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Vol. 20, No. 35 • Aug. 27–Sept. 3, 2009

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

Missoula finally gets serious about its incessant stink

by Matthew Frank

Up Front: Spoiled soil devastates Bitterroot Valley crops Writers on the Range: Does diversity trump Obama’s goals?

Scope: Dead Hipster Dance Parties get into a groove

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Vol. 20, No. 35 • Aug. 27–Sept. 3, 2009

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

Missoula finally gets serious about its incessant stink

by Matthew Frank

Up Front: Spoiled soil devastates Bitterroot Valley crops Writers on the Range: Does diversity trump Obama’s goals?

Scope: Dead Hipster Dance Parties get into a groove

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For more than three years, winds have wafted a particularly pungent odor around Missoula’s Westside, infuriating neighbors and furrowing the eyebrows of passersby. Every Missoulian has surely smelled it, and the city is spending nearly $80,000 to figure out who dealt it—the city’s Wastewater Treatment Plant or neighboring EKO Compost, or both.........15

News Letters No Huey Lewis! ................................................................................................4 The Week in Review Tester stops by, Total Fest and Griz TDs...................................6 Briefs Trailhead robberies, gunfights and baseball......................................................6 Etc. Panhandling problems commence........................................................................7 Up Front Tainted compost devastates Bitterroot crops...............................................8 Ochenski Democrats wilt during summer’s dog days ..............................................10 Writers on the Range Is Obama’s goal of diversity trumping other goals? .............11 Agenda Down and dirty with MUD’s Garden Party...................................................12

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Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan Social networking for foodies........................................................21 8 Days a Week Back to school, suckas......................................................................22 Mountain High Backpacking to the Great Burn .......................................................33 Scope Dead Hipster Dance Parties get into a groove................................................34 Noise Adam Hill, Larry Keel & Natural Bridge, Hot Buttered Rum and Björk .........35 Books Personal ponderings prop up The Wild Marsh...............................................36 Film Tarantino toys with genres in Basterds..............................................................37 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films....................................................38

Exclusives Street Talk ....................................................................................................................4 In Other News ...........................................................................................................13 Independent Personals.............................................................................................39 Classifieds ..................................................................................................................40 The Advice Goddess..................................................................................................41 Free Will Astrolog y ...................................................................................................42 Crossword Puzzle......................................................................................................46 This Modern World ...................................................................................................50

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STREET TALK

Inside Letters Briefs Up Front Ochenski Range Agenda News Quirks

Asked on a not-so-stinky Tuesday afternoon outside Target on Reserve Street.

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by Alex Sakariassen

This week the Indy examines the city’s nearly $80,000 investigation of the frequently foul odor near Mullan Road and Reserve Street. How would you characterize the smell?

Follow-up: What other pungent aroma do you think Missoula could do without?

Marla Drozdz: Rotting animals is what it smells like. That’s what we used to think it was from—a rendering plant. Up in smoke: Besides cigarette smoke as you walk in and out of buildings? That’s a biggie.

Some establishments, you have to walk through a cloud of smoke to get in.

Ryan Algie: Cow shit? That’s what it smells like. I thought there was a fertilizer plant over there. Another drag: Cigarette smoke. It seems like everyone’s smoking somewhere in Missoula.

Patricia Clay: Sometimes it smells like the pulp mill to me.

My grandparents had a farm, and sometimes it smells like pigs. Looking ahead: It’s not necessarily a smell, but we get the inversion in the winter. I know there’s not much we can do about that, but I definitely think we could do without it.

Dan Dahlberg: I’ll tell you right away it’s Wal-Mart. Might be the rendering plant, too. Happy with hops: You know, I can’t really think of any others. I kind of like the smells in Missoula— the food, the beer brewing.

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Not good enough Sen. Jon Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act unfortunately displays a lack of adequate comprehension and balance in addressing urgent management needs for our seriously fire-prone federal forests. What is really needed is policy change by the U.S. Forest Service opening forests to timber management at a level that will significantly reduce the threat of massive catastrophic fires increasingly destroying watersheds, environment and wildlife.

This could be accomplished at minimum taxpayer expense. Closely related are the causative bug infestations spreading throughout the forests and feeding fires of the Northwest. All can be tracked back to inept, cultist philosophies pressuring a lop-sided, misdirected environmental movement.

Environmentalists and government appear so obsessed with protecting these lands from “loggers” that they refuse to acknowledge that density reduction by productive, selective thinning of timber and fuels (not limited to dead, dying and burned) is the only feasible solution. It would correct this massive problem, while enabling the forests to pay for their own hospitalization and restoration. Missing is respect for “profit,” the essential ingredient for funding the worthwhile things in our country and our lives. It even provides the taxes for government operation.

We certainly do not do well on “credit.”

Unfortunately, our green regime is busy destroying what is left of essential, well-directed profit motivation and opportunity.

Blind power being applied largely through the judiciary, combined with lack of knowledge, contributes to the ongoing human-caused catastrophe killing our forests. Obsession with recreation and locked down human access under the pretense of “protecting” endangered species and trees overrules common sense solutions, thus producing destruction by ignorance. Dispersing consolation crumbs to a starving timber industry hoping that somehow a few mills might still survive is not a solution. Token fuels reduction projects are a gross underestimation of what is needed.

Tester’s basically timid approach lacks comprehension of the magnitude, and reflects the misguided perceptions of the environmental community. Only a sound, healthy industry with long-term assurance of supply established by firm governmental policy can produce needed industrial infrastructure and long-term job security. Random group-managed projects cannot correct the present man-made decline in forest health. Success can only be achieved through realistic prioritization, sound goals and objectives, and the application of proven science and technology under profes-

sional timber management with freedom to operate.

Failure has proven inevitable when management is attempted by a variety of unskilled but well meaning special interest groups. However, professional stewardship can and should incorporate guidelines and controls that will satisfy public and environmental interests.

Clarice Ryan Big fork

What “we” want I think Sens. Tester and Baucus should know that the people of Montana do not want federally subsi-

necessary “Ittoisdisrupt our health care nonsystem, and rethink the hodgepodge of legislative bills

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dized (mandated) health care. Neither do we want caps on carbon, more “stimulus” or “troubled asset” bailouts.

We want, and rightfully expect, responsible stewardship of Montanan concerns in Washington, D.C. Max and Jon, we are not willing to spend any more of Montana’s revenue and tax dollars in projects outside our state. We are not going to spend money on regulated energy bills that at minimum will increase our utility bills, nor are our business or personal tax dollars going to be spent on medical care for illegal immigrants. Similarly, we expressly are not interested in advocating a liberal justice to the Supreme Court. Montanans, as a people, would much more appreciate a little more adherence to the Constitution, and a little less to a “progressive” platform.

I would strongly recommend that you consider the people of the state of Montana in your future voting patterns. You do not represent the interests of lobbying groups or special interests, but the citizens of the state. You represent hard-working Americans, not ACORN or the United Auto Workers.

Also, try something completely different, and in agreement with federal law, stop illegal immigration and send these individuals home—no amnesty and no federal benefits.

It might be worth noting that in accordance with Article 6 of the Montana Constitution, we, the citizens of the state, have a vested right to petition for a redress of grievances.

You should consider this a right to recall persons who are not working for the benefit of the state. Article 6, by the way, supersedes Title 2 of the Montana Code.

John Greene Manhattan, Mont.

Cutting dead weight In democratic societies, those who profit from the status quo typically have powerful avenues of influence to manipulate regulation and policy. Recognizing that fact, democracy is not a tool of easy health care reform. Consequently, processes by which costly, outmoded, inefficient health care practices can change are only by disruption of the status quo.

Such disruptive opportunity looms before us now.

Quality, affordable health care for every American will only come from elimination and integration of the remaining complex players in the totality of health care in the United States.

Effective integration of necessary players is the key step in the creation of a new health care model that achieves the goals envisioned. Unfortunately, elimination of players and practices that have caused the health care crisis disrupts their status quo, intensifies their lobbying and leads to total disarray of purposeful legislation. Without elimination of special interests influencing Congress, partisan presentations in the media, statistically flawed polling and untruths, there is no factual analysis. Progress in achieving real health care reform is stymied. The result is disastrous.

It is necessary to disrupt our health care non-system, and rethink the hodgepodge of legislative bills offered now. Congress must realize the end result is more important than individual interests—the condition of health for every American is what is paramount. Responsibility for national health care must be given to an entity having long-term perspective, willing to spend today to save tomorrow; preventive programs that save by keeping us well; compassionate, personal care with choice; coverage for every American; simplicity of administration; funding by simple, fair taxation; savings by elimination of waste and duplication; comparative procedural effectiveness; and oversight.

A national single-payer health care program is the best plan for every American.

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WEEK IN REVIEW • Wednesday, August 19

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by Anne Medley

Gov. Brian Schweitzer claims the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has created about 1,000 new jobs in Montana so far, but that only about 10 percent of the state’s $900 million in stimulus money is on the ground.

• Thursday, August 20 Jessica Cooke, 30, tries to drive her Jeep Cherokee over the under-construction Scott Street bridge.

From the south end, she makes it over the plywood planking and I-beams before getting stuck on the north end. Police charge her with DUI. A crane must be called in to remove the vehicle.

• Friday, August 21 A poll conducted by Research 2000 shows that 49 percent of Montana Republicans approve of Democratic Sen. Max Baucus’ actions on health care reform, while only 34 percent of Democrats do. The poll also shows that 47 percent of Montanans favor a new public insurance option, while 43 percent oppose it.

• Saturday, August 22 Former University of Montana running back Lex Hilliard scampers 39 yards for a touchdown as the Miami Dolphins top the Carolina Panthers 27-17 in Week 2 of the NFL preseason. Dan Carpenter, another former Griz standout now with the Dolphins, kicks the extra point.

• Sunday, August 23 Brooklyn’s Japanther closes out Total Fest VIII around 2 a.m. by blending vegetable drinks on stage and playing their popular experimental pop thrash. One highlight of the three-day indie music festival was the reunion of Thee Hedons, a local favorite in the mid-1990s.

• Monday, August 24 On the same day that about 4,000 Idahoans snatch up wolf tags, a coalition of environmental groups successfully get U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy to set a hearing for a preliminary injunction to halt wolf hunting in the northern Rockies.

The hearing’s set for August 31, the day before Idaho’s seven-month wolf hunt is slated to begin.

• Tuesday, August 25 Sen. Jon Tester meets separately with health care professionals at St. Patrick Hospital and Community Medical Center to discuss possible reforms to the health care industry. Tester explains that he’s waiting to hold public town hall meetings on the topic until the Senate introduces specific legislation.

One-man band John Mazzucco, aka The Limbs, performs at the Badlander Saturday night as part of Total Fest VIII. The independent music festival hosted a record 50 bands in three nights and registered its highest attendance at just over 400 people, according to festival founder Josh Vanek.

Gun Laws

ATF fires first shot Gary Marbut is getting exactly what he wanted. The Montana Firearms Freedom Act doesn’t take effect for another five weeks, but already the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has issued an open letter to all federally licensed Montana gun makers with instructions for how to follow the Montana Firearms Freedom Act. Basically, the ATF says, gun makers should ignore the new state law, which exempts firearms, gun accessories and ammunition made and kept in Montana from federal oversight. “Because the act conflicts with federal firearms laws and regulations, federal law supercedes the act,� says the letter, signed by Carson W. Carroll, assistant director of the ATF. Marbut, the head of the Missoula-based Montana Shooting Sports Association, expected the ATF’s response, yet he’s a bit baffled by the wording. “It’s interesting that it’s sent only to federally licensed dealers and not the people of Montana,� Marbut says. “We’ve always assumed

that federally licensed dealers would not be players in the state-made gun game because they’re under the federal thumb.�

Ken Bray, the resident ATF agent in charge of Montana, stands by the letter. “We’re a federal agency,� he says, “and Congress has tasked us with what the federal law says. We’ll continue doing that until there’s a ruling in court that says otherwise.�

Although the Firearm Freedom Act addresses guns, Marbut contends the point of the law is to establish states’ rights under the 10th Amendment. When it passed, Marbut told the Indy that he intended to find a state manufacturer willing to test the law, and would then ask the ATF for permission to proceed. He expected a denial from the agency and a legal battle. Now, it appears, he’ll get that chance.

After Gov. Brian Schweitzer signed the Montana Firearms Freedom Act into law on April 15, several states have followed suit. On June 3, a similar bill became law in Tennessee.

Since then, versions of the Firearms Freedom Act have been introduced in Minnesota, Michigan, South Carolina, Texas, Alaska and Florida. Marbut says legislators in 18 addi-

tional states intend to introduce similar bills once their respective legislatures reconvene.

Jesse Froehling

Public Works

Complete your streets When Jon Salmonson walks near his Franklin to the Fort home, he sees senior citizens shuffling behind walkers, mothers pushing baby strollers—and few sidewalks. “We’ve reached the point where we can’t really sustain that,� says Salmonson, a retired teacher who worked for 17 years at the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge. “We’ll have to be able to get around the block on our two feet.�

Seeking to fix the problem, Salmonson stumbled upon the Complete Streets Coalition on the Internet. The coalition doesn’t advocate for sidewalks on every street, but it does push for safe access for all users. On busy thoroughfares, safe access could include bike lanes, sidewalks, lighting, bus shelters, bulbouts and boulevards. Yet on a quiet dead end, no such amenities are necessary to ensure safe access.

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The city already includes similar components in its subdivision regulations, but on Monday, Missoula’s City Council extended the coverage to all existing streets, as well.

The council voted 9-2 (Lyn Hellegaard abstained) to pass a resolution embracing the complete streets philosophy, but there’s just one problem: Somebody has to pay for it.

The resolution directs city staff to recommend funding mechanisms and Public Works Director Steve King has a couple of possibilities in mind. The city’s bicycle pedestrian program has landed the $80,000 Safe Route to School Grant, which will help the city establish walkable school routes. King says the city also applied for a $19 million grant to improve non-motorized transportation, which would go a long way toward fulfilling the complete streets goal.

If none of the grant applications play out, Salmonson has another idea for funding: “The vehicle is what produces the need, so the vehicle should carry the cost of the funding,” he says. He volunteers a nationwide gas tax, although he acknowledges that the prospects for such a tax are dismal.

While Salmonson would like to see improved access in his neighborhood, he acknowledges that Franklin to the Fort is not devoid of some amenities. In fact, on one of them, somebody stamped a date into the concrete: 1913.

“Years ago, they realized that they needed sidewalks for people to stay out of traffic,” Salmonson says. “Then the car came along and people just quit thinking it was necessary.”

Jesse Froehling

Recreation

Thieves target trailheads Three piles of shattered glass littered the parking lot of one of Missoula’s most popular trailheads last weekend. The debris— clearly the remnants of vehicle break-ins— prompted at least one dog-walker to lock his wallet in his glove box before hitting Waterworks Hill.

Turns out, over the last two weeks there have been a total of six break-ins at Waterworks and at Greenough Park’s lower parking lot just across Rattlesnake Creek, according to Missoula City Police Sgt. Bob Bouchee. Items were taken from all of the vehicles. The break-ins occurred between 3

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and 7 p.m. on random days. Further details are being withheld as police investigate.

“It’s a reminder to either hide or not take valuables even when you’re parking at a walking trail in broad daylight,” Bouchee says.

And as of press-time, Missoula County had received reports of two additional vehicle break-ins just this week. A car parked at the Buckhouse Bridge Fishing Access Site was broken into on Monday, says Sgt. Robert Kennedy, and another parked at the Blue Mountain trailhead was broken into on Tuesday.

“It’s kind of a common thing,” Kennedy says. “That’s really a pretty big crime in Missoula—theft from a motor vehicle. We

have those on a weekly basis. We’ll take reports of theft from a motor vehicle, whether it’s from a residential area or public access. It’s a crime of opportunity.”

Still, Kennedy says, there have been fewer break-ins so far this season compared to the last few years. But while they may not be becoming more common, the thieves do appear to be increasingly aggressive.

On the Lolo National Forest, for instance, law enforcement officers said two break-ins at the main Pattee Canyon parking area earlier this year appeared to show no attempt to check for an unlocked door.

“The long and short of it is that these individuals are being more brazen,” says Becky Agner, a Lolo National Forest law enforcement officer. “They are breaking the windows to gain entry. They’re being quick and dirty.”

Matthew Frank

Agenda

News Quirks

Baseball

Tryout turns up a stud Craig Smith, 22, wasted no time separating himself from the pack at Ogren Park at Allegiance Field Monday morning.

During an open tryout hosted by the Arizona Diamondbacks—a semi-regular look-see at local talent involving scouts from the Missoula Osprey’s parent club— Smith ran a 60-yard dash in an impressive 6.9 seconds.

From that moment on, Diamondbacks scout Jim Dedrick didn’t take his eyes off Smith.

“That speed’s hard to find,” says Dedrick, labeling Smith a “raw talent.” “There are two really important aspects of baseball: power and speed. [Smith]’s got a little power, but he’s got speed. You can’t teach speed.”

During the tryout, Pat Winterrowd also watched Smith closely, muttering critiques or muffled attaboys.

Winterrowd has worked as the Cutbank native’s private batting coach for five years.

“He’s one of the nicest kids I’ve ever met,” Winterrowd says. “And I’ve never worked with a kid who works harder. He just has endless energy” As Winterrowd talked, Smith took batting practice, launching one ball far over the Old Sawmill District banner in left field. After fouling the next pitch off, Smith ripped a line drive down the first-base line.

Smith played American Legion in Cutbank, then one season with Columbia Basin College in Washington before suffering a hip injury. He batted .314 for the University of Portland Pilots last season— his first since hip surgery—and the center fielder will be draft-eligible for two more years.

After the tryout, Dedrick kept Smith behind and let him know that he’ll be traveling to see Smith play this fall and next spring at college. The Missoula workout was Smith’s second pro tryout this summer. He drew similar attention from the Kansas City Royals in June, according to Winterrowd.

“The scout down there, he was asking about my season, about coming off my injury,” Smith says. “He said, ‘Tell your hitting coach he’s doing a great job.’”

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Votes cast against Missoula’s 2010 budget during Monday’s City Council meeting.

The $125.6 million budget–which still passed–includes considerable cuts in spending, but several council members felt it wasn’t lean enough.

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Legal types and public policy nerds all warned that the city’s new two-pronged panhandling ordinance would lead to trouble. But this fast? And with a bunch of altruistic, law-abiding firefighters? Yikes.

First, a quick recap: Missoula’s City Council passed an emergency panhandling ordinance Aug. 17 that prohibits aggressive solicitation and restricts where people can ask for assistance. During the debate, Councilman Jason Wiener pointed out that the ordinance looked like it was going to be selectively enforced with “a wink and a nod.” In other words, if you looked like a no-good, dirty bum begging for change, the police would take action. But if you looked like a high schooler promoting a car wash, then no worries.

The council acknowledged the double-standard, but ultimately voted 7-4 in favor of the law. It went into effect immediately, with a 30-day education period before offenders would be hit with a $100 fine and misdemeanor.

The ordinance passed just in time for the Missoula Fire Department and Missoula Rural Fire District’s 55th annual “Fill the Boot” fundraiser, which supports the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Last Saturday, firefighters stopped traffic on Higgins Avenue, asking for donations. That sent some of the panhandling ordinance’s critics into a tizzy.

“When I walked up from the market and saw that, I thought, ‘There you go. There’s your double-standard writ large, just parading down the street,” says resident Peter Morsch.

Turns out, the firefighters applied for an exemption to ensure their fundraiser fit within the new law, but that formality only sidesteps the larger problem.

“Who determines the valid cause?” asks Morsch.

“Who determines that one person deserves the chance to ask for help, but someone else doesn’t? That’s what this is all about.”

Let’s make one thing crystal clear: Nobody, certainly not Morsch, has a problem with firefighters raising money for muscular dystrophy. It’s an important and noble cause. The problem is with a nebulous ordinance and how it’s enforced.

“The council seemed to think the police would simply know who to arrest,” Morsch says. “But that’s too much responsibility for the boots on the ground. If they’ve got nothing to fall back on, you’re setting up your boys in blue for a fall.”

Morsch isn’t the only one concerned about a potential fall. The American Civil Liberties Union of Montana says it also notices problems with the ordinance.

“We are aware of and monitoring what’s going on,” says director Scott Crichton, “and we want to hear from people who are impacted.”

City Council hoped its new law would make panhandling problems disappear, but the issue appears to be begging for a better answer.

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Sandy Gates calls them “mutant potatoes.” Some toxic invasion of the Bitterroot Valley’s soil warped the veggies, and Gates refuses to sell them at her Clearwater Farm booth at the Hamilton Farmers’ Market. She has no idea how the potatoes will taste, or whether they’d harm her customers.

“They have these weird kind of brown, warty-looking things,” Gates says. “We decided we’ll just get rid of those potatoes. We won’t let humans have them.”

Spoiled soil has growers from Lolo to Hamilton waving the proverbial pitch-

inadvertently–it doesn’t matter. It’s still an attack on local food systems, on people’s ability to grow their own food.”

Ravalli County Extension Officer Bobbie Roos says there’s no single culprit in the region’s soil contamination.

Compost, mulches, straight manure or homegrown grass clippings could all lie at the roots of the 35 cases she’s filed this year. Roos even refuses to pin all of the Bitterroot’s problems on a single herbicide.

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Clearwater Farm owner Sandy Gates suffered crop losses this summer when her Bitterroot Valley potato plot was contaminated with the herbicide Milestone.

fork in frustration. Tests of samples turned in to county and state agencies in June and July link a number of cases of malformed crops to chemical contamination. At least one case involves local manure tainted by the controversial herbicide Milestone, and there’s nothing growers can do to reclaim what’s ruined.

“Some of the testing that’s been done, they’re saying that even three years later they’re seeing effects in crops,” says Gates, who owns a smattering of farming plots throughout the valley. “Unfortunately, that one particular area [of our soil], we probably won’t ever grow there again. We’ve lost everything we would have grown there.”

The Bitterroot’s soil woes relate in part to nationwide issues with the chemical aminopyralid, a key component of Milestone. The herbicide is commonly used to kill broadleaf weeds in hay fields and lawns. Substantial traces of aminopyralid then show up in garden composts derived from animal manure and urban grass clippings, devastating broadleaf crops like tomatoes, potatoes and beans.

“It’s an attack,” says Jill Davies, director of Victor-based nonprofit Sustainable Living Systems. “Either personally or

Laura Craig, manager of the Hamilton Farmers’ Market, agrees to a point. There’s always room for doubt when it comes to stunted tomatoes, she says, but Milestone has a colored history in the international gardening community. Thousands of farmers in the United Kingdom lost crops to aminopyralid contamination last summer, prompting the British government to ban Milestone.

Milestone-producer Dow AgroSciences has reportedly experienced similar difficulties with other herbicides in the past.

“It twists the stalks, makes the leaves close up and form into clubs,” Davies says. “They don’t produce like a normal plant, and who’d want to eat it?”

Ag-specialist Sarah Holden with the Montana Department of Agriculture counters the flap over Milestone, saying aminopyralid is just one of a number of chemicals that unintentionally make it into local soil. Holden says people often don’t pay attention to pesticide labels, or they accept manure from friendly neighbors without knowing what chemicals the animals were exposed to.

“People need to start reading their pesticide labels,” Holden says. “The Milestone label [actually a nine-page

booklet] on page three has a whole strip of manure and compost restrictions.”

Frustrations have spawned a witchhunt of sorts in the Bitterroot. A number of growers point to dairy cow manure from a local farmer as the source of their malformed crops. Clearwater Farm purchased the manure from Wally Weber at the farmers’ market this May and applied it exclusively to the farm’s potato patch.

The resulting deformities, as Gates described them, put a serious dent in the farm’s business.

“The person that we got this particular compost from assured me it was organic compost because, although I’m not certified by choice, I’m a 100 percent organic grower,” Gates says. “I try to check out my sources for things like that. I would never have bought that product if I’d known there was any suspicion that was going on.”

Gates adds that while Clearwater Farm won’t be able to plant in the affected potato plots for years to come, certified organic growers could lose costly certification if any chemicals show up in their soil.

“The horrible thing is, if you’re going for your organic certification as a farmer that’s going to sell retail and wholesale, it totally wipes out your certification,” Craig says. “Some people, to get that through the feds, you have to pay thousands of dollars for that honor.”

Holden, the state’s ag-specialist, confirms that the only verified case of aminopyralid was on Weber’s farm. She contends Weber had no idea his manure was tainted. He removed his manure from the market as soon as test results came in. Weber did not respond to phone calls seeking comment for this story.

“We’re not exactly sure how it got into his manure,” Holden says. “But we’re thinking it was from a noxious weed application that was done following label directions and everything. He just didn’t realize it was in his manure.

It was an honest mistake.”

Sustainable Living Systems and the Hamilton Farmers’ Market meet August 27 with local growers to establish the extent of Milestone damage, and Holden plans to use the event to launch a series of outreach programs building awareness of herbicide dangers.

“Hopefully we can get this information out there to say, ‘Look, these products you’re using are residual,’” Holden says. “You have to make sure you’re following those labels.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Congress’ August recess is usually a chance for senators and representatives to get out of hot and stuffy Washington, D.C., spend some time back in their home states and maybe attend a few picnics. But not this year. Across the nation, those who represent us in Washington, from congressmen and women to President Obama, have found anxious, worried and oftentimes downright hostile audiences awaiting them instead of the usual fried chicken and potato salad.

It’s no secret, with just a week left to go, that Congress and Obama are having more than a little trouble reconciling their campaign promises and lofty speeches with the actual legislation they’ve produced so far. Remember way back when the Democrats took back the House of Representatives and Speaker Nancy Pelosi promised amazing things would happen in her “first 100 days”?

Far from a juggernaut of progressive legislation, we were basically treated to an endless list of excuses, including that long-time favorite, “We need 60 votes in the Senate to get anything passed.”

Well, thanks to the highly energized campaign of Barack Obama, the horrific record of President George Bush and an Internet-savvy tidal wave of young voters, we gave them what they asked for—overwhelming Democrat majorities in both the House and Senate, including the magic “60 votes,” and a Democrat in the White House. There seemed, at the time, no reason to believe that the campaign promises of “change and hope” wouldn’t be kept.

The ousted Republicans had their eight-year chance to remake America in their vision, to be sure, but it didn’t turn out so well and they left behind a minefield of pre-existing conditions, to use a term that’s getting a lot of press these days. Those included two very expensive ongoing wars, neither of which were headed toward anything that could be called victory; the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression; the collapse of the nation’s financial sector; the subsequent collapse of the auto industry and the housing market; and the loss of personal wealth at an astounding rate as home values, stock investments and interest rates plunged downward.

Instead of the massive and broad reform Democrats promised Americans, we were treated to an almost unbelievable amount of money being funneled to the very institutions that caused the financial collapse. Remember the bailout for AIG, the insurance giant that was dubbed “too big to fail”? And then there was Wall

Street, where Goldman-Sachs continues to rake in the gold while the lesser pirates perish in the economic undertow. And American taxpayers paid for it all, adding trillions to the national debt.

In the meantime—and quite contrary to their campaign promises—the Democrats, led by President Obama, decided they needed to keep the country engaged in Bush’s ill-advised, poorly executed and very expensive foreign wars. Rather than disengaging from these losing battles, Obama and Congress have raised the defense budget with $636 billion alotted to the mili-

“Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg finds time to hold 18 public meetings, but the combined total for Max and Jon remains

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at zero.

tary for one year, as well as tripled the number of American troops in Afghanistan where, as the saying goes, “empires go to die.” Indeed, our troops are dying there every day while Obama, mimicking his discredited predecessor, continues to tell us that this faraway country is critical to the future of the United States. So critical, in fact, that we have now expanded the Afghanistan War into Pakistan, threatening to destabilize that nuclear-armed nation with unimaginable consequences.

Then, of course, there’s the health care debacle. All the promises of having a swiftly completed, comprehensive overhaul of the nation’s broken health care system have vanished in a swirling storm of controversy while the Democrats point fingers and wander aimlessly in the halls of Congress. Every media outlet across the nation has basically declared that Democrats have “lost control” of the debate as they continue to spew meaningless drivel to a public that would really, really like to have

some straight answers and cost-benefit estimates.

While the Dems are staggering, their Republican counterparts have launched an amazing recovery from their near-knockout, jumping up from the mat, wiping the blood off their face and coming out swinging. They’re off the charts with accusations, scare tactics and assault rifle-toting attendees at presidential appearances as teabaggers, birthers and gun nuts unite. By any rational measure, the Democrats should be able to counter such insanity with clear-cut explanations of what’s going on, who is going to benefit, how much it’s going to cost, and who will pay what.

But that’s not happening, not by a long shot. Instead, as we shamefully witnessed in Montana, our two senators couldn’t even bring themselves to face their own constituents in public meetings. How is it that Max Baucus, who is supposedly “spearheading” the Senate’s health care proposals and Jon Tester, who has introduced a wilderness and logging bill, can’t find the cajones to meet their fellow Montanans and explain what they’ve been up to for the last 8 months in D.C.? Republican Rep. Denny Rehberg, meanwhile, finds time to hold 18 public meetings, but the combined total for Max and Jon remains at zero. It makes one wonder, what are they afraid of?

Well, the “vacation” is almost over, and Congress and the president are going back to work next week. If they plan on reversing this dismal trend, there are a couple things they might want to consider. First, dump the bipartisan schtick. Rest assured, those banks and insurance companies the Democrats bailed out are not out there supporting their health care reform plans. Second, dump the socalled “strategists” who have advised them to water down their message into unintelligible mumbling. If we’re going to have universal health care, just call it that, okay? And finally, it’s obviously time to dial back the war machine with its visions of global empire and invest all those hundreds of billions in America’s interests—not the interests of foreign warlords and corrupt leaders.

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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Race over résumé Is Obama’s goal of diversity trumping other goals?

by Ray Ring

Homer Lee Wilkes. Ignacia Moreno.

Hilary Tompkins.

Each is a member of a racial or ethnic minority, and each has been nominated by Barack Obama, our first black president, to a high position with power over environmental issues in the West. And each has faced skepticism from environmentalists.

On May 5, Obama picked Wilkes to be undersecretary of the Department of Agriculture for natural resources and environment. That job oversees 193 million acres of national forests, mostly in the West. Wilkes, the first black ever nominated for the job, is a Southerner—rooted in Mississippi—who’s spent decades in farmland conservation, working for the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Many environmentalists thought Wilkes lacked the right credentials for the promotion. Typically “the undersecretary position (is) held by a Forest Service expert,” Andy Stahl, Oregon-based director of Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics, told The Associated Press. Stahl said it revealed “the relatively low priority…Obama…places on the national forests.”

Wilkes withdrew from consideration in June, citing “personal reasons,” AP reported, and Obama has not yet nominated a replacement.

Meanwhile, on May 12, Obama picked Moreno for a key Justice Department job. As assistant attorney general in charge of the environment and natural resources division, Moreno would be a top enforcer, overseeing hundreds of lawyers who sue polluters and defend the government when corporations challenge regulations.

Moreno, a Hispanic with New York roots, handled environmental cases in President Clinton’s Justice Department.

But since then she’s been a corporate lawyer, at times representing notable polluters. For several years she’s been the top environmental lawyer for General Electric Corp. (GE), which has been linked to more than 100 Superfund sites.

In various cases, some of which Moreno handled, GE argued that the government charges too much for cleanups. GE even

tried to get the Superfund law declared unconstitutional.

Environmentalists have “a huge amount of concern” about Moreno, Alex Matthiessen, president of the Riverkeeper group, told Greenwire. A half-dozen Environmental Protection Agency lawyers, who are part of an effort to persuade the Senate to reject Moreno’s nomination, told ProPublica

“More than anything, these three controversial appointments highlight the environmental movement’s chronic failure to recruit minorities into its

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top echelon.

that “they doubt that anyone who has recently defended GE would be effective” as an environmental prosecutor.

As for Tompkins, on June 17 the Senate confirmed her as the Interior Department’s top lawyer. That agency oversees other federal land, including national parks and Indian reservations, and sets policies on endangered species, grazing and mining. Tompkins is a New Mexico-born Navajo who was adopted by a Quaker family and raised in New Jersey. She returned to the West for a Stanford law degree and worked on the Navajo Reservation and in private practice representing tribes.

For the last six years she was a lawyer

for New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s administration.

Many environmentalists hoped the Interior job would go to a heavy-hitter from their ranks. Their candidates included white men such as John Leshy, who held the job under Clinton, and Todd True, an Earthjustice litigator in Seattle.

“The Obama administration is using environmental appointments to meet affirmative-action goals,” a veteran environmentalist lawyer said.

Some perspective, though: Obama’s array of appointees mirrors the percentages of blacks, Hispanics and American Indians in our society. More than anything, these three controversial appointments highlight the environmental movement’s chronic failure to recruit minorities into its top echelon. And pigeonholing people because of portions of their résumés is often unfair. Tompkins, for instance, also handled environmental cases during a stint in Clinton’s Justice Department (in a prestigious honors program for recent law school grads).

Tompkins also looks promising in a respect that’s often ignored. She could help resolve a bitter 13-year-old classaction lawsuit. Lead plaintiff Elouise Cobell, a lawyer and member of Montana’s Blackfeet Tribe, represents 500,000 American Indian landowners, who claim that Interior cheated them and their ancestors on more than 100 years of royalties for oil, timber and grazing leases. Interior’s records are in such shambles that it’s anybody’s guess how much money is involved. A judge last year suggested a $455 million settlement—an insult considering that the plaintiffs claim they’re owed $47 billion. But Cobell says she’d like to negotiate a reasonable compromise.

Tompkins, the first American Indian serving as Interior’s solicitor, seems perfectly qualified to do that.

Ray Ring is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). He is the magazine’s senior correspondent, based in Bozeman.

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If you’ve ever wanted to make natural skin care products from ingredients in your backyard, or needed to borrow a claw hammer for a few hours, you’ve probably considered heading over to the Missoula Urban Demonstration Project (MUD).

With its origins as a backyard farm on the Northside in the late 1970s, the nonprofit that formally became MUD in 1991 has become a cornerstone for supporting sustainable living practices and neighborly self-reliance via workshops, a tool lending library and truck share program.

All these services come from unpaid volunteers, save for the tool librarians, who get paid for three hours of work a week.

“There’s definitely some need for money to keep things going,” says Bethann Garramon, an AmeriCorps Vista member serving as MUD’s program director. “It’s a pretty low-budget operation, but

THURSDAY AUGUST 27 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.

If you live in the Bitterroot and have a garden, it might have been poisoned by an herbicide called Milestone. Find out more when the Hamilton Farmers’ Market and Sustainable Living Systems holds a public meeting on the soil issue at 7 PM at the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. Free.

Call 961-0004.

FRIDAY AUGUST 28 If you’re a bicyclist or avid pedestrian and want to represent your fellow non-motorists, you’ve got until 5 PM to drop off your app to the mayor’s office, 435 Ryman St., for a position on the bicycle and pedestrian advis o r y b o a r d . C a l l 552 - 6 0 01 o r v i s i t www.ci.missoula.us/index.aspx?nid=426.

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you still have to turn the lights on.”

Because of this, MUD needs support—and not just from its members.

Th a t ’ s w h e r e Fr i d a y ’ s Garden Party Fundraiser comes into play, MUD’s annual fundraising bash. Festivities start at 5 PM and run until 11 PM, replete with tasty brews, gourmet food and music from string strokers Cash for Junkers and the Mason Jar String Band.

Whether or not you’ve utilized MUD’s facilities, if you consider yourself a steadfast DIYer with a keen eye toward community, this event should find its way onto your to-do list.

–Ira Sather-Olson M U D ’ s A n n u a l G a r d e n Pa r t y Fundraiser is Fri., Aug. 28, from 5–11 PM at MUD headquarters, 629 Phillips St. $15/$10 members. Call 721-7513 or visit www.mudproject.org.

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

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1 While Missoula Aging Services is a sprightly 25 years of age, their Meals on Wheels program serves a more mature crowd, and you can too: Deliver hot meals to seniors as often as you’d like—and cash in on the sweet mileage reimbursement—from Mon.–Fri. between 10:30 AM and 12:30 PM. Call 728-7682.

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.

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.

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 2 Large scale food corps might fit the discussion when Mary Pittaway, nutrition services supervisor for the Missoula County Health Department, leads the presentation “Uneasy Bedfellows: Food, Health and Politics” at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., at 7 PM. Call Alice Dailey at 549-8095.

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

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN – Gunman Alex Fowler, 26, confronted Dorothy Williams, 69, and Sue Erzen, 87, at their home, police in Jasper, Texas, said, and demanded money.

When told they had none, he demanded their purses. The women refused, and Erzen attacked the robber with a can of RAID bug spray. The suspect fled on foot, police Lt. James Cook told the Beaumont Enterprise, but was quickly captured.

Two men broke into a home in East St. Louis, Ill., and demanded money, but the 11 residents said they had none. The robbers were holding them at gunpoint when police responding to a report of a home invasion knocked at the door. The homeowner denied anything was amiss, Detective Michael Floore told the Bellevue News-Democrat, but the officers were suspicious and remained outside. Someone inside convinced the robbers to change their clothes and pretend to be family members, and then everyone would go outside together and tell police the robbers had left. As soon as they were out the door, the real family members fingered the outlaws to police, who arrested Terrance Dancy, 20, and Cortez Richardson, 28.

SLOW TO COMPLAIN – After both drivers involved in a collision at an intersection in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture insisted they had a green light, police determined the two traffic signals had in fact turned green for about seven seconds at a time. Further investigation found the malfunction, caused by a programming error, had been occurring for the past 30 years. The Yomiri Shimbun reported that in all that time, no other accidents or mention of the signals had been reported.

THE FINAL FRONTIER – NASA can’t scan space for asteroids that might strike Earth because Congress, which assigned the early-warning search to the space agency, neglected to allocate money to build the needed telescopes. NASA reckons about 20,000 asteroids and comets in our solar system are big enough to pose a threat (between 460 feet and 3,280 feet across), but its existing telescopes have spotted only about 6,000. Lindley Johnson, NASA’s manager of the near-Earth objects program, told the Associated Press that to accomplish its mission of finding 90 percent of the potentially deadly space rocks will cost $800 million. Even with just $300 million, Johnson said, it could find most asteroids bigger than 1,000 feet across. The only thing Congress has given NASA so far is a deadline: 2020.

NASA’s mission to return Americans to the moon, also by 2020, lacks enough money to meet that deadline. Instead, the agency’s $18 billion annual budget will only cover flights to and from the international space station and only aboard Russian rockets.

GATOR RAID – Sheriff’s deputies stopped Terron D. Ingram, 38, after they spotted him riding a bicycle in St. Charles Parish, La., carrying a 3-foot alligator on his shoulders. Ingram dropped the gator and fled but was captured. Capt. Pat Yoes told the Times-Picayune he didn’t know where Ingram got the gator or what he planned to do with it.

The next day, a 10-foot alligator bit the leg off an 80-pound Dalmatian that was off leash illegally and drinking from a city park lake in Jacksonville, Fla. The Florida Times-Union reported signs warn people to keep their dogs leashed, not to feed alligators and not to swim in the lake, but the dog’s owner, Charles Rust, said he hadn’t seen an alligator in the 10 years he’s been coming to the park. If they do pose a danger, he said, park officials should have removed them.

Three days later, in Harbordale, Fla., police broke up a tug of war between several middle school children and a 10-foot alligator. Observers said the children tied a raw chicken to a rope to attract an alligator swimming in a canal, but after the gator ate the chicken, its snout got caught on the rope, which the children wouldn’t relinquish. “They were pushing and pulling the gator back and forth on the rope,” postal carrier Kim Kryza told the St. Petersburg Times.

CRIME PAYS – In the wake of the conviction of Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff, New York Assemblyman James Tedisco introduced a bill that would charge wealthy criminals $90 a day for room and board at state prisons. Tedisco explained the measure is designed to ease the $1 billion annual cost of incarcerating prisoners, adding, “This concept says if you can afford it, or even some of it, you’re going to help the beleaguered taxpayers who play by the rules.”

INSTANT KARMA – Zach Schultz, 25, told Denver’s KMGH News that when he tried to flick his burning cigarette out his car window, the wind blew the cigarette back into his car, setting it on fire. Denver firefighters pronounced the older model station wagon a total loss.

Motorcyclist Robert Kashdan, 57, pulled alongside a motor home going 55 mph in Ventura County, Calif., and made an obscene gesture, then, according to witnesses, pulled in front of the 30-foot-long vehicle and braked suddenly. California Highway Patrol Officer Terry Uhrich told the Camarillo Acorn the motor home slammed into the bike, dragging it and Kashdan about 75 feet before stopping. Investigators said the biker’s helmet, worn but not a federally approved model, was broken into several pieces.

SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION – Police in Fraser, Mich., arrested Kenneth Reppke, 54, after a friend reported they were playing Monopoly and he tried to buy Park Place and Boardwalk from her. “She refused to do it,” police Lt. Dan Kolke told WWJ-AM News. “So he got mad and hit her in the head, knocking her glasses off and breaking them.”

CHECK MICHAEL VICK’S ALIBI – Authorities seized 150 finches and canaries, some with sharpened beaks, in connection with a bird-fighting operation at a home in Shelton, Conn.

Noting small-bird fighting is popular among Brazilians, the Associated Press reported police arrested 19 people, including homeowner Jurames Goulart, 42, just as spectators had placed $8,000 in bets and the fights were set to start.

SPELLING COUNTS – Two Swedish tourists headed for the southern Italian island of Capri missed their destination by 400 miles when they misspelled the name on their car’s GPS and wound up in the northern industrial town of Carpi. They learned of their blunder when they asked the local tourist office for directions to Capri’s famed Blue Grotto sea cave. “They were surprised but not angry,” Carpi regional government official Giovanni Medici told Reuters. “They got back in the car and started driving south.

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A bulldozer at EKO Compost moves piles of soon-to-be-compost, made from commingled and decomposed yard and human waste. The facility received two “notice of violations” from the Missoula City-County Health Department in 2007 for the rank smell, in addition to the notice it and the Wastewater Treatment Plant received last December.

What’s that smell?

Missoula finally gets serious about its incessant stink

by Matthew Frank • photos by Anne Medley

Rotten eggs.

An outhouse.

A septic tank.

Fermenting grass.

Horse manure.

Pig crap.

Dead dogs.

Dead bodies.

Poop.

This is how residents who live near the corner of Mullan Road and Reserve Street describe the odious odor hovering around their homes.

“A lot of them will just say, ‘Poop,’” says Bonnie Johnson, who has the unenviable task of taking phone calls from grossed out—and angry—residents as part of the city’s new Odor Characterization Study. “I mean, it’s everything but a cake in the oven.”

One person called the smell “stinking, burning dead.” For another—and this is Johnson’s favorite—it evokes the stench of honey pots doused in jet fuel and burned in Vietnam.

For more than three years, winds have wafted a particularly pungent odor around Missoula’s Westside, infuriating neighbors and furrowing the eyebrows of passersby. Every Missoulian has surely smelled it, and the city is spending nearly $80,000 to figure out who dealt it—the city’s Wastewater Treatment Plant or neigh-

boring EKO Compost, or both. Each facility points the finger at the other, evading blame like a kid who let one slip on the school bus.

In late July, the treatment plant mailed out about 1,800 postcards to residents living within a one-mile

radius of it and EKO Compost, and asked for their participation in the study by calling the plant when they smell the odor and describing it. Johnson, who works as an administrative secretary at the plant, says she’s received about 300 calls so far.

Every day, Missoula’s Wastewater Treatment Plant drops about 120 yards of dewatered sewage sludge over the fence to EKO Compost. When the program started in 1977, it was among the first public-private biosolid recycling partnerships in the country.

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“People are interested in helping,” she says.

“Some people are really good about it. Some people are crabby.”

The postcards and phone calls make up only a small part of the study. In December 2008, the Missoula City-County Health Department issued a “notice of violation” to both the treatment plant and EKO Compost, determining that the odor constitutes an “ongoing public nuisance” and ordering that the two “work cooperatively to eliminate the public nuisance and to reduce odor emissions from their respective facilities to the greatest degree practicable.”

“There are lots of potential sources,” says Jim Carlson, the health department’s director of environmental health, “and the purpose of this study is to get more specific about exactly which ones are causing the problem so that solutions can be engineered to fix it, and so that people in that area can enjoy their property in the spring and summer. It is, you know, pretty rank some days.”

So rank that the city, up to its ears in complaints, has enlisted perhaps the country’s top odor consultant and state-of-the-art technology to, at long last, sniff out the source.

••• Starr Sullivan, superintendent of the treatment plant, stops on a walkway spanning the

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treatment plant’s open-air bioreactors.

They’re like big, rectangular, aboveground pools—only the water is a bubbling brown, all too reminiscent of Willy Wonka’s chocolate river.

Sullivan’s perch provides a full view of the grounds. The plant, in and under its many nondescript buildings, somehow treats 8.5 million gallons of sewage every day. And right next door, connected to the plant by a huge conveyer belt, sits EKO Compost, a 32-acre brown swath where a few bulldozers move around compost at various points of decomposition.

The conveyer belt leaves one of the plant’s buildings, extends over the fence to EKO Compost, and deposits a growing pile—120 cubic yards a day—of dewatered sewage sludge. And more gets trucked in from Idaho cities Post Falls and Hayden Lake. Sullivan likens the sludge to the consistency of cake.

“Fudge cake,” he quips.

The treatment plant has been sending the majority of Missoula’s dewatered sludge to EKO Compost to be decomposed and repurposed into marketable compost since 1977, making it one of the first public-private biosolid recycling partnerships in the country.

Missoulians can buy EKO brand compost all over town for their backyard gardens, enriched, essentially, by their own nitrogen.

But while the partnership has been largely praised—albeit unknown to many—public sentiment began to change in spring 2006, when this whole area, and everything downwind of it, began to stink more than it ever did before.

Complaints started to pour in. One of

pointing has continued ever since.

On the surface, it seems easy to figure out who’s emitting the odors. But it’s not. Here at the plant, while it certainly doesn’t smell rosy, it’s hard to imagine the odors being so strong that someone would complain, as a neighbor did in

Sullivan shows me all over the plant, pointing out operations and processes he thinks are the stinkiest, and what’s being done to mitigate them. Perhaps the main culprit is the plant’s “headworks,” the place where all of Missoula’s roughly 250 miles of sewer pipe converge and the treatment process begins. Three huge Archimedes screws—invented more than 2,000 years ago by Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse—churn in the open air and lift raw sewage into the system. Yes, it stinks. Sullivan says the plant has been in the process of replacing the headworks for a while now. The design is about 60 percent complete, he says, “but funding is an issue.” It’ll cost about $9 million to replace.

“We were moving along on this same track anyway before the health department got involved,” Sullivan says. “The letter”—the notice of violation and order to take corrective action—“indicated that we had to do this, so it just kind of added to what we were already doing.”

Sullivan shows me other corrective actions the plant’s taking: The “black box,” as he calls it, resembling an enclosed cargo crate, is actually a biofilthe dozens of people who complained in 2006, that it’s “like someone’s septic sys- ter that eliminates the odor in the air summer 2006 said she called EKO tem blew up.” piped in from the massive fermenter next Compost and was told the odor was “You walk through this plant, and I to it. And the “photo-ionization odor coming from the wastewater treatment can smell it, but it’s not so intense as to containment unit,” a silver box about as plant. Then she called the plant and was gag you,” Sullivan says. “So, I don’t big as a trunk and covered in a tarp, kills told it was EKO Compost. The finger know.” the odors coming from the thickened waste activated sludge tank. A pipe sticks up and out, like a submarine’s telescope, emitting filtered air.

Sullivan sticks his nose right into it.

“There’s a little smell today,” he says, “but most days there’s none.”

Overall, while Sullivan can sympathize with neighbors who can barely stand to go outside, his reaction to the odor complaints amounts to a shrug.

“I had a woman call me last year with an odor complaint,” he recalls, “and she says, ‘Why don’t you build these places out in the country?’ I had to stifle a laugh and say, ‘We did.’ And in the subsequent 40 years we’ve been encroached upon, and that’s fine, but you have to understand that we are a wastewater treatment plant, and EKO Compost composts biosolids, and it’s a composting facility, so there are going to be some odors.

“Granted, in the last couple years they’ve been pretty intense,” he continues. “But, I have to say, let the buyer beware. If you buy a house that’s 100 yards downwind of a wastewater treatment plant, what do you expect? Like I say, we want to be a good neighbor—we’re making plans, we’ve done some odor control and we’re going to do some more— Starr Sullivan, superintendent of the treatment plant, says people ask him why the city didn’t build the plant out in the country. “I but you can’t get rid of it 100 perhad to stifle a laugh and say, ‘We did,’” he explains. “And in the subsequent 40 years we’ve been encroached upon…” cent. We are what we are.”

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“If you buy a house that’s 100 yards downwind of a wastewater treatment plant, what do you expect?…We are what we are.”

—Starr Sullivan, Missoula’s Wastewater Treatment Plant

••• In February, Missoula’s City Council approved a $74,400 contract with the Montana-based engineering firm Morrison Maierle, Inc. to conduct the Odor Characterization Study. Morrison Maierle then subcontracted with the Maine-based engineering firm Bowker & Associates, Inc. Its president, Bob B o w k e r, i s a n i n t e r n a t i o n a l l y renowned odor control expert.

In fact, Bowker wrote the book on odor control. Literally. Some 30 years ago, after leaving the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), where he worked as an environmental engineer, Bowker joined a small engineering firm that the EPA then hired to develop its odor control guide.

“Quite honestly,” Bowker says from his office in Portland, Maine, “when that thing was published, it Ty Harding, owner of Bee Hive Homes, points to the odor log he’s been keeping since June 22. Most of the time, he says, the odor “smells kind of launched my career in odor like a combination of fecal and sewer and manure all mixed together.” control because people would call and want the guys who wrote the book on odor control. That kind of got me “We’re just now getting the data den. In addition to biosolids, EKO “Everybody’s looking the whole sitstarted back in the early ’80s.” back and trying to analyze it,” Bowker Compost makes its product from leaves, uation over and trying to do a better Bowker’s resume now includes says. “I think it’s very preliminary to limbs and lawn clippings dropped off by job,” he says now. developing and reviewing massive, mul- draw any conclusions about what the the city, landscaping companies and resHe suspects Bowker’s study will timillion-dollar odor control systems in biggest source of odors might be, idents (including about 10,000 trees last direct EKO to reduce the amount of Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, whether it’s the composting facility or Christmas). biosolids on the ground, and/or change Singapore and Australia. the sewage treatment plant.”

While touring EKO Compost in May the way they’re transported.

“When I first started out in this busiBowker will most likely present his for a separate story, I asked its manager, ness,” he says, “odors weren’t a high pri- findings to the city in October.

Terry Munnerlyn, what he makes of all ••• ority. It was the philosophy of, ‘Hey, it’s The city already has its theories. In the odor complaints.

Changes will come too late for Lana a sewage treatment plant, it’s going to Clark. Three years ago she sold her have some odor.’ And over the years— home on Small Lane and moved to the maybe due in part to encroaching Miller Creek area—mostly because of the development getting closer to these stink. In her complaint to the health facilities, as well as, I think, people department she called the odor becoming less tolerant of those kinds “gnarly.” of issues—people were becoming quite “It was definitely a frustration that it concerned about odor problems.” was so smelly over there,” she says. “And Beyond Bowker, Missoula spent every time I drive by it I have to say that around $1,500 on a “field olfactomeI’m glad I moved…You couldn’t really ter” called the “Nasal Ranger,” a white, sit outside and enjoy having a barbecue blow horn-looking gadget you hold to because it stunk. At least to me, it was your nose to detect and measure bad enough that I didn’t want to be out odors. For weeks now, Missoula’s there. And I made sure, when we did Senior Utility Inspector, Meg Tretter, move, we didn’t move in that area has been driving around town with the because we didn’t want to be anywhere Nasal Ranger quantifying Missoula’s near that smell.” stink. She’s come to be known as the But for residents who still live “Odor Ranger.” Tretter, who volun- 2004, the treatment plant installed a “You’re standing right in the middle downwind, changes can’t come soon teered for the job, declined to be inter- new biological nutrient system and of it,” he said. “This is what the odor is. enough. Count Ty Harding among the viewed or photographed for this story. started sending both its “dewatered I don’t smell it. I don’t know what you neighbors fed up about the incessant Tretter’s Nasal Ranger-powered digested sludge” and “dewatered thick- smell. I’ve been here for so long that I stench. Harding owns Bee Hive Homes sense of smell allows the city to, as ened waste activated sludge” to EKO can’t smell what you smell.” on River Street, an assisted living facility Bowker puts it, “document the level of Compost. That, the health department Still, EKO Compost, which isn’t directly downwind and across the river odor, the intensity of it, what the odor suspects, is the primary culprit: EKO chipping in to pay for the Odor from the wastewater plant and EKO smells like and how you would charac- began receiving more nutrients than it Characterization Study, has received Compost. When I call and tell him I’m terize it downwind of the source.” had before, but didn’t adjust its carbon- two “notice of violations” from the writing about the odor, he says, “I love While Tretter has been sniffing to-sludge ratio to break it all down. health department in addition to the it. We’re finally getting some people around the neighborhood, Bowker has But visit EKO Compost and, even one it and the treatment plant received interested in the problem other than been digging around ground zero. He just yards away from the conveyer belt last December. They came in April and me.” came to Missoula last month and spent of poop, the smell is earthy and warm, November of 2007.

“I’ve done everything,” he says. “I’ve a week inspecting the processes at the just as the compost smells when you Munnerlyn, like Sullivan, mostly called the mayor and talked to him pertreatment plant and EKO Compost. open a bag of it and mix it into your gar- shirks blame. sonally…I’ve made hundreds of com-

“I don’t smell it. I don’t know what you smell. I’ve been here for so long that I can’t smell what you smell.”

—Terry Munnerlyn, EKO Compost

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plaints over the years. I finally got fed up and wrote an e-mail to Air Quality down at the health department. Finally I got some responses only after I threatened to get an attorney.”

The next day, at Bee Hive Homes, Harding goes through the odor log he’s been keeping since June 22. About a dozen other residents and business owners within a one-mile radius of the treatment plant are keeping logs, too, as part of the city’s study.

On June 27, for example, at 7:45 p.m., Harding described the odor as “putrid dead animal.” The intensity, on a scale of one to five, was five, or “very strong.” The weather was calm, and the wind was light and blowing from the west.

Most of the time, though, the odor “smells like a combination of fecal and sewer and manure all mixed together,” Harding says. (The manure smell many people report is apparently from EKO, because the composting process can produce a similar smell.)

Harding follows the city’s surprisingly complex odor classification system. A color-coded odor pinwheel includes categories like “Fishy/Ammonia,” “Putrid/Dead Animal,” “Rancid,” “Sulfur/Cabbage/Garlic,” “Fecal/Sewery” and “Solventy/ Hydrocarbon/Others.” And then each category has its own subcategories.

The “Sludge Drying Odor Wheel” was given to residents participating in the city’s odor characterization surveys to help them better describe the odors hovering around their homes and businesses.

“It’s kind of hilarious, really,” Harding says.

But Harding isn’t laughing about the odor’s impact on his business. Bee Hive Homes provides accommodations to 62 residents. Most don’t complain of the odor

because many, he acknowledges, have lost their sense of smell. But their families complain, and potential clients often inquire about the stink. It’s so bad that Harding can hardly ever open the windows. He says the odor hasn’t affected his

business’ bottom line, but it’s certainly created a hardship.

“It’s just not a good image for us,” he says.

He brings up the argument made by Sullivan—that people should expect to

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smell sewage if they choose to live near a sewage facility.

“That’s a pretty poor argument,” Harding says, “given that the sewer plant is blaming EKO Compost for the odor, and I [agree] that the total of the odor is coming from them. But the ironic thing is that the sewer plant, when they take their sludge out of the bottom of the sewer, they have an option—they can either haul it away, or they can just hand it off to EKO Compost and let them do their thing with it. The problem is, EKO Compost isn’t managing their waste properly. They’re letting it pile up, they’re letting it go aerobic and get all stinky, and then they’re trying to deal with it by moving it around…At least that’s my opinion.”

Outside, on a covered deck with a view through the trees of the wastewater treatment plant, Mary Ann Remington helps her mother, Martha Watkins, 94, walk from one end of the deck to the other. When Remington learns the purpose of my visit she blurts out, “It’s not that bad today! Normally we come out here and pass out. Luckily, Mom can’t smell.”

••• I ask Harding whether or not he thinks Missoula’s odor problem can be solved.

“Based on the history here, I don’t,” he sighs. “I don’t have a lot of faith in the city doing anything.”

Missoula’s Wastewater Treatment Plant treats 8.5 million gallons of sewage every day, brought to the plant by the city’s some 250 miles of sewer pipe.

Hiring Bowker, dispatching the “Odor Ranger,” all the postcards, surveys and fancy charts to help him distinguish between poop and manure—it all gives the appearance, he says, that the city is actually taking care of the problem. But he holds little hope that he’ll ever stop holding his nose.

Others, though, are more optimistic, including City Councilwoman Marilyn Marler, who rep-

resents many residents downwind of the source in Ward 6. In February, when the council was debating the study, Marler questioned what, exactly, the city was paying for when it’s clear that the odors emanate from the treatment plant and EKO Compost.

“I was outspoken,” she says, “because it seems a little bit silly to say, ‘Well, do you think sewage

smells bad?’ It’s obvious. But it seems pretty thoughtful what they’re doing, and I really, really hope it yields some information that they can use to mitigate the operations out there…It seems like a lot of money, but it seems like they’re going about it in an intelligent way.”

Possible solutions won’t be known until Bowker returns to Missoula with his odor orders, but he offers some possible answers now.

“At the sewage treatment plant that could mean covering some tanks and scrubbing the air,” he suspects. “And at the composting facility that could involve doing some things a little bit differently in the way that they handle the material.”

In the meantime, Bonnie Johnson will continue taking phone calls from repulsed Missoulians who received postcards in the mail, even though, as Starr Sullivan admits, such subjective and emotional evaluations probably won’t help the study much.

But even if the calls don’t help the study, they probably provide some therapeutic outlet to anguished callers.

“Well,” Johnson says, “it sure allows a lot of people to vent…I think it helps, and I think it lets us know that there are a lot of people smelling a lot of different stuff. But what the solution is, I sure don’t know.” mfrank@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. $$–$$$.

Noodle Express 2000 W. Broadway 541-7333 Featuring a mixture of non-traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Polynesian contemporary dishes. Phone ahead ordering is enhanced with a convenient Pick-Up window. $-$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. • 543-3188 Don't feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks • 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $6.95. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings

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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.

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Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins • 728-8780 Celebrating 37 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.”

Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $ Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve by TJ Maxx & Ross 549-5595 Cold Stone Creamery, the ultimate ice cream experience! Our smooth and creamy ice cream is made fresh daily using our secret recipe. Come in for our weekday specials. Get $5 off ice cream cakes with your business card. Get Gift Cards any time. Treat yourself to a 10minute vacation at Cold Stone Creamery. $-$$ 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

Social networking for foodies You find each other online. After a brief exchange of messages, you both agree it’s a good match and arrange to meet in person to do the deed.

Before the appointment, you harvest some ripe tomatoes from your heavy vines and place them in a reusable shopping bag. Then you ride your bicycle to the appointed location, a community garden where your counterpart has a plot. You return home with your bag full of potatoes, zucchini and, as an unexpected bonus, an ear of sweet corn.

The matchmaker in this deal is veggietrader.com, which has enlisted more than 7,000 members since coming online in April. Prospective traders from all 50 states have prowled the site’s pages, and now even some Canadians want to play, according to cofounder Rob Anderson of Portland, Ore. Anderson and his wife Tam Crawford created Veggie Trader in response to a disturbing observation they shared.

“We looked around and saw all this food going to waste,” Anderson says, referring to gardens in his neighborhood. “With the economy the way it’s been, it’s a shame.”

Signing up and using Veggie Trader is free. To search for trading partners, plug in your zip code and the distance you’re willing to travel. The search results display who has what to trade, where they are, and what, if anything, they want in return. The most popular entry in the “what you want in return” category, Anderson says, is “whatever,” or “anything but [the item being offered].” This is telling.

“It’s not just about the veggies or fruit,” Anderson says. “There’s a social component.

People are looking to connect with like-minded folks in their neighborhood.”

One post reads: “I have cabbage, garlic, dill and in a few weeks, heirloom tomatoes. All the vegetables are grown without pesticides or herbicides. I also have many cooking and gardening magazines to trade.”

Soon after Veggie Trader went online, it became clear that the site could disperse more than surplus produce. Before the growing season had even progressed to the point that anything

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Veggie Trader’s intended purpose, it seems only a matter of time until romantic hook-ups are reported.

Right now veggietrader.com is a self-funded labor of love, but someday, Anderson hopes, he’ll figure out a way to convert the site into a day job.

Will veggietrader.com get bought out by Google?

Will users be required to pay commissions in strawberries and garlic? Will it register as a nonprofit and go for grant money? Anderson and Crawford are still chewing the possibilities for revenue generation, but for the moment the site is refreshingly free of advertisements, and doesn’t even display a way to donate.

The members currently have a lot of open space between them—especially outside of major metropolitan hot-spots on both coasts. If only the

New Orleans resident offering “pesticide-free Black Eyed peas” lived closer to York, Pennsylvania, where she could trade for “Epazote, an herb used by Mexicans when cooking beans. It helps to prevent gas.”

Having a community behind you makes a locavore diet a lot more diverse, interesting and likely.

There’s already a page on veggietrader.com devoted to cooperative gardens, in which neighbors can plan a shared garden in their community. Each member takes responsibility for a specific crop.

Anderson and Crawford are excited to watch, and help, their site evolve organically to fill new niches as they appear. A few weeks ago they opened the site to farmers listing produce for sale. “It’s an interesting way for local farmers to advertise,” Anderson says.

Veggie Trader reminds me of something my friends and I have been doing for years, a mid-winter tradition we call the “Swap Meat.” It began as a way for fellow hunters to exchange sausages, jerky and various cuts of our respective animals, but quickly evolved into an all-out barterfest where many forms of home-stashed food change hands.

Pickles, jam, sauces, dried morels, frozen fruit, root crops from cold storage and many other forms of preserved food are swapped in the frenzied and festive atmosphere of our swap meats. I wouldn’t be surprised to see get-togethers of this sort planned through veggietrader.com.

Along the same lines, equipment like dehydrators, steam juicers, pressure canners and vacuum sealers could be shared by industrious Veggie Traders, or loaned to one another in exchange for a portion of the preserved product.

Anderson acknowledges that many of these possibilities have crossed their minds, and as long as they’re legal, the founding traders are open to them. With only a few months under its belt, veggietrader.com promises to be full of surprises, and he and Crawford are looking to the site’s users to provide ideas on where it should go from here. “We’re looking forward to what happens in the fall and winter,” Anderson says.

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was ready to harvest, there was already a brisk trade in seedlings. Since then, pictures of baby plants growing in their new homes have been exchanged, and plans made to share the fruits when the time was ripe.

The friendships Veggie Trader has catalyzed seemed already waiting to happen, and these relationships might become Veggie Trader’s most enduring accomplishment, long outlasting the shelf-life of perishable produce. And while it would be far from

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Why am I such a cheerleader for Grapeseed Oil Vegenaise? Well, I could say that it isn’t made with low-grade factory farmed eggs, and that would be part of the picture. The fact that there are only eight ingredients, all of which I can pronounce, and all of which I have in my cupboard and fridge, is nice too, as is the fact that it’s produced with solar energy. But the fact of the matter is that Grapeseed Oil Vegenaise is simply the besttasting mayo on the planet. And no, they don’t pay me to say it, but I’d love it if Earth Island wanted to sponsor me. I can see it now: “Grapeseed Oil Vegenaise, the official fake mayo of Ari LeVaux.”

Another important element of the BLT is onion. It’s indispensable, as far as I’m concerned, and the sandwich should be called a BLOT.

And here’s some super-secret knowledge that will help you with all of your sandwich making. Many people prefer BLTs made with toasted bread. Toasting keeps the mayo and tomato from soaking through the bread and making it soggy. But sometimes the toast can scratch your mouth, especially when the sandwich is so tasty you eat it faster than you should.

So do this: Place two pieces of bread together and toast them as one piece, so each piece has one toasted side and one soft side. Make your sandwich with the toasted sides facing in. Props to my farmer friend Cojones for that brilliant tip.

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

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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. All classes occur at the Clay Studio headquarters, 1106 Hawthorne St. Unit A. $168/eight week session. Call 543-0509. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., August 28, 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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If your toddler’s movement seems kind of, well, stale, bring them to Creative Movement Class every Thu. at 3:30 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

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.

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Delicate strings will be plucked and plenty of pale ales will be drunk when singer/songwriter John Floridis plays the Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St., at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

It’s no secret Missoulians like a good party, especially when loud music and beer are involved.

Recent events like the Hip Strip Block Party and Total Fest prove this. But add juried art, a solid lineup of roots music and a four-mile run to the mix and apparently 10,000 of us show up. At least that’s the case with the River City Roots Festival, the two-day soiree set in the heart of downtown.

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.

See a variety of female figure drawings, paintings and even a sculpture or two when nine local female artists present Studies from the Figure, a four-day exhibit at the Brunswick Gallery, 223 W. Railroad St., from 5–8 PM. The show runs at varied times through Mon., Aug. 31.

Free. Call 721-0591. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

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.

WHAT: River City Roots Festival WHERE: West Main St., at the corner of Ryman WHEN: Sat., Aug. 29, 10 AM–10:30 PM and Sun., Aug. 30, 10 AM–7 PM HOW MUCH: Free MORE INFORMATION: www.rivercityrootsfestival.com The fourth installment of the fest kicks off Saturday at 10 AM with an art show featuring 40 artists at the Central Square parking lot, followed by science and magic activities for kids in Caras Park. Music junkies can get their fix with tunes at 12:30 PM by local faves Cash for Junkers and Reverend Slanky, followed by North Carolina’s Town Mountain, Colorado’s Great American Taxi

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

Call 396-3352.

Gypsies come out during Troupe Night class every Thu. at 5:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/month for every class you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Blair at 531-3000.

Tutus and ballet shoes probably aren’t required to hit up an open house at the Missoula Ballet Arts Academy, 1620 Rodgers St., from 5:30–8 PM, but they should be. Free.

Call 549-3081.

It’s time for dinner and a show with hundreds of your fellow friends during this summer’s final run of Downtown ToNight, which features food, kids’ activities and music from

and New York’s Donna The Buffalo, pictured above, a five-piece that mixes Americana with elements of rock, folk, Cajun, country and reggae into a tasty stew.

On Sunday, your day of rest begins at 10 AM with another opportunity to catch local works of art, as well as burn off your caloric intake from the night before during the marathon race at 11.

Follow that up at 11:15 with more rootsified music from local Andrea Harsell, Virginia’s Larry Keel, Minnesota’s Trampled by Turtles and San Fran biofuel bus freaks Hot Buttered Rum. This all comes at a recession friendly price of free, save for the vended food, drinks and race, making it well worth checking out for those seeking an aural and physical buzz.

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ShoDown and starts at 5:30 PM. Free.

Call 543-4238.

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

The valley’s haven for year-round thrashers, Fiftytwo Skatepark, on El Way past the Missoula Airport, hosts

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

Call 543-2224.

Swallow your pride, grab up to seven double-spaced pages of your best verbiage, and bring it to this week’s Authors of the Flathead meeting for constructive critique at 7 PM in Room 151 of the Science and Technology Building on the Flathead Valley Community College campus. Free. Call 881-4066.

What would Socrates think about the birther movement?

Or a single-payer health care system?

I’m not really sure either, but maybe you’ll find some insight into those matters during Socrates Cafe at the Missoula Public Library at 7 PM. Free.

If you live in the Bitterroot and have a garden, it might have been poisoned by an herbicide called tordon. Find out more when the Hamilton Farmers’ Market and Sustainable Living Systems

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

The real hip-hop is over here. The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., gives you something to pop and lock about every Thu. at 7:20 PM during beginning and intermediate Hip-Hop Class. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

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

Your mind skips into the Forest of Arden when When in Rome Productions Inc. presents their take on Shakespeare’s As You Like It at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave., at 7:30 PM, through Aug. 29. $8/$14 couples.

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

Although information on her is scant (may I suggest a MySpace music page?), Kira Means probably means well when she plays a set at Sean Kelly’s at 8 PM. Cover TBA. A medley of acoustic guitar and processed electronic sounds awaits you when Lawrence, Kan.’s John Nolan plays a show at the ZACC Gallery, 235 N. First St. W., at 8 PM. $6/all ages. Fiancée and Places open.

Things get a little acoustic, proggy and indie, but not pretentious, when the Flathead’s Tim Torgerson joins Larry Pattis for a night of solo acoustic craziness at the Unity Church of Missoula, 546 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. $10. Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s.

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Bowling and karaoke go together like Everclear and driving during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING.

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Get your fix of improvised music with Sandy Bradford and Mark Souhrada when they host the jam at Los Caporales in Columbia Falls at 9 PM. Call 892-5025.

Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptop-fueled hip-hop, crunk, electronic, pop and mashed-up tunes hit the Badlander every week where Dead Hipster DJ Night gets the booties bumpin’ and the feet stompin’ at 9 PM. $2. (See Scope in this issue.)

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Beads of all shapes and colors shall be absorbed in thine eyes during a bead show at the Wingate Inn, 5252 Airway Drive, from 10 AM–6 PM today and Aug. 29, as well as 10 AM–4 PM Aug. 30. Free. Call 360-6063.

The Missoula Public Library hosts a preschool storytime geared toward children 3–6 years old every Fri. at 10:30 AM. This week, The Antichrist

by Friedrich Nietzsche. Just kidding.

(Did I need to tell you that?) Free. Call 721-BOOK. If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program for babes up to 36 months at 10:30 AM every Thu., Fri. and Tue. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Invigorate that spine of yours during a Classical Pilates Mat Class taught

by Alison Laundrie every Fri. at Main Street Pilates, 214 E. Main St., at 11 AM. $12. RSVP 541-2673.

nightlife If you’re a bicyclist or avid pedestrian and want to represent your fellow non-motorists, you’ve got until 5 PM to drop off your app to the Mayor’s office, 435 Ryman St., for a position on the bicycle and pedestrian advisory board. Call 552-6001 o r v i s i t w w w. c i . m i s s o u l a . u s / index.aspx?nid=426.

Party for the right to borrow tools, among other things, during the Missoula Urban Demonstration Project’s annual Garden Par ty Fundraiser which features local food, beer, live music by Cash for Junkers and Mason Jar String Band and more at MUD’s headquarters, 629 Phillips St., from 5–11 PM. $15/$10 members. Call 721-7513 or visit www.mudproject.org.

Help Fido avoid euthanasia when you head to the Seventh Annual Bone Ball, a fundraiser for the Humane Society of Western Montana that features food, auctions and a bathing suit contest for dogs at Caras Park at 5 PM. $40/person, $300/table of eight. Call 549-HSWM.

Get your buzz on just after work with a varied selection of vino when The Loft, 119 W. Main St., presents a weekly wine tasting every Fri. at 5:15 PM. $10.

SPOTLIGHT Hate crimes, redemption and feminine physiques more get explored when author Naseem Rakha reads and signs her debut novel The Crying Tree at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave., at 7 PM. Free. Call 721-2881.

Improvise your way into intimate situations with a dance partner during Tango Night, a series of beginning and intermediate tango and Milonga classes with Patrick Marsolek and Grace Hodges at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., at 7 PM. $15/entire evening, $7/class, $5 Milonga class. Call 541-7240.

If the acoustic guitar warms you like a shot of whiskey, switch to vino tonight and head to see local string slinger Isaac M at the Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, at 7:30 PM. $5, with wine tasting and BBQ available for purchase. Call 541-8463.

Take a collective sigh and reminisce about the meaninglessness of life when The Lifers play the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Call 543-6346.

Throughout history, men have drawn, painted and sculpted the nude female figure.

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That’s not a bad thing, but local artist Leslie Millar believes there’s something to be said about drawing and painting a naked woman’s body from the standpoint of an XX chromosome holder.

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WHAT: Studies from the Figure exhibit WHERE: Brunswick Gallery, 223 W. Railroad St. WHEN: Thu., Aug. 27, 5–8 PM, Fri., Aug. 28, 12–6 PM, Sat., Aug. 29, 10 AM–4 PM and Mon., Aug. 31, 12–6 PM. HOW MUCH: Free “It’s the same sex, so you’re looking at bodies that are actually kind of similar to yours and [drawing or painting] in a slightly different way, or maybe in a non-sexualized way,” she says.

So when Millar and eight local female artists open the Brunswick Gallery on Thursday for four days to display Studies from the Figure, don’t anticipate a barrage of prurient images. Do expect art that celebrates the feminine form,

He’s the neighbor that blasts blues, jazz and pop at odd hours of the night, he’s Neighbor John Kelly and his buddy Ray Allen, who play at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St. N., at 8 PM. Donations suggested.

Call 1-888-305-3106.

Anarchic aural fury hits the rez when New York punks Stupid Party play a show at the Four Star Bar in Ravalli, 26756 Hwy. 93 about 30 miles north of Missoula, at 8 PM. $5.

Opening support from Bad Blood Revival, At Home In The Cosmos, Satan’s Slave and Thug Nasties. Call 745-3220.

You just might become a Torgersonhead when the Flathead’s Tim Torgerson joins Larry Pattis for a night of solo acoustic picking at the KM Theater in Kalispell, 40 Second St. E., at 8 PM. $10. Tickets available at Books West in Kalispell. Call 862-4052.

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 Khazaddum, you’ll love tunneling through the AmVets Club, where DJDC rocks dance music to slay orcs to at 9 PM. Free.

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

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

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

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

Free. Call 370-3200.

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.

Help support participatory business models during the Missoula Community Food Co-op’s Fall 2009 Fundraiser featuring music by Ross Voorhees, River Creek Stream Boys and Lil’ Smokies at the Badlander at 9 PM. $5.

I’m guessing well executed cover songs will dominate the night, rather than druginduced stupors, when the ghost of Jim Morrison is resurrected via the Doors Legacy Band, who play the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

unclothed and clothed, from oil and watercolor paintings to pastel and India ink drawings, and perhaps a sculpture or two. Styles will run the gamut of realistic to abstract, a testament to a diverse lineup that includes Millar, Nancy Erickson, Stephanie Frostad (whose piece “Lullaby” is pictured above), Kristi Hager, Becki Johnson, Beth Lo, Shari Montana, Linda Tawney and Janet Whaley.

As a Missoula fixture for at least a decade, this yearly show was born from a twice-a-month figure drawing session that’s been kicking since the late ‘80s.

“It’s an opportunity for us as women to redefine the picture of women in art,” Millar says.

—Ira Sather-Olson

Shenanigans and funky dance moves are likely to ensue at a River City Roots Fest Kickoff Party which features sets from Def Cartel and Bluestone at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St., at 8 PM. $5. Call 549-0542.

Get stiff as a board with drinks and music when the bluegrass, blues and western swing of Good Wood takes the stage of Kalispell’s Blue Canyon Kitchen and Tavern, 1840 Hwy. 93 S., at 9 PM. Free. Call 758-2583.

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

A booze soaked locomotive of hits rocks your cerebellum when Party Train plays Florence’s High Spirits Club & Casino, 5341 Hwy. 93 N., at 9:30 PM. Free.

Twiddle and twang yourself into a stupor when Russ Nasset and the Revelators play the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

He’s a crowd pleaser and a guitar teaser. Catch Missoula favorite Tom Catmull and the Clerics when they play a gig at Sean Kelly’s at 9:30 PM. Cover TBA. Call 542-1471.

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

It’s once again time to clean up all those beer cans, plastic wrappers and other assorted junk that the laziest of us have left on the lower Clark Fork. So do your part and join a crew of other stewards for a river cleanup at the Cyr Fishing Access Site, 30 miles west of Missoula off Exit 70, at 9 AM. Once finished, participants score free dinner and prizes. Free. Call 542-5500 or 207-2951.

Americana and bluegrass coalesce with juried art, food and kids’ activities during the first day of the River City Roots Festival, which starts at 10 AM with an art show, followed by music at 12:30 PM from Cash For Junkers, Great American Taxi, Donna the Buffalo and more, in the area of Main and Ryman streets. Free. Visit www.rivercityrootsfestival.com or call 543-4238.

Your bedtime tales of college-age debauchery fall a little short of the mark. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like stories, fingerplays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM at the Missoula Public Library.

Free. Call 721-BOOK. Kick it to your core during a CoreKicking Pilates Class with Alison Laundrie every Sat. at the Sunflower Montessori School, 1703 S. Fifth St. W., at 11 AM. $10, includes childcare.

RSVP 214-7247.

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the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St., at 9 PM. $5. Call 549-0542.

Missoula Art Museum’s latest exhibition from Anne Appleby titled Here We Are at noon at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Call 728-0447.

Get those tight pants rusty, crusty and slightly dusty when rural indie rockers Copperbelt Museum play the Craggy Range Bar & Grill in Whitefish, 10 Central Ave., at 9:30 PM. Cover TBA. Call 862-7550.

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.

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

Quit hating on yourself and get some expertise in selflove when Patricia Spadaro signs copies of her book Honor Yourself: The Inner Art of Giving and Receiving at Barnes and Noble, 2640 N. Reserve St., at 2 PM. Free. Call 721-0009.

There’s a party in your pants but no one else is invited, so keep it on the down low and go see Party Train play at Florence’s High Spirits Club & Casino, 5341 Hwy. 93 N., at 9:30 PM. Free.

Summer in Missoula is probably the best time to travel around on a bike, but if you don’t have one already, you’ll be able to make your own recycled bike after you volunteer for two hours at Missoula Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., on Saturdays at 2:30 PM. Call 800-809-0112.

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.

nightlife Even Buddha gets his drink on to the reggae, blues and soul vibes of Joan Zen, who plays the Bitterroot Brewery in Hamilton, 101 Marcus St., at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

Satan beckons you with a devilish grin and a night of metal featuring Walking Corpse Syndrome, Blessiddoom, At Home in Hell and Josh Gulli at the Union Hall, 208 E. Main St., at 7:30 PM. $5/$4 if you show up at 7 PM. Reexamine your life with a pint glass and the sounds of The Lifers, who play the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Call 543-6346.

John Patrick Williams commands you to watch him rock out, especially when the singer/songwriter plays the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St. N., at 8 PM. Donations suggested. Call 1888-305-3106.

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Soothe your mid-weekend stress with a drink and watch The Workers work their bluegrass magic on stage when they play the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Arched necks and looks of tired drunkenness are just a few symptoms of hailing from the Buckeye State. Catch one-man, punky bluegrass extraordinaire Jarod Yerkes– aka Smokestack and the Foothill Fury– when he plays the Palace Wed., Sept. 2, at 9 PM with Seattle’s Whitehawk. $5.

If you’ve smoked all your grass at the Roots Fest and your body needs more bluegrass, perhaps you’ll get your fix at a River City Roots Fest Afterparty featuring Bozeman’s Archer’s Mob and DJ Aaron Baril at 8 PM at the Elk’s Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. $5.

The prog starts with the pluck of a string when the Flathead’s Tim Torgerson joins Larry Pattis for a night of solo acoustic insanity at the Kandahar Lodge at the Whitefish Mountain Resort, 3824 Big Mountain Road, at 8 PM. $10. Tickets available at Montana Coffee Traders in Whitefish. Call 862-4052.

Be sure to get a little demented when the sun sets at 8:21 PM, then find yourself a prime spot on the field at Head Start School, 1001 Worden Ave., when the Missoula Outdoor Cinema screens the classic Psycho. $5 suggested donation. Call 829-0873.

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

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

Here’s your chance to get freaky on the dance floor.

AmVets Club offers up DJDC and his dance music to the hungry horde at 9 PM. Free.

The Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St., lets the karaoke genie out of the bottle at 9

PM. Turn south after taking exit 89 from I-90. Free. Call 370-3200.

Kick out the sweaty funky jams, and hear a James Brown cover or two, when Reverend Slanky takes the stage of the Palace at 9 PM. $5.

School’s back in sesh and that mean’s it’s time to work on your binge drinking skills, so imbibe your brain at the Zootown 2009 Back-ToSchool Bash which features music from DJ Aaron Traylor and a special performance by 2 Men, 1 Camera at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St., at 9 PM. $5. Call 549-0542.

If you didn’t beat your liver up enough at the River City Roots Fest today, well, here’s your chance to pickle that organ during Bring Your Friends Vol. 2, a dance party featuring DJs Fleege and Coma spinning a hot array of ‘lectronic beats for your feets upstairs in

Mainline your veins with booze and get down to songs like “Power Shaft Blues” when the Mike Bader Blues Band plays the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Don’t keel over from drunkenness, use it to your advantage when you tickle your feet to the bluegrass of Virginia’s Larry Keel and Natural Bridge, who play Sean Kelly’s at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Call 542-1471. (See Noise in this issue.)

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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.

Another day of Americana and bluegrass mingles with juried art, a four mile run/walk, food and kids’ activities during the second day of the River City Roots Festival, which starts at 10 AM with an art show, followed by music at 11:15 AM from Andrea Harsell, Larry Keel, Trampled by Turtles

and Hot Butter Rum, in the area of Main and Ryman streets. Free. Visit www.rivercityrootsfestival.com or call 543-4238. (See Noise in this issue.)

Now that the Blackfoot and Clark Fork Rivers flow freely (without the hindrance of Milltown Dam), it’s time for a bash, so head to Community At the Confluence at noon with music from Dick Darne and the Gravely Mountain Boys, food, presentations and more at the Old Montana Power Company’s Picnic area near the Milltown Dam, Hwy. 200 to Tamarack Road and follow the signs. Free. Visit www.friendsof2rivers.org.

South Ave. W. A $2 donation is requested, but don’t let lack of funds (or shyness) be an obstacle. Call 542-1066.

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

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

Free.

Playing bingo at 2 PM at the Missoula Senior Citizens Center is your chance to yell, “LSD is my medicine!” Free.

Call 543-7154.

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.

The Yaak Valley gets adored and explored when Rick Bass reads and signs copies of The Wild Marsh: Four Seasons at Home in Montana at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave., at 3 PM. Free. Call 721-2881.

(See Books in this issue.)

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

nightlife Get a little noodley with the prog-acousti-indie sounds of Tim Torgerson, who joins Larry Pattis for a solo set of acoustic awesomeness at the Laughing Horse Lodge in Swan Lake, 71284 Hwy. 83, at 8 PM. $10. Call 886-2080.

Renew your appreciation for the fact that America isn’t just a series of paved roads and strip malls during a sneak peak preview of the new Ken Burns documentary series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea at the University Center Theater at 5 PM. Free.

Co-producer Dayton Duncan presents the screening. Call 243-4154.

Stash the hash and head down to the River City Grass Bash, a post-River City Roots Fest party which features music by Dan Dubuque, Andrea Harsell, Cottonwood Draw and The Workers at the Top Hat at 5 PM. Free.

Give voice to your creativity and spirituality with a devotional, improvisational song circle that meets the first, third and fifth Sun. of every month from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at Unity Church, 546

Details are scant, but you’ll have another chance to boogie like a bastard during a River City Roots Fest afterparty at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St., at a TBA time and cover charge. Call 549-0542.

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Put down that cell phone or iPod, only if you’re sitting in the University Center Student Lounge on campus, and take a look around, then you’ll notice the exhibit Ingeborg Bachmann: Writing Against the War an examination of the author’s writings which runs through Sept. 25.

Free. Call 243-5418.

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

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

Learn to mix and match your bellydance styles during Beg inner World Fusion Bellydance, which takes place every Mon. at 5:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/month for as many classes as you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Blair at 531-3000.

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.

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

First two beginners’ sessions free/$4 thereafter.

Call 273-0141.

You’ll probably want to take out those metallic studs when you head to Gothic Fusion Bellydance, which takes place every Mon. at 6:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/per month for each class you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Blair at 531-3000.

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

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

There’s a meditation group at Osel Shen Phen Ling Tibetan Buddhist Center, 441

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tinged sounds of Bluestone 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.

Woodworth Ave., where sadhana practice, visualization and mantra recitation cleanse the doors of perception at 7 PM. Call 543-2207.

In case of emergency, break finger puppet: Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like stories, fingerplays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 7 PM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

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

See if you have what it takes to be a zany member of the Sycamore family, or part of the crotchety Kirby clan, when the Whitefish Theatre Company holds auditions for You Can’t Take It With You at 7 PM today and Sept. 1 at the O’Shaughnessy Cultural Arts Center in Whitefish, 1 Central Ave. Free. Call 862-5371.

Beginners can try, but those more experienced might catch on quicker during Intermediate World Fusion Bellydance, which takes place every Tue. at 5:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/month for every class you can make it to. First class is free, $7 dropin after. Call Blair at 531-3000.

He’ll smile, pluck and sing a tune for free, while you get tipsy for a fee.

Catch Tom Catmull when he plays the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins, at 7 PM. Free.

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.

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.

Experience momentum, balance, and timing tuned with a strong drummerdancer connection every Mon. at 7:30 PM with West African Sabar dance class at the Teranga Arts School, 2926 S. Third St. W., across from Hawthorne Elementary. $10. Call 7213854 and drum up directions at terangaarts.googlepages.com.

An array of electronic DJs and styles await your booty during the Palace Lounge’s Milkcrate Mondays with the Milkcrate Mechanic at 9 PM every week. Free.

Psychedelic pop rock with references to a “tricky dickey hippopotamus” is likely to melt your neurons when you catch Los Angeles’ trio Mini Mansions (featuring Michael Shuman from Queens in the Stone Age) at the Badlander at 9 PM. $5. Low Red Land, Victory Smokes and Butter open.

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

Get caught in Naseem Rakha’s intense gaze and intriguing storyline when she reads and signs copies of her novel The Crying Tree Fri., Aug. 28, at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins, at 7 PM. Free.

often as you’d like—and cash in on the sweet mileage reimbursement—from Mon.–Fri. between 10:30 AM and 12:30 PM. Call 728-7682.

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.

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.

Teens ages 13–18 stir their creative juices during Teen Media Club every Tue. at 4 PM at the Missoula Public Library computer classroom, where video creation, music mixing and digital art formulation are all the rage. Free.

Call 721-2665.

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

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Moms, it’s time for you to vent your frustrations with your little rugrat at Mom Me Time, a discussion group for moms new to the game of motherhood at 11:30 AM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-7690.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Call 370-3200.

Grab the rooster sauce and get spicy 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.

Get your fresh fruits and veggies from local farmers in the Flathead while listening to the sophistofunkadelic jazz

Find out if investing your retirement funds into real estate is a good idea (I’m not so sure myself, but maybe I’m

wrong), during the class “Introduction to Real Estate IRAs” at the Blue Canyon Kitchen and Tavern, 3720 N. Reserve, at 7 PM. Cost TBA. Register by calling Judy Cook at 6768800 or e-mailing jcook@ronan.net.

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with.

Ready? What is vitreography? (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 2739992 to reserve your spot.

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

You won’t have to cut your flesh in order to see Marilyn Manson, who plays the Wilma Theatre at 8 PM, but be sure you’ve scored a ticket, as the event is sold out.

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.

It’s still bigger than disco: The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., keeps on keepin’ it real for those in the know every Tue. at 8:30 PM, when Intermediate Hip-Hop Class puts the “back” back in “back in the day.” Call 541-7240 for pricing.

The Broadway’s Tuesday Night Comedy takes place every Tue. at 9 PM and is followed by dancing with tunes from the Tallest DJ in America. $5/$3 students. Call 543-5678.

Be your own American Idol during “Jheryoake”—that’s karaoke with Jerry Reeb—every Tue. at 9 PM with Happy Hour until 10 at the AmVets Club. Free.

Expect funk to drip out of your toes and rock/reggae to ooze into your ears when locals Sky Moose take the stage of the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

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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 Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 721-1798.

Electronified pop rock with Los Angeles gloss and surface level lyrics comes to Zootown via husband and wife duo Looner, who play a show at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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

Interactive story time with books by Aldous Huxley should open up your child’s third eye during Ready Set Read, an early literacy program for kids’ age 3–7 that includes art projects and games (and kid friendly stories, of course) at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front. St., at 11 AM. $4.25/free under age 1. Call 541-7529.

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Dudes and duderinos, it’s your time to shine all day with drink specials this and every Wed. when the Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St. in Frenchtown, hosts Men’s Day. Free. Call 370-3200.

Learn how paper art goes through the embalming process, well, sort of, during the Missoula Art Museum’s Behind the Scenes Tour which covers methods of preserving artworks on paper from 5–7 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Available to MAM members, call 728-0447 for pricing and details.

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

With the Rattlesnake Creek Watershed Group’s Watershed Wednesdays, you’ll learn about native plants/wildlife and participate in restoration activities

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from 6–8:30 PM. Meet at the Bugbee Nature Area, off of Missoula Avenue in the lower Rattlesnake. Call Andrew at 531-2527.

Magic, murder plots and more fulfill your inner deviant, but in a tasteful way, of course, when Montana Shakespeare in the Parks presents The Tempest at UM’s oval at 6 PM. Free.

Call 994-1220.

It’s once again time to render flesh, muscles and an assortment of body parts into a work of artistic genius during the Missoula Art Museum’s noninstructed figure drawing classes, which run from 6–8 PM this and every Wed. at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. $7/$5 members. Participants must be 18 and over. Call 728-0447.

Gillian Kessler asks only that you embrace your inner diva as she fuses slick Brazilian moves with modern techniques for her Afro-Brazilian Dance Class, which takes place every Wed. at 6:10 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

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Find out the difference between regular pilates and pilates from the Big Apple when Alison Laundrie leads a New York Style Pilates class every Wed. at Main Street Pilates, 214 E. Main St., at 6:30 PM. $12.

RSVP 541-2673.

Talk about your nerdiest obsession, in five minutes or less, during Ignite Missoula, an event where other likeminded geeks expound arcane knowledge to an audience at the Missoula Children’s Theatre, 220 N. Adams St., at 6:30 PM. Free.

Sign up to participate, or get free tickets, at www.ignitemissoula.com or call 543-9211.

Having fully bitched out Barnes & Noble, the Missoula Stitch ‘N’ Bitch needlework circle brings the circle of warm fuzzies to the Good Food Store, where you can knit purls of wisdom every Wed. at 7 PM. Free. BYO yarn and needles, and check out missoulaknits.blogspot.com.

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

Being square will never be as much fun as it is at square dancing lessons every Wed. at the Kalispell Senior Center.

7 PM. $4, children 12 and under must bring an adult. Call 752-4964.

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

Large scale food corps might fit the discussion when Mary Pittaway, nutrition services supervisor for the Missoula County Health Department, leads the presentation “Uneasy Bedfellows: Food, Health and Politics” at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., at 7 PM. Call Alice Dailey at 549-8095.

See if you have the chops to become the next William S. Burroughs during the Hamilton Writers’ Group in the west meeting room of the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St., at 7 PM. Free. Call 363-1670.

That hipster ‘stache you’ve been cultivating for the past 6 months should receive a warm welcome during a “fake mustache” themed Sean Kelly’s Cruiser Bike Tour, which meets at 7 PM at A Carousel for Missoula for an hour bike ride that culminates in a free pint at Sean Kelly’s.

Free. Call 542-1471.

Grab that tutu and slap on some ballet shoes every Wed. at 7:20 PM when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., presents Beginning Ballet. Call 5417240 for pricing.

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

Call Chris at 728-0918.

Enjoy a night with the white boy who brings a trunk full of hip-hoppafied funk: Philadelphia’s G. Love & Special Sauce, who play the Wilma Theatre at 7:30 PM. $25/$20 advance plus fees at Rockin Rudy’s or www.ticketweb.com.

(See Spotlight in this issue.)

Adult themes round out a dark, German expressionist (are you surprised its dark?) blend of comedy, dance and more when the Montana Actors’ Theatre presents a cabaret at 8 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $7. Buy tickets at www.mtactors.com.

Hump Day isn’t just for binge drinking anymore. It’s also a day for playing games of chance with other like-minded booze lovers when Sean Kelly’s presents Hump-Day Bingo, this and every Wed. at 8 PM. Free. Call 542-1471.

Get your fix of a mix of ballet and jazz dance when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., presents Lyrical Class every Wed. at 8:30 PM. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

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The first time I saw G. Love & Special Sauce perform they were tucked in the corner of a dive bar in Cambridge, Mass. Garrett Dutton, aka “G. Love,” looked about the same as the college crowd milling about the barroom, and he delivered a college-level type performance—comfortably loose, borderline sloppy faux blues with enough of a beat to keep most heads bobbing. I barely remember the music—Harpoon Ale has a way of blurring details—but I do remember having a grand time. And I remember grasping a few more details once G. Love’s name and face soon

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WHERE: The Wilma Theatre WHEN: Wed., Sept. 2, 8 PM HOW MUCH: $25/$20 advance blanketed MTV and pop culture with his megahits, “Cold Beverage” and “Baby’s Got Sauce.”

For an entire generation, those early songs were—and will probably remain as—G. Love’s legacy. But while the rest of us moved on, G. Love continued to plug away with his distinct, easy brand of party-worthy R&B. The Philadelphia native who cut his teeth in Boston has released three solo albums and nine group efforts, including last year’s Superhero Brother on Jack Johnson’s Brushfire Records. He’s also persevered through more than just a fickle music

Wed., when the Old Post Pub hosts a Pickin’ Circle at 9 PM. Free. The answer to this week’s trivia question: Vitreography is an art technique where a fine print is made from a glass matrix.

Tonight’s the night to pound PBR tallboys and marshal enough courage to sing Motörhead’s “Ace of Spades,” or some other badass song of choice, when the Badlander presents Living Squares Karaoke at 9 PM. Free.

A night of punkgrass (bluegrass with punk influences) awaits you when Ohio’s one man wonder band Smokestack and the Foothill Fury plays the Palace at 9 PM. $5. Seattle’s Whitehawk opens.

The tenets of women’s lib broaden to include cheap drinks and DJs spinning dance tracks when Feruqi’s hosts ladies night this and every Wed. at 9 PM. Free.

Fight for the right to belt out a semi-coherent version of The Darkness’ “I Believe in a Thing

industry—G. Love bounced back from vocal surgery in November after suffering from acute vocal hemorrhages to resume his relentless touring schedule.

Musically, not much has changed since that 1994 concert I saw in Boston. The band still sounds laid-back and focused on having fun. I mean, anyone who sings songs like “Peace, Love and Happiness” (the album’s first single), “Who’s Got the Weed?” and “Sweet and Soft” certainly knows how to cater to a carefree crowd. One piece of advice if you attend the Wilma show: Just have fun and don’t try to remember the details.

Called Love” every Wed. during Combat Karaoke at Rowdy’s Cabin, 4880 N. Reserve St., at 10 PM. Free.

Call 543-8001.

Old school funk and soul vibes hit Zootown via our cousin from California, aka Santa Cruz, when Naomi and the Courteous Rudeboys play the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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ment, music and singing program at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

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

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. All classes occur at the Clay Studio headquarters, 1106 Hawthorne St. Unit A. $168/eight week session.

Call 543-0509.

Don’t you think it’s time for your kids to learn the intricacies of pointillism and abstract expressionism? If not, perhaps take them to something less highbrow during Playdate with an Artist at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., at 3 PM. $4.25/free under age 1.

Call 541-7529.

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If your toddler’s movement seems kind of, well, stale, bring them to Creative Movement Class every Thu. at 3:30 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

If art loses hands-down to video games (which is slightly unfortunate, don’t you think?), then the Missoula Public Library’s your gig, where Game On! invites teen gamers to glue their eyes on the big screen and mow snacks at 3:30 PM. Free. Call 721-BOOK. 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.

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

Gypsies come out during Troupe Night class every Thu. at 5:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/month for every class you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after.

Call Blair at 531-3000.

What brings you to the ‘Horse today?

A sense of nostalgia and Two for Ones - we all graduated from UM and we spent a lot of time here. It’s still great.

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Nothing definite. We may come back, or, we may not leave.

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Visit us anytime, after the Market for lunch, after school for refreshments, after work, or as part of a night out on the town.

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

Call 541-7171.

The valley’s haven for yearround thrashers, Fifty two 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.

Old school funk and soul from California’s ultra-liberal college town, aka Santa Cruz, melds perfectly with bubbly microbrews when Naomi and the

Courteous Rudeboys play B i t t e r r o o t B r e w e r y, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free.

Laugh at people in archaic costumes, and be glad you don’t share their romantic shortcomings, when Montana Shakespeare in the Parks presents The Two Gentlemen of Verona at UM’s Oval at 6 PM. Free. Call 994-1220.

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

Swallow your pride, grab up to seven double-spaced pages of your best verbiage, and bring it to this week’s Authors of the Flathead meeting for constructive critique at 7 PM in Room 151 of the Science and Technology Building on the Flathead Valley Community College campus. Free. Call 881-4066.

Cougars aren’t just old ladies looking to score with younger men, they’re also important predators who, along with wolves, help restore and maintain our ecosystem. Find out their importance during a screening of Lords of Nature: Life in a Land of Great Predators at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave., at 7 PM. Free. Discussion to follow. Visit www.lordsofnature.org.

The real hip-hop is over here.

The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., gives you something to pop and lock about every Thu. at 7:20 PM during beginning and intermediate Hip-Hop Class.

Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Transcend the horrors of modern-day living with an introductory lecture on Transcendental Meditation at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., at 7:30 PM. Free.

Call 207-7496 or e-mail montana@tm.org.

Bring yer guitar, bass or other instrument of choice every Thu. night to The Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, when it holds an open-mic style artists showcase at 8 PM. Free.

Interested musicians should Call 541-8463.

Indulge in saccharine pop vocals when 2008 American Idol winner David Cook plays

the Wilma Theatre at 8 PM. $30 at Rockin Rudy’s or www.ticketweb.com.

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

Bowling and karaoke go together like Everclear and driving during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. Get your fix of improvised music with Sandy Bradford and Mark Souhrada when they host the jam at Los Caporales in Columbia Falls at 9 PM. Call 892-5025.

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

(See Scope in this issue.)

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

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

Leave the schwag at home and pack your oney with the bloodshot bluegrass of Idaho’s Stoney Holiday, who play the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. As the days of August end and school rears its ugly head, you hold in your hands a comprehensive list of shows to rock to, plays to stimulate your brainwaves, as well as classes and clubs to spice up your social life. I know there’s plenty more going on, but y’all have to keep me in the know, as I can only keep my finger on the pulse of so much. With that, be sure to send your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Aug. 28, 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.

Well, the Calendar Playa’s a little tuckered out from an action packed weekend of music at Total Fest, but that doesn’t mean he forgot about you, outdoors enthusiasts of the Zoo. I’ve got a lineup of events that weaves you through conservation, light-to-moderately-heavy hikes, kayaking classes, a triathlon and even hunter education courses for novices.

We’ll dive into the week with yet another opportunity to offer your services to Mother Nature when you head to Rawhide as part of the National Forest Foundation and Great Burn Study Group’s 2009 volunteer monitoring backpacking trips to the Great Burn Wilderness area. You’ll depart Fri., Aug. 28, and return Sun., Aug. 30, on a journey to monitor weeds, wildlife, trail conditions, signs and other info critical to understanding management of this precious wildland. If that sounds up your nature-devoted alley, call Beverly Dupree at 240-9901 or e-mail thegreatburn@yahoo.com.

But if you fancy tweaking and pulling rather than taking mental and physical notes for stewardship purposes, I think a knapweed pull trip on Sat., Aug. 29, to the North Fork of the Blackfoot suits your needs. Once you head off at a TBA time with members of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation, your diligent hands will yank those pesky weeds away as you wander along the river like an aimless hippy near the Scapegoat Wilderness. You’re asked to RSVP one week ahead of time, but hurry up and call 387-3808 or visit www.bmwf.org.

Perhaps you’d rather be closer to home whilst restoring our ecosystem. Well then, allow me to recommend Watershed Wednesdays, a weekly get-together where you sop up information about plants and wildlife native to the lower Rattlesnake. Plan to bring a good attitude and work gloves, since you’ll donate those nimble fingers to ongoing restoration activities. If that sounds stimulating, plan to meet this and every Wed. at 6 PM at the Bugbee Nature Area, off Missoula Ave. in the lower Rattlesnake, and do it before you plan to have pints with your buds downtown. Call Andrew at 531-2527 or e-mail rattlesnakecreek.watershedgroup@gmail.com.

Mucking around in dirt isn’t always so fun, and I don’t blame you if you’re not in the mood to toil away and would rather play. If so, I think it’s time for some climbs and hikes suited for both the experienced and the greenhorn. Specifically, I’ll pitch that you join fellow trekkers Fri., Aug. 28, and Sat., Aug. 29, at the Rising Sun Campground in Glacier National Park for the Rocky Mountaineers Fifth Annual Glacier Classic. Once you’ve pitched a tent, get ready for class one (hiking on trails) to class three (rugged off-trail hiking with some use of hands to ascend rocks) hikes, climbs and scrambles. One such jaunt includes a 10.5-mile climb/scramble up to Little Chief Mountain, where you’ll reach elevations of 5900 feet. Of course, there’s plenty more in store, so head over to www.rockymountaineers.com for a full rundown on this trip, which is free (besides camping) and open to the public. Once you’ve made up your mind, signup and secure yourself a campsite by contacting Forest Dean at 240-7612 or e-mailing him at mtnear@gmail.com. You can also try Steve Niday at 721-3790 or seniday@yahoo.com.

Some of those hikes might be too excessive for your fragile body. If that’s the case, and you’re a student at the University of Montana, then I think two different day hikes with the outdoor program at UM’s Fitness and Rec center should fit your bill. The first is an excursion to Lolo Peak on Sun., Sept. 6, but you must register by Wed., Sept. 2. The trip costs $25, but the rewards are plenty, including extravagant views of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, as well as guides and transportation. If homework ruins your Sunday plans, relax on Labor Day, Mon., Sept. 7, with another trip, this time to Cha-PaQnn Peak. This 8-mile trip, which you should be signed up for by

Thu., Sept. 3, also costs $25, but offers you the ability to explore a gorgeous alpine summit west of town, along with transportation and guides. For both trips, call 243-5172.

Once you’ve fully exerted your leg muscles from hiking, give those arms a hefty workout during intro whitewater kayaking classes which run Sept. 4, 8 and 10 from 8:30–10:30 PM at UM’s Grizzly Pool. You’re bound to paddle into being a pro with additional classes Sept. 15 and 17 from 5:30–8:30 PM on the Clark Fork River, as well as an all-day class Sept.

20 on the Blackfoot River. Also note you’ll have to shell out $185 for the course, and make sure to sign up by Tue., Sept. 1. Call 243-2802.

Still, before you hurry off to register, be even speedier in order to land a spot at the First Annual Zootown Sprint Triathlon on Sat., Aug. 29. Registration is $55 and is now full, but you can still secure your name on the waiting list for the affair, which starts early in the morning with a swimming competition at Splash Montana, then moves to a 12.81mile bike race and a ends with a 3.3-mile run. Click over to www.zootowntri.com.

Before I send you off for the remaining week, here’s a reminder to all novice hunters in Seeley Lake and Frenchtown to register for free hunter education classes. The course in Seeley Lake starts Mon., Aug. 31 and registration is Fri., Aug. 28, from 5–7 PM at Seeley-Swan High School, 456 Airport Road in Seeley Lake. Call 542-5500. The class in Frenchtown Photo by Alex Sakariassen meets Sept. 18, 25 and 26, with registration on Mon., Aug. 31, at the Frenchtown Fire Hall administration building, 16875 Marion St., at 7 PM. Call 542-5518.

And for now, that is all. Whether you aim to contribute to the lands, or romp around with Gaia and her fearless waters and mountain peaks, keep on keepin’ on while the sun still burns bright.

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Coming of age Dead Hipster Dance Parties get into a groove

by Erika Fredrickson

Walking into the Badlander on a Thursday Over the past two years the DJs say they’ve look at the next day, similar to other national night at 11 p.m. is like walking onto a movie set. figured out how to read a crowd. They both websites like Cobra Snake and Last Night’s Party, At first, it feels contrived. Young people face the unabashedly love mainstream hip-hop and pop which host photos from urban clubs. stage, dancing madly to hip-hop and re-mixed ’80s music and, generally, when they play stuff “We realized so many people were going to and ’90s classics, all—it seems—dressed in the they’re into and they’re having a good time, all the Flickr website every week to look at the phomost vogue fashions possible. The bar is a blur of goes well. tos,” says Baumann, “searching for crowd shots of cheese-cutter hats, tattoos, bright bangles, strap“Presentation plays into it a lot,” says Gill. themselves.” less sundresses, glam sunglasses and angular hair- “You’ll have something you’re excited about and And for that reason, fashion is also key. Carly styles. Onstage, Dead Hipster DJs Michael Gill and then the crowd may not recognize the song but Jenkins, who recently opened Boom Swagger hair Christopher Baumann take turns masterminding they think maybe you might be onto something. salon, often hosts a “pre-steeze” (stylish and easy) the barrage of dance hits spilling from the speak- So they’ll listen.” party at her house—just her friends and acquainers. Nelly’s “Hot in Herre” is followed by a remix Sometimes, because they also like more tances, cocktails and two hours of getting styled of Eddie Money’s “Take Me Home Tonight,” and underground music, they experiment with the up for Dead Hipster night. so on. Perched above the scene near the DJs, pho- crowd. It doesn’t always go over.

“It’s a dance party and a fashion show and a tographer Abi Halland snaps one photo after the Gill, for instance, plays his music early on in social club,” she says. “It’s like dressing to the other of the crowd like the paparazzi. It’s like a the night, which means the crowd hasn’t yet loos- nines but not to go out and see who you can take mini Studio 54 without the celebrities. ened up. home. It feels more like a group of people playBut, then again, maybe it’s not. That movie-set feeling comes from the fact that such an event seems so un-Missoula, so urban in its fashion sense and self-aware sensuality. Looking closer at the scene you can see that it’s not really all skinny jeans and white sunglasses. You’ve got sweatshirts and baseball caps and hiking boots, too. And it’s also obvious that people are actually having a good time, not just posing for one. And, in that sense, it does seem like Missoula.

“It’s gone pretty consistently well for a while because we have a diverse crowd,” says Gill. “It’s one of those simple bar tricks, too, where if there are people in a bar more people go there.”

It’s been two years since the Badlander first started hosting the popular weekly dance parties Photo courtesy of Abi Halland (which also draws a crowd on Thursdays, admittedly, for its $1 well drinks). Gill started the event Dead Hipster DJs Mike Gill, left in headband, and Chris Baumann play crunk, pop and rock for a crowd at the Badlander. “The great thing is that what gets the crowd going is what gets me going,” says originally with Jon Markley after Baumann. “I play the Notorious B.I.G. every time and it always never ceases to amaze me that everyone they created Dead Hipster produc- gets as excited as I do during that song.” tions and hosted bands at places like the now-defunct Raven Café.

“A lot of the heavy electronic remixes I get ing dress up for one another, seeing how experiThey began with DJing at house parties for really excited about, but…people aren’t quite mental your hair or ensemble can be.” their friends and then moved their operation to warmed up yet,” Gill says. “You can play a song The Dead Hipster Dance Party is a phenomethe Palace before moving it upstairs to the that people don’t like and there is a backlash. You non for Missoula. And while Baumann and Gill Badlander. Six months in, Baumann took over learn to switch the song pretty quickly.” like the fashion, photography and party music Markley’s spot as a DJ and it was about that time And, to get better ideas of what kinds of elements of it, they say they appreciate that it’s that everything really blew up. The parties went music will make the crowd go wild, they found about having a good time, not about hipster onefrom being Baumann and Gill’s circle of friends— just sitting in the Golden Rose next door to the uppsmanship. In that same way, they don’t take with enough room on the floor for break danc- Badlander gives them insight. themselves too seriously. ing—to sold-out, sardine-packed blowouts. Slow “We actually noticed one night when we were “We’re not doing anything original by any nights hit 250 people, and the duo says that a nor- in the Rose that everybody would sing along to means,” says Gill. “It’s pretty much whatever we mal dance party sees 400 paid attendees per night. these certain songs on the jukebox,” says Gill, can do to make it what it is—a dance party.”

“We get bachelor parties, bachelorette parties, “and I’m like, ‘That’s the stuff that we need to Baumann adds, “We’re definitely not satisfygoing-away parties and whenever people have play. There we go, that’s our market research ing artistic creativity by doing it. But it’s really, [visitors] in town they bring them,” says right there.’” really, really fun.”

Baumann. “I never really expected this. I used to Music, in many ways, is just one aspect of the get super nervous and I wouldn’t even show my Dead Hipster Dance Party popularity. Baumann The Dead Hipster Dance Party starts every face until I had to go on. I just figured no one and Gill are sure that having a photographer tak- Thursday at the Badlander at 9 PM. $2. would show up. I still think that no one’s going to ing pictures of the crowd heightens the hype. efredrickson@missoulanews.com show up, but I’m always proven wrong.”

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Adam Hill

Them Dirty Roads self-released

Adam Hill reminds me of older Old 97s, when Rhett Miller still wrote stripped down altcountry tunes peppered with intriguing narrators and odd details. On Them Dirty Roads, the Bellingham, Wash., musician crafts Americana songs filled with images of gold-lit cottonwoods, whiskey days, endless highways, rusted telephones and Wyoming skies. His descriptions of Angeline in “Angeline the Baker”—how the sun shows through her hair as though her head sprouted poppies—show he’s a natural storyteller.

Larry Keel & Natural Bridge Backwoods self-released

It’s easy to see why Larry Keel’s name gets top billing in this foursome, and it’s not for his impressive ability with the guitar. Unless he shoots fireworks out of the frets or plays with his teeth while hanging upside down from the rafters, one very good musician playing bluegrass sounds very much like any other to my tin ear. Keel’s fellow band members, including the missus on bass, also play clean and nimble riffs, sing engaging harmonies, and provide solid backup. So, for any listener who isn’t a major guitar nerd, Keel’s real standout quality is his deep, warm, baritone voice.

Mandolin player Mark Schimick, who provides

Hot Buttered Rum Limbs Akimbo self-released

Like the perfect summer mixed drink, Limbs Akimbo is a delicious concoction with all the right flavors: a solid base of rock-androll-meets-bluegrass with a splash of blues, a twist of country two-step, and a subtle dash of Latin. And, while they’re San Francisco-based, Hot Buttered Rum seems made for the ready-toboogie Missoula crowd, with bouncy, irresistible rhythms and lyrics full of references to Hank Williams, mountain columbine, winter coats, “summertime gals” and “sexy bakery girls.”

Björk Voltaic Nonesuch

As a rule, I’m not into live recordings. I also have little regard for the best-of albums, and I really can’t be bothered with remix collections. But no rule is without exceptions, and Björk is, as a rule, an exception.

True, since 2007, she’s been inundating her fans with new versions of older albums, but her newest product intrigues: The Icelandic Juggernaut is serving up a total multimedia “experience” of her Volta tour in bite-sized portions, one of which is the “live in the studio” album, Voltaic. The effort includes five songs from the 2007 Volta album—not greatly altered—plus new versions of six old favorites.

Hill’s intermetzzos, prelude and coda add a welcome experimental noise element to the album in between otherwise unclouded folk-country tunes. Those recesses include the sounds of radio station static, teapots whistling, car engines starting and other mysterious sounds like what could be the stoking of fire coals and distant thunder.

Only a few times does Hill slip into cliché or overly rhymed poetry, like in “Fueled Up,” which features a tired blues riff. And because 85 percent of the album shines brightly, those moments seem especially disappointing. It’s a strong album, though, and Hill’s added textures—lonely trumpets, clinking glass, the ruminating hum of fiddle strings and piano that sounds like soft rain falling—give it both gravity and romantic glow.

(Erika Fredrickson) Adam Hill plays Zootown Brew Friday, Aug. 28, at 8 PM. Free. the lead vocal on “Ghost Driver,” has the classic high and thin bluegrass voice, but Keel’s pipes are of that variety highly prized in a new metal act or a ’90s grunge band.

Backwoods opens with a cover of Tom T. Hall’s “Faster Horses,” a perfect choice to show off Keel’s manly voice. At the album’s heart is “They,” on which Keel gets positively Vedderesque, and it works to great effect.

Backwoods shows the best aspects of Larry Keel & Natural Bridge: solid playing, bluegrass cred and a little something different. (Ali Gadbow) Larry Keel and the Natural Bridge play Sean Kelly’s Saturday, Aug. 29, at 9 PM. Cover TBA. Keel also plays the River City Roots Festival Sunday, Aug. 30, at 1 PM. Free.

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Rooted in acoustic folk-rock, HBR’s managed to retain the fiddle-mandolin-banjo ethos while making a seamless transition to the plugged-in sound.

Smooth vocal harmonies are bolstered by strong instrumental musicianship, but, while raw talent is necessary for any band, HBR boasts an equally important trait: They’re having a blast. Simply put, this is fun music, and the band sounds like it’s having a great time. Upbeat, danceable songs like “Beneath the Blossoms” and the title track set the tone for the album, complemented by a soused, confessional sing-along perfect for a barroom cowboy-boot shuffle titled “Honkytonk Tequila.”

So, while hot buttered rum is usually considered a winter drink, Hot Buttered Rum is the ideal latesummer refreshment. Heed the band’s lyrics: “You gotta have a drink with me.” (Melissa Mylchreest) Hot Buttered Rum plays the River City Roots Festival Sunday, Aug. 30, at 5 PM. Free.

Probably the album’s most successful reappraisal of an older song, “The Pleasure is all Mine,” was originally recorded a cappella with enough panting and moaning in the mix to really sell the “pleasure” part. The Voltaic version presents “Pleasure” as a wee-hours torch song—intimate in a wholly new way. But then there are misses. “Army of Me” pales in comparison to the 1995 original.

Overall, for new converts or old fans, Voltaic is as fine an iteration of the Björkness as any of her better albums, and die-hard collectors won’t wait for my permission to love it. (Ali Gadbow)

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Thoreau musings Personal ponderings prop up Wild Marsh

by Azita Osanloo

One of the great injustices of divine provi- tide of the world’s increasing heat, the everdence is that Thoreau died before he made it out increasing global exhalations of warmth and carwest. He would have loved it out here—and pos- bon.” In March, he wonders how “as each new terity would have loved whatever collection of season reveals yet another round of new essays that, undoubtedly, would have emerged clearcuts—two hundred or more years of interfrom Thoreau’s “season at the homestead.” connected grace being swept clean—I can’t help It’s a speculation inherent to Rick Bass’ latest but wonder what kind of savage and ineffectual book, or at least to Bass’ motivation for writing people would allow such a thing to be done…” this newest account of his beloved Yaak Valley.

Certainly, Bass writes for his immediate circle “Reading Walden,” he writes, “I’ve always of family, friends, contemporary readership, even wondered what Thoreau would himself, yet he also has a broader have thought of the West—a landaudience in mind. “I cannot help scape he never inhabited though but believe,” he writes, “that natualways wished to. How would the ral historians and scientists who West have shaped those essays, fall in love with the Yaak in the and those values?…It’s an unfair year 2100 will wish just as intensereading of Walden, to be sure, ly that there was some sort of but every time I read it or look at usable record about the condition it, I find myself wondering, Can of this ecosystem…” With this this be lifted and applied to a proposed audience in mind, Bass’ Western landscape?” instinctual leanings toward advoSo begins The Wild Marsh: cacy can, perhaps, be forgiven.

Four Seasons at Home in Montana, What is often harder to ignore— which, in a way, might be considand where Bass differs most signifiered a latter-day Walden of the cantly from Thoreau—is his tendenWest. Like Thoreau, Bass takes us The Wild Marsh cy towards overwrought prose, one through a year in the Yaak Valley, Rick Bass that belies the simple beauty of the hardcover, Houghton peppering his prose with anecdotes very natural wonders he hopes to Mifflin Harcourt of his friends and everyday habits, 384 pages, $26 honor. Bass is strongest when he meditating on his home and life in describes moments: downhill skithe Yaak and, by extension, the lives dwelling in his ing with his daughters, playing Scattergories on New own backyard: grizzlies, lynx, wolves, deer and elk Year’s Eve with friends while it snows outside. (the latter two providing sustenance).

After leaving his job as a petroleum geologist However much one might be tempted to in the mid-1980s, Bass and his wife moved from appoint Bass as the “Thoreau of our times” (and Jackson, Miss., to the Yaak Valley. In the 20 years there have been more than a few), it’s important since, he has written just as many books in homto remember that Bass is a distinctly Bass-ian age to the Yaak and his life therein. The obvious writer (for better and for worse), one who builds question: How much more can one author draw on his own 20-year tradition of drawing, muse- from the same well? like, from the Yaak, his adopted home. Unlike For folks already tired of Bass’ shtick, the Thoreau, whose life in the woods was a temporary answer is, quite simply: not much more. Most experiment, Bass has lived in the Yaak for more everything in this volume can be found, in one than two decades with his wife and two daughters. form or another, in Bass’ previous works, from For Thoreau, the point of the Walden experiment last year’s Why I Came West to 1992’s Winter: was simplicity. For Bass, life in the Yaak, Notes from Montana. However, for folks who unadorned but far from simple, is about seclu- draw some sort of meditative sustenance from sion, ruggedness. He points out that Thoreau Bass’ prolonged conversation with and about the “lived famously only a few minutes from his moth- Yaak, The Wild Marsh offers subtle differences. er, able to join her for midday tea after only a mild Here, Bass brings family members—past and pressaunter, folks up here live miles apart.” ent—into the narrative, which gives him an Thoreau wrote his account of life at Walden opportunity to ponder age. He writes here as a Pond because he thought the community of contemplative middle-aged man, one who has Concord might find it interesting. Similarly, Bass “seen some things,” one who wishes his mother wants to share his seasonal accounts of the Yaak had lived long enough to share the Yaak with him, with the reader, though he presses the point that one who wonders if sharing the Yaak with his “[t]his book, unlike so many of my other Yaak- young children is the right thing to do. It’s in based books, aims to be all celebration and all these musings that we remember why we might observation, without judgment or advocacy.” Fair pick up Bass yet again. enough, but Bass’ life and work have been so steeped in advocacy that even this latest volume Rick Bass reads from The Wild Marsh at can’t really be spared occasional short bursts of Fact & Fiction Sunday, Aug. 30, at 3 PM. ethos. He contemplates how fortunate the Yaak is arts@missoulanews.com to still enjoy four full seasons “despite the rising

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War games Tarantino’s Basterds revels in genre play

by Andy Smetanka

“You haven’t seen war,” boasts the trailer, If anyone’s having anything less than a cracking “until you’ve seen it through the eyes of Quentin good time, it’s Melanie Laurent as Shosanna, a Tarantino.” What hubris! Still, no one excited Jewish refugee-turned-cinema operator who must about seeing Inglourious Basterds is likely to endure the humiliation of hosting the premiere of labor any misapprehensions about Tarantino sud- the Nazi propaganda movie, based on the exploits denly turning into a sentimental Spielberg or a of the war hero (Goodbye Lenin’s Daniel Brühl) philosophical Terrence Malick on the subject, who keeps pestering her for a date. In a movie thick much less a Tarkovsky or an Elem Klimov. with over-the-top hamboning, the smoky, sultry Basterds is slightly indebted to another war movie Laurent provides the necessary counterweight. And genre, but really, there’s no blaming this mar- even she gets to kick a little Kraut arsch in the end. velous mess on anyone but Tarantino, his grotty Naturally, it wouldn’t be Tarantino without a imagination and defining self-indulgence. couple of self-gratifying movie moments. The The genre in question thrived in the 1970s, director’s (generally irritating) obsession with when manly movies like Patton and A Bridge Too encoding undergraduate film studies—yes, I Far seemed to say that war was hell, but also kind know, he’s a self-taught filmmaker—is, yes, for of rad—ah, the good-old days of lanternjawed heroes and one-sided body counts, loquacious death scenes and righteous payback. German soldiers were all inhuman Nazis by association: a flimsy but necessary justification for the atavistic viewing pleasure of Kraut-blasting carnage. No weepy Saving Private Ryan treacle on the soundtrack, either: crisp, brassy martial scores and rat-a-tat snare tattoos carried the day.

Basterds reprises all of these thematic, visual and musical elements to vary- “Reckon you make me some biscuits. Mmm, hmm.” ing degrees of perversity. Parts of it come off like episodic send-ups of The Dirty Dozen and once, actually interesting. Basterds is packed with its ilk; the title itself is a cop from an Italian Dirty references to pre-war German cinema, the most Dozen knock-off. The title sequence, scored by spectacular artifact of which is an enormous color Ennio Morricone, all but telegraphs the director’s poster for G.W. Pabst’s The White Hell of Pitz-Palü apparent intention to make the war movie that plastered to a hoarding on Shosanna’s cinema.

Sergio Leone should have made.

With this single inclusion, Tarantino leapfrogs Granted, the first of five “chapters” nearly Guy Maddin to become the contemporary direcfools you into thinking Tarantino might treat the tor who has done the most to bring a fabulous Holocaust as something besides a plot conven- long-lost German genre, the so-called “mountain ience. The second chapter also hints at straight- picture,” to modern audiences. forward genre exercise, introducing Brad Pitt as Just as tantalizing is his gloss on German an affably brutal Southern sergeant with a hand- wartime film production under the strict control picked squad of Jewish-American commandos of Josef Goebbels, who used his power both to tasked with sowing fear behind enemy lines (their coerce actresses into sex (shown in hilarious cutJewishness has no bearing on the proceedings away here) and distract the German people en whatsoever; even Saving Private Ryan squeezed masse from a losing war with huge, outlandish, in a little Nazi-baiting by a Jewish private). grossly expensive movie spectacles. (I have severBefore long, though, it’s clear that Tarantino is al of these titles in my collection as well, includno more to be bound by genre rules than he is by ing versions of Titanic and The Adventures of Holocaust pieties or Greatest Generation plati- Baron von Munchhausen.) tudes. Basterds is blasphemous to Spielbergian These are film-geek sideshows, of course—but mythologizing, more profane than anything what’s a Tarantino movie if not full of geeky dreamt of by Samuel Fuller: gleefully violent, mind- sideshows? Ultimately Basterds is a rambling shaggylessly amoral and just out to have a good time. dog tale that outstays its welcome by about half an And it is, man, it is—a really, really good time. hour—about the same length of time it frequently There’s plenty of trademark cartoon torture and ditches Pitt and company to focus on the less-interviolence (Pitt and company always leave one hap- esting Shosanna plot. As an action movie, it’s madless Nazi alive to spread the fear, carving a swasti- dening. As entertainment, it’s huge. As a war movie, ka into his forehead to underline the point). well—do you trust the name on the marquee?

Every performance is joyfully juicy, particularly Pitt and the German-born Christoph Waltz as a Inglourious Basterds continues at the conniving SS officer—a character you absolutely Carmike 10. love to hate. Surprisingly slow-moving, Basterds arts@missoulanews.com gives you ample time to do so.

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OPENING THIS WEEK THE FINAL DESTINATION Hillbilly pastimes careen with the grim reaper in this 3-D horrorshow that reeks of overproduced cheese. Carmike 10: 4:15, 7:05 and 9:35 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:45. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no Sun. show at 9. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:20, 2:30, 4:50, 7:15, 9:35 and midnight on Fri. and Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 2, 4:30, 7:15, 9:35. Entertainer in Ronan: 4, 7 and 9.

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

Village 6: Mon.–Sun. at 7:10, 7:40, 9:40 with 10:15 show on Fri. and Sat. and additional Sat.–Sun shows at 1:30, 2, 4:05 and 4:50.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 1:20, 4, 7:05, 9:50 with midnight show Fri. and Sat. Shows Mon.–Thu. at 1:20, 4, 7:05 and 9:35.

taking over the world. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4:15, 7 and 9. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:30, with Sat.–Sun. show at 1:45.

AWAY WE GO This romantic comedy follows a couple about to have their first child and their cross country search for the perfect home. Wilma Theatre: nightly at 9 until Mon., with Sun. matinee at 3.

DISTRICT 9 Peter Jackson produces a film about refugee aliens controlled by a multi-national corporation that cares only about making profits. Carmike 10: 4:20, 7:10 and 9:45 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:45. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 with no Sun. show at 9. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 1:25, 4:10, 6:50 and 9:20 and mid-

members of G.I. JOE work to crush a corrupt Scottish arms dealer named Destro and his esoteric Cobra organization. Carmike 10: 4:15, 7:05 and 9:45 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: nightly at 6:50 and 9:10 PM with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no Sun. show at 9:10. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:35 with midnight show Fri. and Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 3:50, 6:50 and 9:30.

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. Village 6: Mon.–Sun. at 7:45 and 10 and additional Sat.–Sun shows at 1, 3:15 and 5:30.

THE HURT LOCKER War sucks, so confirm those notions when you follow two American soldiers stuck in Iraq as they dodge IEDs and their megalomaniac boss.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 12:45, 3:55, 6:45 and 9:25.

MANAGEMENT Steve Zahn plays a slacker who courts saleswoman Jennifer Aniston, but gets temporarily screwed over by yogurt mogul Woody Harrelson, which begs the question, does lactose equal love? Wilma Theatre: nightly at 7 and Sun. matinee at 1.

O’HORTEN A retired Norwegian man becomes an eccentric once his daily routines are broken, leading him to do things like swim in pools in high heels. Wilma Theatre: nightly at 9 with Sun. matinee at 3.

TAKING WOODSTOCK Grab some tabs of uncle ‘cid and help mom and dad relive the summer of ‘69 in this comedy about the guy who brought Woodstock to his hometown.

Village 6: Mon.–Sun. at 7:05 and 9:35 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:45 and 4:15. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sat. at 1:05, 4:05, 7, 9:40 and midnight. Sun.–Thu. at 1:05, 4:05, 7 and 9:45.

NOW SHOWING 500 DAYS OF SUMMER See what happens when a lovestruck sap woos Zooey Deschanel while holding onto the notion that love cures all. Village 6: Mon.–Sun. at 7 and 9:20. and additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1 and 4.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:10, 2:25, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 with midnight show Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:45, 4:35, 7:20 and 9:30.

ALIENS IN THE ATTIC Follow a band of kids on vacation who try to ward off attacks from alien invaders bent on

The mysterious side-effects of Viagra reveal themselves in O’Horten, which opens Friday at the Wilma Theatre.

night on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:25, 4:10, 7:10 and 9:40. Mountain in Whitefish: 4, 7, 9:15 with Sat.–Sun. show at 1:30.

FOOD, INC. You’ll probably want to become a locavore when you watch this startling documentary about our nation’s food industry. Wilma Theatre: nightly at 7 until Mon., with Sun. matinee at 1.

FUNNY PEOPLE Judd Apatow’s newest flick that flopped follows a comedian who has a near-death experience and features acting from Jason Schwartzman, Adam Sandler and the Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA. Carmike 10: 4, 7 and 10 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1.

G-FORCE Guinea pigs take up spy work for the U.S. government in order to take down a billionaire bent on world takeover in this 3-D kids’ comedy. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 2:25, 6:45, 9 and midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 6:45 and 9.

GI JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA Blatant militarism gets championed as Dennis Quaid and Marlon Wayans, along with other

POST GRAD Bitter college graduates unite! This comedy about post-college job rejections and moving back to mom and dad’s place should find warm welcome with many in Zootown, no?

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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. Carmike 10: 4:15, 7:30 and 10:30 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:15, 4:25, 7:45 and midnight on Fri.–Sat. ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS Follow 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.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:15 and 4:35 and Mon.–Thu. at 1:05 and 3:30.

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS Brad Pitt aims to kick some serious Nazi ass with his Jewish war buddies in this latest offering from Quentin Tarantino. Carmike 10: 4:10, 7:20 and 10:30 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton: nightly at 7 with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no Sun. show at 9.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at noon, 1,

SHORTS A little boy has a psychedelic experience when a rock hits him in the head and spaceships, crocodile armies and giant boogers follow. Carmike 10: 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 2:15, 4:20, 6:55, 9:10 and midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:30, 4:20, 6:55 and 9:10.

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.

Carmike 10: 1:15, 4:15, 7 and 9:30. Pharoahplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10, with Sat. and Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 1:10, 3:45, 7:10 and 9:35.

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

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Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., Aug. 28. 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 27th Bitterroot

The 'root would be fishing EXACTLY like it was last April when the skwalas, nemouras and march browns were out and about other than the fact that conditions and hatches are totally different then that time of year so it'll be NOTHING like it was in April. It's not much like June either. Make sure you're not using salmonflies, skwalas or other crappy junk. Water temps on this river aren't even close to 48 degrees today and heat of the day fishing won't be your best. Make sure, too, that you don't pull over to pick morels this week either 'cause they're long gone. Remember too, that April fished EXACTLY like late August as well other than the fact that there weren't the tricos, fall gray drakes, hoppers and rusty spinners that are staples in late summer. It wasn't very good early and late in the day like it can be in August either although the fall light can sometimes produce good midday fishing regardless.

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JULIE & JULIA This adaptation of two memoirs revolves around cooking, blogging about cooking and the quest to become a culinary master, all thanks to cookbooks by Julia Child. Carmike 10: 4:15, 7:00 and 9:45 and additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 and midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:10, 3:55, 6:40 and 9:30.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton: nightly at 6:50 and 9:10 with Sat.–Sun. matinee at 3 and no 9:10 show Sun. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: nightly at 4:15, 7:15, 9:30 and Sat.–Sun. show at 1:45.

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everything from big attractor dries to tiny nymphs under an indicator. The lower river is giving up BIG fish on dries early and late in the day and probably midday now too as the tubing brigade is forced back into productive mode as school begins. Mid river and higher, the fishing's been good pretty much from the time you hit the water. Chernobyl type stuff along with big hoppers and generally leggy attractors have been moving big fish to the surface again. Hanging a #14 p-tail or olive p-tail under your dry will get you a bunch more fish. The streamer fishing is decent mid river (between about County Line and River Bend) but so-so everywhere else.

Clark Fork

The fall drakes and trico spinners along with spruce moths, hoppers and ants are making for some decent midday fishing in the less intense fall light these days. Yesterday an oversized parachute adams (about a 10 for the fall drake) was pretty much the deal on rising fish but skittering anything Blackfoot light colored and bushy through the faster riffles Good stuff all along the Blackfoot these days using was convincing fatties there was a spruce moth to

be had. Good numbers of tricos are coming off pretty much river wide but fairly spot specific.

Generally a small trico spinner will work on the risers, but if you're getting GOOD drifts on 6X and being ignored, fish a royal wulff in an 18 at em. If that doesnt work, go to a #12 and if that doesn't work a red tarantula in a 10 will. The evening caddis is still making for gonzo fishing and chasing fins with goddards, elk hairs or soft hackles is still giving up some of the best fishing of the day for 2 hours before dark.

Rock Creek

What else can we say, it's fishing very well all along the entire length of the creek - STILL. Good hatches of PMDs, spruce moths, hoppers, caddis, etc have the fish feeding non selectively. We have noticed a pretty discernible preference towards medium to smaller sized bugs recently, and longer than normally required drag free drifts have been key also. Hoppers in a size 12 along with a purple haze in a 14 off the back have been money. The upper river has been REALLY productive for nice fish in the shallows that're usually barren. The upper river has also been giving it up on spruce

moths. Good stuff on the creek today, even in the heat. Today's flow near Clinton is 401, cfs. Beware of the speed trap around mm 7 or so and remember that not all of the poisonous tree monkeys which were introduced as a biological control for the growing wolf population up here have been recaptured. They're out there, they're out of control and they're PISSED!

Missouri

It's fishing with PMDs, hoppers, ants & the like, but in the bright conditions, you'll do considerably better underneath or fishing early and late in the day.

Orange, gray or pink scuds along with palaminos, rs2s, beerheads, lightning bugs, etc will all be effective under an indicator. Look for pods of risers in the back channels & foamies and feed them smaller cripples or swing tiny soft hackles over their heads to make 'em pay. The streamer action has been so-so in the last week or so and the bright sun will keep it that way today. The caddis have gotten going again in the evenings due to the hot days and this hatch is providing some of the best dryfly action of the day. Today's flow below Holter is 4710 cfs.

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—Enjoying Sexuality I’d probably be less “conventional” if I were around 13 or 80, the ages at which adolescent rebellion seems to strike—both perfect times to act out by donning the T-shirt “Ask me about my nipple rings.”

These days, I find it often makes sense to follow convention—all that boring stuff like stopping at red lights, greeting people with “Hello” instead of “Dirtbag!” and motioning the waiter over instead of beaning him on the head with a roll. In giving advice, however, I don’t care about what’s conventional or unconventional, just what seems to work. In this case, for most men, that’s whatever keeps their wife or girlfriend from keeping them up all night with her weeping.

Had you bowed to the convention of reading before dashing off criticism, you might’ve noticed that I didn’t say men were rude to look, just rude to let themselves get caught by the woman they’re with. It is big of you to allow your woman to go around staring at men, but it doesn’t work quite the same for the ladies. Men are far more aroused by visuals alone, while most women seem to need touch, talk, and connection, and male and female behavior in strip clubs best lays out the difference. Men often go alone, in hopes of having some sort of erotic experience. Women mainly go in groups, reports sociologist Beth Montemurro, as a bonding experience with their girlfriends. She found women were “rarely” turned on by the male strippers; instead, they described the experience as “disgusting,” “mortifying,” “humiliating” and “funny.” So, sure, just like you, a woman might buy herself a lap dance, but when’s the last time you got one because you were look-

ing to make your buddies squeal with laughter?

Although beautiful young women stampede to marry goatish old men with private jets, few men would take the homely lady CEO over the hot young temp. Women are well aware that men are very looks driven, so while you may convince some gullible young thing that you’re only checking out other women to liberate her from “repressive pain,” she isn’t going to feel too hot watching you give yourself whiplash whenever another woman walks by. And no, not even if you include her in the “fun” by letting her follow behind you and mop up your trail of drool, or as you like to call it, your “uninhibited overflowing of joy.”

CAREFUL WHAT YOU WITCH FOR If you love someone, and they hurt you, why do you survive on the desire to see them wounded? The man I’ve had a passionate on-again, off-again relationship with for eight years recently told me our getting back together was a mistake, and that he’s taking up with another woman…my competition. I love him, and want to be nice about it long enough to get some cold revenge.

—Feeling Evil If you love something…slash its tires? Oh, wait—I think that’s not quite how it goes. A lot of people feel like you do, and justify it with stuff like, “You know, there’s a thin line between love and hate.” No, there isn’t. There’s just a thin line between not getting what you want and hating the person who isn’t giving it to you. If your love for somebody is contingent on being wanted by them, you don’t really love them; you love being wanted. And while we’re on accepted wisdom that isn’t actually wise, revenge is not “best served cold” (or with a glass of Prosecco); it’s best not served at all.

You’ve got limited time on the planet, and spending it prosecuting the past is just going to mire you in feeling rejected. And what did the guy do that was so terrible? Start loving somebody else? That’s exactly what you should do, and maybe can, if you work on accepting that it’s over and move on—and not just because the judge orders you to stay 75 yards away at all times.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What have you always wanted to yell from the pinnacle of the hill in the distance? This is the week to go there and yell it. What is that safe way of getting high that you’ve always wanted to try but never had the time for before? This is the week to try it. What is the alluring phenomenon that is always going on just outside the reach of your ordinary awareness—the seductive pull you have always somehow resisted? This is the time to dive in and explore it. (Thanks to John Averill for his inspiration in composing this horoscope. His tweets are at twitter.com/wiremesa.)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden because of an incident involving an apple, right? Wrong. Many biblical scholars suspect the fruit in question was either a fig, grape, or pomegranate. I mention this, Gemini, because I think you’d be wise to review your own personal myth of exile. It’s time to question the story you have been telling yourself about how your paradise got lost. Evidence you discover in the coming days just might suggest that everything you’ve believed is at least half-wrong—that your origins are different from what you imagine. And as for the forbidden fruit that supposedly led you astray: You may realize that it was actually a precious medicine.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The coming week will be prime time to perform minor miracles without trying too hard. You’ll probably have maximum success if you refrain from hoping and worrying about achieving maximum success. The cosmic currents will be likely to bend and shape themselves to accommodate your deeper needs if you proceed on the assumption that they know, better than your little ego does, what’s best for you. To get yourself in the proper frame of mind to do challenging tasks without expending strenuous effort, you might want to check out this photo spread of people practicing drunk yoga: tinyurl.com/n5z533.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Are you familiar with the phenomenon known as a fire whirl?

It happens on rare occasions when a fire produces a tornado-like vortex that rises up vertically, spinning madly. It’s beautiful to behold but is not something you ever want to be close to. I bring this to your attention in the hope that you will not let yourself turn into the human equivalent of a fire whirl in the coming week. You’re not yet close to being one, but there are signs you’re headed that way. With just a modicum of adjustment, you can ensure that you’ll be more like a blaze in a fireplace or a wild but controlled bonfire on a beach—not a fire whirl.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I was listening to a sports talk show on the radio. The host had recently discovered Twitter, and was pleased with how many fans he had already accumulated. But he was not at all happy with the words “Twitter” or “tweet.” Too effeminate, he said. Not macho enough for a he-man like himself to use comfortably. In fact, he promised that he would never again refer to his Twitter messages as “tweets,” but would hereafter call them “spurts.” Instead of “Twitter,” he would say “Twister.” I encourage you to draw inspiration from his example, Virgo. You’re in an astrological phase when you can and should reconfigure anything that doesn’t suit your needs or accommodate your spirit, whether it’s the language you use, the environments you hang out in, or the processes you’re working on.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Years ago, a TV sitcom called “The Andy Griffith Show” ran for seven seasons on CBS. Its star, Any Griffith, played a mild-mannered sheriff in a small town in North Carolina. His sidekick was Barney Fife, a bumbling deputy with a sweet disposition. Shortly after he left the show, Griffith had a dream in which he thrashed and pummeled his co-star. When he asked his psychiatrist about the meaning of this dream violence, the shrink speculated that he was trying to kill off his old image. I recommend that exact strategy to you now, Libra. Don’t actually wreak any real-life mayhem. Rather, see if you can have a dream or two in which you destroy a symbol of the life you’re ready to leave behind.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A woman living in China’s Jilin province got married in a wedding gown with a train that was 1.4 miles long. Lin Rong’s dress was decorated with 9,999 red silk roses and took three months to sew. In the spirit of her record-breaking ritual, Aquarius I encourage you to be extravagant and imaginative as you celebrate a great union in the coming weeks. You have an astrological mandate to think big as you carry out a rite of passage that will lead to an upgrade in the role that collaboration and symbiosis play in your life.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Close your eyes and imagine you’re in a meadow as rain falls. Inhale the aroma of the earth as the ground is soaked. Dwell in the midst of that scent for a while, allowing it to permeate your organs and nerves. Feel its life-giving energy circulating through you. Give yourself to the memories it evokes. In my astrological opinion, experiences like this are what you need most in the coming week. Can you think of some others that would speak directly to your animal intelligence? It’s a perfect time to please and excite the part of you that is a soft, warm creature.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What life will you be living at noon on September 1, 2014? Who will you be? How thoroughly will your dreams have come true? What kind of beauty and truth and love and justice will you be serving? Will you look back at the time between August 27 and September 21, 2009 and sigh, “If only I had initiated my Five Year Master Plan at that ripe astrological moment”? Or on September 1, 2014 will you instead be able to crow, “I can truly say that in these past five years I have become the president of my own life”?

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PUBLIC NOTICES MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PASSAGE OF RESOLUTION RELATING TO RURAL SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 8497; DECLARING IT TO BE THE INTENTION OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS TO CREATE THE DISTRICT FOR THE PURPOSE OF UNDERTAKING CERTAIN LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS AND FINANCING THE COSTS THEREOF AND INCIDENTAL THERETO THROUGH THE ISSUANCE OF RURAL SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT BONDS SECURED BY THE COUNTY’S RURAL SPECIAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT REVOLVING FUND. MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on August 12, 2009, the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County, Montana (the “County”), adopted a Resolution of Intention to Create Rural Special

Improvement District No. 8497 (the “District”) for the purpose paying a portion of the costs of improvements to benefit certain property located in the County (the “Improvements”), including costs associated with the sale and the security of rural special improvement district bonds of the County drawn on the District in the amount of $118,000 (the “Bonds”), the creation and administration of the District and the funding of a deposit to the County’s Rural Special Improvement District Revolving Fund (the “Revolving Fund”). The Improvements shall be constructed and installed pursuant to plans and specifications prepared and approved by the County Director of Public Works and WGM Group, Inc., of Missoula, Montana, the engineers for the District.. A complete copy of the Resolution of Intention (the “Resolution”) is on file with the County Clerk and Recorder which more specifically describes the nature of the Improvements, the boundaries

and the area included in the District, the location of the Improvements and other matters pertaining thereto and further particulars..

The Improvements consist of improving water mains in the Williams Addition Community Water System to City of Missoula (the “City”) standards; paying costs of abandoning pumps and connecting the Williams Addition Community Water System to the City’s sanitary sewer system, paying sewer system development fees and (other fees) to the City and paying costs of issuance and a deposit to the County’s Revolving Fund. The total estimated cost of the Improvements and related expense is $169,117. The County proposes to issue Bonds in the principal amount of $118,000 to pay a portion of the costs of the Improvements.

The following sources of money have been committed for the Improvements: $41,000 from the Missoula County Water Quality District; $6,000 from the City; and $5,000 from Waldo

Williams Development, LLP. The Bonds are to be payable from special assessments to be levied against property in the District, which property will be specially benefited by the Improvements, in an amount not less than $118,000. All properties in the District will be assessed for their proportionate share of the costs of the Improvements. The total estimated cost of the Improvements to be financed from the proceeds of the Bonds is $118,000, and shall be assessed against each lot, tract or parcel of land in the District equally, such that each of the 41 lots, tracts or parcels in the District shall be assessed $2,878.. All property owners in the District have received notice of the requirements for connection to the City Sewer System..

The County would issue the Bonds in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $118,000 in order to finance a portion of the costs of the Improvements. Principal of and interest on the Bonds will be paid

from special assessments levied against the property in the District in the aggregate principal amount of $118,000 and such payment will be secured by the Revolving Fund.

Subject to the limitations of Montana Code Annotated, Section 7-12-4222, the general fund of the County may be used to provide loans to the Revolving Fund or a general tax levy may be imposed on all taxable property in the County to meet the financial requirements of the Revolving Fund. On Wednesday, September 23, 2009, at 1:30 p.m., in the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 2nd Floor, Room 201, Missoula, Montana, the Board of County Commissioners will conduct a public hearing and pass upon all written protests against the creation or extension of the District, or the making of Improvements that may be filed in the period hereinafter described..

Written protests against the creation or extension of the District and the making of the Improvements may be

filed by an agent, person, firm or corporation owning real property within the proposed District whose property is liable to be assessed for the Improvements. Such protest must be in writing, identify the property in the District owned by the protestor and be signed by all owners of the property. Such protests must be delivered to the County Clerk and Recorder, Missoula County Courthouse Annex, Missoula, Montana not later than 5:00 p.m., M.T., on Monday, September 21, 2009. Further information regarding the proposed District or the Bonds or other matters in respect thereof may be obtained from Jonathan Gass, WGM Group, Inc., 3021 Palmer St, Missoula, MT 59808-1672, Phone (406) 728-4611 or Amy Rose, Missoula County RSID Office, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, Montana or by telephone at (406) 258-3723. Dated: August 12, 2009.. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF THE MISSOULA

COUNTY, MONTANA /s/ Vickie Zeier, Clerk &Recorder/Treasurer MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING MISSOULA COUNTY RIGHT-OFWAY EXCAVATION PERMIT FOR THE INSTALLATION OF A SANITARY SEWER MAIN IN THE COUNTY RIGHT-OF-WAY The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing on a Missoula County right-ofway excavation permit for the installation of a sanitary sewer main in the County Right of Way the located within the Gleneagle at Grantland Subdivision. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing Wednesday, September 2, 2009, at 1:30 p.m. in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may speak at the hearing and/or submit written or other materi-

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PUBLIC NOTICES als to the Commissioners at the hearingor by mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, FAX (406) 721-4043. Additional information on the hearing may be obtained from Mark Bellon at TerritorialLandworks, Inc., located at 620 W Addison, Missoula MT 59801 or by calling (406) 721-0142; or Brent O’Connor at Missoula County Public Works, located at 6089 Training Drive, Missoula MT 59808 or by calling (406) 258-4753.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ANNEXATION TO MISSOULA RURAL FIRE DISTRICT. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held on the 2nd day of September, 2009 beginning at 1:30 p.m. in Room 201, Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, on a petition for annexation into the Missoula Rural Fire District for the following area: SUID: 6003379 OWNER: Ken Staninger. LEGAL DESCRIPTION: SW 1/4 Section 21, Township 14, Range 19, Tract C-1, COS 5183.

PROPERTY ADDRESS: 1221 Rankin Road, Missoula, Montana 59808, Missoula County, MT. (For complete legal descriptions, see map on file in the Clerk & Recorder’s Office, 200 West Broadway, 2nd Floor). AND THAT all interested persons should appear at the above mentioned time and place to be heard for or against said petition. Written protest will be accepted by the Commissioner’s Office, Room 204, Missoula County Courthouse Annex, Missoula, Montana 59802, prior to the hearing day. BY ORDER of the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County Montana. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier, Clerk & Recorder/Treasurer By: Kim Cox, Assistant Chief Deputy, Clerk & Recorder/Elections, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 (406) 258-3241. Date: July 27, 2009 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF RIGHT OF WAY ENCROACHMENT The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing on a proposed water main utility encroachment in the Miller Creek Road right of way south of the Linda Vista Boulevard intersection. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing on September 2, 2009 at 1:30PM in Room 201 of Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may speak at the hearing and/or submit written or other materials to the Commissioners at the hearing or by mail, fax or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, FAX (406) 721-4043. Additional information on the hearing may be obtained from Gilbert Larson at Professional Consultants, Inc. 3115 S. Russell Street, Missoula MT 59801 or by calling (406) 728-1880.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-07-381 Dept. No. 4 SUMMONS. PAUL NEAL COOLEY, Plaintiff, v. LARUE THOMAS, Defendant. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiff within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default, for the relief demanded in the Complaint. Witness my hand and the seal of said Court, this 19th day of June, 2009. (SEAL) /s/ Diane Overholtzer, Deputy Clerk 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. 2 Cause No. DP-09-118 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF FRANK C. WHITMOYER, 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 LINDA J. ARMSTRONG, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Marsillo & Schuyler, 103 South 5th Street

East, Missoula, MT 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 25th day of June, 2009. /s/ Linda J. Armstrong, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DV-09-645 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION. KATHERINE GAYVERT, Plaintiff, v. LONDON SCOTT, Defendent. TO: London Scott, 26600 Ocean View Drive, Malibu, CA 90265-2828.

London Scott, London Hair Lounge, 23852 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA 90265.

London Scott, London Hair Lounge, 22601 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu, CA 90265.

YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to appear and answer the Complaint and Demand for Jury Trial in this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of herewith served upon you.

You are directed to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiff’s attorneys within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the date of service. If you fail to appear and answer as above required, judgment will be taken against you by default according to the Complaint filed herein for the relief demanded in the Complaint. WITNESS my hand and seal of said Court this 21st day of August, 2009. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court By: Angela M. Phillips, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Probate No. DP-09-100 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF GORDON M. JENSEN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Gordon S. Jensen, P.R., return receipt requested, c/o Worden Thane P.C., PO Box 4747, Missoula, Montana 59806, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 18th day of August, 2009. /s/ Gordon S. Jensen, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Probate No. DP-09-126 Department No. 1 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RALPH J. DIETRICH, 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 Stephen J. Dietrich, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o SOL & WOLFE Law Firm, PLLP at 101 East Broadway #300, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court at Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802.

DATED this 9th day of August, 2009. /s/ Stephen J. Dietrich, c/o SOL & WOLFE Law Firm, PLLP, 101 East Broadway #300, Missoula, MT 59802 MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY, Dept. No. 3 John W. Larson Probate No. DP-09-145 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF LUVERNE HULDA JENSEN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Nancy Jo Johnson, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 1308-A Empire Road, Dickinson, ND 58601, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. Dated this 18th day of August, 2009. /s/ Nancy Jo Johnson, Personal Representative, 1308-A Empire Road, Dickinson, ND 58601 NOTICE OF SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST. Deed of Trust: Dated November 8, 2007 Grantors: Stephen G. Steadele and Dawn R. Steadele 9916 Butler Creek Road, Missoula, Montana 59808 Original Trustee: Title Services, Inc. P.O. Box 8223, Missoula,, Montana 59807. Beneficiary: First Security Bank of Missoula, P.O. Box 4506, Missoula, Montana 59806. Successor Trustee: Christopher B. Swartley Attorney at Law Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC, P.O. Box 8957, Missoula, Montana 59807- (8957 Date and Place of Recordation: November 8, 2007, Book 808, Page 1035, Micro Records of Missoula County, Montana. The undersigned hereby gives notice that on the 1st day of December, 2009, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. at the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, West Broadway side, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, Christopher B. Swartley, as Successor Trustee under the above-described instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of the above-named Trustee, Successor Trustee, and Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, without warranty or covenant, express or implied, as to title or possession, in the following described real property: Tract A of Certificate of Survey No. 5858, located in the Southeast OneQuarter of Section 17, Township 14 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana. Subject to easements and encumbrances of record. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are the failure of the above-named Grantors, and all of their successors and assigns, to pay at maturity on August 10, 2008 all principal provided for in the Deed of Trust in the amount of One Hundred Seventy-two Thousand Ninetynine and 31/100ths Dollars ($172,099.31); together with accruing interest; and late charges in the amount of Fifty Dollars ($50.00); reconveyance fee in the amount of Forty-seven Dollars ($47.00); and a contractor advance in the amount of One Thousand Fifty-three and 05/100ths Dollars ($1,053.05) to protect the property.. The

sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is One Hundred Seventy-two Thousand Ninety-nine and 31/100ths Dollars ($172,099.31) in principal, plus interest thereon at the rate of Eight and Onequarter Percent (8.25%) from and after the 10th day of August 2008 through June 23, 2009, in the amount of Twelve Thousand Three Hundred Fifteen and 71/100ths Dollars ($12,315.71), plus late charges and all costs, expenses, attorney’s and trustee’s fees as provided by law.. DATED this 6th day of July, 2009. /s/ Christopher B. Swartley. Christopher B. Swartley, Successor Trustee. Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC, P.O. Box 8957 Missoula, Montana 59807- (8957. STATE OF MONTANA :ss.

County of Missoula This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 6th day of July, 2009, by Christopher B. Swartley, Trustee . /s/ Roxie Hausauer Notary Public for the State of Montana. Printed name: Roxie Hausauer NOTARIAL SEAL) Residing at: Lolo, MT My commission expires: 1/6/2013 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 2006WM1. 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 USAForeclosure.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

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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 USAForeclosure.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 2005-WF2. 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 as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.05026) 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 USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7037.17301) 1002.108095-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/04/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200600386, Bk 767, Pg 216, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Terry Koski and Marisu Koski, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and First American Title Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 41 of Pleasant View Homes-Phase I, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 03/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of June 30, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $204,748.77. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $198,507.65, 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 9, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.05172) 1002.127955-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/14/08, recorded as Instrument No. 200803342, Bk-813, Pg437, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which William C. McMahon and Kimberly D. McMahon, husband and wife was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 426 of Pleasant View Homes No. 4, Phase 2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and

the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust.

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 03/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of July 8, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $227,858.69. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $219,459.78, 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 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 as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.05287) 1002.128642-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/02/04, recorded as Instrument No. 200425240, Bk. 739, Pg. 218, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Randy P. Sessions and Kendra K. Sessions as joint tenants was Grantor, Montana Mortgage Company was Beneficiary and First American Title of Montana, Inc. Title Co. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title of Montana, Inc. Title Co. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 2 in Block 4 of El Mar Estates Phase II, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200429966, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. 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 July 9, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $142,904.49. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $137,757.76, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on November 17, 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 USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.05346) 1002.129127-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/19/03, recorded as Instrument No. 200331389, Bk 715, Pg 1138, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Mikeal Piediscalzzi and Kindra Piediscalzzi, as joint tenants with right of survivorship was Grantor, Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. solely as nominee for Mann Financial Inc. d/b/a Mann Mortgage was

Beneficiary and Insured Titles, LLC. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles, LLC. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 13 in Block 7 of Lakeview Addition, 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 Wells Fargo Bank, NA. 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 04/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of July 10, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $113,082.37. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $110,409.96, 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 19, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks).

The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.05635) 1002.129408-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE T.S. No. 09-0112456 Title Order No. 090557413 The following legally described trust property to be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned trustee will, on 12/16/2009, at the hour of 11:00 AM, sell at public auction to the highest bidder for cash, the interest in the following described real property which the Grantor has or had power to convey at the time of execution by him of the said Trust Deed, together with any interest which the Grantor his successors in interest acquired after the execution of said Trust Deed, to satisfy the obligations thereby secured and the costs and expenses of sale, including reasonable charge by the trustee, at the following place: On the front steps to the County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Mt.. Recontrust Company, N.A. is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which Cris Boller as Grantors, conveyed said real property to Charles J Peterson as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary

by Trust Indenture Dated 04/10/2006 and recorded 04/14/2006, in Document No. 200608371 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 772 at Page Number 1620 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: Tract 7A-1 of Certificate of Survey No. 4266, located in the East OneHalf of Section 10, Township 15 North, Range 22 West, P.M.M. Missoula County, Montana. Property Address: 20500 Spotted Fawn Rd, Huson, MT 59846. The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held

by BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP FKA Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP There is a default by the Grantor or other person(s) owing an obligation, the performance of which is secured by said Trust Deed, or by their successor in interest, with respect to provisions therein which authorize sale in the event of default of such provision; the default for which foreclosure is made is Grantor’s failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 05/01/2009, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. Together with any default in the payment of recurring obligations as they become due. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $241,119.40 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.375% per annum from 04/01/2009 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture. The beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. Dated: 8/19/2009

PUBLIC NOTICES R E C O N T R U S T C O M PA N Y, N . A .

Successor Trustee 2380 Performance Dr, TX2-985-07-03 Richardson, TX 75082 ASAP# 3211337 08/20/2009, 08/27/2009, 09/03/2009 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 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 19, 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: LOTS 8, 9 AND 10 IN BLOCK 11 OF BECKS HOME ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF MISSOULA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT

THEREOF. A.P.N.: 1441308 George S. Garr, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Deborah H. Bishop, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated November 2, 2007 and recorded November 6, 2007 as document number 200729203, in Bk-808, Pg-840.. The beneficial interest is currently held by Aurora Loan Services, LLC. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,084.47, beginning February 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of May 13, 2009 is $178,747.37 principal, interest at the rate of 9.125% now totaling $5,973.12, late charges in the amount of $132.06, escrow advances of $758.35, and other fees and expenses advanced of $24.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $45.31 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 9, 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 9, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3223489 08/20/2009, 08/27/2009, 09/03/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on Thursday, the 15th day of October, 2009, at the hour of 10:00 a.m., at the front door of the Missoula County Courthouse, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802, Martin S. King, Attorney at Law, Successor Trustee, in order to satisfy the obligations set out below, has been directed to sell and has elected to sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, payable at the time of sale, and without warranty or covenant, express or implied as to title, possession, encumbrances, condition, or otherwise, the interest of the Successor Trustee, Martin S. King, and of the Grantor COREY WILLIAMSON in and to the following described real property, situated in Missoula, Montana, to wit: Lot 44A of NORTH HALF OF SCHOOL ADDITION, TRACT15, LOTS 43A & 44a, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. The Real Property or its address is commonly known as Lot 44A of North Half of School Addition, Missoula, MT. Said sale will be made in accordance with the statutes of the State of Montana, and the terms and provisions of: that certain Deed of Trust recorded May 12, 2008, in

Book 818 at page 1123 as Document No. 200810747 in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, wherein COREY WILLIAMSON is Grantor, FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MONTANA, INC. is the named Beneficiary, and INSURED TITLES, LLC is the named Trustee; that certain Modification of Deed Trust dated August 26, 2008, and recorded September 18, 2008, in Book 826 at page 832 in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana; that certain Appointment of Successor Trustee dated March 24, 2009, and recorded June 1, 2009, in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana, in Book 840 at page 826 as Document No. 200912987, wherein the Beneficiary substituted Trustee Insured Titles, LLC with Martin S. King, attorney at law, as Successor Trustee. The foreclosure is made because the Grantor, COREY WILLIAMSON, and his co-borrowers, have defaulted in the terms of said Deed of Trust and the corresponding Promissory Note in that they have failed to pay the payment due upon maturity of said Note and otherwise defaulted on said Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the terms of the Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has exercised its option to declare the full amount secured by such Deed of Trust immediately due and payable. That the principal sum now owing on the obligation secured by said Deed of Trust is the sum of Four Hundred Sixty-five Thousand Fifteen and 74/100 Dollars ($465,015.74), together with interest at the default rate of 18.00% per annum, until the date of sale. That on the date of sale, presuming no other payments are made and that the sale is not postponed, there will be due and owing the sum of Four Hundred Sixty-five Thousand Fifteen and 74/100 Dollars ($465,015.74) in principal; Sixty Thousand Nine Hundred Ninety-four and 85/100 Dollars ($60,994.85) in interest; and One Hundred and No/100 Dollars ($100.00) in late fees, totaling the sum of Five Hundred Twenty-six Thousand One Hundred Ten and 59/100 Dollars ($526,110.59), together with costs and expenses of foreclosure and related trustee fees, costs and attorney fees allowable by law. DATED this 3rd day of June, 2009. /s/ Martin S. King, Successor Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA) :ss. County of Missoula).

On the 3rd day of June, 2009, before me, the undersigned a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Martin S. KIng, Attorney at Law, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within Notice of Trustee’s Sale as Successor Trustee, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same as such Successor Trustee. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Mary Ellen O’Donnell, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Florence, MT. My commission expires: 1/15/2011 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on Tuesday, the 20th day of October, 2009, at the hour of 10:00 a.m., at the front door of the Missoula County Courthouse, located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, Martin S. King, Attorney at Law, Successor Trustee, in order to satisfy the obligations set out below, has been directed to sell and has elected to sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, payable at the time of sale, and without warranty or covenant, express or implied as to title, possession, encumbrances, condition, or otherwise, the interest of the Successor Trustee, Martin S. King, and of the Grantors PRINGLE LANDHOLDING, LLC, in and to the following described real property, situated in Missoula County, Montana, to wit: A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NW 1/4 OF SECTION 28, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 22 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 917.

The Real Property or its address in commonly known as 28030 Highway 10 West, Huson, MT 59846. Said sale will be made in accordance with the statutes of the State of Montana, and the terms and provisions of: that certain Deed of Trust dated October 31, 2007, and recorded November 2, 2007, in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, in Book 808 at Page 517 as Document No. 200728880, wherein PRINGLE LANDHOLDING LLC is Grantor, FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF MONTANA, INC. is the named Beneficiary, and FIRST AMERICAN TITLE COMPANY is the named Trustee; that certain Appointment of Successor Trustee dated October 27, 2008, and recorded October 28, 2008, in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana in Book 828 at page 860 as Document No. 200824474, wherein the Beneficiary substituted Trustee First American Title Company with Martin S. King, attorney at law, as Successor Trustee; and that certain Loan Modification Agreement dated April 8, 2009. This foreclosure is made because the Grantor,

PRINGLE LANDHOLDING, LLC, and its successors in interest, have defaulted in the terms of said Deed of Trust and the corresponding Promissory Note in that it has failed to pay the monthly payments and otherwise defaulted on said Deed of Trust and that certain Loan Modification Agreement dated April 8, 2009, and pursuant to the terms of the Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has exercised its option to declare the full amount secured by such Deed of Trust immediately due and payable. That the principal sum now owing on the obligation secured by said Deed of Trust is the sum of Four Hundred Sixty-four Thousand Six Hundred Nineteen and 04/100 Dollars ($464,619.04), together with interest at the default rate of 18% per annum, until the date of sale. That on the date of sale, presuming no other payments are made and that the sale is not postponed, there will be due and owing the sum of Four Hundred Sixty-four Thousand Six Hundred Nineteen and 04/100 Dollars ($464,619.04) in principal; Eighty-two Thousand Three Hundred Seventy-six and 53/100 Dollars ($82,376.53) in interest; and Seven Hundred and No/100 Dollars ($700 00) in late fees, totaling the sum of Five Hundred Fortyseven Thousand Six Hundred Ninety-five and 57/100 Dollars ($547,695.57), together with costs and expenses of foreclosure and related trustee fees, cost and attorney fees allowable by law. DATED this 17th day of June, 2009. /s/ Martin S. King, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA) : ss.

County of Missoula). On the 17th day of June, 2009, before me, the undersigned a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Martin S. King, Attorney at Law, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within Notice of Trustee’s Sale as Successor Trustee, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same as such Successor Trustee. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Rhonda M. Kolar, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, MT My commission expires: January 24, 2012

bid conference is optional. ENGINEER will transmit to all prospective Bidders of record such Addenda as ENGINEER considers necessary in response to questions arising at the conference. Oral statements may not be relied upon and will not be binding or legally effective. Before a contract will be awarded, the District will conduct investigations to determine the performance record and ability of the apparent low Bidder to perform the construction specified. Upon request, the Bidder shall submit information as deemed necessary by the District to evaluate the Bidder’s qualifications. The District reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to determine which bid is, in the District’s judgment, the lowest responsible bid. The District also reserves the right to waive any informalities, irregularities, or minor deviations in any bid and to delete certain items listed in the bid. A detailed listing of bid items and contractual specifications are described in the Project Manual. Published this 27th day of August, 2009. /s/ Paul Barteni, Manager Daly Ditches Irrigation District SECTION 00100 INVITATION TO BID Separate sealed bids for the construction of Siphon 1 – Phase 1 piping, as described in the Project Manual, will be received by MORRISON-MAIERLE, INC. at 3011 Palmer Street, Missoula, MT 59808, until 4:00 P.M. local time on September 14, 2009, and then publicly opened and read aloud.

Late bids will be returned unopened. Each bid shall be submitted in a sealed envelope.

The envelope shall be clearly marked as follows: “BID PROPOSAL” “SIPHON 1 – PHASE 1 PROJECT” “BITTER ROOT IRRIGATION DISTRICT” This project consists of, but is not necessarily limited to, the following major items: 1). Installation of approximately 900 LF of 72-inch to 66-inch steel irrigation pipe. Steel pipe provide by OWNER; 2). Installation of concrete inlet structure; 3). Installation of concrete thrust blocks; 4). Installation of various steel pipe fittings. Pipe fitting supplied by OWNER. The Project Manual (Contract Documents)

may be purchased from the office of Morrison-Maierle, Inc., 3011 Palmer Street, Missoula, MT, telephone 406 542 8880. The required deposit is $150.00 per set, which is nonrefundable, including delivery by U.S. Postal Service mail. Payment of an additional $25.00 is required for express mail. FullSize Drawings may be purchased for an additional charge of $100.00, which is nonrefundable. After award of the contract, the successful Bidder will be furnished five Project Manuals free of charge. The Project Manual may be examined at the following locations: Bitter Root Irrigation District, 1182 Lazy J. Lane, Corvallis, Montana 59828, and the offices of the consulting engineer, Morrison-Maierle, Inc., at: 3011 Palmer Street, Missoula, MT; or at plan exchanges in Great Falls, Billings, DodgeScan-Boise, Kalispell, Missoula, and Montana Contractors Association, Helena.

Each bid must be accompanied by a Certified Check, Cashier’s Check, or Bid Bond payable to the Bitter Root Irrigation District, Montana, in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the total bid amount. The successful BIDDER shall furnish approved Performance and Payment Bonds, each in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount.

Workmen’s Compensation, Comprehensive General Liability, and Transportation insurance and insurance certificates shall be provided by the successful Bidder. This project is funded in part through the American Recovery and Resource Act of 2009 and shall be required to follow the certification and reporting requirements of the Act. Information, as required in Section 00200 Instructions to Bidders, Article 4, shall be submitted with the bid for review and evaluation by the Engineer and Owner. No bid may be withdrawn within a period of 30 days after the bid opening date. A pre-Bid conference will be held at the Bitter Root Irrigation District, 1182 Lazy J. Lane, Corvallis, Montana 59828 on September 8 at 2:00 pm local time. Representatives of OWNER and ENGINEER will be present to discuss the Project. Attendance of the pre bid conference is optional. ENGINEER

Missoula County Government SECTION 00100 INVITATION TO BID Separate sealed bids for the construction of Hedge Canal Diversion Dam Replacement Project, as described in the Project Manual, will be received by MORRISON-MAIERLE, INC. at 3011 Palmer Street, Missoula, MT 59808, until 4:00 P.M. local time on September 16, 2009, and then publicly opened and read aloud. Late bids will be returned unopened. Each bid shall be submitted in a sealed envelope. The envelope shall be clearly marked as follows: “BID PROPOSAL” “HEDGE CANAL DIVERSION DAM REPLACEMENT PROJECT” “DALY DITCHES IRRIGATION DISTRICT” This project consists of, but is not necessarily limited to, the following major items: 1). Demolition of Existing Diversion Dam and Intake Structure; 2). Temporary Diversion of Bitterroot River; 3).

Construction of Concrete Intake Structure; 4). Construction of Grouted Rip-Rap Diversion Dam. The Project Manual (Contract Documents) may be purchased from the office of Morrison-Maierle, Inc., 3011 Palmer Street, Missoula, MT, telephone 406 542 8880. The cost is $150 per set, which is nonrefundable, including delivery by U.S. Postal Service mail.

Payment of an additional $25.00 is required for express mail. Full size drawings may be purchased for an additional charge of $100.00 , which is nonrefundable. After award of the contract, the successful Bidder will be furnished five Project Manuals free of charge. The Project Manual may be examined at the following locations: Daly Ditches Irrigation District, 566 Tammany Lane, Hamilton, Montana 59840, and the offices of the consulting engineer, Morrison-Maierle, Inc., at: 3011 Palmer Street, Missoula, MT; or at plan exchanges in Great Falls, Billings, Dodge-Scan-Boise, Kalispell, Missoula, and Montana Contractors Association, Helena. Each bid must be accompanied by a Certified Check, Cashier’s Check, or Bid Bond payable to the Daly Ditches Irrigation District, Montana, in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the total bid amount. The successful BIDDER shall furnish approved Performance and Payment Bonds, each in the amount of one hundred percent (100%) of the contract amount. Workmen’s Compensation, Comprehensive General Liability, and insurance certificates shall be provided by the successful Bidder. This project is funded in part through the American Recovery and Resource Act of 2009 and shall be required to follow the certification and reporting requirements of the Act. Information, as required in Section 00200 Instructions to Bidders, Article 4, shall be submitted with the bid for review and evaluation by the Engineer and Owner.

No bid may be withdrawn within a period of 30 days after the bid opening date. A pre-Bid conference will be held at the Daly Ditches Irrigation District, 566 Tammany Lane, Hamilton, Montana 59840 on September 9 at 2:00 pm local time. Representatives of OWNER and ENGINEER will be present to discuss the Project. Attendance to the pre-

RESOLUTION NUMBER 2009 - 103 Inte A RESOLUTION OF INTENT TO rsta te 9 AMEND THE ZONING DISTRICT 0 S TA N D A R D S F O R P R O P E RT Y DESCRIBED AS RESERVE B MISSOULA AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT PA R K / PA R C E L B , C O S # 5 1 7 6 , LOCATED IN CANYON CREEK VILLAGE, IN THE NE _ OF SECTION 1, T13N, R20W, P.M.M., LESS C A N Y O N E A S T, P H A S E 3 , Ex A N D M O R E PA R T I C U L A R LY pre ssw DESCRIBED BY A BEARINGS AND ay DISTANCES DESCRIPTION ON FILE AT THE OFFICE OF PLANNING AND GRANTS OF THE CANYON CREEK PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT ZONING DISTRICT (SEE MAP F).

WHEREAS, 76-2-201 M.C.A. authorizes the Board of County Commissioners to adopt zoning regulations; and, WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners did adopt zoning regulations for Missoula County through the passage of County Resolution 76-113, as amended; and, WHEREAS, 76-2-202 M.C.A. provides for the establishment and revision of zoning districts; and, WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners did adopt the Canyon Creek Village Planned Unit Development Zoning District standards on July 25, 2001 as recorded in Resolution Number 2001-070; and, WHEREAS, an amendment to the standards of Subdistrict No. 3 of the Canyon Creek Village Planned Unit Development Zoning District to revise the total number of allowed dwelling units in that subdistrict has been reviewed by the Missoula Consolidated Planning Board as required by 76-2-204 M.C.A.; and, WHEREAS, a public hearing was duly advertised and opened by the County Commissioners of Missoula County on August 5, 2009, in order to give the public an opportunity to be heard regarding such proposed zoning district revisions as required by 76-2-205 M.C.A. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County has adopted a Resolution of Intent to amend the zoning district standards of the Canyon Creek Village Planned Unit Development Zoning District, and will receive written protest from persons owning real property within the entire district who are opposed to the amendments for a period of thirty (30) days after the date of this Notice of Intent to rezone.

FURTHER, copies of the regulations for the Canyon Creek Village Planned Unit Development Zoning District are available for inspection at the Office of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder.

PASSED AND ADOPTED THIS 14th DAY OF AUGUST, 2009.

ATTEST: /s/Vickie M. Zeier Clerk & Recorder APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CONTENT: /s/ James McCubbin Deputy County Attorney

MISSOULA COUNTY NOT AVAILABLE FOR SIGNATURE Bill Carey, Chair /s/ Jean Curtis Jean Curtis, Commissioner /s/ Michele Landquist Michele Landquist, Commissioner

will transmit to all prospective Bidders of record such Addenda as ENGINEER considers necessary in response to questions arising at the conference. Oral statements may not be relied upon and will not be binding or legally effective. Before a contract will be awarded, the District will conduct investigations to determine the performance record and ability of the apparent low Bidder to perform the type of construction specified. Upon request, the Bidder shall submit information as deemed necessary by the District to evaluate the Bidder’s qualifications. The District reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to determine which bid is, in the District’s judgment, the lowest responsible bid. The District also reserves the right to waive any informalities, irregularities, or minor deviations in any bid and to delete certain items listed in the bid. A detailed listing of bid items and contractual specifications are described in the Project Manual. Published this 27th day of August, 2009. /s/ John Crowley, Manager Bitter Root Irrigation District

Missoula County Government PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board will conduct a public hearing on the following item on Tuesday, September 15, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana.

1. Subdivision Request – Sequoyah at Red Quill Ranch A request from Red Quill Ranch, LLC, represented by Eli & Associates, to subdivide a 163.93 acre parcel into 14 residential lots. The property is located adjacent to the Ravalli County Line, near Woodchuck Creek, and is bordered by Morgans Run Trail. The property is legally described as Tract 5 of COS 6062, located in Section 34 of T11N, R19W, P.M.M. (see Map J).

The Board of County Commissioners will hold a public hearing on this subdivision at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 30, 2009, in Room 201 of the County Courthouse at 200 West Broadway in Missoula.

Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged.

The request is available for public inspection at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, City Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana. Telephone 258-4657.

If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 258-4657.

Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

TO BE PUBLISHED August 27 & September 3, 2009

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NEW LISTING! 2BD/1BA, extensive updates, gas fireplace, new appliances. $119,000, MLS# 906398. Diane Beck, Windermere, D i a n e B e c k @ R e a l t o r. c o m , 880-7653.

40 x 82 insulated metal free span building. 1 acre with security fence. Three 14 foot overhead doors and one 9 foot door. Easy access and great exposure. $324,900 MLS# 901478 Janet 532-7903/Robin 2 4 0 - 6 5 0 3 Te x t : 4 4 1 3 3 Message: 12595

PRICE REDUCTION! 3BD/2.5BA, 1500+ square feet, solarium, privacy. $189,500. MLS#904835.

Ann Blair, Prudential Missoula RE, 721-3683

LAND FOR SALE 20 Lot Bitterroot Subdivision, 42

Tanning Salon $65,000- Top of the line equipment, excellent client base. 10 years same location. Call Loubelle at Fidelity RE 240-0753 or 543-4412. www.missoulahomes.com

OUT OF TOWN 800 square foot cabin near hunting, fishing, and skiing in beautiful Haugan, MT. $83,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185. www.AccessRealty.net Log cabin with no close neighbors.

Beautiful views of flint Creek, Mission, Rattlesnake & Sapphire Ranges. $99,900 MLS# 906248 Janet 532-7903 or Robin 2406503 Windermere RE. Text:44133 Message:12590 for pics 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.

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MISSOULA REAL ESTATE AT A GLANCE

Missoula: A strong community and a great investment

By Mae Hassman, Missoula Organization of REALTORS® Communities form for a lot of reasons: economic, practical, political, geographical. They thrive or wither for a lot of the same reasons. In this current economic slowdown, Missoula benefits from a combination of those factors.

Political and economic factors established The University of Montana in Missoula instead of Deer Lodge. Worden, Hammond, and Higgins saw the trade and economic potential in the rivers and their crossroads. Combine all of those long-term factors and influences with spectacular geographical features, and it helps to explain why Missoula is faring better economically than many other communities in our region. Missoula has been and continues to be a place where people want to live and do business.

That’s not to say that Missoula is immune from the economic influences sweeping the country. But it does provide a basis for looking at Missoula as a community that will continue to thrive and grow. That makes it an attractive place for homeownership and business development.

If you’re considering homeownership in this community, the following are some encouraging things to consider given the economic climate and real estate market: • Inventory is available in all price ranges • There is an $8,000 tax credit available for first time homebuyers on home purchases made by November 30th.

• If you haven’t owned a home during the past three years, you are considered a first-time homebuyer.

• There are a variety of financing options that are based on solid lending practices.

With every challenge comes opportunity. The real estate market conditions that are being influenced by the national economic situation may provide attractive homeownership opportunities in the Missoula market. We can’t and shouldn’t discount the challenges, but take time to do a realistic analysis of your individual situation to make sure you aren’t missing the opportunities. Look to professionals from throughout the real estate industry to help you. Missoula has some of the best.

NEW LISTINGS :: PRICE REDUCTIONS :: OPEN HOUSES NEW LISTING • • • •

• 3 Sandwich Franchises • National Chain • 2 additional franchises available • Great locations

$650,000 MLS# 905917

Missoula & Kalispell

$119,900 MLS# 906398

Loubelle Wissler

3100 Washburn Ave, Unit #21

$224,900 MLS# 906489

880.8679

PRICE REDUCTION • • • •

$209,000

Missoula

$1,399,000 MLS# 707401 Agent Owned

491 Arrow Hill Drive Hamilton

Joni Kearns 406-531-6038

judy.gudgel@prumt.com

joni@reexecs.com • www.jonikearns.com

PRICE REDUCTION

PRICE REDUCTION

• Stillwaters on the Clark Fork • Lot prices reduced up to $100,000 • Now is the best time to build

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$229,900 MLS# 901196

JERI FISHER REAL ESTATE

$600,000 below appraisal!

8,000 sqft home, 5Bd/7Ba Home theatre, pool, tile, granite On 2+ acres with VIEWS

Judy Gudgel 406-370-4580

PRICE REDUCTION

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2BD/2BA/2 Car Garage Great neighborhood Fenced Yard 3 Bonus Rooms!

1685 Sunflower Missoula

$189,500 MLS# 904835

3BD/2.5BA 1500+ square feet Solarium Privacy

5604 S. Bridger Court

Shannon Hilliard

Ann Blair

406-239-8350

(406) 721-3683

shannon@prudentialmissoula.com

ann@prudentialmissoula.com

541-9576 jeri@montana.com

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Kerrigan Masters 406-329-2066

pat@properties2000.com • www.properties2000.com

Royal Coachman Dr Missoula

PRICE REDUCTION

2BD + Bonus 1650 square feet Lots of light Single garage

2002 S. 5th #203

MLS# 906431

406.240.7653

MLS# 709040

Tory Dailey Tory@montana.com • www.torydailey.com

Pat McCormick

$148,000

318 Dearborn

MLS# 904218

www.HomesInMissoula.com DianeBeck@Realtor.com

4 BD, 2 BA, 1 Car Garage Hardwood, Tile, Marmoleum Stainless Steel Appliances Newer Windows & Furnace 2434 Lester Missoula

$299,500

4 BD, 2.5 BA Energy Efficient Low Maintenance Lewis & Clark Area

880-7653

NEW LISTING • • • •

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2 Bed/1 Bath condo Extensively updated Gas Fireplace New Appliances

Diane Beck

406-240-0753

lwissler@missoulahomes.com

NEW LISTING

NEW LISTING

For more information on Missoula Real Estate including property for sale, visit www.missoularealestate.com Missoula Independent Page 48 August 27–September 3, 2009

1500 W. Broadway • Missoula • MT, 59808

Jodie L Hooker REALTOR®, QSC®, GRI®, ABR® 406-239-7588 • www.MissoulaMultifamily.com Specializing in: Multi-Famliy Properties Jerry Hogan REALTOR®, QSC® 406-546-7270 • jerryhogan.point2agent.com Specializing in: Investment Properties

Shelly Evans REALTOR®, PSC®, QSC® 406-544-8570 • www.MissoulaValleyHomes.com Specializing in: 1st Time Homebuyers

Joy Earls

Mortgage Rates Are Still Historically Low! Mortgage Rates Are Still You may be able to: Historically Low! • Lower your monthly You may be able to: payment • Lower your monthly

payment • Switch from an ARM • Switch from an ARM to a predictable to a predictable fixed-rate loan fixed-rate loan • Get a shorter term to • Get a shorter term pay off your to pay off your mortgage faster mortgage faster • Finance • Financeyour yourclosing closing costs of your your costsas aspart part of new new loan. loan

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Great Neighborhood!

Great Price! Close to GF Store & Franklin School 1852 S. 8th West. $179,900 MLS#904867

Austin McKee

REAL ESTATE In the Heart of Downtown Missoula • $675,000 322 N. Higgins • MLS# 906179 Two story brick building with commercial and residential use options. Great storefront and high traffic count. Includes use of basement and parking in the back.

Proud to be a part of Windermere's new commercial real estate division!

"Raised on Real Estate" Experience with a fresh perspective.

CELL: 546-5705 • www.Live-Montana.com

1 2 5 W. B i c k f o r d , M i s s o u l a $259,900 • MLS 906359

3 Bed, 3 Bonus, 2 Bath, 2 Gar., over 2700sf, fireplace, radiant heat, wood floors and much more all for $259,900. Call Pat for a tour today.

Check my University Charmer website for 737 Evans, 1 block to U more info & $399,870 listings.

MLS#902594

Joy Earls • 531-9811

joyearls.mywindermere.com The REALTOR® who speaks your language

Rochelle Glasgow

544-7507 glasgow@montana.com www.rochelleglasgow.com

Priscilla Brockmeyer

370.7689

Missoula Proper ties

Two 5 acre parcels 15 minutes from Missoula with nice building sites and

Call pat for a tour today.

Astrid Oliver Home Mortgage Consultant 1800 S. Russell St. Ste.200 Missoula ,MT 59801 Phone: 406-329-4061 Cell: 406-550-3587 Home Mortgage Consultant Astrid.m.oliver@wellsfargo.com 1800 S. Russell St. Ste. 200 http://www.wfhm.com/wfhm/ Missoula, MT 59801 astrid-oliver Phone: 406-329-4061 Cell: 406-550-3587 Credit is subject to approval. astrid.m.oliver@wellsfargo.com Some restrictions apply. This http://www.wfhm.com/wfhm/astrid-oliver

Price Reduced

Astrid Oliver

information is accurate as of date of printing and is subject to change without notice. Wells Credit is subject to approval. Some restrictions apply.

Fargo Home Mortgage is a This information is accurate as of date of printing and is division of Wells Fargo Bank, subject to change without notice. Wells Fargo Home N.A. © 2009 Wells Fargo Mortgage is a division of Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. 2009 Bank, N.A. All rights Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. reserved. #63731 All rights reserved.

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5 Bedroom Home • 1 Bedroom Apartment MLS# 904336 • $278,000 • www.2626oshaughnesy.com 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!

Kevin & Monica Ray

207.1185 • 544.3098 www.AccessRealty.net

$47,000 PRICE REDUCTION

access to the Blackfoot River. $149,000 for either 5 acre parcel or buy both for $285,000. mls# 902286

4617 Bordeaux Blvd $159,000 Sweet 3 Bedroom mls# 904072

Open House Sun. Aug 30 • 11-1pm

6960 Linda Vista MLS# 900989 4 bed 3 bath 1/2 acre lot $275,000

Newer Polson area home on 4 lake view acres w/ apple orchard $429,000 41276 Gala View, Polson Soothing views to Flathead Lake from this 3 Bedroom, 2 1/2 Bath home on 4 acres. Landscaped with small apple orchard. Home is exceptionally well built. Master suite boasts garden tub, oversized shower, and dressing room.

Open floor plan, vaulted red cedar ceilings, floors. Propane fireplace. Granite and tile counter tops, stainless appliances.

Wine coolers. Covered protected deck to views. RV hook up.

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

Mary Mar ry R E A LT O R ® , B r ok er

Cell 406-544-2125 • mmarry@bigsky.net www.marysellsmissoula.com

CHERRY ORCHARD View from site over Flathead Lake $329,000 Polson, MT

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

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

CALL ABOUT MY COMMERCIAL LISTINGS

Cherry orchard with 350 cherry trees. East shore of Flathead with older home and elevated building site.

Wilma Mixon-Hall Savoir Faire Properties

Finalist

Cell: 406-261-9293 Office: 406-883-3346

109 3rd Ave E, Polson

www.savoirfaireproperties.com

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REAL ESTATE 6403 Marias St., Msla • $305,000 • MLS# 901329 Well maintained 4 bed / 3 bath home offers vaulted ceilings, gas fireplace, central vacuum, central air conditioning, plus plenty of storage space throughout. The yard is fenced on three sides and includes underground sprinklers, landscaping and deck.

110 South Ave West, Msla • $320,000 • MLS# 905618 Building & land for sale. Don't miss this perfect opportunity to own this commercial office building in a great location on South & Higgins. It offers lots of paved parking, handicap ramp with handicap restroom.

Anna Nooney BA, RLS, GRI

Cell: 406-544-8413 AnnaNoooney@Windermere.com

www.BuyInMissoula.com

Graduation 2013?!

Just paid 4 years rent?

OR Sold house with 4 years worth of equity!

Steve Corrick • Specializing in College Housing Steve.Corrick@PruMT.com • 406-329-2033 • www.MagnificentMontana.com

Maplewood Condo 111 Pattee Canyon #7, Msla 2 Bed / 2 Bath / Double Garage, gas fireplace, sliding glass door to a patio and common area.

RICE TEAM Janet Rice 532-7903 Robin Rice 240-6503 riceteam@windermere.com www.missoulahomesonline.com

What will be the next page in your family scrapbook?

MLS# 904750 $155,000

For all your home mortgage needs call

Julie Lapham julie@landlmortgage.com

240-0032 Purchase Refinance Construction 1st Time Home Buyer Programs 2nd Mortgages

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