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Vol. 20, No. 49 • Dec. 3–Dec. 10, 2009

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

Up Front: Baucus critics cry foul over latest “compromise” Scope: Late pooch photographer gets his day in the sun Noise: Praising Wartime Blues’ battle-tested debut

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nside Cover Story At age 71, Victor Charlo’s best known in Montana as a gifted poet who writes about his experience on and off the reservation. And there’s plenty for him to pull from—elders imploring him to suppress his cultural identity, seminary school, befriending Victor Hugo, marching for American Indian rights, and now Cover photo by Cathrine L. Walters serving as spiritual chief of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Charlo humbly embraces his improbable route to becoming a community leader and respected poet. But from the way he tells it, all it took was a little luck and the confidence to know he was good enough to make it. . .14

News Letters Right-wing radio, Tester’s bill and women’s rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 The Week in Review Thanksgiving, Hauck’s awards and AIDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Briefs Marijuana paranoia, Food for Fines and hunting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Etc. Why openly brandishing a weapon is downright rude. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Up Front Baucus compromises on climate change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 Up Front UM women’s hockey reflects growing national trend . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9 Ochenski Obama chooses his own war. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 Writers on the Range New up-scale resorts fail for one simple reason. . . . . . . .11 Agenda Learning about “Engaging in the Muslim World”. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

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STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday near the Missoula County Courthouse

Q:

This week the Indy covers Sen. Max Baucus’ recent vote against new climate change legislation and how some critics believe—just like health care reform—he’s voting to protect his biggest campaign donors rather than for needed change. Do you think the government is doing too much, too little or the right amount to combat climate change?

Follow-up: How would you grade Baucus’ performance this year?

John Spitzberg: Under this administration there’s been more concern for climate change than the previous administration. I think we’re moving in the right direction, but our Congress is much too close to interests that speak against the people’s needs.

Blind to need: Baucus is proof that this country needs another way to finance its congressmen.

Baucus appears to be so tied in to the insurance industry that he’s lost sight of those that actually need it.

Mike Bachman: Too little. Flunky: An F. He’s not doing enough on anything. Health care reform will only put us in debt, so my children and their children will have to pay for it. We need to worry about the economy and getting us back to where we’re supposed to be.

Jen Martynuik: I guess too little. From what you read it sounds like we have to make changes today for things to change tomorrow, but you don’t hear about folks having to cut back on carbon emissions today.

Easy grader: I don’t know about climate change, but for health care an E for effort. Rumor has it there is a little too much lean to the health care industry, and there was too much compromise. But I guess somebody has to lead the change.

Lots of gobbledygook So there’s no room for progressive radio in Missoula, huh? (see “Radio ruckus,” Nov. 12, 2009). Why does any talk radio station have to be all conservative or all liberal?

If we allow right-wing talk radio to be the only voice, then we risk becoming a bastion of hatred like the Flathead Valley. I was raised in formerly moderate Kalispell and I don’t even want to drive through there now. My mother, once a nice Goldwater Republican, morphed into one of the rabid right-wingers starting when John Stokes took over KGEZ (now financially, as well as morally, bankrupt).

It’s been insidious ever since President Reagan eliminated the Fairness Doctrine, effectively unleashing one-sided gobbledygook without any answering gobbledygook to keep people from tilting too far one way or the other.

I agree with Aaron Flint on one thing: “You can get out of your Toyota Prius for just a second, just get mad…or you can just sit and whine about it.” But instead of whining don’t call Flint’s program, which still gives them the last word. Instead, fight back like Steve Corrick did. If you’re an advertiser, pull your ads. If you’re a supporter of progressive—or even balanced—radio, notify the station’s advertisers that they won’t have your patronage until they stop. Station Marketing Manager Steve Lindahl understands money, so exercise free speech by talking to his pocketbook.

Tell these one-sided, unfair, unbalanced broadcasters to pack up their Hummers and get out of Dodge!

Wanda LaCroix Arlee

Oddly, as a long-time critic, I find myself defending U.S. Forest Service management policy. They are tasked to use science and open public process that does not depend on who you are “friends of.”

You just need to be a citizen of America.

Tester’s logging bill legislatively overrides the prerogatives of scientific management by the Forest Service. It does so primarily to advance the interests of local commercial and recreational interests. It mandates huge increases of taxpayer-sub-

Tell these “one-sided, unfair, unbalanced broadcasters to pack up their Hummers and get out of Dodge!

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Tester stonewalls

Dan Bassanella: I think they ought to leave it alone. They’re looking at a problem that doesn’t exist. Heel-to-toe: About as bad as it can get. He’s just walking the party line and not taking into consideration what people want from him.

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Friends of the Bitterroot (FOB), with over 700 members, has 21 years of blood, sweat and tears (not to mention many thousands of dollars) invested in protecting wildlands on the nearby Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. FOB and other local conservation groups were excluded from the self-selected Beaverhead-Deerlodge “partnership” and from the making of Sen. Jon Tester’s logging/recreation bill that adopts the exclusionary partnership proposal.

The wildlands we locals and others helped protect for years are being used as political trading-stock by a few, mostly more-distant, well-staffed collaborationist conservation groups and timber companies.

After trying to improve Tester’s bill through meeting with staff, there is no indication that any of the thoughtful comments have been heard let alone taken into consideration.

Disenfranchising stakeholders is unhealthy politics. But the main issue is Tester’s bill removes protections for far more wildland than it protects as wilderness.

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sidized, unsustainable logging, even when there is no market. It locks in motorized use permanently in some areas—no matter the costs to wildlife, land or water.

Is Montana so jaded with wildland we would trade Sen. Lee Metcalf ’s Wilderness Study Area legacy for yet another motorized playground? Is military training helicopter landings and sheepherding with ATVs in wilderness an oxymoron? Do we really want to promote the devolution of our national public forests into state or local fiefdoms managed differently all across America depending on local politics and commercial interests?

Wilderness is an ancient, irreplaceable legacy far too valuable to trade for perishable pork sausage even when seasoned with a bit o’ wino (wilderness in name only).

Larry Campbell Darby

Stop Stupak-Pitts YWCA Missoula joins with YWCAs across the country this week in lobbying

Congress to pass comprehensive health insurance reform that protects women’s health needs, including access to abortion care. We encourage Montanans to join us in calling or e-mailing our senators to advocate for women’s rights in health care reform.

The YWCA’s mission is to eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

To us, that mission encompasses universal health care and a woman’s right to decide what’s best for her body, her family and herself.

YWCA Missoula supports much of the current House bill (HR 3962), which passed on Nov. 7. The bill includes such laudable provisions as expanding Medicaid to all individuals under 150 percent of the poverty line; providing help to families and individuals so they can afford health care; allowing young people to be covered by their parent’s insurance until they are age 27; ending the discriminatory practice of denying coverage based on pre-existing conditions, which can include c-sections or being a victim of rape or domestic violence; capping outof-pocket expenses; and creating a competitive public option plan.

According to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, 180,694 women in Montana are between the ages of 15 and 44, and 21 percent of them are uninsured. Under the House bill, 59 percent of these women would qualify for the expanded Medicaid, and another 35 percent would qualify for federal subsidies to help them purchase insurance.

While much in the House bill is good, we are very concerned about the harmful effects of the Stupak-Pitts amendment, which would prohibit abortion coverage in the newly created insurance exchanges.

One of the main promises of health insurance reform is that if you like the coverage you have, you can keep it. The StupakPitts amendment would break that promise by requiring women seeking abortion coverage through the exchange to seek supplemental coverage. It would also prohibit the public option from covering abortion except in cases of rape, incest or saving the life (not the health) of the mother. Also, women who receive federal subsidies to help them purchase insurance would be prohibited from buying a plan that covers abortion.

As advocates for women’s rights on every level, the YWCA believes health care reform must address, not restrict, women’s health care needs. Women should be able to purchase the health insurance plan that works best for them and their families. Please join us this week in lobbying Congress for meaningful health care reform that respects women’s rights.

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by Cathrine L. Walters

The Big Sky Conference names University of Montana football coach Bobby Hauck the conference’s coach of the year for the third time after he led the Grizzlies to an undefeated regular season.

Earlier in the season ESPN columnist Pat Forde named Hauck “Bum of the Year” for stonewalling student reporters.

• Thursday, November 26 Missoula’s Poverello Center, the state’s largest soup kitchen and homeless shelter, serves a Thanksgiving meal to more than 400 people. The feast features 81 turkeys, 1,500 pounds of potatoes and 20 gallons of gravy, according to Food Director Jesse Schraufnagel. A total of 566 people use the facility’s services Thanksgiving Day.

• Friday, November 27 North Reserve Street becomes a consumer circus as shoppers seek deep discounts on Black Friday, the traditional first day of the holiday shopping season.

People camp out in tents and sleeping bags before Best Buy opens at 5 a.m., and by the afternoon Reserve Street traffic is still backed up for miles.

• Saturday, November 28 An Indy reporter decides to spend the next-to-last day of hunting season up Gold Creek in search of a buck instead of attending the Griz game against the “pushover” South Dakota State Jackrabbits. He’s skunked, and, after seeing highlights of UM’s 61-48 win, regrets the decision.

• Sunday, November 29 Paramedics treat two men for non-life-threatening injuries after one loses his grip while cleaning a rifle in a home near Potomac, and accidentally fires the gun while trying to prevent it from hitting the floor.

The bullet went through the first man’s hand and into the abdomen of the second.

• Monday, November 30 City and county officials give ExxonMobil the thumbs up to begin trucking massive pieces of oil processing equipment through Missoula during the wee hours of the morning starting next fall. Trailers that are twolanes wide and 30-feet high will travel down Reserve Street from Idaho on the way to northern Alberta oil fields several mornings a week for about a year.

• Tuesday, December 1 The Western Montana Community Center offers free HIV testing on the University of Montana campus to mark World AIDS Day. State health officials have documented 27 new cases of the disease so far this year.

That’s up from 22 new diagnoses statewide in 2008.

Thanksgiving Day hikers found a box of reasons to be thankful for trekking up Mount Sentinel’s M Trail: cookies left by a generous early morning climber.

Whitefish

Marijuana paranoia The prospect of medical marijuana businesses popping up in Whitefish has the city weighing a temporary emergency ordinance banning them, an indication of the long road still ahead in legitimizing medical marijuana in Montana.

After the city received a few inquiries from people interested in opening marijuana clinics, but not formal applications, the Whitefish City Council directed staff to draft an ordinance banning all such operations for six months while the council figures out how to appropriately zone for medical marijuana.

“Where do they fit in with existing zoning?

How do they tie in?” asks Whitefish Planning Director Dave Taylor. “If it is like a medical clinic that’s one thing. I’ve read that some of these have manufacturing on-site, and so is that a semiindustrial use? It gets a little tricky.”

The council will vote on the ordinance Monday, Dec. 7.

If it passes, The Healing Center of Montana, which operates medical marijuana collectives in four Montana cities, and hopes to open one soon in Kalispell or Whitefish, plans to file suit.

“If they try to zone us out or enact a moratorium we would file whatever we need to to stop it,” says The Healing Center’s Michael Smith. “If they want to zone us anywhere it would have to be into the medical corridor, because this is medical.”

Smith says the lawsuit would challenge the council’s power to limit a citizen’s right to access their medicine. The group also threatened to sue Billings when it considered a similar ordinance last month, which would have zoned medical marijuana businesses in the same way it zones some adult businesses. The Billings council voted unanimously to table the ordinance Nov. 9.

“There’s no real model at this point,” says Taylor. “I think all of these different communities are kind of scrambling. I don’t think anybody wants to deny people’s right to get the medicine

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Matthew Frank

Environment

Wrong spray on the tracks Missoula City Councilman Bob Jaffe couldn’t believe it when he witnessed a Montana Rail Link (MRL) employee spraying railroad tracks with herbicide last spring. He described seeing “large clouds of poison” rise up from a large truck spraying the chemical along the Bitterroot Spur track.

“People walking their dogs two minutes after the truck went by would not know that the ground was soaked in poison,” Jaffe wrote in a memo presented to Missoula’s Public Safety and Health Committee in May. Jaffe recently broached the issue again on his listserv—an online bulletin aimed at informing constituents of what’s going on with city government—in advance of the committee taking up the

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issue this week. The mention elicited a number of suggestions from concerned readers wanting MRL to consider alternatives to herbicide, such as planting hemp or sending “well-wrangled� goats to clear the track. Jaffe suggested MRL at least post signs when it sprays so pedestrians have a heads up to steer clear of the area.

MRL Environmental Projects Manager Rick Shelley says the situation puts the company in a tough spot. Montana law requires MRL to keep weeds at bay. He says the company sprays weed killer once in the spring and, depending on location, sometimes in the summer. Posting signs would be too time consuming. “I just don’t know how you’d do it,� he says.

Meanwhile, MRL Public Information Officer Lynda Frost is quick to remind city officials that the Bitterroot Spur Trail is MRL property. The company allows public access, she says, only because it was deemed the neighborly thing to do. “In the spirit of goodwill, MRL granted a permit to the city of Missoula for the Bitterroot Trail,�

Frost says. “When that spirit is dampened by complaints, one must wonder if decisions such as these are wise.�

The city planned to further discuss the issue during a Public Health and Safety Committee meeting Dec. 2, before the Independent went to press.

Jessica Mayrer

Courts

Food for Fines thrives Speed demons and traffic miscreants get a chance to pay off fines and feed the hungry in exchange for a donation of creamed corn, candied yams or other non-perishable items during Thursday’s “Food for Fines Day� at Missoula Municipal Court.

Between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on Dec. 3, a can of food will earn offenders $5 off their city tab. (The deal doesn’t apply to restitution or court fees.) A five-can limit is in place, making for a $25-maximum credit. All food donations go to the Missoula Food Bank. “It’s actually a good deal all the way around,� says Municipal Court Manager Pat Morgan.

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The first Food for Fines two years ago reaped 10,000 pounds of grub, making it one of the most successful food drives for the food bank that year. “We had food everywhere,� Morgan says.

Concerns about the program’s legality barred the court from conducting another drive in 2008. But the Montana Legislature stepped in

last session and expressly gave the program the green light. Morgan anticipates this year’s event to be even busier than 2007. “I think we expect the frenzy again—in a g o o d w a y , � s a y s M i s s o u l a Fo o d B a n k Development Director Nick Roberts.

Roberts says the Missoula community has stepped up during the recent economic downturn to help the Food Bank avoid any empty cupboards. Although demand is spiking, donations are keeping pace, and Food for Fines can only help. “You can’t argue with the immediacy of giving hungry families food,� Roberts says. “You can’t minimize the significance of that.�

Jessica Mayrer

Hunting

Where are the white-tails?

The continued decline in deer harvests in 2009 noted by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks

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(FWP) could trigger a series of adjustments to local hunting regulations in 2010.

Wildlife Manager Michael Thompson of Missoula says the FWP Commission will review a proposal Dec. 10 to eliminate an either-sex white-tailed deer hunt that occurs the first eight days of each season. The change is currently being discussed in regards to the Blackfoot River watershed. “It’s something that a lot of people take advantage of, and it’s our primary source of antlerless harvest at this point in time,� Thompson says.

In 2006, FWP’s hunter check station in Bonner recorded 422 antlered white-tails harvested.

Final numbers for 2009 from the Bonner station reveal a dramatic drop to only 215. The downward trend prompted FWP to eliminate over-the-counter B licenses for antlerless white-tail last season.

If the trend continues unchecked, deer populations could dip lower than levels recorded by FWP in the last two decades, Thompson says. Numbers that drastic hint at a problem outside the level of hunting allowed in the state. “It looks like, from our data, that there’s an environmental driver to what we’re seeing,�

Thompson says. “Whether it’s increased predation, weather events that set up greater predation success, we don’t really know.�

FWP biologist Jay Kolbe says the agency will launch a statewide study soon to determine whether the problem is one of productivity or of survivorship among young deer. Whatever is impacting the white-tailed deer population is likely having similar effects on mule deer, he says. “I’d couch it less in terms of serious as significant,� Kolbe says.

FWP is considering changing more than just the either-sex hunt in 2010. The agency has already increased the number of mountain lion hunting permits available this season in response to potential over-predation, and Thompson says the commission will review a proposal this month to extend the black bear hunt in the Blackfoot by two weeks.

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Like Grandma used to say, “There’s a time and place for everything.�

This week, Celebrating Conservatism marked its one-year anniversary with a Second Amendment themed shindig at the Ravalli County Fairgrounds. The night’s highlights included a chili cook-off, live country and western music, an ammunition raffle and speeches by local gun-rights proponent Gary Marbut and Alaska’s Second Amendment Task Force frontman Schaeffer Cox. And just like past meetings, a large number of the group’s members openly packed sidearms at the party.

Now, we have no qualms with the Second Amendment. Firearms have long held a special place in American culture. In fact, several Indy staffers are proud gun owners (a total workplace bonus if you’re a fan of venison). But in light of this rising “open-carry� fashion statement, we feel it’s high time for a little discussion of social etiquette.

Take the stir over President Barack Obama’s town hall meetings in August. A handful of conservatives were seen invoking their rights under open-carry laws, presumably under the guise of decrying the anti-gun rights lobby.

Increasing fear about Obama’s stance toward the Second Amendment freedoms has proven a powerful recruitment tool for groups on the far right in the past year. Websites like www.opencarry.org offer vast forums for the exchange of rhetoric, with catchphrases like “A right unexercised is a right lost.�

No one is arguing with the right to own a rifle or handgun, only the supposed need to display those weapons in public—and in close proximity to our nation’s leader. Such actions are more threat than message, serving no higher purpose than widespread shock and awe. In their brash attempt to be taken seriously, the activists at Obama’s town hall meetings shot their beloved open-carry movement in the foot, so to speak.

Openly brandishing a sidearm is downright rude.

Guns are made for a single purpose, to kill, and the sight of a 9 millie in public generates not respect or civil discourse but intimidation. Unless Celebrating Conservatism members expect hordes of zombies to crash their hootenanny at the fairgrounds, guns have no place in the chili line.

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Cap and trade-off Baucus compromises on climate change, too

by Matthew Frank

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Max Baucus’ critics condemned together accounted for roughly 30 percent “These 12 lobbyists represent a large Montana’s senior U.S. senator earlier this of Montana’s $35.9 billion gross domestic cross-section of industries, from airlines year for taking millions of dollars from the product, according to the Bureau of to railroads and oil producers to solar health care industry as he led the effort to Economic Analysis. energy companies,” writes the Sunlight “We trust that the senator’s integrity Foundation’s Paul Blumenthal. “The reform it. With Congress attempting to pass historic climate change legislation, will withstand corporate polluters trying to diversity of organizations also brings a critics are voicing the same refrain, claim- influence votes via campaign contribu- diversity in positions on the underlying ing Baucus is beholden to the climate bill. Many of the organienergy and agriculture interests zations represented by former filling his campaign coffers. staffers of Baucus are generally Democrats in the Senate supportive of a climate bill, but Environment and Public Works are seeking certain provisions to (EPW) Committee voted 11-1 in be included or not removed durNovember to approve legislation ing the committee process. that would cut greenhouse gas Others are engaged in outward emissions 20 percent below opposition.”

2005 levels by 2020. Republicans The Baucus compromise largeboycotted the vote, and Baucus, ly mirrors the climate change bill the second-highest ranking passed by the House in June, which member of the committee, cast is why President Obama plans to the only “no” vote. announce at the international cli“While I am voting no on mate meetings in Copenhagen this particular bill,” Baucus said, beginning Dec. 7 that the United “let me be crystal clear: as a States intends to cut emissions “in member of the EPW and the range of ” 17 percent below Agriculture committees, as chair2005 levels by 2020, the administraman of the Senate Finance tion indicated last week.

Committee, and most importantBut there’s one aspect of the ly, as a Montanan who wants our Senate EPW bill that is more children and grandchildren to be aggressive than the House bill. able to enjoy the outdoors the The EPW bill gives the U.S. way we can today, I’m going to Environmental Protection Agency work to get climate change legisauthority to regulate greenhouse Photo by Chad Harder lation that can get 60 votes, get gas emissions under the Clean Air through the United States Sen. Max Baucus, the only Democrat in the Senate Act, as allowed by a 2007 Supreme Environment and Public Works Committee to vote Senate, and signed into law.”

Court opinion. Baucus says he against climate change legislation in November, But some groups advocat- says the bill needs to be less aggressive to pass the wants to add language pre-empting for aggressive climate Senate. ing such action, disappointing change legislation wonder if groups like the Sierra Club that Baucus, by pushing for legislation that tions,” says Brad Hash of the Sierra Club’s call regulation under the Clean Air Act critwould reduce greenhouse gas emissions Beyond Coal Campaign. ically important. by 17 instead of 20 percent, is kowtowing Unfortunately for progressives, Other observers say it’s too late, and to his donors. For example, according to that the climate change bill serves as anoth- disappointment in Baucus is nothing new.

Center for Responsive Politics data er example of Baucus’ deceptive political “I think [climate change] and health crunched by Oil Change International, formula. care for Max Baucus is one and the same Baucus received more money from coal “This is how Max Baucus plays a critical thing,” says Sirota. “He runs in the same companies in 2007 and 2008—$87,900— role in the manufacturing of conventional crowd. He runs in the corporate crowd. He than any other Democratic senator save wisdom, a conventional wisdom that justi- runs in a crowd of lobbyists. That is his Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, and the fies selling out,” argues political columnist crowd. Those are his former staffers, those most of all 12 Democrats on the EPW David Sirota. “He’s not saying he’s against are his friends, and they don’t want this bill.

Committee. Over his career, according to health care reform. He’s not saying he’s What they rely on Max Baucus to do—what the Center for Responsive Politics, Baucus against a serious climate change policy. He’s Max Baucus’ specialty is—is not just casting has received nearly $1.2 million from the only saying that everybody else is, which a vote against this, but creating a convenenergy and natural resources sector, and then means that he has to vote to water tional wisdom that says the only way to pass nearly $1.3 million from the agribusiness down major pieces of legislation…And I anything is to destroy it. sector, an industry Baucus recently said think that typically this is done by Max “When the legislative train is moving,” could be negatively impacted by climate Baucus to pay back an industry, or set of Sirota continues, “when the public really change legislation. wants something, Max Baucus is called in as industries.”

Moreover, according to the Sunlight a special agent to make sure that what’s put These industries make up a substantial percentage of Montana’s economy. In 2008, Foundation, 12 of Baucus’ former staffers, on that train ends up not being much of the industries that would appear to be most including four former chiefs of staff, work as anything.” affected by climate change legislation— lobbyists for organizations with an explicit including mining, agriculture and forestry— interest in climate legislation. mfrank@missoulanews.com

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Got your

On the rush

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UM women’s hockey reflects growing national trend

groove on?

by Alex Sakariassen

tion. In 1992, the number was just 10,000.

Still, Dvorak believes the sport continues to fight against an unfair cultural stigma.

“It’s hockey, not ‘women’s hockey,’” says Dvorak, also a graduate student studying psychology at UM. “I’m here to coach a hockey team. Not a women’s hockey team, because as soon as you say a women’s hockey team, there’s a tendency for people to treat it differently…When you show up to a women’s hockey tournament and there are no slap-shots and no checking, you start to see how society still treats women’s athletics as if it’s something other than the true essence of the sport.”

Mann and her teammates play one game a week from October to April in Missoula’s Advanced Women’s League, a collection of six community-based teams. They also compete in two tournaments each semester against other club teams from Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and eastern Washington, and have hosted annual home tournaments for five years.

“In the past, when we weren’t very good, I think we just got killed Photo by Cathrine L. Walters every game,” Mann says, adding that the trend has changed in recent years.

Devan Ellison-Annan skates through early-morning drills with the UM “Being good, people want to play Women’s Ice Hockey Team at the Glacier Ice Rink. The team has increasingly you. But they don’t want to get gained more seasoned players in the past two years, matching the slow rise crushed all the time. I think we’re of women’s hockey on the national level. pretty even with a lot of these teams.”

The team’s most recent success sport still struggling to gain popularity change.” In addition to dedicated novices came in early November when it beat a across the nation. So why bother rising like Mann, an increasing number of entry- Bozeman-based team 3-2, claiming its seclevel players have played the game before. ond tournament win this fall. before the sun?

But the victories come at a high cost, “In the last one or two years, I think “It can be a little overwhelming,” says team captain Stephanie Mann. “But it’s a it’s changed from a hockey team that’s not just in time. UM women’s hockey fun outlet and it’s something that’s not law there to compete to a hockey team that’s receives some funding from the UM student senate, but relies heavily on player school related. I just feel thankful I’ve got- there to win,” Dvorak says.

Just look at Missy Fales, 23, a second- dues and fundraising efforts to cover the ten to play, never having played before.”

Mann, 25, doesn’t look like your year law student. Two years ago, Fales saw costs of equipment and travel. Ice time for stereotypical hockey player. She’s short the team as a way to continue her hockey practices alone runs $190 an hour.

For Mann, Fales and the rest of the and slim, has all her teeth and a distinct career beyond her undergraduate studies lack of facial bruising. Before joining the in New Hampshire, where she played as a team, the fact they’re finally winning is well team last year, during her first year of law wing for Plymouth State University. She worth the sacrifice. They’ve managed to school, she’d never competed in women’s sees the bump in experienced new players turn UM’s cupcake reputation on its head, hockey. Now she’s dedicated to building as a benefit not only in games but also dur- and take satisfaction in the reactions from teams that once considered them easy support for the sport outside the team’s ing practices.

“This year, it’s a lot easier to just go to pickings, like the club from Jackson, Wyo., limited fanbase.

“As a whole, I think the hockey com- practice and run drills that experienced they clobbered at the Rick Bayer Harvest Moon tournament in Helena in late munity is really pretty close-knit here in hockey players know well,” Fales says.

The uptick at UM mirrors the slow October.

Missoula,” Mann says. “Everyone’s on the “I’m pretty sure they came into that same side, trying to get the program bigger growth of women’s ice hockey nationally over the last two decades. The game thinking, ‘Oh, this’ll be breezy.’” and stronger.”

That effort has met with mild success International Ice Hockey Federation lists Fales says. “Then we shut them out fourin recent years. Head coach Troy Dvorak, 59,506 current female players in the nothing. That was pretty sweet.”

33, recalls that six years ago, most commu- United States—less than 8 percent of the nity-based women’s hockey clubs in the country’s total registered hockey populaasakariassen@missoulanews.com Once a week at 6 a.m., 18 students from the University of Montana forfeit an extra hour or two of sleep before class to run hockey drills at the Glacier Ice Rink.

Anyone familiar with the grind of 10-page papers, blue book exams and part-time jobs can relate to the sacrifice.

The payoff can’t be measured in fan support. An average of only 30 people show up to weekly games to cheer on the UM Women’s Ice Hockey Team—mostly friends, family and the odd hockey enthusiast. These women lace up the skates for a

region considered UM’s team “laughable.”

UM had few experienced players and little recognition in Missoula. Just fielding a team was hailed a victory.

“Teams used to invite us to tournaments and put us in their bracket just because it was a guaranteed win for them,” Dvorak says. “It was an easy pass. ‘Oh, it’s that cute university women’s team. Try not to score too many points on them. Take it easy on them.’”

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Afghanistan quagmire now squarely belongs to Obama Make no mistake, the quagmire in Afghanistan is no longer George W. Bush’s war. The new owner of this disastrous experiment to influence the internal affairs of a country that has successfully resisted any and all intrusions by outside forces throughout history now belongs fully and completely to President Barack Obama and the Democrat majorities in Congress. And like the air going out of a balloon, those who once backed both Obama and the Democrats are deflating nationwide as the cruel canard of “change and hope” disintegrates before their very eyes.

The details of Obama’s escalation— and there’s nothing else to call it—have been known for days. The president will send 30,000 additional American troops to the hell-hole of the Hindu Kush in addition to the 22,000 he has already sent there in the first year of his administration, bringing the primarily American forces to about 100,000.

Following far too closely in the footsteps of his Republican predecessor, President Obama delivered his speech Tuesday night at West Point. It’s the same place Bush first announced, more than eight years ago, that America’s new foreign policy would include “preemptive actions” against any nation believed to threaten the U.S. As we know, Bush went on to invade Afghanistan and temporarily rout the Taliban, claiming he was “on the hunt” for Osama bin Laden. As we also know, despite all his tough talk, Bush never did find bin Laden despite all the years, the deaths and the hundreds of billions spent on a useless war.

Now comes Obama, who says he will immediately send another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan, while also planning to begin “bringing our troops home” in 2010.

Obama’s strategy, if you can call it that, is like the “Hokey-Pokey” dance where “you put your right foot in, you pull your right foot out…” This presidential ploy is little more than a sorry bait-and-switch designed to mislead the American people into escalating a war we neither want nor can afford.

Meanwhile, it is American families who will suffer the loss of loved ones while American taxpayers pour even more billions of dollars down the black hole of the Afghanistan.

When the end of 2010 rolls around, however, it is virtually impossible that we will have achieved a “victory” by turning Afghanistan from a wilderness of individual warlords and tribes into a strong centralized government with armed forces

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capable of controlling 400 individual provinces scattered across some of the most inhospitable terrain on the planet.

And then, of course, will pour forth the endless excuses to extend the war, beginning with “conditions on the ground dictate our continued effort.”

And for what? Obama now believes that we must expand the war to prop up the incredibly weak government of Hamid Karzai, a ruler who “won” an elec-

Were the “ consequences not so tragic, the juxtaposition of Obama’s version of war and peace would be

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hilarious.

tion in which international voting monitors detailed hundreds of incidents of phony ballots cast by non-existent citizens. Unanswered, too, is the question of why we would want to legitimize a corrupt ruler whose own brother is believed to be deeply involved in the opium trade that is fueling those now fighting and killing American troops.

Nonetheless, Obama has just committed us to a disaster in the making for his presidency, the Democrat Party and the nation. Ironically, the speech to expand the war, the carnage and the astronomical cost comes just before he picks up his Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. Were the consequences not so tragic, the juxtaposition of Obama’s version of war and peace would be hilarious.

For the moment, however, suppose the phony “exit strategy” actually happens. If it does, it won’t be because the generals decide to quit, since war is their

business. But it could happen if the American people, after a decade of continuous, expensive and senseless wars, finally decide we’ve had enough and demand that our troops come home.

What will be left behind? Well, let’s just take a look at what we’re leaving behind in Iraq as a likely example of what will happen in Afghanistan. Just last week a report was issued to the U.N.

by British and Iraqi medical experts that detailed conditions in the city of Fallujah, where some of the heaviest fighting took place. According to the report, the birth deformities there are 15 times higher than before the 2003 American invasion. The likely cause, say the doctors, is the use of depleted uranium in artillery by the U.S. military—and the result is horrific. According to the findings, “24 percent of the children born at the city’s general hospital in September died within seven days.

Three quarters of them had deformities such as two heads, no head, a single eye, or missing limbs.” You read it right: “two heads, no head, a single eye or missing limbs.” Contrast this post-invasion tragedy with the statistics from 2002, prior to the invasion, and “only one of 530 children born there died, and only one had deformities.”

What civilized nation would ever consider causing such monstrosities a justifiable outcome of waging war? How can Obama or Congress ignore the realities of their actions simply by rationalizing them away as necessary to protect our national security—especially when most of the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks came not from Afghanistan or Iraq, but from Saudi Arabia?

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi told the members of Congress that the $100 billion authorized to continue the wars earlier this year would be the last time she would ask for such approval.

But now, make no mistake, she will be forced by Obama’s decision to ask yet again. If Democrats has a scintilla of conscience or moral fortitude, they would refuse to fund the escalation.

That, however, is unlikely to happen.

Instead, under Obama’s “Hokey-Pokey” charade, we will continue an unjust, immoral and disastrous war that is virtually guaranteed to create mortal enemies instead of some amorphous victory.

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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It’s the skiing, stupid New upscale resorts fail for one simple reason

by Will Melton

This winter, Missoula was on its way to boasting a brand-new ski area besides Snowbowl. The new resort, carved out of the Bitterroot Mountains, would have been closer to town, but creditors began closing in and the word “foreclosure” hit the papers. Even though I’m a rabid skier, I wasn’t sorry to see the Bitterroot Resort fail. Though developer Tom Maclay spent over a decade and millions of dollars planning the resort, it suffered from a fatal flaw: It made no sense, at least for skiers.

The layout for the ski slopes, on what was touted as the tallest ski area in North America, showed how little thought had been given to the actual skiing itself. For example: After a short section of drops coming directly off the summit, a skier would be forced to traverse nearly four miles to get to any other expert runs.

And although it promised to approach Colorado’s Vail in providing skiable acreage, Bitterroot Resort was designed mostly for beginner and intermediate skiing. This would surely prove boring to families with multiple ski levels and turn off expert skiers.

Bitterroot Resort’s grand plan lacked another essential element: snow. Nearby Lolo Peak rarely lacks snow, but the ski runs developers had already cut through foothills remained bare and brown most of last winter.

Some resorts prove great snow can make up for mediocre terrain—think Steamboat Springs in Colorado. And great terrain can make up for mediocre snow— look at Crested Butte in western Colorado.

But a resort lacking both terrain and great snow is going to fail pretty much anywhere.

Of course, Bitterroot Resort is only the most recent of high profile, ski-area collapses. Only four major new ski areas have opened in the United States in the past 20 years: The Yellowstone Club and Moonlight Basin in Big Sky; Tamarack Resort in central Idaho; and Silverton Mountain in southwestern Colorado.

Only Silverton was designed primarily for skiers, and only Silverton has avoided bankruptcy. Until the mid-’90s, ski resorts were almost always created for skiers.

Real estate was still big business, but developers built ski areas only where they

“Bitterroot

Resort’s grand plan lacked another essential element: snow.

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made sense in terms of quality skiing.

Then developers got greedy and saw the avalanche of money that could be made from selling second homes. Four-season resorts, where homeowners could ski in winter and golf, hike and bike in summer, became the way to cash in.

Developers bet heavily on rising real estate prices, and the gamble worked for about five years. In that time, developers’ dreams grew even more grandiose as they borrowed more and more money to build master-planned communities around the bases of new ski resorts.

Last year, the bubble burst.

Developers who’d been riding high months earlier face-planted and found themselves with a mountain of half-built houses. The developers’ business model

depended on rich people buying milliondollar mini-mansions they might use for, maybe, two months a year. Without a constant influx of capital from the sale of homes, resort developers defaulted on their loans. Creditors, realizing they wouldn’t get paid back, started foreclosing. Ultimately, the Big Three toppled.

The Yellowstone Club resort is now owned by a new investor who bought it for dimes on the dollar. Tamarack Resort is owned by creditors and may not open for skiing this year. Moonlight Basin declared bankruptcy in mid-November to avoid a takeover by Lehman Bros. The Yellowstone Club won’t close anytime soon, however: The gated resort for the mega-rich will continue to operate as long as its homes are owned by the likes of Bill Gates, Dan Quayle and Warren Miller. Likewise, Moonlight will probably survive in some form, simply because the resort, in addition to building real estate, has built one heck of a ski area. Its proximity to Big Sky Resort doesn’t hurt either, drawing skiers to what’s marketed as “The Biggest Skiing in America.”

Tamarack is skating on thin ice, however, as it never really had the support of the locals. It’s too far from Boise, the nearest mid-sized city, to draw many day skiers, and it lacks particularly good skiing. Tamarack may be doomed.

Meanwhile, the remote town of Silverton, with its one lift, keeps plugging away, buoyed by a legion of devoted extreme skiers, minimal operating expenses and little borrowed capital.

Silverton even added infrastructure this year—a 50-foot bus. It replaces the old UPS truck that used to shuttle skiers.

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Despite assurances that the United States is actually making progress under the Obama administration in the Middle East, many questions still linger. Juan R.I. Cole, a history professor at the University of Michigan, knows this all too well. As one of America’s foremost experts on Islamic politics and culture, Cole, pictured here, plans to give a Missoula audience his in-depth analysis on the shaky relations between America and the Muslim world—and how he thinks it can be mitigated—during two discussions.

Expect the scholar—who has authored several books on Middle Eastern politics—to touch on why he thinks the United States and Iran should be actively engaged in dialogue, why America needs to carefully

THURSDAY DECEMBER 3 Bid on something pleasant for yourself—while you help raise money for an organization that helps teen moms— during a silent auction for Mountain Home Montana, which runs all day, each day, from Nov. 30–Dec. 6 at Southgate Mall, 2901 Brooks St. Free to attend and spectate. Call 541-0163 or e-mail fot@mountainhomemt.org.

FRIDAY DECEMBER 4 Get those hands up in the air to bid on designer decorated trees and holiday items—while also helping to raise money for an organization that helps teen moms—during Mountain Home Montana’s Gala Tree Party and Live Auction, which starts at 6 PM at the ballroom in the Doubletree Hotel, 100 Madison St. $40 person, with opening music by Tom Catmull. Call 541-0163 for tickets.

Help support the Montana Film Academy Scholarship, as well as the in-school and afterschool programs provided by the International Wildlife Media Center and Film Festival during its Wildlife Ball Benefit, which starts at 6 PM at the Hilton Garden Inn, 3720 N. Reserve St. $50 each/$400 table of eight. Features appetizers, an auction and music by the Mike Bader Band. Call 728-9380 or visit wildlifefilms.org for tickets.

SATURDAY DECEMBER 5 If you have compulsive-eating problems, seek help and support with others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Sat. at 9 AM on the second floor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. Visit www.oa.org.

SUNDAY DECEMBER 6 Beat the swine outta your system, or just avoid getting the swine flu, during a free H1N1 Vaccine Clinic provided by the Missoula City-County Health Department which runs from 10 AM–4 PM at Sentinel High School, 901 South Ave. W. Free. Call 258-3684. Last names between the letters A-L are admitted from 10 AM–1 PM, while last names between the letters M-Z are admitted from 1–4:30 PM.

MONDAY DECEMBER 7 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.

Those looking to control their eating habits can get support from others during a meeting of Overeaters Anonymous, which meets this and every Mon. at 5:30

disengage itself from Iraq, and why weaning ourselves off of oil in that region might hurt our stability as a superpower. Those are just a handful of arguments Cole makes in his latest book, Engaging The Muslim World, which is also the title of one of his upcoming talks on campus.

–Ira Sather-Olson Juan R. I. Cole presents “Iraqi Politics on the Eve of the Election: Prospects for Obama’s Disengagement” at 3:10 PM Mon., Dec. 7, in Room 123 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. At 8 PM, Cole presents “Engaging the Muslim World” at the University Center Ballroom. Both events are free.

Call 243-2981.

PM on the second floor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. Visit www.oa.org.

Buying a home may seem out of reach, but it sure seems like the best time to do it, so nab some info during First Time Homebuyer Classes in the Bitterroot every night from 6–9 PM today through Dec. 9 at Hamilton’s Human Resource Council Building, 316 N. Third St. in Hamilton. $20, covers cost of reference materials. Must attend all three nights for certification. Call 363-1444 ext. 5 to register.

If you’re 18 or under and your life has been affected by someone else’s drinking, get support with others by joining the Al-Ateen 12-Step 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.

Learn about how a union is the best way to fight against a scrooge trying to get you down when the Two Rivers branch of the Industrial Workers of the World meets at 7 PM at the Union Hall, 208 E. Main St. Free. Includes a potluck dinner, songs and more, so bring a dish. Call Dave at 363-5292 or e-mail flyfeverdj@hotmail.com.

TUESDAY DECEMBER 8 Find the strength and will to survive in the company of others during a breast cancer support group at St. Francis Xavier Parish, 420 W. Pine, every first and third Tue. of the month at noon. Free. Call 329-5656.

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.

Missoula’s YWCA, 1130 W. Broadway, hosts weekly support groups for women every Tue. at 6:30 PM, where groups for American Indian 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.

Those that 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 Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free. E-mail abamissoula@gmail.com.

THURSDAY DECEMBER 10 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.

AGENDA is dedicated to upcoming events embodying activism, outreach and public participation. Send your who/what/when/where and why to AGENDA, c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange, Missoula, MT 59801. You can also e-mail entries to calendar@missoulanews.com or send a fax to (406) 543-4367. AGENDA’s deadline for editorial consideration is 10 days prior to the issue in which you’d like your information to be included. When possible, please include appropriate photos/artwork.

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

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN - Two men lacking masks when they broke into an apartment in Carroll, Iowa, used a Sharpie marker to draw on masks. The Daily Times Herald reported that police, responding to a caller who saw two men with “painted faces” drive off, stopped a car after noticing Matthew McNelly, 23, and Joey Miller, 20, sporting the irremovable disguises.

FOILED AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN - A man whose truck got stuck on railroad tracks near the Baltimore airport abandoned the stalled vehicle and tried to steal four vehicles in succession. The Washington Post said police learned of the first theft attempt from a woman who said she heard a loud noise, which turned out to be the sound of the stalled truck being hit by an Amtrak passenger train. The woman then reported finding a man trying to steal her car. She shouted, and he fled. While police were looking for him, two other people reported the same man tried but failed to steal their cars. When police found suspect Gary E. Ensor, 43, not far from the site of the first theft attempt, a man approached and told them Ensor had tried unsuccessfully to steal his car, too.

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Always good enough Poet Victor Charlo’s long journey to national prominence took more than just luck

by Erika Fredrickson Victor Charlo peered nervously from the Wolf Trap stage at the sea of empty seats earlier this year.

His nerves, coupled with the effects of a 2001 stroke, caused the poet to stumble his way through an afternoon soundcheck, and again at the evening rehearsal. As if he needed anything else to happen before arguably the highest profile reading of his life, he’d also fallen and hurt his knee earlier that day.

His daughter, April Charlo, worried the August 2009 performance would be rough. She felt bad luck in the air. The duo often gave poetry readings at Montana bookstores “to 20 or five people or one person,” Victor half jokes. During those appearances, he’d stand at a podium reciting poems about life on the Flathead Reservation and seminary school, about his

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father, about a life-changing trip to the Arctic and about traditional American Indian games. April would translate some of his words back into the Salish language for the audience to hear.

But the Wolf Trap reading just outside the nation’s capital marked their first appearance on a national stage. The event was a celebration of Glacier National Park called Faces of America, and Victor and April were slated to speak to a crowd of 3,100. After the shaky soundchecks, it appeared the scope of the performance was potentially too much for Victor.

“And then the night of the performance, oh my God, it was amazing,” says April. “Dad didn’t mess up. He was beautiful.”

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In fact, the trajectory of that day—from the unsettled beginnings to the ultimate success—mirrors Charlo’s remarkable life journey. At age 71, he’s best known in Montana as a gifted poet who writes about his experience on and off the reservation. And there’s plenty to pull from. When he was growing up, his elders taught him to suppress his cultural identity. He attended seminary school on a whim.

He was part of the celebrated University of Montana writing circles during the 1960s where he notably befriended the late poet Richard Hugo. He’s written plays and created documentaries. His second book of poems, Put Sey (pronounced “poot shay”), published by Many Voices Press in 2008, provides a small sample of the massive amounts of poetry he’s writ-

ten over four decades. When Charlo tells a story, he inevitably punctuates the end of it with, “And I have a poem about that.”

Outside of his writing, he’s also a huge influence on the reservation. As the great-great-grandson of Chief Victor Charlot, he’s the spiritual chief of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. His experience as a longtime teacher, principal and counselor underlies his current service on two education boards on the Flathead Reservation.

Charlo humbly embraces his improbable route to becoming a community leader and respected poet. But from the way he tells it, all he needed was a little luck and the confidence to know he was good enough to make it.

Early years Charlo was born in 1938 on the Flathead Reservation and, as a boy, no one expected him to live long. Infantile paralysis plagued him, and his doctors finally sent him home from the infirmary to spend his last days. But not long afterward, his parents brought him to a medicine man who reportedly healed Charlo after only one visit.

He lived in Evaro by the train tracks with his parents and seven brothers and sisters—five other siblings had already left home. His parents had credit at a small Mission store and Charlo bought a gum eraser, a small tablet and a pencil. He didn’t yet know how to write, but he’d scribble on the lines filling whole pages and then tear them out, put them in a tin can and bury them in the yard.

“I don’t know,” he says now. “They’re probably still out there behind the old root cellar where we grew up.”

Language didn’t come easily to Charlo. In his early years, he stuttered. At 6 years old, he sat in the back of the classroom wishing to be invisible. He remembers once when the teacher called him to the front and asked him his name, and he cried for fear of stuttering. She sent him home.

“My dad said, ‘Oh boy, you’re really smart. You went to school one day, and you’re home already!’” he says laughing. “I felt bad. I probably cried then too. But then my sister Betty helped me. I just worked hard. I studied.”

Charlo and his siblings learned only English because their parents had already suffered— through boarding schools, missionaries, broken treaties and white influence—the ostracizing pain of embracing Salish and the native culture. Still, the family incorporated traditional games and songs into their lives, and Charlo, like his father, was especially skilled at stickgame, a traditional American Indian game of luck. In the game, each team has a plain bone called the “white bone” and a striped bone called the “black bone.” Everyone angles to win all of the other team’s sticks by correctly guessing their

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Victor Charlo, far left in his Loyola High School blazer, stands with members of his family at their home in Evaro. “I was an Indian,” explains Charlo of his time at the school, “and what I was trying to do was I was trying to pretend like I was just like everybody else.”

opponent’s white bone. The players sing traditional songs throughout the contest.

“Stickgame is a game of chance,” Charlo says, “but it’s a game of life, is what it is. What you’re doing is, you’re gambling to see how things might turn out the coming year. And if you win, of course, that’s good. But it’s [also] how you end up seeing your life.”

Charlo, in fact, believes strongly in his luck. He believes it passed down through his lineage from Chief Charlot, who negotiated the 1855 Hellgate Treaty, down to his father, a man deemed the lucky “Montana Kid” by people in Arlee. All the men gambled, Charlo says. They took risks. They weren’t gamblers in the unsavory, casino-seeking way, but rather people who took more chances in life and thus ended up winning more often.

After finishing home school and then grade school, Charlo enrolled at Loyola Sacred

Heart in Missoula. He paid for it out of pocket from the per capita the federal government sent each member of the tribe for dam and timber resources.

His brother Gene already attended the Catholic high school and the Catholic priests at the St. Ignatius Mission put extra pressure on Charlo to follow in Gene’s footsteps. At first, he made only one friend, but by senior year he co-captained the football team, earned good grades and ran around with a group of white Catholic schoolboys.

“But you have to understand, see,” he says, “I was an Indian and what I was trying to do was I was trying to pretend like I was just like everybody else. In my head I was. But nobody believed that.”

Charlo maintained his friendships and began experimenting with writing stories.

By graduation, however, with no job prospects or plans for college, he made a pact with a couple of friends to attend seminary school together. Charlo spent the next four years learning how to be a Jesuit in Sheridan, Ore., and then took his vows of poverty, chastity and obedience and headed off to Spokane to become a priest.

After two years he dropped out.

“People would ask me, ‘Why did you leave?’” he says. “And I don’t have a reason other than I just didn’t like it anymore. It wasn’t what I thought it was going to be, I guess.”

But he admits part of the reason he left had to do with the way the seminary discouraged close friendships. The lack of strong personal connections broke him down. He couldn’t hack it.

Despite quitting, Charlo still embraces his seminary past. He also doesn’t reject his Jesuit upbringing.

“When you’re a Jesuit, you’re a Jesuit,” he says.

“Always. See, there’s an indelible mark, they say, that’s put on you and it’s forever. And that’s how I feel about it.”

But his poems reveal a more complicated understanding of his influences. In “St. Francis Xavier Novitiate Sheridan, Oregon 1957” he ends with, “Mirabile dictu. Mirabile visu. I realize now if you sing Gregorian chant, you forget the stickgame songs.”

Victor Charlo leads a procession at the St. Ignatius Mission while visiting his family during a break from seminary school. His poems depict his struggle with reconciling his Jesuit past with his American Indian culture.

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After leaving the seminary, Charlo enrolled at the University of Montana, where he met and befriended the late poet and professor Richard Hugo. While Charlo worked on his degree in English and Latin, his writing came in fits and starts. He felt unsure of his abilities, he says. Lukewarm statements from Hugo often included a high compliment or two about his potential. Charlo struggled with not knowing if he would ever be good enough to call himself a poet. But he kept at it.

A letter poem by Charlo called “Letter to Hugo from Dixon”—a nod to Hugo’s style in 13 Letters and 31 Dreams—reads: “I never did tell you the truth. I could have asked you, friend, how you write this way as we drank your gin and orange juice those dull, dark, lonesome days. I certainly wasn’t your student but I was. Drunk Indian.” And then, “I was your Indian poet those times yet the only line I wrote that made you laugh hard was ‘Garfield’s ghost swims the Skalkaho’ and that poem soured fast after that sweet beginning.”

Charlo spent the next few years working with community action groups, writing grants and training poverty activists on the Flathead Reservation and, afterward, through the University of Utah, during

his academic writing circles in Missoula and the Salish traditions to which he found himself increasingly drawn.

Charlo says that during this time his poems took on a sad tone about the loss he felt about his native culture. He wrote a poem called “Bad Wine,” originally about his brother, Gene. But eventually, he says, he came to realize that it was about his own failures to take responsibility for his fractured life: You can love a dying Indian, But when he drinks bad wine And breaks your best glass You give him to the wind.

Poet Roger Dunsmore also knew Charlo and Hugo during those days. He’s read Charlo’s poems over the years, giving him feedback and, finally, became his official editor. In an essay about Montana poets published in the Drumlummon literary journal, Dunsmore wrote about Charlo’s conflicted voice. He describes his poetry as existing in a space caught between the English of the reservation and the white school, the Latin of the Jesuit seminary and the absence of Salish.

“You have to imagine with Vic what that means for him,” he says, “being a generation that was skipped

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which time he flew back and forth between several Western states. He helped with Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor People’s campaign as Indian Coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. After King’s assassination, Charlo trekked with other American Indian organizers to Washington, D.C., to join in demonstrations.

“I went there and just caught on fire,” he says. “It was something I had to do. And so for all that summer we marched, we got arrested and got beat up. I didn’t quite get beat up but I did go to the D.C. prison for 15 days.”

After he got out, Charlo traveled to more organizing events around the country and met up with some of the top American Indian Movement (AIM) leaders of the time. In Oklahoma he stayed with AIM organizer Clyde Warrior and the two sat up all night drinking and talking about the unrest and excitement of the times. Warrior suffered from cirrhosis of the liver.

“They were all drinkers, but he was a heavy drinker,” recalls Charlo. “And he just couldn’t quit.

What do you say? That was the last time I saw him.

After we buried him I came back to the reservation.”

Charlo finished his degree, got out of organizing and started a family. He began teaching at the “alternative school,” where he eventually became principal and later renamed Two Eagle River School. But with his writing, he continued to wrestle with two worlds—

[with Salish] and then sent off to learn Latin and become a Jesuit, and then working his way out of that back into a sense of his own tribal roots but without the language. I’m sure none of us can really imagine.”

Inklings of chiefdom In 1979, Charlo made a deal with Agnes Vanderburg. The Salish elder lived at a camp at Valley Creek near Dixon, and there she welcomed people to learn Salish traditions from her—tanning hides, saddle making and setting up teepees, among other skills.

Charlo, his wife at the time, Jan, and four kids—Mary, Claire, April and Martin—often visited Vanderburg and stayed the night.

“Agnes was a revered elder,” says Charlo. “What she always said is, ‘If you want to come up here I’ll teach you whatever you want to know.’”

Vanderburg had a hide hanging in camp and Charlo joked with her about what a nice shirt it would make, to which she would banter back that it would make a better dress. Finally she told Charlo that she would make him a traditional shirt if he’d shave his beard and dance in the pow wow. Charlo wasn’t keen on it. He’d never danced in a pow wow and he intended to keep it that way.

“I said, ‘Sure, I’ll shave off my beard,’” he says,

Rebel yell Poet Zan Agzigian met Charlo in 1986 after he’d taken shelter in a friend’s basement in Dixon, displaced by divorce and missing his children. She felt displaced too, having just left her job at Viking Penguin Publishers in New York City as head of paperback reprints to move to St. Ignatius for the Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC).

Agzigian grew up Catholic but she mainly joined the JVC in order to see another part of the country.

“I was always rebellious within my Catholicism and I didn’t feel deeply rooted in it,” says Agzigian. “We both came from that. I could really relate to him in the ways he felt disconnected from that spirituality that he had sought in the white man’s world.”

Charlo worked as a representative for the native tribes, helping the mainly young white kids of the JVC understand how to be respectful on the reservation.

Agzigian connected to Charlo’s deadpan humor and his creative approach to life and they became fast friends. Agzigian spent her year in St. Ignatius and when her JVC service was up, she stayed in Montana and shared the stage at poetry readings with Charlo.

A year after meeting Agzigian, Charlo spent a week in the sub-arctic temperatures of upper Manitoba with bear expert Chuck Jonkel. One day, the group drew straws for a single spot on a helicopter ride to see polar bears, and Charlo won the seat.

“Holy mackerel!” he says. “I just hopped in the helicopter and we flew over the Hudson Bay. Sure enough, there were these polar bears—they were so beautiful. We flew over them and then passed over them again. What an experience that was!”

They stayed in old bear-resistant military digs at the Churchill Northern Studies Centre, and Charlo was inspired.

“That was wonderful. I was writing poetry the whole time. I just couldn’t stop,” he says. “Dick Hugo used to say, ‘You should spend some time with this, not write it right away.’ I thought, ‘Well, that’s good advice, but at this point I wasn’t doing that at all.”

He returned from Manitoba rejuvenated, immersed in his writing again. Agzigian began organizing Charlo’s poetry, looking for publishers and helping him focus on how to market his work. They also collaborated on writing projects.

“Not only are we a native–non-native team,” says Agzigian, “but we do collaborate well together and that doesn’t happen for everybody. It’s a synergistic thing.”

In 1990, Charlo stood in front of the Salish cultural committee to ask for its blessing on a new project.

He’d just received a grant from the Salish-Kootenai Tribal Cultural Center to write a play celebrating the opening of the People’s Center—a museum and education heritage center for Salish, Kootenai and Pend d’Oreille tribes.

Charlo had recruited Agzigian as a co-writer and she stood with him inside the St. Ignatius longhouse.

He suggested to the committee that they could adapt a traditional Salish coyote story—a trickster tale—and perform it onstage. But the committee wouldn’t have it. You don’t perform coyote stories in the summer, they protested. And even if they performed it in the correct season, coyote stories shouldn’t be written down. And, besides, sacred animals should not be paraded across the stage.

“They didn’t want us to do anything,” Charlo says.

“Boy, that just really…wow! They said not to write about any of our animals.”

Charlo and Agzigian left the longhouse in despair.

They sat in the Old Timer Café down the street drinking coffee and trying to make sense of what had happened. They needed to figure out how to find middle ground between sacredness and creative freedom.

Agzigian knew her outsider presence at the longhouse didn’t help convince the committee either.

“They didn’t know me and so they didn’t trust me,” she says. “It was one of those things that’s like a ripping truth. It rips into you because you know why and you can understand it. And, yet, what it did was it made me want to empower Vic more, made me want to stand behind him.”

The timeline for the grant money ended in August and it was already April. Without a story or actors or a place to perform, the situation appeared bleak. But the event marked a turning point for Charlo. The lack of support from the committee stirred him. Many of the elders included his peers, and—though he’d been reluctant to embrace his spiritual chief title, though he’d been a renegade in many ways—he decided that his voice mattered. He possessed stories and viewpoints more than good enough to share with the world.

Charlo says he already had an inkling of what to do next. At the same time, Agzigian turned to him and said, “You should tell your own story, Vic.” And he said, “Okay, how about a play about Trickster at Dirty Corner.”

Dirty Corner is a curve in the road near Arlee and trickster, in most native tales, is a shifting creature who embraces the paradoxes and multiplicities of life. The play they wrote worked as a loose autobiography of Charlo, about a character torn between native traditions like oral storytelling and the Western literary traditions of linear narratives. The humorous and playful dialog follows the traditionally irreverent tone of the trickster, and its modern perspective and serious message underlines the importance of storytelling.

Although he didn’t plan on it, Charlo ended up directing the play and taking on the lead role as Silent Raven Sing-Too-Loud. Between 1991 and 1992, Trickster at Dirty Corner toured across Montana and then to Eastern Washington University and the Metropolitan Center for Performing Arts in Spokane,

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smiling, “because I realized this was June already and the Arlee Pow Wow was in July. I knew they couldn’t make anything in that amount of time.”

The Arlee Pow Wow came and went. But Vanderburg continued to work on the shirt anyway and soon she revealed that she was going to hold a pow wow right there at the base of the mountains at Valley Creek.

Charlo shaved his beard reluctantly, and led the pow wow’s grand entry in his war bonnet and other traditional clothes.

“We went out and we danced,” he says. “We danced all afternoon with no contests, nothing like that, just a nice little pow wow.”

But Vanderburg had sent a clear—though unspoken—message. The chief leads the grand entry. She’d given her blessing to Charlo’s lineage, nudging him to take the reins of leadership.

Vandenburg also had an impact on Charlo’s children. April Charlo recalls growing up in the mountains in Arlee and says she always felt a connection to the Salish language and a need to learn it. At her high school, however, classmates shied away from Indian culture; it wasn’t deemed cool. Often, when she attended her Salish language class only one other student showed up. Vanderburg’s camp was different.

She encouraged the old traditions and Salish words.

The first time the Charlo family spent time up at the camp, Victor recalls, he helped Vanderburg set up a teepee. But no matter how hard they tried, the structure wouldn’t quite stay in place. Finally, Vanderburg turned to Victor and said, “Put sey,” meaning “good enough” in Salish.

The phrase struck Charlo momentarily as a remarkable way to view life. He remained dismissive of tribal politics and, instead, immersed himself in family life and his students’ studies at Two Eagle River. But “put sey” and other Salish sayings would resonate with him, influencing his poetry and, eventually, his role as a community leader.

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where writer Sherman Alexie produced it. The cultural committee responded with positive feedback.

“We realized we had the blessings of the tribe when some elders came to the St. Ignatius play runs… and brought [their] kids and they laughed and enjoyed themselves,” says Agzigian. “They were glad we took our own road and looked at another more creative way to express the story other than leaning on and interpreting angles of the Native traditions.”

In 1993 the duo collaborated on a second play, Moon Over Mission Dam, directed by the Montana Rep’s Greg Johnson, and followed that up with The Beta Cycle. Charlo’s engagement with American Indian issues coupled with his rebellious personal perspective brought praise from many of his peers, including native educators who, Agzigian says, saw the humor of the plays as a positive way to break down taboos.

The surge in writing provided an outlet for the multiple experiences and perspectives Charlo encountered throughout his life.

“Vic has had all these experiences that definitely make him what he is, and he doesn’t regret any of it,” says Agzigian, “You take from the experiences what you know you need and you let go of the rest. And I think he’s done that.”

The team Charlo enters the Old Timer Café to a chorus of greetings from the wait staff. He lives in Dixon with April, but he eats at the café in St. Ignatius almost every day. His white, clean-cut beard frames his face, mapped with laugh lines and brow creases, and he carries a book bag full of photographs and the last copies of the first edition of Put Sey. April joins him at the table and after breakfast and coffee they make plans to spend the afternoon translating one of Victor’s poems

the

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From left, Victor Charlo stands with collaborator Zan Agzigian and daughter April Charlo on a fall 2009 mini-tour for his book Put Sey. “I’ve been writing like crazy,” he says. “The poems are stories—well, they’re the history of what happened to me. And I’m just trying to write them down the best way I can.”

into Salish for an upcoming book of poetry. When one of them laughs, the other starts. It’s contagious.

The collaboration between the two started as an accident. Lowell Jaeger, editor of Many Waters Press, queried Victor for a Salish poem and Victor asked for April’s help. At the time, April taught at a boarding school in Chico, Calif., and she possessed only elementary knowledge of Salish and no ear for poetry.

“I loved watching my dad read his poems,” she says, “even though I don’t know what they’re about, or why people were nodding and going ‘Hmmm. Mmm,’ you know?”

But she tackled the poem translation and when Victor coerced her to join him onstage to recite the

Salish part, their reading partnership began. Around the same time, she landed a job at the Salish Kootenai College’s Native American Language Teacher Training Institute and invested herself in both Salish and poetry. It’s her goal, she says, to save the Salish language.

And one of those ways is by working with her father.

“We’re a team now,” Victor says. “It used to be just me, but now we’re a team.”

Victor refers to his 2001 stroke—which sent him veering off Highway 93 into an embankment—as his “stroke of luck.” He spent several months afterward unable to talk or write, and he slowly relearned almost everything, though some tasks remain difficult.

Since the stroke, however, Victor’s taken his role

as a spiritual leader more seriously, and he says his work for the reservation’s education boards serves as part of his plan to “transform the whole education process on the reservation.” These are pretty momentous times, he says.

Agzigian, who now lives in Spokane and continues to help market Charlo’s work, types up the poetry he writes longhand.

“It’s been interesting since the stroke to see him recognize himself as chief,” she says. “He’s been quiet about it, but over time he’s taken more responsibility for it. It’s had a transformative effect. It’s gotten him in touch with his history.”

Though not keen on running for council or other political tasks a chief might do, Charlo says he envisions his role more like a tribal ambassador. He sees his writing and other artistic endeavors as part of his spiritual leadership role now, rather than in opposition to it.

After selling all 500 printed copies of Put Sey, Charlo recently struck a deal with Lost Horse Press to release a second edition. Last year, he and April appeared on Montana PBS’ “Backroads of Montana” in “Rockets, Peaks and Poets” discussing their Salish poetry.

Recently, SKC honored Charlo and community leader Johnny Arlee with a theater in their names. Charlo says he hopes to stage more plays at the new theater.

When you ask Charlo if he harbors regrets about the strange roads his life has taken, he’ll say “no.” And when you ask him why, he brings it all back to the concept of taking risks and, no matter what, seeing oneself as good enough, or “put sey.”

“There’s an idea about that,” he says. “Really good things have happened to me all my life and I feel like I haven’t even gotten started yet. But I’m getting there.” efredrickson@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 offer 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. $$-$$$ 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. $$-$$$

$–$$...$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. Featuring seasonal menus. Lunch & dinner.

Beer & Wine. Mon-Sat. $-$$ 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. $-$$

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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, lo-salt and low-carb friendly as you want to be!

Start with appetizers and end with desserts. You can even toast your own s’mores right at you table. A large selection of beer, wine and sake’ drinks available. Stop by for a great meal in a fun atmosphere. Kid and family friendly. Open daily at 11 AM. $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our

fantastic beverage selection and friendly, 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. $-$$ Orange Street Food Farm 701 S. Orange St. 543-3188 Don't feel like cooking? Pick up some fried chicken, made to order sandwiches, fresh deli salads, & sliced meats and cheeses. Or mix and match items from our hot case. Need some dessert with that? Our bakery makes cookies, cakes, and brownies that are ready when you are. $-$$ 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. $–$$.

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the 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 heart of downtown. Open for Lunch and Dinner, featuring a Sat.Sun. Brunch 11-2pm. Great Fresh food With Huge Portions. Featuring locally produced specials as well ad international cuisine and traditional Irish fare. FULL BAR, BEER, WINE, MARTINIS, 100% SMOKE FREE. "Where the Gaelic and the Garlic Mix!" $-$$ Staggering Ox 1220 SW Higgins 542-2206 123 E Main 327-9400 Home of the famous Clubfoot Sandwich - unique, portable, delicious! We serve fantastic sandwiches on fresh-baked bread. Call in your order and pick it up on your way to play $-$$ 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. 6:30am2:00am $-$$ 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. $-$$

$...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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Butterfly Herbs 232 N. Higgins 728-8780 Celebrating 37 years of great coffees and teas. Truly the “essence of Missoula.” Offering fresh coffees, teas (Evening in Missoula), bulk spices and botanicals, fine toiletries & gifts. Our cafe features homemade soups, fresh salads, and coffee ice cream specialties. In the heart of historic downtown, we are Missoula’s first and favorite Espresso Bar. Open 7 Days. $

Cold Stone Creamery Across from Costco on Reserve by TJ Maxx & Ross 549-5595 Yes, Virginia, there is a ColdStone! No holiday party is complete without ColdStone's homemade ice cream, cakes, cupcakes, or pies; and our giftcards will help you spread the joy to everyone on your list - naughty or nice! It's a Great Day for Ice Cream. Happy Holidays! $-$$

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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. $

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

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Tailgate parties are rarely associated with the culinary cutting edge. While burgers, franks and cheap beer help create that special sloppy ambience of brotherly solidarity, the menu doesn’t bring too many gourmands out of the woodwork. But if food is more to you than a salty beer sponge, and if your weekend plans have you in, say, the WashingtonGrizzly parking lot for a second-round playoff game, you might want to consider beer-butt chicken.

There’s nothing in the tailgate party code of ethics forbidding meaningful culinary experience, but you might want to watch your step.

Most tailgaters don’t like to eat things with too many syllables, or named in other languages— except Mexican. (Nachos, for instance, are fine.

Skip the crostini.)

Even if they haven’t heard of beer-butt chicken, most tailgaters can pronounce it on the first attempt. As your parking-lot colleagues will intuitively grasp, the name comes from the fact that a beer can does in fact get shoved up a chicken’s butt. The beer in the can steams the chicken from the inside as the exterior crispens. Crunchy on the outside and falling-apart moist on the inside, a beer-butt chicken can disappear very quickly.

The beer-butt cooking method can be used for other animals, too—in fact, preparation of beer-butt rabbit quite possibly precedes beerbutt chicken.

This is a recipe that shines brightly in any context (though you might want to adjust the name in mixed company). It works as well in the backyard or bistro as it does in the parking lot. A simple recipe at its core, all you need is a can of beer and a chicken.

It can be prepared with elegance and imagination, using fancy spices and a local micro brew instead of cheap swill. Or it can be prepared parking lot style.

Here’s a recipe that’s somewhere in between.

The night before, prepare the bird as follows: Mix together 1 tablespoon paprika, 2 teaspoons

Ask Ari:

ture onto the flesh underneath the loose skin. Keep the chicken in a cooler that does not contain any food that will be eaten raw. In the same cooler, store one large chopped onion and one chopped head of garlic, mixed.

On game day, set up your grill. When it’s hot, open a can of beer. Drink half of the beer. Add chopped garlic and onions to the can. Place the can upright on the grill. Lower the chicken so the can enters the body cavity. Shove potatoes or onions into the neck opening to help plug it.

Transplanting plants A

Dear Ari, Our landlords have been hit by construction fever and plan to build over what has been a lovely and productive backyard garden for at least 20 years. As visions of a planned spring chicken coop vanish, thoughts have turned to rescuing the perennials.

Two complicating problems: construction may begin as early as mid-winter, and we aren’t sure yet where or when anything would be replanted. Can we save our rhubarb (the plants were a gift that took root about the time our daughter was born in the house, so they have sentimental value), horseradish and hops amid all this uncertainty?

—Uprooted

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chili powder, 1 teaspoon oregano, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon black pepper, 1/4 teaspoon cayenne powder, 1 tablespoon garlic powder and 2 tablespoons brown sugar. At both openings of the bird, gently pull the skin away from the flesh, slide your hand in, and gently separate the skin from the flesh all around the chicken, including the drumsticks, tearing the skin as little as possible. Rub the spice mix-

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Things could be worse, Uprooted. It could be an apricot tree or asparagus patch you need to move out of the way of progress. Transplanting the plants you described is manageable.

Both rhubarb and horseradish are notoriously hard to kill. In fact, if you leave as much as a single fragment of DNA when you dig it up, horseradish will come back in full force to plague your landlord’s new development from below, like ghosts haunting a house built on an ancient graveyard.

Your odds for success in this project depend on the ground being workable (not frozen) when you dig up the would-be transplants. The rhubarb can be transplanted immediately to its new digs,

Place the whole business on a baking pan on the grill, making sure the chicken is properly balanced so it doesn’t tip over. Put the lid on the grill and cook for two or three hours. It’s done when the wings are loose when you shake them, or when the internal temperature reaches 180 degrees. If using briquettes, refresh them once or twice as it cooks.

Frequently inspect the chicken to make sure it doesn’t get off balance as it cooks.

If it does tip over and the beer spills, you have to open another beer and prepare it again, as above. Insert the new can of beer up the chicken’s butt, and continue.

One way around the rickety-beer-can problem, and really, a necessity for regular beer-butt chicken consumers, is a specially made beer-butt rig. A beer holder—analogous to the beer can—is welded to a metal plate, which ensures the whole business won’t tip over. I got my beer-butt rig from Precision Cut Metal Works in Plains, Mont., (pcmw@blackfoot.net).

When the chicken is done, pour the contents of the beer can into the baking pan, where there will be other juices, and fashion yourself a sauce. You can add some butter and stir in flour and make gravy, or add orange juice and reduce for a redneck chicken l’orange, or just serve the sauce as-is.

Fine dining practices usually dictate that food cooked with a certain wine should be served with a similar wine, and the same principle holds true with beer cookery. If you cooked it with PBR, serve it with PBR. Using a porter adds a dark sweetness, which is enhanced by a pint of the same.

I personally prefer a hoppier beer, like a good IPA, which adds that zingy hoppy aroma to the chicken meat.

Food like this could get me to more games.

Luckily, the technique works just as well on your back patio on chicken served at your dining room table, even if you couldn’t care less about football.

and you might want to take the opportunity to cut up the crown and spread it out.

Dig up the horseradish and shake off all of the dirt from the root, and store it in a plastic bag in the fridge until early spring, when it can be replanted. Some people eat the main root and transplant sections of the smaller roots, which will quickly grow to full-size.

As for the hops, dig up the root ball and plant it in a large pot with potting soil. Leave in a cool place, like an unheated garage, until spring time, and transplant.

Send your food and garden queries to flash@flashinthepan.net

Arts & Entertainment listings December 3–December 10, 2009

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Alien creatures attack with binary teeth when UM media arts grad student Amber Bushnell presents Living Lantern, a First Friday digital art installation in the windows at the corner of Ryman and Broadway streets, starting around 5 PM Fri., Dec. 4. Free to spectate.

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Bid on something pleasant for yourself—while you help raise money for an organization that helps teen moms—during a silent auction for Mountain Home Montana, which runs all day, each day, from Nov. 30–Dec. 6 at Southgate Mall, 2901 Brooks St. Free to attend and spectate. Call 541-0163 or e-mail fot@mountainhomemt.org.

Get a glimpse at the talents of local crafters during UM’s 38th Annual Holiday Art Fair, which runs from 9 AM–6 PM in the University Center. Free, with live music and door prizes. Call 243-5714.

Engage your senses with decorated trees—while also helping to raise money for an organization that helps teen moms—during Mountain Home Montana’s 11th Annual Festival of the Trees Tour of Trees, which runs from 10 AM–7 PM at the Doubletree Hotel, 100 Madison St. Donations accepted. Call 541-0163 or e-mail fot@mountainhomemt.org.

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.

American life and culture gets a sarcastic literary kick to the groin from a crow when Tom Rau signs copies of his book The Crow’s Philosophy: Collected Essays on Contemporary American Life from a Bird Brain, at 4 PM at Fact & Fiction’s UM University Bookstore, in the University Center.

Free. Call 243-1234.

nightlife Complex ink drawings that represent biological specimens, cells, slide smears and more take hold when Karen McAlister Shimoda presents an opening for her exhibit Specimens with a reception from 5–7 PM at the University Center Art Gallery, Room 227 in the University Center. Free.

Call 243-4991.

Enthrall yourself with “larger than life ceramic figures” that convey a multitude of emotions when UM MFA student Kensuke Yamada presents his thesis exhibit Empathetic, with a reception from 5–7 PM at the UM Gallery of Visual Arts, in UM’s Social Sciences Building. Free. Call 243-2813.

Photography, encaustics, ceramics and oil on canvas orbit your keen artistic senses during the Brunswick Artists’ Studio holiday open house, which runs from 5–8 PM, as well as 11 AM–4 PM on Sat., at the Brunswick Gallery, 223 W. Railroad St. Free. Features work by Andy Brown, Mamie Colburn, Leslie V.S. Millar, Scott Sutton and others. Also features

a video presentation by Dale Sherrard at 8 PM on Fri., Dec. 4. Call 721-0591.

Sip on wine, munch on organically produced appetizers, hear live music and bid on rafting trips, art and more during a VIP Pre-Film Fundraiser Gala for the Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival at 5:30 PM at the Wilma Theatre. $125 for two people/$75 person. Visit www.sbcmontana.org or call 824-7336.

Unlodge the earwax out of your hearing apparatus with a pipe so you can enjoy the “bus stop blues” of Sour D and the Pipecleaner, who play the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free, all ages. Call 363-7468.

Celebrate peace by singing and making luminaries during “A Night of Peace,” hosted by Lewis & Clark Elementary School teachers, parents and kids from 6–7:30 PM at the school, 2901 Park St. $2 suggested donation. Call 542-4035.

Tug your purse strings and heart strings when the Missoula Strings perform at 6 PM at Clock Court in Southgate Mall, 2901 Brooks St. Free. Call 721-5140. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Dec 4, 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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selves with philosophical arguments and nonsensical rants during the Montana Actors’ Theatre rendition of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10. Visit www.mtactors.com for advance tickets.

every week where Dead Hipster DJ Night gets the booties bumpin’ and the feet stompin’ at 9 PM. $3.

Drown out the sounds of reality with vocals that hit high registers when soprano Courtney Mostad and mezzosoprano Joselyn Thomsen perform a student recital at 7:30 PM, in the UM Music Recital Hall, in the Music Building. Free. Call 243-6880.

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.

Get a glimpse of just how serious the threat of global warming is through the expertise of scientists and journalists during a screening of the doc Everything Is Cool at 7 PM, in the University Center Theater. Free, but donations accepted. Visit www.peaceandjusticefilms.org.

A farm girl from Kansas explores a land “beyond the rainbow” with help from a tin man, cowardly lion and others during the Whitefish Theatre Company’s rendition of The Wizard of Oz, with a special sneak peek performance at 7:30 P M at the O’Shaughnessy Cultural Arts Center, 1 Central Ave. in Whitefish. $8, with tickets sold only at the door. Call 8625371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

Don’t spill the spittoon whilst hopping and hustling to the Americana of Lil’ Smokies, who play the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

Shopping and bluegrass find common ground when the Black Mountain Boys Bluegrass Band plays Clock Court in Southgate Mall, 2901 Brooks St., at 7 PM. Free. Call 721-5140.

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.

Found out what a handful of experts think lies ahead for folks up in Libby during the lecture “Libby, Montana: The Next Conversation,” at 7 PM in Room 106 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free. Includes comments by Pat Williams, Gayla Benefield and others. Call Rachel at 541-760-1711.

Metalheads get into a charitable spirit during “Santa’s Slay Ride,” a costume party/toy drive for the Watson Children’s Shelter which features local metal bands The Green Sickness, Gnarwail, Mageddon, Walking Corpse Syndrome and Nocturnal Obsession, at 8 PM at the Palace. $7/$5 in costume/free if you bring a new toy valued at $5 or more, but you must bring a receipt as proof. Visit myspace.com/ turnitloudentertainment.

Feeling too straight and separate?

Remedy that situation 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.

Documentary films that touch on sustainability, water issues and outdoor trekking take the stage during the Second Annual Wild and Scenic Environmental Film Festival at 7 PM at the Wilma Theatre. $11, or two for one with a valid student ID. Tickets available at Rockin Rudy’s, The Trail Head or Green Light downtown. Visit www.sbcmontana.org or call 8247336.

Electric guitar and multimedia intensify a Shakespearean classic filled with familial tension, treachery and fatality during a UM School of Theatre and Dance performance of Hamlet at 7:30 PM in the Montana Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $18/$14 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 for tickets or visit www.umtheatredance.org.

Two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet absorb them-

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

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.

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Toddlers always learn a thing or two from books like Under The Dome: A Novel by Stephen King 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.

Browse photos from Peru and Jordan, as well as art by Odette Grassi and Larry Burton, during A Joyous Party, a First Friday exhibit/fundraiser for Eleanore’s Project Inc. from 4–7:30 PM at A Carousel for Missoula, 101 Carousel Drive. Free, but donations accepted. Visit eleanoresproject.org.

Perhaps you’ll find something awesomely bizarre, and pleasing to thine eyes, during the Ceretana Studio’s Fifth Annual Holiday Bazaar, which features handmade gifts by local artists and runs from 4–9:30 PM at the studio, 801 Sherwood St. Free.

Also includes a “cheap art salon” in studio 12, plus a drawing for fine art.

Shopping and orchestral music simmer in a warm consumer stew when the Missoula City Orchestra plays Clock Court at Southgate Mall, 2901 Brooks St., at 4:15 PM. Free.

Peformances by the Childbloom Quartet, Missoula Suzuki Strings and Dan Dubuque follow, starting at 5 PM. Call 721-5140.

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Photography, encaustics, ceramics and oil on canvas orbit your keen artistic senses during the Brunswick Artists’ Studio holiday open house, which runs from 5–8 PM, as well as 11 AM–4 PM on Sat., at the Brunswick Gallery, 223 W. Railroad St. Free. Features work by Andy Brown, Mamie Colburn, Leslie V.S. Millar, Scott Sutton and others. Also features a video presentation by Dale Sherrard at 8 PM on Fri., Dec. 4. Call 721-0591.

Peruse images of our surrounding wildlands while slurping on a cup of joe during a reception for a wilderness photography exhibit, featuring work by 12 photographers which

There’s always an extra set of combs on hand when Del the Funky Homosapien plays with BukueOne at the Palace Wed., Dec. 9, at 9 PM. $16, with pre-sale tickets at Ear Candy Music.

starts at 5 PM at Zootown Brew, 121 W. Broadway St. Free.

A textile installation of wool sculptures and drawings awaits thee when three local artists present their collective exhibit Opal: A Journey of Lore to Other Lands, with a reception from 5–8 PM at Tsunami, 101 S. Higgins Ave. #4. Call 541-8699.

Don’t expect a free waxing for that hairy, bear-like body of yours, but do expect drinks, snacks and product giveaways when The Grizzly Bare Waxing Studio hosts an open house at 5 PM at the studio, in The Warehouse Mall, 725 W. Alder St. Ste. 14. Call 290-9299 or e-mail jessica@missoulawaxing.com.

Peep a Western contemporary view of the equine through oil paintings, while also enjoying an artistic rendition of the Clark Fork River titled “Clark Fork City Lights,” when artist M. Scott Miller presents a First Friday opening for his work at 5 PM at the Gallery@StudioD, 420 N. Higgins Ste. D. Free. Call 544-1848.

Dark shapes of people mesh with vividly colorful negative space when the Missoula Art Museum presents an opening for local artist Donna Loos’ exhibit Silhouette Series, from 5–8 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Features a performance by the Missoula Coyote Choir at 6, followed by a gallery talk with Loos at 7.

Call 728-0447 or visit missoulaart museum.org.

Witness the work of a local photog and her furry, photo snapping sidekick during A Dog and His Girl: Athena Lonsdale and Cyrus, an exhibit of photos by Lonsdale and her dog Cyrus with a First Friday reception at 5 PM at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography Gallery, 216 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Visit rmsp.com. (See Scope in this issue.)

Images of France, Quebec and Montana find an unlikely home in the presence of tacos and burritos when Suzette Dussault presents her exhibit of photos titled Roots, mes raciness, with a First Friday reception at 5 PM at El Diablo, 1429 S. Higgins Ave. Free.

Always a man of substance, Dirk E. Lee hits you with woodcuts, wood engravings, letterpress projects and drawings during a reception for his exhibit New Work With Too Much Substance at 5 PM at Butterfly Herbs, 232 N. Higgins Ave. Free.

You’ve seen him innocuously snapping photos at shows; now he’s got an exhibit of his own. Check local

Stencil paintings and black and white photography mix and find balance on the walls when artist Marlo Crocifisso presents her exhibit A Time Long Ago... along with new work by former Indy photog Sarah Daisy Lindmark, including her MilkBaby Bikini photo shoot, with a First Friday reception at Cat’s Eye Designs, 137 E. Main St., from 5–8 PM. Free, includes wine and a drawing. Call 541-7466.

Kids flex their artistic muscles during the Children’s Museum of Missoula’s First Friday, featuring Partnership for Children, which runs from 5–8 PM at the museum, 225 W. Front St. Free, includes art appreciation, snacks and more. Call 541-PLAY.

Choose wreaths, swags, centerpieces, boxes of boughs, and garlands $30.50 each + shipping

photog Charles Martin’s show, which runs from 5–8 PM at the Palace. Free. Also doubles as a concert/drawing for the American Humanics Student Association and features music by Butter and Ross Voorhees, and a guest visit from Mayor John Engen.

Get a little spiritual in between the pages when Father Jim Hogan signs copies of his book Yes We Are! The Living Body of Christ, at 5 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free.

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A paper installation from Amanda Kalinowski is just one of many aesthetic sights to see when Studio/gallery, 1001 S. Fourth St. W., hosts a First Friday reception from 6–10 PM. Free. Also features works

by Justin Anthony, Christine Sutton, Jerry Baldwin and others.

Call 546-8339.

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exhibit Wood Cuts: 100% Recycled Imagery from photographer Elizabeth Stone, from 5–7 PM at the Catalyst, 111 S. Higgins Ave. Free.

works from Philip O’ Connor, Jeremy Haas and Lucas Childress and music

by DJ Kris Moon from 8 PM–midnight. Visit contraptionvisual.com.

Our descent into the holiday season means artists are being fruitful with their fingers. So be sure to warm yourself in an aesthetic bath during a First Friday reception for the Dana Gallery’s holiday exhibition, which starts at 5 PM at the gallery, 246 N. Higgins Ave. Free.

Ravens and seasonal bounty come together to create bold, detailed woodblock prints when artist Claire Emery presents a First Friday reception for her exhibit Drawn to Nature: Handcolored Woodblock Prints by Claire Emery, at 5 PM at J. Elaine’s Boutique, 311 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 728-4326.

Witness the impressive shutter speeds of local photog Alan Graham McQuillan during a First Friday exhibition for his work at Contraption, 610 S. Higgins Ave., at 5 PM. Free. Also includes screen prints/mixed media

Sample some art made from the detritus of ones and zeros when UM media arts grad student Amber Bushnell presents Living Lantern, a digital installation in the windows at the corner of Broadway and Ryman Streets, starting

BETTY’S DIVINE 521 S. Higgins, 721-4777 Join Betty's Divine for the final First Friday of 2009 on Friday, December 4th, when we welcome Abe Coley who presents his freshest paintings with his showing of "Snowflakes That Are Alike: A Celebration of Togetherness in the Holiday Season." Refreshments provided, including hard apple cider brewed by the artist himself.

BUTTERFLY HERBS 232 N. Higgins, 728-8780 Join us at Butterfly Herbs for our final First Friday of 2009 where we welcome "New Works With Too Much Substance" by Dirk E. Lee. Wood-cuts, Woodengravings, Letterpress Projects and Drawings. Friday, December 4th at Butterfly Herbs, 232 N. Higgins Ave. from 5-8pm.

CAT'S EYE DESIGNS 137 East Main, 541-7466 Join Cat's Eye for a First Friday reception featuring Marlo Crocifisso, a local Missoula artist, presenting her new series of paintings, A Long Time Ago... Sarah Daisy Lindmark,

around 5 PM. Free to spectate. E-mail amber@amberstudio.net.

Photos, the smell of tacos and more photos comprise the Rocky Mountain Photo Club’s December Photo Show during a First Friday reception at La Parrilla, 130 W. Broadway St., starting at 5 PM. Free.

Reverse glass paintings tantalize your discerning artistic senses when Nancy Rishoff presents a First Friday opening for her exhibit Landscapes of the Mind in Reverse with a reception at Computer Central, 136 E. Broadway St., at 5:30 PM. Free.

Local artist Abe Coley, always known to bring tha freshness with a paintbrush, presents a series of his works

during the exhibit Snowflakes That Are Alike: A Celebration of Togetherness in the Holiday Season with a First Friday reception at Betty’s Divine, 521 S. Higgins Ave., at 5 PM. Free, includes hard apple cider.

You can help raise money for the Missoula AIDS Council on First Friday during “Dine Out For Life,” where a portion of proceeds from participating restaurants including Biga Pizza, Sushi Hana, The Catalyst and more go to the organization. For a complete list, call 5434770 or visit missoulaaidscouncil.org.

Kids get to pillage the treasure troves of fair trade goods during the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center’s Kids’ Night!, where your kid can be dropped off at

the center, 519 S. Higgins Ave., from 5–7 PM with a shopping list and a budget for a safe shopping experience.

Free, with volunteers on hand to help where needed. Call 543-3955.

Employees of Bernice’s Bakery take over the walls in the most pleasing of ways when an employee art show gets hosted with a First Friday reception at 5 PM at the bakery, 190 S. Third St. W. Free.

Become an aspiring collector of functional art made out of minerals, or just grab some hot Christmas gifts, during The Clay Studio of Missoula’s First Friday holiday pottery sale, from 5:30–9 PM at the studio, 1106 Hawthorne St. Unit A. Free. Call 543-

former photo editor for the Independent, will also showcase her new series of black and white photography. Wine, etc. from 5-8:30pm.

al faces: framed marbled prints and hand-built sculpture. From 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 101 S. Higgins Ave., near the Wilma. See you there!

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MONTE DOLACK GALLERY 139 West Front St., 549-3248 Join us for a reception at the Monte Dolack Gallery in historic downtown Missoula on Friday, December 4th from 5 – 8pm during First Friday Gallery Night. Monte’s awardwinning original paintings, lithographs, limited edition prints and fine art posters, as well as paintings, prints and posters by Mary Beth Percival will be on exhibition Also at the gallery Monte’s newest series of paintings, Views from Mount Jumbo and Monte’s newest fine art poster, Missoula Valley, available signed and numbered or unsigned. We have holiday specials going on as well. Visit us at the gallery or online. Open Weekdays 105:30 and Sat 11-5. www.dolack.com.

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Help out a UM student by chomping on spaghetti during a benefit dinner/auction for Shawn —who has been diagnosed Woodrum— with acute myeloid leukemia—at 6 PM at the Church of Jesus Christ of LatterDay Saints, 3201 Bancroft St. Suggested donation: $15 family/$5 person. Auction starts at 7 PM. All money raised goes to Woodrum and his family. Call Becky at 507-450-7076.

Engage yourself in the artistic talents of elementary and high school students while enjoying a tune and a dance during the Downtown Dance Collective’s First Friday, which

includes performances by Dolce Canto, DDC’s Creative Movement Dancers and more from 6–8 PM, with performances starting at 6:30 at the collective, 121 W. Main St. $5 person.

Get those hands up in the air to bid on designer decorated trees and holiday items—while also helping to raise money for an organization that helps teen moms—during Mountain Home Montana’s Gala Tree Party and Live Auction, which starts at 6 PM at the ballroom in the Doubletree Hotel, 100 Madison St. $40 person, with opening music by Tom Catmull. Call 541-0163 for tickets.

Help support the Montana Film Academy Scholarship, as well as the in

MISS ZULA'S 111 N. Higgins, 541-7376 Featuring the work of Missoula artists Susan Carlson and Ana Greer. The artists’ reception will be held on December 4th from 5-8pm during Missoula's First Friday celebration. Light refreshments will be served.

HIGHLAND WINDS GALLERY/SHOP 1520 S. 7th St. W., 541-7577 Come enjoy our Cookie Fete and cocoa! while browsing through art, cards. Nambe, the oil/acrylic shown depicts a New Mexico village. Natives, in early times, traveled from the southwest to Montana, trading and hunting. Store will be open Christmas Eve 9-3, closed Christmas. Open Friday evenings 4-9, Saturdays 9-4.

SORELLA'S DAY SPA 207 E. Main St., 721-3639 Visit Sorella's Day Spa Friday, December 4, from 5-8 to view photographs by Antonia

school and afterschool programs provided by the International Wildlife Media Center and Film Festival during its Wildlife Ball Benefit, which starts at 6 PM at the Hilton Garden Inn, 3720 N. Reserve St. $50 each/$400 table of eight. Features appetizers, an auction and music by the Mike Bader Band.

Call 728-9380 or visit wildlifefilms.org for tickets.

Protect the freedom to hunt while also promoting conservation, education and humanitarian efforts during the Five Valleys Chapter of the Safari Club International 2009 Annual Banquet, which starts at 6 PM at the Holiday Inn-Downtown at the Park, 200 S. Pattee St. $40 person. Visit five-

An English and history teacher in Namibia scoots into your mind and out of the page when San Francisco-based author Peter Orner reads and signs copies of his latest works at 7 PM, in the Dell Brown Room of UM’s Turner Hall. Free. Call 243-5267.

TSUNAMI 101 S. Higgins, 541-8699 Experience a textile installation of wool sculptures and drawings by Courtney Blazon and Meg Heart at Tsunami on First Friday, December 4th. 101 South Higgins Ave. 5pm-8pm

Spend First Friday in cooperation with your neighborly brothers and sisters during the second anniversary celebration for the Missoula Food Coop from 7–11 PM or so at the co-op lower bay, 1500 Burns St. Free.

Features music by the River Creek Stream Boys at 9 PM, a bake sale, local beer, wine, cider and more. Visit missoulacommunitymarket.org.

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Kids’ Night!

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Come munch on holiday cookies this Friday evening while viewing art & small giclees.

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Undulate and bellow for the sake of Saint Nick during a Christmas pageant and carol sing-along at 7 PM at Unity Church of Missoula, 546 South Ave. W. Free. Includes post-pageant refreshments, a visit from Santa and the chance to buy tickets for a drawing.

Call 728-0187.

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Art mixes with dance when the Rocky Mountain Ballet Theatre’s Ashley Hagler and Haley Budge bust moves during First Friday dance performances at 6:30, 7 and 7:30 PM at Pilates@Studio D, 420 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. D. Free to spectate. Call 360-7421.

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Will Tilton, right, as Jacob Marley unleashes the chained beast onto Royce McIntosh’s Scrooge during MCT Community Theatre’s performance of A Christmas Carol—The Musical, starting Fri., Dec. 4, at 8 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $20. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.com for tickets. Play runs Dec. 4–6 and again Dec. 9–13.

Electric guitar and multimedia intensify a Shakespearean classic filled with familial tension, treachery and fatality during a UM School of Theatre and Dance performance of Hamlet at 7:30 PM in the Montana Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $18/$14 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 for tickets or visit www.umtheatredance.org.

Get winded in the company of other music lovers during a UM School of Music concert featuring the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, UM Concert Band and the Grizzly Marching Band at 7:30 PM at the University Theatre. $10/$5 students and seniors. Call 243-6880.

Two minor characters from Hamlet absorb themselves offstage with philosophical arguments and nonsensical rants during the Montana Actors’ Theatre rendition of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $15. Visit www.mtactors.com for advance tickets.

A farm girl from Kansas explores a land “beyond the rainbow” with help from a tin man, cowardly lion and others during the Whitefish Theatre Company’s

rendition of The Wizard of Oz, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the O’Shaughnessy Cultural Arts Center, 1 Central Ave. in Whitefish. $18/$16 seniors/$12 students. Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

Flip the brain switch to electro house and bass heavy breakbeats in order to sweep a leg to Boulder, Colo.’s Savoy, who plays a live set at 9 PM at the Palace. $10. DJ Coma, Mikee Sev and Aaron Traylor open.

An amalgamation of jazz, funk and western swing gets all up in yer junk when Jay DiPaola plays the the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. Call 741-2361.

Shed a tear and down a beer, since it’s the last time you’ll get to see improv jazz/funk/jam band Def Cartel, who play their last show at the Old Post Pub, 103 Spruce St., at 9 PM. Free.

Gnaw on some musical meat whilst two stepping to a raucous beat when The Wild Coyotes play the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Call 543-6346.

Knock the holiday humbuggery out of your system with song and dance when MCT Community Theatre presents a performance of A Christmas Carol—The Musical, at 8 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $20. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org.

Let your folk and Americana freak flag fly high in the company of like-minded warriors when locals Wartime Blues play a CD release party at 9 PM at the Badlander. $5. Opening support from Wolf Redboy and Lil’ Smokies.

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It’s an open mic night of sorts, for actors and directors, where exposing your new work to an audience is celebrated and shame is shunned during the Montana Actors Theatre’s No Shame Theatre which starts with sign-ups at 9:30 PM and performances at 10 at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $5. Visit www.mtactors.com.

Your fear of a prolonged charley horse gets cured with a shot of rockabilly to your jittery parts when Russ Nasset & The Revelators play the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

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

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Get a glimpse of the talents of local crafters during UM’s 38th Annual Holiday Art Fair, which runs from 9 AM–4 PM in the University Center.

Free, with live music and door prizes.

Call 243-5714.

Find something crafty to buy in order to help less fortunate families during the Hellgate Elementary School PTA craft fair, which runs from 9 AM–5 PM in the Middle School Gym and Commons Area at the school, 2385 Flynn Lane. Free to attend. Call Sandy at 721-2145.

Classical guitar and jazz licks wash through the hallways while kids try their hands at ornament making and more at the Missoula Art Museum’s Holiday Weekend Fun activity, which runs from 10 AM–3 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free,

includes per formances by the ChildBloom Quartet at 1 and 1:30 PM, as well as a holiday card making workshop from 1–2:30 PM. Call 728-0447 or visit missoulaartmuseum.org.

features the program “treasured box” with Beth Jaffe. Free, but donations appreciated and accepted. Register by calling 549-5329 or visit livingartofmontana.org.

Get into the holiday mood with a moving picture or three during free family holiday movies, which start at 1 PM at the Roxy Theatre, 718 S. Higgins Ave. Free. Visit wildlifefilms.org.

Kids make holiday crafts and mow snacks in the company of Santa and Mrs. Claus during Mountain Home Montana’s The Teddy Bear Tea Party, which runs from 10 AM–noon at the Doubletree Hotel, 100 Madison St. $10 for one adult and one child/$5 each additional child. Call 541-0163.

Help a mouse find a place to nap away from the clutches of bears and eagles when Heidi Anderson signs copies of her kids’ book Goodnight Tiny Mouse, at 11 AM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

Learn what it takes to make lip smacking samosas, or makka masala, when Bipin Patel signs copies of the Tipu’s Tiger Recipe Book at 1 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

Dig into how we hear, taste, touch and smell–as well as tap into those other “sixth” senses like ESP and deja vu–when health and science writer Faith Brynie signs copies of her book Brain Sense from noon–4 PM at Borders Bookstore in Kalispell, 2395 N. Hwy. 93. Free.

Santa arrives sleigh in tow, photos ensue, as well as carriage rides, cookie decorating and more during the Seventh Annual Parade of Lights, which starts at 1 PM with Santa’s arrival at the Florence Building, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Culminates at 6 PM with the Parade of Lights down Higgins Avenue, a choral performance and the lighting of Missoula’s Christmas tree. Call 543-4238 or visit missouladowntown.com.

Keep it fair and local with hot chocolate, coffee and other goods, as well as peace crane making and more, during the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center’s Holiday Open House, which runs from 10 AM–6 PM at the center, 519 S. Higgins Ave. Free to attend. Call 543-3955.

Help out a local man named Shawn Woodrum—who has been diagnosed with leukemia—get a bone marrow transplant during a bone marrow donor drive from 10 AM–4 PM at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, 3201 Bancroft St. Call Eileen at 1-888-748-3494.

Those suffering from illness or loss can find solace during one of Living Art Montana’s Creativity for Life workshops at St. Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St., at 10:30 AM. This week

Keep it local when you shop for Christmas gifts at the Downtown Dance Collective’s Holiday Bazaar fundraiser, which features handmade items from a host of local artists on view from 1–5 PM at the collective, 121 W. Main St. Free to spectate. Call 541-7240.

Plan to keep it personable and handmade this year during a Parade of Lights gift workshop at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St., from 1–5 PM. Free. Call 541-PLAY.

Electric guitar and multimedia intensify a Shakespearean classic filled with familial tension, treachery and fatality during a UM School of Theatre and Dance performance of Hamlet at 2 PM in the Montana Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $18/$14 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under.

Call 243-4581 for tickets or visit www.umtheatredance.org.

Witness a dog and his canine insecurities when Ana Greer signs copies of her kids’ book Just Perfect: More Adventures of Jules the Lighthouse Dog, at 2 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

Knock the holiday humbuggery out of your system with song and dance when the Missoula Children’s Theatre Community Theatre presents a performance of A Christmas Carol—The Musical, at 2 PM at the theatre, 200 N. Adams St. $16. Call 728-PLAY .

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A farm girl from Kansas explores a land “beyond the rainbow” with help from a tin man, cowardly lion and others during the Whitefish Theatre Company’s rendition of The Wizard of Oz, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the O’Shaughnessy Cultural Arts Center, 1 Central Ave. in Whitefish. $18/$16 seniors/$12 students. Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

See if you can shake and shimmy your weapons of mass destruction on the dance floor with others when Helena’s WMD plays a Missoula Folklore Society contra dance, with Roy Curet calling, starting at 7:30 PM with a beginners workshop and then hitting dance mode at 8 PM, all at the Union Hall, 209 E. Main St. $8/$6 Missoula Folklore Society members. Visit montanafolk.org.

Ring in the holidaze with some classical and choral Christmas-time favorites during the Missoula Symphony Orchestra’s “Holiday Pops” concert, which starts at 7:30 PM at the University Theatre. $35–$8 depending on seats. Visit missoulasymphony.org for tickets or call 721-3194.

An exchange of musical commodities is bound to go down during the Western Washington University and UM exchange concert, which features computer music performances by students of both schools at 7:30 PM in the Music Recital Hall, in UM’s Music Building. Free.

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Knock the holiday humbuggery out of your system with song and dance when MCT Community

Theatre presents a performance of A Christmas Carol—The Musical, at 8 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $20.

Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org.

Get blue in the face but avoid any dispirited emotions when Melissa Blue plays, you guessed it, blues and vocal music at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. Donations appreciated. Call 741-2361.

The only way to treat that recent run-in with a jackal is with a shot of rawk to tha dome, especially when The Wild Coyotes play the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Call 543-6346.

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

Scofflaws, bandits, mountain women, road agents and a host of other characters take a bath in the springs of rebelliousness when The Whiskey Rebellion plays The Lumberjack Saloon, 7000 Graves Creek Road, just outside of Lolo, at 9 PM. Free.

Let the dacing spirit invade you, when Reverend Slanky slings dirty funk at the Palace at 9 PM. $5.

Pass the amber nectar like it’s a pot of coffee and get ready to flush out the system with some roots and Americana when Tom Catmull and the Clerics play the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Cough out any excess ash and get ready for molten heaps of dub, funk and rock when Luau Cinder plays a show at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cost TBA.

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Beat the swine outta your system, or just avoid getting the swine flu, during a free H1N1 Vaccine Clinic provided by the Missoula CityCounty Health Department which runs from 10 AM–4 PM at Sentinel High School, 901 South Ave. W. Free. Call 258-3684. Last names between the letters A-L are admitted from 10 AM–1 PM, while last names between the letters M-Z are admitted from 1–4:30 PM. 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. Extra tables also needed. Call Janit at 207-7358.

Find out what it was like to live in an unimproved cabin out in the Yaak, post-WWII, when Doris Pulis signs copies of her memoir How It Looks Going Back at 1 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

Knock the holiday humbuggery out of your system with song and dance when the Missoula Children’s Theatre Community Theatre presents a performance of A Christmas Carol—The Musical, at 2 PM at the theatre, 200 N. Adams St. $16. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org.

Ring in the holidaze with some classical and choral Christmas-time favorites during the Missoula Symphony Orchestra’s “Holiday Pops” concert, which starts at 3 PM at the University Theatre. $35–$8 depending on seats, but tickets are sold out. Visit missoulasymphonyorchestra.org.

Two minor characters from Hamlet absorb themselves offstage with philosophical arguments and nonsensical rants during the Montana Actors’ Theatre rendition of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, with a performance at 4 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10. Visit www.mtactors.com for advance tickets.

A farm girl from Kansas explores land “beyond the rainbow” with help from a tin man, cowardly lion and others during the Whitefish Theatre Company’s rendition of The Wizard of Oz, with a performance at 4 PM at the O’Shaughnessy Cultural Arts Center, 1 Central Ave. in Whitefish. $18/$16 seniors/$12 students. Call 862-5371 or visit whitefishtheatreco.org.

nightlife Sip on local wine, eat appetizers, hear jazz from the Front Street Jazz Group and try your luck at a silent auction during a benefit reception for the Vienna Experience Benefit Concert, which runs from 6–7:30 PM in the President’s Conference Room in UM’s Brantley Hall. You need to purchase a ticket to the Vienna Experience Concert to attend, which starts at 7:30 PM. Call Ashley at 539-5439.

Knock the holiday humbuggery out of your system with song and dance when the Missoula Children’s Theatre Community Theatre presents a performance of A Christmas Carol—The Musical, at 6:30 PM at the theatre, 200 N. Adams St. $18/$15 for children 18 and younger.

Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org.

Help a crew of 71 music majors and non-majors take a summer trip to Vienna, Austria for the “Vienna Music Program” during the Vienna Experience Benefit Concert, which starts at 7:30 PM at the Music Recital Hall, in UM’s Music

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If you love the outdoors and play in it as much as you can, I’m guessing you also try to live your life in a sustainable manner so as to keep our wildlands wild for future generations.

This week, you can indulge in a visual feast that expertly meshes love for the outdoors with a keen eye toward green living during the Sustainable Business Council sponsored Second Annual Wild and Scenic Documentary Film Festival, which starts screening at 7 PM on Thu., Dec. 3, at the Wilma Theatre. $11/ buy-one-get-one-free for students with valid ID. As for the fest itself, you’ll get a chance to check cinematic pieces like The Last Descent, a glimpse into a group of whitewater kayakers that take the plunge into waterways like the White Nile River in Uganda—but perhaps for the last time. That’s because various power projects have put the White Nile and other freely flowing rivers featured in the film in danger of irreversible damage. Find out more by clicking over to wildandscenicfilmfestival.org/ on-tour/film-bios for a rundown of the films, 10 of which are slated to screen in Missoula, including the one mentioned above, as well as Goldfish and I Love Trash. Note that there’s a pre-screening VIP party at the Wilma starting at 5:30 PM which includes organic appetizers, live music and an auction, all for $75 per person or $125 a couple. Visit sbcmontana.org.

On Fri., Dec. 4, you can do your part to help support locally offered wildlife cinema during the International Wildlife Media Center and Film Festival’s Wildlife Ball Benefit, which starts at 6 PM at the Hilton Garden Inn, 3720 N. Reserve St. It costs $50 per person and nabs you gourmet appetizers, desserts, live music and more. All proceeds benefit the center’s Montana Film Academy scholarship, in-school and afterschool programs, as well as its year round film programs. Call 728-9380 for tickets or visit wildlifefilms.org.

After a few days of sitting, scratch your urge to slosh around in snow on Sat., Dec. 5 during the Montana Natural History Center’s (MNHC) Winter Ecology Snowshoe program,

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which starts at 9 AM with a meet-up at the center, 120 Hickory St. Once huddled, you’ll head up to Lolo Pass with the MNHC’s Jessie Sherburne in order to attain winter ecology enlightenment.

Expect Sherburne to cover animal/plant winter adaptation, hibernation and plenty more. The trip costs $15/$10 for MNHC members, and space is limited, so call 327-0405 to register or visit montananaturalist.org.

A seven-hour snow excursion might not be your bag if you’ve got a young runt under your arms. If so, stick around zoola on Sat., Dec. 5 and zoom over to the MNHC, 120 Hickory St., for the 2 PM kids’ program Camouflaged Creatures. Your little one will read stories, play games and more in order to learn about why

pass costs $54 and a one-to-two-day pass costs $61. Also, weather might be wacky, so double check conditions before you leave home by visiting skiwhitefish.com or by calling 862-SNOW. If you’re strapped for cash, consider a less costly option by meeting with Steve Schombel of the Rocky Mountaineers for a Lolo Pass Ski trip that starts at a TBA time on Sat., Dec. 5.

Schombel indicates this is a perfect trip for beginners and should be short in duration. To find out when and where to meet, give Steve a ring at 721-4686 or keep your eyes glued to rockymountaineers.com. If you’d like more info on the group, definitely plan to head to the free monthly meeting on Wed., Dec. 9 at Pipestone Mountaineering, 129 W. Front St. On Sun., Dec. 6, you can get your avian scoping on with others when the Five Valley’s Audubon Society takes a trip with Jim Brown to view raptors and other watering birds up in the Mission Valley. Meet at 8 AM at UM’s Adams Center to carpool, or be at the Ninepipes Lodge, 40962 Hwy. 93, at 9 AM for this free outing. Once in place, a few of the raptors you might witness include the red-tailed hawk, northern harrier and short-eared owl, as well as falcons and eagles. Call Jim at 549-8052 or visit fvamissoula.org.

If breaking a sweat in the cold is a little more to your liking, don’t space the UM Health and Human Performance Department’s Freezer Burn on Sun., Dec. 6, which features a half-marathon, 5k run and a fitness walk. Registration runs from 9–9:45 AM, with races starting at 10 AM, all at the Frenchtown High School parking lot, 17620 Frontage Road in Frenchtown. The prices: $20 for the marathon, or $5 with a Griz Card/$10 for the 5k race or $5 with a Griz Card/free for children 12 and under.

E-mail freezerburn missoula@gmail.com or visit soe.umt.edu/hhp/ Photo by Alex Sakariassen current_events/default.html to download a registration form. some animals hide themselves in their surrounding environs, Later in the week, take note that both Tue., Dec. 7 and Wed., while others stand out like festering sore thumbs, or something Dec. 8 mark deadline days for UM students to participate in like that. $2 per child to participate/free if you’re an MNHC mem- a plethora of campus sports including volleyball leagues, a ber. Call 327-0405. beginner cross country ski class and more. Due to space, I’ll direct Those of you up in the Flathead likely know this, but if you you to call 243-2804 or visit life.umt.edu/crec. don’t, the Whitefish Mountain Resort, aka Big Mountain, is If that doesn’t keep you busy, I’m not sure what will. Until scheduled to open its gates to powder hounds on Sat., Dec. 5 at then, shred out, run it up and keep it green.

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SPOTLIGHT i n t i m a te d i m e n s i o n s In art, toying with the concept of spatial movement can produce some interesting results. Take music: Imagine hearing a recorded voice played through a surround sound system, but only at random intervals in each speaker. Initially, you’d feel bewildered but, eventually, you’d get used to the concept and maybe even enjoy the idea that there’s more than one way to experience sound.

A similar idea applies to Dance Up Close, the UM School of Theatre and Dance’s upcoming fall dance concert. It’s a performance geared toward taking you outside the standard dance space—dancers facing the audience from one direction—and into an intimate space that offers three different vantage points of the action.

“You get a much more visceral experience as an audience member,” explains professor Michele Antonioli of the Masquer Theatre setup. “There’s a more up-close-and-personal perspective from the audience.”

One of the featured pieces is “The Glass Moths Batter at the Glass Door” by adjunct instructor Anya Cloud. The UM graduate utilizes nine dancers for the piece, and weaves in an aural backdrop of spoken text written by Ken White and music by Dale Sherrard.

WHO: UM School of Theatre and Dance WHAT: Dance Up Close WHEN: Tue., Dec. 8–Sat., Dec. 12 WHERE: Masquer Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center HOW MUCH: $14/$12 seniors and stu dents/$8 children under 12

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“It’s dynamic movement,” says Antonioli of the piece. “There’s a lot of interaction with the relationships between the dancers on stage…They come from all sides, so you feel completely surrounded by them as an audience member.”

Other works on tap include “Snowglobe,” a solo piece choreographed and performed by professor Nicole Bradley Browning (who, in the interest of full disclosure, is also Indy editor Skylar Browning’s better half), as well as a comical group piece created by Bradley Browning and some of the program’s most advanced dancers. And be sure not to miss dance student Steve Teran’s “Foxy, Doll, Peach and Honey.”

His work mixes pop music with minimalist gestures and explores the relationships between four dancers, all of whom are imagined as sunglass-donning sunbathers lounging somewhere in the Mediterranean.

Now that sounds like the type of intimate piece we could really enjoy.

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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. This week: Jazz from the Donna Smith Trio, the Front Street Jazz Group and DJ Mermaid.

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Bring a lunch and prepare to delve into the discussion “China’s Troubled West: Field Observations in Xinjiang After the July Riots” when UM faculty members Sarah Halvorson and Steven Levine discuss their trip to this Chinese province at noon, in Room 210 of UM’s James E. Todd Building.

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Understand how America can best disengage out of Iraq when noted scholar Juan R.I. Cole leads the lecture “Iraqi Politics on the Eve of the Election: Prospect’s for Obama’s Disengagement,” at 3:10 PM in Room 123 of UM’s Gallagher Business Building. Free. Call 243-2981. (See Agenda in this issue.)

nightlife Tickle your taste receptacles with chocolate in order to help a museum during the Victor Museum’s annual Chocolate Tasting and Silent Auction, which runs from 5–9 PM at the corner of Blake and Main Streets in Victor. $5 person, with family rates.

Includes live music and more. Visit victormt.com.

Buying a home may seem out of reach, but it sure seems like the best time to do it, so nab some info during First Time Homebuyer Classes in the Bitterroot every night from 6–9 PM today through Dec. 9 at Hamilton’s Human Resource Council Building, 316 N. Third St. in Hamilton. $20, cov-

ers cost of reference materials. Must attend all three nights for certification.

Call 363-1444 ext. 5 to register.

Learn about how a union is the best way to fight against a scrooge trying to get you down when the Two Rivers branch of the Industrial Workers of the World meets at 7 PM at the Union Hall, 208 E. Main St. Free. Includes a potluck dinner, songs and more, so bring a dish. Call Dave at 363-5292 or e-mail flyfeverdj@hotmail.com.

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Witness some delicate shredding when the UM Guitar Ensemble meets for a show at 7:30 PM, in Room 218 of the UM Music Building. Free. Call 243-6880.

Relive that dream of belting out melodies when the University Choir and Chamber Choir show you how it’s really done with a performance at 7:30 PM, in the University Theatre. $15/$10 students and seniors. Call 243-6880.

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avenues our leaders can take to lessen the tension—when noted scholar Juan R.I. Cole leads the discussion “Engaging the Muslim World” at 8 PM, at the University Center Ballroom. Free. Call 243-2981. (See Agenda in this issue.)

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Community Choir, which plays Clock Court in Southgate Mall, 2901 Brooks St., at 8 PM. Free.

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Bass seeps into the place and gets all up in your face when locals Ebola Syndrome play what’s likely to be dubstep, jungle or other breakbeat flava’s at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

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Learn how to use a beacon in order to call for help when in danger of getting buried by snow during a UM Avalanche Transceiver Clinic, which you must register for by today. $15. Class is on Dec. 12 and runs from 9 AM–2 PM. Register by calling 243-5172 or visit life.umt.edu/crec.

Don’t expect watered down moves when you head to Family Motion: Corona Yoga, but do expect to go with some serious flow with your kids, starting at 11 AM at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front St. $4.25/free under age 1. Call 541-PLAY to register.

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Relax in the presence of a felt hammers that strike strings when pianist Janean McBride-Rowland performs at Clock Court in Southgate Mall, 2901 Brooks St., at 6 PM. Free. Call 721-5140.

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If you can yodel like a yokel or belt out a ditty, and you go to Big Sky High School, don’t miss prelim—a First Night inary tryouts for First Night Idol— Missoula competition for high school singers—at 3:30 PM at the school, 3100 South Ave. W. Free.

If you make it to the final round, you’ll perform at the Wilma Theatre during First Night. Call 532-3240.

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Slide that intellectual mind into East Asian affairs during the discussion “Is China a Threat to the U.S.?” which features a live webcast presentation, as well as on-site comments by UM faculty, at 6 PM in Room 210 of UM’s James E. Todd Building.

Free. Call 243-2988 or visit umt.edu/mansfield.

German occupation in the 1940s and a mysterious society makes for interesting convo fodder during the Missoula Public Library book club discussion of Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows’ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, at 7 PM at the library, 301 E. Main St. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Folk and blues help you drown out your own case of the blues when Debbie Demmons plays the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 100, at 7 PM. Free.

Expect the registers of clarion and altissimo to be hit when clarinetist Kristen Engebretson performs a student recital at 7:30 PM, in the Music Recital Hall, in UM’s Music Building. Free. Call 243-6880.

Electric guitar and multimedia intensify a Shakespearean classic filled with familial tension, treachery and fatality during a UM School of Theatre and Dance performance of Hamlet at 7:30 PM in the Montana Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $18/$14 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 for tickets or visit www.umtheatredance.org.

Indulge in the sweeping motions of modern dance from three different visual perspectives when the UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Dance Up Close, a series of nine original dance pieces with performances starting at 7:30 PM, in the Masquer Theatre at UM’s PARTV Center. $14/$12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4481 or visit umtheatredance.org. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Sean Kelly’s invites you to another week of free Pub Trivia, which takes place every Tue. at 8 PM. And, to highlight the joy of discovery that you might experience while attending, here’s a sample of the type of question you could be presented with. Ready? All right, this one is for all you alienloving freaks. What state is Area 51 located in?

(Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

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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.

Get lost in layers of finely colored bedding when Annie Hanshew leads a presentation and signs copies of her book Border to Border: Historic Quilts and Quiltmakers of Montana, at 7 PM at Fact & Fiction, 220 N. Higgins Ave. Free. Call 721-2881.

Find out what the good word is regarding female ejaculation when Dr. Lindsey Doe presents a sexual finesse workshop on the history, possibility and control of it at 7 PM at Birds & Bees LLC, 515 E. Broadway St. $5. Call 544-1019 or visit aboutsexuality.org.

Electric guitar and multimedia intensify a Shakespearean classic filled with familial tension, treachery and fatality during a UM School of Theatre and Dance performance of Hamlet at 7:30 PM in the Montana Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $18/$14 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4581 for tickets or visit www.umtheatredance.org.

Indulge in the sweeping motions of modern dance from three different visual perspectives when the UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Dance Up Close, a series of nine original dance pieces with performances starting at 7:30 PM, in the Masquer Theatre at UM’s PARTV Center. $14/$12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under. Call 243-4481 or visit umtheatredance.org. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Stringy instruments serve up old and new tunes when the UM Symphony Orchestra performs at 7:30 PM at the University Theatre. $10/$5 students and seniors. Call 243-6880.

Two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet absorb themselves with philosophical arguments and nonsensical rants during the Montana Actors’ Theatre rendition of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10. Visit www.mtactors.com for advance tickets.

Knock the holiday humbuggery out of your system with song and dance when the Missoula Children’s Theatre Community Theatre presents a performance of A Christmas Carol—The Musical, at 8 PM at the theatre, 200 N. Adams St. $18/$15 for children 18 or younger. Call 728PLAY or visit mctinc.org.

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: Area 51 is located in the deserts of our desolate friend to the south, Nevada.

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.

Be sure you’ve downed enough PBR in order to have the courage to sing “Let’s Dance” by David Bowie, or a similar tune, during Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

A legendary rhymer from Cali’s Bay Area hits it hard and funky when Del the Funky Homosapien plays the Palace at 9 PM with BukueOne. $16, with pre-sale at Ear Candy Music. Locals Tonsofun, Linkletter and Traffic open.

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Art projects, educational games and storytime activities aim to stimulate your 3- to 7-year-old’s mind into Stephen Hawking-esque capabilities during Ready Set Read at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front. St., at 11 AM. $4.25/free under age 1. Call 541-PLAY.

Ceramics and sculpture meet for an aesthetic feast of sorts during the 23rd Annual UM Art Annex Holiday Juried Show and Sale, which runs from 4–7 PM in the art annex, adjacent to the Grizzly Pool next to the Adams Center. Free to spectate. Features work by ceramist Julia Galloway and others. Call Beth Lo at 243-6476.

nightlife You have to sign up, or already be a member, but if you’re part of the Missoula Art Museum’s Contemporary Collectors Circle, don’t miss its annual acquisition party at 5:30 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Cost TBA. Party includes participation in acquisition of artwork for the MAM collection, as well as a discussion on the development of the collection and more. Call Ted Hughes at 728-0447 ext. 222 to join the CCC, or to RSVP for the event.

Local artist Marlo Crocifisso guides your 13- to 18year-old toward a fervor for silhouettes and stenciling during Teen Open Studio Night, where Crocifisso teaches professional stenciling techniques to your kid from 6–8 PM at the Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free. Call Linden at 728-0447 ext. 230.

Electric guitar and multimedia intensify a Shakespearean classic filled with familial tension, treachery and fatality during a UM School of Theatre and Dance performance of Hamlet at 7:30 PM in the Montana Theatre in UM’s PARTV Center. $18/$14 seniors and students/$8 children

12 and under. Call 243-4581 for tickets or visit www.umtheatredance.org.

UM School of Theatre and Dance presents Dance Up Close, a series of nine original dance pieces with performances starting at 7:30 PM, in the Masquer Theatre at UM’s PARTV Center. $14/$12 seniors and students/$8 children 12 and under.

Call 243-4481 or visit umtheatredance.org. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Two minor characters from Shakespeare’s Hamlet absorb themselves with philosophical arguments and nonsensical rants during the Montana Actors’ Theatre rendition of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, with a performance at 7:30 PM at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. $10. Visit www.mtactors.com for advance tickets.

The Missoula Children’s Theatre Community Theatre presents a performance of A Christmas Carol—The Musical, at 8 PM at the theatre, 200 N. Adams St. $20. Call 728-PLAY or visit mctinc.org.

Let the noise rock bleed out of your ears like a melting banana when Tokyo’s Melt-Banana plays the Palace at 9 PM. $8. Opening support from The Lion. The Tamer and Deny the Dinosaur?. (See Noise in this issue.)

Ride roughshod with a pick between your teeth in the company of others when Duluth, Minn.’s Trampled by Turtles pulls out some bluegrass tricks at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. We were all college students at some point, right? Well, maybe not. Even if you never set foot on campus, consider lending a hand to 71 UM music and non-music majors by attending their Vienna Experience Benefit Concert at 7:30 PM on Sun., Dec. 6, at UM’s Music Recital Hall. It costs $20, or $10 if you’re a student, and helps raise funds for these players to attend the Vienna Music Program in Vienna, Austria this summer. Call 243-6880 to nab tickets, and if you plan to go, don’t miss the benefit reception from 6–7:30 PM in the President’s Conference Room in UM’s Brantley Hall. The reception includes local wine, appetizers, live music and more, and is included in the cost of a ticket to the concert. On that note, you can help benefit me by trying your best to send your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Dec. 4, 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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take in the scenery and then pick a spot, stop and The first cat Cyrus photographed was Dr. Neil for him called Wet Stinky Dog (wetstinkydog.com).

In September, Lonsdale lost Cyrus to cancer. wait patiently for Lonsdale to set up the tripod.

Coconut. Nurse Lily, the other cat, hid behind furniture for the shoot, too scared to come out. Not that She’d spent a year preparing for a joint exhibit at the Once the camera sat at his level, he’d hit the shutter you can blame Nurse Lily. That Cyrus is a dog with the RMSP Gallery, pairing her digital photos with Cyrus’ button, sometimes having to take several tries ability to take photos doesn’t erase a whole history of grittier shots. The exhibit, titled A Dog and His Girl, before it clicked. And his subjects prove to be the opens on a bittersweet note—without Cyrus but as a obvious inspiration of a dog: other dogs barking bad blood between felines and canines.

Local photographer Athena Lonsdale, Cyrus’ tribute to the relationship between her and her best through fences, dogs walking in the park and, of owner, noticed that a few years after teaching Cyrus friend. Though the exhibit doesn’t include Cyrus’ course, cats.

Lonsdale uses digto take photos, the dog ital tools for her phoshowed interest in turntos. Cyrus used pointing his lens toward cats. and-click plastic camShe took him to a friend eras from thrift who owns two cats, set stores–the kind of up the camera in the cameras subscribers backyard and simply used to get for free hoped all hell didn’t from Lifetime magabreak loose. zine. More recently, “I was totally the he’d used a colorful nervous [camera] assiskids’ camera with a tant worried that the much larger, more photographer was going manageable yellow to blow it,” she says. “It shutter button. was my connection he “He uses only film was using so I felt like my cameras with aged film reputation was on the and his work ends up line. I thought, ‘Please being as is, with all the don’t eat the kitty.’ I scratches and deformimean, imagine: Just ties of the plastic camwhen he’s photographeras that he uses,” she ing the cat and you think says. “Our work is so it’s safe, he turns on the different that it was model.” kind of hard for me to To his credit, Cyrus, think about how we who had a history of might have a show chasing cats, seemed together, and then I more focused on the realized that we have a camera and everyone common theme. We’ve walked away unruffled. photographed at a lot of Lonsdale never inthe same places and the tended to teach Cyrus same subject matter.” photography. As a smart When Cyrus died, Australian shepherd and Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Stone Lonsdale still had Red Merle mix, he knew enough ordinary dog Athena Lonsdale, right, taught her late dog, Cyrus, how to snap photos. A joint exhibit of their unfinished work to do tricks. But in 2002, while work, A Dog and his Girl, opens this week at the RMSP Gallery. “I think he has a great body of for the exhibit. For work and I want to put it out to the world as much as I can,” Lonsdale says. instance, Cyrus had taking a summer intensive at the Rocky Mountain School of Photography memorable cat images, it does include his final photo taken a photo of a dog, Bear, who lived on their street, so Lonsdale took a photo of a girl driving past (RMSP), Lonsdale encountered an aspiring pet pho- at Water Works Hill.

Lonsdale has an obvious sense of humor about their house to match the location. She misses Cyrus, tographer. He asked Lonsdale if she could teach Cyrus, then 6 years old, to pose with the camera. In Cyrus, but she doesn’t crack a smile when she calls who she had for all of his 13 years. But making two weeks, she had Cyrus trained to put his paw to herself his photography assistant. To some, it might posthumous projects out of his work has kept her the shutter button. They set up the photo shoot in seem over-the-top. Clearly, Cyrus’ photo career was busy. She’s trying to snare a publisher for a coffee front of Bernice’s Bakery with the RMSP student read- her idea in the first place. She’s the one who selects table book. She continues to pay tribute to him on ing a newspaper and Cyrus pretending to take his pic- his equipment, develops the film and mounts the the Wet Stinky Dog website. But Lonsdale remains ture. It became another trick, one that Lonsdale had photos. But to her, the process isn’t any different open to the idea that someday she might get another dog that will also take pictures she can exhibit.

Cyrus do at a RMSP graduation talent show and on than with a professional photographer.

“I would need at least two dogs to make up for “A professional photographer has three assistants other occasions.

“He would take pictures but there was no film in or more working on lighting, loading the film, setting him,” she says. “But I’ve definitely thought about it. the camera. So I started putting film in and then up the camera on the tripod,” she says. “That’s been It was fun with Cyrus so, why not? Maybe the next dog will be interested in digital photography.” our relationship, too.” developing it after he was done,” she says.

A Dog and His Girl opens at the RMSP Gallery Whether photography translated as art to Cyrus, Since then, Cyrus has shown photos at the Catalyst and Dauphine’s, and the American Kennel no matter how smart, is probably up for debate. But Friday, Dec. 4, with a reception from 5 PM to 8 Club featured him in an article. One of his photos think of it this way: The act of taking photos became PM. Free. showed at the Missoula Art Museum’s (MAM) 2008 art for Cyrus, says Lonsdale, like playing catch becomes efredrickson@missoulanews.com auction. He’s on Facebook and Lonsdale writes a blog for bird dogs—an obsession. On walks, Cyrus would

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Wartime Blues Doves and Drums self-released

If big, loud, electrified rock bands can be classed as stadium acts, Wartime Blues is more of a chamber ensemble.

It’s hard to imagine this eight-piece playing their gritty workingman’s folk on an elevated stage under hot lights. Better to hear them in an intimate club, better yet a saloon. Ideally, you’d hear them around the fire in some bygone military encampment while the audience drinks moonshine out of tin cups. Whatever the setting, this is a band worth hearing, and their first full-length album is

Melt-Banana

Melt-Banana Lite Live Ver 0.0 A- Zap Records

Melt-Banana doesn’t translate well on an album, even as a live recording. For one thing, you can’t witness frontwoman Yasuko Onuki’s colorful, metallic costumes.

Plus this kind of noise rock feels disorienting when you’re not face-to-face with the live source. Without the stage pageantry, however, it’s easier to hone in Onuki’s exquisite bark and militant post-punk vocals.

The Japanese noise band sometimes plays shows as Melt-Banana Lite, and this new album reflects that side of its musical personality. In this case, it’s still MeltBanana songs but with synthesizer and samples, and no guitar. In “Chain Keeper,” Onuki, aka “Yako,” rants like a crazed auctioneer narrating a Disney movie that has, per-

Judgment Hammer Arbiter of Fate self-released

Stevensville’s Judgment Hammer delivers the kind of thrash metal blasted from any number of stages around the Bay Area circa 1981–1985.

For the uninitiated, that means songs about death, destruction and vengeance built inside five-plus minute opuses composed of multiple movements delivered by players who can flat out shred. It also means tight jeans, sleeveless vests and white high-top sneakers. These guys deliver on all fronts.

Fu Manchu Signs of Infinite Power Century Media

Ever since Fu Manchu frontman Scott Hill had his fuzz pedal stolen back in 2000 or so, fans of the now-venerable SoCal stoner rock band have clamored for a return to the grooved-out thickness of classics like the 1996 In Search Of record. Since California Crossing—a solid outing that had the unfortunate coincidence of being released on 9/11—each subsequent release has claimed a “return to form” without quite getting there. Four albums and several record labels later, the opening churn of “Bionic Astronautics” gives way to an album that finally hits the mark.

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Doves and Drums opens at walking pace and pretty much stays there, but this is no easy-listening stroll. This album is a trek. Distances will be covered.

On the album-opener “Youth,” Martin McCain’s drums and Nate Hegyi’s guitar set the marching pace at indieanthemic, but much of the material is closer to traditional Springsteen-style Americana. The Jersey troubadour (“Saul Whitewater,” “Wind Me Up”) is as much an influence as Seeger Sessions Springsteen (“Robert Ford and Jesse James”), but that derivation doesn’t detract from the level of talent and originality on display. If you haven’t discovered Wartime Blues, discover them now while you can still see them in a small, crowded room. (Ali Gadbow) Wartime Blues plays a CD release show at the Badlander Friday, Dec. 4, at 9 PM with Wolf Redboy and Lil Smokies. $5.

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haps, been taken over by R. Crumb. “Cat and the Blood” opens with wispy electronica evoking the tumble of a washing machine before Yako breaks the meditative space with cat-like vocals.

Melt-Banana sings in English but you can’t discern a word. Look up the lyrics and you’ll still be puzzled. For instance, “One Drop, One Life” begins: “One drop to my cheap eye to dig/Two drops to your bad hands/To call on my lost cat.” See what I mean? But with Yako, especially live, you still get a sense of her emotional intent. (Erika Fredrickson) Melt-Banana plays the Palace Thursday, Dec. 10, at 9 PM with The Lion The Tamer and Deny the Dinosaur. $8.

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People often dismiss metal as the domain of shiftless meatheads. While that perception is debatable, there is no denying playing the music—particularly this style—requires a dedication to mastering the instrument above and beyond three chords. Blazing fast songs like “Kill or Be Killed” and “Swift Justice” contrast against tracks like “Thicker Than Water” and “Never Repent” that feature slow, melodic sections hearkening to the glory years of Metallica’s first three records. This isn’t mimicry, it’s an homage.

The band is best known, since before their members were even out of high school, as The Four Horsemen. After a couple demos and live recordings, it’s great to have a true release from this outstanding local band. Fans of the Big Four—Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer and Megadeth—should absolutely check this recording out. (Chris La Tray) Fu—fuzzy, groove-centric cuts that range from mid-tempo bludgeoning to punkedup octane. Forget the tired references to Black Sabbath you may still read about this band. The new embrace of punk rock legends like Black Flag and Circle Jerks lends a fury to modern Fu that they lacked as youngsters.

Lyrically, Fu stays mostly on formula: songs about cars, monsters, and B-movies. What the hell is a “Webfoot Witch Hat” anyway? Doesn’t matter; it’s Fu Manchu, and this is a song that sounds like it could have come out in the previous millennium. That’s all that matters. (Chris La Tray)

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Literary lampoon Hely hacks away at the writing biz

by Azita Osanloo

If there’s but one unadulterated truth in Steve “were trying to write earnest fiction about crows Hely’s How I Became a Famous Novelist it might be and almonds. If they were willing to try, I was willthis: “Wyoming and Montana give a writer a lot of ing to cash their modest honorarium.”

Tarlsaw’s ambition, in large part, was inspired seriousness points. Nobody’s gonna call you out when you start throwing around place-names like by the work of Preston Brooks, a lesser Jim Harrison-type who says things like: Bitterroot and Teton and Laramie.

“Words. Words alone can mend the The point is to prove that your heart.” For Tarslaw, Preston prose is as natural as a bushel of Brooks stands as the epitome of organic tomatoes or a cut of steak literary savoir-faire, acting the from a free-range longhorn.” part of the folksy writer to perfecMontana writers do get a lot tion by piling on writerly platiof seriousness points. No questudes for an audience of pretty tion. I am, however, a little girls and middle-aged women in uncomfortable equating any book clubs. In a TV interview, Montanan’s writing to organic Tarslaw references Brooks’ influtomatoes (and let’s just leave the ence on him (“It’s easy enough to longhorn to roam free). Nevcome up with that kind of crap”) ertheless, the observation is exactand in so doing, Tarslaw not only ly the kind of pithy truism that is takes on the revered Brooks himthe hallmark of Hely’s hilarious, if self—who will later oust him in a not disturbingly apposite parody duel of words—but also the entire of the book trade. literary establishment. So offendHely’s protagonist is Pete How I Became a Famous ed are the literary elite by Tarslaw, a 20-something ne’er-doNovelist Tarslaw’s undermining prowell who writes college essays for Steve Hely nouncements that at one point an organization called EssayAides. paperback, Grove Press he’s told he might have to appear When Tarslaw learns his ex-girl224 pages, $14.00 on Oprah: friend, Polly, is getting married, he “You might have to apologize to Oprah,” says decides to become a famous novelist. If he can attend Polly’s wedding as an esteemed man of let- Tarslaw’s editor.

“What I’d do to her?” asks Tarslaw. ters, he’ll successfully humiliate her, not to mention “She’s just—that’s who you apologize to.” reap other benefits: “If you could write a book and Predictably enough, Tarslaw’s hijinks turn act like you meant it, the reward was country estates him into a literary bad boy in a James Frey-meetsand supple college girls.”

With that, Tarslaw sets off to write his great Kanye West sort of way, catapulting his novel to American novel. Instead of studying craft within the even higher sales on Amazon. Despite this, confines of a top 10 MFA program, Tarslaw studies Preston Brooks has wormed his way into the art of what sells by poring over the best sellers Tarslaw’s psyche: Just maybe Brooks is the honest list in the New York Times Book Review. He studies one after all?

Of course, the only real way to figure that one bestselling titles like Cracked Like Teeth (“A memoir of petty crime, drunken brawls, and recovery by a out is to write a memoir—presumably what we’re writer who was addicted to paint thinner by age reading here. As one English-professor-turned-freenine.”) and A Whiff of Gingham and Pecorino (“On market critic tells Tarslaw at the novel’s end: “What a hilltop villa in Sicily, an American divorcee finds you should do now, of course…is write a memoir. new love with a local cheese maker involved in a Far and away the most popular genre of our time. blood feud.”). It’s tempting to say that Hely, a for- Nothing compares. The novel’s in the ash heap.”

It would be remiss to ignore the fact that How mer writer for David Letterman, exaggerates with these mock titles, but I’d bet the front tables at I Became a Famous Novelist is chock-full of thinly veiled conceits, most notably the inciting incident Barnes & Noble would prove otherwise.

The novel Tarslaw writes, The Tornado Ashes of the ex-girlfriend’s engagement, not to mention Club, is based on his own winning formula for writ- Tarslaw’s clumsily rendered change of heart. ing a bestselling novel (including such maxims as: Parodies, however, rely on conceits. The larger “Write a popular book. Do not waste energy making point remains that Hely’s novel, beyond being hysit a good book”; “Evoke confusing sadness at the terically funny, brazenly demystifies the business of end”; “Give readers versions of themselves, infused writing. We may not like the cynicism inherent to it, with extra awesomeness.”). Not surprisingly, the but we can’t wholly deny its truth either. In The Art novel—truly awful—does indeed become a best- of the Novel, Milan Kundera wrote, “Every novelist’s seller, taking Tarslaw all over the country to book work contains an implicit vision of the history of fairs and readings. One stop is in Montana, where the novel, an idea of what the novel is.” In no small he gives a reading at one of the “nation’s premier way, Hely’s novel contains just such an idea. writing programs.” This one happens to be in arts@missoulanews.com Billings: “Those folks in Billings,” admits Tarslaw,

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Empty Your Sleigh...

The Coens spin the biblical into gold

All In One Quick Stop!

by Andy Smetanka

(You don’t even need a box) Perhaps the Coens feel like they can take more The most amusing tidbit I heard about A Serious Man before seeing it was this: “I don’t think I was of certain kinds of risks when their casts are merely Jewish enough to get it.” I can see how this might speckled, rather than studded, with major star apply to the brief prologue, which is peppered with power. The cast of A Serious Man is like a rogue’s phrases like zohar and dybbuk, but beyond that I gallery of peripheral players—actors whose faces don’t really see it. Anyone can relate to the string of you recognize but whose names you can’t rememmisfortunes besetting A Serious Man’s Larry Gopnik, ber or never knew. The movie was filmed on locaa physics professor on the verge of tenure just when his private life starts going spectacularly off the rails, or at least grasp the movie logic of all this calamity.

Gopnik’s teenage daughter steals from him, his bar mitzvah-aged son smokes weed and zones out at Hebrew school, his wife is leaving him for his best friend.

His high-strung neighbor seems poised on the verge of violence toward him, and his other neighbor’s wife has become an erotic distraction We all have our ways of escaping family during the holidays with her nude sunbathing. The professor’s academic life isn’t much steadier: A Korean tion in the Coens’ hometown, Minneapolis exchange student whom he has given a failing grade (Midwestern thrift and Minnesota tax incentives starts causing problems, and someone has been writ- keeping costs down, no doubt), with a strong showing nasty anonymous letters about him to the tenure ing of locals rounding out the cast.

One rarely registers autobiographical elements committee. Gopnik is a pious and humble man, and in a Coen brothers movie, but A Serious Man must God is totally messing with him.

Gopnik’s story is, of course, the story of Job— surely be full of them: doddering Hebrew teachers, paragon of perseverance in Jewish, Christian and supercilious rabbis, getting stoned in a yarmulke.

Islamic tradition. And since it’s a Coen brothers This seems like a project the Coens have been incumovie, A Serious Man is full of obvious and not-so- bating and refining for a long time, no doubt adding obvious references and allusions. Like O Brother, new details as they emerge from memory. For filmWhere Art Thou?, it takes a potentially wearisome makers otherwise so conspicuously lacking what high concept (being a modern-day version of the might be called a Midwestern sensibility, a real nosOdyssey, for example, or a period piece illustrating talgia for this culture—Jewish Minneapolis circa a Bible story) and spins it into something much 1967—shines through in A Serious Man. It’s still snarky, but affectionate nonetheless. grander and more satisfying.

Of course it’s not perfect. The Coens don’t It can make for somewhat distracted viewing, though, staying alert to every wink and nod and always know when to stop making fun of their chartrying to prevent any subtle symbol or reference acters, and the effect of caricature piled upon caricafrom slipping through the net. But I wasn’t aware ture can be a little tiresome. At their best, they do a of A Serious Man’s scriptural underpinnings going peerless job of portraying people as a bunch of selfinto it, so at least the work didn’t start right away. absorbed digestive canals occasionally bumping into I admit I wasn’t particularly excited about seeing each other, but when they get lazy they settle for potthis movie in the first place. Mostly because of the shots. Almost everybody in A Serious Man is an easy trailer, which derives its nerve-rattling martial target—a type, however carefully drawn. Michael cadence from the sound of a man’s head repeated- Shulberg, as Larry Gopnik, manages to both over- and ly bashed against a locker or something. Very underplay the role of the hapless Gopnik—somewhere between a nebbish and a shmo. antagonistic.

A Serious Man may not be to everyone’s liking, Also, the trailer makes it pretty plain that the movie will mark one of those periodic returns to but it’s a timely reminder of the Coens’ vitality. And snarky misanthropy for the Coens—the kind of versatility. And artistic freedom; this is what direcmovie they seem to make two a year of over long tors get to do once they win Oscars. The ending is weekends between bigger projects like O Brother probably more satisfying if you know the story of and No Country for Old Men. The results can be Job. That’s all I’m saying.

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Carmike 10: 5:20, 7:30 and 9:40 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1 and 3:10.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:15, 2:15, 4:55, 7:25 and 9:50 with midnight shows Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:25, 3:50, 7:10 and 9:35. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7 and 9 with additional Sat.–Sun. show at 1:45.

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Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 6:50 and 9:15 with Sat.–Sun. show at 1:30.

Entertainer in Ronan: 4, 6:50 and 9:20.

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FANTASTIC MR. FOX Wes Anderson dips his fingers into animated kids’ flicks with this story about a shrewd, chicken-snatching fox voiced by

Fri.–Sun. shows at 1:25 and 3:50.

Pharaoplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9, with Sat.–Sun. shows at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:30, 4, 6:45 and 9:30 with midnight shows Fri.–Sat. OLD DOGS John Travolta and Robin Williams play career junkies forced into paternity when twins land at their feet. Carmike 10: 5:20, 5:50, 7:30, 8, 9:40 and 10:10 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1, 1:30, 3:10 and 3:40. Pharaoplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with Sat.–Sun. show at 3 and no 9 show Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:10, 2:25, 4:50, 7:10 and 9:30 with midnight shows Fri.–Sat. and Mon–Thu. at 1:05, 3:30, 6:50 and 8:55. Showboat in Polson: 4:15, 7:10 and 9.

THE BOONDOCK SAINTS II: ALL SAINTS DAY Your favorite pistol packing Irish brothers that only kill evil people are back in Beantown, looking to off a slayer that murdered a good priest. Village 6: 7:20 and 10 with additional Fri.–Sun shows at 1:40 and 4:35.

PLANET 51 An astronaut sets foot on a new planet, only to discover aliens that embrace the corn-fed lifestyles of mainstream 1950s America. Village 6: 7:05 and 9:30 with an additional Fri. show at 1:45 and Fri.–Sun. shows at 4:35. Pharaoplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with additional Sat.–Sun. at 3 and no 9 show Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 2:25, 4:45, 7:10 and 9:35 with midnight shows Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:25, 4:05, 6:55 and 9:10.

BROTHERS Toby Maguire returns from deployment in Afghanistan, only to realize his bro Jake Gyllenhaal hooked up with his wife Natalie Portman. Who’s gonna win the dukeout?

Carmike 10: 4:15, 7:10 and 9:50 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:35. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at noon, 2:30, 5, 7:30 and 10 with midnight shows Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 3:45, 7 and 9:30.

EVERYBODY’S FINE Robert De Niro tries to reforge a relationship with his spawn after his wife dies, but will Drew Barrymore and Kate Beckinsale bite back? Carmike 10: 4:30, 7 and 9:30 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:45.

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A SERIOUS MAN A physics prof gets the shaft in more ways than one and turns to Judaic masters in this newest Coen brothers flick. Wilma Theatre: 7 and 9 nightly with Sun. matinees at 1 and 3.

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON A teen whose love was sucked dry by a vampire finds pleasant distraction through motorbikes, werewolves and American Indian history. Carmike 10: 4, 4:30, 7, 7:30, 9:50 and 10:10 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1 and 1:30. Village 6: 7 and 9:50 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1 and 4.

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Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4, 6:50 and 9:15 with Sat–Sun. show at 1:30.

Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4, 6:50 and 9:20.

OLIVIA WINTER WONDERLAND Your kids’ beloved animated oinker named Olivia hits the screen for this Christmasthemed cartoon. Village 6: 1 only on Sat.–Sun. TRANSYLMANIA A group of daft college kids get rowdy with vamps, tramps and other skintight-leather wearing freaks during a semester abroad in Transylvania. Village 6: 7:45 and 10 with additional Fri.–Sun. shows at 1, 3:15 and 5:30. Stadium 14: Fri.–Sun. at 12:25, 2:45, 5:10, 7:35 and 9:55 with midnight shows Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1:30, 4:05, 7:10 and 9:30.

NOW PLAYING 2012 John Cusack plays a divorced dad skirting the acrimony of Mother Earth as she goes cannibalistic on peeps. Carmike 10: 4:10 and 7:45 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1. Pharaoplex in Hamilton: 7 only, with Sat.–Sun. show at 3. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 1:15, 4:45 and8:30 with midnight shows Fri.–Sat. and Mon.–Thu. at 1. 4:15 and 8.

THE BLIND SIDE Sandra Bullock plays an upper crust mom who takes in a homeless teen and helps him realize his dreams of playing pigskin.

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All he wants is his copy of Goodnight Moon back. Brothers opens Friday at Carmike 10.

DISNEY’S A CHRISTMAS CAROL Jim Carey begs for laughs as the curmudgeonly Ebenezer Scrooge in this 3-D remake of Charles Dickens’ classic. Carmike 10: 4, 7 and 9:30 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:15. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:10, 2:30, 4:45, 7 and 9:15 and Mon.–Thu. at 1, 3:30, 6:30 and 9.

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NINJA ASSASSIN An ex-sword slinger plots vindication against his old coterie after they slay his buddy, but can he kill ‘em off himself?

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COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD Partners In Home Care will hold its 22nd Annual

Hospice Tree of Life Ceremony at Rose Memorial Park (Brooks & Mount) in Missoula on Wednesday December 9th at 6:30 pm.

A reception will follow at St Paul Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks (just four blocks east of the park) we will walk or drive amid a path of luminaries.

The Tree of Life is designed to raise public awareness of the availability of Hospice care. In addition to honoring the families and volunteers involved in Hospice, the program helps raise money to provide Hospice care for those without a pay source.

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Each light on the tree commemorates the life of a beloved family member or friend. You may honor a loved one by sending a donation to Partners Hospice 2687 Palmer Suite B Missoula MT 59808 or for more information call 327-3732.

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SHOW ME THE MONEY SHOT I have a knack for finding the lowest of the low in the trash piles of human existence. Being too nice and having low self-esteem has meant that I’ve dated a long list of losers. The most recent loser works with me. Without my knowledge, he took photos of us having sex, and e-mailed them to men at our workplace. I’m totally embarrassed. I wanted to press charges, but miraculously, no one claims to have seen these photos—unless they don’t want to humiliate me by saying so.

—Mortified If a man’s going to make your dream come true, it’s best it isn’t that one where you suddenly find yourself naked in front of everybody at work. The good news is, on the humiliation front, there’s no place to go but up: Toilet paper on your shoe, tuck your skirt into your pantyhose? You’re having a good day!

You could consider legal action.

Unlike in sexual harassment cases where somebody claims “After he said I had pretty hair, I could no longer do my job as an accountant,” your experience sounds like textbook “hostile workplace.”

According to law prof Kingsley Browne’s Biology at Work, that’s a work situation that’s “permeated with sexuality or ‘discriminatory intimidation, ridicule, and insult’” severe enough to change the conditions of the victim’s employment and create an abusive work environment. If you talk to a lawyer, you may find that you could have a pretty good case. After all, what could the guy’s defense possibly be, “I don’t have a kid so I thought I’d celebrate ‘Bring Your Girlfriend In A Compromising Position To Work Day’”?

But, even by winning a case, do you actually win? Just by filing suit, you’re probably setting yourself up for “The Streisand Effect”—which, unfortunately, doesn’t mean gay men will drop everything and fly across the globe whenever you sing anywhere but the shower. The term was coined after an aerial photo of Barbra Streisand’s Malibu home was one of about 12,000 included in an online database documenting coastal erosion.

These still shots of land eroding weren’t exactly garnering TMZ-style traffic—until Babs filed a $10 million lawsuit against the photographer to get the shot of her house removed, driving more than 420,000 people to view it in a single month.

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could end up, well…making a mountain out of a thigh mole. Try to remember that the maggot who did this to you is the one who’s gotten naked in the ugliest way— exposing himself as somebody who gets off on doing violence to a girl’s reputation.

What happened, was he no longer getting the same thrill out of Xeroxing his butt?

Barenaked Saturday didn’t show up on Bagel Monday because you’re “too nice,” but because you’re too willing to accept losers as your lot in life. Having low self-esteem isn’t the problem, either—it’s having it and not doing a damn thing about it. You can have a nice guy in your life—if you develop yourself into a person who feels she deserves it, and actually demands it. In the meantime, hold your head high. Time will pass, and eventually, feeling naked at the office will once again mean knowing that they can all see you forgot to wear earrings—not that you forgot to make an appointment at the waxer.

PERSISTENT COFFIN I’ve been dating my boyfriend for three years. His wife of 30 years died six years ago, but he still calls her “my wife,” talked about her in the bedroom until I got mad, and still mentions her constantly. When I got angry about that, he blew up and said he’d talk about her whenever and however he wants. I love him, but is this normal?

—Sad Heart Three’s a crowd, even if one of you is dead. Now, after 30 years, it’s normal that he’d still talk about her. To a point. Yet, there you are in bed, enjoying the afterglow, and he rolls over and says, “Betty and I went to the Ozarks one time. Had a great time. Doubt you and I could ever match it. Might as well stay home and talk about Betty!” What he really needs to talk about is whether he wants a new life or just an audience for the old one. In a neutral moment, tell him you know he loved her and had a wonderful life with her, but it hurts to always be hearing about her— and in a way that sounds like he’s married to her and getting some on the side from you. If he wants to be with you, he needs to act like he accepts that he lost his wife—and not just somewhere between Spencer’s Gifts and Cinnabon.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): When Carolee Schneeman was a kid, her extravagant adoration of nature earned her the nickname “mad pantheist.” Later, during her career as a visual artist, she described her relationship with the world this way: “I assume the senses crave sources of maximum information, that the eye benefits by exercise, stretch, and expansion towards materials of complexity and substance.” I hope that you’re attracted to that perspective right now, Aries. To be in most productive alignment with the cosmic rhythms, you should be in a state of nearly ecstatic openness, hungry to be stretched— like a mad pantheist.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Dear Rob: Last night my son and I were star-gazing. When we focused on the constellation Cassiopeia, an owl started hooting. Then a brilliant shooting star zipped by as a huge bat flew right over our heads. Was this a bad omen? Bats are creepy—associated with vampires. And in Greek mythology Cassiopeia got divine punishment because she bragged that she and her daughter were more beautiful than the sea god’s daughters. But I don’t know, maybe this blast of odd events was a good omen. Owls are symbols of wisdom and shooting stars are lucky, right? What do you think? Are we blessed or cursed? -Spooked Taurus.” Dear Spooked: The question of whether it’s good or bad luck is irrelevant. Here’s what’s important: You Tauruses are in a phase when the hidden workings of things will be shown to you—the mysterious magic that’s always bubbling below the surface but that is usually not visible.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The week ahead will be a ripe time to pull off magic reversals. May I suggest that you try to transform dishwater greys into sparkling golds? Or how about recycling the dead energy of a lost cause in such a way as to generate raw fuel for a fresh start? I’m confident, Gemini, that you’ll be able to discover treasure hidden in the trash, and that you’ll find a way to unleash the creative zeal that has been trapped inside polite numbness. Now ponder this riddle, please: Do you think there’s any mystical significance in the fact that the word “stressed” is “desserts” spelled backwards?

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “I burn for no reason, like a lantern in daylight,” writes poet Joseph Lease.

I think that’s a succinct formulation of one of your central issues, Leo. Burning for no reason, like a lantern in the daylight, can be the cause of either failure or success for you, depending on subtle differences of emphasis. This is how it can be failure: When you’re mindlessly and wastefully burning through your prodigious reserves of fuel without any concern for the benefits it may provide you and others.

This is how it can be success: When you are exuberant and self-disciplined in shining your light and radiating your warmth just because it feels so good and so right and so healthy, and without any thought about whether it’s “useful” to anyone.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): An estuary is a bay where the salt water of a sea mixes with the fresh water of rivers. These days you remind me of such a place. You are two-toned, Libra. You’re dualpurpose and double-tracked. You’re a hybrid blend of the yes and the no, the give and the take, the extravagant and the traditional. And somehow this has been working out pretty well for you. You’re not so much a dysfunctional contradiction as an interesting juxtaposition. You’re not being crushed by a squeeze of opposites so much as you’re getting massaged by the oscillating throbs of complementary influences. Keep doing what you’ve been doing, only more so.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Big shiny egos with flashy tricks may be mucking around in everyone’s business, calling narcissistic attention to themselves as they pretend to do noble deeds.

Meanwhile, I hope you’ll be doing the hard, detailed work that must be done to serve the greater good—quietly and unpretentiously improving people’s lives without demanding major tribute. That approach will stir up some sleek, silky karma that will come in handy when you undertake the building of your masterpiece in 2010.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Lately you remind me of the person Robert Hass describes in his poem “Time and Materials”: “someone falling down and getting up and running and falling and getting up.” I’m sending you my compassion for the times you fall down, and my admiration for the times you get up, and my excitement for the times you run. It has probably become clear to you by now that the falling down isn’t a shameful thing to be cursed, but rather is an instrumental part of the learning process that is teaching you marvelous secrets about getting back up and running.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In one of his short poems, John Averill (twitter.com/wiremesa) describes a scene that I think captures the essence of your current astrological omens: “Today is the day of the photo of moonrise over Havana in a book on a shelf in the snowbound cabin.”

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Dear Rob: I love to be proven wrong. That’s not an ironic statement. I actually get excited and feel creative when I acquire new information that shows me I’ve been operating under a misunderstanding. One of my very favorite life moments occurs when I am convincingly liberated from a negative opinion I’ve been harboring about someone. As you can tell, I’m quite proud of this quality. The way I see it, emotional wealth and psychological health involve having so much self-respect that I don’t need to be right all the time. -Sagittarian Freedom Fighter.” Dear Freedom Fighter: Thanks for your testimony. The capacity you described is one that many Sagittarians will be poised to expand in 2010. And this is an excellent week for them to start getting the hang of it.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In an early version of the tale of Pinocchio, friendly woodpeckers chiseled his nose back to its original size after it had grown enormous from his incorrigible lying. From a metaphorical perspective, Capricorn, a comparable development may soon occur in your own life. A benevolent (if somewhat rough) intervention akin to the woodpeckers’ assistance will shrink an overgrown, top-heavy part of your attitude, allowing you to proceed to the next chapter of your story with streamlined grace.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “There is light enough for those who wish to see,” wrote French philosopher Blaise Pascal, “and darkness enough for those of the opposite disposition.” I’m hoping you will align yourself with the first group in the coming week, Aquarius. More than ever before, what you choose to focus on will come rushing in to meet you, touch you, teach you, and prompt you to respond. Even if all the smart people you know seem to be drunk on the darkness, I encourage you to be a brave rebel who insists on equal time for the light.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): White dwarfs are small and extremely dense stars. They’re typically no bigger than the Earth but as heavy as the sun. You currently have a resemblance to one of those concentrated balls of pure intensity. I have rarely seen you offering so much bang for the buck. You are as flavorful as chocolate mousse, as piercing as the scent of eucalyptus, as lustrous as a fireworks display on a moonless night. Personally, I’m quite attracted to your saucy and zesty emanations, and I think most people with strong egos will be. But some underachievers with lower self-esteem may regard you as being more like astringent medicine. My advice: Gravitate toward those who like you to be powerful.

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Frosty hopes lots of dogs will be taken to Petsmart on Dec. 1213 to have their pictures taken with "Santa Claws." It makes her smile just to think about how much money this raises for needy pets!

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Sophie reminds animal lovers that the weekend of Dec. 12-13 is the time to create a great holiday memento by having their pets' pictures taken with "Santa Claws" at Petsmart. Pets love it, and it raises lots of money for charity too!

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BANDIT

Bandit really wishes he could have his picture taken with "Santa Claws" when Friends of the Shelter will be doing that at Petsmart on Dec. 12-13. He knows that this group has helped many animals get adopted from the shelter.

DEXTER

Dexter is even more handsome in person!

He is a young, gorgeous retriever mix with as much style as he has grace! Look out though, there is no tiring this guy out! Dexter is energetic and fun with tons to offer. It can't hurt to meet this charmer!

H O L LY H O C K

Hollyhock is a little camera-shy, but she still hopes that lots of money is raised when Friends of the Shelter takes pictures of pets with "Santa Claws" Dec. 12-13 at Petsmart.

That money helps lots of shelter animals.

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We know it's a silly name, but who are we to judge? The cool thing about Tuna is he's the type of guy who doesn't let something like a silly name bother him. He's an easy going, smooth sailing, mellow fellow!

NICKEL

You might be able to tell something is off by the photo, but this little guy can't see out of his left eye.

Sadly, as a kitten he was brought in suffering from a severe eye infection that caused too much damage to that eye.

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Charlie had some health problems when he came to the shelter, so he's glad that Friends of the Shelter can help with the cost of pets' medical care. He says, "Support Friends; get your pet's picture taken with Santa Claws Dec. 12-13!"

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CHARLI

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Dolly is a beautiful, sweet girl who has always been on the thin side. Even though she has food 24 hours a day and has the thumbs up from the vet, we think she just really doesn't like being in the shelter.

AFRO SAMURAI

Afro Samurai is always on the go, hence the name. This young man, who is just under a year old, came to us from another shelter that was overrun with cats. We couldn't be happier that we were lucky enough to meet this energetic fellow.

HYDROX

This handsome guy was so affectionate during our feral cat spay and neuter clinic that we knew he had been abandoned somewhere down the road and was not actually feral. He has very cute markings and is always talking to us.

BETTY

It's tough to get a good picture of Betty that shows how cute she really is. She is a petite cat who is about 7 months old and has been at the AniMeals shelter for quite a while. She is very affectionate and is always sitting by her kennel door waiting for someone to come in and love her.

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The Montana Department of Livestock has taken up the strayed animals listed below on the 25th day of November 2009 4 miles south of Lolo, Mt on the David McClay Ranch. The strayed animals will sell at Missoula Livestock Exchange on the 10th day of December 2009 at 1:00 p.m. The animals described are as follows: One Sorrel Mare, No Brand, 6-7 years old, weighing approximately 900 lbs. One Dun Mare, No Brand, 5-6 years old, weighing approximately 950 lbs.

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Daniel Morgan Andrew Pierce 433 W. Alder • 830-3875 Missoula County Government

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

1.Rezoning Request – 1311 E. Broadway (former Missoula Athletic Club site) A request from Rick Wishcamper and Mike Bouchee of Rocky Mountain Development Group, Inc. to rezone property located on at 1311 E. Broadway from OP-3 (Public Lands and Institutional) to C1-3 (Neighborhood Commercial, Intensity Designator = 3), legally described as Lot 2B of Gateway Gardens No. 1 Lots 1B and 2B Subdivision, located in Sec. 23, T13N, R19W (see Map Z) The City Council will conduct a public hearing this item at 7:00 p.m. on

Monday, January 11, 2009, in the City Council Chambers at 140 West Pine Street in Missoula.

Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged. The request and exact legal description is available for public inspection at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, City Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana. Telephone 2584657.

If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-4657. The City of Missoula will provide auxiliary aids and services.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT AMENDED NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on March 15, 2010, at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the followingdescribed property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Tract B of Certificate of Survey No. 4367 located in the Northeast one-quarter Section 29, Township 13 North, Range 20 West and West one-half of the Northwest one-quarter of the Northwest one-quarter of Section 28, Township 13 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. Jeffrey S. Malek, as Grantor, conveyed the real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to First Security Bank of Missoula, as Beneficiary, by Trust Indenture dated

June 11, 2008, and recorded June 16, 2008, as Document No. 200813295 records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded October 30, 2009, in Book 849, Page 1241, Document No. 200925993, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $150,135.00, plus interest at a rate of 6.850% totaling $3,520.79 and late fees of $156.27, for a total amount due of $153,812.06, as of October 29, 2009, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs.

The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the abovedescribed property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 3rd day of November, 2009. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula). On this 3rd day of November, 2009, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: 5/7/2013 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT AMENDED NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on March 22, 2010, at 10:00 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the followingdescribed property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lots 9 and 10 in Block 81 of School Addition, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Jeffrey S. Malek, as Grantor, conveyed the real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to First Security Bank of Missoula, as Beneficiary, by Trust Indenture dated November 15, 2007, and recorded that same date in Book 808, Page 1633, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded October 2, 2009, in Book 848, Page 631, Document No. 200923984, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $210,040.72, plus interest at a rate of 7.5% totaling $6,743.62 and late fees of $231.00, for a total amount due of $217,015.34, as of October 23, 2009, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs.

The Beneficiary has elected, and does

hereby elect, to sell the abovedescribed property to satisfy the obligation referenced above. The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 6th day of November, 2009. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula). On this 6th day of November, 2009, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: 5/7/2013 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT AMENDED NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on March 22, 2010, at 10:15 a.m., on the front (south) steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Parcel I: Tract 1 of Certificate of Survey No. 4358, a tract of land located in the Southeast onequarter of Section 34 and the Southwest one-quarter of Section 35, Township 12 North, Range 17 West, P.M.M., Missoula County, Montana.

Parcel II: TOGETHER WITH a nonexclusive easement for ingress and egress as shown on Certificate of Survey No. 1744. Jeffrey S. Malek, as Grantor, conveyed the real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to First Security Bank of Missoula, as Beneficiary, by Trust Indenture dated November 15, 2007, and recorded that same date in Book 808, Page 1635, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded October 2, 2009, in Book 848, Page 632, Document No. 200923985, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Trust Indenture, and for which default of this foreclosure is made, is for failure to pay the monthly payments as and when due. Pursuant to the provisions of the Trust Indenture, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such Trust Indenture immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $210,040.72, plus interest at a rate of 7.5% totaling $6,743.62 and late fees of $231.00, for a total amount due of $217,015.34, as of October 23, 2009, plus the costs of foreclosure, attorney’s fees, trustee’s fees, escrow closing fees, and other accruing costs. The Beneficiary has elected, and does hereby elect, to sell the above-described property to satisfy the obligation referenced above.

The Beneficiary declares that the Grantor is in default as described above and demands that the Trustee sell the property described above in accordance with terms and provisions of this Notice. DATED 6th day of November, 2009. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA)) ss.

County of Missoula). On this 6th day of November, 2009, before me, the undersigned, a Notary Public for the State of Montana, personally appeared Kevin S. Jones, Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the within instrument, and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above written. (SEAL) /s/ Christy Shipp, Notary Public for the State of Montana Residing at: Missoula, Montana. My Commission Expires: 5/7/2013

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS The Seeley Lake-Missoula County Sewer District is soliciting proposals for the services of District Manager/Consultant until December 23, 2009, at 3 p.m. at P.O. Box 403, Seeley Lake, Montana 59868.

Contingent upon the award of funding from federal and state grant programs including the Treasure State Endowment Program (TSEP), the State and Tribal Assistance Grant / Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) grant, and annual County tax revenue, the Sewer District is soliciting proposals for District Manager / Consultant to assist the Sewer Board in operations of the Sewer District. Most of the services will be provided in the Seeley Lake Sewer District area, although some travel is required out of the Sewer District. The services to be provided may include: Assisting Board with monthly board meetings, and other meetings to achieve its goals; Assisting Board in the acquisition of property or leases necessary for wastewater collection systems; Assisting Board to acquire and maintain funding from local, state and federal agencies for designated wastewater collection system projects; Assisting Board in designing, construction and inspection of wastewater collection systems, including working with the Engineering firm as directed; Payment terms will be negotiated with the selected respondent.

Copies of the detailed request for proposals (RFP), including a description of the services to be provided by respondents, the minimum content of responses, and the factors to be used to evaluate the responses, can be obtained by contacting Glen Morin, President, Seeley Lake Sewer District, P.O. Box 403, Seeley Lake, Montana 59868, (406) 677-2141.

The District is an equal opportunity employer. Women and minority businesses are encouraged to apply. The District makes reasonable accommodations for any known disability that may interfere with an applicant’s ability to compete in the recruitment and selection process or the respondent’s ability to perform the essential duties of the job. In order for the District to make such accommodations, the applicant must make known any needed accommodation by contacting Glen Morin, (406) 677-2141.

Persons using a relay device may contact the Montana Relay Service, 711.

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION for the issuance of an AIR QUALITY PERMIT Source: Gravel Crushing Plant Applicant: Harris Sand & Gravel The Missoula City-County Health Department has received a complete application for an Air Quality Permit for a gravel crushing plant to be operated at the following location: S of Section 2, Township 12 North, Range 20 West at 5000 Blue Mountain Road in Missoula County. Upon review of the permit application and other information, the Department finds that Harris Sand & Gravel has filed a complete application indicating the proposed facility is capable of meeting applicable requirements of the Air Pollution Control Program.

Therefore, the Department hereby gives notice of the preliminary determination to issue an Air Quality Permit to Harris Sand & Gravel to operate the gravel crushing plant.

The permit will be issued with several conditions attached.

The Department will make a final determination concerning the application on December 21, 2009. Any interested person may review a copy of the application and proposed permit at the Environmental Health Division of the Health Department, 301 West Alder, Missoula, MT 59802. Call (406)258-4755 for more information.

Written comments on the preliminary determination will be accepted until 9:00 AM on December 21, 2009.

Comments should be sent to the attention of Benjamin Schmidt, Air Quality Specialist (email schmidtb@ho.missoula.mt.us).

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PRELIMINARY DETERMINATION for the issuance of an AIR QUALITY PERMIT Source: Regional Landfill Applicant: Allied Waste Services The Missoula City-County Health Department has received a complete application to modify the Allied Waste Services Landfill Air Quality Permit to include a 52 horsepower portable emergency generator at the following location: Section 8 & 9, Township 13 North, Range 19 West at 3737 Coal Mine Road in Missoula County. Upon review of the permit application and other information, the Department finds that Allied Waste Services has filed a complete application indicating the proposed facility is capable of meeting applicable requirements of the Air Pollution Control Program.

Therefore, the Department hereby gives notice of the preliminary determination to issue an Air Quality Permit to Allied Waste Services to operate the landfill with the proposed emergency generator. The permit will be issued with several conditions attached. The Department will make a final determination concerning the application on December 21, 2009.

Any interested person may review a copy of the application and proposed permit at the Environmental Health Division of the Health Department, 301 West Alder, Missoula, MT 59802. Call (406)258-4755 for more information. Written comments on the preliminary determination will be accepted until 9:00 AM on December 21, 2009. Comments should be sent to the attention of Benjamin Schmidt, Air Quality Specialist (email schmidtb@ho.missoula.mt.us).

MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a County Commissioners will hold a public hearing to consider consolidating precincts and polling places in Missoula County. The proposed changes to the Precincts and Polling Places are being recommended for the following reasons: Reducing the Cost of Elections, Printing of Ballots, Coding of Ballots for tabulating equipment, Coding of Ballots for Accessible Voting Equipment, Reduction of Personnel Costs (Election Judges). Recruitment & Training of Election Judges.

Reducing Polling Places will provide back-up AutoMark machines for polling places. Absentee voting represents approximately 50% of voter turnout for each election. A PUBLIC HEARING on the above will be held before the Board of County Commissioners at their regular weekly public meeting on Wednesday, December 16, 2009 at 1:30 p.m., Room 201, MISSOULA County Courthouse. Interested parties are requested to be present at that time to be heard for or against the consolidation of precincts and polling places.

Written comments will be accepted by the Commissioners’ Office, Room 210, Missoula County Courthouse, prior to the hearing date. /s/ Vickie M. Zeier Clerk & Recorder /Treasurer 200 W. Broadway St. Missoula, MT 59802 (406) 721-5700, Ext. 3234 Date: November 25, 2009 MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT SHERIFF’S SALE Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DV-08-1552 JOSEPH T. BERLIN AND MARTHA M. BERLIN, Plaintiffs, Against MAGNOLIA ENTERPRISES, LLC, COLBERT P. HOWELL, BARBARA J. HOWELL, NORTHWEST ACCEPTANCE CORP., BARBARA JEAN HOWELL as TRUSTEE of the REVOCABLE INTERVIVOS VIRGINIA-BELL NEILSON TRUST, and DENNIS DeVAR NEILSON, Defendants. To Be Sold at Sheriff’s Sale: TERMS: CASH, or its equivalent; NO personal checks

On the 6th day of January A.D., 2010, at Ten 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: Lots 3, 4 and 5 of NEILSON ADDITION, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Together with all and singular the tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. Dated this 3rd day of December A.D., 2009.

MICHAEL R. McMEEKIN Sheriff of Missoula County, Montana By: /s/Patrick A. Turner, Deputy Montana 6th Judicial District Count, Park County Your Case No. DG-09-16 NOTICE OF HEARING In the Matter of Guardianship of: Baylee Anne Phelan, a Minor, Cynthia D. Kruhmin, Petitioner.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE: On November 26th, 2009, Petitioner, Cynthia D. Kruhmin filed a Petition asking to be appointed guardian of the above-named minor child.

The Petition has been set for hearing in the Montana 6th Judicial District Court, Park County, Montana, located at 414 East Callendar Street, Livingston, Montana, on December 21st, 2009 at 11:30 o’clock am.

A copy of the Order Setting Hearing is attached hereto. Further documents filed in this case can be reviewed upon request by contacting the Clerk of the Court for Park County at the address listed above. DATED This 25th day of November, 2009. Cynthia D. Kruhmin Petitioner MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 4 Cause No. DP-09-186 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY LELA CIK, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed as Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said estate are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to James P. Cik, at St. Peter Law Offices, P.C., 2620 Radio Way, PO Box 17255, Missoula, MT 59808 or filed with the Clerk of the aboveentitled Court. DATED this 4th day of November, 2009. /s/ James P. Cik, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Department No. 4 Cause Probate No. DP09-190 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF DAVID C. GILLIGAN, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said deceased are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be mailed to Carma Jean Gilligan, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested at GEORGE LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 210 North Higgins Ave., Suuite 234, Missoula, Montana 59802, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED November 18th, 2009. /s/ Carma Jean Gilligan, Personal Representative.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Case No. DV-09-1349 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PROPOSED NAME CHANGE In the Matter of the Name Change of Jesse David Janssen Sr., Petitioner. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Petitioner, Jesse David Janssen, Sr. has petitioned the District Court for the 4th Judicial District for a change of name from Jesse David Janssen, Sr. to Jesse David Nenemay, and the petition for name change will be heard by a District Court Judge on the 31st day of December, 2009 at 9:00 a.m. in the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway, Missoula in courtroom number 2S. At any time before the hearing objections may be filed by any person who can demonstrate good reasons against the change of name. DATED this 19th day of November, 2009. /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of Court By: Michelle Vipp, Deputy Clerk of Court.

NOTICE OF DEFAULT, ELECTION TO SELL AND NOTICE OF SALE UNDER MONTANA TRUST INDENTURE Pursuant to the terms and conditions of that certain Montana Trust Indenture hereinafter identified and referred to, the Trustee thereunder, hereby gives Notice of Default, Election to Sell and Notice of Sale as to that Trust Indenture as follows: TRUST INDENTURE The GRANTOR is DAVID W. STEWART, of 3017 River Bend Drive, Bonner, Montana 59823, the original TRUSTEE is STEWART TITLE OF MISSOULA COUNTY, INC., of 320 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59801, the

successor TRUSTEE is DAVID L. VICEVICH, Attorney At Law, of 2801 South Montana Street, Butte, Montana 59701, and the BENEFICIARIES are ROBERT NEHLS and DONNA NEHLS, whose mailing addresses are 166 Lyndale Road, Butte, Montana 59701, as to an undivided 50% interest under that Montana Trust Indenture dated July 23, 2008, and VERNON OPP, whose mailing address is 3405 Vista Lane, Butte, Montana 59701, as to an undivided 50% interest under that Montana Trust Indenture dated July 23, 2008. DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY Lot 5 of River Bend Addition, a Platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official plat thereof. RECORDING INFORMATION The Trust Indenture herein referred to, of Montana Trust Indenture dated July 23, 2008 is recorded in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, in Book 823, Page 660, and was so recorded on July 23, 2008. DEFAULT AND SUM OWING The Default for which this foreclosure sale is made is failure by the GRANTOR, or any person, to pay the monthly installments due on the Promissory Note for which the Trust Indenture was given as security. The following sums are now due and owing to the present BENEFICIARIES, from the GRANTOR or his successors, in interest on the obligations secured by the said Trust indenture; A total breakdown of the delinquency is as follows: The Principal amount due is $13,533.28; the interest due is $13,420.55; and late charges due are $511.64; and escrow fees and IRS penalties due are $236.00; if any, for a total delinquent balance of $27,701.47 as of August 24, 2009. The remaining principal balance plus interest and fees on this Promissory Note was $159,168.19. The remaining principal balance plus interest on said note is now due and owing together with costs and expenses incurred by the TRUSTEE and/or BENEFICIARIES, with accrued interest at the rate of Fourteen (14%) percent per annum, from the date of expenditure thereof, and reasonable TRUSTEE’s and attorney’s fee as provided for by Mont.

Code Ann. § 71-1-320 and the sum owing on the obligations under said Trust Indenture is as above stated. ELECTION TO SELL That by reason of the Default as hereinabove set forth, as to said Trust Indenture the BENEFICIARIES have elected to consider all of the principal and interest due, in accordance with the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture, and the Promissory Note secured thereby, and have elected to sell the property to satisfy the obligations and have requested the TRUSTEE to proceed to do so. DATE AND TIME OF SALE The TRUSTEE will sell said property on January 22, 2010 at 11:00 a.m., Mountain Standard Time or Daylight Savings Time, whichever is in effect at said time and place. PLACE OF SALE The sale will be held at the principal place of business of the TRUSTEE, at the Broadway Street entrance to the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802. TERMS OF SALE This sale is a public sale and any person, including the BENEFICIARIES, (excepting only the undersigned TRUSTEE) may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid in cash with conveyance being made by TRUSTEE’s Deed. The sale purchasers shall be entitled to possession of the property on the tenth (10th) day following the sale, and any person remaining in possession after that date, shall be deemed to be a tenant at will. The original of the Notice is recorded in the office of the County Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana, and a copy of this notice has been mailed by Certified Mail, Return Receipt Requested to the GRANTOR at 3017 River Bend Drive, Bonner, Montana 59823; and to the County Treasurer of Missoula County, Missoula County Courthouse, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Montana 59802. DATED THIS 24th DAY OF August, 2009. /s/ DAVID L. VICEVICH, TRUSTEE STATE OF MONTANA ) :ss. County of Silver Bow) On this 24th day of August, 2009, before me the undersigned, a notary public in and for the State of Montana personally appeared the TRUSTEE, DAVID L. VICEVICH, of Butte, Montana, and acknowledged to me that he executed the foregoing instrument.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunder set my hand and affixed my notarial seal on the day and year first above written. {Seal} /s/ Sandy James Notary Public for the State of Montana Printed Name: Sandy James Residing at: Butte My Commission Expires: 8/10/2011 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 06/08/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200613760, Book 776, Page 568, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Lindsey Doe, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Title Services was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Title Services as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 44A of Cook’s Addition, Block 1, Lots 40 through 45, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in

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

According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 12/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 7, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $149,323.53. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $136,231.84, 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 February 16, 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# 7023.01566) 1002.114050-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/22/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200534296 Bk. 766, Pg. 944, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Karen L. Rausch, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Unit B as shown and defined in the Declaration of Unit Ownership for KTT Townhomes Owners Association, Inc. as recorded June 5, 2009 in Book 840 of Micro Records, Page 1322, records of Missoula County, Montana and as amended by Amendment to KTT Townhomes Owners Association, Inc., Declaration of Unit Ownership recorded July 6, 2009, located on the South one-half of Lot 2 in Block 1 of Mosby’s Leisure Highlands Addition No. 5, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Together with an interest in the General Common Elements and an interest in the Limited Common Elements as set forth in the Declaration of Unit Ownership for KTT Townhomes Owners Association, Inc. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200822123, Book 826, Page 1307, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, NA, as Trustee for NHEL Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 2006-WF1. 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 05/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 5, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $130,229.51.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $110,092.74, 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 February 12, 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, whereis basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale. The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.17630) 1002.99755-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 12/22/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200534297 Bk. 766, Pg. 945, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Karen L. Rausch, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Unit A as shown and defined in the Declaration of Unit Ownership for KTT Townhomes Owners Association, Inc. as recorded June 5, 2009 in Book 840 of Micro Records, Page 1322, records of Missoula County, Montana and as amended by Amendment to KTT Townhomes Owners Association, Inc., Declaration of Unit Ownership recorded July 6, 2009, located on the South one-half of Lot 2 in Block 1 of Mosby’s Leisure Highlands Addition No. 5, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Together with an interest in the General Common Elements and an interest in the Limited Common Elements as set forth in the Declaration of Unit Ownership for KTT Townhomes Owners Association, Inc. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200822127, Book 826, Page 1311, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to HSBC Bank USA, NA, as Trustee for NHEL Home Equity Loan Trust, Series 2006-WF1. 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 05/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 5, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $181,082.14.

This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $146,664.08, 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 February 12, 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, whereis basis. Grantor, successor in interest to Grantor or any other person having an interest in the Property may, at any time prior to the trustee’s sale, pay to Beneficiary the entire amount then due on the Loan (including foreclosure costs and expenses actually incurred and trustee’s and attorney’s fees) other than such portion of the principal as would not then be due had no default occurred. Tender of these sums shall effect a cure of the defaults stated above (if all nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the fore-

closure 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# 7023.17629) 1002.99756-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/08/99, recorded as Instrument No. BK 568, PG 2227, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Richard A. Sandefur and Wendy L. Sandefur, husband and wife was Grantor, North America Mortgage Company was Beneficiary and First Montana Title & Escrow, Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded First Montana Title & Escrow, Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 7 of Huson Heights, a platted Subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200704460, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 06/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 6, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $102,424.15. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $98,623.37, 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 February 16, 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 nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.06728) 1002.135536-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 01/02/09, recorded as Instrument No. 200900662, B 831, P 1092, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Patrick J. Daugherty, a single person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title & Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee.

The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot 5 in Block 2 of Alff 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 07/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 16, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $224,815.34. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $220,351.17, 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 February 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 nonmonetary defaults are also cured) and shall result in Trustee’s termination of the foreclosure and cancellation of the foreclosure sale.

The trustee’s rules of auction may be accessed at www.northwesttrustee.com and are incorporated by the reference. You may also access sale status at www.Northwesttrustee.com or USAForeclosure.com. (TS# 7023.07709) 1002.136225-FEI Notice of Trustee’s Sale T.S. No. 09 0006140 Title Order No. 090053974 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 03/31/2010, 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 DEAN O BAKER, AND DARLA J BAKER as Grantors, conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON, ATTORNEYAT LAW as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC., as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 07/13/2005 and recorded 07/14/2005, in document No. 200517442 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 755 at Page Number 1490 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County, Montana; being more particularly described as follows: LOT 2 IN BLOCK 1 OF CANYON VIEW SUBDIVISION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Property Address: 714 MONTANA AVE, MISSOULA, MT 59802-5525 The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held by COUNTRYWIDE HOME LOANS SERVICING, L.P. 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 08/01/2008, and all subsequent installments together with late charges as set forth in said Note and Deed of Trust, advances, assessments and attorney fees, if any. TOGETHER WITH ANY DEFAULT IN THE PAYMENT OF RECURRING OBLIGATIONS AS THEY BECOME DUE. By reason of said default, the beneficiary has declared all sums owing on the obligation secured by said Trust Deed immediately due and payable said sums being the following: The unpaid principal balance of $136,718.89 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 5.625% per annum from 07/01/2008 until paid, plus all accrued late charges, escrow advances, attorney fees and costs, and any other sums incurred or advanced by the beneficiary pursuant to the terms and conditions of said Trust Indenture.

The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

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Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. Dated: 11/26/2009 RECONTRUST COMPANY, N.A. Successor Trustee 2380 Performance Dr, TX2-985-07-03 Richardson, TX 75082 ASAP# 3344699 11/26/2009, 12/03/2009, 12/10/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 1, 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: Lot 36 B of Country Crest No. 3 A. Lots 36 A & 36 B. A Platted Subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana. According to the official recorded plat thereof. Stephanie T Descharme and Aaron Jones, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Deborah J. Bishop, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated November 16, 2007 and Recorded November 21, 2007 in Book 809, page 264 in Document No.200730363. The beneficial interest is currently held by Aurora Loan Services, LLC. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $3830.94, beginning February 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 22, 2009 is $451,755.78 principal, interest at the rate of 7.875% now totaling $22,799.37, Sate charges in the amount of $330.64, escrow advances of $3,009.52 and other fees and expenses advanced of $226.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $98.82 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, 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 22, 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 September 22, 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. Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 09/22/2012 ASAP# 3356268 12/03/2009, 12/10/2009, 12/17/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 1, 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: Tract 1A-1 Certificate of Survey No. 5439, located in and being a Portion of the N1/2 of Section 27, Township 12 North, Range 17 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. MURIEL J SIMMONS, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to

Stewart Title of Missoula County, Inc, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 6, 2008 and recorded May 12, 2008 in Book 818, Page 1056, under Document No. 200810680. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC MORTGAGE, LLC. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,079.61, beginning June 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 September 30, 2009 is $182,735.57 principal, interest at the rate of 5.750% now totaling $4,337.27, late charges in the amount of $269.90, escrow advances of $126.19, other fees and expenses advanced of $1,416.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $28.79 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, 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 24, 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 September 24, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Nicole Schafer Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 03/28/2011 ASAP# 3358261 12/03/2009, 12/10/2009, 12/17/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 12, 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: Lot 9 in Block 2 of West Riverside, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Frank L. Sonnenberg, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Fidelity National Title Ins. Comp., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated March 31, 2006 and recorded on June 3, 2006 under Book 773, Page 868, as Document No. 200610119. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage LLC. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana.

The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $829.91, beginning October 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of August 24, 2009 is $99,311.99 principal, interest at the rate of 7.125% now totaling $7,428.70, late charges in the amount of $397.18, escrow advances

of $873.09 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,742.54, plus accruing interest at the rate of $19.39 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, 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 8, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On September 8, 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. ASAP# 3336390 11/19/2009, 11/26/2009, 12/03/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 12, 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: Lots 21 and 22 in Block 29 of Hammond Addition No. 3, A Platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Leslie Largay, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Title Services, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to National City Mortgage a division of National City Bank, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated December 8, 2006 and Recorded December 13, 2006 in Book 788, Page 1168 under Document Number 200631899. The beneficial interest is currently held by National City Bank. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $3,930.21, beginning June 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 25, 2009 is $674,367.73 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $12,509.86, late charges in the amount of $495.24 and other fees and expenses advanced of $438.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $108.55 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

PUBLIC NOTICES 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 4, 2009 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On September 4, 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. Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 09/22/2012 ASAP# 3336381 11/19/2009, 11/26/2009, 12/03/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on January 19, 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: Unit B-2 of Grandvue Village, according to the Declaration under the unit ownership act recorded as Document No. 443148, on March 27, 1979, located on Lots 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 in Block 2 of Hillside Homes No. 1, A platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Together with an undivided 1/20th interest in the common elements appurtenant thereto as set forth in the declaration. Francis R. Cartier, Jr., as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Gregory G. Schultz, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust Dated November 1, 2005 and Recorded November 2, 2008 in Book 763, Page 704, as Document No. 200529212. The beneficial interest is currently held by PHH Mortgage Corporation. 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 $947.26, beginning October 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 24, 2009 is $150,469.10 principal, interest at the rate of 6.125% now totaling $9,014.22, iate charges in the amount of $473.50, escrow advances of $5,013.38, other fees and expenses advanced of $2,968.90, plus accruing interest at the rate of $25.25 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, 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 9, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. BOX 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On September 9, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3341868 11/19/2009, 11/26/2009, 12/03/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on Tuesday, the 5th day January, 2010, at the hour of 1:00 p.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 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 SAMUEL J. POLK and ALICIA D. POLK, in and to the following described real property, situated in Missoula, Montana, to wit: GROUND LEASE PARCEL A8, CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 5715 BEING A PORTION OF LOT A OF CLARK FORK COMMONS, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. AND THE LEASEHOLD ESTATE CREATED

BY THE GROUND LEASE AGREEMENT BETWEEN CLARK FORK COMMONS, INC., AND SAMUEL J. POLK DATED SEPTEMBER 1, 2006. The Real Property or its address is commonly known as 1401 Cedar St., Unit 16, Missoula, MT 59802. 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 September 1, 2006, in Book 782 at page 544, as Document No. 200622504 in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, State of Montana, wherein SAMUEL J. POLK and ALICIA D. POLK are Grantors, FIRST INTERSTATE BANK is the named Beneficiary, and FIRST AMERICAN TITLE MISSOULA is the named Trustee; that certain Appointment of Successor Trustee dated August 21, 2009, and recorded August 24, 2009, in the records of the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana, in Book 846 at page 412 as Document No. 200920967, wherein the Beneficiary substituted Trustee First American Title Missoula with Martin S. King, attorney at law, as Successor Trustee. This foreclosure is made because the Grantors, SAMUEL J. P0LK and ALICIA D. POLK, have defaulted in the terms of said Deed of Trust and the corresponding Promissory Note in that they have failed to pay the monthly payments 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 One Hundred Ten Thousand Three Hundred Seventy-eight and 07/100 Dollars ($110,378.07), 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 One Hundred Ten Thousand Three Hundred Seventy-eight and 07/100 Dollars ($110,378.07) in principal; Six Thousand Five Hundred Ninety and 68/100 Dollars ($6,590.88) in interest; and Three Hundred Thirty-four and 22/100 Dollars ($334.22) in late fees, One Thousand Two Hundred Seventy-nine and 25/100 Dollars ($1,279.25) in escrow advances, totaling the sum of One Hundred Eighteen Thousand Five Hundred Eighty-two and 22/100 Dollars ($118,582.22), together with costs and expenses of foreclosure and related trustee fees, costs and attorney fees allowable by law. DATED this 26th day of August, 2009. /s/ Martin S. King, Successor Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA) :ss.

County of Missoula). ON THE 26th 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 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. My commission expires January 24, 2012

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www.mindypalmer.com

Well-maintained 3BD house, 45 minutes from Missoula, hardwood floors, storage shed, updated appliances. $125,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185. www.YourMT.com

LAND FOR SALE 19,602 SQ FT lot in Mullan Road area with great views.

Sewer stubbed to the lot. Close to river access, golf and shopping $89,900 MLS# 908063 riceteam@winder mere.com Janet 532-7903 or Robin 2 4 0 - 6 5 0 3 . Te x t : 4 4 1 3 3 Message:12890 for pics 3.5 ACRES ON PETTY CREEK. Great location less that 3 miles from I-90. Awesome building spot overlooking creek and with valley/mountain views. Builder available. $185,000.

Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 2396696, Text Mindy14 to 74362, or visit...

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Two 5 acre parcels

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

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

Cell 406-544-2125 • mmarry@bigsky.net

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LOOKING FORWARD TO 2010

By Bryan Flaherty, President, MOR While retailers are busy analyzing the results of Black Friday, the real estate industry is continuing to watch 2009 real estate numbers for what they say about the year that is quickly coming to a close – and what they might foretell for the new year just around the corner.

The Missoula market will end this year with a decline in the number of sales for the third consecutive year. That is neither a surprise nor a cause for alarm, considering that from 2002-2005 there was an increase in the number of sales. The years between 2002-2005 were the culmination of an uncharacteristic expansion in the housing market lasting 15 years, more than twice the usual 7-year cycle of expansion and contraction.

Taking into account the increases and decreases, the period between 2002 and 2009 actually comes

close to reflecting a normal 7-year real estate cycle.

What was not normal was the extreme fluctuation within that period. The perfect storm of events, which fed the expansion, resulted in sales and price levels that could not be sustained. As the old saying goes, “The higher you fly, the harder you fall.” Thus the contraction of the real estate market in that period, while normally a predictable and healthy part of the dynamic, was more noticeable and created more significant consequences.

In order to put some of the numbers into perspective, the following are some things to keep in mind: • Missoula has a healthy real estate market outside of foreclosures and short sales.

• Although prices have fallen, they're not dropping as dramatically as in other parts of the country

NEW LISTING • • • •

$1,495,000 MLS# 907850

OPEN HOUSE • Sun. 12/6 noon-2pm

George & Anita Bailey (406) 240-3016 GeorgeandAnitaBailey@blackfoot.net

$249,000 MLS# 907872

2111 Trail St Missoula

$395,000 MLS# 903486

PRICE REDUCTION • • • •

$1,100,000

Magenta Meadows

MLS# 807578

PRICE REDUCTION • • • •

3BD/ 2BA/ 2 Car Garage New home- ready to occupy Owner is motivated No reasonable offer refused!

Ken Allen 406-239-6906 allenmsw@bresnan.net

OPEN HOUSE • Sun. 12/6 Noon-2pm • 3BD/ 2BA/ 2 Car Garage • Corner lot • Basement plumbed for expansion • Large master bedroom

$187,900 MLS# 908236

$219,900 MLS# 906692

Jodie Hooker

(406) 239-7588 Jodie@GreaterMontanaRE.com OPEN HOUSE • Th-M 11:30-5pm or by app. only T & W

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3 bd, 2 bth, Double Garage Stainless Kitchen Appliances Patio, Fenced, UG Sprinklers Quite, Hellgate Elem. School

4012 Lancaster Rd Missoula

Pat McCormick 406.240.7653 pat@properties2000.com • www.properties2000.com

4602 Potter Park Loop Missoula REALTOR, GRI, ABR, CRS

Judy Gudgel 406-370-4580

FEATURED LISTING

Orchard Homes Missoula

406.544.2125

20 Lot Subdivision 4.67 Acres Each lot is 8,000 sq.ft.

Great location!

judy.gudgel@prumt.com

MLS# 906681

330 N. Easy Street Missoula

mmarry@bigsky.net

mindypalmer@montana.com

$232,000

MLS# 907496

shannon@prudentialmissoula.com www.ShannonHilliard.com

Kerrigan Masters 406-329-2066

• • • •

$195,900

3BD/ 1 BA/ 2 Car Garage Located in quiet cul-de-sac Borders open space Updates, A/C, UG spinklers

Mary Marry

Mindy Palmer 406-329-2055

Montana

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406-239-8350

4BD/ 3BA/ 2 Car Garage Timberframe construction 1.88 acres Media room & home gym

Alberton Gorge

OPEN HOUSE • Sun. 12/6 Noon-2pm

Shannon Hilliard

FEATURED LISTING • • • •

For those in the housing market either as buyers or sellers, the overall picture has not changed significantly over the last several months. Missoula has a healthy, functioning real estate market with opportunities for those with good credit and realistic expectations based on the most current, comprehensive local market information. Utilizing professionals in all facets of your real estate transaction is your best way to take advantage of the many housing opportunities in the current market place.

• 5BD/2BA/2 Car Garage • Central Location, Fenced Yard • Hardwood Floors, Fireplace • Sauna & Surround Sound

5 Bed, 4+ Bath, 3+ Garage 40x50 Gym in Griz colors Home theater & wet bar!

Elegantly designed

4601 Goodan Lane Missoula

where foreclosures and short sales are the only market.

• Having facts about the current market is critical to making good decisions.

• Money is available, but good credit and purchasing within a realistic budget are a must.

The homebuyer’s tax credit has officially been extended through April 30th, 2010, and it’s been expanded to include homeowners who have lived in their current home for five years and wish to move into a new house. However, consumers need to be aware that there is no indication that there will be another extension, either for the first-time homebuyer tax credit or for the move-up tax credit. Consumers who are interested in the possibility of using either of these programs should check into them as soon as possible to avoid missing out altogether.

Starting at $166,900

Enjoy Downtown Living Fitness Room Secured Parking Owners Lounge Community Deck

801 N. Orange St. Missoula

Jeff Ellis 406-203-4143 office 406-529-5087 cell Re/Max Realty Consultants www.theuptownflatsmissoula.com

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REAL ESTATE Joy Earls

RICE TEAM

2 Bedroom Condo

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

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Ground level condo with patio & backyard. Convenient and economical living. One owner– immaculate. New to market!

The Realtor® Who Speaks Your Language

370.7689

2904 Tina Ave. #203 $145,000 MLS# 908154

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Joy Earls • 531-9811

joyearls.mywindermere.com Privacy, Fruit Trees & Views MLS# 907106 • $209,000 4BD/2BA home on nearly one acre. Hardwood floors, fireplace, carport, heated shop, additional outbuilding, basketball court, wonderful deck. An easy drive from Missoula! www.SaintMarysLakeRoad.com

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Kevin & Monica Ray

207.1185 • 822.7653 1720 Brooks • Suite 5 • Missoula

3322B Connery Way • Unique Three Level Townhome • 2 bed/3 bath • MLS# 908163 - $191,000

1500 W. Broadway • Missoula • MT, 59808

Jodie L Hooker REALTOR®, QSC®, GRI®, ABR® 406-239-7588 • www.MissoulaMultifamily.com Specializing in: Multi-Famliy Properties

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

Astrid Oliver

Jerry Hogan REALTOR®, QSC® 406-546-7270 • jerryhogan.point2agent.com Specializing in: Investment Properties

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

Kevin Plumage REALTOR®, ABR®, E-Pro 406-240-2009 • kevin@greatermontanare.com Specializing in: Affordable Housing

www.YourMT.com

2663 Stratford MLS# 907889 - $216,000 Bonus to Buyers = sale will include Home Inspection paid by Sellers.

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Over 10 years of Real Estate Experience

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REAL ESTATE

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Rochelle Glasgow

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406-327-8787

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$128,500 Condo on river

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1 acre with cabin $880,000 1120 Toole MLS#803924 • $695,000 MLS # 906999 • $179,000

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SHOP - No Covenants Nice 3 Bed, 2 Bath Completely Remodeled

Amazing Arts & Crafts style home built by meticulous artisan $139,900 Under Contract OWNER FINANCING AVAILABLE

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59¢ lb. $19.9935 lb. box

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Dine at these participating restaurants on Friday, December 5, and a portion of your bill benefits Missoula Aids Council HuHot • El Diablo • The Catalyst • Jus' Chillin' in Southgate Mall • Hob Nob Cafe • Taco del Sol • Biga Pizza • Doc's Sandwich Shop • Higgins Alley • Wheat Montana • Paradise Falls • Butterfly Herbs • Scotty's Table • Front Street Pasta and Wraps • Red Bird Restaurant and Wine Bar

TONIGHT, DECEMBER 3RD! Wild & Scenic

Join us for a special after-hours party at Scotty's Table - 11PM Park Level at the Wilma All proceeds benefit MAC

Environmental Film Festival At the Historic Wilma Theatre VIP Pre-Film Reception: 5:30PM General Admission: 7PM More info: SustainableBusinessCouncil.org

DECEMBER 11, 7PM The Hellgate Rollergirls present At the Elks Featuring Missoula rockers The Hermans with the first set of their final show (ever!) at 9PM • More info: hellgaterollergirlsanneke@gmail.com All proceeds benefit the Hellgate Rollergirls, a non-profit corporation.

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