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Vol. 20, No. 33 • August 13–August 20, 2009

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Books: An insider’s look at the life of Hunter S. Thompson Scope: Linda Stoudt experiments with the art of transience Up Front: Little Shell Tribe fights for federal recognition

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Vol. 20, No. 33 • August 13–August 20, 2009

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

Books: An insider’s look at the life of Hunter S. Thompson Scope: Linda Stoudt experiments with the art of transience Up Front: Little Shell Tribe fights for federal recognition

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nside Cover Story Only 10 percent of minor league baseball players ever manage to play one game in a big league stadium. The percentage of players who spend their careers in the big leagues is even smaller. Missoula Osprey pitcher Keny Sosa Cover photo by Chad Harder understands the odds. But considering how far the Dominican southpaw has already come, he’s ready for the challenge.........14

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News Letters ATVers, Tester and, of course, Huey ................................................................4 The Week in Review Obama, rain and swine flu .......................................................6 Briefs Netting lake trout, CleanSafe and federal food issues......................................6 Etc. Many thanks...........................................................................................................7 Up Front Little Shell Tribe fights for federal recognition............................................8 Up Front City still struggling with how to save prime soil .........................................9 Ochenski Time for Obama to pull things together...................................................10 Writers on the Range What to do when trees turn red ...........................................11 Agenda Eating up Food, Inc.......................................................................................12

Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan Are your calories numbered? .........................................................20 8 Days a Week Take us out to the ballgame .............................................................21 Mountain High Pulling at the weeds ........................................................................27 Scope Linda Stoudt experiments with the art of transience .....................................30 Noise New Faces, Bury Your Dead, Dublin Gulch and The Antlers..........................31 Books An insider’s look at a gonzo life .....................................................................32 Film Julie & Julia nearly rises to the occasion ..........................................................33 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ...................................................34

Exclusives Street Talk ....................................................................................................................4 In Other News ...........................................................................................................13 Independent Personals ............................................................................................35 Classifieds ..................................................................................................................36 The Advice Goddess .................................................................................................37 Free Will Astrolog y ...................................................................................................38 Crossword Puzzle......................................................................................................42 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 INTERIM CALENDAR EDITOR Ira Sather-Olson 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, Scott Woodall ADVERTISING & ADMIN COORDINATOR Hannah Smith 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, Cathrine L. Walters

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STREET TALK

Inside Letters Briefs Up Front Ochenski Range Agenda News Quirks

Asked Tuesday morning on the corner of Broadway and Higgins.

Q:

by Cathrine L. Walters

This week the Indy profiles Keny Sosa, a promising left-handed pitcher from the Dominican Republic playing with the Missoula Osprey. What’s your best advice for far-away visitors to Missoula?

Follow-up: What’s your favorite part of attending a Missoula Osprey baseball game?

Ted Morrison: There’re too many things to do to narrow it down to just one. I’d say, go tubing and relax on the river.

Psychological profiler: I like the crowd watching.

Jiggs Coldiron: Get a breakfast at the Hob Nob, especially the corn beef hash. That will give him plenty of energy for the game!

Hungry eyes: We had peanuts, popcorn and burgers—and loved it when the real osprey flew over the fabulous stadium.

Anthony Altman: Get an enchilada at El Cazador and don’t forget to keep your parking meter paid up. Fowl ball: I’ve never been. I love Griz football.

Rich and famous I must comment about the rich in general and the letters that appeared in the July 16, 2009, issue of the Independent. These letters all talked up Huey Lewis—what a great fellow he is, just a common, everyday, great guy. They state that he has done a great amount of improvement on Mitchell Slough, which incidentally will do nothing to improve the fishery in this slow moving waterway.

Those people who wrote letters all have axes to grind. They either work for him or want to, or have a burning need to be associated with the rich and famous. The other rich people who bought up most of the land along Mitchell Slough are no better. They are determined to create their private fishing water. These people range from millionaires to billionaires. Why do these and most rich people bully the everyday folks, trying to show the little people, “Look at me, I’ve got it and you don’t”? These people are a sad bunch.

They think the more land and houses they own, the happier it will make them. But it doesn’t. They buy more and more, after a while they get bored and sell it to some other rich guy that’s trying to be happy. So he, in turn, will do the same, unless he dies. Then, of course, his heirs will sell it.

The sad thing is these tracts of land are now too big and expensive for the little guy, so when it sells it will have to be to the wealthy. Don’t fool yourself— money talks. The big, old-time mobster, Al Capone, said he could buy judges, politicians, witnesses and anyone else who had anything to do with anything.

I believe it. You take these rich people to court, and they have money to burn.

If they lose, they just keep up the lawsuits until the little guys go broke and have to drop the case. It looks like these people are determined to thoroughly control us, at least until they get bored and buy airlines, railroads, etc. I hope this happens soon.

Floyd Wood Corvallis

Ring of fire

Susie Skeen: Be outgoing and friendly because the people here are friendly right back. Ollie oxen free: I like the bird guy that runs around the stadium.

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I would like to take a moment to respond to your article called “Rev it up” (see Writers on the Range, July 23, 2009).

First off, I am not quite sure what Ray Ring is saying. Is he telling us that he is going to hire professional off-road riders to pose as environmentalists? If that is the case, he should fit right in if hired to work in Washington, D.C. As far as I can tell that is what all the lobbyists have been doing for years.

I consider myself to be someone who cares about the environment and I am also an avid off-road user. I spend a lot of time removing noxious weeds from my property, as well as infected trees.

To label off-road users as overweight beer drinkers just shows how narrow-minded Mr. Ring is. I suppose that we are to assume that all Wilderness Society members are the picture of perfect health.

I guess what I am saying is that not all motor heads are a bunch of beer swilling people who care only about getting their jollies off. Off-road riding is a serious sport to some of us and we

I guess what “ I am saying is that not all motor heads are a bunch of beer swilling people who care only about getting their

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jollies off.

do give a shit. It takes dedication, training and real skill to ride for 100 miles off-road in one day.

Lastly, as for you professional team, bring them on, dude. I am always looking for some good competition.

Until then, have fun with all those other wannabe people in D.C. Steven Cooper Missoula

Picking the fight Why are we fighting over health care? (See “No guts, no glory,” July 30, 2009.) We should be fighting illegal immigrants. The government wants health care out of the way because they know that they are wasting hundreds of billions of dollars housing, feeding, educating and, yes, giving illegals our health care. So if the health care is out of the way, they can find ways to funnel the other money elsewhere.

Eric Bartley Kalispell

Feeling ill As a passionate patient advocate, I dread the lower quality, higher cost, lack of choice, loss of privacy and self-deter-

mination that comes with governmentrun health care. We don’t have a health care crisis that needs to be fixed, but a government-caused crisis in the cost of health care. Since government intrusion caused the crisis, it cannot be solved by more government. Forty-five years of Medicare/Medicaid and 36 of HMOs demonstrate government not only can’t control spending—the costs escalate.

How did government cause the crisis? First, insurance premiums soared with government mandates that policies cover every service. Second, government-run insurance, like Medicaid and Medicare, increase administrative costs because of the bureaucracy and paperwork. Third, low reimbursement by government-run insurance is not enough to run a medical practice.

Medical care providers must decline seeing these patients or shift cost to those with other forms of insurance, and that raises premiums. Fourth, with low co-pays and premiums (subsidized by taxpayers) of government-run insurance, patients use more services because they get the impression health care is free or nearly so. It is mainly government-insured patients that overuse ERs, and that raises health care costs. Fifth, the government’s unwillingness to reform tort law drives up physician malpractice premiums, and that cost is passed onto patients.

United State’s health care is unsurpassed, and citizens will not tolerate the increased taxes or middling care found in socialist countries. U.S. consumers demand world-class health care with quick access to the most trustworthy doctors. Compared to other nations, we spend a higher percent of Gross Domestic Product on health care because we can and because we want the best.

Sens. Jon Tester and Max Baucus are supporting a costly legislative monstrosity that will further entrench government control over our lives and obliterate the superior quality of care patients deserve.

Annie Bukacek Coalition for Protecting Patient’s Rights Kalispell Correction: George Ochenski’s column, “Troubling pattern,” incorrectly stated that Dennis McDonald gave up his position as chair of the Montana Democratic Party when he announced his candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives. McDonald continues to serve in the state party position.

etters Policy: The Missoula Independent welcomes hate mail, love letters and general correspondence. Letters to the editor must include the writer’s full name, address and daytime phone number for confirmation, though we’ll publish only your name and city. Anonymous letters will not be considered for publication. Preference is given to letters addressing the contents of the Independent. We reserve the right to edit letters for space and clarity. Send correspondence to: Letters to the Editor, Missoula Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801, or via e-mail: editor@missoulanews.com.

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MADONNA

The old man died peacefully in his sleep. His family was not able to keep his faithful companion, who was just as old as he was.

It was the only home she ever knew and her loss has been traumatic.

Fearful that she will be passed over while hundreds of little kittens get adopted, she is hoping for a guardian angel that will cherish her just like the old man did for so many years.

FOXY

The house was filled with garbage stacked to the ceiling. Narrow pathways between dirty dishes and rotten food led from room to room. Her owner was a hoarder and couldn't throw anything away. The cat had just been another thing the old lady collected. Foxy came to us reeking of the trash-filled home she'd been living in, the smell clinging to her fur.

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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, how she did it will forever remain a mystery. When the manager of a ski resort found her she was skin and bones. Her benefactor wanted her to be the official office cat, but soon realized he could not overcome his allergies.

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VIEWFINDER

• Wednesday, August 5

News Quirks

by Cathrine L. Walters

Details of President Barack Obama’s Aug. 14 Bozeman appearance continue to trickle in, with city officials confirming a town hall meeting to discuss health care reform. The White House later adds that invited guests will include someone who has lost their insurance coverage because of an illness, as well as local elected officials.

• Thursday, August 6 A Roosevelt County man dies in the state’s first H1N1 influenza related death. In addition to the so-called swine flu, the man had underlying medical conditions. Since May, 133 influenza cases have been confirmed by Montana Department of Health and Human Services, including seven in Missoula County.

• Friday, August 7 Record rainfall drenches Missoula. Morning showers alone leave over an inch of rain, and by the end of the day 2.1 inches fall, easily topping the previous record. The new two-day precipitation record for August trumps the 1947 record of 1.45 inches, according to the National Weather Service.

• Saturday, August 8 Visitors from 27 different states descend on the Adams Center for the 54th annual Original Gun and Antiques Show. Organizer Hayes Otoupalik, the Missoula Chairman of the Weapons Collectors Society, says it’s the largest of its kind in the state.

• Sunday, August 9 The Missoula Symphony Orchestra plays its final performance of the season, a free show, for thousands of listeners at Caras Park. The symphony rounds out the performance with a couple of Michael Jackson covers in honor of the pop star’s recent death.

• Monday, August 10 On the strength of an 11 for 22 performance at the plate, Missoula Osprey first baseman Paul Goldschmidt is named Pioneer League Player of the Week. Goldschmidt is hitting .322 this season with 10 home runs and 41 RBIs.

• Tuesday, August 11 U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar joins Sens.

Jon Tester and Max Baucus in Kalispell to announce that the International Union for Conservation and World Heritage Center will review the potential threat of energy development on Glacier National Park.

A young bull moose emerges from Goose Lake in the Great Burn of Montana, a proposed wilderness area. Moose can submerge under water for 30 seconds or longer and their strong swimming skills allow them to paddle several miles at a time.

Swan Lake

Nothing but net Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) will begin sinking nets into Swan Lake to snare thousands of lake trout later this month. The experimental netting project— the state’s first and among only eight underway around the West—is designed to contain the flourishing non-native species that threatens native bull trout populations.

“This is testing whether we can suppress a particular species,” says Jim Vashro, FWP’s Region 1 fisheries manager. “The end result in three years will hopefully give us a better idea of what the lake trout population looks like, what their relationship is with the other fish species in the lake, and whether we can suppress them through netting.”

FWP approved the three-year project last week after two years of research and sampling. In 2008, biologists estimated that 8,800 lake trout live in Swan Lake, and 3,784 of them were removed.

Vashro says the number of lake trout the agency will catch and kill will vary from year

to year. “But we’ve caught nearly 4,000 in the past,” he says. “I would hope that we can exceed that.”

During last year’s sampling, 240 bull trout were netted, and about half were safely released. Vashro says FWP will minimize bull trout by-catch by netting in deeper parts of the lake and while they spawn in the tributary system.

Lake trout began to proliferate in Swan Lake about 10 years ago along with another non-native, mysis shrimp, a primary food source. The shrimp also triggered the lake trout boom in Flathead Lake in the early 1980s. Lake trout were introduced into Flathead Lake in the early 1900s, but the shrimp, as Vashro puts it, removed the “reproduction bottleneck.”

Vasho says he’s not just concerned with non-native species, but with the people who want to fish for them.

“Illegal introductions are a huge problem,” he says. “I keep the database and I’ve probably documented 550 illegal introductions in the state so far, half of them being in this area.”

As for the lake trout netted in the project, Vasho says the largest will be donated to area food banks.

“I know that the clients love it to have that fresh fish,” says the Flathead Food Bank’s Sherry Schauele.

Matthew Frank

Drugs

Dangerous dust remover Two incidents this summer highlight the dangers behind inhaling toxic substances and the particular popularity of one common product—CleanSafe Dust Remover.

“The problem you have is inhalants are not an illegal substance, they’re just available,” says Chief Juvenile Probation Officer Glen Welch of Missoula’s Youth Court.

“These spray things, they’re deadly. It amazes me that some kids are using them day-in and day-out, because they can kill you in a first-time shot.”

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was found guilty last week of crashing into a house after huffing the product. Mark McGuire, 36, admitted to huffing CleanSafe before crashing into a dumpster in June.

According to court affidavits, both men “blacked out” before crashing and have no recollection of the accidents.

An inhalant like CleanSafe hits a user quickly, according to Mindy Gochis, a licensed addiction counselor and coordinator of Missoula’s Underage Substance Abuse Prevention Team.

“The last case in Missoula, where the guy was huffing in the car, passed out and drove through the house—you have to consider all those organs are affected that quickly for him to then pass out,” she says. “That’s the danger of huffing.”

Available at most drug stores for approximately $4 a can, CleanSafe provides a cheap and easily accessible way for users to get high. That makes law enforcement’s job that much more difficult.

“With kids, alcohol and marijuana are drugs of choice, but when you can’t get those, and other things are readily available, they use what they can get most of the time,” says Welch.

Although inhalant abuse is low in Missoula, Gochis says the problem still exists.

“There are relatively low numbers in terms of inhalant in comparison to alcohol and other drugs,” she says. “But it’s there, it’s on the surface and I think it’s a problem if even one kid is using.”

Megan Gyermek

No Jack

Sexy hall of horrors Past the dude selling discount Ray-Ban knockoffs at the 2009 Western Montana Fair, redheads Caleb and Brevlin Thompson sling darts at some blue balloons. Gory caricatures sit in pools of blood behind them, grotesque exaggerations of common workplace injuries. Nearby, some teenage girls play a putting game with an eyeball.

“Safety—it’s not really sexy,” says Mary Boyle, communications specialist for worker’s compensation firm Montana State Fund.

“It’s boring. But with young workers, we’re trying to make it fun, trying to have a good time with it and push safety.”

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Jack’s Hall of Horrors is an elaborate–and slightly outlandish–spin on workplace safety awareness courtesy of the minds at State Fund’s marketing agency, Partners Creative. The group created Jack, a cartoon mule, as a front for the youth-oriented “No Jack” safety campaign last year. The gist? Don’t be a jackass at work.

“We have some funny videos that are sort of a play on the ‘Jackass’ show,” says Amanda Woolley of Partners Creative. “It’s kids doing

stupid things. We’ll show some really freaky ones we got from Canada, as well.”

The “No Jack” campaign specifically targets workers between the ages of 16 and 24. ( Jack, not surprisingly, joined Facebook last month.) But workplace safety in general is a valuable lesson to emphasize, Woolley says.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, over 4 million non-fatal injuries or illnesses were reported in the workforce nationwide in 2007. In Montana, roughly 7 of every 100 employees that year were involved in on-the-job accidents.

State Fund dropped an estimated $70,000 on Jack’s Hall of Horrors, and plans to take the attraction on the road over the next few years.

Alex Sakariassen

Agriculture

More red tape Some Montana farmers, agriculture groups and state officials fear that a bill that

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passed the U.S. House of Representatives two weeks ago could have a “deleterious” effect, as one official puts it, on small-scale producers around the state.

The Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, considered an important step in combating outbreaks of food-borne illnesses such as E. coli and salmonella, would give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) new powers in tracking and ordering recalls on tainted foods, and increases facility inspections by the agency.

“On paper, that’s a very appealing concept,” says Patty Lovera of the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Food & Water Watch.

“But in reality, that can be very expensive—and it can be very expensive for the small guys, especially…It’s one of those things where the devil is in the details.”

And there are plenty of details throughout the 117-page bill. Two provisions in particular cause concern in Montana. One would significantly boost the frequency of facility inspections. Another would require producers to register with the FDA and pay a $500 annual fee.

“That is not a happy part of the picture for folks doing small-scale processing and things like that,” Lovera says.

The bill exempts facilities that sell more than half of their processed products directly to consumers (like at a farmers’ market) from paying the fee, but ag groups contend that the exemption is insufficient for producers like Ernie Harvey of Victor-based Lifeline Farm.

Harvey, a Missoula farmers’ market vender, says Lifeline sells the majority of its products wholesale to outlets like the Good Food Store, meaning it would have to pay the annual fee. His primary beef, though, is the specter of more meddlesome federal inspections.

“All these different agencies,” he says, “everybody wants a piece of the pie, and it does get to be a real pain in the ass.”

Rep. Denny Rehberg voted against the bill, and Aaron Murphy, spokesman for Sen. Jon Tester, says the senator “feels that food safety efforts should focus on large-scale producers and facilities where problems start— not family farms and ranches.”

Matthew Frank

BY THE NUMBERS

19,000

Season tickets sold for the University of Montana’s 2009 football season so far–1,000 more than last season. Celine Fisher with UM Athletics says the Griz were worried tickets might not sell due to the recession, but fans are “coming out in droves.”

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The Indy received staggering news this week when longtime staff photographer Chad Harder suffered a severe injury outside Butte. During a routine scramble heading toward Spire Rock, Chad grabbed for a boulder that quickly came loose from the ground. The rock tumbled down, crushed Chad’s right arm and nearly severed his hand completely at the wrist. Emergency personnel transported Chad to St. James Hospital in Butte before determining that he needed to be medevaced to Salt Lake City for immediate surgery.

As of press time, Chad had been through two extensive operations, the second of which successfully reattached his tendons and fused the bones in his wrist. With proper healing and physical therapy, doctors expect him to regain some functionality in the hand. Considering Chad almost lost his life, that’s incredibly welcome news.

While our thoughts and prayers are directed toward Salt Lake, we also want to take a moment to thank everyone involved in ensuring the best possible outcome from a harrowing situation. It starts with Chad’s fellow climbers, which included his partner, Kara McMahon, a nursing student at the College of Technology. Kara fashioned a splint to stabilize Chad’s hand and wrist, and exhibited extreme grace under pressure. Indy reporter Jesse Froehling helped stop the bleeding. Former Indy reporter John S. Adams sprinted down the trail to direct emergency personnel to the scene.

Maneuvering Chad down the hill and to the ambulance took considerable effort, and a group of off-roaders riding in the area selflessly offered up their 4-wheelers to help. Say what you will about ATVers—and word has it our crew wasn’t shy about bemoaning their considerable presence in the area before the accident—but they played an integral part in the rescue. Even after Chad was successfully loaded up in the ambulance, one man insisted that John and Jesse use his ATV to get off the hill. “Just take it,” he said. “You’re in a hurry. I’m not.”

Needless to say, the EMTs, hospital staff and surgeons in both Butte and Salt Lake have also performed admirably.

We’ve spoken with Chad numerous times and, aside from beaming his typically positive attitude, he’s reiterated time and again how impressed he is with his care.

The outpouring of support from friends back home also humbles him. Word travels fast in Missoula, and within 48 hours Chad and Kara heard, “If there’s anything we can do, please let me know,” countless times. Those friends deserve thanks, as well.

Doctors have scheduled a third surgery later this week.

It’s too early to know when exactly Chad will return to Missoula, what shape his hand will be in when he gets here (note: he’s a lefty, so his trigger finger isn’t affected), or how soon his images will start appearing in our pages again. In the meantime, we’ll continue to support Chad and Kara however we can, and be thankful for the good people who helped our award-winning shooter and friend.

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Landless legacy Little Shell Tribe fights for federal recognition

by Alex Sakariassen

Montana artist Donna Loos’ grandfather measured time by the redwing blackbirds. She never knew him, but the story, passed on from her father, John Baptiste Fleury, is one of the strongest ties Loos has to her Little Shell heritage.

Fleury left his family at age six to attend a Christian boarding school.

This was sometime in the early 1900s, Loos says, and like most anxious children just starting school, Fleury asked when he would see his parents again.

“The father did not know how to say, ‘In May,’” Loos, 77, explains. “So he said, ‘When the redwing blackbirds start flying north, we’ll see them in

tional, according to Little Shell President John Sinclair. They’re mixed French and Indian descent, and their ancestral land is in North Dakota’s Red River Valley–far from the tribal office in Great Falls.

The Little Shell’s problems with the federal government date back to 1892, when Chief Thomas Little Shell refused to sign away lands in North Dakota for 10 cents an acre under the McCumber Agreement. Little Shell and his followers were subsequently denied enrollment on the Turtle Mountain Reservation.

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Donna Loos, a local artist and Little Shell descendent, considers her father the strongest tie to her American Indian roots. The Little Shell were once again stalled last month in their 100-year fight for federal recognition.

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Mandan [North Dakota] and you’ll see them here in this school. Then you’ll know we’re on our way.’”

Loos thinks about that story often.

She moved to Missoula last fall from Billings, where she worked as a grade school art teacher most of her life. She’s half Little Shell, but she doesn’t stay in touch with many Little Shell friends or relatives and has only attended a few tribal meetings in the last few years.

Most of what she has are the stories.

Loos’ cultural disconnect from most of her Little Shell ancestry is symptomatic of the hardship plaguing a historically landless and decentralized people.

And the tribe’s 100-year fight for federal recognition–punctuated by its first official petition in 1984–just got longer. Last month, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) delayed its decision on acknowledging the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa another 60 days.

The BIA recognizes over 550 American Indian tribes in the United States, and holds an additional 332 petitions from groups seeking federal acknowledgment. The Little Shell Tribe stands out from the rest as unconven-

on the Rocky Mountain Front. Their population–ranging between 3,000 and 4,000–became scattered, landless and for a number of decades had no centralized government.

According to a 2000 report on the Little Shell Tribe issued by the BIA, arguments for federal recognition as an Indian tribe first rose in the 1930s, and some degree of demand has persisted since. The Little Shell claimed a significant victory in 2000 when the state recognized them as the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa of Montana. Rep. Denny Rehberg pushed legislation in 2007 and this year to pressure the BIA, and conducted a hearing in the House Natural Resources Committee in July to address repeated bureaucratic delays.

“I’ll keep doing whatever it takes because it’s well past time to get this done,” Rehberg said in a statement last month. “These Montanans deserve our attention before another generation of the Little Shell Tribe members goes unrecognized.”

Federal acknowledgement would open profitable doors for enrolled

Little Shells, including access to government-funded health care and education, not to mention land.

“It’s those three building blocks we’d be getting—health, housing and education,” Sinclair says. “That’s our push, because it’s about poverty reduction. A lot of our people live in poverty and hopefully this will give them a chance to lift themselves up by their bootstraps.”

The lack of tribal land, financial benefits and a unified community left the Little Shell a splintered and economically strained group. According to the most recent member census–conducted in 1992–the vast majority of Little Shell people live in Great Falls and Havre. Some settled on the Fort Belknap or Rocky Boy’s reservations.

Thirty percent now live out of state.

Sinclair says that cultural fragmentation will take generations to reverse, as evidenced by the distance between Loos and the Little Shell. Her father abandoned his family’s itinerant lifestyle, choosing instead to root himself in white society. What little insight Loos has of her Little Shell blood comes from stories of Fleury’s childhood, before his Christian schooling really took hold.

“He gave us a lot of what his life was like before his education,” Loos says. “Then he had four years of reading and writing and became a very useful Americanized citizen. He joined the army for World War I when he was maybe 19, and that really Americanized him. It was sort of like graduate school for being an American citizen.”

Loos says Fleury served in a cavalry unit in World War I. Afterwards, he worked as a ranch hand in Wyoming on the Hyatt Ranch, then owned by Wyoming Stock Growers Association President Sam Hyatt. There, Fleury met Loos’ mother and assimilated into a wholly white community. The two had eight children before Fleury died in 1942. Loos was 10.

“He was one of those that wandered away from Indian life,” Loos says, “and he never went back.”

As for federal recognition, Sinclair isn’t holding his breath that the BIA will reach a decision in 60 days. The best could happen, or the blackbirds could complete another migration before the Little Shell win.

“We’re used to waiting,” Sinclair says. “That’s kind of what we’re good at. Going last and waiting.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Growing pains City still struggling with how to save prime soil

by Jesse Froehling

The city of Missoula slated 58 acres of prime agricultural soil for residential development last year. If prime soil continues to disappear at that rate, experts agree that it’ll be gone within 60 or 70 years. The dilemma isn’t a new one, but a new lawsuit and the recent release of an annual report from the Office of Planning and Grants (OPG) underscores the city’s struggle to accommodate new development and protect local agriculture.

The Orchard Homes Community Association filed suit against the city

Lake complied. His revised proposal reflected the Missoula Community Food and Agriculture Coalition’s (CFAC) request that a rectangular area in the southeast corner be preserved since it held the best of the prime soil. But after hearing from neighbors, the city amended Lake’s plan. The final plat reserved the east side of the subdivision for agriculture, but revised the shape and added a single residential lot.

“There was a lot of testimony as to what was going to happen and what

OPG issued the first of its annual updates to the Urban Fringe Development Area.

The goal of the update, called the “yearbook,” is to track and organize the information the city collects throughout the year, says OPG Director Roger Millar.

“We hope with the yearbook to see what’s changing and to see if the policies are achieving the results we want,” says Millar.

The yearbook also details the use of agricultural land, and specifically how fast it’s disappearing. According to this year’s update, some 6,000 acres of prime agricultural soil lies in the Missoula Urban Service Area, the area served by the city sewer system. Of the 6,000 acres, the city has developed 2,191 of them, or about 37 percent. In 2008, the city added another 58 acres, just under 1 percent of the total. If Missoula continues to develop at its current pace, all of the city’s prime agricultural land will be gone as soon as 2069, Millar notes.

At the same time, the East Mullan neighborhood, which Photo by Cathrine L. Walters contains some of the city’s best Chickasaw Place, a subdivision slated for this bucolic plot west of Tower soil, happens to also be one of Street, highlights the city’s struggle to balance development with agriculture. Missoula’s fastest growing areas.

According to the yearbook, the Aug. 6, alleging that Missoula’s City effects were going to occur,” says city approved 104 new houses in the Council made an “arbitrary and capri- Thomas Orr, attorney for the Orchard neighborhood last year. cious” decision when it approved the Homes Community Association. “If As a result, the mitigation in Chickasaw Place subdivision earlier they’re really trying to mitigate impact, Chickasaw Place may become the norm this year. For the most part, the lawsuit the parcel that they created is certainly as the city struggles to preserve its focuses on the city’s approval not the best design for that. And I think dwindling agriculture land. process—whether the public and the there was plenty of testimony to that “When somebody comes in and Missoula Consolidated Planning Board effect. Nobody liked it. I’m not even proposes a subdivision that impacts had an adequate chance to review the sure the developer liked it.” agricultural soil and water, we look at plot. But the suit takes up other Yet before 2008, the city didn’t the impacts, and whether those can be aspects of the subdivision, as well, consider agriculture at all when mitigated,” says Millar. “In the past, including claims that the city didn’t developers asked to subdivide their that wasn’t a big deal, but in recent address the impact to wildlife and did- land. The policy shifted in January of years, societal norms are beginning to n’t adequately mitigate the impact on that year when the council denied the change. The notion of food security is local agriculture.

Sunshine Addition subdivision after a relatively new idea.”

Developer George Lake proposed CFAC testified that it would consume Millar says OPG plans to develop a Chickasaw Place earlier this year as a prime agricultural soil. As a result, policy addressing agriculture in the 9.36-acre subdivision on South the city called on CFAC to review all coming year, a step that pleases Seventh Street West, approximately a subdivisions.

Hassanein despite the flaws in the curquarter mile west of Tower Street.

“Many times, we have no problem rent Chickasaw Place design.

Lake, a longtime resident of the area, with them,” says Neva Hassanein, a “We’re really glad that the City initially wanted to develop the land member of CFAC’s board of directors Council and local government are into 30 separate lots. After residents and a professor at the University of beginning to take agriculture seriousand local agriculture advocates Montana. “But most of the best agri- ly,” Hassanein says. “The land is a very argued that the soil is irreplaceable, cultural land in the county is located in precious resource, as precious as the the council told Lake that he’d have the valley, which is right where we’re water we drink and the air we breathe. to set aside three acres of agricultur- growing.”

And when it’s gone, it’s gone.” al land to mitigate the impact of his On July 29, just eight days before jfroehling@missoulanews.com subdivision.

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Welcome Barack Now, can you please pull things together?

President Barack Obama flies into Montana this week and will hold a “town hall” meeting in a Bozeman airport hangar to talk about health care before talking with Montana’s senior senator, Max Baucus. In the meantime, the Republicans are out in force, opposing health care reform at town hall meetings nationwide while the hapless Democrats fight among themselves over amorphous and confusing plans that give their allies little or nothing to rally around.

Few would deny the powerful oratory of President Obama and, without doubt, it will be on display for the national media once again when he speaks in Bozeman. But without a clear message, even great orators leave their audiences wondering what they’re talking about. And if one thing is certain, it’s that the Democrats have no clear message on health care.

As most folks who are following the issue know, the Democrats earlier promised to have their health bills ready by the time Congress adjourned for its summer recess. Had they done so, Obama wouldn’t have a problem trying to rally supporters because he— and we—would know what was in the bills and where the Democrats were going to take us on health care reform.

But that didn’t happen. In fact, it didn’t come close to happening. To its credit, the House at least has a bill, HR 676, that includes such simple-tounderstand concepts as single-payer, whereby every American citizen is covered for all health concerns regardless of their ability to pay or their pre-existing conditions. Such a plan, which is in existence in most other industrialized nations of the world, certainly could have been the mainstay of the Democrats’ reform efforts and, considering that it is built on “everyone in, no one out” concept of health care, would have garnered significant support.

Unfortunately for all of us, Baucus decided to immediately dump the idea of single-payer, saying it was “off the table.” Instead, Baucus insisted that he needed to craft a “uniquely American” solution and was so adamant that he had more than a dozen doctors and nurses arrested when they attempted to force his health care roundtable to include the single-payer option.

If arresting doctors and nurses brought national attention to Baucus, it also spurred closer examination of just how much money he and other members of his Finance Committee

have taken from insurance companies who have a vested interest in seeing their business—insurance—remain between Americans and their health needs. In this regard, the Democrats probably did more damage to themselves than any amount of Republican needling could have accomplished.

Why? Because Baucus winds up being the Senate’s top recipient for such corporate largesse—the very same guy who insists he’ll be the one to “reform” our health care system.

The results of the insurance industry’s lobbying efforts, which are now

“If one thing is certain, it’s that the Democrats have no clear message on

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health care.

estimated to have exceeded $1.5 million a day, have had a devastating effect on any hopes for progressive reform.

Instead, we are offered the Baucus bill, still incomplete and incomprehensible, wherein the insurance industr y remains in command. Even such mediocre offerings as a public insurance option were dumped once insurance lobbyists complained that government competition would drive them out of business.

Moreover, Baucus has insisted on reaching an agreement with his Republican counterparts under the thin guise of seeking a bipartisan bill that he claims will be “more sustainable.” For years now we have heard nothing but whining from congressional Democrats about needing 60 votes in the Senate or facing Republican filibusters on key legislation. Well, now they have the 60 votes—more than they’ve had in 30 years—and guess what? Baucus is still trying to tell the American people that the Democrats need Republican approval for what is widely considered the most important issue in the nation today.

It is against this sad record that President Obama must now try his best to make Americans believe that the Democrat-controlled Congress and his administration are reforming our health care system. But how, with the insurance industry still in the driver’s seat, can Obama convince anyone that reform is actually going to happen, that the 46 million Americans without insurance are somehow going to receive the health care they need, or that he and his fellow Democrats are going to get rid of the tremendously expensive waste inherent in insurancebased health care?

Far too many Americans have already had their fill of insurance companies whose premiums continue to shoot into the stratosphere while routinely denying claims, cutting payments and refusing to provide coverage for injuries or illnesses that “preexisted.” The thought that these corporations would continue to reap huge profits at the expense of sick people needing care is unpalatable, no matter how silver the president’s tongue.

And then there are the Republicans, fired up to once again trash any hope of health care reform as they storm and disrupt Democrat town hall meetings across the nation. Their message, unlike Obama’s, is simple—no socialized medicine, no government-run health care.

Forget, for the moment, that Medicare, Medicaid and the entire Veterans’ Administration system of hospitals and doctors are run by the government.

Forget that tens of thousands of citizens benefit tremendously from these systems every day. Instead, we get the specter of Sarah Palin, threatening the American people with non-existent “death panels” that would somehow make the decisions on who gets to receive what level of care.

Obama has his work cut out for him. He could start by taking Baucus for a long walk to the woodshed. Then, as he must realize, he’ll have to produce a real health care reform plan that Americans can understand. Or, if he can’t muster the ability to lead the recalcitrant Democrats, health care reform, as Republicans have already predicted, may just wind up being his Waterloo.

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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Sucker punch What to do when bark beetles turn trees red

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by Allen Best

Colorado’s bark beetle epidemic is unlike anything in the state’s still-brief recorded history. Foresters say 95 percent of our lodgepole pines will be dead within just a few more years, with beetles likely to burrow next into the ponderosa pine along the urbanized Front Range corridor.

To some people, this has been like a sucker punch to the stomach.

Driving on Interstate 70 west from Denver, you see whole hillsides of trees red as rust, as if they’d had a bad hair-dye job. Other stands have lost their needles altogether. Imagine never showing up for a high school reunion until your 50th.

Forests were once seen as friendly places in Colorado. Now they produce anxiety. Just as whitening hair tends to remind us of mortality, dying and dead trees provoke thoughts of fire.

Colorado is not alone in this. Other epidemics in the making exist in the North American West. But few other places have so many people living amid the forests as Colorado does.

This bark beetle epidemic is forcing us to redefine our relationship with nature—again. In the first wave of European-based settlement, in the 19th century, the miners, loggers and railroaders saw the forests as a treasure house of wood. It was a free-forall, with predictable results. That led to creation of the U.S. Forest Service, which moderated the extraction and, at its extreme, tried to micro-manage nature.

Then, after World War II, concurrent with the arrival of the recreationbased economy in Colorado and elsewhere, attitudes shifted again. I saw the apex of this change 15 years ago in ski towns where there was an almost knee-jerk reaction against all timber sales, and, by extension, the Forest Service. “I’ve read about those guys in Sports Illustrated and what they’re doing on the Tongass Forest in Alaska,”

said one of Vail’s more strident speakers at a meeting in 1988.

All trees were beautiful, and by extension, all timber sales were ugly. I remember another incident, from 1996, when the Forest Service proposed to burn the bushes and some trees along Vail’s periphery. A distressed homeowner, a transplant from California, said she had moved to Colorado to be next to

“Driving on Interstate 70 west from Denver, you see whole hillsides of trees red as rust, as if they’d had a bad

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hair-dye job.

trees and wanted no part of this controlled fire. A forest, for her and many others, was forever.

The beetle epidemic has provoked new attitudes. Several delegations from ski towns have gone to Washington, D.C., in recent years, only this time they plead for federal money to manage the forest edges. You might call these below-cost timber sales.

Yet the federal government cannot possibly become what amounts to a gardener, tending to the vast stands of forests that are the backyard and backdrop in our new settlement of Colorado, a settlement based on esthetics and not extraction. At best it can try to do so in

selective areas. This bark beetle epidemic, which seems to be exacerbated by human-made warming laid on top of natural climatic variability, only proves the enormous power of natural cycles.

We need new terms of settlement, a better integration into this landscape.

Forests can, as they once did, provide wood for local housing and heating.

Municipalities and fire districts have begun demanding defensible spaces around homes and other buildings.

Stylish but fire-friendly wood-shake shingles are getting replaced.

The lesson here is not that we face a new calamity, but rather that we require a new adjustment. We have always lived in places where fire occurs. Newer research led by biogeographer Tom Veblen finds a correlation between forest fires in the West and sea-surface temperatures in the North Atlantic. He’s found that drought and heat remain the primary predictors of forest fires.

Veblen and forest ecologist W.H. Romme also say that red needles should not be seen as something gone horribly wrong: “From a purely ecological standpoint, dead and drying trees do not necessarily represent poor ‘forest health.’ They may instead reflect a natural process of forest renewal.”

Renewal is evident in the Williams Fork Valley, the epicenter of Colorado’s beetle epidemic. Green saplings have emerged amid the gray tree trunks. And on mountainsides glowing in the light of late day with the dirty red of dead needles, I see something akin to the phenomenon called alpenglow. These dying trees, I think to myself, might they be a beautiful sight?

Allen Best is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He covers forests, resort towns and naturalresource issues from his home in Arvada, Colorado.

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Though cliché, it’s hard to argue with the fact that you really are what you eat. What we put into our mouths dayin and day-out does affect our risk of health-related problems like obesity, diabetes and cancer. And we choose what to eat each time we head down the aisles of our local supermarket.

But our choices are, by some accounts, limited. That’s because a handful of corporations control a significant share of the nation’s food supply. And these corporations consistently aim to give us bigger and better products, like tomatoes that don’t bruise, by using chemical and biological engineering methods to “enhance” the foods we eat. These enhancements, however, also create problems, such as new strains of E. coli in cattle.

That’s according to Food, Inc., a documentary by Robert Kenner that screens in Missoula this week. The film, in part, exposes the strong grip companies like Monsanto and

THURSDAY AUGUST 13 It’s bound to be an information-laden end of the week during the Second Annual Families and Learning Conference, a twoday event that focuses on parent leadership, the economics of education and more with keynote speakers Margaret Wheatley, Bliss Browne and Howard Rainer. The conference begins at 8 AM, Aug. 13, at the Hilton Garden Inn, 3720 N. Reserve St. $195. Visit www.montanapirc.org or call 543-3550.

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Women in the Kalispell area interested in helping and encouraging younger women to develop personal and social responsibility can apply to be a mentor for The Nurturing Center’s Gemini program, where you’ll spend 4–6 hours a month with a female high school freshman and help them explore life’s options. Call Jennifer Rogge at 756-1414.

SATURDAY AUGUST 15 Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan can join facilitator Chris Poloynis every Sat. at 3 PM, when Spartans Honour, an outdoor PTSD support group, meets at Greenough Park’s southernmost footbridge. Free. Call 327-7834.

MONDAY AUGUST 17 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

Tyson have on our national food industry, and how they’ve silenced farmers from speaking out about the drastic changes occurring to our food supply.

But Kenner’s message isn’t all doom and gloom. In fact, his solution should find a warm reception with those of us who try our best to buy local and organically grown food, no matter how much it might pinch our wallets.

So the next time you contemplate buying that cheap, triple-pack of bell peppers at Wal-Mart, consider watching Food, Inc. beforehand. It just might change your diet, and your life.

Food, Inc. screens at the Wilma Theatre Fri., Aug. 14, at 7 PM. $7.50/$5.50 children and seniors.

Doors open at 6 PM, with a meet and greet from representatives of Garden City Harvest and the Community Food and Agriculture Coalition.

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Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine St. Free. Call 552-6080.

TUESDAY AUGUST 18 You can fight for peace in many different ways, but how about knitting for it? Find out when the group Knitting for Peace meets every Tue. from 11 AM–1 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-3955.

Find the strength and will to survive in the company of others during a breast cancer support group at St. Francis Xavier Parish, 420 W. Pine, every first and third Tue. of the month at noon. Free. Call 329-5656.

We all want to preserve Missoula’s historic beauty, don’t we? If you do and you live near East Pine between Pattee Street and Rattlesnake Creek, grab an application to serve on the Historic Preservation Commission at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/vacancy or visit City Hall, 435 Ryman St. You have until 5 PM today to complete the bugger, so get crackin’. Call Marty Rehbein at 552-6078.

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.

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

THURSDAY AUGUST 20 Aspen Hospice of Montana is currently looking for volunteers to help offer comfort, pain relief and emotional support for those who are near the end of their lives. The hospice utilizes health care professionals and trained volunteers to provide care. Call Lois at 642-3010.

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I N OTHER N EWS Curious but true news items from around the world

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN – When a woman demanded money at a credit union in South Hutchinson, Kan., the teller asked if she had an active account. The Hutchinson News reported the woman, described as in her mid-40s and wearing a medical uniform decorated with cartoon characters, replied that she had no account. “The bank employee made it clear to the subject that the business could not help her with her wishes,” police Chief Scott Jones said, adding that the frustrated suspect threatened to “contact her boyfriend and have him come back with a weapon.” Then she left.

Authorities investigating a home invasion in Riverview, Fla., had no trouble identifying one of the suspects after the victims told them he had an outline of the state of Florida tattooed on his face and the words “Crazy Cracker” either tattooed or written on his head. The Tampa Tribune said Hillsborough County sheriff’s deputies quickly arrested Sean Roberts, 19, whose alias is “Crazy Cracker.”

MENSA REJECT OF THE WEEK – Michael R. Brandt, 41, suffered burns and totaled his car in a parking lot in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, after lighting a cigarette while sitting next to a full propane tank.

LITIGATION NATION – Members of Alpha Kappa Alpha are suing the sorority’s international president, Barbara McKinzie, whom the suit accuses of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars of the group’s money to buy herself designer clothing, lingerie and jewelry. McKinzie called the lawsuit “malicious” and “not befitting our ideals of sisterhood, ethics and service.” The Associated Press reported she was particularly offended at the accusation that she spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on a life-size wax figure of herself. In fact, she said, the statue cost only $45,000.

The family of Alexa Longueira announced plans to file a lawsuit after the New York City teenager fell into an open sewer manhole while walking down a Staten Island street text messaging. Fox News reported Longueira suffered mild cuts and bruises. Her mother said it doesn’t matter that her daughter was text messaging and not paying attention to where she was walking; the manhole should not have been left uncovered.

Nick DeBenedetto, 48, filed a class-action lawsuit against Denny’s, alleging the restaurant chain puts unsafe levels of salt in its meals. The resident of Tinton Falls, N.J., insisted he doesn’t cook with salt or add salt to food at home but that he has eaten at Denny’s for many years.

He is being treated for high blood pressure. “I was astonished to find that these simple sandwiches have more salt than someone in my condition should have in a whole day,” he said.

ECONOMIC STIMULUS – A Berlin brothel began offering discounts to customers who arrive on bicycles. “The recession has hit our industry hard,” Thomas Goetz, owner of La Maison d’Envie, told Reuters. “Obviously we hope that the discount will attract more people. It’s good for business, it’s good for the environment, and it’s good for the girls.”

SIBLING RIVALRY IN THE MAKING – Chinese family planning officials are going door to door in Shanghai to encourage certain residents to have a second child. The campaign aims to ease the burden of providing for the city’s growing senior population, which now stands at 21 percent of Shanghai’s 13.7 million residents. The Shanghai Population and Family Planning Commission noted that the campaign doesn’t signal a change in China’s one-child rule but is an attempt to let people know about the policy’s many exceptions. In this case, commission director Xie Lingli explained that only couples who both grew up as only children are being targeted to have a second child.

JUSTIFICATIONS OF THE WEEK – A lavish three-day conference for nearly 700 Social Security Administration executives that cost taxpayers $700,000 was necessary because “there is a tremendous amount of stress involved in the job that we do,” SSA Regional Commissioner Peter Spencer told ABC News. “We received threats against our employees by people who are in the American public.” The conference at the Arizona Biltmore, described as the “Jewel of the Desert,” included golf, swimming, dancing and an excursion to a local casino. Top Social Security administrator Michael Astrue made a special guest appearance, but his office insisted that he flew coach.

Former Colorado Department of Revenue supervisor Michelle Cawthra, 32, admitted stealing $11 million from the state over a two-year period not for personal gain but to give to her boyfriend. “I did things I don’t think I otherwise would have done had I not been in love with him,” she testified at the trial of the ex-boyfriend, Hysear Randall, who is accused of using the money to pay for delinquent child support, land deals, diamond jewelry, cars and business ventures. The Denver Post reported that Randall’s lawyer argued Cawthra tried to use the money to lure Randall away from his wife.

SOLID DEFENSE – Robert P. Trout, defense attorney for former Louisiana congressman William J. Jefferson, sought to redeem his client by arguing at his corruption trial in Alexandria, Va., that Jefferson isn’t a criminal, just “stupid.” The Washington Post reported Trout told jurors that the high-profile case, which included the FBI’s finding $90,000 in bribe money in Jefferson’s freezer, has made Jefferson, who faces up to 235 years for the various counts against him, basically “a national joke.”

DON’T BLAME ME – After Catherine Stotts, 62, injured a highway worker while driving in a closed lane during a repaving operation, she told California Highway Patrol officers she was driving in the wrong lane because she was “not used” to driving on new asphalt. She added she thought the 60-year-old victim could have jumped out of her way faster.

SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES – Washington state police reported that a Seattle man who was a passenger in a car was showing a gun to the driver when it went off, hitting him in the leg.

FAMILY DISREUNION – Authorities in Bedford County, Tenn., charged Marion Aubrey Whitaker, 62, with trying to burn down a house he was renting to relatives. “He said he bought the house and allowed some of his family from up north to move in and rent it from him, but things weren’t working out, and he was tired of all the problems they were having,” Detective Sgt. Scott Jones told the Shelbyville Times-Gazette. “He said he wanted them gone from here and back up north where they came from.”

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our hours before the first pitch, Ogren Park at Allegiance Field looks nearly empty. The fans haven’t arrived, nor have the umpires, Ollie Osprey or any venders. The only activity takes place on the field as the Missoula Osprey and the Great Falls Voyagers run through pre-game warmups. In right field, the Voyagers play catch. Along the third-base line, the Osprey, clad in shorts and Osprey T-shirts, stand poised. On a coach’s call, they take off, sprinting hard for center field.

Junior Noboa takes in the scene above the third-base line, standing in a sliver of shade offered by the vacant concession stands. Noboa serves as the director of Latin American operations for the Arizona Diamondbacks, the Osprey’s parent club, and he’s here to check on one of his prized prospects.

“He’s number 48,” says Noboa, pointing to Keny Sosa, a lanky, lefthanded, power pitcher hailing from Noboa’s native Dominican Republic.

Noboa, dressed in jeans and a white D-backs polo, watches Sosa jawing with his teammates after finishing their sprints.

“He has the best chance of making it to the majors,” Noboa says. “He’s strong. He’s fast. He has good form. He should make it.”

By “make it,” Noboa’s referring to the major leagues, or “The Show,” as it’s commonly called among players.

Although Sosa holds promise, the truth is he and his teammates face long odds of ever setting foot in a big league clubhouse. There are currently 20 different minor leagues with about 246 teams feeding players to just 30 major league teams, each with a 40-man roster.

According to Steve Densa, director of media relations with Minor League Baseball, just 10 percent of minor league players ever manage to play one game in a big league stadium. The percentage of players who spend their careers in the big leagues is much smaller.

Sosa, 22, knows the odds. But considering what he went through to even arrive in Missoula, he’s not intimidated about moving up from rookie ball with the Osprey through three other levels—A, AA and AAA—to the big leagues.

Sosa’s already fought his way through the most baseball-crazed country on earth, a country whose relationship with the sport is complicated and controversial. Baseball generates immense pride and much-needed wealth for the impoverished Dominican Republic, but

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Keny Sosa signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks two years ago at the age of 20. Junior Noboa, the Dbacks’ director of Latin American operations, discovered Sosa playing at Born to Play, a baseball academy in the Dominican Republic.

three times and became just the 15th pitcher of all time to strike out 3,000 hitters. Dodger Manny Ramirez is one of just 25 people ever to have hit more

identity and culture that’s highly valued,” says Rob Ruck, a history professor at the University of Pittsburg and the author of the seminal book on Dominican ballplayers, The Tropic of Baseball.

“It’s become the way “He has the best chance of that Dominicans have expressed themselves ••• making it to the majors. He’s on the global stage.”

Ozzie Virgil joined It’s these examthe New York Giants in strong. He’s fast. He has good ples that Sosa hopes 1953 and became the to follow, but he’s a first Dominican to reach form. He should make it.” long way from Cy the big leagues. Since —Junior Noboa, director of Young Awards in then, some of the game’s Latin American operations for the Arizona Missoula. best talent has come After a recent from the small Diamondbacks Osprey victory, Sosa Caribbean country. sits in the Rhinoceros Chicago Cubs slugger on Ryman Street sipSammy Sosa (no relation to Keny) battled Mark McGwire for the than 500 home runs. The list goes on ping a glass of Budweiser. Unlike most home run title during the thrilling and on and on. In fact, the Dominican of his teammates, Sosa’s old enough to 1998 season when both players man- Republic, a country smaller than West drink, but he doesn’t go out very often. aged to break Roger Maris’ 37-year-old Virginia, currently churns out more big His usual stop after games: the single-season home run record of 61. leaguers than any other country in the McDonald’s drive-thru window.

He’s quiet around visitors, but Pedro Martinez won the Cy Young world except the United States.

“It’s become part of Dominican warms up easily. Sosa speaks enough Award as the league’s best pitcher

also spawns a shady underworld of thieves and leaches who prey on young ballplayers’ dreams. For Sosa, he remains focused on the dream: play baseball, reach the majors and send money to family. That’s it.

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English to communicate with coaches and teammates, but prefers Spanish.

When a reporter tells him he’s bilingual, he opens up and speaks more freely about his homeland and what it’s like living in an isolated mountain town.

The first time he arrived in the United States, Sosa, then 20, landed in the Tucson airport a little after midnight. He boarded a minivan with a driver who didn’t speak Spanish and rode directly to the Diamondbacks’ spring training facility. He hardly did anything but play baseball, and spent his free time wandering the Tucson mall. Sosa says he never felt more alone in his life.

He’s comfortable in Missoula, although he admits that he’d prefer to leave as soon as possible for a promotion to a higher level of baseball. He spends time with his 22-year-old American girlfriend (she’s bilingual), but otherwise his schedule revolves entirely around baseball.

After the Rhino, Sosa gives directions to his house, which happen to pass by McDonald’s. The restaurant’s closed.

“How about Burger King?” he asks.

Sosa finally arrives at his two-bedroom apartment off Railroad Street, a flat he shares with five other Dominican players and Ramon Castillo, a Panamanian catcher. Two single mattresses lay in the front room.

There are two more mattresses in one of the bedrooms and three more in another. When Sosa walks in, Castillo chats with friends on Facebook while Henry Zaballa, an Osprey outfielder, listens to his iPod. It’s hot in the house and they’re all shirtless. The apartment is cramped, but Sosa doesn’t care. He’s playing professional baseball, “un sueño,” he says. A dream.

Sosa comes from Haina, a village in the Dominican Republic near Santo Domingo. He cut his teeth with games of stickball in streets, fields or any space large enough to hold nine fielders and a kid with a bat. Baseball, Sosa says, is in his blood.

He’s not the first in his family to come to the United States—or even the first to play minor league baseball. His mother lives in Maryland with one of his five siblings and his father is a freezer mechanic in New York. Four of his cousins played ball with various minor league teams, so Sosa says it was only a matter of time before he joined their ranks. That casual outlook belies the hard work—and luck—that got Sosa to the Diamondbacks’ organization.

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••• balls in the sandlot, a guy would trainer like Mercedes. Instead, a Baseball arrived in the Dominican house you, educate you and, most buscón is a low-grade pimp who’ll Republic from Cuba, but its players, importantly, train you in the hopes pump a 13- or 14-year-old kid full of until recently, hailed almost exclusive- that a big league scout would sign you steroids to enhance his investment, ly from a southern Dominican town to a contract, or firmar. and then toss the kid out to dry by called San Pedro de Macorís. The reaAt the advice of his friend, Sosa snatching up to 50 percent of the playson for this is twofold, according to ended up at Born to Play, an academy er’s signing bonus. The worst part, say author Ruck. in Haina, and tried out. The acade- both Ruck and Sosa, is that some “A lot of ballplayers who started to my’s owner, Edgar Mercedes, a suc- young players know what they’re getcome out of San Pedro de Macorís are cessful U.S.-educated sports book ting into although they may not the grandsons of cocolos, people who owner, liked what he saw in Sosa and understand the health risks. originally came to San Pedro to cut agreed to take him in.

“If you’re in an area and your sugar cane,” he says. alternatives are to work in the The English-speaking, cane fields, the cane mill, the Protestant, dark-skinned cocofree trade zones or the hotels, los followed Marcus Garvey, and somebody’s offering you the Jamaican black nationalist, the chance to play baseball, “Name for me five and lived a “very disciplined” and even though the signing life, Ruck says. They brought bonus isn’t going to be anyother lefties who are this culture to the Dominican thing like it was if you were in Republic and applied it to the the United States and you were pitching above 90. game of cricket, which they drafted, it’s going to be more played extremely well. money than that family has When you have a kid “These are people who ever seen at one time in its were very put upon at work, entire history,” Ruck says. like that, who’s experienced quite a bit of disMercedes, Sosa says, did crimination and racism and not take advantage of him. In athletic as he is, who’s drew upon themselves as a fact, the most baseball Sosa means of surviving,” Ruck says. ever learned took place under a left-hander, who “Their sons, once they became Merecedes’ tutelage. And after a permanent community there, a year at Born to Play, Noboa pitches consistently at spoke English at home, came to the academy and Sosa Spanish at school. They played caught his eye. Suddenly, a that velocity, he has a cricket with their fathers and dream Sosa had held since he baseball with their Dominican was old enough to throw a lot of things in his friends. The third generation is baseball had come true. [future major leaguers like] “Me firmaron,” he says favor.”

A l f r e d o G r i f f i n , Pe d r o now. “They signed me.”

—Steve Merriman, Guerrero, George Bell, Sammy His contract with the Osprey pitching coach Sosa, Jose Offerman, Mariano Diamondbacks included a Duncan, Rafael Ramirez. Many $15,000 signing bonus, more of them you can tell from the money than Sosa had ever had last name have this English at one time. He used it to pay background. So you have this for one brother’s surgery and real splendid tradition of the cocolos, The Indy was unable to reach bought his other brother a motorcyand once it starts to take off and reach Mercedes for this story, but he was the cle, which he operates as a taxi in critical mass, you have this infrastruc- subject of a July 22, 2008, Sports Santo Domingo. Mercedes, Sosa says, ture of mini sporting culture of coach- Illustrated story on a new wave of made his life better. es, leagues, rivalries, ball fields and, buscones, or “searchers,” a sometimes on top of that, the Major League starts shady, sometimes legitimate trainer ••• to say, ‘Wow, this is where you want to who finds young ballplayers and helps After Sosa signed with Noboa, he go to find good ballplayers.’ And these them train for potential careers in moved to Baseball City, a modern, kids grow up and there are ballplayers Major League Baseball. As payment, state-of-the-art baseball academy all over the place who become their the buscón usually takes a percentage shared by the Minnesota Twins, role models. So it becomes an incred- of the prospect’s signing bonus. Last Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds and ibly rich culture of sporting excel- year, Mercedes managed to get 16- Diamondbacks. The facility’s fields are lence.” year-old Michael Inoa a contract with cared for like major league parks—the That baseball tradition bred more the Oakland Athletics’ organization. grass meticulously maintained, the than just all-star talent. It also pro- The A’s kicked Inoa a $4.25 million dirt carefully raked. Outside the gates, duced a legion of seedy agents and signing bonus and, as Inoa’s trainer, in the town of Boca Chica, Sosa says brokers who worked to profit off Mercedes took an undisclosed cut. youngsters play in the street with the island’s flow of stellar baseball In 2006, Dominican President sticks and rags, hoping to someday players.

Leonel Fernandez, signed legislation make it inside the complex.

“These kids are taken advantage limiting the percent of a signing Every major league team has a of, there’s no question about that,” bonus a buscón can take from a facility in the Dominican Republic like Ruck says. “I mean, it’s not uniform. prospect to 10 percent if the buscón Baseball City, and usually in poor, It’s not homogenous, but there are a trains the player for a year, and 15 rural communities like Boca Chica. lot of people who want a piece of the percent if the kid trains for longer. The academies give rise to a thriving action. The best analogy might be the But many believe the problem still summer league where Dominicans way people exploit young African persists. and many North Americans come to American basketball players in high Sosa doesn’t consider Mercedes a hone their game during the winter. school on their way to college.” buscón.

The juxtaposition between the modSosa explains that he had a friend “Buscones andan en la calle,” he ern facilities and the kids in the street who knew of a place where, if you says, meaning they go in the street. can seem harsh until you consider the were good enough at baseball, if you’d They’re lowlifes, scumbags. In Sosa’s financial impact of Major League spent enough time swinging sticks at mind, a buscón is not a legitimate Baseball on the country.

John Siebel, a consultant with Major League Baseball and an economist with Entrena, S.A., a Dominican consulting company, helped author a 2005 report that put that financial impact into perspective. The study showed that $84 million flows into the country annually as a result of Major League Baseball.

“Today,” Siebel says, “we estimate the amount to be in excess of $100 million.”

In 2005, the year Sosa signed with the Diamondbacks, 402 other Dominican players also finalized contracts with major league teams. Those 403 Dominicans brought home $17.4 million in signing bonuses alone. Most of those players stay at one of the 28 academies operated by major league teams. The academies’ annual investment totals $14 million.

“Their economic impact is more significant when you consider that (a) They create over 850 permanent direct jobs and (b) They are located in predominantly poor communities where the impact is more direct,” the report says.

Siebel says there are a couple of reasons the academies stand in rural areas.

“Number one, the operational cost is lower,” he says. “Number two, the location. Most of the players originally came from San Pedro de Macorís. But all of the areas they are located in could be considered poorer communities. They’re not located in urban facilities. They’re located on the outskirts of the communities and that has to do a lot with the cost of land and the availability of land.”

Siebel’s report doesn’t consider another impact of baseball on the country—education. But he does mention it as another benefit.

“All teams are required to provide some sort of educational program that usually consists of some life skills, some English training, computer literacy and schooling,” Siebel says. “As an industry, we’re trying to establish an educational program for all the teams for all the players, whereby each player would advance one grade of schooling during each season that the player is signed and will continue to get his high school education regardless of whether that player was released or not.”

It’s an important step because most who sign with a team and train in an academy never actually make it out of the Dominican Republic. Even if they don’t reach the United States, Siebel emphasizes that the year or two they spend in the camps usually represents a significant jump in lifestyle.

Siebel says a player will usually sign for about $800 per month, a substantial sum when you consider the plight of the average Dominican. The CIA World Factbook estimates the average per capita income in the country in 2008 was just $8,100.

The final measure of baseball’s impact on the island comes from how

many players reinvest in the country.

Dominican major and minor leaguers send about 20 percent of their salaries back to the island per year, or around $50 million, according to Siebel’s report.

“By and large, Dominican ballplayers have brought back more to their communities than ballplayers in the United States bring back to theirs,” Ruck says. “Many of them go back and support a lot of people. They invest.

Pedro Martinez built a church for his community. Vladimir Guerrero and any

Sosa hopes to follow in the footsteps of these all-stars, but first he has to wrangle some semblance of control from the cannon attached to his left shoulder.

Sosa has pitched brilliantly at times for the Osprey this season, but he’s also struggled with consistency. On July 14, Idaho Falls shelled him with six runs on nine hits over four innings.

Against Billings on July 24, Sosa gave up another six runs on 10 hits, leaving him with an astronomical 20.25 earned run average.

The right fielder has knocked 10 of his 39 hits over the fence for home runs, but Sosa gets Krieger to chase a fastball low and outside on the first pitch.

Krieger swings and misses again on the second. After a foul ball and a called ball, Sosa goes back at Krieger with a low and outside pitch. Krieger watches it go by for strike three.

In the second inning, Sosa retires the side again, striking out infielder Sean Halton in the process. His fastball reaches 91 miles per hour on the stadium radar gun.

Coaches and scouts believe Sosa has the velocity to reach the major leagues, but say he must develop his secondary pitches and get better at the mental side of the game.

number of others have foundations that put people to work and help people. They often go back to play winter ball, like Miguel Tejada, even though they could use the rest and they don’t need the money. Because not to go back, as Tony Pena once said, would be like slapping people in the face.”

Ruck doesn’t know exactly what percentage of players who sign contracts with big league academies make it out of the Dominican Republic.

“It could be half or more,” he says.

“But the ones who are really good, who show promise, will make it to the U.S. minor leagues. This kid you’re talking about has already made a substantial jump. He’s left the island.”

••• Earlier this year, Manny Ramirez signed a two-year contract worth $45 million with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Just last month, an aging Pedro Martinez signed with the Philadelphia Phillies for $1 million, with an additional $1.5 million in possible incentives.

But when Sosa’s on, he’s unhittable. In his first outing of the season he struck out six Helena Brewers over six scoreless innings to earn the victory. Against Great Falls in late July, he allowed just two runs and six hits over six innings.

“He’s had a couple of bad outings as a starter this year,” says Steve Merriman, the Osprey pitching coach, “but his last start was outstanding. I expect him to continue to improve.”

Sosa’s latest chance to put it all together came Aug. 3 against the Helena Brewers. In the first game of the second-half of the season—the Osprey came within one strike of winning the first-half division title—manager Audo Vicente sent Sosa to the mound for the start.

First up is Brewers’ shortstop Mike Brownstein. Sosa fires a fastball low on the inside corner and Brownstein knocks a short chopper to charging Osprey third baseman Raywilly Gomez. With one pitch, Sosa notches an out.

After retiring the second batter, Sosa faces Brewers’ slugger Scott Krieger.

“He’s athletic, he’s left-handed, he’s 89-91,” Merriman says. “Name for me five other lefties who are pitching above 90. When you have a kid like that, who’s athletic as he is, who’s a left-hander, who pitches consistently at that velocity, he has a lot of things in his favor.”

No question Sosa has the velocity to fan major league hitters, but, as Merriman likes to tell his pitchers, “There’s no more stuffed animals to win at the carnival. You got paid one time for velocity. After that, you gotta learn how to pitch. You have to learn how to change speeds, locate, get movement and then get outs. Velocity isn’t the thing that gets outs.”

Sosa tends to rely on his fastball, but Merriman says that’s the point.

Minor league hurlers, Merriman says, tend to overestimate their breaking pitches.

“A lot of these guys come out from college or lower levels where guys will swing at bad breaking balls,” Merriman says. “So these guys have learned a false sense of security with a breaking ball

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that’s in the dirt that guys swing at all the time. You see it here every night. What I want them to establish first and foremost is that fastball. You’re going to pitch off your fastball.”

For young players like Sosa, that’s easier said than done. Merriman says it’s Sosa’s delivery that keeps getting him in trouble.

“When he’s on, he’s on,” Merriman says. “When he struggles like he has, it’s because the delivery gets sideways on him and he starts to spin a little bit in his landing, and he loses the feel of a good release point to help him have command of his pitches.”

In the fifth inning against Helena, Sosa starts to lose control. He’s only given up one hit before Cutter Dykstra reaches first on a fielder’s choice and Kyle Dhanani knocks a triple to center field.

“We started noticing a few things with his delivery and his mechanics,” Merriman says of Sosa’s last start. “He really started to collapse a little bit and lose his good arm slot, which flattened his pitches out. But it’s like anything. You work at it. Guys are going to go through that. They’re going to have ups and downs. They have to weather the storm a little bit.”

Sosa knows he has to work on his mental approach to the game. He hopes to add a few secondary pitches to his lethal fastball—a strong slider and changeup are in the works—but, more importantly, he still has a lot to learn about pitching at this level. “[He needs to learn] how to read hitters.

What does he see?” Merriman says. “This will dictate how to use his stuff. But in terms of velocity, he has what it takes to get to the big leagues.”

With a runner on third and two outs, Sosa steps off the mound to collect his thoughts, then

the

No question Sosa has the velocity to fan major league hitters, but, as Merriman likes to tell his stable, “there’s no more stuffed animals to win at the carnival. You got paid one time for velocity. After that, you gotta learn how to pitch.”

steps back onto the rubber to face Brewers’ center fielder Chadwin Stang. Sosa’s notched five strikeouts so far, but Stang took away Sosa’s no hitter in the third. A hit here would mean another run for Helena and would probably send Sosa to the showers.

He checks Dhanani on third, stretches and fires. Fastball. Strike one. Sosa goes right back at him with another fastball for strike two. Once

more, Sosa stretches and fires. Stang eyes another fastball, steps, swings…and misses. Strike three, end of the inning.

When the Osprey take the field in the top of the sixth inning, Sosa’s sitting in the dugout. On the strength of a big fourth inning, the Osprey go on to notch Sosa’s second win of the season with a 12–2 victory. Just one more small step for Sosa toward The Show.

Postscript: The Arizona Diamondbacks announced Sunday that Keny Sosa was promoted from the Osprey to Class A South Bend. He made his first start Tuesday against Lansing and pitched six innings. He struck our seven batters and only gave up one run. jfroehling@missoulanews.com

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The Mustard Seed Asian Café Located outside Southgate Mall Paxson St. Entrance • 542-7333 Contemporary Asian Cuisine served in our all new bistro atmosphere. Original recipes and fresh ingredients combined from Japanese, Chinese, Polynesian, and Southeast Asian influences to appeal to American palates. Full menu available in our non-smoking bar. Fresh daily desserts, microbrews, fine wines & signature drinks. Take out & delivery available. $$–$$$.

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. $–$$.

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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. $-$$

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. $

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. $-$$

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. $-$$

Wok-ee Mountain Asian Restaurant 11300 US Hwy 93, Lolo 273-9819 Brand new Thai & Chinese cuisine featuring original recipes. Specializing in curry. Extensive menu, vegetarian options and many soup options as well including Vietnamese style pho, Tom Yum, wonton and more.

Wok-ee Mountain Asian Restaurant is perfect for take out or dine in. $-$$

$...Under $5 Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Where Myrtle Avenue ends at Bernice's, a tiny bakery sits as a veritable landmark to those who enjoy homestyle baked goods, strong coffee, community, and a variety of delicious treats. Join us for lunch if you'd like. Crazy delicious. Crazy cheap. 30 years and still baking. Open Every Day 6AM to 8PM. $ Bucks Club 1805 Regent 543-7436 Missoula’s best Food & Drink Values. 2-for-1 food specials daily. Eat the legend. Burgers for a buck. Over 1,000,000 sold. Great Breakfast served daily. If you go away hungry, don’t blame us. Mon.–Sat. Open 7 AM and Sunday 8 AM. $

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Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 37 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and

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Le Petit Outre 129 South 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European handcrafted 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, MondayFriday 7-6. $

eMpanadas 728-2030 www.empanadalady.com eMpanadas are back! Indulge in your favorites at the Clark Fork River Market this Saturday, 8am to 1pm and at Downtown Tonight, Caras Park, Thursdays, June-August 5:308:30pm. Baked to perfection with fresh, local ingredients, 10 exquisite varieties of Argentine-style empanadas await you: Carne de búfalo, lamb, pollo, humita, and more. $ Indulge Bakery 700 SW Higgins Ave 544-4293 indulgebakery.wordpress.com Now open! Enjoy international flavors - Russian teacakes, pizzelles, baci di dama, as well as cupcakes, scones, specialty breads, with new specialties added daily. Get bread fresh from the oven between 3 & 5PM. Open M-F 7AM to 6:30PM, Sat 7AM-4PM. We're just around the corner from Bamboo Chopsticks.

Stop in today. $ Junga Juice 1132 SW Higgins In Russell Square 830-3231 Junga Juice offers premium fruit and vegetable smoothies, juices and espresso drinks and an adventure that will keep you wanting more. Go wild…Get healthy with a nutritional Jolt you choose to meet your needs. Try Amazing Grass, Zrii, Acai, Natrual Vitality or Nutrisoda.

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by Ari LeVaux

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The idea that eating less can prolong life has been gaining traction in recent years, thanks to studies on many organisms that correlate fewer calories with longer life.

A group called the Calorie Restriction Society has formed to encourage and assist people in reducing their long-term caloric intake for the sake of health. Their diet, called Calorie Restriction with Optimal Nutrition (CRON), is intended to drastically reduce caloric intake without starving the body.

We’re talking about more than skipping dessert. The CRON diet aims for a weight of 10–25 percent less than what you weighed in college (assuming you were healthy, not anorexic or obese). I’m 6 foot 2 and weighed 160 pounds when I was 20. So if I were a CRONie, as they call themselves, I’d aim to weigh about 130 pounds—or 55 pounds less than my current weight.

That may sound extreme, but CRONies recently found validation in the results of a long-term study on rhesus monkeys.

The monkeys were divided into two groups, one of which was fed 30 percent fewer calories than the other. The researchers, led by Ricki J. Colman and Richard Weindruch at the University of Wisconsin, reported in Science magazine’s July 9 issue that after 20 years, the dieting monkeys show significantly less diabetes, cancer and heart and brain disease than the control group.

Calorie restriction entered the mainstream in the 1980s, when UCLA researcher Dr. Roy Walford began publishing books, including The 120-Year Diet, based on his research with mice. Walford died at 79 of Lou Gehrig’s disease, and his daughter Lisa Walford now carries the torch. A prominent CRONie, she’s 5 feet tall, weighs 80 pounds, and according to her recent book, The Longevity Diet, enjoys a daily breakfast of four walnuts, six almonds and 10 peanuts, which is eerily similar to but somewhat less than what I fed a five-ounce parakeet I recently babysat.

Another of Walford’s disciples was Richard Weindruch, co-author of the recent monkey study.

Ask Ari:

Weindruch also co-founded LifeGen Technologies LLC, a company that “works with drug makers to quantify the effect of possible life-extending drugs.” LifeGen’s business plan, based on the premise that most people don’t have the willpower to limit their caloric intake by 30 percent, is to identify and replicate in pill form the biochemical processes triggered by caloric restriction.

When I reached Weindruch by e-mail, he admitted that he himself doesn’t follow a calorierestricted diet, though he does eat “lots of vegetables and not much meat,” despite his team’s con-

under anesthesia while blood samples were taken—which allowed them to show a statistically significant difference between the two groups.

But skeptics argue the low-cal diet could have made the monkeys more susceptible to health threats not usually associated with age.

There’s also reason to believe that laboratory conditions don’t adequately simulate real life.

Studies that show mice to live as much as 40 percent longer on a calorie restriction diet are done with lab mice, which have been bred for high fertility and other characteristics. But other research shows that mice derived from wild populations don’t live longer under calorie restriction.

Given that the average American consumes more than 3,700 calories per day, and that much of it comes from junk food, some calorie restriction would probably be a good thing for many of us.

But if you’re not fat, does it make sense to starve yourself from thin to bony?

I wonder about the origin of the monkey chow. The materials and methods section of the study doesn’t identify the monkey diet, specifying only that “animals in Photo by Ari LeVaux this study are fed a semipurified, nutritionally fortified, low fat diet containing clusion that their data “demonstrate that caloric 15 percent protein and 10 percent fat.” restriction slows aging in a primate species.”

Not all calories, protein and fat are equal. Meat While the CRONies are fasting for joy at this from grass-fed beef, for example, has a healthier balconclusion, many scientists and health experts ance of omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids. Protein don’t buy it. from soy has been linked to intestinal problems in Most of the monkeys are still alive, and are kids and thyroid illness in adults. Trans fat increasexpected to live many more years, so it’s too early es the risk of heart disease. If the monkeys were fed to know if the dieting monkeys really will live a diet from McDonald’s, for example, a 30 percent longer. And at this point, according to the reduction in calories would certainly explain the researchers, the difference between the two relative lack of diabetes and heart disease. groups in terms of the deaths that have occurred So while the monkey study results are interso far is not statistically significant. esting, I’m sticking with my filling diet of naturalIf there isn’t a significant difference in mortal- ly produced and minimally processed foods. And ity between the two groups, why has this study if I’m wrong? Well, if living 120 years means 120 made headlines around the world? years of semi-starvation, I’m not sure I see the The researchers excluded monkey deaths point. I don’t think I’d feel too good, or look too deemed not due to age—such as deaths occurring pretty, at 130 pounds.

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Despite the fact that a link between aluminum cookware and Alzheimer’s disease has been disproven, I still prefer to avoid using aluminum pots. However, all the stainless steel cookware that I’ve seen has aluminum in the base.

So, is it better to use enameled cookware, stainless steel or stainless steel only if the aluminum is sandwiched in steel so it’s not in contact with the food?

—Pot Watcher The link between aluminum and Alzheimer’s, which was based on the discovery of trace aluminum in the brains of Alzheimer’s victims, has been dis-

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proven. But aluminum can harm the kidneys, and has been shown to leech phosphorus and calcium from the body, which is bad for bones, so you’re right to want to avoid it.

This is difficult, however, because aluminum is everywhere. It’s the most abundant mineral in the earth’s crust and it’s ubiquitous in plants, soil and water. It’s also commonly used in antiperspirant, antacids and, as you noted, cookware, where aluminum is only a threat when acidic ingredients like wine, vinegar, tomatoes and other fruits are cooked in it. The acid causes the aluminum to leech into the food.

I avoid aluminum cookware, as well as pots made from anodized aluminum, in which the aluminum surface is electrochemically treated

with a coating of aluminum oxide, which doesn’t react with acid. I avoid anodized aluminum cookware because the coating can get scratched, opening the door to aluminum exposure.

Aluminum is popular in cookware because it conducts heat evenly and quickly. Stainless steel is a poor heat conductor, so aluminum is often used as the core of the base and sides of stainless steel cookware. The aluminum-core variety is sufficiently contained that it shouldn’t be a problem. But if you really want to avoid aluminum, get copper-core stainless steel.

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It’s bound to be an information-laden end of the week during the Second Annual Families and Learning Conference, a two-day event that focuses on parent leadership, the economics of education and more with keynote speakers Margaret Wheatley, Bliss Browne and Howard Rainer. The conference begins at 8 AM, Aug. 13, at the Hilton Garden Inn, 3720 N. Reserve St. $195. Visit www.montanapirc.org or call 543-3550.

If you can’t read this, you may be a baby below the age of 36 months, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Your young’un gets a dose of art and culture from those in the know during Playdate With An Artist at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., at 11 AM. Call 541-PLAY for pricing and registration.

Get your fresh produce up near Glacier, if you choose, every Thu. from 4–8 PM, as the Columbia Falls Farmers’ Market overtakes Nucleus Ave. and offers live music from 5-7:30 PM.

nightlife All genres are encouraged—excepting, perhaps, horror punk—every Thu. at 5:30 PM at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 1/2 South Ave. W., where musicians bring their noise makers and synergy builds a joyful sound during the Tangled Tones Pickin’ Circle. Free. Call 396-3352. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Aug. 14, to calendar@missoulanews.com.

Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Playa c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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Sarah McCoy shows off her costume for this year’s installment of Burning Man. Catch the free spirit when she performs as Sarah McCoy and the Zippidy Yeah’s at the Top Hat, Thu., Aug. 13, at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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

Contemporary folk with touches of country goes down with the suds of pale ales and more when Betty and the Boy plays the Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

Learn about place-based education when the non-profit, alternative educational organization Two Creeks School holds an open

house from 6–8 PM at the Common Ground Center in Hamilton, 258 Roosevelt Lane. Free. Call 821-0885.

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

Author Jay Cowan pays tribute to America’s late great Gonzo journalist when he reads and signs copies of his book Hunter S. Thompson: An Insider’s View of Deranged, Depraved, Drugged Out Brilliance at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins, at 7 PM. Free. (See Books in this issue.)

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It’s official, jamming isn’t just relegated to hippies on drugs anymore, especially during Jamophilia, a family-friendly jam sesh for kids of all ages led by YMusic instructors at the Missoula Boys and Girls Club, 617 S. Higgins Ave., at 7 PM. Free. Bring down your instrument of choice, The last time I witnessed the Sollilaquists of be it something to play or your voice. Call 721-YMCA. Sound was in May 2007 and the experience enthralled and electrified me. The crowd of Exercise your powers of organizaabout 200 people, all packed shoulder-to-shoultional thinking when Margaret Wheatley, an expert in the field, der in the Badlander, soaked in a pre-summer leads a discussion on The Power sweat and dancing up a storm, clearly appeared of Community in Uncertain to share that sentiment.

Times at the Missoula Children’s The MC trio of Swamburger, Alexandrah and Theatre, 200 N. Adams St., at 7 Tonya Combs wooed the crowd with their blend PM. $5 suggested donation. Call of politically and socially progressive lyrics, 244-2247. touching on subjects like the insidious effects of Acoustic pop and folk via Tacoma capitalism, racism and substance abuse. Their and Olympia, Wash., respectively, hits Lake Missoula Cellars, 5646 WHAT: Solillaquists of Sound with W. Harrier, when Dave Hannon Tonsofun and Mike Fekete play solo sets at 7:30 PM. $5. BBQ will be available WHEN: Sun., Aug. 16, 9 PM for purchase. Call 541-8463.

Bowling and karaoke go together WHERE: The Palace Lounge like the birther movement and rational thinking during Solid HOW MUCH: $8 Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541SING. verbal musings glued themselves to the palpitatGrab the hairspray, tight spandex, ing beats of DiVinci, the maestro creating beats obligatory cocaine (Just kidding. and samples behind a row of Akai MPC drum You knew that!) and rock a metal machines. mullet during Rock Back to the It was that apparatus that launched the expe‘80s, a fundraiser for United rience to a fierce crescendo. As the set ended Way at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. DiVinci alternately hit the drum machine with his Pattee St., at 8:30 PM. Cost TBA. Call 549-0542.

Sorry ladies, but Thu. nights belong to the dudes at Men’s Night at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where the Dance with a cougar or two, or not, every testosterone-fueled karaoke begins at 9 PM. Thu. at 10 PM when the James Bar, 127 W. Free. Call 363-6969.

Alder St., hosts The Social Club, featuring Get your fix of improvised music with Sandy DJ Fleege spinning an expansive array of Bradford and Mark Souhrada when they hip-hop, breakbeat, tech house and progreshost the jam at Los Caporales in Columbia sive electro dance tunes. Free.

Falls at 9 PM. Call 892-5025.

Expect an explosion of blues and folk when Seattle’s Rishloo brings an emerald mix of California’s Sarah McCoy & The Zippidy metal and rock to the Palace Lounge during Yeahs bring their Cali-flavored sounds (and tonight’s installment of Metal Militia night at vocals vaguely reminiscent of Fiona Apple) to the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. 9 PM. $3. Six Days Under opens.

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fingers, his nose, and then his feet, unleashing a fury of syncopated hip-hop and drum ‘n bassladen grooves that drove the crowd into mania.

Two years later, the affair still stands as the most dynamic and exciting hip-hop show I’ve ever seen, hands down.

The Florida-based group, on tour with their newest album, No More Heroes, plans to stop by the Garden City. So if you missed that magical night two years ago, you’ve got another chance this week to get your brain cells waxed with this divinely inspiring group.

Reading Service at Immanuel Lutheran Church, 830 South Ave. W., from 8 AM–7 PM today and 8 AM–noon on Sat. Call 721-1998.

The Missoula Public Library hosts a preschool storytime geared toward children 3–6 years old every Fri. at 10:30 AM. This week, Thou Shalt Not Dump the Skater Dude and Other Commandments I Have Broken by Rosemary Graham. Just kidding. (Did I need to tell you that?)

Free. Call 721-BOOK. If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program for babes up to 36 months at 10:30 AM every Thu., Fri. and Tue. Free. Call 721-BOOK. You guys, Jerry Garcia isn’t dead!

Or wait, he is, but his ghost lives on at the Geothermal Jerry Bash, a two-day music fest featuring Chicago’s Dark Star Orchestra, Sarah McCoy and the Zippidy Yeahs, Cottonwood Draw, Stony Holiday, Juicebox and more, at the Lolo Hot Springs Resort, 38500 W. Hwy. 12, starting at 1:45 PM on Fri. $55/both nights, $33/one night. Visit www.earthboundproductions.org or call 214-1273.

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Country & Western takes charge near Charlo when Out of the Blue plays with Tim Ryan, Rob —Ira Sather-Olson Quist, Steve Riddle and members of the Mission Mountain Wood Band during an outdoor concert at the Ninepipes Museum, 40962 Hwy. 93, at 7 PM with festivities and food starting at 5 PM. $25/couple, $15/person over age 12, Free/under age 11. Call 644-2588.

You’ve heard of First Friday, but what about Second Friday? Find out what’s in store for this second round of all things art when the Live the high life, or at least try to, and help ZACC Gallery, 235 N. First St. W., presents a Montanans who are unable to read print photo-voice exhibit from WORD’s material when you peruse a collection of Summer Arts and Leadership Camp durjewelry during the eighth annual Wear It ing a reception from 5:30–8:30 PM. Free.

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Build drums, learn how to bang on them and let Mother Nature’s beauty mystify you during the Montana Outdoor Rhythm Retreat, a three-day event hosted by the Drum Brothers at the Montanaqua Sanctuary, 20 minutes west of Kalispell near Kila, starting with dinner at 6 PM on Aug. 14.

Pricing varies, visit www.drumbrothers.com or call 726-4445.

The “Alaskan Piano Man” just can’t get away from the Garden City, so catch a set by Dave Manning while drinking vino and eating steak when he plays The Keep restaurant at 7 PM. Free.

James Wallace plans to tickle his guitar strings while you sip on some vino and get yer fingers dirtay with BBQ food when he plays Lake Missoula Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, at 7:30 PM. $5. Call 541-8463.

The hits of Broadway duo Kander & Ebb grace Whitefish when the Alpine Theatre Project presents The World Goes ‘Round at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St., at 8 PM each night (except for Aug. 17) until Aug. 23. $37/$30 adults, $16/students, $12/child under 12. Call 862SHOW or visit www.alpinetheatreproject.org.

Curved and crooked country, rock and oldies invades the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., when Bent Whiskers plays a show at 8 PM. Donations requested. Call 741-2361.

The freedom to shoot guns also includes the freedom to listen to bands with gun-inspired names, so check Son of a Gun when they play the Eagles Lodge, 2420 S. Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Call 543-6346.

Funk, reggae, bluegrass and more hits the stage near Glacier during the annual Polebridge AuroraFest which features live

musical from Freekbass, Everyday Prophets, Truckstop Honeymoon, Lucien Midnite and others at the Polebridge Stage in Polebridge starting at 8 PM. $25/two-day festival. Music runs all day on Sat., Aug. 15.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tight pants and plaid shirts aren’t required, but it’s gonna get a little proggy, indie and acoustic when the Tim Torgerson Band plays the Blue Canyon Kitchen and Tavern in Kalispell, 1840 Hwy. 93 S., at 9 PM. Free.

Call 758-2583.

Brit-influenced pop rock from Seattle invades your ear canal when New Faces plays the Badlander at 9 PM. $5. Opening support from locals The Racquet and Secret Powers. (See Noise in this issue.)

Witness jaw-dropping drumming skills, and probably the best live drum ‘n bass band to ever rip up a dancefloor, when Seattle’s Siamese commands the stage of the Palace Lounge for a special reunion show (in conjunction with bar owner Chris Henry’s b-day) at 9 PM. $5. Local support from DJ Kris Moon.

It’s time to finish off that bag o’ tweeds and head down to see Portland’s “Reggaetronic” sons Everyday Prophets, who play a show at The Craggy Range Bar & Grill, 10 Central Ave. in Whitefish, at 9 PM. Cover TBA. Call 862-7550.

Don’t be a hater. Go check out Mike Bader and his band, who play a set of blues at Sean Kelly’s at 9 PM. Cover TBA. Call 542-1471.

Slide next to something sexy with a drink and a dance or two and the music of Landslide, who play the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

He lives to spin: DJ Dubwise just can’t stop the dance tracks once they start at 10 PM at Feruqi’s. Free. Call 728-8799.

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Your heart, the planet and your farmerneighbors give thanks every Sat. from 8 AM–noon as you head down to the Clark Fork River Market (clarkforkriver

market.com), which takes place beneath the Higgins Street bridge, and to the Missoula Farmers’ Market (missoulafarmersmarket.com), which opens at 8:30 at the north end of Higgins Avenue. And if it’s non-edibles you’re after, check out East Pine Street’s Missoula Saturday Market (missoulasaturdaymarket.org), which runs 9 AM–1 PM. Free to spectate, and often to sample.

Jazz, old time bluegrass and gospel music happily collide with breakfast, beer, art and an auction at Strudel and Strings, a celebration for the second generation of the Montana Artists Refuge in Basin, at the Basin Park & Community Hall from 10 AM–3 PM. $30/$25 advance. Call Debbie at 406-2253500 or e-mail mar@mt.net.

Apparently you can spend very little cash to keep your skin naturally beautiful. Find out how when the Missoula Urban Demonstration Project presents the workshop Fresh Facials From Your Garden with Melissa Picoli at 10 AM at MUD Headquarters, 629 Phillips St. $20/$10 members. Call 721-7513 or visit www. mudproject.org.

Fictionalized accounts of baseball and baseball games come to life when Andrew Laz signs copies of The Real World Series and Another Year in the Bronx at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave., at 10:30 AM. Free. Call 721-2881.

Get some pulp, add a touch of flowers, leaves and glitter and, voila, you’ve just made experimental paper art during Papermaking with Erin Roberts, a class from 11 AM–12:30 PM at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. $5. Call 7280447 or visit www.missoulaartmuseum.org.

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Kiddos can create star charts, make comets and get to know our celestial neighbors a little better when UM’s SpectrUM Discovery Area, Room 166 in UM’s Skaggs Building, presents Astronomy from 11 AM–4:30 PM. $3.50/free under 4. Call 243-4828 or visit spectrum.umt.edu.

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

Veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan can join facilitator Chris Poloynis every Sat. at 3 PM, when

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Spartans Honour, an outdoor PTSD support group, meets at Greenough Park’s southernmost footbridge. Free. Call 327-7834.

During the Families First program Dads and Kids in the Woods, dads can take their spawn on a short walk to a specific location and learn the natural history of the area from 3–5 PM. Cost TBA. Open to kids ages 4–9. RSVP 721-7690.

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Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

Local bard David Boone, returns with a heaping plate of folk to cure your ails with a show at Zootown Brew, 121 W. Broadway St., at 7 PM. $10. All proceeds from admission go to benefit the family of Brad Burns, a man who’s recovering from a recent car accident.

Alternative acoustic folk from the capital of the tater state, aka Boise, Idaho, hits Missoula when Carter Freeman strums his way to a show at Lake Missoula Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, at 7:30 PM. $5.

BBQ will also be available for purchase. Call 541-8463.

Indulge in some mac ‘n cheese, if you please, and then head over to the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., where Johnny Mac snags you with a show of country and rock. Donations requested.

Call 741-2361.

You got too drunk last night and missed Son of a Gun, but hey, don’t shoot yourself about it. Head down to the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., when they play another show at 8 PM. Free.

543-6346.

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. As the sun sets at 8:46 PM, be sure you’ve snagged a sweet spot on the field of Head Start School, 1001 Worden Ave., when the Missoula Outdoor Cinema presents film night with a screening of Toy Story. $5 suggested donation. Call 829-0873 or visit www.missoulaoutdoorcinema.org.

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.

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

The Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St., lets the karaoke genie out of the bottle at 9 PM. Turn south after taking exit 89 from I-90. Free. Call 370-3200.

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

The name might sound like they’re from Mormonville, but in fact, the alt country of The Holy Family

Mission Band comes courtesy of Browning, so catch them when they play the Palace Lounge at 9 PM. $5. Local support from Wolf Redboy and the River Creek Stream Boys.

Outlaw country and insurrection via stiff drinks hits the stage of the Union Club when Whiskey Rebellion plays a show at 9:30 PM. Free.

Molten ashes of dub, funk and rock fall to the stage of the Top Hat when Luau Cinder plays a show at 10 PM. Cost TBA.

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

nightlife Euchre is one of those games that goes great with beer because you can tell what the cards look like even if your vision is a little blurry.

See what I mean, or try to anyway, tonight at Sean Kelly’s just-for-fun Euchre Tournament at 8 PM. Free.

Kick off the latter hours of your day of rest when the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night welcomes saints and sinners alike with jazz DJs at 9 PM with a live jazz band at 10.

Free.

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

Sing along to punk classics like “John Wayne Was a Nazi” when Portland punk vets Millions of Dead Cops play a show at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St., at 9 PM. $6/$7 18 and over. Opening

support from TSMF, The Thug Nasties and Reptile Dysfunction. Call 549-0542.

The Solillaquists of Sound brings the Garden City a dose of positivity and inspiration that aims to massage your mind and body when the Orlando-based hip-hop quartet plays the Palace Lounge at 9 PM. $8. Tonsofun opens. (See Spotlight in this issue)

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Your kid, ages 6–13, learns about and creates Chinese folk art, from ink and printmaking to ceramic pottery, shadow puppets and opera masks, at The China Silk Road, a five-day art camp at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W., that runs from 9 AM–5 PM today through Aug. 21. $100/five-day camp. Call 542-7555 or visit www.zootownarts.com.

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

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

Call 273-9992.

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

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

4880 N. Reserve St.

In case of emergency, break finger puppet: Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like stories, fingerplays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 7 PM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Larry Hirshberg brings his folk vibes to the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ste. 100, where the music is free, but the vino and suds are not, at 7 PM. Free.

Although the workshop is full, you may be able to score yourself a spot on the waiting list for a sixweek, 406 Writer’s Workshop led by nonfiction writer Bryan Di Salvatore which starts at a TBA location at 7 PM. $150/sixweek workshop. Call 493-0746 or visitwww.406writersworkshop.com .

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

Who says America never invented a pub sport? Beer Pong proves them all wrong at the Office B a r , 1 0 9 W. M a i n S t . i n Hamilton, where alcohol and performance anxiety climax into a thing of beauty at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969.

An array of electronic DJs and styles await your booty during the Pa l a c e L o u n g e ’ s M i l k c r a te Mondays with the Milkcrate Mechanic at 9 PM every week.

Free.

He’s the waxmaster and the master blaster: catch DJ Monty Carlo when he spins tunes to help you down PBRs when he plays the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

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

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You can fight for peace in many different ways, but how about knitting for it? Find out when the group Knitting for Peace meets every Tue. from 11 AM–1 PM at the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-3955.

Moms new to the game of motherhood can join others to talk about the ups and downs of parenting during the New Moms Support Group at the Missoula

Public Library from 11 AM–1:30 PM. Free. Call 721-7690.

Find the strength and will to survive in the company of others during a breast cancer support group at St. Francis Xavier Parish, 420 W. Pine, every first and third Tue. of the month at noon. Free.

Call 329-5656.

Cha cha cha your way down to see the spiced up sounds of Salsa Loca, who play Hamilton’s Legion Park, 220 S. Second St., during “Tuesdays at 12,” which starts at noon. Free.

nightlife Get your fresh fruits and veggies from local farmers in the Flathead

while listening to the alternative folk and twang sounds of One Less Karen during the Whitefish Downtown Farmer’s Market, at Depot Park on the north end of Central Avenue, from 5–7:30 PM. Free. Call 862-2043.

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.

Make mom a nice vase, or try your hand at making a ceramic bong (just kidding!) during an eightweek Intermediate Throwing class starting today at the Clay Studio of Missoula, 1106 Hawthorne St. Unit A, from 6–9

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David Boone gets caught channeling a higher power when he plays a benefit show Sat., Aug. 15, at Zootown Brew, 121 W. Broadway St., at 7 PM. $10.

PM. $168/eight-week session. Call 543-0509 .

Are you feeling lonelier than normal?

Remedy that when Singles of Missoula, a group for singles age 45 and over, meets Tue. at 6:30 PM at the bicycle trail head behind Conlin’s Furniture, 1600 North Ave. W., for a bike ride. Free. Call Cletius at 541-2333.

Missoula’s YWCA, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts weekly support groups for women every Tue. at 6:30 PM, where groups for Native women and children meet as well.

New group members with children are asked to arrive at 6:15, without kids at 6:25. Free. Call 543-6691.

Burp, howl, strum a guitar or beatbox and then record the results into a PC or Mac during a digital recording workshop at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W., from 6:30–8:30 PM. $35/class.

Call Lila Cleminshaw at 529-2601 or e-mail lcleminshaw@bresnan.net.

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

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

Life in Yellowstone Park sounds like it was purdy crazy back in the ol’ days, find out more when M. Mark Miller gives a presentation and signs copies of his book Adventures in Yellowstone: Early Travelers Tell Their Tales at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave., at 7 PM. Free.

Get fiery and rhythmic when Cocinando brings their Latin jazz heat to Kalispell during the Picnic in the Park Concert Series at Depot Park, Center and Main streets, at 7 PM. Free. Call 758-7717.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every

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Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with.

Ready? What’s the Neritic zone? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

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

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

The hits of Broadway duo Kander & Ebb grace Whitefish when the Alpine Theatre Project presents The World Goes ‘Round at the Whitefish Performing Arts Center, 600 E. Second St., at 8 PM each night (except for Aug. 17) until Aug. 23. $37/$30 adults, $16/students, $12/child under 12.

Call 862-SHOW. Follow your dreams of becoming the next Donny Osmond, and get buy-one-get-onefree drink tickets, during an open mic night every Tue. at the Brooks and Browns Lounge at the Holiday Inn Parkside, 200 S. Pattee St., from 8–11 PM. E-mail moorebeej@yahoo.com.

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

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

Flush the entropy out of your life with the rock and blues-influenced sounds of Celestial Chaos when they play the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

As we wind our way through another week of frolicking, wandering and sweating in the woods, the Calendar Playa yet again has plenty of exertion on tap for those aiming to give back, those of us eager to explore and others who are just looking for a workout outside the confines of a gym. Still, there are other activities for those of us who aren’t in the mood to perspire.

From weed pulling and intense mountain climbing, to relaxed activities like bird watching and star gazing, there’s no excuse for complete inactivity this week, folks.

With that, let’s glide into Friday with an activity perfect for those wanting to stay close to home that night and in need of an idea for a date with their mate: let me suggest a trek to UM’s Blue Mountain Observatory, where you’ll gander at nearby planets, stars and nebulae with your guy or gal courtesy of a powerful telescope.

This free event is estimated to start at an observing time of 10 PM. But call 243-5179 beforehand to make sure gazing time isn’t marred by unexpected weather, and visit www.physics.umt.edu/bluemountain for directions.

If you can’t stand the thought of gluing your eyes toward the skies, Friday also presents a chance to help fight noxious weeds in the Bob Marshall Wilderness. If you’ve got vacation time to burn, you’ll probably want to use it for this trip, which takes you to Big Salmon Lake for a full week of goat weed mapping and inventory on the shore of the lake. You’ll spend your days on a raft, using GPS units to map, so bring your fishing rod for company. There’s a $50 refundable deposit for this project, and you’re asked to RSVP one week ahead of time, but if you hurry up and call 387-3808 they’ll hopefully be able to reserve a spot for you. Visit www.bmwf.org.

Hey, we all get busy sometimes, so if a week of conservation work doesn’t fit your schedule, or you’re just lazy, perhaps you can give up a few precious days to head off Friday on a Women’s Intro to Backpacking Discovery Weekend, where Jessie

be careful, a fall could cause injury. You should also plan to camp at the trailhead the night before to start scuttling at 3 AM for what’s expected to be a long day of climbing, trail running and more. Before you decide to go, make sure you’re in shape for the trip and have a harness and belay device, then call Forest Dean at 240-7612 or e-mail mtnear1@gmail.com.

I can understand if there’s too much flab in that slab of stomach, and a climb might be too much on Saturday, but perhaps a shorebirding field trip with the Five Valleys Audubon Society will satiate those outdoor desires when they head to the Smurfit-Stone Container mill, of all places, at 8 AM for a half-day bird watching extravaganza. At the site, you’ll train your eyes under the guidance of Larry Weeks to look for stilt and western sandpipers, rednecked phalaropes, willets and yellowlegs, among an assortment of other wading bird herds. Free. Plan to meet at UM’s Adams Fieldhouse at 8 AM, or at the main gate of the pulp mill at 8:30 AM. Call Larry Weeks at 549-5632.

Once you’ve gotten your bird watching urges met, rest up and inculcate your child with similar bouts of excitement for fowl during Parks and Rec’s Youth Explorer Camp, where kids aged 7–11 get to wander through the McCormick Park and Tower Street conservation area and participate in scavenger hunts, bird watching expeditions, hikes, fish and minnow collections and more, with help from folks at the Audubon Society, from 9 AM–12 PM through Aug. 21. $90/week camp. Call Parks and Rec at 721-PARK. But if you’ve got no dumpling in tow, and you like doing meaningful work before you head off for some Photo by Alex Sakariassen adult suds, another chance to give back occurs during sweat the booze out of your system while giving back to the land Watershed Wednesday’s, where learning about plants and when Wildlands CPR heads to the Clearwater National Forest for wildlife native to the Rattlesnake’s Bugbee Nature Area is all the a day trip of invasive weed removal, tree planting and check- rage, as is lending a hand with restoration activities at the creek, ing motion triggered cameras for signs of wildlife. Call Greg Peters from 6–8:30 PM every Wed. Call Andrew at 531-2527 or e-mail And, with that, dear reader, I bid you adieu for the week. Keep at 543-9551 or e-mail greg@wildlandscpr.org for the skinny.

If promises of T-shirts and weed pulling aren’t motivating you, playing in the sun while you still can, dodge those occasional perhaps a climbing jaunt in the Bitterroots called the bouts of rain we’ve been having, and please keep me in the Bitterroot Grand Traverse will when you join the Rocky know of any outdoors events coming down the pipeline by 5 Mountaineers for a 17-mile trip aimed at climbing El Capitan, PM, Fri., Aug. 14.

The Lonesome Bachelor and the three Como peaks all in calendar@missoulanews.com one day. This is a Class 4 trip, which means easy climbing but, Sherburne with the Montana Natural History Center leads an expedition to Lost Lake in the Great Burn wilderness area. Expect lots of mind expanding activities on this trip, which runs Aug.14–16, as you’ll be taught how to set up a camp, use a cook stove, learn bear safety, identify native plants and animals, and much more. $55/$45 for members. Space is also limited so hurry and call 327-0405.

If you’re not a backpacking freak and decide to drink yourself silly on Friday night, Saturday presents an opportune time to

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Toddlers aching for play can join in on story time, songs and sensory g a m e s d u r i n g a To d d l e r Playgroup at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., at 11 AM. $4.25/Free for members. Call 541-PLAY. Your weekly lunch date with, almost everyone, comes at 11 AM at Caras Park during Out to Lunch, which features food vendors, kids’ activities and music this week by Ende Brothers. Free.

Call 543-4238.

Slap on your patch-laden leather jacket and don’t think about showering, but do head down to the Palace Lounge when Unwashed Promotions presents DJs Harvey and Heyska playing all your favorite underground punk and ska anthems at 9 PM. Free.

See a plethora of patterns and colors after a few pitchers, and muster up the courage to belt out some classics too, during Kaleidoscope Karaoke every Tue., Wed., Thu. and Sat. at the L u c k y S t r i k e C a s i n o , 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9:30 PM. Free.

Call 721-1798.

It’s bound to be a rootsy, acoustically mellow time when Portland’s Will West plays a show at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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

Free. Call 728-9117.

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

Free. Call 755-9463.

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Silence, Dope and Bury Your Dead hits this side of Montucky for a show at the Ryan Creek Meadows, 15886 Wills Ranch Lane, about 24 miles east of Missoula off I-90 exit 130, at 6 PM. $35 plus fees. Tickets at Rockin Rudy’s and www.ticketweb.com.

(See Noise this issue.)

Expect a “hilarious romp” and then some when Montana Shakespeare in the Park presents The Two Gentlemen of Verona at Depot Park in Whitefish, on the north end of Central Avenue, at 6 PM. Free.

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

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

Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptop-fueled hip-hop, crunk, electonic, pop and mashed-up tunes hit the Badlander every week, which tonight is on a Wed., where Dead Hipster DJ Night gets the booties bumpin’ and the feet stompin’ at 9 PM. $2.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but neither will help you emit that high lonesome sound every Wed., when the Old Post Pub hosts a Pickin’ Circle at 9 PM. Free. The answer to this week’s trivia question: according to the Office of Naval Research, the Neritic Zone is an oceanographic term which means the first few hundred feet of ocean water, 656 feet to be exact, and is a zone that extends from the shoreline to part of the continental shelf.

Fight for the right to belt out a semi-coherent version of “Jessie’s Girl” every Wed. during Combat Karaoke at Rowdy’s Cabin, 4880 N. Reserve St., at 10 PM. Free. Call 543-8001.

Change can be hard, especially if you were used to punishing your liver week in and week out at Wasted Wednesday. But the Top Hat has switched gears, with every Wed. now featuring different bands and different drink specials. This week the M-Group plays at 10 PM. $3.

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If you can’t read this, you may be a baby below the age of 36 months, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Make something functional out of clay, be it a cup or water pipe (or maybe just skip the pipe) during

The Clay Studio of Missoula’s Open Instructed class which runs today through Oct. every Thu. from 1–4 PM, except for Aug. 13.

All classes occur at the Clay Studio headquarters, 1106 Hawthorne St. Unit A. $168/8 week session. Call 543-0509.

Kids learn how them movin’ pictures was formed, movies that is, when the SpectrUM Discovery Area, Room 166 in UM’s Skaggs Building, presents Motion Pictures from 3:30–7 P M. $3.50/free under 4. Call 2434828 or visit spectrum.umt.edu.

Get your fresh produce up near Glacier, if you choose, every Thu. from 4–8 PM, as the Columbia Falls Farmers’ Market overtakes Nucleus Ave. and offers live music from 5–7:30 PM.

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

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

Free. Call 396-3352.

It’ll be a literacy raising good time when the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., presents Dads Night, a reading program from 5:30–7 PM for dads and their kids which features story time, interactive games, art projects and even dinner. Free. RSVP 541-PLAY. It’s time for dinner and a show with hundreds of your fellow friends during this week’s installment of Downtown ToNight, which features food, kids’ activities and music from Blue Collar and starts at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 543-4238.

Locavores and staunch local music fans unite for a night of fresh local food and live music by Tom Catmull and the Clerics, as well as Tractor Jack and the Muddy Spuds during the annual Garden City Harvest Farm Party at the PEAS Farm, 3010 Duncan Dr., at 6 PM. $15/person, kids under 10 free. Call 523-3663.

Don’t expect any distorted guitars when The Acousticals play the Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM, but be prepared for some Montucky bluegrass to tickle your ears. Free. Call 363-7468.

Missoula Art Museum’s celebration of art and martinis, Artini, turns four this month and in celebration hosts Artini: Mastering Somersaults, where you can expect food, choice adult beverages, birthday cake, gallery talks, as well as music by all-girl group Butter, at 7 PM. Free. Call 728-0447.

Join local photojournalist Anne Medley for a fundraiser to help her, and future educators, head to the Democratic Republic of Congo to teach college-level journal-

ism courses to native Congolese. Head over to the third floor foyer of the UM Journalism School’s Don Anderson Hall from 7–9 PM for the benefit, which includes presentations.

Refreshments provided, donations requested. E-mail anne. medley@gmail.com.

If you’re a resident of Lake County, now’s your chance to spot severe weather in your area for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration during a weather spotter training session at Polson High School, 111 Fourth Ave. E. in Polson, at 7 PM. Free.

Call Trent Smith at 329-4840 or email trent.smith@noaa.gov.

Come see the results of the Missoula Children’s Theatre Performing Arts Camp, a two-week camp for kids grades 8–12 up in the Flathead, during a musical variety performance by campers at Thirty Candles: A Celebration of Three Decades at 8 PM in the Missoula Children’s Theatre, 200 N. Adams St. $15. Call 728-1911 or visit www.mctinc.org. The show runs through Aug. 22.

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

An evening filled with the underground sounds of El Zombi Gato, Red Obelisk, Valsalva Menuver, Filth Mattress, Jiggywatts, Blank Its and Attitude Problem awaits you at the first night of Total Fest VI I I, Missoula’s beloved three day non-profit music fest which starts tonight at 9:30 PM at the Badlander. $38/three day pass, $15/night. Check wantagetotalfest.blogspot.com.

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

Well folks, here’s to another week of dancing, imbibing, strumming and art gawking, all in the name of keeping ourselves entertained in this hip little pocket of Montucky. I had my fill last week, catching some First Friday action, hearing some sweet beats via DJs at the Palace Lounge and catching up with some out-of-town friends.

This week promises to be another lively one in the Garden City, so make sure you make it out at least one night to check out all the diverse live music, dancing, theater and more. As always, keep me in

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Life’s blood Linda Stoudt experiments with the art of transience

by Erika Fredrickson

Linda Stoudt knows the inside of a squash quite, look like various phases of the moon. The her. Now, after her father’s death, it’s an aspect of isn’t blood red. But during her father’s 10-year orbs seem to come off the page because of the her art, she says, that she enjoys: making beautibattle with Alzheimer’s, the Montana artist found paper’s texture. They sparkle a little, too, as sand- ful things that won’t be around forever. herself painting several images that hinted at paper does. This series, Stoudt says, has to do with “My father’s illness was Alzheimer’s, so I human anatomy and its lurking fragility. The the degeneration of the eye—some look like the guess an underlying theme of my work is memosliced-open squash she painted in 1997 shows an blur of an aged dog’s eye, and others are sharply ry,” she says. “And this comes back to food again. otherwise fairly realistic image of white seeds sur- alert. She won’t say much more. Like many abstract There are simple things, very mundane things rounded by the gleam of a bright orange shell. artists, she prefers the viewer come to their own you have to do such as washing vegetables as an But inside, a velvety red color gleams with elegant conclusions regarding the picture’s “meaning.” everyday task. But then seeing a leaf with the sununnaturalness.

One thing that’s true of both sandpaper and light piercing through it, that kind of translu“I was experimenting with growing squash cardboard, says Stoudt, is that neither of them is cence at the kitchen sink, you want to capture during one point while my father was really ill,” archival. Cardboard has acid in it and disintegrates that moment, remember it.” she says. “I had been flying back and forth to see my parents and I didn’t realize that I was painting the interior of it blood red until I looked at it and said, ‘That’s not the color.’” She laughs despite how clearly painful the experience was for her. “It was really hard for me to step back and see that it was about my father until I was done with the painting.”

Other paintings on the wall of her Stevensville studio shimmer in vibrant blues and reds with tubular, organ-like structures. Most pictures—unlike the squash—are fairly abstract. But you still get a sense of familiar objects. Stoudt, however, doesn’t seem interested in confining her images to one thing.

“People look at it and think it’s very female looking,” she says, pointing to one oval shaped image with orange, blue and red petals. “To me, it could be a cross section of a vertebrae. I think of drawings in Gray’s Anatomy of the blue and red veins, that kind of reference.”

Stoudt, 61, and her husband, Bill, moved to Stevensville 17 years ago from southern New Jersey. She has painted for as long as she can remember, but it wasn’t until the couple arrived in Montana that she got to plant expansive gardens with brightly colored fruits and vegetables— something that began to inform her art more and more.

“I’m always fascinated by those beautiful juices that come out of the surface of the vegetable,” she says. “I think that’s Linda Stoudt’s painting on sandpaper, titled “Burner,” is part of her current exhibit, Works on Paper, at the Frame Shop in Hamilton. why I like glossy paint, too—that kind of freshness that tells you the vital juices are still over the years, and color on sandpaper fades and It also comes down to not worrying about coming out.” washes off easily. That’s not always a bad thing. preserving her art as much as making her life an Over the years Stoudt started working with dif- Stoudt had one piece that no matter how much she art, she says. And food—which has its own expiraferent textures. She’d paint on cardboard and worked on it, it just wasn’t coming together for her. tion date—and Italian cooking, in particular, is would peel back the surface in parts of the picture “I had a heck of a time getting the image to one of those life passions that appear to fit well to expose the ribs of the cardboard underneath, behave because it’s a very fragile surface,” she with her art philosophy. giving the painting a three-dimensional look. A few says, “but you can actually wash it out if you just “I think it has to do with beauty,” she says. years ago she started working on sandpaper, which put it in a turpentine bath.” After washing it and “The Italians know how to do things beautifully. would give the paint a pocketed look and richer starting all over, Stoudt got it to her liking, but Whatever they do they do it with a grace and it appearance. Pencil on sandpaper adds a complex one thing was missing. “I didn’t have a title for it,” makes you want to do it well, too. That’s very tangibility that wouldn’t appear otherwise. she says, grinning. “I said to myself, ‘Well I just important in all aspects of my life.”

“A lot of people are fascinated by the fact that resurrected the sucker. ‘Lazarus.’” it’s sandpaper,” she says, “but it’s just a means for But it’s not just getting to start over that Linda Stoudt’s Works on Paper runs an image. It’s not a gimmick or anything like that.” makes the non-archival aspect of her medium a through Thursday, Aug. 27, at the Frame Shop Stoudt’s current 42-piece exhibit, Works on good thing. What Stoudt really likes about it is in Hamilton.

Paper, at the Frame Shop in Hamilton includes a more philosophical. The fact that her art is tranefredrickson@missoulanews.com series of sandpaper drawings that almost, but not sient, that it disappears, makes it meaningful to

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New Faces Two Years Loveless

It shouldn’t be necessary to mention that this Port Townsend, Wash., trio is pretty fresh out of high school. After all, referencing age often serves as underhanded condescension—even within complimentary contexts–in terms of how relatively good a band may be. But New Faces slays anthemic disco rock, with no embarrassing signs of greenhorn awkwardness, no too-cool-for-school transparency or that over-primped glossiness of, say, the Jonas Brothers.

On their debut album, Two Years, the band mixes leap-frogging beats with sharp storytelling.

Bury Your Dead It’s Nothing Personal Victory Records

Nothing personal against Bury Your Dead, but I’m not sure if the world needs yet another melodic metalcore band. Yeah, I know, that’s harsh. But while listening to their fifth release, It’s Nothing Personal, I can’t help but think this sounds like almost every band you hear when you flip your FM dial over to the Blaze.

From their chugging, machine-gun guitar riffs and gruff, tough-guy vocals, to their poppy vocal breakdowns (about failed relationships, personal struggles and the like), everything about Bury Your Dead screams carbon-copied plainness in my book.

That’s not to say this Massachusetts quintet isn’t good at what they do. They can write a catchy riff, and it’s obvious by the structure of their songs that they’re aiming for heavy rotation on promi-

Dublin Gulch Dirty Old Town self-released

There’s a joke that goes, “How do you tell one Irish song from another?” The answer: By the name. But, while this everything-soundsthe-same phenomenon might be true for some Celtic bands, such is not the case for long-time Butte favorite Dublin Gulch. They stick pretty close to traditional fiddling, picking and penny whistling when covering classic Irish tunes such

The Antlers Hospice Frenchkiss

Hospice opens with something like funeral music, thick with grief and coated in angelic sheen. The former one-man project led by Peter Silberman now includes drummer Michael Lerner and multi-instrumentalist Darby Cicci. Together they’ve fused together songs drenched in themes of pain, death and the unknown. I know: bleak.

And yet, it’s not such a morbid album that you can’t appreciate its ruminating, rainy-day feel.

Silberman’s falsetto seems as ghostly as if it were wafting from a grave, but the amplified click of his tongue and wispy inhaling give the illusion of intimacy, like he’s talking right in your ear.

“Impulse” feels like the next iPod or Target theme song, which is to stay it’s edgy, but pop-errific and easy to digest. “Melts Like Ice” evokes the indie new wave punk of 1990s Seattle and Olympia bands— Silkworm and Dub Narcotic come to mind—and singer Nico Janssen purrs and pines with the coolyet-dramatic style of David Bowie. In “She’s Like the Snow,” Janssen’s breathiness sounds like true desperation, but controlled, too, as his staccatoed words work like instruments hiccupping through the glowing “ahh”s of background vocals.

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The band also shows promise of expanding their reach beyond the customary fare of metalcore with “Closed Eyes,” a track brimming with heavily detuned guitars, synth melodies and ambient sounds.

Still, they’ve got a long way to go before I’m convinced they’ve got a shelf life.

Hopefully, they’ll experiment on future recordings, finding a new sound outside this crowded genre. (Ira Sather-Olson) Bury Your Dead plays Ryan Creek Meadows on Wed., Aug. 19, at 6 PM as part of the Pedal to the Metal Tour with Mudvayne, Black Label Society, Static-X, Suicide Silence and Hellzapoppin’. $35 plus fees. as “My Darling Asleep,” but there’s also a certain country swing, like the title track.

The album displays as wide a range of flavors as pints in a pub. “Rosin the Bow” is nothing but a good, old-fashioned drinking song. On the other hand, “Blackbird” is a beautiful, haunting lament that could be straight from the soundtrack of Braveheart (wrong country, true, but the same melancholy ethos). There’s no shortage of bawdy innuendo either, with tunes such as “The Dirty Bastard’s Daughter” and lascivious lyrics like “If I had Maggie in the woods I’d keep her there ’til morning.”

People fall into one of two camps: Either you like Irish music or you don’t. If you’re the type to fancy a good jig every now and then, you couldn’t pick a better band than Dublin Gulch. (Melissa Mylchreest) And it’s not all evenkeeled gravity. “Atrophy” crescendos, (ironically enough) from a dreading tone to a sense of awakening after a long depression. In “Sylvia,” Silberman belts out his lyrics for the whole universe to hear in pained but pretty nakedness. That song includes an ensemble of horns as well, which almost milks the drama a little too much, like binge drinking before the situation has ripened enough to earn it. But mostly, like when Silberman sings, “And all the while I know we’re fucked and not getting unfucked soon,” the band stays hinged to the heart of the matter. (Erika Fredrickson)

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My favorite story about Hunter S. Thompson (this book and a supporter, like Thompson, of that race’s one cribbed from the 2007 Jann Wenner and Corey liberal candidate. Thompson took the aspiring Seymour biography, Gonzo) takes place when writer under his wing and later Cowan became his Thompson was writing for Rolling Stone and spurring caretaker and rented a house on his property where many would-be imitators to submit their own drug- he lived off-and-on in equal parts as a confidant, feladdled stories to the magazine. Thompson, with his low partier, editor, witness and a kind of Kato Kaelin usual sense of humor, donated his services to his edi- to Thompson until Cowan moved out at age 35. tors by writing a rejection letter for these submissions.

Living so close, Cowan populates his book with “You worthless, acid-sucking piece of illiterate shit!” it the requisite anecdotes necessary in describing the opened. “Don’t EVER send this kind of brain-damaged brilliant writer. But unlike Thompson’s other biogswill in here again!” The letter continues to berate the raphers, friends and acquaintances, Cowan was submitter for another 500 words before “Yail Bloor III, there for the long haul, not just the occasional party Minister of Belles-lettre” adds in a or weekend visit or nocturnal romp. postscript, “P.S. Keep up the good As such, Cowan’s biography evokes work. Have a nice day!” a kind of pathos missing from other As a writer, I couldn’t imagine reports: We see the writer’s disquiet getting a funnier and more cherished with how his reputation and public rejection letter, yet one would that image force him to sink steadily into would cause anger and aggravation. the crazed personality we all wished It fits Thompson perfectly. him to be. We see glimpses of the And thus I fulfill my duty, man, and the long, slow decline that because every biographical sketch of was longer and slower than it Thompson begins with a story. The should have been, given the copious aforementioned Gonzo is riddled amount of narcotics, alcohol and with stories from over a hundred diffirearms he handled. ferent sources. Even Joe Klein’s New Hunter S. Thompson Intermixed with the parties with Jay Cowan York Times review of Gonzo begins Jack Nicholson and Jimmy Buffet, hardcover, Lyons Press with a story (about how he and 256 pages, $24.95 Cowan gives us Thompson’s neverThompson partied in Ethel ending litigation, frank talk of his Kennedy’s McLean, Va., home in 1974), as does cocaine bills and bar tabs, the too-oft prodding of a Douglas Brinkley ’s Rolling Stone obituar y comatose Thompson to finish his copy in the minutes (Thompson had Brinkley’s college writing students before a column deadline, and the warning shots fired shoot up their copies of his work with a .45 in the over Cowan’s house. At one point, Cowan and other backyard of his Aspen home). And it’s not surprising, members of Thompson’s cohort even tried to stage an either, given that the writer was more than just the intervention—obviously a fruitless, even foolish, effort inventor of gonzo journalism, a prolific columnist, a given that drugs and alcohol were integral to man of letters and the author of three brilliant books Thompson’s identity. Still, within the horror and dancapped off by the transformative drug and anti-estab- ger and decay, Cowan remains true to his friend and lishment…novel?…memoir?…journalistic endeav- mentor, always describes the depth of Thompson’s or?…Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He was larger intellect, his razor-edged humor, his kindness and loythan life, a character, the tall, thin, bald drug-and- alty. The highlight of the book—for me, anyway—was alcohol-abusing madman ever bedecked with aviator the examination of Thompson as a writer, and, not glasses and cigarette holder. He shot guns. He raved unsurprising from Cowan as editor, the lavish attenwith nervous, machine-gun ferocity. He fell into tion given to Thompson’s edits and notes, or the cataleptic silences. He was a counter-culture hero spoor of Thompson’s intellectual writing process. who snorted coke with movie stars and presidential Still, at times Cowan’s biography reads like a staraides in the White House. He was a rock-star writer. struck lesser talent in thrall to a hero—which is But given all the media attention, the interviews, undoubtedly true, if he was willing to stay on under the documentaries, two feature films (Where the Thompson’s shadow and patronage as long as he did.

Buffalo Roam and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), Too often Cowan finds himself making excuses for his appearance as a character in a comic daily (as Duke the writer’s excesses and his own tolerance of them. in “Doonesbury,” which he loathed) and his own But he’s not alone. Hunter S. Thompson himself was body of work, it’s still almost impossible to say where a victim of the allure of his own mythic stature. “Myths the self-created literary character ended and the “real” and legends die hard in America,” wrote Thompson. man began. Who was Hunter S. Thompson, anyway? “We love them for the extra dimension they provide, That’s a question Jay Cowan tackles in his the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narbiography, Hunter S. Thompson: An Insider’s View row confines of most men’s reality.” No doubt. But of Deranged, Depraved, Drugged Out Brilliance. what’s missing here is the fatal effect of that illusion Cowan was part of Thompson’s clique of friends on flesh, even as mythos endures. during the last 30 years of his career when he lived Jay Cowan reads from Hunter S. Thompson on Owl Farm in Aspen, Colo. Cowan met at Fact & Fiction Thursday, Aug. 13, at 7 PM. Free.

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Surely it would be too clichĂŠd to review direc- a film that understands and takes seriously the joy tor Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia using an extend- of cooking and eating ought also to achieve. And ed analogy between film and food. Surely, it’s a yet, one watches the screen, as through an oven crime of culinary and critical comparison, right? window, only to find the film fall flat somewhere And yet, one cannot help oneself, as celebrated at the joint between the two stories, just where its chef Julia Child herself might have said while dip- rising should be most assured. The soufflĂŠ ping her fingers into bowls of buttercream frost- depends upon meticulous and monitored incoring. So, here it is: the way in which this film is poration of its various elements from the first much like a soufflĂŠ. step—a roux that forms the basis of the bĂŠchamel As in the section “SoufflĂŠ: general informationâ€? sauce—to the light folding of the “voluminously of my own seriously dog-eared copy of Child’s stiff â€? egg whites into the sauce. It’s this incorpoMastering the Art of French Cooking, all of the ingredients, techniques and tools for making a satisfying final dish are present in the film.

Ephron’s direction and screenwriting proves her capacity with themes of food, conflict and romance. Meryl Streep delivers yet another of her uncanny inhabitations of character. From her physical replication of the big, awk- Someone’s feeling crabby. ward and beautiful ballet that was Child in motion, to her pitch-perfect warbling of ration, the folding together of the two separate Child’s famously un-modulated voice, Streep is stories that never really happens. Amy Adams is astounding. Stanley Tucci matches her, bringing no Meryl Streep and her character, for all the gravitas and dignity, as well as a sense of delight to appeal of her story, is no match for Julia Child, the role of her husband, Paul Child, who himself car- whose history is one of sustained and heroic ried similar qualities into his relationship with Julia. kitchen courage. Moreover, the tone of the film In addition, the stunt-concept of a 21st century blog- wavers as it passes between narrative boundaries. ger, Julie Powell (Amy Adams), attempting to make Child, perhaps unfairly, says that Powell’s efforts every single recipe in the cookbook in 365 days is an in the kitchen aren’t “serious.� And it seems an interesting one. Especially since Powell works apt critique: On the Powell side of the film there against significant odds, including the speed of con- is something a bit too cute and reminiscent of temporary life (the average American cook spends Ephron’s work in romantic comedy movies like around 27 minutes preparing meals).

You’ve Got Mail. The somewhat anomalous— Another spicy, savory component the film albeit occasional—screwball feel of the Powell brings to its narrative is its insistence—both play- narrative is signaled early by the joining of “Julieâ€? ful and profound—on connections between food to “Juliaâ€? with an ampersand, but there are other and sexual desire, as well as between the creation moments that give that half of the film its uneven, of sustenance and human love. The bed remains almost half-baked quality. never very far from what is being baked. Some of See Julie & Julia anyway. During the cheese the most memorable scenes involve Paul and Julia soufflĂŠ episode called “The French Chef,â€? wheremaking love after lunch before returning to their in she advises the viewer how to be “the big boss afternoon lives. of the big soufflĂŠ,â€? Child insists that even if the And there is butter—the symbol of supreme recipe goes wildly awry, “you should never be at satisfaction in cooking and consumption in the a loss to do somethingâ€? to bring the meal to the film. Child once famously said, “With enough but- table. Deflated chocolate soufflĂŠs, when rolled ter, anything is good.â€? Words to live by, and an up, dusted with powered sugar, sliced and axiom that Julie & Julia takes seriously. The film served with ice cream and chocolate sauce are is, after all, about food, and from the opening delicious. scene in which the Childs share a simple Sole In the same way, the film does collapse on Meunière (sole dredged in flour—å la meunière, itself, but there is still “somethingâ€? you can do like a miller would—cooked in butter, lemon and with its food, its sense of fun and its homage to parsley) to the Reine de Saba/Queen of Sheba the woman who altered the course of American chocolate and almond cake that Julie Powell culinary practice with her inimitable translation makes for her partner Eric (Chris Messina), the of the phrase “bon appĂŠtitâ€? into the vernacular of film revels in the production and eating of food. the American kitchen.

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OPENING THIS WEEK 500 DAYS OF SUMMER See what happens when a lovestruck sap woos Zooey Deschanel while holding onto the notion that love cures all. Screens at the Village 6 at 1:15, 4:20, 7:30 and 9:45. Also screens at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15 and 9:40 with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight.

BANDSLAM Those crazy-yet-tame filmmakers at Disney present a gushy teen flick about fledgling teen rockers and their quest to kick some serious butt at an upcoming battle of the bands tournament. Screens at the Village 6 at 1:20, 4:05, 7 and 9:25. Also screens at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:45, 2:45, 7 and 9:40 with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight.

DISTRICT 9 Peter Jackson is back with a film about refugee aliens controlled by a multi-national corporation that cares only about making profits. But the aliens ain’t gonna take it. Screens at the Carmike 10 at 1:45, 4:20, 7:10 and 9:45. Also screens at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 6:50 and 9:10, with Wed., Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 with no show at 9. Additionally screens at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1, 3:55, 7:05 and 9:45 with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight. Also screens at the Mountain in Whitefish at 4, 7, 9:15 with Fri., Sat. and Sun. show at 1:30.

FOOD, INC. You’ll probably want to become a locavore when you watch this documentary about our nation’s food industry. Screens at the Wilma Theatre at 7 and 9, with Sun. matinees at 1 and 3.

THE GOODS: LIVE HARD, SELL HARD Revel in your fantasy of living the single, badboy life as you watch Jeremy Piven and his onscreen buds save a local car dealership through drinking, trips to strip clubs and falling in love. Screens at the Village 6 at 1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45 and 10. Also screens at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:20, 2:30, 4:40, 7:10 and 9:40 with Fri. and Sat. shows at midnight.

PONYO The Little Mermaid gets a Japanese makeover in this animated kids movie about a goldfish named Ponyo, who for some reason wants to join us in the chaotic world of modern civilization. Screens at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12, 2:25, 4:45, 7:10 and 9:30.

THE TIME TRAVELER’S WIFE Your heart strings are bound to be tugged in this flick about a time traveling man and the woman who tries desperately to keep him grounded, even though his genetics force him to travel in time against his will. Screens at the Carmike 10 at 1:15, 4:15, 7 and 9:30. Also screens at the Pharoahplex in Hamilton at 6:50 and 9:10, with

Wed., Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Also screens at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:10, 3:50, 6:55 and 9:25.

Additionally screens at the Mountain Cinema in Whitefish at 4, 7 and 9:15 with Fri., Sat. and Sun. shows at 1:30

NOW SHOWING AWAY WE GO This romantic comedy, based on a screenplay

by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, explores the lives of a couple about to have their first child and documents their cross country search for the perfect home. Screens at the Wilma Theatre nightly at 7, with Sun. matinees at 1.

More evidence that sunscreen’s really important during the summer. District 9 opens Friday at the Carmike 10.

FUNNY PEOPLE Judd Apatow’s newest flick follows a comedian who has a near-death experience and features acting from Jason Schwartzman, Adam Sandler and the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA. Screens at the Carmike 10 at 1, 4:05, 7:10 and 10:15. Also shows at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 1:15, 4:30 and 8:30 with midnight shows Fri. and Sat. Also shows at the Pharoahplex in Hamilton at 7 only with Wed., Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Also screening at the Mountain Cinema in Whitefish at 4, 6:45 and 9:30 with Fri., Sat. and Sun. shows at 1:15.

G-FORCE Guinea pigs take up spy work in order to take down a billionaire bent on world takeover in this 3-D kids comedy. Screens at the Carmike 10 at 1, 4, 7 and 9:25. Also shows at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 and 9 with Wed., Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 PM show on Sun. Shows at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:10, 2:30, 4:45, 6:55 and 9:10 with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. GI JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA Blatant militarism gets championed as Dennis Quad and Marlon Wayans, along with other members of G.I. JOE work to crush a corrupt Scottish arms dealer named Destro and his esoteric Cobra organization. Screens at the Carmike 10 at 1:30,

A PERFECT GETAWAY Steve Zahn and Milla Jovovich head to Hawaii for some honeymoon fun, but their plans get spoiled when they run into hikers who warn them of a recent murder. Screens at the Village 6 at 1:45, 4:30, 7:10 and 9:35. Also showing at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:25 and 9:50 with midnight shows Fri. and Sat.

Sick lyrical cameo by Mike Tyson. Screens at the Carmike 10 at 1:15, 4, 7:10, 9:45.

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE Ding! Round six! All your faves are back, everything’s more dangerous and hormonal—especially Hermione—and somewhere someone’s getting all steamed up about witchcraft’s glorification in the mainstream media. Shows at the Carmike 10 at 1, 4:15, 7:30 and Fri. and Sat. at 10:45. Screens at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton nightly at 7 only and Wed., Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Also showing at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:55, 4:20 and 7:45 with Fri. and Sat. showings at midnight.

ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS This animated children’s comedy, the third installment in the series, follows Manny and his friends as they navigate life through adult-oriented topics like falling in love, starting a family and going extinct. Voiceovers include cameos by Queen Latifah and Denis Leary. Screens at the Carmike 10 at 1:20, 4:10, 7:05 and 9:25. Shows at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:15, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:35 with midnight shows on Fri. and Sat. JULIE & JULIA Food freaks take note of this adaptation of two memoirs that revolves around cooking, blog-

SUMMER HOURS This French flick explores the dynamics of familial tension when the mother of three siblings dies and leaves behind a valuable art collection.

Screens at the Wilma Theatre nightly at 9, with Sun. matinees at 3.

THE UGLY TRUTH Katherine Heigl’s reality is turned upside down when her coworker dishes out the “ugly truth” about how men and women perceive relationships. Screens at Carmike 10 at 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10 and 9:25. Additionally showing at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton at 7 and 9, with Wed., Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 PM and no 9 showing on Sun. Also showing at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:05, 2:35, 4:55, 7:30 and 9:45, as well as midnight on Fri. and Sat. Also showing at the Mountain Cinema in Whitefish at 4:15, 7 and 9:15, as well as 1:45 on Fri., Sat. and Sun. Capsule reviews by Jonas Ehudin and Ira Sather-Olson.

Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., Aug. 14. 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.

The Kingfisher’s Weekly Fishing Report: Week of Aug 13th Bitterroot

Looks like we're heading into some partly cloudy, unsettled weather for the next few days. This means good stuff for your midday fishing prospects with lengthened hatch windows and fish more willing to come out of cover and feed on the surface. As we move into Sept., the mayflies will become more and more specifically the focus for the feeding fatties, but for now, in the warmer weather anyway, hoppers, ants and spruce moths are still a big part of the dryfly game. Water clarity is much improved over the last 5 days since the big rain storm and your end of the week prospects are looking VERY good. . . at least fishing wise.

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THE HANGOVER Four gents on a Las Vegas bachelor party expedition scramble to answer the morning-after question, “What happened?” and get the groom back to L.A. in time for some nuptials.

ging about cooking and the quest to become a culinary master, all thanks to cookbooks by Julia Child. Screens at the Carmike 10 at 1:30, 4:15, 7 and 9:45. Also shows at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12:45, 3:40, 6:40 and 9:30 with Fri. and Sat. show at midnight. Additional screenings at the Mountain Cinema in Whitefish at 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30 with a Fri., Sat. and Sun. show at 1:45.

THE PROPOSAL Sandra Bullock is a 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? Screens at the Carmike 10 at 1, 4, 7 and 9:40. Also screens at the Showboat in Polson at 4:15, 6:50 and 9.

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4:15, 7:05 and 9:45. Also shows at the Village 6 at 1:30, 4:15, 7:05 and 9:45. Also screens at the Pharaohplex in Hamilton nightly at 6:50 and 9:10 PM with Wed., Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no Sun. show at 9:10. Additionally screening at the Stadium 14 in Kalispell at 12, 1:05, 3, 4:05, 6, 6:50, 8:50 and 9:50 with midnight shows Fri. and Sat. Also shows at the Mountain Cinema in Whitefish at 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30 with Fri., Sat. and Sun. show at 1:45. Shows at the Showboat Cinema in Polson at 4, 7 and 9:15.

More good stuff on tap for the Blackfoot in the coming days. Cooler temperatures will keep the rat pack off the lower river allowing for good hunting down there all day long. Those fish have seen far less pressure this summer due to most fly fishers avoiding the lower river, drifting alter of inebriation,

for sections higher on the river. The cloud cover will intensify the mayfly activity and the fish feeding on 'em, but daytime higher should keep attractor and terrestrial patterns effective as well. The cloud cover, when it happens, should also produce much more productive streamer conditions. Keep your junk moving slowly and right off the bottom.

Darker colors will work best for you in low light conditions.

Clark Fork

Improving water conditions and less direct sunlight can only improve your Clark Fork prospects over the next 4 or 5 days. The tricos have begun to come off for real, in very location specific hatches, and the pmds and spruce moths are keeping things interesting as well. On days where there is any sunshine and temperatures reach into the mid 80s, the evening caddis will be a predictable hatch producing about 3 hours of gonzo fishing just before and right at dark. On the bright and obnoxiously sunny days, we've been having good luck

with a fast swing, double soft hackle rig on inside bends of faster moving water. Pay attention to the wind forecast on this river and you should be golden!

Rock Creek

No you don't have to diaper your dogs up here. No the entire creek didn't disappear down a badger hole. All the poisonous tree monkeys have been captured and the Rock Creek jet boat races have been canceled. Now that we've gotten all that cleared up without curious phone calls this time, what we can tell you is happening on the creek is good fishing! Top to bottom this river's giving it up on a variety of patterns. Rain or shine, standard dries and nymphs should bring fish to hand. A purple haze in a 14 or a spruce moth type bug with some motion is all you'll need. Hoppers, ants and attractors will work just as well as long as you stay medium to small in the size range. Subsurface it's equally diverse. Red San Juans in an 8 or 10 all the way down to size 18 red brassies have been effec-

tive. It's your call where you want to be on the creek these days, just remember that the National Guard will be having their live ammo training session over the weekend and that grenade fragments are very hard to control.

Missouri

The Dearborn should begin to think about letting up on the chocolate milk fest here pretty quick and the lower river clarity will follow accordingly. We're still (and have been) having pretty good luck with streamers on slime lines fishing the heavily mudded banks below the confluence all the way down.

It hasn't been spectacular, but we've been punishing some big fish. Tricos early and caddis late are the name of the game recently. The dryfly action heat of the day has been so - so on hoppers and ants so we've been doing more streamer stuff.

Nymphing the inside of beds has been productive with smaller scuds and chech nymphs. Standard tiny Mo fare is still the name of the game under an indicator. Today's flow below Holter is 4650

Rio Flylines - much better than those silly lines you use at the bar, dork boy.

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My boyfriend of a year is wonderful, intelligent, kind, and hilarious.

He told me he’d never been in love until meeting me, and while he’d had more sex partners than he’d like to admit, before me, it was all meaningless. Then, yesterday, I read an article about a prostitution ring, and asked how prostitutes can advertise without getting arrested.

He explained how escort services work—with a little too much expertise. I asked if he’d ever paid for sex.

He admitted he had, then let loose, saying he’d done it five times over several years; most recently, six years ago. He said it’s more common than people think, and like paying for a couple dates. He added that it was a time in his life when he was avoiding relationships, and considering the emotional cost of one, it was worth the price. Now, I’m finding myself repulsed by a man who, only yesterday, seemed so amazing. Help!

—Distraught Clearly, honesty is the secondbest policy, right behind leaping up to get one’s jaw wired shut when one is tempted to take a little trip down memory lane—to the corner of it, anyway—and tell the girlfriend about the good old days, back when $20 still bought you somebody.

Your boyfriend apparently got so wrapped up in reminiscing that he forgot to check your face for a look of horror—his cue to start an Olympic-style backpedal: “…and I took one look at that skanky ho, sped home, made hot cocoa, and read the collected Beatrix Potter!”

Actually, he probably wasn’t scoring drive-by sex from whichever methhead in hotpants was working the alley; he most likely found a number in the paper or on a website for an escort—essentially a gold digger with an advertising budget.

Retired escort-turned-author Amanda Brooks explains the difference in The Internet Escort’s Handbook, Book 2: “If you are selling your time, undivided attention, and the (unspoken) offer of sexual entertainment, you’re an escort. If you’re selling a specific sexual activity for a certain amount of money, you’re a prostitute. If you won’t have sex with the man you’re dating unless he buys you an expensive dinner, you’re a (relatively cheap) prostitute.”

The truth is, to a guy, a hooker isn’t all that different from a hookup.

Men can have sex without knowing where a woman grew up, what her sign is, and all the ways her cat is like a dog. Men ask about that stuff because women typically require

some emotional connection before they’ll get it on. But, unless a guy’s seeking something girlfriend-y, all he really needs to know is: Is she hot, free around 8, and will she take the credit card he gets frequent flyer miles on?

Society and religion say it’s wrong to pay for sex, but maybe it’s worse to do what a lot of guys do: fool girls into thinking they’re up for commitment when they only want to use ‘em and lose ‘em. Your boyfriend, on the other hand, was honest. He had a need, and he paid to fill it: Cash and Carrie (and Candeee, Tifani, and Jazmin, too)!

It’s natural that you’d feel threatened. Throughout history, women have made men pay for sex with commitment. If strings-free sexcapades are so readily available to your boyfriend, what hold could you possibly have? Well, just read your words above. Your boyfriend’s sex acts six years back don’t seem to impact how he lives today, except maybe in how grateful he is for the happy ending—the kind a guy just can’t buy, no matter how many hundreds he stacks on the dresser.

BOYS ‘R’ US How successful are relationships where the woman is much older? I’m a 21-year-old guy with a 38-year-old girlfriend. I’m frequently hit on and teased by her female friends. They don’t seem interested in me as a person but want a younger guy for sex. Being referred to as “the toy” is getting old.

—Annoyed Age difference? What age difference? Meanwhile, your girlfriend isn’t sure whether to offer you a cigarette after sex or a plate of animal crackers. It’s the rare 21-year-old who has much to tell a 38-year-old, beyond “Your shoulder’s putting my arm to sleep.” Sure, there are olderyounger relationships that work, but you two don’t have a relationship; you have playdates. How do I know?

Because friends don’t hit on friends’ boyfriends so easily. Yeah, it happens. But, when it happens with frequency, it’s a sign of how your partner feels—and talks—about you. If you want a relationship, that’s what you should have. Just find some sweet girl closer to your own age; in other words, somebody more likely to draw hearts around your name than straws to see who’s next in line to play with her toy.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): I started producing some good work within ten years of launching my writing career, but I didn’t hit my stride until the 18th year. From what I hear, many other skills require a long training period as well. According to an Aikido adept I know, for example, a practitioner may require 30 years to master the moves and spirit of that martial art. And as for the ability to carry on a successful intimate relationship: It usually takes a lifetime. I hope this line of thinking helps you get a more practical perspective on the specific prowess you’re trying to develop, Aries. Keep in mind that it probably wouldn’t be worth learning if you could become a wizard in a flash. There’s no rush. Give yourself credit for how far you’ve come already.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Talk to yourself more and better. Not just with streams of chatter that meander aimlessly. Not with darts of self-deprecation mixed in with grandiose fantasies. No, Taurus. When I urge you to talk to yourself more and better, I mean that you should address your self with focused tenderness. I mean that you should be driven by the bold intention to lift up your mood, praise your skills, shower blessings on your vulnerabilities, and love yourself down to the core. You will attract cosmic assistance if you do this playful work. You will bathe your subconscious intelligence with healing luminosity.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I climbed the endless steps to the sanctuary, brushing off large spiders that kept landing on me. I stood in the rain for hours waiting for the gates to open.

The guardian of the threshold wouldn’t let me in until I answered his tricky and sometimes insulting questions. Through it all, I maintained my patience and poise and reverence. At no time did I give in to the temptation to curse the difficulties. And when I finally entered, when I got my chance to penetrate to the heart of the rose petal-strewn labyrinth, my persistence was rewarded. As I knelt there in amused awe, face to face with the sacred jokester, I got a useful answer to the most important question in my life. Would you like a comparable experience, Gemini? It’s possible in the coming week.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Visionary philosopher Buckminster Fuller said that “Pollution is nothing but resources we’re not harvesting.” If that’s true, Cancerian, you’ve got a lot of resources available to you right now, although they will have to be converted from their smoggy and effluvial state. So for example, if you’re a songwriter, the noxious emotions floating around could be raw material for a sparkling tune. If you’re a lover, the peculiar vibes you’re dealing with could inspire you to prevent a dumb pattern from repeating itself.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The monsoon rains have not blessed eastern India with their usual downpours this year. In response, frustrated farmers have resorted to a radical ritual: asking their unmarried daughters to get naked and plow the fields. They believe that this will embarrass the weather gods into acting correctly. In general, I approve of being creative in making appeals to deities, but I recommend that you use a different approach. Rather than shaming them into providing you with more love and mojo, try flattering them. As if you were celebrating Halloween early, go around impersonating a god or goddess who is overflowing with love and mojo.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Two annoyances that had been bugging you before your exile have been neutralized. But you’ve still got at least one more to go, so don’t relax yet. In fact, I think you should redouble your vigilance. Check expiration dates on your poetic licenses and pet theories. Scrub the muck from your aura, even if your friends seem to find it “interesting.” And learn to read your own mind better so you can track down any disabling thoughts that might still be lurking in remote corners.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your upcoming adventures will probably make no sense—unless you redefine what constitutes “sense.” If you do that, your adventures could make absolutely lucid sense in a backward, upside-down way that will rejuvenate you sexually, spiritually, and emotionally. Here’s another approach to understanding the point I’m trying to make: The epic drama you’re about to begin may yield no apparent lesson and provide no practical guidance—unless you empty your mind and give up hope for extracting specific lessons and guidance—in which case you will be flooded with wise insights.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What tricks have you employed to outwit your fears in the past?

Remember them. Review them. Next, think about the people who have inspired you to be more courageous than you imagined were capable of. If you take these two actions, you will prepare yourself well for the week ahead. I’m not saying that the things you’re scared of will be any bigger or badder than usual. But I want you to know that you now have the potential to gain a robust new power over them.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): You are currently getting more miles per gallon and more bang for the buck than you have in a long time. Your IQ is creeping higher. Your knack for scoring good parking places is at a peak. I’ll even go so far as to say that it’s been quite a while since you’ve been teased by such thoroughly useful temptations. And get this, Sagittarius: I suspect that you have an enhanced instinct for taking smart risks. The only downside of all this good news is that you may not know your own strength. That means you should test it fast; find out more about its potential. Otherwise, you might break someone’s heart by accident, or prematurely shatter the illusions of a person who’s not yet ready to stop living in fantasyland.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I wouldn’t be surprised if your whole life passed instantly before your eyes one day soon. Not because you’ll come close to literal physical death or anything dangerous at all, but rather because you will have a brush with a magic power that could be yours in the future—a magic power that will be possible for you to fully own only if you cut the umbilicus that links you to a dying source. Wow. Did I really say that in a fun little astrology column? And are you really prepared to change your life because of something you read in a fun little astrology column? I hope so. In the coming weeks, it’ll be the fun little things that have the greatest potential to align you more closely with your soul’s code.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the days ahead, you may not realize what you’re looking for until you find it. I advise you, therefore, to put into action the following five-point plan. 1) Suppress any know-it-all tendencies you might have. 2) Revive your childhood talent for being voraciously curious about everything. 3) Ask more questions than you’ve ever asked before. 4) Figure out how to be receptive without being passive, and how you can be humble without muffling your self-confidence. 5) Consider the possibility that you have a lot to learn about what’s best for you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’ve borrowed a fable from the ancient Greek writer Aesop to create a parable you can use in the coming weeks. Once upon a time there was a very thirsty crow. Rain hadn’t fallen in a long time, and the creek from which she’d always drunk had dried up. Searching and searching for a bit of moisture, the crow finally happened upon a tree under which sat a ceramic pitcher with some water in it. But the pitcher’s neck was narrow, and the crow couldn’t fit her beak past it to reach the water. Inspired by desperation, the crow at last got an idea. Why not drop small rocks into the pitcher, making the water’s level rise? And that’s exactly what she did. How sweet it was when at last she quenched her thirst

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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL $ 6 0 0 W E E K LY P O T E N T I A L !

Helping the Government, PT. No experience. No selling. Call: 1888-213-5225, Ad Code: A32 ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, F/T, Msla. Administrative assistant with at least 2 years office experience needed for addiction services office. Will perform general secretarial, receptionist, clerical and bookkeeping duties, and provide back-up for all clerical positions. Skills required: multiline telephone, reception and scheduling, accuracy and attention to detail, and literacy in Windows and MS Office-including Word, Excel and Access. Requires dependability and reliability, ability and desire to go above and beyond assigned duties. Must have empathy for clients and be nonjudgmental, a team player and able to get along well with others. Need to be detail-oriented and organized, with strong tolerance for fast-paced workload and ability to handle several projects simultaneously. Monday through Friday, days, Tuesdays until 7 pm, for 40 hours per week Pay is $9 to $10/hour, plus excellent benefits. #2976037 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 AM–BANQUET SERVERS, F/T, Msla, Employer is seeking Fulltime AM shift servers at nationally known hotel in Missoula. Duties for the banquet servers is to work at special events held at the facility to serve guests and clear tables as guests finish meals. This is a Full-time position. Must be able to serve meals in a professional and courteous manner. Rate of pay for banquet servers is $10.00/hour.

Looking for candidates that work well in a fast paced environment and work well with coworkers. #2976050 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

! BARTENDING ! $300-Day potential, no experience necessary, training provided. 1-800-965-6520 ext. 278 Dance Instructor Needed for a well establisted non-profit childrens performing art studio.

We are seeking an individual to teach Jazz and possibly some Modern Dance classes for the upcoming school year. Please email cover letter and resume with references to balletbitterroot@gmail.com no phone calls please. Pay is DOE HOUSEKEEPERS, P/T, Msla. An established Missoula motel is seeking HOUSEKEEPERS to clean motel rooms. Duties include: cleaning and dusting fixtures, vacuuming floors, changing linens, cleaning bathrooms, restocking cleaning cart at end of shift and taking out garbage.

Approximate hours will be 25-30 per week and will include weekend work. Work starts at 8:30 AM and continues until all rooms are clean. Starting wage is $7.25/hour. #2976048 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 LIFEGUARDS/INSTRUCTORS, P/T, Msla. Missoula employer is s e e k i n g p a r t - t i m e LIFEGUARDS/INSTRUCTORS for fall and winter sessions. This permanent position requires Red Cross Certification & must be CPR certified as well. Looking for a TEAM PLAYER as will be instructing a variety of different ages.

Work days and work hours will vary. Competitive wages based on years of experience. Pay starts

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at $7.40/hour for lifeguards and $7.60/hour for instructors #2976067 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 LOBBY ATTENDANT, P/T, Msla.

Missoula hotel seeking a reliable individual for the position of LOBBY ATTENDANT. Duties include, but are not limited to, keeping the lobby tidy, dusting, vacuuming, providing exceptional customer service by taking extra towel to rooms, delivering roll-away to rooms, removing trash and other duties as assigned. This is a Part-time position with days and hours varying. Starting pay is $7.50/hr. #2976059 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 LOOKING FOR ADVENTURE? In need of a “cool” job in a hot c l i m a t e ? Wa n t t o m a k e a difference by using your education? fishrls@yahoo.com 406-728-3268 Mystery Shoppers earn up to $150 Day. Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail and dining establishments. Experience not required. Call 877-308-1186 NEED STARVING CARTOON ARTIST Looking for cartoon artist that is hungry!!

Funky, quirky design concepts fax sample with contact information to 406/273-6408 - if we like your concepts we will contact you!

PORTER/DRIVER, F/T & P/T, Msla. Missoula hotel seeking a reliable PORTER/DRIVER. Full and Part Time. Duties include but are not limited to: Driving shuttle van around Missoula to and from the hotel, assisting with needs of our guests including baggage handling, cleaning and general maintenance of hotel common areas, working with the front desk to ensure guest’s needs are met, providing excellent customer service skills, and other duties as assigned. Hours will vary depending on occupancy. MUST be available to work weekends. Wage starts at $7.25/hour or higher depending on experience. Must have a valid driver’s license and be able to lift guest’s luggage which could be over 50 lbs. #2976029 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 SCHEDULING MANAGER, F/T, Msla. Local agency needs a SCHEDULING MANAGER! for their front-line staff. Duties would include: Schedule and supervise direct care staff, provide coverage when they are unable to work their shifts to care for adults with developmental disabilities, ensuring proper training, adhere to proper protocols. Will report staff hours worked. Position is 3/4 to full-time, Monday-Friday. Starting wage is $12/hr with generous benefits. Prefer some college and supervisory experience. Requires excellent organizational skills, Excel knowledge, and ability to

HEAD START is accepting applications for:

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

Experience working with young children in a preschool setting.

Applications due 8/18/09.

Application/job descriptions available a t 1 0 0 1 Wo r d e n , Msla, 59802 EOE

HEAD START is accepting applications for:

is accepting applications for:

Special Services Coordinator

Classroom Aides

40 hrs/wk. 44 wks/yr. Organize and coordinate the program’s services to children with special needs. Participate in recruitment, enrollment, diagnosis and provision of, or arrangement for, services for children with special needs.

BA/AA in Early Childhood Special Education or related field. Experience working with children with special needs in a preschool. Applications due 8/18/09. Application/job descriptions available at 1001 Worden, Msla, 59802 EOE

Assist teacher with preschool program. 12-16 hrs/wk 34wks. HS dipl/GED req. Applications due 8 / 1 8 / 0 9 .

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

work with detailed information accurately. A valid driver’s license is required. Drug screening and background checks will be conducted. #2976047 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 SCHOOL COOK, F/T, Msla. Area elementary school is seeking a breakfast & lunch SCHOOL COOK. Duties would include: Read recipes and adjust for changes in student numbers, cook meals according to given recipes, prepare breakfast and lunch for around 120 people, follow industry standards for safe food handling and cooking, maintain a clean and safe cooking area.

Applicants MUST have 12 months of professional cooking experience and be able to pass a background check. Experience cooking in a school or institutional setting is preferred. Work days will be Monday-Friday from 7:00am2:00pm with standard school holidays off. Work is only during the school year, with summers off.

Pay starts at $10.00 per hour or higher depending on experience. #2976056 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

analysis of medicinal plants. Will also assist analytical chemist with media and reagent preparation, sterilization, stock culture maintenance, microbial and analytical assays. Will be required to maintain laboratory cleanliness and complete paperwork as assigned.

Requires a B.S. Science degree preferable in Chemistry or equivalent combination of education and experience. Must also have a minimum of 3-5 years experience in analytical testing and assisting with methodology. Pay starts at $15.00 per hour. Must have strong organizational and interpersonal skills and be a self starter who requires minimal supervision. Must have practical experience in HPLC, GC, TLC and Spectrophotometry and other analytical instrumentation.

Requires extensive knowledge of methodology, equipment, and sample preparation necessary for all types of analytical assays for foods and pharmaceuticals, with flexibility for new method development. #2976033 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

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GRAPHIC DESIGNER, F/T, Msla.

Local employer is seeking an experienced GRAPHIC DESIGNER. Duties include producing complex logos and illustrations that require a great deal of creative and technical skill, creating images for the production department and producing pieces for fine artists. You need to have well developed drawing, design and computer skills. Must have the ability to work under deadline pressure. High level of computer skills REQUIRED in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and CorelDraw. This position requires someone that is able to step right into the job without training and be able to work independently.

Work Monday through Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm, 40 hours/week. Wage range will be $12 to $15 an hour, DOE. Also employer offers benefits. #2976065 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

ANALYTICAL LAB TECHNICIAN, F/T, Msla. Local employer seeking a full-time ANALYTICAL LAB TECHNICIAN to assist in developing analytical methodology for quantitative and qualification

THERAPIST-MA LEVEL, F/T, Msla.

Child and Family Services is seeking a Master’s level Therapist to provide family based services to emotionally disturbed youth and families. Experience working with SED youth preferred. Requires

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 STOP & L@@K MacKenzie River Pizza Co is HIRING FOR ALL POSITIONS www.mackenzieriverpizza.com for application apply in person at 5210 Grand Creek Rd See Devin or Shoni EOE Unlimited earning potential New company looking for motivated distributors.

Call to reserve your spot.

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

Requires strong organization and communication skills.

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

Send resume and a cover letter SELLING YOURSELF to: pkearns@missoulanews.com or to PO Box 8275, Missoula 59807

EMPLOYMENT Master’s Degree in human services field. Montana License is preferred. Work is Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Competitive salary and benefits. Open until filled. #2976020 M i s s o u l a Wo r k f o r c e C e n t e r 728-7060

GOVT JOBS HS grads ages 1734. Financial secu rity, great benefits, paid training, 30 days vaca tion/yr, travel. Call Mon-Fri 877-475-6289

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PAID APPRENTICE HS grads ages 17-34. Electronics, engineering, communications, etc. Great benefits. Relocation avail. Call Mon-Fri 800-887-095

Dump Truck Driver, F/T, Msla.

Local Construction company looking for a Experienced Dump Truck driver with a minimum of 3 years truck driving experience. Must have valid CDL license, Must be able to pass alcohol,drug testing.

Must have clean driving record.

Not a wheel holder only position.

Must get out and help other coworkers shovel and rake asphalt. #9929593 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

PA R A P R O F E S S I O N A L S SCHOOL, F/T, Msla. Seeking part-time PARAPROFESSIONALS for elementary school. Duties include: Assisting students with getting to classes, during class, recess duties and most any school related activity. Work day is expected to be about 7 - 71/2 hours per day, during the school day. Pay is $10/hour. Closes Friday, August 14, 2009. #2976058 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

EXPERIENCED FRAMER, F/T, Msla. Local employer seeking EXPERIENCED FRAMER. MUST HAVE 3-5 years construction carpentry experience. Must be comfortable working in all weather conditions. Will do all aspects of stick built carpentry from demolition to new construction and/or remodel. Will work various hours, Monday-Saturday, depending on need. Will be part time to full time depending on job. Pay will be $8.00-$10.00 per hour depending on experience. #2976066 M i s s o u l a Wo r k f o r c e C e n t e r 728-7060 FARM MECHANIC POSITION, Central Ag Research Center, Moccasin, MT. Info: Job Service o r w w w. m o n t a n a . e d u / l e v e l 2 / j o b s . h t m l ADA/EEO/AA/Vet Pref Employer TRUCK DRIVER TRAINING. Complete programs and refresher courses, rent equipment for CDL. Job Placement Assistance.

Financial assistance for qualified s t u d e n t s . S A G E Te c h n i c a l Ser vices, Billings/Missoula, 1-800-545-4546

TRAINING/ INSTRUCTION CONSTRUCTION No exp needed. Paid training, good salary & benefits, vacation, $ for school.

HS grads ages 17-34. Call MonFri 800-437-6044 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

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

HEALTH CAREERS Clinic Assistant, F/T, Msla. The Clinic Assistant position provides the foundation on which we build efficient, professional clinics.

Duties will include: checking in patients, handle multiline phones; route calls as necessary; book appointments; take birth control method refill orders; create new patient charts; pull & file current patient charts; assist patients; and perform other general office duties as assigned. The successful candidate will have great general office knowledge with special emphasis on quick thinking, exceptional customer service skills, great computer skills, as well as general office equipment such as fax machine, credit card machine, copier, etc. #9929519 M i s s o u l a Wo r k f o r c e C e n t e r 728-7060 DENTAL HYGIENIST, F/T, Msla.

Missoula office is seeking a DENTAL HYGIENIST to start as soon as possible. Will work part-time with a schedule depending on patient needs and personal availability.

Office is open Monday through Thursday. MUST be a degree or certificate holder. Will perform cleanings, assist dentist with patients, take x-rays, sterilize and assist with crown and bridge extractions, and set appointments.

Applicants must have a professional attitude and appearance, strong customer service skills, and an ability to work well in a team

AUTOMOTIVE environment, follow directions, and work independently. May be subject to pre-employment and random drug testing. No visible tattoos and no facial jewelry perm i t t e d . Wa g e $ 2 8 / h r i s Depending on Experience. #2976060 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 PCA/CNA, P/T, Msla. Assisted Living facility is currently hiring a part time graveyard shift PCA/CNA. Duties include assisting staff with the care of patients, meals, dressing patients, bathing and grooming. May be required to assist with oral medications under doctor’s orders or the direction of the nursing staff. Will also perform resident house cleaning, laundry duties, assist with activities and other duties as assigned.

Previous experience is preferred, but not necessary. Employer will train. A desire to work with the elderly. Mandatory background checks. Must be able to obtain First Aid certification within 60 days (company will pay for certification). The position is graveyard from 10PM to 6AM, Wed., Thurs., and Fri. Rate of pay is $7.50-$8.50 per hour, DOE. Also have one varied/flexible shift available. #2976028 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 RN/LPN FULL-TIME POSITION. Med/Surg and ER experience needed. Montana current license.

Full benefits. Contact Personnel, Teton Medical Center, 915 Fourth St. NW, Choteau, MT 59422.

406-466-5763. www.tetonmedicalcenter.net EOE

OPPORTUNTIES $600 WEEKLY POTENTIAL$$$ Helping the Government PT. No Experience, No Selling. Call: 1-888-213-5225 Ad Code L-5.

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will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owning delinquent storage rent for the following units: 82, 93, 179, 182, 224, 236, 241, 428, 495, 633, 523. and 508. 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 Tuesday, Aug 25, 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 Thursday, Aug 27, 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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REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS The Missoula County Information Services Department has issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) for a consultant to prepare a document management and imaging business requirements analysis. Any firm interested in responding to the RFQ is invited to do so by 5:00PM, Wednesday, September 16, 2009. Qualification statements will be reviewed and evaluated by Friday, September 25th, 2009. Missoula County Commissioners will select a firm at a public hearing on Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 at 1:30PM in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex. All questions related to the project should be directed to Anne Hughes, Missoula County Special Projects at 200 W Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, (406)258-3160, ahughes@co.missoula.mt.us. Interested firms may obtain the complete project description and RFQ on Missoula County’s website: www.co.missoula.mt.us/bidsandproposals or by contacting Anne Hughes. Firms should submit one (1) original statement, four (4) copies, and one (1) electronic copy on CD. The electronic copy must be either MS Office or Adobe Acrobat. Qualification statements must be sealed and marked “Qualification Statement for Document Management and Imaging Business Requirements Analysis” and submitted to: Anne Hughes, Special Projects, 200 W Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802.

Missoula County reserves the right to reject any and all statements.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT Dr. Dana Headapohl and Dr. Lawrence Martin requested a hearing before the Missoula City-County Board of Health regarding a Notice of Violation and Order to Take Corrective Action that the Department issued on May 12, 2009 and then amended after an Administrative Hearing on June 1, 2009. At issue are two buildings installed in the floodplain at 4740 South Ave West, constituting an increased use to a septic system in the floodplain in violation of the Missoula City-County Health Code, Regulation 1. The Department ordered the buildings to be removed or a septic system, in full compliance with the Health Code, to be installed to serve the buildings. The Board will hold the hearing on Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. or soon thereafter in the second floor conference room at the Health Department at 301 West Alder in Missoula. Public comment will be accepted by the Board at the hearing. More information is available on the web at www.co.missoula.mt.us/envhealth or at the Health Department.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No: 1 Cause No: DV09-707 SUMMONS MIKE MCMEEKIN, SHERIFF MISSOULA COUNTY, STATE OF MONTANA, Petitioner, vs. Victoria Runninghawk, Respondent(s) THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVENAMED RESPONDENT(S). YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Petition for Forfeiture in this action, which is filed in the Office of the Clerk of Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer with the Office of the Clerk of Court, located at the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, and to serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff Attorney within twenty days

will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 126 & 168 .

Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting August 17th, 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 August 20t h, 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. after the service on this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Petition for Forfeiture, namely a 2006 Red Mazda Tribute (VIN 4F2YZ92Z16K M19688). Witness my hand and the seal of said Court, this 31st day of July, 2009. Shirley E. Faust Clerk of District Court by /s/ Gayle Johnston, Deputy Clerk MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING CONSIDER RESOLUTION APPROVING REDISTRICTING BOUNDARIES FOR THE ARLEE FIRE DISTRICT Notice is hereby given that the Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing to receive public comment on the Arlee Fire District proposal to remove from its District boundaries Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal (CSKT) Trust Forest Lands that have no residences or structures and are served by the CSKT Division of Fire. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing on Wednesday, August 26, 2009, at 1:30 p.m., in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to the Commissioners and/or speak at the hearing. Comments may also be submitted anytime prior to the hearing by phone, mail, fax, e-mail or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, Fax: (406) 721-4043, Phone: (406) 258-4877; EMail: bcc@co.missoula.mt.us Additional information on the hearing may be obtained from the Commissioners Office by any of the methods shown above. Dated this 7th day of August 2009 /s/ Jean Curtiss, Acting Chair Missoula Board of County Commissioners MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) FOR Professional Engineering Services for Development of Preliminary Engineering Report for the Spring Meadows Addition Sanitary Sewer Project. Notice to Engineering Consultants: Missoula County has been awarded a Treasure State Endowment Program (TSEP) grant in the amount of $15,,000 by the Montana Legislature for assistance in preparing a Preliminary Engineering Report (PER) for the Spring Meadows Addition Sanitary Sewer Project.

Qualifications and Proposals are to be submitted to Missoula County Public Works at the above address no later than Monday, September 14, 2009 by 4:00 PM Mountain Time. Proposals shall be clearly marked Consultant’s Proposal for Engineering Services for Spring Meadows Addition Sanitary Sewer Project. Contingent upon this award, the Missoula County Board of Commissioners is soliciting qualifications and proposals for engineering and grant management services to assist the County in the development and administration of this project in compliance with all applicable requirements under the Montana TSEP program. Payment terms will be negotiated with the selected respondent. The fee for engineering services will be paid with TSEP funds.

Development of the PER, per the Proposed Implementation Schedule, is scheduled for completion by January 2010... Project Background: The project is located in the Spring Meadows Addition, a subdivision generally located in the Wye Area of Missoula,

PUBLIC NOTICES approximately nine miles northwest of the City of Missoula near and around the interchange of Interstate 90 and US Highway 93. Elevated nitrate levels have been detected in the Wye Area, and present a health and safety issue that must be addressed. In response to pollution concerns Missoula County recently created Wye Area Sanitary Sewer RSID 8489 to construct pump stations and gravity mains to serve much of the Wye Area. Design criteria and alternatives will need to be developed and evaluated to address Spring Meadows Addition which currently has individual drainfields per parcel.. Scope of Consultant Services: The firm selected for this project will be required to perform the following activities: 1).. Develop design criteria for providing public sewer service to each property in Spring Meadows Addition, connect existing sewer services and abandon existing septic tanks.

2. Identify all possible alternatives for providing sewer service to Spring Meadows Addition. 3. Correspond with state and federal agencies regarding impacts of the project. 4. Analyze viable alternatives for providing sewer service to Spring Meadows Addition.

5. Assist Missoula County with advertising for one public meeting; and conduct one public meeting with landowners and residents in Spring Meadows Addition. 6. Review state and federal funding options for the final design and construction of the project based on preliminary cost estimates. 7. Prepare a final Preliminary Engineering Report (PER), along with supplemental materials, to submit to various agencies to obtain funding for final design and construction of this project. To assist in preparing your proposal, a copy of the TSEP grant application is available at the Missoula County Public Works Department, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808. Committee Selection and Evaluation Criteria: Selection of the consultant will be made by a three to five person team selected by the Missoula County Public Works Director. If needed, questions may be directed to respondents to clarify proposals. Respondents will be evaluated according to the following factors with a maximum of 100 points possible: 1.

Professional qualifications, past performance and references 0 to- 30 Points 2. Ability to meet schedule 0 to - 35 Points 3. Experience and familiarity with RSID’s 0 to - 25 Points 4.

Familiarity and availability to project 0 to -10 Points Submission Instructions: Five copies of consultant’s written proposal shall be submitted to the Missoula County Public Works Department at 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808 on or before 4:00 p.m. Mountain Time, on Monday, September 14, 2009. Envelopes shall be clearly marked “Consultant’s Proposal for Engineering Services for Spring Meadows Sanitary Sewer Project”. Award will be made to the most qualified consultant whose proposal is deemed most advantageous to Missoula County, all factors considered. Unsuccessful respondents will be notified in writing as soon as possible. This solicitation is being offered in accordance with state statutes governing procurement of professional services. Accordingly, Missoula County reserves the right to negotiate an agreement for each project, some projects or all projects based on fair and reasonable compensation for the scope of work and services proposed, as well as the right to reject any and all responses deemed unqualified, unsatisfactory or inappropriate.

Questions should be directed to: Gregory H. Robertson, P.E., AICP Director of Public Works Phone: (406) 258 —4818 Email: groberts@co.missoula.mt.us MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT SECTION 00100 INVITATION TO BID Separate sealed bids for construction of Mount Jumbo Little League Parking Lot will be received by the Missoula County Auditor’s Office, Attn: Barbara Berens, on the second floor of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 until 9:00 AM local time on August 18, 2009 and then publicly opened and read aloud. The project consists of the construction of approximately 29,500 SF of grass paving for a parking area for Mount Jumbo Little League ball fields in the Missoula Development Park. The project includes an additive alternate which includes 14,000 SF of grass paving for the parking area. The contract documents consisting of drawings, specifications, and bidding documents may be examined or obtained at the office of Professional Consultants, Inc., 3115 Russell, Missoula, MT 59801. The required deposit is $ 35.00 per set, which is non-refundable. In addition, the drawings and project manual may also be examined at the Missoula Plans Exchange, 201 N. Russell, Missoula, MT (406) 549-5002. 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 for registration are available from the Department of Labor and Industry, P.O. Box 8011, 1805 Prospect, Helena, Montana 59604-8011. Information on registration can be obtained 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 the laws of Missoula County and the State of Montana. 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 Certified Check, Cashier’s Check, or Bid Bond payable to Missoula County, in an amount 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.

Sealed bids shall be marked Missoula Development Park Mount Jumbo Little League Parking Lot. No bid may be withdrawn after the scheduled time for the public opening of bids, which is 9:00 AM, local time, August 18, 2009.

The right is reserved to reject any or all proposals received, to waive informalities, to postpone the award of the contract for a period of not to exceed sixty (60) days, and to accept the lowest responsive and responsible bid which is in the best interest of the OWNER. The Contractor is required to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-09-132 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF BEVERLY JOYCE FELTON a/k/a B. JOYCE FELTON, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Daphne J. Felker and Darby J. Sharp have been appointed Co-Personal Representatives of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the Deceased are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this Notice, or their claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Christian, Samson & Jones, PLLC, Attorneys for the Personal Representatives, return receipt requested, at 310 West Spruce, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 27th day of July, 2009. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, CHRISTIAN SAMSON & JONES, PLLC

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT The Missoula City-County Air Pollution Control Board will hold a public hearing on proposed changes to the Missoula City-County Air Pollution Control Program on Thursday, August 20, 2009 at 12:15 p.m. or soon thereafter. The Board meets in the second floor conference room at the Health Department at 301 West Alder in Missoula. The Air Board will consider proposed changes to Chapter 4 “Missoula County Air Stagnation and Emergency Episode Avoidance Plan”; Chapter 6 “Standards for Stationary Sources”; Chapter 9 “Solid Fuel Burning Devices”; and Chapter 14 “Enforcement and Administrative Procedures.” In April, the Department proposed changes to clarify administrative procedures and to address the health-based federal PM2.5 standard, which was lowered in the fall of 2006.

Missoula is close to violating the standard, and the Department recommends the revisions to prevent Missoula from becoming a federal non-attainment area for PM2.5. The Air Board will take public comments at the hearing and again on September 17, 2009 before making a decision. Written comments may be submitted on or before September 9, 2009 by mailing them to Air Comments, MCCHD, 301 W Alder St., Missoula, MT 59802; faxing them to (406) 258-4781 or emailing them to aircomments@ho.missoula.mt.us.

The Air Board intends to decide whether to amend the air regulations at their meeting on September 17, 2009.

For more information, a copy of the proposed regulations or to sign up for the Interested Parties mailing list, visit www.co.missoula.mt.us/airquality or call 258-4755.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Trustee will on SEPTEMBER 10, 2009, at the hour of 11:00 o’clock A.M., at the front steps of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, sell at public auction to the highest bidder, payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, the following described property: Lot 1 of Lolo Shopping Center, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. TOGETHER WITH a nonexclusive easement as disclosed by Easement Agreement recorded February 10, 1987 in Book 254 of Micro Records, Page 1920. Said property is subject to a Montana Trust Indenture recorded December 4, 2008, under Document No. 200826679, records of Missoula County, Montana, from TONY M. CERASANI, a/k/a Anthony M. Cerasani, as GRANTOR, TITLE SERVICES, INC., as TRUSTEE, and KARL L. ROESCH, as to an undivided 50% interest, and JOHN S. COWAN TRUST, as to an undivided 50% interest, as BENEFICIARY. Christy L. Brandon is the Successor Trustee pursuant to an Appointment of Successor Trustee dated May 1, 2009, and duly record in the land records of Missoula County, Montana. Grantor’s default consists of failure to pay monthly payments from and after January 4, 2009 in the amount of $1,562.50 each and to comply with the terms of the Promissory Note and Trust Indenture.

The total sum owing on this obligation is $125,000 principal balance plus accruing interest at the rate of 15% per year ($52.08 per diem) totaling $7,812.50 as of May 4, 2009, and $1,595.00 other fees and costs.

The Beneficiary may disburse amounts as may be required to preserve the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, they will be added to the obligation secured by the Montana Trust Indenture. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale. Beneficiary elects to declare all amounts under said Note and Trust Indenture to be immediately due and payable in consequence of the Grantor’s default. Beneficiary directs that Trustee sell the real property above described for the satisfaction of the obligation. This sale is a public sale and any person, including the Beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash. The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed and will be made without warranty, express or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances. The sale purchaser is entitled to possession of the property on the tenth day following the sale. The sale is subject to bankruptcy filing, payoff, reinstatement or any other circumstance that would affect the validity of the sale. If any such circumstance exists, the sale shall be void, the successful bidder’s funds returned and the trustee and current beneficiary shall not be liable to the successful bidder for any damage. The Grantor or any person having a subordinate lien upon the subject property, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, may pay to the Beneficiary the entire amount then due under the trust indenture and the obligation secured thereby (including costs and expenses incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred and thereby cure the default. This sale may be postponed by public proclamation up to 15 days for any reason, and in the event of a bankruptcy filing, the sale may be postponed up to 120 days by public proclamation at least every 30 days. DATED this 1st day of May, 2009. /s/ Christy L. Brandon, Successor Trustee, P.O. Box 1544, Bigfork, MT 59911, (406) 837-5445. THIS NOTICE IS AN ATTEMPT TO COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED WILL BE USED FOR THAT PURPOSE.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT VICKIE M. ZEIER, MISSOULA COUNTY TREASURER HEREBY NOTIFIES TAXPAYERS OF MISSOULA COUNTY THAT PERSONAL PROPERTY OF 2009 TAXES LEVIED AND ASSESSED WILL BE DUE AND PAYABLE BEFORE 5:00 P.M. ON AUGUST 31, 2009.

UNLESS TAXES ARE PAID PRIOR TO THAT TIME THE AMOUNT THEN DUE WILL BE DELINQUENT AND WILL DRAW INTEREST AT THE RATE OF 5/6 OF 1% PER MONTH FROM THE TIME OF DELINQUENCY UNTIL PAID AND 2% WILL BE ADDED TO THE DELINQUENCY TAXES AS A PENALTY MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-09-918 Dept. No. 1 Ed McLean Notice of Hearing on Name Change In the Matter of the Name Change of Peter Rosinsky, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Peter Rosinsky to Peter Crago. The hearing will be on 9/9/09 at 1:30 p.m. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Date: 7/30/09. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: Karen Johnson, Deputy Clerk of Court

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DV-09-719 NOTICE OF HEARING FOR PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME IN RE THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF ALGIS TOMAS CAPLENAS. ALGIS TOMAS CAPLENAS, Petitioner. NOTICE IS HEREBY given that a hearing on the Petition of Algis Tomas Caplenas for a change of name to Tommy Algis Caplenas will be held in the District Courthouse of Missoula County on the 27th day of August, 2009 at the hour of 9:00 a.m., or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard.

DATED this 23rd day of July, 2009. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: Donna M. Duffy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-09-139 Dept. No. 2 Robert L. Deschamps, III. NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JEAN COMTE 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 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 Michael R. King, Personal Representative, at 1063 Breckenridge Street, Helena, MT 59601 or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 3rd day of August, 2009. /s/ Michael R. King, Personal Representative

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust inden-

ture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 05/03/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200610241, Bk 773, Pg 990 and re-recorded on 6/23/06 as Instrument No. 200615530, Bk 777, Pg 703, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Daniel Godinez, a married man as his sole and separate property was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Equifirst Corporation was Beneficiary and First American Title Company of Montana was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company of Montana as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 20A of Daly’s Addition No. 2, Block 85, Lots 20A & 20B, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to US Bank National Association, as Trustee for the Structured Asset Securities Corporation Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, 2006EQ1. 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 10/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of June 8, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $118,389.64. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $110,760.14, 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 October 16, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

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

(TS# 7777.10504) 1002.125552-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 11/30/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200731369, BK 809, Pg 1270, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Kelly D. Price and Beverly B. Price, as joint tenants was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Montana Mortgage Company was Beneficiary and Title Services, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lots 21 and 22 in Block 14 of East Missoula Addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County Montana, according to the official plat thereof. By written instrument, 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 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 02/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of June 15, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $177,125.71. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $171,073.22, 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 October 23, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a

cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the 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# 7023.04824) 1002.126366-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/07/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200805582, Bk 815, Pg 0157, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Micah Campbell McGhee and Kenneth Delos McGhee, as joint tenants with rights of survivorship was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Assurity Financial Services, LLC was Beneficiary and United General Title Insurance Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded United General Title Insurance Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Certificate of Survey No. 93, located in the Southeast one-quarter of Section 23, Township 15 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian Montana, Missoula County, Montana. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Chase Home Finance LLC. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 12/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 18, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $154,974.76. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $147,025.73, 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 October 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 non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7037.19874) 1002.126552-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/29/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200526881, Book 762, Page 127, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Michael Temple was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for WMC Mortgage Corp. was Beneficiary and Mark E. Noennig was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Mark E. Noennig as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 10 of Lolo View Heights No. 5, Phase 1, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200905528 B: 835 P: 362, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for SABR 2006-WM1. 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 June 23, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $187,819.01. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $174,311.47, 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 November 2, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by

trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7777.29592) 1002.114738-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/04/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200403351, Bk 726, Pg 53, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Robert Peschel was Grantor, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage Inc. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 8 in Block 3 of Bitterroot Homes Addition No. 3, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Bank of America National Association as Successor

by Merger to LaSalle Bank National Association, as Trustee for Wells Fargo Home Equity Trust 2004-1. 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 03/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 23, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $179,735.18. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $172,449.65, 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 November 2, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7023.05029) 1002.127274-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/25/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200510019, Bk 751, Pg 950, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Valerie L. Rayevich was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp was Trustee.

First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 12 in Block 8 of Linda Vista Seventh Supplement - Phase 6, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee for the holders of Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust Inc., Asset-Backed Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2005WF2. 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 03/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter.

As of June 23, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $224,304.48. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $217,789.77, 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 November 2, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an asis, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the 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# 7023.05026) 1002.127342-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/11/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200701583 Book 790, Page 1121, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Shawn Diehl, married Deanna Diehl was Grantor, JPMorgan Chase 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: A tract of land located in the NE 1/4 of Section 28, Township 15 North, Range 21 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as Tract 20A2B of Certificate of Survey No. 3013. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200810524 Book 818, Page 900, 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 June 23, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $222,327.07. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $219,675.89, 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 October 30, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis.

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USA-Foreclosure.com. (TS# 7037.17301) 1002.108095-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 13, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 33 in Block 2 of El Mar Estates Phase IV, a Platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Brett Huston and Stacey Huston, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Long Beach Mortgage Company, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated November 9, 2005 and Recorded November 21, 2005 in Book 764, Page 930, under Document No. 200530946. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Long Beach Mortgage Trust 2006-1. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,367.69, beginning March 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 May 26, 2009 is $133,076.40 principal, interest at the rate of 9.125% now totaling $15,628.20, late charges in the amount of $932.23, escrow advances of $3,319.27, and other fees and

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JONESIN’

C r o s s w o r d s

"No Ham for Me, Thanks"–don't be a pig about it.

by Matt Jones

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DOWN

1 Bank savings options 4 Fast food mascot with a spherical head 8 Impairs 13 Baseballer Felipe or Moises 14 "___ a slitted sheet I sit" (tongue twister phrase) 15 Major US metal processor 16 Half-glasses?

17 Distorted Pearl Jam hit song?

19 Goth band from the late 1970s 21 Earned top honors 22 "Tru ___" 23 No later than 24 Cup alternative 25 "Go, bullfighter!"

26 Submissions to eds.

27 Lose one's resolve 30 "We Try Harder" rental company 31 Too serious 32 Like the most valuable baseball cards, e.g.

34 Group of radio users making music together?

37 Mailroom machine 38 Take down a notch 39 Nabokov heroine and namesakes 40 Copenhagen gardens 42 Common tax form, to Caesar?

45 Marshy area 46 Time magazine cofounder Henry 47 Ceramic coating 49 Come to a close 50 Dir. with a heading of 67.5 degrees 51 Base, chemically speaking 53 The act of poking fun at yellow fruit?

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PUBLIC NOTICES expenses advanced of $3,291.88, plus accruing interest at the rate of $33.27 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: June 5, 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 June 5, 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# 3218974 08/13/2009, 08/20/2009, 08/27/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on October 5, 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: N1/2 SW1/4 NW1/4 OF SECTION 24, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF INGRESS AND EGRESS AS DISCLOSED IN BOOK 107 OF MICRO

RECORDS AT PAGE 69 ALSO TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF INGRESS AND EGRESS AS DISCLOSED IN BOOK 661 OF MICRO RECORDS AT PAGE 1388 Lyle L Brown and Anita Brown, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration .Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated September 24, 2007 and,recorded.on September 28, 2007 at 4:11, o’clock P.M., in Book 806, Page 847, under Document No 200725694. The beneficial interest is currently held by First Horizon Home Loans, A division of First Tennessee Bank. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded, in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by falling to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $5,002.52, beginning April 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of June 12, 2009 is $647,733.78 principal, interest at the rate of 7.8750% now totaling $65,403.24, late charges in the amount of $2,120.85, escrow advances of $10,098,84, other fees and expenses advanced of $211.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $139.75 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property

and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. 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-ie 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: May 26, 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 May 26, 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# 3205398 08/06/2009, 08/13/2009, 08/20/2009

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MISSOULA REAL ESTATE AT A GLANCE

Foreclosures: Is the Missoula market in trouble? The answer is NO!

By Mae Hassman, Missoula Organization of REALTORS® It's true. Foreclosures are at an all time high in some markets. But, the story from a national perspective is very different from what’s going on in Missoula. Here’s a clearer picture of the foreclosure activity in Missoula and how that impacts our local market overall.

First of all, it is important to understand the terminology. If a borrower can no longer make payments, the lender may agree to accept an amount lower than is owed in order to facilitate the sale of the property. The owner locates a buyer and the ownership transfers as with any other sale. This is known as a short sale. If for whatever reason a short sale is not an option, the lender may accept a deed in lieu of foreclosure, or the property may be sold through a sheriff ’s sale to the highest bidder. As a last resort, the bank takes ownership and sells it on the market to recover its investment. The property is then known as an REO (Real Estate Owned).

In the Missoula market, about 14% of sales are short sales or REOs. Compare this to

some of the hardest hit markets in the country where REOs are 50% or more. According to Bryan Flaherty, President of the Missoula Organization of REALTORS®, the level in Missoula is not alarming but it bears watching if it climbs toward the 25% level.

When a large segment of the market is short sales and REOs, that results in strong downward pressure on prices. The fact that the median price of homes in Missoula has decreased only slightly indicates that there is still a well-functioning market outside of foreclosures.

Because of the stability of the market, in addition to the current $8000 tax credit, this may be a good time for first time homebuyers to explore their options. Since the program expiration date of December 1st is just around the corner, it’s a good idea to get started sooner rather than later. It can take longer than you might think to locate a property! If a real estate transaction may be in your future, look to the expertise of local real estate professionals for assistance. Missoula has some of the best.

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3BD/2BD home, vaulted ceilings, two-car garage, large patio. Private ponds, 45 minutes from Missoula. $240,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.AccessRealty.net

1333 Toole #C-13 $120,000 2bed/2bath newer condo close to downtown. KD Dickinson – Portico Real Estate – (406) 240-5227 1400 Burns St 1,2 & bedrooms $99,500/up. Affordable, brand new condos! Open House M-F 11-1 KD Dickinson – Portico Real Estate – (406) 240-5227 2 Bed/1 bath Brand new log cabin on 10 acres with new three stall horse barn, hardwood floors and beautiful stone fireplace. $425,000.

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Large garage, open floorplan, laundry/mudroom, peaceful setting. $210,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.AccessRealty.net 2bd/1ba, 2car gar Immaculate 217 South Ave W. $232,000 Close to Univ. Anne Jablonski 546-5816 www.MoveMontana.com 35 acres in 3 tracts, creek frontage, springs, access to several cabin sites, remote, off the grid in the Garnet mountains 75 miles east of Missoula, $120,000. More lots available from $27,500 to $45,000. Montana International Realty 406-883-6700

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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 4,800 SQ FT EXECUTIVE HOME ON 1 ACRE. 5 Bdr/3 Bath, vaulted ceilings, open floor plan, large family room, deck with hot tub and great views. $424,000.

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GORGEOUS FLORENCE AREA HOME ON 2 ACRES. 4 Bdr/3 Bath, great views inside and out, large deck, outdoor sauna, and more. $295,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, Text Mindy3 to 74362, or

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OPEN HOUSE • Sun. 8/16 1pm3pm, 2 Bed / 1 Bath close to Franklin School. $179,900. MLS#904867.

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New Listing! 4 BD/3 BA/2 Garage.

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MLS#905807. 2475 Humble, Missoula. Pat McCormick @ Properties 2000 (406)240-7653 New Listing! Great affordable bargain, 2 BD/1 BA. $154,900.

MLS#905662. 1265 Dakota, Missoula. Pat McCormick @ Properties 2000 (406)240-7653 Newly remodeled 2BD Clark Fork Riverfront retreat! Open floorplan, large deck, hardwood floors. $275,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at

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 PRICE REDUCTION! 3 BD/1 BA/Garage. Close to the Bike Route. $189,000. MLS#902448. 905 Defoe St., Missoula.

Joni Kearns/Realty Executives (406)5316038 www.jonikearns.com UNIVERSITY DISTRICT 1/2 BLOCK FROM CAMPUS. 2 Bdr/1 Bath, offstreet parking, hardwood floors, fenced yard, built-ins, fireplace, and more. $219,000.

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UPDATED ALBERTON AREA HOME ON 3 ACRES. 3 Bdr/2.5 Bath, Beautifully updated, great floor plan, mountain and valley views. $295,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, Text Mindy4 to 74362, or visit...

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Upper West Rattlesnake 3 bedroom, 2 bath home. Fully remodeled bath & kitchen. Large fenced yard. $324,000. 531-5582 Lara@lambros.com Well-maintained 3BD house, 45 minutes from Missoula, hardwood floors, storage shed, updated appliances. $125,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185. www.AccessRealty.net

LAND FOR SALE 20 Lot Bitterroot Subdivision, 42 acres, views of Bitterroots & Sapphires. Appraised $127,500 each. $864,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.AccessRealty.net 5 ACRES OF UNZONED LAND ON LOLO CREEK. 320’ of creek frontage, 2 40x60 buildings with 17 storage units and office space, caboose, large shop/commercial building, 2 mobiles, easy Hwy 93 access, $385,000. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy2 to 74362, or visit...

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Beautiful views, trees and tons of BLM land. Variety of animals: elk, deer, antelope, turkeys, and birds. Located in area 410 hunting. Visit www.WesternSkiesLand.com 888361-3006 REDUCED Beautiful 20 Acre parcel with meadow and views. Financing available OAC with 10 % down.

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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 406207-1185. www.RiverRidgeMT.com

3 Franchise Sandwich Businesses For Sale! $650,000- Missoula, MT. Call Loubelle for info: 240-053.

NEW LISTING! Commercial Building & land on South & Higgins.

REAL ESTATE Haugan, MT. $83,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185. www.AccessRealty.net

One acre commercial lot between Lolo and Florence on Old Hwy 93.

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Turn key cabin in the Garnet Mountains, 24.49 acres, off the grid, gated access, spring water, new propane appliances, 9 miles south of Helmville. $140,000. Montana International Realty 406-883-6700

Tanning Salon $65,000- Top of the line equipment, excellent client base. 10 years same location.

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OUT OF TOWN 800 square foot cabin near hunting, fishing, and skiing in beautiful

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Two 5 acre parcels

15 minutes from Missoula with nice building sites and access to the Blackfoot River. $149,000 for either 5 acre parcel or buy both for $285,000. mls# 902286

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The Top Hat! 134 W. Front • Price Reduced! $1,900,000 First time on the market in 25 years! This property features a large 2-story building with basement and adjoining 1-story building. Total: 9,000 sq.ft. est.

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1265 Dakota, Missoula $154,900 • MLS 905662

2 Bed/1 Bath Adorable home on Riverfront Bike Trail. Easy access to Missoula's amenities. Well cared for home, perfect first time home buyers dream house.

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2 Bath home in the Canyon Creek Village.

Built in 2003 this home has a wonderful floor plan with Master Bedroom on the main floor and an additional 2 bedrooms on the upper level.

Charming covered front porch for enjoying the summer evenings. Home has been very well maintained and is priced to sell quickly. Home qualifies for many programs - human resource silent 2nd,RD, FHA. For a private showing or more information please call Mary Marry 406-544-2125 mmarry@bigsky.net

Nice newer 3 bedroom 2 full bath home on the North side.

Very Close to bike/walking path.

FOR RENT 908 Defoe Approximately 1,100 Sq. Ft. built in 2005. Includes all appliances and washer/dryer. Small unfenced yard. $1,050 a month. Year lease.

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This 5 bedroom home on corner lot with a fenced yard and a full finished basement features a separate one bedroom apartment that rents for $625/month. That equals LOW House Payments! Sellers offering $3000 for closing costs

Kevin & Monica Ray

207.1185 • 544.3098

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6960 Linda Vista • MLS# 900989 4 bed 3 bath 1/2 acre lot $322,000 4322 Capy Lane in Target Range MLS# 904419 4 bed 3-1/2 bath on 1 acre $435,000

Lot 1 & Lot 2 Georgetown Vista - MLS# 905530 & 905531 - $109,000 & $129,000 2+ acres each bare land

Missoula • 549-3353 | Hamilton • 363-4450

Jodie L Hooker REALTOR®, QSC®, GRI®, ABR® 239-7588 • Jodie@GreaterMontanaRE.com MissoulaMultiFamily.com Specializing in: Multi-Famliy Properties Shelly Evans REALTOR®, PSC®, QSC® 544-8570 • Shelly@GreaterMontanaRE.com MissoulaValleyHomes.com Specializing in: 1st Time Homebuyers

10250 Valley Grove Dr MLS# 902264 2 bed 2 bath LOG home w/modern kitchen $299,000

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MLS#903003 • $219,900

Joy Earls $229K UNDER CONTRACT

4.35 acres, river access

River Front Custom Home

10.42 acres, 3bd/2.5ba, irrig.

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Great Price! Close to GF Store & Franklin School 1852 S. 8th West. $179,900 MLS#904867 Check my University Charmer website for 737 Evans, 1 block to U more info & $399,870 listings.

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Lots of Updates, Super Kitchen, Huge Garage/Shop

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