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Vol. 20, No. 52 • Dec. 24–Dec. 31, 2009

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

Up Front: Good riddance to a depressing year of news Ochenski: Land Board Dems deserve coal in their stockings Arts: Our critics revisit 2009’s best music, books and film

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Vol. 20, No. 52 • Dec. 24–Dec. 31, 2009

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

Up Front: Good riddance to a depressing year of news Ochenski: Land Board Dems deserve coal in their stockings Arts: Our critics revisit 2009’s best music, books and film

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Every year, the Independent hands over one of its last issues of the year to the photo editor in hopes that he or she can put the year that was into focus. This year, that proved especially tough considering our longtime award-winning shooter, Chad Harder, suffered a severe hand injury over the sumCover photo by Chad Harder mer and continues intense rehabilitation. But with Chad’s gallant guidance, we’ve compiled the best images from contributors Cathrine L. Walters, Anne Medley and Ashley Sears, staff writer Alex Sakariassen and Harder himself. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14

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News Letters Dildos, Tester and Precious .............................................................................4 The Week in Review Griz lose, Hauck interviews and fed funds allocated...............6 Briefs Street signs stolen, polling plan revised and that smell ...................................6 Etc. Karma kicks the Griz into the loss column...........................................................7 Up Front Looking back at a year with its fair share of unsettling news......................8 Ochenski Land Board Democrats deserve coal in their stockings............................10 Writers on the Range Old things, old ways sink into the earth...............................11 Agenda Something about bass players and the environment ...................................12

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Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan The year in food.............................................................................22 8 Days a Week Ready to watch Christmas Vacation.................................................23 Mountain High Spend Christmas with Santa—on skis .............................................33 Scope Ten moments that marked the arts community in 2009.................................34 Noise Our reviewers tally the year’s best Montana albums.......................................35 Books The year’s best in local literature ...................................................................36 Film Butte, beer and big issues help make the year in film ......................................37 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films....................................................38

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STREET TALK

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Monday morning in downtown Missoula

Q:

This week the Indy presents its annual look back at the year that was. What would you say was the most memorable news event of 2009?

Follow-up: What are you most looking forward to in the year that’s about to be?

Eric Goughnon: A lot comes to mind. The stimulus package, troops sent to the Middle East by Obama. It’s the same stuff Bush was talking about, and I thought it was going to be different this year. Homecoming: My youngest brother is coming home from Iraq from his fourth tour as a Ranger.

Dave Campbell: The closure of Smurfit-Stone. A little QT: Spending time with my great grandkids.

Mary Weber: Obama getting inaugurated as the first black president. Look out, real world: I look forward to graduating from college. I’m in school for psychology and organizational communication.

Really? Dildos?? In a Christmas issue?

With a photo? What were you thinking?

Tacky, tacky, tacky.

Vicki Montejano Missoula

A Tester fan Sen. Jon Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act is the best solution to forest management our state has seen in years.

The bill brings all kinds of regular, everyday Montanans together to find homegrown solutions to our forest issues. The process and the resulting bill represent good and reasoned efforts in communication and cooperation, which are sorely needed in our public discourse.

When it comes to managing our national forest lands, Montanans know best what will work for our forests and our communities. The Forest Jobs and Recreation Act requires that timber projects be designed by community advisory groups. These groups are to be made up of timber, conservation and recreation representatives as well as community leaders.

These local leaders speak for homegrown Montana interests.

I think we should all follow Tester’s lead and start working together instead of against each other. None of us will get exactly everything we want but that is the beauty of the democratic process. Working together we will make our forests healthier, create more jobs, protect backcountry and restore our fish and wildlife habitat.

With a co-sponsorship from Sen. Baucus and a hearing with the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, I think it’s time that all our representatives get on board. I think this is a great bill that brings Montanans together. I hope Rep. Rehberg will join me and thousands of other Montanans in support.

Rosalie Robson Missoula

Precious girls do exist

David Cates: The Obama inauguration. Keep on keepin’ on: I look forward to doing the work that I do. I’m a novelist and take doctors down to Honduras to work in hospitals with Missoula Medical Aid.

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Recently, Parade magazine featured an article about Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry’s new movie with the most buzz at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Precious. The movie opened in Missoula last week.

The movie is a story of a young woman living in poverty—a survivor of incest and emotional and physical abuse, who is unsupported by the adults around her. The movie is an unlikely hit because of its raw portrayal of tough, even taboo subjects and the searing effect it has on those that will see it. Even the trailer is hard to watch.

The story of Precious is so unsettling that it would be easy to write her life off as just another product of Hollywood. Her experiences are seemingly unthinkable and it’s hard to accept that her story could be real—but it is.

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I’m writing to tell you, girls like Precious do exist. Eleven years ago when I walked through the doors at Florence Crittenton, I imagined a much different picture to what I found. I never thought Montana girls struggled with the same horrific circumstances as girls in the inner city.

They absolutely do. Their lives bear a striking resemblance to that of Precious.

These young women face tremendous barriers created by poverty, violence and the lack of support services needed to

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help them overcome these challenges.

Like Precious, the teens we serve are pregnant and parenting, and the majority are victims of child abuse or grew up in homes marked by persistent domestic violence. Many are or have been in foster care, involved with juvenile justice, or are homeless.

Their challenges can seem overwhelming. And yet I’ve come to understand that with the right support, many of these girls, like Precious, can slowly build safe lives marked by health and economic stability for themselves and for their children.

Supporting girls like Precious is both the right thing to do and it’s a good return on investment. By providing services that encourage empowerment and self-sufficiency, young mothers can end their dependence on social welfare systems that have plagued their families for generations.

It’s only through comprehensive opportunities for young mothers to develop rela-

tionships and new skills that they will grow to be personally and financially independent. Girls like Precious are uniquely disadvantaged but also incredibly hopeful. In the end, Precious’ story is about hope and opportunity.

We must act together as a community to provide opportunities for young women to get the services they need to end the cycles of abuse and poverty into which they were born. If we don’t do it, who will?

Learn how you can support vulnerable girls like Precious by going to www.florencecrittenton.org.

Barbara Burton Executive Director, Florence Crittenton Home Helena

Remember Beach Justice is a far mightier sword than the mistakes of the system, and hopefully, with the Montana Supreme Court’s recent decision, Barry Beach will at last be exonerated. The decision now allows for an evidentiary hearing to be held to admit new evidence.

As the courts review this case, we express our appreciation to editors willing to print our letters, to folks who keep writing in support of Barry, and to those who put him in their prayers. As most of you already know, Barry was convicted of a murder 27 years ago that resulted in a sentence of 100 years, no parole and hard labor, for a case with circumstantial evidence, no DNA, no witnesses, no motive, none of Barry’s fingerprints, compromised evidence from the sheriff ’s files and a coerced confession.

At the present time, as Barry’s case moves through the legal procedures mandated, we need to keep his story front and foremost in the minds and hearts of Montanans and other people throughout the country who are convinced of his innocence.

Please do whatever you can as we push forward to bring justice to an innocent man.

Anita Phillips Midland, Mich.

Correction: Due to an editing mistake, a sentence of last week’s “Tight spots” article on downtown parking stated Scott Sproull was advocating for two-hour free parking in front of his Higgins Avenue store, Hide & Sole, because it would have an immediate impact on his business. It should have read that Sproull would like to see free parking tried as an experiment for a stretch of Higgins north of his store because he thinks it could help stores in that area, as well as other downtown businesses. The Indy regrets the error.

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WEEK IN REVIEW • Wednesday, December 16

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by Cathrine L. Walters

Jordan B. Iddings, 24, pleads not guilty to charges of sexually assaulting a woman and head-butting a police officer during his eventful November bachelor party. District Judge Ed McLean orders that Iddings, days before his wedding, wear an electronic monitoring bracelet as a condition of his continued release from jail.

• Thursday, December 17 The U.S. Senate’s Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests holds a hearing on Sen. Jon Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act. Agriculture Undersecretary Harris Sherman, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, says the bill would mandate logging levels in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest that are “likely unachievable and perhaps unsustainable.”

• Friday, December 18 Griz fans file out of Charlie B’s with heads held low after Villanova wins its first Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) title with a 23–21 victory over UM in Chattanooga, Tenn. The game marked a record 17th consecutive playoff appearance—and the second straight championship game—for the top-seeded Griz.

• Saturday, December 19 The U.S. Senate allocates $4.4 million to local entrepreneurs and scientists as part of the defense appropriations bill. Missoula business TerraEchos is slated to receive $2.8 million to continue developing its covert surveillance equipment, while St. Patrick Hospital will collect $1.6 million to help create a skin graft made of animal tissue to treat battlefield injuries.

• Sunday, December 20 Fresh off his appearance in the FCS final, Griz head coach Bobby Hauck arrives in Las Vegas to interview for the same position at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. According to multiple sources, Hauck and former Texas A&M coach Dennis Franchione are the only two finalists for the job.

• Monday, December 21 The state Land Board votes 4–1 to lease Otter Creek coal tracts in southeastern Montana. Environmentalists blast the decision because of the harm it will do to the local environment and the global atmosphere. The only member of the board not to vote in favor of the lease is Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau.

• Tuesday, December 22 Gov. Brian Schweitzer speaks to a crowd gathered at the University of Montana about Smurfit-Stone’s decision to close its Frenchtown mill. Smurfit-Stone announced the mill will close Dec. 31, leaving more than 400 employees out of work and delivering a huge blow to the local economy.

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The tree at the north end of Higgins Avenue—we’ll call it Missoula’s XXXX-mas tree—was donated to the city in 1989 by Jim Caras.

While it will remain safe and sound, nearly 2,200 Christmas tree cutting permits were issued in Montana this season, according to officials at the Lolo National Forest.

Voting Polling proposal tweaked In the face of mounting criticism, Missoula election officials issued a revised plan to consolidate local polling places that will preserve the University of Montana and a downtown location, as well as three others that had been slated for elimination.

After Missoula County Clerk and Recorder Vickie Zeier proposed shuttering polling stations earlier this month, voter advocacy organizations, UM students and citizens at large came out in droves to voice alarm over a move they said would disenfranchise voters.

“This is a massive dismantling of the democratic infrastructure in our county,” said John Bacino from Forward Montana during a Dec. 16 County Commissioner meeting.

In response to the backlash, Zeier tweaked the plan and released a new proposal Dec. 18.

“I was encouraged that so many electors provided thoughtful public comment and shared ideas about the initial proposal,” she said in a statement.

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The revised draft recommends keeping the University Center, Evaro Fire Station, Franklin School and the Petty Creek Fire Station open, while relocating the downtown courthouse polling station to the Missoula Public Library.

Bacino says the new plan demonstrates responsiveness on behalf of county officials and alleviates many of his organization’s concerns.

“We were really impressed,” he says.

Zeier had cited challenges recruiting election judges, increased absentee voting and the costs of acquiring ballot-counting technology as primary reasons to trim polling places. Some of those concerns are being alleviated after UM officials offered to staff an on-campus polling place and additional volunteers stepped forward to man ballot boxes. It also became clear last week that the county was not obligated to purchase additional ballot counting machines to accommodate individuals with disabilities, as had been previously stated.

For now, the hubbub appears to be dying down as the county works to craft a compromise.

“I think it’s a good step in the right direction,” Bacino says.

The Elections Advisory Committee meets Jan. 7 at 10:30 a.m. to discuss the new plan in Room 201 of the Courthouse Annex. The public is encouraged to attend. Comment may also be submitted before Jan. 7 to the County Commissioners Office: 2584877, bcc@co.missoula.mt.us, or 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802.

Jessica Mayrer

Crime Street sign spree If you find a city street sign from Santa under your Christmas tree, you might want to give it back.

The Missoula Traffic Services Department is witnessing an unprecedented spate of street sign theft, epitomized by the 79 signs that had to recently be replaced in the University Neighborhood.

“I just think it’s kind of becoming a trendy thing,” says Traffic Services Coordinator Wayne Gravatt, who attributes the phenomenon largely to fraternity pranks and bored teens. “You know, ‘Let’s get drunk as hell, we’ll get all these signs.’”

Gravatt says thieves generally target catchy

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names like Easy Street and Mary Jane Boulevard.

Since Mary Jane Boulevard was christened behind Reserve Street about five years ago, traffic services has had to replace signs there three different times.

“Oh Christ, Mary Jane has been a nightmare,” Gravatt says.

To dissuade pranksters and collectors, the city is making signs less attractive and tougher to get. For instance, Mary Jane Boulevard is now MJ BLVD and Missoula Avenue is MSLA AVE. Gravatt’s team is also progressively erecting taller poles that, in theory, make signs more difficult to reach.

“We’re still losing some of them,” he says.

And while it’s tough not to chuckle a bit, the thefts are hitting the city solidly in the checkbook. Recently replaced University Neighborhood signs cost the city $6,488.65. During a time of ever-lowering bottom lines, that’s hard for Gravatt to swallow.

“It’s a monstrous cost for me,” he says.

The problem reaches beyond just money. Missing street signs could prompt emergency responders to lose their bearings while racing to a crisis.

“It’s the difference between life and death,” Gravatt says. “So, that’s the part of it that’s really, really scary.”

Street sign theft is a misdemeanor punishable by a $1,500 fine. Gravatt says he’s not aiming to punish culprits. He just wants his signs.

“We’re not looking to arrest anybody,” he says.

“It just would be nice if they could give them back.”

Jessica Mayrer

That smell Study pinpoints odor sources A year after the Missoula City-County Health Department issued a “notice of violation” to both Missoula’s Wastewater Treatment Plant and neighboring EKO Compost because their incessant stench constituted an “ongoing public nuisance,” the $76,000 study intended to identify the origins of the odors has been released.

“There are no big surprises,” says Starr Sullivan, superintendent of the treatment plant. “They found that the odors were half us and half EKO Compost.”

The conclusions of the Odor Characterization Study, conducted in part by Bob Bowker, an internationally renowned odor control expert, were presented to Missoula City Council’s Public Works

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Committee last week. The study shows the treatment plant is responsible for 53 percent, and EKO Compost 47 percent, of the odors that for years have been the bane of residents who live downwind of the sites on the corner of Mullan Road and Reserve Street.

Both facilities received a list of corrective actions.

In the short term, the treatment plant will, in part, mitigate for odors from its thickened waste activated sludge tank and seal manhole covers. EKO Compost will reduce its pre-mix piles that contain sewage and other composting materials, among other steps.

In the long term, the treatment plant will replace by 2012—as has been planned—its “headworks,” where all of Missoula’s raw sewage comes in. EKO Compost will develop a new operations and maintenance plan to be approved by the Montana Department of Environmental Quality.

EKO will also develop an improved biofilter design to treat the exhaust from the aerobic compost piles.

“We’ve already incorporated part of the study and we’re already seeing results from it,” says EKO Compost manager Terry Munnerlyn.

Was it worth the $76,000?

“I think it was,” Sullivan says. “The study really qualified it and quantified it. It really pinned it down to the exact causes, the exact sources, where most of the odors are coming from. So I think the study was important for that, just to confirm our suspicions. You don’t want to spend a lot of money on a suspicion or a guess.”

Matthew Frank

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Galleries Downtown art’s latest blow Artist Brian Schweyen never considered himself a salesman. That’s why, this time last year, the partowner of a downtown gallery had trouble finding the right way—and the time—to sell his oil paintings.

For better or worse, Schweyen doesn’t have that problem anymore. The Gibson & Schweyen Gallery closed two months ago.

“Financially, we had a couple of partners who couldn’t make it anymore,” says Schweyen, who opened the storefront with longtime friend and fellow artist Mark Gibson in 2005. “That left Mark and I. We just couldn’t have the gallery open between the two of us enough to where it made any sense.”

The gallery closing left a noticeable hole in the downtown art landscape.

“Galleries are critical to the whole feeling of Missoula as an arts community,” says Dudley Dana, the artists’ landlord and owner of the Dana Gallery. “And that’s the thing that makes me saddest about losing them.”

The Gibson & Schweyen Gallery, which originally opened in the Florence Building before moving next to the Dana Gallery in 2008, had a reputation for hosting some of Missoula’s more accessible First Friday shows. Gibson’s work received acclaim from the Oil Painters of America’s national juried show and Dana calls Schweyen one of the top landscape artists in the state. More notably, the pair came across as regular guys.

“Mark and I aren’t wine and cheese people,” says Schweyen. “We’re more beer and brats.”

The gallery closed because the artists found it difficult to be at the gallery during prime hours and finish their own work. Both also had other projects; UM, for instance, hired Schweyen as its head track coach a year ago.

But the situation’s not all bad for the artists.

Instead of sinking his time into running the gallery, Schweyen now lets gallery owners throughout the West—he and Gibson are represented in Bozeman, Bigfork, Park City, Utah, and Cody, Wyo.—do the selling so he can simply focus on painting.

“We learned a lot about sales and learned how to work with people in the art community,” says Schweyen. “But it’s a lot easier if someone else is trying to sell your paintings because it’s easier to talk highly of someone else’s work than it is your own.

This will free us up for other galleries, and that’s a good thing.”

Erika Fredrickson

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Watching the Montana Grizzlies championship dreams wilt on a soggy Chattanooga football field Friday night, we couldn’t help but think it was karma—not Villanova—that ultimately beat the hometown squad.

How else to explain how an undefeated, top-ranked Griz team inexplicably shrinks during the second half to a scrappy underdog? What other reason makes sense when the supposed team of destiny, still riding the coattails of one of the most remarkable comebacks in college football this year (the opening round thriller against Stephen F. Austin), disappears during the biggest moment of the season? Aside from the inexplicable play-calling, we’re going with karma.

That’s all we could pin it on as Villanova’s runners steamrolled Griz defenders like head coach Bobby Hauck does student journalists. Watching the game on national television, beaming with pride as boys from Drummond, Havre and Missoula lit up the high-definition screen, it was easy to forget what a mess Hauck created behind all the victories this season.

It started with news of yet another off-the-field incident involving Griz players, an annual problem that’s hounded Hauck ever since he became top dog. But then the coach, due to stubbornness or arrogance, let a factually unquestioned article about the incident in the student newspaper get under his skin. Once Hauck blackballed student reporters at his weekly press conferences, sports journalists from across the country— ESPN, Sports Illustrated, the New York Times—lined up to put him in his rightful place. What started as a small blemish on Hauck’s already pockmarked resume became a black eye for the entire institution—and city—he represents.

And what a shame. We wrote at the end of last year’s championship game—another loss, that time to Richmond— that Hauck appeared to assemble one of the most likable Griz rosters in recent history. Marc Mariani, Chase Reynolds, Justin Sambrano, Andrew Selle, Brandon Fisher and many more seem like exactly the type of gutsy, blue-collar, often homegrown players Griz faithful yearn to have represent their team. We couldn’t be more proud of what they accomplished this season—and, more importantly, the class with which they achieved it.

Yet at the head of the sideline stands a churlish head coach who has never similarly endeared himself to the local fans.

Even at the end of Friday’s game, a humbled Hauck joked with reporters that, with three lost championship games, Chattanooga had been “a disaster for me, personally.” The same could be said for his reign as head coach: We still find great honor in how most of the Griz represent Missoula, but Hauck, personally, has been a disaster.

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Good riddance, 2009 Looking back at a year with its fair share of unsettling news by the Independent staff

The recession Nearly every big Montana news story this year was seen through the lens of the nation’s biggest story—the economic recession. Unemployment rates in some corners of Montana hit their highest levels since 1990 (when county unemployment rates first began to be tracked). Western Montana’s booming housing market spiraled back to earth, putting countless development projects on hold and countless real estate agents out of work. Even the state’s budget surplus, projected just last year to be $1 billion, went into the red.

Unfortunately, there are few signs of a rebound in 2010.

In Missoula, most notably, the recession proved to be the last nail in the coffin for the long-struggling Smurfit-Stone containerboard plant, which will close for good on Dec. 31. The shutdown spells the loss of more than 400 high-paying jobs, and the loss of Missoula County’s second-largest taxpayer. It will also, no doubt, have a devastating trickle-down effect. For instance, United Way states that contributions from the Frenchtown mill’s employees totaled more than $1.4 million since 1997.

The shocking loss of a long-time economic anchor is familiar to residents of the Flathead, another area hit especially hard by the recession. The Columbia Falls Aluminum Plant closed in October, and mills throughout northwest Montana continued to shed jobs or close outright. The unemployment rate in Flathead County peaked at 12.6 percent in March, almost double the average rate for that month since 2000, and the area’s highest overall rate since 1990. The Flathead’s most reliable industry of late—growth—also faltered, with real estate sales slowing to a crawl. For example, it took until July for the year’s first lakefront property on Flathead Lake to sell.

The home originally hit the market in 2007 for about $4 million—and it sold for $1.1 million.

The state’s tanking real estate market contributed to one of the highest-profile economic stories of the year—the Yellowstone Club bankruptcy saga. The resort for the super-rich collapsed under the weight of a $375 million loan and the messy divorce of its owners, Tim and Edra Blixseth. Other resorts have floundered, too. Big Sky’s Moonlight Basin filed for bankruptcy protection in November. In October, the proposed Bitterroot Resort’s creditor filed foreclosure papers.

The economy hit the university system, as well. The University of Montana finds

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itself scrambling to address a $3.6 million Still, the feel of injustice remained. The reform. But some say Baucus’ involvement The bill, which strives to find common hole left by the withdrawal of federal stimu- extent of it was further revealed toward the did more to hurt the cause of reform than ground between conservationists and the lus funds. “We are cutting into bone—mus- end of the trial when the federal govern- help it. timber industry, brings together three sepcle and bone,” UM President George ment released a damning memorandum Baucus, chairman of the powerful arate community-based conservation Dennison told reporters about impending detailing the Environmental Protection Senate Finance Committee, spent more efforts in western Montana. If passed, it cutbacks. University wages, meanwhile, Agency’s (EPA) inadequate cleanup of than a year holding hearings and educating would designate the first wilderness areas have been frozen for the next two years, asbestos in Libby, three years after the Indy committee members on the nuances of the in the state since 1980, while also mandatwhile tuition continues to inch up.

Between 2005 and 2010, instate tuition will have jumped 19.6 percent.

Some economists optimistically point to signs that the economy is on the verge of a turnaround. In Missoula and elsewhere in the state, the federal first-time homebuyer credit has breathed life into the real estate market. Montana Photo courtesy of Max Baucus also received some $870 million in federal Sen. Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, conducted regular meetings with a group of moderate senators that stimulus dollars came to be known as the “Gang of Six” in hopes of hashing out a bipartisan solution to reform health care. The Senate finally garfor, primarily, nered enough votes to pass a watered down version of the bill this week. highway projects around the state. While the stimulus money first submitted a Freedom of Information issue. Despite his commitment to the issue, ing thousands of acres of public land be cut certainly helps, most agree that it’s still not Act request for the document.

Baucus’ motivations were questioned early every year to buoy the state’s floundering enough to stem the economic tide.

The memo, written by Special Agent on. The industry he was supposedly trying timber industry. Tester hammered out the Cory Rumple in 2006 and known as the to reform had given him more money than bill with input from conservationists, recreW.R. Grace acquitted “Rumple Report,” summarized the findings it’s given almost any other member of ationists and loggers, and introduced it to a In a trial some 10 years in the making, of an Office of Inspector General (OIG) Congress. It was revealed that five of supportive Townsend crowd in July. a jury in U.S. District Judge Donald investigation into the EPA’s cleanup. The Baucus’ former staffers represent a total of The groups involved in crafting the bill Molloy’s Missoula courtroom acquitted memo made OIG—but no one else—aware 27 different organizations in the health care say it’s an outstanding example of once-bitW.R. Grace & Co. and three of its former of infighting within the EPA, a disconnect industry. Critics claimed that Baucus ter rivals working together. Meanwhile, critexecutives of all crimes in connection with between scientific evidence and cleanup worked under the veil of “bipartisanship” ics question the exclusive nature of the the asbestos poisoning of Libby, Montana. procedures, and “unconscionable” docu- to do the biddings of the companies that fill groups’ negotiations, the bill’s financial susThe May ruling deflated Libby resi- ments distributed to Libby residents that his campaign coffers. tainability considering the shrinking market dents and their legion of sympathetic sup- assured safe levels of asbestos exposure.

Even those who gave Baucus the bene- for wood products, and the legal preceporters, all of whom saw the trial as hope Then, in June, the EPA—for the first fit of the doubt said the senator, if he want- dents it could set. for at least a smidgen of retribution against time ever—declared Libby a public health ed to claim a legacy in line with Mansfield’s, The bill is potentially precedent setting Grace. More than 270 people have died and emergency, promising millions of dollars needed to step up and provide the neces- in a couple ways. Martin Nie, a professor of 1,800 more sickened by asbestos in the for the town’s cleanup. An initial $6 million sary leadership to solve the problem. With natural resource policy at UM, worries the town. health care grant was sent to Libby in a so-called watered-down bill set to finally bill could create the expectation that future But the outcome wasn’t a surprise. November to provide treatment and health pass the Senate this week, many believe wilderness bills must be packaged with eco“From the nature of the charges themselves care screenings for its residents.

Baucus failed to make the step. nomic development provisions. In addito the statute of limitations, from the rultion, multiple environmentalists say the ings prohibiting evidence Molloy deemed Baucus and health care Tester and wilderness bill’s language could alter the standard for prejudicial to the final jury instructions,” Not since former U.S. Senate Majority Sen. Jon Tester’s Forest Jobs and what’s permissible in wilderness areas wrote Andrea Peacock in the Indy after the Leader Mike Mansfield ushered in the pas- Recreation Act is the first-term senator’s across the country. For example, the bill verdict, “Grace’s lawyers prevailed on near- sage of Medicare in 1965 has a Montana leg- highest-profile and most ambitious piece of allows military helicopters to land inside ly every point that gave them an edge, mak- islator played such a prominent role in legislation—and predictably sparked a con- the Highlands, a portion of the Beaverheading it all but impossible for the 12 jurors to developing historic legislation as Sen. Max siderable amount of debate throughout the Deerlodge National Forest slated for wildercome to any other conclusion.”

Baucus did in 2009 to shape health care state. ness designation. The U.S. Forest Service

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says that would make it the first bill to authorize such landings in any wilderness area in the country. Traditionally, even bicycles aren’t allowed in wilderness areas.

According to a poll commissioned by The Wilderness Society, 67 percent of Montanans back the bill, which suggests that Tester’s strategy to end the decades-old gridlock between conservationists and the timber industry is working. It’s telling, though, that some conservationists, even with the prospect of designating more than

coming just one shy of the state quota. In Idaho, 127 of its some 850 wolves had been killed as of press time. Idaho extended its season until March 2010. Its quota is 220.

Montana wildlife officials say the first hunting experience was a success, though they admit mistakes were made. Most regrettably, of the nine wolves shot in the backcountry north of Yellowstone National Park, four proved to be from Yellowstone’s Cottonwood Creek pack, one of the park’s most studied packs.

injunction is in the public interest.”

Molloy’s ruling implies the groups will likely prevail in their ongoing suit—also in District Court—to send wolves back to the endangered species list.

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On the evening of Aug. 27, a 24-foot motorboat driven by Sen. Greg Barkus, RKalispell, slammed into Flathead Lake’s rocky shore, badly injuring all aboard.

Passengers included Barkus’ wife Kathleen, U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg, Rehberg’s state director, Dustin Frost, and Rehberg’s deputy chief of staff, Kristin Smith. Frost suffered a fractured skull and was in a coma for about 10 days. Rehberg required surgery to repair a broken ankle. Barkus broke his pelvis.

Details of the crash were initially difficult to piece together. Rehberg quickly offered his side of the story through his former state director Erik Iverson, who said that Rehberg’s blood alcohol content registered 0.05.

But the extent of Barkus’s impairment was the subject of speculation for more than a month, partly due to a court-imposed silence as Flathead County prosecutors and investigators sorted out what happened.

Turned out, records show Barkus had been drinking. In October, charging documents revealed that Barkus’ blood alcohol content registered 0.16—twice the legal limit—45 minutes after the crash. Flathead County Attorney Ed Corrigan charged Barkus with felony criminal endangerment and two counts of felony negligent Photo by Chad Harder vehicular assault for operating a motorboat under the influence of The recession sent Missoula County’s unemployment rate to its highest level alcohol and causing “serious bodily since 2003, hitting 6.9 percent in February. The month before, the Missoula harm” to two of the passengers.

Job Service reported more than 7,000 walk-ins, a record.

Frost, the most seriously injured, is a UM graduate. He was transferred Critics of the hunt charge that the a half million acres of wilderness, are hopfrom Kalispell Regional Medical Center to backcountry deaths undermined the hunt’s ing the bill gets cut down in Congress.

Community Medical Center in Missoula The Subcommittee on Public Lands premise: to do away with wolves that prey two weeks after the accident, and then and Forests held its first hearing on the sub- on livestock.

“If we had known nine wolves would released a week later. Frost continues to ject Dec. 17 and it didn’t exactly bode well for Tester’s bill as currently written. be taken in that backcountry area, I think recover at his home in Billings.

Whether or not the crash will be a Agriculture Undersecretar y Harris we would do things differently, and I, for Sherman, who oversees the Forest Service, one, will think about that in the future,” political liability for Rehberg, who is up for said the bill would require logging levels in M o n t a n a F i s h , W i l d l i f e & P a r k s reelection in 2010, is up in the air. One of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest Commissioner Bob Ream told the Helena his challengers, Dennis McDonald, used the incident to call Rehberg’s actions “irrethat are “likely unachievable and perhaps Independent Record.

But despite some 200 dead wolves, the sponsible” and question the representaunsustainable.” environmentalist groups that filed suit to tive’s decision making.

Barkus’ trial is currently scheduled for Wolf hunt reverse the wolf ’s delisting found consolaFew things in Montana and the West tion in U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy’s April 5, 2010, but last week his attorney raise hackles like wolves. It proved especial- September denial of their request for an said he wants the three felonies against ly true in 2009, as Montana and Idaho held injunction to stop the wolf hunts. While Barkus dismissed, or at least the evidence their first wolf hunting seasons following Molloy wrote that environmentalists didn’t suppressed and the trial moved out of the contentious canines’ removal from the meet the burden for issuing a preliminary town. Depending on how the trial goes, the endangered species list. injunction, he said they “are likely to be story could reappear on this list again next In Montana, hunters killed 74 of able to meet the burden to show the bal- year. roughly 500 wolves during a hunting sea- ance of equities tip in their favor. They editor@missoulanews.com son that ended at the end of November, would also likely prevail in showing an

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Coal in their stockings Land Board Democrats vote for Otter Creek mine More than a hundred people gathered at the foot of the Capitol’s staircase in the dim dawn of the shortest, darkest day of the year. Many had traveled hundreds of miles from all over Montana to voice their objections to leasing the enormous but hugely problematic coal deposits at Otter Creek. When the talking was done and the votes of the state’s Land Board were cast, however, only Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau had the guts, wisdom and vision to vote against the leases. As for Gov. Brian Schweitzer, Secretary of State Linda McCulloch, Attorney General Steve Bullock and State Auditor Monica Lindeen, switches and coal in their stockings is exactly what they deserve for their ignominious votes.

The morning began with speeches outside the Capitol from Montanans whose lives and future would be affected by the Land Board’s votes. The crowd ranged in age from babes in their mother’s arms to elders in their 80s, but they all had one message: “No to Otter Creek.”

After waiting through an hour of the Land Board’s agenda, they were given a scant three minutes each to make their case, no matter what was at stake, no matter how complex their issues. As one frustrated witness, who traveled more than 700 miles to testify, said: “Come out to the Tongue River and let us show you what’s going to happen on the ground. I guarantee you, we’ll give you more than three minutes of our time.”

Ranchers whose families had been in the area for generations spoke eloquently of what the impacts from the mine and railroad would mean to them. In every case, the development of the mine and the construction of the Tongue River Railroad, which would be necessary to move the coal to market, will cut longheld family ranches in pieces, prevent cattle from accessing the river’s water, disrupt and perhaps destroy precious existing wells and springs, and bring a substantial and some said catastrophic change to their rural agrarian life.

They were joined by Missoula high school students who came to plead for their future—a future, they said, that was so imperiled by global climate change they felt the consequences of burning all the new coal would not be worth the revenue it produced. And not just for them, as they stated with wisdom beyond their years, but for their kids, too.

A Missoula teacher succinctly summed it up, saying, “Sure, you can say

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the extra money raised from mining the coal will go to my students, and sure I could use a raise, and we could use new textbooks for the school.” But like the students, the teacher cited the destruction global warming is already causing, concluding that although he could be

The testimony “went on for two hours, with opponents to the massive proposed coal mining filling the gallery with signs urging the board that they ‘Otter not do it.’

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seen as “speaking against his own interests,” they “didn’t want the funds if it was coal money.”

Others addressed the environmental fragility of the alluvial valley floor where the coal is located and the enormous impacts such mining would likely have on surface and ground water. The thousands of tons of sediment expected to wash into the river was likewise outlined for the board, with the expected consequences for everything from irrigation to aquatic life.

The testimony went on for two hours, with opponents to the massive proposed coal mining far outnumbering supporters and filling the second-floor gallery with signs urging the board that they “Otter not do it.” The small handful of proponents for the mine came from the usual bunch of special interests that seem to find any and all development of Montana’s resources worthy of their support. Jobs and money, not long-term impacts, were their main concern.

That the motion to approve the leases was made by Secretary of State Linda

McCulloch came as no surprise, since she supported virtually every mining, logging and resource extraction activity proposed to the Land Board during her tenure as the former superintendent of public instruction. While always claiming it was “for the kids,” she did not bother to go into detail about how the burning of so much coal, which is expected to release billions of tons of carbon dioxide and other pollutants, would affect the future life and environment of those children.

The statements from Attorney General Steve Bullock concentrated mainly on tonnages of coal being shipped to and from various locations and seemed totally disconnected from the issues raised by the opponents. Even worse was the feeble speech given by State Auditor Monica Lindeen, who mainly thanked everyone for coming.

Worst of all, however, was the Big Guy, Schweitzer. After a couple head fakes and some lip-service to global warming impacts on Hawaiian islands, the governor slipped into a disingenuous speech on how, if mining and burning coal is so bad for the future, well, then the same case could be made for wheat farming because some of the wheat is turned into white bread and cattle ranching because some say we eat too much red meat. “Where does it stop?” he asked, ignoring that what we eat is a personal decision while what we breathe and what happens to the global climate is decided for us by unconscionable votes like his.

In the end, the real heroine on the board was Juneau, who relied on the wisdom of her tribal ancestors to guide her vote. Citing what she had learned from the seven generations of the past and what she must do to protect the seven generations of the future, Juneau declared, “I must vote against this” to thunderous applause.

Unfortunately, Juneau’s tribal wisdom and great vision had little effect on her fellow board members, who were mostly concerned with what price they’d get for the coal. Perhaps they’ll get their chance to find out what a chunk of coal is worth when they shake it out of their stockings on Christmas morning. It’ll be just what they deserve.

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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Rusted roots Old things, old ways sink into the earth

by Joanne Wilke

The farm equipment graveyard—a row of horse-drawn plows and mowers overgrown with prairie grass—is a common sight at the edge of rural fields in the West. Collapsing hay wagons, disemboweled tractor hulls and other antique machinery sinking into the earth tell a story of farming, past and future. Each item was probably added in historical succession but also kept for parts, the past empowering the future in a knuckle-busting sort of way.

These days, many are prized as yard ornaments and even used as Western kitchen décor. My family calls them “rusty things,” and I admit I once drove 500 miles with all my windows down and my trunk open to bring home a particularly lovely circlet of metal that had once rimmed a wagon wheel. Amazingly round and smooth with golden rust, it was too huge to fit inside, despite my car’s enormous trunk. It seemed appropriate that I arrived home grit-battered and punchy after seven hours on the interstate keeping exhaust fumes at bay.

As a child, I wandered with my grandfather down the long row of machinery that framed his barnyard. I could hardly tell the rusty things apart, but he remembered using each one.

When he paused by a corroded lump that he called a seeder, I climbed onto the naked metal seat that had no give under my small weight.

“When I was a boy,” he said, “I begged and begged my father for this.”

He didn’t beg for a car of his own, let alone a cell phone; he wanted a seeder.

As we continued down the row, he told me a story about each piece. At the rotting sleigh, he talked about how he’d splurged, buying a spirited buggy horse to pull it. “What a beautiful sight it was to see him go.” Grandpa took my hand as we walked. “But that little Sam, he held his own with the drafts, too. He had to.”

Grandpa described delicate Sam the buggy horse, in a halo of lather pulling alongside plodding Barney, who could carry five children on his wide back. I pictured a young Grandpa bouncing along behind the mismatched team, as the smell of their sweat and the fresh turned dirt enveloped him—and the corn seeds

could “Anyone have a china cabinet or desk, but who else could claim to be the only woman on earth with a Samson truck in her

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bedroom?

dropped automatically, perfectly spaced into the furrow behind. At first I imagined Grandpa as a teenager, realizing later he was probably much younger than that.

Then there was the old Samson truck, sheltered in the airy barn. Grandpa cranked it up when I was four, and I remember all the cousins leaping from the truck’s 72-bushel bed and running barefooted across the pasture to clamber back aboard as the motor chugged and Grandpa laughed. Built in 1920, with open carburetors and one headlight still

powered by kerosene, few vehicles from this short-lived company exist today.

Of the handful of heirlooms I owned, the truck was the one I prized the most, with the kitchen table a close second. Anyone could have a china cabinet or desk, but who else remembered all of us sitting around that wobbly table, and who else could claim to be the only woman on earth with a Samson truck in her bedroom? (Until last year, my house was so small I slept in the garage.)

I stored it there for 10 years, wondering if it might be valuable some day.

Recently I gave it to my cousin, Greg, who hauled it back to the family farm. It seemed the right thing to do, to send the old truck home. And Greg would surely fix the wheels with wooden spokes and replace the dried engine seals to make it run again. Maybe he’d even find the missing chains that once interlaced that long wooden bed to keep it from exploding outwards when it was loaded with heavy grain. Perhaps they were already cobbling something together in the barnyard’s lineup of rusty things.

Recently, I headed out on a dirt road north of Bozeman, and stopped to admire an old farmhouse. With a new foundation, straight roofline and fresh paint, it was beautiful. But there was no listing barn in the background, not even the remains of a rock and rubble foundation. Instead, two sheep stood in a chainlink kennel, scanning the sweep of grassy hills. And at the edge of the old farmyard, along the barbed wire fence and pushed up against the trees, was a row of new things: a power boat, an elephantine new camper and a trampoline—a different sort of legacy.

Joanne Wilke is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). She lives near Bozeman.

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Imagine yourself as an alternate bass player in a band. Chances are good you probably don’t get much action on stage. No, I don’t mean that kind of action, I mean playing shows.

You’re the person the band calls when the main bass player ruptures a finger from too much plucking, or was just too hungover to play a gig—and then you admirably fill in while the lead singer, guitarist and drummer get all the attention.

I use this example to inform you that you can be an important alternate for our fair city. Specifically, Missoula’s City Council is looking for a person to serve as its number one alternate board member for the Greenhouse Gas and Energy Conservation Team.

This team educates Missoulians about greenhouse gasses, and keeps abreast of new conservation technologies in order to find out how they can be used in the Garden City. They also inform the council of ways the community can increase energy efficiency and generate power, while also minimizing any nasty

gases floating into the air.

If picked, and depending on when you can sub in, you’ll meet monthly and work with local organizations like the Missoula Chamber of Commerce and Missoula Area Sustainable Business Council.

And even if you don’t get much time at the team’s table, you should consider your position a noble deed, since you’re doing your part to ensure a healthier Missoula for generations to come.

–Ira Sather-Olson

THURSDAY DECEMBER 24

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.

Aspen Hospice of Montana is currently looking for volunteers to help offer comfort, pain relief and emotional support for those who are near the end of their lives. Call Lois at 642-3010.

If zoning stimulates your senses you should consider applying as an alternate board member for the Design Review Board where you’ll review building graphics, conditional uses, landscaping, buffering and more under the Missoula City Zoning Ordinance. To apply, grab an app at the City Clerk’s office in City Hall, 435 Ryman St., and return it by 5 PM on Jan. 6. You can also download an app at ci.missoula.mt.us/vacancy. Call 552-6078.

SATURDAY DECEMBER 26 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 27 Missoula is a bona fide bike town. If you don’t have one already, you’ll be able to build your own recycled recumbent or four-wheel bike after you volunteer for two hours at Missoula Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., on Sundays at a TBA time. Call 800-8090112 to RSVP.

MONDAY DECEMBER 28 If you’ve got a kid with special health care needs, Montana’s Department of Public Health and Human Services would like you to join a parent focus group to examine the health-related needs of families and children. Your participation is confidential and you’ll get a cash reimbursement of $35 for your time. The focus group will meet Wed., Jan. 6 at a TBA time at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. If interested, call Sofia at 406-461-3780.

To apply for the alternate board position on the city of Missoula’s Greenhouse Gas and Energy Conservation Team, pick up an application at the City Clerk’s office in City Hall, 435 Ryman St. or download an app from www.ci.missoula.mt.us/vacancy. Applications are due by 5 PM, Wed. Dec. 30. You can also call City Clerk Marty Rehbein at 552-6078 with questions.

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

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.alanon.alateen.org.

TUESDAY DECEMBER 29 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 Native women and children meet as well. New group members with children are asked to arrive at 6:15, without kids at 6:25. Free.

Call 543-6691.

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

THURSDAY DECEMBER 31 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 - Los Angeles police broke up a sophisticated marijuana-growing operation they found 25 feet from the back door of the police station. Officers noticed the strong smell of pot coming from the building and notified the narcotics squad, which investigated. Officer Karen Raynor told KTTV News the three suspects had “gone to great lengths to filter the air coming out of every hole that might leak to the outside” and plugged all places where the smell might have been detected with liquid caulking. “But it was not enough,” Raynor noted. “Their luck ran out.”

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Police responding to a bank robbery in St. Petersburg, Fla., said suspect Thomas John Castro, 54, was making his getaway on a city bus when a dye pack hidden with the stolen money exploded on him. Witnesses said he hastily hopped off the bus and fled on foot. The St. Petersburg Times reported that a tip led police to a motel room, where Castro answered the door holding a bag of crack cocaine.

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DEMOCRACY FOLLIES - Edward Natapei, the prime minister of the Pacific nation of Vanuatu, lost his job and his seat in parliament when he left the country on official business but forgot to send a note explaining his absence to the speaker of the house. “It was a standing order,” an official at the speaker’s office told Britain’s The Times. “If you miss three consecutive meetings, your seat will be declared vacant.” As a result of his oversight, Natapei, a career politician and president of the socialist Anglophone Vanua’aku Pati party, became the island nation’s shortest serving prime minister, leaving office after 14 months.

HOLY PREVENTION - Italian inventor Luciano Marabese, determined to keep religious tradition alive despite the swine flu epidemic, unveiled an electronic holy water dispenser. “After all the news that some churches, like Milan’s cathedral, were suspending the use of holy water fonts as a measure against swine flu, demands for my invention shot to the stars,” Marabese told Reuters. “I have received orders from all over the world.” The terra cotta dispenser, introduced in the town of Fornaci di Briosco, works like an automatic soap dispenser in public restrooms; churchgoers wave their hands under a sensor, and the machine spurts out sanctified water.

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IMPROBABLE CAUSES - David Kelbaugh, 23, rammed his car into a hot dog stand in Cary, N.C., after the vendor refused his demand to sell him a hot dog and drink for $1.

Claudia De La Rosa notified Miami International Airport that a bomb was aboard an American Airlines flight to Honduras, according to investigators, so that her boss, who was running late, wouldn’t miss his flight.

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A fire that gutted the garage of a home in Damonte Ranch, Nev., destroying two vehicles and most of the roof and attic area, started, investigators told the Reno Gazette-Journal, while an occupant of the house was examining a flare gun to see if it was loaded. It was and discharged, igniting the fire.

DON’T TOUCH - A civilian passenger riding in the back seat of a South African air force jet accidentally ejected himself after grabbing the black-and-yellow striped handle between his legs. The rocket-powered seat smashed through the canopy and blasted 300 feet into the sky. The Guardian reported the passenger was recovered by helicopter unharmed and returned to Langebaanweg air force base. The aircraft, piloted by a member of South Africa’s air force aerobatics squad, landed safely.

WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED - While spending Thanksgiving with their parents in Algoa, Texas, a 26-year-old man who was arguing with his 23-year-old sister smacked her in the face with a piece of hot pecan pie. Galveston County sheriff’s Maj. Ray Tuttoilmondo told the Houston Chronicle the sister required treatment for first- and second-degree burns to her face and neck.

BRUCE LEE FOLLIES - A 41-year-old man tried to enter a Seattle sports bar, but a 25-year-old man accosted him, and the two men started fighting. At one point, the younger man tried to get away by jumping over a 5-foot fence, but, according to police official Renee Witt, “he didn’t quite make it.”

Officers called to the scene found the younger man stuck on the fence with a metal spike jutting out from his buttock. He was bleeding profusely. The Seattle Times reported that the impaled man explained he assumed he could jump over the fence because he believed he was a ninja.

PRE-JUDGMENT DAY - The day before Gary Joseph Wessel, 55, was set to stand trial on child molestation and sodomy charges in Illinois, state police found his body with a shotgun wound to the chest lying on the side of the road next to a truck with a low tire. Police Lt. James Morrisey said Wessel shot himself while trying to change a tire when he dislodged the jack, and it snagged on the shotgun case, causing the gun inside to discharge through the case.

WHAT COLOR RIBBON COVERS THIS? - Trista Joy Lathern, 24, told authorities in Waco, Texas, that she pretended to have breast cancer, collected $10,000 at a benefit held for her and then used the money for breast implants she hoped would save her failing, seven-month marriage. The Waco Tribune-Herald reported that after she was charged with theft by deception, her husband, William Lathern, who married her when he thought she had cancer, filed for an annulment, alleging that she induced him to marry her “by fraud.”

ILLEGAL ALIENS - Officials of an Arizona school district accused Brad Niesluchowski, the district’s former information technology director, of using school computers to search for space aliens, bogging down the district’s computer system and interfering with technology use in classrooms. Higley Unified School District Superintendent Denise Birdwell told the East Valley Tribune the problem would cost more than $1 million to fix.

PAY AND PAY AND PAY PHONE - When Los Angeles hairdresser Barbara James, 49, accepted a collect call from a customer using a pay phone to say she was running late for her appointment, James was billed $45.09 for the three-minute call. Service provider Network Communications International Corp. charged her $37.40 for the brief, in-the-neighborhood collect call, $4.74 in regulatory fees and taxes, and an extra $2.95 just for what it called “billing cost recovery fee.” NCIC’s president Bill Pope told the Los Angeles Times the tiny number of collect calls nowadays makes such prices inevitable, especially since pay phones are largely unregulated.

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JUMP ON IN: In an effort to beat record-high summer temperatures, Brad Bahner leaps into the Clark Fork River from the Madison Street Bridge. “I used to jump from lower,” says the self-proclaimed “tramp who sleeps outside.” “But you gotta go higher to keep having fun.”

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HIGH TIMES: Bozeman-based caregiver Chris Williams, right, shows Rep. Ed Butcher, R-Winifred, the flowers on his ready-to-harvest “Capitol Granddad Purple” marijuana plant at the Montana Capitol during “Cannabis at the Capitol Day” Feb. 20. More than 100 patients, caregivers, legislators and onlookers assembled to witness the first-of-its-kind event aimed at promoting pro-medical marijuana legislation in the state.

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BOLD STROKES: Lisa Autio works on one of her signature dish paintings at her home in Missoula. “I think about his influence all the time,” she says about her father, Rudy, the legendary artist who died in 2007. “One of the things he talked about—and it’s an extremely liberating idea—is that there really aren’t any rules in art.”

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STILL FIGHTING: Chase Weston, a veteran of the Iraq War, continues to struggle with the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Montana, which per capita has the second-most veterans in the country, is among the few states that support vet-to-vet group therapy meetings, and boasts the Yellow Ribbon Program, which the Montana National Guard says does more than any other state to screen for and treat PTSD.

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SECRET FOREST: Remnants of a forest dot the floodplain known for the past century as Milltown Reservoir. Crews removed more than 3 million tons of contaminated sediment from the valley bottom in order to clean up the local drinking water supply, bring back the native and sport fishery, and restore the Clark Fork and Blackfoot rivers.

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STUMP SPEECH: State legislators greeted U.S. Sen. Jon Tester with a standing ovation during a special joint session Jan. 9 after he claimed to be the only Senate Democrat to vote against both the Wall Street and automaker bailouts. Tester received a decidedly more mixed reaction from Montana residents when he announced his controversial and potentially precedent-setting Forest Jobs and Recreation Act later in the year.

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LOOK OUT BELOW: The 2009 Montana Snowbowl Gelande Championship drew dozens of jumpers from across the nation to compete for an $8,000 purse.

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MEDIA CIRCUS: Billed as the largest environmental crimes trial in U.S. history (for the potential fines and jail time involved), the W.R. Grace case attracted media from across the country. At different times, reporters from Bloomberg, the Los Angeles Times and New York Times rubbed elbows in the courtroom with local journalists. Here, W.R. Grace lead attorney and courtroom showman David Bernick takes questions from the press corps after the jury exonerated his clients.

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Southgate Mall

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BODY BLOW: Twenty-two fighters from throughout the Northwest went toe-to-toe at Missoula Mayhem on March 21, the first Mixed Martial Arts competition ever held at the University of Montana’s Adams Center. Scott Brown, inverted, turned things around to defeat Nike Emry in the event’s fourth bout.

Bring It On.

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NAKED RUN: Neither cold, nor wind, nor snow, nor darkness could diminish the Missoula Telemark Challenge race series at Snowbowl on March 7. Racers arrived in various costumes, including camouflage, a giant fish suit and no costume whatsoever. After celebrating its 25th year, the series became the second-longest running telemark race in the country.

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IN HEAVY ROTATION: Local cover band The Fidgets—from left, Tyson Roth, Travis Yost and Ricky Drake—are known for performing ridiculously fun songs with non-ironic earnestness. “We play ‘Ghostbusters’ as if this song kicks so much ass,” explains Yost.

“Like, ‘The first time I listened to that song I cried, I got my period, we have to play that song now!’”

Happy IN YOUR HOLIDAY SHOPPING

Extended Holiday Hours begin Friday, November 27

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Happy Holiday Shopping.

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SUMMER SWIM: A mature billy with a broken horn splashes through the soggy bottoms beneath Bearhat Mountain in Glacier National Park. Technically not a true goat, mountain goats are more closely related to cattle and antelope. They live in rugged alpine areas in an effort to avoid predators.

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IN THE NEWS: Bitterroot resident and pop music icon Huey Lewis earned a bad reputation among some locals for how he manages his land, particularly his unsuccessful efforts to close Mitchell Slough to the public. Lewis told his side of the story to the Independent in June. “I’m just a name on a sign,” he said, referring to the infamous warning that marks his private property. “I represent the rich, out-of-state landowners, and I’m not even out-of-state.”

A STONE’S THROW: Kerri Rosenstein’s homage to her father consisted of 23,024 stones colored with biodegradable red milk paint—one for each day of her father’s life. Rosenstein designed the installation, which was on display at the Missoula Art Museum in June, July and August, in hopes that people would remove a stone and return it to nature. The Missoula artist continues to track where the stones have ended up (see rosestones.blogspot.com), and the exhibit—or what remains of it—is currently on display in Miami, Fla.

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CUT OFF AT THE PASS: Two ambitious adventurers have an early-season bid to ski in Glacier National Park thwarted by a swollen, impassable McDonald Creek.

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IT’S WHAT’S FOR DINNER: Four heifers pose outside the Hilton Garden Inn on Reserve Street in November for the annual Montana Farm Bureau Federation meeting. The Coleman Limousine heifers from Charlo allowed local 4H and Future Farmers of America members to gain experience in judging cattle.

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UP IN SMOKE: The Montana Clean Indoor Air Act, which was drafted during the 2005 Legislature, allowed bars and casinos to gradually transition to smoke-free over the last four years. But that buffer period officially ended Oct. 1, clearing the air at traditionally smokefilled establishments, like The Golden Rose, above.

DEAD MAN’S PARTY: El Zombi Gato rocks out in front of a group of longstanding members of the local rock scene. The all-star collective consists of musicians who’ve long rocked in popular Missoula acts like Secret Powers, Sasshole, Cicada, Thee Hedons and others since the mid-’90s.

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HOMEGROWN: The medical marijuana movement made huge strides in 2009 as the number of registered patients jumped from 1,577 in December 2008 to 5,935 in December 2009, according to the Montana Department of Public Health & Human Services. Duke Martin, a registered caregiver in northwestern Montana, was among the first to openly speak about working within state law when the Independent interviewed him in February. By the end of the year, storefront dispensaries and clinics had opened throughout the state.

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IN THE GROOVE: Missoula native and hip-hop statesman James Two, aka Jimi Nasset, returned home for a handful of shows this year, including a spot during the three-day local music extravaganza, Total Fest.

Count former Indy calendar editor Jonas Ehudin, background, among Nasset’s local fans. editor@missoulanews.com Photo by Chad Harder

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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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ing 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 MonSat 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. $$-$$$

$–$$...$5–$15 Biga Pizza 241 W. Main Street 728-2579 2009 New Year's Eve Endless Pizza! Biga Pizza invites you to an all-you-care-to-eat New Year's Eve Buffet with pizza & salad. Beer & wine available. Service at 3 PM, $14 per adult, $7 per child. $-$$ 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, thincrust, 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. $-$$ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave 721-6033 Missoula “Original” Coffeehouse/Cafe located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch seven days a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, baked goods and an espresso bar til close. Mon thru Thurs 7am - 3pm Fri & Sat 7am - 3pm Sun 8am - 3pm. www.thinkfft.com $-$$

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

Start with appetizers and end with desserts. You can even toast your own s’mores right at you table. A large selection of beer, wine and sake’ drinks available. Stop by for a great meal in a fun atmosphere. Kid and family friendly. Open daily at 11 AM. $-$$ Hunter Bay Coffee hunterbay.com • 800-805-2263 Missoula’s only local roaster since 1991!

We use award-winning coffee recipes and traditional European small-batch roasting techniques to create our premium coffees. Hunter Bay’s gourmet coffees and unique coffee gifts are available locally and on the web. For freshly roasted coffee delivered to your door, join Hunter Bay’s Coffee of the Month Club! www.hunterbay.com/products/coffee-club.

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 as international cuisine and traditional Irish fare. FULL BAR, BEER, WINE, MARTINIS, 100% SMOKE FREE. "Where the Gaelic and the Garlic Mix!" $-$$ Staggering Ox 1220 SW Higgins 542-2206 123 E Main 327-9400 Home of the famous Clubfoot Sandwich - unique, portable, delicious! We serve fantastic sandwiches on fresh-baked bread. With two convenient locations, it’s easy to call in your order and pick it up on your way to play. $-$$ 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! $-$$

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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by Ari LeVaux

The year in food

Great Food No Attitude.

Mon-Fri

7am - 4pm (Breakfast ‘til Noon)

Sat & Sun

8am - 4pm (Breakfast all day)

531 S. Higgins

541-4622 www.justinshobnobcafe.com

Times Run 12/25 - 12/31

Cinemas, Live Music & Theater

Precious (R) Nightly at 7:00 and 9:00 Sunday matinee at 1:00 and 3:00

New York, I Love You Nightly at 7:00 • Sun matinee at 1 Will NOT show Thursday (12/31)

A Serious Man

FULL BAR AVAILABLE 131 S. Higgins Ave.

Nightly at 9:00 • Sun matinee at 3 Will NOT show Thursday (12/31)

Downtown Missoula

www.thewilma.com

406-728-2521

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A lot happened in the food world in 2009, but the year may be most remembered for one high-profile garden, thanks to the veggie patch Michelle Obama planted in the White House lawn. The symbolic gesture created an instant buzz, and many other politicos around the world have followed suit, providing countless opportunities to educate and discuss why gardens are good.

According to the National Gardening Association, the number of households with gardens rose from 36 million in 2008 to 43 million in 2009.

Obama’s garden certainly deserves some credit, but so does the recession, which inspired many people to stick their hands in the dirt—not just to save on grocery bills, but to also spend less on activities away from the soil.

Ironically, this proliferation of home gardeners bears some of the responsibility for the rapid spread of a late tomato blight fungus, which nearly wiped out the commercial tomato crop on the East Coast. Many gardeners bought tomato starts from stores like Home Depot, Kmart, Lowe’s and Wal-Mart, nearly all of which were raised by the Alabama nursery Bonnie Plants. Plant pathologists believe the nursery sent out infected plants, which slipped under the radar of agricultural inspectors and brought the spores to all corners of the country. Unusually heavy rainfall encouraged the blight to take hold, prosper and spread.

The take-home message: Buy your plant starts from local nurseries, or grow them yourself from seeds.

In addition to kitchen gardens, another beneficiary of the recession is Clara Cannucciari, a 93-yearold great-grandmother whose YouTube videos combine salty commentary about life in the Great Depression with hands-on demonstrations on how to crank out simple delicacies that average 50 cents a serving. The videos helped win Cannucciari a contract with St. Martin’s Press, which published Clara’s Kitchen: Wisdom, Memories, and Recipes from the Great Depression this past October.

It’s impossible to discuss the year in food without an update on the activities of biotech giant Monsanto, whose year can be summed up in a single word:

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Department of Justice (DOJ), which this month has indicated it’s considering anti-trust litigation.

Monsanto’s string of acquisitions have squelched almost any possibility of competition, while its seed prices have risen by an average of 42 percent. When the DOJ dispatched some of its lawyers to meet with Monsanto to discuss these developments, the company hired the services of Jerry Crawford, an Iowa lawyer who is a friend and financial supporter of Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. It’s further indication that keeping Monsanto in line is about as easy as trying to wrestle an anaconda.

While touting its products as safe for humans and the environment, Monsanto’s main sales pitch is based on the claim that genetically engineered seeds will increase crop yields and facilitate pest control.

But last summer, a report by the Union of Concerned

Scientists concluded that genetically engineered seeds actually don’t increase productivity. Another study, by the Organic Center, found that since the introduction of “Round-Up tolerant” corn, soy and cotton, farmers have sprayed 382.6 million more pounds of herbicides than they otherwise would have. This is partly due to the proliferation of RoundUp resistant weeds: between 2007 and 2008, farmers increased the use of different herbicides by 31 percent in an effort to combat these superweeds.

Nonetheless, the company’s website promotes the seeds as a key component in “sustainable agriculture.”

While Monsanto has co-opted the term “sustainable agriculture,” retail giant Wal-Mart, already the world’s largest vendor of organic food, is now poised to capitalize on the popularity of locally grown food. It’s looking at ways individual stores can carry foods grown by local farmers. Another large grocer, Safeway, has this year begun aggressively pushing a “locally grown” marketing campaign, while blatantly taking advantage of the ambiguity in the term “local.” Stores in Missoula tried the trick this summer, posting locally grown signs throughout produce sections that included one local product— Flathead cherries that are processed in Washington before returning to Montana.

That the “sustainable,” “local,” and “organic” bandwagons are becoming attractive to large corporations, arguably, is a good sign. It shows these words, and what they represent, have infiltrated the mainstream consciousness. And one of the most powerful vehicles to deliver this message has been the movie Food Inc, whose depressing-yet-important message about the American diet was seen by enough people to make it the year’s highest grossing documentary.

As for 2010, I predict serious soul-searching on the pros and cons of all things bovine. From the atrocities of feedlots and slaughterhouses to the environmental destruction wrought by cattle, given the skyrocketing worldwide demand for meat, the human addiction to cow products is reaching a breaking point.

Game time

Dear Flash, In the spirit of the holidays, a friend recently gifted me more elk meat than I’ve ever had before, including ground elk, steaks and roast. I have no idea where to begin. Can you offer one or two quick and easy recipes for an elk meat novice like me?

—Flush with Elk

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“chutzpah.” In April, the company sued Germany when its agriculture minister banned the planting of a type of Monsanto corn engineered to thwart the advances of the corn-borer moth. Monsanto was unsuccessful in forcing Germany to allow its farmers to plant the corn, and recent research suggests Germany’s concern (which several other European countries shared) may have been warranted: French scientists published a paper suggesting adverse affects of this corn—and two other types of genetically modified corn—on the kidneys and liver of rats.

Meanwhile, Monsanto’s marketing practices have placed it on a collision course with the U.S.

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find, then cooking it becomes a process of masking gamey flavor. The best way to do this is a strong marinade with things like soy, Worchestershire sauce, vinegar, sugar, black pepper, wine, etc.

Such an animal is also likely to be very tough, and will need to be cooked until tender. I like a long, slow braise, in plenty of water or stock, until the cartilage and connective tissue breaks down to a tender crème.

But hopefully your animal is at the other end of the spectrum: a tasty cow, shot in cold temperatures, and who died a quick death. This becomes a case of getting out of the way and letting its glorious flavor shine. Some of the tougher roasts will

still need a long, slow braise, but skip the marinade, brown it in a pan or broiler, and cook it in wine and stock with carrots, onions and celery at 350 degrees until tender.

As for those steaks, cook them in a pan or on a grill with salt and pepper, and wash them down with red wine. Anything else will just get in the way of the flavor. Check my archives online at missoulanews.com for more ideas, including a recipe for neck meat burritos that will work well with your roasts.

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

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Arts & Entertainment listings December 24–December 31, 2009

THURSDAY December

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It’s the day before Christmas. Maybe you’re working, doing last minute shopping or looking for pre-Christmas entertainment. If you’re planning on a night out, I’d advise calling the places listed here ahead of time in case of any last minute changes. But don’t worry about calling the Badlander, as its Crunksmas Eve Party is confirmed.

Aspen Hospice of Montana is currently looking for volunteers to help offer comfort, pain relief and emotional support for those who are near the end of their lives.

Call Lois at 642-3010.

If you’ve got an interest in preserving Missoula’s historic hotspots, and live in the southwest area of town located south of the Clark Fork, west of Higgins Ave. and north of Brooks St., apply yourself as a volunteer on the Historic Preservation Commission.

Pick up an app at City Hall, 435 Ryman St. or online at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/vacancy.

Apps are due by 5 PM Wed. Dec. 30. Call 552-6078.

If zoning stimulates your senses you should consider applying as an alternate board member for the Design Review Board where you’ll review building graphics, conditional uses, landscaping, buffering and more under the Missoula City Zoning Ordinance.

To apply, grab an app at the City Clerk’s office in City Hall, 435 Ryman St., and return it by 5 PM on Jan. 6. You can also download an app at ci.missoula.mt.us/vacancy. Call 552-6078. end your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Dec. 25, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Overlord c/o the Independent, 317 S. Orange St., Missoula, MT 59801 or fax your way to 543-4367.

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If for some reason you find yourself wandering over to the Missoula Public Library to check out a book, CD or DVD on Dec. 24 or Dec. 25, head right back home.

The library is closed both days and opens up again Sat. Dec. 26 at 10 AM. Call 721-BOOK. Kids and parents experiment with rhythm and more during Rhythm Tykes, a class for kids 18 months–4 years old this and every Thu. at 10 AM at Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W. $40 five classes/$10 class. Call 396-3352.

Help others in need around the holiday season by donating blankets, non-perishable food items, sheets, towels and other items to YWCA Missoula. To donate, call

Alice at 543-6691 or e-mail her at ajones@ywcaofmissoula.org.

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

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

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

Gay Men Together, a safe and affirming place for gay and bisexual men, at 7 PM at the Western Montana Gay and Lesbian Community Center, 127 N. Higgins Ave., Ste. 202. Free. Call 543-2224.

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

You just might do the push, whip or the jitterbug-lindy when Cathy Clark slings beginning swing dance lessons every Thu. at 7 PM, and then moves to beyond basics swing lessons at 7:30 PM, at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., with open dancing from 8–10 PM. $5 person for dance lessons. E-mail cathyc@missoulaboneandjoint.com.

Bowling and karaoke go together like anarchy and consumerism during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free.

Call 541-SING. Sorry ladies, but Thu. nights belong to the dudes at Men’s Night at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where the testosteronefueled karaoke begins at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969.

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

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

Feel free to flail around like a rockstar whilst busting out your best version of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” during karaoke at Deano’s Casino near Airway Blvd., 5318 W. Harrier, this and every Thu. at 9 PM. Free.

Nothing’s better than a dance-andalcohol-induced hangover on Christmas Day, am I right? Find out by shaking your salt shaker at the Badlander’s Crunksmas Eve Party, which features DJs Monty Carlo and Chris Baumann playing an assortment of hip-hop, electronic and other danceable tunes at 9 PM. Free. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Renew and connect with the natural world, for free, during a Vinyasa Yoga class that meets this and every Thu. from 5:30–6:30 PM at the Teranga Arts School, 2926 S. Third St. W. Free, until 2010. Visit terangaarts.googlepages.com.

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

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

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Ahhh, Christmas Eve. When that night of anticipation hits each year I’m guessing you fall into one of three camps: You’re chilling and watching the tube, chowing on dinner with the fam, or catching up with old friends over drinks. Either way, it’s usually a low-key affair. Usually.

Well, consider ramping it up a notch this year by shaking your tail to hip-hop, electronic and an array of mashup tunes during the Badlander’s Crunksmas Eve Party, where DJ Chris Baumann, pictured here, who is one-half of Missoula’s Dead Hipster night, tag teams tracks with DJ Monty Carlo (aka Colin Hickey) for a night of pre-Yuletide revelry. It’s one way to dance off all that eggnog you’ve been gulping. Expect to be shaking it on the floor to a number of tracks from the crunk genre of hip-hop—just think of the rapWHAT: Crunksmas Eve Party WHO: DJs Chris Baumann and Monty Carlo WHEN: Thu., Dec. 24, at 9 PM WHERE: The Badlander, 208 Ryman St.

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per Lil Jon—as well as straight up dance music in the vein of electro and Baltimore Club. The duo might also drop a holiday tune or two, and don festive gear.

Baumann says he got the idea for the holiday fete while living in Portland, Ore., and going to a similar party, which, coincidentally, was hosted by former Missoulian Casey Minatrea, known in the City of Roses as DJ Beyonda.

“It was one of the best dance parties I’ve ever been to,” Baumann says. “And it was on Christmas Eve, so I was surprised at how many people showed up. I had blast.”

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Impress your friends, significant other, or anyone who will listen when you rock the karaoke mic at Harry David’s, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, which is back in action with free karaoke at 9:30 PM, Sun.–Thu. each week. Call 830-3277.

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

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

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If for some reason you find yourself wandering over to the Missoula Public Library to check out a book, CD or DVD on Dec. 24 or Dec. 25, head right back home. The library is closed both days and opens up again Sat. Dec. 26 at 10 AM. Call 721-BOOK. Christmas Day is now upon us. My guess is that you’re sitting at home, relaxing in the comforts of family and friends. At least that’s what I will be doing. Chillaxing to the max, if you will.

Take note that most if not everything is closed today, save for a handful of convenience stores and supermarkets. Your favorite watering hole might be open, but my guess is as good as yours. Movies are always an option too, so scan our movie shorts section for any and all hot titles hitting the silver screen. Whatever you do, have a good holiday.

nightlife You could be relaxing at home on Christmas day, but why bother? Get sizzled by the warmth of hot sulphur water and Christmas music during the Symes Hotel’s Christmas Celebration, which starts at 5 PM at the hotel, 209 Wall St. in Hot Springs, and features music by pianist Betty Lou Cannon and cellist Lee Zimmerman. Donations appreciated. Call 741-2382.

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

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.

If you and your kids usually spend Saturday mornings taking in a story or two at the Missoula Public Library’s Family Story Time, you’ll just have to hold off and read something at home, since family story time is canceled today due to the holidays. Call 721-BOOK. They probably won’t be playing Blackalicious’ first album on repeat, but you can still get down with some lively movement of the same name when Cathy Jenni leads a Nia class every Sat. at 9 AM at the Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St. $10. Call 541-7240.

Christmas is over and now it’s time to get rid of that tree you’ve had sitting in your house. But don’t even think about throwing it away. Rather, recycle it during Christmas Ever Green, the city of Missoula’s free Christmas tree recycling program which runs from Dec. 26–Jan. 10. Drop off locations are: Playfair Park, Currents parking lot in McCormick Park, Fort Missoula’s softball complex and EKO compost. No yard waste, garbage or decorations. Call 721-PARK. Learn to mix and match your bellydance styles during Beginners World Fusion Bellydance, which takes

place every Sat. at 10 AM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/month for as many classes as you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Wendy at 541-0667 or e-mail thebellytent@hotmail.com.

Kick it to the core for CoreKicking Pilates Class with Alison Laundrie every Sat. at 646 Sixth St. W., at 11 AM. $10, includes childcare. RSVP 214-7247.

Kids let gunk ooze over their imaginations during the activity SpectrUM Discovery Area Open Hours: Slime, a program where learning about goo and polymers by mixing two liquids together is all the rage from 11 AM–4:30 PM in R o o m 16 6 o f U M ’ s S k a g g s Building. $3.50/free ages three and under. Visit spectrum.umt.edu.

Art projects, educational games and storytime activities aim to stimulate your 3- to 7-year-old’s mind into Stephen Hawking-like abilities during Ready Set Read at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front.

St., at 12 PM. $4.25/free under age 1. Call 541-PLAY. The woolen warriors of Missoula’s Stitch ‘N’ Bitch needlework circle bring the world to drink every Sat. at 2 PM in Liquid Planet’s conference room. Free. BYO yarn and needles, and check out missoulaknits.blogspot.com.

nightlife Extremely relaxed and somewhat collected is what you’re bound to be when sipping through the oneness of suds and listening to a mixture of reggae, soul and jazz when Joan Zen plays the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-7468.

John Patrick Williams lets his strings purr with perfection when the singer/songwriter plays a solo set at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St., at 8 PM. Donations appreciated. Call 741-2361.

Solid Sound Karaoke proves that music can also be a liquid or a gas,

but never plasma, at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. If you get nervous in front of crowds, just imagine they’re all naked at East Missoula’s Reno Casino and Cafe’s karaoke night, brought to you by Karaoke by Figmo at 9 PM. Free.

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

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

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

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

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

Hendr 9 lets its influences hang out to dry when the “funkadelic rock group” arises from a seven year hiatus in order to serve slices of complex grooves at the Palace at 9 PM. $5.

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

Three to five has has nothing to do with a prison sentence, but everything to do with the amount of beers you down when The Lifers shoot music through bodies as you pump booze into yours at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

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

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

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

Missoula is a bona fide bike town. If you don’t have one already, you’ll be able to build your own recycled recumbent or four-wheel bike after you volunteer for two hours at Missoula Free Cycles, 732 S. First St. W., on Sundays at a TBA time. Call 800-809-0112 to RSVP. Playing bingo at 2 PM at the Missoula Senior Citizens Center is your chance to yell, “Health care reform is a joke!” Free. Call 543-7154.

Seek connection, mutual life, or even death using the ancient Japanese strategy game Go when a group of enthusiasts meets to play the game this and every Sun. at 4:30 PM at Break Espresso, 432 N. Higgins Ave. Free. E-mail goinmissoula@yahoo.com.

If you fancy yourself a crackerjack with a pool cue, consider joining a weekly pool tournament at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, which runs this and every Sun. starting with a sign up at 4:30 PM and the game starting at 5. $5 buy-in with a minimum of eight players, includes one free drink per player. Call 830-3277.

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

Musicians are welcome and encouraged. Email missoulacontactimprov@gmail.com.

You too can practice guided, affirmative and visual meditation with others when Rev. Jennifer Hackenbruch leads a session every second and fourth Sunday of the month from 7–8 PM at Unity Church, 546 South Ave. W. Love offering appreciated. Call 370-9631.

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.

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

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

Bellow out your favorite pop tune so you can impress your friends and perhaps win a prize during a karaoke contest this and every Sun. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9 PM. Free. Call 721-1798.

Women celebrate their womanhood with cheap libations during Ladies’ Night at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, this and every Sun. at 9:30 PM. Free to attend. Call 830-3277.

Impress your friends, significant other, or anyone who will listen when you rock the karaoke mic at Harry David’s, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, which is back in action with free karaoke at 9:30 PM, Sun.–Thu. each week.

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Quit that dead-end job and head down to the Dickinson Lifelong Learning Center, 310 S. Curtis St., where you can brush up on your reading, writing and math skills in order to pass the GED or enroll in college during free adult education courses, every Mon.–Thu. from 8 AM–12 PM and 1–3 PM, as well as every Tue.–Thu. from 6–8 PM. Call 542-4015.

If you’ve got a kid with special health care needs, Montana’s Department of Public Health and Human Services would like you to join a parent focus group to examine the health-related needs of families and children. Your participation is confidential and you’ll get a cash reimbursement of $35 for your time. The focus group will meet Wed., Jan. 6 at a TBA time at the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. If interested, call Sofia at 406-461-3780.

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Western art created by squeezing paint onto a canvas and using a palette knife to drag around said paint finds warm company in Salon 21, 840 S. First St. in Hamilton, which features the work of artist Dick Lande throughout the month of December. Free to peruse from 10 AM–5 PM on weekdays and Sat. from 11 AM–4 PM. Call 363-0021.

Those of you with an eye for design shouldn’t pass up a chance to design a new logo for KBGA, UM’s student-run radio station. If your work is picked, it’ll be used on all promo materials like posters, T-shirts and more. You’ll also get free admission to all KBGA events and concerts. Submissions are due Feb. 1 by e-mailing Zach Partin at promotions@kbga.org or by dropping them off at KBGA’s office, Room 208 in the University Center. Call 243-6139.

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.

Soon-to-be mommas with buns in the oven can feel empowered, relaxed and nurtured during a prenatal yoga class, this and every Mon. at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks Ave., at 4 PM. $11/$10 with card.

Call 360-1521.

Two sessions of World Rhythm Youth Hand Drumming Class hits Tangled Tones Music Studio, 2005 South Ave. W. every Mon. At 4:30 PM, kids aged 5–7 can get their grooves on, and a class for those 8 and above begins at 5. $30/month, drum rental available. RSVP 396-3352 or visit tangledtones.com.

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

You’ll probably want to take out those metallic studs when you head to Gothic Fusion Bellydance, which takes place every Mon. at 5:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/per month for each class you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Wendy at 541-0667 or email thebellytent@hotmail.com Rejuvenate your mind and body from the Monday blues during a Vinyasa Yoga class this and every Mon. at 5:30 PM at the Open Way Center, 702 Brooks Ave. $12/$10 with card. Call 360-1521.

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

If you’re aiming to run like a maniac during the Boston Marathon in April, don’t space Run Wild Missoula’s Boston Marathon training class, which starts at 5:30 PM at Runner’s Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave., and runs for 16 weeks. $60/$50 Run Wild Missoula members. Features expert training from Courtney Babcock and Anders Brooker. Register by visiting runwildmissoula.org.

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

Get this: Every Mon., Lolo’s Square Dance Center, 9555 Hwy. 12, begins with beginners’ lessons at 6:30 PM and then moves into full square dance party mode at 8. First two beginners’ sessions free/$4 thereafter. Call 273-0141.

Missoulians who suffer from Alzheimer’s can find help and support from others at an Alzheimer’s Support Group, which meets this and every fourth Mon. of the month from 6:30–8:30 PM in Conference Room B of St. Patrick’s Hospital, 500 W. Broadway St. Free to attend. Call Gale at 273-2429.

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

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

Spend Monday night getting tranquil and learning the intricacies of Buddhism during the class Finding Happiness in a Difficult World: An Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism and Meditation, which runs this and every Mon. from 7–8:30 PM at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Missoula, 102 McLeod Ave. Suggested Donation: $10 per class. Call 9615131 or e-mail info@tibetanlanguage.org.

Let the pleasantries induced by wine and appetizers whisk you away to another berg when Larry Hirshberg plays folk and Americana at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 100, at 7 PM. Free.

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

Figurative stains creep across the walls and onto Bob Marley’s face when former Missoulian DJ Enzymes plays a set of electronic music during the Palace’s Milkcrate Mondays on Mon., Dec. 28, at 9 PM. Free. Also includes sets by Hase and DJ Fatty Pants.

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

Who says America never invented a pub sport?

Beer Pong proves them all wrong at the Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, where alcohol and performance anxiety climax into a thing of beauty at 9 PM. Free. Call 363-6969.

See a plethora of patterns and colors—after a few pitchers—and muster up the courage to belt out some prize-winning classics during Kaleidoscope Karaoke every Sun.–Sat. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9 PM. Free. Call 721-1798.

Kick off your week with a drink, some free pool and an array of electronic DJs and styles for das booty during Milkcrate Mondays with the Milkcrate Mechanic at 9 PM every week, at the Palace. Free. This week: dubstep, breaks and more from former Missoulian DJ Enzymes, along with Hase and a special bulky appearance from DJ Fatty Pants.

See if you can become a star under the spotlight at Sean Kelly’s open mic night, hosted

by Mike Avery at 9:30 PM. Free.

Men drink on the cheap and can enjoy a game of pigskin, as well as karaoke, during Men’s Night at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, this and every Mon. at 9:30 PM. Free to attend. Call 830-3277.

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If you can’t read this, you may be a baby below the age of 36 months, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program at 10:30 AM every Tue., Thu. and Fri. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Kids can find Christmas-break gratification by enjoying nature from the comfort of a movie theater seat during the International Wildlife Media Center and Film Festival’s “School’s Out” matinee program, which starts at noon and features outdoor/nature-themed films like The Great Penguin Rescue and Christmas in Yellowstone,

all at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $2. Call 728-9380 or visit wildlifefilms.org.

Do you have any photos of your mom shredding down Snowbowl? Or of you or your grandma during a summer hike? If so, consider submitting your photo for Women in Nature, a First Friday outdoors photo exhibit at Betty’s Divine on Jan. 8.

Submissions are due today. Contact Jennifer at 370-9631 or e-mail starteam@mountainstarjourneys.com for submission guidelines.

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.

Teens ages 13–18 stir their creative juices during Teen Media Club every Tue. at 4 PM at the Missoula Public Library computer classroom, where video creation, music mixing and digital art formulation are all the rage. Free. Call 721-2665.

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

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

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

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

Beginners can try their hand with more experienced folks during a Beginner/Intermediate World Fusion Bellydance class, which takes place every Tue. at 6:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016 Strand Ave. $25/month for every class you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Blair at 531-3000 or e-mail thebellytent@hotmail.com.

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

Take part in collective thoughts and actions for healing and enlightenment at the Healers’ Gathering Meeting, which takes place the last Tue. of each month at 6:30 PM at the Eagles Lodge meeting room, 2420 South Ave. W. Free. Call 273-2871.

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

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

Those who have problems with anorexia or bulimia can find a shoulder to lean on dur-

ing a meeting of Anorexics and Bulimics Anonymous, which meets this and every Tue. at 7:30 PM in the Memorial Room of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 202 Brooks St. Free.

E-mail abamissoula@gmail.com.

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? When did scientists complete the first working draft map of the Human Genome Project? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

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

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

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

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

A diverse array of sounds to make your booty jiggle meets up with the remnants of your Christmas, Kwanzaa and Hanukkah soirees during Kwanchanukkamas, a dance party featuring DJ Chris Baumann from Dead Hipster at 9 PM at the Palace. Free.

The specific deets are TBA at this point, but you can be sure a local band will be playing a free set of live music at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

It’s Tuesday night and you’re bored. How about a beer, or two? If that’s your game, Two Dollar Tuesdays at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, might be the place to be, where all domestic beer and well drinks are $2, as are shots. Free.

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If you love open space and want to help implement our Missoula Urban Area Open Space Plan—as well as provide City Council with recommendations concerning open space conservation proposals—consider volunteering for the Open Space Advisory Committee. Pick up an app at City Hall, 435 Ryman St. or online at www.ci.missoula.mt.us/vacancy. Apps are due by 5 PM Wed. Dec. 30. Call 552-6078.

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

Keep the spirit of Christmas alive for your kids ages 7 and younger during the last holiday-themed story time at Stevensville’s North Valley Public Library, 208 Main St. Free, includes snacks, craft projects and more. Call 777-5061.

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active story time at the Children’s Museum of Missoula, 225 W. Front.

St., at 11 AM. $4.25/free under age 1. Call 541-PLAY.

nightlife If you’d like to help educate Missoulians about greenhouse gases, as well as research new technologies to find out how they can be applied locally, and more, consider applying as an alternate board member for Missoula’s Greenhouse Gas and Conservation Team, which helps advise the Missoula City Council. Apps are due to the City Clerk’s office in City Hall, 435 Ryman St., by 5 PM. They can be picked up at the City Clerk’s office, or online at ci.missoula.mt.us/vacancy. Call 5526078. (See Agenda in this issue.)

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

Expect something other than Hall & Oates covers when Ace & Warren plays the Blacksmith Brewing Co. in Stevensville, 114 Main St., at 5:30 PM. Free. Call 777-0680 or visit blacksmithbrewing.com.

Develop eloquence in the face of inebriation, as well as impressive business contacts, when Toastmasters meets this, and every, Wed. at 6 PM in St. Patrick Hospital’s Duran Learning Center. Free. Call 728-9117.

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

Free. Call 755-9463.

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

Find out the difference between regular pilates and pilates from the Big Apple when Alison Laundrie leads a New York Style Pilates class every Wed. at Main Street Pilates, 214 E. Main St., at 6:30 PM. $12. RSVP 541-2673.

If you fancy yourself a crackerjack with a pool cue, consider joining a weekly pool tournament at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, which runs this and every Wed. starting with a sign up at 6:30 PM and the game starting at 7. $5 buy-in with a minimum of eight players, includes one free drink per player. Call 830-3277.

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

BYO yarn and needles, and check out missoulaknits.blogspot.com.

Being square will never be as much fun as it is at square dancing lessons every Wed. at the Kalispell Senior Center. 7 PM. $4, children 12 and under must bring an adult. Call 752-4964.

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

In case of emergency, break finger puppet: Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like stories, fingerplays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 7 PM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Swing a hippie-tonk hammer at all your enemies under the influence of Whitefish’s Canyon Creek Ramblers, who play the Piggyback Barbeque in Whitefish, 102 Wisconsin Ave., at 7 PM. Free.

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

Two old buds, a bottle of tequila and their story of a whirlwind trip to Las Vegas—which includes run-ins with a Japanese mob, a dead callgirl and more—comprise a night of dark laughs during the Montana Actors’ Theatre rendition of Robert Caisley’s Good Clean Fun, with a performance at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave., at 7:30 PM. $12. Visit mtactors.com. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

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

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: The first working draft map of the Human Genome Project was completed almost 10 years ago in June of 2000. A more completed map was then released in 2003.

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 “Brown Eyed Girl” by Van Morrison, or a similar tune, during Kraptastic Karaoke at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

See a plethora of patterns and colors—after a few pitchers—and muster up the courage to belt out some prize-winning classics during Kaleidoscope Karaoke every Sun.–Sat. at the Lucky Strike Casino, 1515 Dearborn Ave., at 9 PM. Free. Call 721-1798.

Be sure you’ve grabbed yourself a designated driver so you can imbibe during Wasted Wednesdays at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, which offers drink specials

and starts at 9:30 PM. Free to attend. Call 830-3277.

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

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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.

Another year is down and a new one approaches. Happy New Year’s Eve! I’d advise calling some of the places listed here just to make sure they’re open for New Year’s festivities. All specific bands or DJs listed below are all confirmed. And I don’t think I need to remind you that if you’re gonna drink, don’t operate motorized machinery.

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

Help others in need around the holiday season by donating blankets, non-perishable food items, sheets, towels and other items to YWCA Missoula. To donate, call Alice at 543-6691 or e-mail her at ajones@ywcaofmissoula.org.

If you can’t read this, perhaps you’re simply pre-literate, in which case the Missoula Public Library wants you for Tiny Tales, a movement, music and singing program for babes up to 36 months at 10:30 AM every Thu., Fri. and Tue. Free. Call 721-BOOK. Kick off New Year’s Eve day with a slice of creativity during Southgate Mall’s First Night Mask Parade at JC Penny court in the mall, 2901 Brooks St., which starts with mask decorating from 11 AM–12:30 PM, followed by the mask parade at 1 PM. Free, with mask and supplies provided. Call 721-5140.

Lee Zimmerman bows about with the cello, Jazz Graffiti jazzes up the place and the Discount Quartet slings dynamic jazz all during First Night Missoula at the Missoula Art Museum, which runs from 11 AM–5 PM at the museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Admission is a First Night button, which is $15/$12 advance.

Visit firstnightmissoula.org.

Kids can find Christmas-break gratification in things other than watching Cops or the The Hills during the International Wildlife Media Center and Film Festival’s “School’s Out” matinee program, which starts at noon and features outdoor/nature-themed films like The Plight of the Sea Turtle and E is for Elephant, all at the Roxy Theater, 718 S. Higgins Ave. $2. Call 728-9380 or visit wildlifefilms.org.

Culture yourself with music from bands like Zeppo MT, dance performances by Headwaters Dance Co., as well as children’s programs and more during First Night 2010, Missoula’s family-friendly, alcoholfree New Year’s celebration of the arts that runs from 12 PM–12 AM at various locations around Missoula. $15/$12 advance at 20 locations, including Rockin Rudy’s and Butterfly Herbs. Call 532-3240 and visit missoulacultural.org for a schedule.

Transition into the new year by sliding down a water slide, or just taking a dip into a spa, when Currents Aquatics Center, 600 Cregg Lane, holds a free swim from 2–8 PM for all First Night button holders. Call 721-PARK.

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

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

Gypsies come out during Troupe Night class every Thu. at 5:30 PM at the Belly Tent Dance Studio, 2016

Strand Ave. $25/month for every class you can make it to. First class is free, $7 drop-in after. Call Blair at 531-3000.

Renew and connect with the natural world, for free, during a Vinyasa Yoga class that meets this and every Thu. from 5:30–6:30 PM at the Teranga Arts School, 2926 S. Third St. W. Free, until 2010. Visit terangaarts.googlepages.com.

Black and white is not a rigid way to see things when local artist Robert L. Richardson presents his exhibit The Art of RL Richardson, a display of linoleum and intaglio prints—mostly in black and white— with a reception that runs from 5:30–7:30 PM at Computer Central, 136 E. Broadway St. Free.

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

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

All right all you library addicts, your fix is being cut off, at least temporarily.

That’s because the Missoula Public Library closes at 6 PM and will remain closed through New Year’s Day, so pick a book up off your own shelf, will ya? Don’t fret

though, as the library opens back up Sat., Jan. 2 at 10 AM. Call 721-BOOK. Feeling too straight and separate?

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

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

You just might do the push, whip or the jitterbug-lindy when Cathy Clark slings beginning swing dance lessons every Thu. at 7 PM, and then moves to beyond basics swing lessons at 7:30 PM, at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., with open dancing from 8–10 PM. $5 person for dance lessons. E-mail cathyc@missoulaboneandjoint.com.

Acoustic Celtic music mixes with champion fiddlers, readings and more during First Night Flathead, Kalispell and Columbia Falls’ family-friendly and alcohol-free celebration of the new year which occurs at various locations in downtown Kalispell and Columbia Falls from 7 PM–12:30 AM. $15/$12 advance at various locations including Colter Coffee and Imagination Station.

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SPOTLIGHT

sin city story

Hollywood movies never tell a story about Las Vegas without delving into some aspect of gambling, sex, drugs or all-around hijinks (Swingers, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Oceans 11). For some, it’s entertaining. For others, it’s disconcerting. But these kind of City of Lights adventure stories—fiction or not—tend to capture our hedonistic imaginations.

ment of odd and sometimes neardeadly mishaps from which they only escape at the last moment.

“It’s rolling on the floor, laughyour-ass-off hilarious,” says director Grant Olson. “And it’s just storytelling. It’s simple. There’s no set, no props, it’s all about performers and that’s something we’re really interested in: actors telling stories.”

On Wednesday, the Montana One such narrative includes their Actors’ Theatre (MAT) puts on the encounter with the Japanese mob, world premiere of playwright Robert which occurred after the duo found Caisley’s dark comedy Good Clean a pair of expensive shoes—they Fun, which apparently doesn’t adhere belonged to the call-girl they met the to that well-worn motto, “What hapnight before—at a truck stop in the pens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.” In the desert between Vegas and L.A. After play, two old friends, Barry and Farber Good Clean Fun features Matt they bump into the mobsters, Barry (played by Matt Warner and Jay Warner, left, and Jay Pyette. decides to smash a ketchup bottle Pyette, respectively), recount—in colover one of their heads. Then, in an orful, adult language—their own wild experiences in Sin attempt to escape quickly, the duo steals a Mercedes that City over shots of tequila. That leads to a spur-of-the- contains a fat stash of cash. moment trip from Los Angeles to Vegas and an assort“It’s fun,” Olson says. “You can sit there and laugh at these guys doing ridiculous things, and trying to WHAT: Good Clean Fun get out of the problems they got themselves into.”

WHO: Montana Actors’ Theatre WHEN: Wed., Dec. 30–Sat., Jan. 2 at 7:30 PM WHERE: Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave. HOW MUCH: $12

Olson also says Caisley, who heads the dramatic writing program at the University of Idaho, steeps the play not only in humor but also in vivid phrases.

“It’s full of word play and banter. Rob’s a master of the English language,” he says. “It’s for an intellectual audience, too. It serves both purposes.”

—Ira Sather-Olson

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Get a little exercise in before you imbibe for the new year during a Run Wild Missoulasponsored New Year’s Eve Run, which starts at 7 PM at the Peak Health and Wellness Center, 5000 Blue Mountain Road.

Cost TBA/free Run Wild Missoula members.

Register by visiting runwildmissoula.org.

Two old buds, a bottle of tequila and their story of a whirlwind trip to Las Vegas—which includes run-ins with a Japanese mob, a dead call-girl and more—comprise a night of dark laughs during the Montana Actors’ Theatre rendition of Robert Caisley’s Good Clean Fun, with a performance at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave., at 7:30 PM. $12. Visit mtactors.com. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

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.

Son of a Gun asks that you leave your Beretta 9000 at home so they can blast you with their twangy country licks during a New Year’s Eve “country blowout” starting at 8 PM at the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W. Free.

Bowling and karaoke go together like anarchy and consumerism during Solid Sound Karaoke at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. You can unleash the shackles of 2009 in style whilst shaking a leg to Prisoner’s of Time, who play the Hot Springs Artist Society’s New Year’s Eve Party at 8:30 PM at the Symes Hotel in Hot Springs, 209 Wall St. Free, with fireworks at midnight. Call 741-2361.

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

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

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

Feel free to flail around like a rockstar whilst busting out your best version of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” during karaoke at Deano’s Casino near Airway Blvd., 5318 W. Harrier, this and every Thu. at 9 PM. Free.

Get torn up under the influence of DJs, a drag show and heaps of rock during the Badlander/Palace’s New Year’s Eve Party, which starts at 9 PM and features the Leather and Lace Drag show, as well as electronic, hip-hop and more from Missoula’s Dead Hipster DJs. If you’re in the mood to rock, head downstairs to catch a reunion show from Oblio Joes, with openers Volumen, Rooster Sauce and El Zombi Gato. $7.

A fashion show melds with industrial, ravestep, house and other electronic music styles during New Year’s Evil: Dark Dreams Vs. XenosoniC, which features DJs HAuLi, ir8prim8 and Rev. Chachi spinning tunes, along with the recycled fashion show “Trash Dolls” by the artist collective FayRay, all starting at 9 PM at the basement of the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. $5.

Consider this a benevolent bailout for yourself: join other New Year’s Eve revelers during the Broadway Sports Bar & Grill’s New Year’s Bailout Celebration, which features music by RMF Entertainment, drink specials, chances to win prizes and more starting at 9 PM at the bar, 1609 W. Broadway St. $5 cover before 11 PM. Pop a bottle with ya collar so you can holla at a DJ during a New Year’s Eve Party with 107.5 Zoo FM, which features DJs Chunkiye, Coma and Aaron Traylor (aka “The Tallest DJ

in America”) at 9 PM at the Elk’s Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. $5, with a $5 surcharge for those under 21.

Get funked up for 2010 with the guidance of 20 Grand, who sling funky riddims at Whitefish’s Grouse Mountain Lodge, 2 Fairway Drive, at 9 PM. Cover TBA. You’re the soldier on a drunken battlefield. So let the Americana and folk of Wartime Blues lead you into a new decade when they play a New Year’s Eve party at the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., at 9 PM, but it could be closer to 10 PM. Free.

Impress your friends, significant other, or anyone who will listen when you rock the karaoke mic at Harry David’s, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, which is back in action with free karaoke at 9:30 PM, Sun.–Thu. each week. Call 830-3277.

Your upcoming New Year’s resolution ought to include listening to more amplified guitars, don’t ya think? Zoo City can help usher in that aim when they rock out at a New Year’s party at Harry David’s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2.

Tom Catmull and the Clerics lead a ministry full of buzzed revelers into the throes of 2010 when they play Americana and roots music at a New Year’s Eve party at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Swing with others under the influence of Irish spirits and the Front Street Jazz Group, who play a New Year’s Eve celebration at Sean Kelly’s around 9:30 PM. Cover TBA. Dance with a cougar or two, or not, every Thu. at 10 PM when the James Bar, 127 W. Alder St., hosts The Social Club, featuring DJ Fleege spinning an expansive array of tech house and progressive electro dance tunes. Free.

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

A bass lobotomy sounds like the perfect way to ring in 2010 during the Top Hat’s New Year’s Eve Party, which features dubstep and other bass heavy music by DJ Kris Moon and others at 10 PM. Cover TBA. Hillbilly hippie rock which finds influences from the twang of the Grateful Dead to the chug of Black Sabbath helps ring in something new when Voodoo Horseshoes play a New Year’s Eve Party at Charlies Bar, 428 N. Higgins Ave., at 10 PM. Free.

As we find ourselves nearer to a new decade, I must impart some sad news to you, dear reader. That fellow who was once known as the Calendar Playa has passed on to the other side.

Details are sketchy, but there’s a rumor that he got caught in the crossfire of a gang shooting while driving around Fresno, Calif. Or something like that. The rumor mill is spinning, and the facts that I’ve received on the situation are as reliable as anything Bill O’Reilly or Glenn Beck tells you. In light of the Playa’s demise, let me introduce myself to you. I go by the name of the Calendar Overlord, and though the name might seem sinister, I am quite a benevolent fellow—if you stay on my good side. You can do that by getting all of your upcoming event information to me in a timely manner.

This means sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Dec. 25, to calendar@missoulanews.com. Alternately, snail mail the stuff to Calendar Overlord 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.”

With the holiday season now in full swing, your plans might include quality time with the family in the great outdoors. If that’s the case, bring your camera and pay extra attention to the outdoor feats of your mother, sister or grandmother.

I bring this up because you can honor those women this week by submitting a photo of them living it up outside—such as your mom hiking, or your grandma shredding it up at Snowbowl—for Women in Nature, a First Friday outdoor photo exhibit at Betty’s Divine which opens with a reception at 5 PM on Fri., Jan. 8. You can also submit a photo of yourself in the outdoors—if you’re a female, of course. To submit your photos, contact Jennifer with Mountain Star Journey’s by Tue., Dec. 29, by calling her at 370-9631 or e-mailing starteam@mountainstarjourneys.com. Also visit mountainstarjourneys.com.

After slipping in your best pics, get active in the form of navigating moguls and carving into some fresh powder at Montana Snowbowl, which as of Dec. 20 reports that it’s 80 percent open and will be open daily at 9:30 AM, except for Christmas Day. Some of the runs now ripe for your shredding pleasure include Headwall and Upper Grizzly. If you plan to go Thu., Dec. 24, know that a full-day pass runs you $39 and a half-day pass is $34. Visit montanasnowbowl.com or call the snow phone at 549-9696.

On Christmas Day, Fri., Dec. 25, you and your family can forgo relaxing at home in order to rock sweet kick grabs and indie turns down south near Sula at Lost Trail Powder Mountain, which reports that it will be open at 9:30 AM. As of Dec. 20, the mountain has 39 inches of powda at its summit with all lifts operating. If you’ve already starting frothing at the mouth, know that you’ll have to shell out $34 for an adult day-pass or $29 for a half-day pass. Visit losttrail.com and call 821-3211.

If you don’t mind taking a trip up north, Whitefish Mountain Resort indicates it will be open Fri., Dec. 25 at 9 AM for lower lifts and

at 9:30 for all others. It also sounds like Mother Nature has been good to that goliath, as the most recent snow report indicates a hefty settled base of 51-inches of powder at the mountain’s summit. If you’re now brimming with excitement, be sure you have $61 on hand so you can get an adult full-day pass, or $51 for a half-day pass. Keep abreast on conditions by calling the snow phone at 862-7669 or by visiting skiwhitefish.com.

As I turn my gaze southwest of Big Mountain, I see that Blacktail Mountain will also be open on Fri., Dec. 25 at 9:30 AM. The resort, located near Lakeside, reports that it’s 50 percent open with a settled base at mid-mountain of 35 inches. A full day on the mountain costs you $36, while a half-day is $30. Visit blacktailmountain.com and call 844-0999.

got $34 on hand for a full-day lift ticket or $29 for a half-day. Click to skilookout.com or dial 208-744-1301.

Off to the east, I’m happy to report that Big Sky’s Moonlight Basin is also open on Fri., Dec. 25 at 9 AM. Rumor has it that Santa will be sliding his joyfully flabby body around on the slopes too, which at press time had a reported base depth of 33-inches of packed goodness. Besides gas money, plan to have $55 on hand for a full day of skiing or $45 for a half day. Ring up 993-6000 and visit moonlightbasin.com for conditions.

Kris Kringle also plans to shoot down the hill over at Big Sky Resort, which opens up at 9 AM on Christmas Day. Conditions as of Dec. 20 also seem ripe for extreme cruising and carving: a base depth between 28–44 inches, as well as 119 of 150 runs open. For a full day of ripping it up, you’ll need $79, or for a half day you’ll have to dole out $69. Visit bigskyresort.com and call 995-5900.

A little closer to home, Phillipsburg’s Discovery Ski Area indicates it will also be open Fri., Dec. 25, at 9:30 AM. As of Dec. 20, it has a snow depth of 26-inches at the top of the mountain, along with 30 trails and 65 terrains open for ye. $35 nabs you a full day of shredding while $27 nets you a half day. Call 563-2184 and visit skidiscovery.com.

After an enjoyable Christmas—and perhaps a weekend—on the slopes, all runners aiming to run in the Boston Marathon in April should scoot to a Boston Marathon Training Class at 5:30 PM Mon., Dec. 28 at Runners Edge, 325 N. Higgins Ave. The 16-week course is geared toward those with marathon experience and features coaching from experts Anders Brooker and Courtney Babcock. $60/$50 for Run Wild Missoula members. Visit runwildmissoula.org.

You should also join up with Run Wild Missoula on Thu., Dec. 31 before you get a little tipsy for the new year during its New Year’s Eve Run, which is from 7—10 PM Photo by Cathrine L. Walters at the Peak Health and Wellness Center, 5000 Blue Mountain Road. Cost TBA/free for Run Wild Missoula As I head back to Missoula and look west, I find that Lookout members. Snag a registration form from runwildmissoula.org.

For now, that’s all I’ve got on tap. Be merry and active this week, and Pass opens at 10 AM on Fri., Dec. 25 for all of ye to bust out your best iron crosses or 360 tail grabs. Conditions as of Dec. 20 also look say “Yo” to the man in red if you see him wandering around town. stellar, with 52 inches of snow on the summit as well as 90 percent calendar@missoulanews.com of runs open. So if you decide to head west on I-90, be sure you’ve

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Signs of the times Ten moments that marked the arts community in 2009

by Erika Fredrickson

High notes The Montana Lyric Opera debuted its first professional, semi-staged opera, Giuseppe Verdi’s famous Rigoletto at the University Theatre. Local aficionados founded the company in January 2008, and spent the next year and a half doing educational outreach programs throughout the region to drum up support. The wildly successful Opera on Draft series—beer, opera, casual talks about the art form—drew standing-room-only crowds and general intrigue. And it worked. Despite some technical difficulties, the Verdi performances were packed and generously received, proving, perhaps, that our mountain town isn’t afraid to embrace entertainment often misconceived as stuffy and elitist.

while, was one of 28 theaters to screen the $1 million memorial service for free. Interestingly, the 11 a.m. show opened to no one.

Movie magic This year’s Big Sky Documentary Film Festival treated viewers to something completely different. South, the 1919 classic documentary about Ernest Shackleton’s harrowing Antarctica expedition, fit the festival’s usual—and increasingly impressive—lineup of award-winning films.

But what made the screening of the silent film all the more special was live accompaniment from a trio called the Alloy Orchestra. Incorporating clarinet, accordion,

pay tribute to the late James Crumley, who died in September 2008. A retrospective of his life’s work included references to classics like The Last Good Kiss and The Right Madness, and featured a panel of renowned writers Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, Laura Lippman and James Grady. The four spoke of Crumley’s influence on their own work, and debated his plots (or lack thereof ), distinct word choice and, most of all, the soft side that didn’t always come through in his writing. The session gave a poignant sense of the high regard in which Crumley continues to be held both in and beyond his genre.

Nightlife deaths The local nightlife scene suffered two tragic shakeups when the owners of two popular establishments died just four months apart.

In February, Steve Garr, the owner of the Top Hat, died, leaving behind the club he’d worked at since 1974 and owned since 1984. The Front Street club, best known for its bluegrass, blues and jam band shows, remains open under the direction of Garr’s children, but is also listed for sale for $1.9 million.

A few months later, in May, Tom Reed, the longtime owner of Buck’s Club and The Other Side, also died. The large venue at the corner of Regent and Strand often booked mid-tier bands that were either too big for downtown clubs or not big enough for the University of Montana, such as The Melvins, The Coup and early Gourds shows. The Other Side closed immediately after Reed’s death, and has remained shuttered ever since.

Severt returns In the late 1990s, actor Severt Philleo entertained Missoula audiences with Marlene Dietrich impressions, starring roles in countless theater performances and singing engagements, in drag, with the likes of the Jody Marshall Trio. For four straight years, Philleo won Best Actor in the Indy’s annual reader poll—and, one year, Best Actress—cementing his place in local lore. But in 2000, he moved to his hometown of Polson and in 2004, to Palm Springs, Fla. Philleo finally made his triumphant return to Missoula stage in March with “A Wilde Night with Severt Philleo,” a benefit performance at the Crystal Theatre that included a staged reading of Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde.

Blast from the past Pearl Jam bassist and UM alum Jeff Ament is the closest thing to a celebrity in Missoula. That’s what made the resurrection of his old hardcore band—and its understated show in a downtown basement venue—so memorable.

Ament and his former Deranged Diction bandmates released a new album in May that featured some old Missoula recording sessions from the band’s heyday in the ’80s, and then scheduled two shows—one in Seattle and one in Missoula. The Missoula show saw a sea of fans pack the Palace Lounge for a truly old-school affair.

Death of a king Michael Jackson’s death shocked the international music community, and had a surprising trickledown effect to Missoula. Rockin Rudy’s sold out of all of Jacko’s albums within days of his death. The Carmike 10, mean-

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The Other Side often booked touring bands like The Melvins and The Coup, and hosted local favorites like the iNHUMANS, pictured here at a 2005 show. When Tom Reed, the longtime club owner, died in May of this year, the venue closed its doors for good, leaving a hole in the local music scene.

musical saw and piano, the group created an otherworldly soundtrack to an already surreal film.

Under the stars The biggest thing in local concerts this year turned out to be an open field just 30 minutes east of Missoula off Interstate 90. Ryan Creek Meadows debuted with the Pedal to the Metal tour in August, Michael Franti in September and an all-night art, music and dance party called Shine in October. The fledgling venue owned by entrepreneur Toby Hansen garnered some rough reviews due to seating and traffic problems, but others saw the long-term potential of Hansen’s eventual dream—building an actual amphitheater to attract top national acts for approximately 12 concerts a year.

Hail Harley Celebrated children’s singer-songwriter Bill Harley won his second Grammy Award this year with an album recorded live in Missoula. Yes to Running! uses material from two separate 2007 Missoula shows, and showcases what Harley’s best at: writing folk and blues songs that speak smartly and with humor to—not down to—kids.

Crumley remembered October’s Montana Festival of the Book doubled as a chance for some of the nation’s best crime novelists to

Starving artists As with everything this year, the Missoula arts scene suffered at the hands of a brutal economy. The Whooping Crones and Gibson & Schweyen galleries both closed partly due to economic factors, and several others reported historic drops in sales. Area theater, music and dance organizations—plus most individual artists—struggled to secure grant funding and maintain donations. The annual Missoula Art Museum auction, for example, brought in $40,000 less than it did in 2008.

But it wasn’t all bad news. The Montana Cultural Council announced that funds received through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 are slated to go to state arts councils, with Montana getting $291,000 for the 2010–2011 fiscal year. Enterprising local artists like Leslie Millar and Adelaide Every talked to the Indy about ways they were re-marketing their work to adapt to the economy. And other organizations, like the Zootown Arts Community Center, hired new staff and diversified its programs to meet new challenges. As one would expect from Missoula’s irrepressible arts community, many viewed the recession as a call for creative solutions that they were more than willing to provide. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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by Erika Fredrickson

Local bands released new albums this year— many of them self-released—as if there was no tomorrow. And while our year-end music review usually recognizes local and global efforts, our hometown musicians were so prolific—and impressive—that we’re going to go ahead and ignore the rest of the world like good, self-sufficient, independent, wishing-to-secede-from-the-Union Montanans should. In that spirit, here’s your first-ever—and hopefully not last—review of this year’s best local releases.

In Skipper of Reverses local stalwart Volumen takes its decade-old sci-fi sound and focuses it into 10 distinct songs, each crafted with sweet little details. “Electric” and “Beat Of ” evoke ’90s new wave at its best. Themes of time travel, dark underbellies, strange characters and space ships emerge through playful, energetic rock that never seems derivative. (EF)

With Human Tongue, a collection of covers by local guitar hero Russ Nasset, the delight is in the design, where images and themes repeat and resonate from song to song. “Peg and Awl” showcases Nasset’s gravelly vocals, which remind me of old wood floors—beautiful and weathered. In “Boots of Spanish Leather” his twang is sweeter than honey and his tone resonates like a deep, shadowy coalmine. (EF)

Secret Powers and the Electric Family Choir sounds the way pop music should. It sounds like washing your tricycle on a bright waxy blue sunny day. It sometimes sounds like long feathered tresses and platform shoes, sometimes like Nehru jackets and sensitive facial hair. It sounds like girl-watching and dopey desire. It sounds like melted ice cream, dirty feet and sticky faces. It sounds like a big old dog-and-baby party. (AG) Eden Atwood’s Turn Me Loose (SSJ) is the perfect album for a Missoula July, as it’s sultry, sweet, playful and flawless. Jazz singers remain a rare breed in Montana, and it seems unlikely that Atwood could find a way to honor her Montana heritage in this album, but that’s exactly what she does. This album proves how lucky we are Atwood is one of ours. (MM)

Vera may emit an ethereal soundscape, but the duo’s approach on Pupils Black to Black is far from soft. Cindy Marshall plays galloping, minor key power chords with a menacing confidence.

Drummer Jen Parsons—who also sings—wields tough rock beats, matching the often-changing tempos that make Vera more progressive and metal than simply verse-chorus-verse pop music. The band’s harmonies create pretty, sinister songs about terrorism, depression and, more positively, seizing the day. (EF) White Sulphur Springs is exactly what a folkcountry album should be—straightforward, plaintive and perceptive. Bolstered by sparse instrumentals (provided by a first-rate Nashville session band), Ben Bullington sings about America’s working class, waitresses and drifters, but also Montana’s wideopen spaces, ranch dogs and the ring around the moon. (MM) Stevensville’s Judgment Hammer delivers the kind of thrash metal on Arbiter of Fate usually blasted from 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. This isn’t mimicry, it’s an homage. (CLT) FagRag’s debut, Centerfold, is a spitfire collection of frenetic energy and playful lyrics. Mikki Lunda huffs and pants to gritty guitar squeals and jogging drum beats. “Casino Liquor Store” basks in the sounds of keno machines and cash registers.

Themes include alpha males, murder and personal space, while toeing the line between tongue-incheek silliness and creepy, dark truths. (EF)

Bob Wire has always crafted memorable stories of bars, cars, guitars and love. His latest, Buffaload, snares that same quirky humor. Songs like “Sh*t List” (about, among other things, his neighbor’s dog taking dumps on his lawn) carry just enough witticisms to be smart, not cheesy. And “Vision in Neon”—sung with local favorite Tom Catmull—perfectly exemplifies deadpan storytelling with a wink. (EF)

Just when the rest of us Missoula musicians think Tom Catmull might be loosening his grip on the top of the food chain, he goes and releases his most ambitious album yet. Enter Glamour Puss, where the first song out of the chute, “Change Your Mind,” signals an album with balls. Catmull’s AMradio vocal is supple and understated, adding just a hint of menace to the song. Looks like the king of the local music hill might just reign a while longer.

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It’s hard to imagine Wartime Blues playing its gritty workingman’s folk on an elevated stage under hot lights. Ideally, you’d hear the band around the fire in some bygone military encampment while the audience drinks moonshine out of tin cups.

Whatever the setting, this is a gropup worth hearing, and their first full-length album, Doves and Drums, is the proof. (AG) Box Elder (Skeptical Records) is a bit like what would happen if you put Tom Petty, Mike Gordon, Weezer and the soundtrack from The Royal Tenenbaums in a blender. Whether he’s pondering the production of children’s toys in the remarkably catchy “Orange Lion” or calling for a new era of peace in “Watching Combat,” Larry Hirshberg’s distinct voice, creative melodies and compelling themes combine for a diverse album. (MM) There’s something a little bit Billy Joe Armstrong about Tyson Ballew’s vocals—the way he sings about crushes made me recently unearth Green Day’s 1,039/ Smoothed Out Slappy Hours just to hear “The One I Want.” That said, the local troubadour injects his own dramatic notions of love into The Summer of Dodos (Tummy Rock) and darkens them with an end-of-the-world earnestness.

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Rooster Sauce sounds like The Makers or the Oblivians, but the lyrics seem like the Beatles’ White Album meets The Misfits—psychedelic crossed with monster mash. Zombie of the Ultra League shows that the local band, famous for its outrageous stage costumes, isn’t trying to hide anything. They’ve got talent. Songs like “Snakeskin Monkey” shine, while “Hot Pocket” shows a sass and sensual touch that makes it about more than just a microwavable snack food. (EF)

Reviews by Erika Fredrickson, Ali Gadbow, Melissa Mylchreest, Chris La Tray and Bob Wire. arts@missoulanews.com

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Ever since 1979, when Ivan Doig’s This House of Sky, his memoir of growing up in Montana with his father and grandmother, was nominated for a National Book Award, Doig has continued to imagine the effect of the vast Montana countryside on the people who populate it. Often that effect is romantic. Yet Doig widens his geographic scope in The Eleventh Man (Houghton Mifflin Hardcover), without losing his Montana roots. The effect is as wonderfully romantic as it is fiercely realistic. (AO) Renowned Montana poet Ed Lahey’s first novel is an homage of sorts to Butte. “Built on the shoulders of immigrant miners,” Lahey writes, “Butte was proud of its reputation as the toughest town in the West. It was the town that bought our whiskey.” The Thin Air Gang (Clark City Press) is a rich chronicle of an often forgotten era, but it doesn’t care to acknowledge how the fallen ghosts of Butte’s past can still reverberate for present-day readers. For that reason the ghosts in this novel don’t really haunt us, however much we might want them to. (AO) Where the Money Went (Nan A. Talese) is Kevin Canty at his best. He’s long since been a master of his craft but this book also contains a poignancy that, for me, had been missing from some of his previous work—like his 2000 novel, Nine Below Zero, which, while elegantly written, came off flat and barren. With his latest, Canty snaps back to form and displays a kind of wisdom and a jolt of spirit that proves there are few better at writing a story. (JS) It’s no real wonder that Jim Harrison is one of Montana’s greatest poets. Though known primarily as a novelist (Legends of the Fall and, most recently, The English Major), Harrison has always thought himself to be, first and foremost, a poet. In Search of Small Gods (Copper Canyon Press), Harrison’s new collection of poems, resonates just as deeply as his novels, perhaps more so. In the last lines of “Night Ride,” he writes: “Here I was Jim the poet drifting the edges of night,/not sure he wished to be kidnapped by the gods.” Though he might not be sure, the rest of us are hoping the gods remain at bay for a while longer. (AO) That a college education often resembles little more than clever finesse is only one part of a larger indictment in Walter Kirn’s latest, Lost in the Meritocracy: The Undereducation of an Overacheiver (Doubleday). In this shrewd, engaging memoir, Kirn, who now lives in Livingston, illustrates a disturbingly accurate portrayal of the American meritocracy, specifically the kind extant in higher education. (AO) Richard Manning’s Rewilding the West (University of California Press) is a candid lesson in both history and conservationist politics, of the American West in general and the Great Northern

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Plains in particular. To the layperson, one without a background in either sustainability or ecological restoration, the topic can sometimes feel daunting, not unlike walking into the middle of a Sierra Club meeting that’s already been hammering out business for several hours. However, despite the sometimes-dense material, Manning’s eloquence and forthright argumentation provide an astute and provocative solution to the barrenness of the American Plains. (AO) Preacher is one of the best villains ever to come out of a James Lee Burke novel. Articulate and religious, Preacher is not opposed to sharing his moral insight with friends, enemies and victims (and sometimes those categories are blurred), nor is he opposed to correcting their grammar. Coldblooded and guilty of grisly acts of cruelty, Preacher is, nonetheless, capable of surprising and seemingly inexplicable acts of mercy. It was Flannery O’Connor, one of Burke’s literary predecessors who also hailed from the South (Burke is originally from Texas), who said that violence in fiction is “strangely capable of returning characters to reality and preparing them for their moment of grace.” Throughout Rain Gods (Simon & Schuster), Preacher—not unlike a modern-day equivalent to O’Connor’s most well-known (and well-loved) villain, The Misfit—seems to be perpetually anticipating his own moment of grace. (AO) Phil Condon is a natural storyteller, one who recounts defining moments with startling accuracy. Yet, Condon manages something else in Nine Ten Again (Elixer Press) as well; he stakes out deeper territory in this collection, where the notion of war—be it Vietnam, Desert Storm or the current crises—is so omnipresent it appears like a character in itself. (AO) Helena native Kevin Michael Connolly, 23, writes an unflinching memoir about life without legs (Connolly was born a bilateral amputee) in Double Take (HarperStudio). More than just a series of provocative reminiscences, Connolly’s memoir is as much about perception—the way we see—as it is about Connolly’s life. And, Connolly should know. As a young man, as well as a championship downhill skier, world traveler, photographer and writer, who makes his way through the world by way of a skateboard that reads “THIS IS A LEGLESS GUY’S SKATEBOARD. PLEASE, PLEASE, DON’T STEAL,” Connolly has been the subject of many a look. His profoundly memorable book engages in a discussion about the way we stare. (AO) Reviews by Azita Osanloo and Jay Stevens.

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That’s a wrap Butte, beer and big issues help make the year in film If you’ve lived in Missoula for any time at all, you’ve probably heard people grousing about how much better it used to be and how much it’s changed, generally for the worse. Among Missoula’s ex-hippie baby-boomer elite, it seems generally agreed upon that the Golden Age began as soon as they arrived (a window of roughly 10 years from 1968 to 1978), and ended somewhere around 1981. They’re endearingly vain about it, some of them, but in a new documentary about that era’s great Missoula shared experience—the Aber Day Kegger—one can see what all the fuss is about. Kegger is a one-of-a-kind window into this fabled golden era. (AS)

Adventureland Adventureland works in large part because it touches on something beyond the specifics of this story. A generation of McJob-hoppers who were only in training pants in 1987 will still know how it feels to look for a silver lining in a place where you really don’t want to be. Those who did come of age during that era will remember the way music outside the synth-pop or hair-metal mainstream could come to define your world-view. Writer/director Greg Mottola delivers a sweet reflection on summer love at a summer job. His just happened to be in 1987—and you didn’t have to be there. (SR) In both content and form, Butte, America is nothing short of a revelation. Modern Butte is pocked with massive and mysterious landmarks to its past—the 90foot virgin statue riding the high spine of the Continental Divide, gazing over the city in benediction; the festering Berkley Pit, fed insatiably by an unseen toxic underground; the largely shuttered old town business district—and Pamela Roberts’ powerhouse of a documentary brings them all to life in a way that will, if justice serves, change the way this remarkable city is perceived both here in Montana and the world at large.

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Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds is blasphemous to Spielbergian mythologizing, more profane than anything dreamt of by Samuel Fuller: gleefully violent, mindlessly amoral and just out to have a good time. And it is, man, it is—a really, really good time. (AS) Invictus is a political drama for our time: an era in which social division seems to have led to a kind of national stasis over everything from health care legislation to the notion of “America” itself. In that context, as well as on its own terms, the drama of a president and a people moving through and beyond a history of terror, oppression and racism is inspiring. (KK)

front of America’s political activism in the 21st century.

(KK) In Rough Aunties, British filmmaker Kim Loginotto uses a spare camera style and point-andshoot framing to position the women front and center in the documentation of their personal and professional lives. Loginotto reinforces this subject-centered perspective by allowing the background and context of the women’s lives to emerge out of their own narration in a non-linear fashion. Rough Aunties, which won best feature at this year’s Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, therefore does what almost no first-world documentary

Inglourious Basterds

Butte, America Anchored by Mickey Rourke’s towering performance, screenwriter Robert Siegel and director Darren Aronofsky have put together a wonderfully sad, particularly American kind of tragedy with The Wrestler: a look at what happens to someone who only understands himself in the context of a celebrity that has passed him by. (SR)

about the non-Western world successfully does—it allows the subjects themselves, as much as is possible, to harness and to own the film’s action and message.

(KK)

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

(SB)

Sugar is not a movie about the redemptive power of baseball, or the virtue of perseverance, or an unexpected culmination of the American Dream. And even though, as a sappy baseball fan, I wanted it to be at least one if not all three of these things, Sugar just might be a better thing than any of them. It’s a film that digs deeply and truly into a world so many of us see from the outside but so few see lit up from within. And the complexity of the game itself is echoed in the hard choices forced upon the overwhelming majority of hopefuls who never come close to sipping that proverbial cup of coffee. (ND)

Gus Van Sant’s Milk is a must-see film because in reaching back into the issues of the 1970s it speaks directly to our own times, in which discrimination (California’s Prop. 8) and national cynicism (the grim Bush years) seem as though they might just give way to a new civic engagement, to a new sense of tolerance and to a politics of hope. Gay civil rights are at the fore-

For a movie about the most balletic of team sports, Rudo y Cursi is surprisingly short on soccer action.

You don’t miss it, though, because one of the things the movie nails perfectly is the dreaming—the waiting on the bench, and the tenseness of the players, but mostly, particularly for those confined to the stands and sidelines, the watching and the dreaming. (AS)

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Local filmmakers Josh Wagner, Brad Wilson and Jon Aaseng play with the idea of perception in Adam Funn. The topsy-turvy story—filmed entirely in Missoula with local actors—offers up a classic scenario: If you woke up one morning and the entire world had gone mad around you, would you question everyone else’s sanity, or your own? The short film recreates the eeriness of a “Twilight Zone” episode and combines it with unending, nonsensical contradictions akin to that of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (and not the benign Disney version).

(EF)

Perhaps the Coens feel like they can take more of certain kinds of risks when their casts are merely speckled, rather than studded, with major star power. The cast of A Serious Man is like a rogue’s gallery of peripheral players—actors whose faces you recognize but whose names you can’t remember or never knew.

The film may not be to everyone’s liking, but it’s a timely reminder of the Coens’ vitality. And versatility. And artistic freedom; this is what directors get to do once they win Oscars. (AS) The flesh-eating undead are not, understandably, every moviegoer’s cup of tea. There are plenty of folks who perused their local movie listings this fall, and— whether due to assumptions about quality or a queasy stomach—didn’t bother going past the first six letters of the title Zombieland. And that’s a shame, because they missed the funniest American comedy of 2009.

(SR) Film reviews by Andy Smetanka, Nick Davis, Katie Kane, Scott Renshaw, Erika Fredrickson and Skylar Browning. Note: Both Milk and The Wrestler, technically 2008 releases, didn’t reach Missoula screens until February.

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Scope OPENING THIS WEEK ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS THE SQUEAKQUEL In case you didn’t get your fill the last time around, your favorite animated rodents are back—highpitched voices and all—in order help bail out a sinking school music program by shredding in a battle of the bands competition. Carmike 10: Thu. at 12:30, 2:40, 4:50 and 7; Fri. at 2:40, 4:50, 7 and 9:10; Sat.–Thu. at 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7 and 9:10.

Village 6: Thu. at 12:30, 2:40, 4:50 and 7; Fri. at 2:40, 4:50, 7 and 9:10; Sat.–Thu. at 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7 and 9:10. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: Fri.–Thu. at 7 and 9 with matinees at 3 each day and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Thu. at noon, 12:30, 3, 2:20, 3, 4:40, 5:20 and 7:05 and Fri.–Thu. at 12:05, 12:35, 2:25, 3:05,

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sidekick Jude Law (aka Dr. Watson) in order to save England from annihilation. Carmike 10: Fri. at 4, 7 and 10; Sat.–Thu. at 1, 4, 7 and 10. Village 6: Fri. at 4, 7 and 10; Sat.–Thu. at 1, 4, 7 and 10.

Pharaoplex in Hamilton: Fri.–Thu. at 6:50 and 9:15 with matinees at 3 every day. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at noon, 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 10 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: Fri. at 6:50 and 9:30; Sat.–Thu. at 1, 4, 6:50 and 9:30. Showboat Cinema in Polson: Fri. at 6:50 and 9:15; Sat.–Thu. a 1:15, 4:15, 6:50 and 9:15.

UP IN THE AIR George Clooney likes to fly, a lot. But when his employer skimps out on frequently flying him places, he worries that he might lose out on a romantic interlude with fellow traveler Vera

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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. Carmike 10: Thu. at 1:25, 4:20 and 7:10; Fri. at 4:20, 7:10 and 10; Sat.–Thu. at 1:25, 4:20, 7:10 and 10. Pharaoplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:15 with shows every day at 3. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Thu. at 12:10, 1:15, 3:15, 4, 6:05 and 6:40 and Fri.–Thu. at 12:45, 3:45, 6:50 and 9:35 with additional Fri.-Sat. show at midnight.

THE BOONDOCK SAINTS II: ALL SAINTS DAY Your favorite pistol-packing Irish brothers who only kill evil people are back in Beantown, looking to off a slayer who murdered a good priest. Village 6: Thu. only at 1:40, 4:35 and 7:20.

Carmike 10: Thu. only at 1, 4 and 7. Village 6: Fri. at 4, 7 and 10; Sat.–Thu. at 1, 4, 7 and 10.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Thu. at 12:15, 3:25 and 6:30 and Fri.–Thu. at 12:15, 3:25, 6:30 and 9:25 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

NEW YORK, I LOVE YOU Love literally oozes from the screen as Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom, Shia LeBeouf and others traverse the multifaceted mountains of adoration in the Big Apple through a collection of short stories. Wilma Theatre: 7 nightly with Sun. matinees at 1 and no show Thu., Dec. 31.

OLD DOGS John Travolta and Robin Williams play career junkies forced into paternity when twins land at their feet. Village 6: Thu. only at 1:30, 4:30 and 7:30. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: Thu. only at 7 and 9. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Thu. only at 12:10, 2:25, 4:50 and 7.

OLIVIA WINTER WONDERLAND Your kids’ beloved animated oinker named Olivia hits the screen for this Christmas-themed cartoon.

Village 6: 1 only Thu. and Sat.–Sun. PLANET 51 An astronaut sets foot on a new planet, only to discover aliens that embrace the corn-fed lifestyles of mainstream 1950s America. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Thu. only at 12:05, 2:25 and 4:35.

PRECIOUS An African American teen in Harlem gets dealt many blows: She’s impregnated by her father, her mom is an abusive she-devil and she’s illiterate. But a vigorous alternative-school teacher may help her find hope. Wilma Theatre: 7 and 9 nightly with matinees at 1 and 3.

This is what you’d call a vintage fight club. Sherlock Holmes opens Friday at the Carmike 10.

4:45, 5:25, 7:10, 7:45, 9:30 and 10 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: Fri. at 6:50 and 9; Sat.–Thu. at 1, 4, 6:50 and 9. Showboat Cinema in Polson: Fri. at 7 and 9; Sat.–Thu. at 1:30, 4, 7 and 9.

Farmiga. Carmike 10: Thu. at 1, 4 and 7; Fri. at 4, 7 and 9:40; Sat.–Thu. at 1, 4, 7 and 9:40.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Thu. at 1, 3:50 and 6:45 and Fri.–Thu. at 1, 3:50, 7:10 and 9:40 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

IT’S COMPLICATED Alec Baldwin hooks up with his ex-wife, Meryl Streep, even though he’s remarried, only to then have Steve Martin barge in and rain on his love parade. Carmike 10: Fri. at 4, 7 and 9:50; Sat.–Thu. at 1, 4, 7 and 9:50. Village 6: Fri. at 4, 7 and 9:50; Sat.–Thu. at 1, 4, 7 and 9:50.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton: Fri.–Thu. at 6:50 and 9:15 with matinees at 3 every day and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:20, 4:10, 7:05 and 9:45 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

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THE ROAD Viggo Mortensen plays a dad trying to navigate his son through a post-apocalyptic world full of frenzied cannibals, decimated landscapes and scarce resources in this adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy novel. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 1:15, 4:15, 7:15 and 9:45 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:15, 4:15, 7 and 9:30.

SHERLOCK HOLMES Robert Downey Jr. plays Sherlock Holmes and busts kneecaps with the help of his cane-wielding

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2012 John Cusack plays a divorced dad skirting the acrimony of Mother Earth as she goes cannibalistic on peeps. Pharaoplex in Hamilton: 7 only on Thu. with a matinee at 3.

AVATAR Sam Worthington gets a 3-D makeover as he plays an ex-Marine whose alien body and human mind is sent to pillage a new planet for its resources, but does a chance encounter with a female humanoid help keep his eyes on the bounty? Carmike 10: Thu. at noon, 1, 3:30, 4:30 and 7; Fri. at 3:30, 4:30, 7, 8 and 10:30; Sat.–Thu. at noon, 1, 3:30, 4:30, 7, 8 and 10:30. Village 6 in 2-D: Thu. at noon, 3:30 and 7; Fri. at 3:30, 7 and 10:30; Sat.–Thu. at noon, 3:30, 7 and 10:30. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 only with shows at 3 every day. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Thu. at noon, 2, 4 and 6 and Fri.–Thu. at noon, 1:30, 3:30, 5, 6:55 and 8:30 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at 10:30 and midnight. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: Fri. at 7:30 and Sat.–Thu. at 1:15, 4:30 and 7:30. Entertainer in Ronan: Fri. at 7:20 and Sat.–Thu. at 4 and 7:20.

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DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE MORGANS? Sarah Jessica Parker and Hugh Grant are Manhattanites with a marriage on the rocks. But witnessing a murder transplants them to Dick Cheney’s stomping grounds of Wyoming—and their new digs in the boondocks just might salvage their love. Carmike 10: Thu. at 1:45, 4:35 and 7:10; Fri. at 4:35, 7:10 and 9:45; Sat.–Thu. at 1:45, 4:35, 7:10 and 9:45. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Thu. at 12:20, 3:30 and 6:30 and Fri.–Thu. at 1:25, 4:05, 6:40 and 9:10 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: Fri. at 7 and 9:15; Sat.–Thu. at 1:15, 4:15, 7 and 9:15.

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: Thu. at 1:15, 4 and 7; Fri. at 4, 7 and 9:30; Sat.–Thu. at 1:15, 4, 7 and 9:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Thu. at 12:15, 2:30, 4:45 and 7 and Fri.–Thu. at 3:55 and 9:25.

FANTASTIC MR. FOX Wes Anderson dips his fingers into animated kids’ flicks with this story about a shrewd, chickensnatching fox voiced by George Clooney. Village 6: Thu. only at 1:05, 3:10, 5:15 and 7:20.

INVICTUS Morgan Freeman plays Nelson Mandela and uses Matt Damon’s deft rugby skills as a means to quell the remnants of segregation in South Africa.

THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG New Orleans finally gets positive, post-Katrina exposure in this animated tale about a prince turned frog who hopes to leap back to manhood with the help of a naïve girl, voodoo practitioner and other bayou dwellers. Carmike 10: Thu. at 12:35, 1:05, 2:50, 3:20, 5:05, 5:40 and 7:20; Fri. at 2:50, 5:05, 7:20 and 9:35; Sat.–Thu. at 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20 and 9:35. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with shows everyday at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Thu. at 12:25, 3:45 and 6:20 and Fri.–Thu. at 12:25, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30 and 9:45 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

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: 9 nightly with Sun. matinees at 3 and no show Thu., Dec. 31.

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. Village 6: Thu. at 1, 4 and 7; Fri. at 4, 7 and 9:50; Sat.–Thu. at 1, 4, 7 and 9:50. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Thu. at 12:25, 3:40 and 6:35 and Fri.–Thu. at 12:30 and 6:35 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight.

Capsule reviews by Ira Sather-Olson.

Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Thu., Dec. 24. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm.

Theater phone numbers: Carmike 10/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex i n H a m i l t o n – 9 61- F I L M ; R ox y Tw i n i n H a m i l t o n – 3 6 3 - 5 141 . S t a d i u m 14 i n Kalispell–752-7804. Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.

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Although we don’t see each other regularly like most couples, I’ve got no reason to believe he’s seeing someone else. But, we also haven’t had “The Talk.” Perhaps the photo was a good way to initiate it.

—Restless If absence makes the heart grow fonder, what would you say a restraining order will do?

Seeing the framed photo had to make this guy wonder…no, not what the children will look like, but where’s this whack job hiding the rest of her obsession kit: the butt of that cigarette he smoked, the fork that once touched his lips, the steel door handle he pushed entering the hardware store? This is a guy you know about three shades better than the guy who makes your latte at Starbucks. Turning your nightstand into Shrine Of The Guy You’re Kinda Sorta Seeing isn’t clever or flattering, it’s creepsville. Don’t kid yourself that it’s a good sign he stuck around to knock boots.

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Missoula company needs a LAWN MAINTENANCE WORKER / SNOW REMOVAL worker. Summer duties: Mow lawns, operate weed eater and perform other lawn maintenance tasks. Winter duties: Snow removal from commercial and residential properties; shoveling, snow blowers, de-icer. MUST have a valid Driver’s License and ability to pass a background check. Experience is required.

Must be willing to show up on time every day and work hard. Job is physically demanding and requires worker to be physically fit. No smoking permitted in company vehicles or on job sites. Work is part time and variable in the winter, typically full time in the summer months. Shifts are Monday through Friday with start time at 7:00 a.m. and will work as late as 5:00 p.m., with occasional Saturdays. Pay is usually between $910/hr, but will depend on experience.

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Seeking part-time Housekeeper to work weekends for local motel. Duties include: Cleaning guest rooms, changing bedding, cleaning bathrooms, dusting, vacuuming, and other cleaning as assigned. Successful applicant must have a phone; be dependable, on time and willing to work hard. Motel is one level so no stairs. Will work Saturday and Sunday; could fill in for weekday shifts as needed. Hours are day shift, usually to start at 9:00 am and will work until rooms are cleaned; about 3 to 4 hours per day, 6 to 8 (or more)hours per week.

Potential for more hours in Spring and Summer, if desired. Pay starts at $7.50 to $8.00/hour depending on experience, ability to do job and positive work attitude. Training provided, will start no later than 12/27/09.

Training can start earlier. #2976711 Missouls Workforce Center 728-7060 PRODUCTION LABORERS, F/T, Immediate Holiday help as PRODUCTION & MANUFACTURING LABORERS needed for a busy and growing local company. Will work full-time, 10 hour days in a demanding and rewarding environment. Job duration will be approximately 4 days. Pay is $9.50 per hour. MUST have own reliable transportation. Must be able to pass a Background Check and Drug Screen. No felonies. Must be able to pass a Math Test administered by Nelson Personnel. #2976714 Missoula Workforce Center 7287060 RV DELIVERY DRIVERS NEEDED. Deliver RVs, boats and trucks for Pay! Deliver to all 48 states and Canada.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): What influences do you really, really need to say goodbye to?

The next six months will provide you with ample motivation and opportunity to finally bid those farewells. What long-term cycle really, really needs to be drawn to a close, no more hemming and hawing, all loose ends tied up and all mixed signals clarified? Again, the time between now and the middle of June will bring you the necessary inspiration to make it happen. But it’ll take deep thought and sustained work and an expanded sense of humor, so get started soon.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): According to astronomer Mark Whittle, the Big Bang began in silence. Soon it crescendoed into a majestic major third chord 50 octaves below middle A. Then it transformed, over the course of a million years, into a wistful minor third chord. In my vision of the first two-thirds of 2010, the music of your life will have a similar pattern: It begins with silence. Next, it progresses into a lush major feel, with spirited and complex contrapuntal themes. Then in June, it evolves into a dreamy, contemplative phase. By late September, however—unlike the Big Bang—you will move into a third act, in which the music of your life returns to the lively mood it had at the start, only now with the gravitas that the reflective phase has instilled.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I have good astrological reasons to suspect that a year from now, your empire will be bigger. The resources you have at your disposal will be more substantial, the influence you wield will be more meaningful, and the responsibilities you oversee will be more demanding. You can’t, however, just sit back passively and expect fate to make it all happen for you. You will have to work your assets off: get better organized, clarify your game plan, and commit to taking better care of yourself. None of that is mandatory, of course. Being a lazy wanderer with no mission statement is definitely an option. If you do go in that direction, though, don’t complain to me next December about how you feel like you’re made of cookie dough.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You will need to learn a lot in 2010, Cancerian. You’ll be in a phase of your long-term cycle when it will be wise to enhance your problem-solving skills and increase the knowledge you have at your disposal. So let me ask you: What can you do to gently shock yourself into prying open your mind? What is it that you don’t know but need to know? By the way, the coming year will also be a good time for you to offer yourself up as a teacher. In fact, sharing your knowledge and problem-solving skills will make you more receptive to what you need to learn.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do you know any world travelers, shamanic healers, or visionary entrepreneurs? If not, there’s a good chance you’ll meet some in 2010, possibly even forge alliances with them. Crafty activists, brilliant artists, and deep thinkers may come your way, as well.

Another possibility is that cohorts and comrades you’ve been linked to for some time will embark on mind-expanding quests that blow your mind as well as theirs. One way or another, Leo, the coming year will bring you more than the usual benefits and challenges that come from being in relationships.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I was in my first rock band in North Carolina in the 1970s. We did a mix of cover tunes by David Bowie, Lou Reed, and Patti Smith, plus original hippie-punk songs and my poetry rants. Controversy arose virtually every time we performed, especially in places like the North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh (where we competed with the cacophony of mooing cows) and frat parties (where we endured the shouted insults of drunken jocks). It wasn’t until I moved to California that I synced up with an audience that appreciated my idiosyncratic musical sensibilities.

According to my reading of the omens, Virgo, 2010 could bring you a comparable transition: finding listeners or hooking up with collaborators who are a better fit for your unique qualities.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I’m always befuddled by astrologers who preach the gospel of doom and gloom when they talk about the influence of Saturn. My experience is that the ringed planet provides the greatest gift imaginable: motivation to become the person you were born to be.

It steers you away from pursuing goals that aren’t in alignment with your soul’s code. It pressures you to give up vain fantasies that even if fulfilled wouldn’t make you happy. That’s why I’m happy to report to you the following good news: As Saturn travels through your sign for much of the time between now and October 2012, I expect that you will be prompted and prodded to cut away the irrelevancies that distract you from claiming your birthright.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Comedian Chris Rock has a joke that plays on the stereotypes about your sign: “Most Scorpios die while they’re making love!” (Only he uses the f-word instead of “making love.”) I understand the source of his satire. There are more than a few grains of truth in the notion that Scorpios revel in the enigmas of eros and death. On the other hand, I wouldn’t reduce your mystique to such a simple formula. I’d prefer to say something like this: You’re sexy when you’re letting go of your staunch self-control. Or: You’re an expert at transcending humdrum modes of awareness by stimulating intense pleasure. Or: If fully harnessed, your orgasmic power could kill off any destructive compulsions you might be harboring. And by the way, 2010 will be one of the best years ever for you to cash in on these capacities.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): According to my analysis of your astrological omens, 2010 isn’t a year to get your head in the clouds, but rather to grow deeper roots. Your job, as I see it, isn’t so much to explore the heights, but the depths. I think you should focus on getting to the bottom of things, not the top. Your instrument of choice should be a microscope, not a telescope. Your specialty won’t be playing spectacular guitar solos but rather groovalicious bass lines.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I’m happy to announce that 2010 could be the year when you become a more expert communicator. It’s not that you do a bad job now; it’s just that there is always room for improvement, and this will be an excellent time to attend to that. Life will be bringing you an abundance of experiences that will help you learn to listen better, cultivate more tact, read people’s body language like a pro, and consistently speak about the elusive truth with language that’s both kind and effective.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’ve known some practical, sensible, well-grounded Aquarians in my life. They’re outnumbered, though, by the dominant sub-type of your tribe: the imaginative, idiosyncratic irmprovisers with lightning reflexes and high-flying notions. But even if you belong to the latter group, in 2010 you’ll be gaining the capacities of the former. In fact, I think this will be the year you get more things done than you ever have before. Attention to detail will be your specialty.

You’re likely to excel in mastering the part of genius that’s comprised of 98 percent perspiration.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The pop star Pink is a successful singer. Not only does she have a great voice; she has also sold 32 million records and won two Grammies. Recently she added what I think is an extraneous element to her live performances: a trapeze act. At the MTV Video Music Awards last September, she delivered her song “Sober” while swinging through the air and hanging upside down 60 feet off the ground. I was perplexed as I watched her, thinking to myself, “Doesn’t she have confidence that her song and her singing can stand alone?” In 2010, Pisces, I urge you not to follow her lead. There’s no need for you to go way overboard as you try too hard to give too much. Just sing your songs.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

HUMAN RESOURCE DIRECTOR, F/T, Msla. Nonprofit is seeking Human Resource Director. Serves as a member of the CEO’s senior leadership team, providing strategic leadership to attract, develop and retain the best talent available and to position the organization as a great place to work. Full job description at Missoula Job Service. CLOSES 01/11/2010 #2976704. 728-7060 LEAD WILDERNESS FIELD STAFF, F/T SEASONAL, Msla. Youth organization is hiring Lead Wilderness Field Staff for their Wilderness Expeditions in 2010. Will lead 4 week back-country trip of up to 6 at-risk youth with 2 other staff, lead an additional 2 weeks of programming in the community, collaborate with program therapist in development & implementation of individual treatment plans, supervise field staff team, facilitate therapeutic group sessions and experiential educational activities, complete paper work, and ensure the physical and emotional safety of all group members. Requires 152 days working risk youth populations in back-country setting, current Wilderness First Responder or Wilderness EMT, and current CPR & First Aid certifications.

Must be in good general physical and mental health and have a negative TB screen. Background check will be conducted. Approximately 40 days of work per each 6 week programs scheduled for 4/17 to 5/29, 6/26 to 8/7 and 9/25 to 11/6 for 2010.

Potential for additional hours. Will have 48+ hour of staff training. Wage is $9.40 to $10.00/hour and employee is eligible to accrue exceptional leave. CLOSES 01/31/2010 @ 5 P.M. #2976701 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 MANAGER, BUSINESS OPERATIONS, F/T, Msla. Employer is seeking a full-time Manager, Business Operations. Duties include conducting and documenting moderate to complex financial analysis projects and models and makes operational decisions for the call center, develops short and long term financial and operating objectives and forecasts, provides financial expertise and guidance in the areas of systems and processes that need to support new and existing initiatives. Bachelor’s degree in business administration or equivalent experience. Salary is dependent on experience. #2976697 Missoula Workforce Center 7287060 WILDERNESS FIELD STAFF, F/T Seasonal, Msla. Youth organization is hiring Wilderness Field Staff for their Wilderness Expeditions in 2010. Will assist with leading 4 week back-country trip of 5-6 at-risk youth with 2 other staff, supervise an additional 2 weeks of programming in the community, collaborate with program therapist in development and implementation of individual treatment plans, facilitate therapeutic group sessions and experiential educational activities, and ensure the physical and emotional safety of all group members. Requires 1 year experience working with at risk youth populations AND significant back-country experience, OR 114 field days working with at-risk youth in a wilderness setting.

Prefer Wilderness First Responder or Wilderness EMT. Need current CPR & First Aid certification. Must be in good general physical and mental health and have a negative TB screen.

Background check will be conducted.

Approximately 40 days of work per each 6 week programs scheduled for 4/17 to 5/29, 6/26 to 8/7 and 9/25 to 11/6 for 2010. Potential for additional hours. Will have 48+ hour of staff training. Wage is $8.00 to $10.00/hour and employee is eligible to accrue exceptional leave.

CLOSES 01/31/2010 @ 5 P.M. #2976702 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

Missoula Independent Classifieds Page C4 December 24–December 31, 2009

AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIAN, F/T, Msla. Large independent Auto/Light truck repair facility in Missoula is seeking a qualified journeyman technician. DUTIES INCLUDE: Repair automobiles, trucks, buses, and other vehicles. Passion for the industry and the team spirit are a must.

Competitive pay scale, $15 plus flat rate based on skills. Incentive for ASE Certification and production levels.

Must have 5 years auto mechanic experience and valid Montana driver’s license. Work is day shift with specific days to be determined by employer. #2976712 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 OWNER/OPERATORS WANTED for Montana based trucking company.

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PUBLIC NOTICES MISSOULA COUNTY GOVERNMENT MISSOULA COUNTY REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS - PARKS AND TRAILS PLANNING CONSULTANT SERVICES The Missoula Board of County Commissioners and the Parks & Trails Program of the Missoula County Rural Initiatives Office is requesting professional planners and/or consulting firms to submit their proposals for providing services to assist Missoula County in updating the 1997 Missoula County Parks and Conservation Lands Plan. The final product will be an integrated countywide parks and trails plan with a minimum life span of 20 years. It will include a parks plan update for the unincorporated areas of Missoula County not covered by the 2004 Master Parks and Recreation Plan for the Greater Missoula Area and a trails plan for the entire unincorporated area. To view the full RFP, including project overview; scope of services; and organization and submittal requirements; please visit our website at www.co.missoula.mt.us/rural.

Please contact Lisa Moisey, County Parks Coordinator, with any questions at the mailing address below, by emailing lmoisey@co.missoula.mt.us, or by calling 406/2584716. Five complete copies of the proposals shall be received by Missoula County Rural Initiatives at 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802 by 5:00 PM MST on January 19, 2010. For hand delivery, please bring to the Rural Initiatives Office: 317 Woody St. Late submittals will NOT be accepted.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DV-09-1240 SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION. CitiFinancial, Inc., Plaintiff, v. Kurt Olsen, a/k/a Kurt E. Olsen; Susan Olsen, a/k/a Susan M. Olsen; and all persons unknown, Defendants. THE STATE OF MONTANA TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANTS, You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in the action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your Answer and serve a copy thereof upon the Plaintiff’s attorney within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or Answer, Judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint. This action relates to the establishment of an equitable lien, foreclosure of an equitable lien, and quieting title on a mobile home upon the following described real property in the

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will auction to the highest bidder abandoned storage units owing delinquent storage rent for the following units: 50, 336 and 639 Units contain furniture, clothes, chairs, toys, kitchen supplies, tools, sports equipment, books, beds & other misc household goods including office furniture, desks, baby strollers, car storage carrier, office phone system, boxes & boxes of old rare book collections, file cabinets, TV & stereos. These units may be viewed starting Monday, December 28, 2009 by appt only by calling 251-8600. Written sealed bids may be submitted to storage offices at 4101 Hwy 93 S., Missoula, MT 59803 prior to Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 4:00 P.M. Buyers’ bid will be for entire contents of each unit offered in the sale. Only cash or money orders will be accepted for payment. Units are reserved subject to redemption by owner prior to sale.

All sales are final.

County of Missoula, State of Montana: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PREMISES, IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, TO-WIT: LOT 17 IN BLOCK 3 OF EL MAR ESTATES PHASE 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. The Mobile Home is identified as follows: Year: 1975, Title: unknown, Mobile Home ID#: Serial # 42942, Make: Fleetwood, Style: Doublewide. WITNESS my hand and seal of said Court, this 27th day of November, 2009. (SEAL) /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of the District Court By: Laura M. Driscoll, Deputy. Dated this 10th day of November, 2009. MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM, Attorneys for Plaintiff, P.O. Box 1097, Dickinson, ND 58602-1097. Tel: (701)227-1841 MT BAR ID #2429. /s/ Charles J. Peterson, Attorney for the Plaintiff.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DN-08-41 Dept. No. 3 SUMMONS IN THE MATTER OF S.G., A YOUTH IN NEED OF CARE. TO: PEPPER CARR YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division (CFS), 2677 Palmer St., Suite 300, Missoula, Montana 59808, has filed a Petition for Permanent Legal Custody and Termination of Parental Rights with Right to Consent to Adoption or Guardianship; Now, Therefore, YOU ARE HEREBY CITED AND DIRECTED to appear on the 19th day of January, 2010 at 2:30 o’clock p.m. at the Courtroom of the above entitled Court at the Courthouse, 200 W. Broadway, Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, then and there to show cause, if any you may have, why your parental rights to S.G. should not be terminated; and why the Petition should not be granted. S.G. was born on December 6, 2001 in Libby, Montana. Pepper Carr is represented by Court-appointed attorney Brian Smith, 610 Woody St., Missoula, Montana, 59802, (406) 523-5140. Your failure to appear at the hearing constitutes a denial of your interest in custody of the youth, which denial will result, without further notice of this proceeding or any subsequent proceeding, in judgment by default being entered for the relief requested in the Petition. A copy of the Petition hereinbefore referred to is filed with the Clerk of District Court for Missoula County, telephone: (406) 258-4780. WITNESS the Honorable John W. Larson, Judge of the above-entitled Court and the Seal of this Court, this 25TH day of November, 2009. /s/ HON. JOHN W. LARSON District Court Judge MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-09-1276 Dept. No. 3 SUMMONS. HEATHER NELSON, Plaintiff, v.

SARAH EVANS, Defendant. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiff within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default, for the relief demanded in the Complaint. Witness my hand and the seal of said Court, this 21st day of October, 2009. (SEAL) /s/ Diane Overholtzer, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Cause No. DV-09-90 Dept. No. 4 SUMMONS. HARRY STEPHEN DARTY, Plaintiff, v. ALFRED BARONE, Defendant. THE STATE OF MONTANA SENDS GREETINGS TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT. YOU ARE HEREBY SUMMONED to answer the Complaint in this action, which is filed in the office of the Clerk of this Court, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to file your answer and serve a copy thereof upon Plaintiff within twenty (20) days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service; and in case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default, for the relief demanded in the Complaint. Witness my hand and the seal of said Court, this 2nd day of September, 2009. (SEAL) /s/ Diane Overholtzer, Deputy Clerk MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 2 Cause No. DP-09-181 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF ASTRID W. WANG, Deceased. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative to the above-named estate. All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must either be mailed to David M. Wang, Personal Representative, return receipt requested,

c/o GIBSON LAW OFFICES, PLLC, 4110 Weeping Willow Drive, Missoula, Montana 59803, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 20th day of October, 2009. /s/ David M. Wang, Personal Representative.

MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 3 Cause No. DP-09-179 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF SHIRLEY O. DELANEY, 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 DONALD L. DELANEY, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, c/o Marsillo & Schuyer, PLLC, 103 South 5th Street East, Missoula, MT 59801, or filed with the Clerk of the above Court. DATED this 21st day of October, 2009. /s/ Donald L. Delaney, Personal Representative NOTICE OF SALE UNDER DEED OF TRUST Deed of Trust: Dated January 7, 2008 Grantor: Brian Holm, 1255 Big Flat Road, Missoula, Montana 59804 Original Trustee: Title Services, Inc. P.O. Box 8223, Missoula, Montana 59807 Beneficiary: First Security Bank of Missoula 3220 Great Northern Way, Missoula, Montana 59808 Successor Trustee: Christopher B. Swartley Attorney at Law Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC P.O. Box 8957, Missoula, Montana 59807 -8957 Date and Place of Recordation: January 18, 2008 in Book 811, Page 1521, Micro Records of Missoula County, Montana. The undersigned hereby gives notice that on the 30th day of March, 2010, at the hour of 10:00 a.m. at the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, West Broadway side, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, Montana, Christopher B. Swartley, as Successor Trustee under the above-described instrument, in order to satisfy the obligation set forth below, has elected to and will sell at public auction to the highest bidder, for cash, lawful money of the United States of America, payable at the time of sale to the Successor Trustee, the interest of the above-named Trustee, Successor Trustee, and Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, without warranty or covenant, express or implied, as to title or possession, in the following described real property: Tract 3C of Certificate of Survey No. 2151 located in the Northeast one-quarter of Section 20 and the Northwest one-quarter of Section 21, Township 13 North, Range 20 West, Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County, Montana. SUBJECT TO a Deed of Trust between Brian E. Holm, Grantor, and CitiMortgage, Grantee, dated November 1, 2004 and recorded November 8, 2004 in Book 743, Page 114, Micro Records of Missoula County, Montana. Subject to easements and encumbrances of record. The defaults for which this foreclosure is made are the failure of the above-named Grantor, and all of its successors and assigns, to pay when due the monthly payments provided for in the Deed of Trust in the amount of One Thousand One Hundred Sixty-eight and 75/100ths Dollars ($1,168.75) for the months of May 2009 through October 2009; together with late charges in the amount of Three Hundred Forty-six and 06/100ths Dollars ($346.06). The sum owing on the obligation secured by the Deed of Trust is Two Hundred Forty-nine Thousand Seventy and 35/100ths Dollars ($249,070.35), plus interest thereon at the rate of Seven and one-half percent (7.5%) per annum from and after the 16th day of March, 2009 to October 19, 2009, in the amount of Eleven Thousand Seventy-two and 86/100ths Dollars ($11,072.86), plus per diem interest thereafter at the rate of Fifty-one and 18/100ths Dollars ($51.18), plus all costs, expenses, attorney’s and trustee’s fees as provided by law. DATED this 26th day of October, 2009. /s/ Christopher B. Swartley, Christopher B. Swartley, Successor Trustee Christopher B. Swartley, PLLC, P.O. Box 8957, Missoula, Montana 59807-8957 STATE OF MONTANA) :ss. County of Missoula This instrument was acknowledged before me on the 26th day of October, 2009, by Christopher B. Swartley, Trustee. (SEAL) /s/ Roxie Hausauer Notary Public for the State of Montana. Residing at Lolo, Montana My commission expires January 6, 2013.

NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 04/08/05, recorded as Instrument No. 200508154; Bk 750 Pg 787, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Steven A. Walton, 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 34 in Block 12 of Greenwood 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 05/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 21, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $132,976.28. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $126,737.10, 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 March 2, 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# 7023.07288) 1002.136581-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 02/22/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200604311, Book 769, Page 773, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Thomas J. McMahon, 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 5 of Kona Rapids, 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 09/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of October 28, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $425,046.41. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $385,527.11, plus accrued interest, accrued late charges, accrued escrow installments for insurance and/or taxes (if any) and advances for the protection of beneficiary’s security interest (if any). Because of the defaults stated above, Beneficiary has elected to sell the Property to satisfy the Loan and has instructed Successor Trustee to commence sale proceedings. Successor Trustee will sell the Property at public auction On the front steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, 200 West Broadway, Missoula, MT 59802, City of Missoula on March 9, 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

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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# 7023.19787) 1002.111646-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 08/10/06, recorded as Instrument No. 200620387, Book 780, Page 1279, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Trina Macdonald was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Alliance Title and Escrow Corp. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Alliance Title and Escrow Corp. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Lot A24 of Windsor Park, Phase II, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. By written instrument recorded as Instrument No. 200827926, Book 831, page 115, beneficial interest in the Deed of Trust was assigned to Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, as Trustee for Soundview Home Loan Trust 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 11/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 4, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $175,309.47. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $154,159.20, 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 March 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# 7023.19517) 1002.106700-FEI NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 09/30/97, recorded as Instrument No. 9721844 Book 518, Page 926, and modified by Agreement recorded 5/14/2007 as Instrument No. 200711704 Book 797, Page 300, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Barbara A. Larsen, a single person was Grantor, Norwest Mortgage, Inc. was Beneficiary and Insured Titles Inc. was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles Inc. as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 5: A parcel of land located in and a portion of the Northeast one-quarter of Section 25, Township 16 North, Range 20

West, Principal Meridian, Missoula County, Montana, and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the Northeast corner of said Section 25, a fence corner; thence S. 00 degrees 14’57” W., along the East line of said Section 25, a distance of 1119.00 feet to a set rebar on the West right-of-way of a road, said point being the true point of beginning; thence continuing S. 00 degrees 14’57” W., along said Section line and along said right-ofway, a distance of 200.00 feet to a set rebar; thence S. 64 degrees 39’01” W., 1471.43 feet to a set rebar on the West line of the Southeast one-quarter of the Northeast one-quarter of Section 25; thence N. 00 degrees 06’52” E., along said West line of the Southeast one-quarter of the Northeast one-quarter, a distance of 455.84 feet to a set rebar; thence N. 74 degrees 17’06” E., 1381.34 feet to the true point of beginning, as shown on deed. Exhibit No. 2798, filed December 7, 1971, records of Missoula County, Montana. Beneficiary has declared the Grantor in default of the terms of the Deed of Trust and the promissory note (“Note”) secured by the Deed of Trust because of Grantor’s failure timely to pay all monthly installments of principal, interest and, if applicable, escrow reserves for taxes and/or insurance as required by the Note and Deed of Trust. According to the Beneficiary, the obligation evidenced by the Note (“Loan”) is now due for the 09/01/08 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 2, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $102,507.36. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $88,377.90, 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 March 15, 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# 7023.19334) 1002.108693-FEI Notice of Trustee’s Sale T S No 08 0107635 Title Order No 080039058MTGSI 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 04/28/2010 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 successor in interest by merger to RECONTRUST COMPANY A NEVADA CORPORATION is the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Trust Indenture in which JERRY LELAND KINNEY AN UNMARRIED MAN AND JAMES W KINNEY AN UNMARRIED MAN as Grantors conveyed said real property to CHARLES J PETERSON as Trustee to secure an obligation owed to MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC as Beneficiary by Trust Indenture Dated 08/17/2006 and recorded 08/25/2006 in document No 200621758 in Book/Reel/Volume Number 781 at Page Number 1172 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder Missoula County Montana being more particularly described as follows LOT 5 OF SPRING VALLEY ACRES A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY MONTANA

ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF Property Address 22450 WALLACE CREEK RD CLINTON MT 59825 96S1 The beneficial interest under said Trust Deed and the obligations secured thereby are presently held

by MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS INC 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 Grantors failure to pay the monthly installment which became due on 06/01/2008 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 $157,092.48 together with interest thereon at the current rate of 6.75% per annum from 05/01/2008 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 T S NO 08 0107635 Order NO 080Q39058MTGSI The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust Other expenses to be charges against the proceeds to this sale include the Trustee s fees and attorney s fees costs and expenses of the sale and late charges if any Beneficiary has elected and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation RECONTRUST COMPANY NA successor in interest by merger to RECONTRUST COMPANY A NEVADA CORPORATION Successor Trustee 2380 Performance Dr TX2 985 07 03 Richardson TX 75082 ASAP# 3376020 12/24/2009, 12/31/2009, 01/07/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 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 13 IN BLOCK 1 OF KLAPWYK ADDITION NO 2, AS PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF ON FILE AND OF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE COUNTY CLERK AND RECORDER OF MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA Mary Ann Sutton, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Insurance Company, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to All Pacific Mortgage Company, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated January 3, 1994 and Recorded on January 10, 1994 at 4:10 o’clock P.M., in Book 403 of Micro Records, page 287.

The beneficial interest is currently held by JPMorgan Chase Bank NA successor in interest to Washington Mutual Bank f/k/a Washington Mutual Bank, FA, successor in interest to Washington Mutual Home Loans, Inc f/k/a Homeside Lending, f/k/a BancBoston 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 $672.92, beginning November 1, 2007, 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 21, 2009 is $27603.71 principal, interest at the rate of 7.75% now totaling $1,349.50, late charges in the amount of $72.16, escrow advances of $1,012.46, and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,698.96, plus accruing interest at the rate of $4.54 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

PUBLIC NOTICES 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: 10/05/09 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 10/05/09, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 09/22/2012 ASAP# 3369490 12/17/2009, 12/24/2009, 12/31/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 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 1 OF WEBBER ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL PLAT THEREOF. A.P.N. : 0497003 Eugene Karl Schafer and Janet Lindquist Schafer, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to First American Title Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Equity Direct Mortgage Corp, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 8, 1998 and recorded May 13, 1998 at 3:58 o’clock P.M. in Book 541, Page 0296, as Document No. 9812132. The beneficial interest is currently held by Aurora Loan Services LLC. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,109.47, beginning November 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 14, 2009 is $97,402.78 principal, interest at the rate of 10.00% now totaling $10,113.88, late charges in the amount of $141.75, escrow advances of $1,814.96, suspense balance of $-961.00 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2,241.04, plus accruing interest at the rate of $27.38 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: October 5, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On October 5, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same.

Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission Expires: 09/22/2012 ASAP# 3369543 12/17/2009, 12/24/2009, 12/31/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 16, 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 19 in Tract 15 of 5 Acre Tracts in the North one-half of School addition, in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Shy A. Obrigewitch and Maria A. Obrigewitch, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Western Title & Escrow, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated October 6, 2005 in Book 761, Page 1499, under Document Number 200526729. The beneficial interest is currently held by US Bank National Association as Trustee for RASC 2005KS12. 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 $1132.70, 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 October 30, 2009 is

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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: October 6, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On October 6, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me

to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same.

Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 09/22/2012 ASAP# 3369593 12/17/2009, 12/24/2009, 12/31/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 16, 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 44 OF SHELBY ADDITION, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Bradley C Griswold and Amber K Griswold, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Charles J Peterson, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated June 3, 2005 and recorded June 7, 2005 in Book 753, Page 1537, under Document No. 200513593.

The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1,530.33, beginning April 1, 2008, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 30, 2009 is $164,733.17 principal, interest at the rate of 5.875% now totaling $9,640.55, late charges in the amount of $51.30, escrow advances of $2,603.62 and other fees and expenses advanced of $-756.34, plus accruing interest at the rate of $26.82 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: 10/13/09 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 10/13/09, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. JOAN MEIER Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 2/23/2013 ASAP# 3374545 12/17/2009, 12/24/2009, 12/31/2009 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEES SALE on February 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: LOT 5 OF MOUNTAIN SHADOWS WEST PHASE 1, A PLATTED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICIAL RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Michelle M. Wamsley-Lawston, as Grantor(s), con-

veyed said real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated May 10, 2007 and Recorded on May 15, 2007 under Document # 200711819, in Bk-797, Pg-415. The beneficial interest is currently held by CitiMortgage, Inc. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,316.59, beginning April 1, 2009, and each month subsequent, which monthly installments would have been applied on the principal and interest due on said obligation and other charges against the property or loan. The total amount due on this obligation as of October 6, 2009 is $303,784.91 principal, interest at the rate of 6.5% now totaling $11,788.99, late charges in the amount of $587.82, escrow advances of $415.62 and other fees and expenses advanced of $366.00, plus accruing interest at the rate of $54.10 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors.

If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust.

Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any.

Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale. The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents (valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, 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

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PUBLIC NOTICES TANA) :ss. County of Missoula). On this 8th day of October, 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 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on April 19, 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 following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lot 2 in Block 1 of Kerr Addition No. 1, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof.

John Schilling Jr. and Tracy Schilling, as Grantors, conveyed the real property to Title Services, Inc., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Panhandle State Bank, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated August 7, 2008, and recorded August 14, 2008, in Book 824 of Micro, Page 1107, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded December 7, 2009, in Book 851, Page 1226, Document No. 200928776, records of Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. The default of the obligation, the performance of which is secured by the aforementioned Deed of Trust, and

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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 Deed of Trust, the Beneficiary has exercised, and hereby exercises, its option to declare the full amount secured by such Deed of Trust immediately due and payable. There presently is due on said obligation the principal sum of $281,212.01, plus interest at a rate of 7% totaling $6,199.61 late fees of $569.76, and escrow shortage balance of $599.711, for a total amount due of $288,581.09, as of November 25, 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 wit the terms and provisions of this Notice.

DATED 8th day of December, 2009. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula) On this 8th day of December, 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 acknowledge 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 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. To be sold for cash at Trustee’s sale on May 3, 2010, at 10:00 a.m., on the Front (south)

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steps of the Missoula County Courthouse, all of Trustee’s right, title and interest to the following-described property situated in Missoula County, Montana: Lots 17 and 18 in Block 6 of South Missoula, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Melody L. Barnes, as Grantor, conveyed the real property to First American Title Co., as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Missoula Federal Credit Union, as Beneficiary, by Trust Indenture dated May 11, 2004 and recorded May 11, 2004 in Book 732, Page 433, Doc. No. 200413140, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded December 10, 2009, in Book 852, Page 172, Document No. 200929121, 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 $144,756.09, plus interest at a rate of 6.875% totaling $5,555.64, taxes and insurance payments of $1,249.36 and late fees and other fees of $603.38, for a total amount due of $152,164.47, as of December 9, 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 15th day of December, 2009. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA)) ss.

County of Missoula). On this 15th day of December, 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 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 8, 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 1, 2, 15 and 16 in Block 6 of SCHMAUTZ ADDITION NO.2, a platted subdivision in Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded to the official recorded plat thereof Sherman R. Hagen and Florence J. Hagen, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Long Beach Mortgage Company, as Beneficiary, by Deed of Trust dated November 19, 2003 and recorded November 26, 2003 at 3:10 o’clock P.M. in Book 722, Page 1728 as Document No. 200345192. The beneficial interest is currently held by Deutsche Bank National

Trust Company, as Trustee under the applicable agreement. Charles J. Peterson, is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $2,415.88, beginning February 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 October 15, 2009 is $232,093.73 principal, interest at the rate of 10.375% now totaling $38,210.55, late charges in the amount of $2761.96, escrow advances of $2283.65, suspense balance of $425.73 and other fees and expenses advanced of $2850.25, plus accruing interest at the rate of $65.97 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the 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, certi-

fied 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 asis, 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 30, 2009 Charles J. Peterson Successor Trustee MACKOFF KELLOGG LAW FIRM P.O. Box 1097 Dickinson, ND 58602-1097 STATE OF NORTH DAKOTA County of Stark On September 30, 2009, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Joan Meier Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 02/23/2013 ASAP# 3366097 12/10/2009, 12/17/2009, 12/24/2009

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Great business opportunity! Live in your home and earn income. 2 bed, 2 bath modular home on one acre.

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HANDCRAFTED CUSTOM HOME ON PETTY CREEK. 3 Bdr/2.5 Bath, 3.3 Acres, slate and hardwood floors, vaulted ceilings, guest quarters, heated double garage, $695,000.

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New land/home package in Riverwalk Estates. No steps, concrete entrances with covered porch & patio.

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JoyEarls@windermere.com 5319811 Past Bitterroot Parade of Homes winner NEW 4 BD/3BA with many upgrades Alder cabinets, Large Master Suite, Tile, & Views of the Bitterroots $344,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185 www.YourMT.com Price Drastically Reduced!! 5 bed, 4 bath & 2 car garage. 4666 Scott Allen Dr. • WAS $475,000, NOW ONLY $419,000 w/ $12,000 buyer’s incentive if UC by 1/10/09 •

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SOUTH HILLS CONDO WITH A SINGLE GARAGE . 2 Bdr/2 Bath, 2 balconies. great views, master with walkin closet & master bath, laundry, and much more. $199,900. Prudential Montana. For more info call Mindy Palmer @ 239-6696, Text Mindy18 to 74362, or visit...

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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 20 ACRE LAND FORECLOSURES Near growing El Paso, Texas. No credit checks/owner financing. $0 down, take over $159/month payment. Was $16,900 NOW $12,856. 800-7558953. www.texaslandforeclosures.net

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5BD/3BA 3,000+ sq. ft. Lolo home on 15.6 Acres, updated kitchen, cozy fireplace, $415,000 Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406-207-1185 www.YourMT.com Beautiful 14 acre parcel just west of Huson. Meadow with trees & pasture.

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PRICE REDUCED! Tanning salon, $55,000- top of the line equipment, excellent client base. 10 years same location- an EXCELLENT VALUE! Call Loubelle at Fidelity RE 240-0753 or 543-4412. www.missoulahomes.com Rare income producing property in town. Call Beverly Kiker @ Prudential Missoula. (406) 544-0708

OUT OF TOWN 800 square foot cabin near hunting, fishing, and skiing in beautiful Haugan, MT. $83,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185. www.YourMT.com

Beautiful park-like setting, private trout ponds, nature trail, stunning views. Lots start at $39,000. Kevin & Monica Ray at Access Realty 406207-1185. www.YourMT.com Nice 1+ acre lot, beautiful country setting west of Missoula. Close to fishing, golfing, park and shopping on Reserve. Sale contingent of final plat approval. $99,999. MLS#908159.

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COMMERCIAL 3 Quizno’s Franchise Sandwich Businesses For Sale! $650,000Missoula, MT. Call Loubelle for info: 240-0753.

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1379 Quiet Pines Missoula, MT MLS# 902424 $115,000

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

Price Reduction! 3bd/2bth, Double Garage, Patio, Fenced, UG Sprinklers, Quite, Hellgate Elem.

School. $219,900 MLS# 906692.

4012 Lancaster Rd, Missoula. Pat McCormick 240-SOLD (7653) pat@properties2000.com

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.

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Wonderful location at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac. This home has been well cared for and has many updates such as paint, appliances, lighting, A/C and underground sprinklers. It is over 1,000 sq. ft. and has a large insulated/sheet rocked garage plus a huge storage shed for over flow.

There is a master bedroom, plus 2 additional bedrooms and a full bath. Large yard bordering open space and lovely views of the mountains. Property has access to river front park. Call today for your private showing. MLS# 907496

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Beautiful Home Granite counters, stainless steel appliances, hardwood floors, stone fireplace. Built-in lockers off garage entrance, lots of storage, 2 hot water heaters, RV pad, RV dump and a hot & cold water spicket, backyard adjourns a park.

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