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Vol. 20, No. 46 • Nov. 12–Nov. 19, 2009

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Up Front: UM alum lands on right side of local radio dial Up Front: Missoula mom urges hospital to end midwife ban Books: How the Big Burn saved the conservation movement

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Vol. 20, No. 46 • Nov. 12–Nov. 19, 2009

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

Up Front: UM alum lands on right side of local radio dial Up Front: Missoula mom urges hospital to end midwife ban Books: How the Big Burn saved the conservation movement

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Many environmentalists dismiss Clarence Brimmer Jr. as “a crazy, right-wing judge for whom reality is irrelevant.” But the admittedly “semi-retired” Wyoming judge is on a mission to overturn the nation’s celebrated Roadless Area Conservation Rule— and some evidence shows he may have a convincing argument. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

News Letters Continuing to tout Tester’s forest bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 The Week in Review Health care, Sheryl Swoopes and The Pov . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Briefs Yoga, death and handicapped shooters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Etc. Has the enigmatic Ward 2 leaned left for good? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Up Front Contentious format switch creates opening for UM alum . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Up Front Missoula mom urges hospital to end midwife dispute . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Ochenski Local gun show reveals a saner approach to firearms . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 Writers on the Range Why Everett Ruess’ unknown end is a good thing . . . . . .11 Agenda The lowdown on cap and trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

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STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked on the corner of Higgins and Broadway Monday afternoon.

Q:

Local station 930 AM KMPT abruptly switched its format last week from progressive talk radio to conservative talk radio. Why do you think progressive talk radio has trouble succeeding in Missoula?

Follow-up: What do you listen to on the radio?

Miffa Terry: I don’t know. I can see why it would be hard for progressive radio to succeed in Montana as a whole, but it’s hard to understand why it can’t succeed in Missoula because it is such a progressive town. Craving rhythm: I listen to the Trail. I’m from Los Angeles so I like alternative music.

Kate Olp: Maybe progressive radio has trouble because there are so many other progressive outlets already in Missoula, and the few conservatives out there wanted to have their say. College groove: KBGA. I’m a big fan of DJ Bees Knees!

Scott Ahab: Because [the progressives] aren’t interesting to listen to. You should ask Don Henley; he doesn’t like talk radio. Welcome to the Hotel California: I listen to my iPod radio, the Eagles station. I don’t think anyone should write music without written consult of the Eagles.

Baucus’ big backing Sen. Jon Tester held an open house in Missoula on October 26 to promote the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act, an innovative, collaborative piece of legislation that seeks to change public land management for the better here in Montana (see “Etc.” Oct. 29, 2009).

Significantly, among the information provided was the news that fellow Sen. Max Baucus would be co-sponsoring the legislation with Tester.

Montanans, I’m sure, are generally familiar with the authority and influence that the senior Sen. Baucus holds now in the U.S. Senate. It’s a position that can’t come easily, especially when one considers that Baucus is a Democrat in a state that tends to vote the other political direction, a fact that seems to make some sit uneasy.

His accomplishments are a testament to the thought and care Baucus invests in his decision-making. Baucus doesn’t provide his endorsement fickly; he recognizes that a state with a prevalent conservative inclination will show him the door if he fails to produce beneficial results on progressive legislation. It must be a trying balance to maintain, but the ultimate effect is sensible and responsive representation.

Another word for it is pragmatism, which for me having lived in this state my entire life, is a decidedly Montanan sensibility. We’re less concerned here with ideology than on-the-ground results.

Inevitably, such a commitment to practicality requires compromise, humility and perspective, all of which were ingredients in this legislation. If one looks toward those who oppose this bill, you’ll be hard-pressed to find these qualities in abundance. Less moderate environmental organizations—many with external, national affiliations—are among the more vocal. That’s because they remain dedicated to axioms that don’t fit reality.

The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act (NREPA) is their manifestation, a land management policy that is as antiquated as it is foolhardy.

Opponents of the other persuasion along with some media outlets try to frame this legislation as a kind of wilderness advocate conspiracy. The sugges-

tion seems to be that conservationists have something to gain by expediting the process. It is true that during Tester’s open house, the details he chose to emphasize related more to stewardship contracting than they did to wilderness acreage. That’s because the inclusion of wilderness in the bill is a well documented, if not excessively belabored component of the legislation, while the fact that 7,000 acres of trees will be cut every year for 10 years seems to get lost somewhere in the squabble.

Once again, truth belies popular mis-

The “ juxtaposition seemed too good to pass up—moderate compromise against radical

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unyielding.

conception: It is the wood-products industry that has the most to gain from prompt passage of this bill. Wilderness advocates, in fact, have the luxury of time with NREPA constantly looming in the background, introduced with each congressional session and gaining credence, while Montana’s logging and milling operations die a slow death of attrition until Montana no longer has the harvesting infrastructure to manage its vast acreages of public land.

Before anyone had even conceived of something like the Clean Water Act on the national level, Montana wrote the commitment to such in its very state constitution. Montana has been establishing precedents in the arena of land policy and politics since it joined the union.

Now we as a state have the opportunity to perpetuate that legacy once again.

Adam Tew Missoula

Tester vs. Roselle I attended two events in Missoula recently: On Monday, Oct. 26, a talk from Sen. John Tester about his new land legislation, the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act, and on Tuesday, a talk and book signing by Mike Roselle, cofounder of EarthFirst! These events make up two ends of the conservation spectrum.

The juxtaposition seemed too good to pass up—moderate compromise against radical unyielding. One of the biggest opponents of the proposed Tester bill is the group of dissatisfied conservationists. Thinking Tester compromised too many wilderness areas, many have abandoned his bill.

But I believe that the logging that Roselle is trying to stop is different than the local loggers in Tester’s bill. While national corporations can log the land unsustainably and run back to their headquarters, local logging companies cannot. They live here, and cut here. If they log it unsustainably, with too many roads and too much compaction, they have to live with it. And in the end, it affects their livelihood. But they will log it sustainably, burning afterward to mimic a wildfire, and it will grow again soon.

By compromising on this logging, this emphasis on local businesses and local products, even if they are lumber, the conservationists get to enjoy nearly 700,000 acres of wilderness areas, and around 335,000 acres to recreate. And in a state that hasn’t gotten any new wilderness for 27 years—shoot, I’ll take it.

Brian Fauver Missoula

EDITOR’S NOTE: Loyal readers of our popular syndicated columns may notice a slight change in this week’s paper—“The Advice Goddess,” “Free Will Astrology,” “This Modern World” and our crossword puzzle are not in their usual spots. Don’t worry; they’re not gone. You can find your weekly fix starting on page C-1.

Greg Peters: Probably because liberals in Missoula don’t need a blowhard jerk telling them what to think. News and tunes: I listen to National Public Radio and the Trail 103.3.

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The Poverello Center celebrates its 35th birthday with an afternoon party that features music by Tom Catmull. The Pov is the largest emergency homeless shelter and soup kitchen in the state and serves more than 300 people every day.

• Thursday, November 5 Sen. Max Baucus votes against his own party’s climate change bill—the only Democrat in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to do so.

Baucus argues that, like health care reform, the bill needs substantial changes before it can pass the full Senate.

• Friday, November 6 A federal judge sentences Peter M. Thompson, 24, to 11 years in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to holding up the Missoula Federal Credit Union on Brooks Street last January. According to court documents, Thompson entered the bank with a rifle, fired a shot into the ceiling and told everyone to get down.

• Saturday, November 7 After hours of squabbling, the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly passes sweeping health care reform legislation. The measure includes an amendment prohibiting coverage of abortions in a new government-run health care plan, which abortion rights advocates call the biggest setback to women’s reproductive rights in decades.

• Sunday, November 8 The Lady Griz host Idol Sports, a traveling all-star squad featuring Sheryl Swoopes, aka “the female Michael Jordan,” and four former Montana players, including recent grad Sonya Rogers. Despite 31 points from the 38-year-old Swoopes, UM dominates with a 77-57 victory.

• Monday, November 9 The Missoula City Council votes 7–5 to raise sewer rates 5 percent a year for the next four years. The council says the money will pay for infrastructure upgrades that will, among other things, curb Missoula Wastewater Treatment Plant odor emissions.

• Tuesday, November 10 State and federal wildlife officials say rather than slaughtering dozens of wild bison from Yellowstone National Park, they support a plan to relocate the animals to billionaire Ted Turner’s Montana Ranch. Turner has said he plans to use 75 percent of Yellowstone bison offspring for commercial purposes.

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Four heifers pose outside the Hilton Garden Inn on Reserve Street Monday afternoon. The Coleman Limousine heifers from Charlo, voted “People’s Choice” by the 500-plus attendees of the annual Montana Farm Bureau Federation meeting, allowed local 4H and Future Farmers of America members to gain experience in judging cattle.

Queer issues

Vital center on the brink The only off-campus gay and lesbian community center in the state and a leading advocate for Montana’s queer population is dangerously close to shutting down.

The Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center, located at 127 N. Higgins Avenue, facilitates support groups, publishes the state’s only queer newspaper and helps people in need access social and medical services.

But a series of financial setbacks, including a lackluster fundraising year and poor planning prior to a recent reorganization, has created a money crunch that jeopardizes the 10-year-old center’s future, according to interim Executive Director Suzie Reahard. In a state where gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersexed (GLBTQI) people can have a tough time finding support, Reahard says the center provides an essential link for those in need.

“I had a call from a kid who was in [a mental

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health treatment center] who tried to commit suicide,” she says, pointing to one recent example. “He was looking for information and resources.”

Since the center hired Reahard in September, she has overseen expansion of its supervisory board and beefed up the monthly publication, Out Words, by adding more local content. But just as the center was poised to grow, the budget crunch struck. With the center unable to afford her salary, Reahard resigned from her paid position last week and will now volunteer her time.

“I am committed to seeing the center through this,” she says.

In addition to trimming costs, the center launched a full-fledged fundraising effort that’s already showing dividends. After placing an SOS on social networking sites last week, the center raised $1,300 in 24 hours. Reahard is also in the process of applying for emergency funding through the Seattle Pride Foundation.

In the meantime, the newly expanded eightmember board is hustling to keep the center open, says Kate Wenninger, who officially signed on as board co-chair last month.

“This is totally fixable and totally doable,” Wenninger says.

Jessica Mayrer

Mission Valley

Handicapped get a shot For handicapped gun enthusiasts in Lake County, the firing line just moved a lot closer.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) recently approved a $32,360 grant request from the Mission Valley Shooting Club for improvements to a firing range outside Ronan. The bulk of the project calls for the installation of handicap-accessible restrooms, parking spots and range house entrances—a considerable step forward for the 12-year-old club.

Tom Fieber, Mission Valley’s event coordinator, says only one of the club’s 200 current members is physically handicapped. Several more handicapped shooters from the area have appeared at sponsored events in the last couple years, Fieber says, but the lack of basic amenities makes regular attendance challenging for them.

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“We’ve only had a few participate,” Fieber says.

“But we’re hoping this will open it up so more people that do have limitations can get into the range and use it more.”

Until now, the nearest handicap-accessible shooting range to Ronan was the Missoula Trap and Skeet Club.

FWP began offering range improvement grants to Montana shooting clubs in the early 1990s, using money from the agency’s hunting license sales.

Contributions now total roughly $315,000 annually, says FWP Shooting Range Coordinator Kurt Cunningham. The agency helped fund 16 separate projects in Montana this year.

“We license all these people to go out into the field and carry a gun and shoot,” Cunningham says. “It’s important to us that they’re safe and accurate. Best place to do that is on a range that’s set up for safety.”

The Mission Valley project—which, with additional funding from community donations and club fees, totals $65,000— also calls for construction of separate ranges for archery and .22-caliber shooting. Fieber anticipates the project wrapping up by the end of November. And not a moment too soon, he adds.

“The only complaint I’ve heard is we’ve had to close down the existing rifle range when the Job Corps is working,” Fieber says. “And this is a busy time of year for a rifle range because of hunting season.”

Alex Sakariassen

Yoga

Posers in the mall Amid the less than tranquil hubbub of Missoula’s Southgate Mall last Saturday afternoon, nine Montanans focused on winning an invitation to the United States Yoga Asana Championship. The national competition—yes, yoga is a competitive sport—is scheduled for next February in Los Angeles, Calif.

“It was fantastic,” says Lora Gustafson of the second annual Montana Yoga Asana Championship, in which she placed second, securing a spot in the national competition.

The mall’s JC Penney Plaza may have been an odd venue, but it was by design, Gustafson explains.

“It exposes a bunch of people to yoga who have no idea what it is, who haven’t seen it before,” she says. “It’s a wonderful way for people to become more aware.”

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Three professional judges were flown in from around the country to score the competitors on their form, depth and grace. Missoula’s Casey Rossetto won the women’s competition, while Bozeman’s Chris Bunting won the men’s. The top two finishers will compete in Los Angeles.

“The community of yogis and yoginis is very inspiring to be around,” says Rossetto, “and that cal-

iber of competition will be immense compared to what was experienced at Southgate Mall.”

Asked to explain the competitive nature of yoga, Rossetto says it’s about competing against yourself.

“People always ask, ‘A yoga competition—isn’t that contradictory?’ she says. “When you decide to compete, you compete with yourself to be a better person than you already are, and to raise your level of commitment to yourself and to your practice and to something you believe in.”

The United States Yoga Federation organized Saturday’s event. The group has hopes of including yoga in the 2016 Olympics and part of that goal, Gustafson explains, is to make yoga more popular among children worldwide. For her, the best part of Saturday’s competition was when a young boy took notice.

“There was a little boy who watched one of the competitors,” she says. “He saw her, he ran by, he ran back and watched her with his mouth open, and then immediately got on the floor and tried one of the yoga postures on the floor in the mall. And that to me was the highlight of the day. Because that’s the whole point.”

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Right to die

Pondering potential pitfalls Molly Galusha cries when talking about her 83year-old mother-in-law suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. According to Galusha, doctors recently pumped fluids intravenously into the elderly woman to revive her, likely saving her life, even though the family had directed them not to resuscitate her.

“To me, that violates her will,” Galusha says.

Galusha offers a glimpse into the ethical, emotional and physical challenges families and patients must maneuver when facing death, a topic highlighted during a Monday night panel discussion at the University of Montana about physician-assisted suicide.

The panel comes as the Montana Supreme Court mulls over Baxter vs.

Montana, a court case that will dictate whether terminally ill citizens have a constitutional right to ask physicians for help ending their lives. It’s a decision eagerly awaited by ethicists, policy makers and others directly impacted, like Galusha.

If the Supreme Court agrees with District Judge Dorothy McCarter’s December 2008 findings that doctor-assisted suicide is a constitutionally protected right, the Montana Legislature will be responsible for dictating legal parameters. That’s when a tough discussion gets even tougher, warned panelist Mark Hanson, who worked for a bioethics research institute before joining UM as a lecturer and adjunct professor.

Hanson and fellow panelist Con Kelly, another long-time medical ethicist, highlighted a list of potential ugly scenarios that could unfold if doctorassisted suicide is legalized. For instance, the ill could be coerced into killing themselves rather than accruing medical costs. Disabled individuals might fall subject to social pressures that prompt them to look for an easy way out. And then, there’s the slippery slope of defining terminal illness.

“I think there are lots of potential pitfalls here,” Hanson told the audience.

But audience members urged the panel to focus on the individual experience rather than using a series of sweeping “What ifs?” The issue is more straightforward when evaluated from the perspective of one dying person, something Galusha knows all too well.

“There’s a lot of horror that’s happening now,” she says.

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The Missoula City Council election results are so last week’s news, but the one race that generated some excitement at the time is now generating some serious theorizing about future city elections.

The race in question involves Roy Houseman’s beatdown of conservative Ward 2 incumbent John Hendrickson. Houseman, a Democrat, won by a decisive 262 votes, making it the widest margin Ward 2 has seen this decade. Houseman’s win also marks the second trouncing in a row by a progressive candidate in the ward, a dramatic change in what has historically been a split district.

So, has the enigmatic Ward 2 veered left for good?

Prior to 2007, elections in the northwest corner of town were nail biters. Progressive John Couch lost by 34 votes in 2005. In 2003, conservative Don Nicholson beat Elizabeth Macasaet by just six votes.

“It’s been weird,” says Ward 2 Councilwoman Pam Walzer, a Democrat, of the shift. She beat her rival by nearly 100 votes in 2007.

Locals once considered Ward 2 a bipolar district too difficult to predict. On one end of the boundary sat the mostly upscale Grant Creek neighborhood, a supposed home for more conservative voters. The opposite side of the district featured the more working-class Westside, a presumed hotbed of liberalism. But as the ward welcomed semi-affordable housing developments like Pleasant View—with 581 new homes erected since 2000—and the duplex-filled Hellgate Meadows, political demographics may have shifted.

Perhaps, Walzer says. But she cautions against categorizing constituents too broadly. Liberals live in Grant Creek, just as Republicans have been known to hang in the Westside.

“I have found a lot of very entrenched conservatives in the Westside,” she says.

And Forward Montana’s Matt Singer says the trend isn’t limited to Ward 2. He points to progressives throughout Missoula showing up to vote in increasing numbers ever since 2006, and says that momentum held through last week’s election.

“This isn’t just a Ward 2 phenomenon,” he says. “It really is citywide.”

Meanwhile, Houseman supporters are quick to point out that the affable union leader mobilized voters with tireless campaigning and an easy-to-support message. In other words, he was simply the better candidate.

We don’t argue that point, but considering how thoroughly Houseman won, it’s worth watching whether Ward 2’s sudden shift left is a sign of things to come.

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Specifically, Hebl says Weisul presented her with a written document that outlined what she could and could not do as a birth attendant. Hebl says the policy, which does not single out Hebl, but covers all doulas, midwives and other support staff, is fair.

“I was pleased with how the meeting went,” Hebl says. “I think we came to a common understanding.”

Hebl says CMC must get the physicians in its maternity ward to sign off on the new policy before it is finalized. CMC told Hebl that a staff-wide meeting would take place Nov. 20.

The apparent agreement between Hebl and CMC comes after a tumultuous two years for supporters of alternative birthing options. Hebl helped start Missoula’s first birth center with Lynn Montgomery, an obstetriciangynecologist and perinatologist, in 2006. While working with Montgomery, and for more than 10 years prior, Hebl had privileges to treat patients and help them deliver babies both at the center and at CMC. But Montgomery died of a heart attack last October at the age of 51, and Photo by Cathrine L. Walters the subsequent closing of his birth center left patients with few alternatives to Nici Holt Cline, nine months pregnant with her second child, recently met birthing at CMC. Hebl began attending with Community Medical Center officials to question their ban of her midwife, Jeanne Hebl. Just a week after the meeting, in which Cline presented a home births and, in the meantime, was stack of letters in support of Hebl, CMC reached out to Hebl to resolve the unable to find another physician willissue. ing to sponsor her for hospital privileges. CMC eventually purchased the “The hospital sells itself as striving to who has assisted with births in Missoula birth center building, but did not continue meet patient needs from day one,” she says. for more than 15 years, says she was the same services at the facility.

Hebl opened her new birth center last accused of crossing the lines in patient “I wanted them to show me.”

Cline met two weeks ago with Dr. care. She denies any wrongdoing and month to help fill the void, providing Jonathan Weisul, chief medical officer of CMC has never publicly released the spe- women an alternative to home and hospital births.

CMC, and Janell Hemsley, head of women cific allegations.

The timing of the ban also raised eyeand children’s services at the hospital.

The recent developments between During the meeting, Cline says she told the brows—shortly before being confronted by Hebl and CMC have Cline breathing easiCMC officials that women in Missoula want CMC, Hebl announced plans to open a er—even if those breaths come through options when it comes to birth, even if new birth center on Missoula’s south side. the occasional contraction. Cline hopes CMC continues to refuse comment on she can stick to her birth plan and labor those women are birthing at a hospital. She told them women should be allowed to the Hebl situation and did not return at home, but if problems arise and she have their chosen practitioner by their side. repeated calls from the Independent for must go to CMC, she at least feels better She also said that by ignoring women in the this story. about going to the hospital with Hebl at But it appears Cline’s efforts may have her side. community and their desires when it comes to birth, the hospital was not fulfilling its created a breakthrough. After her meeting “I was impressed [Weisul] took a meetpromise to make patient concerns the cor- with Weisul and Hemsley, Hebl says CMC ing with me and took it seriously,” says nerstone of care. Cline then handed Weisul contacted her about working out a solution Cline. “With situations like this I wanted to and Hemsley a stack of support letters from to the issue. Hebl met with CMC officials on show that good ol’ grassroots activism gets Missoula women who had birthed with Nov. 5 things done…Who knows if it had any“I was able to respond to the allega- thing to do with them contacting Jeanne, Hebl.

“This is about a patient-centric policy tions, and when Dr. Weisul realized there but I like to think that the effort we put into at the only hospital in town where women were differences in the stories, he didn’t this will help effect positive change at the can deliver babies,” Cline says. “On the dwell on it,” Hebl says. “He said basically, hospital.” most fundamental level, not allowing a ‘Let’s go forward and see how we can work practitioner that a woman chose to be with together.’” editor@missoulanews.com When Nici Holt Cline first heard that her midwife, Jeanne Hebl, had been banned from Community Medical Center (CMC), she wanted to know why. Cline, who is nine months pregnant with her second child, feared that if she had to be transferred to the hospital during her birth, that Hebl would not be allowed to go with her. Searching for straight answers, Cline went straight to the source and scheduled an appointment with the doctor in charge of CMC.

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her while she is birthing goes against everything we know about creating trust in the most intimate of circumstances. It goes against everything we know about birth…Obviously, right now, I’m personally driven. I’m nine months pregnant and planning a home birth with Jeanne, but this is bigger than me.”

According to Hebl, Weisul and CMC’s Chief Executive Officer Steve Carlson notified her last month that she was no longer allowed on the hospital’s campus. Hebl,

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Radio ruckus Contentious format switch creates opening for UM alum

by Alex Sakariassen

University of Montana graduate Aaron Flint wanted nothing more than to break into the Missoula market with his conservative-styled talk radio program. But Flint, 29, didn’t anticipate that his personal success would come at the expense of Missoula’s only progressive radio station.

After concluding a recent live broadcast from the Montana Farm Bureau convention in Missoula, Flint sits next to a dead microphone and spins the contentious format switch as something that’s good for the community. “Voices of Montana” is the only statewide radio talk show, and Flint believes a Missoula audience will bring some balance to the traditionally right-lean-

Broadcasting, says the station first discussed dropping its schedule of nationally syndicated progressive shows in July. That format generated consistently poor ratings since its launch over a year ago, he says, and advertising revenue proved similarly bleak.

“We’re no different from any other company out there,” Lindahl says. “We’ve had to lay off a lot of people this year, and when we have a radio station that’s underperforming to that extent, we’ve got to do something.”

GapWest spent the summer exploring other format options, including local and national sports coverage. Lindahl says he and station programmers settled this fall on

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Aaron Flint’s conservative talk radio show, “Voices of Montana,” first aired on Missoula’s KMPT 930 AM Nov. 3. For many regular KMPT listeners, the UM alum’s voice was an unwelcome introduction to the station’s change in format.

ing discussion. It’s something he and his bosses at Billings-based Northern Broadcasting System (NBS) have discussed for months. “[NBS President] Taylor Brown and [news director] Rocky Erickson and I have been saying we’ve got to get on the air in Missoula,” Flint says. “Not just because it’s a big market, but because we want to have a diverse picture of callers calling into the show. We need these voices in Missoula calling into the program, whether they’re liberal or conservative. We pride ourselves on the fact that we’re the only statewide talk show.”

Loyal followers of Missoula’s KMPT 930 AM couldn’t have cared less about the reach of Flint’s show when it came on the air last week. To them, the “Voices of Montana” program—and the station’s abrupt switch—signaled another surprising setback for local progressive talk radio.

Steve Lindahl, marketing manager for K M P T p a r e n t c o m p a n y G a pWe s t

a conservative talk format based on the financial success of similar stations under GapWest’s umbrella.

“We have two conservative talk stations,” Lindahl says. “One of them, KGVO 1290, is the second highest billing station in our cluster. The other one is in Hamilton and it bills $16,000 a month. KMPT was billing $3,000, and that doesn’t even pay our power bill.”

Lindahl credits the Missoula-based conservative show “Talk Back” featuring Pete Deneault and Peter Christian with KGVO’s success. Comparatively, progressive radio is a tough market to break into for commercial stations, given the overwhelming popularity of Montana Public Radio on KUFM. “The majority of progressive talk listeners listen to KUFM and it’s very difficult to get that audience to listen to a commercial progressive talk station,” Lindahl says. “No ratings, no revenue. And if you don’t have advertising revenue you can’t function.”

But GapWest’s decision has come at some cost to the station. Upon hearing that KMPT had killed its progressive format, Steve Corrick, a realtor with Prudential Montana Real Estate, pulled his on-air advertising. Corrick had been a political and financial supporter of the station for over a year.

“There’s certainly a market for progressive radio in Missoula, and that’s where I prefer to do my advertising,” Corrick says.

“If the company makes a decision for whatever reason that they’re not going to continue that programming, no, I’m not going to advertise with them anymore.”

Corrick says there’s now “tremendous disparity” in the political voices offered on Missoula airwaves. Lindahl openly acknowledges the void, but explains the station’s hands were tied. Since the format switch, Lindahl has personally returned over 100 calls from upset listeners. He’s carefully justified the station’s decision each time.

“I would say 98 percent of the people who called didn’t like the decision,” Lindahl says. “They don’t like what I’m telling them, but they understand it.

They’re just really surprised at the fact that a progressive talk station doesn’t perform better, doesn’t have more listeners.”

Despite the initial backlash, Flint remains hopeful that he’ll make inroads with local listeners. He graduated from UM’s journalism program in 2004 and, between two stints with the Army National Guard in Iraq and Afghanistan, has worked in both television and radio. He took over as host of “Voices of Montana” in September, and believes he understands the Missoula market.

“Are we always going to agree with them? No,” says Flint of Missoula listeners.

“But to create an environment where somebody from Missoula feels just as comfortable calling in as somebody from Circle or Miles City or Libby is what we’re looking to do.”

Flint says the local liberal majority can easily isolate itself politically, but in an ideal scenario he’ll break that habit.

“The bigger picture is that this is a chance, at least on our show, for those progressives in Missoula to be a voice statewide,” Flint says. “Call in, be a part of the show. Get out of your Toyota Prius for just a second, just get mad and throw your coffee cup. Call in, get your voice heard and you’ll be heard in Circle and Glendive and all these other places. Or you can just sit and whine about it.” asakariassen@missoulanews.com

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Moving target Local gun show reveals a saner approach to firearms A year ago this week the nation saw the stunning election victory of Barack Obama and the concurrent takeover of both houses of Congress by Democrats.

Depending on who you are and where you stand, it was either cause for hopeful celebration or extreme consternation.

One of the most prominent indicators of those who were concerned was the wildly escalating purchase of assault-style rifles and enormous quantities of ammunition by those worried that Obama and the Democrats would crack down with highly restrictive gun laws. A year later, a stunning change has taken place, at least here in Montana, that has little or nothing to do with the fears the election spawned.

Had you gone to a Montana gun show a year ago, you would likely have found tables full of variants of AK-47, SKS and AR-15 semi-automatic rifles. These are military-style guns that, by law, have been engineered to semi-auto performance instead of fully automatic fire. They commonly use large capacity magazines that hold 30 bullets but can accept drum magazines that will spit out 75 or more rounds as fast as you can pull the trigger.

The difference, for those unfamiliar with such weaponry, is that “fully-automatic” military weapons shoot rapidly until you release the trigger or run out of ammo.

“Semi-automatic” means you only shoot one bullet for every pull on the trigger.

There are many reasons why the populace suddenly bought such weapons and ammunition in enormous quantities, but the numbers speak for themselves. The taxes from firearms and ammo sales in the last year increased some 42 percent from the previous year, while estimates of gun sales easily surpassed that number. Permits issued for concealed-carry pistol permits likewise skyrocketed across the nation.

In fact, so many people bought so many guns and so much ammunition this year that, while the rest of the economy tanked, gun and ammo dealers were having a hard time keeping their shelves stocked. Entire pallets of ammunition were disappearing at gun shows, especially the most popular calibers such as those used in AK-47s and AR-15s. Prices soared for virtually every type of ammunition and, despite the price hikes, ammo was often simply unavailable to dealers as suppliers and manufacturers found themselves incapable of meeting the demand.

Jump forward one year, and the change in what’s going on at those Montana gun shows is stunning. Yes,

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there are still assault-style rifles for sale, but not nearly in the numbers so frequently seen in the recent past. More to the point, those tables and pallets of ammunition are, once again, full of cartridges for even the hard-to-get calibers— but ammunition hoarding seems to be fading.

there are “stillYes,assault-style rifles for sale, but not nearly in the numbers so frequently seen in the recent

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past.

“People just aren’t buying,” one seller told me at the Helena Gun Show last weekend. “Attendance is okay, but money is tight and nobody’s spending hardly anything. We’re real ready to bargain this time around.”

Indeed, although the large building at the fairgrounds was filled with the typical gun-show crowd of camo-clad shoppers, what they were looking at were not assault-style rifles, but the more conventional hunting rifles that have long been found in most Montana homes and ranches.

The story here is not that people are no longer worried about Obama and the Democrats passing new restrictive gun laws. All you had to do was listen in at the tables and it became clear that their concern in that regard remains high. But the effects of the recession have now come home—or trickled down—to the average Montanan. What most folks were interested in was a gun that you could reliably use for shooting deer or elk to put meat in the freezer for your family— and they weren’t willing to drop a lot of dough to get one.

Noticeably, this sea change in disposable income has had an ancillary affect on the militia-style products. The tables full of pamphlets on how to make booby traps, the instruction manuals on military sniper techniques, and the various and sundry survivalist tomes were noticeably diminished, if not gone entirely. Also mostly gone was the virulent anti-government literature that ran the gamut of every paranoia one could possibly imagine.

More readily apparent were tables of equipment for reloading which, thanks to the ever-increasing cost of commercial ammunition, is enjoying a resurgence as people, primarily hunters, seek to make their own ammunition for a fraction of the cost of factory loads. For Montanans, this is really nothing new, but more of a return to the independence and frugality of life on the western frontier for which our state is justifiably well known.

While one wouldn’t want to make generalized political assumptions based on the social barometer of Montana gun shows, it’s not out of the question that such changes may well be precursors to wider trends. It seems obvious, at least from talking to many of the vendors, that the recession has narrowed the focus of many from the realm of fantasy to the reality of necessity. Having thousands of rounds stashed in the basement for your assault-style guns undoubtedly makes some people feel more secure. But having a good deer and elk rifle, with the ability to make your own ammo and keep food on the table, is undeniably far more realistic security here in Montana— the kind of security you can actually eat.

It would be a mistake to imply that concerns over what President Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress may do with gun control are suddenly gone. They are not. There’s little doubt that gun shows in other parts of the country—and particularly in urban areas—are likely still heavily weighted toward military-style firepower and militia-style gear and publications.

But the good news is that Montanans, suffering the economic realities of the recession, seem to be going in a different direction right now—a direction that, for many of us, hearkens back to a happier, saner and more self-sufficient past.

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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Mystery unsolved Why Everett Ruess’ unknown end is a good thing

by Jeff Osgood

For almost a year, the world thought the final chapter had been written about the life—and death—of a young artist and poet who mysteriously disappeared in the Southwest’s canyon country 75 years ago.

His name was Everett Ruess, and at age 20, he was already fed up with modern life, preferring to wander alone in the desert. The discovery of what seemed to be some of his remains made for a dramatic tale: a long-kept secret that described the murder of a white man for the burros he traveled with, and an ensuing scavenger hunt that resulted in the discovery of a desert grave outside Bluff, Utah. Some high-tech lab work was done, and voila! A mystery that began in 1934 had apparently been solved at last.

Well, not so fast. Science has since come around to refute the findings.

The Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory in Rockville, Md., tested a femur from the gravesite along with samples taken from Ruess’ living relatives.

And the military lab, widely considered to be at the apex of DNA research, conclusively ruled out the bone as belonging to Everett Ruess. Instead, the researchers declared that there was a high probability that it comes from a Navajo.

The various parties involved reacted differently to the news. Professor Kenneth Krauter at the University of Colorado humbly took responsibility for making the original, mistaken identification. Those with a firm hold on the romantic image of Ruess as a “vagabond for beauty”—as he called himself—celebrated the idea that their resourceful hero did not come to such a grim end after all. Meanwhile, the Ruess family, mere weeks away from cremating the remains and sending the ashes adrift on the currents of the Pacific Ocean, continues to live without closure, and the Navajo Nation awaits the return of the still-unidentified remains for reburial.

I’d sooner ride a bike sideways on a

cattle guard than get mixed up in the emotions swirling through these camps.

But I find myself happy that Ruess’ final demise and resting place remain unknown and unfound. On a recent trip to the Southwest, I felt as if the purported discovery of his bones had leached some power out of the place. The socalled discovery had put a cold, scientific

“Here’s to the remaining 1

percent of the undiscovered country hiding under slickrock overhangs, concealed by curving cliff walls or shadowed by

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dense forest.

end to one of the Four Corners area’s most provocative mysteries, further eroding one of the last enigmas of the West.

As the world becomes ever more quantified and classified, our remote lands are becoming endangered.

Humans have reached just about every nook and crevice of our planet Earth, from highest peak to deepest ocean trench. In virtual form we soar the stars, sending probes to the edges of our solar

system. Voyager 1, originally launched in 1977, will most likely leave our solar system within the coming years. In July 2009, NASA and Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry announced the creation of the most complete digital topographical map of the Earth. Pieced together from over 1 million satellite images, the map is said to account for over 99 percent of the planet’s terrain. In the glow of a computer screen, an armchair explorer can zip anywhere on the globe, see the ocean floor, rove across Mars and even time-travel to view swaths of the globe as they looked yesteryear.

But I want blank spots and the curiosity they arouse. We need places that humble, awe and intrigue us.

Humanity needs boundaries—places that are so far out there that if we cross them, we will get lost—even vanish. The remote spots on the map and their periphery are the landscapes that define who we really are.

There’s nothing like the surprise discovery of a narrow canyon or the mouth of a cave to awaken wonder and make a person pause. Do I dare explore it?

What’s in there? Whatever choice is made, the chooser learns something about fear, common sense, courage.

So here’s hoping Everett Ruess’ final resting place stays hidden. Here’s to the remaining 1 percent of the undiscovered country hiding under slickrock overhangs, concealed by curving cliff walls or shadowed by dense forest. Here’s to never telling anyone just where Edward Abbey is buried and never figuring out what those creepy Marfa Lights down in Texas are all about. The idea of a world that’s 100 percent known is just plain boring.

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CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - An armed robber entered a Pizza Hut restaurant in Statesville, N.C., and ordered worker Therman Martin to empty the safe. Martin told WSOC-TV that when he explained he couldn’t open the safe because “I’m just the oven man,” the robber forced him into the bathroom and tried to shoot him, but the gun misfired. Martin then bit the robber’s hand until he dropped the gun and took off running. He paused, Martin said, and asked, “Please give me the gun back. It’s not my gun, and I’ll leave.” Martin refused, and the robber fled.

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING - Scientists investigating a large crater in Latvia, initially believed to have been caused by a meteorite, concluded it was a hoax. Uldis Nulle, a scientist at the Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Center, said he and other experts agreed after visiting the site that the 27-foot-wide and 9-foot-deep hole near the Estonian border couldn’t have been caused by a meteorite. It was too tidy.

MEALS ON WHEELS - Bears looking for food ransack minivans more often than any other vehicle, according to scientists at Yosemite National Park. They found that of the 908 vehicles broken into by park bears between 2001 and 2007, 29 percent were minivans, which represented just 7 percent of all the cars that visited Yosemite. The study, published in the Journal of Mammalogy, explained that minivans, which are typically driven by families with children, are virtual picnic baskets on wheels, containing plenty of snacks, drinks and well-stocked coolers.

WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED - Police arrested Erik John Batty, 40, for attacking Officer Myles J. Lawler with a pillow. The Orlando Sentinel reported that Lawler responded to a call about a medical situation at Batty’s mobile home in Edgewater, Fla., but Batty ordered him out of his room and threw the pillow at him. Lawler deflected the weapon but stated in his arrest report that because Batty had several diseases, “I felt the pillow was biohazardious (sic) material and could contain hazards.”

TOO PIOUS TO FAIL - State regulators closed a 6-year-old bank in Otsego, Minn., that attracted national media attention for advocating prayer in the workplace. Riverview Community Bank was an aggressive real estate lender and was hit hard by foreclosures, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The bank opened as a “Christian financial institution,” with a Bible buried in the foundation and the words “In God We Trust” engraved in the cornerstone. The office wall of bank president Duane Kropuenske features a large color print of Jesus and two businessmen closing a deal. One of the bank’s founders, mortgage banker Chuck Ripka, once boasted that God had actually guaranteed success for investors, claiming God personally assured him, “Chuck, if you pastor the bank, I’ll take care of the bottom line.”

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NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT - Anthony Armatys, 35, accepted a job at Avaya telecommunications firm in Somerset Township, Ill., and filled out the necessary paperwork to start but changed his mind at the last minute and kept his current position. Avaya’s new computer system removed Armatys from the human resource database but not the payroll system. As a result, Armatys received Avaya paychecks from September 2002 to February 2007. After auditors uncovered the error, an investigation learned Armatys also withdrew funds from an employee retirement savings account he had been contributing to. Accused of stealing $470,995.53, Armatys pleaded guilty.

WAY TO GO - A closing door at a paramedic station in Caldwell, Idaho, crushed Melissa R. Farris, 35. KBCI News reported that Farris, a former paramedic at the station, placed a bogus 911 call to dispatch paramedics, then tried to crawl under the door before it shut, possibly to obtain prescription medication she knew was inside. When the door trapped her, she called 911 again, saying, “Medic…4…help…door.” The dispatcher asked her location; she repeated, “Medic…4.” “They didn’t understand what she was saying or where she was,” Caldwell Police Chief Chris Allgood told the Idaho Statesmen. “They knew Medic 4 was out on a call.” Paramedics returning from the false alarm found Farris but couldn’t revive her.

PROVING A POINT - After Australian authorities rejected their application for asylum for the fourth time in 10 years, two gay men from Bangladesh offered to have sex in front of immigration officials to prove their homosexuality. Britain’s Daily Telegraph reported the unnamed pair fled Bangladesh in 1999 after they were violently attacked for being gay. Asylum hearings by Australia’s Refugee Review Tribunal repeatedly rejected their application, until a Federal Court judge declared the panels unreasonably twisted facts to deny the men were homosexual, including citing unsubstantiated claims they were brothers who had been married to women. Increasingly frustrated by the process, the couple finally notified the tribunal: “We are prepared to have an adult witness view us engaged in an act of homosexual intercourse and then attest before you to that fact.”

CRIME PAYS - Members of one New York City drug gang received more than $500,000 by repeatedly suing the city for civil rights violations. The Daily News reported that accused drug dealers from Brooklyn’s East 21st St. Crew filed more than 20 lawsuits, all of which were settled out of court. One crew member, Shamel King, got $117,500 for six separate claims. Anthony Lawrence, who was indicted on 11 counts of drug selling and collected $40,000 in settlements, was shot multiple times in his apartment this August, apparently by gunmen trying to rob him of his latest settlement check, for $17,500.

The city defended the payouts, explaining that its policy of aggressively settling cases removes the risk of a big payout after a costly trial. Noting the city is sued 200 times a week and that claims against the police have increased, Law Department official Connie Pankratz said, “Although we are often successful at trial, it can be more expensive to defend a case than to settle it.”

SPOT THE SILVER LINING - William Seago, 52, pleaded guilty to careless driving after running over and killing friend and coworker Keith Warman, 55, while making a three-point turn in a 26-ton truck.

BBC News reported Seago was born blind in his right eye but received his commercial driving license in 2003 by memorizing the lower two lines of an eye chart to pass the exam. When Judge Neil Ford of Bristol Crown Court heard that since the accident, Seago has lost his wife and his truckdriving job and now works at a cheese factory, he promised Seago no jail time.

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he environmentalists’ boogeyman walks with tiny, uncertain steps. He’s 87 years old, suffers from an arthritic knee and worries about stumbling and falling down. He’s also slowly shrinking—he lost an inch and 24 pounds over the last three years, so now he’s only 5 feet 6 and 120 pounds. But today he’s looking flashy, spicing up his beige suit with a nicely coordinated daffodil-yellow shirt and an amber-hued bow tie.

The Honorable Clarence Addison Brimmer Jr., federal judge for the district of Wyoming, speaks softly and carefully even when kidding around. Don’t call him Clarence, he says. “Guys who are named Clarence always have a nickname.

It’s just one of those things—a cross I have to bear…‘Bud’—that’s been my nickname for a hundred years, that’s what my mother called me.”

He’s supposedly on “senior status” in his judicial duties—“a fancy name for half-assed retirement,” he says. But on this sunny September day, he’s in his courthouse office, still handling a full case load.

And that’s too bad for the environmental movement. Brimmer gained noto-

riety through court decisions that spurned many green ambitions over the years, including the spread of wolves, grazing restrictions and Yellowstone snowmobile regulations. Even when other judges overrule his decisions, he undercuts the environmentalists’ campaigns.

Frail though he appears, now Brimmer is closing in on a major kill. He’s determined to wipe out what environmentalists call “the most significant land conservation initiative in nearly a century”: the Roadless Area Conservation Rule.

Imposed by the Clinton administration in 2001, the rule protected 58.5 million acres of national forest, mostly in the West—the wildest portions that were not already designated wilderness. Clinton’s rule has since been shoved around by the Bush and Obama administrations, various courts and state governments. People argue whether it still protects all the acres it originally did, or only some or none.

Regardless, it’s earned superlatives—especially for how the enviros pulled it off.

It was simply “the most extensive national environmental campaign yet waged in the United States, combining grassroots organizing in nearly every state; massive infusions of philanthropic

support; support from hunters and anglers; religious leaders, scientists, and the outdoor recreation industry; relentless lobbying of Congress and the executive branch; and complex and extremely long-lived litigation,” writes Earthjustice’s Tom Turner in his recent book, Roadless Rules: The Struggle for the Last Wild Forests.

Brimmer has issued a series of rulings against the roadless rule, most recently last June, when he reaffirmed his nationwide injunction against it. Enviros and the Obama administration appealed that decision, and the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver will soon begin weighing arguments on the case. The U.S. Congress and the states are also reacting to Brimmer’s decision.

In a typical dismissal of Brimmer, an Ivy League enviro lawyer calls him “a crazy right-wing judge for whom reality is irrelevant.”

But a closer look reveals things that the environmentalists might rather keep under wraps. The details behind the making of the rule, along with the PR campaign, demonstrate how all interest groups—from liberal enviros to libertarian Tea Partiers—carry out their goals

using a mix of idealism, cynicism and brute-force politics.

Brimmer believes the roadless rule was created in a sneaky, illegal way. And he says, “I feel we have to play the cards face up.”

y the 1990s, science demonstrated the value of national forest areas where roads had not yet penetrated. They contain some of the best remaining oldgrowth ecosystems, home to rare spotted owls, salmon and other endangered species. Existing laws protected less than half the roadless areas not in congressionally designated wilderness. Even those protections seemed tenuous, given the timber industry’s political power and appetite.

National environmental groups couldn’t persuade Congress to pass a law protecting roadless forest in general, and passing a single wilderness bill can take years of frustrating politicking. During the long negotiations, bulldozers often cut new roads through potential wilderness areas, taking them out of the running for strong protection. Roads also bring in weeds, wildlife-stressing traffic and other impacts. Small groups of forest

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A SEMI-RETIRED JUDGE TEARS APART THE HISTORIC CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT UNROADED FORESTS

by Ray Ring

Photo courtesy of the University of Vermont

Imposed by the Clinton administration in 2001, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule protected 58.5 million acres of national forest.

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activists protested by chaining themselves to heavy equipment and obstructing loggers in the woods.

That atmosphere of desperation led to the campaign for a large-scale roadless-forest rule. Leaders say it emerged organically, not through any conspiracy. But they agree that three forces provided traction in late 1997: President Clinton pushed the Forest Service to invent some means of protecting roadless areas. The Philadelphia-based Pew Charitable Trusts, reportedly the biggest funder of environmental groups, launched the Heritage Forests Campaign to rally public support. And many other groups were ready to join the effort.

“The name [of the campaign] was chosen after testing several variations on focus groups,” reports Turner. “‘Heritage’ [is] an attractive and relatively neutral word.”

During the next three years, while the Clinton administration developed the roadless-forest rule, Pew and other foundations pumped about $10 million into environmental groups for protection of roadless forest, according to congressional testimony. The Heritage Forests Campaign was a kind of headquarters.

From its base within the National Audubon Society in Washington, D.C., it used about $3.5 million to contract with other groups such as The Wilderness Society for their expertise in political campaigns and environmental regulations.

George Frampton, the head of The Wilderness Society from 1986 to 1993, became a key player. He was Clinton’s top adviser on environmental policy from late 1998 to 2001, running the White House’s Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ).

“When I got to CEQ, one of the first things I did was to have [roadless-forest protection] presented to the president: ‘Let’s go for this, a real protective rule.

Let’s just protect all these wild places,’” Frampton says.

Ken Rait, who ran the Heritage Forests Campaign at the beginning, had many contacts in the Clinton administration through his previous work with the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and Oregon Natural Resources Council. Rait says he saw a “historic” opportunity to “craft a campaign where people could feel like part of a winning team,” with an “upbeat” message and broad appeal.

“Protection of wild places,” he says, “is a motherhood and apple pie issue.”

The huge effort was necessary because the environmentalists—in both the campaign and the administration— wanted more than just an executive order issued by Clinton. A Forest Service “administrative rule” would be harder for future presidents to change. Prodded by Clinton, the Forest Service announced its general intentions in October 1999. Then the agency spent 15 months on an environmental impact statement (EIS), including rounds of analysis and public comments. About 10,000 people commented in public hearings near the forests and far more than a million commented by mail, fax and e-mail.

“Wholesale and retail organizing”— that’s how Rait describes the campaign’s strategy. The “wholesale” end used new Internet tools. The groups pooled their e-mail lists and sent out e-mail “blasts” to hundreds of thousands of activists, directing them to websites where they could click to generate boilerplate e-mail comments and “e-mail postcards” to the Clinton administration. They “pioneered new electronic tricks,” Turner reports, “Internet banner ads, click-through ads on Yahoo, ads that people could send to their friends and colleagues (so-called viral ads).” Specialized tech companies and nonprofits did that work, including The Technology Project, based at the Rockefeller Family Fund in New York, and The Partnership Project, which The Turner Foundation launched in 1999 with a separate $5 million grant just to make groups’ e-mail lists more effective.

The “retail” organizing dispatched activists to metro neighborhoods, malls and colleges, asking people to sign preprinted postcards supporting the roadless rule.

“We explained to people the importance of protecting roadless areas and got them to take the first step in political action,” recalls Angela Storey, then a college student, who asked thousands of people in Washington state and the Boston area to sign postcards in 1999 and 2000. She says many who did had a “personal connection” with forests through recreation or living nearby. “For me, it was a really important campaign. I grew up in the Cascades and saw the increase in clear-cuts and roads, and I studied biology in college, learning about the massive changes in the environment.”

Storey worked with Green Corps, a “graduate school for environmental organizers” run by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group; PIRG generated a torrent of postcard comments across the country. Sporting-goods stores and manufacturers—organized as the Outdoor Industry Association—passed out postcards to their customers. The most surprising player was Aveda Corp., which sells eco-friendly beauty products and works with salons and spas nationwide.

Aveda used its network to persuade more than 80,000 people to sign a petition in support of the roadless rule; many did so while getting their hair or nails done.

The campaign also lined up sympathetic scientists and religious leaders. It conducted polls that posed general questions about forest protection, finding widespread support for the “motherhood and apple pie” vision, and fed those to newspaper editorial writers. And it organized networks of activists to attend hearings and provided vans to haul them. Turner describes how the enviros outfoxed their opponents in a Missoula hearing: “The timber industry had sent truckers to pack the hall, first providing a meal at ‘the world’s largest picnic table.’ So the pro-roadless activists got to the hearing room early, filled all the chairs, and signed up for all the speaking slots. The truckers were

reduced to chanting slogans outside, on the street. [Journalists] reported that the timber industry representatives chose to demonstrate outside and not participate in the hearing.”

More than 1.6 million total comments swamped the Forest Service—“the most extensive public involvement in the history of federal rulemaking,” according to The Wilderness Society. More than 90 percent were mass-mailed boilerplate comments supporting the rule one way or another.

The final version of Clinton’s rule was published in the Federal Register on Jan. 12, 2001, eight days before Clinton

left office. It was cleverly written. It banned logging as well as road construction, with exceptions for public safety or ecosystem health. But it didn’t ban offroad driving or mining; the enviros believed they lacked the legal foundation to address those issues in an administrative rule. “We wanted as much protection as we could get that would be legally defensible,” Rait says.

In effect, the rule created a new category of federal land: Wilderness Lite.

When roadless acres were combined with designated wilderness, about half the total area of the national forests would be protected.

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he typical pattern of rage erupted in response. Republican Idaho Sen. Larry Craig, a timber industry champion, called the idea “a hand grenade rolled under my door.” Other Western Republicans in Congress denounced it, as did Republican governors, rural county commissioners, timber companies and people who said they preferred access and flexibility to increased federal control.

Most rural Westerners apparently opposed it. More than a hundred locals attended a Forest Service roadless meeting in Grangeville, Idaho in December 1999, and “most (over 80 percent) were opposed…many were angry at the ‘administration’ and the Forest Service for the ‘top down’ nature of the proposal,” reported a Forest Service staffer.

“Nearly all (50) speakers opposed the initiative,” reported a staffer at a hearing in Dillon, Mont., the same month.

Meanwhile, the West’s college towns and metro areas were either divided or approving. People from other regions generally favored regulating Western public land.

Idaho’s Craig and Rep. Helen Chenoweth-Hage, another Republican, held hearings in Congress that examined and blasted the rulemaking. “Wise Use” movement leader Ron Arnold called it “the iron triangle” of green foundations, green groups and Clintonites. They spouted shrill rhetoric about yet another enviro conspiracy to destroy the rural West.

The leading critics failed to acknowledge the impacts of logging and mining and other industries, or the risks of rural communities locking themselves into undiversified boom-and-bust economies.

They ignored the way oil and coal can get presidents such as George W. Bush to shape regulations in their favor. They didn’t mind the iron triangles formed by big corporations, right-wing foundations and libertarian think tanks that use money and spin to influence federal land-use policies.

Instead of inspiring an honest dialogue that admitted the blind spots on both sides, the roadless rule fell into court battles. At least nine lawsuits in various federal courts have challenged either the Clinton rule or a 2004 Bush rollback of it. And the courts seem determined to carry on the political wrangling.

When Idaho’s Republican government, tribes and other interests pushed lawsuits against the rule in 2001, for instance, a Republican judge in Idaho (appointed by a Republican president) quickly issued a preliminary injunction, suspending the rule until a trial could be held. When the enviros appealed that injunction to the California-based 9th Circuit Court, a three-judge panel split along party lines: The panel’s two Democratic judges ruled for Clinton’s rule, while the panel’s lone Republican— Andrew J. Kleinfeld, an Alaska native with a Harvard law degree originally appointed to the bench by President Reagan— wrote a scathing dissent, criticizing

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Clinton’s rule as a “bizarre Orwellian” process that illegally “shoved through… a massive policy change.”

Ronald M. Gould, the 9th Circuit judge who wrote the 2002 majority opinion on the Idaho case, thinks like environmentalists. He praised “our priceless national forests,” quoted a United Nations report on global deforestation and observed: “Roadless areas [are] some of the last unspoiled wilderness [providing] not only sheltering shade for the visitor and sustenance for…diverse wildlife but also pure water and fresh oxygen for humankind.” Clinton appointed Gould in 1999, when the roadless rule was being created. And Gould’s opinion continues to be the foundation for

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)—the bedrock law for environmental impact statements—because it had a “predetermined” outcome and only pretended to be based on analysis and public comment. Brimmer also found that Clinton’s rule violated the Wilderness Act by establishing de facto wilderness areas without Congress.

“In its rush to give President Clinton lasting notoriety in the annals of environmentalism, the Forest Service’s shortcuts and bypassing of the procedural requirements of NEPA [have] done lasting damage to our very laws designed to protect the environment,” says one of Brimmer’s decisions. The roadless rule was “a onceover lightly…without taking the ‘hard look’ that NEPA requires.”

“The outstanding issue/interest is having POTUS (President of the U.S.) roll out an announcement regarding preservation of forest lands and leaving that as one of his lasting legacies…” said an e-mail summing up an August 1999 meeting.

The campaigners sent a fax to Frampton before the August meeting, suggesting the wording for Clinton’s announcement, and then brought those suggestions—labeled “a draft”—to the meeting. Written by three Wilderness Society leaders, the draft opens with, “At the beginning of this century, President Theodore Roosevelt…” Clinton posed on a Virginia mountain to deliver his roadless speech and issued his memo two months after that meeting. The

Photo courtesy of Todd Newcomer

Wyoming federal judge Clarence Brimmer Jr. believes that President Clinton’s roadless rule was illegally rigged, and has set out to overturn it. “I feel we have to play the cards face up,” he says.

deciding roadless lawsuits in the 9th Circuit’s territory, which includes more than half the Western states.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Laporte, in Northern California’s federal district court, quoted liberally from Gould’s opinion in her 2006 decision throwing out Bush’s rollback. Laporte also tends to agree with environmentalists; in other cases, she’s found “disturbing evidence of environmental degradation” from livestock grazing in wilderness, “whales, dolphins and other magnificent mammals that still live in the ocean [being] irreparably” harmed by Navy sonar, and farm irrigation causing an “alarming” reduction in sturgeon habitat.

Brimmer is a Republican judge; he was active in the state party before Reagan appointed him to the bench. He got drawn into the roadless rule in 2001, when Wyoming’s then-Republican government sued the Forest Service. In that case and its descendants, Brimmer effectively threw out the Clinton rule three times—in 2003 and 2008 as well as last June.

Brimmer said that Clinton’s rulemaking violated the National

Brimmer’s background made it easy for enviros to see his decisions as politically motivated. But the legal quagmire around the rule is fraught with misunderstandings.

Many people see Laporte and Brimmer as dueling judges, issuing contradictory decisions on Clinton’s rule. Actually, Laporte focused on Bush’s rollback, which was done with no EIS—a process so bogus that no judge has backed it.

Brimmer and lawyers for Wyoming say that he’s the only judge whose decisions are based on a full review of the mountainous “administrative record”— the official term for all the federal documents related to Clinton’s rule-making that can be made public. And in that record justification for Brimmer’s decisions is piled high.

ampaign leaders and top Clintonites— most often the CEQ’s Frampton— met in D.C. at least six times during 1999 and 2000 to discuss making the rule, according to federal records. They considered “talking points,” ads the campaign planned to run, and the need for a “presidential event and memo” to kick off the Forest Service process.

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speech and memo, ordering the Forest Service to develop a rule, sounded similar to the environmentalists’ draft and shared the same goal. Clinton’s first words were: “At the start of this century, President Theodore Roosevelt…”

The e-mail summing up the August meeting also noted that the White House was informed that “the campaign has placed Green Corps organizers” in a handful of key states “to keep Western Dems copacetic or neutral and Republicans split…” The Clintonites also asked the campaigners to drum up public comments, according to Turner.

The campaigners provided detailed legal research to the Clintonites about how to make the rule tough and defensible. Two top lawyers weighed in: Niel Lawrence of the Natural Resources Defense Council and Charles Wilkinson, a University of Colorado law professor who was then on The Wilderness Society’s board of directors.

The Clintonites sought input from dozens of other interest groups, ranging from off-road drivers to the Western States Sheriffs’ Association. But judging by the final outcome, the enviros’ goals outweighed all the other input; either

that, or the enviros’ goals coincided more exactly with the Clintonites’ to begin with.

The Forest Service’s Content Analysis Enterprise Team in Salt Lake City, which evaluated all the comments for the EIS process, found that many people complained that the process was rushed so it could be completed before the end of Clinton’s term. Indeed, the Clintonites used the words “emergency” and “crisis team” in their internal communications.

The first comment period lasted 60 days, and the other comment period—when people could read and react to the 796page draft environmental impact statement—was 69 days. That’s about average for a big EIS, but this one was unprecedented in scale, covering about one-third of the acres in all the national forests.

Many people requested that the comment periods be extended; the Forest Service refused. The first round of hearings was especially chaotic—meetings were held without much advance notice, or in locations that were changed at the last second. Often there was a shortage of good maps or clear information about forest areas that might be affected.

Some of the most damning comments came from within the Forest Service. Five hundred staffers signed a letter praising the idea early on, but as the process unfolded, the Forest Service Council, a kind of union representing 14,000 staffers (half the agency’s total), sent a formal letter in March 2000 trashing every aspect of it. Resistance from the ranks, faced with such a bold change, is not surprising. But the letter, written by Art Johnston, the group’s legislative committee chair, goes beyond merely asking that the roadless rule be called off.

Johnston said staffers opposed such “centralized planning…the Roadless Area Initiative is a ‘one plan fits all’ prescription and lumps 54 million acres together that are obviously quite different, both in physical aspects and in social/cultural dimensions…This initiative has totally bypassed scientific analysis…”

Moreover, “the Roadless Area Initiative…has greatly magnified the conflict between the urban environmental community and other National Forest users,” the Forest Service Council went on. “On one side is the administration and every environmental organization; on the other, every rural state and its governor, every county board, hunters, ORVers, libertarians, and logging and mining associations…The decisions that led to this initiative were not open and transparent. Only one group of forest users was consulted, and the other side was clearly and intentionally locked out of the process. There was no effort by the administration to gather consensus or agreement…This is an example of politics at its worst…We also live in rural communities [and] the level of distrust toward the Forest Service and its employees has reached an unprecedented level.”

With the pressure from the top, many Forest Service staffers couldn’t openly express their opposition. “The

Union is very concerned about recent threats of reprisal from the administration toward Forest Service employees who have voiced their concerns about the Roadless Area initiative,” the letter said. “It is totally unacceptable for any employee to be threatened by the administration with retirement if they voice questions about [it]. Nor should they be told that they cannot be talking to certain people. Forest Service employees take pride in their public service and professionalism. Forest Service employees should be treated respectfully—most certainly by Forest Service leadership. All employees should be encouraged to have diverse opinions and to use all their skills to solve problems and facilitate public relationships and debates.”

The Forest Service Council charged that the roadless rule violated both the National Forest Management Act (which calls for individual forest plans to decide such issues) and the Wilderness Act. Another Forest Service group—more than 160 retired high-level staffers, organized as the FSX Club of Washington, D.C., “having vast experience in wild land planning and prescriptions”—also said the EIS process was a sham. The chapter head, Robert C. Van Aken, wrote in July 2000 that the whole process “makes a mockery” of decades of forest planning and NEPA analyses. The EIS analyses didn’t have “a full display of the economic and social impacts of a massive roadless designation,” he wrote, because of “the agency’s totally inappropriate reliance on a narrow spectrum of special interest groups in proposing and formulating the rule. The result is an unbalanced proposal with misleading and inadequate analysis that…violate(s) existing statutes and regulations.”

As the environmentalists’ massmailed comments piled up, Nancy Thornburg, a retired museum archivist and journalist in Markleesville, Calif., a small town surrounded by the HumboldtToiyabe National Forest, wrote a personal comment letter opposing the rule. She also wrote to California Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, saying that “stacks of postcards and gang, boilerplate e-mails should not carry the same weight as carefully thought out letters with specific comments and suggestions.” Thornburg included a copy of an alert on the Sierra Club website that urged people to get their “stack of cards” to help generate 250,000 postcard comments before the impending deadline. The Sierra Club also sent its chapters a video explaining the issue and asked the chapter leaders to show the tape to its half-million members to generate postcards.

“The Forest Service owns 96 percent of my county, which leaves only 4 percent for any kind of economic base,” Thornburg says in a phone interview, “and when I take the time to compose an e-mail or a letter [to the agency] I know the subject. I’m telling [the agency how a proposed action] is going to impact my family and my community. It’s fine for the Sierra Club to send postcards to its

members and say, ‘Just put a stamp on this and mail it in’—but don’t view those evenly with my comment.”

Thornburg used to belong to the Sierra Club, but now she belongs to conservative groups—although she sees those groups using the same tactics.

Sen. Boxer forwarded Thornburg’s 1999 letter about the mass postcards to the Forest Service, and the head of the Roadless Project, Scott Conroy, responded to Thornburg with a letter assuring her that, according to standard EIS procedure, “If the postcards all have the same message, they are treated as a single comment…Their content is given equal weight with that of individually composed comments.”

Using that method of counting, the Forest Service’s analysis team found that

scending, and indicative of a total lack of respect for workers in the timber industry. They see it as one more piece of evidence that the national leadership of the Forest Service has been infiltrated by ‘radical environmentalists’ who have no regard whatever for the work and value they represent…They claim that the conclusion drawn from the analysis—that individuals and communities can adjust to any circumstances…shows how little the Forest Service understands their true circumstances…The intense level of emotional reaction to this analysis cannot be overemphasized.”

Despite the criticism, in every step— from the initial “scoping” to the DEIS, then to the final impact statement, then to the Federal Register—the roadless rule got tougher, either by covering more and

process had plenty of integrity—probably more integrity than most EIS processes on highly controversial issues. If this EIS isn’t good enough [to survive a legal challenge] none of them are good enough.”

udge Brimmer decorates his office with photos of the orchids he raises in his greenhouse. He has more than 300 orchids from jungles and semitropical habitats.

“All colors of the rainbows and exotic shapes,” he says. “They’re an unusual plant, hard to raise.”

He’s kept some of those plants flowering for more than 40 years. He also displays memorabilia from a lifetime of downhill skiing and awards of appreciation from the regional judges association,

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“In its rush to give President Clinton lasting notoriety in the annals of environmentalism, the Forest Service’s shortcuts and bypassing of the procedural requirements of NEPA [have] done lasting damage to our very laws designed to protect the environment.”

—Judge Brimmer, in a decision on the roadless rule in the biggest round of comments, reacting to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), “by far…most comments…are negative…Both those favoring and those opposed to the rule express concern over statements they consider to be vague, subjective, and open to interpretation.” Most comments said the hearings for the DEIS were poorly planned and carried out, “held at extremely inconvenient times and locations and that presentations were not sufficiently clear and accurate…respondents, on both sides of the issue, said the meetings they attended were dominated by persons and groups representing the other side, and they felt too intimidated to stand up in the face of so much opposition and express their own views…The overwhelming sentiment expressed is that [the 69-day DEIS comment period] was woefully inadequate and should be extended.”

The analysis team dutifully listed all the positive and negative comments, but reported that one section of the DEIS drew almost universal disdain. “A great many respondents write that the proposed rule will devastate [timber] communities,” the team’s report, published in October 2000, goes on. “The social analysis of timber workers…has stimulated an extraordinary amount of comment—entirely and categorically negative. Respondents see it as biased, conde-

more acres or in its prescriptions. The range of alternatives in both the draft and the final EIS was narrow; other than the “No Action” alternative—which has probably never been selected in the entire 40year history of EISes—the other alternatives all called for banning road construction in roadless areas. The differences lay in the details. None of the “Action” alternatives considered banning roads only in the most sensitive areas, or setting limits on road densities, strict standards on road construction or other regulations on exactly where roads could be built.

Mike Dombeck, the Forest Service chief at the time, defends the rulemaking process. “The instructions [from the White House] were to go ahead and take a look at protecting roadless areas and how we can do it,” he says. “Typically, agencies are criticized for not being able to get things done. Then when something does happen, those opposed to it say it happens too fast.”

Speaking off the record, one of the top Clintonites during the rulemaking acknowledges: “It was a very calculated operation. We weren’t signaling at the beginning where we wanted to go, or at least where I wanted to go. If we’d tipped our hand, it would’ve gotten killed— some conservative Westerners in Congress would’ve put an appropriations rider on it [cutting off funding] and it would’ve been dead.” He adds, “The

the Boy Scouts and the Wyoming Trial Lawyers Association—“for devotion to the cause of justice, inspiring all attorneys.”

Brimmer explains his Republican background: “It’s a die-hard Republican state. You had to get along with the party or you wouldn’t get anywhere.”

He defends his judicial philosophy: “The enviros view me as an anti-environmentalist—I reject that position heartily…I’m not anti-environment.” Public hearings, comment evaluation and adequate time in an EIS process “are all valuable rights that a citizen of this country has and they shouldn’t be ignored.”

Brimmer hasn’t thrown out every environmental regulation that came within his reach; he has made some landmark rulings for Wyoming’s wildlife. In the famous 1985 Red Rim fence case, he ordered a wealthy ranch owner from out of state to take down a fence that was blocking antelope migration.

“I’ve been for Wyoming—first, last and always,” he says. “I’m not trying to be anything I’m not. In 34 years on the bench, one thing I’ve insisted on is fairness.”

Of course, that’s what all judges say.

But it’s a striking image: The whole massive enviro-Clinton juggernaut up against the wisp-like Brimmer. The enviros seem determined to outlast the old judge—if he gets senile or dies, maybe they’ll win.

They’ve thrown everything they could at him, including an ethics challenge that

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accused him of a conflict of interest in the roadless case because he owned oil and gas stocks. (The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the complaint.)

The 10th Circuit Court, which leans Republican, will probably decide the issue next year. The enviros are already making contingency plans.

The Pew Charitable Trusts, which reportedly has about $5 billion devoted to a range of missions, is still funding the Heritage Forests Campaign. It’s cranking out ads and alerts urging the Obama administration and Congress to defend Clinton’s rule. In May, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, who oversees the Forest Service, declared a “one-year moratorium” in which any activity proposed in most roadless areas must be approved by him. Congress has frequently considered proposals to make Clinton’s rule a fullfledged law; the most recent bills were introduced on Oct. 1. Most sponsors aren’t from the West, but they include the senators from Washington and California, as well as Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, New Mexico Sen. Jeff Bingaman, Arizona Rep. Raúl Grijalva, Washington Rep. Jay Inslee and California Rep. George Miller (all Democrats).

The campaign recently generated 200,000 negative e-comments regarding Colorado, where some environmentalists and other interests, including Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter and the Colorado Department of Natural Resources, are trying to create their own roadless forest rule. That process was allowed under Bush’s rollback, which invited state governments to take an active role.

Colorado has more than 4 million acres of roadless forest; the current draft of the state’s rule would protect most of those acres while allowing the oil and coal industries access to about 100,000 acres. It would also allow local forest managers to make exceptions for new transmission lines and logging for watershed health and control of beetles and wildfires. Jane Danowitz, who now heads the Heritage Forests Campaign, says Colorado’s rule has too many loopholes.

It was created “to placate special interests,” she says, and will become “a magnet for litigation.”

Several groups in the campaign, including The Wilderness Society, are already pushing a lawsuit against another state’s roadless rule. A broad spectrum of interests in Idaho—including Republican politicians and the Idaho Conservation League—took advantage of the Bush rollback by negotiating a rule that protects about 9 million acres of forest while opening 400,000 acres to road-building, logging and risky phosphate mining. The enviro challengers charge that Idaho’s forest managers will also have too much discretion to log in the name of wildfire risk. But Idaho’s rule, which took effect in October 2008, is generally popular in the state because it settled chronic arguments and uncertainty while protecting a lot of land.

That opens a provocative line of thought. What if the Clinton rule had never been made, or something like the

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Bush rollback had taken effect? Maybe giving the states more say in roadless forests would have worked out better politically for the environmental movement. Turning Utah’s roadless forests over to the mercy of Utah’s politics, for instance, might have given the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance a chance to connect with Utah’s hunters and anglers.

California and New Mexico have signaled

that they want most of their roadless forests preserved. Maybe roadless areas could have been protected in a more bipartisan fashion, within detailed guidelines set by the people in each state. It wouldn’t have protected every acre, but enough to satisfy many people.

Instead, the battle rages on. For those who agree with Magistrate Laporte’s decision, the Clinton rule remains in effect

almost everywhere, or at least in the jurisdiction of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, a crescent of land from Montana to the coast to Arizona. Those who side with Judge Brimmer think the Clinton rule has been either tossed out entirely or at least everywhere outside of the 9th Circuit’s jurisdiction. Amid the legal morass, the Forest Service, wary of lawsuits, continues to protect nearly every

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Parts of the Lolo National Forest were protected by the roadless rule. Overall, the U.S. Forest Service shows 6,397,000 acres of inventoried roadless areas in the state of Montana.

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acre originally covered by Clinton’s rule, no matter what the headlines say about the latest statement by a judge or politician or environmentalist.

Dombeck, now a professor of global conservation at University of WisconsinStevens Point, says he hopes Congress or the Obama administration will step up if the 10th Circuit backs Brimmer. “The bottom line, in my view, is that the mechanism of how we keep wild places wild is less important than doing it,” he says.

Frampton, who’s now with a corporate law firm working on energy and climate issues, says he thinks the roadless rule “will stick forever, but it might take a couple of years of creativity” from Congress and Obama. “Making sure the roadless rule is permanent, that’s the first phase,” he says. “The second phase is to turn much of that into wilderness.”

It might surprise a lot of people to learn what Brimmer thinks of Obama.

“I like him,” Brimmer says. “I think he’s a refreshing guy. Republicans deplore his spending but they’re the ones who started it. He’s trying fresh approaches. I find I can go along with him on nearly everything. He’s for civility and so am I. I’m strongly for civility.”

This article first appeared in High Country News (hcn.org ). Ray Ring is the magazine’s senior editor and based in Bozeman. editor@missoulanews.com

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$$–$$$...$15 and over Blue Canyon Kitchen 3720 N. Reserve (adjacent to the Hilton Garden Inn) 541-BLUE www.bluecanyonrestaurant.com We offers creatively-prepared American cooking served in the comfortable elegance of their lodge restaurant featuring unique dining rooms. Kick back in the Tavern; relish the cowboy chic and culinary creations in the Great Room; visit with the chefs and dine in the Kitchen or enjoy the fresh air on the Outdoor Patio. Parties and special events can be enjoyed in the Bison Room. Hours: M-Th 11am10pm; Fr-Sa 11am-11pm; Sun 10am-10pm; Sun brunch 10am-2pm; Tavern til Midnight Su-Th, 2am Fr-Sa. $$-$$$ Ciao Mambo 541 S. Higgins Ave. 543-0377 Ciao Mambo, at the end of the Hip Strip on 4th and Higgins, serves up fresh, classic, immigrant style Italian food seven days a week. Terrific service and an extensive domestic and Italian wine list makes Ciao Mambo a hit for any occasion. Dinner only and take out service available. Ciaomambo.com or 543-0377. $$-$$$ Jakers 3515 Brooks St. • 721-1312 www.jakers.com Every occasion is a celebration at Jakers. Enjoy our two for one Happy Hour throughout the week in a fun, casual atmosphere. Hungry? Try our hand cut steaks, small plate menu and our vegetarian & gluten free entrees. Special senior menu & a great kids’ menu. For reservations or take out call 721-1312. $$-$$$ Korean Bar-B-Que & Sushi 3075 N. Reserve • 327-0731 We invite you to visit our contemporary Korean-Japanese restaurant and enjoy it’s warm atmosphere. Full Sushi Bar. Korean bar-b-que at your table. Beer and Wine. $$-$$$ Pearl Café & Bakery 231 E. Front St. • 541-0231 Country French Specialties, Bison, Elk, Fresh Fish Daily, delicious salads and appetizers. Breads and desserts baked in house.

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areas, or drop in for a quick bite in the wine bar. Now, you may go to our website Pearlcafe.US to make reservations or buy gift certificates, while there check out our gorgeous wedding and specialty cakes. Open Mon-Sat at 5:00. $$-$$$ Red Bird Restaurant & Wine Bar 111 N. Higgins Ave. • 549-2906 A hidden culinary treasure in the Historic Florence Hotel. Treat yourself to a sensuous dining experience, service, cuisine and ambiance delivered with creative and elegant detail.

Seasonal menus featuring the freshest ingredients. New wine bar open Monday - Saturday, 5:00 - 10:30. Enter through the Florence Building lobby. $$-$$$ Scotty’s Table 131 S. Higgins Ave. • 549-2790 Share a meal on our park side patio or within the warm elegance of our location at the historic Wilma Building. Enjoy our seasonal menu of classic Mediterranean and European fare with a contemporary American twist, featuring the freshest local ingredients.

Serving lunch Tues-Sat 11:00-2:30, and dinner Tues.-Sat. 5:00-Close. Beer and Wine available. $$-$$$ Sushi Bar & Japanese Cuisine 549-7979 Corner of Pine & Higgins Located in beautiful Downtown Missoula, serving traditional Japanese cuisine and exquisite sushi. Sushi Hana offers a variety of traditional and local favorites, including nigirisushi, maki-sushi rolls and sashimi. In addition, we offer Tempura, Teriyaki and appetizers with a delicious assortment of sauces. Expanded selection of sakes, beer and wine. Open 7 days a week for Lunch and Dinner. $$–$$$

$–$$...$5–$15 Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street • 728-2579 Biga Pizza offers a modern, downtown dining environment combined with traditional brick oven pizza, calzone, salads, sandwiches, specials and desserts. All dough is made using a "biga" (pronounced bee-ga) which is a time-honored Italian method of bread making. Biga Pizza uses local products, the freshest produce as well as artisan meats and cheeses.

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The Bridge Pizza Corner of S. 4th & S. Higgins Ave. 542-0002 Dine-In, Drive-Thru, Delivery... Truly a Missoula find. Popular with the locals. Voted Missoula's best pizza. Everything from hand-tossed, thin-crust, stone deck pizza to wild salmon burritos, free-range chicken, rice bowls, ribs, pasta, salads, soups, sandwiches & "Pizza by the Slice."

And now offering gluten-free dough. Local brews on tap and wine by the glass. Open every day for lunch & dinner. $-$$ Catalyst Cafe and Espresso Bar 111 N Higgins 542-1337 Open daily from 7 am to 3 pm. Breakfast and lunch served all day, everyday. Huevos Rancheros, Omelets, Tomato Lime and Tortilla Soup, Bing Cherry Salads, Fried Egg Sandwiches. Locally owned and operated since 1991.

Daily specials from our local farmers and ranchers. $-$$ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave 721-6033 Missoula “Original” Coffeehouse/Cafe located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch seven days a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, baked goods and an espresso bar til close. Mon thru Thurs 7am - 8pm Fri & Sat 7am - 4pm Sun 8am - 8pm. www.thinkfft.com $-$$ Good Food Store 1600 South 3rd West 541-FOOD Our Deli features all natural made-to-order sandwiches, soup & salad bar, olive & antipasto bar, fresh deli salads, hot entrees, rotisserie-roasted free-range chickens, fresh juice, smoothies, organic espresso and dessert. Enjoy your meal in our spacious seating area or at an outdoor table. Open every day 7am - 10pm. $–$$ Hob Nob on Higgins 531 S. Higgins 541-4622 Come visit our friendly staff & experience Missoula’s best little breakfast & lunch spot. All our food is made from scratch, we feature homemade corn beef hash, sourdough pancakes, sandwiches, salads, espresso & desserts. We also offer catering. www.justinshobnobcafe.com MC/V $-$$

HuHot Mongolian Grill 3521 Brooks 829-8888 At HuHot you’ll find dozens of meats, seafood, noodles, vegetables and homemade sauces for the timid to the adventurous. Choose your favorites from the fresh food bars. You pick ‘em…we grill ‘em. We are as carnivore, vegetarian, diabetic, losalt and low-carb friendly as you want to be! Start with appetizers and end with desserts. You can even toast your own s’mores right at you table. A large selection of beer, wine and sake’ drinks available. Stop by for a great meal in a fun atmosphere. Kid and family friendly.

Open daily at 11 AM. $-$$

Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Not matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $-$$ Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins Ave. 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All of our menu items are made from scratch and we use no MSG products. Featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, Nepal, and Malaysia. Extensive hot and ice tea menu including bubble tea. Join us in our Asian themed dining room for a wonderful IZA experience. Open Mon-Sat, lunch and dinner. $-$$ Liquid Planet 223 N. Higgins Ave. 541-4541 From Latté to Lassî, Water to Wine, Tea Cup to Tea Pot, Liquid Planet has the best beverage offering this side of Neptune -- with a special focus on all-natural, organic, and sustainability. Their distinctive and healthy smoothie menu is worth the visit too! Quick and delicious breakfast and lunch is always ready to go; pastries, croissants, bagels, breakfast burritos, wraps, salads, and soups. Open 8 am to 10 pm daily. $-$$

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the 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 for $6.95. Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am4pm. $–$$.

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

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

Red Robin 2901 Brooks Street 830-3170 www.redrobin.com Half the price, twice the fun! Halfy Hour at the Southgate Mall Red Robin®! Half price bar drinks Monday – Friday, 4-6 p.m. and Monday – Saturday, 9-10 p.m.

Enjoy a drink with one of our insanely delicious Gourmet Burgers, Bottomless Steak Fries. Or, snack on one of our shareable starters with friends! $-$$ SA WAD DEE 221 W. Broadway • 543-9966 Sa-Wa-Dee offers traditional Thai cuisine in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Choose from a selection of five Thai curries, Pad Thai, delicious Thai soups, and an assortment of tantalizing entrees. Featuring fresh ingredients and authentic Thai flavors-no MSG! See for yourself why Thai food is a deliciously different change from other Asian cuisines. Now serving Beer and Wine! $-$$ Sean Kelly’s 130 West Pine 542–1471 Located in the HUB of the LOOP! Open for Lunch and Dinner, featuring a Sat.Sun. Brunch 11-2pm. Great Fresh food With Huge Portions. Traditional Irish fare combined with tasty specials from around the globe! FULL BAR, BEER, WINE, MARTINIS, 100% SMOKE FREE. "Where the Gaelic and the Garlic Mix!" $-$$ Staggering Ox 1220 SW Higgins • 542-2206 123 E Main • 327-9400 Home of the famous Clubfoot Sandwich unique, portable, delicious! We serve fantastic sandwiches on fresh-baked bread. Now featuring a special summer menu. Call in your order and pick it up on your way to play $-$$ The Stone of Accord 4951 N. Reserve St. 830-3210 Serving Award Winning Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinners 7 days a week! All of your favorite Irish classics, plus a daily selection of Chef's specialties. A fully stocked bar, wine and liquor store and the Emerald Casino make The Stone of Accord the perfect place for an enjoyable meal. 6:30am-2:00am $-$$

Uptown Diner 120 N. Higgins 542-2449 Step into the past at this 50's style downtown diner. Breakfast is served all day. Daily Lunch Specials.

All Soups, including our famous Tomato Soup, are made from scratch. Voted best milkshakes in Missoula for 14 straight years. Great Food, Great Service, Great Fun!!

Monday - Sunday 8a.m. - 3p.m. $-$$ Westside Lanes 1615 Wyoming 721-5263 Visit us for Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner served 8 AM to 9 PM. Try our homemade soups, pizzas, and specials. We serve 100% Angus beef and use fryer oil with zero trans fats, so visit us any time for great food and good fun. $-$$ What’s For Dinner Meal Delivery Service 406-207-2203 Delicious, affordable meals delivered to your door. Fresh dinner menu changes weekly, frozen dinner and dessert menus change monthly. Order by noon on Monday, deliveries are made Tuesday. Meals start at only $7.50 per portion. Menus and ordering available at www.WhatsForDinnerMissoula.com. $-$$ Wok-ee Mountain Asian Restaurant 11300 US Hwy 93, Lolo 273-9819 Brand new Thai & Chinese cuisine featuring original recipes. Specializing in curry. Extensive menu, vegetarian options and many soup options as well including Vietnamese style pho, Tom Yum, wonton and more. Wok-ee Mountain Asian Restaurant is perfect for take out or dine in. $-$$

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Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 37 years of great coffees and t e a s . Tr u l y t h e “ e s s e n c e o f M i s s o u l a . ” 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 ColdStone Creamery ice-cream cakes will make your party perfect. With super-premium, home-made ice cream and layers of moist cake, we can make you the belle of the ball. Call a day ahead and we will decorate it with anything you want - from princesses to giant robots to unique holiday scenes. Bring in your business card for a $5 discount. $-$$

Indulge Bakery 700 SW Higgins Ave 544-4293 indulgebakery.wordpress.com Now open! Enjoy international flavors from baci di dama to pizzelles, gourmet cupcakes, scones and decadent cinnamon rolls. Specialty breads hot and fresh between 3 and 5pm daily. Open M-F 7am-6:30pm; Sat. 9am-4pm See us on Facebook! Holiday special orders available and coming soon: Santa photos and cupcakes for charity! Call to find out more (406)523-3951. $

$...Under $5 Bernice’s Bakery 190 South 3rd West 728-1358 Where Myrtle Avenue ends at Bernice's, a tiny bakery sits as a veritable landmark to those who enjoy homestyle baked goods, strong coffee, community, and a variety of delicious treats. Join us for lunch if you'd like. Crazy delicious. Crazy cheap. 30 years and still baking. Open Every Day 6AM to 8PM. $

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Le Petit Outre 129 South 4th West 543-3311 Twelve thousand pounds of oven mass…Bread of integrity, pastry of distinction, yes indeed, European hand-crafted baked goods, Pain de Campagne, Ciabatta, Cocodrillo, Pain au Chocolat, Palmiers, and Brioche. Several more baked options and the finest espresso available. Please find our goods at the finest grocers across Missoula.

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I’m no stranger to pumpkin pie. When I owned and operated a small pumpkin pie business after college, I experimented widely, trying countless permutations on the basic theme, and tweaked my way to some fantastic pie. I thought I knew most everything there is to know about pumpkin pie. But walking around a night-market in Bangkok, Thailand recently, I had an experience that turned my concept of pumpkin pie inside out.

Street food in Bangkok is a universe unto itself, a sweet and savory maze of seemingly infinite culinary creativity. The high quality and consistent freshness of the food seems out of place in a street setting, but the Thais are extremely clean and detail-oriented, and their street food is protected from urban grime by layers of stainless steel and plastic. The treasures that await the streetwalking gastronaut include curries, noodles, soups, fried fish and skewers, as well as strange eats like fried bugs, steamed pig blood and half-formed eggs from the entrails of slaughtered ducks.

I was taking in the brightly colored jellies, tapioca balls and syrups of a dessert vendor when I noticed the insideout pumpkin pie, waiting patiently for me in a bowl next to some bags of steamed bananas. It was a squash that was sliced to reveal its bright-white custard filling. I bought a slice and was rewarded with a tasty juxtaposition between the sweet and starchy squash flesh and the creamy coconut custard. It had the flavors of a pumpkin pie, and similar ingredients, but completely different texture and presentation.

When I say pumpkin pie, I’m referring to pies made from any type of winter squash, of which pumpkin is the poster child, pie-wise. The Thai-style custard-filled squash, called sangkaya, is typically made with kabocha squash, which is dense and starchy. Most squashes, including pumpkins, are too watery for sangkaya, but buttercup and sunshine varieties will work. And while sangkaya is traditionally made with a sweet custard filling, it can also be

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Hangin’ meat A

Dear Flash, It’s hard to find a consistent answer to the question of how long to hang wild game. Some say don’t hang it at all, some say two weeks. My brother claims hanging eight to 10 days prevents him from farting. At our camp we eat the tenderloins the day of harvest (with no “stinkies”) and it’s as tender as could be (sliced thin).

As for the “stinkies,” what are your thoughts?

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After 45 minutes, open the lid. The custard should have expanded into the top opening. Insert a butter knife deep into the custard. Using the point of insertion as a pivot point, wag the tip of the knife back and forth, like a paddle. If the custard is set you won’t be able to paddle, but if the custard is still soupy there will be little resistance against the moving knife blade, which will have a layer of slime on it when removed. Keep steaming, checking every 10 minutes until the custard is set.

Turn off the heat and disturb the delicate squash as little as possible. Don’t handle it until it cools to room temperature Let it cool to room temperature, cut into wedges like a pie, and serve. The juxtaposition of bright orange flesh and white custard is striking (see photo), and if it weren’t for the flavors awaiting you, you might be tempted to just look at it.

One thing that’s special about winter squash is how well it lends itself to both sweet and savory applications. Back in my days as a pumpkin pie tycoon, I dabbled in savory pies, adding meat, greens, garlic, herbs and other mixings to unsweetened pie filling. Old habits die hard, because no sooner had I licked my plate after devouring my first homemade custard-filled squash that I began scheming ways to make a savory custard to fill my next squash. I decided on bacon and eggs custard.

Beat 4 eggs and mix with a half-cup of Photo by Ari LeVaux coconut milk. Separately, fry 1–4 slices worth of chopped bacon until crispy. Let the mixture to cool to room temperature. Separately, the pan cool completely, then add the bacon to the beat 5 eggs—but don’t over beat them because that egg mixture. Fry 2 garlic cloves in the pan, stirring often, until it gets fragrant. Stir the garlic into the egg would make the custard foamy.

Combine the eggs and coconut milk and add a mixture. Pour into a hollowed-out squash and bake for one hour, until the knife test indicates the cuspinch of salt and a teaspoon of vanilla extract.

Pour this mixture into your hollowed-out tard has set. Serve hot or cool.

With either one of these custard squash dishes, squash, leaving about a half-inch of space below the cut-out rim. Don’t put the top back on. Steam it 45 you will rule the autumn potluck, Thanksgiving minutes to an hour in a basket steamer. You might party or any other holiday gathering. And if the spirwant to set the squash in a bowl for extra support as it moves you, set up a table outside, and rule the street. it steams, so it doesn’t collapse when it gets soft. made with a savory filling, like curry pork custard.

I’ll explain how to make both.

Wash the outside of the squash and then cut a ring around the stem, like you’re carving a jack-olantern. Remove the top and scoop out the seeds and inner goop.

For a medium-sized squash (about 2 1/2 pounds), heat a cup of full-fat coconut milk and a half cup of sugar. Palm sugar is most authentic, if you can get it, but regular sugar or brown sugar will work. Stir over low heat until the sugar has dissolved, and allow

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Dear Rose, Let’s disentangle the “stinkies” from an otherwise enjoyable discussion on meat hanging. I’m skeptical that the hanging time has any affect on your brother’s farts. If you can confirm that he does—and I don’t particularly want to know how you confirm this—then I’d be happy to do some research. In the meantime, lets stick to the meat of this issue.

There’s no question that hanging wild game for a week or two in sub-40-degree weather will tenderize it. On the other hand, meat that’s cut up and

thrown directly into the freezer will tenderize in the freezer after a few months. So both beliefs are correct.

You can also actively manage your meat’s aging by freezing and thawing it repeatedly. According to studies at the University of Pennsylvania, meat can be thawed and refrozen more than 10 times without adverse effects. For best results, they say, refreeze the meat at the “sherbet” stage of thaw, when it still has some ice crystals in it.

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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. Call Lois at 642-3010.

Kids and parents experiment with rhythm and more during Rhythm Tykes, a class for kids 18 months–4 years old this and every Thu. at 10 AM at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W. $40 five classes/$10 class. Call 396-3352.

If you can’t read this, you may be a baby below the age of 36 months, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Your skill at creating something functionally wicked, like a beer stein or a vase, comes in handy during the ZACC’s Paint Your Own Pottery Studio, which runs from 12–8 PM Mon.–Fri. and every Sat. from noon–5 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. Price ranges from $5–$20, depending on the cost of pottery. Call 549-7555 or visit www.zootownarts.com.

Exercise your right to hear about rural law when Steve Brown leads the lecture “Rights of Surface Owner when Minerals Owners Exercise their Rights” at noon in Room 101 of UM’s Law School Building. Free. Call 243-4311.

Learn all you’ve ever wanted to know about tracking groundwater when UM adjunct prof Jeremy Stalker leads the discussion “A Tale of Two Estuaries” at noon in Room 304 of UM’s Clapp Building. Free. Call 243-6670.

Roast yourself with info regarding geothermal energy when Garry Carlson leads the lecture “The Western U.S. in ‘Hot Water’” at 1 PM in Room 326 of UM’s University Center. Free. Call 243-7916.

Kids in first through fifth grade stir their artistic passions after school during the ZACC’s Young Artist Afterschool Program where instructor Hanna Hannan leads art projects, field trips, tours and more from 3–5:30 PM every weekday until Dec. 23 at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. $12 per day, with busing available. Visit www.zootownarts.com or call 549-7555.

Even if your toddler makes some smooth dance moves, your 3- to 6-year-old might need some

Heidi Meili Steve Fetveit Sing in the Impressionistic rain when The Montana Museum of Art and Culture presents an opening reception in the Meloy Gallery for work by the late artist Josephine Hale, including the piece above, as well as an exhibit in the Paxson Gallery of New Deal-era prints. Fri., Nov. 13, at 5 PM in UM’s PARTV Center Lobby. Free. Call 243-2019. work, so bring them to another installment of Creative Movement Class every Thu. at 4 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Pancakes aren’t just for breakfast anymore during the Missoula Senior Center’s Pancake Supper, which starts at 4 PM at the center, 705 S. Higgins Ave. $5, with bingo following at 6:30 PM. Call 543-7154.

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.

Wiggle those hips and strike poses of elegant expression when former UM dance prof Amy Ragsdale leads a Beginning to Intermediate Modern Dance class at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., every Thu. at 5 PM. Cost TBA. Call 541-7240.

Missoula Art Museum members are only invited, but if you’re one, you’ll get the chance to meet ‘n greet with author and former UM creative writing prof William Kittredge during a reception at 5 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Members RSVP by Nov. 10 by calling 728-0447.

All genres are encouraged—excepting, perhaps, cumbia—every Thu. at 5:30 PM at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 1/2 South Ave. W., where musicians bring their noise makers and synergy builds a joyful sound during the Tangled Tones Pickin’ Circle. Free. Call 396-3352. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Nov 13, 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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Salt Lake City’s Royal Bliss never refuses a chance to frolic in refuse. Catch the band’s benefit concert for the Watson Children’s Shelter Thu., Nov. 12, at 9 PM at the Palace. $5 minimum donation. Missouri’s Shaman’s Harvest and locals Universal Choke Sign open.

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 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.

Connect your mind and soul to whatever deity you deem divine during a taize chanting circle with Rev. Jennifer Hackenbruch and Erin Barnes the second and fourth Thu. of the month at 6 PM at 2237 S. Third St. W. Free. Call 370-9631.

Teens can blur reality with pencil and paper when UM prof and local artist Edgar Smith leads the Missoula Art Museum’s Teen Open Studio Night with the theme “drawing abstraction” from 6–8 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Call 728-0447.

Your addiction to snowboard porn gets a quick fix during Edge of the World and KBGA’s premier of Absinthe’s Neverland, as well as Burton’s B Movie, starting at 6 PM at the Wilma Theatre with music provided between films by DJ Fleege. $6 per person at the door or advance at Edge of the World.

The screening is also a fundraiser for The Montana Backwoods Project, an org that aims to bring freestyle ski and snowboard terrain to Missoula.

John Floridis’ guitar lights up like Ohio’s Cuyahoga River did in 1969 when he strums folk rock tunes at the Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

Remove the mental sludge from your brain during a book discussion of Dr. H. Spencer Lewis’ Mental Poisoning at a meeting of the Fellowship Club at 6 PM at the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton. Free. Call 363-1670.

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Help spread some holiday cheer in the form of gifts, and meet Monte and UM Football coach Bobby Hauck, during the Griz for Kids Toy Drive at 6 PM at UM’s Bookstore in the UC Center. Free, but be sure to donate unwrapped children’s toys.

Call 243-4853.

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.

Learn why noted author and former UM prof William Kittredge thinks the arts are important, and why they lead to moments of fresh insight during the Missoula Art Museum distinguished artist lecture titled “Hard Wired and Fancy Free” at the Missoula Children’s Theatre, 200 N. Adams St., at 7 PM. $5/free members and students with ID. RSVP by calling 728-0447. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Get a deeper understanding of how Hollywood has disparaged the Arab world through cinema during a screening of the documentary Reel Bad Arabs at 7 PM at the University Center Theater.

Free. Visit peaceandjusticefilms.org.

Find out what it’s like to write for a paycheck during the lecture “Put Your Writing to Work” featuring Penny Orwick, a technical writer at Steyer Associates, at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

The fight between development and preserving prime ag land gets elucidated when Bob Wagner

of the American Farmland Trust leads the lecture “Grassroots Farmland Conservation: Time-Tested Strategies Crafted by Landowners, Producers and Communities Across the U.S” at 7 PM in Room 123 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free.

Call 243-6271.

That dirty black stuff that helps keep the lights on really is dirty. So be sure to check a screening of Coal Country, a documentary that reveals the effects of mountaintop coal mining in Appalachia, at 7 PM at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 549-1142.

See what it’s like to juggle 40 characters while trying to maintain your sanity as a restaurant reservations manager during Montana Rep Missoula’s performance of Becky Mode’s Fully Committed, which starts at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10, with a $5 student rush at 7 PM. Call 243-4581 or visit www.montanarep.org.

Mannheim Steamroller just might be your parents’ favorite Christmas music, so if mom and dad live in town and they love blasting their ears with synthesized Christmas tunes, take them to “The Christmas Music of Mannheim Steamroller by Chip Davis” at 7:30 PM at UM’s Adams Center. $65/$45. Call 243-4051 for tickets or visit griztix.com.

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.

Bowling and karaoke go together like rugburns and smiling faces during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. Sorry ladies, but Thu. nights belong to the dudes at Men’s Night at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where the testosterone-fueled karaoke begins at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969.

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

Get your fix 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. $3.

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

Even metalheads and rockers have a charitable spirit, so do your part to rock out and help the Watson Children Shelter buy a new building during a benefit featuring Salt Lake City’s Royal Bliss, Missouri’s Shaman’s Harvest and locals Universal Choke Sign at the Palace at 9 PM. $5 minimum donation.

See a plethora of patterns and colors—after a few pitchers—and muster up the courage to belt out some prize-winning classics during Kaleidoscope Karaoke every Tue.–Sun. at the Lucky Strike

Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9:30 PM. Free.

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

Cross your karaoke sword with others under the influence of that music box you sing along to during Combat DJ and Karaoke nights, this and every Thu. at the Press Box, 835 E. Broadway St., at 10 PM. Free.

Snack on some tater chips while sweeping yourself into outlaw hillbilly heaven when Hailey, Idaho’s The Damphools Americana up the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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The Missoula Public Library hosts a preschool storytime geared toward children 3–6 years old every Fri. at 10:30 AM. This week, Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote. Just kidding.

(Did I need to tell you that?) Free. Call 721-BOOK. If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply preliterate, 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.

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Toddlers always learn a thing or two from books like A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson at Toddler Story Time, which includes age appropriate stories (of course), from 10:30–11:15 AM in the downstairs meeting room of the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton. Free. Call 363-1670.

Award winning author Robert Boswell has dipped his literary fingers in a host of genres, so get a glimpse into his craft when he discusses the art of fiction writing at 1 PM in UM’s Urey Underground Lecture Hall. Free. Call 243-5267.

nightlife Prints from the New Deal era flirt with sketches by 20th century pioneering Montana artist Josephine Hale during a Montana Museum of Art and Culture reception for both exhibits, shown respectively in UM’s Paxson and Meloy galleries, at 5 PM in UM’s PARTV Center Lobby. Free. Visit umt.edu/montanamuseum or call 243-2019.

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.

Tease yourself with “non-representational Surrealism” when Keith Levi presents a Second Friday reception for his exhibit of paintings from 5:30–8:30 PM at the ZACC Gallery, 235 N. First St. W. Free. Call 549-7555.

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There’s no reception, but you can still peruse some fresh photographs from the ZACC’s Holliday Jeremiassen throughout the month of November in the hallway gallery of the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. Free. Call 549-7555.

Swing your hips with some spice in order to help those in Honduras get medical care during the Missoula Medical Aid Salsa Dance & Auction Fundraiser, which starts at 7 PM at the Missoula Children’s Theatre, 200 N. Adams St. $45/$25 students with advance tickets at Rockin Rudy’s, The Women’s Club or by calling 544-8788.

Features music by Salsa Loca, appetizers, drinks, a silent auction and more.

Expect stories that touch on ended friendships, urban squatting and more when award-winning author Robert Boswell reads from his book The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards: Stories at 7 PM in the Dell Brown Room of UM’s Turner Hall. Free. Call 243-5267.

Two teens form an “unlikely relationship” by stealing clothes and enjoying other rambunctious acts during a screening of Somers Town at 7 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Sultry jazz vocals mix with elegantly pressed keys when Eden Atwood and David Morgenroth perform a set of

jazz at 7 PM at DalyJazz, 240 Daly Ave. Show is sold out, but e-mail dalyjazz@gmail.com for more info or visit www.dalyjazz.com.

See what it’s like to juggle 40 characters while trying to maintain your sanity as a restaurant reservations manager during Montana Rep Missoula’s performance of Becky Mode’s Fully Committed, which starts at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $15, with a $5 student rush at 7 PM. Call 243-4581 or visit www.montanarep.org.

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aesthetic insights

Dissecting why humans respond to art in certain ways can lead to some heady discussion.

That’s especially true when talking with Bill Kittredge, the renowned local author and former UM creative writing professor.

For almost 30 years, Kittredge says, he was paid to think about how we use art—in his case, literary art—and what kind of place it has in our lives. On Thursday, he plans to hash out his ideas regarding our use and response to art during “Hard Wired and Fancy Free,” part of MAM’s new Distinguished Artist Lecture series.

Kittredge will discuss the importance of art in general—touching on everything from primitive cave paintings and comic strips to sculptures and the musical compositions of J.S. Bach.

leads us to insights into new forms of insight, and…most often it does both. And those are both invaluable functions in society. Society can’t go on in doing the same old thing time after time…society has to keep rethinking things, we have to keep rethinking things.”

Kittredge points to his old coworker, the late poet Richard Hugo, as an example of someone who gained renewed artistic acumen simply by traveling around Montana.

“He would come to fresh insight by going to a place he’d never been before and hanging around,” Kittredge says. ”And then suddenly something would happen, and he would come up with the idea for a poem.”

For his talk on Thursday, the scribe says he hopes it “Art does two things,” he tells the Indy. “It either opens doors to new ideas, or at least exposes us to conchallenges our preconceptions, our prejudices, or it cepts we don’t normally tackle everyday. He also doesn’t WHO: Bill Kittredge lecture, “Hard Wired and Fancy Free” want to just lecture at you, he WHAT: The Missoula Art Museum’s (MAM) Distinguished Artist Lecture says. Rather, once he’s finished speaking, Kittredge wants to spark a community WHEN: Thu., Nov. 12, 7 PM conversation by taking quesWHERE: Missoula Children’s Theatre, 200 N. Adams St. tions and throwing the discussion ball in your court.

HOW MUCH: $5/Free for MAM members and students with ID —Ira Sather-Olson

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the topics hitting the stage when Moira Keefe presents performances of her two plays “Life with a Teenager...I’m Having a Hot Flashback” and “My Year of Living Anxiously” at 7:30 PM at UM’s Masquer Theatre, in the PARTV Center. $15, with all proceeds going to Living Art of Montana.

Call 549-5329.

Politics, humor and even devastation round out the lyrical bill when Boise, Idaho’s Carter Freeman rocks a set of acoustic folk at The Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, at 7:30 PM. $5. Call 541-8463.

UM’s Jubileers emanate pizzazz through their throats when they coat you with vocal jazz tunes at 7:30 PM at the Music Recital Hall, in UM’s Music Building. $10/$5 students and seniors.

Call 243-6880.

Sip on something with an emerald tint and indulge in tradition when American Irish songsters Solas play Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. in Whitefish, at 7:30 PM. $30/$25, depending on seats. Call 862-5371 or visit www.whitefishtheatreco.org.

Bubbling springs and Americana sizzle into a happy marriage when Andrea Harsell and Louie Bond play the Symes Hot Springs Hotel, 209 Wall St. in Hot Springs, at 8 PM. Donations appreciated. Call 741-2361.

Crackle your voice to pitch perfect perfection so you can help feed a hungry animal during “Gong Show Karaoke,” a fundraiser for Animeals at Deano’s Casino–Airway, 5318 W. Harrier, at 8 PM. Donate $1 to sing, or to hit a “gong.” Visit animeals.com.

Susan Gibson rocks some sweet country and folk licks straight outta the Lone Star State when she plays the Raven Restaurant and Bar, 39 Orchard Lane in Bigfork, at 8 PM. Cover TBA. Call 837-2836.

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.

Learn to sing “Dancing Queen” in tongues when Bassackwards Karaoke invades the Alcan Bar & Grill in Frenchtown, 16780 Beckwith St., every Fri. at 9 PM. Free. Call 531-8327.

There’s no bitterness, only syrupy sweet trails of pop country, when Bozeman’s The Clintons play the Badlander at 9 PM. $8 Warp your brain with sleek ’80s influenced analog electronic music from a Brooklynite in the know when Neon Indian plays with fellow Brooklyn band Tigercity, Minneapolis’ Shahs and locals Victory Smokes at the Palace at 9 PM. $7/$5 advance at Ear Candy Music. (See Noise in this issue.)

Bowling commingles with a laser light show and some DJ tunage from Kaleidoscope Entertainment every Fri. at 9:30 PM at Five Valleys Bowling Center, 515 Dearborn Ave. Free. Call 549-4158.

Your trigger finger relaxes just a smidgen when the country and rock of Son of a Gun hits Florence’s High Spirits Club and Casino, 5341 Hwy. 93 N., at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 273-9992.

Blues, jazz and brews wonderfully counteract those mid-to late 20s growth spurts when Full Grown Men play the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

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

The men of Swyl have served up raw slices of funk since ‘99, now they want you to party it up in 2009 when they play their 10th anniversary show at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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Get those endorphins pumpin’ early when you join professional runner Meg Lerch for mid to long group runs during Saturday Group Runs, every Sat. at 8 AM starting with a stretch at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. Cost TBA/Free to Run Wild Missoula Members. Visit www.runwildmissoula.org.

Crafts, coffee and food offer something for even the most curmudgeonly during a Holiday Craft Fair at 9 AM at Superior Elementary School, 200 River St. in Superior. Free. Call 822-4484.

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The wireless age collides with art during the Missoula Art Museum’s Cell Phone Tour, which runs from 10 AM–3 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St., and features exhibiting artists discussing their works from your cell phone. Free. Call 728-0447.

You’ll see beads, copper, books, tools and, well, more beads during the Blue Dragon Beads Bead Show starting at 10 AM at the Wingate Inn, 5252 Airway Boulevard. Free. Show starts again on Sun. at 10 AM. Visit bluedragonbeads.biz.

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. Show your gratitude towards others by making an embellished container to hold your precious things during the Missoula Art Museum’s Saturday Family Art Workshops: Gratitude Boxes lead by Loryn Zerr, from 11 AM–12:30 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. $5 per person.

Bring photos to decorate your container. RSVP by calling 728-0447.

Peruse functional, wood-fired ceramics and get a tour of a studio and kiln during an open studio at Mission Mountain Pottery, 72449 McMurtrie St. in Arlee, from 11 AM–3 PM. Free. Visit facebook.com/missionmountainpottery.

Dress up your animal so they can get their picture taken with Old Saint Nick during the Humane Society of Western Montana’s Santa Paws, a fundraiser for the society that starts at 11 AM at Southgate Mall, 2901 Brooks St. $20 for color photos. Call 549-HSWM. Get a 20 minute shot of artistic pleasure, with engaging gallery guides to lead you along, when you take a tour of the Missoula Art Museum’s latest exhibition from Scott Fife titled Big Trouble— The Idaho Project at noon at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Call 728-0447.

Patriotism, friendship and more mix with a discussion on health care reform at 12 PM when the Bird Woman Falls Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution meet at the First Best Place, 540 Nucleus Ave. in Columbia Falls. Free.

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Don’t plan on bringing elk meat to a Western Montana Vegetarian Society Vegan/Vegetarian Potluck, but Tofurky or other such delicacies are welcomed when they meet to eat at 12 PM, at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Missoula, 102 McLeod Ave. Free, but bring a dish to share or a donation. Visit www.newdawnmt.com.

See how art changed in response to WWI during the Missoula Art Museum lecture “The Mechanical Paradise: A New Aesthetic for a Machine Age” where Ted Hughes and Lisa Simon lead you on a path to aesthetic examination at 1 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. $5/free MAM members and students with ID. Call 728-0447.

Can’t seem to master Twitter yourself? Don’t get into a dither—let the experts at Vann’s guide you towards social networking nirvana during the “Twitter–Connect with your Family and Friends Workshop” at 1 PM at the store, 3623 Brooks St. Free. Call 541-6000.

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.

Sweeten your senses with works of 2-D and 3-D art when the Killdeer Artisans Guild hosts a holiday exhibit/reception at the Hangin Art Gallery & Coffee House, 92555 Hwy. 93 in Arlee, at 2 PM. Free. Call 726-5005 or visit www.hanginartgallery.com.w Missoula is a bona fide bike town. 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.

Teens grades 7–12 get to dissect and examine Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli to their heart’s content during “Those Literary Kids,” a teen book club that meets at 3 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-2665.

nightlife Meat, beans and tomatoes simmer with the sounds of Tom Catmull and Jonny Two Bones when the Blacksmith Brewing Company, 114 Main St. in Stevensville, hosts a concert and valley-wide fire department chili cook-off at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 777-0680.

A strong support of labor percolates into the bar chord bluegrass sounds of The Workers, who play the Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

Help support youth arts programs while checking art and tasting wine, cheese and chocolate during the Hot Springs Artist Society Gala Event and Silent Auction, which starts at 6 PM at the Symes Hot Springs Hotel, 209 Wall St. in Hot Springs. Auction is free. Wine, cheese and chocolate tasting party costs $1 person. Call 741-2361 or visit hotspringsartist.org.

Sultry jazz vocals mix with elegantly pressed keys when Eden Atwood and David Morgenroth perform a set of jazz at 7 PM at DalyJazz, 240 Daly Ave. Show is sold out, but e-mail dalyjazz@gmail.com for more info or visit www.dalyjazz.com.

Local musicians provide steamy jazz from the 1930s and 1940s while you bust moves to smooth grooves at “A Jazz Soiree,” which starts at 7 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $15 couple/$8 person, with no host bar by The Badlander. Call 541-7240.

Get your kicks while watching others kick and punch each other during a Sportfight Montana Mixed Martial Arts and Kickboxing match at 7 PM at the Wilma Theatre. $10. Tickets available at the door or by calling 544-0028.

Local 4-year-old Zane Goicovich needs some help. The youngster has epilepsy and needs brain surgery and help with the costs, so you can do your part by attending a fundraiser/concert for Zane at 7 PM at The Loft of Missoula, 119 W. Main St. $10 with all proceeds going to Zane. Admission includes a drink ticket, silent drawing and music.

Ladies get a little DIY during the ZACC’s Ladies Night, where you can create a set of bowls, dishware and more whilst sipping on wine and munching appetizers starting at 7 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. $20. RSVP required. Call 549-7555 or e-mail holly@zootownarts.com.

The boonies hit the city when the Montana Backcountry Alliance presents a series of ski and snowboard films at 7 PM at the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. $7. Visit www.montanabackcountry.org.

The New York Metropolitan Opera won’t be here in person, but you can witness Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot in high definition video in the comfort of a seat at the Roxy Theater during The Met: Live At the Roxy at 7:30 PM at the theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $18 adults/$16 students and seniors at any GrizTix outlet or www.griztix.com. Visit www.morrisproductions.org.

Expect the upper register to be hit with grace and style when soprano Immanuela Meijer bellows a tune or two during a UM student recital series, at 7:30 PM at the Music Recital Hall in UM’s Music Building. Free. Call 243-6880.

Sip on something green and indulge in tradition when American Irish songsters Solas play Hamilton’s Performing Arts Center, 327 Fairgrounds Road in Hamilton, at 8 PM. $25/$22.50/$20 depending on seats. Call 3637946 or visit bitterrootperformingarts.org. (See Scope in this issue.)

Let the nectar flow like a luscious river when the Four Bee’s and A Honey Dance Band play the Missoula Senior Center, 705 S. Higgins Ave., at 8 PM. $5, all ages. Call 543-7154.

Bust some quadratic dance moves with others during a Harvest Ball square dance, starting with pre-rounds at 7:30 PM, followed by a full dance at 8 PM at Lolo’s Square and Round Dance Center, 9955 Lolo Creek Road in Lolo. $6. Call 273-0652.

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.

Have one too many drinks and you just might start singing pop tunes backwards during Bassackwards Karaoke at Larry’s Six Mile Bar & Grill in Huson, 23384 Huson Road, every other Sat. at 9 PM. Free.

Quench your urge to watch football with others on several different televisions every Sun. at Lucky Strike Casino, 515 Dearborn Ave., and, if you’ve got the the gusto, belt out some bars during their karaoke contest which starts a 9:30 PM. Free. Call 549-4152.

If your chakras have been a little backed up lately, clear ‘em out during Table Time with Alternative Healers, an intuitive healing and energy balancing workshop at 12:30 PM at the Open Way Mindfulness Center, 702 Brooks St. Free. Call Janit at 207-7358.

Playing bingo at 2 PM at the Missoula Senior Citizens Center is your chance to yell, “You’re the dad I never had!” Free. Call 543-7154.

Reeds will be abused to utmost perfection when clarinetist Ty Wes performs a student recital at 3 PM in UM’s Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building. Free. Call 243-6880.

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

Seek connection, mutual life, or even death using the ancient Japanese strategy game Go when a group of enthusiasts meets to play the game this and every Sun. from 4–8 PM at Break Espresso, 432 N. Higgins Ave. Free. E-mail goinmissoula@yahoo.com.

Any heshers in sight ought to unite for a night of classic metal courtesy of Vancouver, B.C.’s 3 Inches of Blood, who play with tourmates Saviours and Holy Grail at the Palace at 9 PM. $10. Locals Undun open. (See Noise in this issue.)

Enjoy some “celtic music with a twist” sans the Mel Gibson cameo when Braveheart plays the Raven Restaurant and Bar, 39 Orchard Lane in Bigfork, at 4 PM. Free. Call 837-2836.

Staple guns, glue guns and nail guns make peace when Son of a Gun plays country and rock at Florence’s High Spirits Club and Casino, 5341 Hwy. 93 N., at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 273-9992.

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

Ponzi schemes fail but good times prevail when the Full Moon Prophets blues it up at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Crack Sabbath plays, uh, Black Sabbath covers like “Paranoid” and “Sweet Leaf” when they metal up the stage of the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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

Catch new thoughts with the Science of Mind Community during a Sunday service via the Internet when Rev. Kathianne Lewis spreads a spiritual message for your viewing pleasure at the Carriage House in Hamilton, 310 N. Fourth St., at 10 AM. this and every Sun. Free. Call Barb at 375-9996.

Dress up your animal so they can get their picture taken with Old Saint Nick during the Humane Society of Western Montana’s Santa Paws, a fundraiser for the society that starts at 11 AM at Southgate Mall, 2901 Brooks St. $20 for color photos. Call 549-HSWM.

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Improvisational movement with others takes on a jammy vibe during contact dance improv, this and every Sun. from 6:30–8:30 PM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $5.

Musicians are welcome and encouraged. E-mail missoulacontactimprov@gmail.com.

Kick off the latter hours of your day of rest when the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night welcomes saints and sinners alike with jazz DJs and jazz bands starting at 7:30 PM. Free.

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

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

A supergroup of lyricists progressing the game of hiphop hits Missoula when Chali 2na, Gift of Gab, Lyrics Born and Mr. Lif play the Wilma Theatre at 8 PM for the Deadliest Catch Tour. $20 at Rockin’ Rudy’s and www.ticketfly.com. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

All good things must come to an end, as is the case with Polson bluesters Full Moon Prophets, who want you to savor their last show ever at the Top Hat at 8 PM. Cover TBA.

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Dad always raids the medicine cabinet when you go off to hear some psychedelic indie rock courtesy of The Pharmacy, who play the Palace at 9 PM. Cover TBA.

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Peruse a host of books while helping out an elementary school library during the Corvallis Primary School Scholastic Book Fair, which starts at 8 AM at the school’s library, 1020 Eastside Hwy. in Corvallis. Free. The book fair runs each day until Fri., Nov. 20. Call 961-3261 ext. 307.

Now that you’ve moved here, it’s time to start speakin’ ‘Merican and learning about our wonderful banking and health care systems (you can tell I’m joking, right?), as well as our educational system during Adult Basic Education courses at the Dickinson Lifelong Learning Center, every Mon. and Wed. at 8:30 AM at the center, 310 S. Curtis St. Free. Call 542-4015.

Understand the health care debate within the lens of an economic perspective when UM economist Gregg Davis leads the City Club Missoula Forum “Health Care Reform: Patch the Crack or Repair the Windshield?,” at 11:30 AM at the Holiday Inn–Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. $16 with lunch/$11 with lunch for members/$5 for forum only.

RSVP by calling 541-2489 by Nov. 12.

Celebrate all that is international during “UM’s International Education Week Opening Ceremony,” which starts at noon in UM’s University Center Atrium.

Free. Features comments by Mehrdad Kia and others, as well as a Spanish dance performance. Call 243-6865.

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

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Afterschool activities for your kid aged 8–12 get a little wild and primal during the Roxy Theatre’s Afterschool Wildlife Film Safari which runs Mon.–Fri. from 3–5:30 PM, except for holiday’s, at the theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $6/hour. Call 728-9380 to register.

Kids in first through fifth grade stir their artistic passions after school during the ZACC’s Young Artist Afterschool Program where instructor Hanna Hannan leads art projects, field trips, tours and more from 3–5:30 PM every weekday until Dec. 23 at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. $12 per day, with busing available. Visit www.zootownarts.com or call 549-7555.

You work long hours, but your kid doesn’t, so keep them busy after their studies during an after-school program for kindergartners through sixth graders Mon.–Fri. at Elrod School, 412 Third Ave. W. in Kalispell, from 3:15–5:45 PM. $10 early out days/$6 regular days. Call 758-7975.

Consider hitting the books from Ireland or Iceland but probably not Iran during a “Study Abroad Information Session” at 4 PM in Room 326 of UM’s University Center. Free. Call 243-6865.

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

Chew on some heterogeneous fat for the mind during UM’s second annual Diversity Dinner, which features discussion of issues relating to racism and sexism in the media and more, at 6 PM in UM’s University Center South Ballroom. Free. Call 951-966-5971 or e-mail meryl.barlow@umontana.edu.

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.

Find your flow and the will to practice Pranayama during an Ashtanga Flow yoga class from 6:30–7:30 PM at Birds & Bee’s LLC, 1515 E. Broadway St. $8 suggested donation. Call 544-1019.

If you’ve suffered a brain injury, join others during this month’s Missoula Brain Injury Support Group Meeting at 6:30 PM in the Duran Learning Center of St. Patrick Hospital, 500 W. Broadway St. Free. This meeting focuses on the topic “Making Life Work after a Brain Injury.” Call Jim Mickelson at 544-6629.

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

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

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.

Joining up with UM’s French Club Le Cercle Francophone means you can repeatedly ask people, “Pourquoi suisje en vie?” or just brush up on your French skills when the club meets this and every Mon. at James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., at 7 PM. Free If you’re 18 or under and your life has been affected by someone else’s drinking, get support with others by j o i n i n g t h e A l - A t e e n 12 - S t e p Support Group, which meets this and every Monday at 7 PM at First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free, use alley entrance. Call 728-5818 or visit www.al-anon.alateen.org.

Serenity hits you with force under the influence of David Horgan and Beth Lo, who play the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 100, at 7 PM. Free.

Visiting assistant art prof Karina Hean offers a “confluence of motion and emotion” during “Gathering Place,” a presentation/discussion of her mixed media drawings at 7 PM in Room 11 of UM’s Liberal Arts Building. Free. Call 243-6074.

Hear about how a Missoula cardiac surgery team helped kids with rheumatic heart valve disease during the lecture “Healing Hearts in Ethiopia” at 7 PM in Room 326 of UM’s University Center. Free. Call 243-6865.

Learn to slay like the best of ‘em during a free guitar clinic at Electronic Sound and Percussion, 819 S Higgins Ave., at 7 PM. Free. Call 728-1117.

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.

Keep those utterances to yourself and listen to others chirp in unison when the UM Women’s Chorus performs at 7:30 PM in the UM Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building. $10/$5 students and seniors. Call 243-6880.

Conductor James Smart is the sage behind the podium when he conducts a Missoula Community Concert Band performance at 7:30 PM at the Missoula Children’s Theatre, 200 N. Adams St. Free. Call 542-7664.

Bingo is no longer in the domain of the geriatric when Colin Hickey leads Rawk ‘N Roll Bingo at 8:30 PM at the Badlander with the first bingo card for free, subsequent cards for $1. Free.

Who says America never invented a pub sport? Beer Pong proves them all wrong at the Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where alcohol and performance anxiety climax into a thing of beauty at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969.

Kick off your week with a drink and an array of electronic DJs and styles for das booty during the Palace’s Milkcrate Mondays with the Milkcrate Mechanic at 9 PM every week. Free.

See if you can become a star under the spotlight at Sean Kelly’s open mic night, hosted by Mike Avery at 9:30 PM. Free.

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Bring your appetite and get ready to converse about business in Columbia Falls during the Columbia Falls Chamber of Commerce economic development breakfast, at 7 AM at the Back Room of the Night Owl, 522 Ninth St. W. in Columbia Falls. Free. Call 892-2072.

Polyrhythms replace your ritual cup of morning Joe during a men’s drumming circle which meets this and every Tue. from 7:30–8:30 AM through the end of Nov. at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W. Free. Call Matthew at 396-3352.

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

See if you can nab some free money for school in order to study in Deutschland, France or whatever other locale suits your heart during a “Scholarships Abroad” info session, at 1 PM in Room 330 of UM’s University Center. Free. Call 243-6865.

Exercise your interest in helping UM limit its carbon dioxide emissions during an open house for the draft UM Climate Action Plan, at 3 PM in UM’s University Center Theater. Free. Call 243-6001 or visit umt.edu/greeningum.

See if you’re fit for shucking oysters or teaching English during a “work abroad workshop” at 3:30 PM in Room 154 of UM’s Lommasson Center. Free. Call 243-2022.

SPOTLIGHT

verbal assaults

Missoula gets its share of hip-hop shows, but it’s pretty rare to get four high caliber MCs sharing the same stage for one night.

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Come Sunday, our little college town will be in a hiphop heaven of sorts when MCs Chali 2na, Gift of Gab, Lyrics Born and Mr. Lif hit the Wilma Theatre for an evening of poignant rhymes.

For those of you not versed in their work, let’s start with Chali 2na.

Chali, pictured here, is best known as a member of Los Angeles’ now defunct Jurassic 5, a sextet that gained high praise from critics and set the stage for Chali as the lyrical leader of the pack, thanks to his deep baritone voice and speedy flow. He’s now a solo artist, but has many collaborations over the years, including co-founding the funk hip-hop group Ozomatli.

Next up is Gift of Gab, who first broke through the scene as one-half of Oakland’s Blackalicious. Also WHAT: The Deadliest Catch Tour WHO: Chali 2na, Gift of Gab, Lyrics Born and Mr. Lif WHEN: Sun., Nov. 15, at 8 PM WHERE: Wilma Theatre HOW MUCH: $20 advance at Rockin Rudy’s or www.ticketfly.com

nightlife Ladies, celebrate your feminist tendencies with cheap drinks when the Frenchtown Club, 15155 Demers St. in Frenchtown, hosts Ladies’ Night every Tue. from 5 PM to close. Free. Call 370-3200.

Hey, we all overindulge sometimes, but when you’ve had enough, head down to Take off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS), a meeting which starts with a weigh-in between 5 and 5:30 PM, followed by a meeting at 5:30, this and every Tue. at the Rocky Mountain Lodge in Whitefish, 6510 Hwy. 93 S. Free. Call 862-1233.

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.

Kids ages 10 and up learn the ins, outs and basics of glass fusing, and perhaps create a pendent or necklace, during a Youth Glass Class from 5:30–6:30 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. $15.

Pre-registration only. Call 549-7555 or e-mail holly@zootownarts.com.

Flush the early week stress from your system with a Tuesday Track Workout featuring speed training by UM women’s track coach Courtney Babcock every Tue. at 6 PM at Dornblaser Field, on the corner of Higgins and South avenues. Free for Run Wild Missoula members/Cost TBA for others. Visit www.runwildmissoula.org.

Learn how to let go of Thanksgiving/ Christmas induced stress during “DeStressing the Holiday’s” a workshop where you can learn and share hints for beating the holiday blues at 6 PM in

deft with pad and pen, Gift of Gab freaked heads in 1999 on the track “Alphabet Aerobics,” a tonguetwisting flurry of rhyme schemes based on the alphabet that runs from A to Z in just over two minutes.

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Then there’s Berkeley’s Lyrics Born, who pushes a distinct singsong style that’s been described as intricate and keen on observation. He’s been honing his style for years too, first making waves in the underground in 1997 as part of the duo Latyrx.

Finally, there’s Boston’s Mr. Lif, who’s definitely the most political of the bunch. When I first heard him, he was shooting verbal daggers toward the Bush administration. Now he’s shifted to topics like the recession and housing market collapse.

All of these gents have a decade or more of spitting rhymes under their belts. So consider this a prime opportunity to catch some deadly flows from seasoned vets.

WORD Inc.’s Community Room, 2525 Palmer St. Ste. 1. $5 suggested donation, with childcare provided. RSVP by calling 543-3550 ext. 228.

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.

Go beyond your limits, in a positive way, during the class “Beyond Limits” this and every Tue. from 6:30–9 PM until Nov. 24 at Kalispell’s Shining Mountains Center for Positive Living, 475 Eighth Ave. East N. Cost TBA. Call 257-6539.

If you’ve suffered from cancer, utilize your creative energies during a free beginning painting class offered

by Living Art of Montana which features basic theory, design concepts and more at 6:30 PM at the Living Art Studio, 725 W. Alder St. Ste. 17. Free.

RSVP by Mon., Nov. 16 by calling 549-5329 or e-mailing ysteinprograms@livingartofmontana.org.

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.

Grab the rooster sauce and get spicy when the Downtown Dance Collective’s Nelson Barahona 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.

–Ira Sather-Olson Follow your dreams of becoming the next Willie Nelson, and get buy-oneget-one-free drink tickets, during an open mic night every Tue. at the Brooks and Brown Lounge at the Holiday Inn Parkside, 200 S. Pattee St., from 7–10 PM, with sign-up at 6 PM. E-mail moorebeej@yahoo.com.

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Second Friday Zootown Art Community Center 235 N. First St. West, Missoula

Find out which digi camera leads you to pixelation-free supremacy when Neil Chaput de Saintonge leads the lecture “Point and Shoots to SLRs: How to Buy a Digital Camera” at 7 PM at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography, 216 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 543-0171.

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Get down in the company of others with everyone’s favorite English bard during the Missoula Public Library’s Everyone’s Shakespeare Reading Group, which meets at 7 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Avoid the pitfalls of getting buried in snow during an Avalanche Awareness lecture at 7 PM, in UM’s Urey Underground Lecture Hall. Free.

Call 243-5172.

A portable mural of gigantic proportions illustrates how mountaintop coal mining isn’t so great for the Appalachia during the presentation/talk “Mountaintop Removal: The True Cost of Coal,” at 7 PM in UM’s Urey North Underground Lecture Hall. Free.

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Genocide in Darfur hits close to home, and begs for your action, during a screening of Sand and Sorrow at 7 PM at the Whitefish High School Auditorium, 1143 Fourth St. in Whitefish. Free. E-mail HollowM@wfps.k12.mt.us.

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Every time you turn on a light, boot up your computer or use any other source of electricity, it’s likely coal was used to create that spark of energy. In fact, info from the U.S. Energy Information Administration indicates the American energy industry consumes about 93 percent of coal in the United States. So, we use a lot of coal, but do we even know the environmental costs of mining the stuff, especially when it comes to mountaintop removal mining?

On Thu., Nov. 12, at 7 PM, you can find out when Missoula’s chapter of the Sierra Club presents a free screening of the documentary Coal Country at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. The doc explores how mountaintop removal of coal in the Appalachia is affecting nearby streams, forests and communities. Brad Hash, a regional rep from the Sierra Club, will also be at the screening to discuss the use of coal and coal power as it relates to Montana. Call the club at 549-1142 or e-mail brad.hash@sierraclub.org.

Once the film stops rolling, I’m guessing you’ll be enlightened and perhaps outraged by witnessing the destructiveness of this kind of mining. Well, I think you should ease your mind a bit by sleeping on it and then pampering yourself on Fri., Nov. 13, by signing up for three Kayak Roll Clinics. These clinics, which cost $65 altogether, intend to help you fine tune your rolls and occur on Nov. 17, 19 and 24 from 8:30–10:30 PM at UM’s Griz Pool. Call 243-5172.

Afterwards, enjoy the rest of your Friday and kick yourself into prime chillaxation mode through Saturday in order to decide if you want to join those ascension masters known as The Rocky Mountaineers for three scheduled hikes, all on Sun., Nov. 15.

The first is a mountain bike trip up Mount Sentinel that’s estimated to be about three to four hours in duration, whisking you up to elevations as high as 3,000 feet. If you’re interested, meet at the corner of Maurice and Daly streets at 7 AM with your mountain or cyclocross bike. Also, be sure to bring warm clothes and a bike light. The plan might change if there’s too much snow, so be sure to contact trip

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leader Joshua Phillips with questions at 543-0898 or e-mail him at mtsurveyor@gmail.com.

The second trip is an easy hike up Blodgett Canyon, in the Bitterroots, and is estimated to be 10 miles in length. Meet at the old Big Lots parking lot at 7 AM to carpool to the spot. E-mail trip leader Chris Dunn at hammaneater@gmail.com.

The last trip on Sunday is scheduled for Lolo Pass, where you’ll hike, ski or snowshoe depending on conditions. Details are still in the works, so give Julie Kahl a call at 543-6508 to find out when and where you’ll meet to head to the pass. As always, you can keep up to date on all mountain excursions with these folks by visiting www.rockymountaineers.com.

If you’re in the Flathead, you’ll also have a chance to catch this tour when it screens at Flathead High School in Kalispell at 7 PM on Nov. 17 and 18. Tickets are $12 and are available at various locations including Rocky Mountain Outfitter in Kalispell and Runner Up Sports in Whitefish. Visit www.flatheadnordic.org.

On Mon., Nov. 16, those of you who dream of cliff-hucking on well waxed skis—but don’t have the knowledge to properly wax ‘em yourself—should sign up for a ski maintenance class which meets at 6 PM, Wed., Nov. 18, at the UM Outdoor Program’s bench in the Campus Recreation Department. The one-hour class costs $5 and includes instruction on how to wax and sharpen your ski edges. Call 243-5172.

Later that night, males and females between the ages of 14 and 21 with an interest in aquatics shouldn’t disregard an open house at 7:30 PM for Ship 102, Western Montana’s Sea Scout unit, at the American Legion Hall, 825 Ronan St. The free shindig includes pizza and info about Sea Scouting, which includes activities like sailing, boat safety, scuba diving, river kayaking and more. Call Chris Roberts at 549-3090 or e-mail him at croberts@powwowcountry.com for more info. Also visit www.seascout.org for the skinny on the org.

Then on Tue., Nov. 17, get some tips on avalanche safety for your upcoming winter expeditions during an avalanche awareness lecture at 7 PM at UM’s Urey North Underground Lecture Hall. The free talk is presented by experts at UM’s Outdoor program and the West Central Montana Avalanche Foundation. Call 243-5172 or visit www.missoulaavalanche.org.

Once you’ve figured out how to avoid an early burial by snow, increase those creases in your brain tenfold on Wed., Nov. 18, by learning about beetles at the Montana Natural History Center, 120 Hickory St., during the 7 PM lecture Photo by Alex Sakarlassen “Beetles and the Secrets Behind Animal Weaponry.” The $4 suggested donation gets you prime info from UM grad stuAfter revitalizing your legs, give your eyes a workout at the dent Annika Johns, who plans to discuss the rhyme and reason University Theatre at 6 PM Sunday with a series of awe inspiring out- behind their large horns and other bodily armaments.

Now that you’ve amassed enough mental and physical outdoors door films which run the gamut from skiing, bicycling and more during The 2009 Banff Festival of Mountain Films World Tour. ammunition for the week, be wise with it and don’t wear yourself out.

Tickets are $15 at the door or $12 advance at all GrizTix outlets, or at Save some of that energy for my next round of recreational bullets. the Trail Head. Call 243-5172 and visit the film fest’s online home at calendar@missoulanews.com www.banffcentre.ca/mountainculture/tour/.

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Gain some perspective on how to best protect neighboring streams and riparian property, while chiming in with your own comments, during a watershed forum at 7 PM at the Lolo Community Center, 12345 Hwy. 93 S. in Lolo.

Free. Call 542-0539 or visit www.clarkfork.org.

out some prize-winning classics during Kaleidoscope Karaoke every Tue.–Sun. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 721-1798.

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

WEDNESDAY

Soar into the culture of the “warrior king,” aka the African country of Ghana, when UM graduate student Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong leads a discussion on life in the country at 7:30 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

Morning Melodies, a free, friendly music event tailored occurs every Wed. at Montana downtown Whitefish at 10 AM.

Find out the skinny on “cap and trade” as well as climate change issues facing America and the world during “Climate Countdown–A Community Discussion on Global Cap and Trade” at 7:30 PM at UM’s University Center Ballroom. Free. Call 728-3328 or visit www.montanaworldaffairs.org. (See Agenda in this issue.)

Music faculty members are likely to bust out sonorous notes during a Faculty Chamber Recital at 7:30 PM at UM’s Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building. $10/$5 students and seniors.

Call 243-6880.

See what it’s like to juggle 40 characters while trying to maintain your sanity as a restaurant reservations manager during Montana Rep Missoula performances of Becky Mode and Mark Setlock’s Fully Committed, which starts at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10, with a $5 student rush at 7 PM. Call 243-4581 or visit www.montanarep.org.

If you’re a dude and you’re a little unfocused about sexuality, fix it during More for Men, a focus group “to help men sort through sexuality” that meets every other Tuesday from 7:30–9 PM at Birds and Bees LLC, 1515 E. Broadway St. $8 suggested donation. Call 544-1019.

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

18 fun-filled, familyto preschoolers, Coffee Traders in Free.

Verbs, adverbs and nouns get advice from fruit during preschool storytime with storyteller Karen Fields when she presents “An Apple a Day” from 10:30–11:30 AM in the children’s corner of the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton. Free. Call 363-1670.

See just how much the media influences our happiness during the lecture “Role of Media in Gross National Happiness,” at noon in Room 303 of UM’s Old Journalism Building. Free. Call 243-2288.

Kids grades 6–12 project their minds during the Bitterroot Public Library’s build a rocket race car activity, which runs from 1:30–3:30 PM at the library, 306 State St. in Hamilton. Free. Register at the library or call 363-1670.

Perhaps animal husbandry or AIDS education is in your future when you mull over your options at a Peace Corps Informational Meeting, at 2 PM in Room 332 of UM’s University Center. Free. Call 243-2839.

Breathe a little easier by getting a glimpse into carbon free life when David Orr and James Marsh lead the lecture “Designing Post-Carbon Cities: The Oberlin Project,” at 3:10 PM in Room 123 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building.

Free. Call 243-2981.

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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.

Realize the full potential of getting linked up with Linked In when Missoula’s Social Media Club hosts a talk by Lois McElravy, at 6 PM at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Visit www.smcmissoula.com.

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It’s once again time to render flesh, muscles and an assortment of body parts into a work of genius during the Missoula Art Museum’s non-instructed figure drawing classes, 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.

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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.

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It could be reggae, soul, or whatever she feels like playing, but Joan Zen should lead you through the oneness of it all when she plays the Blacksmith Brewing Company, 114 Main St. in Stevensville, at 5:30 PM. Free.

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

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.

Bottle up your angst and save it for a night of raucous pop punk courtesy of Laramie, Wyoming’s Teenage Bottlerocket, who play with Reno, Nev.’s Cobra Skulls at the Palace at 9 PM. $8.

Opening support from Candyland Liberation Front and 10MT40S. (See Noise in this issue.)

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Bachelor Bob cuts the musical venison while you gnaw on potluck food during the Missoula Senior Center’s Potluck at the Center, which starts at 5:30 PM at the facility, 705 S. Higgins Ave. $5, includes food and music. Call 543-7154.

Rhymes that dazzle you with imagery and a sharp sense of humor hit ya when local MC Tonsofun plays the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

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Get a taste of something ecologically intellectual when you head to the discussion “Carnivore Conservation and the Ecology of CoExistence” at 4:10 PM, in Room 110 of UM’s Interdisciplinary Sciences Building. Free. Call 243-5292.

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.

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

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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 you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with.

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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.

sounds much like the Greek pastry, Bachlawa is actually a village in Poland.

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.

Be sure you’ve downed enough PBR in order to have the courage to sing “Said and Done” by Kylesa, or a similar tune, during Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

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.

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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. Gain some insight into the life of an artistic trailblazer when the Montana Museum of Art and Culture’s Brandon Reintjes leads the gallery talk “In Country, Out of Country: The Life and Art of Josephine Hale” at 7 PM at UM’s Masquer Theatre, in the PARTV Center. Free. Visit umt.edu/montanamuseum/ or call 243-2019.

Learn to control your impulses with the support and strength of others during a weekly co-ed meeting of Sex Addicts Anonymous, which meets this and every Wed. at 7 PM in Room 107 of the Providence Center, 902 N. Orange St. Free. Call 241-4005.

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

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Curious about double dipping in your sex life? Get the skinny on multiple partners during a course covering negotiation, polyamory, group sex, safety and society at 7 PM at Birds & Bees LLC, 1515 E. Broadway St. $8 suggested donation. Call 5441019 or visit aboutsexuality.org.

Chillaxing is the mode you’re likely to operate in during a night of acoustic indie from Portland’s Caught in Motion, as well as locals Michael Boise and Isaac M at 7 PM at The Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier. $5. Call 541-8463.

A roaring inferno tests the muster of firefighters, and the might of president Teddy Roosevelt, when Timothy Egan reads and signs copies of The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881. (See Books in this issue.)

See what it’s like to juggle 40 characters while trying to maintain your sanity as a restaurant reservations manager during Montana Rep Missoula performances of Becky Mode and Mark Setlock’s Fully Committed, which starts at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10, with a $5 student rush at 7 PM. Call 243-4581 or visit www.montanarep.org.

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.

The subject may be depressing, but it sure is pressing. So don’t sleep when David Orr and James Marsh present the lecture “Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse” at 8 PM in the University Center Ballroom. Free. Call 243-2981 or visit umt.edu/president/lectures/default.aspx.

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

A night of humor and hip-hop from our socialized health care neighbors to the north greets you when Ontario’s The Leathers play the Palace at 9 PM. $5. Locals Linkletter and Traffic open.

Fight for the right to belt out a semi-coherent version of The Darkness’ “I Believe in a Thing Called Love” every Wed. during Combat Karaoke at Rowdy’s Cabin, 4880 N. Reserve St., at 10 PM. Free. Call 543-8001.

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Turn discipline into development, and learn about motivators besides money, during the seminar “Leading People in Difficult Times” at 7:30 AM at Ruby’s Inn, 4825 N. Reserve St. $29 at door/$19 prepaid. Call 877-887-9949 or visit glacierhr.com.

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. Call Lois at 642-3010.

If you’ve got an interest in preserving Missoula’s historic hotspots, and live in the Eastside District (which includes the area of East Pine between Pattee Street and Rattlesnake Creek), apply as a volunteer on the Historic Preservation Commission. Pick up an app at City Hall, 435 Ryman St. or online at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/vacancy. Apps are due by 5 PM Nov. 25. Call 552-6078.

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. $12/$10 members.

Call 541-7240.

Your skill at creating something functionally wicked, like a beer stein or a vase, comes in handy during the ZACC’s Paint Your Own Pottery Studio, which runs from 12–8 PM Mon.–Fri. and every Sat. from noon–5 PM at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. Price ranges from $5–$20, depending on the cost of pottery. Call 549-7555 or visit www.zootownarts.com.

Tag it and put it in a bag, then be ready to discuss The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows during the Bitterroot Public Library’s “Brown Bag It!” book discussion, which starts at noon at the library, 306 State St. in Hamilton. Free. Call 363-1670.

Find out what sort of work you can do for free overseas while getting college credit during the info session “Internship Oppor tunities Abroad” at noon in Room 326 of UM’s University Center. Free. Call 243-6865.

Extend yourself beyond regular ballet using emotion through movement to tell stories and interpret music when the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., presents Lyrical Class every Wed. at 8:30 PM. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

Kids in first through fifth grade stir their artistic passions after school during the ZACC’s Young Artist Afterschool Program where instructor Hanna Hannan leads art projects, field trips, tours and more from 3–5:30 PM every weekday until Dec. 23 at the ZACC, 235 N. First St. W. $12 per day, with busing available. Visit www.zootownarts.com or call 549-7555.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but neither will help you emit that high lonesome sound every Wed., when the Old Post Pub hosts a Pickin’ Circle at 9 PM. Free. The answer to this week’s trivia question: While it

Pick the brains of those who promote well being in developing countries during a “Returning Peace Corps Panel Discussion” at 4:30 PM in Room 326 of UM’s University Center. Free. Call 243-2839.

All genres are encouraged—excepting, perhaps, cumbia—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.

Artist Scott Fife’s richly detailed busts go great with martinis and local rawk from Vera during Artini: Eight Heads from 5:30–9 PM at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Call 728-0447.

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 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.

Mountainside living apparently translates into traditionally styled folk when Corvallis’ Paul Arnoldi plays the Bitterroot Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

Try your hand at fused glass pendants and decorate a slumped wine bottle to take home during an adult glass class for those 18 and up from 6–8 PM at the ZACC Gallery, 235 N. First St. W. $25. Pre-registration only. Call 549-7555 or email holly@zootownarts.com.

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.

Does your philosophical outlook mirror that of Nietzsche or Rawls? Find out during Socrates Cafe, a philosophy discussion group at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St., at 7 PM. Free. Call 721-BOOK. See the life of a bedridden man hoping to see his son for one last time during a screening of the foreign film The Window at 7 PM at the Bitterroot Public Library, 306 State St. in Hamilton. Free. Call 363-1670.

They wage war for nature, but with cameras. So hear about “Wildlife Filmakers: Heroes and Heroines on the Frontlines of the Conservation Battle” when Janet Rose of the International Wildlife Film Festival leads the discussion at 7 PM, in Room 326 of UM’s University Center. Free. Call 243-6865.

Increase your understanding, and perhaps your cynicism, regarding our nation’s broken health care system during a screening of Money-Driven Medicine at 7 PM in UM’s University Center Theater. Free. Visit peaceandjusticefilms.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 HipHop Class. Call 541-7240 for pricing.

See what it’s like to juggle 40 characters while trying to maintain your sanity as a restaurant reservations manager during Montana Rep Missoula’s performance of Becky Mode’s Fully Committed, which starts at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10, with a $5 student rush at 7 PM. Call 243-4581 or visit www.montanarep.org.

UM student Steve Olson asserts artistic dominance over the white and black keys during a student recital piano performance at 7:30 PM in

Follow the circle of life in all its stages when the Sentinel High School Drama Department presents its rendition of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, with a performance at 7:30 PM in the Margaret Johnson Theatre in Sentinel High School, 901 South Ave. W. $6/$5 students and seniors. Call 728-2400 ext. 7065.

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.

Bowling and karaoke go together like rugburns and smiling faces during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free.

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Sorry ladies, but Thu. nights belong to the dudes at Men’s Night at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where the testosterone-fueled karaoke begins at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969.

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

Get your fix 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. $3.

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

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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.

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Join the ranks of the Missoula Metal Militia, which brings metal DJs Hot Pocket and Uranus, and bands, to the Palace at 9 PM every Thu. 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 prize-winning classics during Kaleidoscope Karaoke every Tue.–Sun. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9:30 PM. Free. Call 721-1798.

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

Cross your karaoke sword with others under the influence of that music box you sing along to during Combat DJ and Karaoke nights, this and every Thu. at the Press Box, 835 E. Broadway St., at 10 PM. Free.

He’ll cure your tremors with a sweet shot of country: Russ Nasset hits up the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free.

Fructose, glucose and sucrose aim for dance floor supremacy when Portland’s SugarCane String Band plays the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Cottonwood Draw opens.

If you’d like to help folks get medical care in Honduras, consider checking out the Missoula Medical Aid Salsa Dance and Auction Fundraiser on Fri., Nov. 13, at 7 PM. It’s at the Missoula Children’s Theatre, 200 N. Adams St., and is a benefit for the organization, which heads to Honduras each year to give medical aid to an estimated 6,000 people. Impressive, don’t you think?

The soiree itself costs $45, or $25 if you’re a student, and gets you salsa music courtesy of Salsa Loca and indulgence in appetizers, drinks and more. That’s something we think is worth supporting. As for you, please support me by adhering to our event submission deadline by sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Nov. 13, 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. You can also submit stuff online. Just head to the arts section of our website and scroll down a few inches and you’ll see a link that says “submit an event.”

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Bitterroot Performing Arts series starts on solid ground

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by Erika Fredrickson

Fundraising in a recession isn’t easy. Fundraising at the peak of summer, when potential sponsors have already determined their annual budgets, isn’t ideal. And fundraising under both of these conditions and with only a couple of months to raise $125,000 seems like madness.

That was the case this year for the Bitterroot Performing Arts Council (BPAC) as it sought funding for a world-class performing arts series hosted at what seems an unlikely place for such shows: The Hamilton Performing Arts Center at Hamilton High School.

But for BPAC, some key factors made an otherwise tough environment the perfect climate for success.

Though the council is new, the series—previously funded by the school district and known as the Hamilton Performing Arts series–is going into its seventh season.

The eclectic annual lineup has garnered steady crowds from the Bitterroot, Missoula and surrounding areas with metropolitan acts like Edgar Meyer, The Preservation Hall Jazz Band and MOMIX dance troupe.

“A couple of years into the series I found out people were having dinner parties before the concerts and making a whole night of it,” says Monica Grable, BPAC’s new executive director. “That’s sweet icing on the cake just to know that it has become that ingrained in people’s lives.”

The fact that people in the valley had already gotten a taste of the series meant that BPAC had an easier time finding supporters. In seven weeks, between July and August 2009, the council raised 90 percent of its goal just in time to secure its six-act programming for the upcoming season. In addition, the Council has sold 300 season tickets at the 700-seat performing arts center, a 20 percent increase from last year. The tickets are cheaper this year— $150 for six performances as opposed to $250 for 12 last year—but the point, Grable says, is people want to support the series.

“The truth is people were counting on that programming,” she says. “They knew it was possible and they were quite used to having it. Not that they took it for granted, but it started to play an important role in their everyday lives and I don’t think they could imagine our community without it. And, thankfully, we were fundraising from that point and not from scratch.”

From the series’ inception in 2003 up until last year, the Hamilton School District has provided funding through fees accrued from renting out the center. In 2008, after operating in the red, the school district decided it couldn’t fund the series anymore. Jim Olson of Human Interactive Products (HipInc.), a Hamilton umbrella company that includes businesses in tech and groups like Great Bear Restoration, stepped in to give the series full funding for the season to save it from going dark.

Olson was a savior, says Grable, but she and others who helped put together the season lineup knew that they had to find a permanent solution—and quick. In spring 2009 the group quickly developed a board and received official nonprofit status in just six weeks. Record time, says Grable, and a good lesson for the board.

“We didn’t spend a lot of hours wordsmithing a mission statement,” she says. “It’s very basic: We’re going to present the arts to the community. And on we went.”

One other surprising event happened during the creation of the new nonprofit. The council had expected to name itself the Hamilton Performing Arts Council, for consistency’s sake. But the group’s marketing consultant said keeping the name would ensure that people in Stevensville and Florence wouldn’t donate any funding.

Mouths hung open, recalls Grable. And though the

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group knew it had some support from areas outside of Hamilton, the members took the advice to heart and went with the more encompassing “Bitterroot” moniker.

Though the series has sometimes operated in the red, it hasn’t been for lack of attendance. Many of the shows sell out, says Grable, but as is the case nationwide, ticket sales can only support a third of performing arts budgets, so the rest needs to be funded by other sources like sponsorships and donors. The success of the series will rely on that funding every year, but it will also rely on other factors.

Mattea, who plays folk and roots country, performs in December. Billy Jonas, who’s known for sing-along “reprecussionism,” and renowned pipa virtuoso Wu Man, who’s playing with the String Orchestra of the Rockies for their 25th anniversary, visit in January and February, respectively. In March, Cirque Mechanics brings its acrobatic spectacle inspired by Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry murals. The season closes in April with a show by the Punch Brothers, which includes Chris Thile of Nickel Creek.

Cirque Mechanics is one of six performances lined up for the 2009-10 Bitterroot Performing Arts series. “People really love acrobatics,” says Monica Garble, the series’ executive director. “That tends to draw an audience that you may not normally get for the rest of the series.”

In the past, the series benefited from the fact that the University of Montana didn’t host an entertainment series, instead focusing on Grammy-winning acts. The Bitterroot lineup, on the other hand, tends to book acts that are extraordinary within a certain niche—Celtic music, acrobatics, world music—but perhaps not mainstream. Now that UM has a performing arts series, Grable says it will be a little competitive but still not a concern. She explains that one requirement for future acts is that they’re not also performing in Missoula.

Another factor the series benefits from is its setting.

Artists want to come to Montana, says Grable. Even with direct flights to Missoula waning, entertainment acts seem interested in trying out a more rural audience—and often for half the fee they’d ask for in large cities.

This season’s lineup demonstrates that top acts are willing to stop in western Montana. The season starts this weekend with Solas, a traditional Celtic music band. Kathy

BPAC hopes to raise its final $10,000 throughout the season to meet its goal, but for the time being, things are looking good. Grable says the first shows look like they’ll be full houses and that grant money will probably come in to help fund next year’s series. But in this business, she says, you need annual supporters.

“Every arts organization has to fundraise every year,” she says. “They have to ask their supporters to continue making a statement about its importance in the community. The arts are a need. We need them now more than ever.”

The 2009-10 Bitterroot Performing Arts series begins with Solas on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 8 PM, at the Hamilton Performing Arts Center. $20–$25/$150 season ticket. Go to www.bartc.org for more info on the series. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Tigercity Ancient Lover self-released

Tigercity is remarkable for its lack of irony, considering the band’s new home base in Brooklyn, and the fact that they play a combination of disco-era light rock and pitch-perfect mainstream new wave. These guys are serious, and it’s impressive. The debut album is laden with cheese, but the songs are honestly done and finely executed.

Like the catalog of music that inspired it, Ancient

3 Inches of Blood Here Waits Thy Doom Century Media

It takes some time to get used to the Rob Halfordesque pipes of 3 Inches of Blood’s Cam Pipes. But by the time you finish listening to the latest from this Vancouver-based foursome, you’ll want to start singing along in the same over-the-top manner, pumping your fist with wild abandon to their deftly crafted brand of old school metal.

Opener “Battles and Brotherhood” mixes epic power metal riffs with traces of speed and thrash metal, along with lyrics about unleashing bloody massacres and battling with your bros. The ass-kicking quota then gets shot up a few notches on “Call of the Hammer,” a fiery thrash number that simply rocks. The dudes even mel-

Teenage Bottlerocket They Came From the Shadows Fat Wreck Chords

Sure, you may say all pop punk sounds the same, and I’ll agree with you. But some bands hit the punk rock sweet spot, and Teenage Bottlerocket is one of those bands.

When it comes to Ramones-style punk, too much experimentation can ruin the flavor of the bubblegum.

The important elements are simple, timeless and allpowerful. I’m looking for catchy tunes, sweet harmonies, fuzzy power chords, dramatic pauses, tri-

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The Electric Dandelion self-released

Several indicators point to the presumption that The Electric Dandelion’s newly released EP was, through and through, a low budget, DIY project recorded in the basement of some seedy Missoula house. Everything from the album cover art, which appears to be drawn in with a black magic marker, to the scribbled title on the CD itself, not so subtly reveals the homegrown work ethic that this local group tends toward. That said, throughout its cloud of psychedelic guitar riffs, slow burning electric jams and Lou Reed-styled vocals, The Electric Dandelion proves a sure and able level of musicianship throughout this four-song set.

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Lover contains its hits and misses. The less successful tracks aren’t bad, just dull. They’re the kind of songs you might doze off to while having your teeth cleaned, then spend the rest of the day humming the tune, though unable to remember the words.

The best songs, on the other hand, cannot be denied. When it’s done well, everyone knows it, even the haters. And this is what I have to say to haters: If you have no desire to sing along with “Fake Gold,” you are a sourpuss. If you don’t love the new-wave perfection of “Mallory” and the title track, I don’t believe in you. If you refuse to dance to the dark disco anthem “My Type,” I say you are not a human being. At least admit that Bill Gillim’s falsetto is sexy. (Ali Gadbow) Tigercity plays the Palace Friday, Nov. 13, at 9 PM with Neon Indian, Shahs and Victory Smokes. $7/$5 advance. low a bit on “12:34,” a somber acoustic interlude to the valiant closing track “Execution Tank.”

For the most part, these guys stay consistent throughout, never wavering from their core aesthetic—a mixture of Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, early Kreator and anything else with a tried and true classic feel.

Here Waits Thy Doom pedals a true traditional sound. I’m sold on it, and if you like vintage metal, you will be too. (Ira Sather-Olson) 3 Inches of Blood plays the Palace Saturday, Nov. 14, at 9 PM with Saviours, Holy Grail and Undun. $10.

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The band’s fourth album, They Came From the Shadows, provides enough melodic variety to keep me hooked while never straying a step outside of the genre. The best songs are classic pop-punk crooners like “Without You,” a song I’ll definitely be singing alone in my car, and “Todayo,” with its irresistible refrains of “Todayo” and “Tomorrow, whoa-oh-oh.” It’s not complicated. It’s youth, rock and rebellion, with no song longer than three and a half minutes. What’s not to like? (Ali Gadbow) Teenage Bottlerocket plays the Palace Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 9 PM with Cobra Skulls, Candyland Liberation Front and 10MT40s. $8.

The first track, “Moon Shadow Sutra,” finds the group experimenting with sound patterns and playful instrumentation for nearly 10 minutes. In a slight diversion, the subdued country waltz “Rusty Gumball” includes the drawling vocals of lead singer “Nri” surfacing beneath a solid guitar rhythm. “It’s sure been a while since the concrete we walk on was painted in gold,” sings Nri. “Reminds me of a dusty gumball rolling out your back door.”

A higher quality of recording would do wonders for the other substandard jams, but there’s still enough promise in this effort to take notice of the band.

(Kelsey Bernius)

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Gifford Pinchot traveled to Missoula in 1937. corporate plunderers. President Roosevelt appointed Seventy-two years old, a former two-term governor of Pinchot chief of the Forest Service in 1905 and together Pennsylvania and the first chief of the U.S. Forest the two men carved out 180 million acres of land for Service, Pinchot had shipped his Buick to Missoula by protection. According to Egan, Roosevelt wanted rail earlier that summer so that he might embark on a Americans to “understand that it was their right in a summer tour, starting with the Cabinet Mountains in democracy to own it—every citizen holding a stake.”

Both he and Pinchot wanted Montana to the Cascades in people to experience wilderness Oregon to the High Sierra in as a relief from what John Muir California. His purpose for called “stupefying effects of the such a trip was two-fold: He vice of over-industry and the wanted to reacquaint himself deadly apathy of luxury.” with the wilderness he had spent much of his life fighting But, as in every good to preserve, and he was just Western, there were bad guys beginning to write his memoirs aplenty, with perhaps the most on the conservation moveinsidious of all being U.S. Sen. ment. The result, Breaking William Clark, a Montana copNew Ground, would take per mining magnate (and the Pinchot more than 10 years to founder of Las Vegas) who write, culminating in more fought Roosevelt and Pinchot than 500 pages of discussion on every conservation measure. that references his close friendClark once declared, “Those ship with Theodore Roosevelt who succeed us can take care of and revisits, in encyclopedic themselves.” detail, his and Roosevelt’s The Big Burn, at least many battles to wrest the according to Egan, saved forests of the American West the conservationist movement.

The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & the from special interests.

Drawing from eyewitness Fire That Saved America It is this history, combined accounts and utilizing all his Timothy Egan with the narrative of the Big skills as a reporter, novelist and hardcover, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Burn, that Timothy Egan, historian, Egan recounts the 336 pages, $27.00 National Book Award winner story of the massive fire in terrifor The Worst Hard Time, chronfying, exhausting detail. But, icles in his newest—and perhaps most engrossing— did the fire really save Teddy Roosevelt and the wilderbook yet: The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt & the Fire ness of America, as Egan’s subtitle suggests? According That Saved America. The Big Burn, still the largest ever to Egan, it did. By drawing attention to protected lands, wildfire in American history (though not the deadliest), the Great Fire of 1910 saved the conservationist moveswept through Washington, Idaho and Montana over ment, galvanizing it by persuading the public that more the course of two days in August 1910, the combined forests needed to be under federal protection. One result of a particularly dry summer, a few thousand year after the Big Burn, Congress passed a law that small-scale fires throughout the national forests of the would eventually allow government purchase of 20 Pacific Northwest and one hurricane-force wind— million acres of woodland in the east. The power of the called a Palouser—that created great gusts that reached Forest Service then expanded.

74 miles an hour or more, whipping all the small-scale As much as one might be compelled to share in fires into a great massive blaze.

Egan’s optimism, it’s a little hard to swallow. Egan him“Everyone knew about Palousers,” writes Egan, self points out that by 1920 loggers had co-opted the “…they could pack a punch, though they were rare in Forest Service, leading to industrial clear-cuts. “[T]he the Bitterroots. But a Palouser hissing flames at high Forest Service became the fire service,” he writes, “prospeed—this was a peek beyond the gates of Hell.” tecting trees so industry could cut them down later.”

In alternating sections, Egan weaves the tale of the Pinchot, embarking from Missoula as an old man Big Burn with the story of the creation of the Forest through the forests he’d fought so hard to save, was Service, leading the narrative with a colorful and high- horrified to find a landscape stripped to mud and ly detailed account of the large-scale personalities of his stumps. “Absolute devastation,” he wrote in his diary in two leading good guys: Teddy Roosevelt, who “burned 1937. Today, the special interests of corporate investors 2,000 calories before noon and drank his coffee with and the hubris of American politicians still attempt to seven lumps of sugar,” and the forestry pioneer, Gifford exploit the resources of the American West.

Pinchot, who sometimes slept on a wooden pillow and, The legacy of the Big Burn may have furthered the for more than 20 years, secretly consulted with the conservationist movement, but the real message of ghost of his dead fiancée. “He read books to her,” Egan Egan’s book may very well be how much further we tells us, “ran his ideas and speeches by her, craved her have to go. approval, checked opinions and policies with her.”

Timothy Egan reads from The Big Burn at Fact Roosevelt and Pinchot worked together—from the & Fiction Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 7 PM. time of Roosevelt’s governorship in New York to his arts@missoulanews.com presidency and beyond—to save the American West from

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Find any cartoon caricature of a Frenchman in an history of both Chanel the woman and Chanel the oneEnglish-speaking country and he is liable to be wearing woman fashion empire, stopping short just as her busia Breton fisherman’s shirt. It was Breton farmers, ness gets going. Her story starts out a lot like Edith apparently, who originally favored this marvelously Piaf ’s, recently dramatized in La vie en rose: would-be deconstructed garment, nipping across the English cabaret singer struggles to surmount rough beginnings Channel to sell onions to the English, who called them and avoid prostitution by cultivating a career. Unlike “onion johnnies.” Thus, the English association of the self-destructive Piaf, however, Tautou’s Coco shows Frenchmen with onions and striped boat-necked jer- herself early on to be a hard case and a shrewd calculaseys. Virtually the same blue-striped shirt has also been tor, prepared to do whatever it takes to make it out of the uniform of Russian naval ratings since tsarist times. poverty and bondage, always mindful of the consequences of a single misstep. Raised in an orphanage, It is, in short, a storied article of clothing.

Needless to say, Audrey Tautou looks fetching in her options as a young woman on her own seem few hers. She does with a striped fisherman’s jersey what and grim, and it’s clear she’s not going to take them Brigitte Bardot did with beach sand and Jean Seberg lying down.

Or, rather, that she will if it benefits her, albeit spardid with the cheap promotional T-shirt. As Coco Chanel, Tautou’s discovery of the jersey on a visit to the ingly. She sleeps with a wealthy, decadent landowner seaside is a classic example of the biopic light-up (Benoit Poelvoerde) with connections at a ritzier cabaret, and when the resulting audition doesn’t work moment.

We go into biopics—or any movie based closely on out, she doorsteps him at his country estate and well-known historical events, but biopics especially—generally knowing something about how the story is going to turn out.

If you know nothing else about Edith Piaf, you’ve gathered somewhere she had a rough life. You probably know enough about Adolf Hitler to guess that he’s going to live through Valkyrie but die in Downfall. Just how much you know going into a biopic, of course, depends on your areas of interest.

And partial ignorance, at least, can be bliss. I went into Coco Before Chanel with only a thumbnail sketch of Coco Chanel: I knew she was a French designer who You’ve got a car in the garage. revolutionized style in the early 1900s by making women’s clothing comfortable again, that she was thought to have had an affair with demands to be taken in. He treats her rudely, though Igor Stravinsky and that she later collaborated with the strangely affably, and she likes him enough to stay on.

Nazis, shacking up with a colonel or general or some- The situation is complicated by the arrival of an English thing to keep her studio at the Ritz. I could picture a few gentleman.

Some will argue that Tautou is simply too adorable of her smartly tailored designs on the compact person of Jacqueline Kennedy, and somehow I knew about the to be taken seriously as a real-life character, or that after Amélie it’s enough for Tautou to just be adorable. It’s striped jersey.

And even with that basic information, I experi- true, she is adorable, and in Coco Before Chanel she enced a half-dozen of those biopic light-up moments smiles, quite a lot, a real teeth smile and not the winwhen, knowing only nominally more about what will some pucker of the hyperglycemic Amélie. Magic! But happen to the characters than the characters do, you her performance is also quietly impeccable, not showy. get to share in the pleasure of their chance discoveries Given the predetermined nature of the biopic, there’s and fateful meetings, the small origins of big things to hardly a sense of Coco being swept effortlessly toward come. It’s more complex than that, even—it’s like the her destiny. She’s fully in charge at every turn, and if it filmmakers have wrapped a marvelous present or means looking fetching in her striped Breton jersey, arranged a wonderful surprise for a child to discover, well, too bad for the haters. It’s entirely appropriate.

Last time I went looking for striped Russian navy and sat back to savor the moment they walk into it. The children are us, not the movie characters. Students of jerseys in a former Soviet republic, the flea markets were fashion will certainly have more of those light-up awash in flimsy Chinese bootlegs and the genuine artimoments than I did (although most of the familiar fash- cle was almost impossible to find. I instantly regretted ions are crowded into a bizarre sort of revue at the very giving mine to an old girlfriend: the thick, rough cotton end of the movie), but even if not one little light bulb lining, the washed-out indigo stripes, the little tag with goes off for you, you are not likely to leave Coco Before Cyrillic letters! But it was really just sitting in my closet.

It’s a big look. Never felt like I could quite pull it off.

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OPENING THIS WEEK 2012 John Cusack plays a divorced dad skirting the acrimony of Mother Earth as she goes cannibalistic on peeps. Carmike 10: 7 and 9:20 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 12:20 and 3:40. Village 6: 7 and 10:20 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 12:20 and 3:40. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 nightly with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at noon, 12:40, 3:20, 4, 6:40, 7:40 and 10; 9:10 on Sun.; midnight Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 2, 4:15, 6, 7:30 and 9:10 except for Thu. only shows at 1:10 and 4:10.

Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15 and 7:15 with Sat.–Sun. show at 1.

PIRATE RADIO Bill Nighy captains a ship for a chorus of horny stoners, like Philip Seymour Hoffman, as they transmit rawk through illegal sound waves. Village 6: 7 and 9:50 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1 and 4. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:15, 3:25, 6:30 and 9:25; midnight Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 3:50, 6:45 and 9:30.

PLAY THE GAME An OG playa teaches grandad the tricks of the trade when it comes to dating ladies, but gramps leads him down another path. Village 6: 7:15 and 9:50 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:15 and 4.

A SERIOUS MAN A physics prof gets the shaft in more ways than one and turns to Judiastic masters in this newest Coen Brothers flick. Stadium 14: Fri.–Thu. at 1:20, 4:05, 7:05 and 9:45 and midnight on Fri.–Sat. TWILIGHT A teen girl in love with a boodsucker must fight off his lecherous leech-like buddies. Carmike 10: 9 on Thu. only. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: 9 on Thu. only.

NOW PLAYING AMELIA Hilary Swank jumps into the cockpit as Amelia Earhart in this exploration of the famed flying feminist’s aerial adventures and subsequent disappearance. Wilma Theatre: 7 and 9:10 nightly with 7 only shows on Sat.–Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 4:10, 7:05 and 9:35 except for Thu. only shows at 1, 4:15 and 7:30 and midnight on Fri.–Sat. THE BOX Donny Darko’s director makes Cameron Diaz decide between quick cash or the death of a stranger, thanks to a box toting weirdo. Carmike 10: 4:20, 7 and 9:35 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:50, 3:40, 6:50 and 9:30; midnight Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:05, 3:40, 6:50 and 9:30 except no 6:50 and 9:30 shows on Thu. COCO BEFORE CHANEL Audrey Tautou plays the famous French fashionista Coco Chanel in this biopic that traces her leap to the lap of luxury. Wilma Theatre: 7 and 9 nightly with 9 only on Sat.–Sun. COUPLES RETREAT Vince Vaughn and Jason Bateman travel to an island resort with their wives, only to learn that an excruciating couples therapy sesh is mandatory in order to live it up. Carmike 10: 4, 7:15 and 9:50 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10 PM with Sat.–Sun. matinee at 3 and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 12:55, 3:55, 6:45 and 9:15.

DISNEY’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL Jim Carey begs for laughs as the curmudgeonly Ebenezer Scrooge in this 3-D remake of the

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Charles Dickens’ classic. Carmike 10: 5:10, 5:40, 7:30, 8, 9:50 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 12:30, 1, 2:50 and 3:20. Village 6 in 2-D: 7:30 and 9:50 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 12:30, 2:50 and 5:35. Pharaoplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun at 12:05, 1, 2:30, 3:30, 5, 6, 7:30, 8:30 and 9:30; midnight Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 2, 3:30, 4:30, 6, 7, 8:30 and 9:30. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 7 and 9:15 with additional Sat.–Sun. show at 1:30. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4:15, 7:15 and 9:15.

THE FOURTH KIND A psychologist prods the minds of people in a small Alaskan town to see if they were probed by aliens. Village 6: 7:10 and 9:40 with additional Sat.–Sun. shows at 1:45 and 4:35. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 2:25, 4:50, 7:20 and 9:40; midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:25, 4:10, 7:20 and 9:40.

LAW ABIDING CITIZEN Jamie Foxx is a crooked attorney who runs into trouble when a vengeful Gerard Butler appears to settle some scores. Carmike 10: 4:35, 7:20 and 10 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:20.

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THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS Ewan McGregor is a reporter aiming to get the lowdown on the U.S. Army’s plans to end war and kill goats using ESP. Carmike 10: 5:35, 7:45 and 9:55 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at 1:15 and 3:25. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:20, 2:40, 4:55, 7:25 and 9:40; midnight on Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:20, 4:05, 7:10 and 9:25.

MICHAEL JACKSON’S THIS IS IT Watch Jacko’s last stage performances, plus behind-the-scenes footage, in this documentary that chronicles the eccentric pop icon’s final tour.

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PARANORMAL ACTIVITY A couple that moves into a new pad cramps the style of a spectral being and has to endure its hellish wrath. Carmike 10: 4, 7 and 9:45 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with additional Sat.–Sun. matinees at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in

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WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers team up for a stunning spectacle that follows Max on his quest to hang out with freakish ogres. Carmike 10: 4:10, 7 and 9:35 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30 and no 7 and 9:35 show on Thu. Village 6: 9:35 with additional Sat.–Sun. show at 4:10. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:15 and 3:45 with additional 9 show on Thu. ZOMBIELAND Woody Harrelson plays a gun-toting, redneck southerner who takes pleasure in seeing zombie guts splatter on walls. Entertainer in Ronan: 4, 7 and 9.

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Call to artists. Under the Big Sky Holiday Festival. Hilton Garden Inn, Missoula, Montana, Nov 27, 28, 29th. Juried fine arts and crafts festival. Contact Jim Bice 207-6502 or doubleeagle@centric.net

PLEASE HELP OUR HOMELESS CATS! You may borrow humane traps from the Humane Society or from me to trap stray cats and get them to safety.

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

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By Amy Alkon

Tangles Hairstyling will be accepting donations of nonperishable food and personal care items for the Missoula Food Bank during October, November and December. Your donations will be greatly appreciated and will benefit our local community.

FOR BETTER OR MUCH, MUCH BETTER I’m 39, and married four years to a woman I dated for two. She’s the mother of my two stepchildren, 13 and 16.

The problem is, I may be in love with a girl from high school, the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. I’ve always felt she was the one I was meant to be with.

She was popular, and, well, I was not.

Still, I can’t honestly say that if I’d asked her out, she’d have said no. I wrote her love letters and sent roses on her birthday, which she called to thank me for.

Over the years, I haven’t stopped thinking about her, and dream about her frequently. At my high school reunion, I heard she’s single. She’s my Facebook friend, and I wanted to say hi, but she’s never on. Yesterday, my dream about her was so emotional that I nearly woke up in tears. I love my wife, but she’s more like my best friend. Should I let this affect my marriage? Could I, should I, pursue the woman of my dreams?

—Pining You’re seriously wondering whether you should let this “affect” your marriage? Right. “Hey, Honey, it’s been real, but I heard from this drunk guy at my reunion that my high school crush is single and hot as ever. No, no…I haven’t slept with her. Or seen her. Or spoken with her for 20 years. But, I friended her on Facebook, and I just can’t keep denying she’s my soul mate after learning she ‘had a great workout and is headed out for some yummies and cocktails!!!’”

You aren’t in love with her; you’re in love with being the kind of guy who gets a girl like her. You’ll do anything to pretend this could be a reality, like telling yourself you can’t honestly say the hot popular girl wouldn’t have gone out with you, if only you’d asked. Sure. Just as you can’t honestly say your dog won’t wake up tomorrow and speak Greek, or that you won’t win enough in the lottery this weekend to be able to buy Cuba.

Boohoo, are you not completely fulfilled? I’m reminded of a woman—the mother of four young children—who read Eat, Pray, Love and informed her husband that she, too, needed to “find herself” (translation: travel to Italy and find herself a hot young Latin lover). Um, wrong. What Married Mommylady needs to find is a better preschool for her 3year-old. Sorry, but once you have kids, by birth or by marriage, you can’t just jump ship because you spotted some-

thing glittery in the water.

Of course Crushgirl’s more appealing than your wife—or any real woman. As a creation of your as-of-yet unmatriculated high school imagination, she never gets her period or PMS. She never wants you to turn off the game or stop bugging her for sex or take out the garbage or shut the hell up already.

And, yoohoo, remember those vows you took? I’m guessing they weren’t “Do you take this placeholder until the girl you really love Facebooks you back?”

This is the life you’ve chosen, and you can keep clocking out of it or take pride in making it the best you can. Whenever you feel like taking a toke off the high school hottie pipe, go find your wife, brush a little piece of hair from her face, and tell her she’s beautiful and how much she means to you. Try that on your crush, and you’re effectively confessing, “For 23 years, I’ve been stalking you in my head.” But, hey, with any luck, you can get your divorce decree on the same day as the restraining order.

TYING THE NOT For two years, I wanted to marry the woman I was dating. She wants to be married but said she’d never have strong enough feelings for me. I guess I assumed she’d never “waste” years with me unless she secretly thought I might be Mr. Right.

—Frustrated If you say to a woman, “I wonder what our kids will look like,” it’s kind of a bad sign if she says, “Yeah, me too, and if your kids will end up playing with my kids.” Unlike all the people who string romantic partners along, this woman did right by you—giving you the gift of no hope. As for her “wasting” time, maybe she wants to marry but is content for now with the extended-stay one-night stand. When somebody tells you you’ll never get what you want, you have a choice: stick around and continue never getting it, or make tracks and seek it somewhere else. Sometimes, leaving can help your partner see a gaping hole in their life (and here’s hoping it isn’t because you tripped on the power cord to their media center when you stormed out).

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com)

LOST & FOUND Found Black and White Kitty Black and white kitty with extra toes about 5 or 6 months old. near Higgins.

406-396-2444 LOST BLACK CAT NAMED JACK! He is 4 months old. He has green eyes, is unaltered, and has thumbs and an extra rear toe. We love him!

Please call 396-2444 if you find him!

LOST CAT - AIKO: 3 year old female tabby/calico cat missing from the University Area. She has an orange spo-

ton her chest and greenish eyes.

Lost key ring, golden key, kryptonite key, and flash drive. Call 406-396-4685 Stolen bike! Yellow GT Aggressor mountain bike stolen out of my garage near Willard school- I love this bike!

Please keep our eyes peeled- I will offer a reward for info or return of this bike! It has brand new studded tires- new seatnew colorful grips. Black plastic fenders.

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Humane Society Volunteer Orientation Do you love animals and have a few hours to help improve the lives of homeless pets? If so, come to the Humane Society of NW Montana Volunteer Orientation meeting on Thursday, November 12, at 6pm. Volunteers assist in animal care, community education, reception area/ client relations, foster care, fundraising, mobile adoptions, dog walking, and many other capacities. For more information, please call 752-PAWS (7297). The Humane Society Animal Adoption Center is located at 3499 Hwy 93 N in Kalispell.

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

——MISSOULA’S ART GYM —Shadow Mountain Art Studio - Missoula’s Art Gym “Come exercise your creative self!” Drawing & Painting Classes for Children & Adults. North Reserve Business Center - 2825 Stockyard Rd., A10 Questions? call 239-4460 Turn off your PC & turn on your life! Guitar, banjo, mandolin, and bass lessons. Rentals available.

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EMPLOYMENT GENERAL ASSISTANT BOOKKEEPER / DISPATCHER, P/T, Msla. Part time Assistant Bookkeeper/Dispatcher needed for local business. Requires a minimum of 1 year experience in an office environment & strong math & business English skills. Will work Monday - Friday, noon to 5 p.m. for 20-30 hours per week, with up to 2 weeks of full time training. Pay starts at $9/hr with raise to $10/hr upon proven ability, some health insurance offered. #2976527 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 ! BARTENDING ! $300-Day potential, no experience necessary, training provided. 1-800-9656520 ext. 278 CENSUS CREW LEADER, P/T Temporary, Msla. US Census Bureau is seeking Census Crew Leaders to assist with taking the 2010 US Census starting in Spring 2010. Work should commence in January and continue for 8 or more weeks. Wage varies from $11.34 to $13.61/hr depending on location plus $.55/mile. Census practice tests are available on line at www.2010.census.gov/2010censusjobs A hard copy test is also available at the Missoula Job Service Front Desk. Estimated hours range from 20 to 60 hours/month. Full background checks are required. Testing is starting for this position. #2976545 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 CENSUS TAKER, P/T Temporary, Msla.

US Census Bureau is seeking Census Takers to assist with taking the 2010 US Census starting in Spring 2010.

Recruiting is starting now to allow interested seekers to have their applications submitted ASAP. Work should commence in January and continue for 8 or

more weeks. Wage varies from $11.34 to $13.61/hr depending on location plus $.55/mile. Census practice tests are available on line at www.2010.census.gov/2010censusjobs A hard copy test is also available at the Missoula Job Service Front Desk.

Estimated hours range from 20 to 60 hours/month. Full background checks are required. Testing is starting for this position. #2976543 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 CHILDCARE AIDE, F/T & P/T, Msla. A Missoula day care is seeking an experienced (1) full-time and (1) part-time CHILDCARE AIDE. Employer is firm on experience. Must have at least a year verifiable experience caring for infants and children in a child care facility. NO EXCEPTIONS. Hours per week will vary and will be discussed during interview.

Part time will work 20 or more hours per week, full time will be 32-40 hours per week. Pay is $7.25 to start until all paperwork is completed and turned in. #2976544 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE, F/T, Msla. Employer is seeking full-time Customer Service Representatives for inbound calls only for Missoula company.

Pay range is from $10/hr to $12.50/hr with shift and previous experience considered. Also have opportunity to make additional pay for bonuses and incentives. Must be willing to work all shifts, weekends, holidays, and overtime as needed. #2976536 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 FRONT HOUSE SUPERVISOR, F/T, Msla.

A busy Union Truck Stop is seeking a fulltime Front House Supervisor. No experience necessary as employer is willing to train. This is a drug-free workplace and requires a pre-employment drug screening. Will be working various shifts

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE

Do you love the Missoula Independent?

Are you an enthusiastic, motivated, self-starter? Then we want to talk to you!

The Missoula Independent is looking for an Account Executive for magazine, newspaper and online ad sales. Requires strong organization and communication skills. Media sales experience preferred, BUT NOT REQUIRED. Great benefits and work environment.

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

Missoula Independent Classifieds Page C2 November 12–November 19, 2009

including nights and weekends. Rate of pay will be depending on experience and will include tips. #2976540 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 HVAC SERVICE TECH AND MAINTENANCE, F/T, Msla. HVAC business is seeking a HVAC Service Tech/maintenance worker with at least 2 years experience. Will be responsible for service, cleaning and diagnosis. Must know service and maintenance end of business.

Need to have sheet metal experience.

Requires valid driver’s license and good driving record. Must be able to lift and move 100 lbs. Will need own service hand tools. Says he does not need installers. 24 hour a day company. Might have to work on-call. Will work Monday - Friday, day shift. Pay is $10 an hour plus, DOE. #2976521 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 Mystery Shoppers earn up to $150 Day. Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail and dining establishments.

Experience not required. Call 877-3081186

PRODUCTION LABORERS, F/T, Temporary, Msla. Are you looking for steady work? PRODUCTION & MANUFACTURING LABORERS needed for a busy and growing local company.

Position is full-time with potential for permanent placement, in a demanding and rewarding environment. Pay is $9.50 per hour with potential for overtime. Position is in Lolo. MUST have own reliable transportation and be available to work swing shift. Must be able to pass a Background Check and Drug Screen. No felonies.

Must be able to pass a Math Test administered by Nelson Personnel. #2976528 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 RV DELIVERY DRIVERS NEEDED. Deliver RVs, boats, and trucks for PAY! Deliver to all 48 states and Canada. For details log onto www.RVdeliveryjobs.com STATE OF MONTANA POSITIONS, FT & PT, Various locations throughout Montana: Want to serve Montana citizens? Positions are available for locations throughout the state. Access the state job listings at: http://mt.gov/statejobs/statejobs.asp

BASIN ELECTRIC JOB OPENINGS Basin Electric, a consumer-owned regional cooperative headquartered in Bismarck, North Dakota has the following openings at the Dry Fork Station located in Gillette, WY. • Mechanical Technician I (2 positions). . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 17, 2009 • Mechanical Technician II (4 positions). . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 17, 2009 • Lead Mechanic (1 position). . . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 17, 2009 • Electrical and Instrument I (2 positions). . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 17, 2009 • Electrical and Instrument II (3 positions). . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 17, 2009 • Lead Electrical and Instrument (1 position). . . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 17, 2009 • Assistant Station Operator (3 positions). . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 18, 2009 • Operator (3 positions). . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 18, 2009 • Station Operator (3 positions). . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 18, 2009 • Lead Station Operator (3 positions). . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 18, 2009 • Lead Laboratory Technician (1 position). . . . . . . . . . . Closing Date November 18, 2009 Qualifications for each of these positions are listed on our website www.basinelectric.com. Click on “Jobs”. If you are interested in any of the above positions, please complete the profile and application process at the above website. If you have questions pertaining to any of these positions please call (701)557-5484 or email dmeyhoff@bepc.com EXCELLENT SALARY AND BENEFIT PACKAGE. Basin Electric Power Cooperative 1717 East Interstate Avenue, Bismarck, ND 58503 An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

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EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING COORDINATOR, F/T, Msla. EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING COORDINATOR needed to coordinate a training and employment program for about 75 older workers in 5 Montana counties, including Missoula, Ravalli, Granite, Deer Lodge, and Silver Bow. Competitive salary, excellent benefits. Benefits include health coverage, retirement plan, flexible spending accounts, sick leave, holidays, vacation pay, and life insurance. #2976538 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

SOCIAL WORKER, P/T, Msla. Missoula skilled nursing facility is seeking a part time Social Worker to coordinate appropriate social services for residents.

Employer prefers bachelor’s degree in Social Work or related field and 2 years experience in long-term care or applicable experience. Must be empathetic; have attention to detail; respectful of residents, staff and management; and able to work successfully for positive outcomes.

Schedule to be discussed at interview, will work about 24 hours per week. Pay is $10 to $14/hour depending on experience, includes benefits: Health, Dental, Vision insurance; 401K; vacation and sick leave. #2976519 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 TECH SUPPORT/ DOCUMENTATION/SOFTWARE TEST, F/T, Msla.

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SKILLED LABOR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF MAINTENANCE, F/T, Msla. A Missoula aviation company is seeking a full time Assistant Director of Maintenance/Chief Inspector.

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TRAINING/ INSTRUCTION PRE-SCHOOL TEACHER, F/T & P/T, Msla. A Missoula Montessori school is seeking a part to full time PRESCHOOL TEACHER. Some early childhood education and Montessori experience is preferred. Will work closely with staff to provide education and activities to children aged 2 to 5 in a positive, upbeat manner.

Must have at least a High School diploma and proof of immunizations upon employment: MMR, tetanus, DPT. Background check will be conducted.

Work 30 to 40 hour, Monday-Friday.

Schedule may vary and will be discussed in interview. Pay starts at $9/hour and can negotiate reduced childcare costs. #2976525 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 PRIMROSE MONTESSORI: Assistant position available serving preschool children aged 3-5. Call Nancy 728-7383

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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF THEATRE, F/T, Msla. The University of Montana College of Visual and Performing Arts is seeking a full time Assistant Professor of Costume, Technology & Design. Will be teaching 3-4 courses per semester in the areas of stagecraft, all levels of costume construction and manipulation, costume technology, costume design and may include other courses depending on candidate’s qualifications. Will also serve as costume designer or cutter & draper for 2-3 productions per year. This is a fulltime, tenure-track year position beginning fall semester 2010. The starting pay will be $43,000-$45,000/year.

Screening will begin 12/01/09; applications are accepted until position is filled. #2976524 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

MISDEMEANOR SUPERVISION OFFICER, F/T, Msla. Seeking a full-time MISDEMEANOR SUPERVISION OFFICER. Requires a bachelor degree or equivalent. The successful applicants must obtain a First Aid/CPR Card and attend the State Probation and Parole Basic Academy. Requires a valid driver’s license. The work schedule is Monday 8AM to 4PM and Tuesday thru Friday from 10AM to 6PM. Pay starts at $13/hour and increases to $15.72 after successful completion of probationary period. #2976533 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

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Montana Headwall is seeking an experienced, aggressive, professional sales representative to help grow our recently launched quarterly magazine.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): A whitewash happens when you use deceit to cover up the messy facts about a situation. A blackwash is just the opposite: It’s when you invoke candor as you reveal complications that have previously been veiled. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be prime time to enjoy a jubilee of blackwashing. But I suggest that you proceed gently. Remember that not all hidden information is a sign of malfeasance or evil intentions. Sometimes the truth is so paradoxical and nuanced, it’s hard to get it completely out in the open all at once. And sometimes people are motivated to keep things secret mostly because they’re afraid to cause pain.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Dear Rob: I’ve read horoscope columns written by many astrologers, and yours is the only one that’s not prejudiced against at least one of the signs. You really do treat everyone equally. You play no favorites. But that’s exactly the bone I have to pick with you. I’m wondering if you’ve got a passion deficiency or something. It seems abnormal not to display a hint of bias now and then. -Suspicious Taurus.” Dear Suspicious: My own birth chart includes elements of both Taurus and Libra. The Taurus part of me has strong feelings and deep passions, while the Libra part of me is fair-minded and well-balanced. They’ve worked out a synergistic arrangement that allows me to maintain my equilibrium as I feed my intensity. I recommend this approach to you right now.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Personally, I’ve never been very smart about making investments.

At least in that area of my life, my intuition seems to work in reverse. I often do the precisely wrong thing at the wrong time. Billionaire businessman George Soros, on the other hand, is a genius. When facing a decision about which way to go financially, he says he becomes a jungle animal guided by actual sensations in his body. You Geminis have arrived at a phase when your choices could have long-term effects on your relationship with money. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’ve got the potential to be like Soros rather than me. Trust your instincts.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): This will be a smooth, easy, and graceful week for you — if, that is, you get yourself out of the way and allow the universe to do its job. Can you do that? It doesn’t mean you should be passive or blank. On the contrary, in order for the cosmos to perform its magic, you should be on the lookout for what captivates your imagination and be primed to jump when life says “jump!” Be both relaxed and alert; receptive and excitable; surrendered to the truth and in intimate contact with your primal power. Then the song will sing itself. The dream will interpret itself. The beauty will reveal itself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Everything that emancipates the spirit without giving us control over ourselves is harmful,” said Goethe. Luckily, Virgo, you’re in the midst of a process that may emancipate your spirit and give you more control over yourself. Here are two ways you could cash in on this potential: 1. Brainstorm about a big dream even as you attend to the gritty details of making the dream a reality. 2. Expand your imagination about your tricky situation even as you burn away the illusions you have about your tricky situation.

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JIGSAW PUZZLE PEOPLE. Great selection of used complete puzzles. $1.50 each. 273-2382

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ANTIQUES HUFFS ANTIQUE SHOW, 40th Anniversary. Nov. 14th, 10-5, and Nov. 15th, 10-4, MetraPark, Billings. Admission $5.00, good both days

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COMPUTERS Even Macs are computers! Need help with yours? CLARKE CONSULTING @ 549-6214 RECOMPUTE COMPUTERS Starting Prices: PCs $40. Monitors $20. Laptops $195. 1337 West Broadway. 5438287.

FURNITURE 8’ Pool Table 8’ Pool Table solid wood hand carved 1’ slate, Simonis Cloth, Aramith balls, leather pockets, 4 cues etc. Cost $6000 Sacrifice $1795 Call 261-0745

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Have you heard about the new sport of chess boxing? Two competitors play chess for four minutes, then put on boxing gloves and try to punch each other for three minutes; they continue this rhythm for up to 11 rounds. I suspect you’ll soon be asked to meet a similar challenge, going back and forth between two contrasting modes. If you treat this challenge as a fun game rather than a crazy-making exertion, you’ll do fine.

Bedroom Set Cherrywood Bedroom Set solid wood cherry sleigh bed, dresser, mirror, and 2 nightstands cost $1700 Sacrifice for only $795.00 call 261-0745

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A 13-year-old girl shocked everyone by winning a plowing contest in England. Driving a 12,000-pound tractor and pulling a five-furrow plow, Elly Deacon did a better job than all of the middle-aged male farmers she was competing against. What’s more remarkable is that she was a newcomer, having had less than a week’s experience in the fine art of tilling the soil with a giant machine. She’s your role model for the coming week, Scorpio. Like her, you have the potential to perform wonders, even if you’re a rookie, as you prepare a circumscribed area for future growth.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I hope that by now you have finished scrabbling along on your hands and knees over burning hot shards of broken glass. The next and hopefully final phase of your redemptive quest should be less torturous. In this upcoming chapter, the operative metaphor might be assembling a jigsaw puzzle with 200 pieces, all of which are red. Amazingly enough, you actually have it in you to accomplish this improbable feat—as long as you don’t spread out the puzzle pieces all over the burning hot shards of broken glass. Find a nice, clean, quiet place to do your work.

Pillowtop Mattress sets (2) Pillowtop Mattress Sets, new in plastic, name brand sacrific Queen $229 King $329 Call 261-0745

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): According to psychologist Carl Jung, one of the most potent influences that our parents have on us is their unlived lives. Whatever dreams they didn’t pursue, whatever longings they didn’t fulfill, are likely to worm their way into our core, often without our conscious awareness. There they get mixed up with our own dreams and longings, causing us confusion about what we really want. The coming weeks will be a good time for you to get clear about this.

You’ll have the power to untangle your own deepest, truest desires from the muffled wishes your mommy and daddy deposited in you.

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Located on the Hip Strip at 819 S Higgins. ESPMUSIC.COM Drumheads are 35% off EVERY DAY at Electronic Sound & Percussion. Located on the Hip Strip at 819 S Higgins. ESPMUSIC.COM

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1000 BRED COWS & HEIFERS sell Tuesday, November 17th, Lewistown, MT at 1pm. Sale will include 3 dispersions of 600 Angus cows. (406)535-3535, www.lewistownlivestock.com Christmas Chihuahuas!

2 females, 3 males. Ready Thankgiving! All white with brown spots.$495 721-6848.

LAB PUPPIES available now!

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WANTED TO BUY CASH PAID for old wrist watches, pocket watches and parts. Keith’s Watch Shop. 406-821-3038 OR 406-370-8794 WANTED: MINERAL INTERESTS. Experienced Family Owned Oil Production & Exploration Co. We’ll help you monetize your Mineral Assets. Send details to P.O. Box 8946, Denver, CO 80201N

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): According to Leonardo da Vinci, you could magnify the power of your prayers or meditations ten-fold by bathing in purple light. Back in his time, that was easiest to accomplish by standing near a church’s stained glass window that was tinted purple. These days you can get the same effect with the help of a purple light bulb. Alternately, you could simply close your eyes and visualize yourself surrounded by a shimmering purple glow. I recommend this practice for you in the coming days. It’s an excellent time to do anything and everything to intensify your spiritual power. P.S. Experts in color theory say that purple nurtures the development of the imagination, which would be of great value to you as you tone and firm your devotional impulses.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Awesome” has become a commonplace word that is used to express gladness about small triumphs and simple pleasures. Today, for instance, a woman at the local cafe uttered a sweet “Awesome!” when someone pointed out to her where she could find an electrical outlet to plug in her laptop. Back in the old days, however, “awesome” was a portentous term invoked only rarely. “Awe” referred to an overwhelming feeling of wonder, reverence, admiration, inspiration, or even agitation in the face of a sublime or numinous experience. In the coming week, Aquarius, I expect you will experience more than your usual quota of both kinds of awesome.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Mathematician Charles Babbage (1791-1871) is considered a “father of the computer.” Among his many inventions, he created a mechanical calculator that was a forerunner of the magical device that’s so indispensable today. And yet Babbage had other obsessions that were not as useful. For his own amusement, he once counted all of the panes of glass that had been broken in a factory over a period of 10 months, and investigated the cause of each break.

He also spent an inordinate amount of time estimating the statistical probability that the miracles reported in the Bible had actually occurred. I bring this up, Leo, in the hope that you will concentrate on your own equivalent to Babbage’s calculator, and not get sidetracked by meditations on broken glass and Biblical miracles.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

Missoula County NOTICE TO PROSPECTIVE BIDDERS The Missoula County Facilities Management Department is soliciting sealed bids for custodial services for five buildings and 1 suite of offices. Bids will be accepted until 3:00PM, Monday, November 30, 2009 by the Office of the County Auditor at which time bids will be opened and read. All work is to be performed in accordance with specifications shown below. Interested parties may schedule a tour of the premises by contacting Larry Farnes (406-258-4756). Proposals must be sealed and marked “Proposal for Custodial Services” and 3 copies submitted to: Barbara Berens, County Auditor, 200 W Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802. Missoula County reserves the right to reject any and all bids. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS FOR CUSTODIAL SERVICES AT: 1.) Missoula County Courthouse and Annex, 200 W. Broadway 2.) Missoula County Health Department, 301 W Alder 3.)

Missoula County Print Shop, 223 W Alder 4.) Missoula County Rural Initiatives, 317 Woody 5.) Missoula In Motion, 127 W Spruce 6.)

Missoula County Weed and Extension, 2825 Santa Fe Court Work requirements - all locations: Clean premises every night on Monday through Thursday between

the hours of 5 PM and 7 AM, and once over the weekend between 7 PM Friday and 7 AM Monday.

Courthouse and Annex: Provide one full time and one half time custodian between the hours of 8 AM and 5 PM Monday through Friday. Adjust night schedule to accommodate evening meetings; unlock doors prior to meeting and lock up afterwards; conduct walk through to insure that no unauthorized parties remain on premises and that all offices are locked. Day Shift: (Courthouse & Annex) Offices will be cleaned according to the following schedule: 1.) Clean Sheriff’s Civil Offices each morning Monday through Friday. 2.)

Clean 9-1-1 Emergency Operations Center each morning Sunday through Saturday.3.) Clean Justice Court during the hours of 12 noon to 1 PM Monday through Friday. 4.) Clean Sheriff’s Department third floor offices during the hours of 3:30 PM to 5 PM Monday through Friday. 5.)

Clean all other offices at night. All Locations Daily responsibilities will include but not limited to the following: 1.) Clean and sanitize all rest rooms and restock supplies.

Maintain restrooms throughout the day. 2.) Clean around all outside entrances and empty and clean all ash receptacles. 3.) Clean interior and exterior of all entrance doors. 4.)

Clean and sanitize all drinking fountains. 5.) Change any burned out light bulbs or fluorescent tubes

while minimizing disruption to business. Inform maintenance of fixtures with bad ballasts. 6.) Mop entrances, stairs and halls during inclement weather. Put out “wet floor” signs. 7.) Clean up spills on floors and carpets as needed. 8.)

Carry a pager and respond to departments as requested. 9.) Inform maintenance of any needed repairs.

Twice Weekly: 1.) Wind all clocks.

Weekly: 1.) Thoroughly clean all offices, including ceiling diffusers, walls, baseboards and under desks.

Dust desktops when requested by user. Monthly: 1.) Buff all hard surfaced floors. Quarterly: 1.) Strip and wash all hard surface floors*. 2.)

Shampoo and extract all carpeted areas*. *Frequency may increase during the winter months. Annually: 1.) Clean all windows inside and out. The contractor shall furnish all restroom paper products, air freshener, and hand soap. The contractor shall also furnish all trash liners, cleaning supplies and equipment required to accomplish work as specified. Green products should be used if cost effective. Equipment furnished by the contractor shall be the size and type best suited for accomplishing the various phases of work. Equipment shall be suitable for operation from existing sources of the County furnished electrical power and shall have a low noise level of operation. Equipment considered by the County to be improp-

er or dangerous will be removed and replaced by the contractor with satisfactory equipment. The County will not be held responsible for loss or damage to any equipment belonging to the contractor stored on County premises. The contractor will agree to hold the County harmless against and from all losses from any acts or omissions of the contractor. The contractor will be required to maintain general liability insurance in the amount of one million dollars ($1,000,000) per occurrence and two million ($2,000,000) in the aggregate. All insurance policies must be from an insurance carrier licensed to do business in the State of Montana. Contractor agrees to furnish proof of required insurance to the County prior to commencing work under this Agreement. The contractor will be required to carry Workers Compensation Insurance during the term of the contract and meet all existing regulations for prevailing wage rates as required by the State of Montana. The contract shall be in force for three (3) years from December 1, 2009 through November 30, 2012 or from the date the contract is signed by both parties, whichever is later, and may be renewed for an additional three (3) year term upon satisfactory negotiation of the cost of services. Monthly cost for janitorial services listed above are: First year:_____ Second year: _____ Third year: _____

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE INVITING PROPOSALS Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the PUBLIC WORKS DIVISION, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808, until 10:00 o’clock a.m.

November 6, 2009 at which time the bids will be opened and read in the conference room, Missoula County Public Works, for the purpose of purchasing of one-hundred fifty (150) tons of Hyrdro-Melt Liquid Deicer.

Specifications and bid procedures for this purchase can be obtained at the Public Works Division, 6089 Training Drive, Missoula, MT 59808.. A performance bond will be required. Proposals must be accompanied by a certified check, cashier’s check, bank draft, or bid bond in the amount of ten percent (10%) of the amount of the bid as a guarantee that the successful bidder will enter into the contract. The Board of County Commissioners of Missoula County, Montana, reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Proposals shall be sealed and marked “Proposal for Liquid Deicer – 2009” and addressed to: Public Works Division 6089 Training Drive Missoula, MT 59808

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

NOTICE OF HEARING RATIFY CHANGES TO THE AIR POLLUTION CONTROL PROGRAM MISSOULA - The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing on changes to the Missoula City-County Air Pollution Control Program. The changes have been proposed to help prevent Missoula from exceeding the new, lower Federal fine particulate (PM2.5) standard.

Regulation changes for residential and industrial wood burning devices were proposed and adopted by the Missoula City-County Air Pollution Control Program Board on September 17, 2009 and are now slated to be ratified by the Board of County Commissioners.

The Commissioners will conduct the hearing at their regularly scheduled Public Meeting on Wednesday, November 18, 2009, at 1:30 p.m., in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse Annex. Any person wishing to be heard on the matter may submit written or other materials to the Commissioners and/or speak at the hearing. Comments may also be submitted anytime prior to the hearing by mail or personal delivery to the Commissioners at their offices in the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802; by fax at (406) 721-4043; or by e-mail at

bcc@co.missoula.mt.us Additional information on the hearing may be obtained from Environmental Health at 258-4755 or www.co.missoula.mt.us/airquality.

DATED THIS 2nd DAY OF November, 2009. /s/ Bill Carey, Chairman, Board of County Commissioners

www.missoulanews.com www.missoulanews.com www.missoulanews.com MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

NOTICE OF HEARING The Missoula Board of County Commissioners will conduct a hearing on the following project: Boyer Conservation Easement A hearing on a proposal to amend proposed conservation easement terms for a project approved for Open Space bond funding. The Boyer project was approved in July 2009 for the use of $245,000 in Open Space bond funding towards the purchase of a conservation easement on 752 acres of land in the Frenchtown area. The landowner is Joseph W. Boyer Jr., represented by Five Valleys Land Trust. The landowner proposes two changes to easement terms that were included in the bond project application review process. The first would allow sand and gravel excavation from two sites totaling less than acre for onsite agricultural

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PUBLIC NOTICES purposes. The second would allow the landowner to retain the right to extract subsurface oil and gas if the extraction occurs from property not subject to the easement. The Commissioners will conduct the hearing at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, November 18, 2009, in Room 201 of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W Broadway, Missoula, Montana. 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. Copies of the proposed project are available for public inspection at the Missoula County Office of Rural Initiatives, 317 Woody, Missoula, Montana.

Telephone 258-3432; or you may contact Pat O’Herren in Rural Initiatives at 258-4981. If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling 2583422. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT

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SHERIFF’S SALE Dept. No. 3, Cause No. DV-09-760 FIRST SECURITY BANK OF MISSOULA, a Montana banking corporation, Plaintiff, Against MARTIN JEFFREY PLOYHAR, DONNA JEAN PLOYHAR, STATE OF MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, STATE OF MONTANA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRIES, and INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, Defendants. To Be Sold at Sheriff’s Sale: TERMS: CASH, or its equivalent; NO personal checks. On the 3rd day of December A.D., 2009, at 10:00 o’clock A.M., at the front door of the Court House, in the City of Missoula, County of Missoula, State of Montana, that certain real property situate in said Missoula County, and particularly described as follows, towit: A. Tract C of Certificate of Survey No 969, a tract of land located in the North one-half of Section 30, Township 13 North, Range 15 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana.

B. The Southwest one-quarter of the

Southwest one-quarter of Section 29, Township 13 North, Range 15 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana.

LESS a strip of land 60 feet in width along the South boundary adjacent to the Section line common to Sections 29 and 32 of the above mentioned parcel of land. Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. Dated this 12th day of November A.D., 2009.. /s/ MICHAEL R. McMEEKIN Sheriff of Missoula County, Montana By Patrick A. Turner, Deputy MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DV-08-881 NOTICE OF NAME CHANGE IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION FOR CHANGE OF NAME OF: LONDON CHANCE HALLMARK, MINOR CHILD OF JESSICA TAYLOR, Petitioner. TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED HEREIN: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that a verified Petition for Name Change of LONDON CHANCE HALLMARK to obtain an order of this Court granting leave to assume the name of CHANCE PARKER TAYLOR, will be presented to the above-entitled Court, at the Missoula County Courthouse at Missoula, Montana, on Wednesday the 9th day of December at 1:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as counsel can be heard and that that at such time, application will be made for the relief sought in the said Petition.

DATED this 21st day of October, 2009.

WELLS & MCKITTRICK, P.C. /s/ Tal M. Goldin

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-09-172 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF JUDITH L. WANG, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Carl Ibsen, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 5th day of October, 2009. /s/ Carl Ibsen, Missoula County Government

Notice of Public Sale Notice is hereby given that the following described public property will be sold to the highest bidder for cash or certified funds: Item Quantity Year Bid 1.

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Jeep Cherokee 4x4 Case W14H Front End Loader Dodge 1500 _ Ton Pick-Up Chevy 3500 1 Ton Dump Truck Dodge Durango 4x4 Chevy 350 1 Ton Crew Cab Pick-Up Chevy C-70 _ Ton Truck GMC 5000 1 _ Ton Truck Ecolotec VacAll Sweeper Caterpillar AWD 140G Motor Graders

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John Deere 350 Gas Dozer Dodge Intrepid Sedan Chevy AWD AstroVan Honda Walk-behind Pavement Saw Water Pumps Chicago Pneumatic Air Compressor Dodge Durango 4x4 Lot of Building Materials Lot of Desks & Office Equipment Lot of Diesel Fuel Tanks Pick-up Tool Box

Minimum $ 2,000 $16,500 $ 3,750 $ 3,500 $ 3,700 $ 1,500 $ 1,000 $ 1,000 $10,000

$ 5,000 $ 3,100 $ 2,500 $ 800 $1,000/ea. $500 $3,400 $50/all $50/all $50/ea. $50ea.

Sealed bids will be accepted until 3:00 PM, Monday November 16th, 2009 at: Missoula County Public Works 6089 Training Drive, Missoula MT 59808 TERMS OF SALE: Bids must be submitted in a sealed envelope and legibly labeled “Bid-Sale of Surplus Equipment, Opening November 16th, 2009”, contents of the envelope must include the Item Number, Item Description, Bid Amount, Method of Payment, and Name/Address/Phone Number of the bidder.

Bids received after the time set for the bid opening will be rejected. Missoula County reserves the right to waive any and all informalities, to reject all bids, accept any bid deemed to be in the County’s best interest, and to negotiate terms with bidders on items. The sale is on an “as is, where is” basis. No warranty is expressed, implied or is being extended by Missoula County or any of its representatives to prospective buyers. Missoula County assumes no responsibility for the item(s) after the purchase or liability associated with the use or sale of equipment after purchase. Any costs associated with the removal of the equipment form Missoula County premises are the responsibility of the successful bidder(s).

Payment of any and all equipment shall be completed within five working days from the date of the sale and all equipment shall be removed from Missoula County premises no later than 12:00 PM, Friday, November 20th, 2009.

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Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 4 Cause No. DP-09-74 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DORIS H. ANDRUS, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to Jon M. Andrus, Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-named Court. DATED this 23rd at of April, 2009. /s/ Jon M. Andrus, Personal Representative GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC /s/ Nancy P. Gibson, Attorney for Personal Representative MONTANA TWENTY-FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, RAVALLI COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DP-0965 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DENNIS D. ALBRIGHT, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Charlotte KahlerTraylor 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 be mailed to Kyle D. Cunningham, attorney for the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at CUNNINGHAM LAW OFFICE, 818 W. Central Ave., Ste. 1, Missoula, MT 59801 or filed with the Clerk of the above Court.

DATED this 15th day of October, 2009. /s/ Charlotte Kahler-Traylor, Personal Representative NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/05/03, recorded as Instrument No. 200320548, Bk 708, Pg 1169, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which John Cross, a married person and Lei Ann Cross was Grantor, Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Inc. was Beneficiary and First American Title was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: A tract of land located in and being a portion of Lots 1 and 2 in Section 26, township 15 North, Range 20 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana, being more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the point where the original centerline of the highway intersects the Flathead Indian Reservation Boundary line, said point bears S. 53 degrees 13’ 51’’ E., 281.32 feet from the intersection of the Indian Boundary line and the North line of said Section 26; thence S. 43 degrees 47’ W., 298.35 feet; thence N. 47 degrees 57’ 25’’ W., 139.02 feet; thence N 43 degrees 47’ E., 285.5 feet to a point on the Flathead Indian Reservation Boundary line; thence S. 53 degrees 13’ 51’’ E., along said boundary line a distance of 140.00 feet to the Point of Beginning.

Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 06/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 8, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $68,983.78. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $67,173.02, 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 January 19, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding at the sale location in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by trustee’s deed without any representation or warranty, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. Grantor, successor in inter-

est 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# 7023.06887) 1002.133046-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/18/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200608819, Bk 772, Pg 2068, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Ricky J. Bunch and Bonnie Bunch was Grantor, Wells Fargo Financial Montana, Inc. was Beneficiary and First American Title Company was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First American Title Company as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 30 of Williams Addition, 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 08/22/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of September 14, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $197,548.72. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $185,720.86, 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 January 25, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mountain Time. The sale is a public sale and any person, including Beneficiary and excepting only Successor Trustee, may bid at the sale.

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

Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all non-monetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7777.11312) 1002.133604-FEI Notice of Trustee’s Sale T.S. NO. 090160894 Title Order No. 090752989MTGSI 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 03/17/2010, 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 ALLAN DALE FREY, AND A’LSA MARJO SCOTT, HUSBAND AND WIFE

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 01/04/2007 and recorded 01/18/2007, in document No. 200701256 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 790 at Page Number 794 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: PARCEL 1: TRACT D OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5108 A TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 14, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY MONTANA PARCEL 2: AN APPURTENANT NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT AND RIGHT-OF-WAY FOR PRIVATE ACCESS AS DESCRIBED IN BOOK 579 AT PAGES 1898 AND 1900 MICRO RECORDS. Property Address: 1655 FREY LN, MISSOULA, MT 59808 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 08/01/2009, 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 $183,193.71 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.25% per annum from 07/01/2009 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: 11/12/09 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. Successor Trustee 2380 Performance Dr, TX2-985-07-03 Richardson, TX 75082 ASAP# 3327856 11/12/2009, 11/19/2009, 11/26/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 28, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: LOT A140 OF CANYON EAST, PHASE 3, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN THE MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Ryan L. Quagliana, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Commonwealth Land Title insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated August 27, 2007 and recorded August 28, 2007 as document number 200722425, in Book 804, Page 858. The beneficial interest is currently held by OneWest Bank FSB. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,672.33, beginning April 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 10, 2009 is $198,578.34 principal, interest at the rate of 6.75% now totaling $6,062.41, late charges in the amount of $261.84, escrow advances of $327.03, and other fees and expenses advanced of $284.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $36.72 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

PUBLIC NOTICES 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: August 20, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark August 20, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Miranda Marx Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 05/05/2015 ASAP# 3318999 10/29/2009, 11/05/2009, 11/12/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on December 29, 2009, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: PARCEL I: TRACT A OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4750, LOCATED IN THE NORTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 11, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 22 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. PARCEL II: TOGETHER WITH A 30 FOOT WIDE PRIVATE ROAD AND PUBLIC UTILITY EASEMENT AND RIGHT OF WAY OVER AND ACROSS THE EASTERLY 30 FEET OF THE S½S½NW¼NW¼ OF SECTION 11, TOWNSHIP 15 NORTH, RANGE 22 WEST, P.M.M., FOR INGRESS AND EGRESS FROM SAID TRACT TO THE EXISTING PRIVATE ROAD. ALSO TOGETHER WITH A 30 FOOT PRIVATE ACCESS AND PUBLIC UTILITY EASEMENT AS SHOWN ON CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4750

Kirk R Helm & Jennifer L Helm, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Fidelity National Title, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Long Beach Mortgage Company, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 10, 2006 and Recorded on May 11, 2009 under Document #200610842 in Bk-774, Pg-196.

The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Long Beach Mortgage Loan Trust 2006-6. 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 $1,275.29, beginning March 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of 083109 is $160,117.70 principal, interest at the rate of 9.25% now totaling $8,622.77, late charges in the amount of $229.56, escrow advances of $4,134.34 and other fees and expenses advanced of $166.70, plus accruing interest at the rate of $40.58 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: August 21, 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 8/21/09, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same.

JOAN MEIER Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 2/23/2013 ASAP# 3319466 10/29/2009, 11/05/2009, 11/12/2009

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Daniel Morgan Andrew Pierce 433 W. Alder • 830-3875 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 11, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: The North one-half of lots 11, 12, and 13 in block 70 of school addition, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof, recording reference: Book 743 Page 1057 micro records. Commonly known as: 720 Bulwer Street, Missoula, MT 59802 Alan Jason Mogseth, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Source, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 25, 2007 and Recorded February 16, 2007 in Book 792, page 189 under Document No. 200703914. The beneficial interest is currently held by Provident Funding Associates, L.P. 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 $1069.97, beginning May 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 August 31, 2009 is $145,801.80 principal, interest at the rate of 6.25% now totaling $3,786.50, late charges in the amount of $230.90, escrow advances of $120.88 and other fees and expenses advanced of $81.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $24.97 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 proper-

ty and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors.

If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, including warranty of Title, express or implied, as the sale is made strictly on an as-is, where-is basis. 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: September 1, 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 9/1/09, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same.

TERI LYNN STECKLER Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 9/22/2012 ASAP# 3332966 11/12/2009, 11/19/2009, 11/26/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on Tuesday, the 15th day of December, 2009, at the hour of 10:15 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 the Grantor PLATINUM BUILDERS, LLC in and to the following described real property, situated in Missoula, Montana to wit: Lot 49 of Lolo Creek Trails Phase 1, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Said sale will be made in

accordance with the statutes of the State of Montana, and the terms and provisions of: that certain Construction Deed of Trust recorded October 13, 2006, in Book 785, page 244, as Document No. 200626630 in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, wherein PLATINUM BUILDERS, INC. is Grantor, FIRST INTERSTATE BANK is the named Beneficiary, and TITLE SERVICES, INC. is the named Trustee; that certain Appointment of Successor Trustee dated July 31, 2009, and recorded August 4, 2009, in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana, in Book 845 at page 165 as Document No. 200919321, wherein the Beneficiary substituted Trustee Title Services, Inc. with Martin S. King, attorney at law, as Successor Trustee. This foreclosure is made because the Grantor, PLATINUM BUILDERS, LLC, and the Guarantor, Anthony M. Cerasani, have defaulted in the terms of said Construction 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 Construction Deed of Trust, and pursuant to the the terms of the Construction Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has exercised its option to declare the full amount secured by such Construction Deed of Trust immediately due and payable. That the principal sum now owing on the obligation secured by said Construction Deed of Trust is the sum of Two Hundred Five Thousand One Hundred Twenty-five and No/100 Dollars ($205,125.00), together with interest at the note rate, 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 Two Hundred Five Thousand One Hundred Twenty-five and No/100 Dollars ($205,125.00) in principal; Six Thousand Four Hundred Fifty-one and 60/100 Dollars ($6,451.60) in interest; and Two Hundred One and 15/100 Dollars ($201.15) in late fees, totaling the sum of Two Hundred Eleven Thousand Seven Hundred Seventy-seven and 75/100 Dollars ($211,777.75), together with costs and expenses of foreclosure and related trustee fees, costs and attorney fees allowable by law. DATED this 12th day of August, 2009. /s/ Martin S. King, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA) :ss. County of Missoula). On this 12th day of August, 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 affixed my official seal the day and year in this certificate first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Rhonda M. Kolar, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at Missoula, MT My commission expires: January 24, 2012 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on Tuesday, the 15th day of December, 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 obligation 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 PLATINUM BUILDERS, LLC in and to the terms and provisions of: Lot 12 of Ponderosa Heights, Phase 1, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. 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 July 12, 2007, in Book 801, page 721, as Document No. 200717872 in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, wherein PLATINUM BUILDERS, INC. is Grantor, FIRST INTERSTATE BANK is the named Beneficiary, and INSURED TITLES is the named Trustee; that certain Appointment of Successor Trustee dated July 31, 2009, and recorded August 4, 2009, in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana, in Book 845 at page 164 as Document No. 200919320, wherein the Beneficiary substituted Trustee Insured Titles with Martin S. King, attorney at law, as Successor Trustee. This foreclosure is made because the Grantor, PLATINUM BUILDERS, LLC, has defaulted in the terms of said Deed of Trust and the corresponding Promissory Note in that it has 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 Seventy-two Thousand No/100 Dollars ($72,000.00), together with interest at the note rate, until the date of sale. That on the date of sale, presuming no

CLARK FORK STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following unit(s): 11, 88, 104 and 157. Units can contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds, other misc household goods, vehicles & trailers. These units may be viewed starting November 16th, 2009 by appt only by calling 541-7919. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 3505 Clark Fork Way, Missoula, MT 59808 prior to November 19th, 2009, 4:00 P.M. Buyer's bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All Sales final.

other payments are made and the sale is not postponed, there will be due and owing the sum of Seventy-two Thousand and No/100 Dollars ($72,000.00) in principal; Three Thousand Five Hundred Forty-six and 73/100 Dollars ($3,546.73) in interest; and One Hundred Thirty-five and 49/100 Dollars ($135.49) in late fees, totaling the sum of Seventy-five Thousand Six Hundred Eighty-two and 22/100 Dollars ($75,682.22), together with costs and expenses of foreclosure and related trustee fees, costs and attorney fees allowable by law. DATED this 12th day of August, 2009. /s/ Martin S. King, Successor Trustee STATE OF MONTANA) :ss. County of Missoula). On this 12th day of August, 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 the 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

EAGLE SELF STORAGE will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owning delinquent storage rent for the following units: 74, 153, 433, 465, 370, 485, 491, 497, and 568 Units contain furniture, cloths, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc household goods including office furniture, desks, baby strollers, car storage carrier, office phone system, boxes & boxes of old rare book collections, file cabinets, TV & stereos. These units may be Monday, viewed starting November 23, 2009 by appt only by calling 251-8600.

Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59803 prior to Thursday, November 27, 2009, 4:00 P.M. Buyers bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale. All sales are final.

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MLS#906610. Janet 532-7903 or Robin 240-6503 Windermere RE. Text:44133 Message: 12594 for pics 3BD/1 Ba Nice home on 3 city lots with privacy fenced yard in Alberton, $125,000 Kevin & Monica Ray of Access Realty at 406-207-1185 www.YourMT.com 3BD/2BD home, vaulted ceilings, two-car garage, large patio, nature trail 45 minutes from Missoula. $240,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185 www.YourMT.com 3BD/3BA Luxury Home on 10 acres, 4 car garage, huge tiled walk-in shower, soaking tub, office/den, timber-framed cathedral ceilings $688,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185 www.YourMT.com 4 BD/2BA home, ready-to-finish basement.

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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.YourMT.com AUCTION! Was $249,000, now $179,900 or best reasonable offer. 4BD/2.75BA home on 1/5 wooded acres in Thompson Fallsfor sale by owner. Office, family room, carport- NICE! (406) 8273234. Home to be sold Sunday evening, 11/22 to highest bidder.

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Wonderful location at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac. This home has been well cared for and has many updates such as paint, appliances, lighting, A/C and underground sprinklers. This home is over 1,000 sq. ft. and has a large insulated/sheet rocked garage plus a huge storage shed for over flow. There is a master bedroom, plus 2 additional bedrooms and a full bath. Large yard bordering open space and lovely views of the mountains. Property has access to river front park. Call today for your private showing. MLS# 907496

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