist who hires a young assistant (Colin Hanks) to rejuvenate his career. It’s only when he successfully knocks 800 people unconscious that things start to get really weird in this film that also features Tom Hanks, Emily Blunt, Steve Zahn, Gary Coleman and the sound effects guy from the Police Academy movies. Rated PG. Showing

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ination. Rated PG. Showing at the Village 6 at 7 and 9:30, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1 and 4.

Land of the Lost Will Ferrell stars as a scientist on the fringe in this remake of the classic TV show, in which three modern humans are sucked into a wormhole and deposited in a prehistory populated by dinosaurs, the super-slow Sleestaks and everybody’s favorite chimp-boy buddy, Chaka. Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 5:20, 7:45 and 10:10, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 12:30 and 2:55. Also playing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 and 9 with Wed., Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. 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 PG13. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 4:30, 7:15 and 9:40, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:45, and at the Village 6 at 4:30, 7:15 and 9:40, with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 1:45. Also playing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 and 9 with Wed., Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Star Trek Young dynamic duo James Kirk and Mr. Spock take the U.S.S. Enterprise and her crew out for their maiden voyage, as director J.J. Abrams (“Lost”) boldly goes where no one’s gone

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the franchise, which is easily the third best so far... Rated PG-13. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 7 and 9:35, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1 and 4.

Up 3D 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. Showing at the Carmike 10 at 5:05, 7:30 and 9:55, with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 12:15 and 2:40. Also playing, but in 2D, at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 and 9 with Wed., Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun.

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

Terminator Salvation Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:20, 4:05, 7:05 and 9:40.

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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. Also playing, yet in regular old 2D and ending Tue., at the Mountain in Whitefish at 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:45 and at the Showboat in Polson at 4:15, 7 and 9, where it also ends Tue.

Angels & Demons Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:35, 3:25, 6:30 and 9:20.

Year One Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:05, 2:30, 4:45, 7:15 and 9:30.

The Hangover Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:15, 1:30, 3:15, 4:30, 6:20, 7:15, 8:50 and 9:50. Also playing at the Showboat in Polson at 4, 7:15 and 9:15.

Capsule reviews by Jonas Ehudin.

Imagine That Showing Fri.–Thu. at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20 and 9:45. Also playing at the Mountain in Whitefish at 4, 7 and 9:15 with Fri.–Sun. matinees at 1:30 and at the Entertainer in Ronan at 4, 7 and 9:15.

Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., June 19. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm.

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

Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish—862-3130.

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CLOUD SWINE I’m a 39-year-old woman, dating a guy 10 years younger for about a year. He swears he’s in love, can’t live without me, says I’m the best woman he’s ever been with, and makes me feel great when he’s with me. However, he rarely answers the phone when I call and has stood me up numerous times.

Whenever I get mad about being stood up, he’ll call after a couple of days and either say he was in the hospital or someone died. Should I move on, or is it possible that he does care but needs to grow up? I would like to add that our sex life is out of this world. The truth is, I am turning 40 soon, and I guess he makes me feel young.

—Confused Or Stupid?

Okay, so your sex life is out of this world. And don’t tell me, when you call the guy, his message says, “If I’m not here, I’m probably on the mothership…”

Actually, he has so little respect for you that he can’t be bothered to come up with original (let alone plausible) excuses, or call you in a timely manner to deliver them. In fact, he’s got you trained to call him and wait a couple days to hear which of his two excuses it’ll be.

What? Somebody died? People die every second—almost all of them strangers to a guy who isn’t exactly living out his final days at Whispering Pines nursing home.

Oh, wait—was he in the hospital again? Perhaps insurance companies are finally recognizing being a complete jerk as a legitimate medical condition—or did he just sprain an ankle walking all over you?

Sure, mistakes happen. Like, once. A good guy works 16 hours, lies down for a five-minute nap, and wakes up five hours after he was supposed to pick you up for your date. He’ll be mortified, call you pronto to tell you how sorry he is, and clean out the corner florist to say it again. Should a date who’s a no-show fail to call right away, or claim he was held hostage by bank robbers, the reality is almost certainly one of two things: He isn’t a good guy or he isn’t a good guy. Do feel free to believe otherwise—the moment you turn on the local news and see a familiar face bound and gagged on the floor of the bank.

Since anybody with an I.Q. over freezing is too smart to put up with the excuses you do, it’s got to be a

profound lack of self-respect that keeps you coming back for that 26th helping of crushing humiliation (or, as you prefer to call it, “out of this world sex”). Of course, you have your reasons, like how young he makes you feel—but do you really need to relive that time you waited alone in the rain when your mom forgot to pick you up from ballet? You have to be blocking out your true feelings, and reality, too, probably out of desperation to be loved—which is about the best guarantee you won’t find anything remotely resembling love. You’ll only be ready for a relationship when you can take or leave being in one. Go work on yourself until you don’t need to hear how wonderful you are from somebody else—that is, just as soon as he comes out of this week’s coma, and the waitress in the nurse outfit releases him.

ABSOLUTELY FABRICATED My girlfriend of six months just met my parents. She really liked them and wanted to know if my mom liked her. I said, “Of course.” This was a lie. My mom has always been extremely critical, and was not a fan.

My girlfriend must know this somehow, as she’s started asking what my mother liked about her. What do I tell her?

—Can’t Keep Lying By all means, tell her the truth: “She likes that you aren’t pregnant with my child.” Your girlfriend doesn’t want the truth; she wants reason to believe your mother liked her.

This puts you in the terrible position of coming up with some conscience-searing lie; perhaps “She thought you were very attractive, with a beautiful smile and a great personality.” Should your girlfriend realize your mother doesn’t like her, she’ll probably act weird around her, which is sure to make your mother like her even less. That’s why this situation calls not just for lies, but preventive lies—occasionally volunteering information without being pressed, like “My mom asked about you again.” No need to tell what she asked: “Why does she dress like somebody who gets paid $20 to get in a man’s car?”

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by ROB BREZSNY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you secretly afraid of feeling secure? Do you equate stability with being bored and lazy? Do you suspect that your restless pioneer spirit makes you unfit for the slow, meticulous work of building sturdy foundations? If so, there’s hope for you to change—especially if you make a big effort in the coming weeks. The moment is ripe for you to learn more about the arts of energizing comfort and stimulating calm and exciting peace. To jumpstart the process, go get a massage. As you’re being stroked by nurturing hands, brainstorm about the additions and adjustments you’d like to make in your five-year master plan.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your education is about to take a curious and interesting turn. During the coming weeks, I expect that you’ll upgrade your street smarts and explore a whole new meaning for the term “hands-on experience.” You’ll find out about an area of ignorance that was so deep and dark you didn’t even know about it, and you’ll take aggressive steps to get it the teaching it needs. Congratulations in advance for being brave enough to open your mind so wide, Taurus. I’m glad you’ll be hunting for a fresh set of questions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The books of psychologist Carl Jung provide crucial insights into the nature of the unconscious mind. To the degree that I have any skill in deciphering the part of human intelligence that works in mysterious, secretive ways, I owe a great debt to him. I want to tell you an anecdote about him that may be useful. Once, as an adult, Jung took a break from work to go strolling on a beach. While meandering, he was overcome with a spontaneous impulse to build things as he did when he was a kid. He gathered some stones and sticks and used them to construct a miniature scene, including a church. As he finished, he was visited by a flood of novel intuitions about his life. He concluded that his childlike play had called forth these revelations from his unconscious mind. I suggest you try a similar tack, Gemini: To access important information that your deep mind has been sequestering, go play a while.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): We ask that you not divulge the climax of the epic story to anyone—at least until you’ve let it sink in for a while and felt all the reverberations it has unleashed. After that, you’ll be wise to speak about it only with skilled listeners and empathetic allies who can help you harvest the meaning of all the clues that were packed inside your adventures. One further counsel: Before you reach the absolute, final denouement of the drama, there may be a tricky turn that looks a lot like the ending.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You have cosmic permission (even encouragement) to live on the edge for the next 28 days as long as you follow these guidelines: 1. Don’t live on the edge to impress anyone; do it because you love it, or else don’t do it. 2. Don’t complain and worry about it. Enjoy it completely. 3. Don’t expect anyone else to join you on the edge.

If they choose to do so with enthusiasm, fine. But don’t manipulate them. 4. Don’t imitate the way other people live on the edge. Establish your own unique style. 5. Don’t live on the edge for more than 28 days. Much longer than that and you’ll start sabotaging the benefits.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1968, psychedelic rock band Iron Butterfly released its landmark 17-minute song, “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida.” Cable TV network VH1 later named it as the 24th greatest hard rock tune in history. There are different stories about the origins of the title, but all agree on one point: It was originally “In the Garden of Eden.” It became “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vita” through some fluke, probably caused by the lead singer getting intoxicated and garbling the words as he performed it in the recording studio. This would be an excellent week for you to induce and capitalize on creative mistakes like that, Virgo. I hope you do, because it’ll help you get into the right frame of mind to stir up a mix of excellence and improvisation everywhere you go—and that formula practically guarantees success.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Do you apologize to chairs when you bump into them?

Often end up being the only one at a party who’ll talk to the most boring person? Ever find yourself starting your sentences with “I hope I’m not bothering you but I was wondering if you would mind if I …”? If so, this is a good time to make a shift. That’s why I suggest you add some bite to your demeanor. Do what feels interesting at least as often as what’s polite.

Look for what advances the plot as much as what fosters harmony. The point is not to go overboard, of course. You don’t want to fling insults or arouse friction. Add fire to your presentation, but don’t start conflagrations.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Evaluating Adam Lambert after one of his exotic, virtuoso performances back in April, “American Idol” judge Kara DioGuardi praised him as being “confusing, shocking, sleazy, and superb.” That’s a standard you could soon achieve in your own sphere, Scorpio. But do you want to? You’ll have to care less about maintaining your dignity than usual, and be especially forthright in expressing yourself. Let me leave no doubt about what I’m saying: To be as superb as you potentially can be, you’ll have to be at least a little confusing and shocking and maybe even sleazy.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Metaphorically speaking, Sagittarius, you have unearthed or are about to unearth a rare fossil. I think it’s a pretty sensational discovery.

It’s a missing link that could help you make sense out of episodes in your past that have always mystified or frustrated you. I urge you to learn all you can about this fossil. Follow every lead it points to. And ask your intuition to run wild and free as it dreams up possible interpretations to its multiple meanings.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Maybe it’s time you did something in return for all the free advice I give you. From a karmic perspective it might not be healthy for you to continue to take, take, take while never giving back. So this week, for a change, how about if you compose an oracle for me? Or send me a nice present—nothing big or expensive, just a thoughtful token. JUST KIDDING! The truth is, I don’t care if you ever express your appreciation. You give me a momentous gift simply by caring enough to read my words. Being able to speak with you so intimately has made me a better and smarter person. Now I suggest you do what I just did: Acknowledge how much the receivers of your gifts do for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things,” says actress and comedian Janeane Garofalo. “The glass is always half empty. And cracked.

And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.” As witty as that thought may be, I don’t recommend you make it your approach in the coming days. My analysis of the omens suggests that reality will be especially malleable. Even more than usual, it will tend to take the shape of your expectations. So please, Aquarius, try hard to see the lovely, graceful, unbroken glass as halffull of a delicious, healthy drink.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I feel an expansive, permissive mood coming on—in the cosmos, that is, not me. To be honest, I’m in a more conservative mood than the cosmos. But the planetary powers-that-be have decided to float you poetic licenses, blank checks, special dispensations, and wild cards. I just hope this free stuff won’t make you forget about the finely-crafted containers and boundaries you’ve been working on lately. Maybe I’d feel better if you promised me to keep on doing the careful, conscientious things that seem to have earned you all the good fortune that’s on its way.

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To Give Away LOTS & LOTS OF CLOTHES! All sizes. Please call 728-0889

Fletch Law, PLLC Steve M. Fletcher Attorney at Law

Social Security Disability Over 17 years experience.

Call immediately for a FREE consultation.

541-7307 www.fletchlaw.net

Announcements

Announcements

“Basic Self Help EFT Acupressure” Thursdays & Fridays from 6:30pm8:30pm WEEKLY. Starting on June 18th & 19th. FREE in Missoula. For more information: dianne.getbetternow@gmail.com 406-225-8504

erinarian, common ailments, how to prepare a First-Aid Kit for your animal, disaster preparation, CPR. Each student will recieve an information packet, including a bibliography.Time: Wednesday, June 24, 2009. 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM. Location: Earl Bennett Building.

Conference Room (2nd Floor).

1035 1st Avenue West, Kalispell (between 10th St. West and 11th St. West) Tuituion: $15.00 (All proceeds, after covering of expenses, go to the Flathead County Animal Shelter for the care of the animals.) To Register: Contact Adele at 755-4905.

Each year, thousands of kittens are born during the spring and summer and many end up in animal shelters, waiting for loving forever homes.

The Flathead County Animal Shelter is joining American Humane in celebrating Adopt-ACat Month in June by hosting the 2nd Open House. When: June 20, 2009. Where: Flathead County Animal Shelter, 225 Cemetary Road (south of Kalispell on Highway 93. Turn west on “Four Corners.”) There will be a vaccination clinic (dogs must be on a leash and cats must be in a cat carrier), adoption specials, and refreshments. The vaccination fee is $15.00. Contact: The Flathead County Animal Shelter @ 7521310 for more information.

Man’s Best Friend Adopt-A-Thon. In celebration of Father’s Day, the Humane Society of Northwest Montana is reducing adoption fees and hosting a two-day Adopt-AThon on Friday, June 19 and Saturday, June 20, 2009. The adoption center, located at 3499 Hwy 93 N in Kalispell, will be open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day.

So, stop in and meet your new best friend. During the Adopt-A-Thon, adult cat adoption fees will be reduced to $25 and adult, large dog adoption fees will be reduced to $45. Adoption fees include vaccinations, de-wormer, spay or neuter surgery, microchip identification and a free vet exam. All proceeds from this event will help care for the orphaned animals at the Charlotte Edkins Animal Adoption Center. Call (406) 7527297 (PAWS) for more information PLEASE HELP OUR HOMELESS CATS! You may borrow humane traps from the Humane Society or from me to trap stray cats and get them to safety. Subject to illnesses and injuries, they need our help.

Spaying and neutering does not solve the problem for these creatures who must scavenge for survival and who need to get out of the cold! Call the Humane Society to borrow a trap at 549-3934 or write to Phyllis for a free tip sheet on how to humanely trap stray cats: P.O. Box 343, Clinton, MT 59825.

The Flathead County Animal Shelter is sponsoring a Pet First-Aid Class with Kate List, D.V.M. and Diana Ludwik, Veterinary Technician. The class will cover the vital signs of dogs and cats, recognizing types of emergencies and the need for immediate treatment by a veterinarian, stabilizing the animal with interim emergency measures in preparation for transport to a vet-

Bulletin Board

Bulletin Board

Bulletin Board

Get outside this summer & get in the best shape of your life.

Volunteers AniMeals is looking for volunteers!

AniMeals is a non-profit animal food bank and no-kill adoption center. We are looking for volunteers to help with fundraising, office work, deliveries and giving our animals some love and attention.

Please contact Kelli at (406) 7214710 or info@animeals.net. Help feed hungry animals!

Looking for a volunteer position in your community? Visit the Western Montana Volunteer Center web site at www.volunteer.umt.edu for openings around the area.

Pet of the Week

• Fit Camp 1: June 22th - July 17th • Fit Camp 2: July 20th - Aug. 14th • Fit Camp 3: Aug. 17th - Sept.11th Workouts for all three Fit Camps will be on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7:00 am or 6:00 pm.

Participants are not required to bring any additional equipment.

$150 for one fit camp Drop ins welcome $15 per workout.

Raccoon Do any of you remember those chattering, trouble making raccoons from the classic comedy, ‘The Great Outdoors?’ Well that’s our Raccoon for sure! Although he originally got his name because of his beautiful, fluffy, striped tail, his spunk and out right comedic routines have earned him a new reputation. June is ‘ Adopt a Shelter Cat’ month, and all adult cat adoptions at the Humane Society are $25 off.

We are open Tues.-Sat. 12-5p.m. or call us for more information @ 549-HSWM

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CLASSIFIEDS Employment

Employment

Employment

Employment

Employment

Employment

Employment

APARTMENT MAINTENANCE WORKER, F/T Seasonal, Employer is seeking experienced APARTMENT MAINTENANCE WORKER. Will be doing painting, patching, changing light bulbs, caulking, and light carpentry and light plumbing work. Prefers person with a strong background in painting or plumbing work. Must have reliable vehicle, valid driver’s license, clean driving record and vehicle insurance. Some basic tools hand tools may be required. Schedule can be flexible with 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday-Friday preferred.

Starting pay is depending on experience. Job will last until weather permits in late fall months. #2975682 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

work full-time, Monday-Friday from 7:00am-6:00pm. Will be responsible for daily operations of daycare that serves children from infant to school age. Employer is looking for someone that may be willing to take over business in the future. Must be dependable, have at least 6 months previous experience in a daycare setting and love working with children. Must have or be able to obtain CPR and First Aid Certifications within one week of hire. Pay will be negotiable based on experience and qualifications. #29756476 M i s s o u l a Wo r k f o r c e C e n t e r 728-7060

PM. Competitive wage. #2975689 M i s s o u l a Wo r k f o r c e C e n t e r 728-7060

Please send resume to PO BOX 7788 Missoula MT 59807.

ence plus $100/month bonus. Preemployment drug screen required.

Benefits include medical, dental, 401K, profit-sharing, and vacation #2975684 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

Experience, No Selling. Call: 1-888-213-5225 Ad Code L-5.

Generous compensation. No experience necessary. Exceptional support and training. Cosmetologists, estheticians, and salons welcome. www.Montana.MyArbonne.com or 406.207.7366.

! BARTENDING ! $300-Day potential, no experience necessar y, training provided.

1-800-965-6520 ext. 278 CARE GIVER Live-in, F/T, Msla.

Seeking a mature Non Smoking LIVE IN CARE GIVER for woman with two cats. DUTIES INCLUDE: Provide routine, personal healthcare, such as bathing, dressing, or grooming, to woman in her home.

Gate belt and Hoyer lift available.

Other daily living assignments as needed (some shopping, errands, light housekeeping). This is a LIVE-IN position. Due to the living arrangements, employer is seeking a NONSMOKER and prefers a nondrinker. Requires a minimum of 6 months care giving experience.

Work is up to 30 hours per week.

Help is needed 7 days per week.

Employer is seeking a worker with a mature work ethic. Work schedule will be discussed. Time off will be negotiated as needed.

Pay is $11.20/hour. #2975668 M i s s o u l a Wo r k f o r c e C e n t e r 728-7060 COOK, P/T, Msla. Missoula nursing home is seeking part-time COOKS to work approximately 20 hours per week. Experience preferred, employer willing to train motivated worker. Will be directly accountable to the Dietary Services Manager to prepare foods for residents. Assists Dietary Services Manager in daily meal preparation, will help out as a Dietary Aide and in the Activities department. Maintains knowledge of therapeutic diet preparation and Food Service policies and procedures. Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Background check will be conducted; cannot have record of abuse, exploitation or neglect. Shifts available: 6 am to 2:30 pm, 10 am to 2 pm and 2:30 pm to about 9 pm. Will work rotating days, with occasional fill-in shifts when needed. MUST be able to work weekends. Hours may increase.

Pay is 8.35. Facility is on Mountain Line Bus Route. #2975686 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 DAYCARE DIRECTOR, F/T, Msla.

Missoula accredited Daycare Center seeking a full-time DIRECTOR to

JOBS, JOBS, JOBS. Part-time job!

Full-time BENEFITS-to include medical and dental. If you are 17-42 years old, The Montana Army National Guard has many positions available starting at over $10.00/hr. $20,000 Enlistment Bonus, $80,000 for College Education, $20,000 for Prior Service. For more information call 1-800-GO-GUARD LANDSCAPING / GROUNDSKEEPERS, F/T, BONNER-GREENOUGH. Assist with upkeep and maintenance of large property area for 5 star resort. Must have 1 year experience with commercial mowing equipment. Will be pruning, planting, weeding and mowing. A plus if you have experience operating Bobcat, excavator and front end loader. Outside work, physically demanding position, in all weather conditions. Must be dependable and reliable with strong customer service skills as may interact with guests on ranch. Must have valid MT driver’s license. Work site located approximately 35 miles from Missoula - transportation assistance possible. Work days can vary.

Wages dependent on experience. #29756892 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 LINE HAUL/PICK-UP & DELIVERY DRIVER, P/T, Msla. Local company is looking for a part-time, on-call LINE HAUL/ PICKUP & DELIVERY DRIVER for Regional pickup and delivery of freight. This position requires a Class A1 CDL with Hazmat and Doubles & Triples endorsement. A minimum of six months freight delivery and a clean MVR is also required. Loading and unloading freight, using a forklift and pallet jack as needed.

Occasionally covering for Line Haul Drivers on Salt Lake trips as needed.

Starting wage will be $16.00/hr.

DOE. #2975688 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 MEDICAL RECEPTIONIST, F/T, Msla. Missoula employer seeking a reliable, experienced MEDICAL RECEPTIONIST, for both permanent and temporary positions. Must have previously worked in a medical office and be familiar with medical terminology. Duties include but are not limited to: Answering multiline telephones, customer service, data input, filing, clear and precise communication with both customers and staff. Work Days and Hours are: Monday through Friday, 8 AM to 5

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 RETAIL NURSERY WORKER, Seasonal P/T , Msla. Seeking a part time, seasonal RETAIL NURSERY WORKER for a busy nursery located in Missoula. MUST HAVE SOME RETAIL EXPERIENCE AND BE ABLE TO WORK WEEKENDS. DUTIES INCLUDE: Care for plants and assist customers. Must have good customer service & public contact skills.

Nursery & horticulture knowledge is a plus. This is a seasonal position with the possibility of rehire in the spring. Work will start at 20 hours per week. After training work may to increase to 25-30 hours per week. This will be a set schedule with days and hours to be discussed. Starting pay is $8 per hour #2975675 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 SPRINKLER INSTALLATION HELPER, P/T, Msla. Part-time SPRINKLER INSTALLATION HELPER needed ASAP! This job is hard work, you must be a self-starter who can work unsupervised, be punctual, dependable and a good worker with verifiable references. Work will be most Mondays and Tuesdays depending on work schedule, with the possibility of some on-call weekends. Could be up to 25 hours of work per week.

Must be able to work long days, sometimes over 12 hours in a day, usually starting early in the morning around 8 am. Prefer candidates with experience, but will train the right person. Must be neat in appearance and have good customer service skills. Need someone who has good attention to detail and demonstrates pride in their work. Pay is depending on experience, and will start at $8.00 per hour for someone who has no experience and is willing to work and learn. Some duties will include digging holes, unrolling pipe, cleaning up worksite, piecing sod together, etc. #2975685 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

PROFESSIONAL Help Wanted New women’s specific apparel and outdoor gear store opening Mid Summer. We are accepting resumes for Manager, assistant Managers, full time sales and part time sales positions. If you love the outdoors and have experience in gear and apparel sales for women and want to join our team.

The Nurturing Center in Kalispell, MT, a family and child c a r e r e s o u r c e c e n t e r, i s seeking an executive director to lead and manage a multi-program, $1.3 million budget organization with 13 staff and a 9-member board of directors. Job description at http://nurturingcenter.org/nurturing-center-about-us.html.

Resumes must be received by July 1, 2009.

SKILLED LABOR DELIMBER OPERATOR, F/T, Msla.

Seeking experienced (at least 3 years) slide boom DELIMBER OPERATOR. Must be able to work in all weather conditions. Must be able to pass drug test. Competitive pay is based on skills and experience.

Health benefits available. #2975681 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 ENERGY CONSERVATION TECHNICIAN, F/T, Msla. Non-profit in Missoula is seeking an entry-level ENERGY CONSERVATION TECHNICIAN. This full-time position performs auditing, production and monitoring work. Auditing is done to determine the procedures and measures required to establish fuel savings and safe levels of air exchanges in eligible households.

Production work includes repair, incidental replacement, and instillation of windows, doors, furnace ductwork, insulation and weatherstrip. Monitoring is done to inspect installed measures to eligible households participating in the weatherization program. This position is based in Missoula and pays $13.37/hr plus excellent fringe benefits. After successful completion of State Energy Audit Exam and/or training period wage will increase to $14.53/hr. Continuation of this position is contingent upon funding. #2975687 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 HEAVY EQUIPMENT MECHANIC, F/T, Seeley Lake. Employer in Seeley Lake (Approximately 60 miles from Missoula) is seeking a HEAVY EQUIPMENT MECHANIC with one or more years experience in repair and service of rolling stock.

Duties include maintenance on all facility rolling stock including loaders, service equipment, forklifts, cranes, and other equipment. Must have experience with preventive maintenance and troubleshooting.

Work shift will be Tuesday-Saturday, day or swing. Pay is $14 $18.00/hr depending on experi-

PPL Montana operates electric generation facilities with a combined capacity of more than 2,800 megawatts in Montana and is seeking highly motivated, qualified candidates for the following position: Colstrip, MT -Work Coordinator -Engineer Butte or Great Falls, MT - Engineer/Senior Engineer For a more detailed description of this position, or to apply online, go to www.pplmontana.com.

PPL Montana offers a highly competitive salary as well as health insurance, vision, dental, life, 401k and retirement plans. EOE

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MECHANIC TECHNICIAN, F/T, Msla. Local tire shop is looking for a qualified ASE Certified MECHANIC TECHNICIAN. DUTIES INCLUDE: Perform full mechanical services, including brakes, front end work, electrical, scan tool, air conditioning, alignment, shocks, tune ups, and diagnostics. Requires valid driver’s license and a clean driving record. Work will include alternating Saturdays, but still allows 2 days off in a row (Sun-Mon off or Sat-Sun off). Performance-based wages will depend on experience. Employer prefers at least 2 years verifiable experience AND the ASE Certification. This is a DRUG-FREE workplace. #2975664 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 SHINGLE INSTALLER, F/T & P/T, Msla. A new local roofing company is now seeking a SHINGLE INSTALLER.DUTIES INCLUDE: Cover roofs of structures with shingles, slate, asphalt, aluminum, wood, and related materials. More specifically: Roofing, shingling, tear-off old shingles, climbing, stocking shingles. Prefer 2 yrs roofing experience with shingling, a clean driving record, and your own basic hand tools. Work is dayshift, usually Monday-Friday, with Saturdays on occasion to allow for up to 40 hours of work per week. Pay will be discussed based on experience and skill. Potential raises given with proven ability. #2975683 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING. Complete programs and refresher courses, rent equipment for CDL. Job Placement Assistance. Financial assistance for qualified students.

SAGE Technical Services, Billings/Missoula, 1-800-545-4546 Water Commissioner- Florence Area Familiarity with water rights including decrees, distribution and measuring devices. Carlton Creek specific water rights training provided. Must be willing to be deputized, in good physical condition, able to calculate water flow and communicate well with water users.

Computer capable for billing spread sheets. Approximately 20 variable hours per week; seasonal. $20/hour. Call 273-2798

TRAINING/ INSTRUCTION

ALL CASH VENDING! Earn up to $800/Day Potential? Your own local vending route. Includes 25 Machines and Candy for $9,995.

1-888-776-3068 Beauty with benefits!

Unique opportunity for motivated individual. Be your own boss sharing superior cosmetics, skin care and health care products with others.

LOOMIX(r) FEED SUPPLEMENTS is seeking Dealers. Motivated individuals with cattle knowledge and community ties. Contact Kristi @ 800870-0356/kboen@loomix.com to find out if there is a Dealership opportunity in your area

Instruction

Instruction

Summer Enlightenment

ANIYSA Middle Eastern Dance Classes and Supplies. Call 2730368. www.aniysa.com

Piano Lessons Ages 8-Adult Beginner-Intermediate

Laura- 250-0228

TOM CATMULL currently accepting beginning students for introductory guitar instruction. For questions call 543-9824 or email tom@tomcatmull.com

T'ai Chi

Turn off your TV and turn on your life.

Bennett’s Music Studio Guitar, banjo,mandolin and bass lessons.

Rentals available.

721-0190

www.bennettsmusicstudio.com

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REIKI WITH HORSES WEEKEND WORKSHOP at River Pines Farm - meet the herd

June 27 and June 28 Discover Your Authentic Power Through the Way of the Horse Reiki and Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning together for the first time!

Equine Reiki helps horses heal physically, mentally, emotionally.

Facilitated by: EPONA Approved Instructor, Shari Montana and Reiki Master, Linda St. Peter Fee is $225.00 includes Reiki 1 certificate, lunch & materials

For information and registration call Linda at 360-9153.

Registration deadline is June 21, 2009

Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing.

REIKI INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE, LLC

FIREFIGHTER Paid training to join elite U.S. Navy team. Good pay, medical/dental, promotions, vacation. HS grads ages 17-34. Call Mon-Fri 800-887-0952 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Learn all areas of IT. Great pay and benefits, $ for school. HS grads ages 17-34. No exp needed. Call Mon-Fri 877-475-6289 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 U.S. NAVY Launch a career today.

Advanced paid training, medical/dental, vacation, $ for school. HS grads ages 17-34. Call Mon-Fri 800-437-6044 WAREHOUSING TRAINEE Good pay, regular raises, great benefits, $ for school, vacation. No exp needed. HS grads ages 17-34. Call Mon-Fri 877-475-6289

OPPORTUNTIES $600 WEEKLY POTENTIAL$$$ Helping the Government PT. No

2620 Radio Way, Missoula REIKI SESSION $60.00 BY APPOINTMENT Learn Reiki Yourself!

Reiki One Class June 20th 9AM - 5PM Cost: $130 CALL FOR MORE INFO • 360-9153

Waxing Specials...

Bikini: $25 Brazilian: $45 Under Arms: $15 Full Leg: $55 Full Leg w/ Bikini: $70 Full Leg w/ Brazilian: $90 Full Body: Starting at $150 Ask about other great prices!

Body Care By Michelle Waxing Specialist 2409 Dearborn Ste. I 549-0777

CLASSIFIEDS Body/Mind/ Spirit

Body/Mind/ Spirit

Acupuncture Easing withdrawal from tobacco/alcohol/drugs, pain, stress management.

Counseling. Sliding fee scale.

Licensed acupuncturist. 543-2220

Wholistic Choices Massage Therapy. Neuromuscular Massage $45/hour. Anna 493-0025

Amy Holmlund, Certified Massage Therapist Now taking appointments at the Hickory Street Chiropractic Clinic.

Discount sessions through August 1st. 406.459.7475

Local Artist's Paintings on Display

Barefoot deep tissue. Deep compression massage great for relieving neck, shoulder and back pain.

406-360-8746 www.CarlaGreenMassage.com

1358 1/2 W. Broadway

BodyTalk, Therapeutic Swedish Massage and Arvigo Technique of Maya Abdominal Massage.

18 years experience. Moondance Massage/Rosie Smith, NCMT, CBP 240-9103 Healthy Hummingbird Massage & Art Center!

Warehouse Mall: 725 W. Alder, Suite 27. Regular Rates: $55/hr, $75/1.5hr, Students: $35/hr, $55/1.5hr. Erica: 396-6868, Souta: 207-6269, Mary: 5965842. Come see our local store and Art Gallery! Open M-F 107, weekends by appointment, and First Fridays 5-10pm.

LOVE ASTROLOGY? FREE Monthly Conference Calls, all levels welcome! (406) 552-4477 www.astrologymontana.org Loving what is; the work of Byron Katie (Visit www.thework.org) inquiry facilitated by Susie 406543-2220 MASCULINE, EXPERIENCED FULL BODY MASSAGE FOR MEN IN MISSOULA. Mark(406)728-2629 PARADIGM REIKI Theta & Laser Reiki sessions $40. Offering Fall Laser Reiki instruction. For info: 549-0289 Professional Massage $50.

Swedish & Deep Tissue. Gift Certificates Available. Janit Bishop, CMT. 207-7358 127 N. Higgins Ten Percent Solution: Affordable Medical Weight Management Come in to register for free physical. River City Family Health 742 Kensington 542-8090

The Multi Item Store LLC (corner of Burns & Broadway) 10-6pm • Tue-Sat • 406-382-0272

COSMETIC TATTOOING Eye Brows, Eye Liner, Lip Color, Medical Repigmentation 17 yrs exp

De'Ette Balfourd Member NCTA, AAM, PCIA, & SPCP

370-3705 www.permanentmakeup.org

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Body/Mind/ Spirit

Body/Mind/ Spirit

406-549-6565 Hypnosis & Imager y “The past is not the past if it still affects your present.”

* Smoking * Weight * Negative self-talk * Str e s s * D e p r e s s i o n * E m p o w e r y o u r s e l f

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Adoption

Black Bear Naturopathic Naturopathic Family Practice Medicine IV Micronutrient Therapy

Professional Services Only

The Goods

542-2147 www.blackbearnaturopaths.com

521 S. 2nd St. W. Missoula, MT

Bathing Beauties Beads 501 S. Higgins Ave.

Missoula Open Every Day

Local Medical Cannabis Certifications

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PREGNANT? CONSIDERING ADOPTION? Talk with caring agency specializing in matching Birthmothers with Families nationwide. LIVING EXPENSES PAID. Call 24/7 Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions 866-413-6293

Dr. Christine White, ND

We make it personal

Massage $60/hr

Sporting Goods

Call Word of Hope at

(Before it’s too late)

Waxing • Facials

The Goods

For free confidential help after an abortion

TODAY!

Michelle @ 406-270-3230

Body/Mind/ Spirit

June 25, 26 & 27

10-6 • 543-0018

Crystal Limit HUGE selection of

Buy/Sell/Trade

Consignments

Gemstones, Jewelry & Beads

111 S. 3rd W.

1920 Brooks • 549-1729

721-6056

crystallimit.com Clothing Puddin's Place

Children's Boutique New & gently used children's clothing 800 Kensington (next to Baskin Robbins)

A Touch of Class

HIKING, BIKING, CAMPING AND BOATING

M-F 10-5:30 • Sat 11-3 543-1555

Assorted Dry Suits & Tops

20% off

NEW TO YOU Custom

Antiques & Treasures

Fly Rods

11705 Hwy 93 South, Lolo • 273-7750

543-0176 rodsbyjay@gmail.com

Call for appointment 541- 8092 742 Kensington (intersection of Kensington & Bow)

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08 Kona Zing Road Bike Like new, extremely LOW mileage. Excellent road and competition bike. Carbon fork, 53 cm. $1050 O.B.O. Call Gwen @ 258-6091

Raw Foodist Kitchen Aids (like new) Excalibur 9 tray dehydrator with paraflexx sheets $200, Jack LaLane power juicer pro $100, 3 sprouting jars with lids $15, spiral vegetable slicer $15. Call 721-8520.

Electronics

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Auction CLARK FORK STORAGE will action to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 38.

Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting June 20th, 2009 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to June 24th, 2009, 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

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CLASSIFIEDS Auction

Furniture

EAGLE SELF STORAGE

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Congregations Positive. Practical.

Casual. Comfortable.

And, it's a church.

546 South Ave. W. Missoula 728-0187 Sundays: 11 am

Computers

MISSOULA’S new go-to place for CONSIGNMENT FURNITURE. 2935 Stockyard Rd. Unit K2 406.542.1202

2 PILLOWTOP MATTRESS SETS, BRAND NEW, STILL WRAPPED, INCLUDES BOX, KING $369, QUEEN $249, 2079029

Music Outlaw Music Specializing in Stringed Instruments

724 Burlington Ave. Open Mon. 12pm-5pm Tues.-Fri. 10am-6pm Sat. 11am-6pm

541-7533

will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owning delinquent storage rent for the following units: 224, 247, 336, 632 and 568. Units contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc household goods including office furniture, desks, baby strollers, car storage carrier, office phone system, boxes & boxes of old rare book collections, file cabinets, TV & stereos. These units may be viewed starting Wednesday, June 24, 2009 by appt only by calling 251-8600. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59803 prior to Friday, June 26, 2009, 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment.

Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All sales are final.

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African Carvings & Island Art The Multi Item Store 1358 1/2 W Broadway (corner of Burns & Broadway) 10-6pm Tues-Sat 406-382-0272 King Bed and aquarium Denver Mattress Doctor’s Choice in excellent condition $200 55 gallon aquarium with birch stand and extras $300 546-2660

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT INVITATION TO BID NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT SEALED BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED BY MISSOULA COUNTY AT THE OFFICE OF THE MISSOULA COUNTY AUDITOR, ATTN: BARBARA BERENS, LOCATED ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF THE MISSOULA COUNTY COURTHOUSE ANNEX, 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT 59802 UNTIL 1:30pm LOCAL TIME ON THURSDAY, JULY 2, 2009. BIDS WILL BE OPENED IN ROOM 201 OF THE MISSOULA COUNTY COURTHOUSE ANNEX AND PUBLICLY READ ALOUD FOR THE FURNISHING OF ALL LABOR, EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE FOLLOWING: PARK STRUCTURES, MISSOULA COUNTY PARKS 3, 4 & 6, MISSOULA DEVELOPMENT PARK, MISSOULA, MT. PARKS 3 AND 6, CENTRAL PARK SOUTH, PARK STRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION WORK TO INCLUDE: CONSTRUCT A SMALL PICNIC PAVILION WITH TABLES AND BENCHES; A

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SMALL SHELTER WITH BENCH AND TWO FREESTANDING BENCHES. MATERIALS INCLUDE FABRICATED STEEL, CONCRETE AND TIMBER. PARK 4, CENTRAL PARK NORTH, PARK STRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION WORK TO INCLUDE: CONSTRUCT ONE SMALL SHELTER WITH TABLE AND BENCHES AND ONE SMALL SHELTER WITH BENCH. MATERIALS INCLUDE FABRICATED STEEL, CONCRETE AND TIMBER. SEALED BIDS SHALL BE ADDRESSED TO THE BID OFFICER, MISSOULA COUNTY AND ENCLOSED IN SEALED ENVELOPES PLAINLY MARKED ON THE OUTSIDE “PROPOSAL FOR PARKS 3, 4 AND 6, MISSOULA DEVELOPMENT PARK.” THE ENVELOPES SHALL ALSO BE MARKED WITH THE BIDDER’S NAME AND MONTANA CONTRACTOR’S IDENTIFICATION NUMBER. NO BID MAY BE WITHDRAWN AFTER THE SCHEDULED TIME FOR THE PUBLIC OPENING OF BIDS, WHICH IS 1:30 PM., LOCAL TIME JULY 2, 2009. A COMPLETE SET OF THE CONTRACT DOCUMENTS CONSISTING OF DRAWINGS, SPECIFICATIONS, BIDDING DOCUMENTS AND PROJECT MANUAL MAY BE EXAMINED OR OBTAINED AT THE OFFICE OF ROCKING M DESIGN, PC, 101 EAST BROADWAY, STE. 612, MISSOULA, MT 59802. THE REQUIRED DEPOSIT IS $30.00 PER SET, WHICH IS NONREFUNDABLE. IN ADDITION, THE DRAWINGS AND PROJECT MANUAL MAY ALSO BE EXAMINED AT THE MISSOULA PLANS EXCHANGE, 201 N. RUSSELL, MISSOULA, MT (406) 549-5002.

THERE WILL BE A PRE-BID CONFERENCE IN ROOM 201 OF THE MISSOULA COUNTY COURTHOUSE ANNEX, LOCATED AT 200 WEST BROADWAY, MISSOULA, MT AT 1:30PM ON TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 2009. INTERESTED CONTRACTOR’S ARE ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND. CONTRACTOR AND ANY OF THE CONTRACTOR’S SUBCONTRACTORS DOING WORK ON THIS PROJECT WILL BE REQUIRED TO OBTAIN REGISTRATION WITH THE MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY (DLI). FORMS AND INFORMATION ON REGISTRATION CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY, P.O. BOX 8011, 1805 PROSPECT, HELENA MONTANA 59604-8011 OR BY CALLING 1-406-444-7734. CONTRACTOR IS NOT REQUIRED TO HAVE REGISTERED WITH THE DLI PRIOR TO BIDDING ON THIS PROJECT, BUT MUST HAVE REGISTERED PRIOR TO EXECUTION OF THE CONSTRUCTION AGREEMENT. ALL LABORERS AND MECHANICS EMPLOYED

BY CONTRACTOR OR SUBCONTRACTORS IN PERFORMANCE OF THE CONSTRUCTION WORK SHALL BE PAID WAGES AT RATES AS MAY BE REQUIRED

BY LAW. THE CONTRACTOR MUST ENSURE THAT EMPLOYEES AND APPLICANTS FOR EMPLOYMENT ARE NOT DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BECAUSE OF THEIR RACE, COLOR, RELIGION, SEX OR NATIONAL ORIGIN. EACH BID OR PROPOSAL MUST BE ACCOMPANIED BY A CASHIER’S CHECK, CERTIFIED CHECK, OR BID BOND PAYABLE TO MISSOULA COUNTY IN THE AMOUNT OF NOT LESS THAN TEN PERCENT (10%) OF THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF THE BID. SUCCESSFUL BIDDERS SHALL FURNISH AN APPROVED PERFORMANCE BOND AND A LABOR AND MATERIALS PAYMENT BOND, EACH IN THE AMOUNT OF ONE HUNDRED PERCENT (100%) OF THE CONTRACT AMOUNT. INSURANCE AS REQUIRED SHALL BE PROVIDED BY THE SUCCESSFUL BIDDER(S) AND A CERTIFICATE(S) OF THAT INSURANCE SHALL BE PROVIDED. MISSOULA COUNTY RESERVES THE RIGHT TO WAIVE INFORMALITIES, TO ACCEPT THE LOWEST RESPONSIVE AND RESPONSIBLE WHICH IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE OWNER, TO REJECT ANY AND ALL PROPOSALS RECEIVED, AND, IF ALL BIDS ARE REJECTED, TO BE ADVERTISED UNDER THE SAME OR NEW SPECIFICATIONS, OR TO MAKE SUCH AN AWARD AS IN THE JUDGMENT OF ITS OFFICIALS BEST MEETS THE COUNTY/ES REQUIREMENTS. THE

CONTRACTOR IS REQUIRED TO BE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.

/s/ Tamara G. Tremper /s/ Teresa K. Tremper Co-Personal Representatives Attorney: GEORGE LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 210 North Higgins Avenue, Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802

THE ESTATE OF MARGARET ELISE WALLER KING, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Maureen F. Zwiefelhofer, 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 19th day of May, 2009. /s/ Maureen F. Zwiefelhofer, Personal Representative

of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on August 21, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com.

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MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE 2008 DELINQUENT REAL ESTATE TAX SALE All 2008 delinquent taxes, including penalties, interest and costs, are now a lien upon the real property upon which those taxes were assessed. Unless the delinquent taxes, penalties, interest and costs are paid prior to the time of the Treasurer’s tax sale, the county’s lien will be offered for sale. The Treasurer’s tax sale is scheduled for 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, July 08, 2009 in the County Treasurer’s office, first floor, Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 W Broadway Missoula, MT 59802. A list of all properties on which 2008 taxes are delinquent will be on file at the time of the sale and open for public inspection during business hours 8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Penalties, interest and costs will be added to the delinquent taxes upon payment by the owner or purchaser.

Before a tax lien can be purchased for assignment, “Proof of Notice” according to MCA 15-17-323 (5) must be presented at the time of purchase. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier, Clerk & Recorder/Treasurer, Missoula County, Montana MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF HEARING TARGET RANGE SEWER & WATER DISTRICT - ANNUAL ASSESSMENT The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a Public Hearing on Wednesday, June 24, 2009, at 1:30 p.m. in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 for the purpose of obtaining public comment on initiating a $31 per dwelling unit assessment for residences within the Target Range Sewer & Water District for the operations costs of said District for Fiscal Year 2010. This hearing constitutes compliance with 7-13-2307 M.C.A. Hearing on Protest to Levy of Tax. Any property owner situated within the District may appear and protest the levy of the tax or any matter pertaining thereto. The Commissioners will conduct the Public Hearing at their regularly scheduled Weekly Public Meeting on Wednesday, June 24, 2009, at 1:30 p.m. in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. 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 any time prior to the hearing by mail or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802; by fax at (406) 721-4043; or by e-mail at bcc@co.missoula.mt.us Additional information may be obtained by contacting Jim McDonald, Target Range Sewer & Water District President, at (406) 8806117; or Dale Bickell, Missoula County Chief Administrative Officer, at (406) 258-4229 or by e-mail at dbickell@co.missoula.mt.us. DATED THIS 8th DAY OF June, 2009 /s/ Bill Carey Chair, Missoula Board of County Commissioners MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 2 Cause No. DP-09-97 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF DAVID L. FOX, JR. DECEASED. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Larry Fox, at St. Peter Law Offices, 2620 Radio Way, PO Box 17255, Missoula, Montana 59808 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 19th day of May, 2009. /s/ Larry Fox, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 4 Cause Probate No. DP09-94 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DOLORES M. TREMPER, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned have been appointed Co-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 Franklin C. Tremper, Timothy R. Tremper, Debra T. Williams, Thomas P. Tremper, Tamara G. Tremper and Teresa K. Tremper, the Co-Personal Representatives, return receipt requested at GEORGE LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 210 North Higgins Avenue, Suite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED June 9, 2009. /s/ Franklin C. Tremper /s/ Timothy R. Tremper /s/ Debra T. Williams /s/ Thomas P. Tremper

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-09-78 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of STEVEN M. KRAUZER, 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 the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at PO Box 8358, Missoula, Montana 59807, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 21st day of May, 2009. /s/ Michael J. Sherwood, Personal Representative for the Estate of Steven M. Krauzer MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-09-91 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE: The Estate of Dorene Burlingame-Tompkins, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned is counsel for Tamara O’Brien, the 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 Tamara O’Brien, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at c/o Sullivan, Tabaracci & Rhoades, P.C., 1821 South Avenue West, Third Floor, Missoula, MT 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 11th day of June, 2009. /s/ Craig Mungas, Attorney for Tamara O’Brien, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-09-56 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BILLIE F. CORNELIUS, 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 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 Robert Ray Cornelius, Sr., and Dana Lee Cornelius, CoPersonal Representatives, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 30th day of March, 2009. /s/ Robert Ray Cornelius, Sr. Co-Personal Representative /s/ Dana Lee Cornelius, Co-Personal Representative. GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for CoPersonal Representatives MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Probate No. DP-09-70 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-09-92 Douglas G. Harkin. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF GARY L. NOBLE, 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 the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Jeannette A. Noble, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 156 Cascade Street, Lolo, MT 59847 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated the 5th day of June, 2009. /s/ Jeannette A. Noble, 156 Cascade Street, Lolo, MT 59847 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/18/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200716085, Bk 800, Pg 290, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Michael R. McVey, 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: Tract 1 of Certificate of Survey No. 5641, located in the Northeast one-quarter of Section 33, Township 15 North, Range 21 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. 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 13, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $225,956.71. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $219,249.11, 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

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/14/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200533939 BK 766 PG 587, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Viking Properties, LLC, a Montana limited liability company was Grantor, Sterling Savings Bank was Beneficiary and Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc. as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 6 in Block 17 of KNOWLES ADDITION, in platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 10/20/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 17, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $406,227.61. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $202,570.00, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200

Missoula County Government NOTICE OF BOND SALE $2,230,000 Rural Special Improvement District No. 8489 Bonds, Series D (Wye Area Sanitary Sewer Project) MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of County Commissioners (the “Board”) of Missoula County, Montana (the “County”), will receive sealed bids for the purchase of $2,230,000 Rural Special Improvement District No. 8489 Bonds (Wye Area Sanitary Sewer Project) (the “Series D Bonds”) in the Accounting Office, 1st floor of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, or bids for the purchase of the Series D Bonds will be received by the County by electronic transmission through Parity™, in either case until 11:00 a.m., M.T., on Tuesday, June 30, 2009, at which time the bids will be opened or accessed and tabulated. The bids will be presented to the Board at its regular meeting immediately thereafter on the same day, at which time the Board will consider the bids received, and if a responsive and acceptable bid is received, the Board will award sale of the Series D Bonds to the responsive bidder whose bid reflects the lowest true interest cost (TIC).

The Series D Bonds will be issued for the purpose of financing a portion of the costs of construction of certain local improvements (the “Improvements”) within or for the benefit of Rural Special Improvement District Nos. 8489 (the “District”); and paying a portion of the costs associated with the sale and issuance of the Series D Bonds. The Series D Bonds shall mature, subject to redemption, on July 1 in the following years and amounts (unless combined into one or more term bonds): The Series D Bonds shall be issuable only as fully registered bonds and shall be executed by the manual or facsimile signatures of the Board Chair and the County Clerk and Recorder/Treasurer. The Series D Bonds shall be secured by the County’s Rural Special Improvement District Revolving Fund and the Reserve Account of the District.

Serial bonds shall be in the denomination of $5,000 each or any integral multiple thereof of single maturities. Bidders will have the option of combining the Series D Bonds maturing on and after 2011 through and including 2016 and on and after 2017 through and including 2029 into one or more term bonds.

If any Series D Bonds are issued as term bonds, such term bonds will be subject to annual mandatory sinking fund redemption on each July 1, concluding no later than 2029, at a redemption price equal to the principal amount of such Series D Bonds or portions thereof to be redeemed with interest accrued thereon and payable on January 1 and July 1 to the redemption date, in installments and in the same amounts and on the same dates as the bonds would have matured if they were not included in a term bond.

The Series D Bonds shall be dated, as originally issued, as of July 16, 2009, and shall bear interest payable semiannually on January 1 and July 1 of each year, commencing January 1, 2010, at a rate or rates designated by the successful bidder at public sale and approved by this Board. No interest rate may exceed 6.75% per annum, and the difference between the highest and lowest rate of interest may not exceed 3.50% per annum. No supplemental or “B” coupons or additional interest certificates are permitted and rates shall be expressed in integral multiples of 1/8 or 1/20 of one percent per annum. Interest will be capitalized through July 1, 2010. The Series D Bonds with stated maturities on or after July 1, 2016 will be subject to redemption on July 1, 2016, and any date thereafter, at the option of the County, in whole or in part, at a redemption price equal to the principal amount thereof to be redeemed plus interest accrued to the redemption date, without premium. The Series D Bonds are also subject to mandatory redemption on an interest payment date if the amounts in the Sinking Fund, either from prepayment of assessments or transfers from the Construction Account to the Principal Account, are sufficient to pay outstanding Series D Bonds, or portions thereof, with interest thereon to that interest payment date.

The Series D Bonds will be sold for not less than $2,185,400 (98% of par) with accrued interest on the principal amount of the Series D Bonds to the date of their delivery. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids, to waive any informality in any bid, and to adjourn the sale. A good faith deposit in the form of money, cashier’s check, certified check, bank money order, or bank draft drawn and issued by a federally chartered or state chartered bank insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or a financial surety bond in the sum of 2% of the aggregate principal amount of the Series D Bonds ($44,600) payable to the order of the County is required for each bid to be considered, as further specified in the Official Terms and Conditions of Sale.

Copies of the Official Terms and Conditions of Sale and additional information may be obtained from the County’s Financial Advisor, D.A. Davidson & Co., 8 Third Street North, Great Falls, Montana 59401, (406) 791-7210. Prospective bidders should consult the Official Terms and Conditions of Sale and the Preliminary Official Statement for a detailed description of the Series D Bonds, the security therefor, and the form of legal opinion proposed to be rendered by Dorsey & Whitney LLP, of Missoula, Montana, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, as bond counsel. To the extent any instructions or directions set forth in ParityTM conflict with this Notice of Bond Sale, the terms of this Notice of Bond Sale shall control. For further information about ParityTM, potential bidders may contact the Financial Advisor, D.A. Davidson & Co. at (406) 791-7210 (Aaron Rudio), or ParityTM at (212) 849-5021. In the event of a malfunction in the electronic bidding process, bidders may submit their bids by sealed bid including facsimile transmission to the County’s Chief Financial Officer, at facsimile number (406) 721-4043 (phone (406) 258-4919) or to D.A. Davidson & Co. (Financial Advisor) at (406) 791-7315. Dated: June 10, 2009.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS /s/ Vickie Zeier County Clerk and Recorder/Treasurer Missoula County, Montana

CLASSIFIEDS Public Notices West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on August 26, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-

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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 09/28/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200726515, Book 806, Page 1668, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Daren M. Donnelly & Annette M. Donnelly, as joint tenants with right of survivorship was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., solely as nominee for Mann Mortgage LLC was Beneficiary and Insured Titles, LLC was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles, LLC as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 61 of Invermere, Phase 1A, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. , beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A..

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of

Notice of Public Sale Notice is hereby given that the following described property will be sold to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds:

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Minimum Bid 1978 Chevy 2 1/2T Dump Trucks................$2,200.00 each 1981 Cat 140G Motor Graders..................$42,000.00 each 1977 Case W14H Front End Loader..................$17,000.00 1986 Cat 140G Motor Graders..................$47,000.00 each Pickup Canopy ........................................................$100.00 1986 Wacker WDH86 Walk Behind Roller ...........$2,500.00 1969 John Deere 350 Gas Crawler Dozer...........$6,500.00 1983 Ecolotec VacAll Sweeper ..........................$24,000.00 1976 Chevy Flatbed IT Truck ...............................$1,000.00 Diesel Fuel Tanks--Various Sizes ...................$120.00 each 2000 Honda Walk Behind Pavement Saw ...........$1,500.00 1994 GMC S-15 Jimmy 4x4 SUV.......................$2,7500.00 1986 GMC 3T Diesel Dump Truck w/Plow...........$3,500.00 1995 Ford F-350 Crew Cab Pickup......................$4,500.00 1989 Chevy 350 IT Crew Cab Pickup...................$1500.00 1994 GMC 1/2T Pickup ........................................$2,000.00 1973 Cat D-8H Crawler Tractor Dozer ...............$28,000.00 1990 Chevy IT Dump Truck..................................$5,500.00

Sealed bids will be accepted until 3:00 p.m., Thursday June 29, 2009 at: Missoula County Public Works 6089 Training Drive Missoula, MT 59808 Terms of Sale: No representations are made about the above described equipment and the property will be sold "as is, where is". Removal of the equipment should be done within five working days of date of bill of sale.

Property viewing to be done Thursday, June 18, 2009. Each bid should be in a sealed envelope and the envelope marked for which item it pertains. If bidding on more than one item use separate envelopes. Please indicate in each bid the following:

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principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 08/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of April 24, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $399,508.29.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $376,200.00, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any).

Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings.

Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on September 1, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.19194) 1002.106232-FEI

ed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction on the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on September 8, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com.

(TS# 7037.16948) 1002.106701-FEI

other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com.

(TS# 7023.03315) 1002.120972-FEI

public proclamation at least every 30 days.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 7, 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 April 7, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3143323 06/18/2009, 06/25/2009, 07/02/2009

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

The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. This is an attempt to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Dated: March 31, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 586021097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On March 31, 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# 3135104 06/11/2009, 06/18/2009, 06/25/2009

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 07/22/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200421122, Book 736, Page 1700, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Dennis L. Curran and Bonnie L. Curran, as joint tenants was Grantor, Union Planters Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and American Title & Escrow was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded American Title & Escrow as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 8 in Block 3 of Woodland Heights, a platted subdivision of Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded Plat thereof, of record in Book 6 of Plats at Page 13 1/2, records of Missoula County, Montana. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200828044, Bk 831, Pg. 233, 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 07/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 30, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $224,928.86. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $212,494.61, 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 instruct-

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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 10/04/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200526489, Bk 761, Pg 1259, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Justin Kelly, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 28 of Wallace Creek Estates, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 12/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of April 27, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $214,018.48. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $207,327.26, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on September 9, 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)

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE ‚ÄòS SALE on August 17, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST ONE-QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST ONE-QUARTER LOCATED IN SECTION 11, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 21 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. AS SHOWN IN DEED EXHIBIT NO. 3887 RECORDING REFERENCE IN BOOK 274 AT PAGE 1923 MICRO RECORDS James R. Day, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to David r. Chisholm, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated August 22, 2005 and Recorded August 29, 2005 at 4:44 o’clock p.m. in Book 759, Page 144 under Document No. 200522537. The beneficial interest is currently held by US Bank, NA. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $667.48, 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 20, 2009 is $95,790.43 principal, interest at the rate of 5.5% now totaling $2044.84, and other fees and expenses advanced of $99.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $14.43 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 safe 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

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 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: LOT 6 OF LAKEWOOD ESTATES PHASE I, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Michelle M. Bissonnette and Carl C. Johnsen, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J. Peterson of Mackoff, Kellogg, Kirby and Kloster, PC., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated June 2, 2005 and Recorded June 10, 2005 at 4:34 o’clock, p.m. in Book 754, Page 458 under Document Number 200514153. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc..

Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,971.94, 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 30, 2009 is $221,665.29 principal, interest at the rate of 6.0% now totaling $6598.36, late charges in the amount of $416.52, escrow advances of $613.30, and other fees and expenses advanced of $252.25, plus accruing interest at the rate of $36.44 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.

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 in cash at the time of sale. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 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: Lot 14 of KING RANCH PHASE II AND III, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, as recorded in Book 20 of Plats at Page 51 John W. Borgialli, 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 August 30, 2005 and recorded September 1, 2005 at 4:19 o’clock P.M. in Book 759, Page 582, as Document no. 200522975. The beneficial interest is currently held by First Horizon Home Loans, a division of First Tennessee Bank National Association. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,387.33, beginning October 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 30, 2009 is $203,883.04 principal, interest at the rate of 6.625% now totaling $5,328.89, late charges in the amount of $225.12, escrow advances of $261.73, other fees and expenses advanced of $75.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $37.01 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 in cash at the time of sale. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no

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National Association, as Trustee for the CBASS Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007-CBS. 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 $1,305.31, 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 29, 2009 is $152,183.20 principal, interest at the rate of 8.475% now totaling $6,222.03, late charges in the amount of $223.746, escrow advances of ($451.46), and other fees and expenses advanced of $146.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $35.34 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash at the time of sale. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expensed actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. Dated: April 6, 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 April 6, 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# 3142398 06/18/2009, 06/25/2009, 07/02/2009

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 14, 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 6 AND 7 IN BLOCK 47 OF SUNRISE ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Dana R Nichols and Tabitha Nichols, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Pinnacle Title and Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Long Beach Mortgage Company, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated June 22, 2006 and recorded on June 28, 2006 at 4:27 o’clock P.M., in Book 777, Page 1193, under Document No. 200615820. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Long Beach Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-7,

by Washington Mutual Bank as successor in interest to Long Beach 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 $1829.43, 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 20, 2009 is $171,307.85 principal, interest at the rate of 9.35% now totaling $6,172.86, late charges in the amount of $86.68, escrow advances of $394.46, and other fees and expenses advanced of $173.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. $43.88 per 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 in cash at the time of sale. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expensed actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. Dated: April 6, 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 April 6, 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# 3142095 06/18/2009, 06/25/2009, 07/02/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 14, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West roadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 1, TOWNSHIP 16 NORTH, RANGE 15 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBES AS TRACT 21-B OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 2469. Robert C. Matherne, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Surety Title, LLC Mr. John Barker, 2001 11th Ave. Helena, MT 59601, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated February 19, 2007 and Recorded February 20, 2007 at 2:20 o’clock p.m. in Book 792, Page 299 under Document Number 200704024. The beneficial interest is currently held by U.S. Bank National Association as successor to LaSalle Bank

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 14, 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 OF MOUNTAINVIEW ESTATES, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Stephen Ray McAfee and Patricia Sue McAfee, 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 November 08, 2006 and Recorded November 14, 2006 at 01:19 o’clock P.M. in Book 787, Page 262, under Document No. 200629487. The beneficial interest is currently held by Litton Loan Servicing LP. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,465.94, 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 29, 2009 is $313,096.29 principal, interest at the rate of 6.6250% now totaling $10,006.66, late charges in the amount of $599.70, escrow advances of $889.73, and other fees and expenses advanced of $156.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $56.83 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.

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The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days.

THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. Dated: April 6, 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 April 6, 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# 3141374 06/18/2009, 06/25/2009, 07/02/2009

County, Montana: Lot 6 in block 9 of Hillview Heights No. 3 & 4, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official corrected plat thereof.

Gene A. Neuenswander and Deborah J. Boyle, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated January 27, 2006 and Recorded February 01, 2006 at 4:29 o’clock P.M. in Book 768, Page 466, under Document No. 200602467. The beneficial interest is currently held by Bank of America, National Association as successor by merger to LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee for the C-BASS Mortgage Loan Asset-Backed Certificates, Series 2007CB2. 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 $1,435.56, 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 26, 2009 is $155,312.87 principal, interest at the rate 9.05% now totaling $5,686.51, late charges in the amount of $303.90, escrow advances of $209.37, and other fees and expenses advanced of $303.94, plus accruing interest at the rate of $38.51 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 expensed actually incurred and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. The scheduled Trustee’s Sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed by the trustee for up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. This is an attempt to collect a debt. Any information obtained will be used for that purpose. Dated: March 30, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On 3/30/2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson , Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3134365 06/11/2009, 06/18/2009, 06/25/2009

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 in cash at the time of sale.

The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed. The sale purchaser shall be entitled to possession of the property on the 10th day following the sale. The grantor, successor in interest to the grantor or any other person having an interest in the property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the beneficiary or the successor in interest to the beneficiary the entire amount then due under the deed of trust and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and 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 PURPOSES. Dated: March 20, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee Mackoff Kellogg Law Firm P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 State of North Dakota County of Stark On March 20, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3121677 06/04/2009, 06/11/2009, 06/18/2009

COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. David Brent McClellan, as Grantor, conveyed the above-described real property, and the improvements situated thereon, if any any, to I.R.E. Processing, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Beneficial Montana Inc., d/b/a Beneficial Mortgage Co., a Delaware corporation authorized to do business in Montana, who was designated as Beneficiary in a Deed of Trust dated October 12, 2004 and recorded on October 15, 2004 in Book 741 of Micro Records at Page 911 of the official records of Missoula County, Montana (“Deed of Trust”). Dan G. Cederberg, a licensed Montana attorney, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee dated March 17, 2009, and recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. David Brent McClellan has defaulted in the performance of the said Deed of Trust and associated Loan Repayment and Security Agreement by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,382.62 for the month of November, 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. As of March 5, 2009, the sum of $5,395.71 is past due. As of March 5, 2009, the principal balance due was the sum of $174,762.53 principal, plus $23,508.78 accrued interest, with interest continuing to accrue on the principal at the variable rate set out in the Loan Repayment and Security Agreement, which is currently 8.239% per annum and other fees and expenses that may be advanced. The Beneficiary may disburse any amounts as may be required to protect Beneficiary’s interest. If Beneficiary elects to make such disbursements, sums paid shall become additional indebtedness secured by the Deed of Trust. In accordance with the provisions of the Deed of Trust and Loan Repayment and Security Agreement, the Beneficiary has elected to accelerate the full remaining balance due under the terms of the Deed of Trust and Loan Repayment and Security Agreement and has elected to sell the interest of David Brent McClellan, the original Grantor, his successors and assigns, in and to the aforedescribed property, subject to all easements, restrictions, encumbrances or covenants existing of record or evident on the property at the time of sale to satisfy the remaining obligation owed. Beneficiary has directed Dan G. Cederberg, as Successor Trustee, to commence such sale proceedings.

Those with an interest in the property and who appear from the public record to be entitled to notification of the proceedings are: Occupants, 2175 Hummingbird Drive, Missoula, MT 59808. David Brent McClellan, 2175 Hummingbird Drive, Missoula, MT 59808. Collection Bureau Services, Inc., Attn: Michael J. Moore & Alison Clarke, 212 East Spruce, Missoula, MT 59802. Montana Department of Revenue, PO Box 5805, Helena, MT 596045805. Attorney General Steve Pullock, Department of Justice, PO Box 201401, Helena, MT 59620-1401. Department of Labor & Industry, Unemployment Insurance Contributions Bureau, PO Box 6339, Helena, MT 59604-6339. Collection Bureau Services, Inc., Attn: Michael J. Moore & Josh S. MIrel, PO Box 7339, Missoula, MT 59807. Internal Revenue Service, District Director Rocky Mountain District, Attn: S.P.E. 5020, 600 17th Street, Denver, CO 80202-2490. Internal Revenue Service, District Director Rocky Mountain District, Attn: Chief, Special Procedures Staff, 600 17th Street, Denver, CO 80202-2490.

Darwin Hamilton, 228 Fox Hill Drive, Kalispell, MT 59901-2565. Successor Trustee is unaware of any party in possession or claiming right to possession of the subject property other than those persons noticed herein. DATED this 13th day of April, 2009. /s/ Dan G. Cederberg, Successor Trustee.

STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula). This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 13th day of April, 2009, by Dan G. Cederberg, Successor Trustee. (SEAL) /s/ Susan Marshall, Notary Public for the State of Montana, Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My commissioin expires: 17 March, 2011

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 17, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 9 in Block 4 of Seeley Lake Homesites No. 4, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof Matt W. Livingston and Tara Livingston, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title Guaranty Co, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated December 19, 2007 and recorded December 27, 2007 at 3:30 o’clock-P.M. in Book 810, Page 1403, as Document No. 200733075.

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 $1463.59, beginning June 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 15, 2009 is $186,366.15 principal, interest at the rate of 6.875% now totaling $12,236.36, late charges in the amount of $491.36, escrow advances of $1,328.82, and other fees and expenses advanced of $1396.01, plus accruing interest at the rate of $35.10 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: April 8, 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 4/8/09, 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: 3/28/11 ASAP# 3145152 06/18/2009, 06/25/2009, 07/02/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on August 7, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the East door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on July 28, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 4 of Mount Jumbo Views, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Steven D. Wall, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated September 30, 2005, and Recorded September 30, 2005 at 03:43 o’clock P.M. in Book 761, Page 593, under Document No. 200525823. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,464.59, 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 10, 2009 is $459,599.50 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $9,666.27, late charges in the amount of $337.50, and other fees and expenses advanced of $113.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $73.98 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Wednesday, the 12th day of August, 2009, at the hour of 11:15 a.m., Mountain Daylight Time, at the front door of the Missoula County Courthouse, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802, Martin S. King, Attorney at Law, Successor Trustee, in order to satisfy the obligations set out below, has been directed to sell and has elected to sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, payable at the time of sale, and without warranty or covenant, express or implied as to title, possession, encumbrances, condition, or otherwise, the interest of the following described real property, situated in Missoula, Montana, to wit: A tract of land located in and being a portion of the NE 1/4 of Section 14, Township 13 North, Range 19 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, and being more particularly described as Parcel 2 of COS 5692. Said sale will be made in accordance with the statutes of the State of Montana, and the terms and provisions of: that certain Trust Indenture dated January 19, 2007, and recorded January 19, 2007, in Book 790 at page 1109 as Document No. 200701571 in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, wherein LINDA J. SNYDER is Grantor, EARL M. PRUYN is the named Beneficiary, and STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA COUNTY, INC. is the name Trustee; that certain Appointment of Successor Trustee dated March 5, 2009, and recorded March 27, 2009, in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana, in Book 836 at page 268 as Document No. 200906833, wherein the Beneficiary substituted Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc. with Martin S. King, attorney at law, as Successor Trustee.

This foreclosure is made because the Grantor LINDA J. SNYDER, and her successors in interest, have defaulted in the terms of said Trust Indenture and the corresponding Promissory Note in that she has failed to pay the monthly payments and pursuant to the terms of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiary has exercised his option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There is presently due on said obligation the principal sum of One Hundred Fifty Thousand Four Hundred Eighty and No/100 Dollars ($150,480.00), plus interest at a rate of Ten Percent (10%) per annum totaling Fourteen Thousand Six Hundred Eighty-three and 82/100 Dollars ($14,683.82), plus costs of Five Hundred Fifty-six and No/100 ($556.00), for a total amount due of One Hundred Sixty-four Thousand Four Hundred Twenty-three and 15/100 Dollars ($164,423.15), as of February 26, 2009, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees and other accruing costs. DATED this 31st day of March, 2009. /s/ Martin S. King, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA ):ss. County of Missoula ). On this 31st day of March, 2009, before me, the undersigned a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Martin S. King, Attorney at Law, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within Notice of Sale of Real Property Under a Deed of Trust as Successor Trustee, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same as such Successor Trustee. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set me hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Rhonda M. Kolar, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, MT. My commission expires January 24, 2012 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. Pursuant to 71-1-301, et seq. of the Montana Code Annotated, the undersigned hereby gives notice of a trustee’s sale to be held on the 21st day August, 2009, at 1:00 o’clock p.m. on the steps of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, of the following described real property located in Missoula County, Montana: LOT 3 IN BLOCK 2 OF EL MAR ESTATES PHASE III, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA

William P. Driscoll, FRANZ & DRISCOLL, PLLP, PO Box 1155, Helena, MT 596241715 Telephone: 406-442-005 Fax: 406442-0008 Attorneys for Petitioner, Catholic Social Services of Montana. MONTANA FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, LEWIS AND CLARK COUNTY Cause No. CDA-2009-27. NOTICE OF PROCEEDINGS AND HEARING FOR TERMINATION OF PARENTAL RIGHTS IN THE MATTER OF THE PARENTAL RIGHTS TO BABY GIRL M. TO: “Dave”, whose last name is unknown, who has been named the father of Baby Girl M., who was born on March 3, 2009, in Missoula, Missoula County, Montana. The birth mother of Baby Girl M. has reported that she became pregnant by a man named “Dave” whose last name is unknown, in Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, in June of 2008. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a petition for the termination of your parental rights to Baby Girl M. has been filed with the Montana First District Court, Lewis and Clark County, 228 Broadway, Helena, Montana 59601. The Court has scheduled a hearing for the determination of your parental rights, starting at 2:30 p.m. Mountain Time on June 30, 2009.

Pursuant to Montana Code Annotated Section 42-2-605 (2), your failure to appear at the hearing will constitute a waiver of your interest in custody of the child, and will result in the Court’s termination of your parental right. Pursuant to Montana Code Annotated Section 42-2-616 (1), if you appear at the scheduled hearing and object to the termination of your parental rights and request custody of the child, the Court will then set deadlines allowing the parties to complete discovery, and will set a hearing on the determination of your rights to the child.

DATED this 3rd day of June, 2009. FRANZ & DRISCOLL, PLLP. /s/ William P. Driscoll, Attorney for Petitioner

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Text:44133 Message:12886 for pics 4 mos New Liberty, 28’x52’, 3bd 2ba. Move or lease lot. Realtors welcome. $81,000 546-5816 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 4BD/3BA, 3GAR + VIEWS 6960 Linda Vista 4 doors off Upper Miller Creek. Anne Jablonski 546-5816 www.MoveMontana.com 4bd/3ba, Lovely Home w/Views 6960 Linda Vista $349,500 Anne Jablonski 546-5816 www.MoveMontana.com 5 bdrm, 2 baths, centrally located with hardwood floors, large yard, garage & 2 fireplaces. $265,000 MLS 809246 Windermere RE Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 Text:44133 Message:12596 for pics 814 Howell MLS# 903557 $70,000 KD Dickinson - Portico Real Estate 240-5227.

1400 Burns St 1,2 & bedrooms $99,500-$159,500. Affordable, brand new condos! Open House M-F 11-1 KD Dickinson – Portico Real Estate – (406) 240-5227

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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 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 UPDATED CENTRAL MISSOULA HOME. 3 Bdr/1.5 Bath, New interior paint & flooring, great deck, double garage & fenced yard. $185,900. Prudential Montana.

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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 MONTANA LAND Priced like the “Old Days”! 20 acres w/road & utilities. Mtn. views & pines. $29,900 to $49,900. 160-1000 acres also available. Central MT - Round Up Lewistown area. Financing available. Call Western Skies 888-3613006. www.WesternSkiesLand.com REDUCED Beautiful 20 Acre parcel with meadow and view Financing available OAC with 10 % down.

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Vintage and Value 2BD/1BA, large private yard. Enjoy the feel of yester year! $164,500 925 3rd MLS# 904300 jeannettewilliamsrealestate.com 406.239.2049 Beautiful Bitterroot Parade of Homes Ranch Style House on 1.75 acres.

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