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Vol. 20, No. 53 • Dec. 31–Jan. 7, 2010

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

Arts: Exhibit turns white supremacist texts into high art Scope: Six scintillating ways to welcome the New Year Range: Don’t squeeze the geezers in the great outdoors

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Vol. 20, No. 53 • Dec. 31–Jan. 7, 2010

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

Arts: Exhibit turns white supremacist texts into high art Scope: Six scintillating ways to welcome the New Year Range: Don’t squeeze the geezers in the great outdoors

Missoula Independent

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Three years ago the Indy staff started to stockpile bits of silly, surreal or otherwise bizarre news from throughout the year in hopes of writing anything but the typical year-end retrospective. We called it the Cluck-ups, after the never-ending chicken debates that defined the Missoula City Cover illustration by Kou Moua Council in 2007, which just happened to be the same year we brought these awards to print. We’ve kept both the format and the name intact because, for better or worse, we have no shortage of people—including us— who have laid an egg this year. ...................................................................................14

News Letters Denise Juneau, City Council and Tester ..........................................................4 The Week in Review Cotter confirmed and Hilliard scores .......................................6 Briefs Christmas theft, radio shuffle and Bruce...........................................................6 Etc. Another tragic reminder of Montana’s drinking problem ....................................7 Up Front Running says Otter Creek vote signals larger issue .....................................8 Ochenski May 2010 bring anything but more of the same .......................................10 Writers on the Range Don’t squeeze the geezers in the great outdoors .................11 Agenda Recycle your Christmas tree..........................................................................12

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Arts & Entertainment Flash in the Pan Breakfast tacos................................................................................19 8 Days a Week What are the words to “Auld Lang Syne” again? ...............................20 Mountain High Run, run, run into the New Year .....................................................29 Scope Six scintillating ways to ring in the New Year .................................................30 Arts Exhibit turns racist texts into works of art..........................................................31 Film Reitman lands Up in the Air smoothly...............................................................32 Film Woo wins the battle but loses the war ...............................................................33 Movie Shorts Independent takes on current films ....................................................34

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"In the New Year, may your right hand always be stretched out in friendship, never in want." ~ Irish Toast

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STREET TALK

Inside Letters Briefs Up Front Ochenski Range Agenda News Quirks

by Cathrine L. Walters

Asked Tuesday morning inside Worden’s Market

Q:

This week’s arts section offers a roundup of the best New Year’s Eve events throughout western Montana, including the Oblio Joes reunion show, First Night Missoula and a “New Year’s Evil” party.

How do you plan on ringing in the New Year?

Follow-up: What’s your New Year’s resolution?

Mary Beth Honsky: I’m going to First Night Missoula with my brother and niece who are flying in from New York. Deep breathing: To have more patience dealing with things in my daily life and not getting stressed out.

Alec Cienfuegos: It’s a revolution out there. I plan on participating in life in full. No sleeping in: To live life and be awake spiritually.

I attended the December Land Board hearing where the leasing of the Otter Creek Coal tracts was approved on a 4–1 vote (see “Coal in their stockings,” Dec. 24, 2009). I want to thank State Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau for her “no” vote. She exemplifies true Montana courage by standing up, alone, for sound stewardship of our state’s resources.

The proposal to strip mine a productive agricultural valley in southeastern Montana would never have gotten this far at the Land Board had it been proposed for western Montana. Remember the outcry from our governor when the Flathead Valley was threatened by coal and coal bed methane development just north of our border in British Columbia? Why is similar development so easy to accept in the Tongue and Powder River valleys?

Juneau understands that there has been no discussion of the environmental, economic and social aspects and costs associated with leasing this coal. She understands that the money that goes into the School Trust Fund does not automatically go to the schools because it is only the Legislature that can appropriate money for the schools. She understands that leasing Otter Creek coal means the construction of the Tongue River Railroad, which would result in a competitive threat to existing Montana coal producers. She understands that global climate change is real and that the burning of coal is a significant contributor.

So, thank you, Denise Juneau, for your vote, your commitment to the future of Montana and our schools, and for your leadership.

Janet McMillan Greenough

Remember us?

Diane Adams: We’re going to cook a nice slow meal with five courses and have a different bottle of wine to go with each course. Renovation resolution: We set goals on the solstice and equinox of each quarter. My current goal is to get the retreat center going in Alberton—we just need to put in the shower!

Don Patterson: I’m going to be at home with a small group of friends. See you on Facebook: To make new friends, be happy and healthy, and contribute as much as I can.

Missoula Independent

Thank you, Juneau

Whether resulting from a thematic choice or just an oversight, the Indy’s recent year-in-review sweep of the news neglected to mention any of the work done by local government this past year. Since we’re not likely to make CNN’s retrospectives, I hope you’ll allow some space on the letters page to take a quick look from one attentive individual’s perspective.

Some of the highlights of city business included undertaking the longawaited construction of the Higgins-HillBeckwith roundabout and efficient completion of the necessary but nettlesome Scott Street overpass reconstruction, as well as other streets projects made possible by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The mayor proposed and City Council approved a budget that avoided both widespread layoffs and an

increase in property taxes despite the economic climate’s effect on revenues and demand for services. The Planning Board and City Council reviewed in detail and adopted a new zoning regulation to replace the inadequate, antiquated and contradictory ordinance on the books previously. Though it took several 7-5 votes to get us to this legislative accomplishment that’s stymied City Council several times before, the regulation was adopted by a 10-2 vote in the end.

In fairness, not everything was copacetic. City Council adopted an ordi-

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nance regulating panhandling that a minority of council considered too broad, while also amending the existing pedestrian interference ordinance in a way a minority of council considered inadequate—neither proposal addressing the disproportionate share of responsibility for needy Montanans that Missoula bears.

An ordinance that would have regulated the serious safety threat posed by distracted drivers on cell phones was curtailed in scope. Efforts to construct streets safely and equitably were punctuated by pedestrian, cyclist and driver fatalities.

There was an election too. Mayor John Engen was re-elected without opposition.

Four of the six candidates for City Council received over 65 percent of the vote in their race and, while the incumbent in Ward 2 was defeated, even that result ratified the course city government charted during his term.

All in all, and at the risk of being selfcongratulatory, it was a year in which municipal government took up its responsibilities conscientiously, even if we sometimes came up short against persistently vexing issues. As fashionable as it always seems to be to be cynical about politicians and policymakers, and as much as the news from Helena or Washington sometimes justifies skeptical reading, we’re plugging away for good government here at home.

Thanks, everyone, for your participation. Be proud and have a happy 2010.

Jason Wiener Alderman, Ward One Missoula

Bigger picture It can be difficult to see the bigger picture when our immediate needs and wants are at stake. Ask a first grader this holiday season if they would rather have a new toy or the cash equivalent put into a retirement fund. The answer will undoubtedly be the toy. That’s a first grader, though. As adults we would have really appreciated that retirement fund. This type of foresight is something that is sorely missing in legislation these days, and this is why the Forest Jobs and Recreation Act is so important.

This bill tries to keep afloat a dying Montana logging industry and the infrastructure to continue these important economic activities in the future. Keep in mind that the bill only mandates acreage, not board feet cut. This is an important distinction. Furthermore, these mandated cuts are legally bonded to restoration projects that are aimed at healing a forest devastated by years of neglect. This not only addresses watershed and beetle kill problems, but it keeps the sale of the timber here in Montana rather than nationalizing it.

Another lasting legacy of this bill is the recognition that local community based organization is sometimes better at solving conflicts of public land management than broader national legislation. It has been 25 years since the last wilderness designation in Montana, and not because of a lack of want. I am a wilderness advocate to the bone, and I am disappointed to see some of the concessions that must be made. What this bill does do, however, is combine efforts of local engagement that have finally broke through years of gridlock to protect areas that are under significant risk. If we don’t act now, wilderness designation will become more and more difficult.

This bill is an investment in our public land’s future that walks straight down the middle of the aisle while humbly refusing the toy for the greater good.

Aaron Olsen Missoula

etters Policy: The Missoula Independent welcomes hate mail, love letters and general correspondence.

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

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WEEK IN REVIEW • Wednesday, December 23

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Craig Menteer’s An Xmas Present concludes its weeklong run at the Crystal Theatre in front of a near-capacity crowd. The play, which puts a modern-day consumerism spin on the classic A Christmas Carol, mixes live performance and previously filmed material with a scene-stealing demonic pink elephant.

• Thursday, December 24 The U.S. Senate confirms the nomination of Helena attorney Michael Cotter as the U.S. attorney for the District of Montana. Cotter replaces outgoing U.S. Attorney Bill Mercer and will supervise prosecution of all federal crimes committed in Montana, including the state’s seven American Indian reservations.

• Friday, December 25 One of Montana’s most influential artists, Frances Senska, dies at home in Bozeman at 95. In addition to forging a prolific ceramics career, Senska worked as an art professor at Montana State University and is credited with shaping the work of ceramicists Peter Voulkos and Rudy Autio.

• Saturday, December 26 Christmas trees begin piling up in the parking lots at Playfair Park, McCormick Park and the Fort Missoula softball fields as conscientious residents recycle the symbol of the season. EKO Compost collects the dead trees—until Jan. 10—so they can be turned into mulch.

• Sunday, December 27 Former Griz star and current Miami running back Lex Hilliard scores two touchdowns—one rushing, one receiving—in the Dolphins’ 27-20 loss to Houston. The scores are Hilliard’s first of the season, and mark his most productive game since joining Miami last season.

• Monday, December 28 Yellowstone National Park announces that 1,279 people entered the park since it opened for the winter season Dec. 16. Of those, 755 people were on snowmobiles and 524 were on snow coaches. Wyoming is suing over a federal snowmobiling plan that limits the numbers of machines to just 318 per day.

• Tuesday, December 29 Missoula-based Treasure State Bank announces an agreement with federal regulators to shore up its finances. The deal calls upon the bank, under supervision by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), to raise capital, reduce overhead and cut loans that, for various reasons aren’t profitable.

Cold weather and a lack of fresh snow in Missoula over the holidays forced Kevin Downey to blast through a crusty snowbank while sledding up Gold Creek Road east of Missoula on Christmas Day.

Snowmobiles Groups push for impact study Two local conservation groups recently took their first serious step in protecting a small and isolated wolverine population in a portion of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.

Friends of the Bitterroot and Wildlands CPR reached a legal settlement with the U.S. Forest Service Dec. 23 to end snowmobile trail grooming in the West Pioneer Wilderness Study Area ( WSA). The area—home to an estimated 12 wolverines—has grown in popularity among snowmobile enthusiasts, with the number of groomed trails more than doubling to nearly 95 miles in the last decade.

“This is kind of an isolated population of wolverines,” says John Grove, a Friends of the Bitterroot board member. “And they could face possible extirpation from snowmobile use in the real high areas where they den.”

The settlement was something conservationists “rather expected,” Grove says. But both groups hesitate to call it a full-on victory. While

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an end to grooming will likely reduce traffic in the WSA, snowmobiles can still access the area, and the settlement lets the Forest Service off the hook for a valuable site-focused study on the impacts of snowmobile noise emissions on local wildlife.

“There’s still snowmobiling, there’s still grooming outside the WSA, and we’d love to be able to find out exactly what the impacts are to wolverine and mountain goat and winter elk habitat,” says Adam Rissien, off-road vehicle coordinator for Wildlands CPR. Rissien says the groups originally filed the suit in May hoping to pressure the Forest Service into answering the open question of how grooming has impacted wolverines to date. Some data on environmental impacts exists from studies done in the Bitterroot National Forest, but nothing specific regarding the West Pioneer Mountains, 130,000 acres of which would be reopened to grooming under Sen. Jon Tester’s proposed Forest Jobs and Recreation Act. “We know wolverines are impacted by human disturbance to the extent that it affects

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populations,” Rissien says. “We need more study.

That’s what we’re asking for.”

For now, Rissien says Wildlands CPR will shoulder the burden of determining the status quo for wolverines in the West Pioneers.

Alex Sakariassen

Music Springsteen serenade A lifelong love spawned decades ago when Clare Urban first saw Bruce Springsteen serenading women he plucked from the audience during a performance in Denver.

Urban now lives in Missoula and speaks in Springsteen lyrics. She’s working on a dream, she says, to bring Bruce to her hometown.

“I’m doing this because of what Bruce can do for the souls of the Missoula community,” Urban says. “I’m hoping 2011.”

Urban’s convinced a couple of friends to join her effort, and she says the group’s making headway. They’ve been drumming up support with a blog (springsteeninmissoula.blogspot.com),

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Twitter feed and a Facebook page, as well as with regular radio appearances.

“So, basically, instead of cursing the darkness in this Bruce-less land, I’m going to do something about it,” Urban says.

Marc Moss, another diehard fan, is among those helping out. He met Urban last winter at Snowbowl and, over a beer, discovered their shared devotion. “Going to see Springsteen is like going to church for me,” Moss says.

Urban’s idea to lure Springsteen started last September just before the rocker’s 60th birthday.

She found herself dismayed by a lack of attention leading up to the big day. “I thought, ‘This can’t go on,’” she says.

Taking it upon herself to mark the occasion, Urban watched Springsteen’s Complete Video Anthology, gleaning knowledge about the Boss and his work. From there, she called local college radio station KBGA and asked if they would clear the airwaves for her to host an eight-day “Bruce Trivia Park Marathon.” Station managers agreed and for varied intervals each day, she shared music, knowledge and prizes. The event culminated on Sept. 23, Bruce’s birthday.

Urban is now wooing Missoula promoters and Bruce himself—she sent him a birthday card and plans to send a Christmas package—and she aims to host Springsteen radio segments on the 23rd of each month until he plays a Garden City gig.

To demonstrate community support and commercial viability, Urban asks locals to share their personal Springsteen stories on the group’s blog.

“I’m just asking Bruce people to be true to their Bruce selves,” she says, “and let their hearts show.”

Jessica Mayrer

Crime Christmas ends with art theft Christmas closed on a less than festive note for Bigfork gallery owner Kathy Leslie last week, as hundreds of dollars worth of artwork was stolen from her storefront display on Electric Avenue.

The theft at Artfusion occurred sometime late on Dec. 25, and involved an unknown number of thieves cracking open a glass display case with a chisel and crowbar. Leslie estimates between 15 and 20 items were taken, including handmade jewelry, ceramic plates and even several plate stands.

“They’re really devastating to us because it’s all out-of-pocket expense,” Leslie says of such

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thefts. “I’m working on the total right now, but I think it’ll end up somewhere around $1,500.”

Leslie will reimburse the artists—all from Montana—over the next few months.

This is the third and most extreme theft at Artfusion this year. A number of items went missing in July, and someone stole several expensive sculptures from the gallery’s patio in August.

Leslie says this type of crime is a serious concern among Flathead businesses, a sentiment justified by the 845 cases of theft reported by the Flathead County Sheriff ’s Office for 2009.

So far Leslie’s inquiries around Bigfork have drummed up no leads, probably, she says, because few people were downtown on Christmas night. She isn’t holding out hope that she’ll see the artwork again.

“You really want to trust people, and that’s my nature,” Leslie says. “I don’t even think about theft, but then it happens and you realize that you have to be at least somewhat vigilant, which is a bummer.”

The incident came as something of a lesson, prompting Leslie to consider installing a security system on the display.

“We’re looking into that now,” she says. “Hate to do it. Bigfork is such a wonderful, lovely, community-oriented small town that you don’t think you have to. Maybe it’s a sign of the times, I guess.”

Alex Sakariassen

Media Radio waves Local radio is about to get a little more local as three media professionals with longtime ties to

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the area prepare to take over operations of The Trail 103.3, The Jack 105.9 and Fresh 104.5.

“It’s moving pretty quick,” says incoming General Manager Ross Rademacher, who owned Maverick Group, a Hamilton advertising company, for 10 years.

Rademacher is one of three partners forming the Montana Radio Company, which as of Jan. 1 will assume control of the three stations. This is the second management turnover since the stations’ original founder and owner, Kevin Terry, obtained a radio license for them in 2005. In 2006, Terry retained ownership but stepped back to allow the Salt Lake City-based Simmons Media Group to manage the stations.

Simmons recently opted out of its operating agreement and the Montana Radio Company has stepped up to assume control. In addition to Rademacher, the new company is comprised of Terry, a radio engineer, and Becky Smith, who’s been an active player in the Missoula media market since 1989, overseeing radio stations and print publications, including the Independent.

“Radio is my first love,” Smith says.

Musical selection and staffing will essentially remain the same across the board, Rademacher says. But Dave Cowan, who created the original Trail music format, is returning as programming director for all three stations. “We are pretty busy and trying to figure out a good, smooth transition,” Rademacher says.

The shift toward local oversight mirrors what appears to be a national trend. Large media groups that went on a buying frenzy after the federal government eased ownership restrictions in 1996 have recently shed stations in the face of tightening budgets. In addition to relinquishing control in Missoula, Simmons Media moved to sell four radio stations in Waco, Texas, earlier this year. Meanwhile, Clear Channel Communications sold its six Missoula affiliates, including 96.3 The Blaze, 107.5 Zoo FM and 94.9 KYSS Country, two years ago to regional chain Gap West Broadcasting. The move came as Clear Channel sold hundreds of small-market stations nationally.

Rademacher says local management attends to homegrown needs in a way distant corporations can’t, and that’s good news for listeners and advertisers.

“We’re all out in the community,” he says.

“We’re members of the community.”

Jessica Mayrer

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Under different circumstances, David James DelSignore’s Saturday night doesn’t seem so unusual. The 29-year-old Turah resident allegedly had some wine at Finn & Porter, and eventually moseyed over to Al’s & Vic’s for a nightcap. Who hasn’t done that—or some variation of the two-bar hop—a dozen or more times on a weekend in downtown Missoula? Then, just before midnight, DelSignore jumped into his Chevy Silverado and headed home. On the way along Highway 200, he called a friend from his cell phone to presumably help pass the time.

Stop there and, if you’re honest, it doesn’t sound remarkable. On any given night, countless casual drinkers take a similar risk and somehow, by some amazing grace, pull unharmed into a driveway.

DelSignore, of course, never did. He heard screaming before he ever reached East Missoula, pulled over, and realized that he’d hit four Hellgate teenagers, killing two. Ashley Patenaude, 14, and Taylor Cearley, 15, died instantly. Teal Packard, 14, remains at St. Patrick Hospital. The fourth girl, whose name has not been revealed, was released from the hospital.

Court records show DelSignore’s blood alcohol level registered .147, well above the .08 legal limit. He currently faces two counts of vehicular homicide and two counts of negligent vehicular assault. Meanwhile, the Hellgate community and the victims’ families are left to face unspeakable grief. And the state, once again, faces the ugly truth of a growing problem.

Just two weeks ago, in advance of the holiday season’s typical booze-filled celebrations, this same column touched on the sobering topic of Montana’s rampant drunk driving culture. We noted that the state’s DUIrelated death rate ranks first in the country—for the second year in a row—and how something needs to be done about it. Stronger legislation out of Helena? Better cab service? Later bus routes? More education? Increased DUI checkpoints? We didn’t specify. We simply asked that readers take some personal responsibility and left it at that.

It’s easy to come off as overly preachy when talking about the consequences of drunk driving, and even easier to dismiss the preaching. The topic gets drilled into our brains from such an early age through public service announcements, teachers and law enforcement, and the message dulls over time. After all, we also learn that a real Montanan can hold his or her alcohol, right?

Perhaps an earth-shattering reminder like Saturday night’s accident will help us realize, finally, that stopping at a few bars before heading home isn’t even close to acceptable. Even in Montana.

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Climate unchanged Running says Otter Creek vote signals larger issue

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University of Montana professor Steve Running came away with one distinct impression from his time at the International Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, earlier this month: The United States continues to take small steps to acknowledge the threat of global warming, but binding commitments never come.

“You never see any hard implementation agenda, like the U.S. commits to closing 50 coal-fired power plants in the next decade, or something like that,” says Running, who claims a slice of the

All those countries saw how willing we are to lead. It’s pretty pathetic. As long as the political leaders keep making decisions like that, all of these targeted emissions reductions are a total joke.”

Montana Land Board members who voted in favor of the Otter Creek deal point to the financial benefits of mining the sprawling expanse near the Tongue River. A sizeable slice of the proceeds are slated for Montana schools.

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UM climate scientist Steve Running, pictured here at left with NASA’s James Hansen, returned from the International Climate Change Summit just in time to hear the Montana Land Board vote in favor of leasing more than 570 million tons of coal in the Otter Creek Valley.

2007 Nobel Peace Prize for work he’s done combating climate change. “Do you ever see that? No, never.”

That same point couldn’t have been better highlighted than when, just days after Copenhagen ended, Running watched aghast as policymakers in his home state gave the thumbs up to lease more than 570 million tons of state-owned coal in the Otter Creek Valley east of Hardin.

For Running, the Otter Creek decision and the token commitments made in Copenhagen are inextricably linked. At the summit, he says all eyes were on the U.S.— the largest historic emitter of greenhouse gases—to step up and show it was set to implement hard limits on emissions. It never happened. Instead, as soon as the conference ended, Montana officials showed exactly how quickly leaders forget about climate change when making big decisions.

“Every one of them was waiting for [the U.S.] to show that we were serious,” he says of the summit attendees. “And the very next day the Montana state government votes to lease another billion tons of coal, my God.

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tion trust,” says Gov. Brian Schweitzer, who voted for the leases along with Secretary of State Linda McCulloch, Attorney General Steve Bullock and State Auditor Monica Lindeen. “If a company moves forward leasing the Otter Creek tracks, they’ll move forward after writing a $140 million check to the state of Montana.”

Schweitzer says it’s easy to point fingers, but the economic realities of sitting atop tons of coal are unavoidable. Fifty percent of the country’s electricity still comes from coal, he says. If power companies don’t load up on coal in Montana, they’ll go somewhere else.

“Wyoming will continue to mine it, or Kentucky,” he says. “Or it will be mined in China.”

Despite backlash against the Land Board’s vote, Schweitzer defends his environmental track record. He points to his 20 x 10 Energy Initiative, which will have curbed energy use in state agencies by 20 percent from 2007 levels by the end of this coming year, while cutting fuel consumption in state vehicles. His administration has also been an aggressive proponent of wind energy, laying

a platform for the renewable resource to be an up-and-coming state industry.

“I can sleep very well at night because there’s no governor in America, not a single governor in America, who has made greater steps toward energy conservation,” Schweitzer says.

But Running says the planet is rapidly changing, and policymakers must look to the broader picture in order to shape a sustainable environment. The Otter Creek decision shows that’s not happening.

“The trajectory of emissions is nothing but up,” he says. “It has been for decades.

And it’s been accelerating in the last decade. And if while we argue we continue business as usual emissions, the point will come, yeah, we lost the argument, just by delay, rather than by specific decision.”

Running and other Copenhagen attendees struggle to find glimmers of hope from the recent developments.

Keegan Eisenstadt of Missoula’s ClearSky Climate Solutions, which works locally and internationally to curb greenhouse gas emissions, says the summit overall was a disappointment, but that political momentum continues to build.

“I used to feel like I was a member of this weird little cult—the climate change cult,” Eisenstadt says. “Copenhagen was the first time that it felt like the whole world was watching…That, I think, is a significant change.”

Another small victory came as the U.S., China, Brazil, India and South Africa signed off on “The Copenhagen Accord.” Though not legally binding, the last-minute deal aims to limit global warming to a maximum of 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial times, with the U.S. joining other developed nations in providing $100 billion annually by 2020 to help developing nations reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

But Running says that’s not enough.

Climate change is already becoming visible in Montana as mountain pine beetles thrive in warming temperatures and consume forests across the state.

“It is something to contemplate—hillsides full of dead trees and streams that are running out of water,” he says. “And you realize that, even here, impacts already are quite clear. I can’t imagine anybody can argue that they like millions of acres of dead trees.”

The responsibility to change belongs to citizens and policymakers alike, Running says, and urgency is mounting.

“We may have already hit a tipping point,” he says. jmayrer@missoulanews.com

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The year that wasn’t May 2010 bring anything but more of the same Who would have thought, given the exuberance with which the nation greeted the ousting of George W. Bush and the inauguration of Barack Obama, that 2009 would turn out to be such a disastrous year? But here, at the end, we look back not on the notable accomplishments of “change and hope,” but the dismal, disappointing outcome of the year in which Democrats took control of the nation but failed miserably to move us into a more progressive, equitable and hopeful future.

It’s not hard to recall the heady promises made by candidate Obama to change America’s course at home and abroad. Guantanamo Bay’s ugly torture chambers were to close. The wars would be wound down so the massive drain on the U.S. Treasury could be spent on domestic needs. The people would take precedent over the moneyed interests that have controlled Washington, D.C., for far too long, and transparency would be the benchmark of his administration.

Looking back, it seems ludicrous to have ever believed such malarkey.

Guantanamo is still open—now with no plans to close it until 2011, if then. Wall Street took precedence over the people, who continue to lose their homes, jobs and families while the titans of finance and industry cash their fat bonus checks thanks to the Obama bailout.

The wars, meanwhile, are not only on-going, but expanding dramatically under the New Barack, who is beginning to sound all too much like the Old Bush these days as he embraces the endless War on Terror. We’re already increasing Predator drone strikes in Pakistan and the president has now approved sending death from the skies into Yemen and Somalia.

And, of course, each of these military expansions brings with it an equal increase in actions against this country, the latest being the attempted destruction of an airliner by a Nigerian in retaliation for the Yemen drone strikes. It’s a mystery that Obama doesn’t get it that “if you go looking for a fight, you’re gonna find one.” But it’s good for the militaryindustrial complex, and despite the high oratory from the White House, it’s apparent the death dealers are still calling the shots in D.C. Although Obama has been a huge disappointment, the Democrat-controlled Congress has been far worse for the nation. Take the so-called “health care reform.” Can anyone except a

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Demo political operative find anything that marginally resembles “reform” in the 2,000-page monstrosity handed to us by the U.S. Senate? That Sen. Max Baucus personally decided real reform—like implementing a singlepayer, Medicare for all, something used by every other industrialized nation of the world—would be “off the table” at the outset was an outrage. That the bill was obviously written to favor the existing insurance-medical-pharma-hospital

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industries—in collusion with secret White House meetings with the lobbyists for those industries—is nothing short of a tragedy. The outcome is so disastrous that Baucus may well have sown the seeds of his own party’s destruction in the coming election cycles. And even though the Republicans are off-the-scale crazy these days, they’re benefiting from the flight of deeply disappointed independents who recently voted for Democrats but are now finding little to like from the former “party of the people” turned the party of Wall Street and war.

Yet, while Washington, D.C., produced one disappointment after another, things closer to home are a very long way from the “New Day” we were promised when Gov. Brian Schweitzer took office five years ago touting his self-proclaimed “big ideas.” A look back, however, shows that virtually none of Schweitzer’s “big ideas” have gone anywhere.

Take coal development, for instance.

Remember his big idea to turn coal into liquid fuels? It consumed the last three years of his first term as he flew around the nation with little vials of synthetic diesel, proclaiming it was the solution to America’s energy appetite and starting

with, wouldn’t you know it, producing fuel for the military to continue to wage wars.

The governor, who touted himself as “clean and green,” can look back instead on the opening of a new coal mine in Roundup as the sum of his progress on coal. Or how about his recent vote to lease the highly problematic Otter Creek coal tracts, which may never—and should never—be developed. Mining bad coal for bad power plants isn’t progress.

And what about bison? While campaigning in 2004, Schweitzer said: “I will work with park officials, USDA, APHIS and landowners to find a commonsense solution that doesn’t involve the wholesale slaughter of one of Montana’s most recognizable symbols, or diminish the value of our cattle.” Yet, at a recent Stockgrowers Association meeting, Schweitzer boasted: “No governor in Montana history has sent more bison to slaughter than this governor.”

Indeed. Under Schweitzer, 1,500 bison were slaughtered last year, almost half the wild bison left in the nation and more than at any time since their near extinction. How can that be something to brag about?

Given the dearth of real progress, one might wonder what the governor meant when he told reporters, “My management style is at 30,000 feet,” while saying it’s up to his chief of staff to “run Montana government.” Luckily, we only have the non-governing governor for another couple years.

Paul Krugman, Nobel prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist wrote this week: “From an economic point of view, I’d suggest we call the decade past the Big Zero. It was a decade in which nothing good happened, and none of the optimistic things we were supposed to believe turned out to be true.”

Unfortunately, he’s right. But we’re headed into 2010, a new decade with new opportunities to finally get it right.

And if our politicians can’t figure out how to quit their sexual carousing, find fiscal and moral accountability, and begin taking care of the people instead of Big Money, well, we’ll have a chance to “throw the bums out” come the next election.

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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Old and restless Don’t squeeze the geezers in the great outdoors

by Kitty Benzar

Maybe the U.S. Forest Service needs a dope slap. Any politician can tell you that there are two constituencies you don’t want to mess with: senior citizens and the permanently disabled. Yet the Forest Service has riled both groups by proposing to eliminate the 50 percent discount at national forest campgrounds that has been available since 1965 to holders of lifetime senior and access passes.

The problem? As America ages, there are just too many of us qualifying for the discounts. That’s hurting the bottom line of the private companies that manage roughly half of all Forest Service campgrounds and 82 percent of all campsites that can be reserved.

Until now, law and/or agency policy required private concessionaires to honor the passes and discounts for older or disabled people at facilities they manage. That makes sense, since public funding built these facilities and the public owns them. Contracting out their management may be a convenience for the agency, but it’s little benefit for the visitor. For the public, it shouldn’t matter who’s cleaning the toilets or emptying the trash, as long as the work’s being done. But it does matter, and here’s why.

Until 2005, the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act governed the recreation fees charged at developed campgrounds. That law established the Golden Age and Golden Access passports that granted free lifetime entry at national parks, plus half-price discounts for camping on public land. Concessionaires were required to honor the passes.

Then a new law passed in 2005, called the Recreation Enhancement Act (REA), and the rules changed. The REA established a pass called the “National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass,” which comes in four flavors: Annual, $80; Volunteer Annual, free if you volunteer 500 hours; Senior Lifetime, $10; and Access Lifetime for the disabled, free. But REA does not guarantee any camping discount for Access or Senior Lifetime pass holders.

The Forest Service continued the discount—for a while. Now the agency says it’s costing concessionaires too much.

The REA says Golden Age and Access pass holders can, “to the extent practicable,” continue to use passes in accordance with the terms under which they were

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issued, so the camping discount was grandfathered-in when the law changed.

Then the Forest Service encouraged Golden Pass holders to exchange their old passes for new ones, and many did.

But pass holders were not told that when they did, so they relinquished an important benefit. The Forest Service claims that granting the camping discount for Golden Pass holders is no longer “practicable.” Let’s call it “bait-and-switch.”

In addition, the REA allows “Standard Amenity Fees” at day-use sites that meet specific criteria. All four types of passes were supposed to cover standard amenity fees, but under the proposed policy only the annual passes will be accepted as full payment. Seniors and the disabled would get a measly 10 percent discount with their lifetime passes. This appears to be a clear violation of existing law.

The proposed change is the latest in a long series of policy decisions that are

transforming recreation on public lands into a for-profit business. Until 1997, it was government policy that the public lands were equally available to all, with modest fees for only a few highly developed sites as well as for entrance to national parks. Public lands were one of the benefits we enjoyed as citizens and supported with our tax dollars.

Since then there has been a systematic policy shift. Even though the Forest Service’s tax-supported funding has been increasing for more than a decade, in many places you now need a $5 or $10 pass just to take a walk in the woods or enjoy the sunset over a mountain lake. Access fees of all kinds have proliferated, and public lands are now expected to pay their own way.

At concessionaire-managed sites they are even expected to turn a profit.

As the Forest Service’s concessionaire program has expanded over the past 30 years, it has moved from a small momand-pop business model to one dominated by large corporations. Camping fees have increased and concessionaires charge fees the Forest Service itself is prohibited from charging, such as for parking.

Until now, these changes have had limited impact on seniors or the disabled because their lifetime passes have been honored as originally issued. Now that senior and disabled passes make up 78 percent of all pass sales, their associated discounts are cutting into the profits of the private companies that control much of our public land. Those companies are trying to dictate public policy.

This time, though, they may be messing with the wrong crowd. The public can comment on these proposed changes until Feb. 1; let’s hear it for geezer power.

Kitty Benzar is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org ). She is the president of the Western No-Fee Coalition (www.WesternSlopeNoFee.org ) and lives in Durango, Colo.

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With Christmas now in our rear view, many of you may still be hanging on to its last remnants—lights, wreaths, that tree in the corner. And you might find yourself stumped, so to speak, when trying to figure out what you’re going to do with that piney relic, which, by the way, is drying out and becoming a fire hazard.

Well, the solution is pretty simple and very sustainable. I’m talking about “Christmas Ever Green,” the city of Missoula’s holiday tree recycling program that processes dead trees into heaps of fruitful mulch. The only thing you need to do to participate is to drop off your tree at one of four locations around town. EKO Compost will

handle the rest as they chop your tree to bits. But just be sure to remove all ornaments and lights, okay?

Besides feeling good about your own efforts at being green, the program serves a broader purpose: All proceeds from recycling help Missoula’s Parks and Rec Department purchase and plant new trees in our surrounding parks, schools and right-of-ways.

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group at St. Francis Xavier Parish, 420 W. Pine, every first and third Tue. of the month at noon.

Free. Call 329-5656.

If you know a young woman between the ages of 14–18 who you think would make a great leader, consider nominating them for YWCA Missoula’s Young Women LEAD project, which includes attendance at two seminars as well as a community service project. Free to participate. To nominate, call the YWCA’s Jen Euell at 543-6691. Nominations are due by Mon., Jan. 11.

SATURDAY JANUARY 2 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 JANUARY 3 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 JANUARY 4 Veterans can find support with trained facilitator Chris Poloynis every Mon. at 2 PM, when PTSD group Spartans Honour meets at the Missoula Veterans Affairs Clinic, 2687 Palmer St. Free. Call 829-5400.

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

TUESDAY JANUARY 5 Find the strength and will to survive in the company of others during a breast cancer support

Drop off your Christmas tree for recycling at Playfair Park, the Currents parking lot in McCormick Park, Fort Missoula’s softball complex or at EKO Compost. Free. Collection ends Sun., Jan. 10. Call 721-PARK.

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

WEDNESDAY JANUARY 6 Give the gift that keeps others living during an American Red Cross blood drive, which runs from 3–6 PM at Missoula’s First Lutheran Church, 2808 South Ave. W. Free. To schedule an appointment call 549-3311 Ext. 7.

THURSDAY JANUARY 7 If you know a young woman between the ages of 14–18 who you think would make a great leader, consider nominating them for YWCA Missoula’s Young Women LEAD project, which includes attendance at two seminars as well as a community service project. Free to participate. To nominate, call the YWCA’s Jen Euell at 543-6691. Nominations are due by Mon., Jan. 11.

Find out exactly what you can expect when expecting with tips on nutrition, exercise, labor, birth preparations and more during a free early pregnancy information night, which runs from 6:30–8 PM in the small meeting room of the Missoula Public Library, 301 E. Main St. E-mail Krista at naturalchildbirthclasses@gmail.com.

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

CURSES, FOILED AGAIN – Two masked men armed with a shotgun tried to rob a bagel shop in Orlando, Fla., but fled empty handed when one of the employees pushed a bagel cart at them.

SHOE BUSINESS – A man who robbed a shoe store in Knoxville, Tenn., made off with four or five left-foot shoes from the storeroom. Police Lt. Bob Woodbridge told the Knoxville Sentinel the robber didn’t get matching pairs because the right-foot shoes were being used for displays. The following day, employees spotted the suspect in the shoe-store parking lot and called police. They arrested Vincent E. Salters, 46, who the Sentinel said was shoeless at the time.

Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush, was discussing his experience at a news conference in Paris, when someone in the audience threw a shoe at him. Al-Zeidi ducked, and the shoe hit the wall behind him. The Associated Press reported that al-Zeidi’s brother, Maithan, chased the unidentified attacker and hit him with a shoe as he left the room.

SPROCKET CRIME – After police received a report of a man trying to ride a bicycle while holding a cash register in Bloomington, Minn., officers spotted Travis William Himmler, 22, a few blocks away behind some bushes, somewhat dazed. The Eden Prairie Sun said a loose electrical cord from the register apparently jammed the gears of the bike, causing it to careen out of control. “There was evidence all around him,” Commander Mark Stehlik said, adding that the shoes Himmler was wearing matched shoeprints on grease on the floor of the restaurant and on the register.

German police searching for convicted killer Peter Paul Michalski, 46, after he escaped from a highsecurity prison in Aachen spotted him riding a woman’s bicycle near the Dutch border and deliberately crashed into him, knocking him off the bicycle onto the grassy shoulder.

Police investigating motor noise near a Christmas tree lot in Portage, Ind., at 1 a.m. spotted Phillip Menefee, 48, riding a bicycle equipped with a homemade motor but no lights. The Post-Tribune reported Menefee was balancing a stolen Christmas tree across the handlebars.

HELPING THOSE WHO HELP THEMSELVES – After a charity car wash raised hundreds of dollars to benefit the family of a hit-and-run victim in Clark County, Wash., police accused fundraiser organizer Mallory P. Ewart, 18, of using most of the money to bail defendant Antonio Cellestine, 18, out of jail. The Columbian reported the all-day car wash drew between 30 and 40 cars, most belonging to parishioners of the victim’s church. The paper added that investigators were tipped off to the scam by a purported admission on Ewart’s MySpace page.

AVOIRDUPOIS FOLLIES – More than two dozen seniors at Pennsylvania’s Lincoln University risk not being able to graduate this spring because they were too fat when they were freshmen and have taken no measures to stem their obesity. Inside Higher Ed reported that 92 entering freshmen in 2006 had body mass index scores below 30 and were required to lose weight or take a onesemester class called “Fitness for Life.” Twenty-five of the students did neither, and James L. DeBoy, chair of the health, physical education and recreation department, notified them they failed to meet the school requirement. “No student should ever be able to leave Lincoln and not know the risks of obesity,” DeBoy said.

WHEN GUNS ARE OUTLAWED – Authorities in Marion County, Fla., reported that a man told them Elsie Egan, 53, repeatedly hit him in the face with an uncooked steak. Sheriff’s deputies told the Associated Press that Egan attacked the man because he refused a piece of sliced bread. He said he wanted a roll. Egan denied hitting the man with the steak but did admit slapping him “so that he could learn.”

SECOND-AMENDMENT FOLLIES – When the New Orleans Saints played the Washington Redskins, Wayne A. Spring of Albany, La., announced to his friends that they were welcome to shoot his 60-inch, high-definition, flat-screen TV if the Saints won. The Redskins looked like winners until the final minutes, when the Saints tied the score. After they won in overtime, about a dozen Saints fans showed up at Spring’s house with firearms and a case of beer and shot up his TV. The TV shooting broke no laws, Louisiana State Police Lt. Doug Cain told the Associated Press, “but I would say mixing booze and firearms is not a good thing.”

SIZE MATTERS – As part of Thailand’s “Condoms for All” campaign, Thailand’s Public Health Ministry began distributing official penis measuring devices. The disposable paper measuring tape records widths of between 49 and 56 millimeters, covering the “Thai penis-size standard,” said Dr. Somyos Kittimankhong of the Department of Disease Control. The $8.38 million nationwide condom giveaway is aimed at encouraging men and women ages 15 to 25 to wear the right-size protection. “Larger-size condoms can slip off or deaden the pleasure during sex, while smaller ones will cause discomfort to wearers,” Kittimankhong told the Nation. “These factors dissuade people from using condoms.”

HOW GOVERNMENT WORKS – An abuse hotline staffed by Florida’s Department of Children & Families has begun curtailing the number of calls it investigates in an effort to reduce workload and the system-wide stress that high case loads can cause. The Miami Herald said that since the department changed its policy, the Tallahassee-based hotline has screened out tens of thousands of calls alleging kidnapping, rape, aggravated child abuse, medical neglect, malnutrition and kids roaming the street unsupervised. The revised policy allows investigators to concentrate on children who are most at risk and cut down on frivolous complaints, DCF Secretary George Sheldon said, including a report from a teacher that a child came to school wearing mismatched sneakers and another about a boy whose underwear was on backward.

A workshop on government openness held in Washington, D.C., was closed to the public. WJLA-TV News reported the Justice Department-sponsored private training session for Freedom of Information Act officials was aimed at explaining the new U.S. Office of Government Information Services, which settles disputes between the federal bureaucrats and the public. “If they’re getting marching orders, why shouldn’t the public be there?” Jeff Stachewicz of FOIA Group Inc. said.

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friend of ours always used to say, “We tease because we love.” While that always seemed like a convenient excuse for him to continue peppering us with verbal jabs, we get it. Good-natured ribbing is a part of life, and when done in the right spirit, it helps us all laugh a bit at the more ridiculous aspects of the world.

Hence, our third annual Cluck-ups. The idea was hatched years ago by an Indy staff that had stockpiled bits of silly, surreal or otherwise bizarre news throughout the year—and wanted to do anything but the typical year-end retrospective. The name derives from the never-ending chicken debates that defined the Missoula City Council in 2007, which just happened to be the same year we brought these awards to print. We’ve kept both the format and the name intact because, for better or worse, we have no shortage of people—including us (see sidebar)—who have laid an egg this year.

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House Minority Leader Scott Sales, RBozeman, opened the 61st Montana Legislature with a speech in which he attributed a series of quotes to Abraham Lincoln, such as, “You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.”

Unfortunately for Sales, Lincoln never said the quotes. William John Henry Boetcker authored “The Ten Cannots” 41 years after Lincoln’s death.

Sales said he found the list on the Internet and apologized for not doing better research.

U.S. Sen. Max Baucus proudly represented Montana at the January inauguration of President Barack Obama by dressing— and acting—like a cowboy. As the Washington Post reported, “Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., dressed in rodeo gear, paid his respects to Obama as soon as the guests started eating, bowing out early so he could get ready for his appearance in the inaugural parade

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in which he’ll be riding a horse with a Montana float.”

Music with a message The Montana Meth Project launched a Presidents’ Day rally at the Capitol that included a lively pop soundtrack, including the Black Eyed Peas’ 2004 radio hit, “Let’s Get it Started.” The single originally appeared on the group’s 2003 album, Elephunk, as a drug anthem titled, “Let’s Get Retarded.”

Enhanced Registration and Licensing Information Network, otherwise known as MERLIN. The state spent $28.5 million and four years developing the software.

day period. Twelve percent in our region reported using marijuana in the prior 30-day period. Both placed our region at the top of the list.

It’s gettin’ hot in here Crying fowl Flathead Lake resident Holly Wurl protested the “loud, unabated noise from roosters” in a court filing over her neighbor’s chicken coop. The official complaint included Wurl’s exhaustive, three-month rooster crow log, in which she detailed precisely when and how many times her neighbor’s roosters cock-a-doodle-dooed.

For example, Wurl claimed that on July 4, 2008, the roosters crowed 38 times between 4:35 a.m. and 4:41 a.m., and 33 times between 4:47 and 4:58 a.m. And then about 100 more times throughout the day.

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A hands-on solution may come next Citing necessary budget cuts, the city of Missoula switched its dog poop picker-upper bags, known as Mutt Mitts, from double-ply to singleply. The move will reportedly save the city $8,000 annually when restocking the 103 Mutt Mitt dispensers located in area parks.

Imagine how many Mutt Mitts this would buy Motor vehicle offices across the state closed for two days in June to repair the new Montana

High refers to more than just our elevation

A January Forbes report on the country’s failed drug war singled out “America’s Drug Capitals,” including New Orleans, Baltimore, San Francisco…and Missoula. According to a survey by the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, 13.8 percent of households polled in Montana’s Region 5—Flathead, Lake, Lincoln, Mineral, Missoula, Ravalli and Sanders counties—reported using illicit drugs in a prior 30-

Noted social networking fan Rep. Denny Rehberg took to his Twitter account before President Obama’s first address to Congress, letting all his tweeps know: “On the floor of the house of reps. Waiting to hear Barack. Place is on fire.”

A different kind of heat After he was involved in a late-night Flathead Lake boat crash that injured all five passengers, Rehberg waited seven hours before calling his wife, Jan, to let her know he had been hospitalized at Kalispell Regional Medical Center. “He is in a little bit of trouble,” Jan said during a press conference.

An udderly silly moooooove The Western Montana Fair embraced a new slogan this year: “I herd it through the bovine.”

Forget bongs and condoms A community forum hosted by the Missoula Underaged Substance Abuse Prevention team displayed a typical teenager’s room and, according to a report on KPAX-TV, demonstrated “how yearbook entries, cold medicine and bungee cords could be signs a teen is doing drugs or engaging in dangerous sex games.”

I am hard, but I am fair Actor R. Lee Ermey, better known as hardass Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick’s classic Full Metal Jacket (and the character who spoke the line above), recovered a bag of un-deposited cash and checks while filming a History Channel show in Missoula. Ermey found the bag—with deposit slips for $3,700 and $2,800, and approximately $8,000 in cash—on a blacktop near Fort Missoula and returned it to the Wells Fargo on Russell Street.

Maybe she should write more about bungee cords University of Montana assistant law professor Kristen Juras protested the student newspaper’s publication of a weekly sex column by senior Bess Davis. Juras claimed Davis wasn’t qualified to dispense sex advice and that her “Bess Sex Column” portrayed “a hook-up culture that has unhealthy

We’re clucked!

Needless to say, the Indy’s not above making the occasional mistake.

In putting together this year’s collection of cluck-ups, we realized it was only fair to list our own dubious achievements of the year.

Boosting the freelance budget The launch of our new website included the usual glitches—and one that longtime readers may have found a little ironic. Former arts editor, current film critic and notoriously prolific wordsmith Andy Smetanka shared a byline on thousands of archived stories along with the correct author.

Betsy who?

Similarly, thousands of stories were also listed under the byline “Betsy Kepes.” A seasonal worker for the Forest Service in Kooskia, Idaho, Kepes wrote one “Writers on the Range” essay that appeared in the Independent in July.

Lost in translation In June, we got flak for removing an online comment from “Assrammer for Jesus” because, the commenter thought, someone objected to the use of the word “queer” in the post and not the username.

Howling mad A group called Missoula Skeptics went absolutely batty after we profiled pet psychic Keek Mensing in a February issue, calling the story unscientific and uncritical for not thoroughly debunking her alleged skill. Fair enough, but we regret not hearing a whimper from the group when we previewed an art exhibit featuring photographs by a dog and wrote a Spotlight about an elephant who paints.

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A story remained on the front page of our website for six days with the byline “By contributers.”

Racial profiling During back-to-back issues in mid-February, we put old, white, male bureaucrats on the cover of the paper. They were two of our slowest moving issues of the year. By contrast, our two most popular issues featured medical marijuana and Huey Lewis.

An “etc.” column meant to tout a new website called lifeontherez.com failed to do so after we sent readers to a nonexistent site at lifeontherez.org. Similarly, a news story on a property in Huson that violated the Clean Water Act included a photo of an adjacent piece of land.

If only we’d listened to our own advice

Numerous readers believed a recent cover image of meditating staff writer Matthew Frank—pictured alongside the items he used for an herbal cleanse—should have more prominently displayed the enema bag.

We were criticized for taking what was perceived as a cheap shot at Lee Enterprises—owners of the Missoulian—when we listed its stock options in our 2008 budget gift guide. In listing the 50 shares at an approximate value of $25, we wrote that it made a good gift because we had “every confidence that the value of your gift will go nowhere but up.” Sure enough, it did. Those same 50 stocks would be worth approximately $190 today.

Drinks on us

Swing and a miss

In an advertisement for Sportsman’s Bar that boasted “the biggest collection of boozers, cynics, hillbillies, malcontents, miscreants, mountain men, perverts, rednecks, shodders, trailer trash, transients, some great cleavage, horrid manginas and everyone’s favorite bum” we incorrectly listed the address of the Alberton establishment as the home of a local law enforcement official.

In the aftermath of the Tiger Woods scandal, we received a photo from an anonymous source showing Missoula native and alleged Tiger mistress Kalika Moquin canoodling with Dennis Haskins, better known as Mr. Belding on “Saved by the Bell.” We held off from reporting the “story.”

Flush to judgment

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Something here definitely stinks The city of Missoula spent $76,000 on a study to determine the cause of a pungent odor near the city’s Wastewater Treatment Plant and EKO Compost. The study brought in an internationally renowned odor control expert, specialized odor charts and included the use of a $1,500 “field olfactometer” called the “Nasal Ranger,” a white, blow hornlooking gadget held to the nose to detect and measure odors.

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physical, psychological and emotional effects on students.” Juras, who also serves as faculty advisor to the Christian Legal Society, unsuccessfully pleaded for the column to be removed.

jumped into the Hauck brouhaha, tweeting that Hauck “reinvents amateur hour for [college football] coaches. May he never get a real coaching job.” Just last week, the University of Nevada-Las Vegas hired Hauck as its new head coach.

What exactly did he expect for $60?

John Erbele, the former pastor at Missoula’s South Hills Evangelical Church (SHEC), allegedly paid $60 to a hooker in St. Paul, Minn., who turned out to be an undercover cop. Erbele was one of 16 “johns” arrested during the sting.

Applying to work for Big Brother Bozeman City Manager Chris Kukulski and three other department heads were disciplined for requiring potential city employees to divulge their usernames and passwords for personal email and social network accounts, like Twitter and Facebook. The policy had started in the city police department in 2007 and extended to all applicants in summer 2008 before finally being dropped in July.

Couldn’t they have at least promoted a better destination?

The Missoula Chamber of Commerce, an organization seemingly responsible for promoting Missoula businesses, promoted a “Fabulous Nosey Parker’s Ladies Get-A-Way for savvy shoppers”—in Spokane. The holiday season e-blast promised shoppers a “posh stay at Holiday Inn Express Spokane,” “classy limousine service with your personal guide,” “festive champagne and chocolates in route” and much more for just $137 per person.

At least he won one national title After Bobby Hauck, head coach of the University of Montana football team, refused to answer questions from student reporters because of a story he didn’t like, national media picked up on the standoff. Sports Illustrated wrote about Hauck’s “sorry strategy” at least three times, popular sports blog Deadspin called the coach “a gaping vagina of the highest order” and ESPN columnist Pat Forde named Hauck his “Bum of the Year.”

Upon further review New York Times sportswriter Pete Thamel also

There when you need it most, mostly

Talk about dropped signals

The American Automobile Association (AAA) ceased placing motorists stranded at home on its response list last winter after 10 days of mostly subzero temperatures and heavy snowfall overwhelmed the Mountain West region.

Montana’s AirTEL customers woke up on Saturday, Feb. 21, with zero bars of service on their cellular phones after the company abruptly pulled out of the state. Montana Attorney General Steve Bullock filed a complaint against the company in June to secure refunds for customers who prepaid for that service.

Better than the Bernie Madoff Financial Center Harold Gilkey, namesake of the University of Montana’s new Gilkey Center for Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Executive Education, stepped down from his position as chairman of Spokane’s Sterling Savings Bank in October, shortly after the bank received a cease-and-desist order from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). The order cited a number of unsafe or unsound banking practices, including a large number of poor-quality loans and inadequate capital.

The Cosby method Montana State University ecologist Al Zale offered up solutions for dealing with an infestation of invasive lake trout in Yellowstone Lake, including one unconventional idea: smothering the trout eggs with Jell-O. Zale believes unflavored gelatin would be an affordable way to deprive the lake trout eggs of the oxygen they draw out of the water.

The Mulder defense

“Stuff” happens The Missoula County Schools Board of Trustees ruled in January that a Big Sky High School science teacher violated the district’s academic freedom policy by showing The Story of Stuff, a 20-minute video on the dangers of the country’s consumer-driven culture. The board’s perceived censorship of the video sparked outrage and confusion among students and members of the community considering the New York Times called the film “a sleeper hit in classrooms across the nation” and it’s been viewed 7.7 million times since Annie Leonard made it two years ago.

A Whitefish man facing charges for illegal possession of firearms and a bomb told U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy in January that he’s the victim of a far-reaching government conspiracy. Specifically, he believed operatives implanted nutrition-stealing canisters in his gastrointestinal tract while detained by Seattle authorities in 1993 and 2000. Canisters or not, Molloy ruled the man was competent to stand trial.

Law and order Jonathan Lee Riches, dubbed the most litigious man in the world, hit Missoula courts for the first time when Riches v. The Twilight Zone, et al reached Molloy’s courtroom. The suit accused a lineup of classic television personalities of brainwashing and mind control.

“These defendants created me, and as a kid growing up in front of my t.v. spending hr’s upon hr’s [sic] watching the defendants tricked my mind into believing I live a fantasy life,” read Riches’ injunction.

Always the bridesmaid, never the bride The University of Montana football team wasn’t the only Griz group to place second in a prestigious national competition this year. The cheerleading squad came up short against the University of Hawaii in the Jan. 2 airing of “RAH! Paula Abdul’s Cheerleading Bowl” on MTV. UM beat out the University of Arizona, University of Arkansas and Miami University (Ohio) to reach the final.

More than just a “football factory” A September New York Times article on low graduation rates at public universities specifically mentioned the University of Montana as a “failure factory.”

Fighting to protect the innocent—and hoofed A Philipsburg resident purposefully got himself ticketed for violating the town’s horse ordinance in hopes of receiving a court trial, claiming a city law that prevents hoofed animals in town is unfair. “I don’t think it’s right,” said Buster Butler, “because I’ve been around horses all my life.” Butler refused to offer the names of the ticketed horses because he didn’t want to incriminate them.

In sickness and in health —or, maybe, in jail Frenchtown resident Jordan Iddings made headlines for a November bachelor party that, according to police, involved Iddings sexually assaulting a woman (he allegedly groped her, then punched her in the face after she slapped him) and head-butting a Missoula police officer. Iddings pleaded not guilty to the charges and a trial is set for April 19.

According to public records, he and his fiancée still married on Dec. 19.

Making a forest out of a twig Cosmetic giant Mary Kay Inc. claimed in a May press release that it had “completed the total reforestation of the Bitterroot National Forest.” The company’s Compact Recycling Program did supply 200,000 trees to the Bitterroot, but it hardly reforested the entire 1.6 million acre region. “I might not have worded [the press release] that way,” said Nan Christianson, public affairs officer for the forest.

Lost connection In an effort to “permit high standards of living and a wide sharing of life’s amenities,” Yellowstone National Park finalized its wireless communications plan in April, outlining where it can expand service for cell phones and Internet access inside the park.

Maybe they watched online from Yellowstone Exactly zero people attended a live satellite feed of Michael Jackson’s star-studded memorial service at Missoula’s Carmike 10. The cinema chain offered seats free of charge to the first 185 in attendance.

Best of both worlds U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg attended a news conference celebrating $285,000 set aside for Missoula’s Poverello Center in the House’s FY09 appropriations bill, and took credit for including the measure. Rehberg, however, voted against the bill. “While the bill included many good things for Montana that I have fought for over a year to secure,” he said of his “no” vote, “it also contained way too much wasteful spending that wasn’t scrutinized close enough.”

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Is “small-town charm” a euphemism?

Thanks, but no thanks, part one

The Tiger Woods affair(s) veered toward Missoula when Kalika Moquin, a marketing manager for a Las Vegas nightclub and former Garden City resident, popped up as an alleged mistress. An anonymous friend of Moquin told E! News, “They’ve been friends for three years. I think he was attracted to her small-town charm.”

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer flew across the country to lend a helping hand to Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe on the campaign trail. When asked by the Washington Post why he was supporting McAuliffe, Schweitzer said, “He’s got the energy to take this all the way to the end, and when there’s a bump in the road, he’s not going to cry like a girl and quit.”

McAuliffe had most recently served as campaign manager for presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Going where no rock has gone before

Thanks, but no thanks, part two

NASA started collecting ground rock this summer from the Stillwater Mine in Nye, Mont., because it includes a key ingredient that mimics the makeup of the moon’s south pole. Once melted, the synthetic space dirt will help NASA as it prepares to establish a permanent base on the moon by 2024.

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While supposedly assisting McAuliffe on the campaign trail, Schweitzer also suggested that supporters of McAuliffe’s opponents take to the polls two days after Election Day. “No one’s campaigning against anyone,” Schweitzer reportedly said. “And if you decide you’re going to vote for one of the other guys, show up on Thursday.”

McAuliffe’s office had to publicly apologize for Schweitzer’s comment considering McAuliffe had made a big deal earlier in the campaign over a Republican candidate encouraging Virginia Republicans to keep voters from the polls for the primary.

Don’t hate the playa, hate the game Footloose Montana, an organization working to eliminate trapping on public lands, blames part of the trapping issue on hip-hop culture. “The pelts a trapper does sell are probably adorning a fur coat worn by a rapper wannabe in some urban center far from Montana’s high mountains,” reads the group’s website. “Hip hop culture, which embraces fur garments as status symbols, is driving fur prices higher and encouraging trappers to deploy more traps than ever on Montana’s public lands.”

Local is as local does The Missoula Sustainable Business Council’s “Think Local, Buy Local” campaign, which aims to preserve “the unique character of our community” and maintain “the special history and culture of Missoula,” listed the Patagonia Outlet in Dillon (a national outdoor clothing and gear company) and ValPak of Missoula (a local branch of the national direct marketing firm) within the campaign. The

council later removed both businesses from its “Buy Local” effort.

Cherry-picking the “local” brand Safeway stores in Missoula started liberally promoting “locally grown produce” throughout its produce aisles, despite only carrying melons from Dixon and cherries from the Flathead. The cherries, however, are sent to Washington state to meet the

chain’s stringent packaging requirements before being shipped back to Montana.

If at first you don’t succeed, sue Three members of Missoula’s City Council sued the city they represent after not getting their way in a debate over revised zoning laws. A Helena judge rejected the arguments brought by Dick Haines, Lyn Hellegaard and Renee Mitchell that the city failed to adequately notify the public of the process, finding the city “is thoroughly complying” with its legal requirements.

Letting the inmates run the asylum

Officials in Hardin, Mont., signed a contract with Michael Hilton in September to have his American Police Force operate the city’s $27 million jail facility, which had never been used before. After purchasing a fleet of Mercedes SUVs brandished with “Hardin Police Force” logos—there is no official Hardin Police Force—media reports revealed that Hilton had an extensive criminal history. Specifically, the Associated Press reported he spent several years in a California prison for grand theft, and had at least three civil judgments against him for fraudulent investments. editor@missoulanews.com

the $$–$$$...$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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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. $-$$ Food For Thought 540 Daly Ave 721-6033 Missoula “Original” Coffeehouse/Cafe located across from the U of M campus. Serving breakfast and lunch seven days a week. Also serving cold sandwiches, soups, salads, baked goods and an espresso bar til close. Mon thru Thurs 7am - 3pm Fri & Sat 7am - 3pm Sun 8am - 3pm. www.thinkfft.com $-$$

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

Start with appetizers and end with desserts. You can even toast your own s’mores right at you table. A large selection of beer, wine and sake’ drinks available. Stop by for a great meal in a fun atmosphere. Kid and family friendly. Open daily at 11 AM. $-$$ Iron Horse Brew Pub 501 N. Higgins • 728-8866 www.ironhorsebrewpub.com We're the perfect place for lunch, appetizers, or dinner. Enjoy nightly specials, our fantastic beverage selection and friendly, attentive service. Not matter what you are looking for, we'll give you something to smile about. $-$$ Iza Asian Restaurant 529 S. Higgins Ave. 830-3237 www.izarestaurant.com All of our menu items are made from scratch and we use no MSG products. Featuring dishes from Thailand, Japan,

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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. $-$$ Paul’s Pancake Parlor 2305 Brooks 728-9071 (Tremper’s Shopping Center) Check out our home cooked lunch and dinner specials or try one of 17 varieties of pancakes. Our famous breakfast is served all day! Monday is all you can eat spaghetti for $6.95. Wednesday is turkey night with all of the trimmings for $6.95. Eat in or take-out. M-F 6am-7pm, Sat/Sun 7am4pm. $–$$.

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.

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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! $-$$

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

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by Ari LeVaux

Breakfast tacos A breakfast taco consists of a warm corn tortilla filled with savory items and condiments. Beyond that, there are no hard and fast rules. The breakfast taco isn’t beholden to its southwestern roots, although those flavor combinations are certainly well-tested. It isn’t required to contain eggs, although that is often the case.

It’s a breakfast taco even if it isn’t washed down with coffee, but that’s a scenario that I don’t ever want to endure.

The beauty of the breakfast taco is that it’s what you want it to be, and what you have available in the fridge and pantry. As a do-ityourself food snob, one of my favorite things about breakfast tacos is they provide a venue for many if not most of the foods I preserved in summertime: wild game, pickled peppers, homemade salsa, friend-raised bacon, homegrown or farmers’ market veggies like onions and squash, potatoes kept in cold storage, and greens, blanched and frozen. Breakfast tacos are a stage for your backyard eggs, your window herb box, your local goat farmer’s artisan cheese—or even his goat meat.

When I fold such items into my breakfast taco, memories of the adventures that brought these ingredients to my kitchen add to the considerable flavor. But the breakfast taco isn’t limited to your homegrown morsels any more than it should follow the flavor profiles of the southern lands from where it came. The corn tortilla is a blank slate, a tortillarasa, if you will, that wraps around take-out fish ’n’ chips as tastefully as it cradles leftover holiday turkey that you shred, brown in the pan (in oil or its own fat) with chopped garlic and chunks of leftover squash. In a heated corn tortilla with salsa and mayo, leftover holiday breakfast tortillas will make your morning coffee taste like wine.

Because of the diversity of ingredients they can accommodate, breakfast tacos are a laboratory for the culinary art of co-munching, which is the act of chewing different foods together in your mouth. Co-

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swear by the microwave; I swear at the microwave.

Or if my mouth is full, I just give it the finger.

In no particular order, here is my list of top breakfast taco fillings: Meat: crispy, browned, braised or ground, as long as it isn’t too tough or chewy it works great. Meat snob that I am, I’d go meatless before eating mystery meat, but if you have well-raised or wild meat, I’m in. Bacon is the poster child, but many other types of meat will do. If you have a tough cut and want to make it breakfast taco-friendly, here’s a hint: Braise it for hours at 350 degrees in red wine, or a mix of red wine and coffee, until the cartilage and connective tissue melts. Then shred your meat and fry it in oil to put a nice brown on those tender chunks.

Eggs: classic but not essential, eggs are typically scrambled for the breakfast taco.

Salsa: if not salsa, then something, or some combination of things, should provide spice and acidic flavors to combine with the rich components of the taco.

Photo by Ari LeVaux Pickled peppers and carrots: see above.

Herbs: cilantro and parsley, for instance, add bining and unlocking each other is so consuming that you may end up re-reading the same sentence color and fragrance.

Chopped onions: all but essential. from your morning paper a dozen times, only comMayo: or fake mayo, like Grapeseed Oil prehending the words in the wash of morning wine between bites. This sequence will likely be repeated Vegannaise, adds much needed crème to the equation, as does… until you run out of food or belly space.

Cheese: shredded or in thin slices that melt in If you have company for breakfast or brunch, preparing a line-up of fillings and allowing each contact with the warm tortilla and fillings.

Sliced avocado: for a greenish kind of crème. guest to construct his or her taco turns the meal into Squash: a sweet and savory filling that plays a fun, participatory event, and all the morning wine well with the others. that’s guzzled enhances this celebratory vibe.

Potatoes: not the most exciting filling, but they When dining solo or in small groups, the tortillas can be warmed in a skillet. No oil is required. add a nice earthy tone.

Once you have the prepared ingredients assemAfter flipping them you may want to add some shredded cheese to the tortilla tops and let it melt. For bled, your biggest technical hurdle is to not pack too larger groups, heat a stack of tortillas in a covered much stuff into any one taco. Pace yourself. Tortillas vessel in the oven at 350 degrees. Some people are cheap. munching is the final stage of cooking, the last instance in which ingredients are combined. At the moment of co-munching, each component is at its optimal point—the eggs are perfect, after being scrambled in a pan in which garlic has been browned; the onions are raw and feisty; the cilantro is crisp; the jalapenos are pickled; the mayo is firm.

The mastication-driven progression of flavors com-

Dear Hazel, I got it, thanks. They tasted like black licorice!

Best, Ari To everyone out there who isn’t Hazel J. Kelly: One of the cool perks about this job is that every

once in a while people want to give you gifts, like meals, the services of exotic escorts and samples of Korean fermented black garlic.

Of course I make it clear, eventually, that by accepting these gifts I am in no way agreeing to write about them (especially the escorts). And the only reason I’m writing about this Korean fermented black garlic is because I have nothing else to write about, which brings me to one of the drawbacks of this job—not getting any good questions to answer. So send me some questions, dammit!

As for the black garlic, it really is pretty cool.

Christened as the next “it” ingredient by the Washington Post, it’s created via a month-long high heat fermentation process. “It” looks rather disgusting but tastes pretty good. The shrunken, jet-black cloves are chewy like gummy bears and syrupy sweet with mild garlic undertones.

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Black Garlic is used in fancy restaurants in dishes like black garlic with scallops, pureed black garlic on mashed potatoes, black garlic and goat stew, black garlic aioli, etc. The fermentation process, in which nothing is added, supposedly fosters the creation of anti-oxidants and healthy stuff like that. Despite being a recent creation, black garlic has a kind of “ancient Chinese secret” aura about it. According to another online food retailer, who shall remain nameless because it hasn’t sent me any free product samples, “In Taoism mythology, black garlic was rumored to grant immortality.”

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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.

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Lee Zimmerman bows swiftly on the cello, Jazz Graffiti spices 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 since you didn’t buy one in 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.

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The Frederico Brothers guard their tree house but not their songwriting. See what I mean when they celebrate the release of their new CD, Fire Creek, during a First Night Missoula performance Thu., Dec. 31, at 5 PM at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts Theatre, 200 N. Adams St. First Night button required. $15.

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As always with the holidays it’s best to call the places listed here if you plan to venture out for the night, just to make sure they’re open for festivities. All specific bands or DJs listed below are confirmed. Happy New Year’s Eve! Be free. Be good.

If you know a young woman between the ages of 14–18 who you think would make a great leader, consider nominating them for YWCA Missoula’s Young Women LEAD project, which includes attendance at two seminars as well as a community service project. Free to participate. To nominate, call the YWCA’s Jen Euell at 543-6691. Nominations are due by Mon., Jan. 11.

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

Culture yourself with music, dance performances, lectures, art shows, poetry, ice sculptures and children’s programs during First Night 2010, Missoula’s family-friendly, alcoholfree New Year’s celebration that runs from 12 PM–12 AM at various locations around Missoula. $15. Free for children 7 and under, but they must be accompanied by a buttonwearing adult. Call 532-3240 and visit missoulacultural.org for a schedule. (See Scope in this issue.)

Get moved by contemporary dance moves when Headwaters Dance Co. presents excerpts from their upcoming premiere of The Montana Suite at 3:30 PM in UM’s University Theater. First Night button required. Kids ages 7 and under are free. end your event info by 3 PM on Thur., Dec 31, 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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nightlife Shake a tail to songs about trains, love and even death when local folksters Frederico Brothers play the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St., at 5 PM. First Night button required. Kids ages 7 and under are free.

Let the fiery beats and spicy sounds of mambo, cha-cha and other Afro-Cuban styles get you in the groove when Salsa Loca plays the University Center Ballroom at 5 PM. This performance coincides with the First Night Masquerade Ball, which occurs all day in the ballroom. First Night button required. Kids ages 7 and under are free.

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.

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.

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. Chase the notes emanating out of a bag pipe with other Celtic music lovers when the Celtic Dragon Bag Pipe Band plays the Wilma Theatre at 6:30 PM. First Night button required. Kids ages 7 and under are free.

Acoustic Celtic music mixes with champion fiddlers, readings and more during First Night Flathead, Kalispell and Columbia Falls’ familyfriendly 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. Visit firstnightflathead.org for a full schedule of events.

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.

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

Party favors, appetizers, wine and live music of an unspecified nature brings on the buzz of a new year during a New Year’s Eve Party at The Cellars, 5646 W. Harrier, at 8 PM. $18 per person. Call 830-3296 or visit thecellars.net.

Bowling and karaoke go together like China and political freedom 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.

See if teens from around Missoula can impress a panel of judges—which includes Bob Wire and Darko Butorac—with their singing skills during Missoula’s First Night Idol 2010, which starts at 8:30 PM at the Wilma Theatre. First Night button required as well as a $2 ticket. Kids ages 7 and under are free.

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.

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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. (See Scope in this issue.)

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 “TTrash Dolls” by the artist collective FayRay, all starting at 9 PM at the basement of the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. $5. (See Scope in this issue.)

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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 Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St. $5, $10 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.

Classic rock cures any ill will you harbor towards others when Polson’s Bad Blood plays a New Year’s Eve party at 9 PM the 4 Star Bar in Ravalli, 26756 Hwy. 93. Free.

Punk rock meets with industrial metal for a shredding summit of sorts when Reptile Dysfunction and Arrested Development play a New Year’s Eve show with Walking Corpse Syndrome on the second floor of the Elks Lodge, 112 N. Pattee St., at 9 PM. Cover TBA.

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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 Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve party at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

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

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 Hatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve Party, which features dubstep and other bass heavy electronic music spun by DJs Kris Moon and Sauce at 10 PM. Free.

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 Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve party at Charlies Bar, 428 N. Higgins Ave., at 10 PM. Free.

Slide into 2010 under the spell of several drums being beaten in syncopation when the Drum Brothers play First Night Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grand finale at 11 PM at the University Center Commons. First Night button required. Kids ages 7 and under are free.

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Welcome to 2010, aka New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day, all you revelers, rabble rousers and peeps of Missoula. I hope you all had a fun New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve. As you read this Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m guessing youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re either hungover from a night of loud music and gaiety, or you are worn to the bone from participating in a multitude of alcohol-free activities via First Night. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re starving for more fun today, I must warn you that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on your own. Besides the specific events I have listed below, many of your favorite venues, watering holes, art galleries and the like might be closed. So if you feel an urge to leave the house, call your destination of choice ahead of time.

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nightlife Splash your senses with paintings by Jason Bohman and pastel, ink, oil and acrylic pieces by Lauren Dunn during a First Friday reception for their work at the Top Hat at 5 PM. Includes wine, treats and live music

by Butter at 6 PM. Free.

Scale your senses up and down a series of large scale photos by Jessica Goulding during a First Friday opening reception for her work at the Cutting Crew Salon, 220 Ryman St., at 6 PM. Free.

Two old buds, a bottle of tequila and their story of a whirlwind trip to Las Vegasâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which includes run-ins with a Japanese mob, a dead call girl and moreâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;comprise a night of dark laughs during the Montana Actorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Theatre rendition of Robert Caisleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Good Clean Fun, with a performance at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave., at 7:30 PM. $12. Visit mtactors.com.

Get hefty and swing slightly under the influence of pop tunes from the 1920s, 1940s and 1950s when The Little Big Band plays the Symes Hot Springs Hotel, 209 Wall St. in Hot Springs, at 8 PM. Donations appreciated. Call 741-2361.

Just in case you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t punish your liver enough last night, you can shoot some more booze through your veins along with some country through your hearing apparatus when Son of a Gun plays the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free. Call 543-6346 Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have no shame imbibing in a post-New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve hair of the dog sesh when No Shame rocks the hangover out of your system at Harry Davidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2. Call 830-3277.

Snack on something chewy and slurp down a brewskie so you can hoof it to Louie and Friends, who play whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likely to be rock or country at the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA.

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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.

Christmas is over and now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to get rid of that tree youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had sitting in your house. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even think about throwing it away. Recycle it during Christmas Ever Green, the city of Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s free Christmas tree recycling program which runs from Dec. 26â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Jan. 10. Drop off locations are: Playfair Park, Currents parking lot in McCormick Park, Fort Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s softball complex and EKO Compost. No yard waste, garbage or

decorations. Call 721-PARK. (See Agenda in this issue.)

Soak up some oral history and tribal stories from a Pend dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Oreille tribal elder when Stephen Smallsalmon leads the first installment of Travelersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Rest State Parkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Winter Storytelling series, which starts at 11 AM in the visitor center/museum of the park, half a mile west of Lolo on Hwy. 12. $3/free for children age 18 and under and Travelersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Rest Preservation and Heritage Association members. Call 273-4253 and visit travelersrest.org.

Your bedtime tales of college-age debauchery fall a little short of the mark. Family Storytime offers engaging experiences like stories, fingerplays, flannel-board pictograms and more at 11 AM at the Missoula Public Library. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

nightlife Quit your bellyaching and fill up with some suds so you can howl with others when Helenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Growlers play acoustic jam rock at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. Gleefully watch others kickbox and beat each other around using a mixture of fighting styles during a Sportfight Montana Mixed Martial Arts and Kickboxing fight, which starts at 7 PM at the Wilma Theatre. $10 at the door or advance by calling 544-0028.

Two old buds, a bottle of tequila and their story of a whirlwind trip to Las Vegasâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;which includes run-ins with a Japanese mob, a dead call girl and moreâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;comprise a night of dark laughs during the Montana Actorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Theatre rendition of Robert Caisleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Good Clean Fun, with a performance at the Crystal Theatre, 515 S. Higgins Ave., at 7:30 PM. $12. Visit mtactors.com.

Slaphappy is what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re bound to be when your jaw drops with wonder at soul slap guitarist Dan Dubuque, who plays the Symes Hot Springs Hotel, 209 Wall St. in Hot Springs, at 8 PM. Donations appreciated. Call 741-2361.

Leave the glock at home so you can get blasted with country and your adult beverage of choice when Son of a Gun plays the Eagles Lodge, 2420 South Ave. W., at 8 PM. Free.

Call 543-6346 Solid Sound Karaoke proves that music can also be a liquid or a gas, but never plasma, at Westside Lanes at 8:30 PM. Free. Call 541-SING. If you get nervous in front of crowds, just imagine theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all naked at East Missoulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Reno Casino and Cafeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s karaoke night, brought to you by Karaoke by Figmo at 9 PM. Free.

Feel free to perform â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bella Ciaoâ&#x20AC;? by Mirah & The Black Cat Orchestra during karaoke night at 9 PM at the VFW but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be surprised if someone tells you weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in Missoula, and so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to start talking American.

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Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

When DJ Sanchez commands the turntables every Sat. at 9 PM at The Office Bar, 109 W. Main St. in Hamilton, nobodyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exempt from the mandatory â&#x20AC;&#x153;dance down the barâ&#x20AC;? rule. Free. Call 363-6969.

DJs Kris Moon and Monty Carlo are guaranteed to keep you dancing to an assortment of hip-hop, electronic and other bass-heavy, bootybusting beats â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;til the bar closes, or at least until the vodka runs out, during Absolutely at the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

Nurse your post-post New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve hangover basking in the warmth of indie rock when locals Airstream Safari and The Chalfonts bring t h e h e a t , a n d H e l e n a â&#x20AC;&#x2122; s Th e Protectors stoke the fire, at 9 PM at the Palace. $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.

Get the junk outta your trunk and onto the dance floor so you can rock the Rye Step with the help of Cash Fo r J u n k e r s , w h o b u s t o u t Americana at the Union Club at 9:30 PM. Free.

Find out why you feel strange after downing a few by having a few more whilst dancing a storm to the classic rock/country flava of Strange Brew, who play Harry Davidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar, 2700 Paxson St. Ste. H, at 9:30 PM. $2.

Call 830-3277.

DJ Dubwise supplies dance tracks all night long so you can take advantage of Sexy Saturday and rub up against the gender of your choice at 10 PM at Feruqiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Free. Call 728-8799.

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Sunday brunch at 10 AM with jazz from Three of a Kind is classy so donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the the gusto, belt out some bars during their karaoke contest which starts a 9:30 PM. Free. Call 549-4152.

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These pets may be adopted at Missoula Animal Control

These pets may be adopted at the Humane Society of Western Montana

541-7387 CYRUS

Cyrus was apparently abandoned by his owner, but we were able to get some information about him from his rabies tag. We also have figured out that he's a happy, lively guy who misses having a family.

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COSTELLO

This handsome young rabbit was abandoned with his friend Abbott, and the two of them would really like to get out of their small cages in our shelter lobby and into better accommodations!

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ELI

Eli is a truly handsome cat, and he has a laidback personality that makes him even more appealing. Anyone looking for a big cat with a loving spirit should come to the shelter to meet Eli.

SASHA

Just look at this face!

Sasha is a T.V.-watching, water-hating, butt-wiggling gal! She keeps us laughing all day around here.

Not only that, but she loves to snuggle most of all!

1600 S. 3rd W. 541-FOOD

WRANGLER

You can just see the intensity pouring from his eyes. Wrangler is super smart, focused, and aiming to please. He just needs a job to do, whether it's working on a farm or ranch or just being your best friend.

CALLIE

Like most of us, change is tough for Callie. Her owner chose to move without her consent and the move brought several more cats into the household that Callie just wasn't prepared to tolerate.

Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at

www.missoulafoodbank.org

2310 Brooks

For more info, please call 549-0543

3075 N Reserve

Missoula Food Bank 219 S. 3rd St. W.

6149 Mullan Rd

MARKUS

Now that all the tiny puppies have been adopted, maybe Cosmo can get the attention that such an adorable young Dalmation/Shar-Pei cross would usually bring. At just eight months old he is ridiculously cute, and still so impressionable.

Phone (406) 721-1943 quickpaws.net

2420 W Broadway

Markus was just a baby when he came to the shelter back in May, and now this young adult says living in a cage that long is really the pits! He'd like a normal life with a house and a family and lots of love.

COSMO

FINLEY

Most dogs in shelters are large, but Finley is a great medium size that is perfect for a family with children. His personality is just about perfect too- happy, loving, and always ready to play.

LAUREL

Laurel is a gentle, sweet older lady who loves to be petted and really wants a lap for sitting and a bright windowsill for sunning.

She'd like a quiet retirement home where her loving personality will be treasured.

To sponsor a pet call 543-6609

DIME

Dime has grown up with us here at the shelter. At just six months of age, he's never even had a home, so how does he know what he's missing?

Lately Dime has watched many of his shelter buddies leave without him, and loneliness is starting to set in.

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WINNIE

Winnie has wiggled her way into a pretty cush spot at the shelter, one with special accommodations and privileges. Sadly though, it's because she has been with us for so long, and the truth is I believe she is beginning to lose hope.

Loubelle Wissler 240-0753 KC Hart 240-9332 fidelitykc@montana.com

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These pets may be adopted at AniMeals 721-4710 TOBY

My name is Toby. I'm an adult cat that has great manners and I've very active. I'm curious about dogs and probably wouldn't mind having one in my home. I like to play and be loved on but also like to do my own thing.

MISTY

My name is Misty and I’ve been at the AniMeals shelter for a really long time. I came in with my five kittens last spring who have all been adopted but I'm still waiting for my forever home. I’m a petite cat with a funny personality.

EMMA

My name is Emma and I have been at the shelter for a very long time. A person found me as a small cat inside of a woodpile and brought me to AniMeals so I would have a nice home. I’d prefer a home with another quiet cat or just a place where I can be your only feline friend.

BAILEY

My name is Bailey and I was living on the streets until a nice person brought me into AniMeals. Now I'm just waiting for my forever home. Want to sit down and chat? Come into my kennel and let’s have a conversation with each other!

Help us nourish Missoula Donate now at

www.missoulafoodbank.org For more info, please call 549-0543

To sponsor a pet call 543-6609

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Playing bingo at 2 PM at the Missoula Senior Citizens Center is your chance to yell, “Baucus wasn’t drunk, he was just nervous!” 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.

nightlife Bust out your best angular moves in quadratic fashion with others during beginning square dance lessons, which start at 5:30 PM at Lolo’s Square and Round Dance Center, 9955 Lolo Creek Road, 2.5 miles west of Lolo. $4. Call 273-0652.

Give voice to your creativity and spirituality with a devotional, improvisational song circle that meets the first, third and fifth Sun. of every month from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at Unity Church, 546 South Ave. W. A $2 donation is requested, but don’t let lack of funds (or shyness) be an obstacle.

Call 542-1066.

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. E-mail missoulacontactimprov@gmail.com.

Kick off the latter hours of your day of rest when the Badlander’s Jazz Martini Night welcomes saints and sinners alike with jazz DJs and jazz bands starting at 7:30 PM. Free. This week: Jazz from Josh Farmer, Freemole and DJ Mermaid.

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.

Vivid chrome never fully breaks down when local photographer Jessica Goulding presents a First Friday reception for her work Fri., Jan. 1, at 6 PM at the Cutting Crew, 220 Ryman St. Free.

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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 your kids in grades kindergarten through 12 think they have what it takes to perform in a play about conceit, sign them up for the Missoula Children’s Theatre’s Winter Performing Arts Class: The Emperor’s New Clothes. Classes run on Mon. and Wed. or Tue. and Thu. for five weeks starting Jan. 25–26, culminating in a performance on Feb. 28 at the MCT Center for the Performing Arts, 200 N. Adams St. $90 per participant. Call 728-1911 to register and visit mctinc.org.

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.

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

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.

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Learn to say “pass the chicken” and “get on the bus” in a foreign language during an eight-week Brazilian Portuguese language course which meets this and every Mon. from 5:30–7 PM until Feb. 22 at the Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 N. First St. W. $60. Call 549-7555 to register and visit zootownarts.com.

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.

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

First two beginners’ sessions free/$4 thereafter. Call 273-0141.

You’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 Alateen 12-Step Support Group, which meets this and every Monday at 7 PM at First United Methodist Church, 300 E. Main St. Free, use alley entrance.

Call 728-5818 or visit www. al-anon.alateen.org.

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Pour something vintage into your vino experience when Lori Conner and Dick Skultin play classic jazz at the Red Bird Wine Bar, 111 N. Higgins Ave. Ste. 100, at 7 PM. Free.

Call 549-2906.

You can try your hand as a character in a play that touches on class, love and more during auditions for the Whitefish Theatre Company’s rendition of Sara Ruhl’s The Clean House, at 7 PM at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. in Whitefish. Free to audition.

Scripts are available at the Flathead County Library. Call Nancy Nei at 862-5371 Ext. 224.

Get centered with a meditation group at Osel Shen Phen Ling

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Tibetan Buddhist Center, 441 Woodworth Ave., where sadhana practice, visualization and mantra recitation cleanse the doors of perception at 7 PM. Call 543-2207.

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.

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.

Get wobbly with free pool and bass-heavy music during Missoula Area Dubstep Monday, a new monthly dubstep DJ night which this month features DJ Kris Moon and Lui, at 9 PM at the Palace.

Free.

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

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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TUESDAY

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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.

Find the strength and will to survive in the company of others during a breast cancer support group at St. Francis Xavier Parish, 420 W. Pine, every first and third Tue. of the month at noon. Free. Call 3295656.

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.

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.

Fine tune your breathing, sun salutations, posture and more during a Sivananda Yoga Class which meets this and every Tue. from 5:30–6:30 PM at the Teranga Arts

School, 2926 S. Third St. W. Free, but donations appreciated. Call Gina at 518-928-7523 or e-mail gina.mauro@gmail.com.

Get glazed under the guidance of instructor Larry Phan when he leads a four-week Soda Firing class this and every Tue. and Thu. from 6–8 PM until Jan. 28 at The Clay Studio of Missoula, 1106 Hawthorne St. Unit A. $168/$160 members.

Includes a one-half-of-total-cost, non-refundable down payment.

Call 543-0509 to register or visit theclaystudioofmissoula.org.

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.

Follow your dreams of becoming the next Willie Nelson, and get buyone-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 sign-up at 6 PM. E-mail moorebeej@yahoo.com.

You can try your hand as a character in a play that touches on class, love and more during auditions for the Whitefish Theatre Company’s rendition of Sara Ruhl’s The Clean House, at 7 PM at Whitefish’s O’Shaughnessy Center, 1 Central Ave. in Whitefish. Free to audition.

Scripts are available at the Flathead County Library. Call Nancy Nei at 862-5371 Ext. 224.

See if you have the gusto to portray an orphan who searches for her parents, or the characters she comes across in the process, during auditions for the Hamilton Players’ rendition of Annie, which starts at 7 PM at the Hamilton Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road in Hamilton. Free to audition. Call 375-9050 and visit hamiltonplayers.com.

SPOTLIGHT

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Sometimes the only thing I need to do to discover beauty in a work of art is avoid focusing on the immediate subject and scan its surroundings.

At least that’s what I find when browsing the work of local artist Donna Loos, whose series of paintings currently on display at the Missoula Art Museum feature rich, enticing washes of color in the negative space surrounding silhouettes comprised of people and outdoor scenes from Loos’ past.

One such alluring work, pictured here and titled “Three Sisters,” features her siblings standing idly by each other while red, orange and purple hues dominate the background. “All Day Rain” shows a couple crossing a bridge while light shades of yellow, blue and brown ascend into the sky. Her abstract paintings convey a sense of tranquility but also project an aura of mystery, since these works are devoid of well-defined bodies and facial expressions.

A Wyoming native who spent most of her life teaching art in public schools in Billings, Loos says she created the bulk of these paintings by first covering an entire canvas in dark paint and then slathering in the negative space as quickly as possible, without sweating immediate details or using visual cues.

WHAT: Silhouette Series exhibit WHO: Donna Loos WHERE: Missoula Art Museum, 335 N. Pattee St.

“I was looking for a way to show what I was thinking inside,” she explains. “To plumb my inner resources, to look into my subconscious, my unconscious and my background, to have something more to say than just the surface of what people look like.”

WHEN: Wed.–Fri. 10 AM–5 PM and Sat.–Sun. 10 AM–3 PM until Mar. 28 HOW MUCH: Free

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It’s still bigger than disco: The Downtown Dance Collective, 121 W. Main St., keeps on keepin’ it real for those in the know every Tue. at 7:20 PM, when Horton Hip Hop puts the “back” back in “back in the day.” Call 541-7240 for pricing.

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

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.

Take the grass outta your pipe in order to shake it and break it down to bluegrass when Jesse Driscoll and Josh Clinger play the Badlander at 9 PM. Free.

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? Who are the mythical male creatures that are seen as a counterpart to mermaids? (Find the answer in the calendar under tomorrow’s nightlife section.)

WEDNESDAY

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.

Silhouettes of family members and more mesh with vividly colorful negative space when the Missoula Art Museum presents the work of local artist Donna Loos during her ongoing exhibit Silhouette Series, which runs through March 28 at the

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

museum, 335 N. Pattee St. Free.

Gallery hours are Wed.–Fri. from 10 AM–5 PM and Sat.–Sun. from 10 AM–3 PM. Call 728-0447 or visit missoulaar tmuseum.org. (See Spotlight in this issue.)

Give the gift that keeps others living during an American Red Cross blood drive, which runs from 3–6 PM at Missoula’s First Lutheran Church, 2808 South Ave. W. Free.

To schedule an appointment call 549-3311 Ext. 7.

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nightlife 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.

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

Free. Call 728-9117.

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

Free. Call 755-9463.

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

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.

Get equal-sided with others on a dance floor during beginning square dance lessons, which start at 6:30 PM at Lolo’s Square and Round Dance Center, 9955 Lolo Creek Road, 2.5 miles west of Lolo. $4. Call 273-0652.

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

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

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. See if you have the gusto to portray an orphan who searches for her parents, or the characters she comes across in the process, during auditions for the Hamilton Players’ rendition of Annie, which starts at 7 PM at the Hamilton

Playhouse, 100 Ricketts Road in Hamilton. Free to audition. Call 375-9050 and visit hamiltonplayers.com.

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.

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.

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

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 counterpart to mermaids are, not surprisingly, merman. The greek mythical figure Triton, the son of Poseidon, is considered a merman.

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 “Sunshine Superman” by Donovan, 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.

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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 3963352.

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. If art loses hands-down to video games, then the Missoula Public Library’s your gig, where Game On! invites teen gamers to glue their eyes on Guitar Hero, Rock Band and more on the big screen and mow snacks at 3:30 PM the first Thu. of every Month. Free. Call 721-BOOK.

nightlife Witness how 4,000 books of white supremacist propaganda were transformed from something hateful to works of art that touch on social justice issues and more during an opening reception for Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, from 5–7 PM in UM’s Paxson and Meloy Galleries, at the Montana Museum of Art & Culture in UM’s PARTV Center.

Free. Call 243-2019. (See Arts in this issue.)

All genres are encouraged—excepting, perhaps, tech house—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.

Catch some hot pickin’ while you do a little lickin’ inside your pint glass when The Acousticals play bluegrass at the Bitter Root Brewery, 101 Marcus St. in Hamilton, at 6 PM. Free. Call 363-PINT. 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.

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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.

Join several hundred people and revel in the glory of debauchery when cheap well drinks and laptop-fueled hip-hop, crunk, electronic, pop and mashed-up tunes hit the Badlander every week where Dead Hipster DJ Night gets the booties bumpin’ and the feet stompin’ at 9 PM. $3.

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

Spend time with your favorite folk slinging uncle when Helena’s Adam Nordell, who goes by the name “Uncle Adam Nordell” on MySpace, strums up the Top Hat at 10 PM. Cover TBA. He’ll cure your tremors with a sweet shot of country: Russ Nasset hits up the Old Post, 103 W. Spruce St., for a solo set this and every other Thu. at 10 PM. Free.

This month, First Friday is a little up in the air.

Most galleries, at least to my knowledge, are planning to celebrate the monthly art walk on Fri., Jan. 8. But you do have a few options at your disposal on Fri., Jan. 1 where you can peruse the fruits of local photogs, painters and other artists. I’d suggest checking out the paintings and other pieces by Jason Bohman and Lauren Dunn at the Top Hat at 5 PM, which includes free music from folksters Butter starting at 6 PM. And if you’re in the mood for sweet photos, take a quick stroll over to Jessica Goulding’s exhibit at the Cutting Crew, 220 Ryman St., at 6 PM. I’ll have more outings to satiate your artistic cravings next week but, in the meantime, let me know if you’ve got an upcoming opening, or a gig, by sending your event info by 5 PM on Fri., Jan 1 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.”

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While we all await our transition into the new decade—perhaps with high hopes for actual political “change”—many of you, myself included, will mark the start of the new year with a resolution or two. Personal change, if you will. Perhaps you plan to stop gobbling down Oxycontins, intend to join a cult, or want to get out and bike around more (count me in on the latter).

If you’ve set your sights on becoming an expert runner, you can start 2010 off on the right foot this week with a running event fit for an eager novice.

Run Wild Missoula’s New Year’s Eve Run starts at 7 PM Thu., Dec. 31 at the Peak Health and Wellness Center, 5000 Blue Mountain Road. The run is free if you’re a Run Wild Missoula member, and likely costs a minimal fee for others. To download a registration form, click quickly to runwildmissoula.org.

For those who’d rather burn some gas and watch wicked Five-O Grinds to ring in the new year, head north to Whitefish Mountain for its New Year’s Eve Rockin’ Rail Jam, Torchlight Parade and Holiday Fireworks Show, which starts with an “open jam session” of skiers and snowboarders hitting up custom built rail features at 5 PM, Thu., Dec. 31 at the resort, 3910 Big Mountain Road. The torchlight parade and fireworks show follows at 6:15 PM, and all events are free to spectate. If you’d like to participate in the event, visit skiwhitefish.com/calendar_of_events.php and call 862-2900 .

On New Year’s Day, Fri., Jan. 1, those of you who either didn’t swill too much or who happen to have stomachs of iron can get your legs pumping during the 11th annual New Year’s Day Fun Run up in Thompson Falls, which starts with registration from 9–10:30 AM at Sherpa Cabins/Mighty Fine T’s parking lot, 2604 Tradewinds Way, just east of Thompson Falls.

Races follow at 11 AM and include a 2k fun run, as well as a 5k race/walk. Early registration was due Dec. 30, so you’ll have to part with a late registration fee of $18 if you want a t-shirt, or $5 without a t-shirt. If you’ve got questions, direct them towards Sarah at 827-4887 or Tim and Anders at Runner’s Edge, 728-9297. You

can also jump the gun and grab a registration form by clicking to runmt.com/2010NewYearsDayFunRunEntry.pdf.

Sat., Jan 2 offers you the opportunity to glide in the glow of the moon when you join Steve Schombel of the Rocky Mountaineers for a Lolo Pass Moonlight Ski trip that starts at a TBA time late in the afternoon. Steve has plans for a cookout to kick-start the night, which then transitions into cross-country skiing on nearby groomed loops and roads that take you to Packer Meadow. The view is apparently breathtaking, so don’t hold your breath any longer and contact Steve at 721-4686 for details. Also visit rockymountaineers.com.

can sign your kid up for Snowbowl’s upcoming six-week ski programs that start Jan. 9–10. Visit montanasnowbowl.com for detailed descriptions of the classes and call 549-9777.

Those of you situated up in the Flathead can also help your whippersnappers attain greatness on powder during Whitefish Mountain Resort’s Tommy Moe Kid’s League Slopestyle competition for children ages 5–12. Registration runs from 9 AM–12 PM in the Fireside Room of the resort in the upper village, with a complimentary coaching session from 10 AM–12 PM and the competition following at 1 PM. It costs $12 per kid, with pre-registration available by calling 862-2909.

As we slide into Mon., Jan. 4, help yourself and your child cure a case of the Mondays by soaking in the warmth of shallow water during Missoula Parks and Rec’s series of adult, parent/toddler and youth swim lessons at Currents Aquatics Center, 600 Cregg Lane. All classes start at various times, are geared toward different age brackets, and vary in cost, so I’d recommend clicking to missoulaparks.org and scrolling right to download the “Recreation Guide” for more specifics. Call 721-PARK. All of you hunters who enjoy hunting with a bow, rather than blowing away animals with a high-powered rifle, should note Mon., Jan. 4 is also the first day to register for free Missoula bowhunter education classes, which occur from 8:30 AM–5:30 PM on Jan. 23, Feb. 13 and Feb. 27. Stop

by Missoula’s Fish, Wildlife and Parks Office, 3201 Spurgin Road, Mon.–Fri. from 8AM–5 PM to sign-up. Call 542-5500.

While we’re on the topic of hunting, you ought to exercise your right to speak up about hunting regulation proposals during a free meeting on Tue., Jan. 5 at 6:30 PM at the Doubletree Hotel, 100 Madison St. Specifically, the proposals deal with eliminating antlerless elk hunting on the Photo by Cathrine L. Walters West Fork of the Bitterroot River, while also offering low numbers of limited antlerless hunting licenses for the rest of Your kids can also find something to do—and perhaps set the Bitterroot and lower Clark Fork River districts. Get more their own New Year’s resolution—on Sat., Jan. 2 when you take specifics at the meeting, or by visiting fwp.mt.gov. Call 542-5500. them up to Montana Snowbowl for its kids program orienWith that, I bid you a happy new year. See you next time tation and registration event from 9:30–11 AM on both Jan. around and remember this: walk, take a cab or find a designated 2 and Sun., Jan. 3. Once you make the drive up to 1700 driver if you plan to get sloshed on things other than snow this Snowbowl Drive, you’ll meet with instructors and they’ll deter- New Year’s Eve. mine what ski program best suits your small fry with free mini-lessons and skiing on beginner lifts. After this orientation sesh, you calendar@missoulanews.com

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Happy new you Our guide to an independent-minded New Year’s Eve

by Erika Fredrickson

The New Year is barreling down on us like an unruly bear. No stopping it. No way to avoid it. But before you get too focused on what resolutions you’ll make (and break) for 2010, it’s time to think about how you’re going to usher in the next decade. Here we offer a few of the more offbeat ways to spend New Year’s Eve throughout western Montana.

Happy Oblio Joes Until the band’s monumental breakup in June 2007, the Oblio Joes played in Missoula for 15 years, weathering the rise and fall of venues, witnessing the births and deaths of other bands and generally outlasting everyone, it seemed. With alt-pop lyrics like, “I woke up in a ditch today, it’s not half as bad as you’d think,” the band provided, for some, a soundtrack to their Missoula youth. Chris Knudson of the local band Rooster Sauce, in fact, told the Indy back in 2006 about his love for the Obes.

“With the right amount of alcohol,” he said, “they are the only band that has made me cry—not because I was sad, but because I was happy—while singing along to their songs.”

New Year’s Eve marks the Oblio Joes’ reunion for one night only. The band members had to raise money for guitarist Stu Simonson to fly back from Olympia, Wash., and the effort will, no doubt, be worth it.

Now, if the crowd could only use this show to convince the band to stay together for another decade.

The Oblio Joes play the Palace Thursday, Dec. 31, with El Zombi Gato, Rooster Sauce and Volumen at 9 PM. $7.

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Street walker For this New Year’s Eve, we suggest you loiter. You’ll have to put on all of your long underwear, of course, but it’s worth it. Head down to the Missoula Courthouse and dawdle as chefs from University of Montana Dining Services craft sculptures out of ice. Then make your way down Higgins and tarry about the sidewalk near the Florence Building as various people read all 154 of Shakespeare’s sonnets over the course of three hours. Surprise your friends by reading one yourself—it’s encouraged. Finally, you should saunter on down to the Higgins bridge and hang around as the First Night folks light up a big old bonfire.

Better than a Times Square ball, we say.

Ice carving starts at the Courthouse at noon. Sonnets on the sidewalk begins at 2 PM at the Florence Building. The bonfire gathering heats up at the First International Bank at 5 PM. All free.

Get smart New Year’s resolutions are hard to keep.

Unless you’re one of those people who makes resolutions like “eating more fried chicken” or “smoking more cigars” you probably have some anxiety about following through on your promises. Here’s an idea to jumpstart better habits: Go get educated. Author Jon Jackson of KUFM’s “The Food Guys” and “Jazz Sessions” gives a 45-minute talk called “The Crime Novel on Film” about the rise of the detective story and its manifestation on the silver screen. It gives a little more substance than your average entertainment, and that extra knowledge could gain you a midnight kiss from an impressed admirer.

Jon Jackson talks about the crime novel and film at the UM Todd Building, RM 203, at 3 PM. First Night buttons $15.

Out with the old, in with the evil. Isn’t that right? If you have a bit of a dark streak— think Tim Burton or an infatuation with black eyeliner—and you love to dance to electronic music, this is the event for you.

New Year’s Evil is a party put on by the Put a mask on it entertainment group Dark Dreams, and it First Night’s big thing this year is The features hard-to-spell DJ names like HAuLi Masquerade Ball, and you and your buddies and ir8prim8. Also, Rev. Chachi from can spend all day in the University Center Bozeman’s Playground Productions is a big making the perfect mask for the grand deal producer and he plays his own mesh of New Year’s Eve entertainment includes, from top, the Oblio evening. It’s not often that Missoula sees funkadelic tribal disco house for the party. Joes reunion at the Palace, Dark Dreams’ New Year’s Evil classy dress-up extravaganzas—pimps and hos Other than the music, New Year’s Evil show- party featuring DJ ir8prim8, and Brothers of Sasquatch in parties don’t count—where Carhartts and downtown Kalispell. cases Trash Dolls, a fashion art show featurfleece pullovers seem out of place, so take ing costumes made from repurposed materials by the year are two music acts: Brothers of Sasquatch and The advantage of it. Once you make your mysterious mask, Graveyard Girl Scouts. Brothers of Sasquatch is self- head to the UC Ballroom to dance up a storm before artist collective FayRay. New Year’s Evil kicks off in the basement of described as “otherworldly” and “like Star Wars versus the clock hits midnight. String Orchestra of the Rockies ‘Star Trek.’” And The Graveyard Girl Scouts serve up a plays Viennese waltzes followed by the Ed Norton Big the Elks Lodge Thursday, Dec. 31, at 9 PM. $5. platter of no-B.S. punk rock in the classic three-chord Band with jazz and swing. vein with titles like “She’s a Clone” and “Zombie Mask making starts at the UC 3rd Floor Lobby at Flathead monsters First Night Flathead in Kalispell (and one venue in Cheerleaders From Hell.” Who wants to end 2009 with 2 PM. The Masquerade Ball begins at the UC Columbia Falls) promises champion fiddling from the such purveyors of alien and paranormal rebellion? Ballroom at 8:30 PM. $15. Go to firstnightmissoula.org for all Missoula First Night info.

Maw Brothers, original bluegrass from Brenda Hanson Better question: Who doesn’t?

Brothers of Sasquatch play Shorty’s Barbershop & Family, Americana from Frank O’Brien and Celtic from Tra le Gael. But what really catches our eye this in Kalispell at 8 PM followed by The Graveyard Girl efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Hate transformed Exhibit turns racist texts into works of art

by Erika Fredrickson

“The Montana Human Rights Network did not Steve Glueckert felt pretty uncomfortable having books like The White Man’s Bible and Rahowa want to destroy the books,” says Knight. “They also (translation: “racial holy wars”) spread out on his didn’t want them occupying every nook and cranny of dining room table. They weren’t exactly the kind of their crowded offices, so that’s where the concept for titles he wanted people to notice the moment they this show is really brilliant. All the books got used.”

Missoula artist Lisa Jarrett used some of the walked through his door.

“It was hard letting people see that I had them,” books to create a cross-out poem and combined that says Glueckert, an artist and the longtime curator at with collage paper, graphite and transferred ink to the Missoula Art Museum. “I think I could laugh produce three panels for the exhibit. She lifted actuabout it now, but what’s inside those books, it’s al text from books like The White Man’s Bible and, kind of this mix of ignorance and misguided anger. keeping the sentences in order, crossed out particuThere are passages that are pretty hurtful and hard to read.”

Glueckert incorporated the white supremacist books into a sculpture he made for Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate, an exhibit that opens at the Montana Museum of Art & Culture (MMAC) on Jan. 7 and features work by several local and national artists. For his piece, Glueckert used books by white supremacist leader Ben Klassen of the World Church of the Creator as a platform for a larger commentary on race, incorporating multi-colored rats caged and in a literal race for dominance.

“After reading the books, which are poorly Artist Dana Boussard paints words from white written,” he says, “I decided that one of the supremacist texts onto her daughter, Ariana things about the World Church of the Creator Boussard-Reifel, for Speaking Volumes: is that they portray these situations where the Transforming Hate, a new exhibit opening at white race is the victim of everything. Using a the Montana Museum of Art & Culture. falsehood to scare people is something that’s lar words so that, by the process of omission, she rooted in all of this literature.”

Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate stemmed created a positive message. But like many of the from an incident in 2004 when the Montana Human artists in the exhibit, Jarrett didn’t want to completeRights Network (MHRN) received a call from a ly erase the tone of the original subject matter.

“The things these books say,” Jarrett says, “it defecting member of the World Church of the Creator (now called the Creativity Movement). The breaks your heart. I wanted to expose viewers to former member supplied MHRN a key to the group’s that as well. As horrible as it is, I felt that it was an storage unit on the outskirts of Superior, Mont., important component.”

Knight says that the exhibit so far hasn’t seen where the members often met.

“They didn’t know if it was a setup or if there any negative reaction, even in areas where white was going to be a bomb or what was going on,” says supremacist groups continue to meet.

“I think it is true that these white supremacist Brandon Reintjes, art curator for the MMAC. “They got the keys and went to this deserted storage lock- groups are pretty much on the marginal fringe,” she er. They had no idea what was going to happen when says. “But what they represent, of course, is a much they opened the door. But there they were, 4,000- larger threat, the kind of anti-immigrant scapegoatplus volumes of this incredibly seditious and terrible ing, the more institutionalized forms of racism.”

Besides the exhibit at the MMAC, an installation by material. You can’t even read it it’s so devastating.”

In fact, the storage locker contained thousands of Missoula artist Dana Boussard and her family will show copies of 13 different white supremacy propaganda at the Mansfield Library. Titled “Hate Begins at Home,” titles. The MHRN directors at the time, Christine the piece features a house with walls and curtains made Kaufmann and Ken Toole, took the books and distrib- from the World Church of the Creator books. Inside the uted them to various research libraries and to organ- house, a projector will show a film Broussard created.

“It’s a piece in which Dana is writing words from izations that monitor these groups. But 3,500 books still remained. Tim Holmes, a Helena-based artist, these books onto the beautiful body of her daughter,” used some of the books for an art piece. When Katie says Knight. “It’s that idea of how what we pass onto our Knight, the then-curator of education at the Holter children can be very ugly. Or alternatively, balanced.”

Museum of Art in Helena, saw Holmes’ work, she Speaking Volumes: Transforming Hate organized a call to artists—juried and invitational— that eventually resulted in Speaking Volumes: opens at the Montana Museum of Art & Culture Transforming Hate. It first opened at the Holter in at UM’s PARTV Center Thursday, Jan. 7, with a January 2008, and has been traveling the state over reception at 5 PM. Free. the past two years—through towns small and large, from Miles City to Sydney to Bozeman, among others. efredrickson@missoulanews.com

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Plane truth Reitman lands Up in the Air smoothly

by Scott Renshaw

Don’t overthink this one, folks. As awards season kicks into high gear, commentators of all stripes are going to talk about Up in the Air in terms of its zeitgeist relevance, its timely attention to economic instability and the corporations that feast off the carrion of the down-sized and dispossessed. And in so doing, they will overlook how simply satisfying Up in the Air is as a piece of filmmaking.

Director Jason Reitman has been in this position before. When Juno took the indie-film world by storm two years ago, the chatter was all about Diablo Cody’s quotable screenplay, and the breakout performance by

Their scenes are so enjoyable it would take a knockout performance to steal the show—and that’s exactly what Kendrick provides as Natalie. She’s playing something of a stock comedy-drama role— the outwardly confident career woman who’s actually an emotional mess, a la Holly Hunter in Broadcast News—but Kendrick gives even the most potentially cringe-worthy moments a spunky energy. It’s evidence of how good she is in Up in the Air that the Tony-nominated actress with the Broadway pipes is convincing during a karaoke-bar scene as a bad singer.

No telling what terrorists might hide within neatly folded underwear.

Ellen Page. But this Reitman guy knows what he’s doing behind a camera. Even when the script loses its footing in the third act, Up in the Air remains charming in a way that far too few contemporary films manage to be.

“Charming” certainly isn’t a way to describe the professional life of Ryan Bingham (George Clooney), who makes his living as a hired-gun deliverer of bad news to companies’ laid-off employees. He also spends most of his days traveling from city to city, and that life-on-the-go seems to suit Ryan just fine—so fine, in fact, that he’s rocked by a proposal from his employer’s new go-getter hire, Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick), that they save travel expenses by doing all their axing via video conferencing. In attempt to show Natalie how it’s really done, Ryan takes her on the road with him, at the same time that he happens to be firing up a long-distance fling with another frequent flyer, Alex (Vera Farmiga).

Reitman and Sheldon Turner worked on the adaptation of Walter Kirn’s novel, and the script does provide plenty of pizzazz, particularly the interplay between Ryan and Alex. Sexy on-screen banter has become a lost art—it’s one of the things that made Duplicity such a pleasant surprise earlier this year—but Clooney and Farmiga go at it with the gusto of two people used to being quicker on the verbal draw than anyone else in the room. It becomes a giddy delight watching these two wary players circle one another, reveling in snappy one-liners (“I like the way you burritoed me in the sofa,” Alex notes after their first tryst) and oneupmanship in their Mile High Club war stories.

The performances are so strong, and the socio-political context so hard to ignore—the scenes involving people getting laid-off mostly involve real-life victims of downsizing—that Reitman’s direction is likely to lurk in the background of most discussion about the movie. But his work is terrific here, and not just with his actors. He finds an ideal rapid-fire editing rhythm to the early scenes establishing Ryan’s travel routines; he picks a perfect visual metaphor for his establishing shots of each new city, a plane’s-eye-view in which every landscape is anonymously similar. Reitman fills Up in the Air not just with memorable snippets of dialogue, but with great movie images, like a disconsolate Natalie sitting in an office full of empty chairs representing the people she’s just let go.

It’s a shame that Up in the Air can’t finish as strongly as it begins, the road to Ryan’s redemption littered with too-obvious metaphors and only-inmovies moments. The character arc doesn’t exactly break new ground—a combination of Clooney’s own Michael Clayton and Reitman’s previous Thank You for Smoking—in humanizing its slick corporate protagonist. Maybe it’s fairly evident where Up in the Air is taking both Ryan and the audience, but a talented filmmaker knows how to make the journey to that destination an enjoyable one. And Reitman is so good at his job, we hardly even notice him doing it.

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Reality check Woo wins the battle but loses the war

by Andy Smetanka

I’ve noticed that a lot of people I know are good (there’s intermittent narration by a guy who sounds at doing impressions of one another—when the per- a lot like he makes his living doing voice-overs for son being imitated isn’t around, of course. action movie trailers), Red Cliff gets going very fast.

Invocations is more like it: summoning the essence of You don’t have to wait long for the battles to begin.

As in Windtalkers, something about Red Cliff that person in a few speech mannerisms with maybe a tic thrown in, to add an extra dimension of annoying- inflames my sense of historical verisimilitude. There’s ness or endearingness to an anecdote or complaint. I no rule, of course, stating that historical dramas must shudder to think how people imitate me when I’m be completely true to their time periods. Still, it’s a not around. Impressions, and persistent nicknames, quibble that so much of the fighting in Red Cliff seems patently unrealistic. I dunno, maybe the Turtle don’t necessarily reflect peaks of self-confidence.

People who invent trademarks for themselves, Formation was a real battle tactic, but the realism-cravhowever, are just asking to be made fun of. Donald ing part of me always runs into trouble with a movie Sutherland’s little cuckoo whistle in the original that invests colossal amounts of money and energy M.A.S.H. was annoying enough the first time around. I into creating a certain historical period only to popunever expected to have to sit through it again in The Fantastic Mr. Fox, which was extra annoying because little movie references like these are an Anderson trademark. So a trademark within a trademark. If your high school was anything like mine, there was always that one kid who wore the fedora all the time—resolute in his self-conscious differentness, clinging to it, even. Wes Anderson is that kid, except instead of a fedora it Epic battles are no place to horse around. was a cravat or a smoking jacket.

John Woo has his fedora, too: It’s the doves he late it with acrobats and circus strongmen. I mean, always manages to squeeze in, at least once per pic- fight action is why you go see a John Woo movie, but ture. They supposedly represent the soul of a charac- Red Cliff’s showpiece skirmishes and stylized single ter. No matter that movie logic generally takes a break combats don’t jibe with my admittedly old-fashioned, to allow for the doves’ appearance, since Woo movies Japanese-flavored tastes in Asian battle epics—arrow operate under their own logic anyway. I’ve generally operas, if you like. Having only seen Red Cliff, will peoenjoyed his pictures when he sticks to smallish casts ple still have the patience for Ran or Throne of Blood? and gangster themes, e.g. Face/Off and Hard Boiled, Pondering Red Cliff’s flights of digital arrows, I thought not so much when he wanders into history, as in the wistfully of Throne of Blood’s flights of real ones.

Akira Kurosawa once ordered a castle set blustering Windtalkers. Among other Windtalkers complaints, Woo’s heavily choreographed, balletic destroyed and started over because the nails the carviolence—so perfectly suited to his crime movies— penters used were from the wrong time period. For as was completely out of place in a brutal WWII battle. I much work as Woo and his actors put into action and choreography, lots of little annoying mistakes make it don’t remember where the doves came in.

Red Cliff stands on promising ground for bloody into his movies, like the poor synchronization between action: a tale of Chinese warlords and marauding sound and picture in the scene of a kid playing his flute hordes in the twilight of the Han dynasty. It’s the in Red Cliff. He puts all this time and effort into battle most expensive Asian movie ever made, and, the choreography and CGI arrows and he can’t even take inevitable CGI enhancements notwithstanding, Woo the time to get a flute right? Unforgivable. Some slight and company managed to get a lot of those yuan on redistribution of priorities is required. It only takes a screen in a very big way, with multitudes of cos- few things to make a movie a bad movie, as directors tumed extras—over 100,000 of them, mostly soldiers more circumspect than Woo have paid hundreds of on loan from the Chinese army—adding real old- millions to discover empirically.

In any case, Woo’s peccadilloes don’t add up to fashioned screen value to huge battle scenes.

The plot: Do you need one? Anyway, it’s too a ruined Red Cliff. There’s hardly a chance of ruinconvoluted to go into, and the two-and-a-half-hour ing something with so many huge battles. The American release of Red Cliff is only a condensed movie gets by purely on action, constant action, version of a much longer epic released in two which, if you’re a John Woo fan, is what you’ve paid installments in the Chinese-speaking world. All you to see. need to know is: Chinese warlords.

Red Cliff opens at the Wilma Theatre Friday, And it’s epic, by gum, with nary a second’s pause for reflection between chase scenes, battle scenes Jan. 1. and fast-paced courtly intrigues. If you can survive the initial onslaught of characters to remember arts@missoulanews.com

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Scope OPENING THIS WEEK RED CLIFF John Woo sprints back to the screen with monumental battle scenes that feature piercing swords and blazing arrows in this visual feast that documents grisly struggles between Chinese warlords, as well as the events leading up to the eventual collapse of the Han Dynasty in China. Wilma Theatre: 7 and 9:40 nightly, with a 9 only show on Sat. and Sun. matinees at 1 and 3:40.

WINTER DAYDREAMS Take an animated trip into NoWhereLand and other astonishing places with your kids’ favorite piglet Olivia, as well as sidekicks Franny and Maggie, as they embark on a number of fanciful expeditions to do things like save reindeer and play in enchanted tufts of snow. Village 6: 1 only Sat.–Sun.

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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: 1:15, 4, 7 and 9:30. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 3:55 and 9:25 and Mon.–Thu. at 1 and 9:25.

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

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illiterate. But can a vigorous school teacher help her find hope? Wilma Theatre: 7 and 9, with 7 only show Sat. and Sun. matinees at 1 and 3.

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: 12:35, 2:50, 5:05, 7:20 and 9:35. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with shows Fri.–Sun. at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:25, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30 and 9:45 with additional

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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: 1, 4, 7 and 9:50. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:30 and 6:35 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 3:15 and 6:35.

NOW SHOWING ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS THE SQUEAKQUEL In case you didn’t get your fill the last time around, your favorite animated rodents are back—high-pitched voices and all—in order help bail out a sinking school music program by shredding in a battle of the bands competition. Carmike 10: 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7 and 9:10. Village 6: 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7 and 9:10.

Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 and 9 with Fri.–Sun. shows at 3 and no 9 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:05, 12:35, 2:25, 3:05, 4:45, 5:25, 7:10, 7:45 and 9:30 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at 10 and midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:25, 2:25, 3:45, 4:45, 6:30, 7:10, 8:45 and 9:30. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:15, 7 and 9:15 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:15. Showboat Cinema in Polson: 4, 7 and 9 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1:30.

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: noon, 1, 3:30, 4:30, 7 and 8 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at 10:30.

Village 6 in 2-D: noon, 3:30 and 7 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at 10:30. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 7 only with shows at 3 Fri.–Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell:Fri.–Sun. at noon, 1:30, 3:30, 5, 6:55 and 8:30 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at 10:30 and midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:30, 3:30, 5, 6:55 and 8:30. Mountain Cinema in Whitefish: 4:30 and 7:30 with additional Fri.–Sun. show at 1. Entertainer in Ronan: 4 and 7:20.

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: 1:25, 4:20, 7:10 and 10. Pharaoplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:15 with Fri.–Sun. shows at 3. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:45, 3:45, 6:50 and 9:35 with additional Fri.–Sat. shows at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:05, 3:45, 6:50 and 9:35.

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: 1:45, 4:35, 7:10 and 9:45. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1:25, 4:05, 6:40 and 9:10 with

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“How many times do I have to tell you that I’m a vegan?” Up in the Air continues at the Carmike 10. in South Africa. Village 6: 4, 7 and 10 with additional Fri. and Mon.–Thu. show at 1.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 12:15, 3:25, 6:30 and 9:25 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 2, 6:30 and 9:20.

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: 1, 4, 7 and 9:50.

Village 6: 1, 4, 7 and 9:50. Pharaohplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:10 with shows at 3 Fri.–Sun. and no 9:10 show on Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at 1:20, 4:10, 7:05 and 9:45 with additional Fri.–Sat. show at midnight and Mon.–Thu. at 1:10, 3:50, 6:45 and 9:30.

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

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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 sidekick Jude Law (aka Dr. Watson) in order to save England from annihilation. Carmike 10: 1, 4, 7 and 10. Village 6: 1, 4, 7 and 10. Pharaoplex in Hamilton: 6:50 and 9:15 with matinees at 3 Fri.–Sun. Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Sun. at noon, 1, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 9 with additional Fri.–Sat.

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 Farmiga. Carmike 10: 1, 4, 7 and 9:40.

Stadium 14 in Kalispell: Fri.–Thu. at 1, 3:50, 7:10 and 9:40.

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Moviegoers be warned! Show times are good as of Fri., Jan 1. Show times and locations are subject to change or errors, despite our best efforts. Please spare yourself any grief and/or parking lot profanities by calling ahead to confirm. Theater phone numbers: Carmike 10/Village 6–541-7469; Wilma–728-2521; Pharaohplex in Hamilton–961-FILM; Roxy Twin in Hamilton–363-5141. Stadium 14 in Kalispell–752-7804. Showboat in Polson, Entertainer in Ronan and Mountain in Whitefish–862-3130.

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—Loving Cautiously In a new relationship, any guy can put his best foot forward, but maybe it takes a guy who really loves you to put his worst foot forward: warning you that you could be waiting for the other shoe to drop—off the side of some other girl’s bed.

Of course, he could also be warning you so that if he does cheat, well, you were warned. Commendable as it is that he’s resolved never to lie or cheat again, he’s been divorced a year and seeing you for half that time. That’s a seriously short stretch of never—especially for a guy who’s never been faithful to anyone (presumably, even running around on some pigtailed 14-year-old with the junior high school hussy). And while he talks a remorseful game, he still explains his marital infidelity with the howler “I did it for the children.”

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Great customer service skills a must. Employer requires a Job Service Typing test, Data Entry 10Key with decimals, & Data Entry Alpha-Numeric test. Work days start as M-W 7 hours per day, then will become M-T during the tax season. Wage is $8.00/hour or more depending on experience. # 2976742 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 ASSISTANT MANAGER, F/T, Msla. A local retail store is seeking a permanent, full-time ASSISTANT MANAGER. MUST have a minimum of 6 months retail sales experience. Cashier skills are a must as well as money handling and putting together bank deposits. Will assist manager in supervising staff.

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Employer is seeking a Licensed Cosmetologist to work in their Salon. Duties would include: Cutting and styling hair, coloring, hi-lights and a variety of other chemical processes, facial waxing, and product sales. Days and hours will vary during Salon business hours: Mondays through Saturdays, 10am-9pm, and Sundays 11am-6pm. Position could be full-time or part-time.

Wages or commission, whichever comes in higher. Benefits are available. Pay scale and benefits can be discussed at interview. Applicants MUST have their Cosmetology License. Computer skills are a plus, but employer is willing to train on Salon computers. # 2976725 Missoula Workforce Center 7287060 CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE, F/T, Employer is seeking full-time Customer Service Representatives for in bound calls only for Missoula company. Duties include navigating multiple database systems and other relevant applications, tools, & resources while speaking with customers, answer customer questions and resolve issues in a professional and courteous manner. Previous customer service experience is required. Pay range is from $10/hr to $12.50/hr with shift and previous experience considered. Also have opportunity to make additional pay for bonuses and incentives. Must be willing to work all shifts, weekends, holidays, and overtime as needed. #2976739 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

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Must be able to handle cash and credit card transactions. Will register and check out guests. Will also do some faxing. May help set up breakfast bar and do laundry duties when not busy. Employer prefers prior front desk clerk experience. Need strong customer service skills. Must be able to work all shifts, including weekends. Will work 3 to 4 shifts per week, 24 to 30 hours per week. Pay is $7.50 to $7.75 per hour. #2976732 Missoula Workforce Center 7287060 Mystery Shoppers earn up to $150 Day. Undercover shoppers needed to judge retail and dining establishments. Experience not required.

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PROFESSIONAL COMMUNITY AFFAIRS DIRECTOR, F/T, Msla. Employer is seeking a COMMUNITY AFFAIRS DIRECTOR who will develop and maintain effective lines of communication with local and state public officials regarding issues that impact the industry and association. Work is 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday; Evening meetings average once or twice a week. Pay is $15.00/hr. CLOSE DATE: 01/11/10 #2976717 Missoula Workforce Center 7287060 COMMUNITY MUSIC PROGRAMS DIRECTOR, F/T, Msla.

Missoula family oriented membership supported organization seeking a full-time COMMUNITY MUSIC PROGRAMS DIRECTOR. This is an innovative department and the director is responsible for the organization, delivery and quality of music programs to the membership and community. The director works independently under general direction & is expected to determine how to accomplish tasks.

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Requires a Bachelors Degree or one to two years experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. The director supervises a large, mission critical, department to engage health seekers in healthy lifestyles and is responsible for the organization, delivery and quality of program(s) to the membership and community. CPR Certification ACE, AFAA or ACSM Fitness Instructor or YMCA Fitness Specialist.

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Salary is from: $26,000 to $38,000 Depending on Experience. #2976744 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060 LEAD CASE MANAGER, F/T, Msla. Employer is seeking a fulltime Lead Case ManagerCommunity Living Program & Veterans Directed Home & Community Based Services. Duties include implementing the project’s targeting criteria, creating the assessment and intake systems and providing ongoing case management services to clients participating in the program. Activities include educating clients, organizations, and the community at large on the intentions of the grant; training and monitoring staff and assisting the Case Management Program Manager. The position is a full-time position. The successful applicant will need to be openminded, flexible, able to operate under pressure, have a great deal of self-motivation and self-direction. Salary range is from $14.30$15.56/hour and includes a comprehensive benefit plan. The position requires a bachelor’s degree in social work or other relevant behavioral science and five (5) years of relevant experience or a suitable combination of education and experience. Full job description at the Missoula Job Service front desk. The employer does not wish to have applicants contact them directly. Closing date is Monday, January 11, 2010. #2976728 Missoula Workforce Center 728-7060

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By Rob Brezsny ARIES (March 21-April 19): One of my favorite landscape painters makes a livable wage from selling her art. She has had many gallery showings and has garnered much critical acclaim. That’s the good news. The bad news is that she feels obligated to keep churning out more landscape paintings—even when her muse nudges her to take a detour into, say, abstract expressionism or surrealistic portraits. Galleries don’t want anything from her except the stuff that has made her semifamous. “Sometimes I fantasize about creating a series of ‘Sock Puppet Monkeys Playing Poker,’” she told me. If she were an Aries, I’d advise her to do what I think you should do in 2010: Listen to what your version of the sock puppet monkeys are urging you to do.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): My Taurus friend Jill had a dream in which she stopped by a blackberry bush on a summer afternoon. All the ripe blackberries were too high on the bush, just out of reach. She stood there gazing longingly up at them for a long time. Finally three people in medieval garb came by, as if having stepped out of a deck of Tarot cards—a warrior, magician, and priestess.

“I really want those blackberries,” she said to them. “Could you give me a boost?” They stooped down to make their backs available. She climbed up, but still couldn’t reach the berries. “Oh well, we tried,” she said.

“Follow us,” said the priestess, and she did. After a while they came to another bush whose blackberries were lower and easy to pluck. Then the four shared the feast. After analyzing the omens for 2010, Taurus, I’ve come to the conclusion that Jill’s dream is an apt metaphor for your best possible destiny in 2010.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “We should not think of our past as definitely settled, for we are not a stone or a tree,” wrote poet Czeslaw Milosz. “My past changes every minute according to the meaning given it now, in this moment.” I suggest you make abundant use of this wisdom in 2010. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will have unprecedented power to re-vision and reinterpret your past. Keep the following question in mind as you go about your work: “How can I recreate my history so as to make my willpower stronger, my love of life more intense, and my future more interesting?”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I think everyone should always have an improbable quest playing at the edges of their imagination—you know, some heroic task that provokes deep thoughts and rouses noble passions even if it also incites smoldering torment. I’m talking about an extravagant dream that’s perhaps a bit farfetched but not entirely insane; a goal that constantly rouses you to stretch your possibilities and open your mind further; a wild hope whose pursuit makes you smarter and stronger even if you never fully accomplish it. The coming year would be an excellent time to keep such an adventure at the forefront of your awareness.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Who and what do you hold most dear, Aquarius? I encourage you to get clear about that. Once you do, I hope you’ll make a vow to bestow extra care and attention on them in 2010—I mean literally write out a one-page oath in which you describe the inner states you will cultivate in yourself while you’re in their presence and the specific actions you’re going to take to help them thrive. Nothing else you do will be more important to your success in 2010.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The philosopher Nietzsche said there was no middle ground: You either said “yes” to life or you said “no.” You either celebrated your vitality, enjoyed your power, and thrived on challenges, or else you practiced constant self-denial, hemmed yourself in with deluded rationalizations, and tormented yourself with indecision. I’m not so sure it’s always as clear-cut as that. While I’m usually in the “yes to life” camp,” I’ve gone through “no to life” phases, as well as some extended “maybe to life” times. What about you, Pisces? Whatever you’ve done in the past, I hope that in 2010 you will take maximum advantage of the cosmic rhythms, which will be encouraging you to give life a big, resounding, ongoing YES.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your limitations will be among your greatest assets in 2010. Yes, you heard me right, Libra; I’m not speaking ironically or sarcastically. During the coming months, you will be able to benefit from circumstances that you might otherwise imagine would prevent you from operating with maximum freedom. It might require you to look at the world upside-down, or work in reverse to your habitual thought patterns, but you could actually generate interesting opportunities, vital teachings, and maybe even financial gain by capitalizing on your so-called liabilities.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Scientific studies have proved what we all knew already: A person who’s only mildly interesting to you will probably become more attractive if you drink a couple of pints of beer. What if I told you, Virgo, that in 2010 you could regularly create the same effect without drinking the beer? I have it on good astrological authority that this will be the case. Due to fundamental shifts in your relationship with the life force, and having nothing to do with how much alcohol you consume, the entire world will often be at least 25 percent more attractive to you than it ever was before.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,” said American politician Everett Dirksen, “the first of which is to be flexible at all times.” That’s the kind of playful and resilient spirit I urge you to aspire to in 2010, Capricorn. I think you’re most likely to have a successful year if you regularly explore the joys of improvisation. The more empirical and less theory-bound you’re willing to be, the better you’ll feel. Practicing the art of compromise doesn’t have to be galling, I promise you; it may even turn out to be more fun and educational than you imagined possible.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Dear Rob: I sure don’t like so much God stuff mixed into my horoscopes. Can you cut it out, please? I understand it’s common for the masses to believe in an Ultra Being, but you? Pul-lease. You’re smarter than that. I just can’t abide all the ‘Divine Wow’ this and ‘Cackling Goddess’ nonsense that you dispense; it doesn’t jibe with the practical, sensible, unsuperstitious, non-mushy world I hold dear. -Sally Scorpio.” Dear Sally: I predict that many Scorpios will have sensational, ongoing, up-close and personal communion with the Divine Wow in 2010. You’re free, of course, to call it something else, like an unprecedented eruption of creative energy or a breakthrough in your ability to access your own higher powers.

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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 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. 1 Case No. DP-09-205 NOTICE TO CREDITORS In the Matter of the Estate of JOHN D. ARIAS, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate.

All persons having claims against the said decedent are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be mailed to Eugenie Arias, the Personal Representative, return receipt requested, at 1176 Ridgefield, Pint Pleasant, NJ 08742, or the above-entitled Court. DATED this 18th day of Dec., 2009. /s/ Eugenie Arias, Personal Representative MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DV-09-1529 Honorable Ed McLean Presiding.

NOTICE OF HEARING ON CHANGE OF NAME In the Matter of the name Change of Taylor Gibbs Noland, Petitioner. This is notice that Petitioner has

asked the District Court for a change of name from Taylor Gibbs Noland to Taylor Britton Gibbs. The hearing will be on 2/10/2010 at 1:30 p.m.. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County.

Dated 12/21/09 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court, By: Richard Goodwin, Deputy Clerk of Court MONTANA FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT, MISSOULA COUNTY Dept. No. 1 Cause No. DV-09-1530 Honorable Ed McLean Presiding.

NOTICE OF HEARING ON CHANGE OF NAME In the Matter of the name Change of Lisa Christina Bruce, Petitioner.

This is notice that Petitioner has asked the District Court for a change of name from Lisa Christina Bruce to Lisa Christina Gibbs. The hearing will be on 2/10/2010 at 1:30 p.m.. The hearing will be at the Courthouse in Missoula County. Dated 12/21/09 /s/ Shirley E. Faust, Clerk of District Court, By: Richard Goodwin, Deputy Clerk of Court 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-09-206 Honorable John W. Larson Presiding.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN RE THE ESTATE OF DONALD G. ARMSTRONG, 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 first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must be mailed to Michaelene R. Armstrong, the Personal Representative, Return Receipt Requested, c/o Skjelset & Geer, P.L.L.P., PO Box 4102, Missoula, Montana 59806, or filed with the Clerk of the above-entitled Court. DATED this 22nd day of Dec., 2009. /s/ Michaelene R. Armstrong, Personal Representative 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 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, MT in which Trina Macdonald was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary & Alliance Title and 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 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 & trustee’s & 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

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PUBLIC NOTICES 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 Reference is hereby made to that certain trust indenture/deed of trust (“Deed of Trust”) dated 03/30/07, recorded as Instrument No. 200707965 Bk. 794 Pg. 1262, mortgage records of Missoula County, Montana in which Charles Dennis Ecret Jr., a married person was Grantor, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. was Beneficiary and Insured Titles was Trustee. First American Title Insurance Company has succeeded Insured Titles as Successor Trustee. The Deed of Trust encumbers real property (“Property”) located in Missoula County, Montana, more particularly described as follows: Tract 5 of Certificate of Survey No. 1914, a tract of land located in the Northwest One-Quarter of Section 35, Township 14 North, Range 23 West, P.M.M., 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 08/01/09 installment payment and all monthly installment payments due thereafter. As of November 13, 2009, the amount necessary to fully satisfy the Loan was $362,177.55. This amount includes the outstanding principal balance of $353,609.81, 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 23, 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

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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# 7023.08334) 1002.138612-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 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

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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 $112,491.81 principal, interest at the rate of 5.00% now totaling $4,813.53, late charges in the amount of $225.40, escrow advances of $939.28 and other fees and expenses advanced of $1,522.75, plus accruing interest at the rate of $15.41 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 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 Missoula County Government

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING THE MISSOULA COUNTY BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT will be conducting a public hearing at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 20, 2010 in the Missoula City Council Chambers, 140 W. Pine, Missoula, MT, on the following item: 1. A request by River of Life Ministries for a special exception permitting River of Life Ministries to be located at 4007 Highway 200 East, legally described as, Lot 1B First Citizens Addition #2 Section 24 Township 13N Range 19W. The subject property is zoned C-C3, Community Commercial. Section 8.10 of Resolution #76-113

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 Missoula County Government

PUBLIC NOTICE The Missoula Consolidated Planning Board will conduct a public hearing on the following item on Tuesday, January 19, 2009, at 7:00 p.m., in the Missoula City Council Chambers located at 140 W. Pine Street in Missoula, Montana.

1. Subdivision & Planned Variation Request – Blue Heron Estates A request from the Earl Pruyn Estate (c/o) Jack Meyer, represented by Eli & Associates, Inc., to subdivide a 75.01-acre parcel into 16 residential lots. The property is located on Lavoie Lane, south of Mullan Road in the Council Grove area, in the SW 1/4 of Section 31 in T14N, R20W, and in the NW 1/4 of Section 6 in T13N, R20W (see Map E).

The Board of County Commissioners will hold a public hearing on this subdivision at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 3, 2009, in Room 201 of the County Courthouse at 200 West Broadway in Missoula.

requires that all special exceptions go before the County Board of Adjustment for approval. See map F. If anyone attending this meeting needs special assistance, please provide advance notice by calling the Office of Planning and Grants at 258-4657. Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

For a complete legal description or additional information regarding the variance request, you may contact Jamie Erbacher at the same number or by e-mail at jerbacher@co.missoula.mt.us.

Your attendance and comments are welcomed and encouraged.

The request and exact legal description is available for public inspection at the Missoula Office of Planning and Grants, City Hall, 435 Ryman, Missoula, Montana.

Telephone 258-4657.

If anyone attending any of these meetings needs special assistance, please provide 48 hours advance notice by calling 258-4657.

Missoula County will provide auxiliary aids and services.

Legal ads for any City projects that will be heard at this meeting may be found in the Legal Ads section of the Missoulian.

PUBLIC NOTICES 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 TRUSTEE’S SALE on February 23, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: TRACT 1 OF CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 4953, LOCATED IN THE SOUTHWEST ONE-QUARTER OF SECTION 8, TOWNSHIP 13 NORTH, RANGE 20 WEST, P.M.M., MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA. TOGETHER WITH A 60-FOOT EASEMENT AS SHOWN ON CERTIFICATE OF SURVEY NO. 3021 AND 3652. Dennis W Doran, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Stewart Title of Missoula, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to First Horizon Home Loans, a Division of First Tennesse Bank, N.A., as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated September 12, 2007 and Recorded on September 17, 2007 under Document #200724122, in Bk-805, Pg-1128. The beneficial interest is currently held by First Horizon Home Loans, a division of First Tennessee Bank National Association. 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 $978.77, beginning March 22, 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 $307,905.76 principal, interest at the rate of 3.625% now totaling $6,468.43, late charges in the amount of $389.85 plus accruing interest at the rate of $30.58 per diem, late charges, and other costs and fees that may be advanced. The Beneficiary anticipates and may disburse such amounts as may be required to preserve and protect the property and for real property taxes that may become due or delinquent, unless such amounts of taxes are paid by the Grantors. If such amounts are paid by the Beneficiary, the amounts or taxes will be added to the obligations secured by the Deed of Trust. Other expenses to be charged against the proceeds of this sale include the Trustee’s fees and attorney’s fees, costs and expenses of the sale and late charges, if any. Beneficiary has elected, and has directed the Trustee to sell the above described property to satisfy the obligation. The sale is a public sale and any person, including the beneficiary, excepting only the Trustee, may bid at the sale.

The bid price must be paid immediately upon the close of bidding in cash or cash equivalents {valid money orders, certified checks or cashier’s checks). The conveyance will be made by Trustee’s Deed without any representation or warranty, 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 prop-

erty 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 16, 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 16, 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# 3384750 12/31/2009, 01/07/2010, 01/14/2010 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE TO BE SOLD FOR CASH AT TRUSTEE’S SALE on March 2, 2010, at 11:00 o’clock A.M. at the Main Door of the Missoula County Courthouse located at 200 West Broadway in Missoula, MT 59802, the following described real property situated in Missoula County, Montana: UNIT 8 IN BUILDING # 1 LOCATED IN THE VILLAGE AT ELK HILLS A RESIDENTIAL CONDOMINIUM SITUATED ON THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED REAL PROPERTY IN MISSOULA MONTANA, TO WIT: A PORTION OF THE VILLAGE AT ELK HILLS BEING A PORTION OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION 6, TOWNSHIP 12 NORTH, RANGE 19 WEST, PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, MONTANA, MISSOULA COUNTY, MONTANA AND BEING DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF ELK HILLS-PHASE 1, A RECORDED SUBDIVISION IN MISSOULA, COUNTY, THENCE S.88&#186;15’00”W ALONG THE SOUTHERN BOUNDARY OF SAID ELK HILLS-PHASE 1, 232.18 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING; THENCE CONTINUING S.88&#186;15’00”W, 90.82 FEET, THENCE S.84&#186;20’45”W, 169.73 FEET; THENCE S.05&#186;31’30”E, 152.30 FEET; THENCE S.84&#186;00’00”W, 100.00 FEET; THENCE S.40&#186;00’00”W, 50.00 FEET; THENCE S.15&#186;00’00”E, 125.00 FEET; THENCE S.67&#186;04’30”E, 123.64 FEET, THENCE S.61&#186;51’24”E, 204.56 FEET; THENCE S. 48&#186;05’43”E, 189.96 FEET, THENCE N.22&#186;47’57”E, 187.34 FEET; THENCE NORTHERLY 175.24 FEET ALONG THE ARC OF A TANGENT CURVE WITH A RADIUS OF 924.93 FEET; THENCE N.76&#186;35’13”W, 50.07 FEET, THENCE N.62&#186;59’29”W, 170.81 FEET, THENCE N.04&#186;46’56”W, 183.86 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING. SUBJECT TO THOSE RIGHTS, RESERVATIONS, EXCEPTIONS AND EASEMENTS OF RECORD INCLUDING THE EASEMENT FOR INGRESS, EGRESS AND UTILITY PURPOSES FOR LOT 7 AS SHOWN ON THE APPROVED PLAT FOR THE VILLAGE AT ELK HILLS. TOGETHER WITH A 1/45TH INTEREST IN THE COMMON ELEMENTS AND AN EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE THE LIMITED COMMON ELEMENTS APPURTENANT TO THIS UNIT, AS SAID COMMON ELEMENTS AND LIMITED COMMON ELEMENTS ARE DEFINED IN THE DECLARATION OF UNIT OWNERSHIP FOR THE VILLAGE AT ELK HILLS. AND SUBJECT TO THE DECLARATION OF UNIT OWNERSHIP FOR THE VILLAGE AT ELK HILLS AND BYLAWS RECORDED NOVEMBER 7, 1996 IN BOOK 490 AT PAGE 20 MICRO RECORDS, AND AMENDED APRIL 16, 1999 IN BOOK 579 AT PAGE 924 MICRO RECORDS AND THE DECLARATION OF RESTRICTIONS FOR THE VILLAGE AT ELK HILLS RECORDED NOVEMBER 7, 1996 IN BOOK 490 AT PAGE 95 MICRO RECORDS. Curt McGinness, as Grantor(s), conveyed said real property to Insured Titles LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary,

by Deed of Trust dated December 05, 2006 and Recorded on December 11, 2006 under Document No. 200631634, in Bk788, Pg-903. The beneficial interest is currently held by GMAC Mortgage, LLC. Charles J. Peterson is the Successor Trustee pursuant to a Substitution of Trustee recorded in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of Missoula County, Montana. The beneficiary has declared a default in the terms of said Deed of Trust

JONESIN’ C r o s s w o r by failing to make the monthly payments due in the amount of $1181.93, beginning July 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 $152,362.04 principal, interest at the rate of 6.375% now totaling $3,370.74, late charges in the amount of $269.02 and other fees and expenses advanced of $22.50, plus accruing interest at the rate of $26.61 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 23, 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 10/23/09, before me, a notary public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Charles J. Peterson, Successor Trustee, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same. Teri Lynn Steckler Notary Public Stark County, North Dakota Commission expires: 9/22/2012 ASAP# 3389609 12/31/2009, 01/07/2010, 01/14/2010 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), conveyed 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 (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 13, 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 13, 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# 3378544 12/24/2009, 12/31/2009, 01/07/2010 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 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 Dec., 2009. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee STATE OF MONTANA)) ss. County of Missoula) On this 8th day of Dec., 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 10, 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 1 of Dorothy Addition, a platted subdivision in the City of Missoula, Missoula County, Montana, according to the official recorded plat thereof. Arlyss Bolich, as Grantor, conveyed the real property to Insured Titles, LLC, as Trustee, to secure an obligation owed to First Security Bank of Missoula, as Beneficiary, by Trust Indenture dated September 12, 2006, and recorded Sept. 20, 2006, in Book 783 of Micro Records, Page 694, records of the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder. A Substitution of Trustee designating Kevin S. Jones as Successor Trustee was recorded Dec. 18, 2009, in Book 852, Page 848, Document No. 200929797, 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 $24,957.85, plus interest at a rate of 8.25% totaling $829.17 and late charges and other charges of $63.82, for a total amount due of $25,850.84, as of Dec. 21, 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 21st day of Dec., 2009. /s/ Kevin S. Jones, Trustee. STATE OF MONTANA)) ss.

County of Missoula). On this 21st 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 May 3, 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: 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 Dec. 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 Dec. 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 Dec., 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

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"Best of the Decade, Part 4" –this week: 2006-2007.

by Matt Jones

ACROSS 1 San Francisco's Fisherman's ___ 6 Shore bird 11 Oktoberfest mo.

14 Boston-based New York Times correspondent Sara 15 "...___ man with seven wives..."

16 Pubescent start?

17 Heroic way to introduce oneself 18 His "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" was on Publishers Weekly's Best Fiction of 2007 list 20 British "domestic goddess" Lawson 22 Torah repositories 23 Group whose album "St. Elsewhere" was #2 on Spin Magazine's 40 Best Albums of 2006 27 Kid-___ (G-rated Blockbuster rentals) 28 Broadway actress Salonga 29 "Call me Ishmael" speaker 32 Tiny titter 35 Diplomat's skill 36 NASCAR driver Earnhardt 37 Mentalist Geller 38 Rolling Stone's pick for #1 song of 2007, by Jay-Z 41 Suffix for Wisconsin 42 Near 44 Big man on campus?

45 Deck full of cups and wands 47 Dull pain 48 "Slippery" tree 49 Infantrymen, for short 50 One of The Forbidden Planet's "Best of the Year" movies of 2006 56 DVR brand introduced in 2000 57 "That's freakin' amazing!"

58 Buzznet's #1 choice of "Top 10 Bearded Musicians of 2007" 62 ___ pedis (athlete's foot) 63 Lawn dart path

64 Line to the audience 65 Open a toothpaste tube 66 "Go team!" cheer 67 Beermaking need 68 Cheats before Christmas?

DOWN 1 Clear (out), as a sponge 2 Guys getting ___ the groin (usual funny YouTube fare) 3 Onetime Commodore computer 4 Put on ice 5 More like lace 6 Part of some Muslim women's attire 7 Ostrich relative 8 "What EEZ IT, man?" yeller 9 Prefix meaning "ear" 10 Present at birth 11 Typical do for young male anime characters 12 Notable times 13 Heady candy?

19 Quaking-in-one's-boots feeling 21 Leary's drug 24 "The Heart of Dixie" 25 Enemy territory study 26 "I Kissed a Girl" singer Perry 30 Low choral part 31 Schrute Farms vegetable 32 Base for some casseroles 33 Actor Bana 34 Sound of some whistles or whines 35 Certain lymphocyte 39 Lofty poems 40 Bob Marley classic 43 Chuck overboard 46 Just plain stupid 49 Cardio locale 51 "That's too hard to believe..."

52 "Habanera" composer 53 FDR veep John ___ Garner 54 Tinker with 55 Laundry piles 56 Giga- times 1000 58 Course figure 59 End of many languages 60 "My Life in Ruins" actress Vardalos 61 Manning scores: abbr.

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First-Time and Current Home Buyer Tax Credits: What You Need to Know

By Bryan Flaherty, President, MOR For some, the real estate market of the last few months may have felt like the enactment of the Dr. Seuss tale, ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas.’ But Christmas has passed, the new year is upon us, and it is a time for looking ahead with just a cursory glance backward. And with the first-time and current homeowner tax credits, the view offers some positive opportunities for those who are aware of the requirements.

Consumers may be more familiar with the first-time homebuyer credit since it is an extension of the original offer that expired at the end of November, 2009. The amount is still $8,000. There are a few major differences: • Income limits have been raised to $125,000 single and $225,000 married • There is an $800,000 limitation on the cost of the home purchased • Purchases by dependents are not eligible • Purchaser must attach documentation of pu chase to the tax return

The same provisions apply to the current homeowner tax credit as well. Those intending to take advantage of this offer must have used the home as a principal residence consecutively for five of the previous eight years.

With these very specific dates, consumers who are contemplating the possibility of taking advantage of these offers shouldn’t wait too long to start the process.

Those who will be selling a residence in order to use the current homeowner credit to purchase a different property also should consider that the average time on the market in the Missoula urban area is 121 days. In order to meet the April 30 deadline, the property may need to be on the market soon after the first of the year.

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With quickly fluctuating lending requirements and very specific guidelines about using the first-time and current homeowner tax credits, January is a perfect time to explore the options and decide whether homeownership is the right decision. One thing is sure: now is the right time to turn to Missoula real estate professionals for assistance in evaluating current market information, and all homeownership options, so that you can make informed decisions.

Consumers may be tempted to hedge their bets that since there was one extension of the tax credit, there could be more. None of the information currently available indicates that this is a possibility; in fact, quite the

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